skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great work guys! This could be very useful for us. Some feedback for our use case:

1. We’re in healthcare, so data privacy / security and HIPAA compliance are a must. One way to limit this problem might be by architecting it so that our data doesn’t touch your servers.

2. Support for ActiveRecord-like abstraction layers would be great. Our underlying schema is fairly gnarly due to multiple rounds of regulation-driven changes to our data model so directly querying the Postgres DB isn’t really feasible for most of the team that does basic analysis.

Pricing is fine/cheap for what it could make possible for business intelligence/analytics.
Correct, in simple cases it can do it, but you need to be very careful with computing the arguments for the logging call. Java has no lazy evaluation of args nor macros, so if you accidentally concat strings there or do something expensive, it is likely JVM won't optimize these out. That's why typically you want to guard your logging calls on the hot path with an if condition.
> The very phrase 'herd immunity' says a lot about what they think of people

...You know they didn't invent the phrase, right? It's a term of art, and has been the standard term for that epidemiological concept for many decades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity
Did you double check that your lower insurance rates aren't due to non-existant injury/medical and uninsured motorist coverage, reduced value of the vehicle, and the vehicle being classified as a recreational vehicle vs daily driver?

(450lbs motorcyle + 160lb rider) vs 60lb child = death.

Riding a motorcycle while impaired, is one of the leading causes of motorcycle fatalities. Failing to wear PPE accounts for a significant number of potentially non-fatal accidents becoming fatal. Distracted riding is also on the rise. This doesn't seem to imply motorcyclists are inherently more aware of their surroundings or making better decisions due to the increased danger.
Is it every one of those? You have more information than me so I think that's the valuable thing to share.
I recently had a similar experience when I came across DeepL [1].

I believe it was French to Dutch. The result was basically perfect.

[1] https://www.deepl.com/translator
Social distance this week (U.S.)
If by P4 centric you also mean SVN as well then sure.

I will say however that if you think locking is optional then you already don't understand these workflows and why they're so critical. Art/design/animation doesn't care that "they should not have been touching the file" they just care that they have to throw away two days of work because someone made multiple edits to the same package file. I've literally seen multiple teams almost come to blows when this happens.

You can separate code from art/assets. That comes at an integration and iteration cost, it'll drive your designers mad.

There are workflows out there where code is not the first class citizen, in those cases I've seen git shoehorned in and untold pain follows.
Any predictions on Google Adsense revenue this quarter?
I’m going to try and lay out the case in as neutral terms as I can, although to be clear I think they are probably right. They’re going to take an awful lot of stick for it though, and indeed already are.

They believe that there are basically two mitigation strategies. One is to have a very drastic early lockdown that shuts down the virus before it spreads widely. The problem with that is, once you lift the lockdown it will simply start all over again. The problem with this is lockdowns are most effective the first time you do them, and then mostly in the first few weeks of the lockdown. Do it too early, and yes it will be very effective in the short term, but later on when cases become much more prevalent the lockdowns will be less effective.

The option they are going for is to start the lockdown a little later in the cycle. The hope is this will make the lockdown more effective at a higher point in the spread. Effectively instead of a series of booms and busts, you get one longer slower initial burn and then you’re mostly done. They believe that in the long term this will make it easier to protect those most vulnerable to the virus, because you only have to do it once, at the cost of increased prevalence among people least vulnerable to it. So they see it as a better longer term strategy.
Yeah if you're commuting in the rain or with lots of hills then disc brakes are definitely worth it. But if neither of those apply to you, they're probably not a good use of money, especially considering it still costs quite a lot to get good quality hydraulic disc brakes.
Use Firefox.

Google Chrome does use a cloud service.

Edit: Firefox does not support the Web Speech API at this time. There are not currently any offline versions of this API as far as I can tell.
> Not sure how often stairwells are cleaned though.

'Never' would be my wild guess.
> If you have SSH access, you can use it. No matter what environment or company you work for, there’s no agent to install

I don't get why is this always brought up as a major advantage when discussing CM. Ansible actually installs its Python runtime to target systems. Once I had a server that had full disk root and Ansible failed to work because there was no space left to copy tons of its Python code.
Yes! Especially the Hacker News Silicon Valley types. HN is becoming so predictable these days.
It's true that the factor between RMS vs peak-to-peak is different for e.g. a sine vs a sawtooth wave, but for other waveforms its still a constant (just a different one), and for this engine it should be just about a sine wave anyway.
Was going to title "This is the week to social distance" but HN cut off "This is", which made it unclear.
In times of increased demand, it becomes necessary to increase production. I assume you are aware of the concept of overtime pay? In California in particular, 150% pay is guaranteed for hours over 40 in a week and hours over 8 in a workday, increasing to 200% pay for hours over 12 in a shift and more than 8 hours on their 7th consecutive day of work.[1]

What options do they have? Hiring new employees requires training, and that takes time. Meeting demand quickly requires a significant increase in payroll per unit produced, so why shouldn't they be able to charge more? What incentive do they have to increase their costs for a diminished return?

