skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Purely economically, the west is at a disadvantage because they'd be fighting free-market pressure of everyone wanting the lowest price. Right now, for whatever reason, things are cheaper to make/buy-from China and other Asian countries. From my perspective, there are only 3 options as to how to fix this:

1. Accept and be willing to pay a higher price (for manufacturing that happened in friendly places)

2. Impose tariffs on Chinese-made goods so that the local higher-price is a non-issue and may even be cheaper due to lower shipping costs.

3. Impose whatever it is that makes things more expensive in the West to also happen in China. E.g. environmental laws, regulations, working conditions, etc.

My vote would be number 3. Get the damn UN to proclaim something, impose sanctions and embargoes if they don't comply, kick them out of the UN meetings, blockade their border and punish countries that don't comply with the sanctions/embargo, etc. Right now, we all keep complaining, treaties and stuff gets passed and blasted out on the news with feel-good promises of compliance X-years later, but when non-compliance happens blatantly, no one does anything but complain and half-ass it by proclaiming condemnation, imposing silly sanctions that do very little, etc.

Half the humanitarian and human-rights problems happening right now around the world can be fixed if strict rules were put in place, and non-compliance by various governments was punished severely. We need to stop treating countries as nebulous entities with no accountability. Hold the entire country accountable and watch the dominoes fall into place as everyone really at the end of the day wants to get along and just go about their daily lives. If democracy works for citizens, it should work for countries.
What the biggest companies in the world are using to manage their internal teams
It would be irresponsible of him to show us his math?
No, that will not work. This virus is so infectious, one person can infect a whole bus by just coughing a few times, or the whole elevator by just breathing in an elevator. By the time he tests positive, he had infected dozens of people.

That's what happened in South Korea, as far as I understand. They missed just one guy out of 31, and he started a massive infection.

Yes, massive testing is indeed better than what we do now, but if you let people to just walk around, it will do absolutely nothing.
> the USA curve is fearsomely steep

This analysis is difficult because it is related to testing capacity. We all know testing capacity was limited early on. It remains limited, but is growing. The faster capacity grows, the steeper the curve will be. Want to have a less steep curve? Lower the amount of testing.

In another comment, you claim looking at the curves leaves out politics completely, but it doesn't. Any politician can make the situation look worse on the curve, but better serve their people, by increasing testing. They can also make their curve look better, but do worse for their people, by claiming their state is unable to purchase tests. This can be a very political game.
Ask HN: Is this normal practice from Facebook?
I've been contacted from fb for a position in London with the excuse that they're hiring 1k+ people [1].

Everything seemed legit from internal recruiter contact details and procedure: I've got a lot of reading material from them, set online meetings, etc...

I did the first coding interview and the interviewer has been overly positive throughout the 40 minutes we talked. One day later the former recruiter told me I didn't pass and now he's refusing to give me a more detailed feedback claiming that "due to compliance policy we are not able to provide you with the detailed feedback on your interview"

So...it's this for real or this is some sort of very refined scam (no idea what may be the end goal tho)?

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-europe-business-idUSKBN1ZK0G4
It seems that this APL (Address Programming Language) notation is kind of a high-level microcode, similar to one used in Intel x86 CPUs, assuming that not only RAM words, but every register and I/O port are also directly addressable.

Of-course microcode is executable, but Address notation was manually translated into each specific CPU architecture.

Since every operation defined as a set, it seems it supported expressing SIMD-style vectorized computations.
Lockdown? Bring nature inside and listen to some fine tracks
i'll take the word of a Cardiovascular Physiologist in that reddit thread over some dude on hacker news who really doesn't know what he's talking about
If you want to have better comparable values, you should account that US have had too little testing and it just starts to increase. The US also has such health care system that it doesn't treat most potential patients the same, also potentially missing the cases completely. So the numbers of the "confirmed cases" in the US aren't to be trusted at the moment.

What's more sure, in most of the countries in the world, is that if the tests are available at all, and the patients happen to be admitted to the hospitals with the symptoms, they will be tested, and the percentage of deaths will be comparable in all countries, and we should be able to assume that the hospitals will report the deaths of the patients tested positive.

In short, now that the numbers of deaths increase, these numbers reflect better the issues we are facing than just the reported cases.

We should estimate the number of "comparable" cases across the countries or areas with different capabilities from the numbers of deaths, at least for the countries and areas which have at least enough tests to test those admitted with symptoms and report the dead, and once these numbers aren't too low to be too noisy.

I've demonstrated some of my simple calculations in my other messages, so you can check these too.
In theory, this is fine. In reality, we need some of these other systems. Few folks have a couple of good scales (and yes, you need two: One for small amounts and one for the larger ones).

