skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have a 100% chance of dying someday.
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SPARQL is a flat result set, just like SQL. Also so much like SQL, it's not actually an advantage over SQL, just removed from a relational database.

GraphQL is hierarchical. The queries look substantially like the output JSON. SPARQL (and SQL) require training. With a common tool like GraphiQL or Playground, queries are simple enough and abstracted enough (am I querying Redis, PostgreSQL, S3, or some combination?) that clients don't have to know much of anything except what data they want. That's huge.

It puts the onus on server developers to audit their data and security models, but they should be doing that anyway no matter what the stack looks like.
There is no data as far as the latter is concerned.
The current data (Fed actions, pronouncements of 18mo shutdowns, recession worse than 2008, etc.) is to the contrary.
What, really, is the economic impact of virus deaths after exponential growth quickly bumps into population size and lots of mostly non-working people die? Nobody even tries to answer this.
Not really possible to further degrade discussion that begins with "let 4 million people die"
That’s not the only problem. Say you aren’t high risk, great! But do you really want to live in a world without a functioning health care system. Because that is what you are promoting. When hospitals get overwhelmed, even minor issues can become catastrophic.

In a car crash? Need some surgical repair? Too bad, we’re not open for business because we’re trying to keep critically ill patients alive and need the gowns and equipment for healthcare workers.
Rare earths are like shale oil right now: The US has plenty capacity, it's just that the cost is higher than the market rate. It would take a short time to ramp up, but we could get them without China.
EU Asks Netflix to Limit HD Streams to Avoid Internet Congestion Due to COVID19
This repo claims to have the original: https://github.com/zavg/linux-0.01
They expect to have server side rendering, so end user will get just HTML (except the parts that require js even today), so older browsers should still work
He Built a $500M Cannabis Business and His Office Is at the Back of a Nail Salon
Is Myst still one of the worst games ever?
Same. Passport expiring soon. I’m living in the UK and can’t go home to the US right now (well I could, but it would require a 2 week quarantine). It’s mildly disconcerting, I hope this doesn’t really go on for 18 months.
We all will have died at some point anyway.
>We're not gonna be able to send people to places like Europa…

We will, just probably not in the next 20 years or so.
I've asked this question every single day.
Even w/o government intervention, a competent CEO would say "Hey there's a huge global demand for my product, and it'll likely be a domestic demand. Lets crank out these health products".

The US closed and withdrew all their employees from the US Consulate in Wuhan on Jan 26th. Can't say we didn't know it was serious.

Masks shortage have been known for a while. The tinfoil hat in my says because the US wants this to spread. I have no other logical explanation.
Hopefully I'll be able to get an expedited apt before they close it completely. This was a dream job at the tail end of a 6mo+ process.
I immediately thought about this as well, however I seem to recall reading somewhere (and I could be entirely wrong here) that NASA has a requirement to give away freely their science data.
Well they finally got to Horus and his legions attacking Terra in circa 2019 ... the first book in the series was published in 2006.

I normally just check out the author (Dan Abnett) or the particular storyline of the plotl (Emperor/Custodes/Alpha Legion/Mechanicus/Titans) before committing myself to listen to the audiobook as they are very well done.
Your link says “ If you are healthy, you only need to wear a mask if you are taking care of a person with suspected 2019-nCoV infection.” - in other words, it does help prevent someone from getting it.

The reason health organizations outside of Asia are not recommending mask wearing by the general public is there are not enough to go around, so they are trying to stop the public from hoarding them when the masks are vital equipment needed by medical providers.

Wearing the masks also helps prevent infected persons (some of whom are asymptomatic with this coronavirus) from spreading it, if previous research on flu viruses is considered applicable. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/face-masks-flu/

“These results suggest an important role for aerosols in transmission of influenza virus and that surgical facemasks worn by infected persons are potentially an effective means of limiting the spread of influenza.”
They're showing caution because Chloroquine can have some ugly side effects. Probably better than dying, but if it only has a marginal efficacy then it may be doing as much harm as it does good.
IntelliJ with Cursive is a very good Clojure IDE.
I recommend reading the review below on known effects of blood groups on infection. Not super surprising in that blood group may have general effects. I can't think how this would work mechanistically without knowing the glycans on ACE2/TRMPSS2 or the spike, and if they carry antigen (I would expect not).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/26085552
It stops the spread of the virus. If you did nothing 5% would die and worse those that have recovered have problems breathing (can't walk up stairs).

Life would come to a halt regardless.
Not the language but what it compiles to and of course some sorcery that few people possess.

Anyways I had actually used Eclipse and did not find it particularly responsive. Been a while so maybe it is faster now.
This might be true only for the poorest people who are starving, or for people who only spend money, not make them.

