skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why the downvotes? Seems like the appropriate sentiment for these kinds of news. No need to sugarcoat it.
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This is just not correct. Governments are acting on this throughout the world. Don't conflate governments with politicians. For well-functioning states, state agencies are dealing with this through well-established protocols that don't need political clearence. This means that the countries where politicians are the most visible and calling for action could very well be the ones that have prepared the least.
This is very conservative.

If you really want to look at the risks, see Eric Rignot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWlsizBRG5w

Multi-meter rise by 2100 is possible. Glacier melting could be very nonlinear.
Isn't the promise of working fully remote that you can be a "digital nomad"? What if I just want to visit poor countries while my home is in the US?
Not in this market
Probably little evidence for Covid-19, but for SARS, studies in animals have found limited immunity after both infections and vaccination attempts. https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/706717_1
Unfortunately the availability of tests is so limited we really have no idea of how many cases there are in any given state at the moment.

That said, the CDC publishes this data on a state basis daily here: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-in-us.html
That's something to hope for. But it will not come automatically, we have to push for political change to make this happening.
I think one of the main reasons GANs are used for images is that the perceptual distance is not well defined, and the discriminator can tease whatever statistical difference the real and fake data (e.g. blurriness), thus in practice learning a decent distance function. What perceptual distance function did you have in mind?
With Siberia melting viruses from before the ice age will start getting out. Pandemics might become the new normal every few years in the future.
If the situation doesn't improve by March 2021, they will be up the creek.
An economics PhD once asked me for help with Langangians, but at the time I was quite occupied with other branches of mathematics. I wonder if it would make sense to revisit it. If I recall, the problem he was looking at was quite standard, and involved perturbations (indeed, like the corona virus) to economical models.
I shouldn't have to make up a higher power and do anything with that imaginary construct to make it through the steps of a sobriety program, though. The fact that I'd have to lie about it in the first place is the issue - it doesn't matter if other people's higher power is something non-christian or not. I cannot just be myself.
Yeah, and we don't know the reasoning behind either decision. I can come up with maybe a hundred different parameters that could be relevant or not.

At this point we can trust authorities to have a reasonable approach to this and that they monitor the situation closely. Or we can assume they don't.

In the first case, we follow the action plan. In the latter we do what we can, best based on actions that worked elsewhere. Just complaining about how insufficient actions are in our eyes doesn't help.

Anyway, there plans for stuff like this government drawers everywhere. Ranging from school closures to plan keeping critical infrastructure up. Heritage from the cold war.

And even if the US federal government seems to screw up, states like New York and Washington seem to react rather decisively. And we shouldn't forget that things in China are calming down to an extent ad-hoc hospitals are closed down and medical supplies can be shipped to Italy.
The economy is going to be in shock, whatever you do.

Don't act, and you'll get a messup economy because of the panic and the sick people.

Act, and you'll get a messup economy because of the panic and the sick people, and the cost of tests+quarantines+curfew. Less people dead is the ethic thing to do, but power is not about morality.
This is the problem of simplistic analysis.

The question here is which actions of what severity, not simple act or not.

There are many ways to handle this, from maximum quarantine and cancellation of medical appointments, through closing mass gatherings (e.g. schools), rationing, enforced testing, closing public transportation, controlling private transportation, closing airports, sea and river ports, mandatory sampling for tests etc.

Each choice comes with a value for disruption and voter groups it will affect, and value for monetary cost.

Game theory is not too helpful here, as disruption does not directly affect discontent and definitely not your chances of getting elected. These are much more complex decisions with many more actions between here and then.
Because the virus respects county boundaries?
don't get my hopes up like that
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The action that any government should take now is find a cure for the virus. Collectively pool resources, bring up the brightest minds in health sciences and devise a way to remove the virus from the equation. The fact that despite lockdown and other government actions and the virus is still spreading just mean that all this measures would become nil at some point.
Right, so when you say you'll tell us the state of PoS in 2020, the answer is "currently unsolved".
We do, ever since the cold war.
Exactly. Anyone around during y2k is quite familiar with this phenomenon.
> All travel is essential to somebody.

Not at all.
You pretty much can't compare the definition of "city" or "urban area" in different countries, so that tells you nothing.

I mean, Berlin has 3.7 million people in a city of 890 sq km. Melbourne has about 5 million people in a city of almost 10,000 km. They're incomparable, and so the urban population of Australia and Germany are incomparable. (You can play with the definitions as much as you like but you'll never be able to compare arbitrary Australian and German cities.)
Wow, thanks, that's a fantastic article, particularly because it shows actual code that illustrates the idea, instead of being overly abstract.
Is there more to this story than a corporate press release? or should we wait until something substantive appears?

