skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given how poorly the rest of the world reacted after getting two months of advance warning, I can't think of more than three countries that could have contained this outbreak.

Fingerpointing at China when they reacted far more decisively then the West did seems... A tad off the mark.

If this originated in Milan, Kansas, or Bangalore, we'd all be in the exact same boat today.

Hell, if the outbreak started in Kansas, we would probably have a hundred thousand dead by now, with our supreme leader still insisting that the virus will magically go away in three weeks.
That modern languages are even worse does not make ALGOL-68 good, in my opinion. It's understandable why people would like it, though, compared to modern languages.
What is more crazy is that there is no international pressure for China to at least temporarily close down that research institute. The international community should have also demanded for immediate inspections on the institute's premises as soon as this virus started going worldwide, for crying out loud, we've had wars started because of some aerial photos of some metal tubes in the Iraqi desert but instead this is treated like "super-power business as usual".
The real virus isn't directly injected into your body tissue, it has to find a way in through mucus membranes when the immune system may be strong enough to fight it off before full on body aches.
Don’t Worry, America, Jared Kushner Is Going to Save You from Covid-19
Yeah, I've seen a lot of people blame 'human encroachment' upon wilderness for this. These people of course ignore the entire history of humanity and somehow think this is new and that we're paying the price.
Used Zotero with Firefox plugin and word plugin. Used to use Mendeley, but like the open source nature of Zotero.
The value in HN is mostly in the comments, not in its role as a link aggregator. A good 90% of the time when the link is to something I cannot access I can still get all the salient points necessary to understand and benefit from the discussion just from reading the comments. (Also, if it is a story on some reasonably current event or some well known subject there is a good chance a quick visit to a search engine will find some other article that covers nearly everything in the submitted article but that I can read).

I think of HN as like a social gathering. Each discussion thread is like a small group of people at a party standing around talking about some topic. It's a big party, and there are dozens of such small groups, constantly forming and breaking up, as people move from group to group.

If I'm at a party, and I see a group discussing a book they have read and I have not, I'm either going to ignore their discussion completely if I'm not interested in the topic or am planning on reading the book later and want to avoid spoilers, or go ahead and join in if I'm interested in the topic and and not worried about spoilers and they are discussing it in general enough terms.

I'm not going to try to tell everyone at the party that they should only talk about books that everyone there has read.

If there is some particular site(s) that someone just does not want to see on HN at all, it's easy to address that with a couple bookmarklets. Here's one that will hide NY Times articles from the listings:

javascript: (function () {
var stories = document.getElementsByClassName('storylink');
for (var i = 0; i < stories.length; ++i)
if (stories[i].href.includes('://www.nytimes'))
stories[i].parentNode.parentNode.hidden = 'hidden';
})()

It would be easy to expand it to cover multiple sites.

Here's one to unhide them:

javascript:(function () {
var stories = document.getElementsByClassName('storylink');
for (var i = 0; i < stories.length; ++i)
stories[i].parentNode.parentNode.hidden = '';
})()

Stick those bookmarklets someplace easy to invoke, and then at the cost of one click per page of 30 links you don't have to see the site(s) again.
We all learn differently. Please don't deal in pedagogical certainties that may close doors unventured. Feynman's lectures were crucially eye-opening for me and many others.
Seriously, what is the analogous computer science problem to this? Why is it that a lifetime of experiences, and I still draw blanks every time I try to figure out what to do about this stuff. I mean... everything minus scenarios which include massive amounts of death. Surely there's a better way though.
So then it's not a Slack problem but "my boss" problem.
It makes me feel like I'm sick for about 4 days after a shot. I STILL get it because I remember getting the Flu as a kid and hope to never get it again if I can help it...
> boxes that do NAT are referred to as routers in the RFC.

Newer RFCs use different terms such as CPE (customer premises equipment) and AFTR (address family transition router)
CodeSandbox update including live coding
Multiple Google services are experiencing a disruption
I wish Chinese medicine would just die already. An absolute pile of horseshit invented by Mao etc because he'd killed the actual doctors in his cultural revolution [1] It's main purpose now seems to be to claim that the rarer the animal you eat, the harder it makes your dick.

