skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely. People are using potential death counts as a reason for all these draconian measures. And yet, there are numerous other causes of death with straightforward, clear solutions. But we don't shut down society over them.

In my mind, the main reasons that for the coronavirus hysteria are media overreaction, especially social media, and the fact that this "source of death" comes as a fast-acting virus, rather than something long-term and abstract like obesity. The whole "slowly boiling a frog" metaphor is apt here.
I've met very few people in my lifetime who went from heavy caffeine usage to non.
Then you applied at the wrong companies. For people with a real GitHub repo with a project or contributions, I always skip all programming tests and jump on the real code. It's a real pleasure to have an excited candidate explaining reasons for architecture or choice of tools etc. compared to fizz buzz. I can only encourage everyone to bring a small side project, it will make your interviews easier.
It mattered a lot to my first job, after that almost not at all. I didn't get callbacks from some very conservative companies, and that may be the reason - but those weren't great places to work anyway - so I can't say that it hurt me at all. Sample size of 1 mind you.
Performance is a major concern for everything I implement.
I've made sure proxies are super-fast how I'm using at least.

Plus libraries like mobx already use them, and that's being used everywhere
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Flathead screwdrivers are used for zillion different things, though. From prying open cans of paint, to making holes in stuff, to short-circuiting CMOS reset terminals.

Now, a powered screwdriver is immediately less versatile. A lot of modern software tools are like powered screwdriver with a single head permanently attached.
Yes, and it is also a pretty good argument used to justify people needing to do things that help society. Especially useful when it's not in your immediate preference or interest to do so. (Tragedy of the commons, fighting for your country, etc.)
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Forget installing stuff manually and just install Cloudbox on a server (https://github.com/Cloudbox/Cloudbox)

I have a server in a DC that has been running Cloudbox for about a year now with 0 hiccups. 10 users and ~14TB in Google drive. Save yourself the headache and go Usenet instead of torrents too. Can't recommend this setup enough, it's about as hands off after initial setup as you can get.
While this is true, try the same test between Stoli and Grey Goose (at roughly twice the price of Stoli).

Bottom-shelf vodka is bad, but anything above that is virtually indistinguishable.
> to me it seems like the only person who had _any_ kind of plan for this at the end of January was Trump.

Honestly, I think this might the dumbest thing I've heard anyone say about on this topic. There was a chorus of experts telling us exactly what we needed to do in order to prepare for this. And we already had a model to follow in China.

The US and South Korea confirmed their first cases at the same time -- January 20. South Korea's government did what the experts told them to do, and they fairly quickly had their situation under control.

Our president spent the next month and a half downplaying the disease and vilifying the media for reporting it, and making it clear that the most important thing to him is "his" stock market numbers.

Yes he restricted travel to China, good job. Yes some pundits and politicians criticized him. Welcome to being president. Obama could do almost literally nothing without being called a "communist muslim". Trump told us he was "tough" -- a strong decisive leader who would make bold decisions whenever needed. His complacence, dishonesty, incompetence, and constant ass-covering in this crisis should show you who he really is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kluyveromyces_marxianus is one I've heard of that can ferment lactose
Edited to clarify. Thanks!
That's not that bad, what's worse is that code blocks don't have a horizontal scrollbar so long lines simply wrap on a mobile browser
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There's actually a good practical use-case for this: you're building software that needs to detect PDF files (as a smaller detail of what it dies, not its primary purpose) and you want to include a tiny one in your unit tests.

I did that here with tiny images in JPEG, PNG and GIF https://github.com/simonw/datasette-render-images/blob/maste...
Maybe a good use for a slow cooker? Probably can delay the stirring to he very end. Or use an automatic pot stirrer.
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Not sure where you’re getting ‘fed govt is too busy trying to get re-elected’ from. The Fed has been out in front of this since Dec, way before the states started acting.

Newsome can do whatever he wants, practically, without waiting on the Fed. The fact that he hasn’t done that yet means it’s not easy to do and even harder to enforce. I would have no idea how he could even enforce something like that.
Do you support unemployment benefits for employees who quit because of coronavirus?
OP here - My coworkers at HiringSolved have been developing Paths and they started seeing the first signs of COVID-19 job postings a few weeks ago.
Let me see if I get this right: You are describing the response that is backed by every epidemiologist, every doctor, every functioning government in the world, as a "mob?"

That's a nice bit of mis-framing to accompany telling me to treat your ideas with more respect. The fact is, you are the one who agrees with the mob. Go to Florida. Enjoy Spring Break along with thousands of people who think the risk is negligible and are ignoring the actual researched science on epidemics and risk reduction.

The "mob" wants to go to work. The "mob" will line up elbow to elbow to get into bars that are open. The "mob" takes cruises. The "mob" squeezes into economy class on airplanes.

