skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is committing a fallacy I see far too often at my company: that because something is considered "technically superior" it should be the tool of choice. This misses the human aspect of a system. Markdown has low barrier of entry, and in a world where more often than not, documentation is poor or non-existent, it doesn't really matter if a documentation system has many bells and whistles if those features get seen as too difficult to learn and result in no docs being written in the first place.

Another important human aspect of documentation is docs are often written by people joining a project late who may already be knees deep trying to understand the projects APIs. Burdening them with learning a documentation system on top of that can definitely a tipping point between "I should document this" to "ah whatever, I'll just slog through the code".
Coronavirus: The new inventions inspired by a pandemic
My weasel words alert is ringing.

For it not to "continue to be" a source of confusion, then it has to "stop" being a source of confusion. What makes you think it'll stop?

GNU screen won't stop being on millions of machines, nor will it suddenly stop being a popular tool.

I suggest a cute acronym, instead. How about "SSH", for "Screen SHaring"?
Appreciate that! Good luck to you all
As Businesses Close, WeWork Tries to Lure Workers Back
Not sure why you are being downvoted rather than argued with.

Here is part of the problem: hospitalization and ICU don't necessarily mean the patient will die as long as we have the resources to hospitalize, intubate and medicate the patient.

Once we are out of respirators and the like, then the death rate with these patients will spike.

In Italy, we are seeing younger patients face graver conditions over time as the medical system gets overrun. [citation needed if someone help me dig one up? I can't remember where I read this]

this could be for a number of reasons though:

1. younger people feel invulnerable and go out more

2. underlying conditions in these people x a large population

3. overwhelmed hospitals

Likely, some combination of the above.
It’s under review. I have added stranger things and they got into Maps within a short while.
Thanks for the heads-up, looks great and is S3-compatible too.
It seems like you are making their point for them.

If an economy's purpose is to sustain humans, then letting it crash and burn puts those humans at risk.

It's a balancing act. We just can't forget that too much economic destruction will cost lives as well.
I did most of my PhD on that machine, including tons of coding. With a nice window manager, it's doable. A higher resolution 16:10 screen would improve the experience, though.

It was Linus Torvalds daily driver for some time. I also wiped out OS X and went with Linux, deployed directly as an EFISTUB so no bootloader. Being all-Intel, sans a mediocre Broadcom wireless card, the machine had perfect Linux compatibility.
We worked REALLY hard to make sure we had Linux support this time around! It’s in beta, and there will likely be issues. Please report them to us, and I promise we will try to solve them asap!
We Need a Covid-19 Tracker – Here's how you do it with off the shelf tech
Many states and the central government is making provisions to do direct-to-account money transfer to people. This is just one of the measures being taken up considering the poorer strata of the society. The money being distributed might not be enough, but should help families through the lockdown.

Better than losing the sole earning member of the family to an avoidable disease. :(
> Markdown is about formatting, not information

> Not extendable

> Local processing only

> HTML Only

I don't get it. These are all extraordinary virtues of Markdown, not negatives.
Coronavirus simulations completed on Frontera supercomputer
Speaking from my own experience as a founder, it's hard to change your name once you have an ounce of traction. If you're just launching and anticipate a problem I would recommend considering taking advantage of the opportunity now.

It will also be very hard for you to trademark your name.
I've been kicking the idea of using either cell carrier mandated surveys, or off the shelf tools like Google Surveys and SurveyMonkey (the representative audiences tool not the surveys you think about) as a way to quickly gather massive and highly granular data.

Would love it if HackerNews would tear the idea apart, rebuild it, and help make it happen.

Other countries have incredibly detailed data stores on COVID-19 and the United States continues to be flying blind.
Well, they do now...
And indeed, divide and conquer was the technique used by the British to take over the subcontinent with only a small force (and some patience). Much more effective than full scale invasion.

The client states didn't even have to cease to exist once they lost actual control.
DIY Face Masks: Cotton tshirts block 70% of virus particles
Hint for those who do this regularly - put your phone in airplane mode after you've downloaded offline maps, or use a dedicated GPS device with mapping data. Garmin makes decent models that also have basic sat phone functionality (can text, send emergency notifications, etc.).

Also, a good orienteering course will teach you how to actually find your way around, which can come in quite handy.
If nothing else this is a really good landing page.

I think they put forth a very good value proposition for the consumer who values adfree consumption and also want to pay.
upper 80s maybe 90s soon - https://weather.com/forecast/regional/news/2020-03-23-record...
That reminds me

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virophage

Sure would be convenient if we had a predator for out most recent emerging predator. Big ask when putative prey has only been in existence for about three months in its current form though..
I understand your point, but China did indeed try to call the 2009 flu pandemic "North American flu".[0]

北美 = North America, 流感 = flu, 鍾南山 = Zhong Nanshan (still widely respected in China due to his work during SARS)

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20090505142633/http://hk.news.ya...
I try to imagine the counter-scenario where leaders had done the correct thing but because they did the right thing and a spread never occurred we collectively boot them out of office because nothing bad happened and criticize them for 'overreacting' when that is exactly what is needed for a pandemic.

