skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Viruses generally become milder because of selective pressure to do so. If it kills the host, it doesn't get to spread as much.

Plus, of you get slightly sick, you probably continue your life and infect others. If you get horridly sick, you stay in bed and encounter no one.

WWI made the Spanish Flu have it's second wave. Mildly I'll soldiers stayed where they were. Really sick ones were sent in overcrowded trains far from the front lines back to overflowing hospitals with inadequate sanitation.

These lockdowns we are doing are encouraging a deadly second wave.
Barbershops etc. are a class of business that gift cards aren't the best fit for because they have finite, nonscalable capacity.

You buy a gift card for a timeslot, which helps the barbershop's cashflow now, but when you redeem it later, you're clobbering it's future income.

A barber can work overtime and open up more slots, but he might never catch up. Unless you have really short expiry dates or low redemption rates. In which case the gift cards become more like a donation, which under the current circumstances wouldn't be a bad thing.
Tinder does the same thing too right ? Attractive people are matched with attractive people At the end of the day when it comes to eyeballs, sexiness sells. The rules of attraction are very much gamified at this point.
From https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615370/coronavirus-pandem...

> We don’t know exactly what this new future looks like, of course. But one can imagine a world in which, to get on a flight, perhaps you’ll have to be signed up to a service that tracks your movements via your phone. The airline wouldn’t be able to see where you’d gone, but it would get an alert if you’d been close to known infected people or disease hot spots. There’d be similar requirements at the entrance to large venues, government buildings, or public transport hubs. There would be temperature scanners everywhere, and your workplace might demand you wear a monitor that tracks your temperature or other vital signs. Where nightclubs ask for proof of age, in future they might ask for proof of immunity—an identity card or some kind of digital verification via your phone, showing you’ve already recovered from or been vaccinated against the latest virus strains.
The legislative giveth, and it taketh away.
Maybe a good interim solution would be a “proxy command” that knows the output format of common commands, and how to convert them to json. So for example you could pipe the output of ls to this tool, and it would be smart enough to parse it and convert to json.
CBB reminds me of the pieces of hardware I've labeled as "maybe bad".

Only to run across 2 years later, and find myself wondering "who was this 'future me' that I envisioned might be interested in an ethernet card that exhibits flaky behavior under high load when bonded?"
Not exactly.

https://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/node/2927
Yeah naming things makes it easy to talk about them but also draws arbitrary lines that influence the people dealing with said named objects

Science is one thing, but science also obfuscates what you are trying to talk about by applying a specific kind of 'grid' or 'form' which reveals certain patterns in the content but also hides certain patterns (re: Foucault)
Tips for setting up and teaching online classes during Coronavirus closures
A gas mask is very taxing to breathe in. I'd imagine the doctors doing 12-16h days would be passing out left and right.
>>> Although the Wuhan outbreak is the sixth one caused by bat-borne viruses in the past 26 years —the other five being Hendra in 1994, Nipah in 1998, SARS in 2002, MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome) in 2012, and Ebola in 2014—“the animals [themselves] are not the problem,” Wang says.

I wasn't aware Ebola was traced back to bats.
Does systematic workflow to undertake polyglot Codebase ownership exist?
Is it possible to come up with a systematic workflow to accelerate the process of inheriting ownership of a legacy polyglot codebase?
The core use case is to understand a distributed system with close to no documentation, no class diagrams, very few comments and a very reluctant couple of engineers who might know dependencies but not willing or "too busy" to build the dev docs.
Tool recommendations for Java, Scala, C++, and C will be much appreciated. IDEs used IDEA (for JVM languages) and Visual Studio code. Book suggestions are welcome too.
Thanks.
My comparisons for UV light have been SODIS for water (very effective for clear water).
This is exactly how it works in the U.S.. The government's right to take your IP is explicitly rooted in eminent domain law.
My barber has an iPhone, so I offered to Apple Pay him (no fee if linked to debit/cash account). All I needed was his phone number.
I think it's important. Even if they cap at 10 years of malware samples that's still petabytes of data. Also, there's something to learn now from this malware. But, maybe more importantly, there's something to learn from it in the future. How long should the Internet Archive keep old arcane internet web pages and flash sites?
They should probably make an exception for rich ugly people.
Increase in demand for postgraduate degree courses (2009)
IP laws are wrong in all circumstances. I don’t owe anyone money for singing a song, nor when I print a shape, nor when I photograph a painting, nor when I give a friend a book.
The OpenTable data includes takeout and delivery. I think NYC actually might do a bit better than other markets, since there is a strong takeout and delivery culture with most restaurants below the fine dining level.
Right. That is why they should stop exporting their shitty masks. Other countries will just have to import the superior quality masks than NO OTHER COUNTRY is producing at the necessary scale.

