skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope. It does matter. The credit markets which deal with corporate debt could fail as a result. This will drag down the rest of the economy. The main issue is most people dont understand the contagion and risks taken on by the practices I laid out in my main post.
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That's totally true! That's the main reason why most coffee we drink is such a trash. But, roasting it months in advance vs days in advance will bring a whole new dimension to that.
There are still prompts on the terminal like “credit or debit” or “please enter your PIN” or “type your phone number for reward card points” or “push X if you want orphans to starve”. (Safeway has the last one commonly.)
One of our users has setup logstash to load data from S3 to ElasticSearch. Would that setup work for you?
Amazon suspends all shipments to its warehouses except medical supplies products
I wonder if the "dilute to 70%" rule for isopropyl applies to coronavirus. My understanding is that you dilute 99% because you need the water to catalyze action on bacterial cell walls. But that wouldn't apply to virions.
Looks like Notion for purist developers.

https://www.notion.so/
I have found tridactyl a great keyboard-driven navigation tool for browsers, with insane customizability. (Example - want to copy the git clone address into your clipboard? Just press `yg`)
It sounds like you didn't have to pick up younger siblings at school when you were younger. That's the reality for a lot of poor kids. Raised by a single parent, the older siblings are in charge of looking after the younger ones. The parent often does not get home from work until late (and may have multiple jobs).
I'll drop into this more, because we might not be connecting on what layers we're talking about. I'm talking about immediate medical survival. If by "resources" you're talking about financial/economic support, then I could very much agree with an "everyone right away" approach.

I see the immediate health layer as subject to physical limitation, the economic layer subject to informational limitation. If by resources you mean money, then yes, I very much agree.
Where are the references? What concentration bleach?

From TFA: "Unfortunately, bleach solutions need to be made fresh every day"

From CDC[0]: "If chlorine solution is not prepared fresh daily, it can be stored at room temperature for up to 30 days in a capped, opaque plastic bottle with a 50% reduction in chlorine concentration after 30 days of storage (e.g., 1000 ppm chlorine [approximately a 1:50 dilution] at day 0 decreases to 500 ppm chlorine by day 30)."

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/infectioncontrol/guidelines/disinfection...
There can be a wide range of assumption. Anywhere from "all the people we know about are all that are infected" to "everyone else in the world is already infected".

Regardless, the death tolls kind of speak for themselves. What's more, the increase in death toll too. In Italy alone there are over 4000 dead, with a few hundred more a day now. Italy has a population of 60 million. Extrapolating even the current death count in Italy to the rest of the world, and that's 400k deaths. All indications are that it'll be higher than that uncontrolled.

Maybe people are overreacting. But in this case isn't it better to error on the side of caution? Otherwise by the time we realize we're wrong and millions are dying, what do we do then?
Yes, this struck me as a crazy idea for C/C++ development, embedded or not. What if you save something intermediate not meant to be compilable/testable? I for example have a deeply ingrained habit of saving my changes all the time going back to the floppy disk days when computers would regularly crash/freeze.
I will say the US healthcare system and its lack of hospital beds per population is making our lives worse. South Korea apparently has 12 beds per 1000 people, and, wouldn't you know it, the US is terrible, and even worse when considering our expense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_hospital_...

We all will suffer drastic economic effects from the vampires that have made our healthcare system a worldwide embarrassment.

We are LUCKY that this is a 1-4% kill rate disease. If this were a REAL deadly pandemic like smallpox or black death, we'd be totally screwed, and even more screwed due to our healthcare system actively discouraging people from using it, trusting it, or listening to it.
Not an expert but shouldn't reheating be suggested for takeout/delivery food?

It seems like a good idea to reheat food to 165F (74C) which is likely sufficient to deactivate the virus.
Ok, so hospitals are going to be a mess, which causes all sorts of extra problems (routine issues become really bad, etc).

But also, if there's enough people sick enough to overwhelm the hospitals, your average workplace is going to have a bunch of people out sick, and that's going to be an issue. Plus, like everybody who is well is going to be out for the funerals of the old people.

Part of the reason my kid's school shut down before they were compelled to was that they were having trouble with staffing, because staff were sick or in the vulnerable groups. No school means less workers for other jobs too.
You don't need to disinfect anything, you can just wash stuff with soap and water.
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Thanks for sharing that particular report. There's a couple of things worth pointing out.

1. This report is also strangely claiming that the H1N1 swine flu most likely "came from a frozen source and a laboratory seems the most probable culprit", a claim that both the WHO and CDC refuted. This raises a red flag for me.

