skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A mask doesn't "work" in the sense of preventing you from catching the virus, because airborne is not its transmission method.

A mask does work in the sense of reducing your transmission to others if you are infected (and may not know it), by keeping your moisture-laden exhalations confined.

A mask can reduce your risk by reminding you not to touch your face after having contacted potentially infectious surfaces.

And there are different types of masks. Simple cotton patches aren't what the medical establishment needs, they don't filter micron-size virus particles. There are surgical-grade masks that do, and that's what medical workers need.
They might be better solutions but the coal industry and the general populace are pushing against them for now. While the people's opinions will likely change, we shouldn't expect any positive shifts from the coal moguls. Considering the fact that they're lobbying hard, is there that much we can do other than educating friends and family?
> You can use four squares of toilet paper to wipe your butt and then bidet the rest. This is a huge savings on toilet paper.

There must be a huge variation in diet and body shape in this discussion.

Four squares is about the maximum I ever use (even if I'm ill). This is probably why I checked what's left in my cupboard (6 rolls from an 8-pack) and haven't bought any more, yet there are people loading up the trolley with 32, 48 or more rolls.
This a biological virus, not a computer virus. Electricity will be fine. The water will still run.

Why would we bother continuing to quarantine if people are dying in the streets from (presumably) the roving band of cannibals you'll predict next?

Stop scaring people. It has real impacts. The world has survived pandemics before. It will again. Our 401(k)s will be fine
It isn't necessarily about fiber. I don't eat much because I've been trying to keep off all the weight I've lost over the past decade. Consequently I have a lot less volume to deal with so I don't poop much.
> creditors are converted to shareholders and shareholders are massively diluted

I don't know much about large-scale economy and business, but if I ever decided to learn it would be to learn why this is not completely the norm. I simply cannot comprehend the existence of "free" bailouts.
Occam 's Razor: china is lying.
Here's a feature (technology) I wish more programming languages/ecosystems had: Gaoling (sandboxing)

The unique thing about JS is the fact that it's locked down, and further permissions need user auth. Android API has a permissions model too.

Any browser needs to run some kind of code, but in a safe manner, so we need watertight code Gaols - outside the above mentioned, it's not so easy.
Oof, I thought Flutter was supposed to make programmatic UI more readable/easy?

body: Stack(
children: <Widget>[
LayoutBuilder(
builder: (ctx, constraints) => Container(
width: double.infinity,
height: constraints.maxHeight - 67.0,
padding: const EdgeInsets.fromLTRB(20.0, 20.0, 20.0, 0.0),
child: Column(
mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.min,
crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
children: <Widget>[
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mainAxisSize: MainAxis
....
It makes a ton of sense if the iPad is cheaper than the Surface. It stops making sense because of Apple's pricing model.

The original argument for tablet computers in the first place was that sometimes you don't need a full-fledged computer, so you pocket $400-500 and get something cheap instead that's a limited but still quality device. And I think that would still be true with the iPad Pro. You want something that's closer to a full computer, with a real keyboard, but you still want to pocket some money.

Except... the pricing is awful.

It's like they designed a product for a real niche, and then stopped thinking about that niche as soon as they got out of the design phase and started working on implementation.

As a point of comparison, even if you hate Windows with a passion, you can get the new Macbook Air they just announced for basically the same exact cost as an iPad Pro + keyboard, and that comes with a full-featured OS. Is a Macbook Air as portable? Maybe not, but it's still pretty darn portable.

You're giving up the pencil, but you're getting a better OS on a computer with better specs. But I guess if you're a digital artist, and you prefer the iPad pencil over the Surface pen or Wacom tablets, and having a full OS doesn't matter for you -- this might be exciting. That seems like it would be a narrow demographic, but what do I know? I'm sure it'll sell well.
I still think it's a boondoggle that will have only served to enrich people taking advantage of dudes who overestimate their own intelligence.
I've ran into it at a couple jobs in the last decade, there's more VB code out there than people might expect.
Does it make sense to buy oil/energy stocks now? They have to rebound on a long-term horizon, right? (You can't replace plastics with solar.)

I suppose that works unless the companies become insolvent?
Your argument about the Mona Lisa i absurd. You can indeed make as many copies of her as you like and even sell them or put them on paid display to others (if they'll even pay to see it) and it's not in the least bit illegal, as long as you don't claim they're the original. It doesn't fit this scenario. Secondly, you first accuse a bunch of people here of moral infringements then plainly state that you yourself commit piracy, but that it's somehow better, because you don't "justify" your "crimes". You actually do, by saying it's less morally wrong because you're "aware" of your actions.

Quite a shit mix of contradictions.
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They will stop pumping when the price to extract gets too low. To stop pumping does not reduce the amount of oil you will get out of a reservoir to any significant degree and you can start up again with little cost.

