skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think ultimately if you're working with humans the question is if you want the schedule to solve a sort of math problem for you ... or if you want folks to be happy.

They are very much not the same thing and the dynamic nature of keeping people happy and filling a schedule is extremely difficult to account for with software.
It isn't good enough for me, no. This is conjecture at best. Unidentified sources, quotes from a person paraphrasing what they heard Donald Trump say personally (or wanted to hear). This report does not meet the lowest standard for something I might consider believing.

In my humble opinion, given the gravity of the current situation, such "news stories" are in very poor taste. Im personally a whole lot more concerned about the oldest and youngest members of my family. What I don't need is some for-profit media entity trying to drive clicks like this right now.

Until January of 2021, Donald Trump is the President we have, for better or worse. The time to stop political nonsense has passed. This is not a time for division. There will be plenty of time for this BS later.
Is this sarcasm? Because, honestly, at this point I can not tell.

Yes, China is doing terrible things – and also many good things. So is the US.

Of course as citizens of the western world it's easier to connect with western governments, weigh more heavily against the atrocities of the others and brush over our own systems shortcomings.

Lest we forget it is impossible to be objective.
What logic ACTUALLY dictates is that once the vaccine is developed, the license to produce it is sold to all countries so that each country affected can begin mass producing it for their populations, and the global vaccine production capacity is utilized.
Why does my company give a raise every year: If they don't, I'll leave.

Why does my company employ me in the first place: If they didn't, they would make less money.
We know, no worries ;)

Our partnership has been stable and long. No idiot can change it in just one term.
RCP shows Trump's approval level has been below Obama's except for one period of about 4 months at the end of 2019, where they about tracked each other. Trump's disapproval level has consistently been 5-10% above Obama's, except for a couple of periods where Obama's disapproval spiked a bit for a few weeks. It never went above Trump's average disapproval though.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_tru...
Please explain how that'd advantage the US? The US spent hundreds of billions of dollars to restart the German economy and rebuild Europe post-WW2 as part of the Marshall Plan. Modern Europe nearly owes its existence to the herculean efforts of Americans. There is absolutely no reason we'd try to stifle or damage Europe now. We are allies.
"Runcom" is still referenced by that name in BSD init(8):

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sbin/init/init.c?view=m...
A rather shitty move ... we now know who are "friends" are.
I’m a facts supporter. I don’t subscribe to either party blindly.
The problem of having 'Null' as a license plate (2019)
That's the issue, people are still acting it's somewhere else's problem. Bars are still busy, people are still getting on cruises, that's why this is scary.
I chatted with Markus de Shon, one of the creators of riskquant, a few days ago. I would also check out Ryan McGeehan's writings on this at scrty.io.

I'd be happy to discuss this topic with anyone; my email address is in my profile.
European Commission sets aside €164M in fast funding to combat Covid-19
the uncertainty principle applies here.. undocumented workers won't seek medical assistance if they're unsure of what will happen when they show up at a medical facility.
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As an American, we are inspired by German people and their talent, I've personally spent a lot of time with German suppliers. We will kick our president out in the next election cycle, hope to rebond our diplomatic ties with EU.

US-EU ties goes far back into the 20th century. Last 4 years has been tough. Apologies, but I hope people know that this is not what the city dwellers and liberal population of America thinks.
What downvote button?
Isn’t the bigger news that there’s a vaccine?
They promoted herd immunity for two days, and are now offering wishy-washy denials.

https://twitter.com/BBCr4today/status/1238390547783528448

https://twitter.com/L__Macfarlane/status/1239190996379930626
Visualization of Covid-19 infection rates
Christianity in and of itself is based on magical thinking.
Yeah, isn't the point of a vaccine to immunize as many people as possible, not just those in one country? If you don't immunize globally it won't work as well. This administration has pulled a lot of dumb stunts but this one might take the cake.
>Why might doing this to a Chinese firm feel justified?

