skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: What shall humanity do if less people die this year?
It's a hypothetical question, but it's widely reported that air pollution (which is a major cause of death) decreased a lot in affected areas. Somewhat related to the Trolley Problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
Yes, but not if you can afford to cache reads, either in-memory, locally on-disk, or in a distributed redis-cluster they offer out-of-the-box. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22619275

They plan to add many more capabilities wrt db: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22619613

Writes... remain expensive.
>Express tags

>As the name suggests, these tags are express. Tags such as the for the logo on your webpage can be put in use.
Moreover, tags such as , , would be available.

None of this first bit makes any sense.
I think this already happened back in february during the chinese lockdown. I remember the google forms we were using suddenly started changing every time someone submitted a form, the data they entered would replace the field labels.
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It's not either/or, it's essential to do both shutdowns with enforced social distancing and build capacity, the first to buy time for the second.
The author is inventing HTML6 on their own. This is not something official. The "Express tags" example links to nowhere and first time ever I hear about it (I'm a web developer). Also, "dialog" element is clearly part of the HTML5 (5.2 exactly) spec and not HTML6.

"Introducing cachable libraries in HTML6 will be a step towards improving the productivity of both web designers and users." WHAT?! No. Nothing here makes sense. Libraries you're using have been cached in the browser since... Before I started doing web development.

So I'd say ignore this article. Seems to be some sort of viewgrab.

Edit: Author is asking "HTML6 release date?" which shows that this author might not even be a web developer, as they show signs that they have no idea on how the process works or what the HTML specifications really are.

Edit2: How does trash like this get updated in the first place? Any web developer would look at this article and recognize it as non-sense. Are people blindly upvoting titles without even opening the page and skimming the content?
Percussive? Persuasive? I've also seen it as "kinetic fix".
I took her point to mean bacterial and fungal (mould) grot rather than viral. Given sufficient time that could become a problem, but you'd have to leave it a few weeks I'd have thought. Still, it's a valid consideration for immune-compromised people.
Cool kids are already using HTML7
Quantifying dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 through instantaneous digital contact tracing
That's a total fantasy when you consider rare earths. And they know it. The military can produce basically nothing without resources for China.
Does anyone have other good resources about HTML6?
Integrated Random Testing
<iframe>?
"Explosive growth" and "Virus is largely out of control" is dangerous risk communication.

How often are you updating the data? If there's manual deconfliction, do you clearly indicate how old data for a country or state/province is, or how accurate the reporting is that your massaged summary comes from?

If you're meaning to put this out in the world as a source of information please get some feedback first from people that do this sort of thing for a living. Inaccuracy or excitable language can do more harm than good in emergencies.
I don't think you should be downvoted although I can see why.

Your comment stems from a fundamental misconception of what Khosla means.

When Khosla says that, he's specifically referring to tight iteration loops (which implies the existence and importance of plans).

You believe in your hypothesis such that you're willing to try things others deem foolish, however, you're not so dogmatic that you become unable to change in the face of newly presented evidence.

So while you shouldn't be so petrified or overwhelmed you dare not put a stake in the ground (strong opinions), you should simultaneously be very comfortable with changing your mind (weakly held).
As far as I was aware, many browsers are scaling back caching due to fingerprinting concerns…
that would have been <iframe seamless>, but I don't think it was ever implemented and it was eventually dropped from the standard.
I haven't. I'm really enjoying the quarantine, hope it goes on forever. We're working faster now that we have more energy without the long & dangerous commute. Everyone seems more relaxed (except the ones whose tables got taken over by their kids). Weather's been great too.

Though we're selling stuff to the government related to controlling and living with the pandemic, so things have been rosy.
There used to be "imports" for HTML5 but they deprecated it for some reason.

https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webcomponents/import...
https://caniuse.com/#feat=imports
If I'm not mistaken, they do a pre drill test of the soil and then adjust the drill settings for that so it's possible the dirty they tested wasn't an accurate representation of the composition beneath.
> How is it possible that our hospitals have crapped out 2 weeks into the ordeal with fewer than 10K patients?

Because hospital and ICU maximum capacity is something less than double average daily caseload, so it's easily overwhelmed by a local surge.
Satellite Images Show Decline in Pollution over Italy Amid Quarantine
Simple numbers about Covid-19 (France)
I think most large scale projects, or those with special requirements (things like embedded systems) are defining what subset of C++ they are ok with. Here are some examples:

- Chrome: https://chromium-cpp.appspot.com/
- Mozilla: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Using_CXX_i...
> If we start defining numbers by physical quantities ('what really exists') we'll have a pretty hard to work with numerical system. Because MAX_APPLES is of course smaller than MAX_DUST_MITES, so they define two different number systems. And I can probably pretty easily subdivide until maybe a hundredth of an apple, but a hundredth of a dust mite is much less physically plausible (at human scales).

