skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's necessary but not sufficient to stop the spread. I'm currently just avoiding bringing the topic up with my sister who traveled from the UK to America last month. She repeatedly brushed off the topic because the UK government kept saying it's essentially the flu. Now she's in America with her 2 year old and I'm betting she'll probably fly back to the UK under these conditions.
While that is touted as being the case, many groups make use of the Serenity Prayer[1]. Most of the time, it directly invokes the use of "God" or "Father" which can turn off non-believers. Some groups use a variation that omits direct reference to a religious entity, while a few groups are committed to avoiding the prayer altogether.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_Prayer#Use_by_twelve-...
I used to use this quite a bit. Fond memories and some nostalgia here.
How is News “absolutely useless.” Tens of millions of people would disagree.
They were trying in a very roundabout way, but it follows the pattern.

Triangulation refers to when your primary aggressor has their associates perform social pressures (sometimes without them applying much themselves.)

For lack of a better example, consider the aspect of Shunning in some religions/cults; If the leader thinks someone is out of line, word quickly spreads, and the entire group will focus their behavior on making the target feel unwelcome.

Source: dealt with more culty shit than I ever wanted to, which is why these movements creep me out so much.
> Not classifying meetings that have never been classified before is not insisting on radical transparency.

Agreed. I was referring to the principle of the thing, not this specific instance.

> You're making the assumption there are more good decisions with bad optics than bad decisions with bad optics. Which seems like an unlikely assumption to be true.

I think it might be true in certain situations, e.g. emergency situations like we're in now.
CFR of 0.6% is a very optimistic figure. It is a naive calculation based on current # deaths / # infections.

1) But # infections were growing exponentially, we need to use numbers from the same cohort, which implies much lower # infections & higher CFR. Naive CFR will go up once infections grow more slowly. (It already is higher than 0.6%).

2) South Korean confirmed cases are much younger than their median age, mainly between 20-29 years old (perhaps because of where superspreading events happen—that church). This age group has a much lower fatality rate from Covid-19.

3) # hospital beds per capita in South Korea is second highest among OECD countries (1st is Japan) and ~4 times that of the US. They already have patients waiting for beds. Most countries will do much worse if they reach the same # infections per capita.
OK, start with those. I mean, your point upthread is that you didn't personally believe all the good science of the last 30 years because of some "extremists", which now apparently includes the entirety of the media and political left. I think that's a pretty ridiculous argument, and am challenging you to give me some specifics to focus the discussion.

You don't get to wave this away. Let's see who you're talking about.
Even in the US, it heavily depends on where you live. If you are in one of the big west coast cities, I would imagine you can observe a situation similar to Europe.

I felt like that joke from one of the more recent seasons of Silicon Valley, where the episode revolved around one of the characters "being outed" as a christian, was very on point, from what I have personally observed both in SF and Seattle. A bit of background on the episode: one of the CEOs of partnered companies owned a gay dating site. No one had any concerns or issues with that, but as soon as some people found out that the CEO was christian, all hell broke lose and the following quote was dropped "You can put micro doses of LSD in your cereal and people will call you a pioneer. But the one thing you cannot be is a Christian."

P.S. The show is obviously pretty tongue-in-cheek, no one seriously claims you cannot be Christian in those areas or that you would face hostility due to it. But people will definitely be questioning it a bit.
US is preparing to ban foreign-made drones from government use
> sorted(my_dict.keys())

Or just:

> sorted(my_dict)

Sorting keys like that is also weird. Keys are insertion ordered, utilize that property where you can and avoid needlessly re-sorting.
but explains the mask argument, where for regular virus mask not really necessary for the non-infected but for covid19 may be a must for any public area

(and mask prices right now are insane)
Elemental white phosphorus has some quite nasty dangers associated.

"Phossy jaw"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phossy_jaw

"'The Devil's element': the dark side of phosphorus"
https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2017/oct/31/the-dev...

"White phosphorus 'burns to the bone'"
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-368800/White-phosph...
To be fair, reals have nothing to do with this - the 'min' makes sense - and is associative - in any ordered set (even partially ordered, if you accept that it may be undefined for some pairs).
That already exists with AMD SME and AMD SEV (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_(microarchitecture)#Enhanc...). But to protect against bit flipping attacks like rowhammer you need authentication, not encryption, and I don't think these features authenticate the encrypted memory (since they would need extra memory to hold the authentication tag).
Thanks for the kind words! If you want, we would love to have you test our kiosk product sometime!
> If I hire Assembled to help with support, what can they provide?

> Obviously, they will have zero knowledge of the product. What can Assembled help with here?

These are very good questions and they raise a very valid point: Assembled will not have deep knowledge of your product (at least not as deep of a knowledge as your own support agents). However, we do have deep knowledge about how support teams are run in general. We've talked to hundreds of support teams, large and small, and are knee deep in the customer service industry.

