skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, I follow your logic. As you say, in other languages it "requires no extra work", it's more a matter of convenience.

Python in no way stops you from a having a typical response to SIGPIPE, it's as simple as handling the exception and doing a sys.exit(), but it doesn't "just happen". This makes the typical path a little more contrived, but I don't think having explicit handling makes it a bad citizen.

To torture my analogy, in my mind a "bad citizen" of the highway may be a car incapable of doing the minimum speed limit, whereas Python just has a manual transmission vs Perl's automatic (in this case).

I'm splitting hairs though, your point is fair. I just think your objection is a little strong for what comes down to convenience.
You, Xi
What made these women so sexist that they kept men out of the field for so long?
I have been contemplating to build a solution based on an rpi with infrared hand scanner and a touch display attached to our fridge.

Now, I use a combination of Todoist, IFTT and google home.
"Hey Google, groceries, add Milk". Done.

Perfect while cooking. No phone, scanner or any other input device needed.
or in reality just dosbox?
Great list! There's also something called PySonar but you have to dig around for it.
Japnese are like Chinese, are quite obedient, therefore can follow quite throughly of the checks in the entry and exit of the country.

Plus, itself has much more modern and disciplined public health system, with more experiences dealing with similar issues.

Last but not least, the Japan lands are literally isolated from continents, making the transition of virus through other medium much more easier to track.
> When the bailouts for so many others are happening

I don't disagree that the support for, say, airlines, are bailouts, but the connotation that word has from 2008-2009 mischaracterizes what's going on right now. When this all blows over, you absolutely want airlines ready for business. Letting heavily impacted businesses fail is a recipe for a depression.
Ask HN: To stay ahead on Covid-19, what are the best accounts/sites to follow?
Here are a few to seed the list:

* https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD
* https://twitter.com/SueDHellmann
* https://twitter.com/balajis
* https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-testing-source-data
* https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/
It works fairly well via wine on Mac and Linux.
Rules are protected by copyright. You definitely cannot copy Uno, but there are many games (like Texas hold'em poker) that are not anyone's property.

See also: Scrabulous, an early Facebook game that was sued for being too similar to Scrabble.
Consider it 'military rhetoric' if you prefer. It's politically very effective in galvanizing support among Americans for things that are not really targetable (i.e. war on drugs, terrorism). Outside the US, French leader Macron has declared 'We are at war'.

Some further contemplation on it: https://newrepublic.com/article/156949/casualties-war-corona...
Copyright Law Does Not Protect Structure and Game Play of Card Games

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/273935/Texas_court_affir...
Potential False-Positive Rate Among the Asymptomatic Infected in Covid-19
Biggest USA data leak? 200M Records of USA residents
I went into college able to write software in multiple languages across multiple platforms. I also skipped a bunch of prereqs and got the other mandatory courses out of the way quickly.

But I learned a ton in my 4 years of CS classes, and would have kept learning a lot if I stayed for a couple extra years, I'm sure. I'll tell you that it was eye-opening to go from setting the curve in a mandatory class to struggling to keep up in a topics class.

It depends on what your school offers, but if you can cherry-pick quality classes for the remaining two years, I'd say it's worth it unless a time-sensitive career opportunity comes along (e.g. founding a company). Or do a second degree with your free time if you're not that interested in CS.
That's exactly my experience.
The stores are specifically setting aside hours for elderly patrons, sanitizing everything before and during those hours, and giving everyone the physical space and cleanliness necessary to safely get their groceries. I could see a delivery service also being as clean as possible, but not randos off Tinder.
Thanks! Basically it was just an inconvenience I had whenever making product announcements/concepts for both Dribbble and Twitter, where I would record the screen of a product in action and then have to spend ages in After Effects to make it look nice with a prototype, render, and then usually have to get the video, compress it, and use a MP4 to GIF converter if I wanted to post in Twitter (GIFs seem to be more effective there).

With this tool I literally just upload the recording, quickly place it however I like, and I can export directly as GIF. No hassle :P
This is an awesome topic, but I'm somewhat annoyed they didn't dive into what kind of DSP and instead turned the article into an advertisement.

Does anyone have any good further reading on the topic? (Books, articles, classes, anything really.)
I have no real data to back this up, but it could also be that there's a lower number of comorbidity across the average population. Or it could be that Japanese have perfected 'social distancing'.
How is that draconian? If you're issued a stay-home notice, STAY AT HOME.
Coronavirus – Getting Angry
The author is a Republican careerist, in case you needed some context to help situate his perspective.
if it started to degenerate into collapse of civility thats one thing.

there is the morality play where impending doom gives perception of no consequences thus the truly moral remain unchanged, but others act out on impulses because there is no visible authority to heed to.
Agreed. I find it interesting to see the products people are leaving on the shelf.
I run in mostly “Fuck the man” circles, so i feel weird saying this, but amazon has consistently been a good leader for other businesses in terms of compensation. I wish they’d go to 25 an hour, as that’s the minimum I could live on
Uh, what? Did this get cut off somewhere? [1]

It sounds like the author's concluding that the fixes aren't the same. Daley says that the fix for the bank run is for the government to step in as a guarantor and provide the cash to depositors withdrawing, then says that that's not possible for toilet paper, and thus it should do a quantity limit ... with no further economic analysis except that it worked somewhere.

