skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I haven't seen a new icon set, application theme or website that didn't look like any other icon set, application theme or website in years.

Probably because you only visit mainstream sites, use mainstream software or you just don't look hard enough. That said I tend to agree that there's lots of similarity.

Visit a few sites listed here:

https://www.hoverstat.es

I also find lots of odd little programs in the music production category that are very individualistic in appearance.
Detuche Bank is inching toward bankruptcy.[0]

All indications are that this virus will take more than two months to deal with - you should carefully monitor China for the next few weeks because their self reported recovery may not be genuine.

How long can businesses hold out? What's stopping authoritarianism from taking hold, left and/or right, if this drags on for 3-6 months? We don't even know if you build lasting immunity to this virus yet. It could become endemic.

0. https://www.macroaxis.com/invest/ratio/DB--Probability-Of-Ba...
Most of Microsoft's anti-trust related behavior was in the 1990s. Closer to 25 years ago. Merely a quarter of a century.

There's something hilariously farcical about holding a grudge toward Microsoft for a quarter of a century.
Does anyone know of it works with Ansible ? Thanks!
That buys a decent amount of whiteclaw, instant lotto tickets and juul pods.
Depends how much we're able to slow it down. For example Canada had first case in January, and 2 months later is only up to ~500 confirmed cases. It is still exponential but much slower. Hopefully the new measures put in the past week will slow it even more.

At which point, once we have fast and reliable testing, we can actually start having people go out more and reduce the isolation, since we can count on better testing to stop the spread.
A lot of people will have died and our economies really aren't built for long term social isolation either.
That’s always the problem with these forms of obliquitous advice - they are paradoxical. I’m not saying they don’t work or are necessarily to be dismissed because they seem practically impossible because they are on the surface self-limiting. I’m just saying that’s what they all share.

Zen. Buddhism. Sufism. Stoicism. Minimalism. Less is more.

You have to experience it to know it. The anti-thesis of science.
However many years ago it was that sourceforge capsized, I swore to myself that I'd never give a 3rd party control of my source code repository (or bug tracker or ...).

I still use github because it is convenient for many other people, but it is always a mirror of the canonical repository, which runs under my control on AWS (and is fully replicated locally).

I understand the convenience, but once burned, twice shy: I'm never going to rely on 3rd party code hosting services ever again.
As a user I don't want a React app. I want a native app.

I can understand why you as a developer don't have time to maintain the different platforms, but for a UI app running on my laptop or desktop I care about one platform and that is macOS.

It's okay if it's Mac only and many apps are.
Somewhere between 70 and 80% of people have credit cards, so most people. No this doesn't help everyone, we need the government to step up.

Lending money is what banks do, so I don't see why they are going to be upset about people using credit...
more likely to get a used returned item being sold as new; I bought an expensive water filter cartridge from AMZ and got shipped one that was obviously used. Somebody probably bought a new one, then returned their current used one. AMZ refunded money without question tho. You could get a new vac with a spent expensive battery pretty easily.
What do irrational numbers like phi have to do with the lack of ethics of large corporations?
Coronavirus: France imposes 15-day lockdown
Another interesting example is Hyder, Alaska, which is only accessible by road from BC, Canada. It relies on various services from Canada, including ambulance and fire services, the latter due to Hyder's fire hall being burnt down, with their fire engine inside, during an Independence Day fireworks display.

There are no border controls when entering Hyder from Canada, as the only way to access the rest of Alaska from Hyder is via seaplane, and those flights are treated as international in origin when they land. There is a inspection station when crossing into Canada, but it is closed overnight -- anyone wishing to enter Canada when its closed must report via videophone.
In general, masks are something that the sick person wears to prevent germ spread. Same idea as why surgeons wear them in the operating theater.

The only kind of mask that's going to filter particulate matter out of the air (i.e., be effective against the virus for someone who is not infected) is something that has an airtight seal.
I was talking about using solar (as an example) as the energy input to produce synthetic fuel, not solar planes.
Look to China for an indication. China's oil consumption, I believe I heard, was down by 25%. I believe I heard it on the Planet Money podcast: https://www.npr.org/2020/03/11/814529252/episode-978-coronav...
Well you can come up with any number of solutions with various trade-offs.

One obvious choice is that there's only one maintainer doing merges -- if they sign and push different content to different repos, it's a problem of their own making. So unless they screw up, there's no need to worry.

Other than that, you could give priority to any change based on e.g. its timestamp or hash. Sounds arbitrary? Yes, but such is life. If two people push a branch to be merged simultaneously to a repo where everything is merged to master after rebasing, one of them (depending on luck) is going to find that their commits landed while the other soons finds out that they need to rebase and try again. In a scenario with multiple mirrors, you'd obviously want to try to use the same repo when possible, but if you don't, it'll take a little longer for you to find out that your stuff was overruled by changes in another mirror.
When has Iran not have massive (>10%) inflation?

