skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the big realizations from World War Two was that plans that involved civilian bombing to "break the spirit" of an enemy population had the opposite effect. Since the bombing only killed a small percentage of the population, the surviving population felt almost euphoric.

This reminded me of two quotes:

"There is no better feeling than having someone shoot at you and miss!" - Winston Churchill

"Combat isn't where you might die -- though that does happen -- it's where you find out whether you get to keep on living. Don't underestimate the power of that revelation. Don't underestimate the things young men will wager in order to play that game one more time." -Sebastian Junger

This will probably also lead to a wave of euphoria once COVID-19 has passed on.
If that were true then how can you possibly explain how rapidly the pandemic is spreading?
Link to the paper itself (which I can’t find anywhere on the abstract page);

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/eci.13222
What is the desktop app implemented in? If it's an Electron app you can still use web analytics tools, otherwise the system would have to be pretty complex.
How do you calculate cycle time?
It would. But the correct choice is not obvious anymore, don't you see? Both worst-case outcomes lead to millions of deaths, and you're not able to prove which is more likely.
What? That makes no sense
I have a home office (proper office with separate meeting room etc, a whole floor of our house) and I still get a babysitter on days school is out and I can't not work that day. It's just not the same when you have to always reserve some brain cycles for thinking about what's going on in the rest of the house.

A few years ago (children must have been 5ish and 7ish?) my sitter cancelled last minute. So instead, I told my kids 'if you can play all morning, without fighting and screaming so loud that I can hear you, and not interrupting me, I'll pay you what I normally would have paid the baby sitter'. It was the first time they could make their own money, and it worked perfectly. I tried again a few days later and it failed and haven't had to try since. Maybe an idea for all those that now work from home the first time?
Work / Family + Life is out of balance; I really hope that's what we, collectively, learn.

The lack of time for child care is the problem. I've observed a sibling that does have children being severely taxed daily (in occasional video calls across the country).

It isn't the working from home aspect that's broken, it's how little time "a normal job" affords parents, or even those of us who've yet to find a life partner.
What upset me about that post is how either those employers did not state temporary remote work was part of the deal or they are hunkering down on having people in the office still. Right now that is a very irresponsible thing to do and for an industry who likes to talk about how they are changing the world for the best, they sure dont seem to be putting any effort into actually doing that at a time when we need it most.
It’s also been a week.

Like you said, this is anything but a controlled experiment. People are trying to push through a lot of psychological stress right now. Families are suddenly responsible for homeschooling — 2 young kids and a toddler in our case. It’s a lot.

If people look back at this period and use it to judge the effective remote work is, that would be pretty ridiculous. (Of course, some people who are fundamentally against remote work will do just that.) If one worked remote during a hurricane, and pretended the hurricane wasn’t the dominant factor, it would also be ridiculous.

But it is time to be asking, how could we be better set up at home? What are the strengths and weaknesses of our tools? Does the current schooling model work in the 21st century? Or is it too fragile and dependent on an old societal structure? Should we be paying teachers a lot more than we are?

Conversely, we should be talking about the ‘wisdom’ of open offices. Hindsight is 20/20, but wouldn’t regular old offices with doors that close implement a fair amount of physical distancing?
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I should have been more clearer, FB's reputation loss is not just from killing things!
A random sentence:

'To earn money to support myself and approve “Asians are NOT stupid”, I started to look up information online [....]'

She seems to be mixing up 'approve' and 'prove that'.
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In anything Italy is undercounting covid-19 deaths:

The mayor of Bergamo, a city in northern Italy devastated by coronavirus, said on Monday that the actual death toll from the pandemic is likely several times higher than official count.

Giorgio Gori told NBC News on Monday that the total deaths in Bergamo are three to four times higher than during an average year, signaling that the virus is killing many more people than medical authorities have reported.

"We [have] evidence now in our territories that many people are unfortunately dying in their homes or in the residence for [seniors]," Gori said via Skype. "They are not officially tested because the test is only for people that go to the hospital with serious symptoms."
Yep, me too. Early 30s and childless. I've never liked working from home, and now I'm forced to do it. It sucks. I like having someone looking over my shoulder (look what I'm spending time on right now!). I like having a bus to catch at 3:00 so my day ends right there. I like having a commute that separates work from home. I like having people to talk to and make jokes with. I like having separate work and home computers. For me, the benefits of WFH are...? I honestly can't think of any.
The problem is, how much does a lawsuit cost to file? For a $14 pack of TP? The legal system is not really designed for this.
It seems that only once you have kids you realize how much of society that doesn't make sense to you is the way it is in order to accommodate the logistics of children and schooling.
Because 712 out of the 3711 passengers and crew were infected, and 713÷3713 ≈ 19.2%. So that gives us some sort of vague idea how much of the population from which the ship was drawn will become infected if exposed.
And guess who wasn't at the daily briefing yesterday?

