skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's really nothing wrong with having two different signatures, it's a pretty pythonic way to do things. It's harder to document for sure, but other than that hardly a problem in many cases.

This post unfortunately reads like one of those Java programmer discovers Python (except not really) posts, but for C++. In general if you find yourself inventing a new paradigm for a 30-year old language you just started working with, it's reason enough to doubt you're doing something suboptimal. However, in this case the author is actually very familiar with Python, so I'm kinda confused.
Lyft: If we are notified of a rider or driver testing positive for COVID-19, they will be temporarily suspended from using Lyft until they are medically cleared.
In this event, we will also follow guidance from the CDC and local health officials to identify other individuals who may have been impacted.
https://www.lyft.com/safety/coronavirus#faq

Uber: We have a team available 24/7 to support public health authorities in their response to the epidemic. Working with them, we may temporarily suspend the accounts of riders or drivers confirmed to have contracted or been exposed to COVID‑19. We’re also consulting with an epidemiologist to make sure our efforts as a company are grounded in medical advice
https://www.uber.com/us/en/coronavirus/

One is not like the other
> provide all the troubleshooting for every non-technical customer who just wants to watch Netflix but doesn't even know what a router is

People who don't even know what a router is don't buy their own equipment. Those who buy better routers don't require support for them, they call when there's a problem between the ISP and the router.
You don't get fired from government in crisis. And we are in a crisis.
The landlord does have a valid health concern. Healthcare professionals have a astronomical risk associated with their job during this pandemic. It's not really the fault of any party it's just s* suck sometimes.
Which makes sense, given that the list could change anytime (ideally, it wouldn’t even exist) and no developer should rely on Edgium identifying as Chrome or Classic Edge.
I've worked for Google and been rejected by Jane St and come off with a much better impression of Jane St. Google has some bright stars, but Jane St has a higher portion of them.
IIRC the term for this is "sympathetic magic"
I would probably buy this if Apple also provided a standard way to let users know that a site may be installed to the home screen, as they do with native apps.

Currently, they do not. Perhaps they will, if the outcry over this catches their attention.
Bats can nest in many places where animals and livestock are kept. See MERS and its relation to bats and camels.
How does Roam differ from a wiki app like Zim/Tomboy?
Fantastic game, greatly enjoyed it. 5/5 on the ycombinator app store.
:)
I agree that Elsevier is toxic, and wish they didn't own Mendeley. Unfortunately, at least the last time I compared them, Mendeley was way better than Zotero for my personal use and just couldn't use Zotero. The cloud sync and sharing, the lit search, and all were just so much more compelling. I do think its been long enough I might poke at Zotero again and see if its caught up.
Bill Gates: If I were president, this is what I would do to fight coronavirus
Here you go. This shows a breakdown of fatality rate by age.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se...
This might be one of the stupidest arguments I've ever heard:

“Thin copyright might apply to a doll or a painting because, for example, there are just so many ways to paint a tomato,” Busch said. “Creative choices are limited. It has never applied to music because there are literally an infinite number of creative choices in creating a song.”

... So you're saying there aren't infinite ways to paint a tomato?
They trade their own money instead of OPM
In my (limited) experience, companies are initially resistant and look down upon people who dial into a meeting as opposed to attend in person. Having an official policy of permitting/encouraging WFH eases the pressure on employees to come into the office to attend meetings.
Came here to say this.

Talk to your landlord.
Let me see if I can do a defense that doesnt merely look like an obvious backpedal.

If you want to do a standard study in physics you are probably going to go through a significant amount of mathematics.
This is because the laws "universe at the most fundamental level/low level" are expressed as math equations.
If OP wants to go that route then there are tons of resources available to them.

But since OP already has a CS degree I think a possible entry point is exploring these laws through computers and in some way deriving them from simulation (here is one such simulation https://www.falstad.com/gas/)

lets leave the more outlandish claims alone for now. Perhaps I went to far.
Good to know that Google+ is healthy
YouTube is such a bad source in discussions about controversial matters that not only should it incur -5 karma but people ought to appear to repossess your keyboard.

- what one can read in 30 seconds takes 5 minutes to watch because people read much faster than they talk.

-The relevant 5 minutes of video will usually be embedded in a 20 minute video somewhere in the middle.

- The url says nothing about the trustworthiness ofthe source so you have to go out of band to establish credibility. Add to this YouTube is literally where every crank ever uses for sources as if 17 lunatics quoting each other makes them collectively more credible.

Basically a YouTube video is an invitation to waste 20 minutes of your life

Consider spending a few minutes summerizing the the video including what is established and by whom and why they are a credible source.

