skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Corona Virus Rumour
Now it's so tough to determine a news rumor or actual. Yesterday some people spread a news that one of my neighbors died due to covid-19. Lastly we got the update that he was suffering for serious heart problem for last 3 months and died for that.

Is there any authentic website which gives us country wise 100% correct data?
Any kinks would be appreciated.
Then your response is a non-sequitor - because your criticism can be levied against both the person endorsing that solution, and the person endorsing the status quo.
I had the same gripes with RST. Then I found Asciidoc(tor) and never looked back. Asciidoc is as easy to learn and use as Markdown and more powerful than RST. Best combined with Antora, Asciidoc's answer to Sphinx.
For the longest time I thought a green username meant you were a hackernews mod, and I kept asking myself why hackernews mods were such trolls.
> they have a plausible reason for discontinuing the use of "inconvenient" paper cash. After all, it's only used for money laundering, drugs, criminals, gambling, and prostitution.

This excuse is already being used against the £50 note:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/bothering...

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48993008
Are you sure that you're less likely to have Covid-19 if you have the flu?
And the lateral side. Even right now, Congress is bickering about a relief bill, stuffing it with unrelated pork while people die.

There is plenty of blame (and some praise, too) to go around.
I think you may have had a Freudian slip ;)
Realizations/Lessons learnt in the times of of Coronavirus(Covid 19)
my life's work is the continuation of von neumann's research on self reproducing machines. I just had a major breakthrough after 15 years and am just free writing a massive series of articles right now

i watched that video briefly and skipped around, it looked like it was based on cellular automata? I have never heard of this specific application, but am aware this type of application is possible for them. Cellular automata were used by John Conway in the game of life, and I have studied this subject pretty deeply and this is a major source of inspiration for what I am doing now
How it works – Event Emitter
One Root Cause of Pandemics Few People Think About
This would be really good for scientific articles. They are usually filled with (important but noisy) details that make skimming them for the important ideas difficult.
How to potentially get involved, mainly from the point of view of "small scale" manufacture or helping with prototyping?

Asking because a friend at one of the Uni's here in Melbourne, Australia is part of the team that looks after the Uni CNC machines (5 axis) and their 3D printers.

The design in the twitter above looks like pretty much exactly what their 5-axis CNC machines can do. And they were already discussing potentially doing something with the 3d printers.

So, might be a good fit to put them in contact with you? :)
> To clean the sponge, they simply washed it in a bucket with water and salt or vinegar.[2] This became a breeding ground for bacteria, causing the spread of disease in the latrine.

Seems like we might not want to switch to that anytime soon.
> So where is the accountability, then?

There isn't any real accountability as far as shareholders being able to hold corporate executives and boards of directors accountable. That is a huge breakage in corporate governance that won't be easily fixed.

> saying that these are people's retirement savings and so structurally should only ever be allowed to go up in value

Who said that?

All I said is that, since the shareholders weren't the ones that made the questionable business decisions, they shouldn't be the ones that are shafted because everyone wants a scapegoat.

> perverse incentives

There are certainly perverse incentives for corporate executives and boards of directors, but they aren't of the form you describe. It's simpler than that: it's just what I said above, that there is no practical way for shareholders to hold them accountable.

> Shareholders benefited massively and accumulated huge rewards from the market leveraging up during the borrow-for-buybacks period

And now they are taking the hit from the market tanking. My 401k is down quite a bit.

> now in a downturn we're throwing our hands up and saying that we can't let those companies face any negative consequences for taking on that risk because nobody was in control?

I'm not saying that. I'm just saying that (a) the shareholders weren't the ones that made the bad decisions, and (b) the shareholders are already taking a hit anyway.