Even at times of crisis, you can count on good'ol HN to supply a dose of China hatred.
is this legal?
There are some notable outliers, such as major Florida cities showing less of a drop (maybe due to Spring Break?) despite Florida having active cases and I believe a couple of deaths for over a week now.
Cannabis Is Essential
Wow that's old why is this being posted?
Price gouging is evidence of a failed market and not a consequence of capitalism. In the event of market failure, government intervention is often warranted until the market can correct itself.

However, laws against price gouging are not the whole solution.

Laws against price gouging do not prevent hoarding or panic buying. Thus, holding the price of the goods artificially low in the face of increased demand leads to shortages. (Unsurprisingly)

If you have laws against price gouging you need to have laws that limit the number of units purchased to reduce hoarding. Otherwise, you inevitably will have short term shortages.
> I'm curious, if I have no internet access and gps turned off on my phone (Samsung Galaxy S7) is there still hidden shit which is tracking my location? .. Like, is GPS not really turned off for example?

Your location can still be determined by at least your service provider based on the strength of the signal it emits as received from the (presumably various) antenna sites in the area.
How companies can increase mobile conversions as we move to shop online
I think you're overestimating the magnitude of lost revenue. We're talking about 1 month of lost revenue.

A profitable restaurant's unit model might be: 10% net profit, 30% COGS, 30% fixed cost, 30% labor cost

During this one month shutdown, the restaurants won't incur labor cost or COGS. So, they're really only in the hole 30% of one month's revenue. With a little back of the envelope math, you'll see that the restaurant owner can pay back a loan for this amount by allocating 10% of their monthly profits (or 1% of monthly revenue) to loan payback.

Now, if the restaurant is NOT profitable, then we have a problem. But, they were probably going to go out of business soon anyways in that case.
Product Studio, RAID's replacement was great. I really didn't like the transition to TFS.
Covid-19 Open Research Dataset
https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/3853

There is evidence for this.
It also allows language implementations to get a GC that, while not perfect, is "good enough" in many cases - and can get them through the early growth period. The library has APIs to manually manage roots etc for this purpose.

I remember that Mono used it early on. Not really surprising that Guile does, as well. Nor is it surprising that they haven't switched to a better hand-rolled GC - given the relative obscurity of Guile, I would imagine that its maintainers have more important things to work on.
Country selector resets to top-5 every time you change graphs :(
A) The step was talked about at the 8PM press conference and is necessary according to all expert opinion.

B) The closing order never included the Supreme court nor the PM's trial. Even the order's date did not apply. The trial was delayed because the judges didn't feel like dying because the opposition required a talking point.

C) The opposition's behaviour has been disgraceful - undermining necessary steps because of the intense political competition, e.g. the argument that the government can't tell people to stay in their homes.

Their election slogan was "Israel over anything". Apparently it's really "getting power over anything". The electorate will have a word with them in the 4th round - unless Gantz, who has been responsible, will prove himself to be a leader and manage to rein in his irresponsible comrades.
You can’t use a phone without the tower knowing where your phone is. When data is sent to you it’s not transmitted via every tower in the country; it is sent out only via the tower to which your phone is associated.

The only way to avoid this is to turn your phone off/disconnect from the network. Sadly network access and coarse location logging are impossible to unlink.
Actually 14 days.
No I am just stating a fact. Also if someone perceives another person to be "better" than you, that doesn't make you dumb. There will always be people smarter than us. If you're chasing validation you can keep going and chasing degrees + institutions.
> Office cloned the source and built their own custom version

I found this bit amusing considering that (IIRC) the Office team also had their own C compiler :-P
The government tracking everyone's location all the time would be/is a gross infringement on privacy. The government tracking everyone's location for a limited time period in order to curb a deadly epidemic seems much more reasonable. The difficulty is trusting them to give back that power when the crisis is over. If not for the experience of the Patriot Act, I'd be more inclined to give the benefit of the doubt there.

Still, if this were done in a truly open way, and the criteria for ending the program were clearly specified at its outset, it's something I could support. Looking at the Chinese response, advanced and extensive contact tracing has allowed them to restart significant commerce in areas where initial outbreaks have been controlled through social distancing. Doing the same here might not only save lives, but also livelihoods.

