skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not if you're renting you can't. Renters and the self-employed still largely ignored by the government's support package.
The USA doesn’t really have indies in a lot of locations...maybe the Chinese grocery stores but I know I’m not getting TP there. Here it is just Safeway, QFC, Walmart, and Target, each is stocking TP in the morning before it is completely sold out after an hour.
Hmmmm,

That will just return the name of the built-in Administrators account. If you wanted to find all user accounts in the administrators group you could do:

powershell -c "$([ADSI]'WinNT://YOUR_MACHINE_NAME/Administrators,group').psbase.Invoke('Members') | foreach { $_.GetType().InvokeMember('ADspath', 'GetProperty', $null, $_, $null)}"
I use a single notes directory and I prefer disambiguation to tab-completion, which I why I built it this way. I guess its advantages aren't universal, but then again what is?
Current lockdown is not much different from those in other countries.

Netherlands has been under a form of lockdown from 15 March, but 23 March the lockdown has been tightened:

> 23 March: in a press conference it was announced that all events are banned until 1 June. Fines will be issued to those not complying with the new rules. Companies may face a fine up to €4.000, individuals risk a fine up to €400. Prime Minister Mark Rutte repeated his call to keep distance from each other.

Individuals can be fined when there are more than 2 people together (exception for families).

Some lockdowns are stricter. In NL we can still take a walk outside, or go to a shop. But shops have to take measures so the 1.5m distance between people is assured (or risk the €4.000 fine). Restaurants, bars, schools have been closed since March 15.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_t...
I've just relocated to Singapore from Australia, and there has to be a lot more to the story than just "we registered a Singapore company".

If you are resident in Australia (or the company's primary business operations are conducted out of Australia), Australia will tax you - doesn't matter if your company is nominally registered in Singapore.

I assume the founder relocated to Singapore - if she's just running the Singapore company while living in Australia, she's just not complying with the tax law.
>>People here are mostly calm, cautious and despite a few outliers have largely high compliance rates from everything I see on the streets.

Shouldn't the virus spread little by little so people gain immunity and the hospitals can manage the number of patients? I doubt we can continue this shutdown for 12-18 months (vaccine) and who knows if meds cure it.
Indeed, "deplatforming" isn't equivalent to "censoring".
Concurrency is all about simultaneous effects. A language like Haskell is nice enough because it makes effects explicit, so you at least know where things can go wrong, but if you have a bunch of concurrent effectful Haskell threads running at the same time, you have the usual issues with nondeterminism. Functional languages to tend to emphasize higher-level concurrency patterns than old-school shared mutable state, so in practice it works OK.

Specifically, concurrent Haskell is good and also quite fast. It doesn't quite compare to Erlang in the concurrency department although the languages are very different in other ways, so there are reasons to prefer Haskell anyway. I think this shows that just having a functional language that emphasizes effect-free programming is not sufficient. If you want a good concurrent language, then you have to design it like that, and not simply rely on the absence of shared mutable state.

In practice, people write massively concurrent systems all the time, in the form of dynamic web sites that handle many concurrent requests, and synchronise access to a shared mutable state via a transactional database of some kind. These don't depend on fancy languages, but on a rigid architecture that tries to isolate synchronisation issues in the web server and database components.

While this article is about concurrency, I'll also add a note on parallelism: Parallel functional programming has IMO not been shown to work well in practice. While it is trivial to parallelise more or less any pure functional program correctly, it is very hard to actually gain meaningful speedup from it. The single point of parallelism is performance, and most current implementations of functional languages (including all general purpose functional languages I know of) simply have too many bottlenecks or pitfalls to scale for computational work as well in practice as one might expect in theory. For example, concurrent Haskell is fast because most of the actual work tends to be IO and GHC has an excellent parallel IO manager and scheduler, while parallel Haskell is hampered by, among other things, a slow garbage collector.
IANAL.

In some jurisdictions (e.g. Hong Kong) companies pay tax only on domestic income. So if all your customers are outside Hong Kong, there's no tax to pay.

