skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An APL a day keeps the Python away, huh?
Couldn't this be that? If those serials are posted somewhere that has an RSS feed, you're good to go.
And the post even has a link to the wikipedia entry when it introduces the term...
The same consequences that africa got for ebola or the middle east got for MERS. Nothing. It's not their fault. It's a virus. It happens.

People like you are so obvious. What do you think happened to the region that gave us HIV? Nothing because it's not their fault.
Still, if my physiotherapist tells me to strengthen my core muscles with daily bodyweight exercises and I instead strengthen my core muscles with weekly free weights exercises, if I am cured it would seem odd to call it spontaneous.
Remember CSS Naked Day? It’s coming up now, on April 9th.
I don't really notice it unless it's brought up like this. I recuse myself from conversations in the real world that take the same tone. One can't argue people into being civil and decent, (this most likely has the opposite effect) but you can deny them an audience. Literally not worth getting involved with.
Any Gitlabbers here? I'm looking for SRE work and Gitlab looks great, aside from never having any job openings..
The US is not testing nearly as much as other countries. Two weeks ago it has tested <500 people, as of March 11 the US has tested only 11,079 persons[1].

With this amount of testing the numbers you're referring to are completely meaningless. The number of infections is artificially kept low by limiting testing. Hundreds of thousands could be infected, the disease is growing exponentially, and there could be thousands of hospitalizations soon. I'm going so far as to say that there will be thousands of hospitalizations in the US soon and the death toll will soon climb rapidly.

For comparison, Italy has tested 60,761 people as of March 9 [2], and Germany, for instance, has started randomized testing of the population as part of the yearly random influenza testing.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/testing-in-us.html
[2] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/covid-19-testing/
Nope. I will always choose a native experience over a web experience. It's just plain better,
PWAs have an impressive feature list, and the site he links to is a nice demo of this.

The main arguments to move this way (which are rational) are 1. Competition on app store (including installation funnel) and 2. 1 code base for all devices.

The kicker has always been responsiveness; perhaps this is a matter of technology (or implementation). People expect apps to be extremely responsive and it's important for the bigger players.
> take a lot of Vitamin D

In France you can only get pills dosed at a very small 800 IU (international unit, see: http://www.nafwa.org/vitamind.php) without prescription, but in the US, you'll find some bottles dosing a single pill up to 10 000 IU.

The pills look all the same no matter the dose. They are minuscule yellow balls, but they can be very concentrated.

So "take a lot of Vitamin D" doesn't mean "take a lot of pills". Target an amount of IU, and take exactly what you need for that.

Vitamin D has been found toxic if you take more than 60 000 IU/day for 3 month. You'd have to be quite heavy in your dosing to reach this, but I'd rather share the info.

There is no overdose possible if you get it from the natural source: exposition from the sun. And it's healthier. But as a geek you may see the light of your monitor much more than the one from the sun, and D supplements are incredibly cheap for the huge benefit in energy and mood they provide in the winter.

I take 5 000 UI/day (as Cholecalciferol, so D3), and my doctor already thinks it's a lot since the daily recommended dose here is 200 IU.
I’ve always wondered why regular expressions and full text indexes are the best thing we expect out of a code search engine.

I mean, we’re talking about code here. Text meant to be interpreted and understood by a compiler. Why can’t we do better?

Why can’t I say “show me everyone that’s calling this function”, like an IDE lets me do? Or “show me functions that accept <type> as one of their arguments and return <type>”, in a way that integrates with the real grammar/AST of the language(s) in question, without resorting to clunky regular expressions?

I should be able to write structured queries against a codebase, with regexes being just one part of that query language.
I came across an article a few weeks ago [1] that distils the idea of this architecture into a very simple pattern, stratified design, or the “Integration Operation Segregation Principal”:

“A function either integrates or operates, it either only calls other functions or it does not call other functions but contains only logic.”

Basically, you have code that interacts with the outside world, and you have logic (read: conditionals and branching). Don’t mix the two.

It’s such a simple concept that it seems obvious in hind-sight (so maybe that’s why nobody ever talks about it, because it is obvious), but I don’t see code written this way all that often.

If there’s one thing I could teach every new developer it would be this. It’s such a little thing, but it would make a lot of code much easier to work with.

[1] https://medium.com/clean-code-development/stratified-design-...
would be interested in your thoughts on how covid will change the election process in the US. you spent some time in the trenches, so I really, really would love to see a write-up (speculative or not idc :))
> What I don't agree with is the pay scale they use based on your location. If you have the same skills, you should be paid the same.

I've studied the system a while ago when considering to apply there and found some areas with comparatively low cost of living while having a large conversion factor. People only complain about conversion factors if they are low but there are also higher ones. If you are ready to move, you can still make lots of money (the priority for this part of my career).