Our product doesn't answer front line support questions, but rather helps you manage agent schedules and determine the best times to staff your agents. To do this, we forecast support volume, and correspondingly, how many agents are required to handle that volume. This is important because a large part of great customer support is how quickly you're able to respond.

This is a much different way to improve support than by just answering questions. We try to make your team more efficient without the need to hire more people. The cool thing here is that you can still layer on deflection systems (to reduce ticket volume) and enhance agent performance (via QA systems) in addition to what we do.
Great comment, except the first line is only true of some recovering alcoholics.

It is not at all true for a great many of them, and for them that is downright dangerous advice.
"AA seems like just another bullshit Christian recruitment/retention facility, that sometimes accidentally helps people who buy into it recover from addiction."

This is essentially false, and borderline bigotry.
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Singapore offers a compelling counter example entailing enlisting voluntary cooperation, rigorous testing and contact tracing, price controls on masks. I don't think China's fundamentally totalitarian / martial law approach is the place to start. I think Singapore offers a much much better model for dealing with Wuhan Flu.
29 ICU beds will not be able to handle the oncoming wave of patients. My city is roughly the same size population as Iceland and only has 900 hospital beds. I don't know how many of those are ICU, or could be converted to makeshift ICU as Italy has been doing.
To give depth here: limiting people isn't the only relevant dimension. You could argue cities are a gather of more than 1000 people. More important is density, how many people each person is expected to interact with, is there a buffet, etc. If you're running an event with 999 people, hopefully you're organizing to be less bulging at the seams with these other dimensions
Few days before the corona virus chaos started, we ordered a pack of PURELL hand sanitizers from Amazon. Then the chaos started and we wondered what will happen to our package. We tracked the package move around, then delays, then messages about possible delays, then it just never arrived.

I hit up Amazon.com and saw all these crazy markups on hand sanitizer. Eeek! But, I found 1 that was $10. Also from PURELL. Looked like the ones used at gyms. So I added it to my cart. Continued browsing and at checkout it got automatically removed. Subsequent searches revealed just the over priced hand sanitizers. Arrr!

Thanks Amazon!
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> made explosives and detonated them remotely in his back garden by means of a mobile phone signal.

Scary. But amount was similar to a firework, and he had done so several times before. And he's autistic.

> liable to prosecution unless they can show that it was “for a lawful object”

> can personal experimentation or own private education, absent some ulterior unlawful purpose, be regarded as a lawful object?

They still had to prove that that was his purpose - the onus is on the defence. i.e. reversing assumption of innocence.

The dissent, that the purpose of education is not a "purpose" is ridiculous.

Yet, I bet the legislators didn't intend such a broad defence, and we'll quickly see amending legislation confining it, given terrorism fears.
Would it affect your decision to apply to the company?
Satellite constellations like Elon Musk's SpaceX Starlink could hamper astronomers' ability to spot dangerous asteroids and supernovae, study warns

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8078159/Spac...
Ah good to hear! Thanks for sticking with it.
You're using the legal term, I'm using the ordinary definition of the word. In other words, you can't use the code without a patent license, just as you can't use the copyrighted work without permission.
It’s actually a marketplace for independent drivers to offer their services.
In my experience 4 years at Caltech, the ones who didn't flunked out.

Of course, there were a couple unicorns (like Hal Finney) who didn't study and aced the tests, but they are as far beyond you and I as we are from a first grader. Me, I tried studying less, and it simply did not work.

I also have a friend who flunked out of Caltech. About 10 years later he asked if he could try again, and they said sure. He got straight As this time. I asked him if he was any smarter - he laughed, and said no, just that the second time he was ready to work.

I'd guess that if you attended an elite institution and got a degree without studying 6 hours a day, you're either a unicorn or a victim of the institution's marketing department.
Krita seems to be coming along nicely and I'm very happy it exists.

But it's no Photoshop.

I'm more positively surprised every time I check it out. As opposed to Gimp, which always feels like a poor man's Photoshop, Krita seems sensible and tasteful.

But it's no Photoshop.

Until/if Adobe releases its suite for some blessed distro, I can't use Linux on my day to day machine.
I believe there are a lot more people in my situation than Adobe seems to think.

We are pros and love to tinker with our tools. Linux is, to a fault even, the tinkerer's OS par excellence.
Oh wow, I missed this entirely, thank you for pointing it out and I will give it a read tonight.
It would be great to add an RSS feed.
Chelsea Manning recovering after trying to take own life in jail, lawyers say
Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC)
Diversification looks great, but is not easy. It is not like software where it can be easily replicated across continent.

