skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a bunch of fallacies in here. Dude, you need ~10x the amount of calories recycled through an animal than eating those plants directly. Where do you think the calcium comes from? "Basic facts of life" is such a BS term. Sure, you need a happy picture in your head to justify the practice, but it just doesn't make any sense.

Next the typical blabla about crop deaths. Did you know that the vast majority of crops to go animals? Wanna save the majority of cute mice and little birds? Eat plants directly, don't waste most of them to kill even more animals. Oh and you're pro-slavery as well? You seem to be a nice person. Do you also justify murder because other people jaywalk?

B12 hahahaha please do some research! We feed those poor creates so much antibiotics so they don't die in their tiny cages that their gut bacteria barely produces any - so almost all B12 goes into their feed. You take B12, indirectly. Please tell me more about how natural that is and how impossible burger doesn't stack up to your "natural" diet. That stuff is made to have an alternative for McDonalds, not to be a healthfood. Man.

You build a very weak story for you, which sounds like the typical BS excuse. "Ethics isn't easy" - you have the choice, three times a day, to either fund one of the most terrible practices on earth or drink slightly different plant juice for your breakfast and go with beans or impossible burger, whatever your health preference is. No need for complex ethics man. It's an easy change, just uncomfortable at first. Stop the stupid excuses. If everyone cuts their emissions by 80%, we don't need to stop having children and be the last ones to enjoy the world. In which scenario does that argument make any sense?
China didn't just drop the ball, they literally went after anyone who tried to tell them there was a ball.

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/wuhan-doctors-sa...
Why bother with the encryption? All you need to do is put random data in the keyfile, and combine the master key and keyfile data to create your key.
the quality of llbean is decreasing, they have a 10 year warranty, but I'm not sure whether they still hold it.
Thanks, interesting. It might be the case that the app would only be useful once the levels of infection increase, or perhaps the app would only instruct the user to send an alert when they had developed a fever + dry cough, which seems more typical of this virus.

> But at some point, specialized per-person notification is no better than general advice to the entire population.

I take your point, but I think targetted "you have had a good chance of being exposed" is far more likely to result in action than "minimise contact with other people if possible".

A preprint of a paper which looks like has similar ideas but some more formal modelling: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.08.20032946v...
14 days is not typical. It's more a conservative upper bound used for quarantine.
Too bad the other dinosaurs didn’t catch on until it was too late and they died.
(Or became zombies)
Covid-19 Pandemic to Crash Sex Worker Income
The service I work from doesn't use passwords to log in at all, it just sends a confirmation mail to your inbox.

Given that password resets exist everywhere, your security is already 100% bound to the security of your inbox, so you might as well cut out the middle step.
I know C++ is a vile, but Bjarne only had the best intentions. Cut him some slack!
It's right about the curve memes being wrong, but I don't like the conclusion.

I've seen estimations of 5 years to flatten the curve for a few countries.

And I've yet to see hospitals capacity drop over winter, they are seasonal.

Add to this there is only so long the operations they are delaying can be delayed.

And I've yet to see the hospitals capacity drop as the staff gets destroyed.

The curves are giving a false sense of security and downplaying the large effects of dragging this out, flattening or containing.
I agree that misaligned wealth-incentives for politicians can be a serious issue, but I'm not convinced it's likely to apply here.

Unlike many political issues, this one threatens the nation's leaders personally, and the cabinet presumably has a far higher average age (and therefore vulnerability) than the general population.

As we've already seen with Iran, the people at the top aren't safe from infection.
24 SLOC. Beautiful.
It could probably be pretty readily inferred from "pneumonia and flu cases in which medical aid has been sought" data by extracting the normal seasonal trend from the current data.

In the UK, hospitals/local health centres track this data (and deaths are tracked down to quite a fine resolution, differentiating types of flu, for example) and presumably they're putting it on their networked computers so in theory the data is there in real time.