However, the owners of the company will usually have to pay income tax on money they receive (as salary or dividends) wherever they are tax resident.
Normal life expectancy is lower than that in the United States

I read on your link that average life expectancy in Italy is 83.4, about 4 years more than US (at 78.9). So I don't get your point unless you are speaking about the age structure: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_age_str...
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> we're a non-profit

Does that mean all your financials are public? Where can we find the full reports?
Nothing. But you are the one making conclusions based on some data series. If Italy is an outlier, are there papers about it?
I was expecting startups developing open-source software or hardware. Sadly this isn't the case.
Hi, I do not see what tech stack you are looking for on the link.
You mean, like in org mode tables?
The Diamond Princess is also likely not a random sample of the population - they are healthy enough to be fit for travel.
Yes, it's a coronavirus that has learned not to kill its host - probably when it first crossed over to humans a lot of people died (at a time when people didn't move around much) but evolutionary pressure changed it to survive better by not letting its hosts carry it further
laughs in SQL DBA
If you were the panicky type, you wouldn’t address the issue rationally. A lot of people can’t really imagine long term hunger. They can imagine running out of toilet paper.
What's wrong with the size of the 30 patient experiment?
Broad Spectrum Antiviral Agent Niclosamide and Its Therapeutic Potential
Interesting article and a great blog
Yes, I connected our existing ldap for moderators and allow guests.

So one authenticated user is required per session and the rest can be anyone.
Hmmm, it's at this point I really want to improve the docutils/sphinx table handling...
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1968 Flu Pandemic
You typically write in one language and the compiler produces something lower-level out of it. In this case, you write vanilla JS and get (different) vanilla JS.
I don't see what the point of this is. Every single command can be mapped to an existing Unix tool.
8x8 acquired Jitsi from Atlassian some time ago, see https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/29/atlassian-sells-jitsi-an-o...
Several other comments have touched on this, but firefox unfortunately while it seems to work creates issues, even for the other participants. It just seems a lot less stable as soon as several firefox clients connect.
Ask HN: Anyone compared expected deaths by Covid Vs those by recession?
I am sorry to sound callous, but reading all the news around I got quite concerned on the economic consequences of the recession and measures being taken.

So I was trying to determine how many people will be saved by Covid with the steep measures taken vs how many people might be pushed to death due to downstream economic consequences...

Quick search on google scholar didn't give me too many leads on clear metrics on change of death rate with recession or unemployment. Some studies even said last recession lowered death rate in Europe.

Anyone who deals with such stats here have any insights?
Real time feedback for the author: Good content but the excessive abbreviation use makes it impossible to easily read and digest.
The only thing we know for sure about this virus is that if people catch it they might die, and various people are at higher risk.

Everything else is still up in the air. We have to buy time, time to find effective antivirals (work in progress), time to get an effective vaccine (work in progress), time to understand the virus enough to know even such a simple thing as how long somebody who's had it and recovered might be immune for. That one critical number you have to know in order to know if a plan like the herd immunity idea is even remotely feasible, that one critical number that NOBODY KNOWS.

Isolation is, from everything I've read, the only strategy currently supported by the available evidence. Maybe in six months we'll have data that says herd immunity would have worked, but we really don't know right now.
I mean, I’ve been saying this for a while and I don’t want to tire y’all out but, young being defined as under 40 and healthy being defined as without comorbid conditions.

The median age of the dead in Italy is 80.5 and 99.2% of them were sick, averaging 3 comorbid conditions [3]. So basically the opposite of that.

[1] https://twitter.com/AndyBiotech/status/1241741127205572609?s...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6912e2.htm

[3] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/arti...
20% for a few months worth of effort is more than fair. They would not lose the entire company, simply the rights to the specific technology. And, even if it is "the whole company," then they can go start another one, or go cry me a fucking river. You seem to think I care; I don't.

Mass testing literally will save lives. It worked in South Korea. If we could run 700M tests (slightly more than 2 per US resident, because you have to run at least 2 as an accuracy check) right now, I guarantee you we could get this under control.

Don't believe me? Believe this guy. He's a doctor:

> Testing, Testing, Testing: We must widely test our population, diagnose mild and even asymptomatic cases. Requires point of care diagnostics in doctor's office. We must advance these immediately to market. It means serology to know who was exposed and developed immunity. 9/n

(From https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/12414195930144849... )

But, every incremental step helps here. Information is literally our only weapon against this disease right now, and testing is how you get that. Getting something like this into the hands of doctors on the front line right now is what is needed.

TL;DR: You are wrong on both counts.
This is the problem I have with some cards and mechanics in MTG (particularly Arena). The white Ajani's Pridemate coupled with life-givers e.g. healing hawk/enchantments - you see it once, you shrug, say OK, but then every second or third match is Ajani and it's suddenly NOT FUN. You find yourself playing decks you don't like (like super-aggressive mono red, or decks tailored against Ajani) just to win a few matches. And eventually I wander off and play something else instead.

