skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's really true everywhere.

Think about:
Setting up temporary hospitals; where is the available capacity, where is the existing capacity. Knowing where people live and how they move around. Who in the area is most at risk and how can their needs best be met? Knowing what logistics capabilities exist. Speaking the local dialect and being able to effectively communicate emergency plans such that they're followed. Who do you talk to to mobilize some local resource?

These are all things that are best implemented locally.
Ban medium from HN and companies like netflix will switch in 5 minutes.
So much more than an equivalent x86 box.
I've been issued a MBP at work and now thinking of picking a 5 year old MBP to work at home, since switching two OSes is overwhelming at this point. Is this a good idea?
"I'm not an epidemiologist but" that South Korea number is misleading because it's calculated as death/"people that tested positive". That undercounts the death rate because some of the people that tested positive are still sick and might die. The correct formula is death/"closed cases" which takes into account only people that have recovered or died. That number in SK is currently around 5% though trending down as cases are closed. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/south-kore...
I've started advocating for a subset of html5 that

- drops all legacy features tht aren't needed to provide documents anymore

- provide sane defaults

- a choice between

- 1) no JS

- 2) JS based on a small number of vetted packages for stuff line autocomplete etc

No DRM. No JS frameworks. Just plain old HTML goodness plus more modern goodness (autocomplete) on top.

In my view there's even room for ads as long as they are injected server side and don't report back anything.

Hopefully this could be so much faster that it could become a hit in tech and academic circles.
Yes, the Princess Cruise tells 0.8% might be the best case fatality rate with a functioning medical system.

Even that would be catastrophic for if the virus infects a large percentage of the population, as it is rapidly moving to do. Thus we cannot be even in the least bit sanguine on this and need to move with speed against it. This is in no way comparable to 2009 or other recent events (contrary to your ggp).
I have to agree: VB has better syntax, at least for my head. In addition to better block-boundary-matching, I like the type name coming after the variable name. It's silly to put the type first, especially for long ones. And it has a much better SWITCH/CASE statement. Having to use "_" for line continuation can sometimes be annoying, but at least you don't have to deal with semi-colons.

In C-style syntax there's often disagreement on how to format blocks, but there's rarely a disagreement in VB: there's naturally only one choice.

Maybe take the best of VB and Pascal, clean up the key-words by tossing legacy inconsistencies, and produce a next generation "word-oriented" style. #MVBGA!

Related: https://wiki.c2.com/?TheRightWayToDoWordyBlocks
This whole discussion is missing a major point in my eyes.

Inflationary expectations is a major driver of inflation of prices. If people expect the prices to increase, they will buy earlier. That leads to producers having pricing power, so they tend to increase prices, which leads to... higher prices, and confirms the consumer expectations.

This is also why you can't really use money supply as a measure of inflation. As you note "money is just a stand-in for other goods" - which of course leads to the standard definition of inflation. If money is a stand-in for other goods, then we measure how much of these good money can buy. That's exactly what the standard definition of inflation captures.
A lot of googlers are remote while caring for their children at home. This definitely reduces productivity.
Unfortunately it is too early to commit to a date yet, but we are working hard to get it ready for "prime time" as soon as possible.
How does this compare to using RAII in C++ in terms of generated code?
So I'm hearing you want to ban all sea food restaurants.
Even Chrome brings my machine to a halt. I've been running Docker recently and 8Gb of ram is instantly gone.
Sometimes I think most folks are simply more patient with their computers, and will wait a few seconds for operations to finish, while I get a feeling something is taking too long and start messing around with ps aux, killing processes and such...
> Medical authorities in China have said a drug used in Japan to treat new strains of influenza appeared to be effective in coronavirus patients, Japanese media said on Wednesday.

It's very important to consider the source here. Getting reliable information from China has not been easy. Details mean everything in drug development work, and the reports about favipiravir have been sketchy at best.
Yeah. I've checked in. They're planning on shipping my laptop to me on my start date. Everything is fine–for now. But things have changed so dramatically day by day, it's hard to know where we'll be in 2 and a half weeks. I worry when I see the markets dropping 7% every other day. I read stories how non-tech industries are cancelling job offers during this time. I think my future employer is well insulated, being a tech company. We'll see!
Oh, that is part of the fun of using random bum guns around se asia... all different water pressure and quality of handles. It is like playing russian roulette with your bung hole.

