skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The numbers seem out of date - you are showing the USA at 1678, while the Johns Hopkins dashboard is showing 4110. Maybe a timestamp of when the last update was?

Aside from that, I like it. Simple, effective visuals to compare growth rates. Nice job.
Ask HN: What happens next after a successful lockdown?
Optimistic scenario - lockdown everywhere is a success and after a month there're single cases here and there, maybe even 0 cases. Would countries resume travel and ease gathering restriction before a vaccine has been invented? Or we can expect to be in a lockdown for 12-14 months until a vaccine comes to market, if it comes to market?
How many people are you willing to kill in order to continue polluting the planet: https://www.who.int/health-topics/air-pollution
So, how does the PCR-based testing work? Is it just the usual gene amplification steps?

* Get DNA out of cells and unwrapped from their histones.

* Cleave the DNA sample with restriction enzymes at boundary sites which should mark the start/end of a stretch of viral DNA.

* Amplify the sample with PCR, using primers which match stretches of viral DNA.

* Run a gel electrophoresis and look for a mass of DNA that matches the expected size of the stretch of viral DNA.

Is that how things work, or are these kinds of diagnostics done differently?
Look again. Gold held up for a while during the crash, but now it's down for the year.
I don't think historians will be swindled, but what about lawmakers and the general public of today?

If big banks start going belly-up, they're going to use corona as a convenient (and dire) excuse for bail-outs, understating all the bad loans and toxic deals they've made in the past.
Unfortunately, here in Brazil an old ban exists on selling ethanol, due to concerns of it causing accidents with fire and explosions. The only way for an ordinary person to acquire ethanol is in the form of - take a guess - hand sanitizers (or vehicular ethanol at gas stations, but it is inappropriate for that purpose). So currently hand sanitizers are completely out of stock and soap is the only alternative.
This actually happened when these sanctions were first implemented. US registrars notified their customers from Crimea that they wouldn't be providing them any services from now on, and the customers all just quietly migrated to European registrars.

See the difference? Domains were not seized, traffic was not silently redirected to /dev/null. Microsoft could do something along these lines too, but instead just chose to be evil.
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I do not consider the largest distributor of proprietary, closed-source spyware (Windows) owning the fastest growing open source package manager to be a good outcome, personally.
> invested in financial instruments

Which is what most people mean when they say "cash" in the context of company financials. As long as it's reasonably liquid, I consider it "cash". Investing in the company, on the other hand, is not liquid (e.g. hiring, buying planes, etc).
Slightly OT: Is Packages coming to Azure DevOps Server (local/corporate hosted)?
> The Environment Agency (EA) did not renew the permit for Lincolnshire to continue the trial due to concerns about waste codes and regulations.

Never let a good idea get in the way of British traditions.
BS startups with BS products/services that are built on top of hype and investors money -> pretty bad

Regular companies with healthy projects, revenues and employee count sized according to their current need and not according to y+5 revenues -> will do just fine.
Unfortunately, price regulations on textbooks (however possible) would only affect the individuals "consuming" those textbooks, the majority of which are traditional students.

This has been a problem for many years. Why the price of a textbook for a particular course are not paid for via the cost(s) of that particular course is beyond me. I am all for solving this problem, but it is one of many.
Ah... good resource.
If you close the market and don't solve the underlying problems, the moment it reopens you will wish it remained closed.
There is a build/transpilation step.
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If you can get your hands on near-pure ethanol.
I’d love being able to do that too but imagine if both of us had that same power. If we both have no prior experience with each other, it would either be wonderful (if both of us really have nothing we want to hide) or horrible (because instead of overthinking what the other person is thinking we’ll have to think about what we respectively think).
and Edgeium.
Some fat is going to get trimmed, passion project gets canceled and unprofitable companies are going to have tough times.
“How dare she live her life and make choices like an adult! Doesn’t she know that because I’m super serious, I get to boss her around!!”

I find the attitude of many people advocating quarantine is arrogant and patronizing, along with undertones of fascism.

If you can’t convince other people to go along with your plan, that’s your fault. Maybe it’s not that good of a plan or maybe you just didn’t explain it well.

I’ve already seen people advocating for using force to enact a plan they can’t talk people into. Amazing how quickly self-righteous people turn to violence.

So much for a free society.
"$1.2B appropriate? It’s hard for me to tell in this case because "

It's 'hard to tell' because we don't know what kind of evidence there is, and how assertive supposed behavior was, let alone if they broke the law.

