skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To many developers, what the software does is several orders of magnitude more important than how it looks.

There are certainly cases where visual design is much more critical to what you're building, but there are plenty where it's little more than an annoying distraction.
... or send farmers to fight in wars, the result will be the same.

Army would not make good farmers for many reasons. Too different goals and sensibilities.
This is a fundamental question we are being and will be forced to answer more directly:

Are we willing to trust our collective empathy or do we need the social contract to fill in the gaps for collective protection from this harm?

I believe many will benefit from empathy, but it will be disproportionate and many communities who will need it the most will not receive it.
At that point is probably not the art that you love, but knowing that you can get a way with stealing a master piece. More like a trophy.
It is cheaper to hire someone like that than a really good manager. Also if you hire a lot of managers like this you end up with an organization of hundreds who are running around looking busy.
> Making these bash scripts is fun and having your own deploy stack is neat, but having a standard and not having to worry about the tools that you’re using is a luxury I wanted to have for Quest Vault.

I'll admit that I don't know a lot about Kubernetes but I'm pretty sure it is the opposite of a tool that you don't have to worry about. On the contrary I'm pretty sure it's designed for situations where worrying about your infrastructure is part of your core business.

For a couple of "normal" websites you'll be burning a lot of hours on something you already have working with a couple of bash scripts.
I don't think anyone has said "it's only travellers".

But yes, they absolutely present the biggest risk. Until March 23 (I think? Something like that) every single local transmission in Australia had been traced back to a traveller or a connection to one.

The OP said "The stats reflect the testing criteria, not the true distribution here" and my argument is that actually the stats are probably pretty accurate and given how well tracing has worked and the limits on the number of tests available the criteria was pretty reasonable.
If you're not stupid this is clearly to avoid people hoarding on masks which the hospitals are in dire need of.
The CDC and WHO leadership is a joke. They've failed to take a divisive stand for public safety and have caved to the demands of politicians.

I don't think they'll earn back respect for at least a generation. People won't forget this.
> The Tangzhong roux technique was developed in Asia around 2000. The technique was first mentioned by Yvonne Chen in her book, “Bread Doctor”, published in Taiwan in about 2003. Tangzhong means "soup" in Chinese.

From http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/39723/my-tangzhong-roux-faq

I have no idea whether that's true, but if it did originate in Taiwan it would make the language issue make more sense.
Everyone should wear a mask.

Thought experiment: Take a small sip of beet juice and then simulate a sneeze or a cough while standing several feet in front of your clean white wall. Next, take another sip, wrap a handkerchief around your face and then sneeze / cough / spit. See how far that "virus juice" flies when you wear a mask?

If everyone wore a mask, then all the people who are sick are effectively increasing their social distance from the healthy people. Even if the sick person walks within 6 feet of you, their effective social distance might be greater than 6 feet if they are wearing a bandana, t-shirt, surgical mask, etc.

Wearing a face mask works on a population scale. Everyone should be wearing a mask.
What N64 had multicore?

>> traditionally

> anymore

> does everything on one thread

Multithreading is useful for concurrent programming separately from its value in parallel programming.
But those people also have bills to pay and so on down the line. Without some kind of debt jubilee, we’re going to be paying the consequences of this one way or the other.
A few questions I'd like to see answered

1) who is the proposal for? What type of proposal is this ideal for?

My initial thinking was a client proposal like for a marketing agency, but then I figured they can probably need to WOW the customer more than this proposal doc would.

2) Why not just use SquareSpace, Wix, or other html page builder? What benefit do they have in using this?

Somebody else in a similar space is Qwilr.com, have you seen them?

I think you're probably on to something, but I'm not completely getting it. Congrats on the launch!
the "95" part of N95 means it filters 95% of particles smaller than 0.3 microns. A sieve that can filter 95% of rice particles doesn't make a N95 mask either.
And yet stocks have rebounded 20% since Monday lows last week.
> 10's/100's/1000's of nodes all hitting refresh on twitter

That's not going to happen with Lora. This it completely different scale of messaging. Your message is limited in bytes and takes multiple seconds to transmit. You can assume the messages will be significantly delayed if 100 people around are actively using it.

But it's designed for a specific purpose and there's no active refreshing/polling that's going to happen.
For us, this was the catalyst that really got us to stick to "no eating out, no takeout, and eat leftovers". We've been trying to do this for months with spotty success. But this has forced our hand.

I've really noticed it in our trash and recycling bins. They've been half full on garbage day since the quarantine. Usually we have more than we can put in them. I'm hoping this behavior sticks for us, but I kind of doubt it.
The goal is to become like Christ. To heal the sick, fight for righteousness, proclaim mercy, and sacrifice oneself for others even to the point of death.

