skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. Saying python is "not a good Unix citizen" here is akin to saying cars are a bad highway citizen because people can crash them.

Python provides mechanisms to handle signals. The point of a signal is to indicate something outside of your process has happened and you may want to respond to it. It's up to the program to respond to relevant signals and Python in no way stops a developer from doing that.
Love the concept but the spacing on Mobile is really off and driving me mad
I haven't had a Mac in a while now... how well does Linux still work on Mac hardware? I'd expect some features to be difficult. Does WiFi and Sleep mode still work at least? Other basic features?
My friends back in Cupertino and Sunnyvale (I split my year between Tel Aviv and Sunnyvale and now am "stuck" in Tel Aviv) thought everything would calm down, but as soon as deliveries arrive of disinfectant cleaning products and paper products, they are complete bought up. The store managers claim the same number of almost everything is arriving, with a few exceptions like rubbing alcohol (and of course masks!). I have no idea what all these people are doing with them, but there must be houses in Cupertino that are 100% full of lysol and toilet paper.
It building an app with form entry is that’s needed google and amazon would have done it a decade ago. That’s not the need here.
I'm not a fish eating person but I live in a fishing (and farming) region. I've heard people from here who have gone away on vacation say often the fish they are served is wrong. Usually it's a cheaper type substituted for more expensive species of fish.
I'm not going to down vote you, but my question (about women) was gender neutral and innocent.

BTW: My whole name is Christopher Bennet.
Just discovered a potential workaround with one vendor.

It turns out that with an Amazon Prime account and shopping at Whole Foods the entire history is available down the the SKU, quantity, and date. Discovered this when going to order a delivery for the first time in the COVID-19 outbreak - aside from the generic shopping selection, we can also pick from our own previous purchases.

I haven't checked if there are other methods to access the data (e.g., with the app, or some history list), but there's the potential for at least some screen-scraping, and maybe they'll make the history available in a downloadable file if we pester them? It'd certainly help both this app and making their stores a bit 'stickier'.
The only way they could know that is if they occasionally hired someone who failed the interview to see if they also fail at the job.
DOJ seeks new emergency powers amid coronavirus pandemic
not quite, but delivery services are extremely important to the vulnerable population right now. many of these people are old and, as we all know, these are the people that vote most consistently. no sitting politician wants to be the one who sat on their hands while a strike prevented the elderly from receiving their hand sanitizer order.
Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.
Self isolation could take 18 months (thread)
Looking at the Apple's showcase for their newest OSX version, Catalina [1], you see it's mostly about some consumer subscription services and integrating with other Apple devices. Also some pretty cynical data lock-in helper applications. There's nothing in there that is relevant for me, doing professional work or doing music stuff as a hobby.

1: https://www.apple.com/macos/catalina/
I think most of them have this feature. In a Subaru you can the radio tune dial to navigate instead of touching.
Wouldn’t it be in the CCP’s favour to report that the virus has a lower CFR?
Istio 1.5, service mesh simplified
In our area you can get toilet paper the first hour or two that the supermarket is open.
We've been using the amazon hand scanner for a while (feeding into AnyList) and it works pretty well; apart from the minor element of pulling out your phone instead of pressing one button this looks significantly superior. You might look at that combo (well AnyList) to look for opportunities for additional features. Grocy seems to have a lot of other useful functionality.

I'm surprised that Amazon hasn't exposed more of their ERP to the consumer. For example: they know what they have shipped me, so they could manage the expiration dates for me ("subscribe and save" is a much more blunt instrument). They could combine scanning when something needs to be reordered with scanning as you cook to manage recipe, nutrition, and supply levels all at once. If they know you buy diabetic strips they could change recipe recommendations or what macronutrients are reported.
More anecdotes: My SO is a Walmart manager. Walmart last week Friday implemented limits to toilet paper and other items. Am told there's currently a line for the paper goods section.
The Coronavirus and Building a Better Strategy for Fighting Pandemics
I think it will turn that wearing masks has a much bigger effect than anticipated. (I suppose that's a form of social distancing.)
Who Gets a Coronavirus Test? We’re Asking Every State for Its Algorithm
In the unix pipeline model, components read input, perform some transformation, and print output. There is no need to do any clean-up. As nneonneo explained, because they rely on SIGPIPE, most unix programs don't even need to check for errors from write(2).