I am sympathetic to why nothing changed and no one listened. good risk management shows up as nothing bad happening. Heroes who avert disaster don’t get statues.
A categorized list of all Java and JVM features since JDK 8 to 14
"As long as the health care system is under capacity" is about a week or so at best, in much of the U.S., and not much longer (or already past) in many other places. And it's going to stay that way for awhile - outside China and Korea, the best news we have so far is the rate of new cases in some places has stopped increasing exponentially.
Not gonna happen, the real web is all about running arbitrary JS code these days.
You missed one obvious reaction, the one I'd use: business as normal.

Why? Because spiking supply now will hurt them later. Usage hasn't/doesn't actually go up. In fact, usage will go down by whatever percentage of the population succumbs.
To answer the obvious question: it's true if you buy food with sensible caloric and macronutrient density. For instance, in a space of less than one roll of TP, canned meats can supply you with a day's worth of calories - and they're just halfway on the kcal/kg scale (mayonnaise is almost three times denser). If you want a more balanced diet, store flours, pastas, canned fruits&vegs, etc. and then make meals off them.

I once did an inventory of the durable food supplies we had around the house, itemizing each product category to account for energy and macronutrients, and then boxed them all up for storage. In the end, I was surprised just how little space a month's worth supply for two takes, even allowing for a balanced diet. I recommend the exercise - especially now, as you'd probably like to know whether your buffer will last as long as you think, and whether it's balanced.
Don’t know why downvoted, it’s clear what’s meant here. Nobody’s expecting to find inside info and if GP is going to only offer platitudes then why bother even clicking in the thread?
We had a non-compete for 2 years (which expired in late 2016), and I left Slack in 2018. The reason I decided to re-enter the space was after Slack sunset interactive screen sharing, since my earlier hope was to see it thrive within Slack. Once that wasn’t possible, I decided to build it myself!
To clarify, REMOTE - North America AND Remote - EU.
Show HN: Touchbase – impromptu quick video chat for remote teams(desktop chrome)
In other words: an Enterprise Rules Engine https://thedailywtf.com/articles/The_Enterprise_Rules_Engine

If you see this pattern at work, just run!
Enlightened centrist
The Geometry of River Routing
Hey, so I can’t imagine you’ve never used or heard of GNU’s Screen: why did you choose to use a conflicting name for software that’s essentially in the same space?

PS edit: this isn’t glib. I’m genuinely curious why, who and how this choice was made.
Probably referring to Curtis Yarvin (founder, “no longer involved”) wrote a bunch of alt-right stuff
I get your point, and I agree with the poor naming, but one can hardly call “screen” a product.
There are 4 of them actually. HCoV-OC43, HCoV-HKU1, HCoV-NL63 and HCoV-229E.
Agree. I actually found that I set up a Postgres instance to put the data of an object and use pandas only via sqlalchemy. Most of the stuff pandas does, can be achieved a lot more efficient if done right in a real database.

I also agree about the algorithms part. For my research, I look into vehicle routing problems a lot and there is no sklearn for that or something alike. Maybe an idea for a future project.

An experienced data scientist with deep knowledge in the topics you mention easily replaces 10 of those "candidates". I feel the best way to train more serious programmers and data scientists is to teach kids to program earlier in high school. Maybe make it mandatory just as math is today. Then, a lot more students may choose CS or math as a major in college.
There was a company we used that had to do a massive re-branding after they realized they couldn't trademark their company name. Doubt it helped their brand visibility to do such a switch.
Thanks for making it - the more correct information people can get their hands on, the better.
This is more of an axe than a sword.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted on this, the range they choose is super weird.

The actual report says that people under 19 comprise 2% of hospitalizations -- I doubt it suddenly jumps to 38% for the next 5 years. It also says there are no known fatalities of people under 19.
Health professionals are generally lefties. Same with scientists.
Synthetic Fish
Staying open is not a panacea for small businesses. Nobody is travelling, nobody is spending. My parents have a small shop (in Spain) and they had to close before the lockdown started because they were not selling anything. And, by that time, things were much better that they are now around here.
You are making assumptions here.

I'm working on a joke and only have the punchline: "Western Democracy with Chinese Communist Party Characteristics".
If you are interested in learning web app security and can't get into Stanford, consider checking out this book: https://www.amazon.com/Web-Application-Security-Exploitation...

Covers basically everything a software engineer needs to move into security.
What if what we learned is simply that there’s nothing we can do?

