skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but probably quite incompetently. And the Marriott board member probably knows how to make mediocre cup of coffee with the machine in their hotel room, but would be insulted if you asked them to make you a cup. But Microsoft has other experts who are competent to speak about those things (both enterprise software and good coffee), fortunately.
These seems to be a coordination effort on https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/ It's a set of Google Docs, seems very active.
I saw this design on /r/security and thought it was a good idea:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22343786

It seems like if we want to solve this problem we need to somehow modify users' behavior by making them aware that indiscriminate browsing is a risk.
To me, the feeding of the 5000 and the resurrection are no less spectacular than the column of fire.

If you look at the whole Bible there is a spike in spectacular miracles around the Exodus but before and after that, there aren't many spectacular miracles at all --- until Jesus. A tailing-off trend over time doesn't fit the data.
CentOS 8 set up WireGuard VPN server
Major U.S. internet firms agree to not cancel service over next 60 days
Zero-energy bound states at both ends of a one-dimensional atomic line defect
>that may or may not actually be paid.

Please tell me, how do I avoid paying overage fees? I have zero moral qualms about defrauding Comcast to the maximum possible extent.
It's worse than aspirin.
I totally agree and felt that such that after I went through the pain of learning VB.NET, I felt rather silly when I took a look at C# and realized I had learned like 99% of the whole thing is just the .NET ecosystem, so picking up C# was pretty quick.
Re: $5

Money makes for an interesting barrier. For example, SomethingAwful charged $10 to sign-up and it basically weeded out all the trash and spam.

You could have a tier system. E.g. $5 for general meetings and $100 tier to talk to whatever person will pay $100 for this.

Not even sure how I feel about a free tier, but even a $0.01 fee paid in crypto would instantly transform the type of people you might encounter on the service.
Comparing fed injections to expanding social security spending is not "factually correct" though, it's a very weak analogy and two very different things.

You can be critical of QE, monetary policy, and the general priorities of the government but it doesn't make OP's point a helpful one. Especially considering the lack of centralized control, let alone the various other major differences between it and entitlement spending.
I don't understand it well enough to say.
I came to the same conclusion 2 days ago:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Wuhan_Flu/comments/fgrlwq/wikipedia...

As someone else here said. They confuse certain terminology even on Wikipedia.
it's more nuanced than that. shared/pool rides being faster is a function of distance (which is correlated to delays).

from my experience (in LA), they're often no faster than buses for short trips (up to ~4 miles). between 4-6, it's typically breakeven. for trips over ~6 miles, shared/pool rides are usually faster (and gets more so with longer distances).

but note that the bulk of bus trips are under 10 miles, so it takes some thought to get the best bang for buck.
I'm wondering if decentralized DIY testing can arise from centralized, vetted plans giving skilled tradespeople enough information to construct, calibrate and validate their own tests. And if enough can be made to reasonably rule out false negatives before positives are sent onwards to "official" testing, and lessening the inevitable load on hospitals, and in these early days of testing, the testing facilities.

Everything I've read so far doesn't seem to say "first, you need a <fission-reactor-scale-dooodad>". So I'm wondering how feasible it is, and the deeper I dig into this, the more I'm wondering just how low the bar goes.
>There's a problem, though: we're restricted by regulations from letting people know that this treatment is available.

On this, do you have yourself published research on how effective your particular application of this treatment is, how many patients stick with it, or anything else along those lines?
Why is this all or nothing? There's no reason for it to be completely automated, it could have delegated responsibility to the person most in the know of the situation. That way a member of staff could have talked to them instead of pre-made email.
I'm all for it if it works. But the diversity of practices and opinions among specialists shows that any current advice is just that: expert opinion. Here, we're doing kaletra. 100 kms from here, they're doing hydroxychloroquine.I understand the desperation, but I don't think it's for healthy citizens to pile up egoistically on ressources that might be more useful elsewhere.