When I was younger and did not have savings, I did not care about money at all: I could spend money wherever I wanted, and it did not matter, because I could not spend more than I had. Money were worthless to me.

But now I have to save: every extra penny spent is subtracted from my future home.

But for Musk money even more valuable: I imagine the risk of loosing business is much more important than having to live in a slightly cheaper home in 20 years.
People totally get exponential increase.
I agree it's really bad given that we have infinite population!
Oh wait, we don't. The exponential increase will go on for 3-4 weeks after which there will be no more people to infect; the time in ICU is 2-3 week, there's overlap, so in say a month we will be done.
Recessions last years; in case of Great Depression, a decade. Remember how Great Depression ended in Europe?
Awesome, I had a misunderstanding it was only GoLang because of your github repos, get ready to get filthy rich with this.

If you ever come to SA, never partner with Localweb ( biggest/major local server provider ) they are garbage.
N=1, but type errors are extremely rare for me in Javascript. I don't think I'm a magical or exceptional programmer. I think it's just if you spend a lot of time in dynamic languages, there's a certain style of programming some people end up adopting that makes those errors much less common.

If you held a gun to my head and forced me to recklessly provide conjecture on what the difference is, I would say that static languages encourage devs to build large interfaces that take tons of options and pass around a bunch of parameters. This is highly, highly subjective, but:

I think there's a grain of truth in what other people are saying about how Typescript projects tend to be kind of verbose. People start reaching for interfaces that are split across multiple files, people start reaching for classes. When you have really rigid types that need to be formally extended all over the place, this also encourages a lot of casting, which tends to be error prone.

I've seen some really complicated logic/type flows in Typescript that would be extremely error prone in Javascript, but there's basically no reason for them to be that complicated in the first place. There are paradigms in Javascript the codebases are not taking advantage of which are forcing them into these over-complicated logic/data flows. Basically, the more crazy boilerplate, casting, and giant interfaces that a codebase has, the more type errors will occur. The more a project is split up into dozens of dependencies and modules and whatever, the harder it is to reason about what a method or class needs passed in. But Typescript projects tend to grow in that direction very quickly, so the need for Typescript tends to become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

As a comparison, most of the personal projects I work on don't have classes at all, they're using a lot of functional interfaces, and they don't include a bunch of random libraries. Most of the dependencies in my projects are libraries that I've personally vetted. Most of my projects are careful about where state is being stored and how its being passed around.

I dunno. All of that is pure conjecture, but people in general are very dismissive of dynamic typing, but it's just not a real problem for me. There's a general consensus that dynamic languages were a mistake, and I don't dismiss the people saying this, but I also pay a lot of attention to where bugs are coming from in my own code, and I can't get past the point that typing really doesn't seem to matter that much in most things I build.

I was on the Typescript train for a while. I still use it in some projects, there are some org structures where it makes a lot of sense. If I'm working with a Java-to-Javascript dev, I want strong interfaces for them. The projects where I don't use it are because I've spent a long time paying attention to where my bugs are coming from. I can't prove to you its not a problem, I can only speak to the experiences I've had.
That would only be the case for 3 months, after which those who were most vulnerable to the virus would have perished.

2.8m Americans die annually, basically we are just seeing 1-2 years of deaths brought forward into a 3 month window. It will be harrowing to triage those patients but it can be managed.

I would prefer that situation to living through a great depression. Healthcare is irrelevant without a job or any income whatsoever, with huge sections of the economy closed and extensive restrictions on what individuals can and can't do.

I have parents in their late 60s who are looking at their entire retirement portfolio evaporating.

I have a terminally ill sister and aunt who are faced with spending their final weeks/months in lockdown, with people unable to visit them or attend their funerals. They are struggling to access regular supplies due to hoarding.
Again, this is about slowing down the spread of the virus so that it won't overwhelm hospitals.

We will live with the virus for decades.

We are pausing the economy to buy us time until a treatment or vaccine is available.
But it helps asymptomatic infected people to infect others
It will give his business a better shot of surviving. This also means a better shot to continue paying current employees
There is a specific requirement to trigger that. Not sure whether desktop and Android Firefox is using the same criteria though. (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30661650/how-does-firefo...)

edit: the article does not have <p> tag. so reader view is not triggered.
Microsoft says Teams has reached 32M users as remote work surges
Depends on the org you'll be joining. All of the interns I worked with were remote, but I was part of the field division not corporate. Best of luck!
And concert goers, shoppers...
Couldn't agree more.

> I have heard rumors — and they are just rumors, for now

> We are actively reporting this; feel free to reach out to me or other staffers at TechCrunch if you have tips here.

Basically, "I heard this thing, has anyone else heard it?" Also, what does that even mean that they're "actively" reporting it. It's like they're trying to give it more credence than the rumor it is.
Awesome, thanks for the links - I’ll dig into those the next chance I get.
Do you have a source for this claim? Otherwise, please don't spread unsubstantiated rumors.

