skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool, Google created a cloud-native solution for people who want to create games for Google Stadia. You can buy into the ecosystem, built on top of Kubernetes - the system recommended for large scale projects and teams with hundreds of servers (but not more then ~5,000). An ecosystem most knowledgeable SREs will recommend your team not use unless you are able to do a relatively large amount of due diligence and have dedicated staff who are domain experts for kubernetes. For Google Stadia. Which is pivoting into really pushing for exclusive titles, and was the driving force for some studios removing their games from Geforce Now, because unlike Google Stadia Geforce Now allows you to bring your own games which you already own and avoid re-buying the same game twice.

Google is trying to get a juicy bite of the games industry by building a walled garden around exclusive titles and proprietary cloud setups. Microsoft and Sony have used the same tactics (particularly exclusive titles). The chief argument is access, the idea that more people can now game who previously couldn't, but I don't buy it.
Actually, almost all of the networking stack is moving out of the kernel with Skywalk.
The press in Japan is relatively free and I find it hard to imagine that Japan could effectively hide outbreaks on the scale of northern Italy. In the country's urban setting this would surely wreak mayhem that would be visible.

Yesterday people here discussed John Ioannidis article and he stressed that hygiene and isolation of the sick are significantly more proven to fight respiratory disease than social distancing and lockdowns. Japan may be a case that this is true given a strong culture of cleanliness and lack of close physical contact in particular between family members. Together with the excellent healthcare system and pneumonia treatment in the country this may be protecting vulnerable patients.
I guess Filecoin is also getting rekt by this decision.
No, but it offers a stark comparison of the actions taken by "leader" of the "free world" vs countries like South Korea and Taiwan who managed to control the outbreak.

The United States is supposed to be the most prepared country to deal with a pandemic like this, yet the administration failed at its duty to protect its citizens and economy, even with ample warning from the world's best medical experts and intelligence agencies.

If America is struggling to contain this, how are impoverished countries supposed to?
I really enjoyed this article and agree with other replies about the content.

Additionally it's the first time I think I've seen a styled scrollbar that fit into a site (ie: wasn't a demo of styling a scrollbar) since Angelfire/Geocities/etc -- I know it's been a long time because I actually checked the source and realized I didn't even remember the CSS names, just doing it in IE!
When you need more than the existing manufacturers can produce, and the alternative (Italy) is to let them die in a hallway, then you might be willing to try anything. If it was my life I’d prefer the Dyson over nothing.
Far UVC light (207–222 nm) deactivates pathogens without damage to skin and eye cells.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-21058-w
1.1.1.1 does have a domain name (and of course is operated by Cloudflare) but it doesn't redirect you or anything, it's totally happy to advertise itself as https://1.1.1.1/ which seems more memorable than most possible names.
Totally agreed. Can't get my hands in and out of them without brushing the sides. It's not easy to take something terrible (a hand dryer) and make it worse.

Since this pandemic, I've just stopped using them altogether.
Compiling to C source isn't planned for the reference Zig compiler, as far as I know. It's more interested in helping people moving people off of C (see `zig translate-c`).

But for supporting more esoteric targets you might be interested in the goals of this ultra-early-stage assembler. ("Planned targets: All of them.")

https://github.com/andrewrk/zasm
Oracle Providing White House with Software to Study Unproven Coronavirus Drugs
We only use video when needed.

It is not needed very often.
> Why not sell to non-enterprise as well?

Agreed. Youtube and podcast ads skipping comes to mind.
In this particular case, though, that is irrelevant. This set is strictly of the same cardinality as the rationals.
Leave it in a garage or somewhere for a 2-3 more days if you don't want to use a chemical wipe. If it's sunny and doesn't rain and you don't have theft problems, leave it outside for a day or two.

If you are in the US, I would be more concerned on whether your delivery route driver is infected rather than China.

edit: If anything, wipe the keyboard and trackpad, you don't need to touch the screen
Do you have any examples where MDX is better than regular Markdown? I don't think I like the idea of needing a JS engine + browser to read documentation.
"it's not totally different from the situation where the government wants to build a train track through where your house currently sits."

It's not at all similar to eminent domain.

A better parallel would be the military 'draft'.

Does the US government pay soldiers enough to truly consider the violence they will face? What would the 'going market rate' be for soldiers in such a situation?

And yet somehow people do it for relatively low pay?

I wonder why?

Hmmm ... maybe because there's something more than 'private property' at stake?

This is not a situation wherein government action to ostensibly benefit the many, causes minor economic injury to a few or even one.

This is a situation wherein the entire game is up for grabs, there are lives at stake, and everyone is 'all in'.
It is a consequence, but it is a consequence of both employment and volunteering.
Someone has to pull the short straw.

