skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm assuming he's talking about toilet soap, not liquid soap. Both are surfactants, but I suppose, still behave a bit differently.

>Consequently, many antibacterial products are basically just an expensive version of soap in terms of how they act on viruses.

In that case, this part would be wrong. You use up toilet soap a lot faster than liquid soap, especially if the dosages of the liquid are managed efficiently.
I'm not arguing that people aren't better at using computers than the previous generation. I'm arguing they aren't necessarily more -literate-.

I'm saying that intuitively understanding UX is different than understanding how a computer works.

I don't trust either generation to be competent enough to enact legislation regarding computers.
Isn't buying silver plated better due to germicidal properties of silver?
Petition to temporarily lift embargoes on Iran during Covid-19 outbreak
Some survivors of SARS had significant long-term health complications. It remains to be seen if this will be the same.
If I'm not misinterpreting you, you can already do this with rss : https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/
And your plans for those who won't work with you (for whatever reason) to address the collective struggle are...?
How Long Will It Take to Develop a Coronavirus Vaccine?
> If the markets keep falling, I may end up with around 30k, which is enough for me to pay my mortgage for a year and a half.

Hope you're factoring in the additional tax burden of extra income. That may decrease your runway from 18 months down to 13-14.
Nope, that's not a class, that's a struct and a module with functions. Any method called as obj.foo(5) is really just a function foo with a hidden argument foo(obj, 5). Rust makes this architecture explicit with its structs and trait impls separated - and no OOP in sight.

Classes, on the other hand, are not structs with functions. More like black boxes whose contents can be swapped out at any moment. OOP is about hiding implementation and infinite extensibility.
I don't understand your comment. All tweets show, next to the timestamp, the client they were posted from. If you tap it, it brings you to a help article that explains what the field means. Unless you mean something else...
I had some SGI IRIX machines impacted by the Y2K bug: if you ran an unpatched OS, nobody could login after Jan 1, 2000 0:0:0Z.

One of them, was running calculations 24/7 for a research group at the university and fortunately they were able to stop the jobs in time for an OS upgrade.
Depends on if your definition of clean is to render the contaminant inert (which is going to basically always involve some sort of chemical reaction) or to just move it elsewhere.

If you want to wash the problem down the drain then making large clumps out of the offending molecules helps. If you want to actually alter the offending molecules then you'll probably not want something that makes clumps.

This is why doctor's wash their hands while janitors wipe down surfaces with disinfectants.
The fact that I make X here while pay is 4X in SF is the only proof needed to show job markets and pay levels are local.

If a SF company wants to hire me remotely, I'll take the job at 1.5X, so they won't pay more than that. The simple reason is this: If I don't want the job at 1.5X the local pay, I my neighbor does, and he's every bit as good an engineer as I am. When they do hire me at 1.5X my current pay, they have bought my skill at the local market rate.
The energy required to change the length of the year is very large. Solar tides could transfer some energy from the Earth's rotation to the Earth's revolution, but even tapping all that energy (leaving the Earth tidally locked to the Sun) would not change the year length very much,
I think the number of developers that when starting a project start creating some inheritance tree is large. Some concepts work fit inheritance very well like GUI widgets or game entities, you would make a disservice not to tell students about the concepts and have them re-invent them.

Not sure how other languages do it, but in my daily work the only time I use inheritance is with an ORM , to get the magic to work you need to extend the base Model class , add a few lines of configuration code and you are done, for more advanced uses I think you have to override some methods.

But except the ORM code I don't think I used inheritance in a long time, though I used interfaces in some other cases.
I think it would have been terribly irresponsible to forcibly give the WHO top billing back when they were arguing nobody should restrict travel, or to suppress news of the preparations starting to take place in SV when official US authorities were universally saying it’s not a big deal.
At least the web interface shows the client used to create the tweet?
The article links Adversarial Fashion [0] with some nice looking and functional designs. Is there a similar service for customizing them? I'd gladly pay a premium if I could use custom plates instead of the constant ones from the artist

[0]: https://adversarialfashion.com/
Nobody knows if the virus will resurface or not, but China has no motivation to lie and just let people to have the disease since it's very costy to cure people.

However, China is motivated to resume society of other cities otherwise more people will get into economical troubles and it spirals.
They got 3 seats on the board and agreed to create a committee literally to search for Dorsey's successor. It's far too late for Dorsey. Realistically they're just letting him go out on his own terms at this point. In a few months Dorsey will announce that he's stepping down because he wants to focus his attention on his other job and that'll be that.
> Italy, which did act in time, but still failed because their neighboring countries (e.g. Germany - not technically a neighbor but within Schengen Zone) failed to act

This is incorrect. Italy closed borders on Jan 31st. The Chinese visitor to the Webasto company meeting came to Germany on Jan 19th.

