skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. That's selfish, because their actions have effects on others and they need to take that into consideration too.
100yr old Headphone Jack still belongs on phone
In my companies it's the managers telling people to work from home when possible and parents asking to come in at least every other day to have some hours of distraction-free work.
If rackets work so well, why aren't they used everywhere to suppress wages? Why do people get paid more than some minimum at all? Especially, why doesn't the racket suppress women's wages even more?
Relevant video. https://youtu.be/m3yyA12PAy0
>Autoclave at 132 C for 4.5 hours

All hospitals should have autoclaves, shouldn't they?
Nobody seems to mention: How do you empty the dust compartment without stirring up the dust?

My vacuum (Robzone) collects it in plastic box that is to be opened and cleaned out into trashbin with attached brush, the dust inevitably gets airborne.
Y'know, this is probably a good one too!
What a WoW virtual outbreak taught us about how humans behave in epidemics
Companies should be reminded that basis for patents is:

> Article I, section 8, which reads "Congress shall have power ... to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries."

It would certainly be interesting to see "promotion of the progress of science and useful arts" to be pitted against "saving lives during a national emergency" in court, where the said company refuses to provide needed replacement parts.

Something like that surely must have happened already?
Reminds me of when HSBC knowingly laundered money for drug dealers and terror organizations for years and was fined < 5% of its profits that year.
Size types looks nifty. I have had my eyes on Futhark for a while, but I think I'll actually try it out now.
Coin Shows Its Superiority on Wall Street
Spotted Hyenas in Harar
Or fix the law, so that this issues goes away in the future, whithout having to repeatedly resort to ad-hoc measures and resulting legal uncertainty.
how cost effective is your solution ?
It's pretty much just a tautology (which can't even be false). Of course it's true that only a small minority of people will ever have a major impact on many other people.
Situation: Infected person coughs near a non-infected person.

If the Infected Person is wearing the mask, all good. Cough contained in mask, no virus spread anywhere, everyone OK.

If the Non-Infected Person is wearing the mask, they're still covered in virus-laden cough mess. All they have to do is touch their face once in the next 3 days to catch the virus. Washing their hands will remove the virus from the hands, but not from their clothes, hair, etc.

Also, they're now covered in virus. Everything they touch will be covered in virus. Virus everywhere, infecting everyone. Everyone not OK.

It's possible that a non-infected person wearing a mask might prevent a tiny bit of infection, but it's MASSIVELY more effective on the infected person.

Surgeons wear masks in case they cough on the patient. They don't put a mask on the patient...
Don't forget the value of finding ways to avoid the need for video conferencing. While many may feel unavoidable, alternatives like delegating authority, simplifying tasks, and such can often achieve more than a meeting.

The before covid-19, a friend who organizes conferences told me how his firm achieved more by his not going to the second annual conference he organized in Shanghai and delegating more to his former helper, now main Shanghai organizer.

Even if you can't avoid everything, the more you find ways to simplify, the more you build your experience and skills to do so more the next time.
The CPU usage of their web client is a pity, everything else is perfect.
I don't get what you are advocating. If you don't pay people to do jobs, then most jobs that make up a complex society won't get done. We have complex institutions, that involve lots of people doing boring tasks that keep the institutions running. Without the institutions, society will in fact return to subsistence-level.

If you just mean that we should guarantee a certain level of income, like a UBI, then that will make no difference whatsoever for this question. We don't have lawyers and middle managers because otherwise they will starve, because those jobs pay more than any plausible minimum.
Even more importantly, I assume regions affected by bad air quality like North Italy are also the worst with regard to cronic respiratory issues in the general population, which makes the situation a lot worse.
Maybe some topics should simply be legislated away as incompatible with “youtubery”: health and history, imho. Forbidding those would remove 90% of the problematic content (quacks, antivaxx, holocaust deniers, truthers etc).

Health has specific laws to deal with digital storage, it’s not inconceivable to admit that it needs extra protection on social platforms too.
A conversation with a physician on the coronavirus front lines
I've never worked in macOS before, is there something exceptionally difficult about decent boilerplate code?
It'll take time for the landscape to develop, but I'd like to add some additional arguments for a web-based application stack.

Websites from the 1990s still render and function just fine in modern browsers. How many software applications from the 90s can you still use effectively on your laptop or smartphone?

If we collectively want to create and share data that will be accessible to older and younger generations, and build applications which stand the test of time, it'd help if the foundations we're building on (i.e. native SDKs, APIs, file formats, and platforms) stop shifting every few years.