If I put a plastic egg in your nest, does that by natural law make me the owner of your eggs?
Noooooooooo. I wouldn't be the first one to call out the timelessness of Uderzo (and Goscinny's) work. My favorite was his trolling of Herge (Thomson twins in Asterix in Belgium)!!!
> b) if it doesn't act, I guess you'd like to claim damages for that family member that got killed by corona because the goverent allowed the epidemic to get out of control?

No. The government has no real control over the epidemic.

In some ways, this is the trolley problem. There is a trolley (COVID-19) heading towards a group of people (the general population), and the government can pull a lever to switch the track to a smaller group of persons (the industries impacted by COVID). Make no mistake about it, some people will die if the government simply ordered people to stay home (i.e., pulls the lever). Some will die due to suicide because of mental illness or because they lost their job. Some will die because they don't have the social support they're used to. Either way, there will certainly be deaths caused if the government did nothing else and just pulled the lever (i.e., ordered people to stay home and business to shut down)

Nevertheless, the government has currently chosen to pull the lever to redirect the trolley towards this group of people. Because it has done so, it now owes those people restitution to mitigate the impacts of the government's decision. This is what a stimulus bill is.

If the government did nothing, it wouldn't owe anyone anything. This is not such a crazy belief. Many major moral philosophies claim that by pulling the lever, you gain responsibility for the outcome, whereas by doing nothing, you are not responsible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
Just to clarify, this would only be a problem if the user had network extensions installed (and potentially lots of them, depending on implementation)? It could have negligible impact if the video editing workstation didn't have these installed, if I'm reading this right?
Or https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/0...

Maybe get a fact check on that?
Yeah, for me the inflection point was NOAA and hurricane Dorian. Only so many people can put their careers on the line before something breaks in an organization.
Fed “digital dollars” are part of debate over coronavirus stimulus
It is to fundamentally misunderstand the notion of what a landlord is when you consider someone who is simultaneously a tenant.
You cannot charge yourself to rent space you own.
They may occupy a space in the building but that does not make them a tenant. A tenant is someone who rents precisely because they do not own the space
It's one thing where a business is using data you provide them to make better decisions, just like a store would use sales numbers to decide how much of an item they should stock up.

The problem here is when data is collected by third-parties I do not know, do not trust, and do not need. They collect data for their benefit without providing me anything of value, only ads aka spam.

Online ads are also nothing like print or TV ads. The latter has a barrier to entry and some minimum criteria they must meet like the laws on what's allowed to be broadcasted and they are at the discretion of the publisher. This makes it less likely that a scam or malware would be promoted for example. Online? It's the Wild West, anyone can advertise anything (fake tech support numbers for example) for a few hundred bucks and targeting means they can make sure only the people most likely to fall for the scam would see the ad, while flying under the radar of anyone savvy enough to recognise it as a scam and report it.
^^yep^^ they are almost completely built and packed by robotics
Chinese Drs Think Europe Is Making the Same Mistakes They First Made in Wuhan
Did the recent money-market bailout fall under the Fed's remit? Yes, the mechanism was different, but they were basically acting like the FDIC in that they were rescuing household savings.
It’s actual videos on the Ring camera’s “social” network. 8 vids in the last 10 days. Not sure if it’s the same pack of coyotes or not.

I assumed it was more food waste in garbage cans since everyone is at home.
> Dyson said it had been working with The Technology Partnership, a medical company based in Cambridge, to develop a "meaningful and timely response".

Maybe a new design can be built faster if it’s from the ground up. This can happen concurrently with ramping up existing manufacturing of vents.
Also, since OS X's full name was always still "Mac OS X", "Mac OS" correctly refers to every iteration of the operating system.
The largest privately owned giant sequoia forest is now protected
I'm curious: why does a blog and review site have or need a 220-230 person workforce?
Dyson makes a $1500 integrated faucet that incorporates a hand-dryer.

https://www.dyson.com/hand-dryers/dyson-airblade-wash-dry-ov...

Somehow none of the geniuses in the design world have criticised that the 331mph Air Blade dryer, when pointed at a concave surface, i.e. the sink, would spit things right back in the opposite direction.

I've used this faucet/dryer while transiting through Reykjavik and you can see the remaining soap lather blown from the sink drain up over the counter and onto my shirt (and everywhere else).

It's an expensively flawed idea.
TWiS: Vincent Woo Reflects on His Piece, “Lambda School's Misleading Promises”
Um, I've not been watching the WHO that closely, but didn't they state clearly their definition of a pandemic, and say [not a direct quote] "it's not yet a pandemic but might well become one", and then when it did pass their definition they called it a pandemic.

Seems reasonable, forthright, and scientific.