* https://tradingeconomics.com/iran/inflation-cpi

Not since at least 1970 AFAICT.
>They are mostly useless. Only for people, who are already sick, to stop them from spreading virus further. //

Um, this is kinda what ordinary people want!!

If you stop it spreading, then most of us don't get it!

Yes, it doesn't stop you getting it, but if it stops you spreading it then we hinder/stop the epidemic [but we're way past that now].
If Windows goes away, personal computing basically dies with it. Everything will be locked-down walled-garden webshit, or community-built-jank FOSS desktops that really want to be like the locked-down walled-gaden webshit experience but will say it is for the user's own good.
In a similar effort, here is a minimal Swift module (i.e. a reusable code package) which can be used a starting point for new projects:

https://github.com/fulldecent/swift5-module-template
I use nextcloud talk with installed coturn (STUN/TURN) to regularly connect with friends. But it is mostly one-on-one, no experience with +4 people. Sometimes there is the issue for browsers to pickup the mic but this will get sorted out. I recommend it. Before we used appear.in (now whereby.com). For work face-to-face is nice and human, but screensharing+audio is where the productivity really is. I think mumble would be fine too if it can be transport encrypted.
Do you have a reference for that as I keep hearing it repeated but I'm yet to see any real evidence for it.
A year without conferences? How the coronavirus pandemic could change research
When the stock get wiped out anyone holding the stock will loose their money. Those people are called investors and will loose anything they invested. They do not have a choice. They bought a stock for something, and now it is worth 0 and will never be worth anything ever again.

There are of course other options in restructuring etc, but investors can always face the possibility of loosing all the money they have invested.
Kudos to your daughter for self-teaching German!
She might have a look at
https://anton.app/de/
This App covers all major school topics, from class 1 to 10... and it is free.
Terraform keeps track of resources it creates. One can remove resources (VMs, managed databases, persistent volumes, DNS records) from the config file and Terraform will cleanly delete them. This is a crucial feature for most deployments.

For example, I deployed an app backend to DigitalOcean with a load balancer, 2x replicated API server, 2x replicated worker process, managed database, file storage, and static website. Terraform is tracking 114 resources for each deployment.

It seems that automatic removal is poorly supported by Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Salt, etc. One can explicitly add items to a "to_remove" list, but this is error-prone.

Terraform has many limitations and problems, but I have found no better tool.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18182508
Nah, they didn’t lobby enough or enmesh themselves in mutually-assured destruction points in the economy, therefore they can be left to wither on the vine like normal people.
This, yes, thanks.
Paypal ?
Square ?

A lot depends on your use case.
Voodoo death
Surely that's why it was crazy when ordinary, uninfected people, wanted to wear masks to tell them "well that won't help".

I can't see how reducing transmission "isn't helping".
"People may travel for shopping for necessary supplies, accessing health care, and providing aid to family and friends who need assistance, and for non-residents, returning to their home outside the Bay Area. Airports, taxis, and public transit — including BART — will remain operational, but only for essential travel and people are expected to keep six feet apart when possible."

"Grocery stores and pharmacies will remain open, and restaurants may stay open to provide takeout food only. Also staying open: veterinary services, gas stations and auto repair shops, hardware and other home supply stores, banks and laundry services."

I live in a different, smaller, metropolitan area, but this does not sound terrible to me. I do imagine that many folks must be frustrated, and some folks have fragile routines that cannot take much stress, but it seems like many allowances are being made for daily life to continue largely uninterrupted.

What I dislike is how it might be enforced. I am fortunate to usually not be harrassed by police, but many of my neighbors are not so lucky. I don't want to see situations where this sort of emergency sheltering order is used as a pretext for oppression.
This is very useful - definitely bookmarking this to remember for the next time I write a macOS app.
The thing about avoiding passive voice drives me batty- not just here, that admonition is everywhere. Sometimes it's useful, that's why it exists. Using it does not (necessarily) indicate a moral failing.
An LLVM-IR to idiomatic Haskell compiler in Pascal would complete the journey.
Passenger vehicles don't need a Mansfield bar, because their primary crash structure has to be between 16 and 20 inches from the ground.
#NoCode is the new code
This is the right answer. As someone who has the virus, it absolutely helps you not spread it. As someone who doesn't, it may stop a few droplets from getting into your system right at that moment, but said droplets can still get on your hands, and 30m later when you scratch your nose, you'll still get infected.

So yes, with supply being low, it's far more useful for infected people to not spread said droplets.
QE tends to be net neutral financially.

The Fed steps in, makes some loans or buys some securities -- when the disaster abates, they get some money back from their loans and sell the securities for a profit.
Wow, so a dashboard + backend? Or a framework? Or both?
> yarn v2/berry?