All reported Corona deaths in the German media that I am aware of were linked to pre-existing health conditions.
It's common in China for food handlers including waitresses) to wear masks, and or a face shield.

I know China doesn't have their act together on many areas of health and sanitation. But we should adopt good practices and remove the stigma in the US that mask = bad.
You realize that the entire openstack project came from the opensourcing of NASAs opennebula project, right? They've got one of the biggest infiniband networks in the world underpinning it.
I'm not saying this won't be a financial cluster - it likely will cost many times more than planned - but the headline here is just a flat-out lie.

TFA says:

"a March audit report [PDF] from NASA's Inspector General noticed EOSDIS hadn’t properly modeled what data egress charges would do to its cloudy plan."

'Hadn't properly modeled' is very different from 'forgot about'. And if you actually read the linked report, it says things like:

"ESDIS officials said they plan to educate end users on accessing data stored in the cloud, including providing tools to enable them to process the data in the cloud to avoid egress charges."
and
"To mitigate the challenges associated with potential high egress costs when end-users access data, ESDIS plans to monitor such access and “throttle” back access to the data"

Neither of those statements would be in the audit if the entire topic had been a surprise.
It's been explained thousands of time already, most people will get it eventually, the game is to spread it over time. If you spread it over months hospitals will be able to better take care of patients (not only coronavirus, every other patients too).

> Do people really believe the virus won't be there afterwards?

That's why we're not in charge of it, many smart people are taking what they believe is the best decisions for their country/the world, they probably have more data and knowledge than you, and no, they're probably not as dumb as you're trying to paint them.
I hope they get some treatments out there to reduce the social distancing necessary to protect people.
None of which will really help you, since AWS priority is AWS, not the uptime of your business. And no number of those better engineers or processes have prevented downtime and service interruptions on AWS.
Ah come on, that's not fair. The program is run for the profit of your ruling party. Elections and harems are expensive.
Surely this can be tested fairly easily by seeing how well whiteboard test results correlate with coding ability or developer effectiveness more generally. I'd assume businesses that hire a lot of developers have the data to know whether whiteboard tests are useful for achieving their hiring goals.
A Trial of Lopinavir–Ritonavir in Adults Hospitalized with Severe Covid-19
No offense, I know people who have recovered and none of them have any hint of anything afterwards.
Server-side rendering isn't a panacea. I would be surprised if they were using it to do more than bootstrap an interactive frontend web component, which would then inherit all of the problems I'm referring to. That's how everyone else does server-side rendering, at least.
Your post is grim, but I suspect that some countries will make the same calculation as time goes by. Here in Poland, we saw one of the first lockdowns for a European country, but the lockdown stopped at closing the border, schools, large restaurants and malls. Other shops remain open (I just went hat shopping today, for instance), people are traveling between the city and their country homes, and the feeling seems to be now that if you want to avoid infection, it is your own responsibility to stay home instead of expecting the economy to shut down.
Assuming the equal distribution of homo- and heterozygotes, it looks like the numbers (A/AB +20%, B +3%, 0 -33%) suggest the following:

• 00 (homozygote 0, but that's the only way someone is a 0) is at -33% "chance" of catching SARS-Cov-2

• B0 (heterozygote B) is at -10%

• BB (homozygote B) is at +5%

• AB (well, heterozygote, obviously) is at +20%

• A0 (heterozygote A) is at <17%

• AA (homozygote A) is at ~33%

Basically, the hypothesis would be that presence of an A allele contributes significantly to increased risk (~17%), B is mostly neutral (+1-2%), a 0 allele contributes to decreased risk (-17%).

Considering the distribution in healthy individuals (I haven't run the numbers but only used roughly 30% for each group except AB which is at 10% — I've only done the math in my head so I am way more off than that, and it would be quite unlikely for the effect to be so linear as my breakdown above suggests) from the study, everything roughly lines up.

It would be interesting if a study could confirm that, but they'd need parents blood types for every individual to be able to get that.

I've seen mention of open data sets that include research articles, but is there any data set to look at? It would be quite interesting since the distribution of blood types supposedly differs strongly among "ethnicities" if https://www.livescience.com/36559-common-blood-type-donation... is to be trusted — their "Asian" number for AB is also at 7% compared to 9% in their "health population" number.

