skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The obvious benefits (to me) are performance and security.

Performance: Other than the need for trampolines between the host and the wasm code, WebAssembly runs at essentially full speed. Lua is fast for an language built on dynamic types and dynamic dispatch - which is to say, quite slow.

Security: The reference Lua implementation was not designed for untrusted code; there have been various attacks where loading invalid bytecode could grant arbitrary execution. Using a format designed for executing untrusted code has real advantages there.
> trying to minimise the maximum number of people infected at a time (to ensure that healthcare is still available to everybody that needs it).

It is so, at least in Italy. Basically they told us the reason of these measure is to spread the cases over a larger time frame... but nobody has said it's to reduce the number of cases.
American researchers want to fill the oceans with sensors
I guess that's part of the problem with the Vietnam War. The nominal enemy was the vague concept of communism, and the actual enemy were the (perceived hostile) people of Vietnam, so the goal became killing them, aka "body count". That was never going to end well, one way or the other.
Using computer vision and AI to make a analytical watchdog
The Gold-Bug
If the video quality is low enough then Netflix and co don't bother. It also varies on who is the content supplier, some are less fussed about protecting content that doesn't bring in much money.
Me too, I made an early decision to _not_ use MathJax in our product due to the instant hit to page weight and rendering performance... With Katex you forget that it's even there, we've managed the lack of certain features better than expected - I suppose the general takeaway is that comprehensive features are not always worth the technical cost, especially when they have a direct impact on user experience.
> The math library for Bob Morris's variable-precision desk calculator
used backward error analysis to determine the precision necessary at
each step to attain the user-specified precision of the result.

I wonder if compilers could do this today? If you can bound values for floating point operations, you might be able to replace them with fixed point equivalents and get a big speedup. You might also be able to replace them with ints or smaller floats if you can detect the result is rounded to an int.

CPU's also have the possibility to do this since they know (some of) the actual values at runtime, and could take shortcuts with floating point calculation in places where not needed for the result.
Admitting you pressure your employees (not independent (sub)contractors) to pay off part of their wage to do their job? Offloading your logistical planning work to staff and not paying them for the time spent?
This is begging for a NLRB lawsuit and I hope someone wises up.
Variance without value and data productivity
It's interesting that the encouragement for self isolation in Washington came from companies like Microsoft about 10 days ago. That raised awareness quite a bit.
Italy has what, 0.1% infected currently? And hospitals are overrun already. To get herd immunity going, you need at least 60%. This is a trainwreck in slow motion, reminds me of that Chernobyl part where they knew what they were doing until they didn't.
Continue on with the full details of the loans please.
Seems similar to ThoughtSaver?
https://www.thoughtsaver.com/
You are confusing the approximate counting of distinct elements (done by ingenious algorithms like hyperloglog or Flajolet–Martin) with the approximate counting of each element from a manageable set (done by incrementing the counters less and less often as they grow).
I joined a university club to do the test even though I'm not a student. It might be worth seeing if a local university has a club that would be happy to help you?
Dispatches from an age of deep fakes and chaotically creative destruction
> 51% of Brits are opting to purchase expensive but longer-lasting clothes

Careful there. Lasting long doesn’t always mean it’s higher quality. Plastic clothes will last a long time... in the landfill.

I haven’t bought clothes with plastic in them for 3 years now. No polyester, no spandex, no nylon.
Yes there are, as set out in the chief medical officer and chief scientific offer's press conference.

Can you link to a transcript or something?
v1 of our service was free as well.
v2 includes a basic summarizer which is free and an advanced summarizer which requires payment.
Just launched the premium version, so waiting to see.
Hands up who is surprised... anyone...?
I'm only getting a blank website?
I’m in Yangon. I had temperature checks and hand sanitizer when going to city mart (a grocery store) yesterday. Same when getting on a bus to Kalaw last week, at the events I’ve been to the last month, etc.
The article renders white blank page for me, with or without a adblocker. I'm on mobile if it makes any difference.
> I've been to a public hospital in Yangon once, and it was full to the brim with very long waiting times. Ended up just leaving before I come out with something worse I went in with.