From experience, expert opinion situations are not too encouraging. But let's hope we're lucky this time.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be off intubating highly contagious cases without appropriate protection equipment if you're looking for me in the coming days. Personally, I'm hoping that the disease preferentially targets politicians and health ministers #-(
I loved VB6. Of all the languages and IDE's I've ever used, I've never been more efficient in any other one.

As long as MS doesn't break my workarounds to run that old IDE or its EXE's, I'm happy. VB.NET was a great stepping stone, but after switching to C# I never looked back. The only thing I miss is global functions that don't need a class qualifier in front of them. And I still find the Edit-and-Continue debugging experience in C# hit-or-miss.
Perhaps because the employees actually care about the company they work for and want to continue working there, but also want to feel like they're producing value. A company is more than its management.
It's both. Yahoo! used to maintain a policy against address reuse for exactly this reason.
Honeywell Has Built the Most Powerful Supercomputer in the World
> influenza which has a hard time surviving in spring

The problem is than when we will reach summer, half of the planet will start the winter. A interesting question is if the coronavirus will be able to hide in the southern hemisphere or not. That would start and endless migration cycle from now on.
Book called Numismatic Forgery is absolutely brilliant. Talks about how different coins can be forged depending on era, how making technique should match the original coin (ancient coin dies were hand engraved, so should the modern forgery). Some coin forgeries are made from remelted coins of same era but of lesser value, so that metal would match etc.
> Apps on iOS and iPadOS have unrestricted access to the system-wide general pasteboard, also referred to as the clipboard.

Yikes. This is horrible, and really it's unacceptable given Apple's privacy rhetoric. Even the web doesn't have this vulnerability. And it's easy to fix, too! Why in the world should an app be able to see the clipboard? It should only see the text I enter into its fields (via pasting or otherwise).
I think the Trump administration saw the profit $$$ in test kits while ignoring the larger health and economic risks posed by a delay in testing.

Now, it is too late and Trump is too thick-sculled to admit he was wrong.
Conan 1.23 Is Released
Well it's hard getting the balance right but you can order it online from mexico if you want eg. https://www.medicinesmexico.com/?keywords=chloroquine
Andy Gavin has a great interview on the technical-side of developing Crash Bandicoot [0], which they wrote in GOOL, the precursor to GOAL. In fact, they wrote GOOL explicitly for Crash Bandicoot. Later, when writing Jak & Daxter, Naughty Dog developed GOAL. Sony ended up buying ND -- among other things, they were hoping to use ND's code, and were quite surprised to discover that it was all written in a homebrewed Lisp dialect.

You can see some GOAL here: https://web.archive.org/web/20070127022728/http://lists.midn...

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izxXGuVL21o
I think it can be done if you pair changes like removing stops with other improvements that bus riders will appreciate. For example, in my neighborhood the city recently introduced a dedicated bus lane down a major road, and removed a couple stops at the same time to streamline the bus route. I've been following the results somewhat closely, and I haven't heard any complaints about missing stops, only complaints from car drivers.

It's hard to complain about your stop moving a block at the committee meeting if they have hard data that everyone's commute is an average of 10 minutes faster.
Is there a MacOS utility that clears the pasteboard N minutes after its last content change?
At the very least you can isolate those 100 people and their contacts instead of isolating the whole freaking county. Lockdowns work but there is a huge burden to the economy.
Good you take that example. that's exactly the kind of stuff my son brings on and on and on. And each time, I (not my computer, spend some times explaining that he has to expand his tastes bits by bits, that if he doesn't do it it'll become more and more difficult, etc. That's a bit exhausting a times but it pays (we're looking at an ROI on a scale of ten years here :-) ).

But that little discussion we have reminds him that I'm the parent and that I do that for n good reasons. He also has a space to disagree and sometimes I just cook what he loves and take care of doing it exactly how he wants it.

