skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Some of us people know that grad school literally consists of learning potentially exclusively from papers. These papers represent the cutting edge of human knowledge and for someone familiar with scientific literature they are not that hard to parse. Doctors and scientists are humans like you and me.

Doctors and scientists are humans that, like you and me, spend years and years of study, practice and research on their own specific topic, with knowledgeable people by their side to guide, question them and answer their doubts. Parsing a paper is very different from actually understanding it, specially if you don't have the context they have.

> I'm not making policy here

You're right, but we have already enough disinformation as it is. We all have a certain responsibility towards not sharing unfounded statements in this situation.

> a forum where unusually intelligent people from all disciplines gather

HN is an echo chamber of programmers, mostly from the start-up world. A constant issue in this forum is programmers thinking that they can solve any problem (I still remember some discussions on sheet music that were extremely out of touch with actual music practice).

Also, "unusually intelligent"? Really?

> Though I guarantee at this point that I understand the problem at least as well as some 90% of our politicians...with or without sources.

The arrogance here is astounding.
I write all day and every day. I use grammarly, it's amazing! I also wear a tie....
The maintainer released Yarn 2. Yarn 2 is pretty foundationaly different than Yarn 1, and can and does break a lot of products/projects if used. Some folks are not happy about it, although Yarn 1 will probably continue to be maintained by the community for a while.

This seems to be pretty fair about the whole thing: https://shift.infinite.red/yarn-1-vs-yarn-2-vs-npm-a69ccf022...
Here's what Ralph Baric, an epidemiologist from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, had this to say on episode 591 of This Week in Virology[1] a couple of days ago:

Ralph Baric: "I saw some very interesting data from Stan Perlman the other day, who has been looking at serum neutralization titers of MERS patients from the Middle East kingdom of Saudi Arabia area and it's quite intersting that people peak fairly quickly with high neutralization titers but then they wane over the next year to almost background levels or just slightly above background levels by the second year, and with MERS there have been several reports of people who have seroconverted. They were rtPCR positive and their serum neutralizing titers and even ELISA titers went to almost zero within a few months."

Baric: "And it has not been studied and it should be studied, and this is the contemporary human Coronaviruses -- nobody knows how they maintain themselves in human populations. They don't undergo rapid antigenic variation like influenza. There's not 115 common cold or corona virus type genotypes or whatever they're called, serotypes. Sorry Vincent, I just butchered the coronaviruses."

Vincent Racaniello: "That's ok." <laughter>

Baric: "So one hypothesis is that they cause a transient protective immune response that wanes quickly and then they can reinfect and cause mild upper-respiratory tract infections and that's how they maintain themselves. So it is quite possible.. there's been a number now of reported cases in China of SARS2 infections where people were documented to be infected and recovered. They were rtPCR negative. They went home and they became reinfected a month later or so."

Baric: "In this case the United States has sufficient cases that we can actually track the serologic responses of the individuals and their general immune.. both B- and T-cell responses after infection and we can get a handle on the long term immunity that may be elicited after infection."

[1] - http://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-591/

[2] - about 15 minutes and 50 seconds in to the program
On the other hand, habeas corpus itself isn't so directly tied to freedom of movement, since it's a procedure that applies after you get detained. Also, the outcome of the procedure could be that a judge upholds the legality of your detention!

If police stop people on the street and tell them to turn around and go home, habeas corpus might not be a particularly relevant remedy.
Amazon to hire 100k warehouse and delivery workers
“Respirators, ventilators, all of the equipment — try getting it yourselves,” Mr. Trump told the governors during the conference call, a recording of which was shared with The New York Times. “We will be backing you, but try getting it yourselves. Point of sales, much better, much more direct if you can get it yourself.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/us/politics/trump-coronav...
So, specifically, he is ray-marching a signed-distance field. Which has some interesting properties.

One of the major down-sides is it's often more difficult to create the boundary surface, fewer editors and the like. More common methods are polygons, subdivision surfaces, and nurbs.

So, one common technique as you mentioned is ray-tracing, the key difference is ray-marching samples the world at intervals (often regularly spaced, but in SDFs you can search for the boundary since given any location, you know the distance to the closest surface) where ray-tracing you intersect each primitive directly, and normally build up data structures (BVH, for example) to minimize the amount of individual tests you need to do.

