skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even Windows 3 and possibly earlier editions allowed way more theme customization than a simple choice between light or dark.
Technically you would have a software defined radio with this as an antenna, and a wideband LNA. /pedantic
It's a fun and silly article, but it would take a vasty greater disruption to actually cause a toilet paper shortage. The "problem" right now is that deliveries don't happen every 3 hours, so if people buy out all the TP at a store they have to wait for that TP to get restocked. It's not as if the trucks have stopped coming or the toilet paper factories have shut down. People just need to wait a few days, which is unusual but not really a problem.
Nor does it specifically indicate heterosexual :)

... but the tone is a better match for a young straight man.
Per the article, “increased 283-fold” means a specific variety of worm is now more common in the fish. It doesn’t mean parasites have become more common in people. It’s consistent with these results for sushi freezing to still kill the worms.
all this toilet paper nonsense got me thinking about how much TP people actually use. I looked up the statistics and it said the average US person uses 1 to 2 rolls per week!! I was floored. What are these people eating?

I'm mostly vegan and i do fast a lot, due to a slow metabolsim. But, I barely use 1 roll per 2 months. We shop for costco TP, maybe once per year, if that much.

Conclusion: people use a lot of TP.
Where was the testing? After living in Japan I stopped eating sushi in the US. It's always painful when someone asks me to recommend a "good sushi place" here, I'm not sure what to say.
Class Action Filed Against China over Covid-19 Outbreak
I think one lesson we might learn here is that having domestic capacity for most essential supplies is a worthwhile endeavor, even if it costs a bit more per lot.
> We know their infections were radically beyond the 80,000 they claim. [...] they changed their qualifications in late January / early February, to hide infection numbers [...]

I think you answered your first question right here. It may not be convenient for the CCP to get to the truth.
Fairly low while we can snip a few genes here and there the technology isn’t there.

When it will be it can also be used to easily create a cure if you can assemble viruses like legos it would be also incredibly easy to create inhibitors and anti bodies with the same technology.

This is also what we are doing atm basically playing a huge game of “Perfection” by trying to find anything that would fit one of the “holes” on the virus, our cells or those which open up during its assembly process like its viral protease.
This has been my experience.

Created LLC with incfile. During process, they offered me a 1-click bank account with Bank of America.

I declined because I have other accounts in Citi. I went through Citi, spent 6mo trying to get a business account. Gave up and made another personal account. (the problem might have been my immigration status as I was in the process of getting my green card.)

My understanding is that biz accounts are just more expensive.
Can you share some leaked videos?
Along that thought I imagine that if TP resale was forbidden then people would have to pay the moffia to take the stuff and insert it into the supply chain someplace so then it would be double penalty - you lock up significant resources in TP or you take a loss to have someone sell it for you.
acetanilide was used at that time which is much more toxic than its acetaminophen metabolite.
awwwww man ... i suck at math. thanks!
Building a Search Assistant Using Python – Tutorial
I don't think they make very much money at all from selling your info. The banks that issue credit cards make most of their money from interest and interchange charges (what the bank charges the merchant for a person using the card - varies from 0-2%)[1]. Rewards are what the pay people to use their card and they hope to make them up with the former methods.

Do you have a reference on how much they make from selling data? Do banks release such info on their annual reports?

[1]https://www.valuepenguin.com/how-do-credit-card-companies-ma...
A gay guy can still "know about women" (a phrase which to me is a dog whistle anyway). And the assumption based on tone is what I was trying to point out.
Yes, or in bed, or sitting with legs crossed.
You don't need much training for Amazon warehouse job. You start moving boxes from day one.
Home toilet paper usage has probably legitimately gone way up since people were previously using the company bathroom for half their waking hours and are now instead using their home facilities.
Glad to see this from Amazon, although I see it heading off the inevitable. Wouldn't this be the most powerful moment for employees in 'essential' services to engage in worker strikes? Is there any legal precedent for what governments would do?