[1] https://slate.com/technology/2013/10/traditional-chinese-med...
Except that the whole Linux ecosystem, starting with the kernel and going from there, simply doesn't really care about POSIX. Now, that Musl does is... well, would have been, long ago... a breath of fresh air. But the ship has sailed. The Linux kernel ABI has won.

Solaris, Illumos, the *BSDs, Windows -- all tried to emulate the Linux kernel ABI, and could not do a good enough job, so they all pretty much abandoned the project. The Linux kernel ABI won and that's that.

Well, if we could convince devs that static linking is bad... But even then, the Linux kernel ABI leaks for all sorts of things, starting with /proc.

And yes, static linking is bad, for a variety of reasons, the biggest of which is that static linking is stuck with 1970s semantics that suck because accidental symbol interposition happens all too easily. That doesn't mean that static linking couldn't grow ELF-like semantics, but if it hasn't over the past 40+ years... Still, even assuming that, there would be other reasons not to love static linking. If we could convince people to ship only dynamically-linked executables, then the ABI to emulate would be smaller, but still huge.
> I got hired.

So, for money.
Why pointing this detail out is being downvoted? It is a polite message and it is correct above all. Don't upvote it if you think it's not that relevant (I personally think it is) but don't downvote it either.
So are you applying for the 44k/yr job to fix it? No, most of are not.
US virus deaths may top 80k despite confinement
Yeah, I like that he called out that no matter how smart or informed people are trying to sound at the moment, everyone - from the largest companies to governments to everyone else - is flying blind.
Show HN: Online experiences in times you cannot travel
I have a theory that certain job titles are amenable to people with poor boundaries. The first Pointy Haired Boss I encountered was a customer. Dumber than a post, his primary skill seemed to be in getting things he didn’t deserve.

Salespeople often worry far more about Face than Physics. If they told a customer something was easy, then you have to cobble something together quickly no matter what. Which means massive tech debt, huge time sinks, and later questions about why you guys are so slow now? That only stops when the engineers find solidarity, and agree to always say no.
"almost all of logic programming actually stems from Prolog"

Why isn't Prolog on the list then?? :O
This is an extremely good site (especially the physics part). I go back to this page quite often, whenever I want to start learning something new.
A detailed break down by age.

Then bonus points would be a column showing the mortality rate of a person in that country.

For instance an 80 yo in the US has a 6% mortality.
Which is what I expected. There is truth to diseases like this coming from dangerous food practices, but that often gets coated in a layer of ethnocentrism that pins it on a specific animal or the need to hunt wildlife instead of relying on a factory farming infrastructure (which is also increasing the potential for global pandemic by overusing antibiotics).
>Another practical step could be to identify a specific minimal set of language units required for any given popular nonconstructed language. Is this already a thing?

You mean something like this question?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19331307
Ask HN: Any good coronavirus demographic datasets?
I know about the JHU dataset on github. I'm looking something like statistics on patient demographics such a gender, age, area, deaths, underlining health conditions etc.

Any help would be appreciated
That depends on your company. Do you use any hosted services? The same problems apply for those.
Mendeley has this feature too. Their current desktop uses Qt.

One of the other things going for Mendeley is seamless sync between an iPad and a desktop. Their cloud limit is 2GB free storage.

Though Zotero has Zotfile, it’s a hassle to set up tablet sync with an iOS device.
There's nothing inherently bad with mass quarantines.
That's the reason I don't use alpine for containers and just keep using debian.
That's a pretty biased sample. Most people with financial literacy aren't withdrawing cash at a 7/11. They're doing it at their own bank branch to avoid paying any fees.

The reasoning here is circular. At the ATM in 7/11 that would only be used by people who aren't financially literate enough to absorb excessive fees, we find evidence of poor finances and poor financial literacy.
Also chiming in to say I used Zotero for my Master's thesis and I was happy with it.

