skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The German ministry of health confirmed the report (via Google Translate):

> 11.50 am: The Federal Ministry of Health has confirmed a report by the "Welt am Sonntag", according to which the US government is endeavoring for the company CureVac based in Tübingen. The company is working on a vaccine against the coronavirus.

> The Ministry of Health is also quoted as saying that the German government wants a vaccine to be developed in Germany and Europe. According to the report, the Trump administration wants to lure German scientists to America with high financial donations or secure the drug exclusively for the USA.

https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/medizin/coronavirus-news...
It's crazy. Most of them don't even live in the city, and yet they have an unbelievably larger amount of political power per capita than any other constituency in the city save for higher-up politicians.

Police unions are the only unions that people on the right like, and they're the only unions that people on the left dislike. It's a weird inversion.
No, influence does not go in only one direction. If it did, it wouldn't go upstream! The TV news broadcasts to us, not the other way around.

In the short term, though, you're mostly right. News media firms program to increase audience engagement. Rachel Maddow didn't particularly enjoy turning her program into all-Trump-all-the-time in mid-2015, but she couldn't really help it. There was a large portion of the cable news audience that couldn't resist the frisson that came from seeing that one guy who had said mean things to people on that one TV show now saying other mean things to other people on the news. These morons would tune into to anything Trump (to some extent, they will still), and as Les Moonves observed it was "damn good" for the bottom line.

It's tempting to assume that the modern news media firm doesn't really care about which direction their product points. The particular cars that crashed don't really matter when the morons just want to see car crashes. We could hypothesize an efficient market and be smug in the sure knowledge that there are no long-term trends. Or, we could pull our heads out of our asses and actually observe the trends.

Maybe USA is so irredeemably racist that China is an easy mark for this sort of media malpractice. Somehow our racism has ignored all of sub-Saharan Africa? And somehow Israel is not only not despised, but is actually celebrated, despite the fact they are every bit as awful to Palestinians as China is to Uighurs? This is a strange reflection of common USA prejudice!

In fact, Israel purchases (often with USA tax money) large quantities of armaments from USA armaments manufacturers. The moment they stopped doing that, or alternatively the moment their rivals seemed likely to purchase even more armaments in hopes of finally destroying them, would be the moment they were seen in a very different light in USA news media. In the long run, every stupid misguided war USA or its proxies fight is preceded by a long run of news media demonization. Maybe that's just a natural thing, but I'm suspicious.
> But there is something cold, clinical and unemotional about the UK's strategy to tackle this pandemic.

Boris Johnson's chief SPAD recently (this year) employed a known eugenicist, and that person only resigned after considerable public consternation.
You should check out http://www.hakank.org/ for a fantastic resource of optimization models for a huge variety of solvers and problems
This is complacency. A lot of under-50s, particularly male smokers and others with weakened lungs or immune system, are at risk; even fit under-40s can require weeks of externally-provided ventilation to survive.
I've been in my current job for 7/8 years so not really sure how the interview process works. I saw the ad on LinkedIn and it looks like the only option to proceed is to send a CV.
Aren't most dairy cows brown? Maybe they're just being good Bayesians.
Anglo-American law was strongly influenced by the repeated waves of bubonic plague in England during the middle ages. Though the powers have been rarely used to their full extent, they continue to exist.
Logically similar, I would make the headline:

Cutting down London’s Trees Costs the City Billions

You can define normal how you want, but my way comes from seeing trees as normal. The old headline seems to treat lack of trees as normal.

Instead of cutting down trees and putting up buildings, how about cutting down buildings and putting up trees?
NBC: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/coronavirus-testi...

tldr; call your provider or local public health
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Steady on, this is London we're talking about. A stern look and a slight shaking of the head is about as extreme as us Brits will go.
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>Always pay the original shift owner for the shift, and preferably, don't even keep records or who really did the shift

Usually the sorta places that need shift scheduling also require you to check in before your shift and will only pay for the hours that you worked, often those places have some sorts biometric check in mechanism, your suggestion doesn’t seem very practical in light of that.
My underwear was a decade old. It was in shambles. The wife finally convinced me to buy new underwear recently. This is boxer briefs and undershirts. I prefer heavier undershirts, kind of like t-shirts.

My everyday shoes are suede military boots. I don’t think they last a decade but they last a long time and can take quite a beating. They are certainly worth the expensive retail price though I typically get mine for free. I will ultimately end up replacing the laces 2 to 3 times before replacing the boots.

Many of my shirts last well over a decade. I prefer business casual long sleeve button up shirts. They wear less quickly because I only wear them over undershirts. I have one shirt I still wear that was from my first year in college more than 20 years ago. The thing that kills my shirts are stains. Stripes and plaids show less stains than flat colors and thus last much longer.