What did you want instead? Every epidemic to be called a pandemic?
For that to happen there needs to be strong leadership from the top incentivizing standing down behavior with subsidies, not winner take all rock em sock em race to tragedy of the commons
Possibly many did but the ones that didn't went to the press. The press is always on the lookout for stories that either demonstrate some new societal trend or generate outrage, and this is both. All it takes is a couple of disputes between major brand names and their landlords and they have a story.
Real estate is next to fall. The bailout will need to be like 10 trillion there. Too much leverage out there on a useless resource (congested land) in a world of remote knowledge work and people scared of physical contact due to ubiquitous viruses. Let all the leverage / bags go to the fed and let it slowly deleverage itself over 10 years.
Yes emerging victorious. Tremendous victory against the virus and money printing as bonus!
Clearly every single rational number is "useful", plus others that are not rational
What you're seeing in his messaging now is called "anchoring". It's a common negotiating tactic, literally the oldest trick in the book, which he uses literally in every single case, nearly always successfully. It baffles me that he's been using it for years and people still don't recognize it and think he's just doing this at random.

We know the US is a big country, and not all of it is affected equally. Epidemiologically it'll likely behave like 50 smaller countries. We also know that if Trump tried to re-open just those parts of the country where per capita infection rates are very low, public would howl.

So what he's doing is proposing a big, unacceptable offer, to then tone it down shortly before the final decision is announced. That way you will all exhale and accept it more easily. So if NY gets much worse, it'll stay shut down. If it levels out, it'll be partially re-opened. If a miracle happens and clinical trials currently underway show efficacy in some drugs, things will be able to be re-opened much further. WA has already leveled off. CA is leveling off as we speak. In other places there's not enough testing to make any conclusions, something that will change this week.

You will see this play out exactly as I described it over the next 2 weeks. Bet on it.
You can do that in clang/gcc but you need to pass: -static and -static-plt(? I can't find what it's called). The second option is to ensure it's loader-independent, otherwise you get problems when compiling and running across musl/glibc platforms
In times of crisis, folks are going to argue any actions the Fed takes are within their remit [1] (accepting equity securities as collateral for short term cash through a primary dealer facility?). The vast majority of households do not use a money market fund; their savings are in FDIC deposit accounts or credit unions.

If you want government insurance, use a government insured account, or let’s do away with the idea that some types of assets will be allowed to fail; the Fed will simply step in and backstop the entire economy with “unlimited support”.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/mone...
I've found the ability to produce something quickly is almost orthogonal to being a "good programmer" (unless you define goodness that way.) Some are good quick-and-dirty implementers, some are deep design thinkers, some are just good at reviewing and giving advice.
author here! very interested to find out if anyone has any comments or questions or objections. going to start writing the next article shortly
> Ultimately, at the end of the day it's the citizens who need the money.

Well yeah, citizens also own American companies, so they need the money lost due to their companies (which is their property) not operating. They should be compensated for the loss of enjoyment of their personal property.

> The easiest way to fairly divide money among people is to divide it evenly.

Sure, but that's not fair at all.

> It doesn't matter if they are rich or not.

Well, yeah their wealth doesn't matter, but their income does. Someone making more money and now not making any money due to government intervention is actually owed more than the guy making less money.

> I say give whatever money you were going to give to businesses and give it to the people instead. Don't rely on trickle down.

No, you need to give money to both. People own businesses. If their business is not making money, then that is their money that the government must compensate. Even the largest businesses are owned by people. If some company had a dividend scheduled and is now not doing that due to losses incurred by government activity, the government must pay it.
> resize the video stream to 1 pixel and use any of the device LEDs to "display" the video thus bypassing this part of the ToS

Hilarious hack, love this idea
Do you consider property tax to be 'rent'? Because a large percent of rent is getting funneled right back into property tax, which isn't (yet) adjusted down.

(to be clear, I'm fine with a lot of rent deferment / freezing, but I do think there needs to be equivalent property tax forgiveness for at least retail space)
Why would they?

They're not going to have to re-issue shares at a lower price; they're going to get bailed out by the taxpayers.

The conditions for government money should be:

1. All current debt is converted into shares, erasing payback preferences and on-going payments to creditors.

2. Companies must issue new shares as collateral to the government at current market rate, in exchange for the money.

3. Rather than repayment, the government will sell the shares on the open market in years 2-6 (a 5 year window).

4. All share buybacks at the company are banned for a period of 10 years.

It's okay to nationally support critical businesses, but make the shareholders take it in the wallet for their reckless business practices leading up to this.

They took a gamble by buying shares instead of saving -- let them take the hit for losing.
The problem is many REITs don’t care. They are so large and so far removed from any one property that they would rather it sit empty for years than lower prices and have that affect the market rate and pull their portfolios average price per square foot down.
This isn't true.