[1]https://www.tsheets.com/resources/overtime-laws-california
Europe has fairly strict sound limits on motorcycles (and they are getting stricter) in euro4/euro5. This constrains the manufacturers, but aftermarket enforcement really varies by location.

These days a lot of manufacturers homologate to meet multiple standards, so we get euro4ish stuff in north america too, stock at least.
My compiler only supports C11, how do you compile C major?
Even though $10B seems nice, it's a drop in the bucket - any sustained depression at this level will start to have severe consequences far, far beyond the 2008 recession.

I hate to sound like Trump and make this about the economy, but if this keeps up, we're all in serious trouble - we need to spend.

With all of the 'social isolation' talk, there needs to be a push to 'stay calm carry on' i.e. focus on the 'carry on' parts - we need to do our jobs, we need to finish our work, we need to keep buying stuff (obviously thoughtfully), and we should also be trying to find ways to enjoy ourselves or we're going to go crazy.

I'm really worried about my two locally-owned cafes, I'm literally stepping out now to get 'take out coffee' as I would normally 'sit-in' so as to cause the least disruption to their business. Same with everything else frankly.

1/2 of my 'What I am going to do?' Coronavirus thoughts have revolved around how I can 'keep spending at my regular places' because if we don't do that, it's going to go down like dominos. I know most people probably don't think in those terms, but the moment you become responsible for a P&L, one's worldview shifts!

It's possible that negative economic downturn could inadvertently cause more bad life outcomes than the pandemic itself.

The economy is the circulatory system of our collective wealth (and therefore health), we need to chin up and keep at it.
Good for you, does that somehow make my experience invalid? No it's a YMMV which is why discs are important to me.

Replacing a 2k usd bike every 2 years in addition to paying for car while I try to work into cycling is a big cost. I'm a big person, I've had pretty much every rim but velocity touring rims fail due to weight and stress, and rim brakes made this worse and fail faster, it's also real shady to have a rim crack while you're riding it. Discs completely remove that from the equation.
> For larger nations, there simply aren't enough tests available

Why? If your nation is twice as big, then all else equal, your government has twice as much money, twice as many resources, and hence twice as many tests. China now has more tests than they need and they're the 2nd most populous nation in the world.
One region of Italy is close to their ICU beds limit, despite a full lockdown. And they have more beds per person than the UK. Without a full lockdown, won't they run out of beds very quickly, thus increasing the death rate a lot?
The kill rate from economic loss far exceeds the virus atm.

You mightn't see it yet as people stick together but a lot of small business owners will be killing themselves in a year's time. (But most of economic deaths are more subtle)

The UK is also reducing this.

They are also coming into Summer, it's crazy to not maximize during this time.

The right thing to do would be to purposely infect people with a spray and isolate.

Society won't allow this. So we have to do other methods. They have a lot of lag and are random and exponential so probably out of real control.

With the UKs plan they can't keep it to young people. That certainly won't work.

But they will save many invisible economic lives.
According to MDN, Firefox doesn't support it?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Speech_...

EDIT: According to other documentation, it is behind a config flag. If you enable it, it will send the data to Google's API through a Mozilla-operated proxy: https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Web_Speech_API_-_Sp...
I volunteer at a drop-in center for kids at a local public housing project. For what it's worth, we've started springing for music, dance, martial-arts lessons for our teens. These are the kids who can't afford the fees for school sports, and who don't have reliable ways to get around (parents with cars).

It's making a big difference. We're facepalming for not starting to use our budget for this purpose sooner. These young are getting more engaged with school.

We explicitly avoid taking surveys about substance type stuff, so it's hard to know for sure how much a difference it makes. Plus the program is too young. (We don't take surveys because "n" is too small to ensure anonymity and the kids know it. We have a "no judgement ethic to uphold.)

But the kind of stuff suggested in this article seems to work so far.

My purpose in working with these kids is convincing some of them "do your math homework, and you'll get a good job. It's your ticket out of housing."
Its beginning to take shape. Already got a bunch of good candidates for experimentation next week based on the answers so far.
>> Death Rate = (number of deaths / number of cases) = probability of dying if infected by the virus (%)

That's not a great way of measuring the death rate during an on-going epidemic. They should be measuring the number of people who died today / number of cases a week ago.
I live in the UK and rim brakes are fine in even heavy rain. What they are not fine with is mud and grit on the rim.