Those are, like, the opposite solutions. Government (or the central bank, in this case[2]) can easily loan money out of thin air, but it can't do the same for toilet paper. At most, it could commandeer suppliers or initiate its own manufacturing, which breaks the economic similarity.

Similarly, the solution for toilet paper (quantity limit) doesn't apply to the bank run case, as bank insurers don't do a quantity limit. Arguably, the deposit insurance maximum is a kind of quantity limit, but Daley doesn't offer it as such, and it's known in advance, and unrelated to customers' legal right to how much they can access, so is non-analogous in several respects.

Since no defense of quantity limits is given beyond (as above) that it worked once, the title is bad and the argument isn't well supported.

[1] For the record, here's what I see as the last paragraph so you know if I'm missing something:

>The second solution is to ration the commodity – putting limits on the amount a customer can buy. Imperfect though these buying limits are, they are feasible, as shown by the restrictions put in place by Australia’s supermarkets. https://www.afr.com/companies/retail/coles-joins-woolworths-...

[2] Let's not break into the debate about whether the Federal reserve is private or not; it really doesn't matter for purposes of this topic.
Healthier population and strong pre-existing social norms/habits conducive to limiting spread?
> Couldn't you argue this is exploitation of the health of desperate low-paid workers, their family and their communities?

Giving people a raise to incentivize them to voluntarily work to supply resources people desperately need is pretty difficult to spin into exploitation. Many people are out there volunteering to do such things for free because they understand how badly it's needed. I suspect those likely to be sympathetic to that line made up their minds about such things long before this event. I do agree with you that some folks will definitely try that angle though.
Re: Soviet visual programming environments, I usually hear DRAKON brought up in that context (as far as what's usually cited in real world use for Buran etc.)

I wonder if "R-technology" is either another term for DRAKON or a distinctly different system. Given how underdocumented Soviet high technology (esp around computing and related fields) is in English sources, either can be considered a real possibility.
This appears to be true, it is #1 in hospital beds (not the same as ICU beds, but should be correlated)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_hospital_...
Google’s Chatbot: Almost Perfect
According to an article on Quora, "At What Temperature Do Viruses Die?" ¹, for what it's worth:

> All [known] strains of virus can be inactivated at 70 °C.

For reference, an autoclave used for sterilization is around 121 °C.

> A minimum temperature range to inactivate most virus is 48°C to 60°C. Some virus still able to survive at temperature below 60°C e.g. adenoviruses(dsDNA naked virus) relatively thermostable, it able to withstand temperature at 56°C for 10min.

¹ https://www.quora.com/At-what-temperature-do-viruses-die-1
I look at this problem a bit.

Reading the article title gave me an idea - raise the price to $20 per pack. Give each customer 2 coupons per week that takes $15 off one pack. Tied to a name / loyalty card or whatever.

The heavily supervise-ing can be a night mare. Local one data point, 16 yo self checkout 'watcher' yesterday was brought to tears with some customers demanding something be done about the person buying 12 packs of ground beef when the sign says limit 2.

I noticed yesterday some local cashiers are breaking - psychically and mentally/likely emotionally - yet they keep moving to keep pushing stuff down the conveyor belt and bag.

Most cashiers were not hired to be or trained to be security guards and prepared for the emotional battles that can come with that.
This is such an important point and so widely misunderstood.

I feel like most Americans, when talking about the loss of US manufacturing, think of Ohio, Indiana, and other "rust belt" states, when the reality is, a huge amount of textile production centering on the east coast, from furniture manufacturing in North Carolina, to paper mills and cotton processing down to Atlanta, is gone.

My working theory is that it's because those places are national election battleground states. Just kind of shocking when you realize there are 30-40K coal miners in the entire US, not even a Google worth of people, let alone a midsize city, and this small group is deciding our elections?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_mining_in_the_United_Stat...
> Plain cotton masks would offer considerable benefits if everybody began wearing them in public

This goes against the current WHO recommendation

> If you are healthy, you only need to wear a mask if you are taking care of a person with suspected 2019-nCoV infection.
That sounds...incorrect. From my last exposure to Talend, what it was being used for could absolutely be done with Python
Yeah tried it with a variety of products. It doesn't know about enough products, makes entry unreliable. Think of utmost importance here is that the entry works very reliably, if I have to fallback to manual entry on every fifth product, that sucks
Ugh I hate to agree but it does seem like they're stuffing their pipeline just to have extra cattle at the gate in case the gates open up...
> I'm not sure Amazon warehouses are in the same class as coal mines though...

