skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a guy on here a few days ago who owns some hotels.

He said he would be fine with this as long as they:

paid to move his current customers to his other hotels,

cleaned the rooms and returned them to their original condition when they were done,

provided safety gear to his employees that would need to keep working,

and provide paychecks for his employees that are furloughed.

I think. I can't find the comment now but that was the gist of it.
Oh yea, if I wanted to really torture myself I could dev exclusively on windows with, like, the ARM toolchain for GNU. That would be insanity. I thought you meant cross compiling the other way: from linux/mac to windows.
> So the lockdown will be indefinite - multiple years at least.

The lockdown can't last indefinitely. The US and EU will largely collapse, literally, in that approach before a year is out. This will become very apparent within a very short amount of time. The US and EU will go bankrupt trying to maintain lockdown mode.

The West will do the exact opposite. Before a few months are up, the lockdowns will end no matter what the circumstances are. The US and EU will switch to lockdown / quarantine for only those most vulnerable.

It's far cheaper, and a lot more sane, to handle the ICU cases than to spend $1 trillion every month on keeping the US or EU economies on life support. We'll invert the context: everyone on lockdown at enormous total cost to protect the most vulnerable, switched to a small percentage of the population on lockdown / quaratine at a far smaller cost.

The virus is likely extremely widespread. The US probably has a million cases of the virus already. China probably has had several million cases of it.

There is in fact no other possible scenario than to end the lockdowns, it will not really be a choice, it will have to occur. Neither the US nor the EU can sustain in perpetual lockdown mode, for obvious reasons related to food, supplies, production.

What are countries like Spain going to do, run $200 billion financial programs every other month? Of course not. It's obvious what the choice will be at this point.

Herd immunity is already underway, due to the extreme number of undetected cases. If any of the larger nations were really on top of this mess, they'd be doing massive randomized testing to confirm the hyper spread of the virus. Once that is confirmed, the only logical choice is to do what I've outlined. Each day that goes by, it will become more apparent that the virus has already hyper spread. Eventually that will be confirmed, right now it just appears they're going to get to that point unnecessarily slowly.
> The MW/$ delta between a military and commercial reactor is the risk premium for safe operation.

No, it isn't, since we also have many, many civilian reactors that have operated for decades safely.

What's more, even if we take into account all of the harm done by all the nuclear accidents that have ever happened, including Chernobyl and Fukushima, the harm done by nuclear energy per unit of energy generated is still orders of magnitude less than the harm done by fossil fuel energy per unit of energy generated. And that is only actual harm that has already occurred--it doesn't take into account potential future harms (such as climate change--I personally don't think that's a very significant component of the harm done by fossil fuels, but I'm not arguing that point here, because what I've said is true even if any such potential harm is ignored--any potential future harm to the climate from fossil fuels just makes them look even worse than they already do).

The price premium paid by the military for nuclear power is for operational flexibility, not safe operation. The Navy's capital ships need to be able to steam anywhere in the world without having to worry about fuel. The Navy's submarines need to be able to operate submerged and undetectable for months at a time. Nuclear power is a necessary enabler for those operational capabilities, so the Navy simply can't tolerate any deviation from proper procedures since it would jeopardize those capabilities. The fact that this approach also leads to much increased reactor safety is a benefit, to be sure (and in the early days of Navy nuclear power, when much less was known about reactor safety than is known now, this benefit was indeed a key selling point for allowing the Navy to operate nuclear ships and subs), but it's not the primary purpose. If the greatly increased operational capability had not been there, the Navy wouldn't have bothered with nuclear power in the first place.
There are both pros and cons to a federal system vs a unitary system, but this is not really the time to debate whether or not we chose the right system of government, nor do I think the logistics for responding to global pandemics is the most important criteria for selecting a form of government.
Why would I care? I have <30 ms ping to AWS. Maybe there's an argument for this for something like realtime-ish like games, but this feel likes a massive premature optimization for anything solving typical business problems.

