skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I generally agree, there is significant benefit to having the central bank operate independent from government. I'm not advocating any change there.

The central bank could keep that independence but simply distribute the QE money to individuals as a one-time or traunched payment (I realize calling it a UBI is misleading as it implies it is ongoing). There should be no expectation that it is permanent or continues.
"Any sufficiently complicated concurrent program in another language contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Erlang."

Akka, Microservices, half of Kubernetes... all are making similar observations and coming to different conclusions and/or battle plans based on the tools near at hand.

But it's not like monoliths don't have huge, even bigger problems with action-at-a-distance.

The problems that get you are a mix of simple human errors and subtle patterns of side effects that are difficult to spot or predict. Simple errors are easy to fix wherever. Emergent behavior is much harder to cope with.
I agree. But tying the recovery from this pandemic to an attempt to regulate CO2 emission would be an absolutely atrocious way to accomplish either pandemic response or CO2 emissions response.
if we hadn't centralized on China, as the global sole manufacturer the supply issue with covid wouldn't have been too drastic. in nature everything has redundancy points e.g you've to 2 arms so if you lose one, you can keep functioning to a good extent. big companies ie monopolies n the likes of Github as central failure points should be taken out completely. we need multiple suppliers, operators to provide redundancy.
Before Trump’s inauguration a warning: ‘The worst influenza pandemic since 1918'
Let's build a (nano) web framework
Where does one check that?
Cool, thank you! I'll check in and check it out. (Installing it now!) Does it have a "Bloaty Head" treatment? ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le_znuXcP2M

I played a LOT of Theme Hospital when working on The Sims 1, and aspired to make the Sims editing tools as easy to use and "clicky" as Theme Hospital was. That and some of Peter Molyneux's older games like Dungeon Keeper, with architectural editing and a lot of independent characters running around at the same time, had a lot of influence on The Sims.
Honest question: Do you actually use scroll bars much? I can't remember the last time I actually clicked on one with a mouse.

If I'm on a desktop, then I use the mousewheel for incremental scrolling and home/end/page/up/down for faster scrolling.

If you have a long page and your looking for something "about this far down the page", there should be a TOC or a map.

On touch interfaces, it's just the side of the screen or standard scroll.

At this point, for me, a scroll bar is more an read only position indicator than an actual navigation tool.

Interested to see if I'm in a minority here.
Coronavirus tracked: the latest figures as the pandemic spreads
I don't work with them, but their are weird systems with non 8 but bytes. I don't even know what they are, but every time this comes up in committee those compiler writers speak up
Your assumption is correct. I’ve been to a ton of plays and I have acted in many as well. The first dozen rows at least will instantly recognize the use of sound effects instead of blades.
Discord has that very thin user list scrollbar that is the same colour as the main background with only the little box being a shade-darker to even indicate there is a scrollbar at all.

Seriously annoying.
More like Mr. Clean.
I don't know how your body isn't tested for coronavirus if you've died in the past 2 months in the western world
I'd bet my own health that you're pretty darn close (but I'm still going to avoid visiting old folks for a while). From the conclusion:

> Presently, there are four, endemic, coronavirus strains currently circulating in human populations (229E, HKU1, NL63, OC43). If the novel coronavirus follows the pattern of 2009 H1N1 pandemic influenza, it will also spread globally and become a fifth endemic coronavirus within the human population.

This thing is extremely contagious, it's probably already everywhere, and there's a good chance it will be circulating indefinitely. Hopefully folks will just get tired of the panic after a while. And if we're lucky, this might lead to more awareness about the devastation that respiratory illnesses cause, especially to old folks, every year across the world.