Luckily, bread making isn't that exact, especially for home kitchens.
Hosts file ignored on Windows with DNS over HTTP enabled in latest Firefox
I created a security bug on Mozilla's BugBounty but I thought it would be good to inform HN users. Here is the copied text from the bug:

I use https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts to add ads, malware, social media, etc to my hosts file in order to stop the pervasive tracking by adtech and social media companies. With the latest Firefox (stable) 74.0 and the default settings of DNS over HTTP thru cloudflare my hosts file is ignored. Even though facebook.com is supposed to route to 0.0.0.0 I am still able to resolve this in Firefox (but not via ping or any other hosts respecting software). This seems like a major issue and people should be aware of the risks of this default setting being enabled.

So basically Firefox now completely ignores your OS settings, and sets up a proxy by default.
Specification for ventilators to be used in UK hospitals during the outbreak
Why the EAX register of x86 is called that
That quote doesn't paint the full picture. E.g. We haven't tried direct-democracy. Still won't fix peoples' herd-like behavior of following skilled orators, but it should make a serious dent in lobbying.
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/fm2xb9/heres_w...
Personally I don't care that it's a modern "90s" chip.

But the fact that it's a microcontroller rather than a microprocssor bugs me. The lack of an external memory bus feels incredibly in-authentic to me.
Keeping the coronavirus from infecting healthcare workers
Beautiful. The law of diminishing returns means that the perfect is the enemy of the good (or something like that.)
That Wikipedia page has a corresponding "Talk" page. Go discuss it there.
Mindful Breathing Helps You Controlling Your Thoughts
I wonder what happens when I move my cursor over a large tappable area. The OS must have to maintain internal state that represents the real x, y position. Otherwise the cursor wouldn't move across the screen in a consistent way. But while moving across the tap target I don't get any visual feedback about where my cursor actually is? I'm curious to see how they solve this.
Taxation is a very good way to internalize external cost like pollution.
It sounds nice when you put it that way but do you actually do this? How about if you thought about buying a new house, a new car or maybe a new gold ring? Would you still do this after the crisis hit? I doubt goldsmiths will see people buying as much as they used to and I see no difference in that and supporting the local gym. If anything the smaller shops should be supported more than the big ones.
https://habrastorage.org/r/w780/files/154/629/59f/15462959ff...

Photo of programmers from 1956. Twelve women, zero men.
Honestly, what do you think is going to happen to these people if the economy totally shuts down? it's going to be easy to have a chronic & serious health condition?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/505995/adults-with-hyper...

The state with the lowest incidence of hypertension still has roughly 1 in 4 adults with hypertension. West Virginia is at the top with more than 1 in 2 adults. What do you think happens to them when they develop COVID-19? Hypertension is at the top of the list of co-morbidities that worsen outcomes. Medication to treat hypertension is often extremely inexpensive even without insurance ($10-$20/mo at the low end) and thus hypertension is often easy and inexpensive to manage.

How many folks working at pharma companies do you think have hypertension? What happens to the supply chain when people are incapacitated?

Even if a minority of the population will need hospitalization (hell, even if the minority is small enough to avoid overwhelming hospitals)... how many do you think will work through a SARS-CoV-2 infection?

The gravity with which I treat this pandemic is in large part based on government action. China quarantined nearly 100 million people. Iran is building mass graves. The uber-pro-business trump crony that serves as the secretary of the treasure took one look at the GOP plan and essentially said "double it, and make it cash with no means testing."

The folks arguing for immediately disruptive action aren't ignoring the economic consequences, they've decided that the economic consequences of doing nothing will be worse.
I’m also fully in on the Apple ecosystem - AirPods Pro, Watch, AppleTV, iPhone, and iPad.

But I really don’t see the purpose of buying a Mac for personal use. I have a work provided laptop, I mostly do “consumption” at home besides the occasional resume update with Word and some personal spreadsheets.

The iPad has better battery life than a laptop, instant on , built in cellular, it’s more consistently responsive and first and foremost, I can install any random crap trusting the sandbox and the permission system.

But as far as a “bigger phone”, having a larger screen is a godsend not to mention working with multiple apps at once and pip video.

I had the first gen iPad and it was just a bigger iPhone, the iPad has come a long way since then.
It is the health care system like number of ICUs, training of doctors and stuff like not being able to get antibiotics simply over the counter like in Italy. If my memory serves me right e.g. in Italy 29% have a resistance to antibiotics, in Germany only 0.4%.
Yes, of cause. If you have the big-budget and great team you can optimize your application very much.
But in Embox the user applications stay the same, and customization was very easy!
Gardening for pleasure, Allan Seale.
Kernel Lockdown Impact on BPF
Republicans assert party loyalty by not washing their hands
"In compute" just means that there aren't inputs and outputs related to the current output frame in the calculation job - the computational possibilities are the same.

