skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what's the "odds of death" tipping point where the society/world devolves into something you no longer want to be part of. If the chances of dying without a bunker are 1 in 1000(0) it may help. If they're 1 in 10 most likely not.

So the bunker could help survive the initial strikes of a nuclear war, assuming your country can quickly retaliate and end it before substantial or permanent damage is caused. Then again in a country as big as the US the chances of a nuclear warhead penetrating the defenses and landing close enough to be a real and immediate danger are relatively low.

But if we're talking about prolonged nuclear war, anything that would really upend social order, or actually endanger the survival of the species (nuclear winter), such a bunker is just a fancy coffin. They will never get the chance to get out of it. If they do there will either be scorched earth waiting for them, or some sort of society that would see the protected elites as enemies and a cache of resources
"Юный Техник" translates to "Young Technician", "Technology for the Youth" would be "Техника для молодёжи"
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Perhaps a more charitable explanation is that as the labour market becomes more of a buyers' than a sellers' market, the buyers can afford to be a bit pickier. All other things being equal, we all want a vendor to do things our way: show up on our schedule, meet our standards for look & message (would you be keen on an air conditioner repairman who shows up in swim trunks and hiking boots, or one with a vile political message on his t-shirt?). When it's a sellers' market (say, there's only a single repairman in town) we can't be picky; when the positions are reversed, we can.
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Edit: Not sure what the orbital path of the ISS is. I suppose it would indeed depend on where it is. The question would be: where in the path is more than ±417 KM away from a city.

//ignore Seems like the ISS is always closer. 400KM vs 817KM.

> The ISS maintains an orbit with an average altitude of 400 kilometres (250 mi) by means of reboost manoeuvres using the engines of the Zvezda module or visiting spacecraft.

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

> Alert, in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada, is the northernmost permanently inhabited place in the world, at latitude 82°30'05" north, 817 kilometres (508 mi) from the North Pole.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alert,_Nunavut
Oh but aws didn't forget. Aws never forgets
Show HN: Distraction-free SoundCloud music player right on menu bar
If you remotely mount "/" then you ran out of namespace for non-remote files.
Sorry for the distraction but I have noticed a new thread everyday this week asking about surviving burn out or depression with each of these threads receiving few comments. Perhaps these threads can be consolidated.
There are amazing almost turn-key FOSS solutions just an "npm install" away. (Plus 3D printing, plus dropshipping from Shenzhen, plus all the other stuff I'm not even aware of, but startups can and will use.)

Sure, garage scale nowadays means just a few millions of USD angel/seed, compared to the 100K USD a decade (?) ago, but it doesn't mean that there are no niches waiting to be occupied, no new markets emerging ever in the future, etc.
Hello,
I used to listen to Youtube music on browser and Spotify.

I feel like these 2 platforms distract me while I am working.

Sometimes, I open them to switch song and I waste a few minutes to watch a recommend Youtube video or browse through the Global TOP 50 song on Spotify.

So that's why I want to create a menu bar app to eliminate distractions.

Why SoundCloud?

Soundcloud says it has over 125 million songs on its platform

With Soundcloud, I can:

- Listen to mixes style songs and undiscovered charming artists

- Listen to cover and remix music

- Listen to lo-fi producers and up-and-coming rappers

- Listen to focus calm music: Baroque, piano

- Listen to podcast show

But, most of SoundCloud Mac apps required login to listen.
I just like to paste a playlist url and then listen. No need to create account.

So I create the Soundbar app to fulfill my requirements first. If you feel like me, please give it a try.

https://soundbar.app/

WARNING: This app doesn’t support authentication yet. You can not use the SoundCloud Go feature. That mean you can listen to a song that the uploading artist is offering this track to SoundCloud Go subscribers.
How are you going to return it if all Apple stores are closed due to COVID-19 ?
Shovelnites will be pleased. Finally this shy creature introduced himself using the official salute.
I'm not sure bringing the help with you is that realistic. it would be hard to convince people they need to work to earn their keep when all the resources you have to offer them are already in the bunker. why wouldn't they just kill you and consume your (likely disproportionate) share of the provisions? your leadership skills aren't worth much in a small bunker.

the only way I see this working is if you set up the security people as a privileged class so they aren't incentivized to side with the common workers to overthrow you. there's probably a minimum scale (ie, number of people) needed for this to be stable. it would still be hard to prevent the security from realizing they could just kill you and add your share to their own.

in a weird way, an (ex)billionaire commune might be the only viable bunker society.
As a confirming anecdote to 1): A youngish person I know has been contacted because she was in contact with a previously tested person who was postive. Her result was positive too, despite her being asymptomatic (she still is). So now she is in quarantine at home. She counts towards the total cases in Germany.