Essential for food security and biosafety? I'd say the same class.
You might be the first I've seen that describes FTL as too easy.

But as someone who's done just about everything in that game I see where you're coming from.
Just say Los Angeles
Calling it a deck builder is misleading and I think puts off people who might otherwise enjoy it.

Sure, the abilities are card-shaped and there are drawing mechanics, but it doesn't really play like a deck-builder at all.

I think the main differentiator for me, and where I thin Slay the Spire sets it apart from normal deck builders, is that the enemies you're fighting aren't playing by the same rules. The enemies don't have cards, or decks or similar abilities.

Because of this, the enemies can be really thematic and varied and have interesting mechanics and don't need to be balanced around playing by the same rules as the player.

As a consequence it doesn't feel like a deck builder to me, the abilities just happen to be card-shaped.

Add in the relics which are one of the more important parts of the run, and really the skills involved aren't at all like other deck building games.

But yes, huge recommendation from me too, definitely the best rogue-lite game in years. (~450 hours played for me, and probably twice that watching it on twich).
I heard this was about France declaring war on the virus. I assume if they're officially declaring war (again, against the virus), certain government powers / resources are immediately available.
This is a horse shit study turned into click bait. It's a meta analysis (aka they built linear regression models on top of reported numbers in papers over a 37 year time span) and they explicitly state that it mostly applies to cetaceans rather than human beings. There are other results in the paper that indicate the methodology was flawed: aka other closely related, or ecologically similar worm species didn't increase in the samples in the meta data.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mYokKOGyhQxKntSnogcm...

There's a larger lesson to be learned here, but at the moment stating the obvious about mass media dipshits reporting on bad stats doesn't seem to be appreciated.
Working on https://contextualise.dev/. Contextualise is a simple and flexible tool particularly suited for organising information-heavy projects and activities consisting of unstructured and widely diverse data and information resources.
I’ve talked to a lot of folks in the past few weeks who aren’t laughing at all over what might be an overreaction. It’s making their lives very hard.

If it turns out this is indeed an overreaction, they’re going to be totally pissed off, and I’m probably going to agree with them. You’re free to laugh all you want, but it’s a privilege that you probably don’t appreciate.
A Medical Worker Describes Lung Failure from Covid-19 – Even in Younger Patients
Convection is another good one to test. At least in my experience oven temps often end up lower with convection on up over 450F, because of increased exhaust (obviously depends on oven). And if you are not using a Dutch oven and maybe even if you are, it dissipates moisture much faster often leaving a duller, thinner crust and one that darkens too quickly for the bake. I have seen posts from people baking at home with convection that are really happy with it though.
If you really want to pay to make better bread I suggest you save your money and spend a little time researching designing bread recipes instead. I did and I can recreate almost any bread just by looking at it or by person describing what they want to get. It is not at all difficult once you learn how different processing steps and different ingredient ratios influence the result.

The best investment is to learn how to do it right. Every home that has an oven and a weighing scale has essentially everything that is needed to make artisanal breads.

Of the tools that make life easier but are in no way essential:

- pizza stone

- thermometer (to measure water temperature)

- thermometer (to measure oven temperature)

- _a_ razor

- dough knife

- dough whisk

- bread proofing basket
You can separate the recognition system of the speech model by allowing software updates but not send the data or the captured audio to the cloud.
Will the US government nationalize Boeing?
Hi, app author, if you’re reading here.

Is this app compatible with Mono on macOS? It seems like it’s Windows/Linux only which rules out using it at home :(
Wholegrain flour doesn't produce as much gluten as bread flour, so it won't trap air as well (resulting in it being flatter). I doubt it was because you didn't have enough water -- in fact if you added water until it was sticky you probably added more water than you did for white flour (wholemeal absorbs much more water).

As an aside, for anyone confused why recipes online can have 70% hydration (when 50% hydration for your dough makes it much sticker than reasonable), it's because they mix wholemeal flour with bread flour and don't mention it in the recipe. I'd suggest adding wholemeal flour (but not much more than 30% of the total flour because too much reduces the amount of gluten you get and thus the structure is noticeably more cakey) because it really improves flavour.
I would love to read this, but keep getting blocked by paywalls.
Ask HN: Sites for volunteer gig tasks to help with Covid?
I'm a healthy, low-risk age, person in a stable work situation. I realize I could run critical errands or tasks for folks in need near me on an ad hoc basis at night or first thing in the morning. Are there any sites that exist or have been setup recently where I could find "gig" type tasks without committing to a fixed schedule?