With Gitlab I could stay inside europe with the european healthcare system while not worrying about US visas, working remotely and asynchronously (an improved version of just "remotely"). That puts Gitlab well above other companies in my home country of Germany.

The Gitlab response to this system is that it allows them to employ more people. If the system allows me to be employed, I'm very happy for it, even if I make less than my colleauges in SF.
Why would it be fair for someone of equal skill to be able to afford [less food, less healthcare, less living space and fewer gadgets] for themselves just because they have a [smaller family and fewer kids to support]?

Generally what [your employer does] with [your employer's] money should not be [your] business.

This seems irreconcilable.
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The data source for Wolfram is the John Hopkins University dataset. Here, there are listed 25 recovered cases for Germany. The erroneous number 28 might come from the calculation 25 + 3.
No, the equation is (currently infected)^(rate*time).

Community mitigation changes the rate.
What’s the agenda here? To calm people down? Statistically this thing might even cause some deaths if enough people see it.
We will see how the numbers change when our health care systems have to operate beyond their capacities.
Even if you pull this off, you'd be in a situation where the company that hires you (outside the US they mostly use 3rd party employment providers) and/or you are committing tax fraud in a way or another.
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I highly don't recommend buying from them. I bought a steelcase leap v2 in platinum color and it's clear that the base of the chair is a cheap knockoff.

Crappy silver spraypaint that flakes, the wheels barely work, the piston was broken on delivery (which they did replace for free).

I've had problems with the chair being too low at max height and I am a short guy. I still don't know if it's their cheap base that's the culprit or that's just the design.
> Well, the problem with this number is that these app users spend 77% of their time on only 3 apps and even 96% of that time on their 10 favorite apps. This means that it’s extremely difficult to get users to even use your app.

This seems like something a marketing person trying to push an idea would say. There's an alternative explanation: users need just about 3 main things from their device, with extra few filling the cracks (like a bank app that's used once a week or so). If your metric to improve is "what percentage of the time is someone using your app", that sounds just wrong.
One of the relevant data sources listed is "Mapping 2019-nCoV" https://systems.jhu.edu/research/public-health/ncov/ , and that shows Germany as having 3 deaths and 25 recovered cases. Perhaps these are getting falsely aggregated to give 28?
I guess it's just a typo, but imagining someone at Spotify in Sweden reading a mail by an NY-based journalist asking about a Canadian startup is hilarious.
I wonder if this happens in reality.
seems like SV is going from micro-dosing acid to micro-dosing vitamin D :)
Bah, here you can have nuclear material as long as you're registered and certified for handling. It is somewhat pain in the rear but for a good reason - because otherwise we end up with radioactive garbage in normal trash.

In said license you get to specify maximum radioactivity and amount of material as well as means of disposal, processing and storage. Includes auditing. Paperwork, but not that hard to meet - pertains to every x-ray machine out there. Kind of like ISO certification.

If you're trying for something big, sure, you won't get it without good reason.

Combined with explosives license, you can actually have a nuclear bomb. Just tiny and exploded in very controlled conditions.

Big amounts and processing hardware are big deal.
No, thanks.

Your PWA is built with HTML, CSS and JavaScript and will therefore be lightweight and fast.

Huh?
Very Large Telescope observes exoplanet where it rains iron
You are right and I had forgotten about that. I mostly use SQLite from Python which actually does allow .execute() on the connection as a non-standard extension to DBAPI, so it supports exactly the two snippets you posted. It is a bit awkward that you have to create your cursor before you execute the query, I don't quite see the reason for that.
I use https://thewuhanvirus.com .
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I think that what's key here, especially during the current crisis, is to support businesses as much as we can to switch to WFH in the best possible way, with a simple process, and by helping them to stay engaged, hopefully without the need to make them all jump into real-time video calls many times through the day and lose focus.

At our company [1], we've been receiving an incredible amount of inbound. People really need tools that don't get in the way —we're a video-first async comm platform— and I'm happy our team is being able to help these companies switching to WFH.

The team and I are happy to help anyone with setting a basic process of communication for companies moving to WFH during these weeks. Just write to me at jp@standups.io and we'll be happy to jump in a call and see how we can help.

[1] https://standups.io
Analogies can also be used to dehumanize victims. It's pretty unproductive to refer to people as vermin, coyotes, animals, etc. Unless you're trying to "highlight common characteristics."
Yes, it's been lagging for days. Worldometers is up to date.
Do you find that good enough compared to Scotland's figures? For counties in Wales one has to hunt for press statements and work out the numbers, then go to the press to find where those infected are? Isn't that woefully inadequate? Isn't the _UK_ government only having _England_ figures on the UK website plain wrong?