Triangles aren't necessarily involved in in rendering either, see eg how the stuff on shadertoy.com works.
I felt the same way and that’s why I built Warthog - https://warthog.dev. It’s a Node.js code-first GraphQL framework written in TypeScript that utilizes both TypeORM and TypeGraphQL under the hood. You add your resolvers and data models, add Warthog’s decorators and you get an auto-generates GraphQL schema complete with sorting, filtering and pagination. It’s also built to be flexible, as auto-generated GraphQL APIs typically limit your flexibility. Check it out - seems to check your boxes.
CovidNearMe
UK number of deaths is two weeks behind Italy's. I'm quite sure that that growth will be consistent in the next two weeks in the UK -- namely, up to now, the growth characteristic remained the same across the countries with different policies, and it can be observed, from China and Italy, how long it takes for any policy to decrease the growth. Then check and compare the Italian measures with the UK for your estimate when the UK curve will flatten in the weeks that follow. When the flattening will start will indeed make a huge difference in the direct impact of the virus (the number of ill and dead) between the countries, due to the growth characteristics being what they are. Also see my other posts.

The number of "cases" reflects at the moment the capabilities of the whole medical system in each country (it's dependent on who is selected to be tested at all) and the tests used. The number of deaths hides less. Also, even if the specific numbers can't be compared 1 to 1 across the countries, the characteristics of the curves can.

The growth is fast but it is comparable, and the measures take time to affect it.
People don't become resistant to antibiotics, bacteria do and resistant bacteria in Italy would just spread to Germany. Anyway Covid-19 is a virus, not a bacterium.
So true, I can't understand why climate change hasn't been given the same considerations in the past :(
Why It's Called 'Quarantine'
Post the correct link in another submission, and add a link here, so the mods may mark this as a dupe.

If you think this post is also interesting, change the title to the correct one.
Scientists create quantum sensor that covers entire radio frequency spectrum
We could possibly clean up the numbers, assuming the death rate is predictable across regions.

Take numbers from a region where testing is frequent, say the death rate is 2%. Then scale the numbers in a region with lack of testing to match the 2% death rate.

Not perfect, as there are external factors like hospital capacity/quality and existing population health.

However, it should give a closer approximation of total cases where politicians fail to provide adequate testing.
`cargo-outdated` is mint. If you haven't already, consider installing `cargo-edit` too! It adds `cargo add`/`cargo rm` to add/remove crates, as well as `cargo upgrade` to bump semver versions.

https://github.com/killercup/cargo-edit
Thanks, except the discussion on this one are more relevant, to what is at stake. The other started pretty quickly on pooping the media.
Why do we need jobs to survive? That alone is an insane system. We desperately need to separate work activity and survivability.

Even without this pandemic, we live in a World where there is enough shelter, food and drugs for everyone but we still have homeless people, people starving or at the least malnourished and people dying in a rich country because they have to ration fucking insulin.

This economic system is not working at all. People die every die directly because of this system[0]. This pandemic just brings it to light.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_violence
For the first time, GIMP will not be present at Libre Graphics Meeting
Related, there's also the distinct possibility that many had Covid-19 well before it was in public consciousness.

Look for ILI (Influenza-like Illness) stats which were appreciably higher in January. The obvious inference is that many had Covid-19 before it was recognised as such.

This might be a good thing.
Well, a completely uncorruptable, perfectly verifiable paper voting system does not currently exist and we haven't come even close to designing one. You're saying that we can design one fairly easily, so why is it that no-one has done so? If it's so easy to do, surely someone at some point would have done it.
"At least 112 people have died since the first US case of the coronavirus was reported in January and the virus has spread to all states, the District of Columbia and some territories.
While the majority were treated at hospitals, a woman in Washington died at home."

Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/17/health/coronavirus-united...

For example this seems to state that out of 112 deaths, one was recorded from home.
Coronavirus: The Hammer and the Dance
What the Next 18 Months Can Look Like, if Leaders Buy Us Time

https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-the-dance-be9337092b56

An important article that deserves to be widely read and discussed.
>side loaded apps

The reason I (and probably others) tend to use community maintained software is because I absolutely hate fighting with my computer over something I shouldn’t have to (like wanting to install a compiler.) This is what people mean when they say the iPad is a big iPhone; you have to fight it to make it do anything just like on the iPhone.
Yep. Ventilator usage [if available] and deaths are more reliable indicators, but they're also lagging ones [and even deaths aren't entirely consistently measured since many of the most severely affected patients exhibit comorbities, and many nations don't test the dead]
Humble words after the government needed to threaten police action before Tesla finally followed the shutdown order for their Fremont plant.
> Holding a BSc in chemistry does not make you a chemist.

No, it absolutely complete, totally, without exception does.

Just look at the job advertisements.
Do you have a vector display of some kind?