The vast majority of failing businesses right now had no special access to government programs.

In fact, the larger organizations will probably do just fine, and they were far more likely to lever previous bailouts and cheap financing.

The people getting nailed right now are individual contractors, individual employees, small business owners.

And yes, it's totally unfair that Boeing will probably get a big fat government bailout.
What is the collective resolution? I'm assuming it's either everyone gets free rent, or nobody does, and I'm not sure which is being implied here.
Mammal study explains 'why females live longer'
> The United States is supposed to be the most prepared country to deal with a pandemic like this

Based on what? For years - long before the current administration - health experts in the US have been talking about how unprepared the US is for a pandemic. So where did you get this idea?
I don't know if this has been asked before but: Why does so much of the world use toilet paper?

Especially given the cost in manufacturing, the cost of buying it, and the dependence that comes on using a product that may go out of stock.

Obviously I'm a bidet person, but I'm just trying to build a better understanding.
I heard on a major news outlet, "...why are private companies such as Tesla and Elon Musk able to provide ventilators faster than the US government?"

This should be obvious, private companies don't have red-tape, private companies for the most part have better talent, and private companies work at a much higher throughput and level of efficiency. I've stated all along the solutions to this crisis are going to come from US companies for the most part, not from government (excluding capital stimulus). For this reason, we should all be supporting a fiscal package that stimulates business and corporations to get out of this.
IFR early estimates from Wuhan are at 0.04-0.12%:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.12.20022434v...
The economy is effectively frozen. But you have to distinguish the production process from the monetary, contractual and ownership relations that normally control the production process. We can continue to produce necessary, essential good during this crisis and let the rest of the economy stay frozen 'till the end of this mess.

The situation should be the equivalent of a war or a different natural disaster. Essentially, the processes of finance will need to just stop for a while and then be restarted in a reasonably orderly fashion.

I'm not even sure what everyone howling for immediate and potentially restart of the American economy is even thinking, obviously they aren't thinking much. The economy previous are essentially on life-supports but life supports for the only the rich. Now we basically need literal and metaphorical life supports for everyone but once the situation is stabilized, the negotiations begin.

Just think, a robust restart of the economy would be far easier once an entity to deal with the virus is constituted and can act effectively.

The US economy has recovered from war and terrorist attacks quite well (better than a lot of times). The government directed the lions share of production during WWII and things turned out fine. Come on folks.
If you want simple tables just use csv

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include::customers.csv[]
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For POSIX, you can use the standard library:

std.os.chmod

std.os.fcntl

Better yet, use the higher level cross platform abstractions. For example instead of fork/join,

std.Thread.create

std.Thread.wait

These will work in Windows as well as POSIX.
I was thinking the same thing about the densely-populated Gaza Strip. They're already severely lacking in medical needs.
Textual data and exchanges are often self-describing. They're easier to debug and monitor visually. Try debugging or reverse-engineering binary exchange with some obscure proprietary protocol to see why this matters.

In the end it is more about human convenience on the highest levels of OSI and less about transfer efficiency.
People keep repeating this idea that there's no basis for guessing the denominator of the CFR. This is silly.

The denominator of CFR is the number of people positively identified as having the disease. This isn't something that needs guessing.

The problem is that the general population doesn't understand that you can't project from a CFR at one instant in time to the actual fatality rate in the population.

But there's no need to criticize epidemiological terms of art just because people don't understand them and/or misuse them.
There is lots of plugin support for markdown that the article doesn’t consider. I actually wrote some documentation in markdown that used a plug-in to embed markdown generated flow charts and then exported to PDF to create portable documentation. The article makes decent points but there’s no wrong or right answer it’s situational.
Ford partners with 3M, GE to make respirators, ventilators and face shields
Obligatory, think-about-the-children. You make solid points, but so does the parent. ISPs have the capacity.
It's easier to stockpile billions of dollars when you have no idea what to do with it. The typical business does not have this luxury. Some tech companies are worth more than some country's GDPs. This advice is analogous to a billionaire telling a minimum wage employee to save more.
Wayback Machine was down
you are right that most companies should have a rainy day fund, but tech companies like Apple are way way way past a rainy day fund. Apple is sitting on US treasury department level money.
Google suspends new Reviews due to Coronavirus
Very well. Point two, on a link proffered by someone else earlier:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/feb/28/michael-bl...

Now, Trump can claim he INCREASED CDC's budget..because it's true.
How does this differ from stanfordnlp (the previous version)? Is this simply a rebranding of stanfordnlp?
The child rescue submarine was not used for the rescue, but it wasn't a bad thing that it could have served as a backup plan.

Elon Musk's comments were unforgivable, though.
It is true. If you do have a high-margin business, eventually other people will notice and start to compete which will bring the margins down.