skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Small business owners almost always have to personally guarantee commercial rents. "My business doesn't have revenue so I'm not paying" is simply not a valid response unless the owner is willing to take it the whole way to bankruptcy, which I'm sure we'll see a surge of in the coming months from the more aggressive landlords. It varies by state but my state is very forgiving to residential tenants and very unforgiving for commercial tenants (I say this as a former commercial tenant who owed past due rent at one point).

The SBOs with resources will just have to continue paying rent out of pocket, or face liens against their personal assets.
Plus many years of Bash script intended one-liners to replace or augment awk/sed leading a lot of Perl Golfers to a sublanguage that makes APL look far saner in comparison. That the code golf then shows up in "production scripts" and libraries (if for no other reason than muscle memory) builds a fortress wall to readability by outsiders.
> an excruciatingly slow, annoying and information-sparse experience from Slack

Fits like a glove.

P.S. I hate Slack so much...
Well now hang on...

The flu shot you get every year in USA and Europe is the vaccine for the most common flu that was seen in Asia and Australia the 6 months previous. And vice versa.

It’s a guess. If there are two common flus that went around, they pick one to vaccine for. Sometimes they get it wrong and the shot you get has nothing to do with the flu that ends up being common in your area.

It’s very possible to get the shot every year and still get sick.

There is a little bit of art in this science, a lot of people don’t get that.
> wouldn’t be a bad thing.

Well, unless we libertarians were right all along and these progressive policies are unmaintainable over a longer period of time. At this point, I think we're about to find out one way or another.
To be fair the US has a population more similar in scale to that of Europe than to that of any single European country.
TIL. Thanks. Yes, for whitelisting it does not work.
So, as Einstein could have said it, "We should follow the specs as far as possible, but not any further."
Elon Musk, as written in the New New Testament of the Redditor/HN Bible.
Or "/dnd XXmin" from the input bar in any channel
We have decent coverage for the the Flu shot. 45% of the population over 18 received the shot.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/fluvaxview/coverage-1819estimates.ht...
Looking like you are right about this. Approval ratings are up somehow: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/
Internal travel was suspended between several countries, though far to late to make a significant difference. A partial list: https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/coronavirus-travel-bans/i...

Saying they waited to long is true, but simply means it fails due to politics.

Edit: NM, misunderstood what you where referring to.
Yes, which does not contradict his original point. Java arrived in the mid 90s, and unlike many of its competitors you could just download Java and use it for free which gave Java a competitive advantage. Universities had good Internet connections at that point.
Might help

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1243000487365861376.html
Very one-sided take on globalization. Unless every country would completely close their borders the virus would have eventually spread everywhere anyway. While medical equipment is temporarily out of stock in some countries, globalization also guarantees that eventually each country will have access to the necessary equipment. Imagine living without global trade and expecting Afghanistan to create an industry for ventilators in a couple of months.
Those numbers are going to go up if your hospitals are overwhelmed.

Additionally, a very large percentage of health care workers will catch the virus, this will further reduce the amount of capacity.

Loss of health care workers could be a long term issue as well given the CFR in a place like Italy.
This is silly. My professional cohort doesn't have anyone working sixty hour weeks, and these are people making mid-6 to mid-7 figures. Lot more to life than working, buddy.
True, but I think it's worth comparing it to other utilities in your home - what if your electric company could make all your lightbulbs 20% dimmer without notice? Or if your water heater was remotely administered? ISPs, like mobile telcos, like to claim they must have control over your hardware "for security" but I think the most charitable interpretation is that it's to make their customer service dept. sweat less (more nefarious possibilities exist, of course).
Judging from the comments, explaining the severity of the epidemic is now politically charged.

Epidemiologists and the medical field have made it clear we are _under_ reacting. But apparently some politicians want to down play the problem and their obfuscation is echoed in every corner of the web with great zeal and again drowning out reality.

It's like the climate change denial phenomenon but at high speed.
Would you prefer he demanded royalties instead, as their label would if he used a few seconds of their output in one of his films? Or that they just be able to use the sample without credit or royalty?
I hope you can make the same comment in two weeks. I think you are way too optimistic about situation.
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Kotlin, Swift and Javascript are in plenty of mobile games. There are loads of HTML5 games on Steam. There are Switch games written in Ruby.

I get the impression you're an outsider looking in, relying on decades out of date personal experience to understand what they see.
This is true and conceded, but that wasn't my argument.
iPod was that Harddrive MP3 Player that piggybacked on the MP3 download craze people were doing on the internet, obviously.
>These changes represent hard compatibility breaks, each and every one of them. As an application developer, these are not improvements, but very costly.

