skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But when I don’t get sick,
I also don’t spread it to you or your child or your grandpa. We all benefit. Everyone should increase distancing however they can, and driving and biking rather than taking transit is a part of that solution. Those who have no choice but public transit also benefit from me driving because now it’s less crowded and transmission is less likely. Everyone benefits.
Coward, downvoting because you have no response to my valid question.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/us/immigrant-children-sex...

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/inside-a-texas-buildi...
The willingness of both parties to constantly expand government despite it’s huge size suggests otherwise. A few state governments are actually significantly smaller, so there is significant wiggle room. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_budgets

My guess is it’s a difference between stated preferences and actual preferences.
Counter thesis: what "killed" Atom is the balance of user enthusiasm quickly shifting to VSCode. Well before the acquisition was even announced, VSCode started grabbing developer mindshare real, real fast. I remember being an Atom user who resisted that tide for a while, but it became pretty clear that VSCode was taking off like a rocket and Atom, well, wasn't.

If commit activity graphs are really a meaningful measure, look at VSCode's:

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/graphs/commit-activity

The number of commits per, uh, date unit (the graph is not super clear on that axis, honestly) across the entire length of VSCode's activity graph rarely drops as low as the highest number of commits per date unit for Atom.

I'd have preferred to see both survive and do well, but that really hasn't been the way the text editor space seems to have worked. Editors that are conceptually awfully similar to one another tend to have one dominant player: TextMate (at least for Macs), then Sublime Text, then Atom, then very quickly Code. Given that Code and Atom are probably the closest of any two in that list, this just isn't that surprising.
Old Russian joke: "Soviet microchips are largest microchips in the world!"
God help us if taking a walk is ever outlawed, even temporarily
If you are a couple living together, it may increase your chances to make more babies. Especially if you are not allowed to get out to buy some protective gear (;
A friend just called up and said, “I feel totally fine, but I have to let you know I am from Kirkland and I live about half a mile from the care home with the COVID-19 outbreak. I am completely happy to come to the hotel and hang out with your guests in the bar, or you could cancel my reservation and I’ll stay home.”

They refunded him in full.
Yeah, 10 litres per day.
Quick google search:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/13/asia/china-coronavirus-us-lij...
> these steps are informed, authoritarian, and right-headed

I have to say, I think this is a very insensitive thing to say. Being in a position of privilege to likely avoid the consequences of authoritarian tendencies is wonderful, but most people don't enjoy such a position.

Authoritarian tactics are per se wrong.

> And with all due respect, what relevance does Vitamin D have to do with the price of tea in China? I hope you're not suggesting this thing will magically go away if we just get our vitamin supplementation right.

I didn't suggest that, no. But it is one of the interventions that makes sense. And generally, obviously, fresh air and exercise are important for overall health and wellness. Tangentially related: warmth and humidity is likely, according to some researchers, to drastically reduce replication and transmission. [0] [1] So getting out in the sun (with reasonable social distancing) can't hurt, and it might help.

(Even more tangentially: some researchers believe that very high heats, such as with sauna therapy, can even further reduce replication, based on this 2004 paper [2])

0: https://nusmedicine.nus.edu.sg/medias/news-info/2230-hot-and...

1: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3551767

2: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/14722281/

> Do you have a citation on CIDRAP opposing school closures? I couldn't easily find it.

Michael Osterholm himself has spoken extensively on his apprehension about shelter-in-place as a policy to combat coronaviruses, including COVID-19, including during his recent (very informative) interview with Joe Rogan, during which he specifically discussed school closings as well. [3]

By the way, his contention is also that neither environment heat nor sauna therapy are supported by the data as likely mitigations. So different smart people are saying different things, as we might expect in such a situation.

3: https://www.youtube.com/embed/E3URhJx0NSw?autoplay=1&auto_pl...
You're comparing stagflation double digit interest rates from the 1970s to today? We'll be in a declining or low rate environment for the rest of our lifetime. We'll never see double digit interest rates again.

Gold is useless.
> I'll ignore the "obnoxious" and "Get off your high horse" comments. Despite your tone I think you have a good point that's worth addressing.

You just blatantly declared a large number of developers as unethical for a technology choice so maybe learn to take it if you're gonna dish it out.

> That's a sum total of 687.1MB for a chat client.

I'll admit I was entirely wrong on the amount of memory here. Taking the renderers into account it's a lot more like you say. However the base footprint of Electron is less than 100 and the amount that gets used depends heavily on implementation details regardless of underlying framework.

> So why should I be happy with 687.1MB of _my_ memory used by a chat client, when a competent development team writing a native app could use a fraction of that and give me a better native user experience?