Huh, I was down with severe food poisoning in Yangon in early 2016. A local associate of my friend brought me to the local hospital's A&E department, where I got an injection of some sort and diarrhoea medication. I was out of the hospital in probably 30 minutes.

I'm not in the position to assume that their hospitals can handle a severe outbreak, but their medical system wasn't that bad when I had the unfortunate chance to experience it.
Herd immunity doesn't respect borders...

Vaccinate just some of the herd (the ones in the US), and disease will still spread as people migrate in and out of the USA...
Nice.

On an iPad screen sharing did not work for me. Not that is was expecting that it would.
Chrome is not the right tool because it was specifically built for Gmail. It's the right tool because Google hates competition.
Loads for me... Perhaps it's blocked in the USA?
Interesting. I can definitely see a use case for this not when the PR is too large, but when you did something that the rest of the team needs quickly (i.e. I'm suggesting marketing it differently). For example, we've had a situation where we're in standup and someone says "has anyone seen this issue?" and another developer is like "oh yea I fixed that in my branch, I'll split it out so it can be merged separately". That's where your tool comes in.

The "PR is too large" angle is a developer practice problem that you shouldn't try to solve with a bandaid, especially considering the larger the PR the more complex splitting it will be even with a tool to help.
What is a case management platform?
What are the requirements of such a system?
What benefit do they provide?
Obviously this is a liberal demoliticrat TROLL, the website is only in German.
Reasons to Use Yarn in 2020 (and Beyond)
It's almost amusing, Hollywood so often portrays America as coming to the aid of the rest of the world in some imagined world wide catastrophy.

Here we're presented with a real world wide disaster and the response had been somewhere between incompetence and down right nasty. Sad.
A more complicated profile here: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/dec/10/genesis-p-orri...

H/er artistic and personal partner of many years, Cosey Fanny Tutti, has accused h/er of physical and mental abuse over many years.

FWIW, I have always enjoyed her and Chris Carter's work, but I have to admit never really getting into the Psychic TV output despite owning many records.
That isn't true at all.

Trees become mature at different rates, which also depends on climate. In temperate climate with sub-zero winter, a fast growing species, like poplar trees and spruces, will take 10 years to start producing flower.

And while a yellow poplar lives on average 250 years, the hybrid poplar live 50 years. White spruce easily live pass 300 years, while black spruce seldom reach 300 years.

Edit: network effect has nothing to do with a tree maturation or lifespan, but everything to do with creating an ecosystem. A single row of trees in the city creates an local ecosystem. The Houston medical area is a good example of that: https://news.rice.edu/2019/09/06/pain-in-the-asp-rice-ecolog...
This is from the metal button on your jeans rubbing against the surface through your shirt. Happens most frequently to people who do the dishes.
Vitamin B12 supplements require very high doses due to poor bio-availability. You have to ask yourself, could this be a healthy diet when you effectively need a pharmacy to maintain it? What else is your body missing out on that we might not be aware of?

That's why I say a plant-based diet is science experiment with no plausible basis in evolutionary history. I'm not saying it's bad per se, I'm saying we don't actually know if it's good.

Looks like you have done your homework and are not in fact deficient, at least in terms of those biomarkers and reference values. A lot of plant-based dieters are not that diligent, affluent or educated.
CMake may "just work" without you investing much/any effort - in the future.

For now, the situation is that if you invest in your CMake - blood sweat and tears - then the build itself will "just work" on many/most/all platforms. Which is already pretty good - compared to being stuck with Makefiles.

Also, CMake is essentially its own debugger, because almost all state is just a bunch of string variables.
25 years ago I put a cotton cloth in my compost heap thinking "it'll break down".

