skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With so much noise it's understandable that people are dismissing information from less known third-party sources in favor of very well established higher learning institutions. I am also critical of the way Western governments handled the situation, but these are two orthogonal concerns. Maybe you could link to particular information rather than their homepage. I am always willing to give a fair chance but please help us first :)
Yep, someone texted me and asked if I wanted to go to the pub two days ago. I fear it’s not being taken seriously enough.
They've been using chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine as a treatment in South Korea for over a month now. It's not a "bullshit cure" just because it's not FDA approved yet. There's a number of papers showing that these drugs can successfully treat COVID-19.
"Publicly available" is not the "line".
I also prefer to work from home, I tend to be less stressed and more productive as well. However, I also tend to benefit from some time out of the house in the world. I typically take at least one meal break out. It's a social experience, and a break from my day that helps my brain reset after a long stretch of work. I'm currently self-quarantined so even trips out for essentials are not happening, and it is definitely starting to wear on me.

Different people require different levels of social activity for their mental wellbeing. I think now is a good time for everyone to be aware of that. As a (mostly) introvert, we often feel overlooked in this regard. Now is a good time for us to show compassion for our extroverted friends and colleagues who are struggling with social isolation.
Tesla refused to close the Fremont plant and told workers they were essential because they were providing transportation [1]. Musk has also said that the virus response has been overblown. [2]

Musk is now saying that they well produce ventilators, although they have no design, no experience in medical devices, and a factory that makes cars, not ventilators...

[1] https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a31748353/tesla-alameda-co...

[2] https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/12365584618249789...
I think you need to be a little charitable in reading it.

I come from the opposite end, I have no college degree and started programming with writing small BASIC apps on a calculator in middle school.

I used to think I wasn’t a “real” programmer when I was in school because there was so much I didn’t know. But in retrospect 18 year old me was better prepared for an actual programming job than a lot of the new grads I’ve worked with.

It’s not to say there weren’t huge gaps in my knowledge, but the thing is, actually writing code completely transforms you as a developer.

A “programmer” that hasn’t ever worked on a project end to end is completely different than one who’s churned through one day in and day out for even a year. I’ve watched new grads make that transformation and it’s amazing.

School will make you a better professional, and if you have a passion for it, let you additionally get you enough experience to hop straight into being a programmer confidently , but not everyone has that passion.

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The same way I didn’t have enough passion except to do exactly as much was needed to let me write code in a professional setting, some students only have enough passion to get a degree which will let them be a professional and don’t really care that much about being able to execute right out of the gate.

I don’t think either is less “noble” as the other, I was too lazy to get the fundamentals, I understand someone being just happy to get a degree, but both paths have very different effects based on the field (I mean, my path would be a dead end in most fields)
Aww, AOLserver and OpenACS. Some of the best sites I worked on were OpenACS sites. In fact if fact when they shutdown Uptime, I ported his AOLserver/Oracle code to AOLserver/Postres and ran Uptime, from my home, on a Sparc pizza box for years.

AOLserver and TCL are still on my mind for new projects. Just haven't pulled the trigger .. yet ..
This isn't a bullshit cure. It has shown be effective in several studies, including those in France and China: https://www.covidtrial.io

Before you start spreading FUD, learn a thing or two about the topic.
Could someone ELI5, please?
Ask HN: How to make Ctrl-Shift-B build and run C++ code in VSCode?
In C++ in VSCode I wrote a program and when I wanted to configure it I created and configured a tasks.json, c_cpp_properties, launch.json file and then control-shift-b d it and that built it (created the binary file) and then in the integrated terminal I had to ./(thebinaryfile) for it to run. What code do I have to put in tasks.json, c_cpp_properties OR launch.json in order for it to not only build, but also run, when I hit Control-shift+b? From which JSON file do I alter the command for execution?
The youngest I’ve heard is a 14y/o in China.
Deploying JavaScript Unikernels to Vultr with Ops
I mean I had side project I don't maintain anymore. I did learned some on it, but I don't think I became so much better then what I am learning normally on the job and from reading.

I am coding majority of my working time. Some more hours at home does zero for my learning.

Also, people who put really a lot into work during work day, don't have projects outside. Because they are literally tired from work. If they would not, they would work more intensively on work. Like, if one have slow boring month, then it is easy to crank some more. But in normal week when you do with full focus, you get tired.
The main problem is the number of people with very bad symptoms (for example that need ICU). If there are enough ICU, then the mortality rate is like 0.1%. If there are not enough, the mortality is like 5%. (The numbers are difficult to measure, so they are only estimations.)

