skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know it's not as complicated as C++ but it sure seems like they're in a rush to get there :) . Modern (post c++14) covers most of my criticisms of c++ for my daily driver. I still poke at Rust because I really love statically typed languages :)
Stanford researchers confirm N95 masks can be sterilized in oven
What universe do you live in that a $1,000,000 property leases for $1,000/mo?
You can still saturate your network connection. Just takes a bit of context switching to user land. So if you have a crazy core hyperthreaded cpu your 1 gig network connection will easily get filled without a blink. This is like the ssl argument at the beginning of encrypting everything. The world was going to end and then it didn’t
This is the democrats house bill, not the GOP senate bill.
It was obvious to many experts (see tweet for one example) that it was a pandemic. These experts were frustrated that WHO was not recognizing it as one.

My opinion is that WHO should have called it pandemic much earlier and raised the alarm much earlier.
> Many of these SMBs and large corps took years to establish and have domain knowledge, trained work forces, supply chains that can’t just spin up easily.

And the value of all that will help get them a higher price when they sell the company.

Investors too scared to snap up these bargains? Cool- the government buys it and nationalizes it.

A little collective sacrifice and collaboration goes a long way all the time- not just when you get run over by the steamroller you were picking up pennies in front of.
Yes the western countries failed spectacularly. Even tho they had Asian counties as examples. There are no excuses
I did not advocate "doing nothing" instead I said let's see what the current measures are doing.
If it's default then it's not a limit. It should just says YouTube to change default [...].

It mislead me for sure.
Crowdsourced Covid-19 Map
This still ruins the diff view of the code, though. (e.g. git blame)
There are two different notions of type here. One is determined by the abstract syntax, in this context a variable is a type, that's what you are referring to. With this type no desirable algebraic properties hold like commutativity, since atomic(T), T = a and T = a, atomic(T) differ: one says yes, the other no. As a consequence, the meaning of a program is fixed by the very precise control of Prolog, no way to change this in some context. Many consider this a central weakness of Prolog. Say, Peter Norvig: However, Prolog's depth-first control structure is just too inflexible for me.
https://www.quora.com/What-do-Lisp-Haskell-programmers-think...

The other meaning of type is the pure, declarative one. Here, variables do not belong to the valid types. In that context, atomic_si/1 and the other predicates fit in. Here, commutativity (modulo errors) holds. And thus alternative search procedures may be used.

(There is a third meaning similar to the second, but it is only standard related.)
Get on unemployment ASAP. Look but be prepared for a gap.
Rent is only one part of the chain. You have mortgages, people/funds depending on this income, people taking loans against their property, etc...

Stopping rent will stop these people and you'll have a cascade effect. You need to stop everything.
Shouldn’t that be fine for at-home recovery though?
Full title:

Bill Gates says we can’t restart the economy soon and simply “ignore that pile of bodies over in the corner”
The limits on staple foods are hitting me hard. There is no adjustment for family size. I have 12 kids.

I grabbed all the sliced mild cheddar cheese, which was only about ten half-pound packages. We could go through that in 3 to 10 days, depending on what people feel like eating. The cashier took away all but two packages. I don't even have enough to make toasted cheese sandwiches for my family.

I was planning to buy 6 gallons of milk, which is pretty normal for me. It might last 2 days at my house, so it really isn't much. The limit was just 2 gallons! This means I have to keep going back to the store, sometimes more than once per day, risking virus exposure each time. I managed a small violation by putting two gallons on the checkout conveyor belt and then, a full cart and hundreds of dollars latter, two more gallons. The argument over cheese probably helped the cashier to forget the 2 gallons already bagged.