For more insightful comparisons of cases between countries it would be great to have total cases categorized into asymptomatic/mild/severe.
Where's Toyota? Rapid adaptation is their bread and butter.
I remember my first Linux distro, Monkey Linux, downloaded from the BBS. It fits on 5 floppy disks, with XFree86. You have to use `arj` to extract it, an alternative to `pkunzip` during that time.
(http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/historic-linux/distributions/monk...).

SuSE invented LiveCD, AFAIR, years before Knoppix claims to be the first LiveCD Linux in the late 90s.
Hey! I want to formally apologize -- the company I heard presenting had a name very, very similar to yours. Definitely was not the same company. Unfortunately it's past the 2 hour mark to delete comments on HN, but consider this my retraction of what I said above. Really sorry about the mix up, and what you have going here seems very impressive. Definitely seems like a fantastic attitude towards workers' health and happiness.
It also appears to be faster than v12.0; my WolframBench score with 12.1 was significantly higher than 12.0 (25-50% higher).

The new IPFS integration is exciting; might see if I could write a static site generator that automatically publishes to IPFS.
Interesting. I wonder what the logic is; usually tariffs are chosen based on trade volumes with the targeted country. Maybe there's a sense that mining or other raw materials businesses need more help than firms higher up the value chain.
This thread reads to me like the engineers went into it already knowing they wanted Vue.js, and retroactively doing the necessary mental gymnastics to come up with a rationale. A better justification would have started with "these are our pain points, and this is our evaluation of how these options address our problems." Instead, it's full of weird things like this:

>Better support for usage without Webpack/Babel/front-end build tools

>We should still explore introducing a full build step in the future (including full support for module bundling, ES6+ transpilation via Babel, etc), but this is a non-trivial change to the architecture of MediaWiki.

A non-trivial change to the architecture of MediaWiki, such as, for example, overhauling the frontend JavaScript with Vue.js? 90%+ of all software has a build step, this is a well-understood problem and has been since before Wikimedia existed in the first place.

They also mentioned that they want a framework which "has a thriving community (and we anticipate this will continue to be the case for years to come)", then picked the framework which has been the underdog since its inception (not that I think any of the other choices they evaluated would have been wise, either). They wanted to use Vue, so they're going to use Vue.

For a website like Wikipedia, it would have been better to consider the alignment with their core mission. A lot of new technology doesn't work in older browsers whose collective market share is still ~5%. A project like Wikimedia is used by effectively 100% of the population, which means that designs which eschew 1% of the population are eschewing tens of millions of people. That's not to mention that these technologies, even when supported, require more computational resources to work, which will make Wikimedia harder to use on low-end or older devices. They considered performance - but only as far as the libraries they "evaluated" compare to each other, not to their baseline.

These kinds of kangaroo court evaluations of technologies for use in a software engineering team make me sick, especially because I'm guilty of having done this before.
Yes it took me a year to sort out my visa. When I read this news I thought "how will anyone tell the difference?"
Ubuntu dropped Unity, no? They are nowadays just shipping GNOME. (Maybe with custom plugins/themes/extensions/config.)

Servo is not a browser, it's a research project, it's the proving ground for Rust and Firefox's Rust-ified components.
I think it falls under the "this is not reddit" mantra which I am okay with. I rather see the type of discourse we have on here than just 1 word / 1 emoji responses.
Turkey Says It Sent 500k Coronavirus Test Kits to United States
But what's the point of a global time when the sun rises and sets at different times across the world anyway? Humans live by the 'sun clock', not by UTC. For instance, to arrange a remote meeting you still need to check what time will be convenient for the people around the world, and a global time doesn't make that any easier (arguably even worse). Just because UTC makes sense for machines doesn't mean it makes sense for humans. And machines should adjust to humans, not the other way around.
God forbid that someone should ever write (- y + x) rather than (x - y), what a useless use of the plus sign!

Why have a problem with this? Catting a single file is a well-known idiom for outputting its contents into a stream, plays well with positioning in pipelines, and has the nice property that you can erase as much of the pipeline as you want, to be able to peek inside it at any point.
Using just an axiom of existence, you cannot get very far. Notice that, by the end of this post, you have already introduced a second axiom, concerning consciousness. Working down without additional axioms is the difficult part.

With regard to "the existence of existence", you appear to have started on your way down the "regressive argument" branch.
Thanks for posting this. Would others agree here that this is a very weak correlation of blood type to Coronavirus severity?
What pre-arranged plan?
As for actual air-dropping - this is actually not that far from reality here in Europe. Two days ago Czech army transport aircraft (nothing fancy, just a A319) got back from Shenzen with 100k quick-tests for the virus, that can give results in about half an hour for a symptomatic infected person. Then the test were distributed to main hospitals via police helicopters.

Reportedly the Hungarian government learned about this operation & are likely to do something similar in the next days.

