skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, you could argue that; thereafter, the overwhelming majority of people indifferent to worker conditions in the gig-delivery supply chain would then notice, rather acutely, when their preparedness meter inches toward zero. If we were living in a world where they then took time to study the issue and hear your argument, we may arrive at your outcome. Since we are not, more accurately, when people and politicians fresh out of toilet paper snap assess their dilemma and are conveniently presented with a picket line to blame in the media, we arrive at the unpleasant outcome being forecast for you. (I would argue a worse one.)

Negative consequences of Internet supply chain worker organization right now are a certainty due to intense delivery demand (the IKEA cart is barely functional today), and those optics are an element of the gig/delivery economic equation which I don’t think anyone has thought about until now. That economic model promised to somewhat free the worker and, quite predictably given its proponents, instead seems to have done the opposite.

More than ever before, workers are essential to survival. Striking isn’t just the UAW setting back 2022 Fords a bit, these days. Organizational actions have very, very real potential to collapse parts of the intertwined economy under these circumstances. We will need to consider that reality on the other side of the pandemic but you do not want to so much as blow on the world economy right now. There is a mountain of latent panic waiting for the excuse you’d hand it to organize and manifest.

Important: I’m not saying it’s “right,” just illustrating political and economic realities which make selecting the next move carefully all that more crucial. The entire planet is on a razor’s edge, and if you’re keen to dismiss my position as irrational, organize an Amazon walkout.
I suppose that could be the case. I don't know how power is distributed throughout the French government. Thanks for clarifying. I live in the Pacific, so I don't follow much European news.
Those are definitely some “pros” but a big “con” is they have the oldest general population of any country.
1) A was talking about JavaScript

2) I do use Python but mostly for administrative/deployment/similar tasks as a scripting language. I see no proof that Python is "several times more expressive". I would really appreciate if you could kindly point me to a real study that shows exactly how it is more expressive and on what in particular the time is saved (you can of course omit the examples where Python is used as a glue language to stitch together few math libraries written in C/++).

I do have my own experience. Of course it is statistically meaningless. My friend and I have implemented simple GUI desktop app (custom video player with some features) as a bet. My buddy did it in Python and I did it in Delphi. I won: 1 hour vs 4.
Same here. If someone could summarize instead of downvoting, it would be helpful.
Enjoyed the article very much, but missed Caves of Qud.
Honestly, with all that oral history thing, it sounds like a proto-blockchain. The "true chain" in any given situation is determined by the set of oral histories that everyone can agree on.
Wow, you all weren't joking. That place is the chunks at the bottom of a cesspool.

Even 4chan /b/ is friendlier.
I wonder if "no shoes in the house" plays a role.
Someone always says this.

And yet here we are with a virus that has an r0 much higher than flu, and is ~10 times more lethal.

That the two things are correlated in certain modeling scenarios does not mean you can't end up something that both spreads and kills.
Yes. By pressing a scroll wheel to pop up a menu, then scrolling through the menu to select a mode, then pressing the scroll wheel again to select a mode, then scrolling once more to peform the desired action.

This may well be better than using the touchscreen, but it's still bad.
LOL

Tony Stark should fix his broken firmware and Kamikaze cars
Ask HN: Would a temporary coronavirus section be useful here?
I’d like to separate our usual news and the virus news. Just have a new link on the top besides “new”. Do you also think it’s a good idea?
Yeah - everyone says dumb things at one point or another. Maybe some of the callout is warranted, but collating every possible embarrassing thing someone has said is too much.
I think there is probably no fundamental shortage of the ability to make more TP

No one is going to build a whole new paper mill to cover for a 100-year event. TP is about the best example for inelastic supply and inelastic demand.
This was submitted a few days ago, and
thaumasiotes linked this article[1], which I endorse as being much more information-dense. The NY Times one is one of the usual droning long-form pieces that takes way too long to say anything relevant.