Now they have added the ICU overflow, that is very important for the mortality rate.
SWE make more than that easily and is a much easier field to learn than passing actuary exams.
Gamestop is staffed by Gen Z gamers who have been refreshing reddit for covid info since late Jan
I'm not quite sure if this needs a [2019] in the title, but it's from November of last year. I don't know where the cut off is for posts needing a [YEAR] tag added, 5 months ago might not be long enough?
I believe it's likely that many of the stores won't be able to reopen, and I can believe the company would recognize that too. But I but I can't find any source for the company saying it on an investor call. Where did you find out about it?
when they close for covid19.

standard catch 22.
Flattening the curve is not all-or-nothing as you imply. If we marginally exceed hospital capacity (in a given area) we will have a small number of people who cannot get the treatment they need. At that point every additional patient is another victim of too steep a curve.
Their city parks are just not big enough to accommodate all those people at a safe distance. And of course couples and groups will never actually stay at a distance. Hence the order.
To my mind there are orthogonal issues here. The much bigger one, not the lack of personal projects, is the chip on their shoulder. I've observed a certain amount of hubris in the culture of CS departments, at least in the university/college level programs I've been exposed to, that is very off putting. An ideal candidate would approach an area they are unfamiliar with, with curiosity, zeal and humility. If I can find people like that, who cares what they've built or not? I'm confident they will come up to speed and become a top level contributor.

It's likely that people who approach tech with the desirable attitude above will have built something personal they can show. But having built a personal project is neither necessary nor sufficient to demonstrate curiosity and zeal for craft.

EDIT: To be clear, I think people willing to get the degree and do the work should be paid according to market value. You come across a little bitter that the top performers went off chasing jobs at FANGs... maybe if you paid market rate more of them would stick around.
Agree, the waveshare modules are great. They’re also (surprisingly) available via Amazon Prime, which is nice when you’re excited about a project idea and don’t want to wait 2-3 weeks for a shipment from China.

From my experience with this project, all ePaper displays _can_ do partial refresh, but some may have the drivers (LUT) included, others you might have to find some community-sources ones or design it yourself. In the post I link to my drivers for partial updates for the 4.2”, and in the footnotes there is a YouTube video going into lots of detail on how the drivers work if you wanted to write one or update it for a different display.
Meditation is an intentional pursuit; it's about focus rather than daydreaming.
Total Cost of Her Covid-19 Treatment: $34,927.43
California rushes to prevent virus spread among the homeless
The government does not have the legal authority to quarantine people that that are not sick. Thus they have no legal basis to shut down gamestop. Gamestop is calling their bluff.
Exactly, this is less than a single one of the overpriced Starbucks coffees that those same people probably purchase without spending a single thought on it.

Being empathetic to these measures is the right call, although I do find that much more important for brick & mortar businesses than Netflix.
No-one gets into accounting at the age of 10 because they find it fun (as far as I know). But if someone did they would surely be at a major advantage in the job market.
Here at @Grofers we have been using rudder for a while. A great solution for people who want to create their customer data platform. Plus an awesome team who is always happy to help out :)
No one is saying its a cure all.

but it is far from bullshit and is showing early promise in trials in China and Italy.

i.e.

https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/fkizd0/we_were_abl...

I'm for Musk skepticism and he started off complete on the wrong footing on this thing but if you don't know what you are talking about don't make claims like this
Great question, don't know, right now the most vital thing is that hospitals are not overloaded with dramatic influxes of care-seekers, so whatever helps stem that tide.
I watched the virtual races and without damage or real marshalling they just seemed too forgiving of mistakes, and I got bored. Also shorter races = less strategy choices. Also, Codemasters is not the best simulation, would be a lot cooler if the teams modeled this years cars in a better engine.
> That's ignoring the headache you're going to have after a night of drinking Karkov.

typically from cutting the heads too shallow. ethanol's boiling point is 173ºF, where the alcohol that is giving you your headache is lower. cutting the heads (or lower evaporating alcohol) too shallow gives you more of that alcohol.

now, as to taste, I disagree a little bit with the gp post in that enough complex sugars also make it out in that slurry if you're using a pot still (even triple distilling), or even using a reflux still, that there can be a marked taste difference between "neutral" spirits.

source: I've made quite a lot of vodka (most of which has been turned into gin)
Cloning and Stealing in the Creative Process
I don't think Gamestop really qualifies as a small chain. Besides, the retail market for games will be dead here before too long, everything's going digital. It won't be Steam and Amazon, it'll be Steam and Sony and Microsoft and Epic.

Actually I think at this point there are more competitors in the digital space than physical...
Some perspectives on startup financing in a downturn
> I should note we are actively looking for people to help us curate data sources if you are interested!

Would be very interested to help. I sent you an email yesterday with the subject title:

Interested in helping with data for `COVID-19 Scenarios`
And modern people wonder how the witch-hunts happened in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The mob-like response to this is sad and deranged...