If you really want the government to Do Something, it should fix the perverse incentives that corporate executives and boards of directors face. Having real criminal penalties for breaches of fiduciary responsibility, and stricter rules for what companies that take any investment from retirement funds can do, would be a good start.
Just for readers, do you mean avoiding incompatibility?
Indeed! Kinks still welcome. (was going to make a joke about fat-fingering, butt decided to let it lay).
>or at least a very us-centric view

Exactly. Also the black characters in Asterix were not "black", they were Numidians or Nubians. They were characters with agency like any other, the Mansion of Gods comic is the best example.
> free money

> nightmarish

Okay...
Oh yeah, this data is still in work in progress. It might take a few days for me to complete the full screening/tagging work. Thanks for the feedback.
Enough with this shit.
That's giving in to extortion.
Lets say you have a complicated distributed application that needs to run on multiple cloud providers, and maybe it needs to run on-prem sometimes.

You could write your application multiple times, and publish multiple images for the same application across different infrastructures.

Or, just build your application once to run in containers, and run those containers on k8s everywhere.
Still don't think I have ever connected to LambdaMOO, although I spent some time on ifMUD which is in the same neighborhood.

Reading these docs now, if I understand right, in between LTAND and LTAND2 was the Mr Bungle/Dr. Jest incident ( https://www.villagevoice.com/2005/10/18/a-rape-in-cyberspace... ), which maybe fills in some of the unspoken context around "We Are Reintroducing Wizardly Fiat" and "The wizards will no longer refrain from taking actions that may have social implications. In three and a half years, no adequate mechanism has been found that prevents disruptive players from creating an intolerably hostile working environment for the wizards. The LTAND ideal that we might somehow limit ourselves solely to technical decisions has proven to be untenable.".

I wonder if that's the whole story or if trolls were a huge problem in that community for the early 90s?
That's fair. Good point.
For polio. That's a very different problem.
> Youtube doesn't offer a "no video" option for free because the ToS for the free service says you are not allowed to separate the video and audio streams.

Isn't this backwards? It seems more likely that the TOS follows the business decision here. I believe old versions of the official mobile apps continued to play the video with the phone screen off.
I understand these devices take 2-3 years not reach market. What’s the risk that some of these devices aren’t effective or too overpowering? Is there a test harness that can grade these devices?
Related from last year (just one comment): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20405167

Related from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14075439
Ask HN: How to build a village network if the “actual” internet fails (Covid-19)
We're a small village in rural Scotland. Given the present worldwide crisis with COVID-19, should things get worse where backhaul providers are no longer able to provide a reliable service to the "world wide internet", what would be your (affordable) equipment of choice to build out a local village/area network such that within our community we could still maintain communication.

Now I'm well aware that telco services such as 3/4/5G are not going to be practical things to re-implement, I'm thinking about what we can do over wifi(?).
If only shareholders would think the same way about PG&E and other companies that could use infrastructure upgrades ...
It’s very likely the majority use the currency their government pays them in and requires citizens to pay taxes with. Alternate currencies will always exist, governed by the needs of market participants.
Can I disinfect other things like mail or a cardboard box with a UV light?

Alternatively, would leaving things under the sun have a similar effect and, if so, how long would it take?
Your phone might be saving you some battery; there is a sensor to detect when your face is close to the phone, turning off the screen and disabling touch. Not sure if it actually works when it's in your pocket though. There's a serious "light in the refrigerator" problem, where trying to measure it changes the outcome
GitHub stars – Star trend data comparison for GitHub repositories
Well, there's a fourth dimension, time, and the number of _______ will vary over time in each geo______
The US has become engineering/design while manufacturing is overseas. Broad stereotype, but I hope this is an opportunity for the US to recognize that manufacturing may actually be an issue of national sovereignty.
I have a blank spacer component for react-native https://github.com/DaniAkash/react-native-blank-spacer. I have been using this to eliminate margins in my existing projects
Oh, we are all going to pay for this crisis, one way of the other.