I had still been following 1.x

Looking at https://yarnpkg.com/advanced/migration : T-T

We have so many little modules from different teams, or even borderline abandonware, that it would take ages to make these changes, and 'yarn node'?? Just... no. How is that ever gonna work consistently with node_modules/.bin?

At this point my choices are, start contributing to yarn and npm development, or get my ass in gear on learning Elixir and Rust. I have been wondering for maybe 18 months if I might be 'done with Node'. I think I've had it backward this whole time. Node may in fact be done with me.
What sports? They all shut down

Well, maybe esports are still going
I don't know where they are getting their numbers, but the one I can easily fact check for you are flat out wrong, and the other ones all strike me as very suspicious.

> Canadians could expect to wait 4.3 weeks for a computed tomography (CT) scan, 10.6 weeks for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan, and 3.9 weeks for an ultrasound.

I've had multiple ultrasounds (outside of a hospital, no urgency) the waiting time is literally 0. I walk in to the imaging clinic and hand them the piece of paper the GP gave me 10 minutes ago and get one.

I've had a CT scan (in a hospital, medium urgency), the waiting time was "a few hours".

I've never needed a MRI, the only person I know who did need one (very urgently) got it within hours.

The waiting time for specialists does not strike me as believable, but given that there is variation across the different fields I can't authoritatively say they are wrong. For context, I just needed to see both a dermatologist and a urologist (nothing serious, no medical related urgency), the waiting time was roughly 2 weeks and 3 weeks respectively.
> now that Wine exists

Wine is 26 years old.
Use formal language when the audience demands it, and never otherwise. Why? Because your audience is human beings, not machines. Write for humans.

Even in reports and documentation, your audience will thank you if you sound like a human. Now, documentation has to be precise, and therefore has to define and use terms precisely. But documentation also contains description, and that description should be written informally when possible.

Edit: Ignore this. ucarion said it better.
Cargo vans fail at a lot of things:

hauling a couple cubic meters of manure

hauling hives with live bees

hauling a large trailer (we have ones that attach to a platform installed in the middle of a pick-up truck bed, like a smaller version of commercial truck transport)

hauling dry ice, compressed gas, liquid nitrogen, or anything else that could displace the air in a cargo van

hauling roadkill, especially things like skunks

hauling small vehicles such as ride-on lawnmowers, ATVs, go carts, motorcycles, etc.
An interactive tool for Covid-19 curve flattening
UK COVID19 model published [pdf]
Edwin from Stripe here. Sorry you've been having trouble as of late—do you know yet what’s causing those transactions to fail? I'm happy to help troubleshoot if you email edwin@stripe.com.
I believe the paradox you point out is taking it to the extreme. This is the parent poster's sentiment: You don't care deeply about a rejection outcome, but you care enough about a positive outcome to give it a shot and see what happens. If it happens to be the case that the receiving party rejects you, you should not care and move on easily. I think the benefit of making a good friend far outweighs the cost of rejection, so much so that we are willing to give it a few hundred shots.

For some people, the chances are so low that the chances range in thousands, not hundreds, and then they start giving up.
> People working many hourly jobs net less than $1,000 per month and cannot afford to take unpaid time off.

Absolutely and those people should receive assistance through the regular channels we have available. Unemployment, charities, welfare, churches, synagogues, etc. and frankly, good old fashioned neighborly assistance.

Not by throwing money at everybody, most of whom do not need it. That's just redistribution of wealth by another means. Don't shove your political agenda down people's throats in the middle of a pandemic.
And then the virus spreads one month later.
My wife teaches at a school for autistic children ranging from K through 12. Her students are barely functioning and some can't talk. I have no idea what their parents are going to do as the school closed today until further notice.
An antifragile business should be antifragile period, not just in certain times. N.N. Taleb would surely give you a vigorous public thrashing for mis-applying his term :-).

Most online services will grow while people are stuck at home. Entertainment will grow somewhat, but practical and educational services will grow even more.

As well as a huge immediate demand for masks & sanitizer, the public will probably demand an substantial stockpile of such supplies for the future. So if you build a mask factory, you don't have to worry that demand will fall off a cliff in a few months.
For verifying the slides’ source? Not that I can think of, unfortunately. The slides themselves are at the featured link.
It's here now : have a look.

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s...
I'm always worried when thing like this happen :

Critical open source entities are bought by private company. I understand the need for money and sustainability these entities need, but it's really a shame that the open source community doesn't "own" themselves.
No C library is changing their ABI every couple of seconds, and plus many of those tools understand C header files, quite feasible to fix broken bindings every now and then.
what does this mean for yarn?
Trust in the system is at an all-time low. At Amherst College, the administration decided shortly before Spring Break that students should not return after the break in order not to bring back coronavirus to campus and spread it there. There would be accommodations when necessary.