If you want to yell at me because I'm not panicking enough, save your breath. I'm just as pissed at you for spreading a terrible mind-virus, so call it even if you must.
The lag time is all that's needed (spike, price plateau, drop in price). Utilities need stable prices due to rate setting policy between them and the PUC (although some jurisdictions are more friendly to floating fuel prices passed through to consumers than others), so you take advantage of the price volatility while the domestic O&G market is in turmoil, and producers and well developers are going bankrupt or otherwise having their operations disrupted by the macro environment. Doesn't matter if the price of nat gas declines again if you've already built the batteries and renewables.
Also, keep in mind I'm proposing it is not elderly, that is the risk factor. It is lung health. I challenge that most places do not have the concentration of poor lung health to compare with where the serious cases have been.
what part of vault, consul, terraform or any of their other tools makes any of them a thin wrapper around linux?
Thank you, in parallel to this response I looked at the paper in more detail and updated the original comment. A shame, I was briefly optimistic about the news.
Insanely cool that they are able to do it in this incredibly volatile market.
I would like to think that we would keep expanding testing infrastructure during the reprieve, and so wouldn't be caught off guard. For the most part the people running large scale public health policy are smart and well informed, so this risk won't be unknown.
They just want some random company focused on non-corporate secrets to read all of your channel messages and private messages. It’s fine :)

In seriousness, I suspect if your company wasn’t already using a chat solution then perhaps they weren’t interested in that.
That happens once in a while when you try to exploit undefined behavior. I don't do that in my code. I use undefined behavior sanitizer to prove that statement (without that tool I make mistakes)
Hmm, I don't know, how about you answer this:

Why are you such a fascist?
For the most part I agree, but the important fact is that that point might not be now. Just because you might know the end point, doesn't mean you can skip the steps in between or try to get there too quickly. That can lead to disaster as you'll probably not have the right conditions or supporting structures in place.
Don't forget the bill
Don't miss the very cool expanding table later in the article. Direct link: https://youtu.be/Mx_TceWHtas
You don't know the difference between case fatality rate and mortality rate, so maybe you should stop with the irresponsible speculation.
From my own comment:

> the primary mechanism is "people can't work/aren't going out and buying things"

As soon as it's safe, people will very quickly start working and consuming again. The world around that mechanism will have changed - some businesses will have closed, some jobs will have been lost, some personal finances will have taken a hit - but people's desire to work for income and spend money on goods didn't break. It's only being blocked for a little while. The circumstances around that are an independent question.
How bad is it for all these "old people" if they are dead?

It would be really nice to hear compassion instead of worry about money. How about we keep people alive, then deal with the economy? Something tells me the country that can burn $2T in less than a week will be just fine until this passes. Talking about the long term health of the economy in terms that push people out into unsafe situations, when we have a virus that kills people in 3 weeks, borders on evil.

There is one way to solve the virus problem: social isolation. There are infinite ways to solve made up economic problems we foist on ourselves.
Society recovered from the plague.
BEWARE: Even medical grade ventilator / CPAP is dangerous.
One counterpoint: the crest of baby boomers is going through retirement. This severe market downturn and recession will absolutely destroy many pensions in the US that were already woefully underfunded. This will be extremely brutal.
What we really need is a simple ventilator, designed by manufacturers who already know how to design and build these and produced at enormous scale using a shadow factory system similar to that developed in world war 2. In this model, the original manufacturer steps in to guide production, carry out quality control and probably supply the control electronics and software. All physical objects on which our civilisation depends are mass produced.
The Javascript just recomputes a new absolute rotational position for the rings on every update. So in effect it is always skipping, so it would skip in that case like all others.
That was the Free Music Archive which was started under the auspices of the storied freeform radio station WFMU. Costs for hosting and bandwidth eventually killed it, but it's been limping along under KitSplit, and now Tribe of Noise.
> Korea's mortality rate is about 1%

100% complete bullshit, nobody can know this kind of thing for sure right now.
You should take a look at Databricks, in all three dimensions.
The “from orbit” part is a little misleading I think. You can also see individual cars, down to their passenger windows, from orbit in the referenced photos. The photos are pretty detailed.
Full-time remote job – yay
Here in the US the vendors are not doing this.
Inslee announces statewide shutdown of restaurants, bars and expanded limits
Ebola fatality rate ranges between 25-100%. The only thing that we have as the data is that with these two drugs the fatality rate might be less than 100%. Because Ebola is extremely aggressive and is largely contained to isolated areas its carriers tend to die and everything those people were in contact with is destroyed. Same goes for patients that contract Ebola and recover. That was the protocol for EVD outbreak in West Africa 2014-2016. That's what allowed us to "handle" the issue.