Fortunately, there didn't seem to be any limits aside from dairy and bread. I got a couple large whole turkeys (each good for one meal plus a bit for soup), a whole chicken (lunch), and a large pork roast. I got a 19-pound jackfruit.
Are you my coworker Stefan, or some other Stefan? Either way the “balding white dudes” is a little too on the mark.
A first person shooter, of course.
That was and still is an impressive piece of code. Another more recent one is the RPCS3 PS3 Emulator, emulating the async PPC cell chip on modern x86 processors.
That would be Spain, not Italy.
This title is misleading, first line of article says: "Dyson has announced it will develop a new type of medical ventilator".

"WILL DEVELOP", NOT "DEVELOPS".
I get that it is fiction by definition since it's set in the future. But it reads like an attempt to prognosticate. And if it's meant as purely creative fiction, it's not particularly good fiction.
And then what was once an academic discussion (how many lives would you spend for a unit of GDP)....becomes a real decision we need to make as a society.
Here is my proposal for any sort of docs that don't live right alongside the code. I have yet to put this into practice.

There are 4 states for any page:

- Maintained: "We are maintain this and aim to keep up to date. Message #slack-channel with any questions."

- Stale: "Oops... we didn't."

- News: "This represents our current thinking as of 23-Mar-2020"

- Record: "This is a historical record of our intended system design, produced on 4-Aug-2018."

When you write docs, be very clear whether you are writing a new report or something you intend to maintain. Reports become historical records after 1-3 months. Default to a report.

Why? To keep small the number of docs which are "Maintained". Every maintained page is owned by a team of 2-10 people and the channel to contact them is visible on the page. Ideally, there would be a tool which attaches to every "Maintained" page and does 3 things.

1) Let the reader mark it as possibly stale or ask a question, then messages the page owners about that. Marks the page as stale within a week of non-response.

2) Mark the page as stale if the text isn't updated at least every 3 months.

3) Mark the page as stale if it doesn't get at least N page-views in 3 months.

I'm serious about point #3. If a page is rarely-read by others, then the team which owns it is not pointing people to it or using it for training. If that is the case, then why should they spend time and attention to keep it up-to-date?

Is it an emergency runbook? Well then either that info is important enough to walk through it periodically, or you should be honest with yourself that what that doc really says is, "This was the suggested runbook we came up with after a post-mortem 2 years ago. It might be very useful for understanding the system. Maybe it even still works."
What does this mean in this context?

It means it's easy to suggest a solution that costs you nothing personally.
Not all appartement have enough room to put a bidet in each bathroom? At least it's been the case in most bathroom I've seen.

And TP can still be usable without any running water.
And what about international obligations? What about mortgage-backed securities?
Democratic left is about to drop the politician whos campaign was explicitly built on small donations and choose instead a politician with a more standard views, including using corporate money. For some reason people learn slowly.

Simplification, yes. The point stands however.
This sounds like every talk given by Bryan Cantrill regarding public clouds running containers.
Critically, this was tested with E. Coli, NOT a coronavirus. This method has not been proven effective for the current epidemic.
I think it has to do with their (incorrect) assessment of the situation. Rather than reevaluate their assessment (as that would increase their anxiety), they rationalize your assessment as overreaction.
Tl;DR: 70C /158F heating in a kitchen-type of oven for 30min, or hot water vapor from boiling water for 10 min, are effective decontamination methods.
Swift is one of my favorite languages. Until I hit a fucking error. Then I just want to be done with it.
I've embedded the tweet in wikipedia's timeline of events (I've trimmed the events).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2019%E2%80%932...

31 December

On 31 December 2019, China contacts the WHO and informs them of "cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology (unknown cause) detected in Wuhan"[37]

2 January

On 2 January, 41 admitted hospital patients in Wuhan, China, were confirmed to have contracted (laboratory-confirmed) the 2019-nCoV (Novel coronavirus); 27 (66%) patients had direct exposure to Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market.

6 January

On Monday, 6 January, the Wuhan health authorities announced they continued seeking the cause but had so far ruled out influenza, avian influenza, adenovirus, and coronaviruses SARS and MERS as the respiratory pathogen that had infected 59 people as of 5 January.[52]

9 January

The WHO confirmed that the novel coronavirus had been isolated from one person who had been hospitalised.