Manufacturing requires logistics, capability of water/electricity and skilled labour. Those are not easily scalable across the globe. And manufactures do concentrate, it is easy to source parts to make stuff from the same region.

So in a way, expanding physical manufacturing is very hard and expensive. And in case of COVID-19, it is not the answer even, since, the disruption is almost simultaneously happening globe wise, capacity planning and shifting can't be that agile to adjust, let alone the demand will be hampered too.

So, I think unless it is for megacorp that has that much of money to burn, diversification on globe scale is just a dream.

But for key industry, like medical supplies, I think that is where the state should come and play, to incentivize a domestic capacity that could chime in handily when disruption happens.
Perhaps Tile should step up their game then or add more value.
If your great startup/business/whatever is threatened by new features added into a new iteration of an OS then it was not great to begin with. And I don't have pity for mediocrity.
You’re talking apples and oranges here - public streets are filled with, well, the public, and we have laws against racing and running red lights for that very reason. On the other hand, if you own forty acres in New Mexico and want to blow up an old washing machine with a pound of C4 on a lazy Saturday afternoon, well, more power to ya.
The CDC has also indicated that it can be spread through the air. But physical contact is more likely.
> It's... it's basically all products

I looked through every app I have installed on my iPhone and I only found a couple that would fall into that category. I have a shopping list app which Apple could theoretically implement as a feature if it wanted to (but not fully, as this particular shopping list app allows me to share lists with android users), and Authy.

The rest of the apps I have installed are just interfaces for 3rd party services. Apple doesn’t have the power to subvert the value of those services any more than any other service provider does (Apple has a maps app, I still use google maps).

I guess Apple could also make a Sudoku app if it really wanted to, but I’d consider that pretty unlikely.

I think there’s a strong argument for saying something like Spotify vs Apple Music is anti-competitive, but for rather different reasons.
You won't easily find one after the manufacturing base has already been gutted. It's too late to look now except for the higher priced boutique items that still exist.
Thanks, very much appreciate it =)
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4% might be an upper bound under normal situation when there is sufficient availability of intensive care places. When these places become saturated then % of mortality will approach % of people needing intensive care.

Please also note that many people who require intensive care but survive are left with huge chronic damage to their lungs that will affect their quality of life for the rest of their lives.
I don't think that's going to happen on the scale you describe, or that you've taken the cost to human life of the economic fallout into account.

But however we slice it, this is going to be bad. One professor from the University of Nebraska estimates it might result in 480,000 deaths in the US. That's a guess, but one made with conservative inputs, not from a harebrained or cranky analyst, and not out of line with the the guesses of others in this field. It's not the end of the world, but it will be quite socially and economically disruptive.

https://www.businessinsider.com/presentation-us-hospitals-pr...
> "when a utility is designed to compensate for a hole in Mac OS X, the developer should not expect the hole to remain unfilled by Apple forever".

So when is snap-to-edge coming ~_~.
Survey about Coronavirus: when does group benefit override personal freedom?
> with out security and line ups

You have that on general aviation too, today.

> I can see how you might change a $200 15-20 min helicopter ride into a $120 15-20 min VTOL ride profitably, but hard to see how it becomes a $60 ride any time soon...

Last I looked, range was an enormous problem.

Let's see. 20 min VTOL ride. 30 minutes reserve "fuel" or 1 hour if IFR. +more "fuel" to reach the alternate airport (if fixed wing) or the nearest landing site. These are recommendations for GA, if you are doing this commercially the requirements may be different (tend to be stricter)

You can get away with a lot if you only fly in clear blue skies in locations with very stable weather. You still need to have plenty of range for unforeseen events. You don't burn off batteries when flying either, so empty or full batteries weight the same.

These things won't get cheap in the short term. Non-helicopter efficient VTOL is pretty hard to do, that doesn't help costs either. Companies would do well in trying to solve one problem first (flying 'vtol' taxis) before trying to solve the other problem (electric airplanes).
The behaviour of GCC is by no means clearly defined. Even taking it as given that any memory handling errors will result in arbitrary code execution (accessing uninitialised memory as you say, but also e.g. double free), there are other cases. GCC has been known to compile the addition of two integers into an arbitrary code execution. It has been known to compile code like:

void doDangerousStuffIfAuthorized(AUTHORIZATION* authorizationPtr){
AUTHORIZATION authorization = *authorizationPtr
if(authorizationPtr == null || !isValid(authorization)) return;
doDangerousStuff();
}

