skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> in Asia even the most radical and extreme measures are accepted by the population as everyone there knows what a pandemic can cause,

Well, yes and no. They might have been more willing to accept that 30-40 years ago, but definitely not these days. They've been always known for militant labor unions, religious fanatics, and political extremism -- the last two attributed to the outbreak in South Korea this time around. There are still religious groups defying the gov't's plea not to hold mass services in South Korea today.

> in many Western countries healthcare systems have been wrecked by neoliberalism profit-first ...

South Korea suffered a much smaller coronavirus, MERS, not too long ago and they found out that they were awfully unprepared for a public health crisis of that scale (only 130+ were infected and 30+ death), so they spent the next several years preparing for the "next" crisis. Their gov't removed all potential legal/legislative barriers that had hindered their response last time around and private biotech companies started working on reagents and the medical infrastructure almost as soon as the outbreak in Wuhan became known.
Have there been studies about the dangers of these types of microbes spreading out into the "wild"?
I think Swift more or less hits this sweet spot for me. As mentioned Kotlin is also very close but comes with some baggage. Crystal and Nim are on the horizon and are promising this kind of combination of ergonomics, correctness and performance.
Some "smart" AI trying to guess my intentions and reason about the code is the last thing I want. This will inevitably go wrong, and I will be left with a nonsensical patch, which may not be immediately obvious, because the AI though that it figured out what I wanted.

I‘d much rather encounter an error and solve it myself. Linus got it right: Keep the diffing very simple and obvious, then refer to a human if there is ambiguity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5TZ6fTYrsE "we lost nobody"
I think this works well, I live in Eastern US and I'm interested in talking to somebody in Hokkaido, Japan... I just instinctively typed "New York" and "Toyko" time.
I suggest this title be edited to remove the 'Ask HN:' prefix and changed to

"Coronavirus outbreak affecting 5000 diverts Navy aircraft carrier to Guam"
Is anyone else concerned about the effects this could have if it managed to get out of containment and into the wild? A self-replicating bacteria that eats plastics sounds like a potentially catastrophic event, considering how much we use them in day to day life.
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> BUT you know that you should. If you don’t, you’re making things worse! If you don’t write the tests, you may even break something and you won’t realize!!!

Slowly adding tests is fine if your goal is to increase the total code under test, but it's not going to give you much confidence that you didn't just break something when making updates to the system.
It's nice but fairly boring (e.g. too much repetitions of the same stupid questions) and not even nearly as good as Michel Thomas or Pimsleur.

I wish somebody would just take something like one of those courses for e.g. Spanish and replace Spanish words with Esperanto. Obviously that would mean pirating the actual method but it would be blatantly hypocritical of me to pretend I care. With a croudsourcing campaign, however, there are chances to do that (or something even more interesting) officially, pay the royalties etc and I would gladly contribute a reasonable amount of money.
My group played the card-based Snake Oil[1] over Zoom last Friday. The game is out of print, but you can probably find it on eBay, and I believe you can find the list of cards online with some googling. We had one person virtually dealing the cards and everyone was responsible for maintaining their set. It worked very well over a virtual venue.

I think this would work reasonably well for Cards Against Humanity and Apples to Apples as well. Pictionary and Charades should also work.

[1]: https://www.snakeoilgame.com/
There's not necessarily a problem, but there are questions which Palantir and other providers could and should address using their contracts, source code and training/support availability.

If I offer you an axe, we can consider that a tool, and you can do good or evil with it. If I offer you a software-enabled axe and I'm able to turn that tool on/off at will, apply and/or withhold fixes and modifications, then who really holds the tool?
Yes, by "concurrent code" I meant relatively low level concurrency primitives/data structures not, for example, a web server which happens to use multiple threads. I probably should have been clearer, but I thought it would be clear from the context as the code GGGP was criticizing for using too much `unsafe` is a perfect example of the former.
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> Python disallows making changes to fundamental types like `int` and `list`.