There is more information on Tech Crunch and it really does not look damming.
Oh, neat. The annuals make for a stunning field. See my top-level comment for an album of photos I took in a cloverleaf.
Did you miss the part where writing to a padding byte might generate an error on some architectures? Granted I don't know of any such architectures, but C was designed to work on just about any weird thing you can dream up.
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A common issue I've had with using Git repos directly as Node.js modules, is that many projects are transpiled/built before publishing to NPM. Depending on specifics of that build process, it may not work out of the box (or at all) from a node_modules folder.

With NPM acquired by GitHub, I can imagine them "filling in some steps" by leveraging the fairly new Actions feature, so that repos can provide built artifacts, the same ones as published on NPM. The deeper integration will be an interesting development to watch.
Windows 10 runs on older machines just fine.
Yes thank you! We believe namespaces are a good thing and will continue to promote it as best practice.

Hopefully we can integrate repository information to packages meta data such that you could be aware of a change of ownership even for a globally namespaced package.
On the other hand, if nobody in the room thinks you're cool enough to want to talk to you, the ambiguity in presentation is more a feature than a bug. You're wishing that we could read each other's minds, but only a subset of us would enjoy that knowledge. Please leave the rest of us space to indulge our illusions. They make some of us more social.
I think the inability to find a price here also has to do with value. To develop a relationship with someone requires that you offer value in the form of conversation, entertainment, etc.

People are most attracted to attractive people. (And by "attractive" I mean primarily personality characteristics.) Most people seem to actually have an aversion to lonely people whether conscious or subconscious. Perhaps it's an old social defense mechanism from times in our history where it was dangerous to associate with unpopular people. You were more likely to be shunned as well and less likely to be given mating opportunities.

I often go out of my way to talk to the wall flowers and shy people that no one is talking to, but I've found by and large, they are also much harder to talk to! It's much more work to stoke the conversation, and we all know there's a threshold there, below which, the conversation just isn't stable. Putting two wall flowers together has a much lower conversational success rate (which is a basic minimum hurdle to continuing any kind of social relationship) than two social people.

It's a tough nut to crack, and I don't think unknown intentions is the problem.
Thank you! The plastics compatibility chart linked above also listed it (even nylon 6-6, which it called nylon 66) as only "fair", which surprised me. Does it hydrolyze?
Hopefully they don't drop Linux support like they did with Skype, Minecraft, Xamarin[1], Corel Office and a long list of products.

Their strategy from my perspective is to ensure Linux does not become a competitor for their desktop OS.

1: it never had Linux support.
The number of contributors to Open Source Software has also grown by one or two orders of magnitude since Github came into being and standardised the pull request, replacing sourceforge (yuck), custom bug-trackers (with bugs tracked in yet another custom bug tracker) and mailing lists.
By the way, thanks a lot for sharing your story and code back then, I learnt a lot from it.
It never seemed ridiculous to anyone outside the hype bubbles. Automation and AI is quite literally the same story since the 40s.
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>emotionally satisfying...lightly to cause an accident...probably illegal...socially acceptable

All of these are not my concern.

Being able to see is.
British Airways is calling on the government to not bail out it's competitors. They are sitting on $9Bn in cash.
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Thanks for replying, Steve :D

I was more suggesting that there's a story about how Rust became what it is today, and the active guidance that members of the core team(s) took on to take it there. It's a story I'd like to read, that's all.

The questions you bring up are very good ones, and they're relevant to anyone developing technology like a programming language - be it a FOSS project, a creative tool, whatever. But I think from a literary perspective it wouldn't be the job of the person telling the story to answer them, but for the reader to decide for themselves.
> If the situation has not been ignored completely (for instance, the compiler analyzes for the absence of that type of undefined behavior and optimized based on that)

Except optimizing based on undefined behavior is also a form of ignoring the situation. For example, say you have code that can:

1. Execute Action A if undefined behavior is present, or

2. Execute Action B if undefined behavior is not present.

A compiler could look at these two possibilities, see that one of them invokes undefined behavior, ignore that situation completely, and optimize the remaining path. And that would be perfectly in line with the wording of the standard.

The interpretation you and other commentors who dislike optimizations based on UB favor is that "ignoring the situation" should mean "treat the code as if it was conforming". Both are valid readings of the standard, and the only way one will become the dominant reading would be for the standard to use less ambiguous wording.
Absolutely. Pharo is much like Java: it's VM-based, so Pharo software will run on any platform that has a Pharo VM. This includes Windows, macOS, and Linux.

And if you use PharoJS, which transpiles to JS, the same software will run in any web browser, and on mobile devices (using Apache Cordova).
> ...my safety-oriented response to that reality.

So as people try to increase their safety in vehicle it becomes a feedback loop until the roads cannot be expanded further.

Meanwhile lower drivers, pedestrians, bicyclists, and everyone living within a few miles of busy roads suffers from blinding headlights, more deadly impacts, and increased pollution; respectively.