The Chief Scientific Officer for the _UK_ only reporting on the infected in English counties, surely that's wrong too - seems to be a way to play down there numbers to the national press.

Sitting on info that helps the public help themselves, that's bad.
Joe Rogan has had such an ad hoc expert just this week, highly recommended. A sobering cold and factual shower.
I was addressing OP's impression that psycopg2 was slow "in any case" and that it cannot be used in non-blocking fashion.

> psycopg2 is slow in any case due to the blocking nature of the network calls.
I had read through the page and figured that it's probably not for me, but then decided to watch the video based on this comment and it is absolutely amazing! It is not just incredibly well-produced, but at the same time whimsical and a poignant commentary on the current social network landscape.

Some people might be put off by the video's style and it's definitely not in the vein of the typical startup product launch, but exactly that makes it the most memorable product launch video in a long time for me, since it's not afraid to show some personality.
> The Gitlab response to this system is that it allows them to employ more people.

Sytse is a good person but I'd never trust any company to hire more people than it absolutely must. I used to think no company will spend more in employee compensation than it must but i recently learned that board members get paid so together with runaway executive pay clearly I was wrong about that.
We are addressing a global market too at TransferWise and London developer salaries are way different than Budapest salaries. We are also not a remote company... until next week :)
The same was said by People who built JS Based Mobile apps via React Native and similar.

Today even Messenger moved back to Native code from React.
why not take this argument further:

pay your local in-house employees based on what suburb they live in, workers who live in expensive areas should be paid more because it costs them more
New MacBook models with scissor-switch keyboards are reportedly coming soon
Exactly. What kind of logic is that!
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Because low-priced goods are propped up by underpaid workers in poor countries. It sure is convenient for us but I don't think it's very ethical.
Fired scientist: ‘good people are being crushed’ by probes into Chinese ties
There are many weaker coronaviruses floating around that give the common cold. We are still getting the common cold from those, so apparently it mutates in a way that our immmunesystem can't stop it.
In my understanding when you move away from hot-spots like San Francisco it is not your skill that loses value, but you that lose power in asking for an higher salary.

Also it is not that devs in SF are especially good; I would guess that the distribution of skill is power law (specifically the number of devs in the global n-th percentile as a function of the total number of devs in the hiring pool) and it might be argued that the competitions is counterbalancing any positive effect of that.

In the end it is a position of which job market do you want to be in.
Its possible cultivating those beliefs, even if false, is a powerful tool in overcoming addiction. It may actually be the case that cultivating some belief in a higher reason / order to the universe is beneficial in recovery. There are dedicated circuits in the brain for religious / spiritual thinking and feeling, and when activated may play a role.

As a counter-point, its possible to imagine a scientific discovery that while true, would cause mass suicide and depression upon discovery (e.g. an asteroid will hit the planet in 10 days). While implausible, suppose that we "found scientific proof" the god exists and is the christian god, and eternal life / punishment awaits us after death. This knowledge / belief would probably radically alter the behaviors of society (lower crime, suicide, depression, etc).

Another good example is a healthy self confidence. For most people, this is incredibly beneficial (stave off depression, get a stable life, eat right, avoid addiction), but could be seen as a false belief. Most people's contributions don't "matter" in any real cosmic sense, their lives won't be remarkable, and they aren't more talented / qualified than most people. The insignificant experience we gain in a few years on this tiny dust speck isn't enough to make confident opinions on life or the universe. Most people are cogs in the machine, generating waste heat, and their death would hardly be noticed, and soon forgotten. But embracing those facts as "true" would have a markedly negative effect for most people, so perhaps its better to falsely believe the opposites of these (and we have dedicated circuitry to help us do just that, ignore all evidence to the contrary).

My basic takeaway is that this entire AA thing is an experiment to ask that very question: does cultivating this set of thought patterns prove effective? Is it more effective than the thought patterns of other approaches? Even if the beliefs are "forced" or "false", are they effective?

EDIT: wording.
Who said I stopped acid? :)
> one has to create the cursor before ever executing any queries

You are right, that is a bit weird, although only a very slight annoyance IMO. As I said in reply to the sibling comment, I had forgotten this as I mostly use SQLite from Python and it doesn't actually require this: you can call .execute() on the connection object and it returns the cursor, which does seem a lot cleaner.
It’s highly improbable. Medical recovering I assume it also includes being discharged from the hospital.
Wait... /usr/include on Mac OS Lion included constants for DATAKIT?

