skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"As with many interventions intended to prevent ill health, the effectiveness of parachutes has not been subjected to rigorous evaluation by using randomised controlled trials. Advocates of evidence based medicine have criticised the adoption of interventions evaluated by using only observational data. We think that everyone might benefit if the most radical protagonists of evidence based medicine organised and participated in a double blind, randomised, placebo controlled, crossover trial of the parachute."

https://www.bmj.com/content/327/7429/1459
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Sounds good. +1 for writing it up and sharing dets! :)
> In React, they're basically all JavaScript. Even for JSX people can imagine themselves as compilers, and can easily write down the JavaScript output by hand - it's totally predictable. It's really a super thin layer of DSL with nothing interesting at all.

No it isn't.

Jsx gets transformed into js that calls react code. No one is writing out that react code, which is pretty much what svelte does.
Ja, have fun in "demo" and "test"!
Meet random people who are just as clueless as you.

Be nice though!
No, it's the opposite. Places which are already at capacity (like Venice, Mallorca, Santorini, etc) then receive multiple cruise ships a day which dump thousands more people into the system.

There are cruises which are "just looking" but the ones which visit heavily touristic areas tend to stop and let passengers off. Also these ships are enormous, loud and polluting. I think most locals would prefer hotels which at least contribute to the economy.
What do you call a super fun game for few people?

A dead game.

Whether its online or physical. Game that doesn't have player-base is doomed to be forgotten.

Artifact didn't even took off and the playerbase tanked to 200-300 people weekly. Who is going to wait 30mins to find a match? And what are the chances of even match-up?
It actually works fine on Android browsers (checked in FF and Chrome), you just have to load the page in Desktop mode so that it stops pushing the apps to you.

Hopefully they'll reconsider their decision if they want it to get popular...
That's even more true with cruise ships. That industry will be effectively bailed out one way or the other, the other is banks eating the losses after bankruptcy and new companies starting out with lower debt after taking over the assets at firesale prices.

But that only strengthens the point of the article: the optics of an actual bailout would be so much worse and the outcome would only really differ for shareholders.
That's not really true though, and I know this from personal experience in the company that I work for.

We have a fairly large development team all using MacBook Air, the previous version. It's a little workhorse, but you gotta know its limitations.

It struggles a little with Java development (i.e. running NetBeans or IntelliJ), but the new version (i.e. 2019 model) will do that just fine.
12" MacBook with the i5 or i7 (it's rare now, though). I've made do with the m3 version and while PHPStorm runs slow, it's bearable.
I used this the other day in the free version. The text over the screen was annoying, and the background effect was rather glitchy, but it was effective at hiding the mess I was too lazy to clean up.

However, as we were using it for work conference, I felt like I was adding some goofiness to the call and didn't like that. I ended up moving the camera to show less mess, and then eventually actually cleaned up my mess.

Plus, VCam only works in Windows.
The airline equivalent of the cruise lines would be large foreign carriers, which happen to fly to the US. It would be obvious madness for the US Govt. to give anything at all to Emirates or Ethiopian, for instance.

Whereas Delta & friends have a large footprint in the US, lots of jobs, lots of purely US service. Still not obvious whether they deserve help, but they are clearly very different organizations.
If you REALLY value compactness, the smallest nice computer you can get is probably the discontinued 12-inch macbook. It really is amazingly small. It is underpowered but "quickly write tiny JS/PHP/Html programs" is about the least demanding thing you can do, work wise, so I think it would be fine.

It's a sacrifice for compactness though. It also has the "bad" keyboard, though some people don't mind.

The just released macbook air is probably an all around good choice though.
I totally agree, and while we are not there yet, you see companies like baremetrics, ghost and nomadlist which started this movement. But if you take a closer look at smaller companies like placecard.me you will see more detailed blog posts covering their progress with almost complete view on how the founder develops his/her startup as well as metrics such as revenue and work hours (check https://www.coryzue.com/open/ ). I hope this will grow to more startups as it does instills a stamp of trust.
Yes. I can say that doing concurrency in Clojure is particularly easy, check for yourself: https://www.braveclojure.com/core-async/
R0 is at the initial onset, without any immunity and any preventive measures. If the virus had R0 of 1.3 it would be easily containable. The reality is that it has an R0 of 2-6 and an effective R > 1 in most except Asian countries.

A R0 of 1.3 with an incubation time of 1 week would not lead to the doubling of cases in 4 days. The whole thing is a crime against math.
I sort of agree - for now, at least. The tooling around React for debugging is pretty great. React Dev Tools lets you easily debug your component tree. And the underlying source is pretty much what you wrote (JSX doesn't really get in the way here).