Naturally, in the rare case you want to do some clean-up you can:

$ perl -E '$SIG{PIPE} = sub { die "cleanup" }; say "y" while 1' | head -1
y
cleanup at -e line 1.
People will shoplift if there are limits. This has already been widely reported.
Yes. When the bailouts for so many others are happening, people in meat-packing plants, checking out groceries and delivering mail etc need major wage increases.

I think around 3X current levels. USPS mail carriers and handlers are being given no guidance or support right now either.
> much easier to find through fuzzing

Note that you can fuzz with debug asserts enabled.

Crash-only software is a fantastic paper that teaches another school of thought: always panic gracefully and be quick to recover. This assumes that you have a quick recovery plan for panics, if you panic, which is then fine (but not always the case).
drmix says> " zinc can't enter the cells in question unless it's properly ionized, which is why they use Chloroquine.."

Zinc in the bloodstream is ionized zn++. It _can_ enter the cell but not easily. Chloroquine almost literally "opens the front door" to the cell's cytoplasm and any zn++ that stumbles by is pulled in.

But there _is_ a background zn++ level in the bloodstream and it is a gauntlet that every coronavirus must run to get to a cell.

When a cell dies from coronavirus replication, the virii burst into the bloodstream where they are vulnerable to any zn++ present. So high zn++ blood levels may be efficacious.

Once a coronavirus runs the gauntlet and finds its way to a healthy cell, it injects its RNA into the cell. The RNA is now relatively safe from zn++ in the bloodstream (except the few that wander into the cytoplasm by other mechanisms).
> New tests that produce produce results in 10-15 minutes are becoming available, but even with the improved tech, under the current policy a test will only be administered in the most extreme circumstances, when people have had a fever for four days or more.

This is an important factor that may indicate this "outlier" is more of a delay, rather than a reality of some exception.

As a resident, I'm quite concerned about the lack of testing.
> People just need to wait a few days

I have been unable to find TP at any store within a half hour's drive from my house for about a week and a half now.
Some days ago, I found this comment from someone living in Japan.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22605657
Nifty. Perhaps add a copy of the documentation link[1] to the top of the README? Friction minimization...

[1] https://epatters.github.io/Catlab.jl/latest/
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Not if they're gleefully watching "the West" crush themselves in mass panic...
Agreed. I like articles like this because they show the learning process, which I think is super valuable. However, they really need a big disclaimer stating the author is experimenting and doesn't know the correct answer. Otherwise people stumble upon it and take it as authoritative.
Boss gets a dollar, I get a dime, that's why I poop on company time
Seriously? Why? Do you have any reason justifying this statement?
There were 30 or so cases before the Shincheonji contagion, in which, yes, one cult member single-handedly tripled the number of cases in one day. But at the usual 33% per day intra-country contagion rate, even single-handedly tripling the number of cases only moves the calendar forward by about 4 days.

I do agree that Japan probably has diagnosed a much smaller proportion of cases.
I use three very simple aliases for the commandline,

alias ttag='/cygdrive/c/Dropbox/tools/ttag/ttag.sh'
alias ttagcat='cat /cygdrive/c/Dropbox/tools/ttag/ttag-logfile.txt'
alias ttago='open /cygdrive/c/Dropbox/tools/ttag/ttag-logfile.txt'

where `ttag.sh` is

# specify the logfile
LOGFILE=/cygdrive/c/Dropbox/tools/ttag/ttag-logfile.txt
# timestamp format
TIMESTAMP_NICE=$(date +"%F %H.%M.%S - %s:")
# always append to the logfile
echo $TIMESTAMP_NICE "$@" >> $LOGFILE

simple enough for me :)
very simple to add a small note from the commandline, which is timestamped. Makes it easier to get a grasp of how much time I've spent on something, eg when switching between customer projects.
Meh. These things are just a [re]interpretation away from each other. Even if we now think our model is clear and simple.