A computer is 10000 light years away from that, AFAIC...
I always find this paper kind of funny, showing that academics on corporate boards are correlated with both higher company performance and lower CEO compensation: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2226411
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/robinhood-fi... man.
Right, but the fact that there's any movement in the industry at all, stories generating discussions such as this one, groups like the Tech Workers Coalition gaining attention, etc., can mean there's some trend shifting. Unless you think the news is selectively focusing on stories to cover and this is all media manufactured.

And when change occurs, whether a social trend, or new product type, or whatever- the pioneers tend to be smaller examples rather than high-profile, no?
The quotes next to them make it strongly seem like they're real people endorsing the product. Coupled with this "Show HN" post, one would think they're genuine people. If this were some corporate blog, I would disagree.
> Yup I have been wondering about this too. If my community has 10 beds and 2 docs what is anyone supposed to do if there are 100 positives?

Pick the 10 most likely to develop complications due to age or comorbidity and quarantine the rest so that you don’t get 200 more next week. We’re still in the “stop the bleeding” phase of treatment.
from the translation it does not appear they are moving Covid-19 patients: "For the first time, Lombard hospitals have had to resort to the Remote Health Relief Operations Center (CROSS), which intervenes when a region is no longer able to cope with the number of patients and must seek help from other regions. The Civil Protection has ordered that a number of ICU patients in Lombardy for other diseases be transferred to hospitals in neighboring regions."

Note this is first time it's been triggered which indicates it's a difficult and risky process.

Article also notes "The people in charge of intensive care in Lombardy have sent a dramatic appeal to Governor Attilio Fontana: "Healthcare facilities are under greater pressure than any possibility of adequate response", the doctors write. "Despite the enormous commitment of all healthcare personnel and the deployment of all available tools, correct management of the phenomenon is now impossible."

This sounds like a system that's out of ICU beds.

see also https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2763188 "As of March 8, critically ill patients (initially COVID-19–negative patients) have been transferred to receptive ICUs outside the region via a national coordinating emergency office."
I was initially impressed that Google was stepping up to get this up for the good of the country. I'm not the best estimator (a good manager will double what I tell them) but I think a lot of us here could have something testable by Monday, surely I thought Google could have...
A Framework for Making Technology-Product Decisions
Yes aversion to coarse language is internalized class warfare, you nailed it.
The URL links to the #back_1 anchor/id and ends up half a page down.
The Chinese use 1g/day for treatment. A single dose of 3g can be fatal so not a massive margin. That said they've used it on hundreds of patients without adverse effects from the drug and probably a lot of lives saved from its effects on the virus.
Show HN: Small and Fast Airbnb Listing Scraper
The idea was more about the arrangement of the character set, which isn't always obvious on the VIC-20 or the C64, because of the differences in keyboard layouts as compared to the original PET 2001. (E.g., both the VIC-20 and the C64 are lacking the numeric keypad and what are adjacent blocks on the PET is dispersed over a linear arrangement. So there's no discernible logic in the code, nor in the keyboard. The same is true for several other keys, like those around the space key of the PET.)

Regarding the number of actually assigned codes, mind that the basic code, regarding unique displayed characters, is single case (6 1/2-bit) in two banks (MSB set for shifted characters => 0x60 x 2 = 192). However, the mirrored regions are actually unique codes in BASIC (as far as CHR$() and ASC() are concerned).

Sorry, if I failed in making this clear.

Edit: Arguably, the ortho layout of the PET 2001's chiclet keyboard also helps in identifying logical blocks of graphics characters.
I spoke about this to a friend who is a lawyer. He told me this might be to protect the carrier against bad customers who maliciously claim they didn't purchase the service in the first place, pretending it had been done by a fraudster using their personal info. A scam that allows them free Internet for ~45days until the carrier decides to call on the 1st outstanding bill. Apparently, a still picture of the customer in the shop wasn't a strong proof of presence, so they decided to make a short video (or GIF) instead.
All webmail providers used to delete old accounts and then allow re-registering them.

