skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have more experience, necessarily, but I think the argument builds on the facts that pure functions don't have side-effects, which avoids many of the problems of simultaneous data editing, and also the use of immutable data structures, which can be shared freely (in a read-only manner).
In Italy, median age of people who have died of Corona is 83 for women and 79 for men [1]. Normal life expectancy is lower than that in the United States [2]. Lockdown measures will have severe impact on GDP, and GDP is correlated with life expectancy [3].

It can easily happen that by killing economy in order to save lives, we may actually be doing the opposite in the long term.

[1] https://www.iss.it/web/guest//comunicati-stampa/-/asset_publ...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe...

[3] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-gdp-pe...
I like this workflow. When I'm ready to merge a feature branch into master, I generally do it this way to simplify the history on master:

git switch master
git merge --squash feature
git commit -m <feature description>
because the government is the one forcing them to shut down. and now they want to forcibly take an equity stake? talk about totalitarian
I thought for most my life that the domain of the objective and the domain of the real were equivalent. But I missed the subtle gradation toward uncertainty, maybe seen as concentric concepts starting from center: commonality of perception (objective) -> body’s reaction to reality (subjective) -> reality itself (unknowable totality).

The God Helmet is an objective thing you wear (with magnetic property on/off), with a linguistic component (the story of what it will do), and a subjective component (the unique experiences the person brings to it and from it). If the resulting experience has no measurable/repeatable effects across all people, then it is by definition not admissible as an objective phenomenon (i.e. it does not fit the lowest common denominator of experience).
When the topic came up, I showed my kids the black and white snow (or "war of the ants" as the local term would be translated) and a test pattern. On YouTube, of course. The idea of "there is nothing on" is really foreign.
I’ll be that one person:

org-mode already does tables with formulas and all[1], if you’re interested in text-based spreadsheets

[1]: https://orgmode.org/manual/Tables.html
As someone who still uses a `birthdays.txt` file in their home directory... i fail to see any advantage to this setup. And a significant disadvantage would be losing the ability to tab-complete the note names.
why are you encapsulating everything in lists for your yaml example? you arent in your other examples either?

- filters:
- operant: =
type: user
- operant: =
title: nick

if the module author wants to, he could even remove the secondary list because its the same operator, making this

- filters:
- operant: =
type: user
title: nick

thats just as readable as your other examples imo.
yaml doesnt have to be an unreadable mess. its just possible to make bad apis, which remains true for yaml just as for any other format.
Finishing the math on this is very sobering which is why I was intrigued by the original post.

I truly hope John Ioannidis is correct and SARS-CoV-2 is not as virulent. We are about to see in the next week or so.
It allows anyone around the world to send and receive money instantly and at low cost.
Every automated industrial process is a miracle and a wonder to behold.
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Manufacturing output is already at 100%. They don't have much more capacity to add and TP is already cheap and fast to produce.

What they're doing is shifting production to focus on large bulk sizes and more TP instead of other paper items.
> I chose mine.

Yes, you chose "harming other people in a deadly way".

At which point other people's constitutionally enshrined freedom to defense of self and other kicks in, and they can detain you.

The constitution does not necessarily support your side in that situation, although it should support your right to be treated with dignity while detained, and to let you express your argument.
Having an easy way to send money around the world without having to worry about which currency it should be in would be a huge help for some communities. A lot of artistic/creative groups work on a kind of semi-gift-economy model where everyone buys everyone else's stuff, not quite as an arms-length market-value transaction but as a semi-social interaction where you buy things from the people you hang out with online at what's probably more than a "fair" price. Having something like Patreon but less US-specific and more closely integrated with social media (admittedly Patreon's integration with Discord is starting to fill that gap) would genuinely help.
> An argument in favor of lockdowns is that postponing the epidemic wave (“flattening the curve”) gains time to develop vaccines and reduces strain on the health system. However, vaccines take many months (or years) to develop and test properly.

It's not only about vaccines but about treatments in general. There is a good chance that we'll have a drug that significantly improves outcomes long before we have a vaccine. I don't understand how a peer-reviewed paper can overlook this.
This viral video of women fighting over it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1nEnOmC6IQ
Show HN: An opinionated webpage as React dev
CFR is a death rate of the population with particular medical conditions by definition. It is a correct usage.

CFR doesn't translate to the additional death rate, but it does contribute to the death rate by unspecified amount. In particular high enough CFR directly translates to the additional death rate when it exceeds the original crude death rate.
You mean like a sibling commenter posted here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22672682
Yeah, I'm guessing that while it's for marketing value, they're not buying that TP - the source is their own stock which they can't use now that the venue itself is closed.
People associate white with cleanliness and the reason is straightforward. Any dirt on a white object is immediately obvious.
Recent convert but org mode columnar sums still look a bit tricky.

