skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
to the future!
I agree. It's my intuition that there was a distinct cluster of people who were both credible and correct, but I could be wrong.
This is big news not just because it's NYSE, but because many businesses are doing novel experiments catalyzed by this virus. Closing the floor and trading electronic-only has been technically possible for a while, but perhaps not politically viable. Now suddenly it is viable. Will such emergency measures be used as a moment to radically alter businesses and other systems sooner than otherwise expected?
Perhaps also a global ban on viral gain of function research at BSL 4 labs, for a bit at least.
Provided they go right. If the entire team is adapting to a new way of working it makes sense to hold off on new releases while you make sure you've got everything working right.
It's important not to demonize Chinese people here. However, it's at the very least equally important to ensure that their agricultural practices stop producing these pandemic viruses. This is not the first one. Not even close. This is not one of those things that could have happened anywhere and the Chinese were simply unlucky. This is a direct consequence of their agricultural practices and it is extremely important that those change. Some level of international shame may be appropriate here to ensure that that happens, and as always it's important that that not steer into racism. However, if a little bit of cultural shaming works towards preventing the next pandemic, then I think that's pretty well worth it at this point.
I'm not sure whether curve is still exponential or not, but it's there. Single-thread performance is increasing every year a little bit and core count is increasing like never before. 16 cores consumer CPU is not a dream anymore.

RAM size slowly increases as well. 4 GB was enough 10 years ago. 8 GB was enough few years ago. Today I would suggest 16 GB as a bare future-proof minimum and one can buy 64 GB for a reasonable price.

We still have room for more layers. And it's not only about efficiency, it's also about security. Desktops are still not properly sandboxed, my calc.exe still can access my private ssh key.

Once performance growth will really stop, we will start to optimize. Transistor density will double every few years until at least 2030 and AFAIK there are plans beyond that, so probably not soon.
Then have a rolling history of curve predictions, day-over-day, maybe with some commentary about what seems to be driving changes in the curve (increased tests, changes in transmissibility estimates, a sudden outbreak, etc)
These are great. IoT seems like a thing you could do but that's a really specific use case I hadn't even considered.

The second example would be interesting to try. There's no real limit on VM lifetime or outbound connections, bandwidth is more of a budget problem. VMs are ephemeral, so they _can_ go away but we're all happier if they just run forever.
Nobody uses silver as a store of value any more. It's more of an industrial metal. With not that many industrial uses.
Epidemiologists who ignore economic effects are almost as bad. Plans that involve destroying the economy to contain the virus are unacceptable.
>...Coal may kill more people,

I don't think there can be any doubt about this.
Agreed. I have no idea what the author is referring to here. Every version of FF seems to have better tracking prevention, though Mozilla do advertise the services they provide. Which I don’t find unreasonable - as those services are otherwise not discoverable.

Regarding ‘mandatory plugins’ I presume this is referring to the OpenH264 codec and Widevine CDM?
At least partly because of the current “situation”, I’m actually looking for a person/people who can help bolster a client’s (very) small team (to clarify: I am the tech lead of the team, not a recruiter)

For the backend, PHP & SQL experience is a must, and realistically some ops/infra is pretty essential too.

We “self manage” most parts of our stack so some experience with at least some of keepalived/haproxy/stunnel/percona cluster/redis/shell script would be very beneficial.

For the front end, it’s essentially just HTML, CSS and some ‘vanilla’ js w/jquery. Moving to SCSS is on the roadmap so knowledge there may be helpful.

We’re completely remote, but mostly (except me) in US time zones.

If either of the above sounds like you, and you’re looking for work, drop me a line. My email is in my profile.
Time to ban monoculture, dumping toxic mutagens into the environment, and overuse of antibiotics amongst other drugs.
Why does anyone think these markets are okay?
I guess it depends on the width you need. Indeed you won't be able to run x16 or x8 but x4 is possible which is enough for full-speed nvme or dual 10GbE
It's also so perverse around the world. Until we can provide adequate non wet market food stores and supplies, most notably at affordable pricing for these often highly impoverished areas, there isn't much for change.

