skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alternatively, in any browser, set DuckDuckGo (or Qwant, or another search engine with !bangs support) as your default search engine, then press Ctrl+L and type `!w aviation` - or `!npm some-package` or `!wt dictionary word` or `!g google search term` etc.
A major global recession is the time when the opportunity cost of schooling is lowest.

Plus a with a lot of more experienced engineers suddenly out of work and on the job market, it’s going to be extremely difficult to find work at entry level just now. Not having a degree will only exacerbate that.

That said, in the long run getting the Bachelors will be more important than getting the CS degree specifically. If you want to get a CS minor while majoring in something else, it may be worth considering.
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Picking up glowing hot space shuttle tiles with bare hands (2011) [video]
> all of them with severe background illness,

Diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity: these aren't what people think of as "severe background illness", but all of these seriously increase risk.
> ...but it can change shape based on what it’s pointing at.

I tried this and it feels great! But I am wondering if this will work well with a non-native GUI stack such as Flutter or QML.
The lesson is that when it comes to personal pursuits, there are no bright lines between doing something “properly” or “cheating”. It truly is all in the eye of the beholder.
We didn't have to stomach much.

https://www.propublica.org/article/no-president-trump-the-co...
While its true SARS-CoV-2 is a virus, opportunistic bacterial pneumonia is a secondary complication of Covid19 which increases its lethality. So you need decent antibiotics too.
I worked with commercial loans and SBA stuff is difficult to get simply because it's hedged on risk. If you need an SBA loan to expand being a landlord and you have a year experience, yeah you might get it. If you just bought a new business and you have no experience with it, you may get denied.

They look for essentially a business plan that has been thoroughly thought out. It sucked for us because we had to report EVERY DAY someone missed their payment until it was paid. The SBA gives a decent rate for what it risks, but they are an unmovable force. You cannot explain to the the situation or what. Follow the terms to a t or get yanked.
It’s quite common and not an anti pattern at all. Wtf, Amazon?
It is not an exponential, it's a logistic curve, just approximate with the SIS model, it's easier.

Yeah I knew by Sunday that tomorrow we're hitting 30,000 cases in Spain. My assumptions worked. And it's just the tip, because I don't know anything about whether there's been randomized sampling, so who knows about the normalization.

I just can't believe this. No one listens and this is in-your-face obvious.
I personally don't think that Libertarianism (and anarcho-capitalism by extension) have a blindspot when it comes to public health. Right now we're seeing huge efforts in the private sector to mitigate this disaster, that can not be discounted. As simple examples, private entities are giving out sanitizers, increasing hygiene and cleaning policies, putting up posters for awareness, coming up with contact-less procedures for public interaction, hiring people to fix online shopping demand, etc. When people are scared, they act. When a business's continuation is threatened, it will act.

My private health-care provider and insurance provider have already extended (without government mandate, direction or legislation or extra-cost) my cover for any corona-related treatment/illness/death. In-case I lose my income due to this, they've also extended my unemployment to cover that so I won't be losing my income if it comes to that. And I can get a private test at my-cost (or healthcare provider will reimburse me) for less than $70.

So that just leaves what...Mass coordination of "public" spaces? Again, tragically those spots are both everybody's and nobody's at the same time, essentially paralyzing them from doing anything too drastic without government approval.

Not to mention the government is now stepping in and stopping some of these efforts because "human rights". They're planning on commandeering private hospitals and facilities to provide healthcare for free for those that don't pay and to deal with the fact that they were inadequately prepared for this crisis. They've also started with curfews, sent military police to private premises to "count" heads in case they go above some magical government number, prohibited public-dissemination of information by epidemiologists without government-approval.
That’s true only when hospitals are functioning. Corona spread saturates hospitals and then mortality goes up to near 10%, from the virus itself as well as other unrelated causes which get no ICU treatment.
> checkout the official data from the Italian health ministary

Post link plz
China has a much higher rate of smokers, poor air quality, and existing respiratory disease.

Do you have any statistics pointing to obesity as an increased risk factor for a respritory disease?
once people's minds are made up, it's incredibly difficult to walk them back to a different reasoning. Apart from the lack of early tests the problem is therefore exacerbated by the downplaying of the problem during the critical early stages. It wasn't just lost-time that needs to be made up for but also that mitigations will now become harder to swallow!
I realise it's actually a sigmoid but an early decent approximation is an exponential, no?

(edit: good catch though)
The UK stopped testing anyone unless they were admitted to hospital for suspected coronavirus.
Why is this on the HN frontpage? Am I missing something?
I'm an undergraduate who recently started entering the field of OR, and the idea of relaxing decision diagrams to make them polynomially sized sounds very interesting — the first time I hear about it.
I'm trying to learn a bit more about how testing works. Aside from the logistics (getting the samples to the lab, etc), what are the necessary steps for sample prep? Heating to inactivate the virus? Splitting the sample into RNA/DNA/proteins?