Sure. So a simplified model is probably the right tradeoff to make. But we should not forget that it is a tradeoff; by working in a simplified world of notation we run the risk of forming constructions that can't actually be carried back to the real world of counting apples or dust mites. The map is not the territory.

> Overall, we can play this game a lot, but the reality is that pi is as real as Aleph0 which is as real as 1 and 2 and 0.0000...1 and +Inf etc.

"All models are wrong, but some are useful" - but not all models are equally wrong, and not all are equally useful. Including pi gives us a model that's easier to work with, but introduces a certain risk of forming a construction that doesn't translate back to reality. Including infinities brings a substantially bigger version of that risk. It may still be the right choice, but it's a choice that should be made carefully and deliberately; blindly assuming that all mathematical models are appropriate to a given situation is quite unwise.
I hate you all, cause I have less time then before and I am more tired then before. Now I have to cook the lunch instead of just going next door and I have to play teacher cause kids wont do homework by themselves.

And my team expects me to work normally (rightfully) so it is not slacking from home anymore then it was in the work.
Using Vue's pseudo-HTML directives might be easier for many cases, but it is less powerful than JavaScript. In some cases, these restrictions leads to workarounds or rewrites. I agree with the grand-poster that the added value is controversial.

As for JSX with Vue, it's clearly a second class citizen. For instance, last I checked, JSX + TypeScript was broken, though both are officially documented with Vue.
I just listened to a recent episode of 99% Invisible: The Weather Machine and I'm struck by the similarities. In the podcast they discuss the evolution of the data sharing agreements to do weather prediction and the birth of the idea that with that data weather was predictable. Your list of 4 could have been lifted right from that episode about weather. So, someday maybe!
Good news, it's already been proposed! <link rel="import" href="/myfile.html">

Some links: https://w3c.github.io/webcomponents/spec/imports/ https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webcomponents/import...

Not sure about the current support in browsers, but the specification is currently a draft
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You can be just as granular by using shift + alt + volume/brightness. That way your changes will be in 0.25 step increments rather than the default full steps.
paper: https://github.com/BDI-pathogens/covid-19_instant_tracing/bl...
The year is 2020. Even icons have npm install.

*eyeroll*
Interesting, haven't heard this before. Got any links where this is being discussed?
> Uh, it totally makes sense, I just gave you a string example too. The comparator doesn't have to distinguish unequal elements, and a min (and argmin and sort et al.) is perfectly fine and sensible with such a comparator.

Sorting is not the same thing as taking the minimum.

> Do you code in Python at all? Do you find the fact that 1.0 and 1 are both simultaneously equal in some sense and unequal in another sense to be just complete nonsense? Do you expect min(1.0, 1) to error...?

Yes, and this is a large reason why I prefer to work in languages that let me manage such distinctions more carefully.
Did they list an odds ratio for having a severe/critical case?
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Get dad to help out?
Isn't Vue 3 vastly different to Vue 1 and 2?

Also why not Svelte?
People use Zoom because it's really reliable, not because it's "seamless."

I've been in the middle of nowhere in South Africa and could use a 3G connection on my phone to speak to people in Germany and the United States at the same time and it was reliable and useable.
Tried deploying a simple Heroku echo app and put it through KeyCDN performance test... The fly.io instances actually perform worse in terms of TTFB compared to a single Heroku deployment in AMS.
Here are some stats. https://i.imgur.com/Qt1p29G.png
Ratio of open/closed issue is a very strong indicator of how active a project is. My perspective, with 21k closed and 4k open issues, shows a very active project where I should not be finding major blockers if I adopt it. If it has an issue 1000s of people are actively looking at it and it will be caught at beta stage or will be solved quickly.
I’m spinning up a few new projects at the moment, and was sooo close to doing them in ClojureScript. I ended up going with JavaScript, Preact, and Rollup just because of familiarity allowing me to move faster. That, and my build times are sub-second, something that was not true of my previous Webpack and typescript projects. My total application bundle size is still smaller than React alone.

ClojureScript is really good, though, I gotta say. How are your production bundle sizes? Are you using shadowcljs? If not, what tooling are you using? Also, what editor? I’m a VSCode guy, and last time I used Clojure (a year or more ago), Calva wasn’t up to snuff. I wonder if that’s changed.
China didn't just hunker down though. They built out hospital capacity.