2. I appreciate you sharing the article, and I want to read it critically. Unfortuantely this article does not provide any hard evidence (from tests or physical analysis) showing a clear direct link between SARS and wet-market. It doesn't even have a methodology section, so I'm not sure why it's in a scientific publication. I'm guessing this is a paper that tried to summarize current findings, but the best evidence this paper can give is this: "The host range of SARS coronaviruses in wild or farm-raised animals is not resolved. Yi Guan and colleagues14 recently established a potential zoonotic origin of SARS coronavirus (CoV) and wet markets as a possible source of the original outbreak." In other words, they think it could from wet-markets but they don't even know the transmission vector. Where's the hard science to back up the provocative title that "wet market is a continuing source of severe acute respiratory syndrome and influenza"? I guess putting a question mark in the title lowers the burden of proof for the author.

3. I do take one point from this study seriously: The butchering process of animals should be regulated. When animals are butchered at an industrial scale in factories, health inspectors can easily check the butchering process. But when they are done at very small scale in smaller wet-markets, it is very difficult to inspect them. This is a rightful public health concern, whether or not it is the source of influenza.

4. Actually, the US and Europe still have wet markets, and the public seem to love them. They're called fish markets, where fishermen sell their daily catch directly to consumers. They'll cut and clean the animals right in front of customers. To be clear, they have tighter regulation than the wet markets we see in Latin America, Asia, or Africa, but they are exactly the the same kind of markets: they allow farmers and fishermen to sell directly to consumers in small daily batches, which can include butchering services.
We have way more morbidly obese people though http://ncdrisc.org/morbid-obesity-population-bubble.html
South Korea has tested 0.5% of their population by some accounts.

I mean, yes, that's great, but it's not as widespread as people are implying.
> This is stupid, it's a respiratory virus, it needs to enter your lungs. Get your stuff, wash your hands. Done. This is why restaurants are still open for takeout.

Why is washing your hands appropriate but not washing the contaminated items you'll touch with your washed hands afterwards?

Your comment strikes me as stupid.
Not if they want to aggregate your data with a thousand other databases.

Also, people can sign up for those with an alias, or throw away the loyalty card and get a new one on a regular basis (e.g. right after redeeming your points).
I think it's perfectly reasonable to go with a lottery system after some point. Most people with a ACT over ~30 are going to be completely capable of performing the coursework for an undergraduate degree at MIT. And anyone with a perfect score is going to be fine anyway. There are plenty of world-class institutions in the USA that would be more than happy to accept these peopl.
Just throwing some info out there since I graduated from this exact program. We may graduate with an engineering degree, but we technically cannot use the word engineer in our title (in Canada) until we get our accreditations, which require a couple years working in Canada under a somebody else with their P.Eng license.

The vast majority of us (definitely > 90% of my class) have moved to the US after graduation where we pretty much can use whatever role we want (eg. my official title is software engineer at my company), but from what I know of the few people left in Canada, their roles are officially "programmer" or "developer". I've actually heard stories of P.Engs on messaging people in my program on LinkedIn to change their job titles to not include the word engineer. I'm not really sure what the repercussions are.
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No, that's not the goal. We aren't trying to monetize this. We are trying to be good corporate citizens and to help our customers, the country, and our market. We have unique data, expertise, and resources so we feel obligated to help out.
Where did you get 10% from?

We should treat them as best as possible but not by stopping the world.

Look up the actuarial tables for a 70 year old. Living another year is significantly different than for a 45 year old.

Then lookup the survival rates for a 70 year old with influenza, suddenly the numbers keeping you up at night start looking weak in comparison.
This was an old version of FileZilla from 2016 from a relatively short-lived experiment when a previous incarnation of SourceForge was helping open source projects 'monetize'. There was no malware and no infection. It was an online downloader with bundleware.

FileZilla is solid software and every version has been clean. I know because I scan every release in dozens of antivirus engines via VirusTotal as part of packaging FileZilla Portable for PortableApps.com.
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People crash all the time texting and driving. I see people looking into their phones while the car is coasting all the time. Autopilot is at the very least a much much safer coasting mode. To say Tesla Autopilot, at least the current version of it, net-net increases the chance of crashes is pure speculation, requiring a very hard to measure second-order effect argument of it being significant a cause for distraction and intuitively untrue for anyone who actually uses it day to day.
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Assistant? Associate?

The titles don't give too much confidence.
Probably because it's _weird_.

Protected titles seem to have differing meanings in many places. Doctor is a pretty universally understood one; yet we throw around "Architect" pretty willy nilly and it's a protected title in many more countries than Canada.

Yet somehow Canada gets special consideration and other countries do not.