If there was data just documenting whatever findings there are for patients, it would help in independent "researchers" find correlations that might not be obvious to others.
I've found that people are suspicious for a couple of reasons:

1. They are bad actors and they expect other people to be also.

2. They've been burned by someone and now they are suspicious of anyone.

When confronted by a person who doesn't trust me, I ask about the 2nd situation i.e. have been burned by a past employee? If they have, I cut them some slack.
Who said they are going to make the entire page SPA? They picked Vue specifically because Vue allows them to progressively enhance parts of the page with interactivity without going full SPA (AND without hard reliance on a build step).
If we can massively ramp up testing infrastructure, we can manage and treat the “unpause” a lot better. The more time we can buy now with drastic measures, the better prepared will be to deal with subsequent peaks, spreads, and resource constraints.
Anecdotes, Yay! :-)

No offense.
I don't think it is, though. You can subdivide life infinitely and claim different domains and how one can be smart in soda business but dumb in candy business, but I don't think that's justified.
He made a decision about how a factory should operate given the environment; I think, as his many other decisions about business before, this one is solid.
> A lot of new technology doesn't work in older browsers

But given that, how do we move forward? We shouldn't be stuck in the past forever. We shouldn't probably even be stuck in 2013, when IE11 was released. If their site requires heavy client-side code, and if they want to build it in a fast and reliable way, they have almost no other choice but to think of frameworks.
Seconded. LinkedIn is a pretty good ressource if you invest some time developing your connections. A lot of SW recruiters but also small businesses for people looking for both employment and contracts (I found both through it).

Anybody interested, feel free to add me, my LI is in my profile.
Show HN: Paravim, an editor for Nim that can run inside a game
Well not exactly, the parent said something quite different, in the comment they were comparing tooling not languages and they say that the tooling makes for a significant part of the bugs they have to solve so they want a build process as slim as possible.

Nothing was said about whether typescript code is more or less buggy, just that the typescript tooling had issue to work with other tooling.
Operated by csc.fi, so it's perhaps just the standard server for a science oriented org. Or a maybe a "hand me down" from them.
Only on HN (or, I suppose, The_Donald) -- comment claiming that "many journalists are consistently choosing to publish blatant lies, propaganda and click-bait garbage" (about headline that is 100% accurate) sits high. My comment disagreeing is flagged.

Sad!
Thanks! I wasn't even close with my keywords.
> Why have a problem with this?

This is hacker news. People will debate the optimal angle of jacking off.
They can serve a lot of users simultaneously. Most of that RAM will be file cache.
Likely people are observing games.
Yes, let's put money before people to prove how great our system is!

What if the only sick thing in the first place was our economy ? At least all BS start-ups with no useful products/service living on investors money will start to drop like flies, and if you ask me I'm feeling much better about that than having to burry my parents or grandparents.
Hmm, in principle I would agree but in practice, I think it wouldn’t make a difference here. Even if it were more even-handed the contenders they would be choosing among are acceptable substitutes for one another. Like, I couldn’t see this being a failure with React but succeeding with Vue. In a lot of these sort of situations, you just need to pick something. I agree that those criteria sound contrived, though.

Personally, I work in React all day and I’m comfortable with it, but I could just as easily use another. There would be minor differences that may annoy to some degree, but it wouldn’t make a huge impact. They all do basically the same thing.
FTP is not the only service provided, see http://ftp.funet.fi/README
Headline is misleading as USCIS is suspending in-person visa operations. Renewals and transfers of US visas are often conducted via courier and post.

From https://uscis.gov

> As of March 18, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has suspended routine in-person services until at least April 1 to help slow the spread of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). USCIS staff will continue to perform duties that do not involve contact with the public. However, USCIS will provide emergency services for limited situations. To schedule an emergency appointment contact the USCIS Contact Center.
It's not a paused, unpaused situation.

It's a brace ourselves to prevent a cascading effect from overtaking our healthcare system. After the initial wave breaks over us, we'll still be dealing it - we hopefully just won't be overwhelmed.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-disinf...
You wouldn't use min/max as part of sorting though.
Microsoft Teams reaches 44M daily active users
Everyone...this guy knows some people who have recovered. We've been lied to, hospitals are NOT full.

You may be on hacker news, but you definitely aren't smart.
Go talk to your friends who have elderly parents or grandparents and see what they think about that.

Go have the courage of your convictions and go talk to some elderly people and explain that to them, see what they think about that.

I know what I think about that.
Indeed. I didn't say the argument was a good one. Just that it was the best I found.
"Some recovered patients may have reduced lung function" https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/artic... (HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22568100)
$5.4m/mo * 12 mo/yr = $65m/yr. My guess is the "$65m/year deal with AWS" is actually the S3 cost and the extra $30m/year of 'increased cloud spend' is the egress costs found by the audit. Otherwise it's a coincidence of the numbers.
Sorry about that. You’re right; I should have been more careful with my news consumption and commenting. Thanks!
Coronavirus study that rocked UK and US (ft.com)
The thing is these millions of elderly people dying are someone else's relatives.

It could even be yours.

Will you be ok with that?