>The old functionality could have been retained, implemented entirely in terms of the new, but they just had to rip it all out for the sake of it. That's not maintenance with end developers in mind.

I see these kinds of things being said all the time but at the end of the day, nobody seems to want to pick up the slack and start maintaining all those legacy widgets for eternity. There is a maintenance cost there too and the upstream developers don't want to foot the bill, and neither do you, so stuff gets dropped on the floor. If you don't want to deal with this then you use flatpak/snap and you pin your application to a specific toolkit version forever. Do you have any better proposals? Do we as an industry have any better proposals besides throwing money at the problem? Because I assure you GTK is not the first (or last) library in existence to break ABI.

>They could have written some simple XSLT transforms to provide an upgrade path, but they didn't.

They did. In GTK4 there is an automated tool to update the XML. It doesn't really work perfectly right now, but GTK4 is still pre-alpha. https://developer.gnome.org/gtk4/stable/ch31s02.html#id-1.6....
true - i only recognize windscribe (1) and mullvad though
most of the time you only require PPPoE or DHCP as you practically speaking get a ethernet tunnel to your ISP using that bridge. Some ISPs additionally segment this network by VLANs so your list of required features is probably already complete here.
"He" is named Isabella.

https://github.com/izabera
Yeah I don't see that the tradeoff is "letting coronavirus kill millions of people vs. Jeff Bezos losing 2% of his income" so much as "letting coronavirus kill millions of people vs. letting millions of people die of starvation". We're not there yet, but lets see where we are in a month.
Networking isn’t magic, it’s pretty well understood. And ISPs are pretty good at QoS to make sure that doesn’t happen.
Simply: by telling lies. If we tell people 3 in 100 will die, and after the fact it turns out that 3 in 1000 died, next time, when it will be more serious nobody will believe.
Real title: "A lot of Americans like Trump's handling of crisis"

Don't editorialize.
According to data from the COVID Tracking project, the hospitalization rate nationwide is a bit under 10%[1], with NY at about 13%[2]. No doubt they are missing some cases, since theirs is an exercise in piecing together multiple, manually-curated sources. It seems to be a good ballpark estimate, though.

[1] https://covidtracking.com/us-daily/

[2] https://covidtracking.com/data/#NY
If you take someone who weighs 300 pounds and chop them in half to get them down to 150 pounds, you probably have killed them.

Millionaires and billionaires don't live in mansions because they are greedy pigs. They do so because they need security. You can't just go move into a local apartment building and live like a normal person. (Also: If everyone is downsizing, who do you sell your mansion to?)

Even with security, Kim Kardashian was held at gun point in her own apartment at one point.

In the news recently was the fact that a barrel of oil was selling for less than the price of an actual barrel. Oil wealth has been a big thing for a long time now. We may see quite a few people utterly ruined.

When the stock market crashed in 1929, some people who had just been wiped out in a single day elected to jump out the window rather than face the future.
I hope that, by now, with all the research coming out about that, that people would have stopped using free VPNs by now. it's more than likely a big hustle to do something shady
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High fat but also lots of preservatives, I think that's the killer. I've been planning on making my own, here in the US you can get "Braunschweiger", which is great, but in Germany any decent supermarket will have a dozen different Liverwurst varieties.
glibc's use of Intel TSX was also a bit of a tirefire, IMO.

It got turned on by default for all locks, broke quite a few of applications (which were using locks wrong, but still), then the instructions ended up being broken in every Intel architecture to date that has ever implemented them [1].

Most of the distros put in some patches to disable the use of TSX, but the 'no-lock-elision' flag provided by glibc didn't actually disable all attempts at lock elision. So the end result is that the glibc in Ubuntu 16.04 tries to use TSX for rwlocks, but not mutexes. Which is unfortunate, because the mechanism to opt-out of the use of TSX in glibc was only implemented for mutexes, but not rwlocks.

TSX only ever provided performance benefits in specific use cases, and at some point glibc upstream became sane and turned it all off by default and provided opt-in mechanisms instead.

[1]: skylake errata: "Using Intel TSX Instructions May Lead to Unpredictable System Behavior", https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents...
The US has (had?) some network neutrality rules around discriminating against different types of hardware, but AT&T just does it anyway. (They require you to use their DSL modem + router + wifi and it has broken support for adding a second router behind it.)
Same here. I got flu shots twice In my life and both times felt worse than any flu I have had without.
my wife and I noticed this last year's shot was more painful - she especially had soreness in her arm for close to a week - in the past years it's typically been a day or two. Now... we're both getting older, which may account for some of it, but it can hurt for a while. And perhaps some people react other ways, which perpetuates the "I won't get one cause it makes me sick" scenarios.
Surely rust is the preferred option for that? Go hasn't been nearly as vocal in my experience.
The problem with anecdotes around the flu shot is there's a clear bias involved. If you get the shot and end up getting the flu its because the shot didn't work. If you get the shot and don't end up getting the flu it might be because the flu shot was effective, or it could also be because you just didn't come in contact with the virus. You always get a reminder of when it doesn't work and you (almost) never get a reminder of when it does work.