The gov.uk site "Number of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases and risk in the UK" has now been updated -- to remove any localisation of data.

I suppose they think "if people can't easily access the data they can't know how bad things are", which when you need to convince people of how bad things are in order to control an epidemic seems like a "curious" move.

Someone is going to say "but you can drill down on this other site and get figures for England" ... to which I say, yes, but gov.uk is for the UK as a whole and is the authoritative website. I wish they'd just admit no-one is publishing infection spread data for Wales.

Is this political? Well (non-Tory) Scotland seem to be able to keep their data up front and accessible.
Similar to what I've done.

Applications have a unique source repo. Each rep has a build dir. Build dir contains a sundir for docker build, terraform configs (if needed) for dependent infrastructure and a helm chart for deploy.

I have a few things that don't fit the microservice pattern. They are terraform first (root of repo is TF code) and they have a build dir to define the next steps (mostly packer).

As I'm writing this, I think I need to change that and make the top level a README.md file and use the build dir pattern to be consistent.
> vitamin D really shouldn't be taken any other time than before noon

Does this advice apply to people that work night shifts?
Show HN: Guten Haiku – mine haiku from text with 80s CLI
I think that would depend on the religion, but generally I don't think the comparison is equivalent.

I'd always thought the primary difference between vegetarians and vegans was ethical, rather than dietary. That part of the ethics of veganism is opposition to the mechanised slaughter of individuals that should have the same, or similar, rights to people.

Maybe this is more of a fringe belief as vegan options become mainstream?
Author here:

Guten Haiku was created as I had a severe need to extract as many legit Haiku poems from the whole corpus for Gutenberg.

It didn’t mean a lot to me if it was the “fastest kid in town” but it sure needed to be pretty ;-)

The journey:

0. I write in python3

1. I went for space as nlp lib of choice (they are so niiiiiice peoples)

2. I needed to be able to extract syllables but space didn’t know how to do that

3. I therefore created another lib called https://github.com/sloev/spacy-syllables to annotate tokens with their syllable counts

4. I now had a syllable counting pipeline built with space

5. Now I needed to make an 80's aesthetics inspired cli app for my pipeline

6. I started with creating the whole colourful look with colorama and click

7. I created the default command for extracting haiku from text

8. I created another command for downloading fancy AI models ... uuuuh fancy!

9. Boring test implementation... yawn... zzz zz z

10. Even more boring packaging with poetry

11. Even even more boring time with travis, I don't love you right now travis

12. Release to the internets on GitHub and pypi

13. Battle with asciinema and asciicast2gif to get a pretty README up and going

14. Write hacker news about by personal triumph :-)

I wanna shout out to everybody and say that you all should make something silly and pretty today. I value those things highly and if you haven't visited https://theuselessweb.com/ yet, please do so cause TIM HOLMAN is a really nice guy with a great imagination.

Peace out and take care during the virus thingy!
Maybe you're not actually deficient, even though in theory you could be. I used to get regular seasonal depression, to the point that I'd struggle to get out of bed at times. And I'd crave sunshine. Of ot was sunny. I'd obviously tried a lot of things. Changing diet, exercising, and also SAD lights which helped a tiny bit, but not really. Regular supplementation with vitamin D has made this almost entirely go away. I'm a completely different person.

So while you not everyone who is feeling tired or depressed will have a vitamin D deficiency, I'd say that it absolutely can cause those symtoms.
Informed consent is a very important part of medical care, and patients should exercise choice wherever possible.
I didn't knew about typo. One surprising unix program I discovered this year is cal (or ncal). Having a calendar in your terminal is sometimes useful and I wish I knew earlier I could type things like ncal -w 2020
It’s fascinating (and depressing) to watch the difference in response between Asia and the West.

I’m an American living in Myanmar. Here’s what’s being done in my city all before there are any confirmed cases:

- Cancellation of large events.

- Free testing.