Because the CCP, like any authoritarian, communist party, puts itself first. Face is everything when you rely on authority to rule more than a billion people.

Word is hospitals are still full in China, that the closing of the temporary hospitals is textbook propaganda, and that no new cases are being reported because doctors and officials have been disappeared for breaking unnofficial rules not to report.

It's the same kind of fuckery born of perverse incentives that gave us great hits like the 4 pests and the general gaming of incentives that was rife in the Soviet Union.

People still seem to have this image of world governments as these benevolent, ultra competent forces for good, believing that only the American system is faltering, if anything. Ironically, this is just an indication that decades of exKGB and probably Chinese propaganda are working.

Now is not the time to put your faith in the institutions of man. They are staffed and run by people like you and me - far worse in many cases, they are not technically educated and in the US we've been operating on charisma more than merit for decades.

Don't believe me? Watch as us states start shutting down, one by one, just like Europe, even though we had 2 months warning to prepare for this.
Here’s what you are asking for though USA, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/15/epidem...
I don't get how these two can be true at the same time?

> Presumably it caches copies of frequently-requested content on nodes closer to the end-user, rather than always fetching that content from an origin node

> It's "stateless" because stateful requests are always sent directly to the origin node

What is a stateful request versus a stateless one? Every request has some sort of state.
do not judge people's relationship with death.

some are rational, some petrify and can not move, some try to face it, some turn inside, some turn outside.

some old people are going out on purpose, if they petrify they will not be able to live anyway.

anyway, it is not easy for anyone when the mass is moving in such volatile way, not to mention individual responsibility towards the group is stressed to extremes (as you can see people fighting over toilet paper for example)

i am also staying as isolated as i can, but from time to time i force myself and my family to go out in the forest, to see that the world is not burning yet.
> The truth, like with anything, is probably in the middle

The story, really, isn't about truth. It's about trust. The German government clearly does not trust the USA to share a vaccine. And why would they? Everyone who's been watching US foreign policy for the last three years knows the "America First" bent of its chief executive. They know the kind of xenophobic stuff that gets said on its "state television station" every day. They can read polls, and know that the political base of the ruling party would genuinely cheer for a situation where the USA had exclusive access to a vaccine.

So they don't trust the US to control a biochem company. That's a problem, but it's not a problem with this particular event (realistically we're going to get a ton of vaccine variants from different labs -- vaccine development is hardly rocket surgery, as it were). It's a problem with the way US (really republican) foreign policy has been positioned in the modern world.

And it's kind of a disaster.
> In addition, it's backed by the Bill and Melinda gates foundation (which apparently has a stake in the company).

Why is this relevant?
Not exactly. Here’s the only attributed quote from the German government:

> “The German government is very interested in ensuring that vaccines and active substances against the new coronavirus are also developed in Germany and Europe,” a Health Ministry spokeswoman said, confirming a quote in the newspaper.

> “In this regard, the government is in intensive exchange with the company CureVac,” she added.
Like 45% of the country supports him, and plenty of such folks have interests related to HN topics.

As much as I despise Trump, this is the simple reality.
One possibility is using sanctions to decide which country can have the vaccine.

The assumption is the virus will naturally spread, so controlling which country gets or doesn’t get the vaccine is a form of an indirect biological warfare.

There is already efforts to block European countries from sending medicine to Iran as an example [0].

What we should be thinking about is at what point are we going too far with these strong-arming tactics. Outside of humanitarian arguments, there is the possibility that leaving the virus unchecked, it will ultimately find its way to our shores.

[0] https://theintercept.com/2020/03/05/iran-coronavirus-medicin...
I often found Rust's errors completely confusing, even after chasing down the '--explain CrypticNNNNN' follow-up explainer. This was in 2019 — not some ancient version of Rust.
lua is unique because it can be embedded into C applications as a library, e.g. the difference between SQLite and MySQL.

