skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
some quick ideas

- telegram group (you can pin messages and some other features that whatsapp doesn't have)

- mumble server with push-to-talk

- trello board

- etherpad / google docs

- possibly syncthing (if you're dealing with files and don't change them too much, be careful with conflicts)
It was not about the article that he linked but his point of view. What i seen in his point of view is a story that US media try to sell: Europe will fine america because europe is no longer competitive.
In fact, Boeing won recently a case against Airbus at WTO because europe financed indirectly Airbus by favoring unfairly Airbus contract.
I predict that in a few year, Airbus will win recently a case against Boieng for the same reason.
It sounds like JAX is necessarily storing your whole calculation in memory, so it will necessarily use more memory for automatic differentiation of heavily iterative calculations, while other implementations of backward-mode automatic differentiation can instead restart your calculation from checkpoints to avoid storing the whole thing. This could be an advantage of several orders of magnitude for some calculations: using twice the CPU or GPU time in exchange for one thousandth or one ten-thousandth of the memory.
In poland, if someone has lights set too high or too bright, many drivers will blink with high beams. It's annoying enough that people with bright lights have set them to appropriate level in short order.
Not sure why this is being downvoted. It’s a fact - it’s objectively harder to read.

This criticism is valid and although the clock is super cool, it’s bad design. Does that mean we shouldn’t do projects like this? No. Is it important to highlight the problems with design like this? Yes.
The Github repo was helpful:

- Phase 1: Extensible frontend platform (now) - You will be able to easily create a single consistent UI layer for your internal infrastructure and tools. A set of reusable UX patterns and components help ensure a consistent experience between tools.

- Phase 2: Manage your stuff (next 2-3 months) - Manage anything from microservices to software components to infrastructure and your service catalog. Regardless of whether you want to create a new library, view service deployment status in Kubernetes, or check the test coverage for a website -- Backstage will provide all of those tools - and many more - in a single developer portal.

- Phase 3: Ecosystem (later) - Everyone's infrastructure stack is different. By fostering a vibrant community of contributors we hope to provide an ecosystem of Open Source plugins/integrations that allows you to pick the tools that match your stack.

It looks like an onboarding tool, monitoring, and knowledge database.
It helps to understand the relative sizes of the particles masks are expected to filter from the air.

A coronavirus is about 0.1 µm while surgical masks start to become effective at around 200 µm and up.

So a coronavirus is about 2000 times smaller than what a surgical mask can filter.

I imagine a chain link fence which is pretty effective at stopping basketballs.

A pollen spore is about 2000 times smaller than a basketball.

Chain link fences are useless in stopping pollen spores, just like surgical masks are useless in filtering coronaviruses.

The only benefit to a surgical mask is to prevent the infected person from spraying large drops of saliva and mucus onto surfaces, there is zero benefit for the uninfected.

If you're uninfected, you don't need a mask unless you're caring for sick patients. And even then a surgical mask is pretty useless, you'd need a quality N95 or N100 mask and eye protection.
Stallman warned all of us. No one wanted to listen.
> you can root it. And even get spotify running on it

Some might ask why you'd want Spotify on your vacuum? I would have it play Dolly Parton's "(Working) 9 to 5" on loop whenever it's running. I feel like that would be hilarious forever. Other suggestions welcome.
You say that until the vaccine is given to everybody and turns out to cause lung failure a year latter in 10% of the people who go it - thus killing 30 million people in this country alone.

(adverse reaction above completely made up)
Exactly. People have no idea how vast and strong the measures were. China locked down hard, Europe is going middle of the road with some lockdowns but nothing is really strongly enforced so far.
While plating could save money. Plating wears through in high use areas. I suppose you could plate hardware as thick as you can and give it a rated life span. Same with silver which also has microbial properties which is better of two I don't know.
Practical from a cultural standpoint or in terms of quantity? IIRC, people are required to wear masks when entering businesses in China now.
> Thanks to Lord Bezos ... Dammit, Amazon, it's so hard to quit you

I'm confused how Amazon is relevant here. This product is available from many online retailers under $200.

