skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve used windows my entire life/career. I recently moved jobs to an all Mac startup and I can’t believe how much better Bluetooth and VPN is. I keep messing up keyboard shortcuts and I don’t quite understand how “windows” work on a Mac. But the Bluetooth situation alone (I could never get my QC35s to work as a headset when needed and just headphones as needed) means I won’t use windows for a productive work environment for awhile. (Still have a gaming desktop that will always run windows for fun and VMs for dev)
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And this would be an even worse outcome.
Generally FPGA place and route, and more recently the same for ASICs. I don't recommend making your own ASIC as a hobby. It's damn expensive.
If the people who recover after mild/minimal symptoms do so within <5days (hypothetically), but people who have severe cases take 10 days to get severe, wouldn't that account for "would have seen deaths earlier in South Korea"?
I have a project that has this same workflow, in my gitlab-ci file I just run qmake followed by make. I have a custom container which contains the QT library and build tools.
What's wrong with plain old JS? Wikipedia is not a software company that it needs to use <insert-word-of-the-day> framework just to look hip.
If investors can comprehend the 30-year T-bill, then they can price in a bankruptcy expected 30 years in the future. If we can sit here and figure out on our own that a business that will fold if its revenue decreases by 10% for longer than a month is not worth as much as its P/E ratio would naively suggest, then surely other people can figure it out too.
I believe Apple also uses Linux to bring up their chips.
"Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China" - WHO

https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152
Which, compared to any company of its size, is essentially negligible.
I switched to Windows with WSL for all personal work about a year ago. I had been using Lubuntu (Lfce) for years, but wanted to give it a shot. There are some rough edges (file system permissions can be weird if you're sharing files between the host and Linux), but it has been great and I've gotten comfortable with it. One thing to be aware of is many devs will want at least Windows 10 Pro edition ad you can't use Home as a docker host. I didn't feel bad paying $100 for the upgrade though.
> this was a special case where someone they were in the middle of arresting had to be taken to a hospital, and they continued as soon as he was discharged"

So no issue at all and the law was being enforced in a completely rational and logical way. Ok, a little different from the claim that ICE is rounding up people at hospitals.

Thanks for the context.
Never heard of them. Their company setup is pretty impressive. However to say 'relies on absolutely no one else for its supply chain' is an extreme exaggeration and frankly impossible.

They don't make the computers, fiber optics, switches, exchanges, or software that their web site requires to run. They don't own the fleet of trucks, boats, and planes required to get their product to their customers - or their raw materials from plant to plant. They likely use rubber mats in their plants but I don't think they have a rubber plant. Unless they use outhouses I'm pretty sure they don't make toilets and sinks and plumbing. I don't know if they produce their own electricity but I'm sure they didn't build a generating plant from scratch....and on and on it can go.

If you haven't read it, search for the essay - I, Pencil - I'm sure YKK uses pencils as well.

The point is noone is even remotely close to being their own supply chain every one is deeply dependent.
The type of testing S Korea does require the Virus to be present in the body and only work in a certain window of time. Once a Serological survey is done, we’ll know the true extant.
This is an interesting paradigm, but I'd assume that anything going against CDC/WHO guidelines will be removed.

I had a physics professor in undergrad that still wasn't sold on the entire dark matter/dark energy phenomena and was proudly in the <1% of physicists who shared his beliefs.
I hope not, historically you've always been able to run the MathKernel from a terminal and interact with it that way. Maybe this is the same thing, just more targeted to use as an interpreter.
Good call. We actually put up a blog post with some answers: https://fly.io/blog/fly-answers-questions/
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Given the amount of testing being done in South Korea, we can rule out that there are a lot more people currently infected than we know about

That's a very strong claim. SK has done a lot of testing relative to most places but it's still:

a) A tiny amount relative to the population

b) Not a random sample of the population

Their tests were done at testing clinics that people had to take themselves to, which in many cases had large queues and generally you'd only go there if you actually felt really sick because otherwise why would you expose yourself to lots of probably really sick and infectious people?

So far there's overwhelming evidence that either a lot of people have the disease without symptoms, or the tests have a very high FP rate. There's also a lot of people writing like the person above, who are sure they've had the disease based on symptoms but were never tested. South Korea wasn't deploying their tests on people who were asymptomatic, they are doing the same as everyone else: testing people who present for testing or who otherwise seem to need it.
Yes, but I don't think the PCR test is testing for that, currently. It's looking for pieces of viral RNA that are present in your blood. Antibody serology tests aren't readily available anywhere yet. In fact, the CDC is still developing theirs.
How are they inferring sickness rates from smart thermometer data? I skimmed the article and their technical paper and got nothing. Presumably sick people stay home and they're correlating stay-home rates with sickness rates?
Actually one of my coworkers gave a talk at Facebook Performance summit on this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG7Zhd6gLiw
(Disclaimer: brief product pitch in the first minute as part of the speaker intro)
Whatever it is, I hope the answer involves “implement kevent(2) instead of creating epoll(2)”.
It’s also a waste and maybe (don’t know enough to do the modeling) worse for the environment to spin up many duplicative factories with poor economies of scale.
> as long as they didn't interact with the older population.