- TV notices encouraging social distancing and hand washing.

- Temperature checks and hand sanitizer dispensed at entrances of indoor crowded places like malls, grocery stores, large retail stores (not doing this really baffles me, since it’s so straightforward and practical).

- School closures.

- Travel and border restrictions.

These are simple tactics that every country should be utilizing. Yet when I talk to my friends in US and Europe, they report no temperature checks or hand sanitizer. My family member just flew through SFO and said there were no temperature checks or hand sanitizer being dispensed.

It’s sad and perplexing to me that common sense practical approaches to testing and spread control are not being utilized by many countries, and that closures have been reactive instead of proactive. It’s unfortunate that the UK is focused on actively ignoring practical efforts to control spread.
The negative effects only happens if incorrectly supplemented.

75% of the population is suboptimal in Magnesium, without Mg - our ability to absorb D diminishes, even with supplementation.

Vitamin D must be supplemented with Vitamin K2 MK7 to ensure the extra calcium generated is deposited in the bones and not in the soft tissues (hypercalcemia)

Subclinical magnesium deficiency: a principal driver of cardiovascular disease and a public health crisis
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5786912/

Magnesium Supplementation in Vitamin D Deficiency.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28471760

Low magnesium levels make vitamin D ineffective
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180226122548.h...

Vitamin K: Double Bonds beyond Coagulation Insights into Differences between Vitamin K1 and K2 in Health and Disease
https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/20/4/896/htm

Vitamin K2: A Vitamin that Works like a Hormone, Impinging on Gene Expression
https://www.intechopen.com/books/cell-signalling-thermodynam...
Agreed. I have an unused ps4 in a box that could be used. I already have a spare laptop doing some work right now.
> Manpages are still rendered using roff/groff today, so probably many of us are using it regularly.

I know a number of projects that generate their roff by using pandoc. They don't actually know, or have the inclination to learn, exactly how g/roff works.
Show HN: India's Statewise Live Coronavirus Report
TLDR; I’d sooner dig up SML’s grave than be caught near a Lisp.
I believe the actual science (rather than than that it's somehow sensitive to the time of day) is that it requires sunlight (UV) exposure to absorb, rather than just be excreted.

So if you work a nightshift, hopefully there's some opportunity still to get some sunlight either side, and you should take it before that.

(IANA healthcare professional)
Not sure if this is bad form to respond to my own comment here. But my comments here have probably been massively depressing. I have a positive one.

There was a radiation tech, a older gentleman. He noticed that my belt slowly was failing. So one day he told me to give him my belt while I was in the machine. He kept a leather punch in the booth and put in more holes in my belt while I was getting radiated.

It is the small things.
That level of population flow and population density are not as special as you are making them out to be. The transfer station nearest Seoul's most recent cluster (discovered 7 days ago) gets about 25% more annual traffic than King's Cross, according to Wikipedia (125,000 per day at Sindorim Station vs. 34 million at King's Cross annually). Despite the cluster having developed at the beginning of March, Seoul is finding fewer than 100 new patients per day. With masks, reduction in ridership, cancellation of meetings, extensive WFH, extensive testing and isolation measures, this epidemic is not as hopeless as the UK seems to be making it out to be.
Transcendigital Imagination: Developing Organs of Subtle Perception
Last time I was reprimanded for making this point on these forums, but I'll say it again:

If you think a guy with a 40+ year career in the cut-throat New York real estate world, then in in media and entertainment world, culminating in the Presidency of the USA, can't "process or transmit information", it might be you with the issue. You can mock "Art of the Deal" all you want, but it's not possible to be that "lucky".

I wouldn't call what he's doing 4d-chess by any means, but everything he does or says is filtered for his base and/or for self-preservation.
Ask HN: How strong should be wind to move continent or island?
I just curios, during a week of strong wind hit my town, could be continent/island moved by strong wind that winds to single direction for a long time?
Coupling: The One and Only Software Designing Problem
Part of the problem here is that people see this as a competition between nations, i.e. arbitrarily defined borders.

