skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the cloud side, there was a nice tool for linking a Google Drive full of PDFs with entries in your Zotero database, bypassing the cloud storage limits.

https://github.com/mtekman/ZoteroGoogleDrive-PDFLinker-Cloud
Shutting down virology labs would be the stupidest, most self destructive thing we could do right now. The Wuhan Institute of Virology has probably the best equipped and most experienced coronavirus researchers in the world. Within weeks of the start of the outbreak, they had sequenced the virus' genome, published it widely and publicly, and immediately started investigating antivirals. They remain on the forefront of the fight.

The virologists there are very active publishers, and by all accounts among the very best in their field. And now they're pissed off. Here's a snippet from the institute's coronavirus lead, defending them from an onslaught of insane and stupid conspiracy theories:

> [Shi Zhengli] said on her social media account that she “guaranteed with her own life” that the outbreak had nothing to do with the lab but was a “nemesis for the barbaric habits and lifestyle of some people – like eating wild game including bats.”

Chinese researchers and doctors have generally been among those most willing to push back against the CCP's misinformation and censorship. Of all people, why in the FUCK would we want to muzzle these guys?
I suspect that the answer in this case is pretty simple. You have the interests of Republican voters (who, yes, do skew older) on one side of the issue, and the interests of Republican funders, who are generally big business types who are losing money every day their businesses are idle, on the other.

And the funders won.
It is more likely that they were trying do deliberatly write a vague statement, their (native) German announcement uses the same "Genauigkeit", instead of the relevant terms "Sensitivität" and "Spezifizität".
Can't read the article. I feel like this just encourages low effort comments from people skimming the headlines.
Used it for my Master's thesis in 2009 (with LaTeX via xelatex), for my wife's Master thesis in 2011 (idem), and now we use it to keep a catalogue of the books we own (just a small home library of about a thousand titles). For the latter Zotero is also great because of its integration with on-line library catalogues. You just type in the ISBN number in the magic box, and the book's metadata is there — in any language!¹ Mostly just a few tweaks to the data are necessary, but it works rather well.

1: Tested with English, Dutch, German, and Japanese novels.
You could've just asked :)

And yes I have; I've been advocating something similar for years.
I spent significant time in DF in the early part of 2010s, but in the end found that it's just too much to micromanage - the game (at the time, at least) didn't offer much help with it, and after awhile, all the clutter really got in the way.

If you like this kind of game, but would want something not as demanding, try Rimworld. Out of all dwarffortresslikes (I don't think that calling them Dward Fortress clones is fair), it's got a good amount of polish, reasonable 2d graphics (nothing too fancy, but looks nice) and most importantly, you don't feel as if you have to manually tweak every little thing. You still can, you just don't have to.
"Also, where would they get the information on who your boss/company is?"

They ask you at the customs checkpoint. Human intelligence collection is the custom official's job. Even when coming through Canadian Customs border, they do (and are able to) ask directly: who do you work for. What do you do? What is your job? Do you have family here? Where do you live? How old are you?

Those are level 1 questions for crossing the border at pretty much any country.

Driving through the Peace Arch border crossing into the US, I've been asked all of those questions.
Does anyone know if this supports bulk indexing? My team has a lot of data in S3 in parquet format. (We could change the format to something else if that helps).

It would be really nice to be able to point tools like MeilliSearch or ElasticSearch to a data location and have it index all the data without me writing code to send individual records to the API.
I never thought the ASCII graphics were a big problem in Dwarf Fortress; once you get used to it using a bunch of symbols as decoration, almost all the weird stuff ends up being things you placed yourself. On the other hand, the complete lack of UX consistency - whether a given submenu will use primary/secondary cursor keys, nested menus, or a pile of hotkeys - is a lot harder to deal with.
I use Alpine as the OS on my home server (it used to be SmartOS/Illumos) and I compile my entire stack myself using my own cross-platform (Solaris/Linux/OS X/FreeBSD/OpenBSD) build system similar to BSD ports. While there are some portability gotchas, by and large it's manageable.
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IIRC the stimulus bill does not allow for stock buybacks. So, I am not sure how they're bailing out investors.

Wait until the unemployment numbers are out in a couple weeks. When the government shuts businesses down, people lose jobs.

Let's not forget everyone who has a 401k and was hoping to retire this year.

To add to how wrong this headline is, the government is literally sending everyone a check.

I am sure some guy on medium is more capable of sizing this up than our entire senate and house of representatives, though. You should trust him: it's corporate greed.

CSPAN is the place to go if you want to know what's really happening.
"Horton Hears a Who"
You made fun of the extrapolation of an exponential by extrapolating beyond the size of the human population.

