skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed.

Not a firm, and not viral research either (that is just one consequence).
Airlines Self-Announcing at Las Airport (Tower Closed for C19)
It's well known that if the computer is handling a significant part of the task, the human will get distracted or zone out completely. The "human computer driving team" will end up being less than the sum of its parts. Airline pilots already have well established procedures to prevent this from happening when they engage the auto-pilot.
Leaked Gamestop conference call on Coronavirus
Things I Learned Pursuing a Job in a Silicon Valley Startup
> it sounded like Laibach to me

What? how does this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=70&v=zPGf4liO-KQ

Sound like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glu9wA4HjE0

to you?

The guitar in the first sounds more this:

https://youtu.be/_guOyN2wmkM?t=78
Or, IDK influenced by Foreigner and those kind of bands.
@soumyadeb - can't reply another level deep here. I'll create an PR in the repo.

https://github.com/rudderlabs/rudder-server/pull/183

Cool project!
if you have even a 5mbps connection, you can download most modern games in a day or less. if you have less than that, two-day shipping from amazon and other retailers still exists.

I do actually think entertainment is pretty important in a time like this, just to keep people sane in general, but also as a carrot to incentivize people to actually stay in their houses. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect them to wait for it to be delivered though.
Note that at the news release link, they have bolded payment. So, you still have to file by April 15, but if you owe, the payment is not due until July 15.

Edit: and now I see that the tweet re: filing was just this morning, so website change may be later today. But, do they want to do a production deploy on Friday? :)
Best I can offer you is the extended highlights of that race https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNUSQurmRjw
Shameless plug, but I worked for some time on "Thinking in Tensors, Writing in PyTorch" pretty much focusing on turning LaTeX math into executable code.

E.g. Gradient Descent: formula, code, and visualization:

https://github.com/stared/thinking-in-tensors-writing-in-pyt...
I interpreted the Linux thing as just making the Linux host a better analysis tool, the main focus was the embedded system side.

I would probably use Wireshark to find the packet timing, who knows what happens in something as complex an OS as Linux. You can also use something like Wireshark to extract debug payloads like ISR or DMA timing on the embedded system although admittedly a script on the LInux side is easier.
Legally, does the state and federal goverment have the power to control the movement of people?

Does the state have the power to control my movement from my own home to the end of the street for my daily walk?
Even if people meet socially outside of work, they still aren't _required_ to go to work. Which means a lot of people can practice social distancing. People are scared, many will avoid groups (others may throw parties, but can't help that).

I know in my neighborhood, everyone is outside but we are all maintaining 2 meter distance. Some neighbors even brought up their grills and stayed seperate but can talk (at a distance).
Alas he is the reason it didn't come sooner in NYC https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ny-gov-cuomo-says-no-ne...
It is illegal as of 2012.
MIT to no longer consider SAT subject tests in admissions decisions
I personally prefer Rust's style here to Java, and a good deal over C++.

I had to learn Java last year and--even as an experienced programmer--the guides we're pretty miserable. The info was there and it was terse [1], but I wound up paying for a course elsewhere because the official docs weren't working for me.

Rust method here of combining the guide (Struct docs) and reference (Methods) is vastly superior, in my opinion. One niggle I always have with docs is that the two things are considered separate and I have do figure out which link is the one I'm looking for. God help me every time I need to find the String functions in the Python docs.

If you don't like looking at the guide in the Rust docs, click the "[-]" in the upper right. It'll collapse everything in the page and make it look a lot more like the C++ sample.

[1] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/data/strings.ht...
or, as some like to call it: flavored vodka
If you genuinely want a layout exactly like a html table you use display:table. You probably don't, but it is there if you want.

You don't really need repeated class=table-row-for-display etc, this can be achieved by CSS contextual selectors.