If you want to quit Amazon... then maybe try even a little?
Just like working on large technical projects, there is much more to success than just technical merits. Software engineering is mostly a social endeavor, and so social factors count—I’d argue they count more than technical ones in a lot of cases. Things like:

* whether the technology fits the background of your team/org/company

* the community/official support of the technology

* the long-term trajectory of the technology

* how the technology fares when used with groups of engineers, instead of individually

* social proof

* how easy it is for the existing job pool to learn the new technology

* if the technology has strong documentation

And there are more. These are more critical to me than eg goroutines. (And Go is my go-to language these days.)
while clearly, effective instructions per cycle depend on the workload. That said, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_per_second mentions AMD Ryzen 7 1800X reaching "304,510 MIPS at 3.6 GHz", which would give you a budget of 152 instructions in order to achieve 2 billions of operations per second (I assumed you took the plural to mean "integer plural", i.e. at least 2 billions :-) )

Now, I agree that it's a bit of a stretch to assume DOM operations won't hit some memory fetch bottleneck or something else, but parent's estimate is not miles off.
Exactly! Thanks ;)
This is correct. "All rights reserved" was a way of claiming copyright, similar to the © symbol. Open source non-public domain code still has a copyright, it is just licensed for use under an open source license.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_rights_reserved
Which organizations are monitoring how many China is truly testing? These numbers are more plausible if they just reduced testing.
That abbreviation caused me to pause.
Actually enforce already existing laws
Seems like a competitor for Datadog and other monitoring tools to me.
That's rather difficult if you're blinded by the headlights.
Things can be plated in copper or even silver. However plating in high use can be worn away via friction.
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If you're feeling out of breath you absolutely need to get help. This is a serious symptom and if left untreated it can be deadly.
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I know these projects exist, but it doesn't look like they're getting as much traction as the mobile version, unfortunately.

I think the core React-Native team offering an "official" solution would go a long way here, and it's kind of sad that they didn't.
Unless your point is that the pricing is actually varied in France, this antitrust decision reads like selective enforcement of market regulations -- protectionism.
I probably wouldn't take a vaccine that was validated just by several months of observation on test subjects, especially if it's a novel[1] mRNA vaccine. Maybe a year later, after release, when the potential for harm is better known.

Other people may have a different risk/reward calculation.

[1] https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/7/2/37/htm
American has no doubt far surpassed Italy and China at this point. Just on deaths alone, which is a 2 week lagging indicator, the count as of 2 weeks ago was several tens of thousands of cases. Since then America allowed it to grow on exponential trend.

Even now most US states are not on lock down. Despite nearly all major US states being far past the situation Wuhan was when its lock down started.
The UI is not developed with a phone in mind, assuming you are talking about the Sparser application. I just attempted this in my IPhone for the first time. Here are the numbers according to the tool (the numbers output to the title box in the top left corner of the screen):

* 108ms raw execution time

* 857ms total browser visual render time

I used this code: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/prettydiff/prettydiff/mast... which generated a table of 23010 records.

The execution performance was better than I expected for a phone and I am not seeing any delay in user interaction. What were your numbers?
Install a light bar and flip it on when you encounter these people.
My question is, why all the numbers look so different in Italy and South Korea? The countries are roughly the same size. They both have modern, socialized medical systems AFAIK. But the stats are completely different. We're not talking about percentages. We're talking about order of magnitude difference in everything, including relative stats.

Is this difference due to some property of population (e.g. average age, smoking rates) or the response?
He had a very, very valid point until he devolved into referencing Japanese-American internment and Nazi Germany.
I was not aware of that -- I thought that all vaccines used some live/dead/weakened/attenuated viral load.
China's numbers continued to rise for some time after the lockdowns. If Italy's works, it won't necessarily be apparent yet.

China was more aggressive about their locking down, so expect Italy's numbers to peak higher than theirs did.
I admit I was probably influenced by thinking of Anathem
Your post is sitting at negative points as of when I’m writing this comment. My understanding is the same of yours. If someone here has expertise in this field, please enlighten us and explain what’s wrong with this conclusion instead of just downvoting. Thanks!
Most of the UB people complain about is related to aggressive, compile time optimizations. This may or may not be trivial. Often it isn't, since decades old "working" code can be broken by new compilers. You can argue that the code was always broken, of course.
So what would you suggest then for the non-Mac desktops? Are there React Native based solutions for Windows and Linux?
I appreciate you having clarified my comment with your emphasis! It was definitely needed.
Please get tested, if you are developing pneumonia you could need hospitalization asap. Call your doctor or the emergency number now.

CDC suggests to seek medical attention as soon as you have difficulty breathing. [ https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/if-you-are-sick/st... ]
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Surprising number of new cars specially lower priced SUVs (Kia, Hyundai) tend to have blinding headlights straight out of the factory. I see this as more of a problem with OEMs than with one-off cars on the road with aftermarket LEDs. The tech used to self-adjust the headlight brightness in new cars is probably to blame. Headlights in those cars tend to not be so good as detecting other cars on the road to adjust their brightness accordingly.
>What I find strange is all of the people who don't like working from home trying to talk everyone out of it

Yeah, that makes no sense. I don't like working from home, but I want as many people as possible to work from home. That makes my commute so much better!
Yeah, my bad. I missed the point of the example (ie that the size argument might be too small). I assumed the point was memset writing to padding bytes.