This administration is so insecure.
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It's probably a "dumb" question but I'm curious to know !
I am similarly having trouble with Space Cadet (where Shift sends a parenthesis when pressed but is Shift when held). It interacts badly with other keys because there's no way to tell it to never output the parenthesis.

I need to be able to stop it because sometimes I tap both Shifts (right then left) to output Caps Lock or to output "()" (left then right). Since there's no way to tell QMK "I've manually processed what I needed to process from these keys, you can stop", it sends the parentheses anyway.

It gets even harder to debug because, as you say, it's highly timing-dependent. Hold (tap) the key for 100 ms, you get one thing, hold it slightly longer and you get another.

I have a todo item to reimplement Space Cadet myself one of these days so I can override it better, but I shouldn't have to go to such lengths.

Other than that, I love QMK.
Ask HN: How do you focus on work during a global pandemic?
It's surely a cultural one, yes? Eg, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitation_in_ancient_Rome#Pub... :

> Public latrines date back to the 2nd century BC. Whether intentionally or not, they became places to socialise. Long bench-like seats with keyhole-shaped openings cut in rows offered little privacy.

Or from https://ask.metafilter.com/235727/Have-humans-always-sought-... :

> When I lived in China, I had the experience of using many, many public restrooms which were basically just a big concrete trench in a room. Occasionally there would be small dividers but not always. So practically speaking, pooping would sometimes be quite the communal activity.
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When you have an OS that updates out from under you, takes 45 minutes to shutdown or start up, shuts down without your control etc. it's no wonder people want more control over their updates.
One thing that stroke me yesterday looking at my 13-year old is that children actually suffer more than adults. While we are allowed to take occasional walk out of our homes ( groceries, etc), they are totally locked up - no friends, no school socializing, everything is virtual only. If this lockdown lasts for any long period of time, it might backfire badly on them.
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I don't get the immutable data structures thing though. If I have a vector of 1 billion numbers and I need to sort it it'll be unfeasible to make a copy every time I swap elements. RAM isn't infinite either.

So, deep down in the guts of the language's libraries there must be mutable operations. Which kind of defeats the whole point.

I don't get point of functional programming. Machines don't work that way.
Are you open to remote working (both US and non-US)?
What does that even mean? The world is what it is. Italy is seeing huge increases in background death rates at the moment, owing solely to COVID-19 (while at the same time seeing diminished deaths from things like traffic accidents, though not remotely enough to make up for all the extra COVID-19 deaths).

What is your argument exactly? It's a fact that Italy is running at a higher overall mortality rate owing to COVID-19.
That doesn't matter since WFH isn't popular right now. If 0.01% of people work remotely and then suddenly everyone ends up doing WFH then it is unlikely that more than 99.99% of people are going to hate WFH. So lets be pessimistic and say 99% of people end up hating WFH and only 1% like it. That's still a 100 fold increase in people who will do WFH.
The key to the ipod's success was, in my opinion, the iTunes store and Apple's excellent marketing. At no point in the ipod's history was it particularly innovative with its hardware in comparison to competing devices but the enormous amounts of work that went into forging an infrastructure-level cultural presence paid dividends when it came to ipod sales. For over a decade iTunes was the place you bought music online, just as now YouTube is where you watch user-created videos and Gmail is where you get a free email address.
AsciiDoc, Rst, Org mode, Latex come to mind
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The biggest for me was that everyone felt like they were all drinking the same coolaid, as in 95% of the player I met played type 2.

As a student at the time I couldn't afford to continue buying the new expansions to follow the meta and quickly saw type 2 as a brilliant mechanism to keep everyone buying new cards. As a person who'd played and collected cards from all sets for close to 10 years it felt like I had enough, duals lands, amazingly powerful cards that I couldn't use with anyone else I met... No one wanted to play their new modern competitive deck of the month VS my type 1 powerhouse.