That way readers can distinguish between you and a million cranks.
With a Uniquely Fragile Economy, Stimulus Is Not Enough
Check out this tokenizer for it as well: https://github.com/Xe/x/blob/master/web/tokiponatokens/toki_...
More than likely, older potatos were used instead of thrown out. Have you considered that the potatos may have been green and near toxic, and peeling the old potatos was necessary to be able to eat them without vomiting?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/horrific-tales-o...
~4.5 years
There is a chance we will never be done with COVID-19.
> weapon that they first released on their own people

I don't think anyone suspects that it was a weapon. A totally non-selective weapon like this would be extremely stupid. But it still could have come from that lab, and such a theory should not be discarded for the time being.
It will be upgraded to 100/100 in the next few days ... pay about 75 USD but it is really a luxury for most where I live.
That the Wuhan Institute of Virology was doing research on engineered coronaviruses isn't in dispute. They have published several research papers describing their work over the last 10 years.

It wouldn't have had to have been a deliberate release for SARS-CoV-2 to have come from there. Accidents happen, and there have been several accidental releases of the original SARS-CoV from Chinese labs. It's also not beyond the realm of possibilities that someone tasked with destroying animals that were research subjects decided to make a few extra yuan selling them to the wet market across the street instead.
Shelter isn't a human right arguably. It is in the Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
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You know how to fix the problem with those record layoffs though right? First cut all funding to social safety net programs and use that money to give tax cuts to the rich, who then don't even pretend that trickle down economics works and instead set up a fund for the public to donate to help those who need relief because fuck you I got mine.
It's much more complicated than that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_(book)

> Bernays' thesis is that "invisible" people who create knowledge and propaganda rule over the masses, with a monopoly on the power to shape thoughts, values, and citizen response. "Engineering consent" of the masses would be vital for the survival of democracy.

> Bernays explains:

> "The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of."
There's ttygif for Linux that does the same.
It also plays well with Latex :) There's a BibTeX output style that works really well.
Have you tried Sleepyhead to analyze your CPAP reports?

The developer stopped actively maintaining it, but the software still works great.

https://sleepyhead.jedimark.net/
I would say it is a failure of communication, or coordination. There were plenty of observers recognizing the threat by the new year, but not enough to crystallize into a shared awareness and coherent re-prioritization of resources. In light of that, I think it is misguided to trash-talk any attempts at communication and outreach by people tasked to protect the public and who lacked the power to actually commit the nation to drastic course changes.

As a layperson in academia, I certainly recognized the potential threat just from the news trickling out of China in late 2019. Meanwhile, I had colleagues who went ahead with business travel to Italy towards the end of February! There is mind-boggling inertia in the capacity for the public at large to internalize disruptive facts and ideas, and this inertia connects back through the body politic into representative leadership, who can be pinned down like Gulliver even if they are aware that action is required.

A relative of mine works in security and risk mitigation for a large school district in CA. They were being briefed on the COVID-19 risk by their federal contacts in late January. They were scrambling to revise and organize appropriate disaster plans. Even with that, they struggled to steer the whole ship around to school closures in mid-March.

Now, imagine that every large organization had to do similarly in the same timeframe, drawing mostly on extant resources. They could not all hire new staff, bring in specialists, or procure large supplies that were not already part of their general war-chest for unknown emergencies.
Why it's hard to ramp up mask production
99% of ios users won't use this option as it's not exactly clear.
> Freedom of assembly is about your right to assemble with other people protest publicly. None of these "freedom of x" are absolute.

I'm not sure I follow. The whole point of the bill of rights is to specify things the government is specifically not allowed to touch. It was so important they literally made it the first thing on the list. These rights are described as inalienable by the founding fathers.

-

in·al·ien·a·ble
/inˈālēənəb(ə)l/

"unable to be taken away from or given away by the possessor."

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inalienable is a synonym for absolute, sacrosanct, nonnegotiable, and unassailable.

By design, these freedoms are intended to be absolute. It's a serious tragedy that they have been whittled down to a shadow of their creators' intents.
Unpopular opinion but this is the kind of shit that makes websites have a banner “Safari browser will experience issues, use Chrome browser for the best experience”.

I remember when Edge/IE was crap, I put up a couple of banners that Firefox/Chrome/Safari are officially supported browsers and people did move away from Edge. Had <1% of traffic from there.
> Sorry, but this is absolutely absurd to claim

Why is it absurd?

> is less likely to facilitate disease growth than growing romaine lettuce?