Also in parallel, Czech Airlines aircraft have been pretty much drafted and sent to China for more stuff - like more tests, respirators and personal protective equipment. And one of the huge Ukrainian AN-124s has been chartered and is already on way for ~100 tons of medical supplies in one go, with more likely to follow.

Basically any classical goods transfer methods are far too slow for this and time is of essence.
On that point, is it actually? I've been messing around with p2p lately and everything is behind a Nat these days, it's almost impossible to do without a relay server which will probably be a dedicated relay server since most clients are going to be behind some sort of router.

And before anyone says hole punching, thats pretty much useless these days since almost all NATs are symmetric Nats now, the outgoing and incoming ports won't be matched the same even if the same socket is the same one. (if anyone is having success with this I'd love to know how they are doing it)
Why does the reader mode icon not show up for this page on Firefox Android? I don't think it's possible to read on mobile atm.
But presumably the space station passes over the middle of one ocean or another, where it is not only 400km up but also some number of hundred kilometres away laterally?
If you have a complete mandatory lockdown that works to stop the spread, it's highly likely that there will be a resurgence of infections as soon as the lockdown is lifted.
> The worst thing about Covid 19 to me is how it selects against old people, and even worse: Friendly, sociable old people.

That's cherry-picking IMO. It also selects against people with chronic diseases, high blood pressure, unhealthy habits like smoking and against people with poor hygiene.
A lot of the questions you're rhetorically asking are answered in the RFC you're commenting on.

Specifically, they had real problems with their current system, which they documented here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225453. Then they explored the available options in the ecosystem and came up with the one they thought would best fit their needs.

If you're gonna be critical, at least take the time to understand what they're doing and why.
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (Stoic Wisdom)
How did they know to order more supplies in December?

China reported the new novel strain of the coronavirus to the WHO on December 31. [1] If correct, then this means they were monitoring the news, and reacted immediately, and on the very same day of the fresh report.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6905e1.htm
The content quoted in the "The Star" makes it seems more to me that he's calling the _panic_ dumb, not the necessities required to fight the pandemic, which he acknowledges exists in his follow-on tweets, at least the ones "The Star" quoted.

I also think the "coronavirus panic" is dumb, but I'm defining the "panic" when I say this as people buying 5 years of toilet paper, and unless there's more context that's what I am also assuming he is referring to.
Well, it doesn't matter to you if it's true, but at least if it's true that it sufficiently adequately models the world to allow all the technologies derived from it. Of course, most human don't care about it directly, but it impacts their live nonetheless.
> long past the stage when typing errors are a thing for them

Nonsense. Static type systems help you write correct code. They're also extremely helpful for refactoring. They also help readability. Outside the JavaScript world, they also help performance. The list goes on.

No-one is too smart for type systems to be helpful.

> it does not pay off at all

You've entirely ignored that TypeScript helps reduce bugs, and helps catch them earlier.
But the ISS’s orbital path doesn’t take it much above Hudson’s Bay, or an I mistaken in that?
Ah, the memories of ordering distro bundles from cheapbytes and gleefully experimenting in my “test lab” (aka bedroom). It’s hard to quantify how liberating the early Linux days felt after a slow and painful indoctrination to computing in the Windows world.
Trackpad support for iPads is not Apple's capitulation – it is evolution
There might be some slight ethical issues in performing double-blind studies on covid infection susceptibility.
I've been teaching online for over 10 years; some ideas and observations
Eh, if you haven't heard of it by now it's not worth reading about.
It's especially apparent when Java / C# developers are introduced to a simple idea like a Flux pattern store.

Store structures, despite the initial difficulty in learning the pattern, simplify things enormously, but can somehow become nightmarishly complicated in the hands of a developer who expresses API/client relationships in terms of Factories and Services... When it's not hell to work with, it's actually quite interesting to observe.
US government preparing for coronavirus pandemic that could last up to 18 months
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US government is preparing for coronavirus pandemic that could last up to 18 months and 'include multiple waves of illness' is full headline. Rate limited in title.
In this article, Zizek brings the Munchhausen story to show how he differs from Nietzsche on deep philosophical grounds.

https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-fall-that-makes-us-lik...

It's been my mind for a while now, and I'm still not sure with whom I stand here. Roughly, Zizek says : Any kind of mental breakdown that changes you will be related to your subsconscious. Nietzsche : Lol, when you reach my level of psychosis, you really have to pull yourself out all by yourself.
Gasp.
Huh, never heard of WinUI. It looks "open source" (whatever that means for MS), and somehow it aims to support cross-platformness via React? :o
If you're looking for something easy, I recommend the Hugo + GitHub + Netlify stack. That's how I'm currently migrating my squarespace website. It's still static HTML for the most part, and loads quickly.
Clearly they value Americans more than their own citizens
The solution is to set your limit pretty high (100 times your average or so) or, alternatively, have shorter limit intervals - 100 times your daily bill is still a lot less harmful than 100 times your monthly bill.

