skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rather an economic crisis than losing some of your loved ones a decade or two before their time. Get the authorities in place to be the safety net and take the measures required. Preventing a major GDP bump downwards is not worth millions of lives.
I feel like this is what Sweden is doing without saying it. They have stopped testing anyone except the elderly, severely ill, or healthcare professionals. It kind of seems like they'll just expect most of us to get it with only mild symptoms since it's out there now anyway, and confirming a mild case isn't really going to change treatment. At the same time they are stopping gatherings of over 500 people and telling people to stay home when sick. Many people are now working from home, but schools are still open. But without testing people and proper statistics how do we know when it's safe to resume gathering, or go back to the office?
(@Mr Robber: I don’t know who flagged you, but I LOLed. It was cheeky but fair comment: if only I had a language to express myself with less than a thousand words.:)
There’s a difference between development and usability - the “janky” here refers to the end user experience, not yours a developer.
Cost of a 3-credit course f2f ar Stanford is $ 5.000.
But the real cost of an online course ( same course ) , is less than $ 10 . I tell them sell it at $ 100 . But there is a dilemna . How come the same thing is $ 5000 and $ 100 .
Even the one for $ 100 is better . Solve the equation . I say make a consortium of online degree programs . Provide degrees from consortium . Any idea .
Overanxious patients coming into hospital thinking they have some horrendous terminal disease because they googled their symptoms is a well known phenomena.
The standard defines the behaviour, not just the signature. Memset has been treated as a builtin since forever.
Binning at one seems unnecessarily harsh, what if that was a cosmic ray?

But I agree with the overall sentiment. If I'm getting more than one bit flip a week, it's time to look at hardware remedies.
Related previous threads: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
I don't know how much this actually affects your argument, since you seem to be making a more general statement, but for the record: it's extraordinarily rare for vulnerabilities to be caused by compiler optimizations specifically. I've heard of a few instances (BIND denial of service; Linux TUN bug becoming exploitable instead of a denial of service; IIRC something with Native Client), but they're interesting precisely because they're rare. So I'd say that one shouldn't oppose compiler optimizations directly because of the risk of security vulnerabilities, although of course the prevalence of vulnerabilities can still be evidence that C programmers are prone to mistakes in general.
Huh? I just tried this and it worked flawlessly
Also, South Korea was around 1%. It's a number that has grown in credibility, unfortunately. I was hoping 0.1%.
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We don’t even know that a long-term vaccine is possible, much less that this specific one is going to work and not have catastrophic health impact on the trial subjects.
True.

Though to put this particular crisis into perspective: neither water nor electricity nor online deliveries ever failed even in hard hit Wuhan.
admi,nistrators .
Page design is real bad .
Make it attractive .
I wonder if materialize.io could handle such workloads at this stage.
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I'm sure many will point this out. A few east asian countries beg to differ. Namely China, s.korea, taiwan, singapore. Solutions even come in different sizes!
Just give poor people money, if you want to help them. That's more useful to them, and less disruptive to others.
When the money comes from the employer, there is incentive to root out and eliminate significant fraud. When the money comes from the sky/government, there is much less.

We have a nice wooden fence that was (properly) built around/over the roots of a city-owner tree. The city later removed the tree and the fence now looked dumb where it had been trimmed around the roots. A neighbor stopped by and advised me that I should call the city and have them pay to replace that section of fence. Said it shouldn’t be my responsibility to pay for it. I asked her if she thought it was her responsibility to pay for it. “Of course not; that’s ridiculous!” “Well, that’s why I’m not asking the city to pay for it...”
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You don't actually know if your military is 'top notch' unless it engages frequently in combat. One might like to think you're as good as your last war, but it's impossible to really tell without conflict. Everything else is just various feel-good metrics and games.
My housemate and I have the exact same vacuum as OP: a Eufy Robovac 30C.

1) It runs around our flat which I think we could vacuum well in about 15-20 minutes, perhaps similar to yours in size.

2) The vacuum happily bumbles around under our table and chairs and it seems to do a pretty good job. If we want it to clean where the chairlegs are, we just move the chairs against the wall the night before and move them back the following evening when we get back from work.

3) I feel like this is a cheap shot: it doesn't clean bathtubs or toilet bowls either (and like windowsills, it doesn't advertise to clean those, either).

4) No. It may be round, but it has two rotating brushes placed towards the front which get dust and crumbs out of corners, but the brush/vacuum portion itself does not reach right to the edges of the machine, so you're unlikely to get deep cleaning on the edges of carpets.

