skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, it turns out you can actually loose quite a lot of accuracy at distance and not end up with artifacts so long as your accuracy is guaranteed to overestimate the distance to the surface, it will take a bit more time to converge on the surface, but it shouldn't impact the image itself. (Assuming you let the march converge all the way to the limit surface of course, and don't have a maximum steps.)
You're right, I don't get it. Its much better to have these people who are suffering under an economic collapse outside of their control go to work sick, and spread the virus before finally losing their jobs and homes and go without food instead of getting money and then using that money to buy necessities and in turn stimulate the economy. In addition the people who's children relied on school lunches should be glad they are not getting money to feed them so as to keep it out of the hands of big industry. Thank you for illuminating my ignorance I was blind to it before.
"Gaslighting"? I opened the PDF. If by "dense data in a spreadsheet" you mean rows like the very first one:

Category: Accounting

Purported processing purpose: “purposes such as accounting...”

Other discoverable processing purposes: “…such as…” is vague language that may conflate or omit many distinct processing purposes.

Data collected: BLANK

Data shared externally: BLANK

Explanation and examples: For example, when you purchase apps from the Play Store or products from the Google Store.
Purported legal basis: Unknown

Give me a break, the legal reason in the first column. To me obvious reason this is a 60 page PDF is because they hope people don't open it and discover that they are full of shit.
I was wondering about the exercising part: do I need to feel guilty about going out for a run or a bike ride (by myself, of course) ?
It is $1k per adult which would be $253B. Families would get $2k...unless you are in Utah.
But then you have to program in C++ or JavaScript. I recently learned the former (std17) does not have a string.split function in the standard library (though I envy the random numbers library for scientific purposes).
This this. Very aptly put
I just started actively consulting two months ago. So far, 8 projects and five clients.

Before doing this, I built a pretty strong startup network in New York City. Through starting a company and running an entrepreneurship club at New York Univesity, I got to know a lot of relevant people on the scene. entrepreneurs, investors and community builders. Once I was sharing with people that I was working on. I got introductions to potential clients. My biggest client right now is a person whom I knew from the first year at the University.

If you are good at hosting events or bringing up ir target audience together, I would suggest looking into that.
However, people need to travel. And they will travel. Calling it a doomed industry is bogus.
Yeah, I'm having similar problems but I'm trying to go across country.
There is no limitations on personal exercise like going out for walks except that you should try and remain 6ft+ from others. I don't think suggesting people be isolated from close contact with others during a global pandemic is authoritarian and wrong-headed. It seems to me like the benefits of fresh air might be lesser than the lung damage of covid19 after all.
That is a separate edition of Minecraft for Chinese players, and doesn't interfere with the normal Minecraft editions.
It's pretty important to emphasize that there is no legal or constitutional framework (of which I am aware) for backing this with lawful force. These are suggestions, probably good ones, but not enforceable ones.
On the basis of what research? Some experts are suggesting against these kinds of measures.

And this is a serious encroachment on fundamental rights, for a virus whose worst-case scenario is a number of deaths similar to the number of people who die from smoking every year.

This policy seems extreme and uninformed to me.
It took only few years for them to dump UWP, they are going full google now.

P.S. Actual download link: https://aka.ms/winui/alpha/projecttemplates
Bitcoin's supply is disinflationary, with the yearly supply inflation rate going toward 0 (and reaching it in 2140).

But so is a constant emission, the major difference being that the latter goes toward 0 a lot slower, e.g. taking 50 instead of 12 years to get below 2%.
More importantly, it accrues wealth to late adopters as much as to early backers, combining a fairer distribution with reduced spending aversion.
There is hidden inflation that comes from other crypto currencies.

Once Bitcoin inflation is too strong and people are not willing to sell, it becomes profitable to start another currency. That currency will absorb liquidity and the deflation of BC stops. Like information in the internet, value flows around obstacles.
Can someone help me make sense of the million and one different UI platforms on windows and why I should even consider looking into this? Being a Windows dev is very confusing when it comes to UI
Don't try to own the checkout experience.
Yes, so what's the relevance?
> BCash

If anyone wonders what this is, it's a demeaning name for the Bitcoin Cash fork, used to discredit it.

https://medium.com/@jonaldfyookball/why-some-people-call-bit...
Never seen it before so tbh it looks kinda .... Obese?
I'm not suggesting that this financial crisis doesn't count or is overblown. It is real, and it is happening. I agree that airlines and movie theaters are worth less today than they were a few weeks ago.

What I'm saying is that this financial crisis has a clear, identifiable cause: covid-19. When covid-19 blows over (which it will in a few months time), the market will recover. Without covid-19, travel bans will be lifted and people will fly again. There's no reason to believe people are done with airlines forever. Same with movie theaters and the restaurant industry.