No?

So someone somewhere is going to need to rasterise your vectors if you want to see them on a screen, aren't they?
Best Practices for your SaaS Landing page
This makes sense "evolutionary", because it means that even if you're tired after a long day, you actually still have reserves for sudden fight/flight situations.
PJON – Padded Jittering Operative Network
Is there any good book/resource about how all that fancy stuff you can use in Inkscape/Illustrator is actually implemented in terms of rendering. E.g. how are curves and lines with a thickness rendered or shapes that are defined by boolean operations etc. ?
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Swagger-UI-information-di...
> Also TP + FN = Prevalence of the d[i]sease, but using P for prevalence and for positive creates a lot of confusion

Nobody's using P for prevalence. It's being used for positive. Take a look at the table.

> that is the number of d[i]seased people

Yes, that is what "positive" means. (In the context of a test for disease.)
The original Lemmings games really work best with a mouse, which allows pixel-perfect clicking. But I've played some Android games over the years that reminded me of Lemmings, the first two that come to mind are World of Goo and Spirits...
While the Surface devices have been great explorations of 2-in-1 form factors (I have a Surface Pro and a Surface Book), they've also felt kind of pointless to me because none of them were really usable as tablets! Don't even get me started on the pen interface.
What are your thoughts on purely static tools on that for Python?

Basically my latest project that I was thinking about is to write a symbolic executor for python that would simply preserve all of the required-type information for all of the execution paths of the program.

Also the other project is to write a tool that allows you to walk all of the possible executions of a given piece of code to find which functions are being called from it - incredibly useful for refactoring of the old code.

Does something like this exists already that you've used and found useful?
The iPad isn't really for people who read hacker news. Except maybe on the toilet. :)

But for my mother, who has never touched, nor wanted to touch a computer, it has opened whole new worlds for her. She now loves that iPad and uses it for email, facebook, web browsing etc.

There are a whole lot more people out there like my mother than those who read hacker news.

If you've never felt the need for an iPad, you probably don't need one.
I think what is going on is a combination of relatively good testing capacity from the beginning and mostly young people infected, which due to the testing were prevented from spreading it to older demographics. See https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/478220a4c454480e823...

Also there is the purely anecdotal hypothesis of a cultural difference between for example Italy, Spain and Germany. In the southern countries it seems like older people have quite an active social life compared to Germany.
It is as tough in Sweden, doctors and nurses have of course access to patient files but every access is logged and if someone is caught accessing files about a patient they are not working with they will be reprimanded or fired.
> Want to have a less steep curve? Lower the amount of testing.

That works only at the beginning.
Would this mean that you could “boost” your workout by starting with some anaerobic exercises or reps?
> if I'm right the US is going to be reeling in just a few day.

considering how the UK handles the crisis it won't be far behind the US either.
Imagine if we had a system where you don't have to pay for any basic necessities, from shelter to food to healthcare to education.

We all work in the system, some would make more than others but even those who work the least or not at all would not be left behind. So if you make more you can enjoy more "stuff" and gadgets and if you make less you are still stress free about life.

Would we have $1000 phones or shopping shelves filled with hundred of fake choices? Most likely not but at least we won't have people rationing insulin or people living in the street of the richest city in the richest country.

We live in a world with so much production and people spend their time worrying about surviving and getting ahead instead of relaxing and making the world a better place.
That's why they invented Santa Monica.
I wouldn’t call myself a republican but I know many, the first thing the ones I know did was start washing their hands and telling people to wash their hands. That was supposed to be why it wouldn’t be so bad here.
Also, to make it clear, I'm not trying to say someone is doing something wrong. These people are working days and nights to help those in need.
Corona is killing a negligible % of the population, mostly very old and very sick people (checkout the official data from the Italian health ministary - average age of dead patiences is 79.5 years, all of them with severe background illness, in a part of the country where 29% of the population is at least 60 yeard old. Those are the facts.). If anyting, what we are experiencing is not a corona pandemic but a massive, global hysteria pandemic - much more dangerous.
A collaborative library of pay negotiation stories
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15982390
Because the temperature of the water determines how well extraction occurs. Sub-100°C (for black tea) and you get a shitty tasting tea (I like to call it 'herb water').

* https://www.thespruceeats.com/how-to-brew-tea-water-temperat...

It's similar to coffee (93°C)

* https://www.scaa.org/PDF/resources/golden-cup-standard.pdf
I'm not worried about extinction-level events -- more like the 100-year earthquakes and hurricanes that are improbable in any one place but somewhat frequent on a global scale... things like hurricane Katrina
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Well unfortunately US has much higher rate of obesity, diabetes and other factors that will increase mortality so would be pretty hard.
A 10-Point Small-Business Survival Plan for Dealing with the Coronavirus