Overall I'm very impressed with it: it consistently comes back with a lot of dust and crumbs in its bin (we run it Mon, Wed, Fri), replacement parts (e.g. brushes) are cheap from the usual suspects in China, the edge cleaning is more intelligent than discussed by the linked article, and the floor under our sofa (a heavy 3-seater) has never been so consistently dust-free.
He said polished, like VS Code. That's the only Electron application I run so it's my only example, but it's totally possible to make the end result good.
The exchange of one service for the other has a somewhat different legal status & definition at many parts of the world.
However, it's not "free" anywhere. Neither "free" as in "Free beer" or "Free" as in freedom.
You could already do that in MSN Messenger like, 15 or 20 years ago.
Can you link me to an example or two in practice?
Compared to Moderna and BioNTech, CureVac uses an older nucleotide chemistry, an older delivery technology, and a riskier adjuvanting idea. Both Moderna and BioNTech have GMP production capacity and process know-how to get this done in short-order. CureVac is a distant third place overall.
Nice, but I think that only in rather extreme situations it would be worthwhile to write web app in C++.

Can someone knowledgeable enough about wasm tell how difficult is to call libraries written in another language compared to normal nonweb programming (say calling C library from Python)?
> The early strategy to just flag an article as controversial was the best way in my opinion. Because it informs the reader.

It informs the reader that someone thinks the information is controversial.

Well, whoopty-shit. Some people think evolution is a myth. Some people think the existence of trans people is a myth. Some people think the existence of disease-causing bacteria is a myth. Those topics are all, therefore, controversial, in that someone would flag the article for being such simply because it presented the reality-based view on those subjects as being real.

If there's one thing the history of all humanity teaches us, it's that there are people willing to screech idiocy at reality until they fall down dead; they're wrong, they can be shown to be wrong, but they'll never admit they're wrong so trying to compromise with them is futile.

That's why Wikipedia's NPOV policy is biased in favor of the scientific consensus, and why tags based on bullshit and nothing aren't allowed to stay on articles.
I'm basically a zombie the next day if I don't get eight hours. I can function but my productivity and concentration go way down. I've found that discipline is the only way to deal with it: I force myself to go to bed even if there's something I'd rather be doing.
This is a judgement on cost, and you're advocating for cheap app development for you.

But what about the cost for the users of your app?

* Huge memory impact for your app

* Non-native look and feel (no, neither Vue nor anything else give a native app experience)

* Possible security holes, as Electron is patched behind Chrome, and your app therefore behind Electron

* and more.

What you're asking is that to ease your job, you give your customers a non-native UX (subjectively "bad", but that judgement is something I think most HN readers would agree with); and you value their computer resources very little (ie you don't respect your users' computers and are happy to waste their computing memory and CPU.)

Electron is the solution when a developer values themselves over their customers. Now, you can make an argument for that, such as getting your minimum viable product out to market quickly. Over time, as the app develops, the attitude of happily giving your user lower UX quality and wasteful applications is harder and harder to justify ethically, though I admit that's only true if predicated on a foundation that you should respect your customer or have pride in your work.
Really? A blockchain? It's parody at this point.

The goal is to get the summed weight of all the passengers. In step 1 of your plan you weigh each and every passenger. If that really is your plan then step 2 is to sum them! Call the sum() function! How in the world did you turn that into 5 steps involving a blockchain?

It's the epitome of the blockchain obsessed. Create unrelated problems just to claim "see a blockchain fixed them."

You've already weighed the passengers! The way to get their summed weight is to sum them!
Given how busy the beach is this morning (UK), I'm presuming that everyone is taking full advantage of working from home.

It will be interesting to see how productivity is affected overall though.

Which makes me wonder, what is the general measure of productivity?

Meetings attended? Emails answered? Hours worked / Time in seat? Story points?
The articles on this seem pretty rushed. There is a dailymail post with more details which also seems rushed.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8115879/COVID-19-Au...
Arbitrary legal restrictions can be changed, especially if unusual circumstances require some changes.
Ask HN: All consulates are closed & travel is risky, how to get visa stamp ?
> I've found that while it doesn't do a lot of what a human would, it can do it daily. In my case the time savings made it pay for itself in half a year.

My home has pretty high thresholds/doorsteps (what are they even called?), and the robot always gets stuck. Thus, we clean together once a week: it does the vacuuming, and I clean the bathroom, kitchen etc and help it go where it wants.

This kinda works, but I wonder if there are models specifically with higher clearing for getting over bigger obstacles?
I suspect it is backwards including the source of the doctrines. Precedent while it may have a function in consistency is just gussied up rationalizations essentially.

Representatives in matters of disputes would always have a purpose but only a codified law with its complexities would create lawyers.

They like doctors also occupy the "high stakes license" version. Combined with incompetence of council as a reason for appeal it is easy to see why the state and others would have a valid interest in quality standards.

