skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am to really glad to hear commentary like this coming from physicists. (read: glad to see others siding with my biases).

Ceteris paribus there is one significant distinction between Mathematics and Computer Science: state.

The Mathematical Universe is immutable/stateless/timeless.
The Computational Universe is mutable/stateful/time-bound.

The observer effect in physics can be trivially expressed and evaluated as a mutating getter in any programming language.

It cannot be expressed in any Mathematical grammar.
At least one simplified view of the death of Pascal is the rise and fall of Borland. Borland's compilers were the fastest. Borland invested more in FFI work and C-interop than competitors. Eventually Pascal was Borland (and vice versa), because no commercial entity (in the 90s-ish) was using a non-Borland Pascal compiler. Borland making bad business decisions and Microsoft making good business decisions in poaching key Borland staff at the right moments, seems like some obvious death nails in Pascal's coffin. (Obviously that's still a very simplified narrative to history, but it is an easy and common one.)
I think the list of things that people believe are 'ridiculous and would never happen' has greatly reduced in size in the last few weeks.

Also, there's a lot more to environmental destruction than excess carbon.
I might be misunderstanding you, but this line makes me think you misunderstood the k8s/serverless/devops argument:

> your tiny DevOps team is spending 80% of their time managing a huge portfolio of small apps

In a DevOps world (the theory goes), the DevOps team supports the core infrastructure (k8s, in this case) while the dev teams own the CI pipelines, deployment, monitoring, etc. The dev teams operate their own applications (hence DevOps), the "DevOps team" just provides a platform that facilitates this model--basically tech like k8s, serverless, docker, etc free dev teams from needing to manage VMs (bin packing applications into VM images, configuring SSH, process management, centralized logging, monitoring, etc) and having the sysadmin skillset required to do so well [^1]. You can disagree with the theory if you like, but your comment didn't seem to be addressing the theory (sincere apologies and please correct me if I misunderstood your argument).

[^1] Someone will inevitably try to make the argument that appdevs should have to learn to "do it right" and learn the sysadmin skillset, but such sysadmin/appdev employees are rare/expensive and it's cheaper to have a few of them who can build out kubernetes solutions that the rest of the non-sysadmin appdevs can use much more readily.
Same question to you: The last time you had "the flu", did you get tested for Influenza? Are you sure it was Influenza and not a common cold, for which there is no vaccine anyway?
Enjoyed this write-up, but most of the exploration seemed to be facilitated by someone having already leaked the CLI root password online. Anyone have suggestions on how you might otherwise obtain that information?
get a raspberry pi and run your script at home 24/7. As long as you have access to the internet this would be a neat little way to do it.
Also doesn't take into account those who have had reduced hours or salary at their jobs, like my wife's entire company (at least the employees that didn't get furloughed at her company). She got reduced to 3 days a week, for a 40% salary reduction.
>UK had the best original strategy of locking down the people most at risk, make sure they're taken care of as much as possible, and letting everyone else get herd immunity as quick as possible.

The problem in the UK is that they seemed to have no substance to the plan. Yes, hard lock down the people at risk, but where is the government response to make that possible?

If they had a well developed plan to carry out those words it might be worth doing, but they didn't and then caved when it was clear it was just rhetoric.
Not a great experience with this one. I typed "Toronto" into the location, and the results were:

1-3: Toronto, ON
4-7: Pittsburgh, PA
8-11: null, Ohio
12-25: Toronto, ON

I also clicked to half a dozen positions and all but one returned "Sorry, this position is not available".

Finally, I noticed a few postings for "Reputable Company looking for immediate hire" (yes, this was the description). I know this tool just scrapes job boards, but that sort of vague description really hurts my confidence in the results.
Yes, you can thank Bernie Sanders for that.
>Am I missing something more here?

Apparently...they are doing the buy backs now (like right now) while they are flush with cash/no expenses, main street can't invest, and before they get their bailout cash. Never mind the buy back prohibitions are being majorly overstated.
Welcome to HN. I'm glad you felt the need to create an account to say this.
How often do our hospitals get overwhelmed by endemics?
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A stable 80 deaths per day isn't that many, it's only 29,200 people per year.

But with covid-19 the numbers of people dying is doubling every 3 days.

80, 160, 320, 640, 1280, 2560, 5120, 10,240, 20,480

Potentially Covid-19 would hit that 29200 figure in about 25 days from today.
There are many cool services. Not so long ago I found info about Double VPN here https://veepn.com/vpn-features/double-vpn/ . It is covered with two servers instead of one and provide the highest level of internet security. I've already tested it and it works great.
You probably need a "socialist" country to find someone collecting that data. e.g. : https://www.icnarc.org/
Yuck, GPL.
Radio listening booms while music streaming stalls
Ask HN: Seeking funding for hospital 3D printed face shields
I'm volunteering with Nexus Maker in Sunnyvale by providing 3d prints to them for masks for hospitals.
This got a bit more real this morning with

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/03/25/coronavirus-patients-do-not-resucitate/

> The conversations are driven by the realization that the risk to staff amid dwindling stores of protective equipment — such as masks, gowns and gloves — may be too great to justify the conventional response when a patient “codes,” and their heart or breathing stops.