11–12 January

In China, more than 700 close contacts of the 41 confirmed cases, including more than 400 healthcare workers, had been monitored, with no new cases reported in China since 5 January.[36][50][63][71] The WHO published initial guidance on travel advice, testing in the laboratory and medical investigation.

14 January

World Health Organization (WHO)
@WHO
Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China.

14 January

On 14 January, two of the 41 confirmed cases in Wuhan were reported to include a married couple, raising the possibility of human-to-human transmission.[74][75]

On 14 January, Maria Van Kerkhove, acting head of WHO's emerging diseases unit said that there had been limited human-to-human transmission of the coronavirus, mainly small clusters in families, adding that "it is very clear right now that we have no sustained human-to-human transmission"

18 January

The Wuhan City government held an annual banquet in the Baibuting community celebrating the Chinese New Year with forty thousand families in attendance despite the officials' knowledge of the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus. They shared meals, plates and ate together.

20 January

On 20 January, after two medical staff were infected in Guangdong, China announced that the virus was human-to-human transmissible.
Is this at all related to "Robust-first computing"? I first heard about it from this video[0]? He calls it a "movable feast machine".

What interested me about cellular automation is that in my reading of Neumann, it is said he was working on using cellular automata to construct fully replicating machines. It is also said he probably would have gone on to develop said architecture in full had he not died. Is your research in anyway related?

I'm interested but woefully lacking in formal cs training.

[0]https://youtu.be/helScS3coAE
I don't think the concept is easy for people to understand at all. It's just darwinism really, but people think it's about punishment. Note that darwinism doesn't just reject bad ideas, it has a rather high and variable false positive rate. I.e. it's unfair, for example Ramanujan died prematurely despite being a genius and a gift to his species. But it is overall also quite effective.

If you can game the numbers there's no real skin in the game. And people do! Just sell volatility ("everything will always be fine") regardless of the conditions, it will work wonders, until you blow up. The difference is that if you blow up your own money you cannot continue the game, whereas if you blow other people's money - you can.
Markdown, shmarkdown. Just write some documentation please.
Prions aren't? I'm not a biologist, I just read wikipedia. I don't understand why a prion couldn't be subject to natural selection.
I've switched to working from home, like the rest of the company, I don't have a webcam and I think it could help, perhaps not for all meetings, but at least for the daily SCRUM meeting.
TripActions cuts hundreds of jobs as Covid-19 sinks corporate travel
If this indeed is the case, anyone with low-temp ovens should immediately be volunteering them up to help sterilize. Hell, I have two of them the Breville countertop convection oven - It'll go as low as 120F steadily, so 158F should be no problem.
And how do people who make incomes on collecting on obligations (landlords, pensioners, etc.) buy new things, like food and medicine?
Except that Amazon pays well over minimum wage, offers health benefits, bonuses, and paid leave. They have draconian employee policies and enforce strict discipline in terms of performance metrics in exchange for these benefits.

I'm not saying they are perfect by any means, what I am saying is that it is not some sweatshop operation exploiting those without any other options.

Amazon has been a blessing to many people around the world, and to cast them as the villain simply because the unskilled labor job isn't as comfortable and kind as some would have it is frankly wrong in my opinion.
I've learned you wait a couple of years before you start trying to use new major apple developer tech. Same thing with swift, it was better to wait until swift 3 or 4 before adopting it.
Sibling comment here mostly covered it, toolchain is kind of all over the place and build times are way faster with swiftui on my 2015 MacBook.

Also with Combine and associated bits there is a lot less boilerplate around state that doesn’t have to be written.

Also the disk space for the js ecosystem is beyond crazy and really bothers me.
Last time I tried to set up pg, I had a notion of a read-mostly website and I intended to feed it with a read-only replica and squirrel away the master someplace secure with only admin access. But it turns out that pg slaves contact the master, and not the other way around.

