skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s unfortunately not part of POSIX, which means that BusyBox can’t get the options right or even stay consistently wrong :(
Please don't pile on another commenter like that. The diminishing returns of being in the right decline exponentially, and then it just creates ill feeling. Curious conversation doesn't fit well with defeating others, and we're here for the former.
Analogous reasoning suggests that, if you have a 401k and thus probably own some shares in, say, Starbucks, then it's in your interest to spend as much as possible at their shops.
The problematic bit here is “unidentified” in “unidentified German government source” which roughly translates to “completely made up”.
https://www.amazon.com/Environmental-Accounting-Emergy-Decis...
I'm somewhat dense - why Type-O?
Babylon 5, S05E02: The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari, @29:53

G'Kar: To the Narn Homeword, of course. You came with ships, and guns, and mass drivers. You plucked asteroids out of near orbit and sent them plunging down onto our cities, killing men and women and children. Onto the sick and the infirm and the innocent.

Londo Molari: It was not my idea. I didn't even know. It was Refa. It was not my fault. I said ...

G'Kar: You said nothing. You said Nothing. You said NOTHING. Nothing.

Londo Molari: Leave me alone.

G'Kar: No. Look at me.

Londo Molari: I can't.

G'Kar: LOOK AT ME.

G'Kar: Do you remember this place?

Londo Molari: Yes.

G'Kar: I was tortured in this place. I as whipped. Emperor Cartasia wanted to hear me scream.

Londo Molari: Yes, and if you did not scream, the 40th stroke of the whip would kill you. And your people would be slaves forever. Yes.

G'Kar: You remember.

Londo Molari: Yes.

G'Kar: You were there.

Londo Molari: Yes!

G'Kar: And you said ...nothing.

Emperor Cartasia: Thirty four. Thirty five. Thirty six.

G'Kar: Nothing.

Emperor Cartasia: Thirty seven. Thirty eight.

G'Kar: Nothing!

Emperor Cartasia: Thirty nine.

G'Kar: AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

G'Kar: One word, Molarri. One word was all that was required of you.

Londo Molari: It would not have mattered. It wouldn't have changed anything. It would not have stopped.

G'Kar: You're wrong, Mollari. Whether it was me or my world, whether it was a total stranger, or your worst enemy.

YOU WERE A WITNESS!

IT DOESN'T MATTER IF THEY'D STOP!

IT DOESN'T MATTER IF THEY'D LISTEN!

YOU HAD AN OBLIGATION TO SPEAK OUT!!!

Londo Molari: I couldn't.

G'Kar: And that's why you don't deserve to be Emperor. And that's why you don't deserve to live.
...because researchers are idiots and HN knows better.
I don't think it would always be that cut and dry, especially today where there are other mechanisms of keeping workers loyal/minimizing their power (stock options with vesting schedules, non-competes in some states, etc) having a differentiated workforce that isn't a commodity your competitors could tap into could be better
I am not a school-age person, and my mother is not a teacher. Additionally, our region’s schools haven’t closed, causing furor.

I’m going out on a limb and saying that’s not where it’s coming from, at least in our context.
Please don't, even if another commenter is being unfair or provocative.
Get rid of it entirely, you have no way of words, you have no writing skills. Does one figure out one has symptoms at home? I am to make a call and I have to do it with a phone?

Clearly state you are a programmer and why you've made the page. Then it is cool. Nice visuals... WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!
Berlin has 431k street trees. Toronto has 11 million trees (including presumably ravines and natural areas) - and I'm sure other cities have similar amounts. Why do you think Berlin has the most trees?
By back to back, do you mean nurse 3 works shift 2 day 1 and shift 0 day 2? Or that nurse 3 always works two days in a row in the listed solutions?

The example doesn't mention back to back shifts, only that a nurse can at most work one shift a day which in turn implies the constraint that no nurse can work shifts back to back (in the same day).