Also, where do you draw the numbers of primer production capacity from? IIUC, the only other things that an amplification needs are enzymes (just DNA polymerase for PCR) and "food" (nucleotides), but that I assume is not a bottleneck?

How difficult is it to safely dispose of amplified samples? Can you basically just dump them in the toilet?
>Corona spread saturates hospitals and then mortality goes up to near 10%

Some evidence of this? Hospitals were completely overrun in Wuhan initially, but the mortality rate didn't get anywhere near 10%.
Is this test able to detect that someone is infected before they start to infect others?
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> used cash to buy back their stock

So in this case, the cash ends up with the stock owner, isn't it? What are the differences between cash in the hand of company vs cash in the hand of stock owners?
I know many people for whom an iPad is the first and only computer they’ve ever owned. Most of them are in their 70s, or older.

With a SIM card for internet connectivity, it’s hard to beat for keeping grandparents connected with their grandchildren with a steady stream of photos and the occasional video call.
Actually, in medicine and math things are black and white. It's science.
You can't argue with the fact that hospitals can't take the pressure even at negligible death rate.

Hospitals fucked = lots of other people are screwed as they depend on unrelated treatments.

Heath system going out has huge cascading problems for society.
It's killing whole percentage points of the identified infections.

If 1 billion people get infected, that's 10 or 20 million people (or more). And so on with larger numbers of infected.

That's not 'negligible'.
No. This test tells us that you had covid-19 in the past and recovered from it.
Cheaper real estate.
It's not a question of cost at this point. It's a question of availability of reagents and consumables, materials to make those, and time it takes to ramp up. The supply chain is like a supertanker.

At first we didn't have enough test, but that ramped up quickly, then we didn't have enough RNA extraction reagent, now we don't have enough swabs, and soon is the collection media that will be missing.

There has been a call for more protective equipement. But as the situation gets worst, beds space, ventilator, and then staff are going to be the bottleneck.

If you google you'll find stories of people helping their local hospital by 3D printing parts for for respirators, and swabs. There's nothing cost effective about that, it's not fast, but it gets the job done. If you were to scale that, you would be competing for the same materials than manufacturers using injection molding or plastic dipping are.
I've been carrying enough smaller denomination bills and coins so that I can provide exact change, or say no thank you to the coins they offer in change.

The biggest hurdle is pre-paying for gasoline. I just signed up for a gasonline credit card (rather than using my main credit card as there is a much higher chance of my card getting skimmed at a pump; it happened to me a couple of times before I went cash-only).

At least with the fuel card, I will get the same discount as I did when paying cash. I also have a box of gloves in my vehicle to handle the fuel pump with.
Here is something from somewhere from yesterday https://www.epicentro.iss.it/coronavirus/bollettino/Infograf...
"The masks include the lightweight ones that people like to wear in the hope of protection against coronavirus"

Love the subtle way of suggesting the effectiveness of those.
Hey there, those channels you like sound awfully interesting to me as well. Would you mind sharing where you saw this bunker exploration video exactly?
Thank you :)
A more interesting view would be the number of positive tests over the number of tests preformed.
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Could Apple go back to being forward looking with their tablet/laptop/computer line please? If this keyboard/trackpad is a good idea now, then it would have been a good idea 10 years ago. If it was a good idea 10 years ago then they simply lacked the foresight to push it. It has also been a point of critique for as long, and I'm sure that I am not the only person who had to stop pretending that iPads were usable for (my) work and switched to PC for portable productivity (Surface Pro).

At this rate I wont be surprised to see revolutionary full access to the filesystem, and flexible window management, in 2030.
This may actually bring them additional millions in steam sales from additional exposure and playerbase.
My father worked in one of these Central Calculation Centers in the 80s. Almost all programmers were women. Man tended to work more with the hardware which was considered more "dirty" work since you had to be stuck for hours in those huge machines trying to find the piece that broke. Too bad we lost all our Ada lang, linear programming books...
I wonder, How much can these 8bits computers be pushed in terms of overclocking the cpu / replaced with a new cpu?
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UK policy is "testing for coronavirus is not needed if you are staying at home" for symptomatic suspected cases, so it's likely our stats are a bigger underestimate of actual infections than many other countries
If that were true, we should see a much higher proportion of tested people showing positive. Also we shouldn't see the proportion of people tested being positive shooting up, but we do. Those ILI stats were probably just Flu.
Apparently not with this when you're early. I took it seriously when a third degree polynomial fit worked too well and then suddenly didn't.
I too have been making lots of bread lately (baguettes) and have a question to which I didn't find a satisfactory answer yet. Most recipes seem to suggest baking temperature of 450-470F. But there are hints that higher is better. My oven can do 550F. Is higher better? What is the temperature used in bakeries?
> A landline costs just as much as a smart phone plan, so very few people can justify the cost of both.