M-x org-md-export-to-markdown is my friend!
This is fantastic. I had no idea this was possible.
Yes, influenza causes over 250,000 deaths worldwide each year.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/cdc-says-more-people-die...
Yeah I also sometimes forget to use the proper URL, I wish it were a little easier to setup and use the concept of separating work/personal or public/private repositories.
Exactly, have a similar setup, I would recommend against using the approach suggested in the post if you want to be 100% sure of always using the right account.
No mention of volatile variables or the concept of stale cpu cache reads when a value is written to from another core. I think its a pretty common and fundamental concept that should be in a write up such as this.
So, in other words, more ads. Got it.
> I am not ok with them building up a detailed personal profile of my anxieties, day-to-day worries and preoccupations

Luckily no company cares about those things...enough to buy the information. Theres a dissonance between people knowing ad targeting is basically useless and them imagining it is super subtly effective. Ads arent effective at leveragong purchases. The data is conclusive. Yes the brands might appear in your head when faced with the monumentally unlikely choice of not knowing ANYTHING about various products in the category. Its far more likely you pull out a cell phone and check reviews or your family/friends recommend something or you will do a comparison of which has more shelf space or
you will read the labels. More lkkely all of these things, none of which is "I saw an ad on twitch". In 15 years of digital advertising, this idea that demographic data (one of the pillars like geolocation), does anything to influence the market. With the corporate magic of attribution* the smoke and mirrors continue. *sales to people who saw an ad causes the adtech dept to be given credit for part of the revenue, as if the ad did something. No science that isnt decades out of date, just dissonance.
> All this wouldn't be necessary if git supported traversing through parent directories for a configuration lookup to have "per directory structure" configurations.

Clang-format has this “delightful” feature, which isn’t actually all that horrible except I cannot find a way to pass it a configuration file via the command line. If I’m editing files in /tmp (or using an editor that relies on this directory) I have to do a nasty hack of copying ~/.clang-format to the current directory to make it work: https://github.com/saagarjha/dotfiles/blob/master/_nano-clan.... Basically, this is a long-winded way of saying that this kind of setting can often work but it’s really not great in certain situations.
In every country where we have seen case load sigmoid out, there have been heavy mitigation and suppression efforts put in place that preceded it by several weeks. Thus far, many European countries and the US have only just started to get serious about this. Therefore I am fairly confident that we will be in the exponential growth phase for a while longer.
Because people have no idea how to survive without modern utilities and conveniences. Toilet paper hoarding is just panic, not a measured response.

As you say, food, water and living essentials are far more important in a real survival scenario.
Czech volunteer group Covid19cz involving some big Czech companies and in cooperation with the Czech government are going to launch their tracking system which they claim is GDPR compliant, based on experiences learned from other countries like South Korea and packaged to be rolled out to other countries. I am not associated with them, I just think it is worth mentioning here.

https://bit.ly/394M4w3
> Svelte code looks like JavaScript, CSS, and HTML, but its compilation stage takes that and munges it totally out of recognition into a tangle of reactive JS code.

Isn’t that fairly similar to React? I tried to understand some React on a page, and there is no way the JavaScript events or HTML updeates have any obvious connection to the code causing it.
I'm a bit disappointed that the article doesn't explain the need for a memory/consistency model and how it interacts with CPU caches. Locks are the easy part, and the article makes you think that with them you can now write at least simple concurrent programs.

Why is that? I'm pretty sure that the author's intention is not to equip the readers with the tools to make buggy programs, yet that is exactly what happens here.
Which only shifts the demand to soap and other cleaning products.
Service Worker is not available in Firefox private window. Try a normal Firefox window.
I would never trust my infrastructure management to a system of bash scripts. It's like wiring up an airplane with paper clips and hot glue.

And looking at the commit history...this doesn't look like a well managed project. Almost every commit is "fix" "fix" "fix" with errors that would have been caught in a better language.

It's probably also incompatible with the various versions of bash out there, as evidenced by the TODO:

> Bashible uses GNU/grep, GNU/sed and other programs which may not work properly on all platforms

I'm sorry, but this looks like a nightmare in the making for any team that tries to use it.
Autonomous UVD robot cleaned up a Romanian hospital
Update: Unfortunately the code is entirely proprietary as per the hackathon submission guidelines: "The NUS Office of Student Affairs will entirely own the right of your solutions and will implement the solutions as they deem fit to benefit Hack For Good 2020's partner non-profit organizations."