What doesn’t last: running shoes, jeans, and watches. The battery on my Timex watch is only good for 3 to 5 years and that is about how long I hold onto my running shoes. My jeans are good for about 4 years and then they see to completely fall apart. I don’t even care if they get minor stains.
China does seem to be on of the most interesting cases so far.

The quarantine measures, once introduced, do seem to have been viewed favourably by the experts and do seem to have been remarkably effective. This assumes we trust the reported statistics, which I acknowledge as a possible risk in this instance.

On the other hand, it may be that China has been able to achieve that in part by pulling resources from all over to focus on the main region affected. That isn't necessarily an option that will be open to other nations, particularly if their outbreaks are distributed across their whole area almost immediately.
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This likely sounds like a conspiracy. I've been wondering if any country would be bold enough to make a powerplay to seize control over something amidst the rampage of this virus. For any psychopath, this seems like a great time to get ahead economically or detriment other countries in some form.
I don't see Trump seizing control over a possible vaccine as something that'll benefit the rest of the world, either, without a hefty pricetag.
Did a fairly poor job on this Ars article https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03/what-monty-pythons-m...
Not just this year but the last couple of years
> This is actually a more stable choice than America's.

You can't support that claim. Historically - all of recorded history - there are less than half a dozen examples that can be argued to be comparable to or to have systems that are more stable than the US over two centuries of time.

Go ahead and list all the constitutional + democratic systems that have lasted for more than two centuries. The European region barely had any democracies as recently as WW1. Here is what that looks like:

https://i.imgur.com/fnJNjIn.png

Now go back to 1850 or 1900. How many were there? So where do you plan to get your data from, to support your premise on stability?

There is long-term instability inherent in all functioning monarchy systems: the source of that instability is that people frequently don't like them, which is why nations have spent the last few hundred years gradually abandoning or neutering monarchy systems. Most of what remains is a cultural trinket. It's why the monarchy in the UK is little more than a facade, a figurehead; it has no real governing power or position, it is of relatively little political consequence and probably never will be again. Even including the UK in this, is a questionable data point because of that. What does the Queen do? Answer: not much, she is nothing more than a quaint cultural nod to the past at this point.

In fact the US has the opposite problem. Its system of government tends to produce too much stability and not enough dynamism (which is what the argument for many political parties is arguing in favor of). That stability often means the US moves slower on reforms and its system is highly resistant to change. Those are the trade-offs inherent in having greater stability.
You are claiming that a study published in January supercedes a study in February.

Given that people are making difficult choices right now that will impact the course of the epidemic we should be very careful sharing outdated information that could lead to people becoming infected.

China's numbers are a minimum. Many people are saying online they are a maximum. I.e. claiming that there are lots of hidden mild infections when there are not.
We were talking about bars. And some of the bars around the neighborhood were packed on Friday night.
While they haven't officially done most of these things yet there's plenty of commentary from officials saying these are the next steps.
I'd be interested in seeing a rendering time comparison with native MathML rendering in Firefox or Safari.
I take your point. I'm not disputing the existence of fatigue, but rather on whether we know enough about it to quantify it and to use it as our guiding principle for epidemic response.

And I think the the Singapore approach here is the right way - additional measure can be taken in order to shore up public behaviour as people's behaviour start to revert.

In any case the UK public by-and-large is behaving much less seriously than Singapore. Having just been back from Asia on a trip and working from home as a result, I still have people asking me as of a few days ago whether all of this talk in the news is an overreaction.
Ah. I was never actually a VB programmer, but I did have a few side-jobs porting VB apps (mostly CRUD webapps) to something more modern in the mid-noughties. My experience from that was that real world use of on error resume next was to turn it on and leave it on.
Your anti-Russia, nationalist rhetoric is not welcome here.
Fortunately, nothing like that has happened to me so far.

It's definitely not legal and, in my opinion, highly unethical as well. While it's understandable that companies scramble to protect their cash flow now one still has to pay one's dues.

Since you're based in another country it'll be difficult to quickly enforce your claim unless they have a local branch.

Invoice factoring might be an option but in the current climate this could be quite expensive. Still, getting paid x % of the original invoice amount is better than getting nothing.

Taking out a loan on accounts receivable might be another option.
so crowd sourced travel agents 2.0, flavored with omnipresent behavioral observation.

neat, but i'll pass
Conspiracy theory has a specific meaning. Their claim might be false but even if this is the case they are not implying the existence of any conspiracy.
To be fair, they are using 1% which is an underestimate given what we know right now.

