skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We just didn’t know how serious this would get. We had H1N1, swine flu, ebola, SARS, MERS, none got out of hand this crazy.

Our own president and task force kept on downplaying it for so long and giving us the wrong information. Even CDC was downplaying for a long time.
Nature also optimizes for far more variables than humans do. We min-max for a handful of KPIs at most. Nature optimizes for everything that an organism needs to survive, including in once-in-a-lifetime circumstances. It must do so since most organisms don't have dedicated support infrastructures. Cars don't need to concern themselves with reproducing, a jaguar does.

Sure, there are genuine inefficiencies like the laryngeal nerve but there also are plenty of apparently useless things that turn out to have some niche importance such as the appendix.
Code.org: 'Our Team Will Teach Your Children at Home While School Is Closed'
Younger Adults Make Up Big Portion of Coronavirus Hospitalizations in U.S.
I discovered it when looking into runtimes for my Bachelor's thesis. So far it's serving me quite well, especially after they reworked the Sentry file system abstraction (when I started file access was horribly slow). Networking works very well although they reimplemented it themselves. It also allows me to do base image layering using Overlay since I only keep binaries/source code/assets after a successful build.
I'm afraid it is a major problem in practice - I'm didn't write the post in the abstract I wrote it because this problem comes up over and over. If you've never seen it then lucky you! :)

Personally the conclusion I'm coming to is any interface that presents a table as an class is just the wrong affordance and likely to lead to problems down the line. If programmers modeled tables as sets instead of objects we wouldn't have all these problem apps that page the database into program memory while serving a web request.
> But given that, how do we move forward? We shouldn't be stuck in the past forever.

Wikipedia is essentially a public utility now. It's not their responsibility to move technology forward by forcing their users to upgrade their machines. There's loads of other players that do that already.

> If their site requires heavy client-side code

It doesn't.
All POSIX-compliant shells should support this.
I may just be old and bitter but I've never found emojis to actually help in commentary and are actively distracting when people already have established norms in communicating in a particular language as to my eyes it becomes adding a second language where there was already one. There's no rock solid definition for any emoji that has been normalized with a universally accepted dictionary especially when it is intermixed in another language that has its own complex grammar rules. As a single character statement of a symbol e.g. 'thumbs up' it works well, but that's the limit of emoji usefulness.

As someone who works in tech I'm always aware of the hundreds of completely overloaded terms I have to use and redefine on the fly but I also have the structure of the language I am using to provide context clues to have my actual intent, meaning, and purpose of said writing last to any reader including myself five years from now. I have so little confidence in effectively using emoji to actually provide expression in a way that is persistent to myself in five years that I abstain from it entirely. In small communities of people I have seen emoji-esque symbols exist (slack/forums/odd IRC emoticons) but it is because that is part of the living culture of a particular community and has to be taught to each person that chooses to join a community. I feel that is fine because there is a context to it and an established rule of use that allows it to enrich the conversation, but on a site like HN where it's a lot of people coming together it seems like trying to put a wall up for communication. A simple example is well is most HN commenters fully understanding what a line that starts with '>' usually referring to a quote of a prior post that they want to highlight in particular. It is a useful shorthand compared to writing out longhand 'In your post you have written many things but I particularly want to respond to your comment that reads "x to y".' You have to learn that and it's overhead.

I also depending on theming/font of the emoji characters themselves can sometimes take the wrong tonal interpretation even to me. Some seem sarcastic, some seem more intimate, some seem hostile, even though the underlying emoji is supposed to be neutral in tone. This is another reason why I avoid them, as I don't want to give off the wrong impression based on that.

For a discussion forum like HN I'd say that emojis are generally harmful to making sure that the conversations last longer than the moment they were written in case it becomes useful tomorrow.
Blockchain consultant here. Only a select few professions are able to meaningfully help during this health crisis.