It is easily evident that Germany closing its borders at the same time as Italy would not have prevented this transmission. You should probably increase your skepticism about the media where you read this.
It is worse than that - a dystopia is a result of humanity's folly. It being favored is a sad inherent result of "evolutionary" systems where it isn't what is more than what is morally right or wrong much less optimal. It rests upon one dumb tautology: All other things equal things which perpetuate spread more than things that do not. The process while producing quite a bit of emergent complexity is fundamentally dumb.

Self perpetuation is fundamentally based only on the implications of the strategy. If keeping elders alive past nominal utility helps spread well then it is effectively favored. Which may or may not be known ahead of time.

That said by being smarter than it we have both the ability and responsibility for the consequences for decisions to follow or defy its nudges as we can and see fit.
Maybe you saw it but no need to sigh anymore:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22551856

https://opensource.google
First, let's point out that each signed on the Paris Agreement.

Mercy.
Ok, good to know. I was afraid that actual full-scale OOP was what saved the day, but it was unnecessary yet again.
My favorite is the question headlines.

Is Mexico in talks with the US about drug cartels?

Are you chicken nuggets covered in covid-19?

Is Trump ritualistically sacrificing children in the oval office?

They're leaving it up in the air, so you can't call them on writing garbage they barely try to back up.
ARtillery Briefs: Lesson's from Niantic's AR Lead
Presumably, ingenuity and logic can lead one to a simplified case analysis (more cases covered by fewer separate conditions), which allows one to do a complete case analysis with less effort.
The core difference is in testing. With the later, you need to get your class into the right state to preform the test. You might even need a mock or two. With the non-OOP approach, you set the entire state of the function and see the results.
Human Interface: Backpack harness innovation
Japan has a different culture. When the government puts out a "strong recommendation", the society generally follows. This even happens with corporations. There's a culture of conformity there that just isn't present in western nations.
> These effects are a direct consequence of our dumping massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

And this is where this disconnect is. For every point you can produce, I can produce a counter point.

> And it's starting to release methane

Methane has been getting released for millennia (if not much, much longer) from the ocean floor.

> we have a massive temperature increase

I object to this statement.

> at an unprecedented speed

I also object to this statement.

> Think about ~1 BILLION PEOPLE on the search for greener

We're building a wall.
> Which is exactly why everyone with those symptoms needs to be tested.

This. I'm in my twenties so it's very possible for me to get COVID and only experience cold like symptoms (or less!). I'm sorry to everyone, but I won't self-quarantine myself for 14 days just because I have a stuffy nose (it's likely a cold right?). I'm fortunate enough to have the ability to take time off/work remote - but what if it's a cold this week and COVID in two weeks? I can't take a month off.

I'm from West Michigan - ATM there's very little testing available, and I'd only be tested if I had recently traveled. But we're past the point where recently traveling is such a big indicator - we're seeing plenty of community transmission for me to believe it's very likely everywhere already, and any lack of cases is because of a lack of testing.
Yes, it was a real crisis. This revisionist history that some are now saying it was no big deal. It was a big deal and many people spent many hours in the 90's assuring that the financial side of every business continued. I am starting to get a bit offended at the discounting of the effort put in by developers around the world. Just because the news didn't understand the actual nature of the crisis (Y2K = primarily financial problems) is no excuse to crap on the hard work of others. It is sad that people that got the job done by working years on it get no credit because they actually got the job done.

I see this as a big problem because Y2038 is on the horizon and this "not a big deal" attitude is going to bite us hard. Y2K was pretty much a financial server issue[1], but Y2038 is in your walls. Its control systems for machinery that are going to be the pain point and that is going to be much, much worse. The analysis is going to be a painful and require digging through documentation that might not be familiar (building plans).

1) yes there were other important things, but the majority of work was because of financials.
The Job of the UX Designer Is About to Undergo Radical Change
> The soap dissolves the fat membrane and the virus falls apart like a house of cards and "dies", or rather, we should say it becomes inactive as viruses aren’t really alive.

I always presumed that viruses, similar to other microorganisms, are alive. Until reading the above quote, I had never considered the idea there was any question about this. I was intrigued by the concept that they many not really be alive so looked up the Wikipedia article [1] which says that

> Viruses are considered by some to be a life form, because they carry genetic material, reproduce, and evolve through natural selection, although they lack key characteristics (such as cell structure) that are generally considered necessary to count as life. Because they possess some but not all such qualities, viruses have been described as "organisms at the edge of life", and as replicators.

