skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Design is rooted in reality in the sense that it must be functional. My argument is that this particular design is wholly un-functional, and that the diamonds that HN is optimizing for - fancy animations, pretty concentric circles - don't seem to have much value when you think about it. At least diamonds hold their value.

But I suppose, if one finds value in this not-quite-novel-application-of-javascript-animated SVGs, to each their own.
If this is true, then it's very interesting. I'd love to find a more recent update on this, if there is any.

TL;DR: Contracting the virus through your nose might be much worse than through the eyes or stomach.

Quote:

If the neuroinvasion of SARS‐CoV‐2 does take a part in the development of respiratory failure in patients with COVID‐19, the precaution with masks will absolutely be the most effective measure to protect against the possible entry of the virus into the CNS. It may also be expected that the symptoms of the patients infected via fecal‐oral or conjunctival route will be lighter than those infected intranasally. The possible neuroinvasion of SARS‐CoV‐2 may also partially explain why some patients developed respiratory failure, while others not. It is very possible that most of the persons in Wuhan, who were the first exposed to this previously unknown virus, did not have any protective measure, so that the critical patients are much more in Wuhan than in other cities in China.

Another interesting quote:

According to the complaints of a survivor, the medical graduate student (24 years old) from Wuhan University, she must stay awake and breathe consciously and actively during the intensive care. She said that if she fell asleep, she might die because she had lost her natural breath.
Capitalism is the system, which can and does have moral constraints, the set of which defines and distinguishes one implementation of capitalism from another.

However, capital itself is amoral and has no such limitations.
If this is true, which I welcome because Chinese miner centralization has been a massive worry for us since about 2012, that still has yielded they highest hash rate (the computing power dedicated to mining Bitcoin) in the History of BTC:

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-hashrate.html

Its easy to skew this if you don't understand the underlying tech, but Bitcoin continues to work despite a supposed exodus of miners (best example being the last fork with BCash), what secures the network are the nodes, not miners. They're just participants who are rewarded for appropriating the network with hashing power.

As for the price dip, well I welcome anyone to buy $100 of BTC and hold onto a $100 and see which is more valuable now that the Federal Reserve has dropped Interest rates to 0%, and is issuing a $700 Billion QE program:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/15/federal-reserve-cuts-rates-t...

> They should never be there anyway, Bitcoin is a waste of time.

Personally, this couldn't have come at a worst time for me as I stepped down from my day job to undergo my SpaceX interview(s), I've turned down some gig/jobs in the last month too, but I'm glad that I have BTC as a cushion with some cash on hand.
Terrible idea. Unless there's herd immunity, this will just restart the epidemic anew, this time in the people who managed to dodge the virus the first time. Social distancing can be lifted in those who recovered from the virus though, maybe they'll be able to attend.
With all things RNA related, sample prep and PCR amplification are the most important steps for good detection with any sequencing platform.

Those factors alone make sequencing alone a near impossibility in rapid detection. PCR based assays are a much better candidate and could identify different strains in less than a few hours.
I don't care about the time, but I'm utterly horrified at the waste of resources.
Norwegian is a slightly better than average low fare airline now when everything costs extra. Modern planes and nice crews compared to their competitors.
> I don't look forward to being cooped up inside for weeks to months.

There's no need to be cooped up unless you're actually sick.

You can go for walks, runs, hikes, bike rides, do whatever outdoor activities you want as long as it's not crowded, without it being a problem.
Judith Butler has spent a good portion of her career exploring this concept from a non tech third wave feminist view point, and I have found her work to be incredibly insightful and applicable to many discussions outside of feminism as well.

As a man, I have caught myself "performing" for other people on a regular basis. Wearing a suit to formal occasions. Shaking hands with a firm handshake. Laughing at jokes that I wouldn't laugh at in private. Are these things "me"? By outlining both mentally and on paper which behaviors I do for myself and which I do for other people I have unraveled a good portion of my character. Many of the behaviors I have decided to keep, despite knowing that they are a performance for others - the difference now being that I can feel confident that my performance is rooted in active decision and authenticity with how I want the world to perceive me, rather than a simple need to please others. This is an ongoing process.
They don't say it useless. They just don't recommend it.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/faq.html#protect

CDC does not recommend that people who are well wear a facemask to protect themselves from respiratory illnesses, including COVID-19. You should only wear a mask if a healthcare professional recommends it. A facemask should be used by people who have COVID-19 and are showing symptoms. This is to protect others from the risk of getting infected. The use of facemasks also is crucial for health workers and other people who are taking care of someone infected with COVID-19 in close settings (at home or in a health care facility).