That's not meant to be a snarky question, I genuinely don't understand what business problem that's going to be solved by saving at most 30 ms. Anything written in Rails/Django, talking to a DB, etc. is going to have request latency dominated by other parts of the stack.
Governments are more capable of making poor decisions because of lack of liability and no financial consequences to the decision makers.
Required HN warning: Scrolling on this site is very unpleasant.
At the beginning of the year, I decided it was time to find a new job after 10 years with my employer. I spent February doing interview prep and conducting interviews. Back then, the COVID-19 was mostly limited to China, markets and governments weren't terribly concerned about COVID-19.

I accept a job offer, put in my two weeks notice, and my last day at was last Friday. Hardly anyone was seriously concerned about COVID-19 when I gave notice. A week later, business travel was suspended and WFH policies implemented. My last day, schools were closing, and the economy tanked. This week, we're sheltering in place.

I gave myself 3 weeks in between the old and the new job, you know for relaxation and travel. Instead, I'm sequestered to my house for 3 weeks.

Everyday, the news got worse and worse and continues to get worse and worse. Now, I'm in between jobs, and am a little worried my new employer will revoke my job offer. To add insult to injury, one reason I didn't leave my previous job was job security. But in February, there wasn't any sign of an economic downturn. Everyone was enjoying the bull market.
Facebook aims to convince naysayers that social distancing applies to them too
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I dunno, but if one needs the beds, why not hire them?

Anyway, I doubt investment in tourism infrastructure is a large obstacle for building new houses. I would look elsewhere first.
> That sounds like a good idea.

Keep in mind the "hotels" that NYC contracts for things like this are usually overrun with bed bugs and meth-addled hookers. Not exactly the kind of place you'd want to go to avoid a nosocomial infection.

C.f.: https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-routinely-put-homel...
Thunderbolt isn't nowhere near close in performance to built-in PCI express slots.
I work a company that acts as an ISP, managed services provider and data center operator.

Unless the whole economy tanks very badly, I don't expect any layoffs.

Right now, companies are buying VPN concentrators and the likes like crazy to support remote work. Supply chain delays do delay new projects that involve new hardware though.
> he's just taking notes

That's how a barrister does part of their work.

When I develop software I'm 'just writing a program'. But I'm not - I'm forming a mental model of what I want to do and working out how to express it.

You can make any job sound silly by reducing it to its constitutive actions.
I think emphasis on the former is appropriate because the current measures are reasonably limited to the traditional scope of government disaster relief. Anti-gouging provisions, retooling factories to more socially useful goods, weeks-long shelter in place orders: all of these things regularly happen in response to disasters, although typically not simultaneously everywhere.

I see some people talking about "oh, you know, we'll just have to ban social gatherings until 2021". If that happens - if the official conversation in a few weeks is about extending emergency measures rather than safe strategies for reopening bars - I expect people will get a lot more concerned and diligent.
Speaking for myself, it does one thing incredibly well: email.

It probably seems absurd to imagine it would do that thing better than other places where I can do that thing, but it's probably 20 or 30% better at email than my other options.

And I do a LOT of email.

I keep an iPad Pro (with keyboard) to the left, and when I want to do email, I look left and do it there. That keeps me focused on my main windows.

I do think that it would be possible for someone to write an email client that is as efficient as the iOS Outlook app is, and maybe it already exists for non-Outlook, but in my current corporate environment the iPad pro is a lifesaver.
Here are the wiki pages for the move in Fedora and Ubuntu:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove

https://wiki.debian.org/UsrMerge
This is great, really grat. I’d love to try this with my kids. It’s probably a bit too expensive for me at the moment at 75 plus shipping (also I’m in europe), but at $50 I’d buy one.
It doesn't end. Plutocracy breeds more plutocracy. There's a positive feedback loop because more money buys more governmental influence (i.e., rent seeking), which then gets more money.
Mine is how it will reposition your channel or DM name in the sidebar if you start writing a message, but switch to another section for a moment. I opened an issue about it because I felt like I was losing my mind. Didn't I just have this open right here? Where did it go? No, it gets placed in some Drafts section. They won't fix it or create a toggle to stop doing this because leaving me in a confused state is more productive apparently.