I've been working with some older Angular (1.5) code recently and it's been an absolute nightmare because the debugging experience is just awful. Error messages are unusable at times. Failures simply get swallowed. It's difficult to debug bindings. But with React, I don't have to deal with any of this (though much is because of the simpler API).

You see a similar thing with Redux. It's very straight-forward to debug, and there are similar dev tools. Even Apollo has dev tools for their GraphQL library. And I think this is what sets these things apart and makes them so much more popular than similar libraries - the debugging experience. And while I haven't used Svelte for a project, I'm getting the sense that the debugging experience is going to be painful. It may be great _most of the time_. But I don't think that's going to be enough in the long run. Just my opinion.
Is anyone else getting a "Error 401 UNAUTHORIZED" on this github repo?
Two words: MacBook Air.

You can't go wrong with that little workhorse. The new one (high spec) will even do Java development just fine and run two 4K screens.
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Cruises!

(I'm only pretending to have missed the "critical" before "industry", of course you are completely right)
Yeah, that makes sense. Thanks for the reply :)
AKA "Capitalism on the way up, Socialism on the way down".
I've used a fully loaded MacBook and it works well. It's quite slow compared to a desktop but it's fast enough and has the Retina screen. This laptop is basically a tablet in laptop form factor; it is ultra tiny and very nice to use from a physicality standpoint.

I'm currently using an X1 Carbon ThinkPad Gen 4 with a 4K screen and it is pretty nice too. It's a step up both performance wise and size wise from the MacBook.
Meet has a setting that lets you choose how to see people. By default, it shows up to 4 people in equal tiles. After that, it puts the talker large and a few people in small tiles to the side.

But there's a layout option in the vertical dots menu that will let you force it back to 4 large tiles. You cannot specify how many tiles, though, it's always 4.
> Ioannidis says: “If we assume that case fatality rate among individuals infected by SARS-CoV-2 is 0.3% in the general population — a mid-range guess from my Diamond Princess analysis — and that 1% of the U.S. population gets infected (about 3.3 million people), this would translate to about 10,000 deaths.”

For anyone wondering, this quote is from [1] and doesn't appear in the linked article. I think the linked article is better worded and more nuanced.

> I think John has good reason to desire evidence based decisions, but sometimes you have to make decisions without enough data and change your game as it develops e.g. look at what effective entrepreneurs do in uncertain times?

I think comparing the measures that governments take with what effective entrepreneurs do is misleading for two reasons. First, for a country there is no single bottom line: a good balance has to be found between low mortality, good quality of life for those that do not die, and economy (which can be tied into the latter, or it can be independent if the government prioritises the wealth of a minority). Success of a company is mostly measured financially, or perhaps by visibility.

And second, the stakes are a lot higher for governments. They cannot fail and disappear if the measures are not a success. If they fail, human consequences are massive, but the country still exists. If entrepreneurs fail, the company might go into bankruptcy and disappear, but the impact is mostly financial. On the one hand this means that the risks can be acceptable if the consequences are only financial, and on the other hand this leads to a certain selection bias -- the successful entrepreneurs you see are ones that take risks and act decisively, and were lucky enough that their risks paid off.

1. https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-a...
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I have a 15 inch MBP with the dodgy keyboard, but it's bearable and 95% of the time I use an external Apple keyboard and a 4K screen.
> I've met people who have been on cruise every single year since over a decade and the people who work hard to save money to go on cruise

I mean, so what? If there's so much demand, presumably new cruise lines will show up at some point when the current ones collapse. In general, "[a small minority of] people like it" is not a sufficient reason to bail something out; government bailouts are inherently limited and should be targeted at where they will do the most good. Realistically, where they will do the most good, by _any_ metric, is not cruise lines.
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Sorry that was ambiguous wording; I was addressing their statement it was harder to do without the graphics being in the kernel.
The new Dell XPS 2020 or the MB Air.
Great :)

Where do you want me to share links to my interviews?

Yeah, happy to do an interview!
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One thing that's really nice is using org-mode tables in another mode. For example, I use it for LaTeX tables. I edit the table inline using org-mode then "compile" it into the LaTeX version before saving the document. It's really cool.
The lack of one modifier key left of the keyboard is an issue to me. Equivalent Windows laptops cost about the same and have an extra key.

And can run Linux just fine.
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12" Macbook would probably be optimal.

Surface Go is an option to consider, however it can't really be used on a lap.
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I had a thought earlier today that might fix the economic situation, but it's extremely bold.

If the world congregates and places blame on the CCP for asking us to keep our borders open while knowing all along how contagious and deadly this virus was, that's criminally negligent. Maybe even malicious.

The behavior of the CCP after the virus spread internationally is equally alarming. They threatened to shut off access to medicines manufactured in China, placed blame on Italy and the US for the virus' origin, and shut down European and US travel to China.