[1] https://reason.com/2020/03/18/title-ix-arizona-state-univers...
I'll believe byuu cares about preserving history when he's stopped blocking the Wayback Machine from archiving his site.

Edit: The good work someone has done is no excuse for anything.

> The problem is that the internet is not like any other time in human history: everything we ever say and do gets recorded and indexed, all readily available to anyone curious, for all of time. This is new, and it's something that society has not really adapted to yet. I think we will reach that point in a generation or two. But right now, it seems impossible to be forgiven for our past mistakes. They all add up and weigh us down like an albatross around our necks. Stay around on the internet long enough, and it will eventually crush even the best of us.

> I could go back and read the things written about me from 2015 by people I've since made peace with and anger myself again. But that's not who they are today: that's who they were.

> People change. I'm embarrassed myself seeing how I've acted in the past. I don't stand behind much of my old writing, some of it literally decades old now. I've been online since I was a teenager; obviously not everything has aged well. You don't have to forget the past, but you have to be willing to give people second chances in life.

Like all perfectionists, he's found that he's not always happy with his past self. He wants an undo button for reality. He knows he can't have it but is still unable to accept it. Even now.
Thank you for everything you've accomplished. The world is immeasurably richer because of you and everyone who helped make these accurate emulators a reality.
More iodine in their diet?
On the contrary, Kiwis are meticulous about verifying and preserving evidence. Posting information about someone without third-party archive links or some other way to verify what you're saying will result in you, at best, being politely reminded to post verification. If it's verified that you were intentionally posting false information to stir up drama, you will likely be banned and maybe even have your own thread made about you with all of your dirty laundry proudly on display.

Yes, Kiwis dox and mock people and say gamer words, and that sort of edgi boi behavior isn't for everyone. But the information it collects is rarely inaccurate.

EDIT: For what it's worth, it looks like Byuu posted in his own thread last month taking accountability for some of his bad behavior and got a mostly warm response from the Kiwis. https://kiwifarms.net/threads/byuu-byuu_nyan-setsunakun0.430...
I wanted to explore game development in the browser for a long time and I got no excuses now :)

Currently looking at matter.js which was very easy to learn so far.
Hmm, yep. That's a problem, especially if there isn't a straightforward way to contribute missing products and corrections.

Do you know of any alternative data sources?

Edit: since writing these comments, I've learned that Product Open Data may be unmaintained[0].

[0] - https://discuss.okfn.org/t/can-we-resurrect-product-open-dat...
New drug alleviates CoV by 90 percent (German)
There's an overreaction budget that when you exhaust goes into 'boy who cried wolf' territory.
Same in my area of Poland, but arguably it's a smaller town. My hypothesis is that everyone who wanted to stock up already did, and we're now in the "social isolation / waiting for the knee of the exponential to hit us" phase.
Kudos! Several dozen US labs in the US claimed similar capability in January. But ponderous accuracy certification from the FDA kept them unofficial until March.

Also this probably doesnt scale well to the thousands per day states need now.
2019 and onwards got much faster CPUs. I was aware of people complaining about the speed and laginess of the interface on the models before then, but it's not been a problem in my experience, everything is pretty responsive.
Outside of the New Years speech, German chancellors generally don't do "TV speeches" (I recently saw a number of only 5 other cases where they did: Iraq war, Kosovo war, 2x reunification of Germany, RAF terror). That of course doesn't mean things they say aren't distributed, just that it's unusual as the formal address to the nation. E.g. they can speak in parliament, and we might see that speech or snippets of it distributed. And they do give statements to press.

Not sure how much of a role the split plays, e.g. the President doesn't do it that much either.