Generally speaking, these tend to be software engineers (esp those working in fields like blockchain or machine learning) and arguably some medical professions like nurses and doctors. When we're in times of crisis, we need our best minds doing what they excel at, not doing things that your average Joe could do just as easily.

For non technical people who are struggling to understand this concept, I've prepared an analogy. It would be like hiring a CEO of a powerful corporation such as Jeff Bezos to clean your toilet. It just isn't a good use of his time or your money.
I remember that back when I was in University there was a set of simultaneous ordinary differential equations that MAPLE was able to solve that Mathematica choked on.

I remember reporting this to my tutor. He looked at me with a steely gaze and said “That is a very serious allegation to make, young man. Are you willing stand by it?”
Very true. But like mathematical arguments in journals, I'm glad open source complicated code is there to be examined.
Tyler Cowen had a great take calling out the tradeoff implied by this paper, raising the question of if a 18m total lockdown (the upper bound of the recommendation in this paper) is even a reasonable thing from a society/utilitarian perspective.

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/03/he...

Alternatively, let’s say we start off being really strict with shutdowns, quarantines, and social distancing. Super-strict, everything closed. For how long can we tolerate the bankruptcies, the unemployment, and the cabin fever? At what point do the small businesspeople, one way or another, violate the orders and resume some form of commercial activity? What about “mitigation fatigue“?

Again, I fear we might switch course and, again, end up with the worst of both worlds. We would take a big hit to gdp but not really stop the spread of the virus.

I also can imagine that we keep switching back and forth. The epidemic yoyo. Because in fact we find none of the scenarios tolerable. Because they are not.
He has knees that break so I'd say yes.

(/s, don't do that)
I'd love to see an example. Let's say I'm on a Debian server. How would I acquire Powershell (is it GPL/MIT?) and use it to convert some JSON?
There is a payoff, but it's in the satisfaction of helping, rather than in money.
It's not just the elderly who will die if the system is overwhelmed. Nearly 40% of those that are sick enough to require hospital care are between the ages of 20 and 64[1]. If everyone is getting it at the same time and there's not enough health care to go around, those 20-64 year olds will be dying too.
I'm pretty sure its like when I buy a book, and than I pay for it.
> [...] then any([]) must be false (otherwise x and y would never matter), and all([]) must be true.

Yes, I know. My problem is with:

> Another reason we must have `all([]) == True`, because `any([])` should obviously be `False`.

Argument is of the form 'A, because B'. But I don't see how B is any more obvious than A here. They seem about equally obvious.
ImmuniWeb Releases Major Update for ImmuniWeb Discovery
Yes I know. But the problem isn't what the UTC is, everyone knows what it is. The problem is what the time is. What time zone does north pole belong to, aka what is the time at the north pole?

A UTC value of X has many times associated with it. Given the same UTC, the time could be 3 PM in NYC and 4 AM in Tokyo the next day. Saying use the UTC without providing a offset is pretty much meaningless. Imagine if you asked me, "what time is it where you are" and I responded with the UTC. You'd have no idea what time it was where I'm at.

UTC offset zero ( london ) doesn't make sense because the north pole also encompasses other longitudes and other times zones. Why not use the other time zones since they are just as equally valid or invalid as london?

Logically, asking for the time at the north pole is as absurd as asking someone to point north at the north pole. It doesn't make sense. It's only when you take a step away from the north pole that you can answer "what is the time" and "which way is north". At the north pole, there is no "north" anymore and there is no "time". Saying use UTC is meaningless, but looking at the downvotes, it's abundantly clear people either don't understand what UTC is or they missed my point completely.
Hackathon from German government to fight Coronavirus
To build on that, you can also secure the USB-C connector with a small dab of epoxy or locktite. Many devices I've pulled apart put a dab of epoxy on connectors to secure them so it's a known technique. A small dab still lets a technician break it if need be for repairs.
Show HN: Example of Using TensorFlow Serving with OpenFaaS
> In chrome they are on a blue background. I think other browsers might display them differently.