One could easily add the constraint that a nurse scheduled on shift 2 cannot work shift 0 the next day.
Yes, you are right. There is still room for improvement and we will keep trying to make it better.
The reason I added paid plans was to test whether people would be willing to pay for such a service so that I can spend more time in adding more features to it and making it better.
> so committed

LOL. A billionaire rarely fights authoritarianism.
You can order. But will they arrive?
It sounds like you have a much clearer way of summarizing the compilation and linking process. As the book is the product of a college student who wanted to start a community around learning these skills it doesn’t promise perfection, and I’m sure we’d benefit from your expertise.
My kiwi is public and on the list.. its a fun device and has been super useful to me over the years (I record shortwave radio shows, listen in on the ham bands without having to go to my ham shack, etc)
Rarely mentioned in the "save the bees" stories are the decades before this crisis where "Africanized Killer Bees" were the bugbear and the regulations that prevented outbreeding and robbed domesticated bees of the diversity they had.
I'm not sure you can, and there are health risks from digital addiction too.

My point was that the original statement was overly broad and simplistic.
"For the coronaviruses which cause the cold (such as CoV-OC43) the adaptive immune response is not particularly strong and immunity lasts only months. -- not due to mutation, but because of behaviors in the immune system which we don't yet understand. This has contributed to the difficulty in creating a vaccine for the prior sars virus."

From what I understand, work on developing a SARS vaccine stopped because the epidemic was over, and there was no longer an interest or will to continue working on it.

In addition, here's what Vincent Racaniello of This Week In Virology[1] had to say about antivirals:

"We could have had antivirals against all coronas or many coronas if we had put the money in to making them, but there was no interest and therefore companies which need to make profits were not interested in pursuing them, but they could have been developed and stockpiled and been ready.

"So if you had infinite money and people you could say, 'Let's get a bunch of RNA polymerases from bat SARS-like coronaviruses and design something that will inhibit them all.' I don't think it would be that hard because they're very conserved. But without the financial incentive... so, antivirals are kind of a different thing because you could develop them and bring them, you could even do a phase one and then have them ready for actual testing when there's an outbreak."

[1] - at about 1 hr and 33 minutes in to episode 590 - http://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-590/
> The SRE tracked the problem all the way from an external, front-end system down to the hardware that holds up the machines.

I agree, this does seem like an incredibly circuitous and inefficient route to diagnosing the issue, as opposed to the hardware team simply receiving an alert that a server was continuously in an overheated, and then fixing it.
There already exists a low cost ventilator that was designed for the India market.

https://www.agvahealthcare.com/

but good luck getting fda approval.
one thing I love about npm, it defaults to all tools and dependencies being versioned and local. No list of tools and system libs I need to install.

people complain about all the deps but deps in C/C++ and even to some degree python are hidden since they are system deps. No one seems to blink an eye when they apt-get something and it requires 60 deps and of course the second apt-get only shows the missing deps so there is this false idea that the dependencies are fewer.

for the most part npm just works. As someone with 15-35yrs C/C++ experience and a bunch of Perl and Python it's refreshing not to have to trash my system with global deps or learn non default modes of operation, that the default is all tools and deps local.

I also get why static typing people hate JS but one thing they got right IMO is there are no namespaces. You import libraries into local variables which seems like a huge win over namespaces.

Note: I also get that c/c++ is generally harder. Different compilers, different flags, different platforms, etc. I’m not saying I have a solution. getting MS (VC++), Apple(Xcode/clang), and GNU(GCC) on the same page might be a start.
Visualizing Differences in Analog Design [video]
Fascinating. Can you give some examples of the priorities you incorporated that would be hard for off-the-shelf software to digest?
That is a good question. I suppose there was some stock of these before the crisis but those are very likely all depleted. Still, with this many suppliers it might not hurt to ask. Dutch proverb: "If you don't shoot you will certainly miss".
"Multiply the number above by 1,024 (assumes a doubling of cases every 3 days) if you assume no social distancing measure are put in place: 2.1MM on the low end, mulitplying by a 10x ratio. "

Poke -- lots of measures are already being put into place (Stanford is effectively shut down, the big tech companies are making everyone work from home) etc.

