skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fail to see how stating the country of origin is racist. I've seen some people refer to it as "Kung Flu", which is clearly and obviously racist. The argument that associating a virus to it's country of origin is wrong makes no sense to me at all
In order to support above-and-beyond needs ushered in by a worldwide pandemic:

– delivering medicines from pharmacies;

– driving patients to appointments;

– bringing them home from hospital;

– or making regular phone calls to check on people isolating at home.

They don't need volunteers to merely function, but then we both know there was no honest intent behind your comment in the first place.
> That social support system has to come from taking a slice out of the economy. And who is going to be paying for that social support system while the economy is shut down? There's no god of socialism who will simply rain infinite amounts of manna upon us in the form of debt just because we will it to happen.

Surely, you're aware that we're currently printing money hand-over-fist, to help corporations make ends meet in the short-term? We've already printed 1.7 trillion dollars, for this purpose, and that was entirely at the discretion of the Fed.

When the dust settles, and QE ends, many of those loans will not be made good on.

If a stroke of a pen by an unelected bureaucrat can parachute 1.7 trillion in corporate bailouts, surely, we can figure out how to make grocery bills for a few months.
May be Steve Jobs is the guy took inputs from multiple people and made the final call and developed products which made everyone who gave inputs think that the product is because of their idea.
Just tried it out and it works great! It seems to be fast enough so pair programming can work and gettinf started was straightforward. I would maybe like to see a feature where you could disable someone's access (kind ok f like silence, but for yhe multiplayer control). Can't wait to try it out for real this week.
Are the screenhero guys making you feel like a little man? It's okay little man.
Yup and it’s an age old right wing tactic to drum up support for reactionary and xeonophobic immigration policy and economic protectionism.
I can’t speak to other products and their performance, but we’ve worked hard on performance and wide platform support (Mac, Windows, Linux apps to host screen shares, and web support for joining meetings). Do try Screen and let us know what you think!
Sure, Markdown isn't perfect - but it's good enough. It's not so bad that we all should start using asciidoc. For most documentation needs, markdown works great over it's real competitor, plain text.
The untold origin story of the N95 mask
No. Markdown is the sweet spot between plain-text and HTML, and that makes it perfect for the task.
>The “Spanish flu” originated in Kansas.

There's no consensus over where the Spanish flu originated from.
Everyone else vs someone else in Afghanistan...
Apparently, 2019-nCoV was the earlier label, until they decided to classify it more precisely as a SARS-type: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-020-0695-z
Yes, we can't just keep the economy at a complete standstill. We aren't set up for that, and many people will starve if we do.
The fun part is:

"Apple is updating its privacy policy for Apple Card to enable sharing more"

One day it'll be even "more".
Oh my sweet summer child. As a pro having done this thing for decades, the industry standard in 2020 is to randomly throw margins, negative margins, and paddings on _everything_ (probably in JS/JSX) in the vicinity of the thing you're trying to position and visually iterate until things looks okay-ish. Probably by a dozen people simultaneously on the project, some of whom may have read an article on CSS once. After a year or two the whole thing is chucked out anyway. And that's all right, it gets the job done.
I can understand the desire to not want to stigmatize the people of China and people of Chinese decent.

But we should not let the Chinese leadership off the hook for continuing the disgusting Wet Markets.

Let's meet half-way and give it a short pronounceable name:

Call it the PROCVirus - named after the government of the People's Republic of China.
One of the major reasons for hosting the Olympics is tourism, so without an audience, it's just a very expensive show to put on.
Ohio had a very good response too! https://www.cleveland.com/news/2020/03/compare-coronavirus-c...

When dealing with exponential functions, linear increases in effort early on lead to extremely large differences in outcomes later on. Our intuition is not very well equipped to understand this sort of situation.
Slavery is a huge problem in India. Who did burn the bricks of your house → there is a high chance in India that they where fabricated by slaves. If you are an Indian you know that. You also know that those numbers are always estimates, but they are not totally off.

I know Indians are proud, very proud, but seen from an outside view the Indian society has a lot of problems. You can deny it, but you can't hide it, there is just too much wrong.

India has a lot of beautiful things to offer. I just hope that not too many people will suffer there.
> Do you refer to Erlang excelling in distributed concurrency, due to how its built to rely on the actor model? Or Erlang also excels in concurrency on a single machine?

Erlang has great concurrency also on a single machine. That is scales well to clusters is of course also good. And yes, it is the actor model that makes it work so well. That the individual processes are written in a (mostly) functional language is less important, I think. It could have been an imperative language and it wouldn't have made much difference, as long as process state was still isolated from other processes.

