skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have not been in a grocery store since the SHTF, but I’d be particularly concerned about the produce isle, specifically leafy vegetables.
I'm surprised the budget "3" has this issue, and not the flagship model "S". You'd think the software would be nearly identical.
I applied to 10 ivy league universities, and was accepted by 3. It's reasonable to suppose that if MIT gave a +1 for legacy admits, I would have gotten the nod.
Rich and Powerful Jump to Front of Line for Tests
SARS-CoV-2 has been demonstrated to live on surfaces for multiple days. I don't know if your phone touching the card reader or handling cash is going to change much.
Focusing on positive or negative is the wrong focus, we need to test for immunity. Those who are immune can contract the virus again in a year, but will do so without symptoms, according to older studies for similar viruses.

And most importantly, those with immunity can go on to lead a normal life and participate in the economy.

https://twitter.com/NAChristakis/status/1240689935557865472
www.zoho.com/remotely
What's so special about the Hamming Distance?
Your aprocach in this is the problem. Your girlfriend's bother in law's customers and staff, on the way to that establishment, and within, could easily be spreading the virus. Untested, without symptoms, simply going about their usual lives. This is why we're seeing tested cases in the US (now that there's tests) rise so suddenly. There is no 'only 1 person has it in a town). That was my town yesterday, with only one case, and then bam, more people got tested.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kardashian-filter/...

Kardashian filter seem to do the trick. Add options with virus related keywords and voilà. Stress free surfing is back.
There is a six-year statute of limitations on patent infringement claims. But there is a separate doctrine called "laches" that says that, notwithstanding any statute of limitations, if a plaintiff sits around on their rights, their lawsuit can be barred.

But the Supreme Court recently held that laches was not a defense in statute of limitations cases. So, that wouldn't be an issue here.
Ah yes, life’s biggest questions. Do we have free will? Is there an objective reality? Why have a tablet instead of a highly portable touch screen laptop?

Instead of answering that, I will just say that I am only suggesting improvements on systems the iPad already has. I want better versions of existing hardware accessories and more liberal App Store policies to allow for fully-fledged development environments.
While there are advantages to having large / homogeneous / monolithic / centralized entities.

There are also weaknesses in the face of some threat because there is no diversity to survive it.
Not sure why this topic is getting downvoted to oblivion.

The entire Google Canada workforce just had our titles changed from 'software engineer' to 'software developer' and were asked to update linkedin profiles to reflect this, as well.
No. We implemented a 3d software frame buffer pipeline at my non-Standford, non-"elite" computer science school, in C and with no dependencies other than the standard library, for our computer graphics class.
Not OP, but I would imagine being one of the only minorities in a town like that is difficult if you just want a nonchalant life.
Makes sense. Their employees are also working from home. If they do the conference online then it will require the employees to coordinate and meet, which is not desired. Cancelling is the right thing to do.
Has someone seen data of virus life expectancy outside its host on surface in a realistic scenario (no nebulisation)?
Faulty generalization = the fallacy of examining just one or very few examples or studying a single case, and generalizing that to be representative of the whole class of objects or phenomena.
> I've long been a loser and social outcast.

Gee, I wonder why...
Click on the support link at the bottom of the page.
That’s exactly what Google does best.
Oh man! If I recall correctly, Prince of Persia was perhaps this way on the Mac? I have the vaguest memory of some stapled , crinkled, photocopied pages as reference...
Distinguish between wealth and paperwork. As Bucky Fuller pointed out, if all the paperwork disappeared overnight we would have a hellofa fight over who owns what, but no one would (necessarily) starve. If the wealth itself disappeared: the factories, the distribution networks, and so on, we would be screwed.

In the situation today the physical basis of wealth is not under attack, the "human capital" is.

As long as the food and water keep coming we'll eventually be all right, keep your head, and keep your eye on the fundamentals: In approximate rank order from most important to lesser-but-still-very important, the base of Maslow's Hierarchy of Human Needs:

+Water (also soap!)