what about virus hanging on to surfaces for like 3 days
Why would they care enough to make an exception to their already strict open-source policy to contribute back to GPL licensed software?
My understanding is that the urging to not wear masks when healthy is solely due to preserving masks for people who actually need them (sick people and doctors) given a limited supply, not because they're ineffective when healthy.

It's just a form of triage.
Nice overview of jq! You may want to say demonstration rather than illustration though.

I liked jq but liked json, a similar npm package, a little bit better for simple tasks.

You can find more about it here:
https://github.com/trentm/json

As a JS dev I tend to have node installed anyhow so I just use a shell alias to wrap ‘node -pe’ these days. It’s not really for shell scripts but it’s great for quick every day usage. Plus you can use JS if needed instead of their DSL.

Here the code for the alias in my shell profile:
https://github.com/KylePDavis/dotfiles/blob/master/.profile#...
Ask HN: Has your company reduced human resources for the Corona virus?
In iran most companies do this for His employees just for covid-19 and it is very pain full.
if your company do this to you so what is your reaction?
get a loupe!
I'm not sure I follow the slippery slope. In the scenario where a tyrannical government six months from now is forcing Twitter to censor tweets... wouldn't the same tyrannical government six months from now force Twitter to censor tweets even if they weren't removing conspiracy tweets today?

Normally with a slippery slope argument there is some reason why the person who wants the final step to be taken has to take the earlier steps first, but here it just seems like the proposed bad guy can do what they want when they want to.
I was by no means my intention to make my counterpoint look less deserving of the same parody, and it seems I succeeded?
iPod is a wonderful example, and Apple in general too - They stole the idea of what devices to build (existing categories), copied the tactics and methods of actually building them (commodity parts) but extended the ideas sufficiently to not simply make yet another variant, but something truly new and much better.
the risk calculation is trust-based, so wondering how the author will make money is well within scope for trying to evaluate the risk.
Overlay is a nice feature, we had to give that up with Firecracker. We pre-optimize filesystems instead, tgz them, and then cache them in various regions. Boot times are _insanely_ good, which we like, although a lot of apps (especially node apps) are slow to start.
not only that but I do the same when I use the CLI because it makes sense to say "I have a file. Now I will pipe it to ___" rather than "Using ___ I will pipe a file in then ___".

It just makes more sense to do things in order even if it's a couple extra characters.
Incredible. Twitter has been functioning as the self correcting mechanism throughout this crisis, as the experts have fumbled and tripped over their own feet while responding to this crisis.

As of 3 days ago, weren’t the “experts” in the UK saying they were going to let the virus rip through the population to reach herd immunity? Until some dissenting experts noted that doing so would likely cause mass death and chaos. Would Twitter have shut down the members of the public noticing that the UK’s plan was insane, before the change of course?

You can sure as hell bet they wouldn’t shut down the UK government’s initial tweets, despite the fact that they caused the virus to spread.
Exactly! I have always thought it was insane from a national security perspective to allow functionally all of key manufacturing capabilities (e.g., microprocessors) to go offshore. Nevermind the risks of inserted backdoors, etc, just the external sources of failure rapidly become too great.

Yes, this would require subsidies & regulations, and be on a quarter-to-quarter and in most fiscal years "inefficient" use of capital, open to accusations of "waste", "boondoggle", "featherbedding", etc.. Yet, we're happy to pay firemen to polish their trucks while they wait for a fire to happen, or soldiers to 'squander' ammunition shooting at paper targets when there is no war.

Somebody needs to be thinking and acting on more than just shareholder value for the current quarter if we are to remain a nation.
not when governments around the world bailout the bad companies because they are "too Big to fail"
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Yeah, I think adventure games were given a free pass in the 2000's when the narratology vs ludology debate was going on, being automatically labelled as narrative games. There is/was also a very vocal crowd for insane puzzles that drove out regular or casual players to other pastures.

Nowadays I either play a game for the dopamine rush (street fighter), the zen like thing (the witness/the talos principle) or the story (Virginia, sea of solitude).

Took me a while to realize that stories in classic adventure games were what I really liked, not the puzzles.
Just as a hypothetical to illustrate my point, it's really common for small business owners in low margin businesses (like retail and restaurants) to have take-home pay of about $50,000 on $1,000,000 of revenue, which means they have $950,000 of expenses in a year. Even if they don't have to pay for certain parts of their business when they're shut down, how many hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt would they need to take on to keep the business in existence for the next few months?