Only wear a mask if you are ill with COVID-19 symptoms (especially coughing) or looking after someone who may have COVID-19. Disposable face mask can only be used once. If you are not ill or looking after someone who is ill then you are wasting a mask. There is a world-wide shortage of masks, so WHO urges people to use masks wisely.

WHO advises rational use of medical masks to avoid unnecessary wastage of precious resources and mis-use of masks (see Advice on the use of masks).

The most effective ways to protect yourself and others against COVID-19 are to frequently clean your hands, cover your cough with the bend of elbow or tissue and maintain a distance of at least 1 meter (3 feet) from people who are coughing or sneezing. See basic protective measures against the new coronavirus for more information.

https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/q-a-coronaviruses

Only wear a mask if you are ill with COVID-19 symptoms (especially coughing) or looking after someone who may have COVID-19. Disposable face mask can only be used once. If you are not ill or looking after someone who is ill then you are wasting a mask. There is a world-wide shortage of masks, so WHO urges people to use masks wisely.

WHO advises rational use of medical masks to avoid unnecessary wastage of precious resources and mis-use of masks (see Advice on the use of masks).

The most effective ways to protect yourself and others against COVID-19 are to frequently clean your hands, cover your cough with the bend of elbow or tissue and maintain a distance of at least 1 meter (3 feet) from people who are coughing or sneezing. See basic protective measures against the new coronavirus for more information.

They don't say it useless, just they not recommend it
I am ok with putting these airlines on life support until things get back to normal, but ONLY if airlines are required to get insurance or build a rainy day fund to handle similar future events. And only if shareholders and bondholders are not bailed out.

There are risks in this business and lenders and shareholders should have already taken that into account when they make their decisions. It's not the job of government to handle these risks.

We need to keep this industry going but also start to be more responsible about risk. And that will mean moderately higher ticket prices.
It sounds like you're getting caught up on the loadedness of the term "MVC".

Model means anything that is conceptually related to data. You don't need a framework to have a model. If you have a vanilla js app and call fetch and assign to a variable, that's your model. Unless you carefully write procedural code by hand to mutate specific DOM targets based on a relevant state change, the abstraction (be it a vdom or a compiler) will have to do it for you.

What view frameworks/libraries do is expose interfaces for a developer and turn code written against those interfaces into execution plans. The abstraction trend-du-jour is to have declarative style have reactive semantics (i.e. `foo = 1` triggers a change to any views that read `foo`). The challenge is if you have N state values and M DOM bindings, how do you efficiently translate changes to a subset of state values to a subset of DOM calls for only the bindings that are affected. Something has to do this determination. Either a vdom, a dirty checker, a KVO, a compiler or you.

> If there is no framework and no model

Yeah, of course you can write raw DOM calls manually. But people don't want to, citing maintainability concerns or whatever. VDOMs, dirty checkers and KVOs have already been explored and have known trade-offs. What I'm saying is that compilers leveraging today's state-of-art will necessarily compile to one of those techniques, because there's no implementation that does reactivity analysis at compile time.

> I don't need to blow up a dam and change the course of a river to put out a camp fire

To borrow your analogy, you don't need to change the course of a river to put out a camp fire, but if you want to build a system to put out fires in a city, you'll most likely use a plumbing system to divert water from your local water sources, because manually bringing buckets of water from the river will usually not cut it, and water teleportation hasn't been invented yet.
While it's more expensive, headlights can also reorient themselves dynamically. You tend to see it on mid-tier vehicles and up, but it's a really great feature. So there is a technical solution to this problem, although I'd rather have a simpler approach that's also cheaper that works for most people (as much as I love my headlights, I realize it's one more thing that can break).
The fuel, the airports, the ATC are all offset by fees that are charged. The line about Boeing is a common airbus talking point, but Boeing never mixes those numbers in their financial numbers, and has actually lost the big recent contracts to Lockheed and SpaceX.
Imagine the complexity of that. Mind boggling.
Can you please rephrase your comment without the quadruple negative?
Uh, does "I can get whatever care I need, whenever I need it, for free" work for you?

Apart from purely elective plastic surgery (which isn't free, or needed) I really can't think of any services that could be being advertised. Maybe your hearing advertisements for medical care that doesn't involve returning to Canada instead of medical care not available in Canada?
Presumably not everyone needs a hospital bed. Most are fine to take a few days of bed rest, many who would normally be hospitalized out of caution can be cared for by family at home with teledoc guidance, it's a small percentage at high risk who need hospital care.
Yes, I agree. The CCP have a convenient scapegoat in this case to deflect responsibility away from themselves. On the other hand, I erroneously thought that scapegoat would have been Trump’s trade war, so who knows.

The huge danger is in china’s real estate market, which could undergo a huge correction mimicking the turmoil of china’s property market in the late 90s. As many Chinese have speculated in hot property markets here in the USA, those effects could easily come here (again, like what happened with Japan).
Surgical high-proof mask doctors and nurses use are pretty good against viruses, combined with googles of course.