That's why face recognition bans and other privacy protection laws ("personally identifiable information") are so welcome.
It also seems crazy for it to be toilet paper in the first place.

Its (1) easy to make, (2) mostly produced in-country with no long, integrated supply chain and (3) relatively new (talk to someone over 80 who grew up rural, they probably switched from the sears catalog to toilet paper in their life).
You could lose your residency right for violating quarantine.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/covid19-coron...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/asian-countries-wield-fines-jai...
I mean, yeah, I'm pretty sure that byuu has done some things he regrets in life, including content he's posted online.

That's hardly unusual for people who've been on the internet for a long time, and is something that we as a society are going to have to learn to deal with better than we do at the moment. People change, and dredging up stuff that people posted years ago is more than a little bit sad, and deeply unedifying for everyone.

I'd never heard of Kiwi Farms before today and, honestly, I could cheerfully have gone my whole life without knowing about it.

I started reading the thread, then skimmed the responses further down and was, basically, appalled. This website truly does plumb the depths of mental depravity. It's a cesspool of lazy, warped, corrupted thinking.

Wikipedia has a pretty good overview of what you're getting into there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Farms

As such, I would regard any perspective on byuu shared on that site as highly suspect, and I certainly wouldn't use it as a yardstick by which to assess him as a human being.

Right: I think it might be time to go and disinfect my eyes and my brain.
Reverse-Engineering a WiFi Microscope
It's more like the banks and payment companies. Your data is monetizable, so the people who create cashless systems have a strong incentive to make them less private than cash, in order to increase their revenues.
Agree with this. I live in Hong Kong and there was no forced lockdown here either because 95% of the people wear them voluntarily.
How to Build Trust for Your Tech Product
I think the common argument is that unions tend to flatten pay disparities among workers. if you're currently recognized as an outstanding performer and compensated accordingly, you might expect to lose out under unionization. not saying this is necessarily true (or untrue), just that this is what people think. in fields where productivity varies less by skill, you would tend to see less of this objection.
I got word back from a infection disease pathobiologist (through her husband, a friend): 70% for surfaces, because it takes longer to evaporate, 99% for instruments.
If this pushes the US to finally separate health care from employment, that would be a very good thing.
There’s a number of functions that panic in the std if misused, for example copy_from_slice
If they skipped the "misinterpret the relevance of results for a headline" maybe they would have gotten a friendlier reception.
Great point, I should probably add that disclaimer!
Seattle / Wa state has already been buying hotels around here too. And we started building temporary hospitals on soccer fields.
> you have to give explicit permissions for those things. google assistant doesn't work on my phone because i never gave it permission to enable that feature.

I wouldn't trust that whatever people who sit in power doesn't have a way of overriding that.
Good luck!
Any customers so far?
My understanding is that the "microphone mute" button on Alexa devices is a hardware switch that cuts the wire to the microphone, at engineering's insistence.

I'm rather short of praise for Amazon but if this is still the case, great.
So I am a gamer for sure, spent tons of time playing all the dark souls, bloodborne, sekiro over the past 4 or 5 years. After souls i was left wanting, a void in my game life so to speak. Monster Hunter World captured my attention for a good while. Then i found roguelikes and specifically Darkest Dungeon.

I had seen people playing on twitch, it looked cool. Turn based, RPG, permadeath, difficult. All up my alley. Jumped into it and got my butt whooped for a while but then it clicked. And BOOM i was off, many months later and hundreds of hours later i was done with Darkest Dungeon.