I never did find a solution I could live with. I'm trying to start that project back up right now.
They have an alternative version that solves this issue. I'm not sure if this is a successor or alt product though. https://www.dyson.com.au/hand-dryers/airblade-v.aspx
> The Chinese bought the US precious weeks to prepare while it locked down vast numbers of its own population.

This could all have been stopped if the CPC had acted earlier, not covered it up, not lied about human to human transmission, not advised that travel restriction and testing were unnecessary.

> Dec. 27: Wuhan health officials are told that a new coronavirus is causing the illness.

> Jan. 1: Wuhan Public Security Bureau brings in for questioning eight doctors who had posted information about the illness on WeChat.

An official at the Hubei Provincial Health Commission orders labs, which had already determined that the novel virus was similar to SARS, to stop testing samples and to destroy existing samples.

> Jan. 14: WHO announces Chinese authorities have seen "no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel coronavirus."

> The bottom line: China is now trying to create a narrative that it's an example of how to handle this crisis when in fact its early actions led to the virus spreading around the globe.

https://www.axios.com/timeline-the-early-days-of-chinas-coro...
Epidemiologists have terms like R0, CFR, and IFR to describe the spread and deadliness of a virus. Similar terms could be used to describe economic contagion.

When parts of the economy seize up, there are systemic risks that can spread through the system as debtors fail to make payments, causing creditors who rely on those payments to default themselves to higher level obligations. When the vast majority of an economy the size of the USA seizes up... we are in uncharted territory.

The lessor of a commercial storefront can't just "defer" taking rent payment for a month or two just because they're holding property versus, say, a corporation that has to make payroll. The lessor has monthly payments of their own, likely interest payments and property taxes at the very least.

While there are no shortage of estimates (arm-chair or otherwise) for the ultimate fatality rate the world will see from COVID, there have been far fewer attempts to analyze the economic fallout of wide-spread suppression measures like state-wide shelter-in-place orders.

Trillions of dollars in acute losses suffered in just a few weeks will propagate through an economy, like a virus, and magnify the ultimate damages. Restarting an economy that has suffered such a shock, like restarting an electrical grid from a wide-spread outage, is something that requires tremendous care and effort.

Speaking anecdotally, a SaaS business I work with which runs around ~$1 million in ARR has gone from effectively $0 in Accounts Receivable historically to over $100k in AR just this month. Every customer with a payment due has simply stopped paying their bills, as they wait to see how this will all shake out.

A typical small business will have ~3 months of expenses in the bank. By the end of April, if customers haven't started paying their bills, the average small business will no longer exist. The total economic impact of small business is no less than 50% of all US employment. Experts are predicting we could see 30% unemployment next month, which equates to roughly half of all small businesses caving.
You are being kind. From my perspective, the ineptitude and mismanagement easily goes back 50 years, not 20.

It's sad to see so many people blinded by the hatred aimed at Trump to be completely blind to how it is we got here. A simple example from data that came out today: Governor Cuomo refused to buy 16,000 ventilators in 2015, when he was told they would be needed for an event such as what we are experiencing. Remember this is when Bill Gates was already on TED talking about the next pandemic. And so, today, Cuomo tries to blame their lack of preparedness on the federal government.

The other item you mentioned that is also right on point, is the brutal erosion of our ability to manufacture almost anything at scale. And then you have people, reporters and politicians yelling and screaming about the Trump administration not materializing masks, bed, ventilators and entire hospitals instantly out of thin air.

I mean, we barely make our own molds for plastic injection molding in the US and we are indignant because we can't spin-up industrial scale manufacturing capacity in days? It takes MONTHS, no, YEARS, to integrate some of these supply chains and produce quality product at scale.

Segments of our society, "leadership" and media are acting as if a combination of Superman and Captain Picard are going to swing into action, instantly materialize millions of products we don't have the industrial base to produce and fly around the planet at ludicrous speed in reverse to turn back time.