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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Human beings write code that is imperfect because people are human beings

I don't think it's particularly fair to make it out like Microsoft intentionally writes vulnerable software
> First, there's no "no pandemic" case. Not anymore.

I am not saying that the analysis is correct, but information that is disclosed now has no bearing on an explanation of the actions of actors in the past.

> Last but not least, the whole framing is extremely simplistic and follows the "politicians are evil" reddit-like logic.

Politicians are people who happen to really care about being reelected. If you have any contact with them, you will realize that this is the ulterior motive of all of their actions. In a sense, as it should be. Being our democratic-elected representatives, it seems reasonable to me that they behave as slaves to the preferences of those who elected them. Like everything else, this creates a bunch of perverse incentives. You would have to be very naive to overlook these things, and imagine that powerful politicians will no put reelection above all things. The ones that didn't did not get reelected, and are not powerful politicians.
I'm not a clinician, but getting to the diagnosis of pneumonia usually involves imaging, as I understand it:

https://www.aafp.org/afp/2011/0601/p1299.html
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I think manual stimulation is typically of the vulva (bizarrely referred to as the “vagina” in America popular culture) not the vagina itself.
This one is worth it, personally one of my favourite talks ever.
I believe this was the HACMS program. Data61 has some more information: https://ts.data61.csiro.au/projects/TS/SMACCM/

It may be worth mentioning that it isn't the kernel that rebooted the system but some monitoring thread.
Exactly control.

Netflix, Spotify, YouTube and so many others would love to have an app that lets them advertise their subscriptions without giving 30% to Apple.

Also having porn and gambling apps on the iPhone, even if it's not coming from the Apple Store would be a big no-no for them.
> I never understand the "Quietly" part in headlines like this. The fact that it's headline news is kind of self-refuting

It was in Comcast's quarterly report filed on January 31st, but even then it would need to be compared to the prior quarterly report 3 months earlier. So nobody - with write access to any website - noticed until March 9th.

> and even without that, where do people usually shout about the positions that they're selling?

Form 3
Form 4
Form 13F

Anyway, NBC was not within reporting thresholds for Snapchat.
Here we go https://outline.com/yfW5Zb
I doubt it will affect elections directly. Looking around the world, there's mostly bad examples from all kinds of governments - right-wing (Trump in US, Johnson in the UK), centrist (Macron in France, Merkel in Germany), left-wing (Slovenia - was centre-left until a week ago, Denmark), totalitarian (Iran, China)...
Last time I heard about servo I read that it was a proof of concept and that the good ideas would be ported to Gecko. I could be wrong. I'm still quite confused about what servo is and will be.
When I post a procedural comment about a thread, we sometimes pin it to the top. Usually it's about trying to dampen flamewars. In this case it was in the hope of getting the thread more on topic, but that's less common.

That post is no longer pinned. It's still at the top of the thread because of upvotes. Normally we'd downweight it now, but https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22552120 is so good that I don't want it to sink along with it.

(I've detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22551842)
You may be right.... but it is time to start voting out politicians who put their own careers above the well-being of their constituents.
I'm not sure there have been any studies on it but it makes sense that cognitive dissonance in humans would be a genetic advantage over other species. It allows us to acknowledge unfortunate truths like death and existentialism without driving us to insanity.

My personal cognitive dissonance is the optimism that we'll at least be able to slow climate change despite the mounting evidence to the contrary. If I lose that optimism, I would enter a very dark place in my own mind.
But we are nowhere near that point. Issue some Fiat money to businesses most heavily impacted. Reduce the spread of the virus. Save lives. Worry about the money later.
> Except $500M barely register for a company the size of NBCUniversal

Since it was in Comcast's quarterly report, it was large enough to "register".
Denmark did act yesterday evening & today:

- events with more than 100 people forbidden.

- all schools will close

- all non-critical employees must stay home.

- all private employees off-job as much as possible.

- stay in your home.

- don't travel to [many] countries, more restricts will come.

- All indoor cultural institutions, libraries, leisure facilities, etc. are closed.

And today they made a temporary law which will sunset 1 year from now (the law is only in effect for 1 year):

- ability to force people to be tested and put into isolation

- enter homes without warrant when occupant is suspected to be infected.

- much expanded ability to forbid events and collection of people (Note: the permission to assemble is just as fundamental culturally to Danish people as freedom-of-speech is to USA).