Another common technique, used almost exclusively in every real-time case (games, CAD tools, etc) Is rasterization, where you project the triangles into screenspace and intersect them with the pixels, the main difference being that your outer loop is now "for each triangle" rather than "for each pixel"

The differences might seem pretty subtle, and in a sense they are. But they have pretty enormous ramifications on the design of a renderer, how they handle content and their performance characteristics.
I believe you're talking about Stripe Checkout - which is totally optional and helps developers really quickly add a payment form to their site (like PayPal). I use Stripe on a number of my projects and at my startup and users never need to know "Stripe" exists unless I want them to. Disclosure: I am a former Stripe employee.
I'd be curious to hear what the rationale for taking this exact measure is, versus something more or less severe. Yes, it's to stop the spread of the virus, but what information is going into this decision? Is this simply an effort to copy the effective strategies employed by China and Korea to slow down the virus, or based off a simulation/modelling effort?
I only can say that I read that the major internet service providers on Spain are nearly at the limit of what can handle.
What's the approximate setup and validation time once you have a sequence?

(that is, what's the scale of the fuck up that the machine testing is still being brought online)
These border closures have almost universally had exemptions for shipping. So there may be secondary effects but it's unlikely to be disastrous.
> Let them go bankrupt or have the banks suspend mortgages.

Is this a serious comment or are you trolling?

Forget about a recession, the devastation a policy like this would cause would plunge the US into a full blown depression. Deflation and asset price collapse across the board. YEARS of stagnation.

(To me) the answer here seems clear: A direct bailout in the form of $ to consumers and some mix of direct $ and tax credits to businesses.
I assume my curiousity will be downvoted but I ask in a totally bipartisan way: How much would it cost? I’m guessing $157 billion/month given that 157 million people are working. How would it be paid for? I assume it’s just put on the credit card with the other $23 trillion or so we’re in debt?

Both parties have contributed hugely to the debt so don’t assume which side I’m on here. And while I expect to be downvoted I truly want to understand the long-term effects. Not saying I’m against it.
I believe Romney's proposal was $1000 per month.

I spend more than $1000/mo in Austin, but my essential costs (rent, food, utilities) have always been <$1000/mo.

$1000 won't cut it for everyone, but it will be enough for a lot of people, and disproportionately enough for people living from paycheck-to-paycheck. They've already had financial pressures to keep their standing expenses low. And keep in mind that this is per adult, not per household.
Has Tesla closed down Fremont yet?

Nope, still pumping out propaganda that they're "ahead of schedule" and want employees to work on their days off to deliver cars:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/16/tesla-model-y-deliveries-beg...

They are tweeting about beginning deliveries today.
You should keep at it, that was not bad at all.
I'll often come across shadow banned comments, and when I look at the author's post history (back to the first dead comment, plus a few pages of comments before) I really don't see anything wrong. Is it because the comment(s) that got them banned have been removed?

When I run across such an account, should I email an HN mod to investigate? I wouldn't mind doing that, but I've tried before and never got a reply back -- so not sure what the outcome was.
You may be reading in dickishness that's not there.

I'm rolling my eyes at our deeply dysfunctional housing situation, that will now kill even more people. Not the homeless themselves.
This is for Washington state, but will give you a pretty good breakdown:

https://medium.com/center-for-an-informed-public-at-uw/law-i...
Anyone know what the cause is? Are they deploying changes to the load balancer today or something? https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/http-routing#routing
Meanwhile, the Finnish government owns 55.8% of Finnair.
What kind of headlights do you have? If they're sealed-beam headlights, simply replacing them and aiming them will resolve the problem. if they're composite headlamps you almost certainly need to replace the lens and potentially the reflector if they don't give you any light at night.
If you want an action to be made legal, you legalize it. Don’t blame the enforcement of the law. It makes for great virtue signaling but is useless for bringing long-term change and it doesn’t help provide a stable environment for people illegally in the country.
It's essentially the same UI toolkit from UWP, just with the namespaces changed and decoupled from the OS and app model.
Quest to Learn: Developing the School for Digital Kids (2011)
Agreed, could have worded it better. Now that Wine is good enough to run most of Windows software and backed by Valve via its Proton initiative.
1 month salary for every full time employee is not anywhere near that. Especially capped at 1/12 of 100k/year
I know more people who use Mastodon than Twitter, and “only” a few hundred thousand people are really active on Mastodon.
I've heard similar stories from other Disney IT employees. It does seem like the tech coming out of the Research divisions continues to be extremely impressive though. Curious to get your thoughts on that.