I am going to paste in a request from their VP, Jim, that he has been passing to his contacts.
I'm surprised Clojure isn't in the list either.

Edit: To clarify, Clojure is mostly a dead language that didn't have any innovations by itself, but it did influenced many programmers(the creator is good at marketing). It helped push forward the FP mindset into the users of other mainstream languages(js, python, java).
How are we this far into this crisis and there are still people who don't understand what "exponential growth" and "doubling every 3 days" means? This comment is going to look ridiculous in two weeks' time.
March commercial traffic down 10% below 2019 so far
> Most of what you learn in uni physics is Math. But the Math is only one (outdated) description of the nature of physical law.

Is this the lack of additional parameters for the equations? All of my physics problems (only took a couple courses) were like "what if this spherical horse rolled down a hill at 34 degree decline" but failed to include friction, atmosphere. Just gravity. It always felt fake to me. Perhaps this is what you were alluding to by the "outdated" description?
No, while C interop was useful it was mostly because it was easier to write low latency code in C++.
Why Norway Is Banning Its Residents from Their Own Vacation Homes
Did anybody try to run it? Python part of this PoC depends on python2 module "fuse", which in turn depends on "gunpowder", "a library to facilitate machine learning on large, multi-dimensional images". What is even going on here?

$ pip2 install fuse
Collecting fuse
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/c3/f6/82777531d0dd0fa1d1b509258873f4b48e1ec702dcf0258214fafb474895/fuse-0.1.3.tar.gz
ERROR: Packages installed from PyPI cannot depend on packages which are not also hosted on PyPI.
fuse depends on gunpowder@ git+https://github.com/funkey/gunpowder@721718b6569b47a2f5d5d6633c76c85f779e25c7
You're only fooling yourself. Everyone except medical professionals in my country were too saying it's not going to be so bad, most people do not require hospitalization etc. etc.

We are now in complete lockdown to avoid full blown meltdown of the health care system. Not as bad as Italy and Spain, but still bad.

What concerns me in the US:

* The spring breakers. Massive number of college students are currently traveling and partying around the country and then returning home to their parents. These are young people without symptoms who are carrying the virus across the country and state borders. You're going to see a massive spike in cases in about a week I am afraid.

* Generally low regard of authorities, and a "culture of individualism". Many people are just going to say it's another scare tactic, "big government", mainstream media, some conspiracy etc. People - up to the president - really think they know better than scientist who have devoted their lives to studying contagious diseases.

* Patch work approach to public health. Each state has its own regulations and measures. This is not good when you need to act fast. I except federal martial law to override states could come to effect (in my country it already is - the government is currently decreeing through martial law and temporarily suppressing basic freedoms like freedom of movement protected in our constitution).

* Culture of working while sick. Many low income earners in US have no access to sick pay so they are forced to work even if sick. I understand this was however being addressed by temporarily introducing federal sick pay? If not, I'd hurry the f-ck up with that. NOW.

Remember that the virus takes effect after a delay of up to 14 days. If you're seeing ICUs filling up today and not taking measures to stop the spread, you're going to require military scale hospitals next week.
There are a few different factors that all added up, at least from my understanding/point of view:

- AMD tried something new (FX series), that didn't go as well as they had hoped (they tried doing something similar to the P4 arc and thought they could do it better than intel). Which resulted in sub-par processors. So people continued to prefer Intel processors.

- Intel having no real need to continue to advance its processors with no serious threat, continued to do smaller iterations on its line, moving from a tick-tock cycle (big improvements, followed by a yearly refresh for additional small improvements) to more of a tick tick tock cycle (more yearly refreshes with marginal improvements).

- Intel also had issues getting their fabs down to smaller processors, which may have contributed to the change in how their cycles were going.

- Intel has also had more issues lately with speculate execution attacks, which due to their current design in how they implemented OoO-execution, has lead them to disabling some of this functionality. This disabling decreases some of their previous performance advantages. AMD has also been hit with some, but not to the same extent with intel, and usually not to the same level of performance degradation.
What did South Korea do to mitigate?
Running Linux Applications as Unikernels with K8s
> Most were below $500.

> There is little financial literacy in this country.

