skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of my favorites:

https://wiki.c2.com/?ClosuresAndObjectsAreEquivalent

The venerable master Qc Na was walking with his student, Anton. Hoping to prompt the master into a discussion, Anton said "Master, I have heard that objects are a very good thing - is this true?" Qc Na looked pityingly at his student and replied, "Foolish pupil - objects are merely a poor man's closures."

Chastised, Anton took his leave from his master and returned to his cell, intent on studying closures. He carefully read the entire "Lambda: The Ultimate..." series of papers and its cousins, and implemented a small Scheme interpreter with a closure-based object system. He learned much, and looked forward to informing his master of his progress.

On his next walk with Qc Na, Anton attempted to impress his master by saying "Master, I have diligently studied the matter, and now understand that objects are truly a poor man's closures." Qc Na responded by hitting Anton with his stick, saying "When will you learn? Closures are a poor man's object." At that moment, Anton became enlightened.
Contempt is not society’s punishment for anything. It’s a tool the judge can use to extract your cooperation with a specific demand. Not as revenge.
My experience with Go have been very positive. Once you get over the initial irritation of the error handling, I think it works perfectly fine. I have never been so productive as I can be when programming in Go. I’m sure there are technically better alternatives, but it has a very good balance between features, speed, standard library and multi platform support.
At least for the backend server tasks I use it for.
My biggest complaint has more to do with the new module system and tooling. The (not so) new Go Language Server is still very buggy and almost unusable in my opinion.
Yeah, how does that work? Are kindergartners capable of understanding what 'online' means? Do they have school-issued chromebooks yet, or does that wait until elementary school? Maybe the teachers just email activities to the parents?
It's far too early to draw any conclusions, but the HK Hospital Authority has suggested that they are seeing reduced lung function in some "recovered" patients.

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/artic...
And guess who’s been producing them lately ... Hollywood. Makes me wonder who’s got some dirty videos that are gonna come out soon.
CrossOrigin & VPC changes look good. I spent so bloody long configuring a VPC network to access external API's and an RDS database. With bugs along the way like the VPC network reconfiguring with default settings on every push.

One click VPC would have helped a lot.
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But not by enough. This epidemic has a growth rate (R) of at least 2. The article claims "One degree Celsius increase in temperature and one percent increase in relative humidity lower R by 0.0383 and 0.0224, respectively."
The March to July difference for New York City is only 19C. San Francisco, 9C. For both cities, humidity is relatively uniform year round.

Even assuming this result is meaningful, it still leaves an R way above 1.
Well I don't think the ones in nursing homes or "in need" are really likely to be recruited to watch the kids during the school days, will they?

You can be a grandparent of young kids very easily in your late 50s.
Visually the face looks real. There must be some code that can prove evidence of alerting?
For kindergarten, sure. But juniors and seniors? They don’t need excitement, they need stability.
Here is a 2h podcast with Ulmann explaining analog computers in great detail:

https://omegataupodcast.net/159-analog-computers/

The museum is located in his private home. He will personally show and explain the computers to anyone asking and making an appointment.
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I would say that you are conflating two things: war done to destroy the enemy, and then taking political power of another nation by force, and ensuring safety and continuance of government. Soldiers do the first job, and police do the second. In the Global War on Terror, the line has gotten blurry, (even Vietnam was called a "police action") but even the lowest intensity conflict has life and death sacrifices for the mission and the imposition of political will over a populace through threat of violence that are completely unknown in a modern tech business. You could make the argument that lawsuits would be the equivalent to direct action, and I might agree with that, except there is no violence and it's done entirely within a set of rules (the legal system).

I would agree that businesses and militaries do share similarities, and solve for the same problems. For instance, employee surveys came out of troop morale studies in WWI, and there is a lot of cross contamination of ideas, like the book, "Team of Teams".

Finally, there are cases where businesses actual do go to war, think Blackwater, circa 2006, where the services provided directly support one side in an armed conflict. To me, that's what a business going to war looks like!
They have not said they are primary vectors. That is not really known at this time.
Well except Uber/Lyft were great examples of why taxi cabs absolutely shouldn’t have had any protection.
Yup, I'm in Kirkland where it hit first in US. My sister in Cincinnati was asking for advice on what things to stock up on. I said "nannies".

Fact is, everything is slowing down because everyone is in the same boat. It seems like an unsurmountable problem at first, but after a few days of everyone recognizing it's for the long haul, you quit worrying about it.

That said I believe this is just the tip of the iceberg and we'll look back and wonder how we worried about such petty things.

This is going to hit small businesses hard because they can't just stop hibernate for a while and survive. IDK what they'll do. I have a feeling this recognition will hit and we'll realize how deep the economic dire straits we really are in the next few days. And that's before we even start talking about the medical part.
I actually found her to be somewhat CGI-looking. Her face is almost a bit too smooth, and it looks like its using an emissive material to do a poor man's subsurface scattering.