On-the-ball webmail providers don't allow this anymore, but some never changed their ways...
Elon Musk Says You're More Likely to Die in a Car Crash Than from Coronavirus
I don't see why this even needs a dialog. What legitimate reason is there for an app to see my clipboard without me pasting anything?
Unionization literally is there to fix management problems. By giving workers a say as to what management is allowed to do
Ask HN: Ideas for a productive self-quartine/isolation?
Is anyone aware of plans for virtual hackathons or startup weekend type activities?
This kind of responsibility would remove a lot of trust fund babies from their pretend jobs.
Interestingly I was in a meeting with Brendan Burns (of k8s fame) last year where he was extolling the virtues of VB. Not that it was the greatest language or anything, but that it brought programming to the masses, the ability for shirt and tie managers to do little things that increased their productivity.
Yikes, no that's not how boards work.
Padmasree Warrior, Reid Hoffman, Satyella Nadalla, I'd expect a decent number of people have heard of. The rest, no. But that's just my bias.
I was in a hurry, so I did. But it was really annoying -- to the point I decided to share it here in HN. I'm in Brazil.
Which medication(s) are you using? My personal experience with both Suboxone and methadone were absolutely horrible and made my getting clean 10x worse.
The adblocker doorslammed me. Here's the text of the article.

Microsoft said this week that it will support Visual Basic on .NET 5.0 but will no longer add new features or evolve the language.

“Starting with .NET 5, Visual Basic will support Class Library, Console, Windows Forms, WPF, Worker Service, [and] ASP.NET Core Web API … to provide a good path forward for the existing VB customer who want [sic] to migrate their applications to .NET Core,” the .NET team wrote in a post to the Microsoft DevBlogs. “Going forward, we do not plan to evolve Visual Basic as a language … The future of Visual Basic … will focus on stability, the application types listed above, and compatibility between the .NET Core and .NET Framework versions of Visual Basic.”

When Microsoft released the .NET version of Visual Basic, originally called Visual Basic .NET, alongside C# at the beginning of the .NET era, the two languages were evolved together and had roughly identical feature sets. But this changed over time, with professional developers adopting C# and many fans of classic VB simply giving up on the more complex but powerful .NET versions of the environment. Today, virtually all of Microsoft’s relevant developer documentation is in C# only, with VB source code examples ever harder to find.

Worse, Microsoft in 2017 announced that its original C#/VB co-development strategy was over. Only C# would get all of the new features, while VB would focus on the simpler and more approachable scenarios that it once dominated. But that never really happened, and Microsoft effectively abandoned VB. This week’s announcement just makes it official.

What this means to VB developers is that they might be able to bring their existing codebases forward to .NET Core or, soon, to .NET 5.0, which will replace both the traditional .NET and the open-source and cross-platform .NET Core when it’s released in late 2020. The issue is that not all legacy technologies will be supported going forward, so developers using WebForms, Workflow, or Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) will need to stick with classic .NET. Those applications will continue to work and be supported until the underlying Windows versions are retired; classic .NET support life cycles are tied to the Windows versions on which they were initially deployed.

Microsoft also notes that VB developers will occasionally benefit from improvements to Visual Studio.

“Visual Studio regularly adds new features to improve the experience for developers, including those using Visual Basic and either .NET Core or .NET Framework,” the .NET team adds. “An example is the recent addition of IntelliCode for Visual Basic.”

This is a sad day, and one that hits me personally. I started my writing career with Visual Basic 3, went on to write several books about VB and its various variants, and most recently wrote an entire Notepad clone called .NETpad in Visual Basic, Windows Forms, and the .NET Framework.
> back in my Amiga days when Atari was "the enemy"

To the best of my recollection that was the first major fanboi war in computers, also amplified by the advent of pre-internet online community in the form of BBSs (Bulletin Board Systems). I fondly remember accessing GEnie[0] from my trusty Atari 1040ST (my first home computer, since it had midi builtin).

