skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think it has to be a tinfoil approach though. I just mean, if we are going to restrict people, have aggressive sunset provisions on those orders (or poison pill the bill somehow to get more incentive to repeal it as soon as we beat this)
> What do you use the Smalltalk system for? Very few have an answer.

I have...

You use Smalltalk for back-end web development with tools like Seaside (http://seaside.st/ ) and Teapot.

You use Smalltalk for front-end web development with tools like Amber and PharoJS.

You use Smalltalk for data science with tools like PolyMath library, Roassal data visualization (https://youtu.be/R2rLr7Z1b8Y ), and Moose analytics platform (https://moosetechnology.org/ ).

You use Smalltalk for machine learning with Pharo bindings for TensorFlow and Keras.

You use Smalltalk for IoT applications with tools like PharoThings (https://github.com/pharo-iot/PharoThings ).

You use Smalltalk for robotics with tools like PhaROS (http://car.mines-douai.fr/category/pharos/ ).

You use Smalltalk for virtual reality like in this example: https://youtu.be/b4nNtN7XBi8 .

You use Smalltalk for mobile software with tools like Apache Cordova.

You use Smalltalk for desktop software with the Spec library (https://books.pharo.org/spec-tutorial/ ).

Enterprises have been using Smalltalk for decades. It's especially popular in the financial industry. It's also used in manufacturing, utilities, transportation, government, etc.

Lam Research is worth mentioning. This company is a vital link in the global supply chain. The electronic components in your smartphones, PCs, laptops, etc. started out as silicon wafers fabricated by Lam machines controlled by Smalltalk. You owe your digital existence to Smalltalk!

The U.S. joint military even used Smalltalk to write a million-line battle simulator called JWARS. It actually outperformed a similar software called STORM written in C++ by the U.S. Air Force. JWARS was decommissioned in 2010 due to budget cuts.

Did you know that Smalltalk is also used for system scripting just like Python and Perl? With GNU Smalltalk and Pharo (in command line mode), this is common practice.

There are very few programming languages that are as flexible and versatile as Smalltalk.
It was struggling in late 2018 (after the sugar rush of tax cut ended) and 2019. FED was lowering interest rates to make it look better even though other indicators were looking bad.
1) buy time by reducing Re

2) invest into medical research

3) hope you can manufacture something effective by the time the next wave hits
The author states:

>"No more bastion hosts required! Session Manager uses AWS APIs to communicate with your instances, so you can remove the administrative burden of maintaining bastion hosts."

Does this presume the EC2 instances have a public IP or is there a way this would also work with EC2 instances on private subnets?
No. Being in cash is always less risky than being in the market. "Missing a chance" is not what "risky" means.
Heroku, Discord, Github and Zoom was having issues for me today.
You mean like American Airlines that had a profit of $7.6 billion in 2015, and didn't save dollar one for a rainy day? Instead, it bought back $15 billion worth of stock over six years while raising fees and shrinking seats?

“I don’t think we’re ever going to lose money again,” -Doug Parker, American Airlines CEO, 2017.

Let 'em fail.
Santa Clara county:

https://www.sccgov.org/sites/phd/DiseaseInformation/novel-co...
Interestingly, that comment started out as +3 and is down to -2 now.

I think it may be a good harbinger of the public's willingness to endure repeated, long-term changes to their behavior. The way I see this going, we're going to get lockdowns in most countries within the next week or so. After 6 weeks or so, new cases will be negligible, and we'll declare victory and pick up our lives. The virus will silently spread from a few undetected cases during the summer, but then take off again around October, when we get a second wave. Assuming it hasn't mutated to become significantly less deadly (pretty likely - see sibling threads), that will be the real killer, because instead of starting from 1 index case in 1 city it'll be seeded from tens of thousands of sleeper cases across the globe. Public opinion won't support a second lockdown then - people will just be left to die with their families.
This is good advice generally, especially for severe infections like COVID-19 but there's little evidence _specific_ to COVID-19 and a contraindication with NSAIDs.