As a result the github project is now archived.
I heard that in US if somebody dies and had pre-existing conditions the pre-existing condition is usually the official cause of death. So the person is not count.

This has to be even more true with flu. If somebody had lung problems and the flu season makes things worse and she ends up dying, the doctors are not normally going to test for flu. And the cause of death is not going to be "flu".

What I am trying to convey is that both numerator and denominator of the death ratio are very noisy since they depend on who and when is tested.

I have been trying to understand for a few days how the numbers are really counted for COVID-19. And again, it pretty clear that we do not have the real data for a "normal" flu either.

So for now my understanding of how bad COVID-19 is compared to "standard" flu has been largely inconclusive.

One thing though started getting clearer. COVID-19 is a virus with no vaccine. I have largely underestimate the importance of immunizations and being in a good health. Now I started to picture more and more that without a way to keep our immune system alert against the viruses, we will be greatly screwed almost every year because the demographic at risk would inondate the health care system in a way that they cannot cope.
Trapped in a “golden cage” a.k.a. what you're paid for
Good question, I would like to hear from someone who lives there. If younger healthy people could spread it while also distancing from vulnerable populations (elderly) during the process, it sounds like it could work.
Speech recognition algorithms may also have racial bias
But see, this is the kind of exaggerated information Ioannidis is concerned about. South Korea has not brought new infections and deaths down to zero.
Eh, I simply don't need bash.

Every few dozen scripts or so I'll change the shebang to bash to have more than 1 array, but other than that I seldom pine anything that it has to offer. I believe it's a bloated mess along with most GNU utils, so avoiding it is partially out of spite, but I wouldn't impair my code to do so.
Of course they do. Who would have thought otherwise.

But the good news is that it's not an algorithmic problem. It can be fixed rather quickly.
Needs a (2019) tag.

Could be better edited as:

> Azithromycin inhibits H1N1, interfering with virus internalization process (2019)
South Korea, with one-sixth the population of the US, peaked at 10,000 cases. We haven't passed that per capita case load - and even if we do, lower population density should make it easier to get the virus under control in the US (except in NYC).
The information problem is one thing, but having enough staff on hand to make thousands of regular phone calls and then even being able to respond to excursions (or phone power-off) in a matter of minutes... that's unimaginable for those of us in the USA.

Are these civil servants that have been re-purposed from other jobs? Are they telco company employees?
> It's a matter of what is a good-enough tradeoff of risk and reward.

This also sounds very short-sighted. Yes, people die in a lithium mine, but in most countries, I'm the one taking the risk to become a miner or not. Understandably, the situation isn't that easy: in some countries, you may indirectly or directly be forced to risk your life for the economy. Yet often, I don't see the physical risk-takers being particularly rewarded for their risk-taking either, with few exceptions. Miners are definitely not one of them. Its a difference between who is taking the risk and who's life is on the line: I don't mind risking my own life. I do mind the government toying with it while a prime minister is sipping tea in his comfy seat.

Reality is, the current economy is maintained through exploitation in one way or another, and its fragile balance is now attacked by a force that doesn't care about our economy. Every time people bring up the economy as an argument, its abundantly clear the people in trouble either can't make a buffer, or don't have the discipline to make a buffer. It wasn't that long ago we were forced to go through harsh winters using the harvest of a possibly failed summer and autumn. Yet today, the economy is in jeopardy if a quarter of all activity is told to shut down temporarily. Why can't make people a buffer? Why aren't people making a buffer? Why aren't governments prepared for this?

Something unexpected can always happen, we're not gods nor do we have crystal balls. In a competent software industry, you'd be summoned for making a fragile software system where traffic stops coming through. Yet now we tolerate the same in regards to our economy. It really is time we take a step back and go on the defense rather than looking no further than 3 months.
Static is not the way to go. There are technologies today which can scale fast without crashing. You don’t need static sites to handle the load.
Checkout a serverless CMS like Webiny - https://www.webiny.com
But it's still the code you wrote, it just executes using the React runtime. Svelte actually rewrites your code to inject the Svelte boilerplate to get it working.
> When offsite you're to maintain physical quarantine in your home.

I have SRE friends who are trying to do this, but sometimes their teenage kids or boomer parents are sneaking out against orders.

Here’s hoping the US gets its testing act together real quick; I don’t think most people are very good at home quarantine.
Is such tax saving by registering in Singapore possible for all online businesses?
For those who want some indicative data of what happens in a few weeks if you don't act early, together with Italy, take a look at Spain. The health system in Madrid is already overwhelmed because the growth was incredibly fast.
> that the virus lives so long on surfaces

There is no confirmation the virus itself lives on surfaces for long periods. Just RNA
I think Costco ought to allow returns for these things, for an exchange of a like item.
They buried or cremated them. Unsurprisingly, the system can't handle a sudden one-of-a-kind spike.
> Is concurrency really easier in functional languages and is the rising importance of concurrency a valid reason to look into functional programming?