I recommend going and reading what Jesus actually said, not what pop culture equates to Christianity.
While this is perfectly good advice, people who advocate universal mask wearing are more focused on reducing spread _from_ the infected.
I mean they explicitly stated that it's preliminary.
That's why you should support rent strikes and the temporary shutting down of evictions and removal of utilities being cut off

Those people out of work are significantly less in trouble if they don't have to pay rent

Landlords are in significantly less trouble if they don't have to pay their mortgages.

That's all you have to do to help out Americans out of work (along with unemployment)

The stimulus bill along with local and state government's are already doing most of this...
> It would be horrible if their solvency and future relied on the outcome of the inevitable lawsuits to follow

I wonder if the wheels are already coming off. Otherwise it seems a bit excessive for IA to suddenly bet the whole house on this.
You beat me to it. Regardless of how much you believe arguments from authority, The WHO has lost its place as an authority after their recent actions.
For hardware companies there is a _vast_ amount of work which cannot be done under these circumstances.

A lot of people here are sounding off on Apple's reluctance to enable remote working (reasonably enough), but the fact is that a large amount of the work Apple does is reliant on 1) sophisticated engineering and manufacturing processes which are not possible in-home/remote, and 2) a pantheon of national and international ISO requirements for safety and other compliance areas which are not possible in-home/remote.

Final, mass, production happens in China, but it's a useful generalisation to think of most hardware products as being prototyped to a high polished standard within a hardware company's internal supply chain prior to testing and mass manufacture.

Testing is also a process which is made extremely difficult with an entirely remote workforce. A good example, from a decade ago: Apple deployed $100m USD into building its own anechoic chambers and radio testing facilities.[1] These things are closer to science experiments than the CNC milling machines the article mentions: multiple persons operating them in-person, etc.

The challenges are not unique to Apple, but they are significantly deeper than the article suggests. There are also some affordances which Apple has made in the last 6-7 years which lend themselves to remote working. For example, their own team of secure couriers who ferry prototypes around various sites in CA.

[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/1671022/chambers-super-silence-w...
My interpretation is that initially the public needed sit back and let healthcare providers acquire masks, but now it's time to cobble together something to wear when leaving the house, while still observing all other protocols.
The article almost never stops mentioning that it's competing quite well against laptops that are 50% or 100% heavier. I don't think it is dishonest. They include some similar size laptops in the graphs, but the results aren't as interesting because it is such a one sided result. The article is trying to sell you on a laptop that performs like a bulky heavy gaming laptop but travels like a mid range spreadsheet pusher.
Hybrid client/server React is a monstrosity that does provide a genuinely compelling set of benefits. Next.js neatly wraps up this monstrosity so you can at least try to pretend it doesn't exist.

Server-side-only React sounds like a fundamental misunderstanding of what purpose React actually serves.

In React, you write functions that accept data and output what amounts to HTML. Thing is, you can easily do this with a plain template string. You're just dropping values into HTML. The only benefit provided by React is the efficient modification of existing DOM to bring it up to date with the new state, without dropping the whole thing and rebuilding it from scratch. If there is no existing DOM - because you're only making one rendering pass - React serves no purpose at all.

Here's my website. It uses virtually nothing except Express and a Markdown parser. Pages and components are rendered from plain JavaScript functions. Blog posts are in markdown and automatically detected. Right now it statically renders all of the pages on startup, for efficiency, but it could be made dynamically-rendered with a flip of a switch: https://github.com/brundonsmith/website
The isolation measures are doing a lot more than this. Given that you are promoting every one doing this, I would wager that people who are busy or do not understand this guidance would believe they are protecting themselves by wearing a mask.

This false sense of security erodes basic isolation and sanitary measures which are more protective.

I understand people want to feel safe, its better for them to be safe.
Masks are made by manufacturers with the intent to sell them, so if you reduce mask buying and force down mask prices you will reduce the manufacturer's incentive to come up with amazing ways to turn out massive quantities of masks, and you discourage them from preparing in advance for the next pandemic.
This is truly insane, the most impacted people are the ones who are living paycheck to paycheck, and leading small businesses. Yet, the only thing the government cares about is SP500. This truly shows how corrupt the establishment is.
America has given full unemployment plus extra money, plus free money. How is that different from privatizing payroll?

Why is an 'employment guarantee' any better than what is happening in most of America -- layoffs with an explicit promise to rehire once the business is allowed to operate? It's not like paying companies to keep people on payroll in jobs that are not producing economic value really reduces unemployment anymore than not testing for coronavirus makes it go away.

I don't know why americans are so afraid of 'mass unemployment'. Most businesses will survive this crisis, due to debt suspensions or new debt at a very low rate or via direct government aid (which the government has so far provided plentifully, and will likely do more). Businesses have promised to rehire. However, a business that cannot right now provide a job that has value to the business ought to lay off people and let the social safety net take care.