I'd argue that even with the evolution of web/JS frameworks, the underlying HTML+JS+CSS stack remains more stable than most native development platforms (with the possible exception of the Win32 API which has been impressively maintained, and automake which has done great things to make Unix software portable).

Performance/memory impact is a good area to investigate further, as are any remaining areas where there's a gap between native and web-foundation user experiences. I totally agree with your criticisms there.

Since many applications are built using web technology I'd expect the stack has developed (and will continue to develop) good resilience against security vulnerabilities.

Driving down developer costs seem to me like a beneficial goal and I don't necessarily think that criticizing a desire for low-cost tooling and application delivery is a positive standalone argument.

There may be a few developers who see themselves as more important than their users, but that will become apparent to users over time. Given low-cost development tools there can easily be alternative applications for people to switch to which better respect user needs and goals.
Vaccinating the young and healthy is a fine first step, though! If you vaccinate enough of them, you get a large part of the way to herd immunity, and that gives us more time to validate.
do it outside or spray water into it
> we get those weird prices because of heavy and incompetent government interference in the drug markets. So we should probably look into scaling back that interference

No, we get it because of the wrong kind of interference (due to regulatory capture and government corruption). I think in Singapore the government interferes heavily too - at the very least posing as a bundling buyer for hospitals to put drug purchases out for tender. Every developed country does this.
This comment is one of the most fascist things I’ve heard in a long time.

1) “most scientifically reasonable thing” isn’t a thing; it’s political weasel words

2) economics isn’t science, as much as they pretend, and without accounting for economics your system will collapse

3) fascism is built on the idea that the government can better regulate society
I am. They weren't built for the times with EVERYONE needs to scale up at the same time.
If you're using systemd timers, you get this behavior for free because those timers only activate service units. If the service is already active, nothing happens.

(Of course, this can be surprising in a different way when you expect a new job to start, but it does not because a previous one is still lingering. Not saying it's better or worse, just pointing out for those who don't know.)
O kurczę Polak.
Fajnie wam wyszło i naprawdę ciekawy pomysł :)
It's a corner case...albeit a corner case we're currently experiencing.

There's a limited amount of space and logistics to have 1000s of spares of everything you might possibly need.
I am the founder of Octopus Deploy - we have #52 on that list. It was first registered in the same year I was born!
I have spent way too much of my time as a developer over the years hacking on software to remove ill-conceived timeouts where some developer said--sometimes not even in one place but for some insane reason at every single level of the entire codebase--"this operation couldn't possibly take longer than 10 seconds"... and then it does, because my video is longer than they expected or I have more files in a single directory than they expected or my network is slower than they expected (whether because I have more packet loss or more competition or more indirection) or my filesystem had more errors to fix during fsck than they expected or I had activated more plugins than they expected or I had installed more fonts than they expected or I had more email that matches my search query than they expected or more people tried to follow me than then expected (for months back when Instagram was new I seriously couldn't open the Instagram app because it usually took more than the magic 10 seconds--an arbitrary timeout from Apple--to load my pending follower request list for my private account; the information would get increasingly cached every load so if I ran the app over and over again eventually it would work) or my DNS configuration was more broken than they expected or I had a more difficult-to-use keyboard than they expected or I had more layers of security on my credit card than they expected or any number things that they didn't expect (can you appreciate how increasingly specific these examples started becoming, as I started having horrifying flashbacks of timeouts I had to remove because some idiot developer decided they could predict how long something could take and then aborted the operation, which seems like the worst possible way of handling that situation? :/). Providing the user a way to cancel something is great, but programming environments should make timeouts maximally difficult to implement, preferably so complex that no one ever implements them at all (and yes, I appreciate that this is a pipe dream, as a powerful abstraction tends to make timeouts sadly so easy people strew them around liberally... but certainly no timeout arguments should be provided on any APIs lest someone arbitrarily guess "10 seconds"): if the user, all the way up at the top of the stack, wants to give up, they can press a cancel button. And to be clear: I don't think timeouts are something mostly just amateur programmers tend to get wrong and which can be used effectively by experts (as is the case with goto statements or random access memory or multiple inheritance)... I have never seen a timeout--a true "timeout" mind you, as opposed to an idempotent retry (where the first operation is allowed to still be in flight and the second will, without restating, merge with the first attempt as opposed to causing a stampede; these make sense when you have lossy networks, for example)--in a piece of software that was a feature instead of a bug, where the software would not have been trivially improved by nothing more than simply deleting the timeout, and I would almost go so far as to say they are theoretically unsound.
Insulted by my writing? they should be insulted by their government. It's been Boris Johnson that said "prepare to loose loved ones before their time", not me.
Creating predictability and stability in times of rapid change
Bearing in mind the "confirmed" number is fairly meaningless as most people with virus in most countries are not being tested
I used to think this, but in the past few decades I became convinced that only reduction in economic activity will help the environment.
Reduced travel and industry will see this happen and saw this in China, globally over the year the effect will be interesting and whilst it will do wonders for the climate. One aspect that I'm currently pondering is the winter 20/21. Reason being that it has been shown that less planes flying means temperature difference day/night, slightly warmer during day, but also colder at night. As we saw for the days post 9/11 in America.