If burning everything to the ground because pausing the economy is somehow unimaginable, then a lot more people will be unemployed, a lot more businesses will go bankrupt, and to restart the economy a couple of months from now, a lot of tax money will have been spent in unemployment benefits, food stamps, and various stimulus packages and bailouts. That's my tax money being spent, given that I'm keeping my job and my salary.

If a pause means it takes less tax money to get the economy up and running again, to get everyone back on their feet, back in jobs, back to paying rent, back to getting salaries, then that's a good thing for me as well, even though it's "unfair" and "collectivist" and "socialist".

Now, I'm not saying a pause is the best solution I'm not an economist, I have no idea. I'm saying it's a solution, and you shouldn't dismiss it on reflex just because it's a collectivist solution.
Has anyone had good luck getting Swift running on Linux? Many versions ago, I had it working under Ubuntu, and it seemed really nice. I particularly liked having a REPL for this style of language.

However since then, I've had very limited success under Ubuntu, CentOS, and Arch. Different failures on each. Every few releases or so I give it a go, but something always fails and I go back to working on some other pet project.
It took me a few passes to realize you were not just being comically excited and typing in all caps, but rather, everything you typed is rather pedantically and accurately capitalized.
For another data point, in Mexico it's down to 119 MXN (4.80 USD) per month.
What about ozone? I've been thinking of putting them in a box and ozonating them.
Dlang is a better C. DMD, the reference compiler for Dlang, can also compile and link with C programs. It can even compile and link with C++03 programs.

It has manual memory management as well as garbage collection. You could call it hybrid memory management. You can manually delete GC objects, as well as allocate GC objects into manually allocated memory.

The Zig website says "The reference implementation uses LLVM as a backend for state of the art optimizations." However, LLVM is consistently 5% worse than the GCC toolchain at performance across multiple benchmarks. In contrast, GCC 9 and 10 officially support Dlang.

Help us update the GCC D compiler frontend to the latest DMD.

Help us merge the direct-interface-to-C++ into LLVM D Compiler main. https://github.com/Syniurge/Calypso

Help us port the standard library to WASM.
On Windows ALT+248 (on keypad) makes a degree symbol: °

IMO it looks better than the single glyph. (°C °F vs ℃ ℉)
Is there a good reference on how to calculate the time based on the wattage W and distance of the bulb D?
> everything that is not compiled.

Agreed. I see fixes like this in bashible that would have never happened in a compiled language with static types:

https://github.com/mig1984/bashible/commit/63fcc766d0244a6fb...
I would expect the end game of this would be advertising networks injecting content directly into the page as it's rendered on the webserver. If they want tracking, at some point they'll just ask companies to hand over their logs…
No one has 100% correct data, no test battery is 100% specific or accurate, and no area is 100% tested.
Born in the early 90s and I don't touch type properly either despite being a full time software developer. Learned my own technique and probably do like 80-90 wpm - I'm sure I could be faster if I tried to learn proper form but it doesn't seem necessary yet.
The authors of that article specially mentioned their work on the princess would get badly reported - and it was. There was no live cornovirus found. Their were traces of RNA (ie, after the virus was killed some of its body parts lying around).
In Sydney, most of the suburbs south of the harbour are directly below flight paths. Most residents are used to hearing frequent loud aeroplane noises.

Thanks to the grounding of flights, this doesn't happen any more.
There are many ways to draw people, and Uderzo had theirs.
Asterix is short, has a big nose and promotes drugs abuse, Obelix is dumb and will hurt the feelings of fat people, he eats wild boars and vegan children could feel unconfortable or pick up dangerous ideas reading this comics. Ideafix chase cats in a flagrant case of animal cruelty...

Is just a parody. Please calm yourself.

I'm really tired of this dark soup of neopuritanism, SJW and porcelain people. By the way, who are you to tell me how I must to draw an human figure?. Has returned Maoism or Degenerate art? Do you know what other artists create images depicting black people with big lips and different types of hair ornaments? All african artists.