Your point was obvious, but if you meant to downplay point made by the person you were responding to, then you were wrong to do so. The exponential can indeed be extrapolated for many e-foldings, until the number of infected people is a significant fraction to the total population.
It wasn't that he was listening to the WHO, it was that he was outright denying the severity and spreading misinformation implying the imminent availability of a vaccine. He's hasn't been a benign pass-through in the development of the situation:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/timeline-trump-covid19-res...
Secondhand story:

I briefly interned with a state judiciary's IT department around 2015 and got to get lunch with the CIO. He described to me how most court filings in the state had been manual prior to 2008 when the mortgage crisis hit and judges in the tax courts got _slammed_ with cases surrounding foreclosures. This , in turn, drove a need to develop a platform to automate the process of filing a case. It started with the tax court and gradually expanded to automate filings for other court divisions as well (e.g. Family, Civil).

I wouldn't be shocked if the revelation of "holy shit no one can file for unemployment" drove such an investment. I honestly think the next generation of politicians should take a page from product owners by isolate some shitty process that they'd have jurisdiction over, and finding some way to automate it. Bonus points if it's right before a watershed moment- imagine if someone had considered the problem you described prior to the coronavirus epidemic.
> If the VPN company insists on tracking me to this extent when I'm on their website, why should I trust them to not track me when I'm using their VPN?

I think you make a valid point, but there's a difference between their sales pipeline and their actual product. These VPN providers are businesses, and they're trying to optimize their sales. What demographics are most interested in their products? How did they get there? Does Google Analytics (or Facebook, or similar) have profiles on people shopping for VPNs? Are there advertising patterns that could have better ROI for attracting users?

I'm not defending the ethics of major VPN providers -- they certainly don't all have stellar records -- but I would be surprised if any major SaaS company didn't track user behavior on their brochureware/sales pages.
Quality Assurance Tester
tomorrow? wait till US registers >1K dead per day
Performance of Persistent Memory: 300 nanoseconds
British Archaeologists Discover Stash of Victorian-Era Beer
The killer feature of zotero is, that it is customizeable with different plugins.
One very neat one is the integration with scihub. So you just paste in the DOI and it automaticly downloads the paper and adds all the metadata.
> I was born ‘89 and in the midlands of the UK, so I missed these programmes

In the real world, outside of BBC fantasies about its own importance, no kid in the 80s (ie, an inconsequential number) became computer literate a) at school or b) on a BBC Micro or c) due to a boring TV series about a computer they didn't own, couldn't afford and couldn't use, because virtually no teacher had any idea what to do with one.

Sir Clive Sinclair (character assassinated by the BBC in a drama about itself, Micro Men) is virtually single-handedly responsible for the computer literacy of British kids in the (certainly early/mid) 1980s, producing the affordable multi-million selling computers they actually used, typed programs into and established a gigantic British gaming industry with.
You can, with downsides. Uninformed ads have less value. You can also make people pay, and have no ads.

You can do lots of things.
This make me burst out laughing at how well it fits into my stereotypical assumptions of VC.
I would have expected polymorphism with type hints. Oh well.
A bit from 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8695308
"If this end of the ship is pointed toward space, you have a huge problem and will not go to space today."
I see a morgue at capacity and I think about the thousands of family members who aren't able to properly grieve for, manage, and bury their deceaseds.

I wouldn't jump to accusations of callousness on the part of the GP quite so fast.
DESKTOP ONLY, support for mobile devices is not ready yet.

sorry for the repost, the api went down & this was intended to be a show hn.

this is a major update to the project (e.g. adding historical data).

ping me in case you are interested to jump in on the coding side (e.g. maps, charts, mobile support).
1. How do frequency and density of exposure correspond to infection rate?

I'm assuming there are some basic principles that apply to any virus, but I don't know what they are and have found it difficult to get find meaningful information.

2. If lowering frequency and density of exposure reduces infection rate - as the papers that Google surfaces when querying this kind of thing suggest - does this mean that social distancing could be more than a knee-jerk means of reducing the stress of the healthcare system? Could it form the basis of a long-term containment strategy?

3. Would it be possible to randomly test high-traffic areas (grocery stores and gas stations in the US) to get a better sense for how this disease is spreading? Why are we not doing this?
What exactly is roam? The website tells me nothing. Zotero has folders and tags for organizing your thoughts how you like.
For OpenPCR yes, for Open qPRC not.
If it's encouraging at all - after some hours into the game the ASCII actually starts looking like what they represent, enough that even when you see a new character given its context you can figure out what it's meant to represent without really thinking about it.
Interface, co-authored by Neal Stephenson, is also in this vein.
My ISP does, but they're the exception to the rule and cater to techies. Of course support questions for random devices need to be more specific than just "it doesn't work".
Not a revolutionary thought but I think one reason many podcasts are so successful is that we're essentially eavesdropping on conversations we find interesting. As I started to work remote and more in a silo I found myself playing more long form podcasts in the background rather than music
I can't believe I am reading a recommendation that someone with little background in E&M self-studies with Jackson. That book is incredibly difficult even with a great graduate-level professor.
Seconding this. Out of all games in that general category Rimworld is scratching my DF itch, without me having to dig all the way back into full DF complexity.
I bet PETA & Co will take this once in a life time opportunity to put pressure on all governments (shaming and pressure campaigns) so they put pressure on China to ban wild life and some crazy wet markets (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet_market).

