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In this case we've banned the account because you can't have a trollish username. Those end up trolling every thread the account posts to.

In other cases it's probably because your new accounts are breaking the site guidelines. If you're sincere about wanting to use HN as intended, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look into it for you and be happy to help. But could you please not create accounts to break the site guidelines with?
Git-bug: Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in Git, with bridges
That's not true. Amazon can have a significantly more accurate classifier running on their backend that processes the transmitted audio. And this classifier can be more accurate due to both more computation and it would have access to the entire data stream, not just the initialization words. You would never know that your data was sent to Amazon and then ignored.
He's no where near rich enough to have any impact on the world economy let, not even the US.

In fact, even, if you took the combined wealth of every single billionaire in the US and totaled it up (2.5 Trillion) and then gave it away to every US person (divide by 300M), over the 30 year period it took to earn all that money, you'd still only get about 250$ per person per year.

It's our first and only impuse: just spend more. Personally, I think a much better way is to find ways to spend less. How to find ways to provide for people with fewer costs.

Keep in mind, the 8 months they mention uses a lifetime of accumulated wealth:
https://checkyourfact.com/2019/02/15/fact-check-wealth-billi...
I had one of those portable navigation systems before in my old car and had it mounted on the lower left end of the front window. It was perfect. I never felt distracted or in need to leave the street out of my view for longer.

Now I have a quite large navigation screen in the mid console and those optional arrows next to my speedometer. It really took some time to get me to not look and the centre screen. It took even longer to get used to just listen to what the computer lady says.

I can't understand how this centre screen has become a safe standard. Especially in countries like Germany where there is no speed limit. It's a toy for passengers.
Well, there's the stock market.
Larger society comes first, full stop.

Ah, the rallying cry of 20th-century tyrants. You can justify just about anything with that statement.
Study group consisted of 16 people. Anecdotal results at best, sorry.
This article promotes bad practices for dealing with SIGPIPE.

1. Closing stderr in Python is not a good idea because that’ll swallow any other errors that occur at exit. Redirecting stdout to devnull is really just a way to prevent the flushed output from going to the now-closed stdout and triggering another SIGPIPE. That’s more preferable than closing stderr and losing error output at exit.

2. Ignoring SIGPIPE is a terrible idea for a process that should do stream processing. Try making a yes clone and ignoring SIGPIPE - your process will likely run forever trying to shove “y” into a closed pipe. There’s a reason SIGPIPE was invented! Very few programs bother to check the return value from write/printf/etc.
Sketch or figma
> don't understand the motivation behind these studies

1.3 million traffic fatalities yearly (worldwide).

Good to know if/when new tech distracts the drivers and adds to that 1.3 number?
Antenna geometry restricts the effective frequency range.
I like this idea, but young people can be carriers with no/mild-symptoms and might increase risk?
Is there any level of growing community consensus on a types/contracts-for-python effort?
I think your examples are clarifying. Adjustments to liquor regulations and a governor writing a president aren't significant enough stories to devote precious frontpage slots to. If that's where we place the bar, certainly the front page will be filled with little else.

By contrast, the story where the CA governor issued a stay-at-home order got plenty of discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22633798.

There's room to disagree on which particular stories ought to clear the bar, but I hope the principles are at least clear in my explanation at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22644521.
I'm pretty sure cotton masks offer little to no protection. What you need is a n95 respirator.
I can't square that it has been in Italy substantially longer than Japan. Nor that Italians touch each other more than Japanese. Have you ever seen the videos of commuter trains in Japan?

So, possible, but seems not as likely to be the explanation.
There's a relatively new one by Camunda (https://zeebe.io/) that also works quite well in cloud native environments.
What about software? Do we get a terminal app? Can we install Docker?
Perhaps this should be viewed as just more evidence that in many cases, private enterprise tends to be more productive than government-sponsored initiatives.

Granted, that may not always be the case (China being a counterexample here), but one must also be aware of the costs (in terms of freedom) that are associated with government control of such a large portion of citizens' lives and the means of production. If that's what you happen to prefer, you're free to move to a nation that embraces communism. You might fare better in a pandemic, but you might also get locked up (or worse) for saying something that your government doesn't agree with.

As for me, I prefer capitalism and the freedom it gives us to either hoard wealth or (as Gates demonstrates) do tremendous good - not by force, but out of genuine altruism. I'd bet on the success of a Gates-sponsored healthcare solution over a government-sponsored one any day of the week.
Apple agrees too: it's a 100% locked-down computing device.

Since when did geeks abandon the idea that you should be able to execute arbitrary code on a device you own? Not have to ask permission from a multinational company--and accept the answer "no" when the code is deemed too dangerous, subversive, or undercuts their preferred business model.
LCDs around the gauge cluster seem to encourage the display of extraneous information and eye candy, from making what should be a simple gauge extra gaudy and shiny, to adding useless images and readings all around (look at these leaves! Your car is so efficient!).