As I clearly stated I was discussing, as with the parent comment, the community of diseases that infect consumers is massively more prevalent in eating salads than meat. That's not an opinion.

You clearly want to have a different discussion
I use it for network-isolating my bubblewrap-containers (in lieu of sane documentation on securing user-dbus-sessions...).
Just socat the socks-socket into a filesystems socket, pass that into the mount-namespace, run the reverse-socat-operation, pass the port to proxychains → internet in the container!
We do not have Google Ads or other Ads on entrylevel. Our tracking is Google Analytics, Mix Panel, Sentry, and Facebook Pixel. Other tracking software has been disabled since I passed my free tier haha. We only track for analytical reasons to improve UX and for bugs.
Strange argument, because children don't get Covid-19. They may carry the SarsCoV2 virus, but that's about all.
I've had projects that - eventually and incidentally - brought me money, but were not started or done for money.
Actually the EU is a great preview of where the US is headed in the next weeks: As of today so far (March 26th) the EU has about 237,000 positives and about 14,200 deaths with over 1,000 deaths in the last 24 hours so far. The numbers for France and Italy haven't been reported yet for the 26th of March so it's likely the totals by the end of the day will be somewhere around 250,000 positive cases and roughly 15,000 total deaths with close to 2,000 deaths in a single 24 hour period. It is not hard at all to see the US having similar numbers in the coming weeks.
Good. Ten times ten speak English also good?

;)

In other words, it's a cute experiment.
This would have been extremely helpful when writing my book.
I absolutely loved the microstereotypes invented for people in it. I cackled every time I ran across one.
>somehow

because this is seen as an external threat and not an internal blunder. Similar to 9/11.
Countrymen tend to band together and support the leader when faced with a crisis, regardless of the leader.
I wonder through isolation how much of this is just wanting to listen to other people?
Some evidence of the reddit case here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22691540

I agree information is driving mass neurosis
Eagerly awaiting the graphical version to finally be available on Steam so that I can buy it and throw some money their way.

I know the regular version has been available for free forever, but the ASCII graphics have always been a turn-off. I'm not opposed to MUD-style graphics in general, Dwarf Fortress is just so dense with stuff that I found I spent most of my time just trying to figure out what was going on.
World debt comparison: The global debt clock
In Canada, it isn't. The parent's username suggests they talkin about the CAN.

https://www.canada.ca/en/services/benefits/ei.html

In the US, though, it's by-state.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/coronavirus-covid-19-not...
All systems have capacity limits. This is even a compsci problem: queues. Whether your system is public, private, or a combination of both, under extreme demand that exceeds your workload capacity, you'll either be overwhelmed (and drop work) or apply back pressure (both which will appear as rationing of healthcare; you have no choice but to ration when supply is limited). There are only so many doctors, nurses, ICU beds, and ventilators.

Note that in Italy and Spain, reverse triage is being done based on your at risk status, age, and other complications. If you're young and healthy, you take priority. I imagine the same will be done in the US, and those who are more likely to survive will be provided with ventilators and other medical equipment to survive, not those who can pay or with insurance; medical practitioners are making the call, not the chargemaster and CFO.

Public healthcare systems won't need a bailout, they're already government supported. We'll move money around on the nation state balance sheet and move on. Private systems though may not survive. That's culture though, so perhaps you're right.
> you have the problem that you're not the only thread in the program the way a C program can count on that

Note that if you link against libc I think it would be legal for it to create a thread behind your back, so even in this case you're not quite safe.
I'm a technical person, and the title absolutely baffles me.

"Top VPNs Recording Users" <-- By itself, this sounds bad and forces me to read the article to get more info. Most people won't, and it muddies the water. Recording users implies that they are somehow recording the browsing history of people using their VPNs. This is the immediate connection a non-technical and technical person would make here. Let's be honest.

"Potentially Leaking Data When Visiting Their Sites" <-- What does this even mean. I am leaking what data, and how would I be leaking it to their site? Why is this pertinent and what does it have to do with them recording users? Are they recording users history and leaking it to their own sites?

So many questions, so much click-bait. The net result is that I had to waste time trying to figure out whether this article was correctly backing up what its title conveyed. I have now given them ad-views, trust the VPNPro website even less, and the web is less well off in general because some > 0 amount of people will start mistrusting VPNs and VPN-review sites.
>The Internet itself is "a zoo of endpoints on a shared medium",

No, the shared medium in this case is referring the last part of the cable network where everyone in a neighborhood is transmitting effectively onto the same cable.

