skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Italian here, north-west. Media are really exaggerating with the situation with daily life and routine, we are allowed to take a walk and go to bars or restaurants if there is one meter of distance between people.

The real problem is in the hospitals, and for some enterprises who will really have a loss in these weeks (everything about tourism, for example).
One of the biggest downsides is that people are not allowed to visit relatives or families in other cities/villages, even if a few kilometers away.

We've been promised discounts, taxes, even free subscriptions for ebooks... this lockdown is not so bad, the important is that people really understand why it has been implemented (people here in Italy tend to overreact for every news - it's always apocalyptic).
Apparently it goes back to how Apple wanted to evolve OpenCL after releasing it to Khronos.
It’s in the introduction to the ten-volume 1890s edition.
Well, I have many more examples similar to yours... Our CTO actually interviewed with Facebook over 8 rounds (!) only to find out at the end that they won't offer him the salary he was expecting and asking since the very beginning. But they dragged him along because for HR it's just a normal work day, but for him it was a gigantic waste of time.

Imagine a world without headhunters... Haha
The intermittent disruption of services is death by 1000 cuts. Read the Zynga story.

http://wrongtool.kostadis.com/firewalls-killed-zynga/
Then again, who is stupid enough take medical advice from a vacation salesman? These customers have agency and are ultimately the decision makers. What this company is doing is unethical, but we all need to be responsible for the decisions we make. If I decide to go on a cruise right now, knowing what has been going on, it’s not the company’s fault if I get sick.
Removing the word ‘Better’ makes this into a straw man. Nobody argues that humans aren’t subject to selective breeding.

It’s not Eugenics if it doesn’t involve someone’s idea of what is ‘better’. In that instance it’s just genetics.

Given that we are already producing humans who are more fragile, it’s easy to see that further directed evolution could push us more in that direction.

Civilization itself has many fragilities, which we are currently insulated from to the degree that we ourselves are anti-fragile. It’s easy to see that directed breeding could lead to a more fragile civilization.

That would be a failure of eugenics. Dawkins foolishly oversimplifies and fails at his argument because he doesn’t take the time to understand the meaning of the word.

It is not at all obvious how we could avoid this failure. Dawkins silly examples actually show the direction to the failure mode, not the direction to successful eugenics.
> Tesla looked at battery swapping after Better Place proved feasibility and passed, probably due to the cost of retrofitting to the existing design and various engineering compromises (specifically related to speed and acceleration, which Musk prizes) that would be needed.

The Model S demonstrated battery swapping technology. There was no retrofitting to the design needed, as it was designed to support it from the beginning.
Heh. I just got a company-wide email this morning, about an internal engineering blog post. The first one ever! This could be cool? Maybe?

So I did the needful, loaded the images in the email in Outlook, and was greeted with a headline about caring for others, and why I should put MY face mask on first, before helping someone else.

Uh... Not the engaging technical content I was hoping for.

So I've got one data point for how NOT to do it, if someone's keeping a list.
As a fellow consumer who doesn't have the knowledge to contribute to this space, I really wish I could offer something to help out with these efforts.

The idea of a secondary low bandwidth Internet being robust to interference from goverment and disasters? That stuff is true cyberpunk to me.
Alone in interstellar space, Voyager 2 soon to lose contact With Earth
Just recently I was telling my brother that I cannot ever trust book recommendations from authors, because they never hand out negative reviews.

I understand why they do it, of course, but it saddens me that the people I most want to look to for suggestions are mostly useless.
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Sounds identical to any IKEA in Sweden :)
JS has no DOM API, browsers provide JS an API to use. Plus DOM had nothing to do with rendering, it's just tree manipulation APIs.
Is it a battle when almost all the other competitors are just producing California compliance cars? They've barely survived financially without competition, I'd be deeply concerned with their ability to compete going forward.
I agree with you that no interpreter should be running there. It’s bad design.

But how many C/C++ engineers would think to design a system that runs a min interpreted code, vs JS ones? The take isn’t as bad as you think.
Why are people freaking out about this? The upper end of the mortality rate is 3% imho that's simply not nearly high enough to garner this kind of reaction. Polio had a 30% mortality rate for adults, let's keep some perspective here.
Uggh, that reminds me that I better take it easy when the weather breaks. I like to take LONG bike rides (typically 80-100 km) when the weather is nice. Yes, exercise is good for me, but inadvertently overtaxing myself would not be good.
I've never seen this 50% figure, looking at people in critical condition data, even that's not 50%, more like 20% mortality. Please provide a source, or delete your comment.
It's not like you seriously want to run C without a runtime.
Ever heard of Electron?
Well, then if 98% is already renewable, why keep pumping oil out of the ground and contributing to global warming? (Hint: money)

I don't really think there's a way around this for Norwegians. If you're upset about climate change (and you should be) then you should also be honest that continuing to extract and sell oil is contributing to the problem.