It certainly does not appear that COVID-19 has a similar protocol, at which point we are in herpes territory of managing disease rather than curing it. I find it very strange that this is not being addressed.
I was thinking something like this https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/283782783926 or even this https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00J3EUJPA to build some kind of wand to sterilize packages or clothes as I walk through the door. Just checked your links - I'm surprised the output is super low: 48W only yields 120uW/cm2. Does it mean a 12W UVC lamp would yield ~30uW/cm2? In terms of virus sterilization, would I need to expose the surface to a 12W for 80sec to get the 2.4mWsec/cm2?
More emphatically: do not trust alcohol at any concentration to kill pathogens. (Likewise, freezing.)

The way alcohol swaps are used, they move contaminants away from the needle insertion site, and the alcohol helps to dislodge them. And, of course, it does kill some kinds of pathogen, as does soap.
I was just using the language of the person I was replying to. Would you like to be more pedantic?
Do antibody tests exist at the moment? While not as critical as actual tests, it's not far behind if you could get a negative COVID-19 test and a positive antibody test.
Mortality rate depends a lot on treatment circumstances and the difference between optimal treatment and zero treatment could easily exceed the uncertainty from undocumented infections. This makes trying to figure out a single true mortality rate kind of pointless.
Yes. Case Fatality Rate. It's the number of known cases divided by the number of cases that resulted in a death.
Just don’t catch falling knives with both hands.
I have never discovered software via github and I doubt that many do quite frankly. People discover software via social channels. People who have heard of a piece of software and want to learn more about it usually do so via their search engine not directly via github.

Having discovered it account creation DOES present a barrier to entry for those that want to contribute but nowadays many such services allow one to sign in with a social service. For example Gitlab.com allows one to sign on with google, twitter, salesforce, github, or bitbucket. Likely reducing the barrier to account creation to 30 seconds via oauth or 1 minute to create a new account via email.

I don't find it credible that people who want to contribute hours to hundreds of hours of work will be liable to be put off by the need to do half a minute of work.
Both Solaris and AIX crawl on, particularly in the banking sector where there are decades old applications that still need a platform to run on. A bank I worked for 7-8 years ago had a project running to refresh the hardware platform for both for the next 10-15 years.

IBM of course has the resources to prop up AIX as long as it has customers that depend on it, whereas Solaris is now pretty much dependent on the community. At least it is based off of SVR4 and not SVR3 (like AIX), has source code available, and runs on x86. Not sure that will be enough for it to survive into the future though.
Last Thursday, Axios contacted 40 VC firms and every single one said they were still actively investing: https://www.axios.com/venture-capital-open-business-dry-powd...
I wonder if there are any economic studies on whether social security increased inflation when it was first enacted. It's not the ideal comparison because of the sheer scale of UBI vs social security but it would be something to get notion of the impact.
I’ve used Ubuntu before completely switching to Mac 10 years ago and still use it sometimes on PCs. For me Ubuntu can’t be the primary os to use as there aren’t any decent software in for many activities e.g. image and video editing. One cannot just keep writing code on one screen and convert a bunch of raw photos on another simply putting all together to create final product. Linuxboxes aren't an option when your tasks are diverse, Linux is only ok when you just need to write code, any other tasks could be accomplished of course but not in macOS “just works” manner.
RN isn't tied to the UWP app model nor the Store. It's built on the UI framework that was created for UWP, but (as the link for this thread mentions), that can be used outside the UWP app model (currently via XAML islands, in future via WinUI 3) and apps in the UWP app model can be distributed outside the Store anyway.