The US can and should be doing that as well.

We've got the most advanced logistics networks the world has ever seen installed on our phones.

We've got thousands of young, unlikely to die people who clearly need to be put to work. Time to build and ship hardware like it's WW2.

Will blunt the economic impact of this pandemic, and hopefully the pandemic itself.
> Why are all the masks single use? Why can't we make reusable masks that can be disinfected by UV light?

Virus outbreak agreed clinical practices
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The number of hospitals and hospitals beds is also controlled by certificates of need.
That's a reasonable salary if you are expected to live (or commute daily) to London and provide something resembling a family home.

Everyone else in low and middle income bracket is just getting screwed.
ccls works even better than clangd, in my experience.
Folding home update on SARS-CoV-2 (10 Mar 2020)
Well it can't really get much higher than 95% of the time!
> Anyway since svelte must be compiled i dont think it's good choice for something like mediawiki where you might have plugins and addons that want reuse core components and connect to each other in runtime.

Compiled Svelte components are highly reusable and cross-framework like few others.
Thank you so much for your feedback :)
I'm using v74 and still get that warning. That said, it's working fine, and is one of the only ones to actually work in Firefox at that.
Move ventilators to where they're needed then, maybe? Move patients elsewhere? Just a thought. It can't be that the formidable US healthcare system is incapable of handling 9500 cases nationwide, no matter the severity.
It's an interesting thought expirement. I am no expert, but i believe the economic downturn could be a chance to drastically shift our economy to a more sustainable direction, if, and thats a big if, investments by goverments are directed thoughtfully.

But yes I think the crisis could have lasting positive effects, that will be very hard to measure.
Why is there a login at all?
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See also mtree(8):

> The default action, if not overridden by command line options, is to compare the file hierarchy rooted in the current directory against a specification read from the standard input. Messages are written to the standard output for any files whose characteristics do not match the specification, or which are missing from either the file hierarchy or the specification.

* https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?mtree

It can also be used to create a hierarchy:

* https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/tree/master/etc/mtree
The requirements listed for a "modern JavaScript framework" are completely generic. Of course, if you include requirements such as "declarative" and "broad mindshare", you can only arrive at React, Angular, or Vue - at the moment that is.

Is this for internal Wikimedia apps or intended as a long-term replacement for Wikipedia/MediaWiki? If the latter, a prime requirement surely would be to support MediaWiki markup wouldn't it?

The problem with this kind of assessment starts with the deliberate decision that you need a JavaScript "framework" at all in the first place (that isn't just motivated by a junior dev seeking to pad his/her resume). Going from there, since you desperately want to persuade yourself that today's frontend landscape isn't just a result of big media influence (Fb, Google), you necessarily choose Vue (I know several companies who settled on Vue because they couldn't stand the React hype).

In other words, decisions for a particular JavaScript framework are as generational as ever, and the hope for a choice with a long-term perspective is futile, because a new generation of webdevs will soon re-invent their generation's framework since maintaining daddy-o's web framework isn't fun, and because every developer wants to carve out a niche for creativity.
Because animated GIFs are horribly inefficient and their use should no longer be encouraged.

Should browsers add speed controls for the blink tag as well?
It is standard HTML in the sense that it's valid HTML, which React JSX isn't, of course. But without the JS runtime it won't do anything, so in the end what's the advantage over React? You can add interactivity without going full SPA with React too after all
No, they didn't look at severity. They did report ABO distributions for 206 deaths in Wuhan, which could be considered a proxy for severity but likely has a lot of confounding variables, such age, wealth, etc. Those data were in-line with the top-line results, but that's a small sample.
It wasn't. Countries like Italy and Germany believed China, and that alone would probably have been enough to doom efforts in the countries that didn't. Also, as the other reply says, patient zero was likely already in the US, so any effort at successfully containing this would have required rounding up and quarantining people from Hubei already in the USA and their close contacts back when the press were still downplaying it. (That's effectively what China did, though it was... a little ugly, shall we say.)
Great information, thanks. I do totally agree about documentation for R libraries. It can be very hit and miss.
Rails' ActiveRecord is both a query builder and also the canonical Active Record pattern. For example, one can say

book = Books.joins(:authors).where(author_name: 'James S. A. Corey').first
book.title = "Tiamat's Wrath"
book.save!

It's not that they stopped supporting the Active Record pattern, it's that they rebuilt the whole thing a few years ago with a real relational query builder under the hood.
Interesting. I have used VSCode on Mac for C++ but it has been a royal pain in the ass recently with lldb-mi issues related to Catalina.