The Snopes [1] article covers the general gist although there is an early report around that the minister likely read and passed on in the form of a tweet.

Research is changing constantly right now so evidence may or may not show NSAIDs contraindicated with greater risk than other infections.

[1]: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/covid-19-nsaids-ibuprofen/
It isn’t clear that the corona virus will have a noticeable effect on death rate in any specific city, region, or country. It would have to kill a lot more people before it even showed up in the statistics in a place like Wuhan that has gotten the brunt of it, I think.
While I agree with the general point that basic and direct sentence structure is not always the right choice, there is no passive voice in the sentence you quoted.

"it is a truth universally acknowledged" -> impersonal construction

"a single man... must be in want of a wife" -> this is active voice, man is still the subject of the sentence and be is the the only verb. "Want" is a noun. See https://www.dictionary.com/browse/want, definition 14.
the idea of buying disney reminds me of when matsushita (panasonic) bought mca (universal) and then promptly sold it off a few years later because the relationship was so fraught with conflicts [0]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/01/business/company-news-mat...
Burzum pretty much invented "bedroom black metal" in 1991.
JavaScript Visualization Tools
Looking inside a vintage Soviet TTL logic integrated circuit
1980 Briggs and Stratton Hybrid – Jay Leno’s Garage[video]
Lucky them. Amazon in my area hasn't had an available delivery slot in almost a week.
They were always going to eventually, and they said so.
Does it have enough bathrooms though?
It would drive their junk bonds even lower if they were to close.
Good article and I like the music. BTW "Reverse Glimpse" gets stuck for me. Just a black screen and it will not play. It stops the playlist there too.
Sorry, I have to go get tea.
I've recently started prototyping our move to k8s - and my recommendation is stay away from minikube, k3s and kind. Kind looks the best on paper. But canonical has done great with https://microk8s.io/

I'd love to hear why anyone preferes any other solution for local development/experimentation.
Don't think anyone is waiting for the ICU to be at capacity.
The alternative is that the entire source control system (GitHub) and the entire artifact registry (npm) are run by a giant multinational military defense contractor with close and longstanding ties to the US military. Did we forget so soon that the Snowden slides are PowerPoint?

I'm not sure that's an improvement in any way whatsoever.
There are all these clients out there now that use far more memory then native alternatives and objectively perform far worse but they are all insanely popular and dwarf the alternatives in terms of user base.

So I mean, "it's usually not a problem" is true, resource consumption of the clients don't appear to affect acquisition of users or popularity of the platform.
Previous recessions were a lack of demand. What happens when it’s a lack of supply?

We can’t go back to the way things were if the global supply chain is damaged or completely stopped. And that’s not even considering local businesses that may never come back after this is over.
(2 ^ (N - 1)) grains of rice on the N'th square.

That means (2 ^ N) - 1 cumulative grains of rice on the N first squares.

So 63 total grains of rice on the first 6 squares is correct.
There was an article in Reuters or WSJ or something similar about this. It was a computer glitch, and temporary.
FWIW, I did a comparison of k8s in Docker, KinD, and minikube last week ... https://seroter.wordpress.com/2020/03/10/lets-look-at-your-o...
>Bond (played by Idris Elba) would then cough on Bezos

Thats on the nose enough that I'm wondering if you knew Idris Elba just announced he had Coronavirus.
It it was possible to have a very reliable predictor of who will take the infection in an asymptomatic way, or with very trivial symptoms, a plan could be to infect all those, that are believed to be at least 50% of the population, to create a solid immunity base in the society.
Add Norway and Denmark to the list of countries that have halted large part of their economic activity.

Honestly, I think the UK, Sweden et al. will be "voted out" here. Commerce can't continue between countries that follow the China/South Korea model of keeping R0 < 1, because frequent large outbreaks are bound to follow. Britain can't economically dominate its neighbors like that today. Sweden, forget about it.