How about this for politeness?

PLEASE stop framing the world's response to a lethal global pandemic as some kind of panic that is not grounded in facts, expertise, or experience.
That’s “sweet” whey. Acid whey from eg Greek yogurt is thrown out as no one has found a profitable channel for it yet.

Edit: made my own Greek yogurt a couple of times, tried to sneak it into my kids smoothies, use it to soak beans, mix it with my kids milk. No dice, just really sour stuff.
Sorry, I don't buy it. You could make the same argument about almost any sport. But the reality is that training is a huge part of skill, not just in-born talent. You can't just grab some random person from tropical Africa and have him play some sport alongside trained and experienced veterans and expect him to win, no matter how great his physical attributes are.

The money and connections are useful for getting drivers into the sport, but they're not going to succeed in it if they can't develop the necessary skill.
It's true that the government was a net negative here. But in an alternative timeline with the same agencies, international travelers were examined, possibly quarantined, tested, and contact traced when it mattered. The red tape took just as long to get through, but started earlier, such that mass tests were available when community spread was a concern. And there wasn't an official narrative telling everyone to just ignore the problem.

I hate to say it, but getting a government that is worse than nothing is the outcome of the "drown it in the bathtub" philosophy. It's a direct result of a lack of belief in institutions. I'm all for cutting government bloat, but it has to be targeted at middle management, corporate welfare and outright citizen-hostile programs (NSA, DEA, TSA, CIA, ATF) rather than kneecapping public services. Yet when politicians get elected on a promise of downsizing, they go after the soft targets rather than actually disrupting the status quo.

As for healthcare itself, tomes have been written about that. I think regulating providers to have to charge uniform prices to all payers, at time of service, would go a long way. You don't go to the grocery store and pay at the checkout, only to receive a bill for the cashier's time three months later. Not that this would have solved our current shortage, but it certainly would have made people less scared to seek medical help for possible covid.
I mean, if you really want to reduce latency the classic solution is to use DPDK: skip the kernel entirely and run in polling mode.

Not great if you care about power consumption, but your latency will be low.
Shh, you'll upset the Great Robelus[1] and they may start euthanizing animals....

[1] https://www.thebeaverton.com/2020/03/telus-threatens-to-euth...
I think that's mostly to build familiarity with the tracks. Many games have done excellent jobs of mapping the tracks to high precision including the backgrounds. So, all the visual cues will translate well to real life.

I've done this myself for some track days (not races) and can tell you it absolutely helps even at my tragically amateurish skill level.
Right now they have switched, like many of our local distilleries, to making cleaning alcohol for high risk facilities to use as needed.

Their regular product is good stuff, I have a bottle on the shelf right now.
Yes, sure!
Is there a point to the 100 degrees reference? its like saying a lightspeed flashlight
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Alternate article with some pictures:
https://electrek.co/2020/03/20/tesla-criticism-deaths-autopi...
I understand exponential growth thanks. If China was able to take the measures they did on January 23 with only 500 cases in wuhan, nothing amiss in the rest of the world, based on their understanding of exponential growth of the disease that is impressive. Every other government had China as a warning and all of them except three have waited to react.
The syntax is quite simple, with only a few rules of evaluation -- too simple for those used to the Algol family, too complex for smug lisp weenies.

Then you had the RMS flame war, back when he was still considered influential for programmers.

Then they kinda missed the boat when it came to packages. Never got something like CPAN going, whereas Python and Ruby did.

I can't remember exactly, but I think there wer some corporate shenanigans, too, with the whole Sun/Scriptics situation and Java stealing its milkshake, weirdly enough.

Speaking of siphoning off milkshakes, Lua did this for the scripting part. Syntax that was a bit more regular, implementation that was even easier to embed (and don't get me wrong, Tcl is/was pretty great there).

And nowadays, you either get lucky with some specific niche, or it's hard for a dynamic scripting language.

I still like it. Heck, I like my Tk bisque, too.
If you like this, you might like "Searching For Sugar Man" a documentary where 2 guys in South Africa search for this legendary musician from the US who was rumored to be dead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searching_for_Sugar_Man
I understood barely half of the words in the title. I must be getting old.
As a side note, aquatic life has problems with too high copper concentrations.

