skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am partial to believe that the Azithromycin suppressed the typical 2ndary bacterial infection that usually ensues after a viral infection of the lungs.

The 2ndary bacterial infection happens to me almost every severe cold or flu.
This is a case where the leading "How", which HN's software sometimes drops from titles, makes an important difference. The point of the article isn't that they did it.

We've re-howed it.

Please don't post shallow dismissals to HN, though. The article doesn't make it hard to find out what its topic is or why it's interesting, and there's no need to reflexively 'gulag' every Soviet story. The internet pattern of rushing to the cosmic hash table to find the biggest thing associated with any key, then rushing to post about it, makes for lame discussion. We're looking for things that are less predictable here.

Edit: having looked at your account history, I realize that I misread your comment. You've been abusing HN for nationalistic and ideological flamewar. That is not allowed here. I've banned the account until we get some indication that you want to use the site as intended. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22622844.
> I agree with you that this needs to not become any kind of a racial thing against Chinese people.

It already is. My (conservative, right-voting) non-Chinese Asian parents are slightly nervous about being in public in our town, and my dad's car's mirror was smashed a couple nights ago.

> But I'm going to stick with the facts, especially when someone is trying to paint a counter-factual lie of a narrative.

COVID-19 is its scientific name: Coronavirus Disease 2019.

If you say covid-19, you can still disagree that it can be a dogwhistle, you can just say it that way because you want to stick with the scientific facts.

> And I think there is some value in factually pointing that out, and not letting the government of China create some it-was-some-US-soldiers fairy tale.

I agree that there's value in this. Letting Chinese propaganda and digital interests (continue to) run rampant is, from my layman perspective, a mistake. See TikTok and Discord for examples.

I also think it can be done in a way that doesn't catch families like mine in the crossfire: e.g. "that article is wrong, covid-19 actually started in China."
>> "But people have hoarded gold and silver to successfully preserve value over the collapse of countless societies and civilisations for many thousands of years."

In 5000 years from now, I wonder if people will say the same thing about BitCoin.
This story has been updated since. https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/17/21184308/coronavirus-ital...
Basically the company does not plan to sue, and was not selling the part at $10,000.
Why stop at 17"? Asus makes an 18" https://www.asus.com/us/Laptops/ROG-GX800VH-7th-Gen-Intel-Co...
On top of that, some percentage of users who do contribute content are just recycling/reiterating content they've seen have success in that community before. Reposts, memes, predictable opinions, etc. The number of people who actively create the culture of an online community (and, I suspect, offline communities) is pretty small.
> "...It will not hide your IP address from the websites you visit."

This would make it much less private than most VPNs. For most corporate use that's no loss. Though I imagine a big draw to a company whose name starts with 'Private' is the protection of ones address.
> If money is a stand-in for other goods, then we measure how much of these good money can buy. That's exactly what the standard definition of inflation captures.

Which is completely useless if you don't take into account how much money people have to buy things with. What you want is a metric of prices vs. wages, which neither version of inflation takes into account. Money supply inflation would be a better predictor of prices vs. wages, however, since when the money supply is inflated prices tend to rise faster than wages (and vice-versa). Price inflation is a lagging indicator which incorporates a bunch of noise along with the delayed signal, especially when the supply is deliberately manipulated to achieve specific CPI targets.
There isn't consensus on whether "ok, boomer" is a slur vs a protest or criticism. It seems inappropriate to me to ban accounts for using that phrase.
Could you name any companies that offer that service?

I think it should probably be just as good. Doctors are terribly expensive in the western world.
Finally. I got used to this on solaris 10 and missed it until FreeBSD got it.. ZFS and beadm are the included in the reasons i continue to run FreeBSD as a workstation, but these days with k8s and such I do tend to run a lot of linux VMs to do my daily work (devops stuff)...

The work lappy runs ubuntu with zfs on root, and it's pretty seamless, I'm very much onboard with it having boot environments! (zsys)
only in Texas, where they use a pressure-washer ;)
It's because there are a lot of gold scams and the scammers have decided that the audience for whatever you are listening to are dupes who will buy gold.
What value would the employer get from providing that info?
I am a Slack user, and I am super excited for the changes in this announcement, especially custom channel organization.

Thank you, Slack, for this UX work.
Buybacks signify that the company's management can't find any better use for their money.

It signifies that the company sees no value in investing that money in developing more business for the company in the future, but wants to spend that important money on ephemeral share prices instead.

Companies that only plan for today instead of planning for their own greater futures deserve to go under.
> The virus also originated from bats

Is that confirmed, or just hypothesized?

> and yet I don't see folks going around calling it the bat flu.

It's not a flu. But I wouldn't have a problem with people calling it the bat plague or whatever.

> but calling it the "wuhan flu" and "chinese flu" appears to have begun by a concerted effort to deflect attention from the administration's mishandling.