If you don't like the comics, just don't read it. The solution is really simple.
The kiwix Wikipedia-en full scrape with images has been broken for over 18 months, I think they could use some technical help. I tried running their scraper myself on a nice AWS instance and it just stalls after many days of downloading articles. Could probably use a rewrite. ;)

https://sourceforge.net/p/kiwix/discussion/604121/thread/1f2...

https://github.com/openzim/mwoffliner/issues/1020

https://github.com/openzim/mwoffliner
The NBA was moving towards crowdless games and as soon as single player got sick they shut it down. Which was later followed by NCAA and a bunch of other major sports leagues.

Technically the first major sports player in a similar league was a soccer player in Europe, but it took a (European) player in America for it to really take hold.
Fighting Covid-19 misinformation on social media
"Don't spend much time on making your code look nice"...

Well, thanks a lot. You just made your code much harder to read, improve, change and check for correctness. This is actually a self-contradiction. If the code changes often, then its even more important to make it "look nice".
This is something that beginner programmers don't get on several levels:
Nice code

* can be reviewed more quickly (broadcasting effect)

* can be checked for correctness much more easily

* is pleasant to work with

* can be changed more easily

* can often even compiled into more efficient machine code

The reason why beginners (and this is not about time invested! Many programmers still are beginners after 30 years in the field) think code doesn't need to look nice is mostly because

1. They don't consider that most of the cost of code comes from maintenance. Writing it is really A FRACTION of the time people will spend with your code over time.

2. They don't consider that creating bugs is one of the most expensive parts of software development.

3. They don't consider that code is read far more often than it is being written.

4. They are simply not ABLE to produce good code and doing so would take them a lot of time.

Now giving the advice to not focus on good/nice code is a recipe for staying a beginner for the rest of your life and making every project your work on a nightmare for everyone else involved.
congratulations you write horrible software
Is it really that surprising, since all the photos are available on public sites? It seems this tool reveals the same a Google search for the name would reveal.
Downvotes! Yep, this is exactly why we have crappy infrastructure.
Oh, man...reminds me of the IBM BladeCenters. Maybe they had 2 fan settings...90% and 100% of a 737 at takeoff. They had an extra cost "office kit" that included baffles and other mods to (hahahahaha) quiet them down enough for an office environment. Maybe knocked it down from a 737 to a Gulfstream G4. Nice kit if buried in a datacenter someplace.
I don't believe GP means at Archive.org. But there are a number of companies letting people go.
Can DMD compile C programs though? That's what "zig cc" does, and it's so much easier to get up-and-running than any crossdev setup I've used before.
I'd like to know more information about this. Some sources really do refer to viral shedding as a source of contagion, others refer to it as simply reducing viral load (getting well).
What kind of hospital doesn't have half a dozen autoclaves?
I think it was more a case that the timings of this were before the pandemic had spread widely outside of China and the lockdown outside of Hubei was much softer than inside.

But the locals were more individually prepared to comply with guidelines
How old is the software and what's the change that needed.
If the software is past it's ROI and changes are happening due to scope creep then days of refactoring isn't refactoring it's just days of dev work against new requirements. It's just happening on an old product.

Management may be willing to spend that time and not be unhappy with what you perceive as time wasted because they have seen greater than expected ROI on the product already so it's not a loss to them.
Iranian Scientist Shares His Views from Outside Iran
Upvoted as one of the most HN comments I’ve ever seen.
"It's not being more productive, it just seems that you're getting things done faster because you're taking out a loan on the quality of your software (i.e. technical debt) with every line you write." This. When someone does this in a hurry or because they didn't know better, it's understandable. But when someone thinks that this style of working is superior, that's a huge problem.
Lazyhub: ⭐️Terminal UI Client for GitHub
I've always wondered what role downturns play in stirring up innovation. If the goal of our monetary policy is always to minimize any sort of downturn, especially one that props up all pet entrenched businesses/industry, will we always lose out in the long run?