Edit oh you have this right after:
"Or, multiply it by less if you want to take into account various amounts of social distancing we're all doing. I'll cut that number above down by a huge amount – 90% – on the assumption that we all learn to stay home and self-isolate immediately, just to be super aggressive on my assumptions about how humanity will rise to the occasion"

Still, kinda weird to start with assumption of no measures when there clearly are some already.
It's a problem, but supercilious disses don't help anything.
Agreed, they are publicly stating 4 weeks behind Italy - that's at least 2 weeks behind the curve.
At least the story doesn't end with only
"And then an RCA was written which is a good practice for any SRE team."
If hospitals are overwhelmed and begin turning people away, improvised solutions could save lives. Informed discussion is critical, though. The evacuation of Dunkirk was crazy and unorthodox, but it worked!
If a pack of TP lasted as long as a jug of dish detergent, it wouldn't fit in a car trunk. In volume/day TP is second only to water and food and much higher than any other staples.

If a million people normally buy one pack per month spread out evenly on weekends, but all of them think hey, maybe it's a good idea to get two packs this weekend, that's 2M packs where they had stocked for typical sales of 1M / (52 / 12) = 230K.
I do have to admit I respect anyone who can inhabit such a radical idea as abolishing private property. If I felt there was a path towards that direction that didn’t involve violent revolution and a whole lot of murder - I might consider it. Bolshevik philosophy starts interesting but turns too brutal and violent too quickly. All that said your reply is the most intellectually legitimate reply to what I posted. HN isn’t the place though. I’ve always thought if the worlds socialists and libertarians hung out for a while we’d all get along far more than the world wants us to know <3
You could also implement a cheap mirror of the data, I guess... So that is no excuse
Take a chemical to block some effects of one's immune system... Sounds like a good way to avoid hayfeaver but get more serious infections instead...
There's another theory that it originated in Kansas:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC340389/
Ibuprofen is also used among people with arthritis and gout, gout is strongly linked with diabetes.
Yeah, Rust’s compiler errors are decent if you make simple mistakes but degrade to being about as bad as any other modern compiler’s once you start doing complicated things. Which isn’t horrible, but --explain isn’t really useful so it’s just wasting space on my screen.
True, there are quite a few similar services but not many seem to work well. Our service provides better summarization (at least for the articles I tested), had additional features like extracting author name, publish data, important keywords etc and also comes with browsers extensions so you could summarize pages at the click of a button.

The method you described is a part of our algorithms but more steps are needed to make it give meaningful results and make sure it works on different kinds of articles.
No, not even true. The Government makes a profit on the Crown Estates, the Civil List is entirely covered - and MUCH less than say the French pay on their President. And we haven't even started on revenues generated from tourism, etc.

I think we get a Good Deal.
> Multiply the number above by 1,024 (assumes a doubling of cases every 3 days) if you assume no social distancing measure are put in place: 2.1MM on the low end, mulitplying by a 10x ratio. (Just because if I multiply by a 50x ratio, it returns a number larger than the 7.8MM total residents in the Bay area.)

This is why the spread of a virus like this is a logistic curve, not an exponential. An exponential is a good model at first, but extrapolating too far doesn't work like this.
> All this is a pity because I really do like QT for development, but unstoppable animations are no-go

The animations aren’t because of QT, but KDE itself
I hope you don’t mind the citation nags ;)
Austria bans all gatherings of more than five people
Hucksters are ready to try to make some cash on coronavirus cure scams
How can I close a handle in another Windows process?
That seems accurate, and that's actually a pretty big market.

For me, DO has been great. The apps I host don't have a lot of heavy traffic and run great on a $20 a month VPS. I have 3 of those running to spread the load. One serves the app files, one holds the database, and another handles email and DNS.

For the most part, everything I've done there has worked as expected and I've not had any serious issues with downtime due to DO internal problems.