Well, that's not reality. Reality is we can't make shit in the US any more and it takes a tremendous amount of time to spin up production lines from nothing, particularly if we are talking about life saving devices.

Everyone needs to calm down, stop pointing fingers and find ways to contribute. As the saying goes, "United we Stand". Time to show what that really means or face failure, as the rest of that phrase predicts.
This is not what I'm talking about. A data point that GSuite has poor customer support is actually useful! GSuite and GCP are bundled together on Google's financial reports, and probably overlap a lot in customer support expectations since they both handle paying customers. So someone sharing their perspective that GSuite has poor customer support is contributing to the discussion. It's infinitely more valuable that then 9000th iteration of "Remember how Google killed Google Reader?"
> where one party has been talking about how incompetent government is. For decades. And working to ensure that it is (so parts of it can be privatized).

I'd be much more likely to accept that this was causative if not for the existence of San Francisco and other one-party cities that nonetheless exemplify incompetent governance.
Exactly. Anyone who has worked in medical devices knows this is impossible. Saying that you will prepare one as part of a timely response is such nonsense that I don't know what part to start looking at.
Every MBA program has a required ethics course, which would go into depth about social responsibility and balancing short and long term gains. If anything we need more of our "leaders" to have truly studied these areas instead of just sweeping under the rug as some lawyer/politician's job for another time.
> U.S. Retailers Plan to Stop Paying Rent to Offset Virus Closures

I see clickbait titles are having to battle filters
Rust documentation is amazing because of the toolchain support for documentation tests. Markdown is just... there.
I don't think the parent comment's point was if this was technically possible.

glibc is GPL licensed, and the GPL explicitly forbids statically linking to it unless your code is GPL too.

Thus any non-GPL project has it's license tainted by the GPL if you statically link it.

It's not a technical limitation, it's a legal one.
Covid-19 Dashboard Update 3/24
> Do you think the browsers should block all ads by default?

Resounding yes. Such a thing would be the single greatest security improvement a browser could implement. It would also completely destroy pretty much the only vector online scammers have to reach you.

Most forms of advertising are totally fine. Hell I’m even favor of targeted advertising so long as it’s targeted to the content demographics instead the literal individual following them around.
A vaccine for coronavirus is being created by an Italian biotech company.Fund it
Background audio play only works if you're paying for the subscription service. Otherwise both video and audio stops when the app is backgrounded.

Many times I've listened to a YouTube video or stream without watching it by just starting the video and then pocketing my phone and being careful not to touch it. I hear the audio and continue my shopping or cleaning or whatever while battery and bandwidth is wasted displaying the video to the debris inside my pocket.

I can only assume Google has run the numbers and decided it's actually more profitable for them to make something so silly and wasteful on both sides of the connection necessary, but that's what it is.
It is surprising this wasn't realized when the machine was being developed. Contacting the pool of water at the bottom, or the sides of the drier, seems reasonably unhygienic.
The idle rich and politicians should be going bankrupt right now and smart investors and good managers should be buying their companies and assets out of bankruptcy. Instead, those at the bottom struggle to survive while the fat at the top steal from the rest of us.

What does the first sentence have to do with the second sentence?

If one bunch of fat cats at the top buy the failing businesses of another bunch of fat cats at the top, I can't see how this will help the "rest of us" who've suddenly lost jobs / income etc because of a virus.
Ad sales.
The linked stack exchange question is about network oversubscription.
> The disaster could have been prevented

As in: 100% prevented?

> The administration

and this is where you lost me..
> This feels like Elon's child-rescue submarine, and at least as far as COVID-19 it's likely to save exactly the same number of people.

Speaking of Elon Musk, his initial plans from a few days ago to also produce some in-house has morphed into the saner goal of acquiring 1000+ units from China, which apparently have already arrived in LA: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-24/californi...