> Btw, what are some of those other things hampering Haskell's performance with parallel computing? Wouldn't the garbage collector mainly produce pauses instead of really destroying parallel performance?

Haskell's garbage collector is pretty slow when run on multiple cores, and when run on a single core it becomes a bottleneck to parallelism (and can also trash the caches of the other cores). I don't know all the specific technical details of GHCs GC, though.

Another problematic thing is laziness, which is operationally control flow plus side effects. Those are exactly the things that make efficient parallelism difficult.

> Although a concurrent garbage collector has recently been merged to the nightly GHC.

A concurrent GC is a different thing, that interleaves garbage collection with ordinary computation. That can be very useful, but it doesn't help with exploiting more cores.
I could have introduced them to my first ex-wife!
For me the biggest advantage of markdown is that it works just as well without a parser/formatter. Markdown documents are perfectly readable as-is, in plain source form. All the various alternatives mentioned fail at that.
"Documentation" and "writing on the web" _do_ intersect, but neither is a subset of the other. A technical manual is documentation but I'd rather die than write one in Markdown, especially when there are much better systems in place for that such as TeX, DocBook, or hell even MS Word.
Oh boy it's been a while since I've read something I disagree with to this extent!

People use Markdown because you can read it both in its formatted version and in its raw unformatted source. Asciidoc is... not that.

Just looking at the examples it looks like a full templating language: conditionals, includes, blocks... I don't want any of this.

> Actually, I was surprised by the fact that so many people think Markdown is a really powerful tool for documentation.

I don't think Markdown is powerful, unless you're counting "power through simplicity". Markdown's lack of power is a positive: there is a very limited set of things I need to learn in order to use it effectively and someone who knows literally nothing about Markdown can read its source immediately.
what makes it better?
Well that 'confusion' is between developers and there are many other business tools out there with similar names which from the perspective of an average customer, they will still use it and won't care about a name clash with a decades old developer tool used only by software engineers.

For the majority of businesses looking at 'Screen' now, they won't bat an eyelid and will use it along as it 'just works' no matter the name conflict. If they saw GNU Screen they'll just say 'What's that' and forget about it.
So you'd rather be dead than poor?

If you find yourself taking this thought seriously and you're in the US, you can call 1-800-273-8255. Please take care.
This is a very sensitive subject, so I'm hesitant to comment, but...

It sounds like you ultimately support censoring knowledge of the origins of a virus.

E.g., no one without some sort of exemplary privilege should be allowed to know where Ebola originated from, because if they have that knowledge, they will behave in a discriminatory and fearful matter. The general public just can't be trusted with that information because they will react to it inappropriately.

Changing the name adds an extra degree of separation between hearing/reading the name and knowing the origin (you have to perform an additional step to learn the origin, like reading the Wikipedia article), but your intent remains the same.

I am not saying that this mindset is good or bad, right or wrong. I just want to clarify that I am understanding you correctly.
Helicopter money is fine if it exists to prop up the market. And if it vanishes ~30 minutes after we put it in, who gives a toss?

Helicopter money is never acceptable if it is sent directly to households to ensure they keep spending. It's far preferable to allow the machine to seize up without oil.

This contradiction is somehow the bedrock of American fiscal policy.
This sounds more like "sharing" to help make credit decisions more accurately rather than "selling" for a net new revenue stream.

Or did I misunderstand the article.
What do you do when all the polite explanations does is earn you a finger. Not a rhetorical question, wish I knew the answer.

The police is not that well respected by the people and rarely do the cops work for the people at least for their day to day interactions. People see them as rotten institutions there to only to collect bribe and do the bidding of the political party in power. Unless you have some clout even registering a complaint with them like a burglary or theft is a challenge. They would do everything in their capacity to prevent that from happening. Unless the commissioner is your neighbor or a buddy you will have a tough time.

This is harsh on police officers who genuinely want to make a difference, but they are a shrinking breed. Even a driving motivation to become a police officer is for the opportunity to get bribes. Lower level recruitment by the police are a complete sham riddled with corruption. A constable bribes to get the job.

Polite explanation works when there is some mutual respect.
these viewpoints are just so incredibly callous. This naming convention is contributing to real persecution against real people. That's all the justification anyone needs to change. Who cares what the convention used to be?
Look, you've got two choices:

- Keep the warehouses running after cases pop up, as cleanly as possible, with precautious

- Shut down the delivery pipeline and make people go to the supermarket

It's really not complicated. Do you really expect Safeway / Aldi/ Wal-Mart to permanently shut down if a single customer came through with Covid-19? No, that's insane, and would lead to widespread chaos and shortages.