Not directly via Python but you can achieve if it you really want https://github.com/clarete/forbiddenfruit :D
I imagine to prevent mask shortages and to make law enforcement easier.
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Or, you know, cut out the middle man and just pay per transcribed page.
Never seen such crap on this site.
I had hopes for Puredarwin :-( not an emulation layer. And I hoped Apple sponsored a community distribution
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It "is not derived from any previously used virus backbone 17". That is supposed to prove anything?
Modern Vintage Gamer made a video[1] about this a few days ago

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8TO-nrUtSI
What is the time-lapse technology used in IVF?
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So instead of kids learning to recognize emotions on the human face, we will teach them to recognize symbols in the glasses that describe these emotions? And this will make them to interact with people better? I don't think this is progress.
Nice. I love Mini Discs, and especially Mini DVDs. They're great for archival storage. I would just keep them, not migrate to something else.
Check the population pyramid for these countries. They have a way smaller fraction of old people, and a way larger fraction of young people. This has a big effect on fatality rates.
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Nice! But a bit disappointing that read speed doesn't increase with number of threads. Curious what the bottleneck is here (first thought is it can't be the memory because CHT shows higher performance for reads in the graph). A comparison with a read-only hashmap would be nice here.
Health services of different countries should simply send invoices to Isgil, Tyrol and Austria..
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See also: adoption of TypeScript in the JavaScript community. There is pressure from the ts community for libraries to either be created in ts or for popular libraries to adopt it, and it's become the way a plurality if js devs write js very quickly.
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People are positively petrified of anything that even uses the same words as politically incorrect speech.
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A good faith interpretation of aneutron's comment is that they heard this report on Reuters; saw the author is from the Czech Republic and thought it was a good opportunity to find out about "local news" on the issue to get a different perspective.

Agree it sounded confrontational, but it probably wasn't.
TLDR; "Does it support GUI apps? Almost! This took us a lot of time and effort, but we finally have basic experimental support for running simple graphical applications."
It seems so. A recent video about the graphical quirks of the PlayStation:

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https://youtu.be/x8TO-nrUtSI
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It's just a snarky, editorialized title...
More details from the tweet author: https://forbetterscience.com/2020/03/26/chloroquine-genius-d...
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Yes, they just recently shut bars and clubs, and forced restaurants to allow one meter of spacing between patrons. I can't imagine American governments ever doing something so authoritarian.
In one of Jon Bentley's "Pearls" books is a chapter of rules of thumb. One states that "Pi seconds is a nanocentury."
>The problem they point out is that well intentioned businesspeople who want to provide you a useful service and store your data correctly are priced out.

I think pricing out the odd well-intentioned business person is a good tradeoff for avoiding the "move-fast and break things" snake-oil salesmen.

>Said another way: regulation always adds cost and barriers to entry.

And saves money and harm when things go bad.
This doesn't seem to work correctly for say London and Theran as the difference is not a round number of hours.

Otherwise looks useful.

Support for comparing with more than two parties would be nice
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Nowadays you don't even get CLOSE to 49 days uptime before Win10 forces you to restart due to updates ;s
> > But growing up there were quite literally no resources to learn anything about computers or programming.

> This logical jump doesn't seem to make sense to me. Almost every developed country on earth used Microsoft Office in the second half of the 90s and the 00s. Why do you think in the UK it was specifically caused by it being taught in school, when it was also successful everywhere else when it was not taught in school?

Because the reason why every developed country used Microsoft products was corruption (you can call it lobbying if you feel good).
Some dude ranting about "how the system works" where "you are all slaves" and "they get free money" does not help anyone but the youtuber who's collecting views.
This article feels very drawn out. Did they have some kind of length requirement they needed to fill?
>more regulation will make it harder to innovate.

I'm seeing prominent VCs espousing this all over social media the past few weeks. Apparently there are even some advising Jared Kushner.

Don't let a good crisis go to waste.
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In this context is easy to understand that one can’t enjoy neither of those rights when dead. In a perfect world everyone would relate to that fact, respect the quarantine for a dozen weeks, and get back to work rebuilding everything as quickly as possible. Some people can’t reason and that’s why we all can’t have nice things.
The 'concurrent' terminology is correct in this context - that's the term used in the literature.
Yup. The whole reason we use plastic for everything is because it's cheap and mostly inert (i.e. doesn't break down in the environment). If plastic starts rotting we are going to be in for a really bad time. It's difficult to even imagine the cost of all the damage. Seems like we're a decently far way off from that point though.
I've always liked the design of this one.

https://everytimezone.com/
This.

People just want to get things done, and at some point you start fighting the language, except that the language wins and you lose.

One thing I like about PowerShell is that functions are surprisingly complex little state machines with input streams, begin/process/end pipeline handling, and multiple output streams.

Everything is optional and pluggable. So if you want to intercept the warnings of a function, you can, but it won't pollute your output type.