Actually though, the trick is just shoot a bit into a toilet first to test it... ;-)
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There is a lot of uncertainty, doubt, and imprecision in those statements. "Some spread might...", "might be possible...", "this is not thought...", etc. These really mean: yes, it's possible.

I would say asymptomatic carriers are the biggest concern.
> Copy [means] to borrow an idea for its known useful results; steal [means] to take ownership of an idea and extend it to create some novel result.

> Copy the same sponge any cake could use, then using your own creative talents as icing to make something uniquely great (steal) in the areas that make a difference in your product's niche... Steal strategy! Copy tactics

As an engineer working on product, this is good advice. It's often appealing to reinvent the wheel and succumb to "not-built-here" symptom. Especially when it comes to questions like "what stack and language to use", often, the best answer is "whatever has worked before." Rather, what's worth reinventing is the actual features or user-facing aspects of the product.

Don't go crazy making your own global Javascript store: just roll Redux or MobX. As someone who loves engineering challenges, I find myself reining myself in a lot on this at Wanderlog (https://wanderlog.com). But I realize whether we're successful or not isn't going to be our technical infrastructure. That needs be solid, but what really matters are the little things we can do to wow travelers
That is entirely possible. I'm in an English bubble.
Just because Microsoft used a particular IO abstraction in conhost and called it a “console” it doesn’t mean they’ve magically got full rights to that term and nor does it mean that established, industry recognised terms for that same thing suddenly don’t apply. I could release a book tomorrow and call it a “hippopotamus” but that doesn’t mean it’s not still a book.

You get this all the time in IT, Chef calling their modules “recipes”, homebrew having “casks”, rust with its “crates”, etc. But that doesn’t mean they’re literally casks et al and no other established jargon henceforth applies. That’s just not how it works.

However this is all moot because even Microsoft don’t refer to Windows Terminal as a console[0][1] and more does anyone else[2] apart from you it seems.

0: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/master/README.md

1: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/windows-terminal-preview/

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Terminal

I get that you’re trying to use precise terminology but what you’re actually doing is over analysing things by making distinctions out of things that aren’t relevant.
That is peanuts. Have you tried opening a browser and surf the world wide web?
Sometimes I dream of a Gopher type of web where you're allowed to make simple input fields, SSL is allowed. That's it. No JavaScript, just basic input / output. I could imagine HN being on this simple web. Maybe some sort of markup to support the upvoting capabilities of HN but that's about it.

I would even allow for ads since they would at best be banner images, not pop ups, not things that track you around the internet, and what have you. As for page style? Let the client decide, which ultimately means: let the end-user decide what they're most comfortable with.
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People do, sometimes, get sick from shellfish. Some ancient cultures reacted to this by creating a food taboo against shellfish (I believe Jews and Muslims do this). Other cultures have implemented monitoring for "red tide" conditions and restrict shellfish harvesting accordingly.

As human beings, when we make a mistake that leads to diseases that kill people, we do what we can to avoid making that same mistake twice. I'm not sure why this is an objectionable or questionable notion.
I think you're wrong. I explained more here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22622231
Chinese people are not forced into using Pangolins and Bats in Chinese herbal medicine. Also, plenty of capitalist countries have wet markets. The author literally talks about her experiences in Singapore.
The loan gives them a longer window during which they don't have to shut down. If the business takes a loan and later can't repay it, they go bankrupt. If they can repay it, they stay open. Bankruptcy might result in the loan being discharged and the business remaining open.

The alternative is to close immediately and stop paying their workers. If that were my business, I'd take the loan, especially since it's federally guaranteed.
This is solid advice. If I'm afraid of losing my future job, then, better start looking now! Thanks!
My definition of FaaS is each controller living its own life and deployed independently behind an api gateway. This is a PaaS because only the infrastructure is managed and I can deploy my whole application in one docker image.
So does this provide sick leave for companies that only offer vacation (paid time off) but no actual sick leave? Or are employees working at those places given the middle finger again and told to use their vacation days that don't exist (the WA sick leave act is like this)?

Also, what does a business with < 50 employees have to do to get exempt? Is there a deadline to apply? Or will we have to wait to get sick only to find out that we're given the middle finger and can't take it because our company is going to exempt itself?
s/staffs/lobbyists/
Great idea! Even though this will not help detect coronavirus directly, it will help ease off the load on the testing facilities.
It's potentially that I'm using a 2019 MPB, but I can absolutely touch and slide to change volume immediately. Just press and slide on the icon for volume or brightness.