With some plugins (I don't remember exactly) I had a very nice pipeline of "find paper on the interntet" -> Zotero -> automatically updated .bib -> trigger rebuild of Latex document to PDF -> automatic reload in PDF viewer.

The UI is somewhat dated but the functionality is great. Nowadays I would probably choose Citationsy, maybe only because I find the UI more aesthetically pleasing.
I've been using http://www.qiqqa.com/ for 8 years and it does a fantastic job of organizing my PDFs and managing citations. It can do cloud based shared libraries as well.

for me the killer feature is that it makes all the PDFs full text searchable so it is like my own personal google where the links never break and the content is all relevant.

Highly recommend!
This reminds me of an old story about an engineer who took initiative and automated the accounts receivable process at his company, now they get paid 25% faster! He shows his boss and gets a promotion.

He decides to do it again, this time with accounts payable, and is promptly fired.
Exactly. I have my own router (and cable modem, for that matter), and I don't call Comcast when one of them breaks; I fix it myself, since I own them.
You can advocate for nationalization of some industries and high income taxes [like we had in the 50s] without going Full Communist or even pulling a Hugo Chávez.

Check out this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nationalizations_by_co...

Amtrak was the one that came to mind for me. Nationalizing rail service has been pretty common in multiple countries over time. Sometimes private utilities also get absorbed by local governments. The history of fire departments in this country has a lot of that. The UK has an even longer list, you will note. Mexico nationalized gas stations in the 20th century.
The Pandemic Has Grounded Humankind
>Any algorithm can be formalised in e.g. a Turing machine, or any other equivalent universal model of computation

Quoting http://math.andrej.com/2006/03/27/sometimes-all-functions-ar...

>>The lesson is for those “experts” who “know” that all reasonable models of computation are equivalent to Turing machines. This is true if one looks just at functions from N toN. However, at higher types, such as the type of our function m, questions of representation become important, and it does matter which model of computation is used.

Mathematics only proves things up to isomorphism. Two things that are theoretically equivalent are not necessarily empirically equivalent.

Or, just the good ol' adage: in theory there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is.

>So there's literally nothing in "computer science" that you cannot express in mathematics.

In addition to the examples in the blog post linked above, you cannot express a mutating getter in Mathematics.

Go ahead. I'll wait.
It's pretty well established now that Feynman is not a good general approach for introductory physics. Plenty of talented teachers have tried it, and moved on to something more effective.

This doesn't contradict your point. A particular individual may find them very helpful in learning and understanding the foundational stuff. By all means try, and if it works for you, great.

However, it shouldn't be at the top of anyone's list of things to try first. And if you have tried, and it didn't work well for you - it's not you.
I worked on Windows desktop apps around the same timeframe, maybe a bit later. IMO, C#/Winforms killed C++/MFC, due to being massively simpler and more productive, without giving up much in the way of performance.
is Prolog deader than the logic programming systems stemming from it? The field seems fairly niche overall, but from the limited insight I have Prolog seems to be still around?
Not to mention the expensive cost of consumables. This is more of a marketing play than a practical solution to the global pandemic.
I enjoy how 2 weeks ago most people had a kill the boomers rhetoric, and now it's my grandma/grandpa. It's (likely) a change for the better, but one I haven't seen pointed out yet.
That makes sense top of my head. Hospitals overfilled with patients and understaffed with medical pros and resources means more sick people will go untreated and hence higher probability of deaths. So if what you state holds water then in two/three weeks we should be seeing the rate go up drastically. Right in time for the economy to be “raring” to go according the nations leaders and imbecile in chief
A bunch of functional programmers continue to insist that the Turing Machine has no ticker tape which stores state?

Yeah. I know ;)
U.S. Jobless Claims Jump to 3.28M, Quadruple Prior Record
With how much of the internet is over TLS, and the fact the you still have to trust someone, be they a VPN operator or ISP, aside from georestrictions and piracy, VPN services are mostly snake oil. It shouldn't be surprising that they're employing marketing tools to sell more of it.