You can lock down, you can isolate... destiny still arrives.
Probably worse economic hardship with the added strain on the labor force.
Judging by points, this is a clear dupe. But there wasn't much discussion, so maybe we'll leave this up for a while to see if a meaningful discussion arises.

In a way, course pages aren't a great basis for an HN thread. They're a list of more specific topics, and lists don't work so well on HN, which itself is already a list. I think you can see this already in the comments here as well as in the previous thread: they tend to be generic (e.g. security in general) rather than diving into specifics where the real juice would be.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Grifter, swindler, price-gouger - all taking advantage of others in a bad way. Calling them an arbitrageur is overly- generous.
This is a hot area, but there are already huge competitors. How do you differentiate?
You're right. The market has shifted in the last decade. That's why USO dropped from 60-100 before 2008, stayed around 40 until 2015, and then maintained 10-13 ever since. There's no way it won't rebound slightly when this ends.

If you're risk adverse the $2 calls Jan 21st, 2022 are $3.35. Required move to break even is 9.91%. It dropped 50% MTD. I don't need a full recovery, just a minimum of 10% over the next 2 years.
I firmly believe your comment is conflating China's competence with its political structure. There are definite benefits when it comes to large-scale planning when your country is already familiar with state-planning and infringement on "freedoms". That being said, a look at a country like Brazil would show you that being authoritarian is not enough.

In the same vein that there are democratic countries who are handling COVID 19 much, much, better than the West. Not to mention those same countries give us great "innovation (e.g. technology), culture creation (e.g. Parasite), etc.". The Western democracies should not escape blame because they are "democracies".
They tested every single person in the country who showed up to a doctor with a fever.
ok I was citing this as an example of slippery slope of this thought process

> I'd have no issues police offering that as an alternative to a fine in the UK for petty crimes

It was completly criticized even india. pretty sure its not controversial flamewar.

Anyways. I understand. won't happen again.
I use Fi, when it was Project Fi they had great support. Now it is Google Fi and my last interaction with their support was bad enough that I am ready to switch. I would never trust Google with my business.
> For instance, in a space of less than one roll of TP, canned meats can supply you with a day's worth of calories - and they're just halfway on the kcal/kg scale (mayonnaise is almost three times that dense).

It's not the volumetrically small amount of food you're using that strikes me as curious, it's the spectacularly large amount of toilet paper. Holy shit!
Not only are Olympics no longer the festival of human achievement but lets have commercial interest dictate when they should take place, even if it makes no sense for the host country. Perfect.

(Anyone who visited Japan at that time of year will tell you the weatjer is pretty brutal, with very high temperateure and high 90%+ humidity.)
Cuelang may be able to help here. You can define a schema and then process all of the JSON. you can look for new/missing fields and constrain the field to a regex.

The docs are missing some of this. If you jump into slack, we'd be happy to help.
Major publishers issue joint statement to Chinese regarding expelled journalists
To be fair, he was asking nicely - begging even!

RST and Sphinx are "industry standard". Markdown isn't really a standard at all, nobody uses the plain version, everybody uses informal extensions.

I think starting out with Markdown is fine and if it becomes unmanageable, one can still migrate to RST.
Again I would assume that most of us understand the concept of two wrongs don't make a right and that just because someone else does something dangerous and stupid doesn't mean we should.
Required to buy from USA manufacturers for nearly every thing. There are a substantial number of small shops supporting the US Navy.
If you are interested in learning web app security but can't get into Stanford, consider reading this book: https://www.amazon.com/Web-Application-Security-Exploitation...

Covers just about everything a software engineer (or web developer) needs to learn in order to get into security.
I worked on some inhouse tools similar to Excel (rendering highly customizable grids) so efficient 2D rendering is of high interest to me. This is from C++.
The alternative is a wildly increased death rate, which you cannot reverse. There are so many ways to fix economies, only a few ways to address a pandemic.

If you do not have another solution that keeps people alive, kindly be quiet; you have nothing important to say.
Working from home? switch off Alexa, say lawyers
The term "operating system" is far more precise than "fully featured"; in other words, the accretion of a certain number of features does not constitute "operating system" at some point.

From Wikipedia: "An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware, software resources, and provides common services for computer programs."

It does that, which you can read about here: https://urbit.org/docs/tutorials/arvo/arvo/

Whether it's hosted on top of Unix at the moment is beside the point.
Low-IQ is not a choice. Mocking people for having a lower IQ is the same as mocking someone born without an arm or a leg or any other sort of genetic or birth defect that one has no control over. Those who suffer from mental retardation have low IQ. Should they not be spoken to in a way they can understand? Trump recognizes that everyone in the country has vastly different levels of intelligence, and speaks in a way that everyone can understand. I'm not sure why that's a point of criticism other than someone who thinks their natural intelligence somehow makes them better than others.
How does this compare with Tuple (https://tuple.app/)? Interestingly, Tuple was inspired by Screenhero and motivated by it’s closure.
The horse left the barn and you closed the doors.