For normal person? They are mostly useless. Only for people, who are already sick, to stop them from spreading virus further. Wearing mask by healthy person doesn't make sense, because there is not much to stop viruses with coming in contact with your eyes. You are always a scratch away from bringing those viruses into your body, negating any benefit from mask. And most of mask, you can buy currently are not dense enough to capture viruses.

OP is correct, unless you are sick or medical worker, you don't need mask. Don't buy them, hospitals need them much more than you.

Is WHO [1] good enough source for you?

[1] https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...
A test for $1 can be a test for free.
Chromium has a pretty open leadership process. Each subsystem has a small number of people who make technical decisions about the roadmap, and for some subsystems of the browser, none of those people are Google employees. Qualcomm, Microsoft, and Nvidia all have direct leadership control over some Chromium subsystems.
Ohio postponing in person voting until June 2nd due to COVID19
Well you certainly picked a username that reflects your views.
Let's see what happens. But Norwegian privately owned, so if the state does bail them out, I sure as hell hope they wipe out the common shareholders in the process. This culture of moral hazard, "privatize the profit, nationalize the risk", is pure bullshit.

I probably agree with providing liquidity in the form of some sort of short-term loan in order to live through a completely unexpected macro crisis, if it's done on equal terms to everyone. But Norwegian won't survive that either, I think.
I never thought of the notion of "Canadian royal family" before. I guess that makes more sense.

It also gives me this silly vision of Harry at the YVR immigration counter holding up a $20 note and saying, "Because my grandma says so."
Not to mention that upper management doesn't consist of the same people as 15 years ago.
So signed distance functions turn out to be quite hard to design for more complicated shapes. You can cheat by having the distance far aware from the surface being not quite accurate -- but there are limits to how much you can cheat before you have unwanted rendering artifacts such as blobs or holes.

"Boolean" operations on these signed distance fields pretty much always cheat, except for Union, which can be done with a max(a,b) operation.

Deep Learning can be used to attempt to learn a function approximating a true signed distance field for a shape. https://deepai.org/publication/deepsdf-learning-continuous-s...

I think signed distance fields may turn out to be significantly better than old school raytracing if we can have super-optimized distance field functions!
The idea is that you have say 1000 ICU spots available. Based on your numbers 4.5% of the cases are deadly, but let’s say 10% are severe-to-deadly and require two weeks of ICU care. So that’s 6,700 people or roughly 94,000 man-days of ICU time. In other words if you slow down the rate of infection enough you could fit that 94k into the 1k of beds over time. But if all of them get sick on day one, you are fucked.

Social distancing is about slowing down the spread, not eradicating the disease. What will eradicate it one way or the other is the immune system or death: once you’ve had it you are unlikely to get reinfected or you will die. To avoid the latter case you need ICU time or eventually a vaccine. Also consider that buying a month of time means an extra month to provide more ICU beds, better testing capacity, better understanding of what is effective prevention, etc.
A flower pollination algorithm for efficient robot path planning
There is also the issue of NEXUS card holders. Many of them work in one country and live in the other, or have other reasons to cross the border daily.

Or it could be the fact that it is a huge mostly unprotected border.

Sure you can stop people at the main highways, but there are a ton of lakes where you can just row across to Canada.
Western countries need to spend more energy on mask productions.

I heard the mask production automation lines cost $50K to $100 in China and TW. Now the price for machines and production materials are 5-10 times the normal.

But once setup, 95% - 99% of the process is automated. There are zero pollution and it is neither labor nor capital intensive. Do need the logistic and abilities to source some raw materials. If setup, the next few months would be like printing $$$$.

TW can make 10 millions masks per day now.
China has production line making 110 millions mask per day.
They were able mobilized the industries like war time - TW actually send enlist Army personnels to the factory to help out.
There is also a family exception to this ban. Maybe he can sneak in that way.
When is it best to use formal (bureaucratic) vs informal (conversational) language?

When writing reports and documentation I prefer formal language, but for blogs I switch over to informal.
Principles of Automated Testing (2017)
https://notabug.org/peers/forgefed is one attempt at that.
given the significant returns to scale in the tech industry this is a pretty natural development and it happens in most tech sectors over time as monopolistic competition generally outperforms the 'bazaar' economy.

'small business' is only the equilibrium in sectors that can't increase aggregate output by growing or capital investment like say, the restaurant industry.
> ... 3) print money to cover it.

> Number 3) will cause significant inflation, so it will effectively be paid for by tax on cash savings.