For Merkel specifically, she's generally happy to let others do the talking, observe the reactions and then act according to that, in what one could call a fairly passive style.
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Does it even work on a Covid-19 infection?
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I had a nice chuckle the other day when the cleaning products were wiped out except the "all natural, no chemicals!" stuff.
Christian Drosten: “We Have to Bring Down the Number of Cases Now.”
Yeah, that would be nice, I just don’t know that we can pull off what you’re talking about.
I know Gates or Bloomberg or other oligarch wealth would be a contributory drop in the 'bailout' ocean. It would make a refreshing change from nation states tax avoidance 'foundations' and their other vehicles though, that could also have humanity changing implications, such as massive (and massively profitable) vaxxing schemes. I'm commenting specifically about the Gates AMA and not the broader issues discussed in this thread.
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Yep, this is another huge potential problem. If we just wasted everyone’s tolerance for collective action on a nasty cold, that’s pretty fucking stupid.
With as many service workers expected to be out of a job for awhile after this blows over, if warehouse workers try to strike, there will be plenty of people willing to take their place.
I believe that your position was strong during the cold war. From the end of WWII until the dissolution of the Soviet Union, American troops and bombs were a significant deterrent to Soviet imperialism in Europe.

However, the world has significantly changed since December 1991. I agree with the grandparent that today the primary usage of the large US bases in Germany are for staging people and material to the middle east. I also think that it's a reasonable opinion that these wars (or their scale and length) were unnecessary. Is that opinion evidence of "anti-american bias"? I believe that is an unreasonable conclusion.

So - from the 50's to the 90's did the US "subsidize" European economies to some amount by providing common defense from the USSR? Sure. It also served US interests as the policy was to "fight over there" instead of in the US.

Since then, the US has spent upwards of $3T on the GWOT, while declining in every health statistic year over year.

If we're tossing around charges of "anti-american'ism" - I counter than anyone who wants to continue on with an unchanged healthcare system is "anti-american" - as in literally in favor of a system that causes more children to die at birth, for people to live shorter, less predictable and more brutal lives.
The way I see it, toilet paper occupies the same slot in its users' minds as soap - basic hygiene article. You want to stock up on it to compensate for risk of shortages; consequence of running out is having to reinvent an area of life you usually handle on autopilot.
Seconding this! The recipe is also really forgiving compared to many others.
I made something similar using Hammerspoon on Mac. I make a list of tasks, one per line, with a time estimate. Hammerspoon will show the active task, the time elapsed, and the estimate on top of everything using canvas. It's helped me stay on task and be more realistic with my planning. If anyone is interested I can share.
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It's usually stocked in the morning but gone by the afternoon in my area.

Eventually people are going to get tired of hoarding it...
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I typically add around 10% of starter. If you can't stand sour flavor add just 5% and let it rise quickly (higher temperature) so that bacteria does not have time to grow and accumulate lactic acid.
> sys.exit(1) # Python exits with error code 1 on EPIPE

Should be 141 instead of 1. Convention is that when a program dies because of a signal, the exit code should be 128 + the signal number, in this case 13. So, 128 + 13 = 141.

Here are some examples:

$ ( yes; >&2 echo $? ) | head -0
141
$ ( ping localhost; >&2 echo $? ) | head -0
141
$ ( perl -E 'say "y" while 1'; >&2 echo $? ) | head -0
141

In python, when using signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_DFL), you get the correct behaviour (at least regarding the exit status):

$ ( python -c '
import sys
from signal import signal, SIGPIPE, SIG_DFL
signal(SIGPIPE,SIG_DFL)
while True: print("y");
' ; >&2 echo $? ) | head -0
141

> Do not set SIGPIPE’s disposition to SIG_DFL in order to avoid BrokenPipeError. Doing that would cause your program to exit unexpectedly also whenever any socket connection is interrupted while your program is still writing to it.