Statistics != fun.
Great summarization.
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Yes, we do. In the typical flu season, everyone who needs a hospital bed can get one. Flu season happens every year, we have planned and prepared for it. We have not prepared for the load that COVID places on our resources.
What you heard is correct. If you have pure functions and provided, that you have working primitives of concurrency, you can go to any place in you code, where you call a pure function and change the code, so that the function runs in a new concurrency (or parallelism) primitive. For example in a new thread or process. The places where this is useful can be discovered by profiling.

Another advantage is, that you can unit test each function on its own, without setting up a whole host of preconditions. That's because of referential transparency.
It's a combination of a lack of developer bandwidth, fatigue, and typical difficult google customer service. Previously it was just a sole backend developer who also did the server operations/SRE type stuff plus a couple front end web developers. To them, it quickly became just a fact of life after repeatedly failing to find a solution. The customer service people don't like that, because these short down times always happen during standard business hours (only time our service is ever used). Complaints about disrupted sales pitches or customer demos go ignored.

I'm joining as the second backend developer, so maybe while I'm still green and have the naive bravery, I will go give it another shot next time it happens. I don't know much about advanced networking, but we suspect there's some kind of partition happening frequently between our servers and our production firebase instance. Uncertain how to debug that and how to work around it. It usually affects all of our servers, which are located in a single data center. I suppose next time I will try to track down and inspect the socket being used by the firebase SDK, but I don't really know what to be looking for at that point.
They should have done it already by now, shouldn't they? Granny has been shopping for two weeks while she was supposed to stay home.

It's not the only blocker, just an example of the incompetence with which the UK government has been operating thus far.
I always wondered how people used toilet paper to clean themselves as I tried it once before when I travelled to a place where they only have toilet paper and it is a bad user experience and incredibly messy for me. The amount of paper required to totally clean myself (pardon) properly is massive.

I live in a a place where we use a bidet to clean ourself, or the water jet thing if it doesn’t have any bidet. Then we put a soap in our left hand and wipe it (pardon) on the area of interest to clean everything as we wash it with water. Then we wash our hands and its clean and refreshing.

Additionally, I combined both. First cleaning with water and soap, then wipe it with toilet paper. I personally think this combination is good, its clean, and it does not waste a lot of paper.
I argue that transpilation done by tools like Svelte or Babel is just compilation in a broader sense. I don’t see the seemingly relevant difference here.
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I've made a page where:

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Contact tracing APP for Covid-19 in Singapore
One symptom of Coronavirus is a high fever and what we in the UK call paracetamol can reduce the fever thereby reducing the risk of organ damage.
Update: All of my CoV-positive relatives are very well, and Male (80) just had light fever (~38,3 C) for 4 nights straight, but is now fever-free since two days ago (22.03.).

So all of them did neither show symptoms, nor had any health issues, with the exception of Male (80) with light fever.
Dutch to start fining groups defying pandemic rules
I visited your website, and your work seems to be pretty cool! Are you also open to devs in Asian timezones?
In reality, customer preference is the only “clear objective measure of quality” that matters. You and I will have different opinions, and those opinions will motivate our purchasing decisions, and only once everyone’s opinions are priced in does the market deliver a verdict. And the most parsimonious reading of that verdict I can offer is simply: Coke and Shasta are two completely different products.

Incidentally, Russians drink Pepsi because the Pepsi company bartered distribution rights to the Soviet Union in exchange for the US distribution rights to Stolnichnaya vodka. After the Cold War ended they renegotiated and the Russians threw in a bunch of old naval ships and submarines—for scrap value, but still.
Oh, okay. I was just confused because whenever I read something about Facebook it was about them selling everyone's data.
But why?

All SSH/GPG private keys will be in the same storage anyway, and it doesn't provide any security advantage in case a key is compromised. They are already computationally impossible to brute Force too.

Isn't the point of GPG keys is to have an established trust? How does using multiple keys help with it?
Not that long ago there was a hiring stop :/
Thanks for the feedback, will add that to the backlog!
I've been doing sessions with 20 participants without any problem.
"Thirteen Incorrect Ways and Two Awkward Ways to Use Arrays"

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2016/11/06.html
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Can you please mention the company name? (Since your comment was detached).
ah so you did think of everything ;-)
It is an analogy. I will move on to another one.