The articles make some good points regarding healthcare, but aside from that, it makes no good argument why unemployment + the unemployment insurance that workers have paid into for exactly this scenario is worse than paying businesses to keep people on payroll who wouldn't be there otherwise.
I've never had crust issues with this technique, although I do use a steam injection oven which makes it easier.

It's doesn't seem to have the same effect as enriched dough in making the crust soft.
I'm glad to see AMD working on its single core IPC performance. The only CPU-bound workload I have as a user are game emulators, for which multicore performance is nearly irrelevant.
Usually because desktops can't be moved easily.
I don't know if it's true, but I'm hoping that we as a society have a lot more resilience now than back then. There's going to be misery, for sure, but in extremis, my entire extended family could probably move into one house and be fed on even one median salary. I don't know if that was true during the Great Depression.
There's a dark side to childlike questions. I've seen presenters at seminars destroyed by seemingly innocent questions. Also deponents, for that matter.
I don't think the economy will recover back to it's old levels.

I'm just saying we don't have any prior experience to guess as to how much it will or won't recover.
> So do you agree with [goto11 that] ""this" has lexical scope just like regular parameters" and "Nevertheless, scope wise it behaves like an implicit parameter with lexical scope"?

Yes.

> Explain just how "this" is lexically scoped, what "lexically scoped" means, and then explain why they had to add fat arrow to the language, if "this" is "just like regular parameters", please?

`this` is lexically scoped* because the function it belongs to is determined by where it appears in the code.

Fat arrow was added to the language with this difference because it’s useful to have a function without its own `this`.

> If "this" is lexically scoped, then why can call and apply change it at runtime?

It’s always set at call time. Not a matter of scope. (Parameters: also have values determined at call time, also lexically scoped.)

function a() { return this; }
let obj = {a};
obj.a() === obj

> And how do explain this stackexchange discussion, which directly addresses and answers the question? The detailed answer "yes" got five votes and was accepted. The other answer "no" got one vote and was not accepted. What's your answer?

The answer is wrong despite its votes. The comment on it by JacquesB is correct: “This is confusing values and variables. this cares cares how a function is called the same way parameters care how a function is called - they get their value at runtime when the function is called. But the scope of all variables (including this) is lexical and not dynamic.”

> Whatever you call it and however you define dynamic scope, the dynamic way "this" behaves IS terrible, and undeniably causes lots of easy to make, hard to diagnose bugs. That is why Brendan Eich called it a "footgun". That was my point, and that was why they had to add fat arrow to the language.

I disagree, but am mostly here to argue against objectively wrong information rather than opinions.

* in contrast to dynamically scoped. In JavaScript it’s also common to use “lexical scope” in contrast to “function scope” to distinguish `let`/`const` vs. `var`. In the JavaScript spec, the lexical thisMode refers to where the (arrow) function appears, not the position of the `this`.
Very interesting! It has an AMD Ryzen 3 so maybe we can expect an update with an AMD 4000.
You're looking at SP500, which are big companies that are going to be fine.
> However we didnt, so stop promoting ordinary people wearing masks.

Masks reduce risk.

> [2] Doctors and nurses need that mask.

Here's the reason, right here.

Seems like we didn't prepare. There should be enough masks for healthcare professionals and ordinary citizens.
So, I know at least one 'Posiopath'. He's a successful speaker, 'influencer', writer of a bunch of self help books and talks a mile a minute about seeing chances, opportunities and wins. Behind the scenes he's an immature frightened little boy with a big mouth, and his whole outward demeanor notwithstanding he is super fragile. I never could figure out why there is such a need to be perceived as successful, even the smallest wins get blown up way beyond their ability to be sustained by reason. But I also can't deny that it worked for him commercially, people lap up this false positivity as though it will somehow make them a success.
Jaxws and Object reference not set to an instance of an object error in Svcutil
It is time to make dividends, rather than capital gains, tax advantaged. They should be deductible against the companies income (akin to LLCs) and shouldn't incur payroll taxes but otherwise should be taxed as income. This would make them more valuable for lower income citizens who suffer under the payroll tax setup, and less valuable for the wealthy since they would be paying a high marginal tax rate on them. It would distribute capital ownership more widely and make planning a retirement income stream much easier to accomplish.

Capital gains should be taxed at windfall rates, say income + 10%.

Prioritize repeatable, stable profits over swing-for-the-fences highly-leveraged moonshots, and watch how many of these problems disappear.
> But you trust a known liar (the Chinese government)? Sounds like you're a bit biased here.

All governments lie. China isn't special, no matter how desperately you want them to be. And no offense, but you seem quite biased yourself.

> So the US spreads propaganda, but not China?