My friend had an old Saab with the "Black Panel" button, which turned off all internal lights save the speedometer. If other readings became relevant (e.g., running low on gas), that gauge or light would illuminate. I drove a Peugeot 208 a few years ago with a similar function. I wish I could find a vehicle with something similar, but design is clearly moving in the opposite direction.
Adding the [opinion] to this title would be helpful.

It's a thought provoking discussion, but one that I don't feel has changed much since the first iPad Pro came out in 2016. Its software really impedes "traditional computer" workflows, despite having really impressive leaps in hardware.

A more accurate title, if I was to write this article, is "It's pretty amazing how capable and powerful the iPad has become". But comparing to the Mac, even when it ticks every single hardware box, still continues to fall very short as a Mac replacement.
H5N1 doesn’t spread well it’s primarily only bodily fluids hence why we only had about 800 confirmed cases.

It also doesn’t survive long at 37c or higher temps (6 days at 37c and drops fast from there).

Birds have higher body temperatures which helps to regulate the virus so while they can be carriers they are usually asymptomatic since the virus can’t replicate fast enough to cause major issues.
Right, yes, exactly: my point is that that state of affairs you describe is fucking bananas. That's all.
The inconvenience of having to queue several times might already lead to a sufficient decrease in hoarding to keep shelves stocked, especially when combined with increased supply. If not you can escalate, e.g. by limiting TP checkout to a single register.
*for consumers
Are you overweight?

If not, why would you worry about this?

If you are, you need to experiment a lot and find what works for you in any case, as your personal variables may very well overshadow any effects from this paper.
I think the nefarious leaders are the ones using corrupt central banking practices to enrich themselves at the expense of the public while creating chaos like the ever expanding "exposed areas" (no go zones) to keep ordinary people preoccupied dealing with.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-go_area

A 2016 report from the Swedish Police mapped 53 "exposed" areas (Utsatta områden) and 15 "particularly exposed" areas. An "exposed area" was defined as an area with low socioeconomic status and high crime. A "particularly exposed" area was defined as an area nearby to an "exposed area" the inhabitants of which demonstrated the following qualities:

Unwillingness to participate in legal proceedings
Hindrance of Swedish police operations
Parallel social structure
Violent extremism
Swedish police protocol differs for working in these areas. For example, the police bring certain equipment and work in pairs when in a "particularly exposed area".[94]

In a 2017 interview with the conservative opinion magazine Weekly Standard's Paulina Neuding [sv], Gordon Grattidge, the head of the Swedish ambulance drivers' union, stated that there were some areas too dangerous for rescue workers to enter without police protection, using the English term "no-go zones" to describe them.[95][96][97]

In March 2015, journalist Henrik Höjer discussed the rise of criminality, especially organized crime, in various neighborhoods within Sweden since the mid-1990s, especially in the city of Malmö. He interviewed a police officer and task force chief who referred to such areas as "no go areas" and wrote that gangs like to lay claim to an area by throwing stones at mailmen, police, firefighters and ambulances who enter the area.[98]
Show HN: After many 14-hour coding days, my dream to-do app “Priorities” is done
Connecting people with Covid-19 information and resources
Less time wasted on meetings ?
False.

Even though macOS is deteriorating in my eyes, at least it's still an OS I kinda control, and can do with as I please. I challenge anyone developing systems software to use this new iPad as a replacement for their Mac.
We don’t have a clue what happened in Wuhan, and it seems pretty clear that China doesn’t want us to know what happened in Wuhan. The leaked videos, and other evidence of things that have happened there are not comforting though.
Nothing in the above specifically indicates that the writer is a man.
Then again, lots of laid off workers (like me) come from other unions. What better way to unionize a workplace than by flooding it with union workers from other industries?
Uh oh, sounds like you're getting redpilled. Please keep fasting, and buy my 1 on 1 coaching sessions.
We need universal mask wearing AND unlimited testing. South Korea showed it works. In Japan, even without widespread testing the spreading is still slower than the west. It's true Singapore does not mandate mask use, but they have thorough contact tracing and draconian quarantine laws.
It will help if everyone wears it. The asymptotic infected will reduce their spread as it will stop them spreading it.
If all you do is make phone calls, then of course not. But for many people, their phone is their main general computing device. Everything from light photo editing to games to social media.

I am an Android user but I like buying products once and using them until they die. I have a pixel 2 that I got new less than 2 years ago that will be reaching EOL soon, which is really surreal. Buying an iPhone that can last 5+ years sounds like a real benefit -- and would actually save me a lot of money over the long term even though it costs more than 1.5x as much as my pixel. That sounds like a real benefit for me personally, and I may be switching to iPhone next, if only for their excellent history of long term support (I prefer Android's software)
I still think a tablet is a fundamentally worse form factor than a laptop for most tasks.