But in reality html tables was not designed as an all-round layout tool in the first place and the layout algorithm was never specified in detail. Flexbox and flexgrid are typically more appropriate and powerful as layout tools.
Summary: Gamestop Will Not Pay Quarantined Staff despite staying open on lockdowns, says one store manager had contracted the virus but kept the specific store open, coorporates will take a weeks off while employees will have to work

(according to https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/flv3t7/leaked_...)
I've got one of these and it's really good.
The app sometimes get stuck, probably because it gets too much data and my phone is not fast enough.

Cat also sells phones with integrated flir cameras: https://www.catphones.com/en-us/cat-s61-smartphone/#technica...
Wonder how this will impact accountants. Usually they are looking forward to the pressure relenting as the tax season comes to an end.
Ray Kurzweil: Future of Intelligence (2018)
The conclusion for the first article you linked is:

> Avoiding caffeine as much as possible is your safest course of action. If you must get your fix, it is best to discuss this with your healthcare provider to make the healthiest choice for you and your baby.

If caffeine isn't so addictive then it should be no problem to give it up for pregnancy :)

Caffeine crosses the placenta to your baby which cannot metabolize it. There are numerous studies of how caffeine causes birth defects. I'll change my absolute but it doesn't really deter from my point that caffeine can be harmful drug in some scenarios (pregnancy) even when drinking it moderately (2-3 cups a day).
So, the selected project should spend that money on other kind of services like databases, CDN, analytics or other any similar that usually don't have a starter/free tier
I don’t know if the rest of the world highly regarded Germany’s efforts during WWII...
High-yielding continuous-flow synthesis of antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine
I'm not even necessarily arguing that not locking down is the right move, but rather that we should be able to have the conversation as to whether it's worth it or whether there are other, better solutions to this problem (like Taiwan or Korea managed to do.)

In any case, as I mentioned before, the danger here is that the consequences are unknown. We really don't know what will happen, which in many ways is worse than a known danger like the virus itself. The complexity is rapidly spinning out of control and affecting trade, economics, other medical conditions, and virtually every job that isn't a remote programmer.

As far as numbers go, Cuomo just ordered that 75% of people stay home from work in NYC. If you google around, unemployment applications are growing exponentially. It seems likely that a pretty significant portion of the population will apply for it.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-19/cuomo-ord...
The real numbers: As of the afternoon of March 19, there have been 103,945 total COVID-19 tests reported. Of those, 11,723 people were infected, 89,197 were not infected, 3,025 are still awaiting results, and 160 have died. So, much for "millions" of tests.
I'm an American. I'm a Gamer. I'm going to buy animal crossing today and there's NOTHING you can do to stop me. Just let that sink in.
I can't even figure out what my HVAC vents do, or how not to mess up my entire heating and cooling situation – so I leave them alone.

Utter respect for you and all the other medical professionals who are having to adapt and deal with this unfolding situation. Many thanks for what you do.
This can be also because they're having trouble creating GPU workloads fast enough
Thanks for the pull request :) Merged...
Actual (and better, IMHO,) title:

> The untold origin story of eBay that I lived...
Imagine There's No Heaven nor Hell
Who Gets Care as Washington State Hospitals Fill Up?
I thought you had to use a column still to make vodka, and that if you use a pot still, it's basically (white) whiskey.
I'm delighted. I've programmed since my teens but I never really enjoyed math and have mostly picked up what I need when I really need to. I think more in the ways of programming than in math, so this is a good way of helping me with the syntax.

People come here from many angles. Mine was largely free of math. I gather yours wasn't.
Vvip
It will be liquid, but it will still have attributable gains if the account value increases. That amount will also need to be removed, which will come from previous contributions, before your actual tax deadline, which may be extended to October. Just a heads up.
HotBot launched in 1996 and IIRC, was already on the C++ webserver and not on AOLServer at launch.
Check out https://github.com/mathiasbynens/small
I wish they would spend five minutes documenting how to use the GPU on Ubuntu. My 1080ti is just sitting idle while my CPU is busy folding. Any instructions I came across said something like “make sure you have the libraries” but then failed to describe even at a high level how to locate and install those libraries. Last time I installed any CUDA libraries it involved adding an Nvidia repo or something.