The big issue is that if lots of oil companies go bankrupt (many US fracking ones are highly leveraged and must sell oil at a certain price in order to survive) and people get other types of jobs, you can't ramp up the creation of new wells very easily. Oil from fracking takes a lot more effort and wells than the old style wells.
Anyone concerned with individual rights should be concerned at the government responses. H1N1 caused 10K+ deaths and infected tens of millions in the US, and we had nothing even remotely approximating this response.

This is not to say that we shouldn't be concerned and diligent in our efforts at containment, but that we should also be concerned and diligent about our liberty. Right now I see a lot of emphasis on the former and almost none on the latter, and anyone who voices concerns is labeled a crackpot or worse.
The compartmentalized consensus separates follower as acceptor and replica, and divorces command-log replication from data replication. It also seems to use two acceptors group as in horizontal scaling.

The compartmentalized consensus does not have relay nodes that do relay/aggregation. The idea in PigPaxos is simply that using randomized relay/aggregators have surprising power for vertically scaling Paxos.

The bipartisan Paxos, seems to apply the compartmentalized consensus idea to EPaxos.
I'm just quoting experts. But I agree with your point. Only one of them stated that figure with "confidence", but he also was clearly motivated to downplay the risk because he was worried about panic. My intuition is that a final case mortality < 1.5% would be towards a "best case" outcome; and we should expect worse.
Just a feedback: the landing page doesn't explain at all what's the difference with AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, etc.

I had to read these parts in the doc to get how Fly solves the problem differently:

> Think of a world where your application appears in the location where it is needed. When a user connects to a Fly application, the system determines the nearest location for the lowest latency and starts the application there.

> Compare those Fly features with a traditional non-Fly global cloud. There you create instances of your application at every location where you want low latency. Then, as demand grows, you'll end up scaling-up each location because scaling down is tricky and would involve a lot of automation. The likelihood is that you'll end up paying 24/7 for that scaled-up cloud version. Repeat that at every location and it’s a lot to pay for.
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The latest news from Italy and France is that more young people are impacted then expected and get critically ill.
Sure, but a decent share of Apple's success was due to making OS X a very nice development platform. This attracted developers who created great desktop and mobile software. So I'd argue it's in Apple's best interest to keep developers happy.

Also, is it that hard for a giant of Apple's size to put a fully fledged terminal in iPadOS?
Look around for programs in your area that already coordinate efforts like grocery delivery for the elderly on a daily basis. Volunteering through these programs may be an easier way to find who needs help and do it in a coordinated way.

Example in Colorado: https://cultivate.ngo/programs/carry-out-caravan
Using the word 'survive' suggests that nightclubs are living beings. A better wording would be 'to stay in business'.

The individuals who they reject on the other hand are living beings, more specifically humans. And that is the point where it starts to become a moral issue because the business interest of an organization is directly linked to the discrimination of a group of humans.

Yes, that is the way that kind of business works, but it should also be valid to consequently judge it as immoral.
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Literate, Reproducible Computing
People have been setting up mutual aid and volunteer groups to do just this.

If you’d like to find one in your local area we’ve built a directory for them:

https://coronavolunteer.org

Helping in your local community (safely) will be one of the most important things you can do in the coming months.
"Nuclear run by the US military? Very safe."

Are you sure? Would we know?
docker-sync helps a little bit, and so does limiting Docker to 1 CPU core, but I still routinely get spurts 100% CPU from Docker that despite supposedly being on 1 core still grind my machine to a halt.
Accept that you can only control what you can control.

Focus on your family and your work. Try to tune out the noise. Take solace in that we’re all in this together.
Clearly, you are male and unmarried.
I'm still hoping, against all the odds, of a Mac Mini Pro or a Mac Pro Mini. I don't need a Xeon, but I don't want a thermally constrained chip either.
Matching elderly residents with helpers is one of the projects: https://helpwithcovid.com/projects/15
Not invulnerable, just not eager to give up their way of live and sanity for a stupid flu like sickness which they might or might not get. They are much more likely to die in a traffic accident when leaving the bar intoxicated, than from CORVID-19.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2020/03/18/could-your-ip...
Not destroy exactly, but cause enough damage that it will require extensive repairs. Please note that this what the Russians claimed some years ago as the reason they could not shut down production during a previous disagreement with OPEC so we should take it with a grain of salt.
A kettle for your rear is rather spartan. Urban indians usually opt for a hose attached to a hand spray.

Imo,the biggest plus point of the bidet over the above is that it doesn't get the floor wet.
> For lots of 4K screens it was... doable, in the sense that you could actually plug them all in, but UI effects would lag and it felt weirdly disjointed.

This is probably because the integrated GPU is dipping into your system RAM to drive those displays. I think people who've upgraded to 32GB of system RAM have far less issues running the stock GPU and 4k/5k screens.