The fact that there is currently no other chat application implemented natively that brings you the same set of functionality should tell you something. This is the problem with reducing technology choices down to this narrow idea that only one thing matters. In reality there are many factors that comes into play such as the core competency of the employees you have at hand, team scalability, maintainability, time to market, etc. Slack may never have existed for all we know if they had to build it natively. You don't need to be happy about their product but you seem to be blindly assuming something better can be created with native technology when there is no evidence to support this case. Yes it can in theory, but in reality there are practical constraints.

> One point you may not have realised is that yes, memory has grown and is cheap, but the advantage of having more resources is to do more.

I'd argue we ARE doing more. That's the problem right there. People get so wound up about something like memory consumption that they forget the innovation that some of these apps have brought that perhaps justifies the extra cost. VS Code has IMO taken the place as the number 1 IDE. Would it have had the same improvement rate and rich ecosystem of add-ons if it wasn't using web tech? Probably not. Slack was a groundbreaking product when it came out. There has never been a product that offered the same feature set. Discord is another amazing piece of technology (I'd argue outperforms Slack). Again, you can claim all day long that these products would be better if they had UIs implemented from ground up in C++ or Objective-C but until someone actually does that the onus is on you to prove that it in practice can be done.
Polyglot JavaScript on JVM with GraalVM
CMO Council – Telkom’s Mmathebe Zvobwo Talks Data-Informed Telco Innovation
We're finalizing an application where you can listen to any article on the Internet.
In general that's just the same thing. If the per capita average cost of providing roads and schools etc. is $15,000/year then anybody you're taxing less than $15,000/year is really getting a subsidy in the amount of the difference. They get roads and schools and pay less in tax than they cost and the other taxpayers have to pick up the tab.

Nothing about that changes at the point where the amount of "tax" someone pays goes negative. They started getting a subsidy from other taxpayers when they paid less than $15,000, not when they paid less than $0.

So if you want to call a UBI a "tax credit" then go ahead, but changing the name to "tax credit" makes no mathematical or economic difference at all.
you really need to be < 20ms latency to coordinate multiple instruments (voices).

The best solution is JamKazam https://www.jamkazam.com/
(I have no affiliation and have not used the product in years)

You'll each need a good interface and Ethernet connections. A good interface on windows would typically have an ASIO driver. This is not an easy thing for more then a few people. Note: Jamkazam also makes an all-in-one device (JAMBLASTER).
Still, if github really only provided a one liner "account blocked due to terms of service violation" and not much more explanation then github itself also rightly needs to be criticised.

That by itself is bad behavior and general misconduct in the broader community. That one-liner is not acceptable. We should be shaming organisations that do it. Appealing to legal liability is not an excuse either. If you accuse someone you must actually make a accusation they can answer. Vagueness of explanation is generally not a constructive path for guiding behavior. Otherwise we increase unfairness and ultimately make society worse. [1]

None of this prevents a rapid banhammer for legal reasons and similar. Sometimes a ops team has to take rapid action. I get it. But the process for working out the specifics and working towards a resolution shouldn't be vague or convoluted either.

[1] making society worse is actually being evil. Increasing the background level of unfairness and injustice is being evil. A lot of corporations are already on this path.
Air New Zealand is also cutting 85%[1] of international flights and looking to cut 30 percent[2] of its workforce.
[1]https://simpleflying.com/air-new-zealand-flight-cuts/
[2]https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/411892/union-seeks-a-voi...
Suburbs?
> … implies a social contract and some social control

"Social contract arguments typically posit that individuals have consented, either explicitly or tacitly, to surrender some of their freedoms and submit to the authority (of the ruler, or to the decision of a majority) in exchange for protection of their remaining rights or maintenance of the social order"

And of those who refuse to consent, explicitly or tacitly and disagree with others definitions of "social order"? Do people expect them to just roll over without fighting?
Maybe AMD?
It's not your dog that has to stay six feet away from other people, it's you.
Particle Simulation for COVID19
I wanted to make a particle simulation that simulates people, workplaces, daycares, and such as particles and play with different parameters to see how they will affect the spread. Mathematically, I'm ok so I'm going to struggle making this.

Based on what I understand now, flattening the curve won't be enough. We'll need to invent vaccines and/or build makeshift hospitals and equipment. This means travel restrictions are gonna need to be increasingly strict. The alternative is to get smarter about imposing restrictions.

Current restrictions may negatively affect people living paycheck to paycheck, or people working in certain industries.

Some questions that I'm interested in answering:
1) Should we consider quarantining those at risk instead of everyone? This may help us get to herd immunity faster. Right now, a lockdown may be counterproductive unless you also put in foreign travel restrictions far out from now and plan to get to a point where contact tracing can work again. That seems like an insane proposition, but we don't want to open a lockdown and then have the virus continue picking off some majority of people who didn't get infected.