And don't get me started on the little Slackbot notifications for absolutely everything. (Yes, Slackbot. I requested everything in the channel to be collapsed. I know what that means. You don't have to drop a message every single time. Ffs.)
Why tho? Why not just launch N KVM virtual machines on your linux box? This literally takes minutes, unlike this project which probably took days. And it's much faster once you get it up and running.
Yes. Only cash is king.
But being crucified for letting the disease go rampant would be totally reasonable and his base isn't that.
Yes. Biking and walking are also great transit modes depending on the distance, speed, and cargo needs of the trip. Although crowded sidewalks is something to avoid at this moment.
> Why does it matter when you can afford that RAM?

Why should everyone have to afford that RAM?
That's a tradeoff worth discussing. I think there should be an entirely different cross-platform layer for interactive and intense SPAs like Google Docs and 3D sites. But making it possible for 0.00001% of sites to have 3D comes at a huge cost.
> In roughly 2-3 weeks, the epicenter locations of this disease in the US are going to run out of hospital beds.

This sounds right, but do you have a source on the 2-3 weeks number? I found a source regarding hospital bed shortages, but it does not specify a number that concrete.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/17/upshot/hospit...
That's correct, though we bill per second and scale back down when your app is over provisioned. Right now we always run 1 instance so your app responds right away after a period of inactivity. We might offer scaling to zero at some point too. You can also configure min/max count globally and per region.

It seems like no two apps have the same scaling needs, so if you have any questions or can't make something work let us know and we'll help!
We need to stop worrying about business owners and start worrying about our fellow workers. Let the state nationalize them if need be.
Same as with influenza.
There's a setting to convert caps lock into escape.
War Chest
Size and the need to operate reliably at widely varying power levels. A reactor that's powering a ship has to be able to go from, say, 10% power to 100% power rapidly if the captain wants to go from ahead slow to flank speed, and also the reverse (the reverse case, 100% to 10% rapidly, is actually even more challenging). A civilian reactor has much less demanding requirements for changing power levels.
1. I didn't say one word about margins in my post.

2. The problem is that after the pandemic ends, the margins will remain low. Because new entrants, with no outstanding debts or obligation will eat the lunch of any of the restaurants that remained 'open' during the pandemic.
Tough spot... best of luck to you. Hopefully that job still comes through.
Fusion researchers endorse push for pilot power plant in US
https://archive.md/ns6uG
Hope you are correct!
The iMac display is great, I am using it right now :). But I don't get why it is still locked at 27". Apple once used to make 30" cinema displays. Not only is the iMac overdue for a redesign, it better should have an option for a larger display. Also, it is absolutely offensive, that the iMac as a desktop is glued together, preventing even the simplest maintenance like fan cleaning.
Covid-19 Dashboards – updated hourly with GitHub actions
There's always libgen if the book you want is behind a paywall. Like it's cousin scihub, it is very easy to use, fast, and has most of the books you could possibly need. Considering the awful practices of most scientific publishers, I have no problems with illegally downloading textbooks.
"Mac Mini doesn't need a real GPU in my opinion ..."

I tend to agree, but then I also see 4x thunderbolt 3 ports and 1x HDMI 2.0 ports and think how nice it would be to drive all four of my monitors from that one tiny system ...

However the specifications dictate that only 2x 4k monitors can be driven, simultaneously (at 60hz ?) ... ?

Which brings up the same old, tired question:

Just who is it that works as an engineer, at Apple, and has such boring, inexact, low-power-user use-cases that they, the actual creators of this kit, are happy with it ?