Many companies will go out of business as a direct response to these closings. Millions of people will lose jobs. Before throwing out insults, consider that GameStop probably has to try and stay open, or they'll go extinct.

Considering that a retail employee that sells video games isn't exactly an in-demand profession, you're also looking at the livelihoods of 16,000 full-time and 23-45,000 part-time people. Corporations aren't just faceless bogeymen.
The article explains \hat{} as meaning a vector of unit length but in my experience in ML it nearly always designates an estimate (including in the first expression in this article).
But since testing in the US has been so extremely limited... should we be worried that the actual conclusion here is that "US is far outpacing Italy"?

Of course I'm not sure how available or limited testing is in Italy either.
What even remains of ThinkGeek, apart from name recognition? At least before the GameStop acquisition they sold some unique products. Now, as far as I can tell, they just sell the same fandom merch you can get anywhere.
I keep seeing people asking "Why can't we just quickly spin up technology X?" where this is here ventilators, otherwise vaccines, etc...

without much awareness of how much specialization goes into almost every aspect of every job. Hell, even fast-food workers-- a skilled grill operator at McDonalds -- take time to train up.

No, we cannot quickly undo the 20 years of systematic dismantling of our core infrastructure. We are in for a very rude wake-up call.

And then, once we are awake, and are dealing with our new realization on the complexity of our economy, where every part depends on every other part functioning, and trying to get this restarted with a significant number of the parts NOT working...

Then we realize that the economy is embedded in an even bigger system called "life on earth" which we have degraded and destroyed on a much larger scale than our economy.

If you think the weakness in our society which the virus uncovers are a big deal, you simply lack the full picture.
Definitely not a secret. I did it years ago. We had an CRM solution focused on events (think conferences) that had built in digital advertising management and marketing automation, e.g. emails, sms reminders, follow up sales etc. Clients we sold to were usually small to mid sized and were putting together conferences or hosting events at like hotel conference rooms etc and needed to get the word out and manage the event (500 people and less was a typical client conference with a few in the 1000s). Essentially from advertising, signup and then check-in at the event the software handled it all, including posting facebook, google ads (and managing/tracking them).

What happened for us to sell it to this enterprise was we found out they (a large public firm) were trying to hold a conference but had been struggling to glue systems together themselves to make it work and advertise it etc (they disliked other in market products). We heard this as a pure rumor from some engineers that were bitching about it at a meetup we went to on mobile development. From there we researched the company, the conference and started cold emailing/calling the people who were responsible for the conference at the company. We were able to meet with them within a couple of days, did a few demo's and showed them it wasn't vapor and really existed (seems to always be an enterprises concern). Like all small companies, we had the normal "call for pricing" for "enterprise" clients (though we hadn't really had anyone this size), so pricing was on the fly customized for them. We screwed up a little on pricing because I bet they would've been happy to pay double the price and still feel they got a good value which would've given us a better margin.

In the end, no regrets just a good lesson for the team (me included) that pricing is relative to the client and while you should never rape a client you do need to make sure the clients expectations and your pricing are in line. In our case we made a profit, but it wasn't as much as even a standard client simply because of all the extra support we had to do, hence we should've asked for more. Enterprise clients are super needy and they know it so pricing it like they are is critical. Funny part is we came up with a price, then doubled it (thinking they would be needy) which also made them feel good about it (too cheap and enterprise clients will back away knowing you can't handle them), but we should've triple or quadrupled it to make better margins.
This seems like a really nice chart. I haven't seen the data "normalized" to start date like this before.
Yes, getting rid of the regulated meat industry and driving black market meat sales will surely lead to less food born illness. That makes complete sense.
Georgists build upon on David Ricardo's Law of rent which provides a model of land supply and its effect on employment and wealth distribution.

https://youtu.be/yyv1xYDWAxk
https://youtu.be/FOmImcdbjfw
http://www.henrygeorge.org/pchp11.htm
How is day zero chosen? Unclear if this is a reasonable comparison.
Even if we think video games are essential, and even if we think physical video games are essential, they could close and only do delivery, much as many restaurants are only doing drive-through and delivery orders.

There is no good reason to think that the social benefit of having a physical retail store open where customers are cheek-to-jowl with each other and with staff somehow outweighs the community transmission we will certainly experience.
> The "cosmic rays" argument, to me, is inane.

Have you ever looked at the rates, or you just dismiss it without looking at it? Note that the current rate is higher than older references since the feature sizes have shrunk, and lower energy events can change bits on newer hardware.

Scientific computation, especially at the level of most researchers, is affected by cosmic ray bitflips, without question.

Since the OP was complaining about not being able to check everything ad absurdium, then this effect is certainly on the table. It's more likely to affect research than the difference between closed and open source if a researcher is ignorant of it.