I think it depends on who's writing the code. A little bit of shared mutable state here and there isn't gonna kill you, but if the program's architecture is poor, that'll blow up and spread everywhere and the next thing you know is you're spending half your time worrying about data races, deadlocks, and a locking nightmare.

Shared-nothing architectures fix that; your synchronization will happen over a narrow range of well defined primitives (e.g. message queues), though this doesn't prevent race conditions.

Functional programming that encourages pure functions & immutable state is a bit of a straight jacket that keeps you from making a mess that blows up. I think it helps, and I wish $stuffAtWork were written in such a language because I'm tired of wrestling with terrible architecture (that I'm not really allowed to fix, given the time constraints).

The other thing that makes a difference is what your problem looks like. Sometimes concurrency is absolutely trivial, like dispatching sections of an array for threads to perform (independent) compute on, and come back with a result. Sometimes it's way more complicated...
Since toilet paper goes out into nature it is better to not use recycled, less heavy metals and contaminants in fresh paper. Contraintuitive but true.
That sounds plausible. I worked for a manufacturer and one Christmas season (our biggest time of year) we were behind and the order date was growing. So, management started increasing prices to slow down the rush of incoming orders. I can't remember if it actually worked but I do know that by the end of it we were selling our products for much, much more than seemed reasonable. It was a little embarrassing actually.
Our crockpot cord broke, just a normal power cord that a standard computer monitor would use. However, amazon is quoting April 21st for a basics replacement while bestbuy said they probably would have it for pickup tomorrow but then delayed...so no crockpot food until I can get a dumb cord that comes with every computer monitor.
Between hollow points and ball ammo; the hollow points kill more than they wound. That part of the convention was written with feelings and not facts.

Also, does not apply; the US is not a signatory.
any data on what percentage of “young healthy” people die/get hospitalized? also, what’s the definition of young and healthy?
Target and Walmart sell shoes if you are in the states.
..one person?

I admire your optimism.
I suppose central China, northern Italy, Iran, Spain, the rest of Italy, and soon enough France, Germany, New York City, Israel, followed by plenty of other places just happen to be vastly unlucky for “some generic reason”.
Isn’t that what a compiler typically does anyway? I don’t see the challenge here.
What they said in the UK... Full lockdown starts today.
Funny thing: our apartment maintenance crews are working overtime unclogging toilets because people have run out of TP and didn’t realize you shouldn’t flush paper towels and baby wipes down the toilet. Bidets aren’t a thing here, I have no idea how I would even install it, it’s not like there is an extra waterline coming out of the toilet.
I found https://github.com/prydonius/karn to be helpful (although I wish there was a more native solution)
Even worse: is ﬀ a prefix of ﬃ?
We have a slack channel dedicated to screenhots of these backgrounds, It's a lot of fun. :)
Bullets have Pb, and Cu, both known to be very bad when introduced to the bloodstream, in this case quickly.
>>That sounds like the way forward, I wish things were working out that way here! (USA)

The virus will go soon enough, one way or another, the surveillance state built for it, will not.
While we wait for somebody else to implement this, here is a first step: Install the `prettier` extension and turn on autoformat for markdown.

It makes entering tables much easier and the tables more readable.
Sums of a whole column in org mode tables is among the simples formulas you can write for tables. Just call the sum function (vsum?), enter the start cell and end cell, and where you want to put the result. That's it. Except that it is text only, I don't see what's more difficult, than entering a formula in a GUI spreadsheet app.
The US might not be the best country to benchmark other developed countries against, so.

Personnaly, I have issues with people using economic data, read money, to define the value of other peoples lives.
Hospitals in Italy are currently reporting dramatic shortages of many kinds.
Portable lab you connect to your phone can detect coronavirus
The renovated videobridge will soon get into stable packages: https://community.jitsi.org/t/jvb-2-considered-stable/24314

More about the renovation effort: https://jitsi.org/news/jvb-2-0-preparing-our-video-router-fo...
Stackoverflow logs every request into SQL Server which uses columnstore tables to handle all their analytics. It's fast, efficient and more than enough.
Coronavirus tracked: the latest figures as the pandemic spreads – Free to read
I am afraid that the free model of their service will not work very well if tens of thousands of teams start to use this now. It is easier to trust the known brands and organizations that also charges a bit when you use their system a lot.