My argument is that the underlying primary cause of the financial crisis matters because it determines the path to recovery. I fully expect covid-19 to disappear in a few months (as it has in China and South Korea), and I fully expect the market to recover in the months afterward.
That's what I'd like to have clarified - I'm an electrician but not a utility worker.
Or even a basic cost/benefit analysis. "We expect this will save X lives, at a cost of $Y to the economy." Shouldn't someone be doing that analysis? There are lots of things that would save lives if we did them (e.g. ban cars), but we don't because the cost is too high.
Yeah, even in Wuhan it's been true. The consensus seems to be that there's no point closing down grocery stores and pharmacies, since there has to be some centralized location where food and medicine get distributed.
You're drastically overstating the effort to get a lot of low hanging fruit - colored headlights can be done visually, as there are no headlights that meet DOT requirements that are purple or yellow. There are very few properly certified aftermarket headlights to begin with. And many non-approved aftermarket ones will simply omit any DOT self-certification mark, another slam-dunk.
Not many dwelling from that era can satisfy the EPC rating B, like your aunt's.

On https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/... , on page 13 you can find the distribution of EPC ratings by age.
It's not much effort to wrap Win32 into a pretty nice C++ library. I guess in a sense this would be MFC but with modern C++ you can do much better.
From the press conference, less than 30 seconds ago: “this order is enforceable as a misdemeanor, but that is an absolute last resort.”
Are any well-informed researchers recommending this level of lockdown? At least some experts, including CIDRAP, are opposed to closing schools, let alone locking people down. Is anyone seriously considering and commenting on the damage this policy will do to vulnerable populations?

This seemingly solid paper[0], published in the Journal of Medical Virology, shows Vitamin D to be an important intervention. And obviously fresh air and sun are generally important for health and well-being.

These steps seem uninformed, authoritarian, and wrong-headed.

0: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jmv.25707
Ah, sorry, I misread that.
Suspension of rent and mortgage payments is very possible. Current landlord won’t have any replacement renter or ability to evict you. Unlike 9/11 or 2008, this could be viewed as one giant economic freeze for everyone.
There's an enormous gap between undoing limited liability and egregious compensation. Many people agree that over-compensation is a problem, but undoing limited liability spells the end of anything like a market economy, and takes the US dramatically backward.

My parents just filed for bankruptcy because the Trump tariffs killed their import business. Should they also be homeless now? That's what comes of what you originally suggested.
I'll use London for an example. I personally know many people who believe they have this, and, I believe I and 3 friends picked it up from each other after one visited Milan in Feb. Loads of people have this and are not counted.

> But it wouldn't be on the order of 10 times bigger.

I believe it is of that order.

> In most of the groups of sick people, there's likely to be some that show enough symptoms to prompt a test, with a positive test leading most of that group to be tracked down

Literally not because most people won't be tested unless they are in need of hospitalisation
I tend to measure bitcoin by how its proponents sell it. It has failed at all of these things -

Being a fast/cheap payments network
Being a decentralised cash equivalent
Being a store of value

The shift hasn't already happened - large businesses that have accepted bitcoin in the past have almost all stepped back from it citing a variety of problems, but mainly boiling down to it not being worth the effort, and nobody using it.

And why would they? It's inflationary in theory and speculative in actuality, anyone that actually thinks BTC is the way of the future would be a fool to part with it.
> Stripe is starting to inject themselves into the transaction, turning more into Apple Pay by saying the charges API is deprecated

That's not at all what is happening. Do you have any idea why they deprecated the charges API ?
If you use Qt you have all the string utility functions you need (https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qstring.html#public-functions)
I definitely can't do that, because I have a job that I'm moving to take.
And another one: Windows Aero
It is unlikely that this virus will kill more people than die in car crashes in a single year. Let's keep some perspective.

edit: Commenter below asked for citations, which is reasonable. :-)

This comment applies to the USA only.

There were 37,991 deaths classified under one of the WISQRS "Motor Vehicle Traffic Death" codes last year.[0]

Another 1000-3000 are reasonably counted also, for example, the 203 deaths coded as "Pedestrian injured in nontraffic accident involving other and unspecified motor vehicles." (this includes some cases of people injuring themselves with cars on private property, etc).

I think we can safely say 40,000, without even including any part of the long-term health effects of cars; this is just deaths from crashes.

We've had 71 deaths from COVID-19 so far[1]. We don't know how many total infections or transmissions have occurred; estimates vary unbelievably wildly because of so little test coverage. [2]

It's possible that our death rate is high, more likely that, at least so far, it is much, much lower than has been published in the media (the 8% of people over 65 figure, for example, uses only confirmed cases, which almost certainly represent only a tiny fraction of cases).

Based on these numbers and sources, I think it's a reasonable assertion that the number of otherwise unexpected deaths to result from COVID-19 is unlikely to be higher than the number killed by cars.