This is a spectacular high-stakes experiment. But if Boris Johnson isn't persuaded by public opinion and a high death toll, his trading partners will.

Both approaches put strong selection pressure on the virus to mutate to a milder form, so even in the absence of a vaccine, we'll win in the long term.
Long incubation period, start in southeast Asia, airborne, create delays for the scientists...
You should totally add this to https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/
Also (I presume): limited capacity in delivery, no matter how fast they can pick/place/package.
> Old people are generally in bonds at this point in their life. Bonds have been on a tear lately. Their investments are doing OK.

This is assuming no CPI increases from all the money creation, especially if they send the money directly to consumers, likely reducing the Cantillon effects.

And "lately" isn't after weeks or months of substantially reduced economic activity.
Right. And everyone understands this when it's the military: If you can't make more missiles at home, then you are a pawn of whoever you buy them from. We ought to have taken a similar line on a lot of medical supplies, especially those likely to be useful at whole-population scale.
> ...before being killed by Thanos.

I read Theranos at first.
Also very true. :)
If you explicitly manage your scripting language versions, none of what you’ve described is a problem. Instead, your post reads from a perspective of fear, uncertainty and doubt that doesn’t line up with developer experiences.

As for iOS, it is not the same as macOS and should be considered separately. I’m not sure why you’ve equated the two (different use cases), but maybe you are genuinely (and unnecessarily) worried.
Now if we could only manage the same thing with the GOP, but with a wooly mammoth...
Yes... people should buy while the market is falling. You can't time the bottom. You can observe the fall though.
It depends on the province. Quebec is almost completely on lock down at this point. I think the decentralized approach is better in this case since it allows for much more agility and a localized approach. The provincial government here is communicating extremely well with the population and answers really well to most concerns from the population. To give an example they opened today daycares for the children of healthcare workers to avoid any disruption due to all schools shutting down. Which is an excellent comprise that I don't the federal government being able to set in place so quickly and so widely across the whole country
I think the only fact that rescues this situation is that in the same paragraph, there is wording which assures the implementor that UB "imposes no requirements" (famous fact everyone basically knows). The later "permissible" is an unfortunate word that appears to give requirements. Without the "imposes no requirements" to contradict that word, it would be a lot more troublesome.

I wrote a detailed reponse to the blogger, which is "awaiting moderation". I not only point out that the C89 wording is contradictory, which justifies the replacement of the word, but that all sorts of common, useful optimizations are predicated on the absence of the program's reliance on undefined behavior.

If we cannot optimize based on the absence of undefined behavior, we cannot cache variables in registers or do CSE, or only in a lot fewer possible cases.

At best we can do back-end things that just improve the compiler's output without regard for the original program (optimal allocation of real registers to pseudo-registers, peephole optimization, jump threading, ...)
> It'd be amazing if we could actually directly (from a technical perspective) message other people, without needing central servers between us.

Me too. The keywords you might be looking for are encryption and traffic analysis counter-measures. In my eyes it's largely a political problem.
That's true but what's also true is that we found out in 2008 that there is much more correlation between asset classes than you might think.
Profitable of not, they should not run out of money.

Would yo prefer npm infrastructure to be maintained and developed by the lowest-paid programmers they could hire?
3D Printed Modular Violin
The CDC link is interesting stuff I haven't read before, but where does it say the acceleration phase stops before it reaches a significant percentage of the population? China contained and stopped the virus, it didn't just naturally decelerate.
We've been doing fine here in reality, where most Linux distros, Perl's CPAN, Python's PyPi, RubyGems, etc. are all run by volunteers and donations. There is nothing special about NPM that requires it to be owned by a for-profit corporation. If Wikipedia and Archive.org can get by, I'm sure NPM can too.
>Amazon is now the only store open.