So in Haskell and Rust, you have "one channel" that you have to make into a tuple. E.g. in Rust syntax:

fn foo() -> (data,err)

Imagine if you wanted verbose logs, info logs, warnings, errors, etc! You'd have to do something psychotic like:

fn foo() -> (data,verbose,info,warn,err)

In PowerShell, a function's output is just the objects it returns. E.g. if you do this:

$result = Invoke-Foo

The $result will contain only your data. Warnings and Errors go to the console. But you can capture them if you want:

$result = Invoke-Foo -WarningVariable warn -ErrorVariable err
if ( $warn ) { ... }

In some languages, like Java, strongly typed Exceptions play a similar role. You can ignore them if you like and let them bubble up, or you can capture them, or some subtree of the available types. The only issue is that this mechanism is intended for "exceptional errors" and is too inefficient for general control flow.

There have been proposals for extensible, strongly-typed control flow where functions can have more than just a "return". They can also throw exceptions, raise warnings, yield multiple results, log information, etc... The calling code can then decide how to interact with these in a strongly typed manner, unlike the PowerShell examples above which are one-way and weakly typed.

I'm a bit saddened that Rust didn't go down this path, instead preferring to inherit the current style of providing only a handful of hard-coded control flows, some of which are weakly typed. For example, there's only one "panic", unlike typed exceptions in Java.
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Isn't it relative to western countries? S.Korea is like Israel, a large part of the population with civil service experience who can follow instructions, but also some religious fanatics / cults who don't give a fuck. The government has more accessible, non-emergency options to crackdown, last I heard Korean officials is trying to contain the cults via lawsuit and criminal charges. Can you imagine US suing a church, arresting a pastor for holding congregation? In Canada we have been trying to recall our citizens abroad and it wasn't until things got bad that 1million+ snow birds decided to return. Prior to that kids were going on spring break. No one took things seriously until last week after a month escalating warnings. And this is in a city with SARS experience. Down south is even more of a shit show. As for techno-authoritarian surveillance - health officials cross referencing CCTV footage, location data and cred card reports - that would not fly here as a "public" option which is why it's rarely mentioned in any of these TEST OFTEN and contact trace articles. The uninformed would attribute those techniques to China. The informed would immediately understand that wouldn't work in many western countries without massive legislative overhaul.
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unfortunately recreated this issue recently keeping track of freertos current tick on a 32 bit embedded system :)
This gives me a cert warning, but it quotes something in a way that implies that may have been sort of the formal designation: Nurses Corps (female)

https://history.amedd.army.mil/ANCWebsite/articles/malenurse...

I've googled around a bit and when Florence Nightingale did her thing, it was mostly male nurses in the military. By early 1900s, this had changed, at least in the US, and most nurses were female.
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This sounds more like a you-problem than a programming language problem.

The fact of the matter is that there can be no "perfect" programming language in the sense that it perfectly fits all possible use cases.

So rather than trying to develop or hoping for such language to be developed, a programmer should become multi-lingual. Experiencing first-hand how different programming languages and paradigms approach problems not only broadens the horizon, but also helps with choosing the right tool for the job.

No sane contractor would build a house using nothing but a hammer after all.
It makes me wonder what their motivation was then, because this whole thing only increased their chances of being exposed.
There are two identifiers: Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA) and Identifier for Vendors (IDFV).

IDFA is the same across all apps on a device. However, it can be reset by the user or disabled (in which case it returns all 0s). Also, apps have to disclose (to Apple) that they use the IDFA - not sure if that's visible to the user in the App Store anywhere.

IDFV is unique per vendor - that is, each app has a different ID, but two apps from the same developer will have the same ID. I believe this is also reset when resetting the device.

The FBSDK doesn't require developers to enable the IDFA, so the unique identifier in the phone home request is either the IDFV (effectively unique) or just a UUID that the FBSDK generates and stores on launch.
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I can’t speak to your question, but this might be useful: most Apple laptops never compile any code.
Sadly you are right, though as mentioned by others, not all testing in countries and registration of deaths are equal.

But it is probably the best metric so far alas.

However, hold a thought for postal workers in a few months as they will be asked to monitor people's mailboxes filling up as a sign that somebody died inside and nobody knows.
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How is this different from the products currently developed by companies like Carbios[1] ?

I'm a totally ignorant in physics and chemistry (except from what I've studied at school) so excuse my genuine question.

[1] https://carbios.fr/en/
>That's a big ask for an internet comment.

So your solution is to "guess" that it didn't happen?

>I didn't dismiss the article. I provided additional context that might be helpful in evaluating its claims.

You didn't add anything. You insinuated that it wasn't correct, with zero evidence or knowledge.

Why didn't you add other things, like maybe the journalist made the entire thing up? Or perhaps the whole measure of the index is simply a lie and doesn't exist?