China has implemented measures that have objectively worked: that have effectively contained an outbreak of this disease within their nation, despite having had the least knowledge and warning, and within a short amount of time. So, this is a good model to follow, in the absence of any other.

Certain Western governments appear to have decided to stretch the limits of that model to protect their economy in the short-term.

That will potentially result in everyone across the globe suffering further outbreaks.

Your assumption that drugs will save us is not safe. Novel drug development may be quick, or it may take decades.
I grew up with Throbbing Gristle. Genesis has a complicated legacy of control and manipulation that was part of their music and art. They lived their work, which is part of what made it so compelling. Industrial music for industrial people - more prophetic than insane.
Because the guy’s been spewing incorrect information about the response for weeks.

A lot of that incorrect information is very high stakes. This inconsequential detail just came along for the ride.

If I were you I’d be extremely concerned with the slipshod handling of this. A lot of lives are at stake.
In the 40s, computing was seen as primarily women's work (similar to the stereotype of switchboard operators). Into the 60s, women still comprised up to half of the computing workforce. In 84, they peaked at 37%. So demographically speaking, the ratio was not as bad as it is today.

(Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_computing)
I guess this will had nothing to do within the availability to use good Nokia Lumia Phones within them extraordinary 42Mp Carl Zeiss camera within a Linus' based Operating System.
Some Victorian houses don’t have foundations, but this is not the norm. There is often a problem with cracking, but this is often to do with the river plain that London is built on (many rivers are actually now subterranean now). Changes in water content of the soil has an undermining effect on foundations.
How much Europe's royal families cost
Lets herd these potentially infected people together for hours, then let them in
> But please do not share your enthusiasm for the cat that looks like Garfield with everyone on the call.

This heavily depends on the company culture, tone of the meeting, participants, etc.

Basic savoir vivre still applies, interrupting someone to loudly admire a pet (or whatever) would simply be rude.

But if the discussion stalls and if it’s not a meeting about personnel reduction, I see no harm in saying that Mr Fluffy Paws looks especially nice today.
Where in the bill does it say that? https://appropriations.house.gov/sites/democrats.appropriati...
You have to be kidding.

They were correct in threatening a doctor who reported what he saw (facts) to retract his statements as being _false_?

The local government didn't want to believe in the threat and wanted very much to keep any negative news hushed out of fear of looking bad to the central government.

So there you have it, a country governed by fear where people prefer to hide issues instead of quickly seeking help.

They could have done it through internal channels, without the public knowing but no, they crushed the messengers and tried to hide the facts until it was too late.

The central government admitted it itself:
https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1506445-20200203.h...
I can chime in. Googler here, who knows the OR team very well. They are solving EXTREMELY large problems for customers. I can't tell you who, and I can't tell what problems, but they are among the biggest OR problems you can imagine.

(No, I don't mean within Google, although they solve scheduling problems there as well.)

EDIT: There are articles:

https://cloud.google.com/press-releases/2020/0120/lufthansa

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/19/lufthansa-taps-googles-cloud...
Thank you.

This is the first I've read about waves of infection.

What I gleened: UK government is concerned that China may experience a second wave of infection once the isolation efforts are lifted. So the UK govt is hoping to have a single, much slower wave.

I also like this article's assessment of the UK's strategy: tough choices based on data of uncertain quality.
I'm sure any modern IR missile can shoot down any current stealth plane if it knows the location to within a few kms.