Edit: I’d be glad to be proven wrong with a link to an FAQ or some part of the docs.
You can use a TclKit executable as a windows runtime if you like. That makes of a single .exe file 'install' to windows.

You can obtain a custom built one here:

http://kitcreator.rkeene.org/kitcreator
How+to+Record+TV+Directly+to+DVD+–+zmamen.com
Sure, at the same price point as consoles, all gaming PCs are basically garbage ;)
It's possible to capture the output and analyze the detail so I don't want to hear about what's "likely".
Check out MIT Open Courseware. There is an entire degree worth of classes you can take there to fill in the gaps. Just pick and choose courses that are of interest to you and go from there.

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
Means-testing and making things worse the more money you have is bipartisan.
Agreed.

Though when I think of "detector" I think more of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_(command) and not something which verifies the file is in the correct format.
Congratulations on making the first Nazi joke, pick up your prize later.
https://foldingathome.org/papers-results/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@home#Examples_of_appli...
My lack of degree was a small barrier to getting some early jobs, part of that was transitioning industries to an industry that can be difficult for junior people to break into (pre-iPhone mobile to games). After my 2nd game industry job at 25 no one cared about my degree.

If your goal is to get a job at FAANG or another big company early in your career you absolutely need a degree. For other jobs it will make things harder but it's not really a requirement. If you still want to work at FAANG 2 or 3 years of industry experience is worth more than a degree.
There are two Bethesdas. Bethesda Game Studios is a developer and makes Oblivion and Skyrim and so forth. Bethesda Softworks is the publisher for the ZeniMax-owned development studios like BGS and id.
*The reason I joined my current Org was during the interview process I was sold a 'Digital Transformation Project' which I would supposedly have an impact on transitioning the team to a more product delivery focused Data Science team but due to changes in upper management this has fallen through and I now mostly work on producing spreadsheets, slide decks and coding in SQL
Configuring WiFi Access with 2FA
We want to configure our WiFi in our small group for users authenticate with two factor credentials. So the user would first set up the 2FA. than for regular use, would get prompted to enter in 2fa code from say Google authenticator. So as the administrator for this commercial wireless service, we are looking for the quickest, easiest way to set this all up. Is there a wireless access point that is good for small business that has a tool built in that can do this? or something that works with DUO? We are hoping there is an easy solution
Coronavirus: Confronting the Crisis
The Journey from Heroku to Kubernetes in 5 Steps
This library assumes `async-std`; the way it parallelizes work is by spawning tasks on an executor, so by design it needs to have access to one. Without that we couldn't provide the API we do.

I haven't tested it with `hyper`, but it should soon be compatible with `tide`(assuming `async-h1/async-std` is used as the backend).
If the Post is to be believed they are just moving to the Hamptons and socializing -
https://nypost.com/2020/03/19/we-should-blow-up-the-bridges-...
The answer to this question is always yes regardless of the government in dire circumstances. That's why there are some of these laws on the books for quarantine in the first place from 1918.

That being said, it's a big scary step and there are lots of little steps likely to be taken before we get that far. You can see this in action in Italy.
I thought the guy built it for his wife to sell pez dispensers? I seem to remember hearing that 20 years ago.
The phrasing is definitely weird. "Germany's greatest challenge since the rise of Nazism" seems a lot more appropriate.
I upvoted this because I feel the same way, however I have a rebuttal.

There are plenty of articles on learning hiw to learn but fewer on the process of learning what to learn (plenty of lists of “what you should know” though). If you’re just past the very beginning of learning something new, being exposed to stuff quite a bit outside your competency set can be valuable — if you can mostly grasp something then the stuff you can is pointers to expand your knowledge. While a fully advanced treatise is likely gibberish.

I also come to HN for the more technical links but often read the comments even on basic articles like this as they may have interesting pointers.