- ability to forbid/restrict use of transportation (likely number of passengers in buses, trains)

- suspension of "free choice" of hospitals and quarantee of treatment within some time frame (we have "socialized medicin" where we have a right to treatment within a given time frame)

- allow temporary suspension of other laws if deemed necessary

Why did this happend now: They were told yesterday that Northern Italy no longer has enough resources in their health care system and that there are now official guidelines for whom to treat and whom to let die: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/who-gets-h...

Italy is close and "one of us".
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that's why you get restaurants whose menu is only available as a PDF, a deeply mobile-hostile format, when just putting it on the front page would actually be easier and work better for the user.

IMHO that's still better than making it an SPA, because the former at least can be easily downloaded and viewed locally. Another example I've seen is a recent redesign of a public transit site, where a simple HTML form and directory of PDFs (literally --- it was just the webserver's directory listing) for finding bus schedules was turned into an SPA that took a disturbingly long time to load and was filled with, as the sibling comment puts it, "flashy, user-hostile crap". The old design was unchanged since at least 1999, if not slightly before.
Slippery slope fallacy. We are nowhere near that point.
The US has already started mass quarantine.

Hospitals will only allow visitors if they are over 16 and a primary caregiver (ie spouse), and even they are screened before being allowed in. Nursing homes are limiting visitors, both who can come, and where they can go. Companies are halting non-essential travel.

It isn't as drastic as you might think it should be, but it is significant at limiting risk for the most vulnerable.

Most of the above is running plans that have been in place for a long time (far longer than Trump), walking the line between overreacting and things getting out of control.
I think he does a great job and admire his impartiality.
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Standard Foreign Office response in a time of crisis.

Sir Richard Wharton:
In stage one we say nothing is going to happen.

Sir Humphrey Appleby:
Stage two, we say something may be about to happen, but we should do nothing about it.

Sir Richard Wharton:
In stage three, we say that maybe we should do something about it, but there's nothing we can do.

Sir Humphrey Appleby:
Stage four, we say maybe there was something we could have done, but it's too late now.
Not for high performace games,and scenarions that require hardware access APIs.

However for typical CRUD applications, nowadays often packed as a WebWidget, or Flash like applications (WebGL + WebAssembly), it is a definite yes.
The headline of the actual post is:

> Why your government isn't acting on the Corona/COVID-19 threat

Maybe we could correct this weird Indian grammar seen in the current headline on HN?
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It's great that people outside SV have an opportunity to earn money. It's not great that putting the prole employees in fiercer competition funnels more money to wealthiest monopolist capital owners.
I hope whoever owns it makes sure to start it at least once a year. Such a shame for such a new engine to not be started at least infrequently.

Maybe I'll find it someday. I will admit, these days I have been doing the most to ensure that my cars are kept running, and that they are stored safely, i.e. dry indoor garages. But once I get my own workshop, I may get back into the business.

However, my first project, would be a series 1 CX with an electric engine.
This isn't the first time this has happened. I stopped wearing watches in normal situations when I got my first Nokia brick, in the late 90s.
I can't speak on alcohol and think any alcohol addiction is more difficult to quit, but: I quit smoking and nicotine a year and a half ago. I still have ecigs about: I kept them in case I just couldn't. Just in case. For peace of mind. I never really saw it as temptation. I don't mind getting rid of them now, mind you, I'm just lazy and they are stored away.
Meta was in no way ever a "primary competitor". Meta was a straight-up scam. If that's all the experience with headset-based AR that you've had, that's like trying to make comments about VR if you've only experienced Google Cardboard.
The programming language is the first thing I think of when I see "APL", and the others are unknown to me, but I still would have upvoted if phaedryx had just posted "APL = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)" or similar, and put the rest of the post below that. Starting out with the wrong hits is very distracting. The self-deprecation at the end is also totally unnecessary.
I wonder how coronavirus will impact the census? Given the circumstances, sending a bunch of people to knock on a bunch of doors doesn't seem like a great idea...
Health HN: Wrap phone in plastic wrap to facilitate disinfecting
I sometimes need to touch my phone with contaminated hands. For other people this is a bigger issue. I'd like to thoroughly spray down the phone once I decontaminate my hands but don't want to use so much liquid that it gets in the holes.

Wrapping the phone in plastic wrap addresses this. The phone works fine with it on. Wrap can be sprayed down and discarded as needed.
Lots of great suggestions here - let me add a good set of noise cancelling headphones and a Spotify Premium subscription (or your vendor of choice). Maybe music isn't your thing - a great alternative is 'Spa Type' music or some kind of meditation oriented track. The point of any of this is to eliminate outside distractions (street noises, building noises, people noises, etc).

Personally I like the Beats Studio 3's myself. Noise cancelling at a price point thats not totally insane.