As for them even selling privacy, while I don't trust major ISPs, at least there are more eyes on them. You generally have no idea who's operating a VPN, so even that's dubious.
Is Tokyo Heading for a Lockdown?
The wildlife markets are permanently banned now, as I understand it
> ISPs job isn't just "provide the Internet," it's also "provide all the troubleshooting for every non-technical customer who just wants to watch Netflix but doesn't even know what a router is"

No ISP that I'm aware of will provide troubleshooting for devices they don't own. They just say "sorry, not our device, not our problem". When I installed my own cable modem and router, Comcast was quite clear about that. And I said "fine, no problem".
Just knowing: "yeah you caught it and recovered, get back out there, you're low risk" would be super helpful. Would allow you to go volunteer at a minimum.
> Also, for 5.1 surround sound, no browser will do, you must use the Windows 10 app.

Yep, and when you have done that don‘t forget to manually guess and set your video output refresh rate because the Netflix can‘t be bothered to switch and match the output to the frame rate of the content. For movies it’s very likely 24p and you don‘t want to have that interpolated to 60 Hz.
They unfortunately do not support WireGuard. Mullvad is probably the best way to go at the moment.
I really love LICEcap, I've been using it for years. It's a simple program that does exactly what it advertises to do, no fluff.
Genocide or not (nobody knows what is happening in those camps, so I would not use that word unless we have some solid hard evidence), we talk about consequences of covid on societies. And Chinese one seems to be faring much much better than most others.

I just saw how a video of Chinese doctors dressing up for a visit to a covid patient. My doctor wife just stared with open mouth - nothing like that is done here in Switzerland. They use super basic equipment, which is simply not enough to protect long term doctors exposed to patients. We simply don't have the mindset to handle this situation seriously. We will learn eventually, but it will be a painful lesson for our society.

As somebody on HN mentioned a few weeks ago, China defined its bottom with closure and quarantine, and now they are bouncing back. While west is still in free fall.
The CCP has already done so.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/05/asia/china-coronavirus-wildli...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22693320
Right? You'd think two weeks in Vim would have gotten at least `:vsplit /file/path` worked out... or at least `:buffers`. That said, he does not seem to be a terminal oriented guy so there are likely compounding effects here rather than just needing to learn Vim.
I have never seen a nyt article that wasn't an op-ed or maybe magazine that wasn't reputable.
Not Democrats as a whole. Nancy Pelosi and one or two other congress people in particular. As I understand it from various sources spanning the political spectrum, both the Republicans and Democrats that were in Washington DC had productive bipartisan talks over the weekend and had largely hashed out a bill that both sides agreed on. Then Nancy Pelosi flew back from California and injected several additional things into the bill that were highly partisan and permanent fixtures aligned with policy Democrats had been pushing pre-crisis. This act by Pelosi derailed partisan efforts. Liberal media lauded these additions. Conservative media condemned them. Anything that is added that gets opposite reception by partisan media is pretty much the definition of partisan.

Any bill that is a response to a crisis should short and specific to the crisis at hand with no permanent changes to how business is conducted long term. Politicians taking advantage of a crisis is how we get disastrous policy like the Patriot Act, no-fly lists and FISA courts.

Any long term policy changes should be debated and decided upon months and years after the crisis has been averted.
I thought it was bats to pangolins to humans. Same as the first sars coronavirus being bats to civets (paradoxurinae) to humans.

The theory being, bats are natures reservoir of the parent virus, and SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 both descended from it, through an intermediate host.
I am using the exact same router from the same ISP. I was wondering what the problem was when I wasn't able to forward port 22 to my computer for an SSH connection.

I had thought it had something to with the ISP allocating the same static IP to multiple clients and blocking some common ports to prevent collisions (ended up using port 109.. something for SSH). Turns out it was more interesting!
Can you provide a source of these "science papers"? Please only provide the peer reviewed repeated studies, not those agenda driven ones.
> why the contempt?