Just to throw my anecdote in there, I'll always get the flu shot if its convenient, but won't usually go out of my way to get it. This year I didn't get it, but my pregnant wife and daughter did as part of their regular visits. I ended up getting the flu and was violently sick, and my wife and daughter who almost certainly came in contact with the virus from me had no symptoms at all.
Wouldn’t cases per capita be more important than cases total? And don’t cases recognized under back to testing? As in does anyone really believe Russia has zeros cases?
some k-family languages do that.

http://kparc.com/b/A.S
>- Become champion supporters of an NHS they were - until recently - trying to sell bit off of

Private Eye on "24 Hours to Save the NHS https://twitter.com/KulganofCrydee/status/833654730849136641
1. The supposedly superior Chinese system is largely responsible for the outbreak being as bad as it is. Never mind the initial coverup and lies about the nature of the disease, their allowance of those horrifically unsanitary wildlife markets is crime enough.

2. I'm wondering what makes you think the US is incapable of adapting. Will we ever be able to do a China-style lockdown? Probably not, but that's a feature not a bug. There are other ways of dealing with a pandemic, and I sincerely doubt anyone from the west, or most of the east for that matter is going to be moving to China for their pandemic-response measures.

If anything I see this as a negative for China. The experience has revealed just how vulnerable China-dependent supply chains are, particularly for medications and medical devices. I expect both political and social moves to diversify away from dependence on China, which would hardly make them more of a Hegemon.
It's exactly like high speed climate change, from lacking the infrastructure and political will to do anything about it to missing our grace periods to act.
It's odd they don't list OPA Gatekeeper, which is probably the best tool for enforcing security and other best practices in Kubernetes clusters.

List of CNCF open source security projects without the blog post: https://landscape.cncf.io/category=security-compliance&forma...
Vaccinations are very much like a blacklist (or signature-based anti-virus). They are generally highly effective against what's on the list, but they don't interact with stuff that isn't on it. Of course, some vaccines work better than others. Additionally, most vaccinations, and all the common ones, are very safe. So even though e.g. the flu shot is not 100 % effective in preventing the flu², it is practically 100 % safe, which means your expected outcome can only improve by taking it.

² I believe the actual numbers are something like 80 % for the flu: people vaccinated against flu strain X only contract it at 20 % the rate of unvaccinated people, or numbers to that effect
I've used React and D3 a lot lately and while I do use React for DOM rendering - I still think D3's built in DOM manipulation/rendering is better at this specific task. This is especially true when dealing with animations and complex items like axes.
The Federal Reserve's Coronavirus Crisis Actions, Explained (Part 1)
Read your own .note.gnu.build-id ELF section
That's a good point, but from a response perspective the only thing they have in common is they are transmissible respiratory diseases.

COVID-19 is 1-2 orders of magnitude more fatal, has a longer convalescence, is more severe in severe cases, multiple orders more infectious, and has no vaccine.

Yeah, get your flu shot, be better prepared, but frankly I think since this is just very early in the crisis people are trying to compare this to previous experience when it is not comparable. Hundreds of thousands of people that might otherwise survive are about to be left to die for lack of capacity to save them. Possibly millions. At this point, it's too late to prevent it. Further, the US administration knew about it in time to take protective measures and did not. Nothing like this has ever happened in any of our lifetimes in the US.
oh, i'm just an avid reader of both cnn.com and foxnews.com and I thought the big deal here was wow, i'm reading this on cnn???
Nuevoo. Ugh.
Tell you what: you give me time and money, and I'll work on this program. Keep giving me time and money until I tell you I've succeeded.
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Also born in 1965 and had an Acorn Atom. Went to two schools that had Research Machines 380Z systems. Didn't take any lessons in computing or ICT.

I had decided that I was going to be a computer programmer around 1975, I remember having to talk to careers advisers and the job didn't exist as a defined thing that you could do.
Japan’s Virus Success Has Puzzled the World. Is Its Luck Running Out?
Came just to post this. The state he's described is definitely normalized, and the UI-specific one is denormalized.

And I think your advice is exactly right: project your normalized state into a view that's useful for consumption by other components. Basically, the same pattern we've been applying to relational databases for decades.
Also curious why the kernel can't abandon the thread since the process is dead anyway; set a bit in kernel space so on the walk back from the syscall it bails out instead of trying to return to userspace.