Given the attributed source of the first uses (of which I am aware) of the term "chinese flu", that seems almost certainly true.

> but this term was absolutely intended to divide

No, it was intended to evade. That's different. You said it yourself: "deflect".

Why is placing the place of origin on China (the nation), and the blame on the Chinese government, confused with placing the blame on a race?

(Yes, there are bigots and jerks who are looking for an excuse to go get racist on someone. There are some. I'm not sure that we should change our language just to avoid giving them an excuse, though, in the same way that we didn't go to these extremes for H1N1. There may be some damage to some actual people - and let's be clear, people who don't deserve it - but free speech is also a value that I uphold. I don't think we should let bigots and jerks control which words we're allowed to use.

And I've seen you elsewhere cite the Nazis and their statements about the Jews. Well, by that point, it will be time for measures equivalent to what we're doing for CoronaVirus, because the damage will be severe.)
Hasura gets this very right.
I feel like this should take spam and bots into account. I run a wiki and most edits are by bots that I rollback. I don't add captcha to not further dissuade people from contributing.
Macbook Air for $1k is not a very good tablet, battery life and screen are not as good.

It's not immediately clear which one is better. Depends on how you expect to use it.

For me, I need developer tools, multiple browser engines, and spreadsheets, so I'm going to be on a laptop or desktop as my main computer for a while yet. That's not true of everyone. Many people can use this as their main machine and there are certain advantages to it.
"Computer science" is NOT science. Good science is rarely done outside of machine performance issues. How to organize information to be best "digested" by human programmers and users is largely in the realm of psychology and physiology, which are "soft" sciences because we don't really know how the human brain works yet.

I've been in long debates about this and stand by it. Somebody once challenged a "pro science" claimer to "prove" that go-to's are objectively worse than nested blocks. The science claimers failed to produce objective evidence. (Background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful, see the part about Edsger Dijkstra's paper.)

(I'm not saying goto's are good, only that my preference for blocks is subjective. For one, nested blocks can be indented which makes their structure more visual. Goto's don't have a visual counterpart, at least not without a fancy IDE.)
Based on how polarized the feedbacks are, I think they are onto something :). Auto generated graphql schema May replace FileMaker and Access one day
> The 1% rule is often misunderstood to apply to the Internet in general, but it applies more specifically to any given Internet community.

What a broad statement
I had similar experience with crappy ECG suggesting I had some horrid heart condition. After a fraught week, learned it was totally false. Now each time I get the ECG, get the same false positive, I bother about it less.
Nope! but that reply was intended for a different post, sorry :-)
I think you meant https://www.singularity6.com/careers (left out the 6!).

Cheers and stay safe out in sunny LA!
I hope many of us internalized this early. It's not very accurate, but I try to think of this as meaning that on average, everything I post online is being read by a minimum of 99 people, multiplied by either the upvote count on the thread (for HN) or the number of active followers I have (for Twitter). It has helped me to always think this to myself before posting something.

I probably am biased from the culture on these sites but it still seems all to easy for people to still get dragged into fruitless discussions, overly emotional flamewars and trollbait that they will regret later.
Every crisis is a little bit different than the previous crises but the world is _never_ completely different. It's not the same either but it rhymes. Excluding all pre-2008 events because "the world is completely different" is dubious at best. Believing it's different this time is kind of a classic fallacy among traders who have only been around for one bull market.
My dad is an electrical engineer. Their company is about 100 employees and, over the last week, they have had to shift all of them to a remote setup. It hasn't been easy at all. He mentioned numerous issues:

1. A lot of their work is marking up drawings which traditionally have been printed on massive sheets of paper. Online, it's hard to click, zoom, markup, zoom out, etc. Not impossible, but much harder.

2. These files can be GBs in size. Imagine waiting 45 minutes for a file to download, you add two comments, and then it takes another hour to upload back to the server where another engineer repeats the process.

3. Many of their employees live in remote areas where bandwidth measured in kbps, not mbps.

4. Some employees don't have full-sized monitors or even laptops at home. Some only have tablets.

5. Hardly any of the employees have ever used Zoom, so that alone is a huge learning curve for them to download/install/get a webcam setup/etc.

6. The VPN they had was not configured to handle the amount of bandwidth now being pushed through it. Their provider had to send technicians out to the office multiple times.
Example with made up numbers:

Google Software Engineer I - 100 total jobs, 2000 applicants (click here for a breakout by region). Based on historical data and the current applicant pool, you have a 8% chance of scoring an interview if you apply to [All Locations] and 5% if you apply to Mountain View only.

Aerojet Rocketdyne Inc. Software Engineer I - 10 total jobs, 150 applicants (Sacramento only). Based on historical data and the current applicant pool, you have a 20% chance of scoring an interview.