I do use a touring bike (basically a racing bike that isn't quite as aggressive) and I've ridden that all year round.
>These are perfomance vehicles that are rarely taken out, usually to tracks or shows,

Okay, if this is how it is, then why are they allowed on the road? Obviously I don't have a problem with people driving this in tracks or shows, only in public roads.

Besides, if the speed limit is, at most, 130kph, why do we allow (again, on public roads) machines that go to 250, 300, or above? Or that speed from a stop to that aforementioned speed limit in 5 or 6 seconds? Again, by all means enjoy them on the tracks (still, within reason with more relaxed emission standards).
>Having so little respect for other human beings that you compare them to little children is not constructive foundation upon which to base policy making.

You seem to be opposed to policy making at all. So what's your point? Furthermore, reasoning from past experience and generalizing the approach to a population is at it's essence what cultures do.

>So other people should do what you want, not what they want, because you know better than them? How would you feel if people compared you to "little children having a tantrum" just because your values differed from theirs?

How one feels is unfortunately somewhat irrelevant in the face of an existential systemic crisis. Learning and internalizing this is part of becoming an adult, or managing any social unit larger than oneself. That the train is barreling down the tracks at you does not change just because you feel inconvenienced. You and everyone else in your community are on the tracks, and need to organize to get everyone safely off in the time you have left. Part of that may be coming to terms with the fact that not everyone can get what they want (getting off the track right now) if the means of doing so is constrained.

By all means though, if you wish to give the finger to your society that's actually trying to do the best it can for everyone; go ahead. Just don't be surprised if it turns out that the fact you did makes life difficult for you down the road.
Covid-19 Is Not the Spanish Flu
No amount of google-fu turned up anything other than a single article that mentioned long lines in a store on the Upper West side. Maybe it's making the rounds on facebook/social media as a scare-story but there's no apparent truth to it.
No, they aren’t. Read it again.

In 2001 SETI@home had more flops than the best supercomputer of the time. In 2013, SETI@home had fewer flops than the best supercomputer of the time.
Yes, you can document this kind of thing all you like with the 311 app but cops will "investigate" and find no problems and take no action. Another good twitter account documenting this kind of stuff is https://twitter.com/placardabuse
Coronavirus and our dependency on expiring HTTPS
Open source platform for running web projects on any server (SSL, CD included)
They should at the very least be building several emergency hospitals right now to create beds, but they are not.

What do you think that would usefully achieve?

The problem isn't just beds. They don't want most people with the virus to go to healthcare facilities, they want them to stay home and avoid spreading it around.

The problem is intensive care and isolation facilities for the most sick patients who really need extra help. These require equipment, medication, clinical staff, etc. They are trying to increase the number of these facilities available, but the capacity will go from a few thousand normally to a few thousand more in the entire country.
orange line in LA, built in 2005.
> They are ignoring any sensible model of this

Meaning what? They've explained their reasoning.
Well, for Germany it's normally some rap songs (where views seem to be bought to push unknown artists), turkish soap operas and low quality circle-jerk clickbait where some Youtubers comment on what other Youtubers did. It's really a shame.

These days there's some Covid 19 coverage in there, but that only slightly makes it better.
To be honest, I don’t think this kind of conversation is worthwhile on HN. There are very few facts here, just opinions.

I’m all for posting authoritative information, and interesting side-effects.

But just shooting around opinions is best left for Twitter, Facebook, Reddit.
I am not sure if incognito will help you avoid Geo and other non-cookie based personalization
Secretaries at Multics sites not only used Emacs in the 70s -- they customized it with Lisp. They were only ever told they were customizing their editor, not programming it, so they never got intimidated!
In Europe, I get: a youtuber telling you about his "battle" with some other youtuber and how he converted him "back to islam, inshallah" (on tape obviously). Both people seem to have a problem with some body parts near their crotch, judging from their gestures. The same "environment" produced a mob of dozens of people, attacking each other in Berlin in broad daylight, because one guy claimed "Don't come to Berlin, it's my territory, you, who dared to tarnish my mothers honor in your vid".

Basically it's tribalism 101 spread to thousands of people of general low education at an amazing rate. And thanks to the bubbles, we all know about, knowbody challenges this...
I thought they've found the virus to be much more transmittable by air than by touching public surfaces. Is that not the case?
Actually that was me, you looked really thirsty!
Finder on OSX meets that criteria
Assuming your question is in good faith, the answer is: when you rent something on AWS, you are paying for total cost of ownership sliced out. When you run something on your gaming rig GPU, you already paid for the machine/GPU - now you are "just" paying for electricity and depreciation. So if you have a gaming rig sitting around while you are writing a web app or whatever, let it do some science for just the cost of electricity.
Yep, it's not so much the production limits (still, they could be pushed gradually lower and I'm sure the manufacturers would manage), but it's the often grey-are of aftermarket modifications.
Such carelessness needs to be heavily punished. I didn't check the details, but I'm guessing it was some No-SQL database left open with default settings. But that's irrelevant: the company that does such a thing needs to be shut down.
He was known to be a liar and a charlatan when he was elected, so we clearly didn't care then. And we haven't cared enough over the last four years to effectively remove him from office, so why pretend it matters now?
Surely this depends on the drug?
Surprised this new idea doesn’t support object storage. Sounds like Git LFS would still be the right way to go for repos with assets for games like meshes, sounds, etc.