The Point here is not necessarily music but the ability to stop hearing the rest of the world - even when no music is playing. Think of them as fancy electronic ear plugs that can play music if you so desire.
The point if that if remote works than most onsite employeea likely are *not".
He changed sex, and the chance of a tranny committing suicide is over the roof according to well known statistics; you don't need solitary confinement for this to happen in this case
He made several errors. He also said Europe minus the UK was banned, but it's actually the Schengen Area.
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This is a very interesting idea, it blew my mind the timeframe subdomain.

I was about to ask about the technologies and I smiled when I saw that in the documentation. Great work and good luck!
This is just one guy thinking that government know what they are doing and that they are "fine". I have read other delusional thinking on Reddit along the lines of "Trump seems to be so confidant, this must be a bio-attack on China/Iran and somehow the virus is not going to spread in the USA". This was before the virus spreading to Italy and Iran/China being the only countries with breakouts.

This kind of delusional thinking is not very different from religion and believing in God. People who believe in God, when they are found in hard situations, will think that somehow god (the savior) will come for their rescue. Apparently, people who do not believe in God will think that somehow the universe/government or whatever will come to their rescue.

The issue is that people holding power/government seems to be, eh, usual folks. They are still operating with a normal brain which when confronted with abnormal situations that it can't handle will just imagine that stuff is going to return to normal.

Bill Gates has already warned about something close to the Coronavirus and that we are very far from being ready. Nobody was listening and my guess is the change is going to happen through natural selection.
I ran into this while doing work for several companies in Oman, their state telecom provider is in a monopoly position for voice calls, and the VOIP ban is to push business to them.

They had some pretty ridiculous workarounds, like using teamviewer for its voice chat function.
Both have community spread, and Japan has lots of visitors from China. Even direct flights from Hubei were only stopped relatively recently.

But yeah, European countries should make for better comparisons soon.
I live in Switzerland and it is really annoying, as my IP switches between the German and the French part every few weeks.

I also wonder, what is happening in places, where people traditionally where always from different language groups. I don't know if then there is always a single common language.
I think there's a large chunk of many populations that predicts future conditions based on intuitive experience with the immediate past. "There won't be a real catastrophe in the future because there hasn't been one in recent memory," seems to be a real thought pattern that's driving a lot of behavior in the West. This is happening with the coronavirus even now that the writing seems to be on the wall.

These complacency patterns (and their counterpart) may go deeper than one specific event, like the coming epidemic. For example, the survivors of WWII seem to have been an unusually serious bunch: they put a lot of effort into building global infrastructure to protect against all kinds of disasters.

I don't know if this epidemic we're about to have will change things here. But I'm hopeful. Maybe some folks will wake up and start to adjust their perception of risk more broadly.
I was pointed to it by my brother-in-law who is an MD, smart, and not prone to overplay things.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair

The whole climate denialism machine utilizes the same mechanisms and even the same people as the tobacco one before it.
The population density of Hubei is over 9x that of the United States, the quality of care is better in the United States, and there was basically no action taken for the first 2 months of the outbreak.

"it's plausible that more than half of the population could get it, and leaders of many western countries have acknowledged that."

Will there ever be apologies for spreading mass hysteria?
"If that holds true it would put 400 million people at risk of annual coastal flooding by 2100," said Prof Shepherd.

At least the prognosticators are getting smart enough to make sure their predictions can't be assessed until after they're gone. Means no egg on your face like all the doomsayers of times past...

https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-failed-eco-pocalyp...

And the lede, "give more money to programs I think are important", is buried:

His particular concern is to see successors to the European Space Agency's CryoSat-2 satellite and the American space agency's IceSat-2 platform.

These models observe more of the ice sheets than other satellites because they fly orbits that go very close to the north and south poles.

"I fear we will soon be back to the situation of the early 2000s when we had to make do with missions that were not really designed to look at polar regions. We'll be doing our best despite the absence of the data we really require - unfortunately. But we've been there before."

My reflexive skepticism at the climate panic du jour aside, if you're convinced disaster is certain if we don't do something and if that something necessarily reduces the quality of life of everyone around you, you will fail. I, and billions of others, will refuse to go along.

All reasonable, sensible, attainable solutions are technological.
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Classes are everywhere, but are used in different ways or hidden.

There are types of classes that are hidden and cannot be re-instantiated.

To me, those are modules and the main execution environment.

Whenever i've been caught out when coding its always one or both of these things, so i always wrap these in a class otherwise when it comes to reusing something multiple times you're caught short.

So, i always use classes for base functionality.

But i don't throw them around like sugar candy.