I've been using hosting services for over 20 years now and DO has been leaps better than any of those I used previously. That's not to say Linode or others aren't great, or even better than DO. Since I've not used any of those mentioned by others here I can't speak to that, but I do wonder if those who dump on DO may have pushed their setup a bit too far.

Many of the complaints I see are about having issues with WP. The few times I looked at that I came away thinking it was an overweight convoluted mess. One might be able to squeeze it into a $20 per month VPS but that doesn't mean it's a good choice on the DO platform. And on my own server logs there is a constant stream of requests looking for it and I have to suppose they're seeking potential exploits.

So, for me, "light cloud" is exactly what I need and DO does a great job of providing it as a service.
Fair enough, but I checked the first one. They were already certified by western agencies.
It's an example model of how to use the or-tools CP-SAT solver to solve employee scheduling problems. It's part of the or-tools library which is a framework for solving scheduling, routing and other NP-hard discrete optimization problems
https://developers.google.com/optimization/introduction/over...
These types of orgs just need to staff for this type of thing and have work rules and facilities to manage.
"Yes, so with the same numbers that catch covid it would be 2-5 millions US deaths."

So, 1.3-1.9 million US deaths.
Stories on HN have to be in English, and English-language German sources (like DW) are just quoting Die Welt. You seem to have missed the detail that the German government confirmed the veracity of the quotes attributed to sources within it.
> to get the actual number of confirmed cases today

I think for this part you meant "actual number of cases"? Since the confirmed number was 1/10th of that.
Yeah. By this rationale, any recession or depression is V-shaped. Which is true (or has been so far), but it doesn't help those who suffer from it.

I'm also struck by the analogy to the Smoot-Hawley act and the theory that the breakdown in international trade contributed to the Great Depression. We don't yet see restrictions on cargo trade, but:

1. We could.
2. There seems to be some imperfect analogy to the effect of remote work (in the case of knowledge workers) and paused work (in the case of retailers and the like).

The degree to which a number of developed economies have come to a practical stop in recent days is shocking. Will we recover, like, eventually? Sure, quite likely. Will there be lasting effects for the economy? Definitely.

(I am, however, heartened by one other analogy to the Great Depression--perhaps, as in that case, an economic decline now will serve to reduce skyrocketing inequality, though it's hard to see that as a sufficient silver lining.)
There's a clothes donation bin by my office where I immediately toss any swag I get.

I try very hard to to wear any clothes with logos. For some technical clothes it can't really be avoided, so much of my winter/snowboarding/climbing/other sporting gear has logos, sadly.
This is an extremely flawed idea.

Not only does transfusion present a big risk, we quote ~20% risk of adverse events (minor to severe), but what you’re suggesting massive transfusion protocol (DIC, hemolysis, TRALI, TACO) AND ECMO which itself is orders of magnitude more dangerous than ventilation.

The risks are numerous but for brevity sake you have: Acute limb ischemia, DIC/other coagulopathies and spontaneous hemorrhage which carry huge mortality.

It would be way simpler and safer to connect multiple patients to the same ventilator who are all on CMV with similar settings.

ECMO is not saving many people with severe COVID-19 related illness. It depends on buying time for your body to recover. Nearly every case I’ve read about that required ECMO the patient died because of multiorgan failure and sepsis. ECMO only works well in patients with isolated lung (and some circumstances heart) problems.
In my experience, a standing speaker is usually less boring.

B. Oakley mentioned in my post is filmed full-body and then varies the framing, half-body, head, with digital zoom. That is explained in his making-of.
Yep - the Bay Area actually has a great chance at curbing this because a larger fraction of workers than anywhere else can effectively work from home.
> This is why the spread of a virus like this is a logistic curve, not an exponential.

More on this by 3Blue1Brown: https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Kas0tIxDvrg
No that is the definition of scaremongering, "the spreading of frightening or ominous reports or rumours".
Made it. Thank you, nice suggestion :)
On the other hand, after giving it some thought. I know many American people, some of them voted for Trump. These people are nothing like him. I have no bad experience with any American I know and hold no bad feelings towards the people or the country. Maybe the system isn’t working.
So I've seen this popping up in the recent days and what I don't understand: what would stop restrictive governments to block access to Minecraft because of that?