Also: I’ve been writing systems code for 40 years: bring up an os on bare hardware, write small real-time kernels, build high performance distributed systems, work on compilers, etc. I could probably write a (crappy) algorithms or datastructures textbook coz yes, I use a lot of that stuff. But quickly write a secure, reactive web front end for a simple CRUD app that let you browse a catalog? I would struggle. So one person’s obvious is another’s “no clue”.
Or because they don’t tell you how to troubleshoot when the GPU is not enabled.
A big piece to that power play was Bill Gates backing Job with capital. It was a win win for both of them, Steve used it to wrangle political control of the company and Gates used it to stave off an impending anti-trust litigation. Had Steve not had the capital from Gates a year after rejoining, the story would have been much different.
What's your favorite technical book to read during this time of home quarantine?
Compare to Googles Fire?
That happened to me initially too, but I left it running (on idle config) and it had obtained work by the next day when I looked.
This article leaves out one juicy tidbit. Senator Burr, one of the senators who sold stock at the market peak, is one of only 3 senators in the entire Senate to have voted against the 2012 STOCK act that made insider trading by Congress illegal.
1. I'm entirely unsure German politicians will say this in hindsight.

2. De-Nazification, and coming to grips with what had happened in Germany during those years, was a greater challenge - which Germany overall failed. In West Germany most of the regime simply persisted (the Nazi party was disbanded, but most of the rest of it just stayed in place; and the ownership of capital remained mostly untouched); in the East, there were numerous executions and significant social changes, but a lot of this was Russian influence and it was more heavy-handed than a deep social process AFAIK.

3. Forty years of cold war were also a great challenge, probably more so than the covid-19 pandemic.
I'd guess that habits are easily disrupted by major life changes, although that's mostly based off of my personal experience of trying to make 'good' habits and break 'bad' ones.

It's easy to break a bad habit I have when I'm traveling and easy to break my good habits when someone has come to visit or I have lots of obligations
I was a huge fan of the CSS Zen Garden, and was so excited to have my submission accepted back in 2006 (#106!) when I was first starting out.

Generally, it was a great demonstration of CSS at a time when CSS was rather novel, and the "separation of content and presentation" sticks with me today, and forms a good foundation for things like built-once responsive web design.

For me personally, I met a lot of interesting people through CSSZG, including Bill Zeller (RIP[1]) and others.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2074109
An injection of magma under Norris Geyser Basin
> I thought alcohol is ethanol

ethanol is an alcohol, but not all alcohol is ethanol.

an apple is a pome, not all pome are apples.

amyl (isobutyl carbinol: C5H12O) alcohol is also an alcohol, that has a boiling point of 131.6ºF - that means it comes in the heads (lower temperatures). methanol comes in at 148ºF.

other alcohols come in the tails, but typically have more of an oily texture to them.
There was a recent HN discussion on whether this kind of approach has ever produced an effective treatment for anything. I believe the answer was Never, but lots of papers have been published.

Assuming that's the case, I don't put much stock in this giving us a means of fighting the pandemic.
You should always keep a running estimated tax amount as an independent contractor and then keep that amount as either a buffer in your cash account or in a separate dedicated account.
This is going to cost them tens of millions of loss in sales.
It probably won't affect them nearly as much as widespread shutdowns, social distancing, and mass COVID-19 casualties due to hospital shortages will.

I think it's useful to keep things in perspective - life in the United States is changing, and will be significantly altered for the next several months at least. My net worth on paper has fallen 30% this year, but right now there's exceedingly few places for me to spend money, so, there's that.
Sugar seems to stimulate as well. Perhaps not in the same sense as caffeine?

And I've definitely experienced sugar withdrawals that felt physical when I reduced my refined sugar intake. Could those have been psychological, but just felt physical? Psychosomatic - is that the right word?
My natural inclination would be to use the predicted fatality and severe outcome distributions by age, as a probability distribution to sample from. But, I assume that the first person who “dies by randomness” would result in uproar. Even if you could design a likelihood model of improved outcomes, it seems possible that the right choice would be to avoid riots/fights by simply doing preference based on age.