For context: I work for a French company, and we have many Architects despite that being a protected term. But we do not have Engineers in Canada (even if they have MSc CompSci engineering degrees).
Very sympathetic. Points taken
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OP here. My original submitted title was: It never makes sense to use foldl on lists (in Haskell); first line of the linked content. But someone dropped the bracketed content.
If you're interested in Data Structures classes, I also strongly recommend Keith Schwartz's CS166. Unfortunately there are no public video recordings afaik, but slides and handouts are available, and also of exceptional quality: http://web.stanford.edu/class/archive/cs/cs166/cs166.1196/
Apple Store: Devices left for repairs are locked up “until further notice”
This is a really interesting class, and Erik Demaine is a top notch lecturer. If you're interested in algorithms I can easily recommend this class.

This isn't intro material though, and most of it is fairly niche in terms of usage. Your average programmer probably won't use any of this knowledge.

The most generally useful bits I remember were on the different types of persistence in data structures, which is legitimately cool and occasionally useful, especially in purely fuctional programming.

I also found the link-cut trees to be about the most interesting data structure I know of, they're cool as hell. You start with a pretty simple DS (splay trees), add some interesting analysis that's also related to heavy-light decomposition, and extend them to do something impressive. It's just a fun mix of analysis and implementation towards a goal. The moment it clicked for me was one of those once-a-year satisfaction events.

If any of that somehow talked you into doing this class, I'd recommend the Intro to Algorithms class also in MIT OCW first, at least one of the years is partially taught by Erik Demaine as well.
Author Christopher Damitio giving away books so you can shelter in place
to re-iterate the other comment: landlords have landlords.
All of those are the result of the horrible 'economic system' we find ourselves in. People lose their apartments when they lose their jobs because we have few safety nets. And for small businesses we're demonstrating how little it takes for something to completely destroy them.

If humanity can't react appropriately to pandemics like this, then how can we expect to survive in the eventuality that something even worse comes along? And any economic system that gets crushed by this proves that it simply wasn't prepared and needs to be replaced, lest it cause even more damage to individuals.
Most countries can't survive months let alone years on lockdown. Most people can't work remotely, so in extended lockdown people lose their jobs and small businesses fold.
Is decontamination really necessary? Can't you just ensure that you wash your hands after handling any delivered goods.
For example, after receiving a delivery of something, you wash your hands after opening it. After receiving a food delivery, you heat the food and again wash hands before eating. Is this not sufficient?
Yeah, but they solve basically the same problem.

As I mentioned, foldMap requires associativity. Per your link I guess it also requires existence of a neutral element (whereas foldr instead makes you specify a starting element).
That is a nice set of materials, can confirm. I loved the range-minimum-query parts, amongst others.

RMQ is cool because there's a bunch of different approaches, there's different tradeoffs to make (time, memory, implementation effort, pratical and theoretical efficiency, etc.), and some of the results are surprising.
The problem is that businesses have been setup in such a way that they can't just stop spending money when they aren't earning any money.

But this can mostly be fixed by law, with a law that retroactively changes all rent, leasing, mortgage, employment contracts and in general any contract that involves periodic or future payments to be stopped at will, subject to no longer enjoying the service or product.

Then they can just stop paying rent and paying employees and cancel all supply deliveries, since they no longer need those, and they will not lose any money.

Then add a temporary UBI and a ban on actually evicting from rented spaces (since the economy is shut down, and thus there would be no other tenants) so that people can still have a home and food.
Yang-style UBI would not be livable without a job anyway, it'd just allow landlords to pocket even more dollars from urban dwellers. That would not help the unemployed and minimum wage folks at all – especially if we cut other benefits and implemented VAT (a tax based on consumption, which is basically regressive) to pay for this. For the unemployed there should simply be a solid state safety net with livable unemployment benefits. Although in this crisis it's critical that we keep jobs so that it's possible to restart economic activity as smoothly as possible when the danger passes.
What "war on crypto"? Cryptocurrency bros started out with lots of theories how they are the new gold standard and how much politicians (and the "privately owned" Fed) will hate them. But the general reaction at least in democratic countries was... mildly bemused interest?

They shut down the third-wave c-list-celebrity-endorsed token scams, yes. And when it became possible to do 6-figure money transfers with limited traceability and across borders, they forced exchanges to follow KYC laws. To the surprise of absolutely no one except people saying "taxation is theft" and thinking they are very clever, laws do apply online.

But a "war" it wasn't. The failure of cryptocurrencies to have any meaningful impact on the real world not measurable in cubic feet and degrees Celsius is to be found in its inability to be actually useful. Because the problems it was trying to solve never were problems: nobody needs a zero-trust payment solution because people do trust the banking system, to some degree. Nobody wants a currency completely separate from politics because the decisions of democratically legitimised institutions filled with PhDs tend to be at least slightly better than the arbitrarily set parameters of some algorithm that cannot be changed, or the feudalism of leaving all power in the hands of whoever has the most GPUs.
The need to service crushing debt is a large part of what everybody is hoping will fall away. A primary economic concern right now is people losing their homes for failing to make rent, whether they rent from a landlord or "own". Businesses will go bankrupt for much the same reason - high burn rates that were mainly just going to the banks.