The Dafoe fake looks much more 'correct' but that may be because the skin texture there can hide the smoothness.

Part of me is somewhat grateful deepfakes are only now a thing, and not when video was sub-HD. If this was shown to me in VHS quality, I would be completely convinced that Gillian Anderson and Willem Dafoe were the main performers.
wow. the people like this are what scare me.
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alright, you are just stupid.
At the time I predicted it would all work out okay... just because every day millions of computer systems broke because of unknown bugs and we were okay. This bug we knew about 40 years in advance. My company actually ended up having two pretty major y2k bugs we hadn’t fixed. Come January 2nd we fixed them like we had to fix dozens of other bugs every day.
> She might even refuse to eat or take some other drastic action. Instead, we see court pleadings, which all but imply that she respects the legitimacy of the court, just not its decision toward her.

No, she attempted suicide, more than once. Drastic action was taken along with the legal team attempting to do their jobs.
SARS hasn't been seen in 15 years. Exactly whom did you expect would spend the time and money to develop a vaccine for it?
Their competitor is a number of agencies that you've probably never heard of, and personal networks of experts and generalists.

I think their numbers are a bit crazy and I don't think they effectively solve the hiring problem. Which is noise reduction and directed messaging. LinkedIn does a better job and they're not great. It's a hard space to operate in, it's a cost center for businesses, and the value add is somewhat intangible.

I also think it's great for people that don't know the cost of a decent developer in today's market. Even outside the US, day rates for qualified freelancers are typically > $500.
I wish I could share your optimism, but after watching the congressional testimony I think we're pretty fucked. I think we should just shut down the CDC and FDA (when this is over), and start from scratch with an agency focused on addressing epidemics and pandemics, as well as quick drug approvals.

The incompetence is pretty obvious and staggering, and as per Fauci's testimony, the CDC is not designed for the crisis we are now experiencing. That is, to unpack this, the Center for Disease Control is not designed for disease control. He's clearly a formidable scientist, but it's also clear that mismanagement at the agencies is pretty rampant.

They were asked point blank several times why we still can't test even the frontline medical staff, and they did not have an answer. This is 100% thoroughly fucked up beyond repair.
> but fuck me if he didn't do things as bad as Bush or worse.

If you actually believe this, you grossly lack a sense of scale. Multiplying Obama's actions by 100 doesn't come close to starting the Iraq war.
If approved for treatment, I hope this is fairly priced, given that the CDC predicts 40M infections in the US.

Just to be clear, pricing ultimately comes down to insurance companies, middlemen taking a cut, and a government mandate that can pressure the ecosystem into acting in the public interest in times of a pandemic. So please make a reasonable profit to continue developing treatments, but DON'T get greedy, especially applies to insurance companies and middlemen whose entire role is financial engineering adding next to nothing in value
Several bay area school districts announced closures today too: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/school-districts-around-th...

I live in southern California, and today the 4 school districts near us announced 2-5 day closures for next week, with status updates coming afterwards.
Really hoping this helps in India which so far has had really low reported cases.
"Cash is more valuable than holding the asset, no matter how safe that asset is."

Definitely not in most cases, if this were the case, nobody would invest in anything :)

Cash is a currency, and it's not a regular financial asset, so, if you need that, then cash can be good for you.
Brazilian Official Who Met Trump Last Weekend Tests Positive for Coronavirus
To be pedantic, COVID-19 is the disease, SARS-CoV-2 is the virus. It's like HIV vs AIDS.
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Waiting for updates on We Work’s situation. With a potential downturn looming and social distancing (wfh) from coronavirus it can’t be good.
> The bulge on the Earth induced by the Moon accelerates the Moon

More precisely, it exerts a torque on the Moon, which is equal and opposite to the torque exerted by the Moon on the bulge. So does the bulge on the Earth induced by the Sun.

> the bulge on the Earth induced by the Sun accelerates the Sun.

This statement is correct in principle (or more precisely, the statement that the bulge on the Earth induced by the Sun exerts a torque on the Sun), and you are right that I left it out of my previous post.

Also, as I noted above, the bulge on the Earth induced by the Sun also exerts a torque on the Moon. And, for that matter, the bulge on the Earth induced by the Moon also exerts a torque on the Sun. I believe the net torque on the Sun is about 20% of the net torque on the Moon.