If you don't mind sharing I am very interested in your setup.
Not that I like Zoom, but how's this '10x more seamless than Zoom' calculated?
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> There's no difference between `Author.get(id)` and `session.query(Author).get(id)` in terms of code design, data integrity or whatever. Maybe you could make the argument that by forcing you to interact with the `session` object you are encouraged to call `session.save()` which makes the transaction explicit, but I find that a thin argument.

What's thin about it? The most important aspect of code is being able to read it and understand what's going wrong; a seemingly innocuous function call that actually interacts in a complex way with some hidden global state is pretty much the worst kind of code you can write.
Indeed. Those sort of naturalistic[0] and appeal to nature[1] fallacies are infuriating. One advantage of being human is that "this is how things are" doesn't have to mean "this is how things must be."

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_fallacy

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature
Nope, rare earth elements are common pretty much everywhere. The only reason companies buy them from China is because they're cheaper due to their lower wages and lack of environmental protection.

When China limited export of rare earths, leading to a dispute with Western countries, all that happened was suddenly Western mining firms became viable and attracted investment. China then dropped the export limits and dropped the price to force those companies out of business.
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Medicare and state licensing agencies more or less control the hospital bed capacity in the US, not commercial incentives.

Want to build a hospital in many states? Better be able to convince the licensing agency there is need for the beds. Want to build a hospital and accept Medicare? Better meet all the structural requirements they put in place.

Open the March update pdf here and look at the "excess" column on page 4:

https://www2.illinois.gov/sites/hfsrb/InventoriesData/Monthl...

The state has big impact on the capacity of the medical system.
Bloody Sunday was before your time I guess ...
you can use the composition api already in Vue2, which is what I have been doing, and I'm using typescript for everything. There is a chance the api may change, but it seems pretty stable. I combo this with using tailwindcss and I think that makes for a pretty productive combo.
Safari has prevented caching across domains for a very long time: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110269. I know other browsers are working on similar things, but I'm less familiar with their efforts: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1536058 https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5730772021411840
Discord is also good for that and seems to be taken over teamspeak in some teams I work with. I can't tell really if it's better though since I never used teamspeak.
When you see a large, generally well-regarded public transport authority take a counterintuitive action, a good approach is to think about which aspects of the situation you might have missed, instead of launching into offensive tirades about how everybody is stupider than you.

TfL is flawed, like any large organisation, but it is still stuffed with many subject-matter experts who are better-informed about the London public transport system than you are. It's unlikely that a broad and highly impactful decision like this is taken on a whim.

In this specific case, London's public transport network is essential to the movement of key workers. It's required in order to get medical staff, emergency services, delivery staff, and a whole bunch of other people to their jobs. The majority of city-centre residents don't have access to a car. This means that it's impractical to shut public transport down completely.

On the other hand, ridership is substantially down as a large number of people begin to either lose their jobs, work from home, or otherwise isolate – so there is less demand for transport in the first place. And on top of that, the number of available staff across the network will also start to fall as some become sick, have to self-isolate, or have to deal with childcare issues.

A reasonable approach to dealing with these main factors is to shut down less-used or less-essential stations, and then to focus on providing a more reliable cut-down core service. This relies on the understanding that it is better to have a planned, sustainable, and reliable service that operates consistently, rather than aiming to run a "normal" service which is not currently required and likely unsustainable, while cutting services or stations in an ad-hoc manner as staff availability changes.

Please just take the time to sit back and realise that not everybody else in the world is dumb, that there are often hidden factors that you don't see in any decision someone takes, and that it's often good to think (and question!) what those might be before sticking your bum oot the windae.
> "Programming languages tend to elevate some ideals before concerns of practical safety, performance or just common sense."

That statement would be difficult to substantiate, particularly in the context of functional languages. Practical safety, performance, and common sense are absolutely priorities; the ideals that functional language design follows are servants of those goals, not the master.
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Natural selection predominantly works before you breed.

There are some kin effects if elderly are killed, but natural selection otherwise doesn’t apply much for the elderly.
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Private providers are not immune to oversights and waste.
Is that really true, or is it just a myth?
While I'm not claiming the first snippet is the correct way to structure this sort of thing, all of these libraries have supported optimistic locking in some form for many years.
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How would you possibly know reliably they were not in contact with anyone sick?, particularly when being in contact means touching any surfaces where the virus landed hours or it seems even days ago
I will suggest you spend a little time looking up articles about how hospitals actively breed antibiotic resistant infections. They are a primary source of such infections.

I think I've already reached my limit for the night for trying to politely discuss this with people in this thread.

You have a good evening, so to speak.