It is indeed true that y might not get zeroed in principle (though I doubt that'll happen in practice for this particular example as padding gets introduced to maintain alignment, and alignment factors a type's size, which is 1 in case of char).

A better example would be

struct boxed_value {
uint16_t flags;
double value;
};

struct boxed_value v;
memset(&v, 0, sizeof (uint16_t) + sizeof (double));

That's of course a braindead way to write it instead of the more convenient

memset(&v, 0, sizeof v);

That said, neither case will invoke undefined behaviour.
Fossil [0] makes this situation a bit better since you can always clone the entire repository. It wouldn't help with authoritative URLs to resources if the host went away, though -- that kind of infrastructure would still need to be planned.

I offer free Fossil hosting [1].

[0] https://fossil-scm.org/
[1] http://chiselapp.com/
Even non aftermarket headlights are blinding for other drivers now. It's probably a non issue in the cities, but on single lane roads in the rural areas, you can't see a thing.
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as a user of it, I beg to differ.
There is a valid reason to stop Sars-1: the researchers working on that could go on other other things. On hindsight we know differently, but there was no reason to expect this even 6 months ago.

Up until late January I was saying I want a vaccine for the common cold which was more impact on my life and something these researchers could switch to. (I'd like a better treatment to prevent heart attacks even more, but it is unlikely the researchers could switch)
Yes, at least officially for Windows. The official fork:
https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-windows
Each approach is equally capable of resulting in an error state if unexpected input is supplied, for example pass an array into the document.getElementById. The largest important difference is that the input to the querySelector must be parsed as a coded instruction, a selector, while the input to getElementById is a string literal that does not get parsed.
Windows 10 x64 minimum RAM specs is 2GB. Another half GB for whatever stuff you're running makes sense.
If I had software used by thousands I would ask them to contact github via twitter or any employees.

Then I would self host.

If still angry then I would create a liceasd that doesn't allow Microsoft/github/etc to use your product in anyway. Share to lib users with self hosted link.
In the US corporations buy, sell and trade lawmakers like kids once traded baseball cards.
..and they were trapped on that ship for days. Amesh Adalja (infectious disease MD at John Hopkins) has been in a few interviews where he commented, SARS-Cov2 is similar to other viruses where the initial dosage does impact the severity of the infection.
I'm French, right now they're going to quarantine the whole country because young people are starting to get it and suffer grave consequences including death. Search for "cytokin storm" if you want to understand why a supposedly good immune system is not a warranty against it.

Don't think it's nothing, get checked now.

In the best case you're looking at being weak for 4 to 6 months.

After thinking about it this week-end I decided to self quarantine at home even though I don't have any symptoms. I sent an email to my boss this morning to tell him that I was taking at least 2 weeks vacation time. He didn't even bother to answer.

Merde ! (we don't say good luck in France ;-)
You can already use React Native to deploy to macOS, via Catalyst. I'm doing it now.
Not trying to undermine your post here, but can you please at least provide some sources and whether you are an expert in the field?
I'm not sure that's enough. Newer SUV cars have headlights which are stronger and bluer already coming out of the assembly line.

When I have a SUV behind my regular utilitarian, I'm fully blinded. The higher headlights reflect directly both into the rear and side mirrors.

The strength is also overshadowing my own headlights (I see the shadow of my car in front of me).

When a new car is going in the opposite direction, I'm never fully sure if the driver just forgot the high-headlights or not.
No thank you. Any society that has automated systems putting people's names on the cops "find and bother" this over petty civil infractions is not a society I want to live in.

Bright headlights are a problem that's so far below all sorts of misdemeanors with victims that routinely go un-investigated that I don't understand how someone can suggest with a straight face that they deserve that level of law enforcement resources. If you don't want to see a particular product exist then go after the sources.

Edit: I guess you probably meant "manually report" rather than "build a system that automatically reports" which is far more reasonable. For anyone who thinks we should be automating this sort of thing the above response stands though.
C-level pay would go through the roof if they also had to deal with potential jail time.
China has a far more aggressive containment approach.

I don't want to go too far into it, because China is a sensitive topic on HN. But here's a little snippet of how they handle people who violate self-isolation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKek0Y30Ctw

Not saying it's right or it's wrong. This is a serious threat. I know that even in the West right now, particularly in Italy, a lot of people would applaud this. Scofflaws can really hamper a society's recovery. Just trying to give people some context so they can better evaluate the difference in response protocols between East and West for themselves.
Baldwin brass does not tarnish. I don't know if has any antimicrobial properties though.