Small stakes courts are often still done lawyerless for instance.
My point is that each delivery rider can do his job without getting within 6 feet of any other person during his shift. They do come closer but their job can be easily changed so that they don't.

Uber drivers are entirely other thing. Maybe driving people should be only allowed if you have a car that has completely separate spaces for the driver and the rider and where spece for the rider can be fully vented and disinfected after each rider, which maybe again should be mandatory.

A lot of people can't do their essential jobs remotely. But very few of them can't do those jobs not in groups and not in contact with other people.

The world before covid looked how it looked not out of necessity, but just because we didn't have to pay attention to some things.
But the original comment said SK is now testing fewer people, so how do we know the active case numbers are under control?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22589476.
Or we could encourage mask producers to charge more during a crisis.

If mask producers could charge enough that the masks weren't quite fly off the shelves, we would be swimming in masks made and kept in storage for times of pandemic. It is pretty obvious what happens; producers are shamed into not making a profit when demand is high so they don't bother to produce.
Even VSCode does not feel like a native Mac app. It's a good app - but it does not feel like one written with the platform in mind.
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

The argument about economic effects vs. health effects is getting nastier and could get a lot worse. Please find ways to make your substantive points that don't nudge HN threads in that direction.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Not quite: https://www.umaryland.edu/news/archived-news/march-2020/rese...
I bought a robotic vacuum more out of curiosity and to see if I should buy one as a gift for my parents. Just one of the cheapest models that still had good reviews.

It turned out that all deficiencies of such a vacuum are offset by its basic function: it keeps the apartment clean each day, every day. Dirty corners? Weak suction? Small container? Somewhat noisy? Not too smart? Gets stuck sometimes? I need to clean hairs out of the rotating brush? I still have to mop the place? Pffft, none of this matters when the carpet and the kitchen are dust-free every day without me doing the vacuuming. If it misses a spot today, it will get it tomorrow. After a few runs the floor is indeed cleaner than it ever was, and stays that way. No rogue crumbs stuck to my feet before the cleanup day. Still managed to find something unpleasant on the floor? Just give the robot a bit of work right here. It's like SSDs after HDDs: you have to worry about having backups, but it'll be amazing in the meantime.

Rather prophetically, the cheap production has shown itself when something got cooked in the electronic insides and the vac entered the eternity of ‘error 03’.
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We might discussing this from different views, network segregation is important even if you build everything as zero trust, firewalling something it's one of the easiest way to not trust it.

I think the difference in perspective is that I only really need to work in very narrow an well defined interface to systems that can be hacked, so my view of what the attack surface is affacted by that, I do not care about. For me as long as revealing my password to my client is fine I'm fine. My client can be full of malware without affecting security severly.

Clean room; "leave everything connected on the outside", and variants of that is REALLY ineffective. I've measured that the waste from that, back then we spent alot of time classifing what software had to be developed in such an environment. You do not want to work that way.
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That does not contradict anything the government said. All else being equal, of course smaller groups, in the sense of people seeing fewer other people, is better. That’s not the argument. Nobody is saying “we should see more people”.

All else is not equal. You pull the quarantine lever, you increase social distancing but you also increase local mixing. Costs and benefits. The right choice at any given time depends on the disease spread. Computer modelling and simulation tells us when there is a net benefit.
We would collapse back to a subsistence-level economy, but sure.
It seems strange to me as well. I am in Thailand and, in Bangkok at least, most people wear masks, carry disinfecting hand gel and are very wary about close contact with people and surfaces. Stores like Makro (Thai version of CostCo) have mask-wearing guards at the store entrance that take your temperature and provide hand gel, while cleaning crews wipe down the handles of shopping carts with disinfectant.

To be fair, many people in Bangkok already wore masks because of the pollution. So there is no stigma. But it seems that the Thais started taking Covid-19 serious right away, so maybe that's why Thailand, which was on the leader board in number of infections early on, has reached only 114 confirmed infectinos with 1 death as of yesterday. But only time will tell if all the precautions can slow down the spread since it only takes a few infected but symptomless highly social spreaders to really blow things up. And it looks like that may have happened in the last few days.
At the risk of sounding stupid, why hasn't anyone been talking about making makeshift masks using clothing or cloth? There's plenty of that in everyone's home. What about a scarf? Fine, it's not N95 but it can't be any less effective than a simple surgical mask that does blocks spittle.
UK chose to save the markets. Let's see how it will play out.
All: the debate about economic effects vs. health effects is turning nasty in places and could get a lot worse. Let's not go there. Please find ways to make your substantive points that don't nudge HN threads in that direction.