Further it brings into question the items that are good or bad. Is "Racoon Dog" ok or not? Can they sell "Bats"?

Then as you mention, people are going to stick to what they do. Good example, how many people are out and about even though the US government said "please stay home".

It's easy to point a finger and say do as I say and not as I do, but until we solve the global issue of food / health, it will be hard to enact any tight control over these types of situations.
Or just stop eating meat altogether. There are diseases and potent antibiotic resistant bugs brewing in our factory farms in the west too. None of this is necessary for human health or nutrition.
Bill Ackman has dire warning for Trump CEOs if drastic measures aren’t taken now
> That's because it is. There have been many reports of harassment and assaults on Chinese Americans

This is an extreme, uncited, and frankly inflammatory extrapolation. There have been only a handful of such attacks -- I believe 5-ish (reported by The New Yorker and CNN). It's just the typical race-baiting we've seen that generates outrage clicks. Calling it the "China Virus" has no more societal impact (which is: minor at best) than the "Spanish Flu."

Really, it just strengthens my point about the nonsense the media is peddling, instead of asking the populace to remain calm, take precautions, and stay safe.
I think the 'OMG so much disinformation!' storyline is a tempest in a teapot.

I won't speak for the rest of the world but the entire United States has effectively shut down thanks to an invisible threat that almost certainly has not affected anyone you know. Yet people are generally calm, considerate, and taking appropriate measures. There are always outliers who will buck that trend, but they are pretty far and few between. Don't get fooled just because the media has highlighted those exceptions as if they are widespread.

Where I'm at people are staying home, closing their businesses, keeping their distance from others, and expressing genuine concern. But they aren't panicked.

There are a few people I'm connected with on social media that insist the measures being taken are excessive. Some are just natural skeptics. Some of them are desperate for attention. A few others believe there are aliens at Area 51.

And they might even be right that we've overreacted - time will tell. But in the meantime, they are staying home and taking the recommended precautions anyway, despite their rhetoric.

Focus on the attention whoring cranks at your own psychological peril. But my experience suggests the actions and behavior of my fellow citizens and residents have, so far, been worthy of praise.
Do you have a source for asymptomatic carriers?

From https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prepare/transmissi...

>>> Can someone spread the virus without being sick?
People are thought to be most contagious when they are most symptomatic (the sickest).
Some spread might be possible before people show symptoms; there have been reports of this occurring with this new coronavirus, but this is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads.

Doesn't seem to indicate asymptomatic carriers are a big concern?
Sourcegraph CEO here. We build universal code search for developers. Our team is all-remote (all countries and timezones OK). We're hiring for engineering, design, and product roles (+ others):

https://github.com/sourcegraph/careers/blob/master/job-descr...

https://github.com/sourcegraph/careers/blob/master/job-descr...

and https://github.com/sourcegraph/careers#readme for a full list of roles.

We are growing quickly and have not slowed down hiring pace (and don't plan to do so based on the Covid-19 crisis). The limiting factor for us is just ensuring we're adding engineers, PMs, designers, and managers in the right ratios.

If you are interested in joining our team, we would love to hear from you. Understanding the financial stability of the company you'll join is crucial, and as CEO I always walk all late-stage candidates through our internal metrics, burn, cash on hand, etc. We are doing very well and just announced a $23M Series B 2 weeks ago (https://medium.com/craft-ventures/why-we-invested-in-sourceg...).
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/18/tip-of-t...