One of the Wikipedia references is Are viruses alive? The replicator paradigm sheds decisive light on an old but misguided question [2] which looks at different replication mechanisms as a continuum rather than a simple “life vs non-life” dichotomy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5406846/
Other than a distro, what exactly do system76 provides in their lineup?

Their laptops are clevo with different branding.

Thelio doesn't seem good for the price point. I can have someone build me a custom cabinet at that price point (it looks meh) and all other parts are supplied by manufacturers.

What sets their experience apart?

You can get some great stuff from tonfangs, clevo, systempc, eluktronics, etc at a much more reasonable and realistic price.
What if Covid-19 were a Jira ticket? – A Lesson in Bug Prevention
I said I think there obviously can be savings though , just not obvious how it can be of the magnitude to really shift transportation. That’s not at all the same thing as no savings. You save on operation and maintenance costs, but not on infrastructure or staffing.

Do you think this is incorrect ?
With low inflammation, bats have long lifespan but are perfect hosts for viruses
Being first only matters when you solve a problem people already have. Polishing doesn't matter it that case because you ease people's pain.

If you create a thing that people don't want currently polishing and marketing all that matters.
Finally, a man who truly strives to live in a classless society.
They could trying going spectatorless like the NCAA is doing for basketball. The difficulty will be that tv rights are a huge moneymaker for the NCAA with ticket sales being some extra gravy on the top. The XFL gave away the tv rights for free to promote the new league. While they have planned to lose money for several years, ticket sales and in game concessions was to help offset the expense. Don't know how much this will increase their burn rate but it certainly won't help.
I feel the same when I see people arguing that ESP32 class processors should only be written in Assembly and C, having used high level languages on MS-DOS, Amiga and ZX Spectrum compatible hardware.
Canonical link: https://www.tygertec.com/covid-19-jira-ticket-bug-prevention...
Yeah, you should make sure to have at least a few months worth of cost of living available at all times. What you do with the rest is up to you really, I'd save it to be able to live off of for a year, then invest the rest.

Although I'm holding off on investing for now. Sold some of my 'play' money stocks (tesla etc) and put it in trackers. Might sell off those too and just wait it out a bit.
But its not a troll. My donations are no different from a startup founder going all in. Except my vision doesn't end up with me making billions of dollars. I'm working towards a vision where people around me has food to eat, gets education, and has a comfortable shelter.
> Ancient shell shows days were half-hour shorter 70M years ago.

Nope! That was just a typo bug in date.c:

int seconds = days * 84600;

See the transposed digits? That makes it exactly 1800 seconds shorter than 86400, or half an hour.
True, but if you can offset that with an HSA to cover your entire deductible and sweep the rest into a qualifying retirement plan it makes a lot of sense _and_ you don't have to worry as much about the deductible. Note: I am on a typical PPO and optimizing for minimum catastrophic amounts, generally so this is not the way I usually go but many colleagues seem to like these plans
Any-jump.[n]vim – jump to any definition/references with nice vim UI
Pixels in CSS do mean something, which is very clearly defined and which does related in a natural way to what a physical pixel would have been at the time. It's just that the definition adapts in a useful way to modern equipment as well, so dimensions specified in px for older screens still look roughly the same on newer ones.
AFAIK besides spending weeks in therapy, other possibilities are not confirmed for COVID-19.
This is going to be downvoted.... but I have never whiteboarded in my 7 years of professional development. It’s just not how all of us brainstorm.

Rather go try the code that I have ideas for, instead of talking back and forth. Most things I can be verbally told what they want and then I just go attempt it.
https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Lazy_portfolios
They’re not lying. I live in Shanghai. Things are kind of going back to normal. The rumor mill says schools may open up again in April. If the coronavirus wasn’t under control it would be impossible to hide. Without public health measures it has a doubling time of four to five days. The health system here would be overwhelmed and it would be obvious to all that it was. I’m not saying the numbers the CPC are publishing are entirely accurate but the trend in cases definitely is. Given strong enough public health measures this can be brought under control. It’s now in over a hundred countries so there will be further outbreaks but with sufficient measures we can limit the deaths until a vaccine is developed.
The premise is not that there are no dependencies of any sort, or that you aren't allowed to pass complex structures from one to the other. Its more about splitting logic (and by logic, he is referring to code with multiple, branching paths) from side-effects.

When you mix effectful code (rendering to the UI, accessing a database) with conditional logic, you need to resort to mocking (potentially complex) objects just to perform basic unit testing. He's simply stating that if you split those out into different functions (operations in his case) and use a simple function to integrate them together, it will make life easier, and I agree.

Its a very functional approach; get data, perform calculation, return data.