+Food Production & Distribution & Waste Management.

+Communications (under which I include governance)

+Electric Power

Pervading and fundamental to all these are keeping a level head and a civil society.

"It may seem a ridiculous idea, but the only way to fight the plague is with decency." ~Camus
> It would be a shame if they thought it worked but government regulation prevents them from prescribing it to ordinary patients.

It doesn't. It's FDA-approved, it's just off-label for this use.

> It isn't totally clear to me what you are implying, but there isn't anything wrong with them stocking up on hydroxychloroquine if it is likely to be effective against COVID-19

lmao are you implying that doctors are self-prescribing or using straw man prescriptions because they just love their jobs that much?

bud, if that's a good policy we can get the chain of command at the hospital to do it, not Dr Nick writing a fake prescription for his dog and taking it on the sly.

Oh yeah but that's not an FDA approved use and there's "no clinical evidence that it works".

What I'm saying is there's a huge disconnect between what doctors are saying, and what they're doing. There is pretty strong evidence it works. There is a half century of evidence it's safe. That's why they're willing to give it to their family members.

Doctors just don't want to cause a rush on the supply. But they themselves want to hoard it for their family.

BTW the whole reason Trump mentioned this is because he's on it. Someone told him these pills would help keep him from getting infected, and he blurted it out because he has no filter and just says whatever crosses his mind.
The fact that shortcuts have become less and less discoverable, and nobody has cared enough to educate users, is the cause of an incredible amount of lost productivity.

"User friendliness" is paternalistic and limiting. You want a learning curve that amplifies the user's power as they progress along it.
I feel this is a futile stone to die over. It will never happen. Swede here, turning 27 now. When I was 13 (yes 2007) I got my own debit card which my parents deposited my "monthly" money/stipend in to allow me to build a sense of value.

I haven't used cash in my life. Whenever I get cash from tips (yes I've worked service jobs) I simply feel annoyed. Like, I plan to actually spend this illegitimate tax free money but then I have to bring it with me???

Refusing card is just going to push you out step by step until noone cares. Because I, or anyone I socialize with sure don't.

I know there's endless arguments about privacy and so on that comes up by everyone this topic is touching. But from what I've gathered, people can cover their laptop camera and feeling conscious. But giving up the convenience of a debit card will never happen. (Yes this is Europe, we don't care about building credit. Debit cards are how we roll.)
This wouldn't be such an economic disaster if the government had their shit together and acted fast. All they had to do:

1. Freeze mortgages, rents and interest for 90 days.

2. Send everyone checks for around $2,000 a month, let people choose to cash them if they need to, correct for it on 2021 tax returns based on your income.

Avoid having small businesses shut down and lay everyone off, call it a vacation and give people homework for the next 2-3 months while we focus on fighting this pandemic.
> It was made up by a professor at University of Chicago and ran contrary to the history of business and limited liability company structures

Who is this guy? Also where can I learn more about this and related topics. I’ve taken an interest to learning about our economic system in my free time and would love it if someone could point me to some good resources/podcasts/whatever.
Neither country took the middle ground compared to where the US was when we finally started reacting.

South Korea has been aggressively testing, contact chasing, and quarantining from day 1. Look at their number of tests per capita compared to ours.

China did indeed shut down the entire economy for months for provinces containing 900M people iirc. In barely hit provinces they have teams of thousands of people doing aggressive testing, contact tracing, and quarantine.
I would recommend just buying some sets that look interesting to you. There is such a huge variety in themes available these days.

I highly recommend the Saturn V rocket. Lots of fun to build and it’s pretty impressive once done.
Being able to launder money is valuable. You've just shown your mental deficit.

Also, the crypto market reflects its value as well. You're playing yourself with your own argument.
> It's true that the current measures put the economy on freeze mode but really even if businesses are closed down temporarily, no assets are lost. Even if the stock market contracts sharply, after this is over the planes are still in the hangars and the restaurants still exist.