With all this war rhetoric thrown around, it seems a reasonable jump to declare essential workers troops on the frontline deserving of what we give other troops (free health care, pension, heavily subsidized secondary education)
What hospitals need are N95 respirators and surgical masks. A family member of mine is a doctor at a large hospital system. They have a mask shortage and have been encouraged to use scarves and t-shirts if necessary.
Plain cotton masks would offer considerable benefits if everybody began wearing them in public. Countries in Asia, where it is common for everyone to wear masks have a lower R0 value.
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I figure, the elderly will need to get groceries somehow. It's a question of what is more sanitary: going to the grocery store or having groceries delivered.
> But the iPad Pro comes with a 120Hz Liquid Retina display with ProMotion technology, which can also slow down to show movies at 30 frames per second, as the movie gods intended.

Movies are recorded at 24. If it were 30, there wouldn't be a need for a 120hz display to show movies without judder or adaptive refresh.
You don’t need a CS degree to become a professional developer.
There are other tools like invision and balsamiq:

https://balsamiq.com/
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Due to isolation I ordered from them for the first time in a very long time. I'm blown away by how much garbage is on there now. Or was it always there? I'm glad I could stay inside but I really need to find something better.
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As far as i can tell, investment helps with getting bigger, better research and engineering teams together.
Hope isn't reality. Overall 20%-50% infection rate is most likely because of the multiple infection waves due to cycles of shutdowns and the extreme infectivity that will occur before a safe and effective vaccine candidate can be manufactured. That maybe 3-5 years. Also, post-resolution immunity duration is unknown.

Furthermore, infection rates in the US aren't being tracked so the CFR denominator is completely unknown.

And, focusing on CFR alone is myopic because of the serious, potentially permanent lung damage that occurs from this virus in those who have "mild" symptoms. There are a plethora of reports of unknown-lasting reductions in lung function by 20-30%.
I built chowcaster to (a) learn jquery mobile and (b) solve a simpler problem: keeping track of what was in the deep freeze in my dettached garage. We used a barcode scanner for data entry, but even this was too much hassle and was eventually abandoned.
I also heard that salmon farming is the biggest "consumer" of antibiotics, is that true?
if you're homebound and enjoy exploring game systems, you could do worse than diving into a few rl's
Covidiot
> Python is not a good unix citizen in this case. Compare it to Perl for example where nothing special is required to do the right thing

How is this better? At least with the exception you can cleanly terminate your program if you need to.
If you turn Siri off, it doesn't activate by accident, and the iPhone still works as intended. If you turn off Alexa, the home assistant doesn't activate by accident because it doesn't work at all.
Hong Kong gave all its residents £1k
I don't know what he's been up to. But I'm certain he has inspired many Iranian-American tech entrepreneurs indirectly.
It is anecdotal but this morning I have stoped by the local supermarket and everything is fully stocked including toilet paper. Not many customers. If I didn't read the news I wouldn't notice that there is something going on.

We had few days of intensive buying here in Poland last week but it is over now.
> More than half of the smoke alarms bought on amazon didn’t work. Around half of the baby toys didn’t meet choking hazard safety.

This is a manufacturer issue. This has nothing to do with Amazon.

> Not sure why anyone still buys things from there. Or anywhere online really, all the other retailers failed as well.

This is just a blanket statement that is completely wrong. Amazon sells all sorts of reputable supplies and toys for babies. Name a reputable company. I'm sure they have an online store.

Edit: This whole situation is going to drive even more shopping online and especially to Amazon. The elderly are getting on board.
I absolutely have an expectation of being able to run arbitrary code on my devices! This is what a general purpose computer is.

If not, how should developers (and hackers) work on stuff then? How should the curious budding programmer get inspired to create?

Moreover, how should the motivated user fix a problem they found that the developers didn't consider? Are they beholden to the powers that be? Should they be?