It's nice that Norway has a small, homogenous population in a country with low population density, great education, and opportunities for easy (relatively speaking) renewable energy. Many countries don't have those luxuries.

With that being said, I applaud Norway in general as a country. I think they do a lot of great stuff. But I think it's fair to point out what I perceive as a shortcoming that they currently have in the context of this discussion.
Notes on Coronavirus chapter of Herbal Antivirals book
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>Articles are hand selected. Everything that calls my attention and passes the «trivia filter»

I was a little disappointed when I read this. When I read the title, I was hoping for something based on natural language processing summarization, which would aggregate many stories into cohesive chunks.
> police only use a gun when not killing someone fast will make the overall situation worse

I'm not sure this is really true. I've seen quite a few news stories about them shooting when it didn't really look like there was any need at all. I think police officers also fairly regularly injure themselves accidentally with their weapons.

I fundamentally don't think a gun is an appropriate tool for a civilian community police force. Batons and electric stunners yes in an emergency if really needed. Actual firearms? Not really appropriate in my opinion.
Alternative meat industry moves beyond the burger
The Economist shows up in my mailbox on every Friday regularly. I live in Berlin, not sure about their delivery to other places.
Many people do in fact do this, often for embedded systems. And most other systems happen to ship with a C runtime.
What do you think "treating their illness as if it were covid-19" means?

This is a viral illness. There is simply no treatment. You go home, rest and eventually get through it in most cases. If you have annoying symptoms, you try to alleviate those in the usual ways (as if it was any other cold/flu). If you get life-threatening symptomps, you call for help and they'll take you to the hospital (at least while they aren't completely collapsed).

What would you like the doctor to say or do here?
Ask HN: Good, Affordable Work-from-Home Setup?
I will be working from home for at least 4 weeks as a result of COVID-19. At work I have a wide monitor and a spacious desk. At home I have a pretty tiny desk and no external monitor.

What kind of setups do people have at home, enjoy, or recommend? As it will be primarily used on a short-to-medium-term basis, I'm looking for a setup that when all of this is over, will not go to waste.
Consider randomizing error_timeout, to avoid a possible case where all clients retry at the same time.
As I detailed in the article, you can lend CPU and NET resources in the REX market and the price is more than acceptable. For the RAM you don't have to pay per transaction but pay for the amount of data stored and persisted. You should only use the EOS RAM to store your smart contract essential data.
It will be difficult to convince the 40% of the population that measures need to be taken when that 40% thinks everything of consequence is a hoax, fake news, etc - being incited and reinforced by their Dear Leader. It's the result of a decades long undervaluing, underfunded, ignored education system.
Well, no.

Again, we are not talking of old friends, we are talking of strangers.

Even in the south (I lived in sicily almost 15 years) it is not at all common.
Based on context in the article, it seems to me that the owner is probably not talking about his interaction with customers, but that in his private life.
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It's complicated. First of all countries with a relatively young population like South Korea are going to be hit less hard overall than countries with relatively old populations like Italy.

Second, there's going to be a big difference in mortality depending on how the medical system is holding up. In South Korea they got it contained, everybody who needed it got an ICU, and the case fatality rate is less than 1%. In Wuhan they were almost overwhelmed but built some extra hospitals then the they'd been in lockdown longer than the incubation period and they ended up with a bit over a 3% case fatality ratio. In Italy right now the worst hit hospitals are very overwhelmed and performing desperate triage with many infected medical workers and they've got a case fatality ratio over 8%.

Of course, case fatality ratio only covers diagnosed cases. If people with a light fever stay home and don't get tested they won't show up in the denominator and the case fatality ratio will be an exaggeration of the actual fatality ratio. How much of the difference between South Korea and Italy right now is due to which of those factors? I honestly don't know but I am worried. I think mortality rates similar to the Spanish flu could certainly occur if we respond badly enough.
This.

Everyday people in the leadup to y2k assumed it meant that every computer would somehow explode. Almost nobody stopped to actually reason through the real life consequence of a program getting the date and time wrong.
- poster sessions with a way for people to see the available posters and discuss them with the poster presenter

I completely forgot poster sessions which are a large part of most scientific conferences
The author very actively try to avoid centralizing it which may explain why all big instances has signups closed.
NASA’s future monster rocket is once again over budget and behind schedule
There are plenty of commonly-touched surfaces when people spend a long time in the same space: door handles, elevator buttons, countertops, buffet utensils, gym equipment, money...

I don't think the hand-washing is epidemiology theater, in part based on this thread: https://twitter.com/PalliThordarson/status/12365493051895971...
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It's refreshing to see people helping people in programs like AA.