For example, there's an nginx module that lets you use lua to configure the server logic. I'm presuming you don't need to have lua installed to use xmake (i.e. batteries included), otherwise you're a hundred percent correct.
The growth will always be exponential. What you can change is the exponent. I don't think they are crazy for suggesting that extreme measures are unsustainable and their use should be timed correctly. I'm not completely sure they're right, but neither am I sure that extreme measures are right. Keeping a quarantine on a whole country up for 2 years seems unlikely. As I understand it, this plan hasn't just been hastily put together overnight, a team has spent a while researching and modelling outbreaks in preperation for just such a scenario, and as such I am inclined to trust them more than politicians (who are always happy to be seen to be doing something about a problem) and laypeople on the internet.
I wonder if the US will block inter-state travel for a while. Can they even do that?
Yeah, the world will ignore the patent and do it's job.
I rarely if ever buy new clothes (maybe a few times per decade). And, even on those rare occassions when I do, for jeans, its usually a used clothing store for less than 10$. As for t-shirts, I think I have a lifetime supply already (20 or so), so I won't need to buy those for a while. Those t-shirts last a long long time. I still have some cheap ones from 20 years that are still going strong.
Some versions of GCC, as well (like, mid 2000s 3.x or 4.x).
Whether you think this is crazy or not depends on whether you share the premise this strategy is based on: namely that there is no solution which prevents widespread infection and that all quarantine measures are no more than temporary and might be damaging if they push a second peak into the winter.

The plan is to lockdown the vulnerable and let the virus run its course through the rest of society. In this scenario you think(/hope) that the people not locked down only get mild versions of the disease and so don't require hospitalisation. You come out the other side with herd immunity which (again you hope) stops the disease from gaining a foothold again.

Lots of unknowns, of course, but if your starting point is complete infection of the population is inevitable then it doesn't seem necessarily any riskier than other methods and has the merit of being quicker if nothing else. If you think complete infection is preventable then it looks reckless at best, and a borderline genocide at worst.
The story makes a good deal of sense if, in general, wages are set only partly by supply and demand, and partly by the employers-as-a-class's feelings of how much money people doing that sort of job ought to earn.

In this case production line workers were a relatively new thing, and Ford was helping to create a consensus about where they would fit in.

Part of the reason why simple supply and demand doesn't dictate a single level of wages is that there's a good deal of flexibility in what doing a job entails.

In this case it seems Ford was helping to decide that the workers would be skilled labourers: there'd be a training cost (what the article calls "a costly break-in period") and high enough wages to reduce turnover so as to amortise that cost.

The business about "character requirements" and visiting the employees' homes also looks like a conscious attempt to control where the workers fit in the class system.

The alternative would presumably have been to try to organise the production line to require less training, and accept the efficiency loss in exchange for the lower wage bill.
They can and they will.
Where is the evidence that the US would have exclusive access? Had there ever been a US produced drug that the government refused to allow being sold to other countries?
The 80% shareholder (which was a co-founder of SAP and ironically a very controversial person in German football) just send a press release out (German):

"Walldorf, 15. März 2020 – Die dievini Hopp BioTech holding GmbH & Co. KG, eine Beteiligungsgesellschaft von SAP-Mitgründer Dietmar Hopp mit Investitionsschwerpunkt in innovative Biotechnologieunternehmen, nimmt Stellung zu Presseberichten über eine vermeintliche exklusive Vergabe eines in der Entwicklung befindlichen Impfstoffs von CureVac gegen das Corona-Virus. dievini ist seit 2005 an der CureVac AG, Tübingen, beteiligt an der sie über 80% der Anteile hält. Zweitgrößter Aktionär ist die Bill-und-Melinda-Gates-Stiftung, die gemeinsam mit CureVac Impfstoffe gegen eine Reihe von Infektionserkrankungen entwickelt.