That doesn't solve the kernel thread being stuck forever problem. I'm not sure what the fix is there... is it bad drivers with no timeout mechanism? I don't know how they'd do that unless the kernel IO is all async anyway. Just tearing down the kernel thread seems likely to leave the locks abandoned in bad states.
I really wish both sides would stop naming everything capitalism.

Whatever it is we're now experiencing, it's not capitalism.
Mentioned only in passing as one of the languages that Java sqashed.
https://openstax.org/details/books/college-physics-ap-course...

Is a great starting point. There are also free online courses for that.
Normally I'm not a fan of people nitpicking language choices... but in this case I upvoted because this is a really weird "stupid program trick" and I'm curious what languages support such shenanigans.
> If you’re getting easily distracted by your messages, you’re not doing deep work. This is why you’re so easily distracted.

Psychology is an entire academic discipline. You can't just extrapolate from your own introspection to everyone else.
Not sure if you are in the US and what your insurance situation is, but I got mine at some random CVS when I was passing the time, and I was in and our in less than 10 minutes.
Oh that's awesome, thanks! I was unaware of this. Great product, clearly I'm not the only one this frustrates. Problem solved!

https://threadreaderapp.com/help/about#about-thread-reader
Zoom didn’t allow any wfh at all before this either and now they’re 100% remote.
> I too have a far more severe reaction every time I get a flu shot than I've ever had from actual flu.

Are you sure you ever had an actual Influenza infection? It's not like a common cold.

Even then, let's say you do get Influenza, there's a solid chance you'll get pneumonia, even as an otherwise healthy person.

Most diseases to vaccinate against have are mild in the majority of cases. You're vaccinating because of the fraction of cases that are severe.
> there just aren't enough people to sustain two months' growth

It can be simply calculated: it is expected that without measures the growth to 70% of population would be continuous (very approximately, the end phase wouldn't, we're estimating the limit). So the target is 6e9 people. If we assume that 4/5ths are the people who remain undetected by our current sampling, we want to know the growth between the current known infected and the target which is then 1.26e9 people. Currently known are 0.5 million infected. So the fastest end of growth phase would be just: 2520 times or around 2^11=2048 == just 11 times 3 day doubling time, or 33 days.

The growth will surely not be always exactly 3 days however, so it will be slower, but still not less dramatic, because the resources are many, many times smaller, in the poorer countries many tens of times smaller.

In short it can be very, very bad, and that will be much longer than just a month, just not the exact growth as now.

See the papers from Imperial College London for the exact shapes of the curves and the examples of their speed and growth.

The last one is from today.
Indeed, I read the command's template too fast.
Well, in this case it's worrysome
With enough time, sure! [0][1]

[0] Disclaimer: may take slightly longer than heat death of current universe.

[1] Alternative solution: https://m.xkcd.com/1266/
The serious problem with the comment is that it's saying these reports are annoying, however it is not the job of
the providers of these reports to provide hard statistics, it's not as if any of them have the option to do that themselves instead. So it's basically just saying, shut up. I don't want to hear your annoying report of actual effects on human beings.
Good tip - added to my Goodreads list.
I need to tell you this: in the 2000s we worked off the strategy and tactics outlined in The Manual and had a string of global chart topping successes

I can only assume others did the same...do u know the bigger story?
> I've received the flu shot three times in my life. I've been hospitalized for influenza three times in my life.

> Please tell me more about how I've deceived myself.

Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
Bigger population means more movement and more points of entry so the absolute numbers are proportionally bigger.

Growth percentages looked scary for several days. So probably there were indeed some differences in the ramping up of testing.
To bolster your point: Honestly they don't need to do much - the infrastructure is already there as a matter of being able to turn people's service up/down/on/off.

There is always a provider-managed CPE device that functions as the service demarcation point. This is the point where your contracted service speed is enforced (shape + egress queue and ingress policing).

You can have literally whatever router (dumb, smart, next-gen, whatever) spewing bits at X rate. The CPE will essentially normalize (police) that bit rate to your contracted speed (upstream scenario).
But again, you must see the problem here. To consider the media's credibility a resource at all is a post-truth concept. It presumes that the media is targeted towards a bunch of rubes, who've gotta be manipulated towards the goals you and I know are best. The natural result is exactly the trend we're seeing; almost everyone who pays attention says "well, I'm not a rube, so I guess I'd better get my real information elsewhere".
Sorry, but I'm getting really frustrated reading all sorts of delusional thinking on social media so it's disappointing to see it here too. You've somehow convinced yourself that exponential growth exists only in another universe, not the one you're living in.
This seems that it could be upsetting to some people https://udrepper.livejournal.com/7326.html
Which society?
Which group?