Hey I have a question maybe you could help me with. If I saw someone projecting really hard, what should I say to them?
Quarantine procedure from the coronavirus for mail and packages. Am I paranoid?
I actually specifically chose Zotero over Mendeley because Mendeley is owned by Elsevier. Their company has always been a toxic influence on publishing.

Recently they even added a new dark pattern so that when you click the "download PDF" button on their articles it opens up a web app reader loaded with tracking instead of just giving you a PDF. You then have to spend time and click through about three menus to really download the PDF.

It's to the point that I avoid articles published by Elsevier if possible. Easier in my field than others I'm sure.
I clicked through to the two follow ups — this is both excellent sleuthery and a wonderful write up.
Gloves

Masks

Sanitizers

Delivery-only retail

Disinfections

Holidays in remote cabins

Solitary sports

Social gaming

Live tv and radio (as opposed to streaming)

Remote teaching

Remote doctor visits

Delivery as a service, with companies testing employees regularly

I might guess an uptick in porn

I m surprised we don’t hear much about VR

Zoom must have grown so much it is becoming the new facebook

Slack as well

This is generally accelerating the already existing infrastructure for remote work/ remote life. It highlights how much of physical-presence was actually not needed.
> Purcell for Electricity & Magnetism

This once came out as part of Berkeley Physics Course [1] which I think would be a great complement to Feynman's Lectures.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Physics_Course
Not all of the outcomes of our actions give evidence for the motivations for our actions.
This is kind of an off-the-wall idea, but... what about creating artificial meat substitutes for these prized exotic animals?

Couldn't Beyond Meat create a pretty close facsimile to pangolin or bat or snake or whatever? Obviously this wouldn't eliminate 100% of demand. Particularly among those eating the animals for their magical properties, instead of their taste. But even if artificial versions of exotic meats could cut consumption by 20-30%, the corresponding risk of zoonotic virus transmission should fall linearly along with that.
Anyone else here who only uses Jabref?
Did you bother to read? It's about the combinatorial explosion that happens when you need to support lots of configurations. It's apolitical.
I would argue that the two editors are completely and totally different in focus, ability, and approach. Nano works for editing a quick file or writing an e-mail in Alpine... but is not really functional for full time code editing at all, in my opinion. That said, I'd love to be shown how I am wrong about nano. It seems pretty ubiquitous around my workplace where most of the developers did not grow up at the command line...
Why don't companies with lots of assets like airlines sell them? Companies without assets need some help, not airlines.
GooglePlayDev removed the 98point6Inc Android app during this healthcare crisis
Such "great" memories, such amazing games.

I remember being at school, aged around 7 or 8 (I was born mid-70s) and we had an assignment to draw stars with a certain number of points, using the BBC Micro.

I followed the instructions, but I think I intentionally drew the last line of the star to be off-by-one degree (or maybe 5? I don't recall). From there the loop would begin again. I made some pretty Spirograph-style patterns on the screen and got a enthusiastic-yet-confused well done from my teacher.

My teacher for 2nd year Junior school was Mrs Hurley, Elizabeth Hurley's mum. My big brush with fame was that my mother threatened me with adoption by the Hurley family. I'm not sure how much she actually discussed with them, but my memory of that period is patchy at best. Yes, my mother was not a nice person to me growing up.

I also remember my chip and board designer father being disappointed in ~10 year old me for wanting to play games instead of learn assembly and other very difficult tasks. I think for my 11th birthday I got a "create games in machine code" or similar book, with a "go on then" pat on the back. Definitely left a lot to be desired in the motivational and emotional support departments, my parents.

(sorry to be all personal and emotional, just this post dredged up some memories that had lain dormant for a long time)
Here is a list of global coronavirus datasets that could help you: https://lionbridge.ai/datasets/coronavirus-datasets-from-eve...
Pangolins are definitely cute but horseshoe bats look like absolute shit so I reject your premise.