I mean, surely those semi restrictive governments won't do it but in those countries you can probably get those books elsewhere but in societies like China, Russia or Iran expanding the wall to Minecraft shouldn't be a problem.

Wouldn't that alienate the audience to the material because of that in the end?
killall5 was our favorite way to log off the machine in high school, at least until the (clearly incompetent) lab administrator removed its execute permissions because it had “kill” in its name.
The contentious claim of exclusivity is from an anonymous source and is denied by both the company and the US government. So how can the German health ministry possibly know otherwise?

The only official agreement is that “We confirm the report in the WELT am Sonntag,” quote, but it's not clear what exactly they confirmed. From referenced article, it seem to be only “The German government is very interested in ensuring that vaccines and active substances against the new coronavirus are also developed in Germany and Europe.” and “In this regard, the government is in intensive exchange with the company CureVac,”.
These sorts of things are exactly the reason to try to slow the spread down.

Ibuprofen /might/ be a bad idea. We currently have the time to notice that, and hopefully find out whether it's true by looking at hundreds of cases instead of tens of thousands.
Well, it is Forbes.
The minecraft server: visit.uncensoredlibrary.com
This seems obviously false. Italy has universal health coverage and they have one of the worst outbreaks and worse fatality rates of any country. This doesn't feel like the right time to promote preferred political agendas. Doesn't matter who pays for it when there is no vaccine and no cure.
Neither is losing your population and losing votes to far-right political parties just because you didn't want to upset America. Other EU countries would also side with Germany on that, I suppose.

Doesn't matter anyways since it was reported a few minutes ago, that the vaccine patent is not for sale to the US once available.
Different poster, but I run with minimalist shoes, so there's really no concept of "worn out" - there's no cushioning to wear out, so the shoes are essentially good until there's an actual hole through the sole.
Oh angry programmers are down voting my post. People driving desks.
Mixing c# and power shell in the same script is amazing. You can load methods from DLLs on the command line as well. I had to do this when I didn’t have permission to run unregistered exes on a server I was debugging. Luckily the admins didn’t restrict powershell and I ran my main method from a script.
It’s like that walkthrough of the Chernobyl meltdown from the miniseries.

Except it could work.

If we insert the control rods now and scram the reactor then we could avoid societal breakdown when hospitals overflow and make the difference between a 3-4% death rate (Italy/Wuhan) and 0.7-0.9 (south Korea/Beijing)

I’m on the frontlines of this one. I’m going to be deciding who gets care and who doesn’t shortly. I hope we can act sensibly and quickly to limit the damage and somehow avoid the worst case scenarios
I don't understand the motivation behind an imperative build system. Why is it "add_rules(a,b)" instead of just "rule(a,b)"? It's like someone discovered the benefits of a domain specific language and butchered the concept by making the internal implementation the public interface. Why does it matter to the user that something is getting added to something? Why doesn't it look closer to this [0]?

[0] https://repl.it/repls/DeadCalmPrinter
Previous conversation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22569178
For a great retrospective of the British industrial/neofolk scene, check out the book _England’s Hidden Reverse_. I’m more of a neofolk than an industrial fan myself, but there would be no David Tibet without Genesis P-Orridge.
You wear shop gloves I assume?
Except that they did not institute a travel ban after 9/11. They temporarily suspended air travel in order address manifest safety and security deficiencies in the US air travel system. The FAA has grounded fleets many times under similar authority. The highways were still open.

That is a very different legal authority than de facto blanket bans on free movement of Americans, which is expressly disallowed by the Constitution. This has actually been adjudicated several times in the Supreme Court, which has consistently rejected attempts by the government to use regulatory technicalities to deprive people of their right of free movement via common modes of transportation even subject to due process.

This is not new territory, there is extensive court precedent surrounding the right of free travel in the US. It is on the same tier of right as freedom of speech in the US.