All it takes is a single device with a broken configuration to spew crap onto the wrong channels, taking down the whole neighborhood. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOCSIS#Physical_layer

On the Internet it stops being a shared medium the minute it gets out of the cable network into fiber/ethernet switched+routed interconnections.
The growth seems to be tapering off after extreme lockdown measures have been taken.
So you were unable to compress the stream given the allocated time.

Perhaps you could've compressed it had you kept running for just a second longer?
Productive discourse about "socialism", for instance, can be had once all parties agree upon a definition.

Failing that, it's all just blather.

As for "capitalism", most people, pro and con, are talking about corporatism (laissez faire), which is antithetical to capitalism.
Thanks very much Takaki

I can see one for South Korea, but unfortunately I don't think they have any global ones listed :/
From top comment.

https://www.cell.com/pb-assets/journals/research/current-bio...
Exactly. It's naive to automatically assume all 4000 people were exposed.
> In Icelandic, a compass is a direction-shower, and a microscope a small-watcher.

In Latin, microscope is also "small-watcher", namely, microscopium.
Doctors Are Writing Their Wills
The problem with perl and this kind of list is that in reality it's just an elegant way of writing awk/sh scripts with proper flow control, i.e. like python today it was seen as an way to get around the compatibility and performance issues associated with shell/awk in the bad old days of commercial Unix.

It might sound strange to modern eyes but there was an time when Perl was considered elegant and robust, but then again very few young people have ever experienced the horrors of trying to write portable shell code for commercial Unix, perl was on the other hand almost completely identical regardless of what variant of Unix you happened to be running, and vastly faster then sh/awk at a time when even expensive systems could be slow by modern standards.

For modern day script writers Ruby and Python have all but replaced perl even though that's not stopping the enterprise from keeping their perl codebases alive and kicking for the foreseeable future, but even there it's being challenged from bellow by the fact that bash and gawk have become fairly universal on Linux systems and hardware fast enough that regex performance rarely matter.
Some years I don't depending on my circumstances. But it's the same thing as COVID-19: it's not just about me getting it, I'm in a relatively low-risk demographic. It's about not spreading it if I will associate with high-risk demographics a lot. Herd immunity.

Also the immune response can suck, but I would think the risk for complications is still actually lower than genuine infection. I would see the flu shot as taking one for the team.
Trying to interpret sentences out of context in Toki Pona is indeed tricky!

However, "sina wile ala wile moku e telo pimeja?" (Do you want to eat black water?) can be quite accurately reconstructed as "do you want a coffee?" if you know it was said outside of a cafe.

With a given context that you can refer to (in a cafe, walking in the park, cooking food), the expressive power/range of reference of 120 words is vastly greater than, say, in a letter to a stranger. This is probably one reason why the meme community in Toki Pona is reasonably lively ( https://www.reddit.com/r/mi_lon/ ).

I don't know how you extend that metaphor to image-decompression though! (I guess if you know you're decompressing a picture of a face you can train your decompresser on other picture of faces first :) ).
Ventilator Blues
I highly recommend the zotfile plugin! In itself, this plugin made zotero more interesting than the competition.
Having a gargantuan JavaScript ecosystem with many libraries of varying quality to choose from is a much better position to be in that Unity's position of only being able to compile and run a much smaller subset of the gargantuan Microsoft C# ecosystem, and in many cases needing to port or roll your own libraries and maintain them yourself.

The existence of bad unmaintained npm modules doesn't detract from the quality and popularity of the many decent JavaScript modules that exist and are widely used and supported.

Take d3, for example. It's excellent, well maintained code, that splendidly solves many practical problems. There is nothing anywhere near as powerful and flexible and well documented and maintained (and free!) as d3 for Unity.

UnityJS lets you use that JavaScript d3 library directly.

Now tell me which C# SocketIO library you use for Unity, and how it compares to the latest greatest version of the standard JavaScript SocketIO library? How many people are actively maintaining it, and how up to date and actively maintained is it? A github link, please?

UnityJS lets you use that JavaScript SocketIO library directly.
Please don't use that style of quotation for non-code. It is awful on mobile.
All the coronavirus statistics are flawed
They also tend to have some... interesting features dictated by the state UI office. When I'd applied in Wisconsin about 6 years back the site stopped accepting form submissions outside business hours.

I assume some less computer-literate higher up thought that someone needed to be around to actually accept the form, same as in-person submissions.
As someone who doesn't understand much of what's going on here, what resources would you suggest I study to improve?
Just to add a little note here, we are currently working on the functionality of multi-filter queries, because we are aware of our community!