How do you do your jobs ? Why don't you need these things ?

Remember, there were years where multi-monitors were completely, totally broken - in OSX, for all models - which suggests that nobody inside Apple uses multiple monitors.

That's weird ... who are these people ?
I'm so sorry to hear that happened. Good luck, and I'll send folks your way if I come across anything.
Slack's redesign eyes its next source of growth: Regular people
Ask your old employer if your role is still available. Plans change, and if you left on good terms, they might be amiable to your return if you need that option.
Apple got popular by being good, now they're popular they don't have to be good any more. It's the same story as all (hyperbole) big brands.
Had similar experience - I transpiled a ~120kLOC legacy winforms app in day and a half - mostly spent fixing build errors between not exactly translatable elements / missing rules in transpiler.
I didn't make this but it seems decent and based on the John Hopkins dataset.
> The target demo for iPad Pro is (and has really always been) only for Apple superfans.

There’s a lot of Apple superfans in the world, then…
Yeah not yet. :sob: We're going to expand there and India as fast as we can.
http://geola.com/ in Lithuania have a "hologram printing as a service" that works quite well, check them out.
Markets tumble as scale of stimulus programs numbs investors
> Or I could have just been doing it wrong, there wasn't exactly a training class when visiting countries in which they are common.

Haha exactly, that's the difficulty! You're taught these toilet habits at a young age and it's not something that adults discuss, so if you grew up in a culture without a bidet, it comes across as a baffling fixture.
They're only shared everything if they're full. Could easily isolate lots of people, just with much lower capacity than the dorms hold in normal times.
A little known secret is that in the VB namespace in .NET full fat, there is a really nice CSV file reader/writer.

https://coding.abel.nu/2012/06/built-in-net-csv-parser/
If you are using /bin/sh you need to check sure it is a POSIX shell script and not using bash features [1]. On Debian and derivatives /bin/sh is ash not bash.

[1] https://linux.die.net/man/1/checkbashisms
So sorry to hear this. Wish I had work to hire people for but I'm just another solo dev too. Good luck.
You just need to follow the curves in Italy and France - the US follows closely
They're probably not going to be in any position to make demands like that.
On a semi-related note did anyone watching the movie 1917 feel like the entire set was less than a mile wide? I was somewhat passively keeping track of distance covered and directions turned in my head and something just felt horribly off.

I swear they were on that truck for like 7 seconds and moved 100 feet.
Coal power plants produce hazardous byproducts called "coal ash". [1] The US generates 200 million tons of this highly toxic sludge and most of it just gets dumped in a landfill, contaminating the area for decades. [2] Nuclear is far cleaner, even if the byproduct is radioactive.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_of_coal_ash

2. https://www.sierraclub.org/wisconsin/coal-ash-pollution
Senate passes bill to provide benefits to individuals and small businesses
I think "could" is different from "will" - dna's existence is so heavily demonstrated that the chance of somehow disproving is is basically nil. But, the fact that we could disprove it (we look at it and don't see it there) helps us confirm its existence - in general in science something has to be falsifiable to be able to be demonstrated to be likely to be true if that makes sense, otherwise there's no way to obtain more evidence.

So it could be disproven, but will it? No. It definitely exists. But could it? Yep, that's how we know it exists in a scientific context. It's a bit counterintuitive, but it's the language of science. You see it in how physicists talk about discoveries - how many sigma they are. That's basically saying how likely it is the null hypothesis (sort of the falsification of the discovery) is true - and there's a point where it's so low (5 sigma traditionally) that it is considered "discovered." But that discovery is qualified with the chance that it's falsifiable.

I don't know if that was a clear explanation - if not let me know so I can try clarifying. It was something that took me a while to wrap my head around - that it's only demonstrable if falsifiable, but it's a core part of a lot of scientific theory today
Isolation isn't necessary if they're all infected with the same virus.
How much radon is released in natural gas fracking?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_fracturing_and_radio...