General purpose computers sparked a revolution of ideas, products, and productivity; now you'd take that away from us! Why?!
Excuse me - what "draconian quarantine laws"?
THis is a similar challenge to the widespread problem of tracking expenses for small business. None of the solutions involve manually hand-bombing all the data, so maybe there is another angle that could eb tackled?
> Is there any legal precedent for what governments would do?

There is a long history of the government using the military to break strikes and fill the labor gap for things deemed necessary for national security. I'm not sure Amazon warehouses are in the same class as coal mines though...
I used it sometime back to bootstrap type annotations for a web api, with pretty reasonable results. Though the codebase was admittedly small.
Who is your public in this conception? Most people in the US works jobs closer to Amazon warehouse workers and don’t want to see they’re loved ones made sick or injured so upper middle class people can hoard prime deliveries.

The UAW was pushing for factories to shutdown out of concern for worker safety in Michigan before they decided to, they were applauded for doing so by the governor, and none of my family there thinks they were in the wrong.
They were posted on Twitter in january
Check out Pydantic: https://pydantic-docs.helpmanual.io/. It lets you define model classes and enforces the type hints of the models' fields at runtime. Plus you get free serialization/deserialization to dicts, JSON, or arbitrary Python classes. It's _really_ nice.
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They could help, but dealing with them well is still an active research area...

How to put this... The potential design space is larger than is often appreciated?

Suppose I tell you, "here's a programming thing, with api/behavior that's described by some category-theory category... a category over presets". Now preset[1] means you don't get equality testing - you can't even test "set" membership. Making it hard to prove or check much. You just have to take my word for it that I've given you a thing of that category. Which makes mathematicians sad. But as a programmer... that's a better spec than I often get! ;) So there's this design space, where what you can describe, use, check, or prove, with what costs and tradeoffs, is richly varied and intertwined. And historically, it seems we've not been exploring it with great speed or coverage.

[1] https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/preset
I swear by https://timingapp.com/ it's almost frictionless to track time. I've been using it at work for over 2 years daily now, and I don't even use the results anymore.
With how 9/11 first responders were treated, or how veterans are treated now, don't count on the US making good on any promises it makes to its heroes. There is tons of hero worship and thumping of patriotic chests, but tangible actions typically fall well short of the level of care you'd expect. Lots of talking the talk, but not walking the walk.
Ex-union workers aren’t a protected class in the US and there is often discrimination.
If I'm not mistaken this was the case across the board
As others have said probably not the best time to be looking for a job. If you get one at a stable company go for it.
Looks nice! Congrats.
Installed on ios, will give it a go.
I was curious on this. Still am. Tried thinking of several things it could mean, but so far I'm coming up short.
it's a tricky time for both sides. imagine the optics of actually striking during the current crisis. not sure whether amazon or the union would come out looking worse, but it would be a big hit to both.
Turn off Alexa?
On a long enough timescale there will be difficulty meeting all deadlines. People leave jobs, coronavirus interrupts, force majeure, motivation goes down, the task on hand is underestimated etc.. these will all be learning curves that will help refine your time guesstimates and hopefully predict better.
I might force myself, or just keep doing what feels best :-)

After all, if one needs to lose weight there are many more effective tools than just forcing oneself to have breakfast.
I did not say eliminate the shock. I said reduce the shock. Epidemiological reports support the hypothesis that this level of social distancing is effective to reduce r. When exponential functions are involved, even small improvements pay off big in the long run.
But what about the future? :)
> Amazon can’t replace all of their workers if they unionize right away

I bet they could.
Everyone likes 3D printing, but other than giving them some more love, is there a reason that they wouldn't use real CNC machines that could make parts much, much faster? I'd guess that VW probably has a few.
> The virus is just a convenient excuse; a crisis would have hit at the first sign of trouble.

Sure, the market was seeming to be overheated and due for a correction.

Without the virus, maybe it's 2008.