I myself am using a stock GPU with a 2018 Mac Mini and an LG 5k Ultrafine + another 2k screen with no issues at all. Amazing machine.
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The US economic boom in the 50s largely stemmed from the fact that the entire outside world had been devastated from WW2. US industry had a huge lead since the continental US was largely free on war damage.
> Web applications are not inherently more (or less) stable than native applications

Absolutely. The browsers are extremely stable and generally don't crash. The individual applications may still be bug prone but those bugs generally don't take down the system.

> OS compatibility issues were replaced with browser compatibility issues

Sure, but it's a much less severe problem (the potential for bugs rather than binary incompatibility) and one that developers can easily remedy based on visitor statistics without customer's having to download, update or take any action. This problem also becomes much less of a problem every day as the browsers converge on common standards.
We moved from vb6 to vb.Net and within about 2 years it was clear that c# wa the path forward. We transitioned after that but still have legacy apps that combine both. It was actually the smoothest, least painful technology dead-end I've ever experienced.
The delta % of infections between individual countries from day to day
In the case of the Google wage-fixing cartel, it was partially broken even before the lawsuit by Facebook, which was not part of the cartel and hired away enough Google engineers that Google had to raise wages for the entire company in 2011.
Yes absolutely this the reason why I refrain from basing my opinions solely on the reports coming from western outlets, they've been notoriously known for practicing "lying by omission" essentially stating true facts while completely disregarding other important factors and details that would otherwise go against whatever narrative they are trying to push on their readership.

Thanks for the uplifting report and take care out there mate.

A fellow human
If you ever took a hot shower in southern China in the winter without the benefit of indoor heat, ya, it’s uncomfortable.
Kill A Watt! https://www.amazon.com/P3-P4400-Electricity-Usage-Monitor/dp...
For music production, I lost my best audio inputs, like the Apogee One, when "upgrading" to the iPad Pro. This was purely a move on Apple's part, and it appears that Apogee is not just going to do much about it: https://knowledgebase.apogeedigital.com/duet-ipad-mac/apogee...

It's significant because Apogee was a _partner_ and this device shows up on the _Apple store under music creativity_: https://www.apple.com/shop/ipad/ipad-accessories/creativity?...

Keep in mind this $300 device is a brick on the new iPads.

At this point, I'm loathe to purchase anything just to work with the iPad Pro, because these devices work fine and continue to work fine with my other devices.

This appears to work for _electronic_ music just fine, however, but for demos the iPad is a fantastic platform. But now you're left with... figuring it out, I guess.
The Crash of 2016
I built a few apps with it. It starts to feel more streamlined once you work in it for a couple days, but whenever I go to make an edit it takes me about an hour of saying "what in the..." before it starts to click.

What I always wish I had was a better way to create functions that build smaller units so I didn't have be so many tabs deep. It can be done, but it's not fun or straightforward.
Tiny, but very influential with deep pockets. Apple wouldn't be where it is today on their laptop business if developers haven't adopted en masse their macbooks.
Employees are not universally going to just eat the costs of working from home (or from shared spaces) on behalf of their employers, though. If this becomes a more regular situation, employer subsidies for remote essentials will be expected features of jobs even more than they are now, i.e., not just perks.

The monthly bills for 100 remote workers is easily 10K -- their internet connections alone would probably hit that. A single person renting a desk at a co-working space is going to spend a few hundred a year.
Nope. I use Juno for Jupyter notebooks.
Ask HN: How long do you think the quarantine measures will last per country?
As many of the countries steadily more affected by the COVID pandemic enact social distancing and quarantine measures, there have been varied claims about how long these will last. I've heard estimates ranging from a couple weeks to months.

What this makes me ask is: first, for those of you who comment here and can make a better educated guess than some others, what strikes you as a plausible scenario in the following weeks? Secondly, how can they be on the shorter end of that if the virus is still active and still without a vaccine or treatment. As soon as quarantines get ignored or lifted again, wouldn't new infections simply retake their previous surge, causing new saturations?
This page has some usability issues:

(1a) It requires me to horizontally scroll rather than re-flowing anything to fit my browser window width (1114 pixels).

(1b) It defeats the ability to scroll left and right using arrow keys. On some pages, left clicking in some text will restore that, but not in this case.

(2) It defeats the ability to vertically scroll using Page Up and Page Down keys. Arrow key up and down still work as do Home and End. And like in (1b), left clicking doesn't restore it.

May all that is just a limitation of the visme.co site, though.
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Year to year and a half, until vaccine arrives?
>> We can’t really afford that for long, but it buys time to prepare and may be required if things start to fall apart.

AFAIK Wuhan and South Korea are both at the tail end of their their infection trajectory and they are still not back to normal working situations/environments. I'm still not sure if this will be a short, blunted infection with all the quarantines taking place, or something we have yet to see the top side of.