Was that a joke? Does someone have a Lion system around that can verify?
At least for China, the requirement is no fever for 10 days and two negative swabs. Only then they can get discharged. I'm not a doctor but I'd be surprised if you still need oxygen by then. You probably won't run a marathon either.
So, your argument for continuing the current, unsustainable, unfair and in the long run suicidal economic model is that the most vulnerable - given the current economic system - would suffer?

To me it sounds like a perfect reason to rethink the current economic model.
> Salaries should be a function of value produced amortized across the convenience and reliability of a predictable salary for the employee

Salaries should be the equilibrium price where an employers willingness to offer a salary meets an employees willingness to accept one. The only surprising thing about their scale is that they’re willing to hire people in high cost-of-living locations at all.
Magic Leap is considering selling itself
>> It makes you wonder why certain websites even have an app

Good article, but the answer to the point above always seemed obviously about being better able to identify users and pull their data - this is why so many apps offer functions that go through your contact list and photos (they can pull the contacts to work out who you know and hash image / other files so other apps can be sure they're installing on the same phone)
Bitrix24 is now free for unlimited users until Covid-19 is over
But they might sell it at different prices in different markets
It's the same for Norway. This website report 400 cases, 4 deaths and 22 recoveries. These are quite far off from the actual official numbers. The official numbers are released once per day at 18:00, by the Norwegian institute of Public Health [0], and VG (a newspaper) are keeping the numbers updated [1] with reports coming from municipalities and hospitals around the country [1]. The last official numbers (from yesterday) were 489 cases, 0 deaths, 1 recovery. The last numbers from VG are 642 cases, 0 deaths, 1 recovery.

0: https://www.fhi.no/

1: https://www.vg.no/spesial/2020/corona-viruset/
In 99, the screenreader would have serenaded him with visitor counters "This website has had over [graphic without alt text] visitors since July 1997" and "This site works best in Microsoft Internet Explorer 4" which isn't very comforting when he's using a screen reader, and the whole website would be laid out in a table, sometimes with menus that were sliced graphics instead of text, or entirely javascript. Meanwhile the accessibility wing of the web standardistas got so angry at people using font tags instead of the designated header markups that the font tag got deprecated when css browser coverage was half decent. And let's not even start on Flash.
I find that BNO [0] is the fastest in reporting new cases (both in aggregate and in detail) and gives sources so you can see what region of the country is affected.

[0] https://bnonews.com/index.php/2020/02/the-latest-coronavirus....
> people acting like anonymity is some long-standing norm in human society. It's really not. It's relatively new and relatively uncommon.

It's not a "long-standing norm", it's a fundamental right, as most, if not all, fundamental rights we have today.

> When everyone you know lives in a really small area

Even in small towns and villages people had privacy inside their houses, farms etc.

But from now on, it's constant surveillance everywhere, all the time.
Watson[1] was a great product, in no way did anybody consider it mediocre. Apple pretty much cloned it when they introduced Sherlock.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karelia_Watson
I believe so. Kythe seems to have spawned out of the internal CodeSearch.
it's a legit question which is the pillar of (software) security thinking. It's called parallel or adversarial thinking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_thinking

what would work in that case is take the Channel Tunnel to England, then lie about how long you've stayed in the UK. It probably wouldn't work if you have taken a flight out/in the EU in the past months as that would show up to any customs official.
:) https://github.com/jhuangtw-dev/xg2xg
Midnight never refers to 11.59pm, which is one minute before midnight. I can say that for certain.

Normally I would take "midnight on Friday" as an instant to mean 2400, since if you're somewhere at 1am on Saturday morning you wouldn't consider it a problem to say "we were out partying on Friday night", but if you were there at 11pm on Friday night you would consider it a problem to say "we were out partying on Saturday night.

However in the particular case of something beginning, I would normally take take it to mean "the very start of Friday according to legal time".

Likewise, in the particular case of something ending, I would normally take it to mean "the very end of Friday according to legal time".
>Is there support for arbitrary data transport over the Lora layer

Seconding this, I am thinking about making ultra-remote seismometers that send back (highly compressed and carefully selected) readings via something like LoRa. I could use this as the transport layer and only have to worry about the sampling and processing.

(Yes - I know about the raspberry shake. It has a lot of flaws with the design which is why I'm going for the redesign)
In my opinion, what makes them really great is the tight integration that they have. For example, since the whole company uses one build system and one single repository, you can build a truly awesome IDE that knows about every library in the company and can autocomplete for it. Same for code search, where cross references are accurate and work cross languages (for example a class generated from Protobuf).
Well, look what I just found on AliExpress:

https://aliexpress.com/item/4000527495064.html

It looks like ESP32 + display + real-time-clock + gyroscope/accelerometer/compass + battery + buttons, all inside fitness tracker body. Just waiting for whatever you can code it into