In my personal opnion, it might be a good thing that apps that can read each others' memory, etc. can exist, but they shouldn't be the default, users should have to explicitly opt in to allowing that, and not in a way that will become just another dialog box for most people to mindlessly click OK on.
Correct, this is the origin of the term. Before cloud services like Discord, people had to set up servers specifically to run TeamSpeak, Ventrilo, or Mumble. Discord has now largely/almost entirely replaced those applications, and it's just a vestige like "roll down the window".

The internal term of "guild" is more accurate, but no users actually call them that.
Tell a child to stop touching things and see how many things they touch, where they put their fingers, how many times they pick their nose etc and then you'll know.

It'll only take a few minutes.
> The central bank could keep that independence but simply distribute the QE money to individuals as a one-time or traunched payment (I realize calling it a UBI is misleading as it implies it is ongoing). There should be no expectation that it is permanent or continues.

Right. This is a sensible (though unclear if the best) policy in context of exogenous shock. However, using this as a backdoor to introduce perpetual basic income of significant value, with some very vague hand-wavy plan how to pay for it on an ongoing basis, is rather silly, and that's what I was pointing out in parent posters.
> The cynical take is that aging demographic is one of the biggest problems facing Japan today and this is a way to deal with it

The problem is aging population are people who 40 or 50 now, not people who are 70 and 80. The latter may die because of cv, but the problem of aging population goes nowhere because people in 40 or 50 will get older eventually.

This my cynical response to you cynical take.
The complaints are "I think it really impacts the neutrality of github" and "I hope they don't discontinue Atom or apply their UX styling to the site/desktop app", respectively. Those don't strike me as particularly specific and/or nightmarish.
Polarized filters that large would be very difficult to pull off, especially on a curved windscreen. To manufacture them, they essentially make a 'concentrated' polarizer of smaller crystals and then physically pull the substrate to size. Many other ways exist, but your 3-D movie glasses are flat for a reason. Also, polarizers cut the incoming light by exactly half, so it acts as a tint, illegal in most states for the front windshield.
Two out of three mobile providers in Czech Republic already made their mobile data unlimitted due to the crisis:

https://news.expats.cz/prague-technology/t-mobile-joins-o2-i...
First US clinical human trial of gene-based coronavirus vaccine to begin
Early in the flu season (nov/dec) as this would be, I imagine it’s still uncertain how bad the season will be, so it might just look like a bad year.

But I’m thinking they probably test at least bad cases for almost every common virus so they would have been alarmed by even a few deaths from pneumonia without positive tests. This is why I don’t believe the theory that many were infected long ago.
There is a lot of assuming going on so this doesn't actually prove anything but I think it's something worth thinking about.

Is Spain and S. Korea really that much different to have a 4x difference in death rate?
If they either turn Nomad into a full blown hypervisor stack or roll that into its own product, they could seriously put a dent in some extremely entrenched companies like VMware.

I'm talking storage, networking, virtualization... They'd make bank.
Old enemies become new friends.
Live Global Crowd Sourced Corona (Covid-19) Data
I think Google AI is choosing a more appropriate animal, after reviewing the Democratic primary debates so far?
I am replying to the above person who stated "Korea’s mortality rate is so low". They did not specify a figure, so I used the commonly-cited figure that most people use as an estimate.
Elixir is a language on top of Erlang, if memory serves me, so yes, Erlang is in there :)
Platform for Open-Development (In Alpha)
I've been working on a platform for group decision-making in software development. It uses reputation and quadratic voting to decide what code is merged. It could be great for the open-source community, since the open governance means that there doesn't have to be a single project owner.