I'm thinking of something like volunteer TaskRabbit cases to deliver groceries for someone elderly, or deliver supplies for a hospital, etc.
This feels like booking a flight to get to my local supermarket within walking distance. I guess it appeals to a certain type but I don't even need a written list to go grocery shopping.
What was your revenue model?
What would be interesting to understand is how do they bootstrap the production process and what design methodology they use for the ventilator.

Do they just go to Siemens and ask for a basic schematics they are happy to share that could potentially pass the certification process?
How does the factory organises itself to change the production lines. I'm fascinated about this topic.

There is an open source effort to create a ventilator that can be produced in high volume: https://www.notion.so/1-Million-Ventilators-1035c5cf946445a7...

What is VW's approach to this and how do they plan for it. Grateful if anyone has more insight into this topic.
Want to help but don't know how?
Excerpt:

"Although very similar concepts have been previously defended by various people including Major Douglas and the Social Credit Movement, Nobel winning economist Milton Friedman is known to be the one who coined the term 'helicopter money' in the now famous paper "The Optimum Quantity of Money" (1969), where he included the following parable:

Let us suppose now that one day a helicopter flies over this community and drops an additional $1,000 in bills from the sky, which is, of course, hastily collected by members of the community. Let us suppose further that everyone is convinced that this is a unique event which will never be repeated."
"Draconian" as in I don't see it practicable in my country. Not a moral judgment.
> More than half of the smoke alarms bought on amazon didn’t work

I've bought multiple name-brand ones off Amazon, sold by Amazon. The one by my bathroom absolutely works. I can't count how often a steamy shower set it off. Were they buying knockoffs from third-party sellers?
Oh. Okay. Thanks for clarifying.
I totally feel the "I hate that my only talent is computer programming." I am in the exact same boat. I really don't even like the career anymore, other than the money, which I would trade in a heart-beat for a stable job that allowed more leisure time and made OK money.

I worked extremely hard on a start-up for half of my 20s and I ended up with basically nothing to show for it. Employers do not seem that interested in my start-up, they want "People with experience scaling large systems." Whoops.

Now I'm sending out my CV and I'm not getting many bites.
I'm putting even more hours into my day job. I build software for small government entities, and their transition to remote governance means we're picking up the pace and pivoting to features that will help them continue to govern our cities and schools during this crisis.
I've been thinking that in this new reality Amazon warehouse workers and delivery folks are doing something pretty amazing by helping the rest of us.

IMOH Jeff Bezos should really consider this and put something amazing together for these foundational people.

(I say amazing because I think they should be rewarded in a big way - Amazon stock maybe?)
Very few people actually understand money (what it is, how it works), and the Yap stones are a perfect reminder of that fact.

And unfortunately, the few that do use that knowledge in a profoundly irresponsible way (e.g. QE)
It's probably time to nationalize the airline industry entirely. Why do they enrich themselves during good times, and then we bail them out during bad times? If it's essential to economic stability and national security, and it keeps costing taxpayers a ton of money, then why even continue this facade of "private" airlines?

The same excuse was used for banks during the recession. We need banks when the economy recovers, and we need people who know the system to unwind the major screw ups they did. What happened is most of the people who were responsible for the recession remained in power making a lot of money. Lessons were not really learned, other than that being too big to fail is a good position to be in.
This one is really much worse than any other I've seen. He is the 32 yr old CTO of the California Young Republican Federation, without medical background, who is recommending that schools reopen because closing them is counterproductive. I'm not sure how this got upvoted on Hacker News to the extent that it made the front page. Why did he write this? What is his agenda?
But somehow, when all is said and done, companies like Boeing will not even face any consequence for their bad decisions.

When times are good, these companies divvy up the profits to give large bonuses.

When times are bad, they divvy up the bailout money to give smaller bonuses.

It certainly seems like there is no connection between compensation and performance once you are too big to fail.

And there is a very convenient "heads I win, tails you lose" structure in favor of the large companies.
Brushing up on dotfiles so they can be setup with few commands

https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/dotfiles
Just because you don't and a pre-existing condition doesn't mean you should take this lightly. Stay at home and stay away from people to stop it spreading to those that do.

Most of us are in the very fortunate position that we can work just as effectively from home and our jobs are not on the line during this.
Arash is alive and leaving Dropbox, for those who miss the single sentence distinguishing which is the case halfway down the page.
I’m surprised to not find any iteration or query primitives. No key scanning?
What problems are you trying to solve with respect to groceries?

I think you need to start with that and there has to be incentives built in as well as full 2 way integration with the major online grocers.
A Coronavirus Infection
The smaller packages sure, but isn't it pretty hard to smuggle out the megapacks that are in demand?