>“The wet market in Lagos is notorious. It’s like a nuclear bomb waiting to happen. But it’s not fair to demonise places which do not have fridges. These traditional markets provide much of the food for Africa and Asia,”
At-risk people in Germany are getting infected at a slower rate due to their living arrangements.
For example, it is maybe more typical for Spanish people to have their grandparents living with them, or maybe old Spanish people live near big cities whereas in Germany they live in smaller towns.
Germany population density is lower across the whole country so that definitely helps.
There's a whole bunch of use cases people have today that don't require a database. Here's a few that I'm excited about:

- image, video, audio processing near consumers
- game or video chat servers running near the centroid of people in a session
- server side rendering of single page js apps
- route users to regional data centers for compliance
- graphql stitching / caching (we do this!)
- pass through cache for s3, or just minio as a global s3 (we do this!)
- buildkite / GitHub Action agents (we do this!)
- tensorflow prediction / DDoS & bot detection
- load balance between spot instances on AWS/GCP
- TLS termination for custom domains
- authentication proxy / api gateway (we do this!)
- IoT stream processing near devices

CloudFlare Workers is a fantastic serverless function runtime, but we're a layer lower than that. You can actually build it on top of fly.

edit: formatting
Yucca mountain is the wrong solution. We can reprocess nuclear fuel waste easily already, reducing this issue by quite a lot. As a policy issue the United States does not, so you end up with much more “spent fuel” than necessary.

Radioactive byproducts (steel and such) are a bigger issue, but hopefully you only see a lot of that when you are actively decommissioning a plant.
Presumably they are hiring for jobs that will exist even after the quarantine is lifted.
They did in Mexico.
That's actually the plan! The Ruby Graphql gem lets you resolve queries directly so the app can have an "edge" or "core" mode and make the right call (edge over HTTP, core direct to DB).
Just because there are needs for high-end CPUs for some developers it doesn't mean that all programmers need them, as OP's comment implied.
In a past life I've made extensive use of the q/kdb excel plugin to do my financial analysis (backtesting, model fitting etc).

The basic setup was:

1. set up a q server and load lots of price data and signal tables in memory
2. open a connection to the server from your spreadsheet
3. write q queries in excel directly.

Because q is so compact you could essentially write a (quite long) one line aproximate backtester, as long as your q server stored daily prices, volumes, advs etc in a sensible way.

The spreadsheet form factor was pretty good - it was nice to be able to plot arbitrary series and generally made it quite fast to work with data.

It was by no means perfect, but I found it infinitely better than setups like jupyter notebooks.
Have they confessed how they are specifically linking the hysteria with the shutdown of the company?
Why Larry and Sergey Should Win the Turing Award
this seems like a fed conspiracy theory video, a la freemen on the land OPCA arguments.
That’s what I thought initially, but I remember reading that once pneumonia sets in, those infected with COVID-19 are likely to suffer from secondary infections. Not having an inventory of colds and flus to compound on COVID-19 would be a plus.
I buy silver rounds every once in a while when the price seems cheap. They're very handy for a few different kinds of transactions.

1. They're handy for showing your appreciation and getting past a common "I don't _want your money_" barrier in my region.

If I pass out a bunch of silver rounds to friends with krakens on them while loudly proclaiming "8 ARMED SEA GODS, TO COMMEMORATE THE FACT THAT MANY HANDS MAKE LIGHT WORK" everyone who helped me smiles broadly, laughs and receives them. An aura of gratuity emanates from the situation from everyone involved.

If I were to pass out envelopes with a 20$ bill in each, it would make everyone feel weird. Many would get returned, I probably wouldn't have friends anymore.

2. Garage sales ran by older people. I've found a silver coin has, on average, a higher buying power than equivalent cash. For 1oz of silver, a nice gentleman agreed to trade a circular saw, bench grinder parts, an electric motor, lathe parts, a few hammers, a tool box and an angle grinder last year.

3. Gifts for kids. 1 oz silver rounds are not that expensive, shinier than most objects, larger than most people expect, and tend to be received with wide eyed awe every time I've given them as gifts.