FYI, Unicode has two symbols, xFE0E and xFE0F, which explicitly requests the previous character to display as either a "text" (i.e. a solid vector) or "emoji" representation, respectively. These are well supported in browsers.
> The need to evolve our platform is very evident when it comes to how we design, develop, and deliver experiences to users in the browser.

> Requirements:

> The framework allows UI elements to be defined in a declarative way

> UI elements created within the framework are reactive (update automatically in response to changes in data or user input) by default

> The framework is open-source, widely used, and has a thriving community (and we anticipate this will continue to be the case for years to come)

> Flexibility: the framework supports the widest-possible range of use-cases (client-side as well as server-side rendering, progressive enhancement as well as full "SPA" usage, build step as well as no build-step etc.)

> The framework is heavily optimized for performance.

Only ONE of those has anything at all to do with the user.
Since when the hell does NASA actually care about bad press regarding costs these days.
>Thereby devaluing the rest of the money. What that means should be abundantly clear.

Have you actually looked at where the dollar has been heading, even with all of this "money printed"? Up. Way up.
Hmm, I guess I have to re-read.
Trump to invoke Defense Production Act to expand production of hospital masks
I applied for Global Entry months after the 2018/2019 government shutdown, and it was still significantly backlogged because of it.
Limos4 Awarded Best International Airport and Cruise Transfers Company 2020
You make a very good point about risk communication. I already had to make a few updates (e.g. hiding the mortality rate) that were causing unnecessary panic. I'll work on optimizing the existing language as well.

Regarding the data, it's updated and processed automatically every 10 minutes.

I really appreciate the feedback! Let me know if anything else stands out to you.
White House Mulls New 50-, 25-Year Bonds to Finance Stimulus
It says they are suspending in-person interviews. You can still get renewals.
I wanted to verify it too, if you Google '1791991 prime', the search page answers 'Yes'.
They don't have the staff due to people being off. Many of the other odd-seeming emergency measures taken or planned for in the UK have the same root cause. Even the school closures are more about staffing than reducing the spread of the virus; apparently that's a useful measure in flu pandemics because kids lack the immunity that adults do, but since no-one is immune to this as far as we know it's kind of weak here.
I’m just 2 months behind you, my wife and I were celebrating that we’d be able to live in USA very soon just hours before the embassy announced indefinite suspension of interviews.

To make matters worse; they prioritize family visas under student visas sometimes so this delay could easily be many more months for us. And could require us having to fetch fresh documents from a corrupt government as some for the marriage visa have expiration dates.
I have seen nothing but problems with the whole Active Record/ORM pattern in the last 15 years.. mostly java enterprise software. The problems existed before but IME they've gotten a lot worse. I'm pretty much in total agreement with the author, although he doesn't touch on all the points.

The "pattern" (pun intended) always goes like this:

- Gotta get 1.0 out really fast

- Agile Dev really coming on strong last 15 years

- Architect/early dev lead is not a DB guy

- ORM + Active Record looks attractive and fast due to less code

- Junior devs don't even have to learn SQL

- Simple Active Record architectures let you layer on new stuff to get the all important 2-week sprint demo. Since Agile overvalues the sprint demo & showing stuff in the UI is what matters to PMs performance doesn't matter and gets ignored here. Infrastructure work for future scaling doesn't count as points and/or is considered poor use of time.

- Tons of entities & repositories based around Active record start getting built, it saves tons and tons of code over hand written/optimized SQL code

- Project launches and starts getting customers, getting bigger, needs to scale

- Active Record & Naive ORM generated queries start breaking down due to locking too many rows in DB

- Database deadlocks eventually start happening

- DB Connection pools eventually start running out of connections

- Customers are furious

- New Upper management comes in and wants to rein in PM to try and get developers to work on the massive tech debt. Agile starts to not even work since tech debt makes it look like no work is happening since it doesn't demo.

- Developers start having to piecemeal replace some ORM generated queries with native queries/query builder type patterns

- Eventually the team starts to have to rip the ORM out completely to continue scaling.