Of course this is true, but was it any less true of any of any major recession or depression in the last 100 years? It's not like the 2008 recession was caused by a major drought/famine or war. There were plenty of assets then, but they just sat unused because the system had broken down so much that people couldn't or wouldn't use/purchase them.
You are wrong according to the WHO investigation of the events in China.[1]

You are wrong according to the statistics that came out of Korea - if there was an invisible group of asymptomatic, Korea's infection rate couldn't have been controlled. [2]

This destructive belief has persisted for a while because it made sense for various flu epidemic and gave the comforting idea most infections would be harmless. But is now with us at scale and all the evidence points to a rough 20%, 1-in-5 hospitalization rate [3]. I wish actual authorities would spend more time debunking this (even get fully clear on it themselves).

[1] https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/who-chi...

[2] Look at covid19info.live and look at the South Korean statistics. There's reason to think Korea found most if not all infection. Similar reasoning also applies to China.

[3] Edit: Discussion of CDC study: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/488325-cdc-data-show-c...
Here's some discussion about it: https://serverfault.com/questions/967452/windows-server-2019...

It only happens on Server 2012 R2 when "Desktop Experience" is enabled and you're logged-on with an account that would have groups stripped from its token by User Account Control.

I've no doubt it's related to UAC, ultimately, but I've nearly reached the breaking point w/ my disgust with being unpaid outsourced QA for Microsoft. Deploying and supporting their products have been my livelihood for 20 years, but the "new Microsoft" in the Windows as a Service era is straining my ability to recommend them.
Oops, gpuhash.me failed as well to crack the 1 character long hashed password
Oops, http://gpuhash.me failed as well to crack the 1 character long hashed password generated with "Multi One Password" tool!

6d78101f3965681a61ab72365de3f9052d6da65f5a42ea6d4a6e68f02b81d32825388837ee9d61e5314cfca90d5638316c1465634fcad42c8cf1a744cc924947

The password is a lowercase letter!

More info here:
https://windowsportableapps.blogspot.com/2019/09/multi-one-password.html

That's embarrassing!

#passwordmanager #passwordmanagement #Infosec #netsec #cybersecurity #CrackQ #hashcat #Windows #windows10 #windows8 #windows7 #windowsvista #windowsxp #portable #portableapps #portabletools #portablesoftware
I think one thing that this pandemic is teaching us is that most people's jobs do jack shit to maintain the basic needs of society, and the ones with important jobs are often paid the least.
Portfolio Site in Minutes – React
Twitter is verifying accounts from health experts amid coronavirus outbreak
From the Guidelines: "... please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."
The alternative is systemic failure of the healthcare infrastructure and millions of deaths.
For those interested, Singapore has this. https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/coronavirus-singapore...
The origin of the phrase "helicopter money" was from Milton Friedman, when he described the lunacy of the concept. Ironic it's used seriously today.
People can take ibuprofen prior to going shopping.
viruses live a lot longer on hard surfaces than soft surfaces like fabric and tissue. Lifetime on soft surfaces that can absorb moisture from the virus is like 15 minutes.
For a while now (before all this) I got interested in the phenomenon of societies that have been pushed too hard, how it plays out and what can be done to mitigate it. This of course applies to all types of crisis, each being its own beast, but in every case someone needs think quickly and keep the lights on. I get the feeling that a lot of capable people are starting to notice design flaws in society, and I hope this kickstarts the field of societal stability. We should not take the mechanisms of civilization for granted.
We don't know the total number of infections in Italy so we can't get a meaningful estimate from there.
Wish the anti-Musk and anti-Assange astroturfing would also get downweighted for being repetitive
"Dyalog '18: The Interpretive Advantage"

> Common wisdom is that compiled languages are faster, full stop. However, by testing data for common patterns at runtime, Dyalog can sometimes perform ordinary programming tasks many times faster than well-optimised C. Marshall explains some of the ways in which Dyalog allows a programmer to get the best performance of several different implementations while writing just one, and discusses how deferred execution might make this method even more powerful in the future.