With the virus, it's starting to feel like 1929 again.

Huge numbers of people are unemployed right now that wouldn't be in a normal recession.

Wait till the unemployment numbers come out.
> Doesn't this just open every job up to insane amounts of competition with the lowest price of living areas in the country

Remote jobs will have a much bigger pool of applicants to choose from, but likewise applicants will have a much bigger jobs to choose from too. So the two should cancel each other out.
That’s not much of a constraint—the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_Soft_HuC6280 was an 8-bit CPU produced in 1987, and yet was powerful enough (in combination with the PC Engine’s 16-bit PPU) to drive very rich experiences.
In South Korea epidemic was started with one sick cult member spreading it to wast number of people. In Italy the person who started Lombardy cluster was first asymptomatic for weeks, was later misdiagnosed and spreading the disease in hospital. It seems that the epidemic is starting without similar super-spreaders in Japan.

Case fatality deaths to recovered rate in Japan is 18%. In South Korea it's 6.6%. This might indicate that Japan has 3X larger undocumented/documented rate.

This early in the exponential curve 2x difference is just 1-2 week delay.
With the big screens and high resolutions on modern phones, all I use my iPad for is Netflix in bed, pretty much. Youtube before phone screens got large-ish. I don't want a tv in my bedroom, takes too much space, cables and dust and all that.
Pretty cool! The feeling I keep getting is that Apple is slowly “ruining” a good design. What was familiar, easy to use, and required no explanation, is trying to become something it isn’t; a laptop. IPadOS still has a long ways to go to but if Apple decides to keep going down this path - which I feel like they will - cursor support seems like a right step towards achieving that goal.
Farr's Law says otherwise: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22farr%27s+law%22.
You can even install Linux to replace MacOS X.
People need to stay home, but they also need to go to the grocery store, bank, or other essential activities. When they do, they should be wearing a mask.
I'm not sure what country you're located in, but at least in the US, there is the "Expanded Access" program - otherwise known as compassionate use. (https://www.fda.gov/news-events/public-health-focus/expanded...)

It was widely used during the HIV epidemic to provide pre-trial access to medications and my hypothesis is that the program will be used even more extensively for sars-cov-2.

If your country does not have a law like this, now is the time to push your representatives.

Note - this is different from allowing OTC access to chloroquine willy nilly. If that is the suggestion, I am in agreement with the government that physician mediated access is the wisest course. While we know the safety profile of the medication, the doesn't make is "safe".
That is the dumbest analogy I've ever heard.
I don't think it's as easy to let go as people think. Phone apps are designed to be engaging. If you watch footage of distracted drivers who cause crashes, they don't realise their brain has disengaged from the vital task. There is a harrowing example video here: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/oct/31/lorry-driver...
Try to reproduce that with a modern stack, and you'd need hundreds of megabytes of browser engines, npm libraries, etc. and a GHz clock speed.
Also, no one seems to be focusing on the fact that the iPad is floating with this new case? Are there any links/videos that describes how the mechanism works?? Super curious to see how rigid/flexible/stable the mechanism is.
Maybe not you specifically, but it can be hard to say. Generally though, by making people unhappy with what they have and by convincing them that they need to always be spending money on something new to find happiness.

I've found a lot of improvement in my life satisfaction (and the size of my savings account) since getting rid of ads almost entirely. I've also found that I never feel the need to be in a hurry to buy something. Buying seems to be a slower process -- whenever I want the thing and feel good about it, not just because it's hot right now or I'll miss a deal. I know there will be another.

This may not apply to everyone but it was my experience. Clearly not a big fan of the ad industry haha.
Only if you have a valid Monoid instance to work with..
They’ll get a bailout if necessary. From China, most assuredly, from the US maybe a bit less so.
Agreed.