The alternate pattern that happens is that the team gets hot under the collar to drop the SQL database for a column-store/NoSql database. The problem wasn't the SQL database here but bad usage of patterns that the NoSQL DB probably doesn't support if it is not an ACID DB.

My feeling is most of these ORM based/Active Record type systems are often 3-4 orders of magnitude slower. Fixing some of this is somewhat one of my specialties.. I have rewritten many stacks that were taking minutes to finish and had them working in < 1 second once the ORM was taken out of the picture.
What about the millions of elderly people who will die this year of natural causes and whose final moments on Earth will now be of loneliness, boredom, and despair?

Depending on the duration, of course, the lockdowns seem to have the potential to be much crueler and sadder than an earlier death.
Interestingly, you highlight an error in the article that gave me pause:

> Coordinated Universal Time, which is based, ironically, on the position of the sun relative to Earth.

As you say, UTC is not a sun clock. It is based upon Atomic Time.

I also wondered who, knowing history, would consider the concept of December not to be fabricated. (-:
>The inflation risk is very real.

You will obviously be a very rich person by allocating your portfolio to take advantage of this massive inflation. Just like all of the people who called for massive inflation starting in 2009..
You have to take into account the helper and renderer processes. A freshly launched instance takes around 250 MB on my system. It consumes more as you open files that trigger lazy loading of additional extensions. Still less than other IDEs, though.
Yes, I believe they will. Go read about all the lies and ass-covering around Fukushima. Or how Japan refused to test responders to the cruise ship outbreak because if they were found positive, there wouldn’t be enough responders.
Interesting. We handle most of this with makefiles, local kubernetes, Skaffold, and Kustomize (in CI).

I'm excited for some tooling around this from the .NET Foundation, but still not sure what the value-add of the project is.
The main objection is that it's hard to get a 3D graph of the distribution over time. But it's still worth drawing some snapshots of the distribution.
I lost my contractor assignment this morning. It seems like companies here in Sweden are preparing for tougher times ahead.
President Trump Signs Coronavirus Emergency Aid Package
Maybe not 18 months, but this going to take a while to recover. It can take any where from 6 months to 8 months to a year. Be prepared.
This is cool. I remember my first distro was Mint like most. My story if curious: https://craignuzzo.tech/my-linux-life-journey/
Is it that hard for addons to implement proper settings GUI dialogs in vscode? Editing json files by hand is step backwards, especially when this comes from the company which also produces (real) Visual Studio.
NASA or AWS? Parent said AWS.
Life in the Containment Zone
Credentialism in Our Ignorant Society
> Of course graphing percentiles over time is much easier because they just represent a single value.

Ridgeline plots (joyplots) are severely underutilized.
> What's peculiar about 1&2?

Well, I know that everybody's digestive system is different, but I have read that only one #2 per day is unusual for a lot of people and may be a sign of constipation. I think a lot of people go after most major meals.

No shoes is fine but no socks is a little stranger to me, I grew up in a place with hot summers and I currently live in California but I still wear socks all the time. But again it's not extremely weird, just not what I am used to.

On the other hand removing pants as soon as I get home would be pretty unusual.
Max is always infinity/timeout/highly variable isn't it?

And it doesn't tell you when you just made all your requests 1s slower.
NASA is spending over $1B for a launch pad that will be used no more than 4 times.

https://spacenews.com/report-finds-delays-and-cost-overruns-...
Distinct on is for sure one of the most useful Postgres extensions to SQL, as far as how concise it makes queries which otherwise would suck to write.

I would have liked to see equivalent queries written with GROUP BY so people could understand and translate that knowledge even if they don't have direct Postgres experience.

Thanks for the article!
Also see [1]

Very old (inter)network, also ran an IRC server back in the days. IRCnet IIRC

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FUNET
> In React, using JSX means you can create components and mount them on top of the existing elements on the page.

I am not sure this analysis is entirely correct.