So whilst the effect upon climate from this virus is going to be notable, what will the impact upon the 20/21 winter, will it make it more inclined to be colder (normal for many parts). That is the aspect that intrigues me.
Have a look at https://www.fileee.com/fileeebox/?lang=en

Personally, no. Once a month I have a paper jam but scanning with a $100 HP printer&scanner&fax device works fine and then drag&drop to the cloud (e.g. Dropbox). The hardest part in the process is coming up with a file name and selecting the folder in the file system. If I scanned 10 pages per day I'd probably use a https://www.getdoxie.com/info/products.html device.
Correct, the issue is what do you do when everyone needs to scale up at the same time - Slack, Box, Netflix, etc.
Your concerns about security with regard to Electron apps is real. So much so that for the new project I'm working on, I spent a few months building https://github.com/reZach/secure-electron-template, which is an OSS secure electron template that fixes up the security holes so you don't have to worry about it.
This virus is so bad that it is making whole countries take quarantine measures. That's probably not optimal for spreading itself.
Linux kernel will be delivered to Windows 10 users via Windows Update
> 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.)

Frequently the "customer" is a client and not the end user of the app. Assuming that someone doesn't respect someone else's computer because they use a tech that you don't approve of is ludicrous.

> Electron is the solution when a developer values themselves over their customers.

Nope. When you have limited resources i.e. small development teams you have to choose where the effort is going to go. Cross platform tech like Electron allows you to deliver to more customers with (theorectically) less effort, which can be put into many other things that might benefit the customer e.g. cost savings or more features.

> 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.

There is so much wrong here. The whole premise makes a lot of assumptions that may not be true. Any Engineering Discipline is about producing a product that adheres to a specific set of specifications. This frequently requires making decisions dependent on budget, technology etc. Unless you have an unlimited budget you will have to make a trade offs. Claiming someone is unethical or doesn't respect their customers / end user because they used a technology you dislike is quite pompous.
After two weeks the air over Europe will be cleanest since the long long long time ago.
This can be used together with the Poop Map app
The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_flu_pandemic perhaps?
Practical Resources to Help You Cope with Coronavirus
We’re another type of virus on this planet, we need to remember that and remember what it feels like to be under attack by one. Hopefully we then adjust behaviour accordingly.
$1.2B is probably MUCH less than the amount of money Apple made in this price fixing scheme, but it's hard to say without the exact numbers.
Their main issue was being pro-austerity. Most of what they focused on was cutting funding for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and other social services. They wanted a smaller government at all costs (though curiously they never called for reducing military spending).

Occupy Wall Street, on the other hand, was the group that was specifically against bailing out the banks. The Tea Party was more about not helping regular people.
See https://blog.regehr.org/archives/140 for a longer discussion.

(And to make it closer to our situation, assume that the loop being executed was looking for something that actually has a counterexample that could be found after a long time; instead of Fermat's last theorem.)
> A bad batch could essentially equal to purposefully infecting people with the disease, for example.

Nope, impossible. mRNA based vaccines don't use a weakened version of the virus to train the body:

> [0]The use of mRNA has several beneficial features over subunit, killed and live attenuated virus, as well as DNA-based vaccines. First, safety: as mRNA is a non-infectious, non-integrating platform, there is no potential risk of infection or insertional mutagenesis. Additionally, mRNA is degraded by normal cellular processes, and its in vivo half-life can be regulated through the use of various modifications and delivery methods

To use a bad analogy mRNA based vaccines train the body using a "signature" of the virus, essentially skipping the first step of actual infection and jumping to the second/third steps where the body's previously exposed to antigens are generated. It is an entirely new form of vaccine that has worked in trails before.

Which isn't to say it is 100% safe for other reasons. I'd say auto-immune reactions are the biggest risk (e.g. the body using the signature encoded to attack the body itself).