There was a sit-in to protest against the very sensible decision. One would think that at the second-best college in the nation the administration would be aware that some students may have difficulties coming up with emergency funds for travel, that there may be travel bans or that some students might not wish to return to unstable living conditions at home. But the students did not trust the system to work for them.

Some stage sit-ins, others buy firearms.
I don't get it, particularly in the context of emergency relief for individuals, which is where this conversation started.

1. The pandemic reveals major holes in the social safety net that people are pretty upset about.

2. One party wants the patch the holes, and they continue to feel that way. The other party regards the holes as grimly necessary to keep people properly motivated, or part of God's divine plan, or impossibly expensive to fix in spite of the fact that less wealthy countries manage it, or something, and they continue to feel that way.

therefore

3. Woo, both sides are equally crazy!!!

This is why we can't have nice things.
Norwegian was struggling financially before COVID 19. This isn't surprising. Norway has one of the world's most robust social support systems. I'm confident that they will deploy it well here.
You are right. 64 bit Ubuntu 16.04 alone is supported. It allows them to focus and ship faster updates.
Think about it as "putting in the effort could be a net positive, if it works out, but if it doesn't it's not a big deal and it's fine to try again with someone else".

Worth the effort, but not attaching overly much weight or importance to the outcome.
Good design is about how a thing works, not what it looks like. This calendar and clock does not work well - I am willing to bet my entire life's savings in a psychology study that determines the reaction time to read the date + time of this calendar/clock vs. reading high contrast numbers.

Functional trade-offs for "coolness" - I didn't read that memo in Design school, sorry.
I can't imagine Canada not being lenient in this situation, we tend to have quite good relations with all commonwealth countries
counting on lockdown to be over in future point when they fly. Worst case they lose( or get a refund) if the lockdown is still on.
You can try to make them like you but if they don’t it’s fine too and you can move on. It’s like sports. For some people losing is the worst thing and they go crazy. Other people like playing but they are fine losing and won’t stop playing.

I have some level of social anxiety and for me rejection can be devastating for a long time. Other people I know will just move on from that rejection “no big deal”
No worries! I didn't mean it as a correction so much as just a discussion; I'm sure it's true that other autodiff systems have very sophisticated automatic remat (like https://openreview.net/forum?id=BkYYXJ9i-). I'm hoping as users push JAX on new applications, especially in simulation and scientific computing, we'll learn a lot and be able to improve!

There's also "cross-country optimization" (https://www-sop.inria.fr/tropics/slides/EdfCea05.pdf) for mixing some forward-mode into reverse-mode to improve memory efficiency. Analogously to jax.checkpoint, we've only experimented with exposing that manually (in jax.jarrett, named because of https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.08297), and even then only for a special case. There's a lot to learn about, experiment with, and build!
When you are saying that you want to own the entire checkout experience, what exactly do you mean? Do you want to own everything related to processing credit card payments, including card data storage etc? It would also good to specify where your company is located.

We've had good experiences with Braintree, Adyen, Stripe and multiple other payment services for our customers at Shoperb (www.shoperb.com. It does sound like the problem you are facing may be technical implementation related. Have you done a custom implementation or using what Stripe provides out of the box?
The difference is that custom platform widgets can get platform behaviors if the developers care enough, which they do.
In my experience writing reports on public health data, it depends on the audience and their intent. Lay people will skip (or worse, misinterpret) any paragraph containing "statistically significant." But the epidemiologists will want enough details to completely recreate my numbers.

I've settled on a mix: plain language that expresses intent and the key points (not just using a thesaurus to replace jargon). And at the end, a hyper-detailed technical notes, methodology, and references section. The goal is any expert who's read the tech notes can read the report and understand the assumptions and math behind each statement.

Personally, I like this kind of reporting. Read the tech notes to check that it's reliable, then read the report with peace of mind. I was going to "translate" the jargon into basic concepts anyway, so this saves a step.
As someone outside the industry it _appears_ [emphasis there] to have gone from "we can take a few weeks and test you for a specific disease susceptibility" to "place your finger here and then grab a coffee ... sorry for the wait, OK we have details on 100 different diseases now" in a matter of 2 or 3 years.
Thank goodness. This waste of electricity and natural resources needs to go away.
> NPM being such an important pillar in the software supply chain while having an unviable business model and largely being funded by VC money was never a good position to be in.

Why does NPM need to be funded as a commercial entity at all? What other open source library has a private company running its package manager? This one still boggles my mind.
I specifically bought a car with electrochromic mirrors for this reason. I highly recommend it.
My point being that infected already exist here broadly, presumably in every urban area. The small number of people crossing borders wouldn't seem to make any difference, the goal should be on the more local levels of transmissions (closing restaurants or slashing capacity, hygiene requirements, closing schools/workplaces/events, i.e. venues for transmission) risking adding a few infected individuals to a large population of infected individuals seems to be the wrong step, or much much too late.