I'm curious to see if the success of these programs change in the coming decades, as younger generations seem to be moving away from social interaction in favor of social MEDIA interaction. Will this have an impact on the success of programs like AA? I hope not.
This is of course all horrible, but I seriously wonder who at this point thinks: "Let's book a trip on a cruise ship right now!"
You don't need set theory for numbers, enumeration or arithmetic.
As far as I know "international standard" is a term that carries no legal weight in the realm of copyright, do you have any reason to believe otherwise?

ISO is not some organization created by the statute with the right to take your copyrights and make them public domain...
Just wanted to say thank you, I have been looking for something almost like this.

Only thing it is missing for me is support for videos. But I know videos are pain to self-host and if you use embedded player from YouTube or Vimeo then it kills the aesthetics.
So how did 696 passengers on Diamond Princess become infected?
> They weren't talking about rewriting every tool in your preferred language otherwise how far down the stack do you go (Terraform in Rust today, Linux in rust tomorrow, etc)?

Well, I'd say that one must start at the highest level and work one's way down. Clearly there're neither time nor resources to write an amd64 OS in Lisp when one is trying to get one's AirBnB-for-pools app out the door. But maybe one can give a little love to Hunchentoot. Maybe one can spend some time replacing Makefiles with ASDF. Maybe at some point one might even replace some uses of the shell itself. Maybe someday one might spend some time on SBCL.

And sure, someday, if one's firm really lucks out and achieves Google scale then maybe one will have the resources to build a new compiler or even a new OS.

So I guess I am somewhere between the two positions, at least if I wear the hat of the original article's author. I think it could make sense to write everything in one language, and I think maybe someday it might make sense to go a level deeper — and maybe someday further still a level yet deeper.

Because it would be nice, someday, to get something better than Unix-like OSes!

Also, I am a man, not a group: 'he,' not 'they' please grin
At first I thought this was a machine learning project that sampled news over a period of time and rejected nearly-identical articles that pop up over the same amount of time. "important news! bill gates gives 5 million to fight COVID!" that pops up on 50 news sites a few hours apart could be rejected, while a lone article that only appears in one or two places would appear as non-trivial. Apply filter on HN articles and you get just the unique, non-trending stuff. Sample over 24 hours and you have the most popular non-trending articles.
I guess they will have to, otherwise they'll be sued into oblivion if anybody catches so much as a cold.
Technically it is like a flu but I don't think people realize how bad flus can be. The 1918 one killed about 2.7% of the population which would be 200 million with the present population. Hopefully covid19 won't be that bad.
I built this email assistant for outlook. Looking for some feedback
> Sometimes used sarcastically when referring to a negative event happening to an unpleasant person.

Interesting! I've never heard this used in a sarcastic way. My mistake.
hopin looks like a decent product and is at least trying to get into this space. Has anyone attended an event they hosted?
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and I am not your lawyer.

Salespeople lying, within certain limits, does not seem to be treated as fraud by most governments, caveat emptor and all.

If they tell you the alcohol on the cruise will be free and you sign a contract saying so, and then it actually isn’t and you have to pay more, that’s one thing. If they tell you it’s going to be sunny and warm when you’re taking a cruise to Alaska in winter, that’s a different thing.

Lying or deceiving during sales about things other than the product is a large part of a salesperson’s job, I believe (including but not limited to making the customer think the salesperson likes and respects them).
Security measures are always an "overreaction", until they aren't.
True, also not about the country Norway either.
Where I work it takes about 6 months to get a blog post out the door. I don’t really understand what specifically is going on during that time.

A year ago or so, there was a push to get more content on the eng blog. This consisted of calling more volunteers to write posts, not any revision to the extremely onerous process.
In general, conviction of a felony will deprive you of the right to bear arms. In many states, it will deprive you of the right to vote, though this is changing. And, yes, age makes a difference--for voting, for signing contracts.
For the locals in those ports though ...
I checked out the page you linked and it doesn't load very well. FYI

* No http -> https redirect

* Broken layout when forced to https

* Play store link 404's

* Icon on the download button is broken
Unfortunately not. They sell most of it, and buy fossil fuels for 58% of their own energy consumption.

https://www.nve.no/energiforsyning/varedeklarasjon/nasjonal-...

Their politicians love touting that 98% green energy production but it’s incredibly misleading.

Sorry by the way I really don’t mean to take this conversation so off topic. It was meant half tongue in cheek :) every country has blind spots and this was about coronavirus and cruises, not global warming! And this is only their politicians; Norwegians are the most lovely people. Nothing against the country.

I’ll leave it here. Sorry again.
I wanted a pink pony.

My wifi SSID is <horse U+1F40E><unicorn U+1F984>, which is a barely satisfactory approximation.