This may be true in the US, but isn't the case everywhere. Here in France, I've got a landline number for free included with my Internet. I don't use it because I have no need (and the only people with whom I'd speak are back in the US), but it's there nonetheless.
Does that magically allow you to deploy software to your iPad without asking Apple for their permission?

Losing your ability to ever build a product that might compete with your hardware manufacturer is a massive loss of freedom no matter how much you're trying to call me a "contrarian".

Remember, in Apple's world, software like Firefox which fights for privacy against corporations is not allowed to exist. That's the major difference between the iPad world and macOS world.
https://smartairfilters.com/en/blog/best-materials-make-diy-...

I was concerned with the use of cotton but there's room for flexibility.

Still.

Don't make masks so you can hang around outside for hours like you used to.
Everyone not sick should be using Respirators classified as N95 / FFP2 / FFP3 or Half Mask with same class filters.
This DIY is suitable only for already sick.
Here is a fresh preprint from University of Padova showing that weak quarantines have no significant effect:

Quantifying undetected COVID-19 cases and effects of containment measures in Italy

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339915690_Quantifyi...
>Pushing any country through this is a huge and utterly irresponsible risk.

It's a risk, but the amount of hardship all the people who lose their jobs and business will endure if an indefinite lockdown is implemented is an absolute certainty. Poverty has lasting, lifelong negative health impacts.
I’m only willing to pay the minimum rate that people richer (including wealth) pay. Which is probably around 0%. I think that’s fair, and as long as it stays fair I’m also willing to pay more (20, 40, 50% - as long as noone richer than me is paying less). Taxes as they are now (with exemptions for capital gains) are completely unacceptable to me.
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus as an Agent of Infection (2007)
Yes, it’s normal to interview people and it’s normal for some subset of those people to fail. It’s standard practice not to provide specific feedback.
HN won't let me reply to the dead comment, so I'll post it here:

privacy ≠ paranoia

Corporations don't need to know more about me than my own family. See example...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...
I'm not sure if I agree with this. This can easily lead to a trap of "waiting" and the time never comes.

Many well-known authors (Stephen King, etc) build routines for them to write.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/254799.The_Creative_Habi...
https://jamesclear.com/daily-routines-writers
It’s kind of sad that the internet now is a cesspool of SEO content, even coming from technical writers. This is a “quarantine bread” recipe by someone who says it’s “the first thing I’ve ever baked” and wants to teach you.

The way the recipe extends with a timetable is comical. There are way simpler, no-knead recipes you can bake in a Dutch oven that will give you even better results, written by.. bakers. Good luck out there!
> I just can't believe this. No one listens and this is in-your-face obvious

Can you clarify. I can modify the top post (mine) if you're saying I'm overstating things. Happy to be wrong here.
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I wouldn't outright dismiss the iPad like this.

I read more on the iPad than I do with physical books or my Kindle. In particular, pair it with an O'Reilly Learning account and it opens up a whole new pedagogic world I did not realize I was missing out on.

It makes me wish Oyster was still around too.
I think this is underrated. This thing must have been spreading since November here.

I know a person who back in January acquired something like pneumonia and a bad fever, went to the hospital for awhile and tests were negative for flu, etc. doctors just didn’t know what it was. The person has COPD however.

But anecdotally I’ve noticed quite a few more colleagues over the last few months out sick “with the flu or something”. No idea.

They’re still only testing people with symptoms. We need a randomizes test and a test for antibodies to have any idea how much it has already spread.

If it’s as contagious as they say and spreads in asymptotic people then why wouldn’t there be a significant population that has acquired and recovered from this? Many probably with very mild symptoms.

I could just be in denial right now as well.
High Blood pressure was a big factor from what I read. There is very strong correlation between obesity and hypertension.
Ideally, yes, but if you didn't have a suitable respirator already you're going to have a hard time finding one now.
The small changes being that instead of saving 80% of the Lemmings you had to save 100%. Or some skills which you had the first time around were missing. But yeah, the original Lemmings fit on 2 Amiga floppy disks (1,76 MB), and they also had to fit in four "Easter Egg" levels with exclusive graphics and music, so they had to do some optimizations...
Insipid baguette? Where do you buy them? Even supermarket bakeries make pretty good ones in Europe.
It’s interesting to talk about these sorts of issues with my sister-in-law who is a licensed behavioral counselor. When you remove the subject matter of specific identities there are some asserted behaviors in place that can apply to any person/group.

Consider that if you agree with media claiming the virus to be a hoax you are likely succumbing to identity politics through agreement with a theme in contrast to available evidence. Likewise if your first thought is to attack a disagreeable group for a difference of opinion you are just as likely pursuing identity politics from a different subjective perspective.