Silver is fun.
That would work great. Even something like FaunaDB would work really well.
Live Big or Return to Your Village
China's leadership can relocate half a million people when they want to build a dam. They will be able to crack down on wet markets. The current pandemic should be the last one happening in a non-war setting. I can write this here from home in Europe and it will end up on a disk somewhere in the US within 13ms, we should be able to prevent man-made pandemics.
I have both the 2020 2-in-1 XPS 13 (32GB, core I-10) and I love it because it's a beautiful 2-in-1, but yes, camera and fingerprint scanner don't work at all, but only in the 2-in-1 version -- works great in the laptop version, which seems to have a different camera. Wireless works great, though, as does the trackpad. (Kubuntu 19.10, not LTS -- LTS didn't work very well at all for me.)

I also have a lower-spec'ed 2020 XPS 13 laptop (8GB, core I-10) that works perfectly across the board (except for the fingerprint scanner, which I wouldn't use anyway.)

I love the hardware on both. Absolutely love it -- more than my Macbook Air; no sharp edge where I rest my wrists, touch screen, phenomenal screen (4k, which is higher than Retina, or 1080p, which gives better battery life) etc. The 2-in-1 has a taller screen shape, so you can fit more lines in your coding windows.

If you care about camera, get the laptop. It's also a little bit cheaper -- I got it for about $950 from Costco. The only thing I don't like about the laptop is that the screen doesn't tilt all the way back. The keyboard is better on the laptop instead of the 2-in-1 as well -- more depth of travel, and the Delete key is in the right place instead of offset by the fingerprint/power sensor as on the 2-in-1.

I love the new Dell XPS 13 and think both the 2-in-1 and the laptop are better pieces of hardware than the Macbook Air, and I prefer the new Kubuntu 19.04 over Mac OSX as well. (I don't have a MBP so can't compare to the Pro.)
Zoom's Android app rating is being absolutely destroyed by coronavirus
People on social media predict every possible outcome. Of course some will be right. It's not a question of how far ahead they are. It's about being better than that octopus that happened to get the world cup bracket correct. Or at least not telling everyone to get public health information from octopi.
in my opinion, if you are having issues with mismatches braces, you have too much code in your file. I have seen this issue with God classes (which seem to be more prevalent in VB codebases)
If you think you're at risk for being laid off, attempting to renegotiate your contract is probably not a good idea. I also don't think resigning makes any sense.

I would say your best bet is to cut expenses and start saving up. Cut out unnecessary entertainment expenses, cook at home more often, trade in your car for a used beater if you have an outstanding car note, etc. Take it from me, it's more painful but more rewarding to do this sort of thing before it becomes absolutely necessary.
I think it’s a disgrace that the Chinese government hasn’t apologized for

1.) keeping wet market open

2.) silencing whistleblower doctor that would have stopped a pandemic

3.) letting 5 million people leave Wuhan

4.) pressuring WHO to not recommend border shutdown against China - Conjecture

5.) silencing whistleblowers inside China and around the world

6.) at one point, was surfacing propagandas that the virus didn’t even originate in China (from japan or Italy). Also tried to float the idea that US planted the virus in Wuhan.
So it's a MacBook Air, and yet I can't see the most important spec -- weight -- on this page?
Dual batteries to allow hot swapping seems like it would be more flexible. One larger for primary power. One smaller to facilitate the swap. Then battery weight is a tunable parameter of the overall loadout.
After a little nudge the has USA jumped on board with other developed countries and offers sick leave, family leave, more unemployment assistance and free testing and treatment for a given illness.

I will be fascinated to watch the reaction if and when it's taken away again.
Probably after the beta but they don't mention how long that will take.
What I like is that Donenfeld apparently was involved in the implementation which gives more confidence. As compared to Cloudflare where they made their own implementation instead (1.1.1.1/WARP) and also are not hiding your real IP address [1].

[1] "From a technical perspective, WARP is a VPN. But it is designed for a very different audience than a traditional VPN. WARP is not designed to allow you to access geo-restricted content when you’re traveling. It will not hide your IP address from the websites you visit."
https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-warp-plus/
No, I beg to differ. Gold is not some fiat currency backed by the U.S. Gov’t (1). The US Dollar is.