https://www.disneyresearch.com/
Classic desktop GUI. As to what API that would mean, I don't have a clue.
Easily, one screw and a lid away on this model [0]. Phones are a bit harder to work inside with the constrained space and far more delicate parts (screen, screws, etc.). Maybe for a vacuum this is a lot harder to achieve even if manufacturers insist on it.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/eufy-RoboVac-Replacement-Compatible-A...
Ask HN: Software Engineer to Architect (Physical
Those who have made this career switch, just curious what that transition was like, what was your background before and how does the day to day change? What was your reasoning? Also curious about industrial designers. As a software engineer, touching the physical element isn't common.
Gates just finally stepped away from the chair. When that shit comes from the top, it gets baked into the culture and has a staying power beyond any tenure.
I don't know why this is being downvoted. A year is actually a fairly aggressive schedule. Of course there may be certain elected officials who will push to certify anything at all before November but nothing will be proven safe in that little time.
While I don't disagree, SDFs in specific have the nice property in that you can converge on the surface much quicker than in standard ray-marching which has a very significant impact on performance, which is why given many scenes, SDF ray-marching can be much less expensive than the alternatives.
Another thing I find pretty amazing is how much guitar work is 100% digital these days. The progress in DSP technology has allowed thousands of sounds available to the masses. $500 goes a long way these days which wasn’t true a decade ago.
How is that any different from it going to folks better off who don't immediately need it, and thus stash it in savings, etc.?

The point is it will be going to those who need it. Please don't throw the baby out with the bath water.
Why aren't headlights and windshields polarized? [1] According to this it may be a chicken or the egg regulations problem as well as some trade-offs that may not be viable.

[1] https://www.quora.com/Why-arent-headlights-and-windshields-p...
Ask HN: Is YouTube live chat having availability issues now?
Petty crime will also decrease massively, freeing up police.
Not OP, but yes that would be correct. I think they meant lower altitude, higher pressure.
787s are at around ~6000ft pressure altitude, and most others are at 8000ft. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabin_pressurization
If you sift through enough settings panels and preferences dialogs, you should see everything going back to DOS widgets in there.
Does anyone know if this is legally binding, or just a recommendation? I'm moving from one of the affected counties to another of them very soon. I've already paid a deposit on movers and signed a lease, and I need to move out of my old apartment or I'll be paying rent in two high-rent areas at the same time. I can't afford to pay over $7000/mo while I wait to see when this will be lifted. If my movers refuse to disobey the health order then I don't know what I'm going to do. I just don't have the money...
I'm enjoying this read, however one example stood out to me. I personally find:

"Although Mr. Doe was found to be eligible for this position; all of the positions in Boston had already been filled by our personnel office prior to receiving his application."

to sound much better than:

"Though we found Mr. Doe eligible for the position, our personnel office had filled all positions in Boston before we received his application."

YMMV
Also, if you have Scala experience, that's good to know for one of our clients!
You also need a framework that stays up to date. As of now they have a whole list of frameworks in maintenance but nothing that stays cutting edge. At least we need a clear upgrade path which doesn't exist.
I think the Bay Area should allow building of hundreds of thousands of new homes.

With many more homes, far fewer will be homeless.

I realize this is on a much different timescale than the epidemic, even if something impossible would be allowed.
Fair point that the interest accrued is coming out of the pre-existing money supply. Doesn't really change the thrust of my comment that you quoted though - they are being handed the ability to accrue capital.

Also, this is getting a little into the weeds philosophically, but injecting large amounts of capital in this way increases the money supply (and by much more than the amount of capital injected). In a sense, this is a tax on everyone who was not a recipient of that capital via a reduction in the purchasing power of their capital. Generally, consumer prices aren't going to go up in this case... but tons of people who had no investments have been looking at this crash as an opportunity to get in the game, and these efforts to prop up the markets with monetary policy in the face of an honest-to-goodness crisis can feel a little gatekeeper-ish.
Most shops are staying open until they’re force closed. Seeing a lot of curbside pickup. Brands across the board are canceling patient appreciation days but are allowing the shops to run the deals on their own.
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maybe it has come up before, but there would be a pretty significant difference between doing that with normal conditions and during a pandemic.
Everyone should do this. Now.
I’m definitely planning on writing a lot of music over the next month
Did people use this hack before? Like ProductHunt API + Twitter dump + Linkedin Dump to get support from your direct network?
Can't Norway bail them out? It's not like they lack the capital, and they're the country largest airline.

Italy just did so for Alitalia.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-alitalia-idUSKBN212...
That last link doesn't contain anywhere near enough information. Look at it a few times over the course of a month, and watch how the data changes over time… often seemingly retroactively.
arXiv link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.01086
Are any well-informed researchers recommending this level of lockdown? At least some experts, including CIDRAP, are opposed to closing schools, let alone locking people down. Is anyone seriously considering and commenting on the damage this policy will do to vulnerable populations?

This seemingly solid paper[0], published in the Journal of Medical Virology, shows Vitamin D to be an important intervention. And obviously fresh air and sun are generally important for health and well-being.

These steps seem authoritarian and wrong-headed.

0: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jmv.25707
This is ridiculous and completely overblown. WFH home is plenty along with simply avoiding crowded spaces. They better not do something stupid like close the airports I need to visit family beginning in April.
This has not been true for a while. The IAM policy also indicates it is deprecated in the description.