Like I said, I thought article did a good job of distilling an important idea into a simple pattern. It doesn't have to be an overarching architectural design; even just using it locally in a larger code base can make life easier.

*As an aside, I'd say there is a fundamental difference between:

'if a then b else c'

and

'other_function(a, quote(b), quote(c))`

The first, when tested inside the scope of its parent function needs multiple unit tests for full coverage, the second only needs one.
Tell your management to read that article and tell them if they don’t adapt others will and hence they will be left in the dust. So it’s in their best interest to adapt. Covid-19 will change the nature of “working from a office” forever. Personally, I think, People will realize that there is no need to mindlessly congregate in one place all the time for traditions sake. One good thing of covid is that its forcing this change. I am not saying that offices will go away but people will take a more nuanced look at status quo which will start the conversation on remote work. Then all we need is one of the big players(new or old) adapting this as a form of competitive advantage and watch the fun. As history as shown - ideas are one of the most powerful force (after gravity and compounding I suppose). They are the catalyst for change for centuries.
> So you're saying that a total shut down of the economy which could cause a depression is whats needed to deal with this virus. And thats no reason to be worried ?

Yeah. China covered this up at first, but it responded dramatically and authoritatively once the threat was understood. Being an authoritarian state, their power structures allow them to effectively restrict movement and manage the entire economy to limit the spread, and where they sit now is very nearly a best case scenario for what a response could look like barring that initial delay. And yet, even so, it will still result in countless second/third/nth order effects that will cause devastating public health and financial ramifications (the extent of which will only be slowly realized over time).

In comparison, the US is incredibly poorly situated. This country is a mishmash of loosely coupled quazi-independent governments, and its public health apparatus is mostly just de-facto run by the "invisible hand" of the market. The Federal Government has no ability to respond in the way China did, even assuming the people in control of it understood the potential severity here (which as yet they have not.)
Downvoted already. On further reflection, I think it must be the last category since it would be a challenge for a Russian [bot] account to get the karma to be able to downvote.
You seem to be referring to a hypothetical choice between investing a large accumulation of cash at the start of a period and portioning it out over the period, but the actual recommendation for dollar cost averaging is about moving money into investments as it becomes available rather than accumulating cash and trying to time the market.

If you've already accumulated a large cash position, yes, it's almost always better to dump it in the market, but unless it was an unexpected windfall, that just means you were suboptimally failing to use DCA before.
That's why I didn't inlcude the cabinets, did I? Just in Germany, the relvant data comes from the WHO (global picture), Robert Koch Institut (national), state health ministries (regional) and community health authorities (locally). All are relevant, the international numbers show the large picture, inlcuding the declining cases in China. The national ones provide more detailed insights into the country in question, while the regional and local ones are the most actionable for you. Which schools are closed, which policies are in place and whay. Stuff like that.

I would prefer to not get these from some journalist writig his tenth article today.

Personally, I am also very cautious with virologists taking the cable news and talk show turs right now. Where are they taking the time from to do so? If they are spokes people from institutions, it is different. But if their function is "professor at university X", my gut feeling tells me that they might like the public attention a tad too much.
I went back to my automatics when I found myself checking notifications and such too much. I had this fed up moment with my cell phone a few years ago where I felt like I was being programmed like a Pavlovian dog and I put the thing on silent permanently with a few custom settings for important people like my wife and parents etc. When I received a smartwatch (Samsung) I found myself slipping into the same habits and swapped back to my automatic watch. Full disclosure I also just love automatic watches, I find them fascinating and beautiful, but the ultimate driver was not wanting my cell phone/computer on my wrist.
A minor note in the article reads:

> To minimize I/O and take advantage of operating system caching, csearch uses mmap to map the index into memory and in doing so read directly from the operating system's file cache. This makes csearch run quickly on repeated runs without using a server process.

Does anyone know some resources where I can read more about this technique? (how-to, pros/cons, caveats, etc.) I'm interested in figuring out the best way to have a commandline tool persist state that it can quickly access across multiple runs, but so far a background server process is the only technique I'm familiar with.
Something that is not by Google but which you would probably like - SourceGraph. Has commercial options but it is OSS.

https://about.sourcegraph.com/
I'm curious what you think makes this particular account a bot? To me it looks like someone who might not be particularly tech savvy who signed up for Twitter to find out about and discuss the ongoing global pandemic, which I guess you could call a "semi-political topic". To me it looks like Twitter's attempts to reach out to people who aren't already constantly online might occasionally work, which could result in a screen name or behavior that seems "strange" to people who are already very familiar with the platform
Do you use an ad blocker? They've gotta pay for content some how either a paywall or ads.