Though a proper hybrid could exist (maybe already does, and I just haven't seen it). The key is that it works just like a normal laptop, but I can detach the screen somehow. The main challenge with this is of course, the battery.
Did they also similarly test the security of things from brick and mortar? Otherwise it's a moot comparison.
Interesting -- what's the basis for this distinction? Unions make sense for the dumb masses in low-end jobs, but not for smart professionals like yourself?
Also, why heart doesn't get bigger/thicker walls through cardio? Like we can do enough reps and sets to achieve hypertrophy?
How do you hold it up without your arms getting tired?
China has ramped up production by 12 fold in February alone. Even exporting a small portion of it would exceed their normal export volume.
I absolutely share your opinion. Business of the medical equipment companies shouldn’t canibalized. But they can’t deliver equipment when needed, so alternative solution must be found. There also probably countries, that cannot afford $50-60k ventilators anyway. So for these countries or all countries during pandemic easy manufacturable equipment should be designed.
Wrong in what way? Small susceptible to getting severe? Or getting it at all?
This interesting and really shows the power of social distancing. I believe this is also why China/Korea/Taiwan/Singapore were able to overcome the disease. The virus doesn’t spread well without close contact.
I tried to use it for creating a mesh network of my family's computers, but switched to zerotier.

I use ansible to keep all our computers up to date and maintain an ldap server for some basic information; my parents are old and not tech savvy, so I do my best to make it easy for them.

Initially I set up tailscale, but the lack of an android client and the difficulty of setting up the raspberry service made me to switch to zerotier. Thing is, I really wanted that to work, as the ping with wireguard between the mesh instances was so low that surprised me.

Oh well, zerotier achieves what I want for now and it has the added benefit of letting you choose the private IP range that you like. I'll definitely keep an eye out for tailscale in the future though.
Isn’t this is literally survivorship-bias? There are a lot of events that can happen in future which has no precedence. But I generally agree with you, it’s hard to speculate.
Exactly this. Evidence seems to be that, if you measure, you see exponential growth of infections. Only a few places have seen the same curves on severe cases.
No，if you are writing secure code then a panic is a denial of service. Their point is that you should never panic, unless you do reach an unrecoverable error.
As an international who worked with a bunch of friends and made it to FTC World Championship that year, it was definitely worth it. @chillee your robot was very impressive!
I used to do "bread" (just 20 minutes of growing in a warm place instead of leaving it overnight).

The result was, well, not amazing, but it served its purpose:
https://wringing.it/chleb.jpg

Best thing about home-baked bread is that you can control the ingredients, especially the amount of salt and the obvious lack of preservatives.

Some recommendations:
-For 260g add a flat teaspoon of sugar - yeast loves sugar, but only to a certain extent.
-Instead of sprinkling the yeast, mix it with warm water and pour whilst squishing - you'll get a more even distribution. Also "yeast bombs" taste bad so you don't want that.

My experience is that the end result depends greatly on the amount of squish you apply. If you play an instrument like a guitar you should have enough grip force to aerate the dough nicely.
what about "link previews" which almost every service implements?
That was the idea :) Glad you think so too!

And yeah, I can definitely see that. Shouldn't be too hard to come up with a mobile-friendly UI I think.
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/03/20/ch...
The Risks of Building Too Many Bio Labs
I guess you are a male. Half of the population uses 10x TP than the other half due to using it for both #1 and #2.
Who killed what doctors in Wuhan
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When I buy something from Amazon, typically what I get is exactly what I expected, at a good price, with quick delivery. I bought socks from my preferred brand and got them. I bought a pair of trail running shoes that someone recommended, and they're excellent -- I wore them just yesterday to run on trails. I bought AA batteries and got AA batteries. And so on. This, for me, is the standard Amazon experience. Why wouldn't I buy things from them?

(I admit that I haven't tried buying no-name brand smoke alarms, baby toys that weren't designed with Denmark's choking hazard standards in mind, or any other category cherry-picked by a consumer NGO trying to do an exposé. Maybe that's the secret to my success?)