[0]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5906799/
This would presumably include any pointer dereferences where the compiler cannot prove that the pointer is always non null.
In case folks are interested in digging deeper, there is libre robot vacuum firmware:

https://librervac.org/
This lines up with a hypothesis I've got that this is causing severe cases in places where there is a high baseline of lung damage. Either from asthma or other genetic conditions, or from exposure to poor air quality.

Such that these lock downs are preventing more bad cases, but not by preventing the spread of covid, but by limiting exposure to other things. In this case, it could be lowering emissions period, which makes the entire place a bit more hospitable.

Which implies several things. One, the lock down for the states could be superfluous. Most places here have better air already.

Two, covid is already everywhere. The exponential growth we are seeing happened a couple months ago, such that now we are just seeing how fast we can deploy testing.

Three, we really need to focus on a cleaner environment. The old saying of "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" is clearly false (if this hypothesis is true), it makes you easier to be killed.

As I've said in another post, I expect I'm wrong in this. So would love to or how/why.
Yep.

Another one is watching 3D printer’s. There’s something soothing with just starting at the print head while the plastic oozes out and creates something tangible. It’s Star Trek’s replicator v0.00001. After a while, you realise you’ve been staring at it for 45 minutes.
Not just Europe, but also China and a host of other countries I bet.
And then the virus just dies on non-live surfaces like clothes in a couple of hours.

Like we said several times, masks provide some protection (decreased risk) for a healthy person, they don't protect from getting infected 100%.

No one ever said that mask is more effective on healthy person than on the infected one, I am not sure who you are arguing against. But it is the popular for some reason notion that a mask does not protect a healthy person at all that is plain false as has to go away.
We need more than mortgage and rent suspension and relief. IRS has aggregate quarterly-granular data on how much businesses in a NAICS/SIC classification has paid out in wages. But not specifically who; the accountants, payroll processors and business owners who DIY payroll have that information.

We need a simultaneous approach. IRS creates a modified 941 form. Every business who files either 941 or 944 fills out new form. It has enough information to link it already-filed 941/944. And fields for list of employees, and where their pay is usually sent.

Direct helicopter drop fiscal stimulus to employers and employees. Employers in specific NAICS/SIC coded industries closed by law get wages they would normally pay taken care of as a straight grant. Direct deposit wages to employees directed by employees, cash at SSA or similar FedGov office parking lot drive thrus for the unbanked. Statistical modeling to roughly make up tip wages. Link to landlord-submitted data or statistical data is used to model and impute an additional grant package to cover a business’ rough revenue figure. Utilities-submitted data is used to estimate a third grant package. Wages, rent and skeleton utilities are granted month by month, retroactively if necessary to stricken industries. Healthcare is emergency Medicare-for-all for impacted employees. Any remaining revenue funds required are through unsecured loans at Fed funds rate.

This gives us a chance to resume our economic footing faster to status ante quo than letting businesses go under and wait a decade for the economy and equities market to recover.

Link quarantine peer pressure to grants. Each time someone from the business steps out of quarantine orders and is caught by LEO, their grant is reduced by 30%, and everyone else in their workplace has theirs reduced by a proportion (1 / total-employees&owners), with a message saying who stepped out.

Should do similar for industries deemed strategically critical and employees must come in. Sanitation, defense, energy, emergency response, transport and delivery, etc.

Take the currency hit on this grant tsunami, and hope for a rocket ride back up starting in a couple years when the vaccine is out to make up the monetary weakness.
BioNTech is also public (BNTX), so you should add some there too. But maybe wait for them to come back to Earth (up ~50% premarket from announcements!)
I'll add Candida Auris to the list of scary things that are hard to kill in hospitals:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candida_auris
That's a common issue with Windows.
The internal file API is much more powerful than the user-accessible front-end programs, which can be very frustrating at times.
I had similar issues with corrupted file names created by some application bug. There was no way to delete these invalid file entries using OS-provided tools.
Because uncoordinated individual action is ineffective against large scale problems, which should be obvious right now.
More generally, just US laws period. That affects a lot more than just worker compensation and conditions.
Yet, people are allowed to drive cars they might crash while driving drunk.

There’s a reasonable balance between risk you potentially pose to others and your ability to live a life without government oppression.

It’s genuinely disturbing how many people respond to any risk with welcoming fascism back.
> We can more widely adopt the practice of removing our shoes at the front door when we get home rather than tracking dirt all over the house. There are plenty of cultures that do that.

Including American and Canadian cultures. Every home I've been in across Canada and the northern US has practiced this. Granted, most of the many people I know are descendants of people from the nordic countries, but is it common for people to wear shoes in the house?
So why not India?