„Seit wir 2005 dievini gründeten, bin ich davon überzeugt, dass das Verstehen molekularer Zusammenhänge Diagnose und Therapie auch schwerster Erkrankungen für Patienten weltweit transformativ verbessern wird“, sagt Dietmar Hopp. „Dem Ziel, alle Menschen vor Infektionen zu schützen und Patienten weltweit besser therapieren und im besten Fall heilen zu können, bin ich ebenso verpflichtet, wie meiner Absicht, nachhaltige innovative Infrastruktur und Arbeitsplätze in Deutschland zu schaffen. Wenn es uns hoffentlich bald gelingt, einen wirksamen Impfstoff gegen das Corona-Virus zu entwickeln, soll dieser Menschen nicht nur regional sondern solidarisch auf der ganzen Welt erreichen, schützen und helfen können. Ich wäre froh, wenn dies durch meine langjährigen Investitionen aus Deutschland heraus erfolgen würde.“

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The most important point is the last sentence: If we are sucessful finding a vaccine, it shouldnt be available only regionally but for all people worldwide.
the downvote button on comments is only visible once you reach a certain karma threshold
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Both of these points rely on people acting rational in the face of the unknown. I think it's safe to assume this is not going to happen.
> unidentified German government source

i.e. the bored intern with nothing better to do than make stuff up. Sprinkle in some quotes from actual high ranking officials on adjacent topics, and you can almost make it feel like it's the same conversation. Hurray journalism.
Broadly speaking:

1. Parse the user's input (e.g. "{-b \pm \sqrt{b^2-4ac} \over 2a}") into an internal data structure (math lists, etc -- MathJax apparently uses MathML internally)

2. Classify the symbols and operators into different styles, with associated sizes and spacing, etc.

3. Ultimately, decide the position and size of each glyph (where each separate "blob of ink" should go).

4. Express these positions in the output format, e.g. for MathJax or KaTeX with their native HTML+CSS, you'll get a tag soup of spans with styles like "position: absolute; top: -4.333em; left: 0.566em;" etc. DVI or PDF output formats have their own operators for expressing positions of glyphs.

As far as fonts and rendering are concerned there is not much to this; the glyphs are just picked from a math font that someone has designed (containing glyphs for, say, the integral sign or summation sign or "x" etc).

The interesting work of typesetting that happens in 2 and 3 is described (for TeX, and used by MathJax/KaTeX) in Appendix G of The TeXbook; you may find it useful to supplement it with pictures and explanation from this article: https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb27-1/tb86jackowski.pdf

If you'd like to know one of these in further detail I can try to explain or look it up :)
Dear God, HN, exercise some reading comprehension.

The part that's making so many commenters here shut their brains off:

> Welt am Sonntag also quoted an unidentified German government source as saying Trump was trying to secure the scientists’ work exclusively, and would do anything to get a vaccine for the United States, “but only for the United States.”

The quote above is manipulating you into believing that the USA is attepmting to prevent Germans from getting that vaccine. THAT'S the part that is completely not real.

EDIT: Some of the questions you want to ask when you see an article quote like this:

- Who is this unnamed source, exactly?

- Is the article accurately representing what they said?

- In particular: does it accurately represent their intended meaning, in context?

- Does that person speak for the German government? Or is this one government employee's opinion?

- If a German company moves its research labs into the USA, but remains a German company - like the article says - wouldn't that make it impossible for them to hide the secret formula for a vaccine?

- Why would the USA (or any country) even try to keep a vaccine formula secret, in the face of a global pandemic like this? If you think about it, is that comic-book-villain scenario even plausible?
What's the conspiracy?
Ask HN: How do you WFH with schools closed?
With the COVID-19, most companies in the valley have asked employees to work from home. It works out until now the schools/daycares are also closed. How do people with kids manage to work from home?
There's one way this strategy would work:

If you could hermetically seal all of your above 60 population for 4 months.

I guess that's what they'll attempt.
I would like to see if Gov officials apply the same 'herd immunity' tactic to themselves and their relatives as well.