How many hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt can $50,000 of net income service, even at .5% interest? Those dollars for debt service come straight out of the dollars for living expenses.

It may be better than nothing, but it may also not be. Trying to start over from scratch may be better than trying to start back up with basically any kind of additional debt.
There are different kinds of testing.

The current testing that's reported in the media is an antigen tests, that directly tests for the presence of the virus. Once your viral load comes down, you will test negative for the virus. Hence the reason people are declared recovered after having two negative tests in a row.

A test for the presence of antibodies is a serology test. The last time I looked into it (~one week ago), serology tests were under active development, but had not been deployed anywhere in a widespread way.

So, right now the testing will only tell you if you currently have the virus. Coming relatively soon are tests that will tell you if you previously had the virus.
Oh, man.

Better run your own Internet, after all, you care more about connectivity to your friends than your ISP does!

Dogmatism is passé. There are good uses for cloud, and good times for on-premise, depending on what you need, what your skillsets are as an organization, the kinds of workloads and length of time required for that workload.

AWS and others have absolutely outstanding amounts of infrastructure and tooling. Their reliability is off the charts in the past few years, and (once it actually gets figured out by your engineers) the cloud concept of IAM is incredibly secure.

There are pitfalls - cost, up-front complexity and several other things - but I no longer rag on "the cloud".
So far good. Didn’t have any no shows. Mostly around Habits, tech, finance.
There are reasons why US prefers to bail Boeing. US is always concerned about espionage and dependencies on other countries with respect to national interest. An example would be the whole Huawei+5G debacle.

What if Boeing goes bankrupt and the only reliable plane makers are PRC companies (usually state-backed, even if it's not explicit)?
That was the UK proposal which the public pressured against.
Shameless plug: If you use jq a lot, catj (https://github.com/soheilpro/catj) can really help you with writing query expressions.
What's the definition of "sick enough to be hospitalized"? Given the over-abundance of caution, I would imagine a good number of people with positive tests are admitted, monitored overnight, then released in the morning, without ever really showing much more than mild symptoms.

Tom and Rita Hanks were hospitalized. The worst of it, according to them was "a bit tired, some body aches... some chills. Slight fever too" Now he "feels the 'blahs' but has no fever."

https://twitter.com/tomhanks/status/1237909897020207104

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/mar/18/tom-hanks-has-t...
Deaths are all fine and good, but do you know statistics on hospitalizations for the under 50 crowd? Those are the resources that are important - even if the under 50 doesn't die from it but requires hospitalization that's both a resource that can't be used by the above 50's, as well as a possible death if there isn't a bed for them.
How is the file system performance in WSL? I'm stuck on WSL1 (IT managed OS upgrades) and file access performance is much slower than native windows.

So sometimes I give up on my favorite command line tools and switch to "CMD".
I always felt this was named incorrectly. It's not a Windows Subsystem for Linux operating systems, it's a Linux Subsystem for the Windows operating system.
Yes, that would. But what evidence do we have for that? I believe you're engaging in special pleading: appealing to an exception because it fits your conclusion.
That's fear talking. Why would you want to be tested? What would you do differently? You had a virus, now you aren't sick any longer. You aren't making other people sick, either.
Oh, easy. Because Stephen Wolfram plagarizes work from his underlings. That's despicable behavior and shouldn't be rewarded. It should, in fact, be punished.

Worse, he's not right often enough to justify the worship. He was completely and hilariously wrong on Bell's inequality and cellular automata for quantum logic.

Honestly, he's not even the coolest balding geeky pudgy unassuming guy; Jan Hammer is way cooler.
I am not an expert at epidemiology but I found WHO's leadership sorely lacking, profoundly confused and generally weak in every way.
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These games aren't portable to begin with - they use hardware-specific memory mapped IO, pixel processing units, DMA routines, etc. Simply taking the code and making it C doesn't let you run it elsewhere any more than taking the code for airplane systems and running it on your laptop will allow your laptop to fly.

The decompilation here is intended primarily to aid understanding or make changes, and I think targeting the system's specific assembly would serve that goal far better.

(to clarify: I'm talking specifically about retro video games here, because of a) the tight binding to hardware and b) the fact they were written in asm to begin with. I make no judgement on reverse engineering in general.)
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FTA:

> The U.S. Health Weather Map is a visualization of seasonal illness linked to fever

I think the assumption they make is fever == sickness.
https://archive.is/ukuzS
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I don’t know if WHO was just incompetent with that statement or was protecting / taking direction from the Chinese, but it’s pretty fascinating to be THAT wrong.
That sort of test is in development but isn't reliable enough for use yet. The tests currently in use detect virus DNA, not antibodies.
The time thing is def hard, and I empathize with employees being both a responsibility yet the no-one-blames-you lever everyone expects right now.