The only 'real' solution is proper alerting, but even then it's pretty easy to rack up a bill of several thousand dollar before anyone realizes what's going on.
This is so much easier with Powershell. V7 is totally cross-platform and I cant see why people have a problem to use it, if nothing else then for `ConvertFrom/To-Json/CSV/Whatever` cmdlets ..
Definitely! There's a lot of interesting stuff that can be done with interpreters if you decide to focus on them instead of JITs :)
Conversely, the countries in the EU that have been affected the worse, are heavily religious countries that encourage regular mass gatherings as part of their faith.

Not judging this, just pointing it out.
and I am re-playing Metal Gear Solid 2 for the nth time, a postmodern gem. Never ceases to amaze me.
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Nukes don't work like that, it's not used to blow things up to the sky, it is detonated near ground to maximize it's blast zone and send the shockwave and heat as wide as possible, make an area uninhabitable.
Don't buy it. That's a huge amount of complication to add for such a niche use case that could just as easily use a custom font or straight-up images. Besides, Klingon apparently doesn't get a mere 40 slots for its characters and is probably used more in text communication than some of these ancient languages.
so reddit used a perl script for deployment until 2017?
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Hey. John Graham-Cumming (CTO of Cloudflare here). We're reaching our directly to you.
I was reading some accounts on /r/nursing that its relatively complex. The issue you have is that its quite easy to kill a patient if you fuck it up and there are multiple factors that impact the operation of the machine (e.g. patient weight for example).
Cloud VERSUS Space. Who will come out on top?
That's not clear at all. Part of the reason why these robots are not very capable are very small mass budget and inability to iterate often, both due to high cost of shipping stuff to Mars. Under those restrictions, humans are not getting to Mars at all.

When those restrictions are relaxed enough to contemplate sending humans to Mars, the robots will become much more capable too.

Disclaimer: I'd still love to see humans on Mars because it's exciting as hell!
> it even works in the browser

Only in Chrome, unfortunately, and it's severely limited at that. The most limiting factor is that you can only see one other participant at a time.

Additionally, Zoom's past attempt to prevent you from uninstalling part of their software is extra reason to only use the Chrome version, if any: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20407233
Please don't spread unsubstantiated rumors. All reported deaths in the German media that I am aware of were linked to pre-existing health conditions.
Real-time global COVID-19 outbreak visualization
A vaccine is given to healthy people. A drug that is given to a small number of people that are so sick that they will die within days and there is no other cure, has different safety requirements from a vaccine that is given to a huge number of people that are healthy. In the vaccine case, even a relatively rare (1/10000) side effect might mean that the vaccine is worse than the cure. Not so with the treatment of dying people.

Safety wise, using untested equipment is the same as the drug for dying people scenario, not the vaccine scenario.

A similar example is this: in normal circumstances these devices are operated by ICU doctors. In a time of crisis you can already see this delegated to doctors that have never used a ventilator, and only given a brief introduction or even just a pamphlet describing it.

I suspect that within the next months there will be places where recently trained nurses perform the duties of ICU doctors. And laid off hotell staff perform nursing duties.

> regulations exist for a reason. This is about health & safety after all.

They do, but most regulations are surprisingly flexible in a crisis. E.g. already the rest time requirements for truck drivers are lifted in many countries to keep supply lines.

In the military (where a crisis is planned for) there are two different sets of safety requirements, with a stricter one that only applies in peacetime (e.g. max speeds, minimum distances bewteeen vehicles, requirements to use ear protection and pretty much every single safety requirement there is)
How exactly it is lightweight when it carries a copy of Chrome browser in the background? Jut at idle with no files opened it uses 600 Mb of memory.
PS: it is a nice software which I also use extensively, but Electron is an abomination, Flash of 21 century.
Why would current H1Bs be impacted? They already have their non-immigrant visa no?
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But your server going down because of high load instead of being shut down by a bill breaker doesn't make that much difference.
The idea behind a bunker makes some sense as temporary shelter. However, a nuclear bunker feels completely pointless. The luxury "amenities" will cease to function once all the power plants are down. If the bunker isn't located near a farm then you're going to run out of food. You're going to abandon it in the long run. It's a much better strategy to live away from population centres and next to food production. A last minute emergency bunker is practically useless in comparison.
Note that in Germany registered cause of death is a "first disease", so if someone had a cancer, tuberculosis, heart problems, they are set as a cause of death, even though such person was diagnosed coronavirus and died.

This approach makes some sense, if someone was so sick that getting coronavirus or even a standard flu caused immediate death, indeed the primary reason that a given person died is the condition that person already had.
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You're smart. Apparently 1% of us just can't keep our damn mouths shut.