They both do. You just seem to accept US propaganda as gospel.

> Anyone remember Tiananmen Square, the country of Taiwan, the country of Tibet, or the Uyghur Muslims?

What about it? Why not list the atrocities of both sides?

Using your logic, nobody's data is valid. Now what?

What about korea's data? They have even less deaths than predicted. Are they lying? Is Japan lying? If you have any proof, then provide it rather than posting propaganda - nationalreview, newsweek, etc. Or may I suggest taking a break from reading/watching news/propaganda for a bit. It can be toxic.
The whole reason for social distancing and #flattenthecurve is to delay mass infections long enough for the scientific/medical establishment to develop a vaccine or, failing that, effective treatments. There's an understanding among policymakers (though perhaps not in the general public) that either everyone's going to have to get it, or a vaccine's gotta be developed. The problem is that with a 2% mortality rate, "everybody's gonna get it" is 140 million deaths, the largest mass casualty event in history. This is a lot like one of those movies where an asteroid is hurtling to the earth and a bunch of random oil roughnecks need to detonate a nuke inside it - it's a hail mary, but not doing anything is not an option. The hope is that the biomedical industry can develop a vaccine, effective treatments, or at least a lot more ventilators and hospitals to blunt the impact before everyone gets it.

It's not just old people who are at risk, BTW. With medical treatment the death rate of under-40s is about 0.2%, 30x less than the ~6% of over-65s. However, young people are still hospitalized at roughly half the rate of old people; if the hospital system is overwhelmed we can expect a death rate of ~5% of young people. That's about a 10 million young people in America alone. That's why it's so important to delay the epidemic long enough to build enough hospitals and ventilators to treat everyone.
"Views expressed are not necessarily those of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis or of the Federal Reserve System."
Given that this is a time of emergency, I think that definitely a good argument can be made for relaxing copyright laws. That said, many commenters on this subject are extending the discussion into a general discussion on the value of copyright, and there I cannot fully agree with the notion that copyright is a bad thing.

I pirate stuff too (although I try to limit my piracy) but one difference between me and many other pirates is that I know that I am sometimes hurting people when I pirate. I don't try to console myself with ideological contrivances designed to help me avoid feeling responsibility for causing harm to others.
Thank you. Just submitted.
The company said it would pay 25% of what the host would “normally receive through your cancellation policy.”
> Really, what is art for but to enliven the doldrums of the rich?

Art is actually a wealth store so that the rich can trade money between themselves without tracking.
It's probably more UI than UX, but... they're really mutually reinforcing. I'll start calling it U* ;)
At the same time you shouldn't be wearing one because they're a scarce resource and doctors/nurses/first responders need them more.

To be fair the article does suggest making your own and then helpfully links to this [1] dead website.

[1] https://www.consumer.org.hk/ws_en/news/specials/2020/mask-di...

Edit: fixed a typo
Ask HN: Why is it good if media companies lower streaming quality?
How is this helpful if the quality of a stream is regulated by the speed of the internet in the spot where the client is?
In my understanding, if the local network is busy it will ultimately result in lower speeds, therefore, a "degraded" stream quality.
> rent strikes

One of these things is not like the others.
> If you're not stupid this is clearly to avoid people hoarding on masks which the hospitals are in dire need of.

Better "trick" the public then.
Did you read the paper I linked? Read it, and then tell me what the facts are. Whether or not they are offering advice based on facts or political considerations is a matter of debate. There is no real meaningful debate on the mechanisms of influenza transmission. 1 mechanism is decidedly airborne. How else can you reasonably explain infection rates? Hundreds of thousands of people are letting other people sneeze directly on them? The literature is clear about this, frankly I have no idea what the WHO is smoking.
Interesting, since prediction markets only give that outcome a 41% probability of happening:

https://www.electionbettingodds.com

I wonder what could explain the discrepancy. This also implies that if you believe the 65% prediction, you could make some money (in expectation) by buying Yes shares for Biden on PredictIt.
Shocking.

Some people may read this and think it is overly pessimistic. It is not. I think this may be misunderstood to mean positivity is always bad, but it isn’t.

Rather, this attitude is so pervasive that it’s hard to know what incidents in particular they might’ve come to this conclusion from. It may not perfectly fit every forum of discussion, but it is disturbing how much of this article applies to possibly the majority of serious discussions online these days.

> “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's. clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves” (Mathew 7:15)

In a modern Internet environment where not only is one’s identity prominent but also the key to how they are considered, understood and validated, this quote could literally not be more poignant. If you don’t believe it, I say just pay close attention next time you see something suspicious on social media, a perfectly crafted narrative of BS that is backed by someone who’s own identity and presentation is equally fabricated. Of course, not everyone out there is full of crap, but I really do think a healthy dose of skepticism is warranted.