There are lots of hospital/physician/doctor types on HN. How do you think about the trade off between outcomes and “makes more sense to people”?
JavaScript Party 119: Redwood brings full-stack to the JAMstack
Hahaha, that story really caught on but Pierre confessed it was made up for the purpose of getting people to relate to eBay. Netflix's story about late fees was same.
I don't mind donating to them, but what are the kinds of problems has folding at home has solved in recent times (~5 years)?
The rise of Nazism was a challenge to other countries, and to minorities and to Socialists in Germany. But - it wasn't a challenge to Germany. Don't assume the state is by default somehow benevolent, and "evil" governments are antithetical to that essence.
> but can't help that

They're fining (~$140) and detaining people who don't follow the rules in France.

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&u=https%3...
How effective is that, I am wondering? My concern is that any tax that ends up as a cost will affect passengers and higher prices. Will that stop people from flying more? I dont' know. I know too little about this.

But you know and what you think is silly may be effective and better in the long run. We need more 'silly' ideas in order to find a good one. In contrast, you can't have unlimited flights either, where the toughest and most powerful airline can fly the most just because they can cope with high taxes. That would only favour the big airlines.

We see that this virus has been really effective in lowering emissions. We're talking about changing human behavioural patterns deep within, I don't think taxes can create such a strong force.

What do you mean by trade system? Not sure I understand that.
She meant rebuilding efforts after the end of WWII of course, but what she actually said was misleading and this joke has been made in Germany too.
Dash Dash – beautifully designed Linux man pages
Yes, this is a long-recognized aspect of the states’ police power.
Does anyone know if this also pushes the 401(k) contribution deadline?
Household heat where I live is mostly electric, there's no reason not to do some computation with the energy you're going to be burning anyway.

For a little while I had a script set up to control my BOINC client based on the temperature.
Of course they have the power: they have the guns. That's not the real question; the real questions are 1) whether the populace will tolerate it, and how much; 2) whether the state's forces will willingly open fire on intolerant citizens; 3) whether the state chooses to use the power, whether legal or not.
Can anyone point to coverage of crypto companies from the perspective of how they make money? I've never really dug into this, would love this decent leads.
Some states are not allowing evictions, foreclosures, or utility disconnections at least for the time being. How long this will last, and what happens afterward is yet to be determined.
Details? Tips? How did it go?
> it took at least a year and a half to get the plant producing planes at an acceptable quality and quantity.

I wonder if this would be longer or shorter today with how much of car assembly is automated. How many of the tools do one specific thing a human used to? How many are robots that can be reprogrammed? That, and cars and ventilators are completely different. I'd think a ventilator is closer to a dishwasher than a car (think appliance).
A similar thing happened with Rage 2. Soon after release, they removed the protection. Here's a hoping the same thing happens here.
If anything, nobody has ever accused her of being a good public speaker.

Also, this is what she said, only then NOT to implement any mandatory stay-at-home policies.
The EU League is actually resuming this evening, playing 100% remotely: https://watch.lolesports.com/article/lec-returns-this-friday...
> display:table

I tried that once many years ago. It didn't work. It might work today but I no longer care.

> this can be achieved by CSS contextual selectors

That would be true if display:table worked, but it doesn't (or at least it didn't) and so it doesn't.

And you still need some markup for the contextual selectors to work on. The obvious choice is <table><tr><td>, or, if it existed, <display-table><tr><td>. Maybe <grid><gr><gd> but that's not going to happen.
The dichotomy is oversimplified sometimes. What I see is a need to control my level of social interaction. Having lots of people around while I’m trying to code is distressing. Having no people around (or no meaningful connection with the people I’m around) during meals, evenings, and weekends is even worse.
The headline is misleading. Merkel never said that Corona is Germany's greatest challenge.
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