Such as what I am doing right now, typing while sitting on the couch. Even that cool new keyboard case seems like it would be unwieldy in this scenario.

And when watching a movie, a laptop holds itself up with no accessories – useful pretty much any time you are watching something.
Thanks! So the preferred way is to redirect to dev null?
You are correct, that isn't it. It isn't nearly surreal enough.

Thanks for poking around, though.
What's the possibility of creating such a virus in a lab?
That’s why it’s actually important to unionize in the very near term. Amazon can’t replace all of their workers if they unionize right away and the union leverage can guarantee safer working conditions for all the new hires.
Every keyboard (or at least an AVR-based DIY open-source mechanical keyboard) is an 8-bit computer. Toyed many times with the idea of adding a display to a keyboard I assembled.
Not the same. I added one of those to a 13" MBP I used to have. The protector alters the way you see the color on the screen, and adds a kind of weird pixelated look. As someone who does professional photo and video editing, that's a deal breaker. Not to mention how difficult they are to get on without bubbles or dust trapped underneath, and the fact that they just eventually start to peel off at the edges. There was a company in the bay area that used to swap out the glossy screens with a true matte display and a dark bezel, cant remember their name but once the retinas came out they stopped doing the swaps.
15000 miles per year is 41 miles a day every day.
If we see it as a work commute (plus some grocery shopping on the way), it's about 56 miles a day. Is this realistic in UK?
(I can imagine it can be that bad in some parts of the US.)
My fingers have pretty much memorised the few things I sometimes change from the screen while driving in my tesla, but 99% of what I would use the screen for can also be done via the buttons on the wheel / voice command. I still glance over when I do hit the screen though to make sure I did it correctly.

I think with the latest update I can also control the active suspension via voice which is the only thing I still use the display for while driving except for hitting cancel on the navigation once in a blue moon. Cancelling navigation might also be available via voice command now, I haven't checked.

In any case, voice and physical buttons (on the steering wheel) is much safer than touching or buttons below the screen the screen regardless. At least I feel much more in control personally when I can keep my eyes on the road and not glance away / feel my way to a spot on the screen.
Many devices you own do not allow you to execute arbitrary code, such as my microwave and toaster.
As Coronavirus Spreads, Artists Are Coping with Waifus and Fursona Art
I'm lazy to dig it up, but there was a study comparing people skipping breakfast and skipping dinner. The conclusion was the insulin sensitivity was higher from AM - to early PM (breakfast + lunch), than from early PM - evening (lunch + dinner).
Gov. Newsom signs order to permit vote-by-mail for upcoming elections
One of the Danish consumer NGOs called tænk recently tested the security of things bought off amazon, wish and other online retailers. More than half of the smoke alarms bought on amazon didn’t work. Around half of the baby toys didn’t meet choking hazard safety.

Not sure why anyone still buys things from there. Or anywhere online really, all the other retailers failed as well.
they just don't realize how obvious it is from outside the vehicle. that's the scary part.
It seems they'd rather take control, than invest in proper solutions. They'd rather compete than collaborate. They'd rather obscure, than truly secure. They're just in it for the jobs and money, not for the long haul.

Fuck that.
It sounds a lot like the music for the 90s tank game Mass Destruction. Check out the soundtrack!
I'm willing to believe that it's only after it's been triggered by the wake word processing. The problem is a lot of things I say that aren't the wake word still triggers a wake up. If you've got one of these, turn on the accessibility options to make noises when it wakes up... I'm not a heavy user, so more than half of the wakeups aren't intentional.
Nobody knows for sure, of course, but my understanding is that it is thought to be between 2.0 and 2.6 in the “do nothing” scenario. Which is scary big: See the Ferguson paper that I referenced in a different comment.
I already feel plenty annoyed as it is with project managers (and our Jira setup) asking three times a day how things are progressing and how many hours were spent on what. Second only to games, this has got to be the fastest multiplying application category these past few years...
You can change the fan speed (and much more) in a tesla via buttons on the steering wheel.
> would you be surprised

Yes, I would be very surprised. Given what we know about severity distribution that means 2M hospitalizations and ~200K-1M ICU cases that we somehow missed.
My toaster is so simple I could probably fix it with a soldering iron and parts I found in the dumpster. What's your point?
There are only 62k ventilators in the US and 12k held by the SNS. Ventilators aren't simple machines and nowhere near as simple as residential -PAP machines, so this untested "open source" effort or GM saying they would produce them are virtue-signaling, useless noise inapplicable to the present timeframe. And where ventilators are typically used, there are only 65k ICU beds in the US. Furthermore, the machines aren't uniformly distributed. Areas with low ICU beds per capita and large cities will need many more, and some rural areas may not have any ventilators for hundreds of miles.