Having visited many markets like this in Asia. I will not miss most of them as long as they are so unregulated/dirty.
Because the evidence that it is effective against Corvid-19 is shaky as best.
small demo video on how to use it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhSZS6_UlO4&t=109s

the source is MIT licensed:
https://github.com/neomjs/neo/tree/dev/apps/covid
> how does a market making latency arb firm handle GC pauses that are inherent with any GC language?

Don't garbage collect, or do it at the end of the trading day. There's plenty of VMs designed for this, at least in the JVM space (which is where my personal experience has been).

RAM is cheap. Latency is expensive.
If you were on the iPhone mac side, papers had a brilliant solution that was appealing
I've definitely been listening to local radio more often. Getting news online is kind of difficult because depending on the location, the situation can be really different. I had definitely forgotten how much radio time is stolen by ads. Weird that people still put up with that
listening to radio is deliciously private and anonymous as well. just like cash, which is taking a hit now due to the pandemic.

the other nice property of things like radio and cash is that they continue to preserve our rights simply by using them regularly.
That model is 10 days old, and already out of date. Look at the one they've released yesterday.

Again, these models are not robust to minor changes in their assumptions.
Microsoft did the same thing for the Universal CRT.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/the-great-c-runtime-c...
This says absolutely nothing, for any given change you can find a user who benefits from it and a user who doesn't, hence a coordination device called a standard has been invented.
There's an interesting language strongly influenced by Self : Lisaac ( http://www.lisaac.org ). Lisaac is a purely prototype language extending the Self's prototype paradigm with extremely good performance (close to C code, biggest part of the research around this language was about high performance code generated by the compiler).

For instance, you can define a dynamic inheritance : your inheritance can be defined by a function which return an object - so, a prototype - among several.

The author of this language explain me that Self was one of the most important day in his life ;-)
Doesn’t shock me. Working from home for 8 years and I constantly listen to the radio. Usually local sports radio because it’s the only thing that’s on all day and consistently regional. Lots of other things going on in the area trickle in. Older callers chime in with history of things they saw in person.

I love it.
At least some. My friend set up an IceCast station hooked up to their home stereo, so we can just listen in to what they're listening to. I found it comforting. Plus they have great taste in LPs, and I can have some retro fun streaming it in Winamp 2.95 on my Pentium 166.
The complete refusal to integrate any sort of meaningful mouse support is mind boggling.
I didn't downvote you, but I will tell you what I think: probably because the comment is seen as irrelevant to the discussion, and also because people who don't care about human treatment of animals don't want to see comments about human treatment of animals.

First: the overall discussion is about where COVID-19 came from.

Second: this thread is discussing whether it's a natural mutation and subsequent transmission vs. somehow engineered by China. The OP made the comment that they don't understand why people are spending time looking at alternative theories because they believe it's assured that this came from a Chinese virology research lab.

Third: the comment parent to yours was a response to the OP saying the reason was because it fit the narrative of Mother Nature getting revenge on us for harming animals. This narrative was implied to be ridiculous; I suspect that most people in this thread do not believe 'Mother Nature' is an entity capable of taking deliberate actions like revenge. That comment was downvoted, probably because the commentariat here doesn't like sarcasm, but also maybe because they do not like to entertain nonsense. This kind of poisons the rest of the thread; here, there can be no legitimate meaningful followup comment to nonsense or in many cases sarcasm.

I think that your reply pointing out that we do mistreat animals ends up being seen as irrelevant and not contributing to the discussion. Whether or not we mistreat animals may be relevant to the 'Mother Nature' idea, but since that is seen as irrelevant to the actual discussion about COVID-19 origins, there's no point in posting the reply and thus the downvotes ensue.
As someone who works at a company where Perl is used as duct tape, we've slowly but surely been ripping it out piece by piece and replacing it with Python (and by "we", I mean "me").

Much of our "duct tape" is unmaintainable code with undocumented aracne regexes everywhere, single-letter variables, and 1990s-era flow control. Nothing you'd find in Modern Perl is in our duct tape. Ultimately, the fastest turnaround on "we need feature X added to Perl script Y" is going to be "rewrite Y in Python, add feature X" because actually extending the Perl code has proven to be a nightmare.