Regarding that socket behavior, if that's the standard in other programming environments, why is it an issue from python's perspective? Doesn't seem worth eschewing standard unix conventions. I mean, it says "unexpectedly", but isn't it actually the expected behavior? Unexpected is for python to say that what's default (SIG_DFL) is unexpected.
A Crazed Academic Weaponized Title IX Against a Rival Professor Whose Job He Wanted

(Title of the reason.com post linked above)
Byuu has done immeasurable good for the preservation of video games. Who cares if he doesn't want every forum squabble recorded forever.
Fitness. The prospect of spending months at home with all the gyms closed has made me think now's the time to actually take fitness seriously and train hard at home with bodyweight exercises and calisthenics. Also writing songs too.
EB Games store stays open so people can line up to buy “Animal Crossing”
Loss of sense of smell a marker for Covid-19 infection
TP hoarders bemuse me.

I cannot imagine a scenario where things have gotten so bad that we can't make toilet paper but our biggest problem is wiping our asses.

It's like, "Civilization is falling but at least I have a year's worth of TP!" !?

- - - -

There are all kinds of ways to clean your crack (bidets, showers) and making paper is pretty straightforward.

The internet is failing me, but the old "rag trade" was all about collecting old clothes and reprocessing them into new cloth and paper.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rag-and-bone_man

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_paper
Their guidance does not seem to suggest that people should not wear masks in public, nor does it comment on the effectiveness of doing so.

From their site:

If you are healthy, you only need to wear a mask if you are taking care of a person with suspected 2019-nCoV infection.
Wear a mask if you are coughing or sneezing.
Masks are effective only when used in combination with frequent hand-cleaning with alcohol-based hand rub or soap and water.
If you wear a mask, then you must know how to use it and dispose of it properly.

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...
Full text: (site is going up and down):

Post-viral anosmia is one of the leading causes of loss of sense of smell in adults, accounting for up to 40% cases of anosmia. Viruses that give rise to the common cold are well known to cause post-infectious loss, and over 200 different viruses are known to cause upper respiratory tract infections. Previously described coronaviruses are thought to account for 10-15% cases. It is therefore perhaps no surprise that the novel COVID-19 virus would also cause anosmia in infected patients.

There is already good evidence from South Korea, China and Italy that significant numbers of patients with proven COVID-19 infection have developed anosmia/hyposmia. In Germany it is reported that more than 2 in 3 confirmed cases have anosmia. In South Korea, where testing has been more widespread, 30% of patients testing positive have had anosmia as their major presenting symptom in otherwise mild cases.

In addition, there have been a rapidly growing number of reports of a significant increase in the number of patients presenting with anosmia in the absence of other symptoms – this has been widely shared on medical discussion boards by surgeons from all regions managing a high incidence of cases. Iran has reported a sudden increase in cases of isolated anosmia, and many colleagues from the US, France and Northern Italy have the same experience. I have personally seen four patients this week, all under 40, and otherwise asymptomatic except for the recent onset of anosmia – I usually see roughly no more than one a month. I think these patients may be some of the hitherto hidden carriers that have facilitated the rapid spread of COVID-19. Unfortunately, these patients do not meet current criteria for testing or self-isolation.

While there is a chance the apparent increase in incidence could merely reflect the attention COVID-19 has attracted in the media, and that such cases may be caused by typical rhinovirus and coronavirus strains, it could potentially be used as a screening tool to help identify otherwise asymptomatic patients, who could then be better instructed on self-isolation.

Given the potential for COVID-19 to present with anosmia, and the reports that corticosteroid use may increase the severity of infection, we would advise against use of oral steroids in the treatment of new onset anosmia during the pandemic, particularly if it is unrelated to head trauma or nasal pathology (such as nasal polyps).