Glad we're all in this together!
I've been thinking about this for a long time. About 5 years ago, me and some friends got together to build a "Dating app but for people looking for friends and activity partners".

Fortunately, we all quit before we got in too deep. It didn't seem like a problem that had any good solutions.

Today, I'm convinced that a technology solution is not the right approach. Screen addiction and various dopamine hits from social media have produced a catastrophic collapse of various IRL social institutions that traditionally facilitated opportunities to meet new people.

The most practical "if I had a magic wand..." solution that I can think of is to wave a magic wand and undo all forms of screen addictions that has destroyed our IRL social interactions.
I see this as a straightforward play, simply put, I think (to summarize, perhaps a little to broadly)

- They want to sell Azure Services

- Most (if not all) NPM packages already live on github

- NPM has a business revolving around package management, including private npm instances and increasingly around node/package security

- This being primarily a business that will sell to has-money businesses (e.g., medium to large businesses, Fortune 500 corporations etc)

So, given all of the above, it makes sense to have a vertical selling into one of the fastest growing package management ecosystems where you can be the "full stack" provider of developer/enterprise tools.

I don't think its anything beyond this, personally. I expect to see a lot of pushes to integrate with Azure Pipelines, cloud deployment etc. centered around this.

I wonder if they'll buy Passenger[0] next, its a popular (in my experience) to deploy nodejs applications.

[0]https://www.phusionpassenger.com/library/
There is, but instead of putting this requirement on the companies (making it more expensive to hire), the government supplies the guarantees.

So in a situation like this, companies can temporarily let employees go home without pay and the government pays them.

You could argue that a reserve requirement would be better (e.g in order to hire someone a company must place 6 months pay in reserve), but that would just put a lot of capital to no use.
And solar isn't "synthetic fuel". I don't think anyone is seriously recommending solar planes, at least not in the short term.
To be honest I like this new Microsoft. VSCode is a really good tool, C# is amazingly performant and they don‘t talk quite the same BS lingo as some other big players. Also MS research produces some really good stuff.
Perhaps dependency was the wrong term, but my point is what you said - they've built it in as a convenience feature precisely because it's such a common usecase - a better way to say it might be they're inseparably linked tools / tightly coupled even on the technical level.
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It's a way to prevent revolts from starvation, not to maintain your current living standards.
Thats what i mean. Why is the market not closed while the world deals with the virus? If and when the world deals with the virus reopen. This is forced closure of most commerce in the world due to the virus and everyone is suppose to speculate on the future earnings of every company in the world durring this time...

Its unprecedented and it needs to be shutdown.
As we are all being reminded now, healthcare is a good with a fixed capacity. We still need some way to decide who gets access to the capacity.

But even if we did provide universal healthcare, people who aren't working run the risk of losing their homes, access to food, and other necessities, so providing universal healthcare would only solve part of the problem that's being proposed.
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Same. I give my data to Google and I know this. I wish there were more transparency about the people I don't actually give permission to or there is no workaround. Credit card companies, web trackers, ISPs, etc.
Interesting question: Do you think the Canadian government has the power to deny entry of US citizens into Canada? I don't think they'd be able to do it.

[edit] I think any Candian government who actually did it would see an economic shock and loss of legitimacy so large that none of them would risk it.
You aren't the only one. Most users are too young to understand how predatory Microsoft has always been. Can't wait for the "npm won't publish my package because it circumvents something in Windows" or whatever. Give it time.
Additionally, it didn't take a lot of reading-between-the-lines to infer that they're planning to close the border to Americans in the next few days as well. NAFTA must be an impediment here.
That would be the most tone-deaf lawsuit I've ever seen.
I agree with you this is precisely what a social safety net is for, but given that the United States seems to be vehemently opposed to universal health Care and UBI, there should at least be regulations in place to ensure the businesses we depend on aren't operating on the edge of bankruptcy. The whole argument against government safety nets is that companies will take care of their employees in a time of crisis (I disagree with this idea, but we hear it all the time).
Microsoft simply isn't going to pick a fight with the US government. At least direct your anger at the right party.
Then you must not like React or Angular, since the owners of those projects are the largest spyware and aggregators of personal data in the history of humanity.
Sleez'n their way into our hearts. I can't say I really blame them, but god I hate it all.
Yeah, it's a fair point, but this seems reasonable to me if you accept that they are already looking at peoples' login locations and trying to keep their platform civilian.

If a nominally-Turkish user started regularly logging in from Syria, I could see there being the same sort of military/security concerns. And I could see that user getting just as indignant if they were, say, an aid worker.

Is it right? Probably not, but it seems understandable when state-sanctioned violence is involved.
It would have happened otherwise
6 weeks is a damn eternity. Modern supply chains are stupid highly optimized.
> If Tim Cook paid $200 million dollar fine or went to jail for 15 days for this, internal controls and compliance would be rock solid.