Also pro-tip: you can change the buttons that show up in the touch bar. Settings > Keyboard > Customize Control Strip. I swapped out Siri for a "Sleep" button, which is super convenient when I walk away from my desk.
>you can always dodge the issue by saying "but we have too much going on right now for this".

I agree with this, which is why I'm looking for an honest conversation. Maybe THIS IS THE TIME to push back. I fully support direct political action in response to the bail outs, if "we the people" decide enough is enough. I just think we should do so thoughtfully, not emotionally.

>these strings get waived, ignored, litigated for years, etc.

Unfortunately we also allow that by being swept up by the next big emotional moment, and once we've been redirected to something else, the strings magically disappear.
Its possible the US media is much more sensationalist than the European one. OTOH a circuit breaker IS a rare market occurrence and deserves a news headline.
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It's important not to confuse a people with their government, especially when said government is totalitarian and eminently corrupt.

> could have happened anywhere

Yes, in the same sense that anyone can win a lottery. But don't get innumeracy here. China is huge and the combinatorics of wet market contamination push it several orders of magnitude in probability away from any other place on the earth. Yes, even from African bush meat markets.

> This is a direct consequence of their agricultural practices

... of wild meat being disproportionately supported by the government.

> if a little bit of cultural shaming works towards preventing the next pandemic, then I think that's pretty well worth it at this point.

I'm not entirely sure why race and racism keep coming up in this discussion. It has nothing to do with race, only nation state and culture, sanitation and biology.

But sure, ok.
That's not quite right.

Your link shows the seriously ill among the unclosed cases as 59 people. If those dies, it won't increase the death significantly - maybe bump it to 1.5%.

But an increase to the base death rate doesn't matter. We should know a 1% death rate is going to be catastrophic and take action.

Edit: originally read you as arguing the death rate as too high so different argument. It's probably better to assume a higher death rate regardless anyway so I changed "you are wrong" to "not quite right" too.
Don't change your license for any reason temporarily
Many tech jobs start with a 3 month "fire at will" period. They might just give the OP one day and then fire.

I hope it works out though.
I need to stop reading the news too, I’m in pretty deep now...
A lot of weak companies will go belly up during an economic crisis. It isn’t that the crisis made them weak, just that being weak meant they couldn’t weather it.

In how they rationalize their failure, that is something people just do I guess.
Are they going to pay Microsoft enough to maintain VB.NET just for them?

Or they could re-implement and maintain VB.NET themselves?

Those are their options. You can't just demand that someone provide you a product if they don't want to.
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The value of these metals is largely driven by the same things that drive any consumer fashion, so the gold/silver ratio hitting a new high isn’t any more weird than “hoop earrings hit a 5,000 year high in popularity.”
Or note the fact that members of the government outside the White House have made similar statements for some time now.
Not exactly laid off recently, but I've been on a sabbatical after being laid off 18 months ago.

I'm about at the end of my sabbatical and was going to start looking for a new gig soon. Worst timing ever.

Not sure what to do now.
Hmm, how/when/where would the ‘zfs load-key’ happen?

I only know how to use the systemd-ask-password hack to decrypt non-root datasets, but can’t get my head around how that would work with fully encrypted root dataset.
RFC: Adopt a modern JavaScript framework for use with MediaWiki
I run a few small SaaS side projects, and most of my clients are smaller shops that do web projects. So far I haven't had any cancellations, but I'm crossing my fingers over the next month or two :/
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Yeah, if they are forcing people to work and possibly transmit this deadly virus they are indeed a monster on par with any murderer. It makes sense indeed.
With all due respect, Cal Paterson doesn't seem to know what he's talking about.

The Ruby example he uses as the "The Troublesome Active Record Pattern" simply bizarre. You'd have to deliberately avoid reading the documentation for ActiveRecord to produce that code.

In other words, if you write terrible code, you'll get terrible results.

In actual fact, when you read the docs and actually use ActiveRecord as it was intended you can do exactly what he says it doesn't. Here's what that looks like:

Book.joins(:author).where(authors: {nationality: "Italian", state: "deceased"})

That produces a SQL query that's nearly verbatim what he claims ActiveRecord can't do.
The surface pro can do everything, but for most things the tablet mode experience is somewhere between dismal and unusable. The ipad pro can't do a handful of tasks, but for everything else the experience is excellent in both tablet and laptop mode.

Those things the ipad can't do are largely niche (now that working with files is well supported), and are solvable limitations. The software problem on the surface pro is pervasive and unsolvable. They've done their best, but you can't make every piece of software written for Windows suddenly not require the precision of a mouse or suddenly support navigational gestures.