I guess I shouldn't be surprised that people here consider random aspersions "adding context".
No, it actually does protect you, just not as effectively as N-95s. That’s why hospitals are seeking out donations of homemade masks right now.

“The masks don’t do anything” story was just something floated around to prevent runs on hospital supplies. A better strategy would’ve have been to say “everyone make and wear your own masks and it will afford us some additional amount of protection.”
> I run a few 10TiB ES clusters

For information, what does "10TiB" refer to in this context?

Is it the size of what ES takes in RAM, or the size of ES' index, or is it the total size of the corpus that ES must index? Or corpus size + index ?
The title is editorialized, which goes against the HN rules. Linking to tweets is challenging, as there’s sometimes not a lot of context, but even the tweet doesn’t go as far as the HN title...
Javascript is only dominant in the browser.

Other scripting languages (python, bash, ruby, php) dominate other parts of automation.
Do we know that other sources give him more of the cut?

Writing a technical book is rarely a big money-maker for the author, with or without Amazon.
Lenovo laptops seem to be great machines to convert to Linux. My daily laptop for the past few yrs is a carbon X1 running Mint and I just converted my wife’s (different gen) carbon X1 over to Pop!_OS for her. My only gripe with either is the lack of fine-tuning available for hi-dpi settings but my understanding is that this is a Linux problem generally.
> Open decision making: And that communication will be open to the public, so that everyone can weigh in, vote, and determine what happens to the project

How is this a thing? Not in my experience. The public has access to issue tracking and maybe a foo-users-l@mailserver.org .

Open decision-making, in projects which I know practice it, means contributors (hopefully) and significant stake-holders get to participate in decision making, not everybody and their uncle.
Ask HN: NYC with autoimmune disease, what should I do?
I'm 30 years old with an autoimmune disease that puts me at high risk of COVID19. I'm otherwise very healthy -- vegetarian, yoga instructor, runs marathons, sleeps 8 hours, non-smoker. I'm isolating well in my apartment: haven't left in 10 days, and work well as a software eng. My main concern is if I do get infected (which is likely [1]), my immune deficiency suggests I'm very likely to become a critical case and need hospitalization, yet the lack of healthcare resources in NYC is appalling [1].

Should I leave NYC? How? Where should I go?

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/makeshift-morgue-built-in-nyc-to-deal-with-coronavirus-deaths-2020-3
But this is the reality and it does help people to know about this.

For the same amount of money, we don't all have to work as hard or produce the same amount of economic value, this is a true fact and it's ethically wrong. The economic reality of our situation affects every person on the planet so it affects everything. It's vitally important that we all understand how the system works even if explained in such hand-wavy way.

It's no coincidence that they don't teach this in schools. You'd think they would want people to know how money is created; after all, everyone spends their entire lives working for that money but we know nothing about it - The elites who control the banks don't want people do know because people would be able to see so many issues.

Isn't it strange that in school, we learn Maths, Physics, Chemistry, English, Geography, History... The arguments used for teaching those subjects is that they provide a good foundation of knowledge for all citizens... but when it comes to one of the most important subjects in our lives which affects every single citizen, we don't know anything about it. We all come out of school having a pretty good idea about how gravity works but we know almost nothing about how the financial system works (even though knowing about the latter can be used to our our advantage). It's no coincidence. If the majority of people knew, the current system would collapse and be replaced by something better.
Don't get your hopes up (too much) though. They will have to rely on an open source reimplementation of Cocoa (e.g. Cocotron or GNUStep) to support GUI apps. These are a long way from providing a full implementation of the macOS frameworks. You cannot just take a random Objective-C or Swift macOS app and recompile it using these open source libraries. So, binaries is even much further away. Even Wine, which has seen two decades of development (including from companies such as CrossOver), only supports a small subset of Windows applications very well.

Of course, it might be possible to re-use macOS' frameworks, but Apple would probably sue anyone who tries to offer that into oblivion.

BTW. I think this is a great project, but there are some people who seem to be rooting for using this for running Creative Suite on Linux. That won't happen anytime soon, if ever. Wine is your best shot.
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I had a nurse tell me not to worry flat out because covid has been around since early November. If you had the super flu around November 2019 it was likely covid-19 as Chinese Doctor said he saw it in mid October and viruses circle globe in 2 weeks.
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Physical tests are done as well (phishing, social engineering)
I hear this a lot but have the iPad Pros ever been actually used like that?

I have one and I love it -- it's extremely snappy and responsive and feels powerful. But I wonder if that actually says anything about compiler workflows. I am curious to find out.
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Perhaps Raku (https://raku.org) could hit your sweet spot?
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