Treat fulfillment centers the same way. It's better than the alternative.
Seriously what the hell is this, can someone please explain? I don't understand why there is this smear campaign against the WHO in which people keep saying this. They do important shit, especially now, and it isn't their freaking job to point blame during an ongoing pandemic: it's their job to stop the problem from getting worse, and as far as I can tell they're doing a pretty good job. And, once it's over, maybe then we can all do the blame game if we need to figure out a root cause and stop it from happening again. Until then, it is completely counterproductive. (This is similar to how WHO doesn't try to extrapolate mortality rates until the dust settles: even if it is by some coincidence accurate, it doesn't tell us anything we need to know right now). This is a community full of software developers - a world where bugs get released into production on a regular basis. We should all understand _at least_ that.
Please do not take HN threads into regional or nationalistic flamewar. That's the last thing we need right now. (It's the last thing we ever need, and right now as well.)
Are there two kinds of coronavirus?
Mixed feeling about this. The NHS should be funded to run some of these services. However, it a good way for people to contribute.

Still worried about a slippery slope - free at the point of need. No relying on extra support. If we need it pay people to do the job.
No: Athletes can't effectively train right now, and the coaches/refs/athletes would all spread the virus among themselves. Japan may or may not be able to deal with that, but who wants to go traveling abroad in the aftermath of a major global pandemic? Athletes also have family, grandparents etc that may be experiencing the virus themselves or the cause of a funeral. How psyched would those athletes be to participate in the games when their granny is being buried back home? Would you enjoy watching half-hearted competition among athletes not at the top of their game?

The fact it took this long to cancel in the face of an obvious global situation is a bit shameful.
They will get closed soon probably. The quarantine has only been introduced today, and before that the life was as usual except for malls/gyms being closed and people working from homes. But everyone expected food and package delivery to work as usual. Now it's kinda another level, plus Polish government uses all opportunities it has to discriminate against global/EU companies in favour of small local businesses, so they will use this one for sure.
XKCD did not at all invent the idea of putting false information on Wikipedia.
What the article doesn't say, is that China too is desperately blaming other countries for the virus; not just the US, but also Italy.
Yeah that aspect ratio change is huge.

Honestly, it's way overdue. The widescreen style laptop has some uses ... but it really is a pain for so many things.
Nadim apears to have ambitions of being appointed Censor of Rome.
> normal people do not need masks

Normal (i.e. non-sick) people don't need masks, this is good advice. As a matter of fact buying masks is actively harmful, because you are depriving people who do need them (the sick and their caregivers).

Source: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prepare/prevention...

(No comment on the rest of the tweets though)
I grew up in Western New York and have watched New York state policies and taxes decimate my home town. Needless to say I'm not a big fan of Cuomo. In a town that used to have oil, manufacturing etc. now the largest employer by far is social services and the jail. These new jobs have not come close to matching the income generated from businesses of the past. Every year when I go back I see the town decay a bit further. To make matters worse, houses that have 1/3rd of the value of my house in Atlanta have much higher yearly taxes and crime has gone up significantly.

I moved south and reduced my overall cost of living while living in a much larger metropolitan area and more opportunity. States that feel it's necessary to stay closed can do so. The high regulation states such as New York can force people to stay closed while others open up further. After this is done, probably more will continue to leave it and other more draconian states for greener pastures.

The fact is that the fed cannot print enough money to sustain a multi month national shutdown and it would decimate the economy and drive the national debt to un-sustainable levels. Right now my employment prospects as a software developer are a lot better than those for restaurant workers, hotel and airline employees etc.. Even with that I'm freaked out about what will happen with my employment prospects if we go into a depression because I would be naive to assume it wont eventually affect me. So I can't imagine the amount of stress and uncertainty many of them are feeling about the economic fallout from a prolonged shutdown.

There are no easy answers here, but there are tough choices to make and both choices suck.
You are right, it is odd (at least I think of it is), people don't really care about the name, though to be fair some people really think it is important, .com is so important, ok it is true for you, but reality is nobody cares, just focus on the product capabilties.
Well, except for the fact that it's Common Lisp. ;)
Somewhat ironic given the likely origin of Spanish Flu.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu
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> And has gone about it so badly that it is effectively choosing both.

This is my fear. We are taking half-measures. So instead of an extreme spike of cases that is short-lived or "flattening the curve", we are instead going to take the middle route of a prolonged stress on our health care system and economy.
You clearly understand I was not referring to people with medical conditions. He doesn't say anything meaningful and definitely does not do it so that people with disabilities can get him. If that was his strategy, he would speak slowly, and not go in circles and confuse everybody, and force his people to publish clarifications after all the confusion he brings us with his TV appearances!
Until we have different data, this is the data we have. I agree that the rate of increase in confirmed cases probably indicates rate of improvement in testing. But we simply don't know that. You cannot make public health decisions based on hope, assumptions or guesses. You can make public health decisions only based on data, and data indicates we haven't peaked yet. In this case, it's devastating that people in power position have guts to say we can continue business as usual in 15 days.
I have never understood why developers think in absolutes and then try to force this absurdity on other people. It feels immature to me and makes me feel like I am in a prison or an insane asylum.