Well, technically if you're drawing cash, you should be drawing it from your checking account and if you're saving it should be in a savings account, so your checking account balance should be relatively low.
Unzipping S3 files back to S3 without uncompressing entire file (Streaming)
He did demand royalties, he gets a 40% cut as well.
Startups – 1 Application to all Active Funders
It seems that Observable is an online environment - it's true that this is not explicitly stated, but it's alluded to throughout the homepage.

EDIT: Check out their about page for an explanation:
https://observablehq.com/about
Designing the Waymo Driver
I am seeing a lot of comments on this story complaining that it is anecdotal or that New York is extraordinary and thus this is implicitly less important to people outside New York.

I live in the city of New York and I think it's important that everyone nationally absorb what is happening right now and the "anecdotes" are important. By anecdotes, I mean, in particular the New York Times story and video published last night about Elmhurst Hospital in Queens (a very hard hit borough)(https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/25/nyregion/nyc-coronavirus-...).

People are dying of Covid at this hospital in chairs or on floors ("Some have died inside the emergency room while waiting for a bed"). People are dying without their loved ones allowed or able to be present (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/opinion/coronavirus-hospi...) (<--link is about Boston but Elmurst story above makes clear this is happening in NYC too, very much so). In his briefing yesterday the governor of New York discussed people sharing venilators (already happening per the Elmurst story) and bringing back retired doctors (horrifying given the risk to the old -- in China older working doctors were often kept off Covid wards).

The morgues are filling up and they are building outfoor refrigerators to hold the bodies (this is in the Elmhurst story). People with babies due are giving birth alone without their partners (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/parenting/coronavirus-lab...). People (including one in Elmhurst story with fever) are waiting multiple days outdoors (including rain) for a test and being turned away day after day after waiting all day.

Why talk about this? Is it for clickbait? To be dramatic? Because we're certain the NYC scale problems will spread to less dense areas?

No. It is because many many people in this country are continuing to not take this situation seriously. Many people (including relatives of mine on Facebook) think this is completely overblow, like the flu, not worth keeping people at home for given economic cost.

Many of these people have already ignored the hard evidence, the numbers, the consequences. Talking about terrible things that are starting to happen -- "anecdotes" -- may help shake some of these people out of their denial. And if they are prepared, and IF anything approaching NYC scale problems happens in their area, there is a better chance they will help rather than hinder efforts to flatten the curve.

Please don't dismiss what is happening here as anecdote or irrelevant. Believe me, I'm no better than you, I did this too, when this was "just" in Wuhan, or "just" in China, or "just" in Italy. I took a trip at the end of February in the U.S. on an airplane. I look back -- what was I thinking?! Now I'm locked in my apartment going on three weeks. My wife had a fever for 6 hours a little over a week ago, she's been coughing. Probably we're ok. But it's in the back of your head: What if I get sick, and she gets worse, who will take care of our kids? What if they close the stores and we can't get groceries?

I wish some of the anecdotes had reached me earlier. I hope some of these anecdotes reach others.
The way apps have always been run, directly on the server with no intermediate magic layer trying to abstract away running on a server. Deployment and rollback, simple git, centralized logging, good old syslog, load balancing it all, haproxy. No fuss, no muss, simple and straight forward with no magic required.
Yes I agree, if I was writing this for my own project I'm pretty sure I would do what you have done and use classes with an `area` method. (FWIW I think the dataclass approach is nicer for this example than namespacing separate `area` functions using modules)

You could define it as a typing.Protocol too.

My point was just that, even if for some reason you prefer function overloading, the restrictions needed to fit within the constraints of functool.singledispatch arguably lead to cleaner code than the complicated mess in the OP article.

This would look messy if you implemented as just a single function with variable no of kwargs that you sniffed in the body, and I don't think applying function overloading alone as OP has done solves the underlying problem.
Automatic doors seem miraculous right now.
> why anyone would pick on Scythia as a place to come from?

still a bit of a thing today

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-Europeans#Steppe_th...
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IIRC, Edge-dev has an empty list. On stable and beta get the list.
That's already being done in some places that have limited numbers of tests. The governor of Nebraska announced that they are pooling tests to save on test kits. Samples from 5 people are combined in 1 test. If the sample tests negative, those people are in the clear. If the sample tests positive, all 5 are then tested again separately.
Go and the Go community during this pandemic
I feel like APL would almost be better as a handwritten language.
In addition to all information above this test is able to detect antibodies only not virus. So it is not recommended tests by WHO. This test is only useful in the later part of infection by the time which patient might have in contact with others thus spreading the disease. We need tests which can detect single of very few virus particle in the early stage of infection and that will help to quarantine the patient thus reducing virus spread.
Stop comparing the Coronavirus to the flu. It’s the mistake that brought us to the current situation and which will bring us into much darker times than now if we don’t start to take things seriously.
Nope. Like I just stated in my edit, I'm not advocating that anyone forgo the flu shot, but that the flu shot is not 100% effective or 100% side effect free.