If Tim Cook paid a $200 million dollar fine and went to jail for 15 days for this, he'd run the company from jail for 15 days and then get a $300 million dollar bonus the next year.

You can't get at this by punishing the executives if the consequences still benefit the shareholders, because otherwise all they'll do is increase executive compensation to offset the legal risks. There are plenty of people who would be willing to go to jail for years if there was a hundred million dollars in it for them.

It's the same reason calibrating the fines right is nearly impossible. Go under and it's no deterrent, go over and you're just bankrupting everybody and putting innocent people out of work.

The better solutions are the ones that repair the damage (or prevent it). Don't allow large companies to buy their competitors, or leverage a strong position in one market into a strong position in another, or enter into price fixing agreements etc. This is all basic antitrust stuff and the problem isn't that it doesn't work, it's that it isn't being enforced.
Transparently soliciting a specific desired behavior doesn't fall within the traditional definition of disingenuous.

Does it bother you that a commercial entity with "a dog in the fight" is asking you to take action on its behalf?
Go will download modules from wherever their URL is.
Probably not. The three main Scandinavian countries are all working on some sort of wage compensation package that includes SAS and Norwegian in the case of Norway, but they are each targeted at employees who live in the respective countries.
Well, I just started my first dev job two weeks ago after switching careers. I really hope to get a chance to work in this field and not get laid off ASAP.
Ehhh... there are more productive ways to spend your time than playing video games.

I agree we should look out for the older generation though. For me, it's my parents (boomers, who fought no wars) I worry about, my grandparents (who fought) have passed already.
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Too little too late. It's what will happen internally that will matter most.
That's wonderful but:

a) The law states they cannot do this arbitrarily and most of us may not want them to do the 'free for rall'.

b) I doubt that the 'free for all' produces many benefits beyond targeted ads.

Seriously curious, what 'cool stuff' does Google do today that fundamentally relies on this 'free for all'?

Traffic information is probably one nice thing that requires the sharing of data. We could totally narrow the kinds of information shared, and on what basis, quite a lot with that one.

What else?
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Front-end code is a different beast, but this immediately reminded me of React's Context API: is you squint, it sort of looks like dynamic scope. It's also nestable, and since you can wrap the context provider in a custom component, you can have it consume the parent context (if any) and compose them however you like. Plus since accessing that context is explicit, you avoid the issue of dynamic scope being harder to reason about in program execution.

I wonder if there's a reasonable way to apply this approach to more general-purpose code.
He's using ray tracing, I thought this was the typical way of doing it. Do you have references on alternate methods?
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What would be the top several items if it was a priority list?
The Norwegian was in trouble way before the virus.
They had to be rescued due to mounting losses. The 737 MAX crisis also hit them hard to which they were exposed more than average. Some links (there are much more):
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidnikel/2019/09/16/norwegian...
https://qz.com/1688156/why-is-norwegian-air-failing/
Because of the troubles I avoided them for transatlantic travel not risking last minute cancellations due to bankruptcy. I doubt that I was alone.
> the programming language that has the least (zero might be impossible) quirks when targeting different OS'es wins my heart.

Two languages come to mind (though I think this is an unpopular opinion, I will try anyway):

* Dart (runs really well and cross-platform on desktop, mobile and web)
* Haxe (because it can compile to pretty much anything: C++, Java, JS...)
Attributes are usually easier to share than functions and algorithms. That's why I suggest using "data dictionaries" nearby. Most common CRUD idioms are readily attribute-able such that we don't need Turing Complete sub-languages for majority of them. We just need useful code "hooks" to customize when needed, which is the usual bottleneck of attribute-driven development.
Norwegian was pretty hard hit by the 737-MAX crisis
Microsoft seems to be happily improving their OS and non-cloud products as well. They are a big enough company that they can be competitive in both.
It certainly will suck in the short term, but I doubt long term demand for air travel will go down, so most should be able to be rehired at one of the airlines that remain.
How many cases per 100,000 in the US versus other industrialized countries?

That would be a useful statistic in evaluating if, indeed, America 'wasn't up to the task' compared to others.
You don’t think it’s possible because... why?
Why do you think that? The Canadian government absolutely could and already does on a selective basis daily.
I am old enough (42) to remember those days, but honestly I don't feel that threatened by them. I remember their EEE days, and for a long time I haven't seen much of the same behavior.
Microsoft doesn't need to care about backwards compatibility anymore, now that Wine exists precisely to have compatibility with Windows software (including software that even modern Windows itself no longer wants to run).
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One could argue that the IE6 of our times is Google Chrome at this point..