However, that does not mean the effect on the Earth's orbit is 20% of the effect on the Moon's orbit. The relative magnitudes of the effects depend on how large the torque is compared to the relevant orbital angular momentum. Since we are working in an Earth-centered frame, that means we need to compare the Moon's orbital angular momentum around the Earth with the Sun's orbital angular momentum around the Earth. If you do the math, you find that the latter is about 300 billion times larger than the former. Multiply that by another factor of 5 (for the 20% ratio of torques) and the effect on the Earth's year is about 1.5 trillion times smaller than the effect on the Moon's month.
the catch is, if we're really hiding, we must have got thousands of deaths by now. Just see how quickly it spread in Korea, Italy and Iran. Hiding (thus no action can be done) for 1.5 months is a sure way to suicide, given the amount of traffic in/out of Vietnam and the population density.

Or you can see that in the past week alone we got 27 cases, starting from 2 planes. And the number is low because we vigorously chased people down to test them all and quarantine them. Had we let them go loose those 2 cases alone could spread to hundreds.
Could someone just make a deep fake technique that auto matches dubbing to the lip sync and make some $$$ and pushes foreign TV to everyone to help work towards world peace and create a real peak TV.

It might not be possible but I'd like to see attempts.
If you reduce the transmission of the virus, do you not reduce the transmission of the disease?
The ME in MERS stands for Middle East, since outbreaks of it are always from camels. Such places are some of the hottest on the planet. MERS is another form of coronavirus.

It is foolhardy to think spring and summer weather will save us.
I think you're trying to put a positive spin on what is clearly an appalling situation, but I think it's important to remember that at the heart of this people are going to die. People are going to lose parents and grandparents. The UK prime minister literally said that in a statement yesterday ("many more are going to lose loved ones before their time", https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-51862282/coronavirus-pm-say...). Talking about how you believe it'll be good for the economy within 6 months is both a bit heartless and possibly very wrong.
Not a programmer, but an Ops guy 6 months into my career.

All I know is, I plan to retire by age ~57 (before the 2038 bug hits :) )
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See my response in that other subthread.
Looking at figure 4 in the paper gives me some comfort since the majority of the population centers in the northern hemisphere could approach a R of 1 in July.
Technically I was saying I, as a parent, am excited to see it.

I don't know that older kids really need stability so much. I mean, maybe overall, but I don't see why this is a big deal for them. (for the parents, trying to juggle work and this? sure)

Kids adapt to stuff like this fine. If they really need stability so much, maybe we should get rid of vacations...?
No, the far more likely explanation is that the total number of cases reported for Italy don't reflect reality.

Because they are overwhelmed Italian hospitals basically send people home if they have a fever or other symptoms with no test administered, instructed to come back in case the symptoms worsen, only people having trouble breathing being admitted in the ICU.

Italy could easily have in reality 10 times the number of reported total cases or more.
It's a related but different virus. Also, the environment in the Middle East tends to be arid.
No I’m just a business owner who hasn’t paid himself a salary in over a year despite paying the salaries of many others. But yes let’s just keep throwing out those stereotypes. I am deeply concerned both for myself, my family, my church (which has so many 80+ year olds it might cease to exist in 90 days), my colleagues who my ability to pay is rapidly dwindling, etc.
I mean, that's why it's pedantic.

Technically you can't "transmit" the disease. The disease consists of the effects on the body.

Also, you can transmit the virus without having the disease, which is what makes it dangerous since you have no idea. It's like you can transmit HIV without having AIDS for years:

>Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is defined in terms of either a CD4+ T cell count below 200 cells per µL or the occurrence of specific diseases in association with an HIV infection

That doesn't happen for a long time (or today, for a lot of people, never).
>Rust is crying out for a way to treat structs generically (i.e. what frunk does with LabelledGeneric), but that only needs to be implemented once. There's no reason serde and diesel couldn't be built on top of frunk [...]

What frunk does at runtime (well, its proc macros are still compile-time, but the code that makes use of the metadata is runtime), syn does at compile-time. I can understand that it's nice to have a simpler model where everything happens at runtime, but the things that proc macros can do include things that matter to the typesystem. For example, some of the macros I've written generate new types based on the input tts. You can't do that at runtime.

>And that's only going to get worse as more advanced tooling (IDEs, profilers etc.) becomes available and people rely more heavily on those tools to be deeply integrated with the language, because those tools are never going to be able to understand ad-hoc macros.

The mainstream tools (rls and rust-analyzer) get their information from the compiler, and thus have access to the expansion of the macro rather than just the macro invocation.
But it doesn't say that "Congress shall promote the progress..." it says "Congress shall have the power to promote the progress..."

If the framers wanted to require that Congress do this stuff, why insert "have the power to" unnecessarily? There's no need for that phrase.