However I’ve heard many studios use Perforce instead. However not being open source is a downside to some, but I don’t really know too much about it personally.

Then if working with a lot of non code files, sounds like some solutions have locking. I guess not two people could edit the same Blender or PSD file at the same time and then merge them later on.

Kinda wouldn’t surprise me if some companies actually run multiple versioning control systems. Code on one system, game assets on another.
This is why I use Chess.com
There is definitely a higher risk you inhale enough virus progeny indoors than outdoors, yes. We know from the flu that indoors the virus can stay suspended for many hours. Regular talking can project enough virus from an infected person for the air to become sufficiently contaminated, though shedding varies by individual. The more (longer) you breathe that air, the greater your chance of becoming infected. This might also explain why indoors is a greater risk than outdoors, you spend less time in the air that's contaminated, in addition to the greater diffusion/dispersion outdoors, of course.
You can read some of the rationale behind the plan here:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

I'll be honest, I watched the announcement on Friday in open mouthed horror. I can't claim I have a concrete refutation for either the broad logic or the specific evidence underlying it, but even the best case scenario is a disaster of historic proportions. I wish us luck. I wish the rest of the world luck if it turns out we're right and they're wrong.
Docker refocuses on developers with new updates to Docker Desktop and Docker Hub
Someone gets $$$$ from mining my CPU, great one! :(
It doesn't, but reserving the more extreme measures until we're further along potentially does. You can't lock everything down completely for an indefinite period, so you need to time it to get the most benefit when you push the button. So the theory goes, anyway.
If cloud services are such an issue (as they would be for me) then it's worth considering the security of local logs and whatever. Maybe limit lifetime, or even use FDE.
Face touching is literally unconscious in many cases. It's entirely possible you've been touching your face and not noticing it, but have just become more conscious of the times you attempt to stop yourself from touching your face.
We are in one of those classic scenarios where it's not clear if you should congratulate them on taking the right action or put their head on a pike for doing it too slowly.
The other countries are going for herd immunity too. The goal of all lock-downs and red zones is just to prevent the health system from collapsing.
As another commenter mentions, last March was freezing cold and this March has been relatively warm. (I went jogging last night in Brooklyn in 63°F weather!)

But the article also doesn't mention that Citibike finally rolled out the e-bikes for good. I'm not sure how much of a difference that's making, but I wouldn't be surprised if that also accounts for an extra increase on the bridges specifically, since getting up the bridges is really their main use case.
I teach at a community college in the USA. Maybe 10 percent of them are what I would consider computer literate. 80% can get by but the other 10% are very computer illiterate.

On reddit I will sometimes see memes about tech illiterate professors but they only think that because they don't see the rest of their classmates try to use tech in front of them.

I had typed up a list of things that I see students struggle with when they try to use computers but I don't want to make it seem like I am sitting around "look at these kids these days!" because in reality in a class or say 20 there will only be 1-2 that really struggle with computers.

-- Of course this will make it a real shit show with all the schools at all levels going to "elearning" to deal with the Coronovirus.
Sure, but this twitter post gets shared a lot.

https://twitter.com/robfordmancs/status/1238882933508919299?...

https://twitter.com/robfordmancs/status/1238816293463228423?...

"An awful lot of people with no background in epidemiology or health, and no access to the government’s policy making process, seem to be pronouncing with very high levels of certainty about what is being done and why. It is not obvious to me how this is helpful"
> Ignore this comment.

Why because you don't agree with it?

> Is it overkill not to burn through a set of rims each winter?

I dunno how you are doing this. A set of brake pads last quite a while usually. I have rims from the 1990s I am still using.

> Is it overkill to have decreased stopping distance in the rain?

Your stopping distance is more about how much grip you got on the road from the tyres. You can easily lock the wheel with a rim brake, especially if you have a good set of dual pivot or V-brakes.

For commuting you don't need anything flashy or complicated (because it will be a magnet for thieves). I literally get a basic but decent bike. If the parts are basic and ubiquitous you can go to any bike shop and get it repaired or by the parts yourself. If you have fancy equipment, then it more difficult to buy a replacement.

When I was commuting on the bike still, I used an old 90s mountain bike with V-brakes and I converted it to Single Speed (the gears were knackered) and stuck some touring tyres on there. However I was cycling in Manchester which is mostly flat. It really depends where you are.