Though I always suggest to read what managed profiles are doing. Many of them are very permissive
I failed a business after nearly three years. I thought that it was a great idea and invested $50,000 of my father's money. I got lucky in many ways because I started it in college and didn't have rent or family matters on the line. That said, closing it down really sucked. I feel like there are still some loose threads between myself and teammates — we never closed the loop on some things, so make sure you do that. Otherwise, it will bother you for a long time.

To bounce back, I focused on the opportunities that this experience has instead brought me. I realized that I got deeply involved with the entrepreneurship community on campus. I channeled all my energy to help others start companies and avoid the mistakes that I have done. This, in turn, led to more work opportunities at accelerators and organizations that support startups.

After working for about a year I gained new perspectives and experiences which pointed me to a new idea that I am currently pursuing. The "circle of startup" if you will :)

One of the best frameworks that starting my first company helped me develop is finding "problem/solution fit". Of course, that depends on your past business and experience. Personally, I became more sensitive to noticing problems and realizing that I could solve them with technology.
I don't want a new native UI for Windows. I want a cross platform UI.

I am NOT developing the same GUI N times for N different platforms. No way. Even very large companies like Slack are refusing to do that. They have the resources to have three or four parallel dev teams but why?

I don't care how nifty, pretty, fast, or modern this new UI is. It's not cross platform therefore it does not exist.

This is not a technical problem. Check this project out:

https://github.com/andlabs/libui

Yes it's minimal and rough around the edges, but it's the work of one developer in their spare time. If one developer hacking away in the evenings can do that, then there is no excuse.

If OS vendors keep insisting on being special and trying to herd developers into making OS-specific apps, developers will keep going to bloated but portable alternatives like Electron and Qt. Why is every new app an Electron app? Don't blame developers or Electron. Blame OS vendors.

It's 2020. We have common portable APIs for threads, networking, even 3D graphics, but not 2D GUIs. It's easier to write a portable cross platform 3D rendering engine than it is to write a portable cross platform app with a menu, a box, and a button. It's just offensive at this point.
I would generally agree Windows looks more like traditional Microsoft than many other arms of their org.

And the Candy Crush thing... like, if it was just Home edition? Fine. If it was even smart enough to realize it need not preinstall that on a domain account (the installation of UWP apps is technically per-user), like, if they'd demonstrated any recognition that Windows is used in professional settings... I'm right there with you on this one.

However...

> like issues where file extensions magically reset to Windows defaults

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190225-00/?p=10... is probably the best response to that. Given the number of Windows app developers who do unholy things with their apps, it's hardly a surprise. (My understanding is Windows has a huge number of secret compatibility shims just to keep major software vendors' bad hacks and API misuses working.)

> nagging you to just please try Edge

I literally can't escape "switch to Chrome" nags, as a Firefox user. Every Google site has at least one, Google's home page has displayed an amazing three Chrome popups at the same time before. I'd maybe give you this one if they weren't waging a war on it to a far more aggressive foe, and losing badly.
Virus vaccine trial, faster testing are bright spots in outbreak
I saw this post recently, which is I think a nice summary of the risks: https://old.reddit.com/r/CoronavirusUS/comments/fjld7n/thoug...
I am a long time desktop dev but my next project will either go web or qt. I am done with MS desktop toolkits.
Me too! Any other resources you can share?
Call the new landlord and ask them to delay the move in date.
I am not heavy on UI development, but most of my experiences with WPF were pretty good.

In what ways grid and stackpanel are broken? They seem to perform exactly as designed (though I only have CSS to compare to, but it is magnitudes worse).

The fact, that core controls have no default spacing seems like a sane engineering decision, considering you can set it app-wide with a few lines of XAML.

Shortcuts sound like a problem for a specific scenario. The default binding update on lost focus might have been a bad decision, but even given my little experience I remember it quite well.
> Not quite a full lockdown, grocery stores, pharmacies, etc are all open,

My understanding is that even in the most locked down regions of Italy this is still true. Grocery and pharmacies remain open.
Pretty sure we're being invaded by a trillion trillion invisible soldiers.
The far end of the spectrum is martial law.
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In cases like this, however, it seems a car is the solution to the wrong problem: you should not be commuting at all.

A car is also the "solution" to an individual problem -- "how do I get safely from A to B?" -- but this is a societal problem: "how do we as a society overcome this disease while causing as little damage as possible?". Solutions must be oriented towards the community, not the individual. Everyone using their cars, if they even have them, is not the solution.
I thought it was an original "growth hack" from our CTO, Mario, but who knows :)
I believe in property rights with reasonable limitations like taxation on same. I do not believe in IP at all beyond say trademark protection making it possible to know what you are buying.