If the energy industry had to follow the regulations of the nuclear industry - we'd be back in the stone age. Nuclear is the only way we can reach our co2 targets in time. I think renewables and nuclear need to be implemented at the same time.
I've been supplementing with Vitamin D for years now since I tested low by my doctor. I get plenty of sun exposure but for some reason I'm always low. Maybe because of sun screen? In any case, every once in a while I'll stop taking it and usually end up feeling like garbage.

I think it's the only vitamin where I have ever experienced that.
Signal's ratcheting is awesome, but iMessage has multi-device usability
Like other commenters, I will never buy another iPad unless it comes preloaded with a desktop-like operating system (like macOS) versus iOS.

One would think Apple has explored doing this - putting OSX/macOS on an iPad - given that Microsoft put Windows on the Surface and gained market share as a result.

Why they haven't released any consumer/commercial iPads with a desktop-like operating system, an OS whose first versions were able to run on a 7.8 MHz processor (the Motorola 68000) and 128 KB of RAM, is beyond me. Of course the more recent the OS, the greater the hardware requirements, but I do not see it impossible to "fit" a version of OSX/macOS to a tablet.

Does it all come down to avoiding cannibalization of Macbook Air sales?
It is more about bleeding off the Windows userbase than the Mac userbase for Apple. Also, the MacOS App Store not panning out is far from over. It's hard to imagine an endpoint for MacOS where the App Store doesn't succeed. While most see the App Store as a destination for discovering and installing apps, it's really a secure distribution technology that will succeed because the market has already proven it necessary for safe and secure computing at scale.
A bit late, but bytes are very often the smallest addressable unit. That's why they are "special".

Which answers your second question: "bitstreams" would be terrible because they are not well connected with a hardware reality. Unless you have bitstream-oriented CPU, it is a bad idea for a basic type to go against the hardware.

Why even have types... Well, yes, there are languages without type checking where the notion still exists. For instance Forth has no type checking but two types are implied: the "byte" type and the "machine word size" type, maybe three if you count strings.
why does no-one point out the constant and enduring slaving of central Asia in these discussions.. for centuries ! the Western EUs were hardly the only slavers, they are just more wealthy now..
India Could Be Next Coronavirus Hotspot,Worst Case Up to 60% Could Be Infected
Seriously. All the talk about markets this and that but when the market acts and these companies go bankrupt mostly because of their own incompetence, it's time for a bailout. It's absurd. Either you let the market run its course or make this available to everyone. If United can get a bailout small businesses should too so neither should fear bankruptcy. If that's not palatable, then let all these businesses fail. That's part of the system and it seems to be there for good reasons.
I know a journalist who works almost exclusively on iPad and iPhone. Their salary is somewhere in the mid 6-figures thanks to employees owning half of the publisher. About 2 million people read a text she wrote on her balcony last week.

But, somehow, that's not "real work", apparently.

From what I was able to gleam from similar comments over the last few months, I guess "real work" mostly involves regularly swapping hardware components, overclocking the CPU, daisy-chaining a dozen USB devices, micromanaging kernel compile flags, automating the micromanagement of kernel compile flags, aggregating optimisation metrics in a dashboard, running benchmarks, upgrading npm/homebrew/gem/go packages on a daily basis, and reorganising keyboard layout.
Comments like that one are indeed a problem, but adding more comments about them makes the problem worse.

If you see something like that sitting at the top of an HN thread, you can flag it or let us know at hn@ycombinator.com.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22617516.
Correct, but we are talking about multiple airlines going. Not just one or two. And we are talking about them going quickly.

Thankfully, you quoted the part of my answer that proved my point. Again and again, you will find solutions that are apparently "obvious" and simple...with no basis in reality. You need to actually understand what is going on.
Using UV to show the effectiveness of different hand-washing techniques
Great to see a Bubble-built app! Nocode lets you do things over the course of one day