2) A high rate of mutation can mean that there's a risk this virus becomes endemic. If every country shuts down for a month (at the same time), then this will help stop the virus from spreading (and also mutating).

3) Are we going to need to separate families from each other to slow the spread? I hope not, but I'd rather have data behind it rather than politicians trying things ad-hoc

4) Maybe the measures above are too draconian. If so, we should consider making sure the (mostly elderly) die with dignity. If 5x more (or whatever the number is) elderly die in the 4 couple months than usual, I can imagine us having to face short-term shortages of caskets, burial sites, etc. I think we'll see certain places get hit more than others. Places with high obesity might see more shortages
I don't meet anyone going staying home and going to the store once a week in a mask. That's what we'll all be doing soon.

Well, those who are willing to comply.
This is an issue, but in typical dynamic IP situations the IP tends to only change when there's some sort of disruption that prevents renewal and not very frequently (e.g. I've held a Comcast consumer IP for over a year before), which tends to mitigate this effect since the IP changing "out from underneath" the tunnel won't occur. Most dynamic DNS schemes, with DNS caching added on top, also tend to result in pretty long (hour +) delays on IP updates to DNS which further make this a bit of a non-issue.

That said, I do believe both IPv6 and OpenVPN will have this exact same problem - IP change will not be reflected until something forces setup to repeat. The difference would be that these, at least I do believe, will re-resolve on retries. Wireguard doesn't really have a sense of "retrying the connection" which makes it sort of philosophically difficult for it to do so.
Some utilities decided to not terminate utilities due to non-payment during the current pandemic.
Do you mean from a technical or business perspective?

Technically Comcast could implement it overnight by reducing everyone's data speed (or maybe throttling particular services), or instituting stricter data caps.

From a business perspective it's harder but if it was the only way they could keep their network afloat, I'm sure the could get the FCC to let them implement emergency throttling.
Isn't enough to just "rotate" the matress? (Something you should already do every season anyway)
This is one of the debates that are going to be settled:

"Do contrails contribute to climate change?"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/climatechange/2009/05/911_contra...
A virus that probably has about the mortality rate of the common flu is not comparable to freaking WWII
I'd worry about getting slapped with a bioterrorism charge.
It has been interesting to see the response. For myself and friends, it has been the following.

- Always-on Zoom room where friends can drop-in during the day to help with the isolation.

- Another friend's start-up is hosting Virtual Events. You can see here. https://www.ikaria.co/events?fbclid=IwAR3xujmIbCeoER6ZX1OZdE...

- Classpass (and other sources) have videos for workouts at home, so that has been helpful.

- Masterclass, Netflix, etc.
Like you rightly said, this is a gamble. You're playing against volatility we haven't seen in almost 40 years. Look at VIX. You would likely burn yourself, especially as an amateur. If you want to play this game, there is room for put options in your portfolio to counter some of the bleeding.
Kind of related, but our daycare just shutdown for more than a month and asked us to keep paying monthly tuition. It makes sense, the daycare workers still need to live, but it feels kind of weird in that we have to have this burden on our own since a lot of us are affected also.
If South Korea and the UK, with fairly significant testing, have both found ~3% positives, then even if you assume the people tested were 100x more likely than the general population to have the disease, then in South Korea you'd have around 15k cases (about 2x reported) and in the UK around 19k (around 13x reported). If you assume the tested were only 10x more likely to be infected, those numbers scale correspondingly to 150k (20x reported) and 190k (130x reported).
I switched from Atom to VSCode well before the acquisition, and I personally know many others that did too.

What need does Atom fill that VSCode doesn't?
Discussing the dis-appearance of the dinosaurs (let's say some 6'000 years (minus 6 days) ago) could be a cool discussion. Another one is of course the return of that badly dressed hippie. For about 2'000 years, excuses have been/to be made up to explain why he didn't turn up yet, but it can be every day now, make sure to hail the lord. Anyway, if we could ever use a helping hand, then it would be now, but the bugger is not on Facebook it seems. Haile Selassie was a better bet, but alas, not enough likes [like this post won't get many, wdic].
For the downvoters, I'm just pointing out that removing all caps and limits doesn't automatically create abundance.

True, and if they can provide reliable service without the data caps, then it makes the public (and in a perfect world, government regulators) question why they need the data caps at all -- if their network runs fine for months without any data caps, then why do they need those caps at all?
400M+ people have G6PD deficiency which is a condition that has severely adverse reactions to chloroquine
It's easier and fairer to load balance and keep upgrading backhauls when they get full.
The fact that covid is screwing the world right now does not mean that we should all be getting UBI under non emergency conditions. Putting Romney's plan in with Yang's is a conflation here because one is only for a single unprecedented global emergency, not everyday life.