It's also why good researchers, who know this is a real effect, tries to run a computation in multiple methods over different times, until they feel a consensus on the calculations is robust enough.

If you've never done it, write a program to watch memory for bit flips, and be amazed.

Here's an intro - do a back of the envelope calculation and see if you still think these events are rare enough that they don't affect common scientific work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_error#Cosmic_rays_creatin...
Thing is, the copyright is owned by Oracle of all companies and and the legality is more than questionable enough to allow Oracle to sue for damages the second the code shows up in use by a big enough fish.

Oracle won't relicense the code (and lose out on a chance at another software copyright lawsuit), and it won't ever be safe to touch without an ironclad licensing story.

You can hope that Oracle folds and gets bought by someone decent. But hope won't take you that far.

Throw it away. Start over from scratch. The code may be great, but it's gone. It's a shame it ended up where it did. Take a moment if you need, but then move on. ZFS isn't going to happen.
It is very dangerous to draw any conclusions from the number of cases in the US. They follow the number of tests that are done and those are limited by the test kits available.

I spoke with one doctor in upstate New York. She said that the local hospital, Albany Medical Center, was stopping community testing and going back to the old procedure of only testing people who met a narrow range of parameters. (Exposure, travel, etc.) Then she said, "So it looks like we'll start plateauing."

The rate of case growth will vary with the rate of testing.
Shameless plug on top of your plug.

I'm one of the people building:

https://www.actionspanel.app/

A GitHub App that lets you trigger your Actions without needing to run cURL
They already are going extinct, without the help of COVID-19.

Let it die, I say.
Welcome to the future... I hope you like steampunk!
"the dark web, a shady part of the internet accessible with special software"
The total population of these two countries is pretty different though.
> develops their skill set in their own time

I don't see working on personal projects as doing personal development. What I do then is riddled with bugs, no unit-tests or documentation, and with no sense of project or time management.

Don't get me wrong if a personal project to you is production code, well then to me that is a hobby or maybe you are doing it to pad your resume, in which case sure it does seem like a good signal.

Overall though you have to have unproductive fun and that's what personal projects are for me, and this notion that anything tied to code equals resume is really insidious. Like when do we ever get away from work? Hustle culture seems to have made it's way into a white collar job, I need to tune out.
i used the grider at the grocery store :\
I think the differences in testing policies make it difficult to compare the absolute numbers. I think in a week or two it will be more meaningful to compare deaths rather than cases, because deaths seem to be more uniformly reported than cases.
And with a shared fanbase. Somehow DOOM and Animal Crossing go together.
Since things started shutting down here in WA, and I’m kind of house-bound due to recent surgery, I’ve managed to not only buy video games but an entire console (finally bought that Switch), all without leaving my house. And, no, of course I didn’t buy it from GameStop. They’re still in business?

Frankly, this comes off as pathetic regardless, they can do what they want. But essential? I can’t download groceries, but name me a game platform that requires physical media.
I used to be Elon's fanboy until very recently, but I can't really explain his recent coronavirus tweets, saying that the panic is dumb, children don't get it, or that it'll all be over by April. He's the last person on the planet I'd suspect of not getting the basic math behind the infection, or the basic facts of it.
Doesn't change the vile and egocentrical nature of this business decision.

There are many reasons why GameStop should finally die. Exposing their employees to the current danger in order to remain operational to continue selling games is just one more.
Yes, a very fair point. At the left when the tail is sooo thin, it's easy to move it left and right by quite a few days. When there aren't many cases, it's hard to choose a "day zero."
Do you work for netflix or something? these are some heavy comparisons you're making. Netflix is a premium service and they charge a premium rate for it! 15 bucks a month could buy Disney+ too ya know ;)
Both Max Verstappen and Lando Norris does this regularly. Lando also stream at times.
Should we be comparing this in a per capital manner? USA population is five times Italy's.
Testing in Italy is also limited.
You don't smoke weed like cigarettes.
Fuck Scribd.
believing there is variation in human intelligence isnt eugenics lol
I feel like comparing large countries should require some normalization.

How would the results change if we split the US into two countries - US East and US West? The current number of cases would be cut in half(?) but the "start" date would be pushed forward.
I was a master of Atari Video Olympics on the 2600 system. Time to come out of retirement?
>You’re castigating the whole practice of code review, computer-aided proofs, automated theorem proving, etc.

No I'm not. Those are but one avenue of reducing the probability of error during computation. All of those only ensure that the code part is solid - there is an entire other world on the physical part that needs incredible engineering, noise reduction, error correction, defect mitigation, thermal issues, quantum issues, physical data decay, memory leakage, and so on.

I think by focusing only on aspects for code, you miss a large part of ensuring modern computing is accurate.