Every 5 years or so, I discover it at the bottom of the heap and chuck it back in again hoping that next time it will for sure break down... It hasn't yet.
Sad, although it reminded me of a quirky usenet meme in the early 90s that Gen had died via having a Pepsi machine falling on them. I miss rec.music.industrial
Hoarding doesn't seem to be an issue in the Canadian medicare system here. So I'm not sure this is an attribute of state administrated systems per se, but more something about American culture?
These are high school students in India. Many of them are from rural backgrounds and do not have personal email accounts. From our experience, the forms are many times filled up by employees at cyber cafes who fill their own email addresses and mobile numbers instead of the students.

The only reliable means of communications back to students is by a government approved website, or newspapers, or official media. (The process also has to stand up in court in case some student says that (s)he did not get the communication, and newspaper ads are a documentable evidence of communications on a specified date.)

(BTW, the forms do have captchas, the spurious forms are manually filled in by mischievous/malicious/curious applicants.)
Could have been timing, or the hospital. I've heard others have had good experiences also.

Still, I really don't think they have enough ventilators or intensive care capacity to cope with a coronavirus epidemic. 70% of the population live in rural areas where they don't even have hospitals
> Or, put another way, they are going to do everything the US is doing but in about 7-14 days, as opposed to now

But aren't 7-14 days from now, given the exponential infection rate, equivalent to waiting until you're in the same situation as Italy?

Basically, it sounds like the UK plan is actually to prioritize economic health at the cost of human health, hoping that the NHS is going to fare better when, not if, they get to the same level of infection as China; and disguising all of this with rational sounding rhetoric from epidemiologic scientists willing to take a risk with other people's lives.
Too bad we don't have 1000 societies to randomly try things on.

Also you don't know that you rolled a six, the probability is high that you did, that's very different. If you don't know where you rolled the number you wanted, how can you repeat it? If you can't repeat it how can you build on top of that?
What US Government should do regarding Covid-19
Nope, no hoodies. Not sure if zippers involved. Also t-shirts worn over the jeans will get holes.
Oh man, I was at the Einstürzende Neubauten show in Los Angeles that got them banned from ever performing in California again. Their show's climax was cutting cables allowing two 20 foot steel girders to swing down and crash into each other like a gong. The sonic wave knocked the audience off our feet, everyone had bleeding ears and could not hear for the next several hours. The building, The Palladium in Hollywood, had plaster falling and it was said to be damaged by their show. That was an event.
That's how I've done it. Enable it before the line(s) in question, then check err.number, and add "On Error Goto 0" after that so you get the default handler again.

Usually much cleaner than jumping to somewhere else, but that had its uses too.
How does it compare with Gurobi optimiser ?
Nice but does not seem to be shipping yet.
Apologies to be so late to the discussion (I come from HN search as I'm searching for a good solution to build a simple website).

Why not use Wordpress --> static generator --> Netlify (aka free hosting)?
The real solution is to buy 2nd hand clothes.

Most people hate the idea of wearing someone else's clothes...

Having visited a small town in south western Ukraine, no shops even sell new clothes - everywhere is selling 2nd hand clothes, and they sell it by weight. Underwear is one price per kilo, and everything else is a higher price per kilo.

Even then, a kilo (2 lbs) of clothes (maybe 3 items) cost around $1.50, which was pretty expensive compared to other prices.
Attrition. Animals don’t live that long.
My last 'wool' button-up shirt from LL Bean was 97% polyester.
CMake is not a replacement for Make; it generates Makefiles for you (or ninja files, or whatever-Microsoft-uses files). In that sense it's like a more modern and less crufty GNU autotools which can have different kinds of output build systems.
App Store: Ensuring the Credibility of Health and Safety Information
Germany tries to stop US from luring away firm seeking coronavirus vaccine
Note that it's only the opinion of someone that Sweden is following the "herd immunity" strategy, and it's denied by several officials.