0: https://webappa.cdc.gov

1: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

2: http://perkinslab.weebly.com/uploads/2/5/6/2/25629832/perkin...
Not to be overly cynical, but I don't think petty crime gets much attention from the police, at least in SF.
What cost ratio would you find unacceptably high to stop a pandemic?
The quote from the article:

> Also, apparently, all my comments in all issues in all other repos have instantly disappeared for anyone other than me, and some of those comments contained a lot of really useful and valuable information/knowledge/solutions

Reminded me of something: I was following a thread in a Github issue, received an email that had a useful answer but was hard to read due to gmail not formatting code well. I let it be and the next day went to the thread and the comment was nowhere to be found. I wonder if something similar happened.
Legal issues haven't stopped mandatory curfews in the event of other emergencies. I've been under them in the past after really bad hurricanes. As long as it doesn't specifically target a subset of people and is applied only in relation to an emergency it appears to be legal. We're currently in an official national state of emergency so it seems like it's possible
Because Bitcoin is inherently deflationary and there is incentive to not spend it, that pushes its purchasing power into socially/legally marginal areas of the economy. This is why it's the transactional unit of choice for online illegal drug purchases, prostitution, extortion/ransom demands, etc.

All of this of course, makes Bitcoin even more socially marginal. But yes, this is an area where Bitcoin excels for purchases.

(and to clarify, this is not to say that I personally think that drug purchases should be illegal although I have no problem with extortion demands being illegal, just pointing out the place of such transactions in the social milieu as it exists)
UWP and "Metro" are the same thing, this is also basically the same thing just decoupled from the OS and with the Windows.* namespaces swapped out for Microsoft.* namespaces. So they've stuck to one reasonably coherent approach for the last eight years or so at least.
Your point is absolutely valid, but there is no reason why the same doesn't apply to this new scheme as well. You would need to distribute the money and the same distribution problems apply. People are people.

Give everybody $1k? Who's everybody? If you're in this country illegally, do you get $1k? What about people who got stranded here due to border closures? How are you going to identify people? How will you stop fraud, double dipping, etc?

Maybe instead of creating a new bureaucracy in the middle of a crisis, use the existing systems that are already in place and just pump more cash into them?
That's the outcome that worries me. Continual reinfection plus disproportionate effect on certain groups means we're going to have a lot fewer people in those groups unless we develop and deploy a vaccine in less time than seems likely. We're also going to have a lot more people with permanent lung scarring from "moderate" cases. Will that cause society to collapse? Of course not. We'll adapt, but it's still pretty horrible to contemplate.
That must be the cheapest attempt at shifting the burden of proof I've encountered yet.
It's still the same, and also much harder to tell when people leave the conversation if they do so without interaction clues.
I can recommend against using Zuora and Adyen based on my two years of working on a large scale migration to them.
You totally forgot that Silverlight for a while was supposed to be the best framework for the desktop :-)

"I don't know what most people ship these days, when they build Windows UIs. It's a mix of Electron (eg Slack, VS Code), as well as QT, and good ol' Win32, that we've had since the 90s.
"

Most probably use WPF but that's not much fun.
At this point I'm going to stick with React. And I wrote a few applications in XAML. And got hell for it from other developers who prefered Win32 and MFC.
>> just prohibiting high ride heights altogether (probably a non-starter)

Why not? Because some people will get very upset? Fuck 'em. They're literally killing people.
At this point, it should all be considered medical. Cannabis is an effective way to accelerate the perceived passage of time when you're stuck alone at home for months.
It does sound flippant, but that's not the point. A situation like "everyone wants to use this disaster to achieve the policy goals they wanted anyway," while a slight exaggeration, might productively lead a person interested in the function of their government to evaluate the quality of those policy goals, rather than withdraw into cynicism. In an election year, it'd actually be somewhat appropriate.

> If you started out thinking that your ideology is clearly correct and the opposition has nefarious motives, then rather than this disaster leading anyone to question their beliefs, it will stand to reinforce them.

If you're the kind of person who gives a damn about "motives" instead of ideas and policies, well... it is understandable at times, but that's not something to aspire to.
>They better not do something stupid like close the airports I need to visit family beginning in April.

"They better not do something for the greater good that affects me personally!"
The famous opening line of Pride and Prejudice relies on passive voice: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." If you specify who's acknowledging it then the joke doesn't work.
No, you're wrong. States have power to enforce public health quarantines and courts have backed them up.
We notice delivery on Amazon is out to 3-4 days now (on prime) and were not sure if it was due to supply or demand. Seems like demand.
Ask HN: Pandemic effects on your business/industry – now and future
Startup founders and entrepreneurs (and everyone else), how the pandemic already influencing your company operations/sales/marketing etc. and what are your predictions for the future of your business/industry?