Competent developers, on the other hand, have extreme trust on the judgment of their peers. They know they won't break the production build at will; if they ever do, they will use all information gathered to improve the team's infrastructure and their own development process. They are not afraid of using the term, because breaking things is the most valuable thing that you can do for your learning, but, most importantly, they realize that other people's lives and goods are potentially at stake, and act with due diligence.

So, "break things" is not an excuse to break the production build at will and move on to the next task. If competent developers ever find themselves in a team that does so, they try to educate the team and, if that does not work, GTFO.
The surveillance state is already here, whether we like it or not.
And markdown-mode provides similar easy table editing for Markdown. This is what I have been using primarily on Linux.

On the Mac I also use TableFlip [1], which provides an Excel-like interface for tables and works with any Markdown editor that automatically reloads a file on changes. It's a one-time purchase, no subscriptions.

[1] https://tableflipapp.com
Lot of western people admire and want efective containment like in far east. Thing is, the success of measures is driven by submisive asian sociaties. Tell italian, spaniard or any other european to stay at home - full streats and parks of 'feeling well it's not your business'. Now police catches and fines. Asians in the mean while put up their masks and done what instructed.
Quick update on this:

The 4 relatives of mine mentioned that were CoV-positive do show no symptoms. They are under authority-mandated quarantine "until we tell them otherwise/until revoked", but the authorities can not tell us how to get out of this quarantine.

Some people say that two nevative CoV-test results in a 48h-period are necessary, but getting those tests (would be 8 tests for those 4 people) in an 48h period seems to be impossible.
One thing that seems really important is that we get testing right. Here is a paper stating up to 80% of false positives: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32133832/ If that was true it would make all the stats nearly useless. I have also heard that the so called 'quick tests' are even worse.
Atheism is not the topic here, it is not even mentioned in article. Although it is not a scientific fact, I wouldn't call it a faith because there is nothing really to be gained by wishing it was true. Most faiths promise a decent return of interest for true believers.

If a human-made device could produce sensation of God presence, it would diminish all the holy visions reported by saints. Dawkins denied feeling any such sensation, so it doesn't seem like he is lying to defend his beliefs?
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I stumbled on Svelte after using both react and vue. I have to say Svelte is a breath of fresh air and a pleasure to use, especially with a rails 6 app using webpacker.

I’d recommend you check Svelte out as it will only take 20 minutes for you to get your head around it. This is a far cry from react.
These kind of comments are (were?) the best part of this board. Where the OP also can chime in and respond... Even such responses are helpful to have an idea about the company. It's a huge time-saver.
Also easy to skin and deploy - we setup a custom branded instance for our customers to use during the pandemic within a couple of days:
https://meet.brring.com/

It’s rather incredible what it can do:

* SIP gateway to support inbound telephony dial in

* Meeting recording

* Auto scaling of the video bridges to dynamically handle load

* Native iOS, Android and even Apple Watch clients

All free, all open source. The install videos are also really good indeed:
https://jitsi.org/news/tag/tutorial/
You are not supposed to look at the output code. The only relevant thing is if it does what it's supposed to do.
People who for whatever reason are utterly dependent on support from the state might well give a shit about the state's decreased capacity to provide aid thanks to additional demand on the part of those whose retirement funds (which allowed them to be self-sufficient) have been destroyed.
Ask HN: Introduction to FEM/FEA for a computer scientist
Hello everyone,
I'm a computer scientist working as a full-time programmer on the development of a Finite Element Analysis solver. I am only dealing with the low-level/programming aspects of the solver, such as performance, parallelism, IO, etc. No understanding of the FEM model or the maths behind it is required by my supervisors.

However I want to learn a bit about the FEM/FEA to have a better understanding of the product at high level. Ideally, I would like to even program the simplest form of a FEA solver, e.g. reading a sample file with maybe grids / elements / loads / boundary conditions, and computing displacements or stresses.

Could you please recommend a gentle introduction to FEM/FEA for a programmer, which does not require deep understanding of the underlying maths? I'm mostly interested in the "algorithmic" aspects of the domain: the workflow of solving, the various steps, how the overall method works etc. Online videos (Udemy, Coursera, Pluralsight), chapters from books (ideally that can be found online), articles, repositories, anything is welcome.

Thanks a lot, stay safe.