In case of server-side-rendered React pages, React takes the html that arrives from the server and makes it interactive ("hydrates" it, according to the common React community parlance), provided that that DOM generated from that HTML corresponds to the virtual DOM that React generates. It doesn't throw the original DOM away.
It's our collective responsibility to decide what user agents work with what platforms.

The beauty of the internet is that any website is free to decide as they see fit - if they don't want to support IE/Edge/etc then that is their choice.

No website is a 'public utility' bound by laws which dictate what browsers must be supported - that remains a free and open decision.

IE11 is a dead browser, and the sooner it breaks for good, the better.
The appear.in is for a meeting, this app is for coworking. You can show your status like online, offline, etc...
They did have a control group from the healthy population of Wuhan which had those at...

"ABO group in 3694 normal people in Wuhan showed a distribution of 32.16%, 24.90%, 9.10% and 33.84% for A, B, AB and O, respectively"
It would be an amazing platform. It almost pains me that the inherent potential is not (yet) realised.
> Using min(∅) = +inf and max(∅) = -inf would violate the otherwise valid constraint that min(x) ≤ max(x). I'd be a little uncomfortable with it for that reason.

Excellent point!

Funny enough, we have the same with 'any' and 'all':

For most lists of booleans: all(l) ≤ any(l). Or equivalently all(l) implies any(l).

But that property is broken for empty lists.

Hmm, I think I might understand the case for `all([]) == False` a bit better now. Though I still disagree with it.
Mercury's scorching daytime heat may help it make its own ice at caps
do you want to see the value? if so, here it is:

By itself, there is no inherent value in either v-for or Array::map(). However, these choices do not exist in a vacuum, they are other decisions in place, which do provide significant value:

- React, allows full power of js when writing template. and easy to express and decompose components into functions. while Vue does not allow the fine-grained in template unless you go into Vue's JSX)
- Vue, via template-based approach, enables Developers to deploy apps without a build step, while React forces devs to add a build step(and a compelx one at that) to pipeline
I was born 17.09.1990, exactly a year off. I grew up with Linux and am eternally grateful to the "scene" surrounding the magazine CDs with - I don't know - like 17 distros packed in together and endless tutorials on each of them.

It's also amusing how many people - my age or so - use Ubuntu as a daily driver these days that never went through the pain of configuring LILO or Broadcom drivers from source in Slackware ;)
South Korea tested almost everybody in the country. If we had been able to do the same then we wouldn’t be in this predicament. The US is such a hollowed out shell of an industrial nation that we didn’t have enough masks for our primary health care workers. This country (and its politics) is an embarrassment.
I didn't knew that. Thank you for telling.

Now I am more curious why go along with AWS instead of using Openstack. Need to find some case study of openstack vs rest of cloud provider.
I'm not sure that's possible, because you could only work with type(self), and that breaks MRO traversal. (A chain of super().x() calls in a hierarchy like A->B->C would always call the first parent class, because it has no way to tell >where< in the hierarchy it is. That's the reason why the class argument is required.)

I think that would need an entirely differently designed mechanism and can't be bolted on.
A lot of quality photos of old maps in one of the links: http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/geo/carto/maakirjakartat/

For example a book of old maps dated to 1643.
>The demand for USD being too great is not because the American economy is strong, but rather because there is $12 Trillion in dollar denominated debt owed by the rest of the world.

Why does the rest of the world deal in dollars, and not Yuan or Rubles? Hint: not because the US is a weak, unstable economy.
Does this allow for sorting channels by last activity? I've always found it odd that there is a "Scientific" / "Priority" based sorting but not by last activity. The current sorting methods become extremely painful as an organization grows and this has been a feature that many in my organization have asked for (and I have submitted feature requests to Slack many times).

If it doesn't, please add the ability to sort channels by last activity!
ah yes lots of maintenance
Gmail’s Trial by Ordeal
Federal German Government limits access to genomic data on SARS-COV-2
look at his username, most definitely a troll.