There are FLIR images of thr F22, nothing extraordinary about it in the IR spectrum.
The problem with "you can roll your own language constructs" is that, er, everybody wants to roll their own language constructs -- as opposed to simply using a library of common ones that have been tested and proven stable and useful. That's what Algol-like languages give you. They free you from the pain of having to roll your own language and let you get on with developing applications. As an added bonus, developing to a single commonly accepted language spec means your boss can read the code and figure out what it's doing without having to understand the entire code base at once. (Ever been a neophyte on a Rails project? Multiply that bewilderment by like a thousand.) That's why they're so accepted in business.
Millenials did not grew up with smartphones, but PCs. Well, at least if their familiy could afford them. But having access to the same tools, does not implicate to use it for the same tasks.

Kids would use them for fun, work comes later. And it seems people take it for given that digital natives not only have no fear from technology, but also are on the same basic level as a proper trainied worker, because magic?
Let's turn the argument around: do you really think the top officials in charge in charge of advising the governments do not have in their directives a need to consider economic impacts of their recommendations (implicitly, explicitly or self imposed)? Do you think they would be open about that in their outward communication? If you think "no" or "yes" respectively, lets make sure to return to these comments when the dust settles.

I don't have the answer, but the observed behavior fits this scenario, at least with the British and Swedish authorities, those I have observed the closest.
Matter doesn’t give rise to consciousness, consciousness gives rise to matter
Did you watch the address Wednesday night? And how many critical points had to be corrected afterward?

That’s fully incompetent transmition of information.
Vitamin D went out of fashion in 2020?
Why are U-2 jet pilots wearing Garmin satellite navigation smartwatches?
What is a "lisp 3"? Googling it doesn't bring up anything.
LL Bean used to have a "lifetime" guarantee but like others (e.g. REI) have backed off considerably. I'm not sure how much of that is because quality has in fact decreased as so many of these brands have shifted manufacturing to the Far East--and how much is because people in general are probably more willing to abuse things like return policies. I suspect it's a bit of each.
Coronavirus and Cyber Attacks Exploit a Common Weakness: Good Hygiene
I built this to allow me to manage my passwords on my machine without sending them to any third party. The data lives on your machine encrypted with a master password, but the encrypted data never has to leave your machine or network: https://github.com/whatl3y/hide

I need it almost daily. Being a developer and almost always in a terminal it’s convenient to retrieve a password really quick when needed.
What Is the point of increased testing now that it is so widespread in the community? The message needs to be social distancing even if you are not sick and if you are sick just assume it is coronavirus and self quarantine.
> I guess not always.

Yeah, I suppose I should have formulated that more clearly. The API offers cloud speech recognition for a set of languages, and on-device speech recognition for a subset of these.

> Which languages are processed on device and not send to Apple’s servers?

It's not a static set, because (1) availability tends to expand over time and (2) when you start using a new language, the on-device model needs to be downloaded first.

So what you need to do is create a SFSpeechRecognizer and then test the supportsOnDeviceRecognition property. If that is set, you can set requiresOnDeviceRecognition on the SFSpeechRecognitionRequest.
Why in the face of absolute emergency do they communicate in such and understated manner open to ignoring and devaluing by politicians?

They should state with absolute clarity what they think should immediately happen instead of meekly asking two questions.

FFS
Much like in C, you could use several other schemes such as a Mutex (or RwLock). There are crates which implement more complicated memory management primitives -- the most obvious example being crossbeam[1].

Crossbeam even has an implementation of an epoch-based memory manager[2] which (in very loose terms) amortises the cost of reference counting each object by tracking the epochs of each thread and freeing objects once all threads have moved past the "death time" of an object.

[1]: https://docs.rs/crossbeam/
[2]: https://docs.rs/crossbeam/0.7.3/crossbeam/epoch/index.html
The media is also focusing on that. “The media” isn’t one guy with time for only one thing.

There are thousands talking and writing for hours each a day. There’s going to be a lot of trivia with the meaty content.
I would imagine that this tool would be helpful if you connect it with a social graph, i.e. self organizing Facebook groups which help each other take care of each other’s children during the Corona outbreak or schedule incident response teams in an organization,like:” who has to work together? Are there any hidden connections between employees?”