(and as a side note, most of these Perl scripts ran out of cron on various boxen scattered across our network, and as I've been rewriting them I've also been removing them from cron and putting them in our centralized setup that uses Jenkins to run scripts, pulled out of git, inside Docker images on a schedule)
I am not claiming I had the flu. What I am saying is that the flu shots made me more miserable than any cold/flu I ever had. I am very reluctant to intentionally make myself sick for a few days every year.
TSX is supposed to fall back to an alternative implementation anyways if there's a transactional abort, right? What's the issue with keeping it in?
Finally! "SKYNET CREATED"

Well done!

(Enjoyed the TQ game too.)
Why did/does China lie so early and so often about the progression of the epidemic?
Authoritative explanation

Very sorry about that! We had a router failure in Atlanta, which affected traffic routed through that region. Things should be back to normal now. Just to make sure: this wasn't related to traffic levels or any kind of overload, our network is not stressed by Covid-19.

https://twitter.com/uhoelzle/status/1243217659690278912
The DO’s and DON’Ts on Writing Well by William Zinsser- Part 1- Principles
Having seen this I was wondering just what an impact this project had on the software industry in the UK, but the comments have this pretty much covered.

I'm not directly involved, but I've always had an affinity for computers since my junior school had one, and I got to take home the manual for the BBC one summer holiday - came back full of ideas of what I could do with it. I was allowed by my form teacher (who was a maths teacher) to use it as much as I wanted during break and lunch times, and whenever I finished the Friday afternoon maths exercises I could go on the computer (handily I finished them early, I was good at it back then).

Amazingly in my secondary school (from ages 11-16), computers were 'only for the kids who were bad at maths' - the (grammar) school I went to had a really regressive policy, and looked down on them. Crazy - I had a ZX Spectrum (couldn't afford a BBC!), and did programming in my spare time. Never wrote a single line of code at school, despite wanting to.

Fell by the wayside, alas, and now at 48 I'm trying to make up for it, but the BBC project had such potential for all kids in my era.
Related from 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4058663

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7434554

2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9791709

2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19284648
Can decentralized (i.e., user owned) storage help here? Instead of keeping data only at user device, it can be backed up in an encrypted and private way.

Gaia is one example: https://github.com/blockstack/gaia
(I've worked on Gaia so I'm biased but there are other such decentralized options as well.)
Yes if you use an external DB for the k8s control plane

https://rancher.com/docs/k3s/latest/en/installation/datastor...
I've just took a spin around the 20m band and it's reasonably lively, maybe a bit more so than usual, but the band isn't packed. Besides, I think most ham enthusiasts were already spending most of their time at home (retirees) talking about illnesses (diabetes, usually) :)

Edit: Stopping on 14.340 I got a Hawaii/California net and was able to hear people from Hawaii pretty well, which given my crappy antenna is a bit of a feat. I think propagation is improving a bit at last, which will be nice for people stuck at home.
> He's a completely arrogant dickhead

Source?
Coronavirus vaccine: when will it be ready?
Imagine taking someone in that position at their word.
Normally there's at least 2 strains the vaccinate against. They've had flu shots with three strains before (around the time of swine flu)
I use Zotero for my research everyday, and I am a paying subscriber for their storage. I love it, and it is getting better. I recently discovered a new feature: I received a notification that one of the articles I had in my library had been retracted! That is pretty cool! The Word/Libre integration is solid.

When I saw Zotero at the top of HN, I suddenly wondered if they published a new tool. So I'm kind disappointed...but still love any attention they can get.
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https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

US is 21st in per capita deaths (and falling... that is, it was 18th a couple days ago.)

Spin all you want about testing and the like.

But, the fact remains that the US's medical system is doing a better job than the other western countries.

Its striking that Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Switzerland, France, Belgium, UK, Sweden, Denmark, and Austria have more per capita covid deaths than the US. (Looks like Germany is about to be added to that list.)

I do not see how any rational and objective analysis could characterize the US's response as 'particularly flawed'.
Also, some procedures being performed that a patient would normally stay overnight and be monitored are being changed to outpatient. It can now be more risky to stay in a hospital than it is to go home for recovery, even though you can't be monitored for potential post-procedure complications.
SARS-CoV-2: fear versus data
This is not something that MeiliSearch supports currently but I am working on making the engine be able to index other formats than JSON, I saw great performance improvements when indexing simple CSVs.

We will probably make MeiliSearch accept different indexable formats (i.e. CSV, JSON, JSON-lines) in a future version.
Banner at restaurant in China says: “Congratulations on the epidemic in the US
Yes, but nowhere near the amount of inflation caused by allowing Wall Street and consumer banks to create trillions of new dollars with artificially low interest rates. Plus if we had more price inflation on consumer goods it might actually reign in the Fed, and make them stop ignoring the ongoing rampant price inflation for assets.