In general, with exponential growth the best time to act was yesterday.
It's actually incredibly easy to replace a watch battery on most watches (certainly Timex), you just need a tool to pull the back off ($10ish on Amazon right now) and a battery that fits, which you can pick up at any Wal-Mart for $4-$5.
For me I have no problem wearing used clothes and grew up effectively always shopping second hand. My issue is _time_. I hate shopping for clothes. Finding something that fits, is in good condition and meets my needs involves searching for hours at second hand shops.
I doubt the modern GNU or BSD versions of it that you are likely using do. Noone uses the original anymore.
> Did C++ not already have a fully featured package manager until now? Why not?

No, it doesn't. I'd say it was due to age and fragmentation; most of the more recent languages have, in effect, a single "vendor" who can coordinate something like that. Whereas C++ has historically one big proprietary and one open vendor who fought each other (Microsoft vs. GNU), plus a long tail of proprietary implementations (e.g. Intel); more recently there is clang.

The language itself doesn't have packages.

In practice, the role taken by a package manager in the Free world was occupied by autoconf, which does a good job of building across a huge variety of systems but is a pain to use. There was also much more of a tradition of "this is what you're getting, deal with it": rather than a program specifying precise version requirements, autoconf probes the capabilities and then adapts accordingly.

Build system in the Free world is make, with occasional jam if you're a big boost user. Microsoft of course do something completely different with MSBuild. Visual studio does have an integrated package manager, nuget, but it's orientated at C# use.
>>Are you going to be the grandson who kills his grandma?

My grandparents are long long dead

>>Or the employee who kills the CEO?

Maybe the CEO should have thought about that and given his employees a work from home, or other policies to allow themselves to self quarantine.

I also find it telling you talk about the employees giving it to the CEO and not the other way around... I am sure there is a Parable in there about unwashed masses

>Or the Trump supporter who ends up helping elect Biden?

Not a Trump supporter, but I do find it amusing you believe only Trump supporters support liberty, and only Biden supporters support authoritarianism

Though I dont think anything will help Biden win, he less electable than Clinton was in 2016
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I did try to run it four times, and in each case the result was semi-random: it looks like picking 4 random sentences that open paragraphs. There was not a single case when I would consider the output useful-ish.
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> - Leaked passwords cannot be changed.

What's funny is I nearly just finished making a Node.js library that does what Lesspass does, and it addresses this one point.

Basically, I added a concept of an `nonce` property, which is just a number that gets incremented every time a password for a service has to change. (not sure if nonce is the correct term)

I figure that if I forget a password, I can just keep adding 1 to the nonce until it generates the current password.

Here's a gist of it:
https://gist.github.com/Ravenstine/8053651dd2aeacee9973b9f93...

I haven't used it anywhere, so if there's a serious flaw don't believe you're going to access my bank account. lol

EDIT: It looks like Lesspass also uses a counter property. Kinda amazed that two people independently arrived at such a similar idea. :)
Hopefully. But the health care system in Lombardia has to be the best or at the top of entire the country. Southern Italy will struggle with fewer cases.
Not a C/C++ library, but you can maybe call out to node to get SVGs, see
https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax-demos-node/blob/master/co...
via http://docs.mathjax.org/en/latest/server/start.html#node-sta...
then Inkscape for svg to png conversion, see
https://github.com/softcover/softcover/blob/master/lib/softc...

But I think the above pipeline is even more external-dependecyful than using the real latex...
Nah scratch that. At this point it's hard to tell who are the baddies[1].

1. https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/1879190/us-germany-battle-...
My place uses id cards, but people just check in with eachothers id cards.

I only kick up a fuss if someone shows up to do a shift who isn't even an employee.
Except that maybe I'm wrong because big multibillion auto companies are betting on BEVs. Like, Ford and Chevy disagree with me. But Toyota seems to think differently, for now.
Okay, have you tutted at him?
Standing uses body language to convey authority and confidence when presenting. I’d theorize this helps the consumer of educational content in being engaged, which is more difficult when watching videos versus being present during an in person lecture.
It's mostly an anti-madness requirement; there are lots of flags that are safe to vary by compilation unit, but there are some that aren't, so rather than attempt to enumerate them (which may vary by compiler), just enforce uniformity.
Well Lombardy does (number 2 in the regions of the EU). I believe that some Italian commentators have said that one of the biggest reasons for the total country lockdown was that the health systems of Southern Italy were much much worse than Lombardy, and would definitely not be able to cope.
In all fairness, unless teams coordinate, what often tends to happen is people come into the office haphazardly based on what they're doing and whether they have a reason to want to stay home that day. And then, once in the office, none of the other people they want to see are there.