That said, UBI is quite literal wealth redistribution. You take taxes from the haves and give the cash directly to the hands of the have nots. There's a point where it becomes unethical and/or counterproductive...but where that point is perhaps remains to be seen.
Can you provide some examples of such behavior? I randomly went through some issues but was unable to find any such thing
The reason you won't get a response to such questions (and follow-up comments about downvotes get flagged and downvoted) is because discussion of voting is against the HN Guidelines[1]:

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> The author seems to have enough experience with IPSec that people would dismiss his first-hand experience or benchmarks as biased anyway.

OK, if you want to claim bias...

I own the company behind pfSense, and am sponsoring the work to put wireguard in the FreeBSD kernel (and will pay for the additional work to put this work in pfSense.)

He's right, wireguard will be no faster than IPsec given equivalent encryption schemes (say, if IPsec were to use ChaCha20-Poly1305 for the bulk encryption) because the framing overheads are within a few bytes of each other.

And if you're willing to compare AES-GCM to ChaCha20+Poly1305, then AES will, indeed, almost always be faster. The author makes note of the AES-NI instructions, and Wireguard's claim to be able to use the vector (AVX512) instructions,

> The WireGuard whitepaper mentions due to AVX512, ChaCha20-Poly1305 will outperform AES-NI1, but that instruction set extension will only be available on large processors which again won't help with smaller and mobile hardware that will always be faster with AES-NI.

However:

1) using the vector units from inside the kernel will involve a lot more overhead if anything else (say, in user land) is using the vector unit(s). Welcome to vector context switch overhead. Tons of huge registers to save and restore.

2) near future versions of AVX512 [https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/392.pdf] will support vector versions of the AES-NI (VAES) and PCLMULDQD (VPCLMULDQD) instructions. These have been timed at over 150Gbps. Yes, that's correct.
Huh. I was tempted to dismiss this as a thin skin/theme, but if they've recreated the panel and control panel, maybe it is a thorough clone. The real™ CDE is still alive and works (and open source), but I'll admit something a little less dated is probably easier to work with. Part of the appeal of CDE to me is that it actually had a unified design; in particular, every window had a help menu on the right side with good, contextual, help available. Unfortunately, in the modern world most applications aren't written like that, so just having CDE or a clone doesn't get you that same experience. And yes, you could use a modern DE and associated apps, but they all seem so shallow to me in comparison to CDE's level of thoughtful design and accessibility (it was beginner friendly in an era where that could mean "this is the first computer the user has ever touched").
That's... not how it works.
...I've heard this alot but I run arch and have not once had an issue with power management. Maybe try gnome instead of unity or try kde if you like the Mac feel
Please not call MS "killed" atom. Even before MS acquisition Atom was clearly losing in the competition.
Stripe is also willing to deplatform those they ideologically disagree with. We need better, more neutral, more reliable payment services.
Can we get political crap off of here?
Biocompatibility concerns with 3D printed medical devices
Whoa didn't realize it was that prevalent. I looked into it for vitamin c infusions (long story), seemed to be an easy test to find. Something they could look at while looking for covid if there is an intent to treat it?
>COVID19 has laid bare the superiority of the Chinese model in terms of quick mass mobilization.

If that's what people actually think, all that demonstrates is China terrifying power at spinning information in its favour.
The first computer I got to use on a regular basis was an HP-UX 9 running CDE. No one cared about security back then. You could create a setuid copy of /bin/sh (don't remember if bash and ksh were around), chown to root, and get yourself root in a few seconds. Those were fun days. I don't think I would call it "modern" by sense of the term.
You can still use it:) It was open sourced a while back and I can personally attest that I works on Arch and OpenSUSE.
This is not an official position of the Chinese government, is just a tweet by someone. And the tweet doesn't say that the coronavirus is a US biological weapon, only that patient 0 might have come from the US- and specifically in the army, and have brought the virus to China during some internal military athletic competition.

"Hundreds of athletes from the US military were in Wuhan for the Military World Games in October 2019."
I guess you think you are smarter than PhDs who have studied this for decades, then?
Re-infection has not been thoroughly studied yet
How to Create Hard and Symbolic Links in Linux
Bad people exist and bad things happen in every large organization in every government of every country. It is not representative nor useful in discussing the behavior of the whole.
Yup, currently MacOS is still better IMO for web development but I really would like MS to improve on that regard.
It happens when no one wants the tech... but if it has value, it will be sold at liquidation time.
Maybe it's a US vs British English thing, but I definitely associate "anti-social" with meaning disruptive to society (e.g. Anti-social behaviour orders in the UK [1])

Upon saying that, "asocial" doesn't really sound right to me. I'd probably go with "non-social" or maybe more poetically use "misanthropic".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-social_behaviour_order
Thank you so much for this information. I'll be sure to do whatever I can to continue bleeding money on pointless expenses after I get laid off instead of doing what I can to get by.