Debt has metastasized and spawned many industries, so its retraction is unlikely to be a peaceful event. But it is a cancer that will kill our society some time. The only question is if now is that time, or if some patching will get the system through this and we can go back to pumping the stock market as a false idol of productivity.
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I have not seen any evidence showing that the virus must directly enter via the lungs to be transmitted. Every authoritative source I've seen recommends taking precautions from transmission via surfaces as well.
Last year I bought some Blu-rays during Black Friday at Walmart. On my way to the car I got an email that the movies I just bought were available to stream through iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, etc. To my knowledge, I’ve never linked one of the streaming licensors with Walmart. So not only are they keeping track of my purchases, they are sharing that info with third parties based on assumptions (I’m assuming email address). I’m sure some think it’s convenient, but I found it really creepy.
Coronavirus beats common sense: The mystery of viral spread in western nations
I’ll give you a couple reasons why Italy is the mess it is:

1. Significantly older population

2. Shitty healthcare

For context many years ago, the state of Ohio in the US had more MRI machines than all of Canada combined. It’s very possible that due to budget constraints and other things, they have terrible health infrastructure.

Why do we believe that all nations are equal? I can take a look at the Olympics and notice that isn’t the case. Italians make better cars as compared to the French. So maybe they have terrible elderly healthcare? That seems more likely than “super disease kills only Italians and now comes after Americans”
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I found the hash table lecture really interesting, somewhat practical, and it made me sound really smart when I got the inevitable hash table questions during interviews.
I mean, they might suck, but that's not really true that most languages don't use them. I can think of a lot that use them as their default data structure (OCaml, Haskell, Scala, Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, etc). They're nice with recursion or if you don't know the size of your data ahead of time. But honestly, I've only used recursion a handful of times in my entire career, despite working almost exclusively with functional languages.
What is the connection between the title and the linked PR. Where is the explanation of why it never makes sense?
There are pros and cons to cash and cashless. For most people in a normally functioning modern society cashless is in theory convenient "better": automatic electronic transaction record (for your own use), no making change, quicker, less physical items to carry, etc. The #1 advantage for modern cash users is privacy. Some people don't want to have all of their transactions tracked and mined by others. Not considering privacy, there isn't much cash has over cashless aside from working offline, but again, normally functioning modern society.
The trade-offs of choosing privacy
I wonder if coughing on an inversion table would work.
Time for the guillotines.
> 99% of fatalities were among people with a prior illness. About 50% of the deaths were people suffering from at least three other illnesses.

So far... wait until you get the number of critical cases above the number of ICU beds and you'll see 18 year olds dying from this
It would be safer to say that history would certainly be different if that outcome happened. But you’re almost there on completing the actual story.

You do realise that to turn the company around in the first place you still need cash / stock in the company? The time that Jobs joined, Apple was close to bankruptcy and couldn’t afford to lose anymore lawsuits. He had to compromise with Gates with a lawsuit settlement to invest $100M+ shares in the Apple and offer Office on the Mac which essentially saved them from bankruptcy. There’s plenty of evidence to explain this outcome.

My point to this argument is regardless of Jobs returning from NeXT or not, he couldn’t have even performed the turn around without the investment from Gates and the company would be bankrupt anyway. The Microsoft settlement and the investment is the reason why Apple still exists today or else Apple would have no doubt be certainly bankrupt and finished. Period.
No, as appendix A of the paper states, each frame takes about 30 seconds to render.
"Shit rolls downhill" and the policy makers are to blame for this. I expect we're going to see unprecedented examples of modern inequality play out on American media this summer.
As always, the obsession with firsts is a fools errand. The IBM 801 and the CDC 6600 are often mentioned as some of the earliest candidates. As so often with technology, it's a function of the context. In the case of RISC, integrated circuits were reaching capabilities that made it worthwhile reconsidering the conventional wisdom.
You can now get updates on coronavirus from WHO by texting them
If Haskell was a strict language, we would never have invented monadic effects and would still be using () -> to (poorly) represent effects. Laziness forces you to avoid many such janky hacks that pervade almost every single strict language in existence (including most strict "functional" languages, where "functions" are, half the time, actually not), and which most people aren't even aware are janky hacks until they program with some kind of typed effect system
That's also true with cars for the most part. Not a lot of market for thirty year old cars unless they're very specific models (much like thirty year old computers).