However, I have to admit, the whole fanboi thing struck me as silly, since Amiga’s were graphically superior, while Atari ended up attracting midi developers and users. Not until much later did I realize, that in marketing terms, a fanboi war may very well benefit both sides. So while I still shake my head at fanboi posts, I also see why manufacturers like those wars.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEnie
This is great work!

I really like the site design and snappy fast pages too.
> Usually directors will interact with the board

Did you mean "executives"? Directors and The Board are the same thing; it's The Board of Directors.
> Or game developers can just hire non-union employees.

And then immediately be sued by the union & former employees for retaliation under the labor acts. Businesses already tried that sort of shenanigans
Revisiting Docker for Mac's performance with NFS volumes
If a technology is replacing an existing technology that a company is already using (Elasticsearch v.s Solr for example) the questions I ask are:

1. How much work will it be to /completely/ replace old-tech with new-tech?

2. Does new-tech give us advantages that outweigh that switching cost?

My rule of thumb is that new-tech can't be an incremental improvement on old-tech - if it's going to have a decent ROI when it comes to switching cost (and re-skilling cost and so on) it needs to be a HUGE improvement - either a multiplier of developer productivity or enabling features that simply cannot be built with old-tech.

The worst result - which I've seen far too many times - is that new-tech only 50-80% replaces old-tech - and now you have to maintain both.
I'm torn in the middle, but I don't totally agree. I had never seen the 3DO version before now, but I really like how it evolves on the original layout. I think the artwork is really interesting and "other worldly" while still retaining some of the abstractness. Now, part of this might be due to being familiar with the original, and having an exciting alternate version to see, I'm not sure if the game would be as notable without the polygon aesthetic.
For me, the switch to dot-net meant that continuing to upgrade past VB5/6 no longer held any particular advantage over switching to some other language altogether, not to mention possibly some other operating system as well. I ended up in the Python camp, where I reside today.

Edit: I should also mention that VB5/6 got me away from HyperCard. I loved the idea of being able to draw my GUI, and not having to screw around with writing my own event loop.

With VB, I liked that it was "object based," by which I mean that you could use objects provided by the tool without having to create them. This was a great way for me to ease my way into OOP. By the time I wrote my first object, I already understood what objects were useful for.
Yes they can - nobody is forcing anyone to buy an iPhone.
At a huge company like Microsoft the board isn't really a great place for visionaries. It's much better at things like helping the CEO understand the thoughts of large institutional investors that provide Microsoft with capital. A visionary is better suited as a "special advisor" to someone... like the role that Bill Gates is keeping.
> He's just pouring a ton of money into a lot of very hard problems.

To expand on this, those problems take a lot of money to deal with, more than his foundation has, so in a lot of cases, the foundation effectively acts as force multiplier to get even more money on the problems.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/2/11/21133298/bill-g...
All 42 Apple Stores in China have reopened
The big 4 is what classics sometimes called. Angband, NetHack, Dungeon Crawl, and Ancient Domains of Mystery.
humans: go is hard. machines will never be able to play at the highest level.

machines: I have won

humans: oh
A family member of mine works enterprise sales for a major bank's CC group, and showed me their interface. It's a blast from the past. But apparently that's why they're so successful, it gets the job done and has been honed in terms of UX for almost 25 years.
Flexible electronics made with wood-based nanotechnology
I'm not involved in this website or the underlying data. There's other interesting links, visualizations, etc I /r/covid19- like one comparing death coefficients by age with coronavirus and in normal circumstances (spoiler alert, it's double) or variations in spread of SARS-CoV-2 by temperature and humidity.
By data I mean - data to show that there would be less new equipment.

Easily repairable equipment could fail more often or have a shorter life on average because of the necessary design compromises.

Data could show if this is the case.