It seems humans are at their best when faced with adversity, which is why being new, raw, and unproven always helps create the best, even in media like music and films. The second wave of good stuff usually comes when an artist again feels 'disrespected' or has some inhuman innate drive to always be better and reach new heights.

I'm coming around to the idea that in downturns we should be protecting people, not businesses. Businesses will naturally have a safety net if their employees and founders have a safety net in their own lives.
If you reported their email you probably passed the test anyways
>Then teach people to behave like adults, don't gaslight the rest of us by forcing racism into a reasonable and inoffensive scientific term.

Unreasonable expectation unfortunately.

No one is suggesting that the origin or mistakes made be covered up or denied. Simply stating that rather than stroking the flames with those that would use this name as a rallying call to act poorly (internment of Japanese Americans) save the finger pointing, the highlighting of responsibility etc until it over and let history sort it out.

Creating an environment of distrust of innocents helps no one right now.
What is the physical size of your village and distance between homes? You may need to go up a bit to some kind of PTP wireless or line of sight system if we're talking "everyone house has acres".
This guy's name is Tom Smith. Go ahead and pop that into Google and let me know how that turns out.

His name is about as generic as you could imagine for a white person. But they returned a bunch of images of HIM, and one Alexey Something-or-other, which could be his troll account.

Edit: the Alexey part is a joke, I'm sorry but I thought it was funny.
Unbelievable stuffy I keep reading on ventilators. Just unbelievable. If you want to kill people by the thousands, please continue. The good news is no medical professional in their right mind would use one of the hot messes so many are "inventing". Parts from Home Depot? Really?

These are life critical systems designed with serious fault tolerance in mind. Home Depot parts, randomly sourced solenoids, valves and fucking Arduino's? Has everyone gone insane?

Here, go read the Wikipedia page on ventilators:

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

Let me highlight a few sections. Like this one:

"Because failure may result in death, mechanical ventilation systems are classified as life-critical systems, and precautions must be taken to ensure that they are highly reliable, including their power-supply."

"Mechanical ventilators are therefore carefully designed so that no single point of failure can endanger the patient. They may have manual backup mechanisms to enable hand-driven respiration in the absence of power (such as the mechanical ventilator integrated into an anaesthetic machine). They may also have safety valves, which open to atmosphere in the absence of power to act as an anti-suffocation valve for spontaneous breathing of the patient. Some systems are also equipped with compressed-gas tanks, air compressors or backup batteries to provide ventilation in case of power failure or defective gas supplies, and methods to operate or call for help if their mechanisms or software fail."

I mean, seriously, read that again right now. If you have zero experience in fault-tolerant design of electronics, mechanics, pneumatic, hydraulic and software systems, please recognize the dangers of the Dunning-Kruger effect and stop.

If that wasn't enough, there's this:

"In Canada and the United States, respiratory therapists are responsible for tuning these settings, while biomedical technologists are responsible for the maintenance. In the United Kingdom and Europe the management of the patient's interaction with the ventilator is done by critical care nurses."

In case the point isn't obvious, what this means is that certified professionals have to operate these devices. They are not going to get anywhere close to a pile of parts from Home Depot and the local auto repair shop. They are trained to operate reasonably standardized equipment and expect form, function and reliability that comes with time-tested, certified and well proven professionally manufactured equipment.

Want to build something to help? Maybe figure out how to make hospital beds. My guess is there's far less likelihood of killing people with a frame and a matress than with a pile of Home Depot parts and an Arduino pretending to be a ventilator.

Why are these posts even permitted on HN? This is unproductive dangerous quackery. Nobody is going to invent anything useful. Go help existing companies stamp out more units of their designs. I'm sure they can use the help.
Wonder whether one can include this in iOS ...
Pooling to multiply Coronavirus testing throughput
I mean, everyone is already isolated. You want to remove a few people showing their faces? It’s currently the only few minutes of face to face contact a lot of us have.