Defaulting on debt is bad. But what if every nation collectively "cancelled" their debt to China? China would protest, but given the circumstance it doesn't seem like a credit downgrade would be necessary if this were taken as repayment for damages caused.

If we owe zero to China, we can then lend all of that money to businesses and individuals impacted. Pay off domestic debts.

I really like the idea of "cancelling Chinese debt". Now someone please tell me how this couldn't work. Would they retaliate? Would they consider it an act of war?

(I shouldn't have to say this, but I harbor no ill will towards the Chinese people. I love Chinese culture and studied Mandarin in college. I dislike the CCP and their actions.)
I've previously applied at Alto and have yet to receive a response...
Also see: https://wiki.c2.com/?CppBashing

u/yosefk is probably the greatest CPP basher of all time.

iirc, Rich Hickey was an expert CPP programmer before he developed clojure.
In config management, I often think to myself as I'm trying to figure out how to express in the DSL some simple thing, that I'd rather just write the bash. Why should I learn each new fashionable DSL just to have it translate back to the shell commands I spent so long translating into the DSL? It's a game of telephone.

This is a cool/fun project, but I've got to say, if I'm troubleshooting a production issue I'd so rather be dealing with the (shorter) generated bash equivalent than the bashable DSL in the example they have there.
Yes, you don't need Docker for the development environment. I do that sometimes though for convenience and for projects that I develop on only now and then.
A loan at non-market rates is essentially a cash giveaway, though a smaller one than if you just give the cash directly.
But does it really whip the llama’s ass?
Depends on the environment. You can easily run Docker containers on the new Air.
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Any tablet + x2go or apache guacamole
Then you can't verify it unless you upgrade, but I think it's an acceptable price that those pay who run older versions.
Even in Japan they traditionally only wear masks when sick.
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MacOS: check out the latest MacBook Air 13", the one just released - it has a new keyboard, better base disk configuration and it's cheaper than before.

Windows: Dell XPS 13 has been the go-to laptop for years, they keep refreshing it, so make sure to get at least the 2019 model (which has a camera on the top of the screen, not the bottom), or ideally the 2020 model, which features a new keyboard and even smaller bezels (and a new, 16:10 screen).

Windows runner up: look at Surface Pro 7 (x86) and Pro X (ARM), if the form factor, performance and ergonomics fit your needs, they might be preferable to the XPS 13. The Pro X is quite a wild card, since the compatibility is not quite there yet, but it's closer to a paper notebook than laptops or even the Pro 7.

I would advise against anything smaller than 13", because it will be fairly suboptimal to type on.
Thinkpad X2xx - 12", very reliable, coreboot-able, excellent keyboard.
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I’ve heard it’s the rugs repelling sanitizers. HVAC don’t look great as well and feels a bit like overall hygiene standards is as good as they were in their heyday.
Oh do I love x2go.
> "HVAC systems push air from cabin to cabin without sterilisation"

I suspect this is actually a bigger part of it than people realise.

I've been in very modern hotels that clearly had issues with their HVAC design as smells (bathroom smells... yuck!) from other rooms infiltrated through the ventilation ducts. I imagine this issue could be worse in a cruise ship given the small size of the cabins.
A good point. Quite a lot of people that have /open pages do also blog about what has and hasn't worked and have product roadmaps as well. They are just often not included on the /open page for whatever reason. I guess just because we are used to the template of showing revenue and maybe traffic.
We don't use chemical weapons because they didn't even work that well in WWI.

The first chemical weapon attacks in WWI were quite deadly. However, chlorine, phosgene, mustard gas, etc. didn't remain effective after troops on both sides came to expect them. Once everyone had gas masks and the training to put them on quickly, chemical weapons became a mainly psychological threat. There are plentiful horror stories about gas attacks precisely because so many people survived them.

Chemical weapons and surprise are, together, a deadly combination. What might be combined with surprise in the future?
I'm still loving my 2013 MacBook Air 13" with an i7 and 8 GB RAM.

I mostly do Python development with Vim (web, DevOps, ML/NLP) and Dart/Flutter stuff with VSCode. For bigger workloads I ssh into my iMac.
The other day I heard, a store in Denmark put in tiered pricing to counteract hoarding of hand sanitizers. Legally they can't limit the amount per customer, but they can add a "limited quantity discount". So the regular price is $133 but the "just one" price is $5.

https://nypost.com/2020/03/21/danish-store-instills-pricing-...
It beats doing nothing. Vegetables are harder to avoid eating at all, but fish? You can totally do without eating any ever again and be fine. And almost all salt you can buy in stores has iode added so you won’t miss that nutrient.
JS means using npm and node, ive heard my laptop fans go crazy at times. I'm MBP 13 inch, i7, SSD, 16GB Ram
Crony capitalism?
Because for most people there's emotional value in the remains of a loved one.
Many bathrooms will have a light switch nearby though. Replace it with one of these: https://www.homedepot.com/p/Leviton-15-Amp-125-Volt-Combo-Se...
This sounds more like an opinion paper than a study.
You can get away with that with some languages, C# for instance has very little to trip you up. C++ on the other hand has dark corners that will cause problems. For instance not knowing about the issues with virtual destructors could come back to bite you.
iPad Pro 11"?