into something that executes doDangerousStuff() when passed null. When users complain about such things, the answer is that the code was causing undefined behaviour and so what GCC is doing is correct according to the standard.
Would you agree that using nukes as an example is arguing in bad faith because they are prohibitively expensive to acquire, even if they were deregulated? It's not like weapons grade uranium is just sitting around. You literally have to make it, which is "state actor" level of hard work.
You think projects like Linux are short on maintainers and reviewers? They even have multiple maintainers for the same pieces of code, each keeping their own, preferred version of the kernel "tree". And this is an inherently-scalable process, that only needs new, prospective sub-maintainers to demonstrate good judgment in "signing off" incoming patches. Many eyes making all bugs shallow, to user a rather well-known (and relevant!) turn of phrase.
Congrats guys. Any of the founder have any affiliation with Malaysia or Indonesia? The company name sound like a portmanteau of 2 Malay words ('terus' and 'sama').
This is also using induction on naturals, which doesn’t “port” to the reals, as the post asks.
Someone Made Star Wars Music Using Just Food
Easy, but it's still work. As a thought experiment: if it's so easy, would you be interested in doing it for me? (edit: Obviously not, but compare your internal resistance to if I'd asked you to do something trivial like fix a typo in the readme)

Here's the file I was referencing (only 100 lines!): https://github.com/LibreShift/red-moon/blob/master/app/src/m...

Here's the issue I've been putting off fixing because of it: https://github.com/LibreShift/red-moon/issues/208

The problem is that right now there is one PAUSE state, which is triggered by both manual pauses (brightness should be restored) and automatic pauses (in secure apps; brightness should not be restored). The problem wasn't exactly DRY, it's the misapplication: I merged bits that had identical code, but turned out not to have identical purpose.

And, for posterity, here's what it used to look like way back (DRYing was not the only change, I also split out notification stuff, so it's not a 1:1 length comparison): https://github.com/LibreShift/red-moon/blob/11ae916955ff8c36...

edit: and here's the original file, back mostly before I touched it at all: https://github.com/LibreShift/red-moon/blob/ed2ec4fd1c68611d...
Would Apple have implemented these feature if the originals didn't exist?

Unless the answer to that question is a clear "yes" in every case, this behaviour is de facto - and possibly de jure - on the wrong side of anti-monopoly law.

The problem is that iOS and MacOS are not specifically operating systems. iOS especially is an OS bundled with a curated non-trivial application suite.

That suite puts Apple into direct competition with iOS developers. And of course Apple has an impossibly huge monopolistic advantage in that space.

The ethical and above-board option would be to buy the rights to these apps and/or acquihire the devs who make them.

Apple has done that in the past, but seems less and less inclined to operate like that now.
As far as I know SF was the first city to declare a state of emergency a few weeks ago to begin preparing for this, and was widely mocked in political forums for panic. I am not a fan of the city administration and think the 1000 person limit is over-optimistic but it's unfair to suggest the city is trying to ignore or minimize the problem.
> Wang assured Di Maio that Italian orders for the ventilators would be made a priority by Chinese firms after similar requests were made by other European countries.

Thanks for sharing, I really appreciate it.

Please correct me if I misunderstood, but the wording makes it sound like they were ordering them from China, i.e., buying, not receiving it as a donation. Which is exactly what I was afraid of. Money is money, and I can totally see some governments, especially the PRC one, prioritizing that over the actual help for their own citizens. Especially in the scenario where they know they are screwed no matter what, so might as well make some quick bucks.
> codes of conduct (when used in good faith)

All true. In other news guns don't kill people, people kill people. The gun can be used in either way.

CoC's are like guns in that they can be lethal when deployed. That sounds great to many people: we final have a sure fire way of expelling arsehole's from our group.

Unfortunately the CoC's come with an inbuilt defect: they all boil down to "be intolerant of intolerance". That creates wonderful opportunity for attackers, because if they can goad someone in the project to being intolerant towards them they can get the project to shoot itself with it's on weapon.

The amazing thing I've never seen a instance where a CoC has been used in anger by a project where hasn't also been used in this way against long standing members of the project. Even worse, the long standing members use it against each other! Introducing a CoC seems to have the same destabilising effect as introducing a new weapon: people rush to use it in what looks to be a pre-emptive strike as soon as some dispute comes around. Maybe that's in an attempt to take out others before they use it against them.

It's so predicable it's extraordinary. There must be something deep within the human psyche priming us to seek out weaknesses like this in "enemy groups", along with the inbuilt knowledge of how to it.
I think OP has a point. He's not complaining about the functionality (of course a DB client needs to iterate through results) but that there's no reason a user needs to understand cursors for running simple DB queries. I should be able to do:

results = conn.execute("select * from mytable").fetchall()

or

query = conn.execute("select * from mytable")
for row in query:
print(row.id)

You can do the same with cursors, but it's extra mental overhead and a somewhat awkward API.

Plus the name conflicts with Postgres' CURSOR, which confused me when I first started. So, yes, I would prefer "iterator" :)