There is potential that if any adult with anosmia but no other symptoms was asked to self-isolate for seven days, in addition to the current symptom criteria used to trigger quarantine, we might be able to reduce the number of otherwise asymptomatic individuals who continue to act as vectors, not realising the need to self-isolate. It will also be an important trigger for healthcare personnel to employ full PPE and help to counter the higher rates of infection found amongst ENT surgeons compared to other healthcare workers.
I spent some time in Japan for work and was always amazed how many people had face masks on (even when there is no pandemic) and the prevalent of wearing gloves (driving etc). With my limited time there it seemed to be one of the most proactively sanitary cultures I’ve seen. Also it seemed to me that at business meetings generally people bow instead of shaking hands. And I wonder if this reflects the general approach to person to person contact. Contrast that to Italy for example where kissing and embracing is not uncommon even when meeting someone for the first time.
Serious question? People still don't follow relevant news, do they...
Good luck, byuu! Your emulation work is an inspiration. :) I'm jealous of your Tokyo move - I tried last year but failed to secure a work visa (only time being a college dropout has actually hurt me).
Ask HN: IT Topic Checklist for Startups?
I'm curious to know what kind of IT topic "checklists" are out there for a new startup. The startup is in the service industry consolidation space (think purchasing independent hotels and consolidating backend systems / rebranding) An example list of topics that may need to be thought through and decisions made on:

Compliance: PCI, GDPR, CCPA, etc.

Data: Extract out of hotel/property management software, warehousing, transformation, bi and analytics.

Engineering/Development: Cloud platforms vs colo, AWS/Azure/GCP, architectures, databases

Enterprise systems: HR management, payroll, ERP, CRM, Intranet, Office 365

Endpoint management / networking: AzureAD vs on prem, SSCM vs intune vs other, zero trust / vpns

What other general / specific things need to be considered? I'd welcome good comparisons of the solutions in these categories, but really just looking to see if there are any comprehensive handbooks or lists out there.

Thanks!
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“ In the mid-19th century, Dr. William Farr made the observation that epidemic events rise and fall in a roughly symmetrical pattern that can be approximated by a bell-shaped curve. ”

Yes, he got as Farr as noticing that it’s roughly bell-shaped. But just because it goes up and then down it’s not actually a normal distribution.

At the beginning, when no one is immune, infections obviously grow exponentially. But the bell curve, even though it looks similar (sigmoid) doesn’t rise exponentially.

So it looks similar, but it’s not. If you observe infections and somehow try to fit a normal distribution, you’ll get widely wrong predictions, especially at the beginning.

Farr came up with this in 1840. That’s before Pasteur formulated germ theory as we know it today, so it was probably close enough for its time. Today it’s not.
I play bluegrass mandolin and I'm working on https://fretboard.cool to better understand scale and chords patterns across the neck. Guitar and ukulele are also supported. Very few chord and scale types are supported right now, but I plan to add more when I figure out how to integrate them without complicating the interface too much.
They used to be paid in stock... they wanted $15/hr instead.
Unfortunate that a bad investigator made a professor's life difficult. I liken it to a bad boss who can make one ultimately lose one's job for entirely unclear reasons.

Without any evidence that this is a systemic problem, I wonder why it would justify my attention.
Very curious but what kind of technologies do you use in the govt tech space?
What this Chinese city does to contain the virus
I just completed an online adventure game engine that's a little different than what most people are used to. It's more like playing a live escape room than an old point and click game.

I made it so I can create a website of online adventures for people to play from their phone, tablet, or computer. I used to run an escape room business and I'm in the process of converting my closed rooms into online games. I'll be mixing up stories, puzzles, and answers a bit so they don't seem familiar to past players tho.
What would explain the differences among the 50 states? There seems to be quite a wide range.
"Held accountable" on the post seems to include moral depravity like "he posted anti-Trump tweets". I don't think that's really accurate here.
Create more toilet paper by fiat?
Both police unions and teachers unions are well known for fighting against performance based pay.
It’s not a typo. It’s the equivalent of mixing up Java and JavaScript.
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Testing the Efficacy of Homemade Masks: Protection in Influenza Pandemic? (2013) [pdf]
That's false.

Potential Coronavirus Treatment Touted by Trump Already in Shortage, Pharmacists Say

https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/03/19/world/asia/19reut...