(Why omit the most distinguishing part of the title!?)
When you close the bathroom door, is it because of paranoia?

Conflating a desire for privacy with paranoia is absurd.
Noita does interesting things with terrain deformation, and this is a good GDC talk about how it does so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prXuyMCgbTc
It's mostly because they're not what HN is for. Sometimes things that are mostly not what HN is for gain traction on HN while still being mostly not what HN is for.
Oh boy. Don't you think an actual, fair experiment would have to consist of two preinstalled app stores? "Apple taxed App Store" and "Free App Store", the former with $99 developer payments, a 30% tax and reviews, and the other a free-for-all (not using Apple's CDN, same sandboxing security model).
Jobs was very successful with Pixar.

Let me put it another way. Can we reasonably assume that people who find themselves in the position of needing to hire a CEO with their own money are not complete morons and will spend more than 5 minutes thinking about it?
Wash your vegetables. You can also use a citric acid spray on them which has been shown to be effective on some viruses.
> is the cause of an incredible amount of lost productivity.

I want to believe. Source?
No, he's wrong and you're wrong.

There's no evidence supporting the theory that large numbers of asymptomatic people offset the figure of 20% of patient being severe cases. Hospitalizations and death skyrocket in Covids infected areas, we know what this thing looks like at scale. Plus Who report, pattern of infection, China and Korea eliminated visible cases and haven't seen many more etc.
Why do you have to touch the screen? Here in Australia, I never make physical contact with anything.
Many stores have lower prices for cash customers, sometimes significantly, so I could just as easily say that credit card customers subsidize my lower prices. Free "miles" are nice (if you fly), but cash is always more valuable than scrip.
This is a bit disturbing. We should what, just let the old people die (or at least ~10% of them)?
idk man, people can dish out complicated, hard tested, reliable systems in a really short time. most aspects of most languages have been severely altered and improved...
A "conclusive" report would pretty much have to be in terms of "up to" and account for outliers.
Yes - I think we should challenge misleading information wherever we see it in this situation

Indeed, and your information is wrong and misleading, stop it. You listed no sources and are going on "I thought..." You thought wrong.
If you are legitimately interested in understanding this train of thought, I highly recommend checking out the book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff (sp?)
At work we use Teams as our primary communication tool. It’s been able to handle the increase in calls, video chatting, etc, pretty well so far, and we’ve even added some channels so people can share a bit about their personal lives and interact that way to decrease some of the loneliness factor.

On the personal front, I chat with some friends via Slack, and then we play games in the evening on PS4 (does Apex Legends count as personal collaboration?).
All the grocery stores here (Colorado) put their staple foods behind loyalty-program discounts. Presumably the loyalty ID is just as good an identifier as a CC#.
'murica likes their tips.
You may enjoy the “War Stories” series by ArsTechnica. It follows a developer of an early game and what it took to create it.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKBPwuu3eCYkScmqpD9xE...
Managing Harbor at cloud scale: The story behind Harbor Kubernetes Operator
This clearly can happen.

If we throw away all the usual abstraction constructs, and model a program as a way to instruct the machine to perform certain actions. Then there is a huge spectrum of available tools to realize this program.

As often the case, such problem is computationally intractable. Then all sorts of different approaches: static vs. dynamic typing, compiled vs. interpreted, different flavors of languages features, etc. can all affect the end results. Then it's entirely possible that a static language like C is not close enough to the optimal result, such that a different approach can be faster. It happens to be an interpreted language in this case.
No mention of hydrogen peroxide...

I've been using it to disinfect supplies I bring home and don't want to quarantine for a day before bringing inside, as well as washing my hands.

Is there a reason it's not mentioned? Am I misinformed on its effectiveness as a disinfectant vs. viruses?