Sweden hasn't closed down schools etc like other countries have done so it's fair to argue that it's being done in practice, but it doesn't seem to be a conscious decision.
I have heard second hand that 3M has completely stopped manufacturing other items in the US and switched to masks.
Year Behind Most Popular Coronavirus Resource
Awesome product! I was quite surprised at how good it summarized Dutch articles as well.

Are you planning to launch an API anytime soon?
But the response will be less pronounced here with knowledge, self isolation and a lack of kissing when greeting. A month is probably a better guess than 2 weeks, but not a single person knows is rather the point...
The grandma and the CEO can quarantine themselves at home if they so wish.
I was wondering about the heavy machines, such as excavators, being used to offload the food. What about oil and hydraulic leaks into the food? Feels somewhat unsanitary but is there something mitigating that?
Didn't do a great job on this AP News article on coronavirus - only four bullet points, two of them repeated: https://apnews.com/545af824f44a22f7559c74679a4f1f53.
Exposure to Go and Clojure brings the opposite effect:

"I don't really want this glitzy thing. Functions, plain data and a bit of polymorphism is all it takes to solve the problem"
It is not "great" for small projects, because:

1. Small projects also have dependencies

2. Small projects need to be build on multiple platforms too

3. It is more verbose, and at the same time more obscure, than writing a CMakeLists.txt (typically).
Different opinions on what is causing it. Who is first in filing a patent describing how to get rid of this nuisance, save people's money plus the environment, and becomes a multi-millionaire themselves :)
Launch aborted.

UPDATE from SpaceX: "Standing down today; standard auto-abort triggered due to out of family data during engine power check. Will announce next launch date opportunity once confirmed on the Range"
It's like artificially inflated GDP numbers from producing bad steel that nobody will buy. It does something, but in the end it's really nothing, and actually quite wasteful.
The best example of him being totally fucking clueless is when a reporter asked him if he/the WH staff will be tested after there's public evidence (a photo) of him next to the Bolsonaro aide who was later tested positive. His response, very confidently: "No, we have no symptoms whatsoever.".

Oh my fucking god... anyone who's paid 30 seconds attention to this virus knows that you may have it and not show any symptoms.
yes, sit on your ass and wait until everyone (quite literally) can be tested and immediately quarantine any and all suspected infections and their contacts, all the while planning the logistics of vaccinating hundreds of millions if not billions of people before the next flu season.
The same is true with the method I suggested.
You can also "walk it up" if you haven't memorized them:

10^2*5
+ (10+11)*4
+ (11+12)*3
+ (12+13)*2
+ (13+14)
------------

500
+ 84
+ 69
+ 50
+ 27
-----
730

It's a bit of detail to juggle in your head but not too bad if you hang on to your current subtotal and remember where you are in the sequence to compute the next addend, and you know it's easier to add multi-digit numbers left-to-right than-right to-left.

You only carry from the ones place twice.
Thanks for sharing your experience. My Mom is undergoing Chemotherapy, with a surgery scheduled in April. She has pancreatic cancer, which is a very tough cancer. They caught it early, and we were hopeful - until Covid 19. Now we have no idea how many delays, etc to expect.

Best wishes to you from an American. We're in this together!
Trump usually likes higher numbers
I understand that there is confusion and seek to address it. The quotes provided come from the press which are spinning this in an inaccurate way and leading to letters such as this.
People infected with the coronavirus tend to vary wildly in how many other people they infect from people who stay home with a fever and infect nobody to "super spreaders" who many infect hundreds of others. That means the spread rate when you don't have a statistically significant number of cases is going to be all over the map naturally and not really comparable.
She Raised $60M After Her Startup Grew 3x Two Consecutive Years
There is no compilation step in the js world, or any other interpreted language for that matter. Even in case of JIT, it happens completely transparently and has no effect on the package you download from npm. Nobody distributes JIT'ed code.