I had a surface book 2, but got rid of it in favor of an ipad pro after using one for a while. I have a desktop that I use for gaming, but I would have that either way for the sheer power of it.

The only thing that the ipad can't do well that I'd use it for is programming. This is not a dealbreaker for me, as I don't like programming on the go anyway, and if I really needed to then I can remote into a desktop to do it.
> Other books like Introduction to Space Dynamics are very hand-wavey... Coordinate systems should not dictate the physics; it should be the other way around.

It seems like you've not tried reading actual physics books written by real physicists and have only purveyed books known to a handful of engineering specialists, and have come to the conclusion that this is the best book for learning mechanics. I also fail to see why specialists wouldn't want to make use of methods that would make their lives easier and instead would want to dredge through pages of pointless algebra.

> The rigorous approach to dealing with reference frames and coordinate systems is well applied to other fields like computer graphics

In most universities around the world such things are taught as part of a standard vector calculus course or a mathematical methods course. You don't need this book (or any mechanics book for that matter) to learn such things.

> Though I would be interested to read your textbook when it comes out

I'll ignore the snideness of your comment, but will suggest that it's perhaps not a good idea to recommend/use books that take haphazard approaches for solving standard problems (some that were solve almost three centuries ago). In any case, my "textbook" would not look very different from the other 99% of textbooks written on analytical mechanics. If you want a recommendation, pick up Cornelius Lanczos's The Variational Principles of Mechanics [1], which is a real classic and a gem of a book.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Variational-Principles-Mechanics-Dove...
You'd want to pair up with a global database like FaunaDB or Cosmos DB for the data backend.
My ideal mix is either 80/20 or 60/40 remote/in-office. I have been 20/80 my entire career up to the CV outbreak (1 day WFH minimum every week).

I prefer 100% WFH to that, but I dislike not going to the office at all. This is my first time being 100% WFH for this long -- my previous max was a full week.
Yes that is what I meant. To regions. Love cloud run just wish it would scale to many regions and if it could scale to CDN pops then it’s a game changer!
Is there a lot of money in Fortran? Anyone could learn Fortran in a week if they wanted, and there's tons of research assistants who know it already. How's it lucrative?
So why isn’t
Silver keeping up?
Yeah, there's definitely a sort of implied (or attempted) transition in several scenes. From leaving the forest to reaching the cherry bushes, for example. The camerawork changes a bit and they subtlely crest a hill into the cherry bushes, if I recall correctly. I took these sorts of camera techniques to imply chronological progression.

I could discuss a few more but don't want to spoil. I had the pleasure of watching it twice in theatres and the cinematography, lighting, and editing just blew me away.
> Loans, even cheap ones, are a very shity way of "helping" small businesses

Really disagree on this point. The primary value of a business is their assets, brands and expertise. All of those things will be just as valuable after the pandemic as they were before. Assets don't just disappear because they're not used.

This is just as true for small businesses as it is for big business. Any business that was profitable on Dec 31, 2019, will very likely be profitable on Jan 1, 2021. The biggest challenge for those businesses is surviving operating cash flow losses over the next three months. This is extra challenging in the current environment because financial markets are freezing up.

Yes, business owners will eat some loss to their personal wealth. Regardless of what happens there's no way to make up for the fact that the economy is shrinking this quarter. At an aggregate level, we'll all be slightly poorer then we expected to be. The point of a well-structured bailout isn't to make sure that nobody anywhere ever loses money. It's to prevent otherwise healthy businesses from permanently failing due to a temporary disruption in credit markets.

If a small business owner loses a year of income it sucks. If an entire small business capsizes, that has widespread economic impact because the economy incurs distress costs and loses its organizational and competitive expertise.
In total societal collapse you should be investing in beans guns and water.
Mad cow could hardly be called a pandemic. A whopping 231 total cases. It caused a little economic damage and comparatively no human damage.
It's also just an extremely impractical definition. Say you have two animals and you want to know if they are the same species. How are you going to find out whether they can or cannot mate (and produce fertile offspring, even)?

What if they are the same species but just aren't that interested in each other?
The unique self-developing hologram film captures the interference pattern of the laser light, which is the hologram.

The optical layout for our kits reduces the vibration issues by using single-beam setups.

I've actually made a hologram with one of our kits in a Starbucks on one of the tables there!
What I meant was the US is finally starting to adopt a few more socialist policies that are common-place in the Developed World.