I mean there aren't that many "small" laptop, just reading between the line of your needs.

Today most laptop starts at 13". I am not sure if that fit your definition of Small. But the new MacBook Air is pretty decently priced for an Apple product.
I enable orgtbl-mode automatically in markdown-mode for that reason. It's the table bit as a minor-mode that you can use in any major mode.
Not only Bash but everything that is not compiled. The amount of grief interpreted languages introduced is outrageous.
After a couple of weeks, toilet paper seems to be back with a vengeance in Irish supermarkets; there's heaps of the stuff. And canned tomatoes are back. The panic buyers seem to have given up on it, and have moved onto weirder targets. Based on my visit to Tesco last night, the new hoarding targets seem to be lightbulbs and chewing gum, for some reason.

Your supermarkets are probably restocking this stuff every day, and possibly multiple times a day, but it doesn't take much change in buying patterns to cause temporary shortages.
That's only a net positive if you think that more tourism (which is a form of consumerism) is always a good thing.
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It's really hard to gauge how the crisis is affecting tech. On the one hand there will obviously be a general recession, but on the other hand tech as a portion of the economy should grow through the crisis and also afterwards.

Is it business as usual at your company? A freeze on new investments? Doors closing for good?
Applying morals to any decision made in war is historically unreliable. Justifying actions after the act is usually where the moral relativism hits the history books.

War is, almost by definition and nature, not a moral-friendly activity.
I don't have Prime, what I meant was that things with amazon are frictionless if stuff goes wrong. Also, I'm from Europe.
>The best laptop keyboard I've ever typed on!

Will definitely check that out just to see the keyboard. Getting really fed up with all the new Apple's keyboard design / experiences.
seems very poorly written. how can she expect to coach IELTS?
> Except that those assets are owned with borrowed money. Someone has to eat the losses, and in an actual free market there are two options: the equity holders, or the bondholders.

There are no actual free markets and there never have been; governments exist and always intervene in the market, and even if they didn't have something like the Fed executing monetary policy, there's typically the option of “past, present, or future taxpayers”; in the case of future taxpayers, often in part or in whole out of returns directly made from the gains from keeping the businesses afloat rather than letting them fail.

> And so the charade will continue.

What “charade”? It would only be a charade if the government pretended that monetary and fiscal policy wasn't part of the system of the economy, which it does not.
Panasonic RZ series
I submitted same link just half hour before -_-
second that, though now they converted to 13" and last model became x390 (x270, x280, x390). pay attention to ram amount. it is soldered in the last model, and, not upgradable)
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Hello late: Common Lisp does quite a lot of compile-time type checks though: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/type.html it's not as extensive as type-safe languages, but clearly far better than any interpreted one. Add the interactivity where you compile a function (yes, just a function) with a keystroke and thus get the errors or warnings instantly, that makes a pleasant experience. We're also waiting for the Coalton library to mature, it brings Hindley-Milner type inference on top of CL…
Assuming you don't want to start a war, it relies on them not 'protesting' too much.

It also relies on not needing to borrow again in the foreseable future, and probably not on good terms when you do (decades down the line).

Trying to arrange 'every nation collectively' doing so sounds like a risky exercise in getting everybody to agree to your plan, and not side with China instead and make your (and anybody who did agree's) situation even worse.

Strictly worse than just firing up the printers, IMO.
Ubuntu derivatives have an amazing support of Mac Hardware, sometimes works even better.

https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/tutorial-create-a-usb-stick-on-...
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OP likes React, nothing to read here, really. All the points he stated are worse in React.
Oof! 16:10 display in a 13" chassis is tough to beat. Those extra vertical pixels make coding on it that much nicer. Way to go Dell! If only I could get 16:10 in a ThinkPad; I'm a sucker for their keyboards and trackpoint.
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I spent the last few years using one of these as my mobile development solution. I still use it for scala development - not too underpowered for this.

I feel I have been lucky with the keyboard, no real stuck keys and the keyboard doesn't feel cramped. And it slips into a small bag very easily.

I have replaced the screen once, when I dropped something on it and the battery, which is expensive. The bad thing about this form factor is how every small issue is back-to-workshop.