I know that withholding such statistics is advantageous for the employer and maximizes the number of applications. However, my question is directed more at job platforms like LinkedIn. At most, they only show the number of applications. When I apply, I don't have the faintest idea whether I'll get a response or whether my application will go into a black hole. I believe a more applicant-friendly job platform, which publishes more statistics, aggressively penalizes outdated/lame listings, and incentivizes updates from the employer will attract more applicants. Those applicants will in turn attract more companies, so on and so forth.

The job search grind is a major unsolved problem. Unless you have the most fungible skillset and level of experience, applying to jobs is soul crushing. We don't even have read receipts for resumes. There are so many low hanging fruit which haven't been touched by the major job platforms. People are not opposed to long job applications. What is deeply problematic is that there doesn't seem to be a correlation between the length/redundancy of a job application and your chance of getting a callback. With ML, it doesn't seem impossible for LinkedIn to modify its platform such that it can give you reasonable assurance as to your chance of getting a callback. Solving this issue will be nothing more of revolutionary. It would single-handedly make the economy more dynamic. I'd love to hear an informed take on this issue though, maybe I'm missing a key constraint.
Only a little. It works very well, once we port our edge js library (https://github.com/superfly/edge) to Deno we will move over some things handling hundreds of millions of requests per day.
First Coronavirus Twitter Dataset
I got an Acer Predator 15 inch gaming laptop with a GTX 1070 8GB for deep learning three years ago and it is just a desktop to be fair, only moved with it a couple of times for long gigs away... the latest iPad Mini became my portable device, instead.
Both gold and silver have industrial applications. They don't inform the price, and I doubt they inform the price ratio.

Silver and Gold have interesting properties. I hope pricing and hoarding don't reflect behaviours which make them harder to "use" rather than be treated as rei-ified value for hoarding.

That said, the tiny size of the gold mountain amuses me. All that digging, so little outcome.
> On the flip side, most people who use toilet paper think their butts will get completely clean. That is actually not the case.

Do they?
Sorry to hear. I'm in a similar situation. I left Microsoft and moved to a new country a few months ago without having a job lined up specifically because I wanted time off for burnout and to learn development (my background is in QA and Program Management). I'll stay the course for self-teaching development but I may need to expedite the job hunt in lieu of the recession. We can commiserate together :)
I kind of wish ACM had mentioned the names of Pat Hanrahan's grad student(s) who worked on Brook, the predecessor of Nvidia's CUDA.

Though they did mention Marc Levoy, his Stanford colleague and coauthor on the light field paper.
Well, in the case of toothpaste, it's not a small company. The restaurant... yeah, if they changed owners and blew up what I like about the place, that would kind of stink.

Or, the new owner could be better than the old. That could happen, too.

Either way, it wouldn't be the same... unless they hired back the key players.
Coronavirus: Why does Germany have so few Covid-19 deaths?
This is far from the truth. I work for the organization that put the paper together, GrassrootsHealth. We're a non-profit organization doing nutrient research, with a focus on vitamin D.

You can read more about the organization here: https://www.grassrootshealth.net/?post_projects=about-us
Another reason is 'experienced' developers can sometimes be difficult to work with. They can be arrogant and bull headed, 'my way or the highway' sorta attitudes. Negative to others with new ideas, etc. Teams that already have some vets on them like working with Jr folks precisely because they are moldable.
A lot of companies have stopped travel, interview, vendor visits.
Why do people always plug their companies in their comments? It turns me off completely.
Do you think that applies in this specific instance? Do you wish Mark to stop doing this, rather than in general deprecating data science absent analytics?
Do you find the US government responsible for a conspiracy theory being popular on social media?
I’ll buy it once someone figures how to get it running in Linux, on non-Apple hardware.
Hasura avoids this issue by having it’s own row level security model. In fact they go one step further in that for any subscriptions, they can run one query for all connected clients by building a temp table with a row per client using their session variables to join against. (They poll for subscription updates since it’s fast and scales well)
Not sure where you are but healthcare companies in the US decline to cover companies if they don't cover most, if not ALL employees, just to avoid discrimation
The doctor monopoly is ridiculous.
Sorry I had to repost due to the "Ask HN" tag in the title not working. See my other comment for the logic behind my question.
> Bitcoin will come out of this stronger than gold.

Not when the Tether scam fully unravels.
Helm could be considered almost industry standard tooling for k8s users these days... At least in my circle, when the world helm is used it's as obvious what is mean as when 'apt' or 'yum' is mentioned...
I don't feel like they owe it to me at all – I'm just being honest about what I think is happening. I know that to some degree they probably even believe that the virus was the cause of the closure. This is my opinion, of course, but to me it seems clear that this is all about them having an opportunity to close that leaves them with a narrative of how it happened that lets them sleep better at night, which frankly I think is something they deserve. They've worked hard - the company has succeeded at times, but in its present form it wasn't ready to handle the relatively minor turmoil we've experienced from the virus thus far, but that's not to diminish how hard the closure is on them at all.