And yes I get that type one was prohibitively expensive for new players to try, it's that disconnect between me and everyone else led me to quit. Sell all my cards on ebay for a grand at least and regret it later and the cards seems to only have skyrocketed in value since.
Covid-19 deaths are not spread out over the country. There are places where people is dying at four times the usual rate.
in reality is the opposite, the footprint is huge in terms of environmental impact, the cruises pollute the air of the city. Also, cruise visitors use the city's facilities (roads, trash collection, beaches, etc) but don't leave much money behind to compensate. Sure we maximize the amount of people that get to visit the place, but they leave locals worse off as they have to foot the bill
Indeed, many people just don't have that much to offer apart from showing up. Unfortunately, this includes those who put themselves between the money and the productive part of the population. So nothing will change.

"Showing up is 70% of everything." [Woody Allen]
If the virus replicates in the throat and the nose, I would think we should be gargling with diluted hydrogen peroxide and flushing our sinuses out with strong saline solution.
I know this may sound ridiculous, but Kimchi and Sauerkraut? Are any other countries with a high consumption of low pH fermented foods also showing a lower CFR?
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Isn't that because of the oligopoly airlines have? I live in a city with a small airport, and if I wanted to go to San Francisco, my only option for a direct flight is United.
Writing raw latex sort of sucks for more than tables. You need a specialized editor/plugin for your favorite editor. I like LyX a lot!
Netflix show “Pandemic” has featured Jake Glanville who says he has a working universal flu vaccine. However it takes 7 injections over a few months. His work is now trying to get it down to 1. I think at-risk patients and “important people” (POTUS for example) would consider taking all 7 injections if it meant never having the flu ever again.
What is an expression tree? I've done this with arrays of structs in C as well as nested dictionaries in python, and sexps in both lisp and python. I could do it trivially in x86 if needed. Maybe sexps are "expression trees", but it seems almost any language can implement this pattern. It was much nicer with data literals than without, but data literals aren't a prerequisite.
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The minute I can leave my house and do some work in an office or cafe I'm there.

WFH everyday is a joke.

Disclaimer, I have done a lot of remote work.
I don't understand this at all. As someone who doesn't have children it's the extreme opposite to me. Modern society is actively hostile to having children.
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That code is as procedural as it gets. MicroPython would be a far more natural fit, I think.
See also Rust for the data races portion.

Though IIUC Pony is also supposed to prevent deadlocks.
Forgive me if I missed this, but I would highly recommend talking about virtual environments, pypi, and the existence of other things like pipenv.

The environment/dependency management story for Python is such a tire fire and I wish someone introduced me to it from a reasonably high level at the very beginning of my time with Python.

It doesn't have to dig deep. Just needs to talk about what these things are, why they exist and why it's such a challenge.

Too often I think people skip over these topics, considering them as nothing more than a means to an end. But by far and wide my largest challenges with Python has been environment and dependency management.
... so do you do go there for the money eventually?
We once figured out ants can communicate and we had lot of ideas to instruct them to serve our purpose. but what we have is antman.

This is definitely a good start for sci-fi writers and I am hoping it doesn't just end there.
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While terrorism (going by the classical definition) hasn’t had had any (or many?) victories of that sort - let’s not pretend that acts of terrorism don’t achieve political goals - and if nothing else they make the people in charge sit-up and take notice.

There’s only one example I can comfortably talk about: I don’t believe Devolution and the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland would have come about if it weren’t for the shadow of the IRA looming over Westminster.
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(I realize this is pretty old, but I just came back to look at this, sorry)

> However, in the event this were ever actually tested they might as well have defaulted since the resulting inflation would be so high that currency would be worthless. Going from "can't get your money out of the bank" to "your money can't buy anything" isn't exactly an improvement.

While I could see this being true, I don't see how pulling cash from my bank and storing it under a mattress helps this scenario at all. Inflation hurts every dollar equally, regardless of whether it's stored in my bank, under my mattress, or is sent to me from the FDIC.
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There doesn't seem to be much to the god helmet, besides the placebo effect, but at least it inspired this great short story by Peter Watts: https://rifters.com/real/shorts/PeterWatts_Heathens.pdf
Amazing content, thanks for making it public! For people lurking, it has Notebooks, Quiz (review) questions, AND exercises. This is very good.

@webartifex it could help the spread of your course if you could put the Notebooks in a self-hosted Jupyter Notebook environment, so students don't have to install anaconda and all that.

Shameless plug here, I'm the creator of Notebooks.ai, which is a hosted Jupyter Lab environment for students, 100% free (we only charge big schools, so teachers and students are free to use). Here's a quick demo of your first lecture: https://notebooks.ai/santiagobasulto/intro-to-python-demo

And aside from ours, there are other options like mybinder or Google Collab.
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The $100 core i5 upgrade on the latest Macbook Air in particular. It's a big bang for buck (especially by Apple standards) since it goes from 2 cores to 4 and adds boost clock headroom.
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I'd love to work for redhat, but it's hard to search for all remote positions and many seem tied to the US.