It's always been my goto for disinfecting surfaces... it's nice in that it decays into harmless water, and it's not really an issue if you get small quantities of 3% in your mouth, even if swallowed.
This is stupid, it's a respiratory virus, it needs to enter your lungs. Get your stuff, wash your hands. Done. This is why restaurants are still open for takeout.
This is why the article discusses "pausing" these types of payments for everyone from the average person to fortune 500s. If the Landlords are in a similar position (i.e. their "rent" and other debt payments are paused as well), then they have the power to pause rent payments for their residents.
Yes, you are the voice of reason! R of .9 is just fine. Pushing R to 0 is unnecessarily costly.
The greatest outcome differentiator we have control over right now is whether or not a person can get adequate care or not. It seems like that can make a difference in the realm of points; big boy points.

Our top political leadership would not be left wanting for medical care if they needed it. Pelosi and McConnell are both in for keeping congress together in DC vs running and hiding at home. "Going down with the ship" so to speak.

Top marks for your cynicism. Low marks for the focus of it.
As for your last point, there appears to be a black swan event quite regularly. It seems logical to prepare for this.
Secondly, stock buy backs are often performed at horrible times simply because CEOs want to boost their own salary. This has repeatedly bitten them in the ass. This is what happens when short term gains are prioritized over long term strategy.

So my question is, when do we learn?
All of these instructions apply to restaurant takeout.
Yeah, the difference is that when you pay with a card, you get the card back, so you feel as though nothing has been lost.
In the same boat. I have fond memories of spending many hours watching my older brother play these games.

To this day I consider myself a professional video game watcher.
Theyre google, they are totally down with a 1% trade for flexible and maintainable systems.
Its the number of people they used to test.
The linked comment is great. However, I think the HN heading is confusing, particularly for people who may not know about the existence of Haskell and its lazy-by-default semantics.

The linked comment recommends using strict/eager fold-left instead (`foldl'` in Haskell) of using lazy fold-left (`foldl`, with no trailing apostrophe). It's not saying that you shouldn't use fold-left in any language.

Reading the HN title alone, in its front-page context, it looks like it's saying that it's the fold-left generic operation that's wrong for lists, and not just `foldl`, Haskell's default lazy implementation of fold-left. Paradoxically, following the guidelines and re-using a boiled-down version of the linked comment's first line results in the line being misleading and/or link-bait (I guessed what it was about, but I still had to go and check).

For some time I've thought that the HN policy of disallowing editing of post titles, while correct, can be taken too far, and that many titles would be better with some annotation.

In this case, "It never makes sense to use [lazy] foldl on lists [in Haskell, use foldl' instead]" would be a better title. A bit awkward and maybe inelegant, but it says what the article means. Out of its original context, the HN title doesn't say what the posted article means.

Maybe "Lazy foldl versus strict foldl' in Haskell" would have been an even better title, if the guidelines allow for using one's discretion on when to disregard them.

Other common case is that of headlines in the first person: "My X ..." would often be improved by editing it to "[Name's] X ..." or "[Name of whatever X is] ..." while leaving it otherwise unchanged.

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I don't know if @sama will get summoned to this comment like he would if this were Twitter, but it doesn't hurt to try.
What do you mean? Then you could pay for stuff privately over the internet.

I'm surprised there hasn't been a first amendment case over this -- maybe because of the continued existence of cash as an alternative?

What business is it of the government what books I read?
> total economic shutdown seems to be the only option left

That's quite the overreaction.

Italy found that among fatalities the median age is over 80 (older than the average lifespan of an Italian man).

99% of fatalities were among people with a prior illness. About 50% of the deaths were people suffering from at least three other illnesses.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-18/99-of-tho...

To put it another way: most of the folks dying from COVID-19 were already dying. This disease is the straw that broke the camel's back.

Should we just give up on them? No! But instead of quarantining everyone, and sending us back to the stone age, we should work to quarantine these folks while the rest of us return to normalcy and build up our antibodies and herd immunity.