Since then, Slay the Spire baby. Wow that game owns hard. about 300 hours here. It's a deck-building (card game) turn based rogue-like. Recommend it to all!
It remembers where you left the cursor. It's still a normal cursor, they just make it invisible when not in active use.
If you look at the shelves they don't exhibit classic shortage issues, as they have big gaps for specific products vs. empty shelves of everything. This (to me) indicates supply coordination vs. actual shortages.
You're right about the importance of reproduction!

But that doesn't mean a study simply confirming established science should be presented as dramatic news.
I would imagine that all this tracking & automation would hit have to address the concerns of security/privacy.

Also, costs would simply explode making the whole solution a non-starter for a lot of households.
> Anyone familiar with nutritional science will tell you that compliance is a much bigger deal than eeking out tiny theoretical shifts in calories by shifting meal times, which even if you could prove were real would absolutely not be worth it if it broke your overall compliance.

Hear, hear. It's like with reducing our carbon footprint by becoming vegetarian vs just reducing meat consumption - the former is more often than not abandoned after a few years.
If you’re looking for a fresh roguelike rabbit hole, check out Cogmind. It’s PC only but takes RL in an interesting new direction. (Not affiliated with it other than begin somewhat addicted.)
The outlier is that Japanese statistics don't seem to show an exponential curve at all. Their highest daily counts of new cases remain in mid-February, and they've been oscillating closely around 50 a day for over 2 weeks now. There's almost surely undertesting happening based on their testing criteria, but even with fixed testing criteria, exponential growth at any rate above like 10% per day should have been obvious in severe cases by now.
Which is notably a feature of the Librem phones and laptops as well:

https://puri.sm/posts/lockdown-mode-on-the-librem-5-beyond-h...
Claiming that it's the media that doesn't like Trump is so wrong. Let's be clear here, a leader should be a clear communicator and if your medium is Twitter and you look at Trump's... Well, should be enough to prove my point.

Coming from Europe, I can only attest the other comment here.

But Trump is most definitely not a worthy president, I doubt the current partnerships would survive another term of Trump.
There are many more people walking outside with their families. I’ve never seen so many people in the parks. If this helps stop the obesity epidemic that would be great, because realistically overweight & obesity related disease is much more of a problem than coronavirus. This is assuming we didn’t do anything to stop coronavirus at all it would still be less deadly than heart disease/diabetes/cancer.

We’re also seeing a rise in remote work. If we can go to the office 1-2days a week for 6hrs and work from home for the rest I think that will be a much better for us.

Universal basic income is being more seriously considered. When we realize that all these service industry jobs were non-essential. I don’t think they’re coming back to the extent that we would all imagine.

We also are in the middle of an unprecedented tax upon the healthcare system. Right now is absolutely the time to switch to a Medicare for all system. Coronavirus does not know rich vs poor and it will infect and kill both.

Lastly I think we’re going to take a long hard look as as a nation about what kind of education we need and how to pay for it. We will have a lot of young workers not working right now. What if we started to make CS/IT degrees free for all the people who were laid off? Something like https://ecampus.oregonstate.edu/online-degrees/undergraduate... but actually free and taught by laid off developers.

TL;DR M4A, UBI, and Yang was right..
To answer your question, Python is several times more expressive than C++ given that is is a higher level language, and since fewer lines are needed for a given program it is likely to be quicker to write.

To quote Martelli from Google talking about how the Youtube startup outran Google Video's might so much that they had to buy them:

"Eventually we bought that little start up and we found how 20 developers ran circles around our hundreds of great developers. The solution was simple! Those 20 guys were using Python. We were using C++. So, that was YouTube and still is." [1]

Google took months to copy new YouTube features, while YouTube could catch up in a week after Google innovated.

[1] Google Books, search term 'python interviews google vs youtube'
Unfortunately we have no Amazon catalog to switch back to.
WhatsApp tests new feature to fight misinformation: Search the web
Target is much better, IMO, depending on what you’re looking for.
Why a downvote with no explanation?
Also "Eat your breakfast, share your lunch with a friend and give your dinner to your enemy."
I recently attended a virology lecture where this question was asked.