Would be great to see if Boris Johnson and his cabinet and their close ones are staying home or not.
Even better, Germany could call in Trump’s debt, and seize his assets:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/09/30/trump...

Weaponizing vaccine development in the middle of a public health crisis must violate some German law or another.
Comm operates on sets. Diff is a patch generator. They serve different needs. They're both useful!
Is there any source for exclusive access besides the “unnamed official” in the original article?
Interesting, where did you see that on RCP? On 538, it clearly shows Obama (and most other presidents, with the exception of H.W Bush) had a higher approval rating 1158 days into their presidency - https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/....

I see this polling average for Trump - https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_tru... - and it seems to have a couple of extra points more than 538, but I do not see anything comparing Obama's polls to Trump's polls.

I do recall 538 adjusts polls slightly based on bias in the sampled population [0]. Perhaps RCP doesn't take into account bias in polls?

[0] https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/pollster-ratings/
Best case scenario, vacine will be available to everyone in the north by the end of summer, worst case scenario, there's not gonna be anything and in October we will have another pandemia with mutations that eventually will be more deadly.

As it happened with other 2nd rounds of a pandemia in history.

Now If we get to discover something and the deployment can be only done to X% of the population who do we save? Our own country or the neighbors?...

Italy was asking to Europe for medical supply and nobody responded, every single country is gonna play egoistic in this topic and don't expect anyone to give thousands of millions in missed workforce to save the older in neighbor countries. Cold reality.
This is the same guy who first downplayed the virus risks, then now that is completely out of control in the US as well cries wolf against "enemies" from the outside to boost his strong man in power image.

One wouldn't expect this from someone whose grandfather himself was killed by the 1918 pandemic flu.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/03/07/flu-trump-...
Yeah, was thinking the same. Even if it doesn't work as expected for UK, it would at least be a good lesson for the world.
This reminds me of Negativland from the 90s.
Thanks for finding this! I was trying to find the source for this comment as well. Seems it was mostly hot air.
This has little to do with your risk of death as an individual unless you’re in a vulnerable population. Rather, it’s about people’s selfish indifference to how their actions risk infecting and killing other people. And I’ll judge that all I want, thanks.
Egypt’s stipulates reduced punishment for Muslim men who kill their wives
Paracetamol (acetaminophen) isn't all that safe. Too high a dose can quickly and irreversibly damage your liver. Many people have died this way.

If you're intending to take paracetamol long term, you can do worse than to reduce the stated maximum daily dose on the bottle by 1/4 or 1/2. You'll be less comfortable, sure. But it's called a "liver" because you need one to live. So it's worth a little extra discomfort to avoid the risk of breaking yours.
Unlike the making and distribution of food, nothing special has to happen for the roof that's over your head now to continue to be there all through this epidemic.

In fact, the government has to actively take steps to evict people if they are unable to pay their rent. I wouldn't put it past the current government to actually do that, but they could if they wanted to provide relief for people unable to pay their rents or pass laws freeing them from that responsibility.

The making and distributing of food is really non-negotiable, however. Unlike money, we actually need food. You can't eat a stack of dollar bills, and plenty of landlords are going to be just as screwed as their renters if there's no food. The only people safe are the tiny percentage of survivalists who managed to stock up a year or two worth of food. The rest will have to get food one way or another.

Unfortunately, plenty of governments have caused or allowed famines through inaction, malice, or incompetence. We can hope they won't let a famine happen this time, but hope and a couple of bucks will buy you a cup of coffee... or maybe not for long.

Again, I have to ask how long people will sit around watching their food stocks dwindle and hope someone else fixes their problem.
American trolls are having a field day - thus you are getting downvoted. Europeans ought to understand that the US has stopped being a reliable friend as of this pandemic. They dragged us in their wars then we were left to deal with the consequences, now they are willing to let us die. Not even Putin’s russia is that vile. Disgusting country the US it is.