I've just finished the MVP and would like to get some feedback from the community. It uses Gitlab OAuth and works as a meta-workflow above git.

https://docs.subspace.net
https://app.dev.subspace.net

Originally I was building this with freelance developers in mind, though now I'm stepping back and thinking it can be used more broadly. I still need to build out the permissions management for open-source, but I think it can be useful for teams as-is.

Thanks for your interest :)
> my hope is that low oil prices drive US frackers out of business

I dont understand this if the $30 price is driven by the saudis and russians. There was immediate talk of furloughs/layoffs and striking rigs. The rigs (and crews) can go up and down in a matter of weeks. The wells and equipment will persist and be mothballed, or acquired in a fire sale. Why wouldnt production start up as soon as the price goes back to $60?
note: They don’t have a mortality rate they have a case fatality rate which always overstates the mortality rate. The two numbers converge over time, CFR down towards MR.

I mistyped in my original post which I have since edited.
I think it's simpler than that, a matter of syllables. The word "more" is 1 while "additional" is 4. Someone might say it is petty to count syllables. But it can add up, over the course of sentences, paragraphs, article.
It you weren't hooked up to a ventilator, you didn't get severely hit.

The "mild cases" in the statistics include people with pneumonia.

A few minutes later: keep in mind that there are ~1 billion colds a year in the US. Covid-19 isn't the only explanation for an illness, and not even the likely one.
It's also due to them actually testing people and having accurate numbers. 1% lines up with the diamond princess numbers
Thus far the consumables supply chain in the US hasn’t been too badly effected. They’re doing thanksgiving or more amounts of business every day here in Seattle but they’re mostly keeping up. Whether we as a nation rip ourselves apart is on each of us as individuals to make that not happen.
Seeing Amazon surge hire 100k people makes me think of Zorg.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0mO6UY6uTg
I'll play the devil's advocate. Bandwidth is a finite resource, and it could be in critically short supply. In those circumstances, I wouldn't expect everyone to get more bandwidth, I'd expect it to be rationed.
Cool, now how are you going to manage the countless other aspects of critical care? By the time you need a vent, you need a ton of other things as well.
People overestimate the accuracy of this test as well. There's a doctor in Seattle who tested negative, and a few days later ended up in the ICU. He's currently in the process of dying. Just because the test says "no virus" (or vice versa) does not mean you're free and clear. Especially early in the disease cycle RT-PCR is known to produce false negatives sometimes.
Antibiotics target bacteria. We have been successfully killing bacteria ever since the invention of penicillin.

The rule of the thumb is "prevent viral infections via vaccinations because they cannot be treated" and "treat bacterial infections using antibiotics because they cannot be prevented"
Amazing! So much money and engineering wasted!
> Ross had approximately $1 million stored in two [cyrptocurrency] exchanges when he was attacked, according to a report by investigators.

You know what happens if someone tries this with your brokerage? It takes three days, not one hour, there's a name on the destination account (know your customer), it takes days (at least) to withdraw money from it, and there's a medallion signature on the transfer, so your brokerage is on the hook for it.

There's a reason fraudsters are targeting cryptocurrency exchanges: arguably less security, but more importantly, it's easy to quickly and irreversibly transfer the money.
There is a strong desire by many (particularly on HN) to find any sort of evidence to support the contrarian notion that "Hey, it's not that big of a deal, everybody else is just overreacting!"

We should be conscious of this desire, and be careful assessing new evidence that comports with this notion.
Right - eg when the ICU is full and refusing new patients, the death rate is going to be higher.
Wait wait wait, what? You got banned for sharing a link in DMs? Are you certain none of the people you DM'd it to reported it? And it wasn't something blatantly malicious like a malware EXE?

If so, that would be a massive story that would get thousand of upvotes in the subreddit very quickly. That makes me think there might be something more to this.
How is someone persuading your provider to transfer your number to another provider, a hack?
I have no idea what happens, maybe cracking or deformation. Most things I've read is that the max service temp of nylon is close to autoclaving temps (or just below) and its not suitable for use in boiling water either.