> you’ve ever— and I mean EVER— examined precisely it is you are buying.

The same could be said about gold. Have you ever melted down the gold to check for impurities? I would hope that most people who invest in stocks or real estate would actually do just that. Investment is a much much different idea than just gambling by picking hot stocks. Haha I also haven’t used good ole Robinhood in several years...

(1) https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/does-the-federal-reserve...
Anti Vaxx, Climate Denial, Flat Earth, Moon Fake, Kennedy, 9-11, Co- co- co- corvid... 19. [1]

[1] Feel good hit of the summer, Homme, J. et-al (2000)
As far as overlap goes, I strongly prefer working nights anyway. And you could get around a lot of legalities by hiring as a consultant and billing per hour, a friend of mine runs a company that I've occasionally worked through.

I honestly don't know why I even bothered to answer, but something about your post felt right and my intuition has served me well so far.

I'm afraid I don't have much backend stuff to show, as most of it is owned by respective customers. Privately I've mostly been designing my own scripting language embedded in Go [0] lately.

[0] https://github.com/codr7/gfoo
Doh, missed that. We're not doing eBPF it's just user land TCP proxying right now. This will likely change, right now it's fast enough but as we get bigger I think we'll have more time to really tighten up some of this stuff.
It's worth remembering that the "fatality rate" you're quoting accounts only for people who have been tested and then died. We have no idea what the denominator in an accurate fatality rate calculation would be. Many thousands of mildly symptomatic infections aren't recorded.
How many angles/slices/images/whatever you call them can you fit on a single film? What is the limiting factor? What limits the form factor size?
Even mating is often a matter of probability. As two genetic groups diverge, the probability of successful mating gradually shrinks over time. We could define the boundary at 0% success, but that's really hard to verify in practice.
It has /bin/env, it just doesn't have /usr.
Or just stop eating factory farmed meat?
Yeah I'm not one to walk around without a little drying off first!
I understand this stuff is "cool" but this is only one step removed from db->query(input[sql]). I'm not talking about SQL injection either, I'm talking about wholesale data exfiltration of your entire database because you've auto-generated some slick GraphQL API and you don't take the time to think through what should, and should not, be exposed to end users or bother to implement any form of access control.
Some user has pointed out in some other corona HN post, that Italy has a very high antibiotic's resistance. And corona does not kill directly after all in most cases. Its the bacteria and other illness you might have, which gets you.

https://atlas.ecdc.europa.eu/public/index.aspx?Dataset=27&He...
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>We can metabolize a deeper-than-average scientific discussion and help convert that into reliable and responsible social discourse.

I appreciate the sentiment, but no: HN people and related writing is invariably bad. I realize this will raise hackles.

>It's just a matter of making the time, of seeking out the expert-level information, and digging in.

Racaniello has a two-hour podcast comprised of complicated, expert-level information, and it takes talent to winnow that down into lay language and, more importantly, lay time-constraints. Among people who can barely concern themselves with GitHub READMEs and "wait, but what is it?"[1] site pitches, the HN population does not have a good track record at clarifying plain information, let alone translating between skill levels.

This difficulty and need for understandability is where the goofs described in the article find room to exist. "Just come up with something, and something is better than nothing," the charlatan professes. The problem is that the true expertise gets clouded or even left at the wayside. Irrelevant or confounding perspectives included for no good reason, faulty conclusions, and any other kind of "it was hard before, you simplified it, now it's impossible" derivations of the source material.

Of course, don't get me started on two-hour (and longer) podcasts, itself a format that is extremely hostile to a listener's free time.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22593568
I assume that was a reference to pocket (which was an extension that they shipped as a baked-in feature around the acquisition).
It certainly makes sense as a precaution, but I'm surprised how widely this advice has spread.

As near as I can tell, it's based on a) 4 sicker-than-expected youth who were taking NSAIDs b) a difficult-to-disentangle association and c) a plausible but by no means ironclad mechanism.