C++, on the other hand, doesn't work like that. Source code needs to be compiled to be usable and the exact way it is supposed to be compiled varies enormously between different projects. Not to mention that there are usually lots of compiler options and project-specific macro definitions that you might want to change to get the exact binary you need. Compilation matters, it matters a lot, and it cannot be easily abstracted away without sacrifising performance and flexibility.
>I absolutely get the idea, but it's not like you're dealing with a population that has it's memory reset every morning and just acts on the information available today.

Ahhh... Errm... I am terribly afraid that you can see that happening on Twitter every day.
When reading these old computer-related articles, it's like reading about a parallel universe, slightly different, but very recognizable.
1. It won't be just the over 70s if no one can get proper treatment at a hospital for their traffic accident, chronic disease, hernia ...
2. Severe cases include a wide variety of ages. The over 70s are just the first to hit the ERs
But from the same article:

Hypervitaminosis D symptoms appear several months after excessive doses of vitamin D are administered.
I would like to invite you to share your setup.
good luck! here's the relevant code https://github.com/youkaclub/youka-api/blob/master/youka/ali...
I'm currently temporarily in a place where people also crowd and salaries are on par with those expensive coastal cities.

I see where they're coming from because it's still somewhat surreal to me, but I want to go home.

Which brings me to another point: there's something off about this. Most of the cost of living compensation appears to address the cost of real estate, which is artificially inflated in the first place.

Why do companies still do that if all they achieve is pumping the local housing prices even more?
Some engine failure, or at least a metric about it
Probably not related.

Sounds like it's just doing something like replacing `counter++` with `if(rand() % counter == 0) counter++`, so that the counter will increase slower and slower the larger it gets.
Glad you liked it. Let me know if you have any feedback/suggestions.
Yes, we do plan to launch an API soon.
Please message us here - https://tldrthis.com/contact and we will let you know when we launch it.
I don't know. The holes look like individual strands of cloth get cut, rather than gradually worn by friction.
Thank you for the pointers! I've been interested in crew scheduling systems for my company to make effective use of personnel. Is the problem of producing ideal time slots for appointments requiring a crew (pattern of ordered and unordered availability) very different?
Another one https://airspy.com/directory/
But you need to download windows app Sdr#
FUCK MEDIUM, assholes
Exactly. The most, at best, could be 1,000, but will that be enough? This project was likely built on a tight deadline and getting it out quickly onto multiple devices was the goal.

If someone has a better approach, I’d love to hear it.
True, although from what I've seen it's actually rare for money to change hands. There seems to be quite an honor code - "I'll do your shift this time, as long as you remember that next time I want the day off.".

The only time people get upset is if someone trades a bunch of shifts, then quits. People who don't like that have the option of just not swapping shifts though.
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Google, to my knowledge, has next to 0 pharma know how.

How, exactly, would they manufacture that many tests? If the idea is that they pay Roche to manufacture the tests, then we're right back to the problem we have right now. Presumably, Roche cannot manufacture them fast enough. I can tell you that right now a lot of hospitals are just praying that the promise of 500 000 being available "next week" comes to fruition. (And 500,000 is not that many, but it's a start.) Putting out even 10,000,000 is just beyond our capabilities right now. the 50,000,000 to 100,000,000 it would take to make it at least seem like enough for "everybody" is just fanciful thinking at the moment.

People and companies should volunteer to do things we actually have a chance in hell of accomplishing. Promising the impossible at a time like this, knowing full well you can't deliver, only deepens the crisis. Especially if people would be counting on you to deliver.
For that you just need to test in hospitals.
I stopped buying clothes because my size is never available. I guess I am physically more than a sigma away from the norm, and it sucks.
What’s sad is cable news visual teams do not have the resources to do these kinds of awesome visualizations.
They're going to overshoot. Based on confirmed cases / deaths, the UK doesn't have a correct picture of the current state of the epidemic. Accurately controlling and predicting a currently-exponential function like that is recklessly dangerous. This will not end well. My humble opinion.
Why don’t you support the paper and buy a subscription?
What do you think will happen longer term in South Korea? (Not meant to be provocative, curious about your forecast)