Either way, this is going to crater a ton of small/medium sized businesses. All of the gains the market made in the last few years has been completely erased by this virus.
WHO official hits back at Trump for his use of the term 'Chinese virus'
Yes, which is why it would be good if they had a mac mini that had laptop grade CPU and GPU instead.
I applaud the intent, but this looks like a laundry list of random ideas. There's no leadership or vetting or job descriptions. I'd love to help us build 1,000,000 ventilators, but I think the answer to that one is for governments to allocate money to manufacturers (which is starting to happen), not to crank out some javascript.
What are your needs?

Because the current Mini serves a lot of Pro needs with the crazy powerful I/O it has.

With eGPUs in a fairly mature state, the Mac Mini can serve pretty powerful video/graphics workloads.
How is it easier to print a realistic dollar bill, with all the easy to test security measures, than it is to alloy some gold with something else, or use some other golden substance?

And no, anything dependent on computers (an especially on a country's worth of electricity) to function is not a safe bet if we are imagining doomsday scenarios.
True, but to be honest I think a year is probably pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We then need a massive immunisation project to get 60% or more of all of the world's populations to a good level of immunity.

Even rushing the testing phase doesn't give me much hope that that will be in place by this time next year.

I guess there is a 2.c where we find an existing drug which is mass manufactured and, at least, makes the worst cases more easily managed.
The TP doesn't come out just wet always, a towel would be nasty soon.
Measures will be in place until at least August.
Just waiting for the firesale on the spiffy furniture.
Did the Treasury improve the bank operations for the better? It’s difficult to imagine that they’d do the same jobs as private creditors, considering
1. The Treasury decision makers stake in the longer term performance of the banks is low
2. The Treasury has money as an institution of government, even in a downturn, and has come to possess through political means. Private creditors have some come to possess, and more importantly keep/remain solvent during a downturn, the money they have to lend through means and methods more closely related to the effective operations of the banks.
Not that every private creditor who ended up in control would do a better job, but on the whole firms would be more effectively run in the long term. Especially when it comes to avoiding risky leveraging situation as we’re in now.
Not a britbong, so my understanding of how everything works over there might be wrong
I have far more faith in nuclear run for-profit than nuclear run for-loss, as our South African state-owned enterprises have demonstrated.
They should get hosed. Company stocks are supposed to be a risky asset.

If those businesses get bailed out that should be for their value to the world, not for the purpose of rescuing shareholders.
Currently shipping Macs with four Thunderbolt 3 ports:

* Mac Pro

* Mac Mini

* iMac Pro

* MacBook Pro 16"

* MacBook Pro 13"
So curtailing the complexity of sites so that individual users can make heterogeneous deep content.

That doesn't actually solve the problem. Excluding webgl so that someone can write an accessibility layer doesn't mean we have an accessible 3D site; it just means we can't do 3D sites.
Had the same question. Apparently he created them manually! https://twitter.com/hassenchaieb/status/1240346726822752262?...
It's not nonsense, it's just different use cases. For office productivity applications, of course the majority of users will be just fine. For many technical people, 'real' work tends to mean heavy compute and/or I/O workloads which most laptops don't do well with let alone mobile devices.
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What the Horoscope Says About My Health?
I've never heard of that. It looks like something from North America (any other Europeans heard of it?), and it sounds appropriately wasteful :-)

Searching for the condensation problem in Britain, plumbers suggest using an insulated cistern (tank).
the first link is a pdf. try checking your downloads folder?
Your thinking is myopic. The virus is a geopolitical trigger. Among the fallout is the US economy.

The world is rapidly changing. It will not return to normal once the virus is eliminated. The signs are everywhere. Governments in flux.

We just had two $1.5T federal stimuli effectively fall on their faces. Treasury Secretary is predicting 20% unemployment. That's great depression level and I suspect they were being conservative to avoid even worse panic. This is going to continue for many months if not years after the virus troubles are over.
He didn’t claim you couldn’t do real work, he claimed there were better alternatives for your money.

And if real work is just taking notes, then I think you really need to question whether an iPad Pro is the right choice among the iPad lineup.
Dodd-Frank included a thing called "TLAC", which is this. A lot of politics happened.

In the US we have a "notice and comment" process on proposed regulations. You can see the politics play out in the comments on the Fed's proposed TLAC rules. If you read them, you run the risk of becoming cynical about our political process.
Thanks for the feedback. The landing page is very much a work in progress!
It's not immediately clear what they were referring to. Maybe they're referring to the nuclear powered warship record?

"they have amassed over 5700 reactor-years of safe operation."[1]

[1]https://www.mofa.go.jp/region/n-america/us/security/fact0604...

Edit: On second thought, there seems to be more than I was expecting, especially early in the atomic era:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_nuclear_accid...