China had already locked the doors within their country to try and contain it. Anyone who isn’t a Chinese National can fly in and out of China for the United States.

We didn’t ban flights, we banned Chinese citizens.

Are you sure, you aren’t lulling yourself into a false sense of security?
Changing climate may affect animal-to-human disease transfer
I'll admit that I think national security justifications used by politicians are often quite lacking in substance.

From an economic perspective, we need to think about what our economy is "good at". Generally speaking, when there is demand for something, the economy successfully figures out how to supply it.

With bailouts, there is very little demand for the expertise needed to package and re-sell parts of failed companies to the highest bidder. If Ford had been allowed to fail, perhaps Tesla could have purchased crucial IP or hired entire teams.

The legacy of Henry Ford's entrepreneurship is not the Ford name, it's in the firm's unique business acumen and many years of experience creating excellence. If the larger business (effectively a holding company) called "Ford" fails, the sub-units still have significant value, and the world is better off if that value can be utilized by more capable managers in other firms.

The bailout of Ford effectively punished Tesla, punished consumers, and even punished employees, since their lot is largely a function of the wisdom of those formulating the strategy, something that Ford did poorly enough that it deserved to fail.
This article from yesterday has a decent summary of case fatality rates by age in various countries: https://www.vox.com/2020/3/23/21190033/coronavirus-covid-19-...
It would, I was just thinking why do more laundry. But whatever works..
Noted. Thanks! It would be nice to delve deeper in that idea.
I've been to India, but I never had the "pleasure" of encountering anything like what you describe. Is that mob beating a kind of sentence (i.e. legally commissioned) or is it something one may face anywhere else with people taking justice in their own hands?
They became massively successful without wireless, that's for sure.
just gonna throw out there - in the time it'll take you to do that socket level debugging, you could probably port the whole app back to sql.
>disconnected the modem

Are you still using a modem? Or have you already switched to full-on "zombie apocalypse" mode and started to rely on previous century, proven tech.?
It's even older than that - that's just when it started to become more popular in part because smartphone / other tech made it easier to engage in.
From private analyst reports. You basically have to know someone to get them (or pay a truckload of money). Sorry I can't give you a better source.
We have an expensive healthcare system in the U.S. but it's not a bad healthcare system.
instead of all these remote tools i like second life. designing and conceptualizing things in 3d is another dimension
> no one was really trying to keep a distance from others

Get ready then. I'm in WA, at the former epicenter, and the distancing is pretty pervasive. WA managed to get to the point where growth in cases is linear and decreasing, it looks like. NJ graphs look pretty scary right now.
Summary: They used to cache things immediately onto SSDs. This causes lots of wear because you end up writing lots of data that it turns out you didn't want to. To fix this, they first stage things in memory. If an item is popular enough and worth caching, they store it onto disk (hence reducing the number of writes on the SSD). Both with the old and new approaches, they rely on the OS page cache to keep hot items in memory.
I believe Ben spoke with my co-founder Faraz, not with me.

Screen’s goal is to support remote work of any kind — including engineering & pair programming, for sure, but extending to many other uses cases, such as creative review, education, and beyond. And yes, I agree competition is good! :)
At work we use USE Together but it's not too tolerant of intermittent internet connection issues (ie: WiFi in any congested area). I wonder if Screen is any better on that front.
> All at the same time??

No, but it doesn't matter. If 10,000,000 people need to use 60,000 beds, and they each use one for three weeks, that's 500 weeks, almost ten years. Even if you could get a ventilator for all of them, Chinese experience is that about half of the vented patients die.

Hopefully in a year and a half or so we'll have a vaccine. Until then we need to keep the case counts low, first by sequestering ourselves to get the numbers down, and then by other, less draconian means once the case counts are in single/double digits.
The Olympics these days are mainly a moneymaker for the IOC so it makes sense that the highest paying parties will have a say.
In Various Constructs: Remembering Cecil Taylor (2018)
I won't comment much on the 'service' itself. I know little about the business (bars or ads) to give a good opinion, but would like to ask the team members and community what is the end game here (I am not attacking, honestly asking). Can this really be a billion (or whatever) dollar business worth of YC investment + other series of investments for the people putting in the money?

(again, kudos to the team and in no way an attack, trying to understand the landscape nowadays of seed investment and what investors 'see')
You are certainly right, but it is a question of blame. If the government shuts down your business and it never recovers you will likely blame the government. If the government lets you stay open and your business still fails you will likely blame the virus.

EDIT: This is being downvoted, so let me make a clarification that I am explaining the government's potential reasoning but I am not excusing or agreeing with it.
Fun fact: The son is Roger Dickey, the creator of Gigster [1].

[1]: https://gigster.com/