Who has feel negative impact already?
Probably somebody seeing positive impacts to their business?

What contingency measures are you planning to implement to cope with pandemic effects?
https://archive.md/Eyu8A
So basically, ignore it and use your own best judgement.
Not overblown IMO. When dealing with exponential growth, acting is only useful if you do it when it seems too early. If you wait until later, it is too late.
> It seems to me like the benefits of fresh air might be lesser than the lung damage of covid19 after all.

Sure, sure. But we don't know at the moment what the impact is of keeping people largely indoors except that is is generally less healthy.
Can someone please answer this for me:

Why not simply not tax individuals? Suspending mortgage payments, rents, and taxes would have a much greater benefit as far as I can tell. This topic reeks of political opportunism.

It looks like everyone in favor of 'UBI' (including politicians and 'influencers') is clamoring for this despite not considering (or, in the case of the politicians, ignoring intentionally) any of the drawbacks.

1. The money isn't 'free' it's coming out of tax dollars.

2. Once a UBI concept exists, people begin to plan their lives around it. Any changes to the system that aren't increasing the amounts received then have a huge negative impact on a large population.

3. The average American household now carries significant debt, in the tens of thousands of dollars range. They won't be stimulating the economy if they are just paying back (part of) prior debts.

4. Do we seriously trust the US Government to not mess this up? California is the [0]world's fifth-largest economy and still spends more than it takes in, despite placing enormous tax burdens on its residents. The federal government hasn't been any better, historically. At what point does the economic house of cards come crashing down? Who gets crushed first if it does?

[0]https://www.businessinsider.com/california-economy-ranks-5th...
That text "merchants switching to $us from $competitor experience $benefits" sounds very marketing-y. I can't find it literally on your website (I expected this to be the description on the homepage) so it does seem to be your own words. Is this statistically measured and somehow controlled for any new feature on the site / newsletter going out, your personal experience, or from some sales kit?
Covid already came to Beijing and has been contained very effectively.
I was going to put an order in cause I've got a couple shoots coming up. Everything was in stock Friday. I went to buy today and everything but some of the more obscure cartridges are sold out. It is pretty crazy.
I know an electrician who was doing a job in a hospital last week.

Even if an electrician doesn't work for a utility company, isn't it pretty vital that medical facilities are able to call him/her in if needed?

I'm also thinking it's not wise to forbid services to homes. Yes, this risks homeowners and workers spreading coronavirus. But there are bigger risks from people going extended periods without electricity / running water.
Are you saying this because you have inside knowledge or because this affects you on a personal level? You also sprinkled in "simply avoiding crowded spaces", but you don't suggest a way to encourage/enforce this.
It's possibly because of a single comment (out of n, where n is large) of disagreeing with the crowd or saying something unpleasant or a mod powertripping.

It's stupid as fuck. Reddit is also plagued by it.
The Health Dept website was attacked in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic
Full text of the order, more info, and FAQs: https://sf.gov/stay-home-except-essential-needs
Dow plunges 3k points after $50B spending package
At this point it should be a multi-platform toolkit running on .NET Core. I don't think many devs will be excited about WinUI.
Once the hospitals a past capacity and people are dying in tents, it will make a lot more sense. This should have been done earlier but it wasn’t, and likely could not be in a free country.
In the White House press conference today, the head of the NIAID said don’t expect things to return to normal until July or August.
Presumably since Brexit is happening, their word only carries weight in the UK, and they are the strategic asset there.

They probably are hoping totally private competitors like Ryanair are gone, so they can buy their planes and fly their routes.
The "Containment works" part seems questionable. In particular, South Korea almost certainly wasn't "tracking its first 30 cases very well, until patient 31 infected over 1000 others on a church congregation". Patient 31 didn't have any known source of exposure - she hadn't travelled abroad or had any contact with known cases, didn't even meet South Korea's criteria for testing, the most likely place she got Covid-19 is from the congregation. There was an entire thousand-person cluster that had slipped through the net and only got spotted because one person happened to get in a car accident and the doctors tested her on a hunch despite not meeting their testing criteria.

If things had gone slightly differently, it's entirely possible that we'd be pointing at Italy as an example of successful containment that South Korea should have followed. They tested and contact-traced and thought they were doing quite well for the first 30 or so cases too, but reality hit them once it was far too late to do anything.
Unless the government backstops it, they won't. It is and will be a huge problem.

Some states are banning evictions for a few months, so at least there is that option. But it just means they'll be homeless in June instead of April.
Says take out food is fine, so I’d imagine deliveries qualify.
Which are not electives are they
I think my family is unfortunately going to have to wait for some sort of robot with a snow shovel attachment and a big bucket to go dump everything in.

We used to have a roomba, first edition, before kids, but it got broken after a year, the first kid came and we have not been clean since.
Why are you indifferent? And how old are your parents?