Of course I would be nervous about the potential for overreach, misuse, and acclimatization. But if the allowable uses and time-frame were set into law, perhaps those concerns would be outweighed by the potential benefits.
Taking a quick look, this should be able to run without issue on any distribution. They're using Docker to run all the components. No Ubuntu-specific dependencies.
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I believe you big man / woman.
> But I'm suspicious of large-scale reuse during the development process. We've been trying to make it work for decades now, and it just hasn't panned out. At what point do we reframe a goal as a delusion? I think we're way past it in this case.

Software Reuse is not a "goal" but common well-understood practice. Call a function from more than one location, instantiate a class more than once and call its methods from several locations. We do that because it is helpful for development and maintenance, not because that would be our "goal".

I would think most software written say in Java uses that approach, in practice. Create multiple instances of a given class. So what would be the evidence that this approach has not "panned out" and is "delusional goal"?

Maybe your "avoid reuse" is a better approach. But I don't think there's a lot of evidence that would prove it to be so, not at least yet.
i have 2 letters for you: jq

any tool that outputs json + jq => instant scriptability win.
My favorite computer science joke by far!
I believe it will eventually be known, and I hope someone starts some kind of campaign to boycott companies who are doing things like this during this crisis.
No. But not all illegal things are immoral.
The website lists a restaurant (Southern Proper in Boston) that shut its doors months ago. The space already has a new tenant, has been renovated and has new signs up.

Edit: It appears the site immediately posts any user submissions without any verification. I posted Toro, and it immediately went live on the site. They’re worth posting, because they’re sharing 50% of gift card proceeds with staff through the end of April: https://www.instagram.com/p/B9zIuPkB4U-/
I started at Microsoft in 1991, and remember RAID fondly. My favorite part back then (probably running on Windows for Workgroups): when you minimized the program back to its desktop icon, the icon animated for a few seconds, showing a can of bug spray firing on a small flying bug, which dropped to the ground.
My first thought about this economic mess was that it clearly illustrates why it'd be a bad idea to have another world war, even if it were mostly economic or infrastructure based.

I now think that this is getting us prepared to have a world war.
The manufacturer has given tinkerers another good reason to make fully open source 3d printable reanimation machine.
"Superpower" in the American context is largely about our ability to project our military and economic power upon other societies, not about our ability to provide for the well-being of all Americans.

You could even (cynically) look at it the other way, that part of our "superpower" is the projection upon the world of the disaffection and anger that we breed internally by not providing for the well-being of all our citizens (in ways far more severe than a dearth of N95 masks). You see that phenomenon much more clearly in dictatorships and autocracies, but to an extent it's here too.
As Apple has prioritized privacy, I have migrated my stuff towards them. If they are pathetically far from being privacy first, I would like to know how so.

Prioritizing user convenience over user privacy is driven by a profit motive, sure. But that’s different than Google’s ecosystem which prioritizes monetization of user data over user privacy.

So, can anyone expand on where Apple sacrifices user privacy (other than for user convenience)?
I'm not sure exactly what you're alleging. The discussion was about whether Google manually moves their own properties up in the SERPS but you seem to be speaking of how their PageRank algorithm was seeded some 20+ years ago.
I don't think there is going to be a big demand for large commercial premises for a while. Even after this virus goes away, we are still most likely going be in a recession. Many knowledge workers (and maybe more importantly their managers) will have realised they can actually work from home.

The alternative is the landlords try to rent these spaces as co-working spaces themselves, but demand for that is going to drop too - which is the issue in the first place.
Using Gobbli for Interactive NLP
I agree with you generally, but the issue is really that we (in the US) replaced manufacturing with some combination of the perception and externalization of automation. We shipped it all overseas and said "we really don't care how you get it done, but if you can consistently do it at this price, you may as well be an 'automated' black box to us".

If it was fully automated today, we should be able to do it here. Build the same machines. Hell, buy the machines from over there, and set them up here. Then figure out how to pay everyone for the service/idea/artsy work. Whatever they wanna do, at least we can afford the masks when we need them, right? (And the healthcare, and the iPhones, and the whatever else is either absolutely necessary or has supposedly been automated.)

But it's not, so the conversation is really about how we can afford to pay people a living wage in a country with a higher cost of living when they're working as underpriced supplemental labor for not-quite-there automation.

And the reality is that we can't: we externalized that lower wage and we slapped an "automation" sticker on it so that everyone would jump on board. Then we realized that we don't own the automation AND we're eliminating the jobs that automation is replacing instead of retooling the existing jobs to ride the technology curve of said automation as its benefits start to grow.