I know this has happened with me and others I know. I wouldn't mind going into the office a day or two per week if it were useful but between travel and people working from home and people who aren't in the same office, there won't be a lot of people I work with circulating around if I do. So I don't bother.

But we're a pretty remote friendly company in general--although the degree to which people who have an office come in varies by team.
What do you mean by through multiple doors? Pretty sure that all buses are boarded through multiple doors.
Ask HN: Where does the herd immunity number comes from?
Some claim it's 40% while some says it's 70% and some claim it to be 60%. Where does this number comes from?
So you prefer no one to have access to the items at any price (empty shelves), rather than a limited supply being available at a higher price?

Why do you prefer that? Why do you think that individuals have no ability to adjust their personal spending such that they can purchase TP or hand sanitizer even at 2x, 3x or even 5x price points.
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Yes，I did fix a few. However, there are two places I am uncomfortable with gmail.js (again, that's a few years ago):

1. I remember it greatly depend on hijack of a global variable in Gmail.com, but occasionally the value is not available (depend on where the user refreshed the page and network speed of the user)

2. it try to send network requests to Gmail.com directly (on behalf of logged in Gmail user) and get the query result, but those API are supposed to be used only by Gmail.com internally. So once the API format changes, some data could not be collected.

In general I think this approach raised too much dependency on misc aspects of Gmail.com. Now customized DOM parsing also depend on Gmail UI, but that should be the ONLY thing that would break the system.
No, it is not too late. The number of likely cases is still low enough to make contact tracing worthwhile to slow the spread.
Garbage sudo intellectual article. It's like the author thinks "if I write enough words, people will think I'm smart".

Trump keeps an infected cruise ship quarantined, a wise decision, but it means he's trying to control the optics?

A DR. was not allowed to violate Hipa laws, so Trumps fault.

Look how great China is...

Look how great Europe is...

Bookmark this article and read it in two months. It will be more apparent who comes out ahead.
Hey John. I know how you feel a bit. Dont worry about people thinking its depressing. It's your struggle and your story and you can tell it how ever you want. I remember tiny things like being able to tell my story helped me when I was diagnosed with a brain tumor.

People may not understand what milk has to really do with your situation but it is those tiny things that make the most profound impacts I'd say. I still look at the tiny needle scars and that reminds me more than the actual scar on my head.

So feel free man. I found being able to talk about it openly helped me deal with it A LOT MORE than anything else.
Where you got that info? Any link?
It’s not a recognized term, hence the air-quotes. The terms “Lisp 1” and “Lisp 2” do describe concrete implementations of Lisp (1 keeps functions and data in separate namespaces; 2 puts everything in a single namespace). Many consider Lisp-2 an improvement over Lisp-1, in that it eliminates complexity and improves consistency and uniformity of behavior.

However, as even some Lispers will admit, Lisp itself is not a good Lisp.

Just like the Algols, Lisp 1s & 2s are riddled with special forms (they just hide them better). e.g. You can’t implement your own conditional operator in Lisp that replicates the behavior of Lisp’s built-in `if` operator, because `if` requires that its second and third operands be lazily evaluated, and Lisp itself always evaluates operands eagerly. Thus that special-case lazy evaluation behavior is hardcoded into Lisp’s core for just that operator.

However, there’s also a great saying (coined by Pythonistas, not Lispers, ironically) that “Special cases aren't special enough [to break the rules].”

And indeed, with just a little bit more thought and effort, all those special cases wired into Lisp’s core can be completely eliminated and replaced with a single general-purpose compositional mechanism that works the same for everything and can be used by anyone. That’s what Schutt’s Kernel does (my own Lisp-inspired kiwi language also solves it, albeit in a different way): it allows procedure writers to control exactly how and when/if each argument to that procedure should be evaluated.

In the spirit of Lisp 1s ands Lisp 2s I’d describe Kernel-like languages as “Lisp 3s”, in that a single fundamental change to the core language improves its simplicity, consistency, and uniformity. What’s really significant though is that it vastly improves language plasticity, i.e. the ability to reshape bog-standard Lisp into whatever custom language best expresses the concepts and behaviors specific to your problem space.

We talk a lot in software development about managing complexity, and indeed this is important. But the one thing that’s even better than managing complexity well is eliminating it entirely.

Lisp culture gets plenty castles-in-the-sky brainfarts of its own, natch, but at least the Lisp philosophy offers the opportunity in a way the Algols never will. It’s the question every Lisp asks, all the way back to McCarthy:

How simple can/should computation be?

(Answer: A lot simpler than we think!)

And then, having arrived at the answer to that, figure how to simplify it even further.

Now, if only someone could find a solution to all those Irritating Stupid Parentheses… ;)