Plain copper or brass if you don't want spend a lot time buffing or polishing can actually be easily cleaned with sodium cyanide. Although I am sure there are other cleaners that would be easier to properly dispose of. Although, I know in factories they use it clean brass and copper quickly. Apparently vinegar can work well too never tried it though.
Unfortunately, the response here in America seems to often be, "Fuck you, buddy. Look at my actual brights"
If both patients have COVID19 then is cross-contamination the main concern? Seems the priority then is preventing them from dying due to incapacitated lungs.
Separate interface from implementation. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_(computing)#Software...
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Just one more ring (2020s, 2030s...2110s) to drive home the vulnerable sense of mortality
That will last a week at best
248k out of 50M is still a very impressive sample size; especially compared to most scientific papers coming out these days.
its not a monitoring platform (though we have our own in-house opensource tool for that), its a portal for developers and engineers to mange...everything. create new components, manage capacity and deployments, see your CI builds, find documentation, etc etc etc. ties all the separate systems and tools together into a single site.
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Covid-19: How can this community support?
Without doubt, there are many smart people with different background on this platform.

I am wondering:

Is it possible that this smart and large community can somehow contribute to fight against COVID-19?

Random thoughts:
- is it possible to "design" a DIY face mask? To protected people who couldn't buy a mask?
- has anyone contact to a company which could produce medical equipment?

What do you think?
The entire article could be “have police fine people”. I don’t know why governments don’t go after people that keep their high beams on or LED bars for more government revenue.
I can read the whole article and am not signed in. It also shows up in incognito mode. That popup is usually asking you to create an account, but you should be able to just close it and continue. I see the whole article for sure behind no paywall and am not logged in.
We don't know why he was banned, and it's a real problem that you can't get an explanation out of a company in situations like this, but there's a hint:

> “If you accessed GitHub.com while you were visiting Iran, North Korea, Syria, or Crimea, please tell us why you used GitHub.com.”

He may have tripped over the US government sanctions.

I also feel that it's poor taste for a Russian living in an authoritarian state to liken github to the gulag.
I agree, he said himself he's only 5 days in too
Would it be better if instead of relying on centralized servers, we used p2p solutions like Jitsi, which is based on WebRTC? Some universities and companies could even set up TURN servers for public use
The other four coronavirus' that form part of what we call the common cold all mutate readily and come back and reinfect us year after year. This one could be different but there is plenty of good historical reason to believe it will be like the others.
There have been healthy people your age and younger who have died from this disease. Even survivors can suffer extensive lung damage.

Please talk to your doctor as soon as possible.
We just added "Space Force" so ya, why not add "Health Force" while we're at it. Health Force could have a number of tasks during non-Pandemic times too. We might even be able to pay for Health Force, at least in part, out of some foreign aid budgets if we send Health Force as part of that aid.
Wow, where are you at that it is 790 a week? Here in Texas it is about $500 a week.
As others have said, please go to a hospital. You are 34, so will probably recover fine without medical help, but there have been many cases in their 30s that have taken a sharp downturn for the worse and needed oxygen support, etc. For example, see case history of the U.S. first detected case, a 35 year old man in Washington: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2001191
- matrix-synapse as the server

- coturn to help webrtc audio & video get through

- riot.im as a client (includes jitsi)

It's not rocket science. All the server side stuff is in Debian main. Clients available for every major platform. The riot desktop client even has a properly maintained apt repository...
Is Italian population deficient in vitamin D compared to those other countries you mentioned?
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Looks like a developer portal similar to the AWS[1] and Azure[2] open source offerings where a non-developer can execute API calls in the web browser.

[1] https://github.com/awslabs/aws-api-gateway-developer-portal

[2] https://github.com/Azure/api-management-developer-portal
>It’d be nice to be able to say ‘this function should timeout within 10 ms’ and then any function called will just automatically timeout.

Stackless Python has this ability - it can even resume suspended functions:
https://stackless.readthedocs.io/en/latest/library/stackless...

Additionally, suspended tasklets can be serialized, then saved to a file or sent over the network and resumed elsewhere!
Something like the PSVR or original Vive would work, but the Valve Index requires much more pixel pushing power
Blinding other drivers creating a hazardous situation is petty?
But do we want healthcare workers, police and members of the fire service to be the ones taking the experimental vaccine? Short of students going to parties and getting drunk, most of the people at high risk of getting the virus are high risk because their occupations are essential. Probably not the population we want to test vaccines on right now.
So .. one user gets banned for unclear reasons, Github doesn't reply within a week and somehow Github is now the equivalent of the German Nazi party?

I understand: it's frustrating and maybe undeserved that a service has banned you. But comparisons to the Second World War, concentration camps and the treatment of Jews by Nazi Germany are really, really not appropriate. Take a breath.
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This is a major problem for me.

Driving a small car at night is so difficult for me these days, especially as a person who wears glasses. Huge lifted vehicles essentially reduce my vision >50% without even using their high beams lights.