Just use the correct tool for the given task.
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How does one find out if they are an at risk group? Edit> I’m asking. See if I can volunteer to help
Naming virused by places creates incentive to keep things hidden as long as possible - hoping that it will become public in some other place first.
Can't you justify banning drinking (think of the children!), driving (you might run someone over!), or pretty-much anything you like using the same argument?
I only speak for myself and would feel uncomfortable enforcing my values on others. That's why my comment posed this more as an open question and discussion.
https://archive.md/V7wvl
Same, it's pretty difficult to take notes while attempting to rescue someone from a possessed building that looks a bit like a brutalist interpretation of the Globe Theatre, what with having to fight your way through its zombie-like denizens and arguing with a disembodied voice that seems to be controlling the lighting.

I'm not really sure what I'd do differently in a lucid dream anyways, my subconscious seems to have a better imagination than I do. Remembering more details from dreams would be more important for me I guess.
1) will the oil war end in 18 months? (probably, but who knows how things will play out)

2) will demand for oil pick up? there are a lot of business hurting bad now, and lots more shuttering. the work-remote thing is out of the bag, and remote work for office types may just be a thing for here on out.
Please clarify your question...
The US calling it The China Virus et al is in response to Chinese officials blaming the virus on American troops. It's all just politics, not racism.

That said, I'm not sure it's a good discussion to have on this site..
I think 2019-nCoV is an older synonym, and now that the lineage has been established SARS-CoV-2 is preferred (and and -1 got added to the older one that used to just be SARS-CoV)
SARS2 seems to be a rational name
Would it be safer for people who has recovered to volunteer?
Well Swiss have this enshrined even in laws, ie you can't ever buy a gun if you are from: Albania, Algeria, Sri Lanka, Kosovo, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Turkey. Literally this list of countries is in the laws.

If you are from 'eastern EU', you have much, much harder time getting a work/residence permit - immigration laws treat you differently and harsher compared to 'western EU'. And if you are specifically from Romania or Bulgaria, it gets even harder.

But this ain't about European mentality but Amazon's - I guess law is not so enforced there, or could be bent easier than say Germany. There are usually simple reasons for such a behavior, and somewhere in the equation sooner or later its about money.
It’s a global epidemic. The NHS is funded to run all of these services, but not when 1.5 million people have been asked to shield themselves.
The title as submitted appears to be a deliberately misleading exaggeration.

The actual article title is "Apple Card gets updated privacy policy on new data sharing and more transaction detail".
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I hope for a "considered harmful considered harmful" article
If the US had a proper supply of masks, it would certainly be nicer to see them wearing them, though. But you're correct that given how terrible the supply seems to be, it might be the best thing to say.
Weak semantics are a feature not a bug. Flavour standardisation is happening (see https://commonmark.org/). The ability to abuse notation a little to provide extensions is actually rather practical. Things like templating, inline code, slides.
> Paranoia is one of the three essential skills every lawyer should have. The other two are, of course, an aggressive billing department and a cataclysmic ability to out-lie even a politician.

I can understand the billing department. But could someone please explain the other two to me? Or this hyperbole here that I don't pick up?
A lot of small towns in the US have all or largely-volunteer fire departments. Search-and-rescue teams too.
There's also irony in this conspiracy theory that China forced convention to change in order to make themselves look better... But the convention started changing mainly with the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin_Nombre_orthohantavirus

Discovered in 1993 near the Canyon del Muerte on the Navajo Reservation, it was originally named the Muerto Canyon hantavirus, in keeping with the convention for naming new pathogens.[2] However, the Navajo Nation objected to the name in 1994.[3] It was also near the Four Corners point in the United States, so the virologists then tried naming it the "Four Corners virus". The name was changed after local residents raised objections.[4] In frustration, the virologists changed it to Sin Nombre, meaning "without a name" in Spanish.
In this scenario, you can add props/params to override defaults.
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> For example, it feels nice to define margin or padding on a <p> element, but what does that mean - distance between two paragraphs? Between paragraph and heading? Between paragraph and bulleted list? Using spacers seems like the only way out of this madness.

Can you explain what spacers are and why they'd be better for this example? Why not use CSS rules that say e.g. "use 1em spacing between p tags", "adding 2em spacing between h1 tags and p tags"?
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