The answer was that this is very unlikely. In fact, the evolutionary direction of all known viruses is the opposite: from high towards low virulence. High virulence is observed in viruses which have recently jumped from one species to another and can be thought of as temporary maladaptation to the new species. As the virus adapts, the damage it does in the course of its reproduction process becomes less and less severe. Eventually, many viruses end up causing mild symptoms similar to the common cold, warts etc.
It's a 70% christian country. Do you have a problem with that?
Everyone who was caught unprepared and is trying to stock up on food, toilet paper, and household cleaning supplies. Your characterization of Prime Members doesn't jive with reality plenty of lower income house holds have prime memberships[0] and that isn't a requirement for ordering from Amazon either so I'm not sure why you bring it up.

What do you think your family's opinion of UAW would be if they represented workers in Toilet Paper, Clorox, and Food manufacturing and got those plants to shut down and they could no longer get those products? Autos are a way different thing than the essentials.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/610070/amazon-prime-reac...
Honestly all C programs that fail to allocate panic as well. What else can you do?
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Newton did his best work on calculus, gravity etc during the Bubonic Plague shutdown - https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/woolsthorpe-manor/features/...
Chloroquine on Google Trends
My girlfriend celebrates passover which involves discussing "Elijah". The way she pronounces that name (she's a New Yorker) triggers her Alexa device, to much hilarity.

More soberly: I had no idea what Elija stands for so I asked the device, which recited part of the wikipedia. It then said, "while I have your attention here are some notifications you missed" and began to recite the first of her messages from her work which are definitely not for public consumption. (She was able to throttle it, but still -- what if I had asked and she had not been present?)
The fix for phone are certainly easier, just disable all controls if the phone is moving at more than 10km/h while paired to the car and disable all incoming notification.
Half of the article is about making numbers relative (active/total cases, cases/population, etc).

But death toll is counted in absolute numbers. No one will think 1M deaths is victory just because this is 1% of whatever. People are right to be hysterical, we have tough times ahead.
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Well, Farr's law is all about the general shape of an epidemic, plotted as number of infected people against time. It does not say anything about the location or height of the peak. The devil is in those details.
The UK government recently published specifications for “minimally acceptable” ventilators in an attempt to kickstart this development without overtly compromising on safety: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/specification-for...
They have shared a lot of data and I've heard scientists in the west to be very thankful over that.

Does the tests for antibodies even exists yet? I heard it was some weeks away?
>Meanwhile people in non-US countries are thinking "I don't have to think about any of this shit, at all."

Yup. And if you opt to buy one they're far more impressive. e.g. the one I'm on has global coverage (except US lol) for like 1.5k a year.

The whole thing is just comical (Yes we'll totally cover you in Iraq...but USA you're on your own there)
Not all fish is required to be frozen to kill the parasites actually. there are classes of fish that are considered not significantly dangerous to warrant that procedure. I looked up the fda guidelines on it a while ago.
At least for the US, they requires some type of process but it is messier than perhaps it should be. For one the responsibility for freezing the fish can be shifted between the restaurant serving and the vendor, and might not be effective. This is because time tables for acceptable methods of freezing fish vary in length depending on the temperature they are stored at. Some of the higher temperatures takes a couple weeks, and for example a restaurant might be buying fresh fish and not storing them in a freezer long enough.
The roguelike game mechanic is fantastic, but it really needs to break out of the fantasy theme in a big way.
Ask HN: Are Hacker News URLs safe to open?
Are user-submitted links safe to open? How does hacker news (or reddit, etc.) make sure submitted URLs are safe to click on?
If they impose martial law they can suspend habeas corpus and still get the same results. Not sure why they would do this. Unless they want to do it outside of declaring martial law which would be a tough legal matter to argue.