I've had Amazon Fresh cancel two orders so far so I'm not sure how open they are.
Your take on the installer in npm v6 is not wrong. It got that way by a process of gradual iterative evolution, and it has lots of warts.

npm v7 features a ground-up rewrite of the tree resolution and deification logic in the @npmcli/arborist module. I recommend checking it out, or at least staying tuned for the beta coming soon.
If that’s true, it’s too bad. Norwegian is my favorite airline for trans-Atlantic flights because of great service and reasonable prices.
Are we confusing centralized in terms of ownership vs centralized in terms of server load?
Anything by Judea Pearl, but especially the Book of Why[1], is good. He comes at causality from a CS perspective, which I think would make sense for most people on here.

Economists also have a big causality literature which might be less accessible for HN folks but I think is still interesting and important. For a good intro to all that, I suggest Scott Cunningham’s “Causal Inference: The Mixtape.”[2]

[1] https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780465097609

[2] https://scunning.com/causalinference_norap.pdf
I don't think that's a very productive comment.

It's true, but it has zero relevance to the fact that people are naturally resistant to being told to make huge sacrifices almost solely for the benefit of another group of people. Particularly at a time when one of the major (pre-coronavirus) world storylines is around the first group of people suffering from the climate decisions made by the older group.
> admit defeat and simply optimize for slowing down the onslaught.

Oh please. Based on what we know, it's much more likely to not be an 'onslaught.' But hey, if we want to wreck the economy and drive mass hysteria for something that is super not fatal for the vast majority of people, then let's go!
> Just for reference, vscodium is not a fork to remove Microsoft's code - it is just a build tool for the open source repo as explained in the README.

When a certain build configuration enables major spyware features, and that is the build configuration for the released version by the first party, and another build configuration (that is not released by the first party) disables those major spyware features, the distinction between a fork/patch and a "different build configuration" becomes semantically meaningless.

It's a fork, regardless of how they care to present it. The result of the build configuration is embedded in the release. Consider it a "binary fork" if you don't like considering json "source code".
They might after they made the trade.
They instituted a 14-day quarantine for travellers from mainland China on the 24th of February and soon after for Korea, Italy and Iran. These were all already in place while other countries were pretending everything was OK and advising people arriving from Italy to go to work.
Mine had a few slots open days later then unceremoniously canceled the order hours after they were supposed to arrive.
What is "CFR"? Something fatality rate?
There's always TVIX for the casino minded players:

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/tvix?ltr=1
DWM was created to facilitate Aero, and is still used today.
Ask HN: Ways to support people losing their job by Covid-19
As more cities across the US ban large gatherings, more and more businesses are being put either on reduced hours or being closed altogether, for we don't know how long. This will result in a lot of staff being at least temporarily being laid off. Is there any organization that focus on these workers that I can contribute to? If not, what's the best way to help?
We’ve been fortunate in the US to not have to shelter in place for an extended period of time in our history. We’ll get through this, just like everything else.

It’ll take time, too many will die, but instead of remembering that most folks will likely complain about being stuck at home.

Weddings/concerts/flights are all cancelled and the only way to get things back on track is to shelter in place long enough for us to get testing up and running and to isolate the virus.

Half measures in this situation just won’t cut it and the longer we take to accept that, the more will die.

Caveat: I’m a fortunate person who has the ability to work remotely. I realize that many don’t have enough savings to make it through a week, much less two months. I hope our safety net is there to support them as well as the business owners who will all be severely impacted.
A layoff is not necessarily temporary. You’d need a system that compels the company to hire them back at their previous wages / benefits, or not allow any kind of “terminated” status but just transfer payroll (at a reduced rate) to the government.