https://www.epa.gov/wqc/aquatic-life-criteria-copper
Yeah, I was surprised to see they're going with F1 instead of iRacing. I guess it makes sense for branding/licensing deals, but iRacing is the far better sim.
That it is an Atomic Time clock that is kept close to a sun clock does not make it a sun clock.
Ya, repo looks like SSPL too... https://github.com/rudderlabs/rudder-server/commit/db9d53a05...
The Bill & Ted films are similar. Some guitar sounds and solos are now credited to Stevie Salas (the first film) and Steve Vai (the second film), but many of the BGM clips on radios and PA systems are still unsourced and uncredited, lost forever in a sea of glam metal.
I too find it quite nice. Though when I was starting out I found it exceptionally confusing. Notably the `impl` section towards the bottom. Even today, while I understand that section no problem - I don't usually find it too useful. Likely because the impls in Rust can be a bit weird. Ie Foo might impl `Responder` but only if `Foo` also implements `Serialize`, and those sort of scenarios have happened enough that I usually just ignore the bottom impl section. Not to say that the documentation is incorrect at all, I'm merely explaining how I have "adapted" to scenarios of the past - which could be confusion of my own making.

But.. aside from that, I quite like Rust Docs. I also especially love how I can write tests in them, link to other types and modules like `[Foo]`.

My complaint list for Rust Docs is surprisingly short honestly. Especially since they fixed the slow page loading on huge impl lists.
That makes sense. Managing batches doesn't seem like it would be terribly ergonomic with something like iOS.
A Japanese Shrine banned foreigners.
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You're surprised they're using their own-branded game instead of a third party game?
Is a very interesting history in any case, unrelated with covid but inspiring. For those hesitating to click, It deserves a read IMHO.
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> Frankly, this comes off as pathetic regardless, they can do what they want

This is factually incorrect. In the US, local athorities absolutely have the statutory authority to close nonessential businesses for the purpose of defending public health.
But we don't shut down society over them.

Can you imagine any possible reason for why that might be?
I think this is it. https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/graduate_thesis_o...
> Due to the heat tolerance of K. marxianus, high heat fermentations are feasible, reducing the costs normally expended for cooling as well as the potential for contamination by other fungi or bacteria. In addition, fermentations at higher temperatures occur more rapidly, making production much more efficient.[9] Due to the ability of K. marxianus to simultaneously ustilize lactose and glucose, the prevalence of K. marxianus in industrial settings is high as it decreases production time and increases productivity.

Dang! I've got to get my hands on this!
Rewriting bottlenecks in C is pretty much the design philosophy of Tcl. Ousterhout argued that even with dropping down to that level, all over productivity was high enough (and not every developer would need to know the nitty gritty).

In that respect, I think it wasn't other languages that ruined that party, but IDEs, which made working in the more performant B&D languages less painful.
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I've been told by two separate hiring managers at bigger "non-tech" companies that they need a degree to satisfy some outdated HR department requirement, and to just put something down in education, and they would pass it through without checking. They wanted me, but I wouldn't have made it through HR without a made up university degree.
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This was an extraordinary book review, and an extraordinary life, even if you discount for the biographer's positive bias towards his own subject. Hoover is really under-rated, and unfairly remembered for some of his policies at the start of the Great Depression. If he had not been elected president, his combination of engineering efficiency and competitive altruism, and his accomplishments as a businessman and philanthropist, would earn him comparisons to Bill Gates.
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I agree, but in Embox you can use usual applications. Kernel is rather difficult
You don't need live viruses for testing. You only need some viral RNA material so you can inactivate the virus by heating the samples to a certain temperature for example. Hazardous work for sure.
Yes, we should do this and send them to the essential jobs to keep society afloat, like working at a GameStop store.
Not surprising, linux is a terrible user experience.
Thanks for being a mentor! I spent years in embedded systems design and industrial automation and now that I'm "only" doing software development, I really enjoy mentoring with FIRST. Tell your kids "Hi" from team 4027 (CC4H - 2018 Detroit Champions)
. We had a really strong machine this year and were sad to see the season cancelled. We'll be sharing some of our engineering notebook and a season retrospective anyway. We're also working virtually with several groups that will make our team stronger next year. The competitions are fun but it's still all about the education and experience building things.
Figure out a per project price. Define it in a way that protects against scope creep.

Try to separate price from hours worked. If you get better and faster, the same price per project gradually becomes a better hourly wage for you.

Clients don't necessarily know nor care how long it takes you. They care did the task get done.

You need to have some idea how long things take and some tolerance for things taking different amounts of time. Keep your pricing structure focused on tasks or projects.

Charging by the hour when you aren't their employee is always all kinds of headache and neither side is happy. The client ends up feeling overcharged because they can't track your hours and you end up feeling underpaid.

Charge per task. Get good at defining tasks in a way that makes you happy with the pay.

Expect to not always get it right. Be kind to yourself when you don't. View it as a learning opportunity. Do some analysis of what went wrong and what you need to do different.
Another approach which I've liked in the past to solve this issue is to generate your README's from Rust Source. This has the same net output but the readme lives within Rustdoc.