At the same time, your top competitors are also getting ready to lobotomize, and the smaller players too. Some of their suppliers/partners are feeling it, and the customers on your market may soon be in need of someone new. So a lot of opportunity for strong co's to come out with power moves on their market, just the $ doesn't get seen for awhile. Contractions create gaps for those who don't, esp as this isn't about industries dying but temporary cash crunches.

There is so much VC/PE money out there, that this is a ripe time for them. Their q is 'where' and 'how much of a discount'. I'm obviously quarterbacking here, but similarly as your lever being firing, bank/PE/etc is spending.
Sure. So start by going after the Nazis, then look for the Trump campaign staff, then the Covington field trip kids, then all the people who advocated for Brexit, then the Zionists, then Rush Limbaugh followers, then the screw-you-got-mine Libertarians, and finally we can get around to the mealy-mouthed "centrists" who support the establishment and vote for Joe Biden.

— Okay seriously though, my real point is that if they're going draw a line somewhere and that somewhere lies in the middle of a major current event where they are getting a lot of attention as a company and people tweeting about it getting lots of attention and there is an elevated risk of death associated with it.... well, it's just understandable if they decide to draw the line there? Certainly it's much easier to enforce a filter on narrow topical grounds than an ideology-validation filter would be.
...but you can make machines in machine shops, as pointed out above. or machines to make machines, if needed.

or in the simpler case you might fall back to scraped and oiled ways and bushings
If Boeing goes bankrupt all of the assets are still there and all of the employees still remember how to do their jobs. A company collapsing is a pure-paper action that means "fire everyone in charge." In some cases, depending on how the corporate governance is set up and on who holds the equity, it's the only way they can be fired.

If the US wants to help out US manufactures for strategic regions, it can apply the usual "made in USA" government purchasing rules, or maybe a tariff.
Yeah but that's the point. The use of this term makes people think that this is simply about socializing when it is not. The fact that it's hard to stay 6 feet away from someone else in a city while outside is why people should stop going outside unless they absolutely have to. It's not enough to simply stop hanging out with people, and this idea can't be communicated well with this term. Many people I see outside make no attempt at distancing themselves from strangers they are passing or while shopping.
This isn’t side loading. The app is in TestFlight because it’s still in beta
https://archive.is/RfipS
It doesn’t get called out, but when I read about the Spanish Flu I can’t help but feel that certain genotypes got very strong selective pressure.

Conversely, there are probably genotypes running around today that are completely asymptomatic to Covid. You could have whole families shedding virus wherever they go and never even know what they’ve done.

And one of the ways we learn about immunology is to study people who are immune or asymptomatic, so it’s not just about quarantining people that we need to identify infected individuals.
It’s not a misuse; it actually provides you with location data.
I had been wondering this too

I know of one that’s in the works
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/singapore-claims-fir...

I have seen other talk about such tests on Twitter but it’s too difficult to find it now.

Such tests seem to be called antibody tests or serological tests/assays.

EDIT: this twitter thread discusses such tests https://twitter.com/nachristakis/status/1240689935557865472?...
Supply chains have been globalized since the silk road. The famous "I, Pencil" essay is 50 years old. It may not be possible to deglobalise supply chains without unreasonable cost.

So that means we have to start looking at local resiliency and what that means instead; arguably this is where parts of the environmental movement are way ahead, such as the "transition towns" movement. And anti-consumerism in general: there's no supply chain for something you don't buy.
...why? If you don't like it, just don't install it. Not sure why you feel the need to ruin it for everyone else.
And asking you to save them is very much different than asking you to deliberately take them off while on a crowded subway car.
It's required to be public domain. IMO it's comparable to FOIA requests still requiring the requester to attach a stamp to the envelope their request goes in. Or at most, include a self-addressed stamped envelope too.

Requiring you to pay S3 is little different than requiring you to have Internet access, and thus pay whichever company includes you in THAT monopoly, IMO.
Yeah I have some pretty bad insomnia, and I don't really feel sleepy. At some point I just kind of, crash.

I could be drop dead tired from running/hiking, but unless I take sleeping pills, I have an extremely difficult time sleeping.
That would leave millions upon millions of people without jobs and trigger an economic recession against which 2008ff looks like a joke.
twitter is so bad at policing anything, just be a platform, and stop shaping the conversation
Consider checking your D3 vitamin metabolite levels in blood.
I had trouble falling asleep, had single digits of 25(OH) D3 concentration (The norm is 20+ ng/ml).

For now I was prescribed 20k IU of vitamin D3 twice a week.
Other things that helped - no caffeine after 3-4 pm and a cup of raspberry-hibiscus tea in the evening (It's very relaxing).