While there are 140k respiratory therapists in the US, not all of them work in intensive care or hospitals. Nurses are also required to staff an ICU ward.

All of this is moot without PPE needed for medical staff to provide care. No amount of medical robots would be able to tech our way out of this fundamental limitation.
Or implement surge pricing like uber so only the rich have toilet paper and it’s cvs receipts and three sea shells for everyone else.

Issuing ration cards like WWII would be an option also and that solves a number of the problems you mentioned, you could use the existing electronic benefits infrastructure for that.

You’ll never have a completely unbeatable system but you can go a long way to keep honest people honest. Even forbidding the resale of TP so people realize they are stuck with whatever they buy can do a lot of good - people wont buy eight thousand rolls of toilet paper if they know they’ll be stuck with it.
I'm going to use this when I launch my next project. Looks really useful and easy to use.

If you could figure out the right UI, this would make a great phone app for consumers.
There have been major threads in the last few days that could loosely be described as hackers working on the problem. Here are three examples that come to mind:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22616456

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22640098

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22640451

In at least two of the three, moderators intervened to keep the thread up. If you (or anyone) know of other submissions that are intellectually interesting and have this quality of people working on the problem, let us know at hn@ycombinator.com. We might be able to do something.
Regardless, Amazon needs to play this very carefully. If they do not take appropriate actions to protect their workforce and the virus proliferates throughout their supply chain and logistics network, they will be completely shutdown.

Paying workers double pay does not make COVID-19 cases go down, if anything, you're encouraging it to go up by having more employees working together for longer hours, and as those cases go up, the higher the chances of a legal mandate to shutdown becomes.
I checked prior my comment and https://nautil.us does work, though there is some remote content that is getting blocked - still the site is functional.
Welcome to 2020! They can peek under roof covers now by taking angled photos. Having cars snd people pictured is small potatoes these days
duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22176261
People do not (and should not) have an expectation of executing arbitrary code on all devices they own.
That's a bit of a pipe dream. It's better for people to just stay at home as much as possible. Everyone can do that regardless of the availability of masks.
> Not sure why anyone still buys things from there. Or anywhere online really, all the other retailers failed as well.

A combination of convenience and a monopoly. They have made purchasing as frictionless as possible.
How many past events of rapid, steep population decline have we seen in the historical/archaeological record? Assuming that, historically speaking, travel isn't what it is today, I would expect such cases to be localized, but still I think it can go some distance to answering your question. We see instances of civilizations falling apart, but I'm certainly not aware of any where a top of your range disease was considered a reasonable possibility. Of those that come within your range, the only instances I can think of were in combination with other pressures... a large portion of the population gets very sick while at the same time the society comes under attack from outside peoples.

How many times do we see this sort of thing in nature? We do see infestations, like beetles destroying forests, but I'm not so sure we have many cases where we expect viral infections to be the likely candidate.

Of all the disease related scenarios I'm worried about, none match your scenario. I do think in some ways humans are "tuned" to apocalyptic thinking moreso than is perhaps is helpful. I think we're more prone to accept emotional arguments than we should be, causing us to possibly be more a danger to ourselves in the face of a terrible disease than the disease itself. I'm much more afraid of what we'll do to each other and ourselves, willingly, under pressure, than I am about even the most deadly viruses will do.

Having said all of this: it's all opinion and none of it comes from expertise. Others may point out evidence to the contrary.
No cfr is only I at the end of the epidemic. Either way I slides the data based on those likely exposed.
I agree that public health authorities have not lied, but that's not the point. "Would transmission be reduced if everyone wore a mask?" is exactly the kind of question public health authorities should be asking! The answer seems to be "yes" even for homemade masks. So, public health authorities should be promoting massive production, testing, and use of masks.
If it could just run Mac OS with touch screen clicks that would be sa-weet. Love the form factor
I bought the MBP 16” and when I work with an external monitor it’s like having a hair dryer on. I wish I could just go back to a desktop machine again.
Too late. Switched to clubhouse.io
Zig will support being a drop-in GCC/clang replacement for cross-compiling
It's better to just do nothing and allow SIGPIPE to kill your program. That is the reason this signal exists. Python is not a good unix citizen in this case. Compare it to Perl for example where nothing special is required to do the right thing:

$ perl -E 'say "y" while 1' | head -1
y
$
The antibody tests needed are quite new and seems to be somewhat more time consuming. They are still trying to keep the virus in check so probably are dedicating all their resources to test for the virus and not immunity. However I’ve wondered if it does not make sense to find all people who have recovered and drafting them to help create a firewall in critical institutions to reduce the contagion rate.
Haven’t been involved in the Python community for awhile but isn’t already a thing? Really cool project but thought I saw something like this already existed. If I’m right, is there anything that stands this apart from its counterparts?