Perhaps the best course of action is to not challenge these opinions, whether from people generally or personal friends, no matter how poorly formed. Instead advise, as directly as possible, they stop spreading rumors. My wife and I have had to do this a few times recently to family members and personal friends.
OK, looking at this, the curve is upwards without inflection. What would you expect to get if you fitted a D3 poly to it? Why would you even try? Serious Q.
But how many of those people would have died anyway? Somebody over 80 has around a 10% chance of dying every year. Somebody over 80 with Corona has a 20% chance of dying, so the risk of dying is doubled.
Ask HN: Should you pay your customers for reporting problems that they have?
There are also far more old people living with young people in Italy and Spain than in Germany.
No one even told us at my school that the PSAT would count for national merit scholarships, which ended up saving me $20,000 on university tuition over four years.
And then people/businesses will stop taking cash because it was "recommended" which is almost the same outcome as banning it.

You're right that providing information is reasonable, suggesting that people not be given the ability to be private, or force them to essentially have a bank account is not.
Good analysis, thanks. My confidence in that conclusion is now lower.
>Heath system going out has huge cascading problems for society.

Worse than the huge cascading problems caused by making a double digit percentage of the population unemployed indefinitely?
But not at the trillion dollar company that is Apple, which is what we are talking about
It should be relatively straight forward, it deduces typing based on your unit tests and CI.
What about those cotton pads women use to remove makeup?
The percentage is from confirmed cases. For many many people, corona infection has none or very mild symptoms, and they aren't even tested. Since we don't know the actual number of sick people (which can only be estimated, with some estimations talking about several times more patiences then confirmed cases), the actual percentage is unknown.
It seems to me that cooling is the ball that has been dropped on the new MBA. I haven’t seen one opened up yet but the heatsink design from last time (2018/2019) didn’t use a heat pipe over the CPU, it just kinda forced air to be drawn over it.

From this video: https://youtu.be/hB1aP2OnUJA we can see it quickly gets to 100c and stays there despite ramping the fan up. So while a quad core that can turbo up to 3.5/3.8ghz sounds awesome, for heavy sustained performance it looks like it’s definitely going to be clocking down to 1.5ghz or so.

This isn’t a surprise to me but I think some people just see 3.5/3.8 quad core and think this is going to be right on the heels of the MBP 13
How to Prevent a Coronavirus Catastrophe in Jails: Let People Out
What do you base the months and months estimate on?
They're using a subtle perspective/highlight effect similar to tvOS. It's kinda interesting, wanted to try it in person to see how effective it is at conveying the underlying position.
If you use a good quality dutch oven with a well-fitting lid, drying out isn’t an issue at all. In fact you have to take the lid off for the last 10-20 minutes to brown the crust at all.

However, getting your dough into a preheated dutch oven is fiddly and a little dangerous. That’s why I recommend just starting from cold.
Hospitals are saturated, because people are panicking. For almost all people, just staying at home for a few days is enough.
You are saying that like it must then be as fast as Rust by this virtue.
Great post! Can Tailscale be used to create a network between 10,000 IoT devices and a few servers? Is it scalable enough to support 10,000 peers on each node? Is it possible to script the registration of each IoT device to the control plane?
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Would python finally become statically typed?
And a car is a glorified tricycle.
Depends on your definition.

If you don't care about socket compatibility you could simply load an 8-bit CPU in a fast FPGA. It will probably not be hard to run one at 100MHz or so.
That doesn't magically make Swift and Rust equally performant.
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You can make it with far fewer steps:

500 g flour, 400 g water straight from the cold tap(80% hydration), 8 g salt, 1 g yeast.

Mix thoroughly, cover, leave for 12 hours or overnight at whatever room temperature you have.

Turn out and fold over once, cover, leave to prove for two more hours.

Preheat oven and pot with lid to 230 C.

Drop the dough in the pot, cover cook at 230 C for 30 minutes.

Take of lid, cook for another 15 minutes at 230 C.

Take out and wait 30 minutes before cutting.

Usually attributed to Jim Lahey, see https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/11376-no-knead-bread

Length of time for fermentation is very non-critical and you can drop the folding and second proving without much harm.
Also require more oxygen and produce more heat.
Ask HN: Features that are must to have in your text editor for web development
What are some of the awesome features does your text editor have which makes you productive and lets you ship things faster.

I have been using vim for a while and interested to know what others are using and their adoption :)

Apologies if this is not the right place to post this kind of question!
> It uses just six integrated circuits—a CPU, USB interface, and four 7400 chips

Wonder how the source article came up with the title “just 5 chips”, yet the article throughout mentions six. Not a huge deal, but wonder if typo or some other reason?
I think you've inverted the meaning of "zero abstraction cost" here. It's not that writing abstract code is well-supported and free; it's that the language basics aren't built upon a stack of expensive abstractions.