As another point against this being an obligation, if you look at the list of enumerated powers[0], you'll see some that are clearly not obligations. Congress doesn't have to borrow money. They don't have to maintain a navy. They didn't have to establish post offices. They didn't have to create a federal court system. (Granted, it makes a lot of sense for them to do many of these things, but it feels wrong to think that they're required to.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_One_of_the_United_Stat...
It seems like you want me to jump to a conclusion, but all I see is a researcher that studied a virus that has potential to jump to human hosts, and that has a natural reservoir in the area that the do their research.
Last week I witnessed a Yellow Vented Bulbul scolding a Female Asian Koel in a nearby tree and wondered what the relationship was, after looking into it it appears that the Koel is a "Brood Parasite" that lays it's eggs in the nests of other birds. The fascinating thing about the Koel in Singapore is that it usually lays it's eggs in the nests of crows, however as crows are considered pests here (and therefore their nests are destroyed on sight), it has adapted to laying in the nests of much smaller (non-pest) birds. It's interesting to see that the host parents still feed these much larger adopted children - as is photographed in the article.

A more in depth study is available here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/23034196?seq=1
WebAssemby Micro Runtime posted their performance data
WebAssemby Micro Runtime provided some interesting data for the comparision with aother wasm project wasm3. The wamr supports WASM ahead of time compliation for MCU that is really amazing.

https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasm-micro-runtime/wiki/Performance

workload wamr-aot/wasm3 wasm3/wamr-interpreter wamr interpreters (fast/classic)
matrix 24.3 1.09 1.75
gimli 20.8 1.08 2.06
seqhash 10.2 1.15 1.46
Approximately 10% of cases get bad enough to require hospitalization, and 1% become critically ill and require intubation.

South Korea has more hospital beds per capita than any country in the world other than Japan[1] at 12.27 per 1000 people. They are better equipped to handle the critically ill cases and save them. Italy has a much better health care system than the US, but at last count (2017) they had 3.18 beds per 1000 and I'm guessing their respirators on hand are far fewer than what South Korea has. The US at last count only had 2.77 per 1000.

Also worth noting that these counts are not open beds, so the real available capacity in the US is more likely to be just over one bed per 1000 people, and the number of available ventilators likely are also inferior to Italy and South Korea.

While the US population is younger than Italy[2][3] it has a higher rate of diabetes (nearly double Italy's rate, at 9.4% vs 5.3% for diabetes) and obesity[4][5][6] which can be complicating factors.

So a less healthy population, with an inferior health care system, and other factors being equal, mean that Italy's experience with Coronavirus is likely to be a preview of what can happen here. Best guesses I'm hearing is it's about 10x the regular flu season.

On top of the health care system being overrun with patients affected by the outbreak, this likely means that other emergencies, which could've been treatable, will not be. Heart attacks, strokes, cancer treatments will all be affected.

I think raising fears of engineered pandemics at this time is getting into conspiracy theory territory, feeds xenophobia, and is not helpful. Nature, on its own, is more than inventive enough of an adversary and the human population is a monoculture that has a gigantic attack surface for garden-variety wild viruses.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_OECD_countries_by_hosp...

[2] https://www.populationpyramid.net/italy/2020/

[3] https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-states-of-america/2...

[4] https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2017/p0718-diabetes-repor...

[5] https://www.istat.it/en/archivio/202712

[6] https://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/Obesity-Update-2017....
A short term rental isn't a rental property. It's effectively a hotel.
Notes from UCSF expert panel on Covid-19
In many/most cases, if it was suggesting walking for 45 minutes

It who? A forty-five minute walk in San Francisco will take you nearly halfway across town (assuming you can walk a 15 minute mile). My break even time was closer to 20 minutes than 45 (if I didn't see a train coming I'd just walk 20 minutes to the subway).

Muni has pretty high coverage standards that allow you to get pretty much within 1/8 mile of anywhere in the city during most hours of the day. The cost is that the density of stops makes it difficult to speed up service.
The pupils are often not centered or circular for hannibal. Was actually a bit creepier at first because of it.
Ok, well lots of people talk about its impact specifically on the economy, so I'm not sure how it is heartless, but ok. Can I only talk about the negatives? That feels dishonest, I'd think the HN audience can handle both sides of that particular part of the picture.

And late comedians are making jokes about the whole situation right now. Not about the deaths, but about other aspects of it.
For a consumer, AirBNB is at least a interesting alternative.

Consider the flipside. What would be a good home for a family of five, is now taken off the market.
I'm pretty sure Silence of the Lambs influenced the design and casting of the Dana Scully character. In both Silence of the Lambs and the X-Files pilot episode, you have young women with shoulder-length red hair starting their new job at the FBI investigating the death of women, including the examination of corpses (Dana Scully specializes in forensic pathology while the examination of corpses is more incidental to Clarice Starling's work, but is a very memorable scene in the movie.)
Worked in a project to migrate a huge and critical .gov database from an AS400 nobody understood anymore to Microsoft SQL Server. We had to guess some of the values in some bitwise fields through trial and error. Made it with a few weeks to spare - nobody noticed.