I live in Switzerland and have run fedora as my daily driver for years now. My experience is oriented towards the low level (C, C++, kernel work, embedded, cryptography) but I've absolutely no idea how I'd even get noticed by red hat's system, even though I think I have a lot to bring.

Any ideas on the best approach?
They will don't worry about it.

They know whats happening well before people start noticing issues. And you can bet they have been worrying about the need for bailouts/payouts/credit lines for a while now.

If I am running a business my bank knows quite well what enters and exits my account from clients/investors, to suppliers, employees, rent payments etc. For most businesses this stuff is not drastically changing from month to month. Its more or less follows predictable patterns. So when there are sudden disruptions in those flows and major drops in transactions across the board, like an ant hill that has been stepped on there is a hell of a lot of excitement and reactions.

But just like the ant hill processes will kick in automatically to restore normal ops. Businesses will be telling banks what they need short term/long term. Banks will be telling each other and central banks what their needs are.

Things will be tallied up, including payoffs to whatever section of the population that is biologically hard coded to take advantage of crisis. This is how random numbers suddenly start circulating in congress and parliaments of the world within a few days of the crisis starting.

And then god emperors, prime minsters, presidents, and grandmothers of the world will show up and say dont worry we will cover all - now get back to work.

And like the ants we shall.
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One thing I was surprised when building this comparison was how bad duck duck go in terms of conspiracy. I would expect that a less sophisticated search would take a search term like "vaccines dangerous" and suggest sites that claim vaccines are dangerous, but DDG gives you anti-vaxx sites even with a more neutral question like "Are vaccines dangerous?"

Other than that, I'm an avid DDG user although I !g maybe ~25% of the time, mostly on technical matters.
I can’t remember any portable MP3 playing device before iPod that wasn’t a joke. Are you thinking of a particular product that was comparable? I’m curious.
There's a lot of interesting things you can build on top of these sorts of rules engines, like optimizations. I had to deal with a system that allowed users to enter arbitrary boolean expressions and we had to use them to filter out records from a very large stream of data, and optimizing for speed was very important. Thee's the obvious changes, like flattening out deeply-nested expressions as much as possible. You can sort sub-clauses in an AndSpecification so that the ones most likely to be false are first, so that you are more likely to short-circuit and cut down on evaluation time (and you sort in the reverse order for the OrSpecification). But you can actually do some more advanced optimizations. In my case, we knew that for a given expression provided by users the overwhelming majority of records would not match. So for a given expression A we would derive a simpler formula B such that A => B (and thus not B => not A) where B was cheaper to evaluate, then we would evaluate the expression as B and A. If B was false it means A would be false anyway, so we could short-circuit and skip the more expensive test.
I saw this in a company I worked at previously. When I joined they had just moved their headquarters from the West Coast to the Midwest and gave employees the option to WFH or freedom to come into office still at new location. Within a year it was a pretty even split on A) staying where they were and working remote B) moving to be in the suburbs around the new location C) moving further out from the city but staying on the West Coast D) leaving the company
The implementations of immutable data structures in most concurrency aware functional languages are smarter than that. Take Clojure as an example: "All of the Clojure collections are immutable and persistent. In particular, the Clojure collections support efficient creation of 'modified' versions, by utilizing structural sharing, and make all of their performance bound guarantees for persistent use." https://hypirion.com/musings/understanding-persistent-vector...
Working from home isn’t about just moving people from an office to home. It’s a culture the e tire company has to adopt for it to be effective. The way people communicate, meet, schedule, etc. You need to prioritize asynchronous communication, you need managers that don’t feel a need to babysit adults, you need to record many things, you need software that makes for seamless collaboration.

You need a company policy that gives at least a $1k budget for home office supplies like chairs and desks.

And you do need some offices for people to congregate to and for field operations if you have them. And you need policy to allow for personal office rental for those that don’t live within a commute to an office and can’t work at their home.

And employees need to get used to a more independent way of working. That they can set their own hours, etc.
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It seems like the study was conducted on the complete wrong set of patients.
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I dunno what a version 0.1 might usefully do, but on the more speculative horizon... a lot. biological systems are really good at making things.. they made you.
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About the open-office vs individual- in this particular case though individual offices would have been just as dangerous, since the ventilation system is all connected. although I agree the lower density of workers would have helped.
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