Firing + collecting unemployment is not the same as requiring fiscal responsibility, not even in terms of superficial intentions.
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/bst/14/1/14_2020.01047/... This summarizes the results of a bunch of trials that were run in parallel in China.
They have way more vacation days, cheaper travel options, and most can speak multiple languages. I would think they travel more.
Another thing they do is recruiting med students as emergency staff, but this seems to be in an early phase.
And we're still comparatively early in the pandemic. In my perception our government is actually handling the situation surprisingly well until now. We even overcame years long blockades of our federalism.
From my understanding, on Italy the mortality rate of those that are hospitalized is 25%, however the mortality rate of those that are put on invasive ventilation goes over 95% (can't find the source), so for most it's basically a death sentence.
>I think a severe recession is all but guaranteed at this point

Recession yes, severe, maybe not. (thought I admit the possibility) I think if the current distancing measures curtail the spread, then by July (maybe sooner) things could begin to inch back upwards. Then it's a matter of how much the next flu season impacts things, but by that time we should also be within 6-8 months or so of a vaccine. Recession for the next 1.5 years is definitely in the cards, but this is a unique circumstance with a unique, specific cause. If that cause is removed, a return to normalcy shouldn't be so far behind that a recession is "severe".
Headlights aren't nearly the problem that led lights are on police and emergency vehicles.

The ambulances now have brake lights mounted near the top/rear of the vehicle that are at least as bright as headlights whenever the brakes are applied.

Police lights are so bright, even trying to avoid looking at them at night causes temporary blindness.
Are the tests used in [1] (real-time RT-PCR) the same?

The false negative reported several times from the same patient is interesting, but may be more due to testing source (upper respiratory fluid vs. sputum or lower respiratory sources or blood).

[1]: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/6/20-0299_article
> UK (just let it infect everyone)

is completely false. It was hyped by some out of context quotes by some media outlets and spread like a literal virus and people didn't bother to find out the reality, and so we see the same mis information being shared here.

We need to flatten the curve of these misinformation viruses
It does not assume that - Wuhan currently has R0<1 and it did not and still does not have "single cases here and there, maybe even 0 cases"; R0<1 through a lockdown is a tested (in Wuhan) way to get from tens of thousands of cases to just tens of new cases per day and probably eventually to single isolated cases here and there. But we'd really like to find a less invasive, more sustainable set measures than what was done in Wuhan.
See I disagree with this perspective.

Yea, we're bigger. We also have more cities with high populations. But What SK did primarily in Seoul is the perfect pilot program to expand into national policy.

The problem is our government is filled with people deferring upward for decision making until it was too late.

Even today, the President went on TV with "guidelines." Not policy, not action, and certainly not teeth behind those guidelines. This is the inaction that we're fuming about.
A couple of teleconferences with Italian doctors was what spooked Norwegian authorities to institute wartime measures while we still had only 200 confirmed cases. Glad the rest of the world seems to follow.
What has that got to do with my comment?
During WW2, there were not a large supply of shut down weapon factories.

Car factories, for example, could be retrofitted to fabricate ventilators. It will not be easy, it will cost money and a relatively long time, but it will probably be easier than building totally new factories, and it will be more productive than reading tweets the whole day.
By the way, in regard to removing larger items (as opposed to small ones that could be eaten by the vac), I'd also like to note that the floor doesn't really get dusty under those items. Because, of course, dust collects on the items instead. So there's no even particular reason to shuffle things around if the robot can find its way around them—and judging by my cat's relationship with the vac, the latter can go around plenty of things that are getting in its way.
Hopes for coronavirus vaccine rise after infected monkeys become immune
The Portal writers apparently tried to get a hoop from the final scene of the game made into a meme. It didn't go over at all, but "the cake is a lie" -- memed instantly.
More like Mr Evil.

Prolly has a base on the dark side of the moon.
They will get with the program once one or two people they know die.
I agree it's generally unreasonable for people to lift their pickup trucks. it decreases the stability of the vehicle, and raising the chassis itself doesn't necessarily increase the clearance that much.

that said, this is one of those situations where most people are slightly annoyed, and a small group really wants to lift their truck. people doing specific kinds of work or living in rural and/or snowy areas may even have a legitimate reason for doing it. politically, it's hard to change things in this kind of situation.