Again, this is all a very America-centric view, but I think it applies to pockets of Europe as well. And if I was living in certain Asian countries, I think I'd be stoked as hell about the increase in wages that could continue to meet the cost of a rapidly increasing standard of living.

I should also say I'm very much in favor of free trade, and I think that mercantilism/protectionism is net negative for the global welfare of humanity. But I think there was an opportunity that a lot of short-sighted American manufacturing powerhouses missed when they agreed to sign up for the Chinese manufacturing equivalent of SaaS.
Had a conversation just like this with an Uber driver a couple of days ago: "Why are they telling us not to wear masks? Like they're only effective for hospital staff...it doesn't make sense." The guy was wearing his mask.
I work in 3-4 different Spaces on my Mac, and when I do Zoom calls I always populate a new 'space' with all the windows that I'm going to need for the call. Doing that and turning on DND has been pretty reliable for me, but then again I'm not presenting to the world, so it's lower stakes.
So when you get 1-2 months of essentials just in case, it’s a good idea, but when other people do it, it’s panic buying and overreaction?
Poland will treat all Covid-19 patients with Chloroquine
Poland has formally registered Chloroquine as a drug for COVID-19 and will treat all patients with it.

Chloroquine phosphate is a generic antimalarial drug derived from quinolone, in 10 trials for Covid-19 in China, including one in combination with Kaletra, as chloroquine phosphate is believed to have broad-spectrum antiviral activities.

Basically the goal is to allow zinc to get into a cell, it needs a helper to get inside the cell (a Zinc Ionophore). Apparently Hydroxychloroquine / Plaquenil (which you can buy here: InHousePharmacy.vu/p-1106-plaquenil-tablets-200mg.aspx or here easyshopping4health.com/buy-plaquenil-usa.html) is even more effective than Chloroquine.

Also see Medscape.com/viewarticle/736439 and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32074550/ title: "Chloroquine phosphate has shown apparent efficacy in treatment of COVID-19 associated pneumonia in clinical studies"

Quinolones like Chloroquine were used in malaria prevention for many, many years. they aren't used specifically against malaria anymore, because malaria adapted. But I always prefer a compound that can be manufactured easily and has been used by many many people over years.

Regarding Zinc Ionophores, the flavonoid Quercetin (which you can buy in many places) has been shown to rapidly increase labile zinc in mouse cells as well as in liposomes. Source: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jf5014633
"No pricing information was provided for the “preliminary” GHF51, which appears to be headed for a Q3 release. More information may be found on DFI’s product page" [1]

http://linuxgizmos.com/raspberry-pi-sized-sbc-is-smallest-ry...
Wow! I have been a Mac user since PPC was a thing, and I had no idea! Thank you!
Because to me, the consumer, I can't think of a single time automation replacing humans has been better. Self checkouts suck for anything more than a handful of items, especially compared to a well trained cashier/bagger combo. Automated call/IVR systems are hypertension inducing bad. ATMs are no replacement for tellers for most situations that bring one to the bank.

I'm not a complete luddite. In many systems, specifically manufacturing, robots outcompete humans and it makes sense.

The problem arises when anything requiring the least bit of thinking is attempted to be automated. Those are nothing more than cost saving measures, and bring down the quality of service to everyone involved.
List of the latest Fake caller id Application for Android in 2020
They do it with software licensing for sure. There are almost certainly satellites and weapons systems out there with GPL code in them but good luck proving it.
Anything that help me to draw figures and write equations on screen
It doesn't have to be either-or. We could have some form of mandatory "bailout insurance" for companies - if you're "too big to fail", then you're big enough to pay into the rainy day fund.
GPS is receive-only. You'd need substantial power to hit geostationary satellites.

If you truly have no cellular or WiFi connectivity, nothing will be tracking your location. However, hardware kill switches are the only way to be sure of that. Or physically messing with the hardware.
Why is this a problem when done by social media companies and not a problem for the rest of the media?
Now it's really not the time to speculate with numbers that could downplay the risks. We'll see in a few years. 0.\d+% could be someone we love. Keep safe. Prevent if you can.
Handbook to fight Coronovirus by China’s clinical practitioners
To be fair, they are pretty good about adding sunset clauses to these surveillance laws. This will be the fourth renewal of the Patriot Act after it expired yesterday.
Telemedicine will be huge. It’s changing by the day currently.
Embedded R1000 is up to 2/4 Zen cores/threads and 3 Vega CUs in case anyone else was wondering.
I hadn’t; cheers!