If you comment, make sure you're up to date the site guidelines. Note this one: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
8000-ish cases. 70-ish deaths => ~0.9% fatality rate. Very thorough testing, so 0.9% is likely to be a reasonable estimate of the real fatality rate.

Granted, 250k-ish of 50 million is a small sample, but you've got to assume that they haven't tested randomly but tested people who have been in touch with known cases.
Quantitative easing and most of the bailouts I can think of are in form of loans, not grants. The 9/11 airline bailout was 1/3 grants and 2/3 of it was in form of loans. Loans are the default form of bailout pretty much always. They turn into "grants" when the worst-hit businesses can't repay them, but they still allow business to continue and not bankrupt their suppliers and amployees.
> Call me skeptical

Yep. I call that FCA/FMA numbers [1].

Only a simple memory allocation is an order of magnitude slower. And I am not even speaking about the cost of boundary crossing between the JS engine and the C++ DOM/render API.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y21xzVH8NGY
I see they have convenient up/down vote keys on the righthand side of the board.
> And IRC has a lot of usability issues which have not yet been solved.

Such as?

I know of

- Lack of multi-line messages. AFAIK that's addresses in some new IRC RFC but it's not widely

- Server-stored messages. Bouncer can deal with that, though, it's kind of a hack.

Otherwise I love usability of IRC clients! My IRC client binary is 1.1 MB big!!!
This is going to keep happening.

The App Store has been poison to Apple and I've no idea why they didn't see it coming.
Same but for Windows. There are a handful of decent, but cursory WDK books / tutorials, and the Windows Internals books, but outside of that the MSDN documentation seems pretty bad. A lot of stuff seems almost contradictory (it probably isnt, but it reads that way)

Everytime ove wanted to develop a driver for windows, I get stuck because I cant even figure out what type of driver to use because there are so many possible models and existing stacks to build off of.

At least with linux and BSDs I can hop in something like an irc channel when and someone can usually help me.
Also at the same time as you're doing something else. I often run the roomba as I clean other stuff or do the dishes when I prepare for a visitor. If you run it daily or every other day, the first couple of days it's full of dust and hair, then less and less. I view this as evidence that it's needed.

I don't dare keep it on a schedule nowadays, because I have kids who leave stuff on the floor everywhere, including charging cables for phones that can get tangled up in the roomba. What I usually do is a quick check under the couch and tv bench, then start it manually when I leave for work.
FOREIGN KEY (manager_id) REFERENCES employees (id) ON DELETE CASCADE

sounds dangerous for job security
7-Zip is pretty awesome. At one point I had a file that simply wouldn't delete in Windows. Came across a random thing online that said to try and delete it from 7-Zip. Simple as that 7-Zip was able to delete the file while everything else couldn't.
As someone who used GCP at large scale very recently, "stock outs" we're very common for large instance types in specific zones.
Why? Is the fear of starvation the only thing that makes people do things?
I am skeptical of their 1mcg claim. The only way to get to 1mcg for an mRNA-based vaccine is through even newer and untested technology: self-amplifying mRNA, some undisclosed delivery technology/chemistry, or some undisclosed improvement to their adjuvanting technology. In general, they have been far behind Moderna and BioNTech for years, so I'm not sure we should be hitching our wagon to them.

This is their most recent clinical trial results (2017) https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... showing basically failure without more-immunogenic delivery.

This is their most recent clinical publication showing their adjuvanting technology (2019) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X1... which in general is needed to make-up for their lack of potency in their mRNA vaccine technology. A problem neither BioNTech nor Moderna have with their mRNA and delivery technology.
Czech hospital hit by cyberattack while in the midst of a Covid-19 outbreak
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I’m immediately put off by the second ‘graphs being fully devoted to publicly putting his girlfriend in her place?

We learn it’s „impulsive“ for her to make spending decisions (for him it would have been „decisive“, probably, given the good opportunity and how quick he is to think on his feet). He even moans about being „incapable of being upset“, as if it would be entirely normal, nay expected, to be upset about one‘s spouse making a sub-$200 spending decision.

Then he decides to „keep her“, as if it’s entirely his choice.

Yes, sure, somewhat outdated role models by themselves are somewhat benign, and probably too widespread to really get upset about. But this just stood out for me, somehow. Try reading it with reversed roles if you did not notice.
Is Consciousness a Brain Process?
Well, this should surprise no one.
While the constraint was recently relaxed somewhat in postgres 11 or 12, it is worth noting that a cte can be an optimization barrier. This means that a cte isn't just a cookie cutter replace operation. Usually this is ok, especially if the cte result set is on the smaller side, but it's just something to keep in mind.
Yes, Svelte does not utilize a virtual DOM.