It's not bias. It's a fact. My GP is the one that has specifically told me to avoid the shot because I have a history of complications with it.

If you're capable, I'd love for you to diagnose me with some other mental disorder or logical fallacy, but please look at my medical history before you start dismissing my experiences as idiotic.
Yes, you can run SQL using Presto [1], and by connecting.
Not sure about ksqlDB as I am not familiar with it, but my understanding is Apache Flink would give you analog capabilities. Pulsar has IO capabilities analog to Kafka Connect [2]. Analogous to Kafka Streams, Pulsar offers Functions [3].

[1] http://pulsar.apache.org/docs/en/sql-overview/

[2] http://pulsar.apache.org/docs/en/io-overview/

[3] http://pulsar.apache.org/docs/en/functions-overview/
Show HN: 95% off on LIVRESQ – An authoring tool for education – on Pitchground
I'm no epidemiologist, but I doubt it. It just takes one infected person at the end of the global quarantine to get the ball rolling again.

More importantly, though, the flu (just like SARS-CoV-2) is zoonotic, meaning that it can jump from animals to humans. Even if every human was flu-free, influenza type A still lives on in birds for example, and there's an everpresent risk of it jumping to human beings.
Silicon Valley VC firm offers to expedite coronavirus tests to its investors
If that's your take on the story, submit it with its original title and immediately write the first comment explaining why you find that interesting. Next time.

The reason for that is that submitted stories are considered "common property" here on HN, the discussion is not for the submitter to direct or control.

See also the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Welcome to HN!
I love both languages (well c99 anyways), but I feel like Pascal/C is like betamax/vhs.

I think I it didn't help that free Pascal compliers were harder to come by. IIIRC
Interesting points (not sure why you're getting downvotes here). I also wonder if it would help if the medical "establishment" encouraged people to stay home even if they get symptoms, and only seek medical care for serious shortness of breath or if you have co-morbidities that are life-threatening. There is not effective treatment yet, so what is the point of standing in line at the ER? It would also have the effect of freeing up healthcare capacity.

NY Times yesterday had an article about people standing in line outside at the ER for hours. If you can stand in a line outside for hours, you probably don't need admission to the hospital and should leave that capacity for those that really need it.
Speaking for myself, I definitely do "get sick" when I get the vaccine, and it has a new strain in it. Sometimes flu shots don't change from year to year, and this year's doesn't actually have anything new in it. When there's nothing new I basically notice nothing.

However, "get sick" is a very vague term. In my case, to be specific, about 3 through 9 hours after the shot with a new strain in it, the shot site is tender and I run a small, but noticeable, fever kind of thing, barely worthy of the term but definitely a bit of an elevated temperature. Then it subsides. It is basically a minor inconvenience. By contrast, while I don't get the flu every year, it can hang with me for two weeks and knock me out cold for a good three or four days in the middle. And the shot generally covers more than one flu.

So yeah, both things may be "get sick" in some sense, but just because they both fit into the phrase "get sick" does not mean they are particularly comparable.

(Incidentally, over the past 10 years I've managed to do a lot of improvement to my immune system for various reasons. When I got the shot with a less-strong immune system, I generally didn't notice any symptoms from a flu shot at all. Everyone's different, but I'd suggest you generally should notice some symptoms from an effectual shot.)
Why the human race may be less gullible than you think
There's a lot of parallels here to Neal Stephenson's Interface, which also features a computer assigning potential voters a sub-group to which they belong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_(novel)
Pretty sure they meant to depend on python-fuse not fuse. The former is python bindings to libfuse.

https://github.com/libfuse/python-fuse
Implementing a VPN for fun(?) and business continuation
I think it's meant to depend on the fuse-python (https://pypi.org/project/fuse-python/). fuse is something else
More accurately, 99% of the use cases ES is appropriate for don't need sharding. Every time I've needed to shard ES has been a nightmare bad enough that ES was abandoned.
Note that preexisting conditions include high blood pressure and diabetes. Turns out quite a lot of people have them.
It's not the provision of Internet that's the problem, it's the customer service requests.

e.g., AT&T could provide perfect service to the home endpoint, but the customer bought some aftermarket router from their cousin, who had configured it for Verizon. Customer calls AT&T to holler. Tier 1 support doesn't know what that particular router config GUI even looks like, so it gets bumped to T2 or T3. Ultimately to find out that the customer's cousin had hardcoded DNS to some internal Verizon system that's not visible to AT&T.

Repeat x100K. 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"
Taking to some nurse friends they say a lot of people think they have the flu when it's a bad cold. And some people just appear to not be very susceptible. Friends that have gotten the flu appear to be laid out flat for week or more.

Based on that I think I've never had the flu.
what is the reasoning (genuinely curious). Are democrats somehow failing America re: COVID-19?
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