Sorry if I'm coming off as if I'm bitter or frustrated with the ownership. I'm truly not intending that - I just generally have found the whole process interesting, the way in which the narrative has been spun toward the coronavirus causing the closure, etc. I legitimately feel for these people who I have worked for for several years and think of as not just bosses, but friends. I might be letting some of my own personal emotions bleed into my writing since I'm frankly a little stressed about my own situation, so I apologize if I'm giving the wrong impression here.
What are "director level hands-on engineers"?
With unpaid leave they are saying they will still have a job for you at some point. It probably means you still have benefits.
Lab automation software 'pro-bono' for teams fighting Covid-19
I sometimes browse with Dillo ( https://www.dillo.org/ ) and although there are a lot of sites that are broken, there are many that render just fine. (E.g. http://www.mathsinstruments.me.uk/page66.html )

Dillo finishes starting before I finish clicking on its icon.

(As in, it loads and displays itself all in the moment between the button-pressed and button-released events.)

- - - -

Check out Effbot's "Generating Tkinter User Interfaces from XML" https://www.effbot.org/zone/element-tkinter.htm

There's a gulf between that and XUL, eh? ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUL )

"The Wheel of Reincarnation" has been turning for a long time now:
http://cva.stanford.edu/classes/cs99s/papers/myer-sutherland...

X Windows!? NeWS? Postscript and PDF? (PDF has JS in now!) I'm sure we could fill a book just with languages and frameworks for GUI, eh? VPRI STEPS program created Nile, etc...

Display problem, Y U NO solved yet?

Why hasn't something (better than HTML/CSS/JS soups) congealed in this area? Is it really so hard? Are we just running in circles?
It's new, it's hardware, and it's Apple. News about Apple hardware often hit the HN frontpage.

EDIT: misread the page; thought that's a new screen from Apple.
https://github.com/graphile/postgraphile
Copan Italia SPA, one of the largest producers of medical testing swabs, is located in the Lombardy region of Italy. They are evidently capable of producing up 750,000 swabs per day. Copan has stayed open and is producing swabs for use worldwide. I would assume this was a supply purchased from Copan by the US government and then shipped in the most expeditious manner possible.
There is some merit to that but what I see over and over is companies try to use too much.

Most menial tasks senior guys have figured out how to automate. We hate menial repetitive tasks and find ways to eliminate them so the ROI of having a senior guy is yes payroll is higher but you have less headcount.

There really isnt anything new being done. Containers have been around for ages ( Solaris doms / freebsd jails )

What I see is companies prematurely optimizing by saying they need portability and multi cloud strategies before they have achieved profitability.

Multi cloud is expensive and difficult and if you don't have a successful business you really don't need it to be portable.

Just some observations from someone watching various business models
> insane analogy

Yeah, Godwin's Law strikes again. Not everything is literally Hitler.

> This is an extreme, uncited, and frankly inflammatory extrapolation. There have been only a handful of such attacks -- I believe 5-ish (reported by The New Yorker and CNN).[0]

So nobody is doing this? Or have there been incidents that you yourself have previously acknowledged?

I tried civilly engaging in discourse with you earlier[1]. But now it seems like you're arguing with people just to argue, not to actually discuss these topics.

Also, you can correct people who are mistaken about where it originated without saying "Chinese flu". E.g. "actually, the coronavirus originated in China". I remarked on this to another user who said they just wanted to stick to the facts about its origins.[2]

If you're intent on making sure China is regarded as the source and/or culprit, you can emphasize further by adding something like, "and that's why the majority of cases and deaths from [coronavirus/covid-19] were in China. It started there." And that can be said perfectly fine without "Chinese virus".

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22621821

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22622069

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22622774
I've run Linux on my xps 13 since 2015. Issues at first when the hardware was brand new and not supported in the latest Ubuntu kernel but excellent ever since. Fully intend to buy another if it ever dies, no worries about reliability here.
Lockdowns
Everything is always in a single directory, it's called "/". I don't see why you think the files under /usr are particularly likely to be remote mounted.
The thing that worries me the most about the Elderly Grocery projects is that elderly individuals are EXTREMELY vulnerable to criminals and scam artists. They are explicitly target. I'm very afraid of people volunteering for these things as a confidence builder they can use to prey upon them.
For an even better predictor, look at money supply vs. actual economic output. If the economy's producing 20% more actual stuff, and the money supply grew 20%, that's not inflation. That's stability.
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I've been doing a Twitch development stream (a couple hours a day working on a dwarf fortress game in Rust). In the stream, I'll have about 90% lurkers, 10% people who engage in chat and about 1% that have sent me actual PRs for the code :-) It's very interesting. (BTW, I should be streaming now... Bad Mike...)