I think I prefer it living in Rustdoc because then your README is also on docs.rs and whatnot.

But, I can see some downsides with that too. Not every README should be identical to the API docs. Not sure where the balance should sit.
I'll admit I can't. (It boils at 95 C)
I feel like Hoover was, at least from this book review, a quintessential geek type: a great lover of systems, math, and detail, but people found him cold and aloof. (During the relief of Belgium, people accused him of thinking of the starving Belgians as just numbers on a sheet.)

And Hoover lived the geek fantasy, right? "You're so smart, we're going to put you in charge of everything!" And then it ACTUALLY WORKED.
> small quantities like 1000 milligrams.

Or, as it's also known, "1 gram".
Oops, that was old.

We had long discussions on and off HN about this topic. The biggest problem with SSPL is it is not an open-source license and we got a bunch of pushback (rightly so) for calling ourselves open-source.

We initially went with SSPL to help prevent cloud providers from offering this as a service. However, there was a viewpoint that AGPLv3 already provides this and there is no reason for SSPL. Also, neither has been held up in court.

In the end, we prioritized something which our community felt strongly about. The business risk was questionable anyway.
But it's not a cure either and it's a dangerous drug. Musk isn't a doctor and shouldn't be giving medical advice. Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine has an extremely narrow threshold between an effective dose and a fatal dose. People are already trying to acquire it themselves and it's only a matter of time before someone accidentally kills themselves because of the misinformation surrounding it being pushed by non-professional pundits on Twitter.
Meanwhile, League of Legends suspended all professional leagues, because they don't play remotely. I'm pretty sure they even have isolated, local servers for tournament play. And I still see games paused with "lag" as the reported reason.
What you cite is from: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s...

topic of which isn't the evaluation of the recorded growth across the world, but to show that lax measures are problematic even using the slower growth rates.

They specifically write just:

"Infection was assumed to be seeded in each country at an exponentially growing rate (with a doubling time of 5 days) from early January 2020, with the rate of seeding being calibrated to give local epidemics which reproduced the observed cumulative number of deaths in GB or the US seen by 14th March 2020."

That's what they use in their model to demonstrate the point.

They never claim it's accurate or quote any sources for that number, because they just use that very "optimistic" value for the demonstration purposes: to show that even with that number, it's not reasonable not to implement serious measures. That's how mathematical proofs are constructed: you construct the lowest bound which doesn't have to be accurate, just to be obviously lower than the actual numbers, and show that even then some assumption doesn't hold.

I'm claiming here that that is not a "current measured rate."

> But note that we expect it to take 3 weeks before quarantines show up in fatality figures.

That's why I've stated about Italy: "they started to quarantine municipalities since February 22." It's not that they let it waiting for "herd immunity" like UK or NL. It was less than 4 weeks ago.

2020-02-22 2 dead
2020-03-19 3405 dead

with 3 days doubling time they would have today 2048 dead. It doesn't appear to be possible to be slower than 3 days. With 5 days doubling time they would have now just 128 dead, with 4 days doubling time 256 dead. It's that easy to calculate.

That's the Italian "current measured rate" for a month now.
If you give it a bunch of photos of a scene from different angles, this machine learning method lets you see angles that did not exist in the original set.

Better results than other methods so far.
There's an amazing demo called 'A Mind Is Born':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWblpsLZ-O8

Amazing principally because the whole thing is 256 bytes:

https://linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/

I never meet anyone who has even heard of the demoscene, let alone come seen this particular work.

I was at a film festival watching a programme of short films, one of which was the well-made AI-box escape romp 'Watch Room':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th5uJNB7VU8

And similarly found my interface with my seat disrupted by the closing credits using the music from 'A Mind Is Born'. This being a festival, the director was there, so i could tell him how much i appreciated the reference!
26, but a similar story here. Not having a degree hasn't held me back in job opportunities.

Where it has held me back is getting a permanent residency in Canada. I spent the last 2 years working as a backend developer in Canada just to see I'm not eligible for express entry PR due to lack of education.
I don't live in the United States and I have never gone on Spring Break, so this is again an ad hominem attack, not an argument.

As I said before: decisions have consequences. Of course doctors will suggest the best medical solutions for medical problems. That is their job. But they aren't economists and they don't take into account bigger consequences of political actions. Long-term shut-down of the economy will result in more crime, more death, and lots of other bad unforeseen effects. Are these worse than the effects of the virus? I don't know, but it's certainly a conversation worth having.

It's not the doctors fault and I don't expect them to take this into account. What I do expect is the ability to have a rational conversation about the topic. Clearly, this is impossible in the current environment when people like you respond to any wrongthink with a personal attack.
Good point - thanks for calling it out!