Yeah, the same was said before QE was rolled about and it did not happen--as predicted Krugman and those that follow IS-LM models:

* https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/12/qe-truthers/

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_lower_bound

Stimulus now could be very useful, and 'helicopter money' is probably just as good as any other method:

* https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/opinion/the-case-for-perm...

* https://archive.is/Z2TMK
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If you are going to compare browsers make sure you aren't comparing against a version of Chrome from 2013.

Here is the correct comparison: https://html5test.com/compare/browser/safari-11.2/chrome-68/...

Which clearly shows its the worst of the bunch.

Edit: Also just noticed, the latest Chrome version that the site has is 68. We're currently on 80+
You are correct. Especially given that expenses are hightened right now. People are stocking up all at once, which requires upfront money - something most of the country does not have.

1k is considerably less than even unemployment, which is also not enough for a huge portion of society. I would say 3k is probably the bare minimum for 1 month of self-isolation. Essentially expanding unemployment (just over 2k) to everyone.
Anti-Trust has always been a mechanism for politics to go after companies they did not like.

The first Anti-Trust law (state level) happened because Butchers faced unfair competition from centralized slaughter houses (the innovation they were fighting was refrigerated train transport).

You can go threw most of these laws and see that they were advocated and often financed by those industries that were being crushed by better performing competition.

The progressive would use Anti-Trust far all manner of political reasons. Sometimes cases where two merging companies didn't even capture 20% of the market, but it was opposed by well connected friends of the Progressive Party.

Standard Oil, now the bullet prove argument that Anti-Trust is good, actually delivered falling prices and higher quality to consumers threw-out its existence. They were opposed by politically connected oil producers and rail companies who wanted to keep prices high. Under modern Anti-Trust law they could not be fined, and common sense would suggest the same.

France is a great example of using Anti-Trust to benefit French firms and oppose non-French competition. Arbitrary enforcement is a key tool for them, the rules are vague enough that many could be found behaving anti-competitively but few are fined.

Anti-Trust is not what stands between capitalism and what Marx falsely believed about the 'inherent centralization of capital' but the waste majority of the time its a political power tool yielded by bureaucrats and politicians to protect their friends.
It's a campaign called "zero out", since Chinese officials only report to their superiors, you can imagine this urge to report zero or at little as possible to ensure their bright political career, this also explains basically any thing in China.

There are anecdotes about communitiy cases listed on community notices but not reported in official data.
Look at NY Governor Cuomo's response to this issue. He's not always delivering good news, but he is delivering facts, being consistent about policies and when policies are changing, reporting on a regular cadence and behaving like a rational leader.

Comparing the Federal response, you have a lack of coordinated response, inaccurate information from the POTUS, contradictory responses from Federal agencies, a focus on self-praise and prayer, etc. Last night (3/15), the government had a stockpile of venilators. This morning (3/16), reports are that the POTUS told states to find their own. Having a politician like the Vice President that knows how to speak effectively be the sole speaker would be better, even with the incompetent response.

People and markets want to hear measured responses. After the shock of 9/11 wore off, people took solace and unified around the government's response at the Federal, State, Local level. In this, we're leaving Governors, mayors and companies to fend for themselves.
> That is, if Washington State schools are still open.

All public schools in Washington State are closed, FWIW.
Can we talk about why there are so many scrollbars on this page?
The importance of staying invested in volatile times
I don't give any credence to the idea that Microsoft under Satya Nadella is the same company as Microsoft under Gates or Ballmer, much less the idea that it is secretly lying in wait to go back to its old, far-less-profitable ways. It has behaved differently. It is making its money differently. It no longer stack-rank fires people. And it is making a whole lot more money doing things this way than it made the way it used to behave.
What about polarizing the light, and applying a polarization filter with an axis 90° to that to windscreens and rear windows?
I took a job in the same space as my startup. My startup was bootstrapped, so having built a product and learned the market was interesting experience to my new employer. The work in the job seems much easier once you've been grinding for the same problem on your own. I've continued to deepen my network.

You can still solve the problem you were trying to solve with the startup, although you'll be doing it at a company. Maybe approaching it from a different angle will shed new value on your ideas and creativity, and you won't feel as depleted.
We bought my aging mother-in-law an iRobot mopping robot a couple years ago. It still works great and has freed up 30min to an hour of time per day she spent cleaning up the floor (they're Korean and spend a great deal of time doing activities on the floor so floor cleanliness is very important).

More importantly, her legs and back aren't doing so well these days and it's eliminated a painful and difficult daily task for her. She loves it almost as much as a pet. Just set it up and forget it for the next hour and the floor is mopped! The biggest problem it has is getting hung-up on her grandkids toys.
I'm not even an amateur when it comes to this stuff, much less an expert. But superficially, to my non-expert ears, this sounds like it could be a Really Big Deal™. Can anyone more knowledgeable chime in?