(FWIW the FTP site is still up: ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/13.0.0/ )
I remember there being a lot of skepticism about the performance metrics used in that paper last time this topic came up. Vaguely, I think they were comparing the runtime of Wolfram's perfect answer search to their own model which was not required to get the answer exactly right. I think there were also some other shenanigans.
The author is wrong in their description. Some value types in Swift (like the standard library collection types like Array<T>) are value types with copy-on-write behavior. Until modified, copies of the Array are not made.

That copy-on-write functionality must be purposely implemented in the type and is not something provided automatically in Swift.
Also, never understood why JSON allows for duplicate keys at the same level. Behavior is implemented differently across languages. Some throwing an error on parsing of duplicate keys while others simply overwrite the first value encountered with the second.
I would try to use Java to manage / generate necessary Linux boot scripts. Use Java to manage Linux servers etc.
The risk is that this lockdown isn't sufficient to modify the progression of the epidemic. Then it will probably have to be modified.

Presumably, most transmission is happening in social settings and closed environments. These measures should mitigate that. The change in social behavior would suggest it's working. We'll find out in five days or so if this is working.
If the estimate is 60% to 70% of the county will get the disease you could assume every frontline health care person will get infected especially due to the proximity to the disease. You're just controlling when they get infected.
> probably

Based on what?
On C++ you have complex systems with difficult code to get correctly. With Electron, you have terrible chat apps that take 1GB of memory to display a few chat bubbles that allow remote execution into machines running them.

The data to compare the two is just not there to assume anything like you just did. Meanwhile, electron apps have proven quite insecure, despite not being able to allow arbitrary write primitive by indexing into an array.
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Again, I don't know if anyone is actually critical of turning people's water back on and that isn't what is being talked about here.

All I said was that saying in a general sense that people don't have access to water implies infrastructure problems which isn't the case here.

When someone says 'infrastructure and access isn't the problem' and you say "I for one, think people deserve water" that's just nonsensical and self righteous.
I'd be really curious to know how this got 43 votes ... especially this early in the day (US).
Avast was founded in 1988. Now imagine what its codebase looks like.
> There is a non-trivial overlap between "look at this cutting edge cool stuff we're doing" and the company's strategic edge over competitors.

I don't really agree. I think the more you write about what you are doing the more you attract really good people and that's the strategic edge on competitors.
Seems like the number is about 7MB[1] per font, looking at a real world example.

1. https://imgur.com/a/iMHYtjB
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> Eszett (which comes from the ligature of 'ss')

ß is both visually and from its name (‘s’ ‘z’) a ligature of s and z (“Eszett” in English is “ess-zed). An ss ligature would look like a double integral sign. “Sz” seems like a better way to represent that sound, so I don’t know why it morphed into “ss”

Greek has two characters for s, one for use in the middle and one for the ends of words. English lost this in the late 18th or early 19th century (look in the Declaration of Independence for examples). German kept it longer, at least in Fraktur, which included other standard ligatures, even in handwritten text, such as ch, tz et al. The Umlaut mark can also be considered a ligature for E which is how it was originally drawn.
weird, in the netherlands I just send a message to my boss saying im sick. He's also not allowed to ask what kind of illness I have, unless it lasts long and then a company doctor (not actually from the company, its just how they call them) has to see me.
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do you have the link?
> too big and heavy for Europe

You do realise that a battery is very heavy? Also, just because you don't want a bigger car, doesn't mean that others don't, there are still lost of smaller cars around.
How'd this one get past your hand-selected filter? It's literally just a link to a meme (linked to under the heading "Demography"):

https://imgur.com/a/BHqTPMO
> But how many C/C++ engineers would think to design a system that runs a min interpreted code

Multiple people, in this very thread, including you[0]. And apparently at least one Avast engineer and their upper management.

I'll requote/paraphrase another commenter[1] down-thread: it wasn't JS devs who wrote a custom interpreter inside a privileged C/C++ program. It was a C/C++ developer who thought, "I can handle this."

It's very important when calling out security failings to point out the real failing. If people are reading this and trying to take away security advice, I don't want their takeaway to be, "so my custom LUA interpreter is fine."

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22545385

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22545945
Seattle lab uncovered Washington's coronavirus outbreak by defying federal regs
Two things, your source for travel times puts average San Diego commute at 26 minutes. It’s more like 1 hour minimum depending on what time of day you leave. I’d question the accuracy of this data even though it’s gov data. It looks like you picked the best case here yourself.

Second thing, not everybody has a need or even a want to be around people during their work day. I have horrible ADD, socializing at work means I get nothing done. Further why do you get less promotions and pay and why does team comradery suffer? I can’t see a correlation between WFH and those items you listed.
I think if they just did zombie games it could be construed as making light of the situation and get them some backlash. Broader discounts and some signalling that the intent is to encourage people to stay inside more might work though.