skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a topic that seems to be in a perverse conflict of interests.

A. Politicians have interests representing themselves as well as their country, and thus have given dishonest advice (masks don't help) with an ulterior motive (save them for hospital), downplayed the problem, and covered up the number of cases.

B. I think a lot of actually qualified experts (doctors, scientists) to think the public can't handle the truth perhaps? I still have yet to see anybody in any position of respect or authority simply say the bald truth: "A few million Americans will die, at least, unless some radical cure happens. Social distancing is a drop in the bucket, ventilators make a tiny difference. The vast majority of young people will be totally fine"

I'm disappointed in our society for failing to bubble up and synthesize good information quickly.
Oh huh, I didn't realize it didn't mean the same in American English. I guess I knew it, I just never realized it.
>The next pandemic (or even this one) won't be cut short by science moonshots. It will take a fundamental shift in how the highly-unprofitable activity of developing drugs taken for a very short period of time and only once gets funded.

Ok, so let's just socialize the pharma industry and treat it as a matter of national defense rather than consumer luxury. With respect to infectious and transmissible disease, the paradigm of treating health as a matter of personal comfort and subjective preference has very plainly failed.
That's for gitlab.com, not GitLab CE.
US should create 100 more universities. Each university campus lights up the economy of otherwise sleepy written off towns. The state operated universities can help lower the tuition and in turn reduce the student debt burden - one of the biggest issue. It creates more faculty positions for PhDs coming out. It attracts more international students bringing in money and talent. It lowers stress on outrageously competitive higher education space. It creates more research departments and opportunities. A creation of typical university campus is merely $1B. For $100B total, this generates so many benefits that it shouldn’t be even question. A lot of progress in US happened because of establishment of new universities. At some point we didn’t kept pace with growing demands and now education as well as research has become scars, expensive things available Only to elite.
I can also do payments myself in "7 or 8 countries". If you can do payments in 100 countries by yourself, please please let me know how!

I think a lot of technologists confuse deploying code with actually handling transactions, charge-backs, local tax rates, etc. Also, just because you are small enough to ignore local tax laws does not mean everyone is.

Move fast and break things is all fun and games until you get charged for tax avoidance.

Five years ago, it was difficult to comply with tax laws in every US state, county, and jurisdiction (now there are services) -- can you imagine doing this globally?
What are you actually suggesting will happen? That there would be a major famine in Brazil? That Brazilians would freeze to death in the harsh Brazilian winter? How are these people going to die exactly?
Anderson was one of the most respected researchers in CM; he was the thesis advisor of a professor I worked closely with in grad school.
https://www.cff.org/Life-With-CF/Treatments-and-Therapies/Ai...
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.

Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.—
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
They have, you will need 50 versions.

Do you want to manage them as a single application and code base or 50?
>> 90% of our transactions were USA, about 8% were Canada. And the other 2% was from Singapore. Never ran into any problem with these.

And I once ran a python script on my local computer and had no scaling issues. I dont know what all these people are talking about nginx, load-blanancers, blah! heck, I just used python -m simpleserver and Viola! it worked! See -- everyone can run a global business right from their macbook with 0 FTEs! I did it! (Please dont mind I picked the easiest script and conveniently based my business in places where Stripe works!)
Some were sounding reasonably early warnings,

https://virologydownunder.com/past-time-to-tell-the-public-i...
That''s a very complex topic.

Of possible relevance, and reflecting one current of my thinking:

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/62uroa/clothin...
One really important feature of time series data is the preservation of what the dataset looked like at each point in time. Financial data providers will make a mistake (off by order of magnitude, missed a stock split, etc) and then go back and correct it. This means you end up training models entirely on corrected data, but trade based on uncorrected data.
Note it won't be released before May though.
It helps against leaking to announce things before mass production even begins.
I don't think this sentiment is so wise as its popularity would lead you to believe. I have no reason to believe that most bad things that people do happen entirely by accident. Further, I suspect that the first line of defense for anyone who's been caught doing something naughty is to play dumb, and I see no reason to make it easier to get away with murder, so to speak.
I did in fact posit a hypothesis about the origin. According to one Chinese dictionary, 湯種 is in fact originally yudane, coming into Chinese as a loan-word (using a Chinese reading).

By the way, that is not unusual. In fact Chinese uses exonyms for Japanese names and places based on re-reading the kanji spelling in Chinese.

Let me pick something at random: 箱根, Hakone: a place name made from "hako" (box) and "ne" (root).

Checking in a Chinese dictionary, we have a hit:

https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?page=worddict&wdrst=...

It's called Xiānggēn in Chinese.
source? Can't find anything on that either
> Social distancing is a drop in the bucket

Sorry, but look at how China, South Korea, Taiwan etc. are doing right now - this doesn't jive at all with "social distancing is a drop in the bucket". Even Western countries/places which started social distancing early in their local outbreaks look like they'll be a lot better off than places which didn't.

> The vast majority of young people will be totally fine

This is also quite wrong, unfortunately. A sizeable minority of young people will need hospital treatment for COVID, and perhaps intensive care. Given overwhelmed healthcare systems, they won't be "totally fine" at all. Of course, older folks are at increased risk.
"A viral article implores us to ... to listen only to authoritive sources like the CDC, not random people spouting on social media. This was notable to me for being the diametric opposite of the actual lesson of the past two months"

This is the opposite sentiment to "there are no libertarians in pandemics." Keen perception of reality is unlikely to be concentrated at the top of political hierarchies. Competent Authority isn't an oxymoron but it's distressingly unreliable.
RE - you also get access to Safaribooksonline

when I checked this out a few years ago it was a subset of you also get access to Safaribooksonline - about 600 books only. Maybe it has changed now....
The notion that removing all shades and shadows is "cleaner" is a fad. This fad will end, and the sooner it ends the better it is for all of us.

Windows 1.0 doesn't have shades and shadows. It is "cleaner" in that sense than NeXTSTEP. But few will argue that it is more beautiful.

Here's Windows 1.0:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_1.0#/media/File:Window...
If I am reading that correctly, some countries like Spain see almost annual death spikes to around 8 standard deviations. That doesn’t make sense, what did I miss?
It probably wasn't masks alone, but why not throw everything we have at the problem?
Can all the US mom-and-pop websites collecting payments from US consumers please explain how they would proceed to effortlessly collect payments in Africa? The Middle East? Pakistan?

This is an honest question, because I'm starting to seriously question my beliefs (I honestly though it was difficult.)
I don't think the advice entails lower quality discourse. The prescription here, read literally, is to say the same thing, phrased in a way that invites relevant discussion.

Language emphasising subjectivity can do several things - a) you signal uncertainty so that the group has a better idea of what's really known, b) you explicitly distinguish opinion from fact, c) you invite people to share their understanding so you can get on the same page.

The emphasis seems to be less the informational (a) and (b) and more the cultural (c). It's tricky - in some sense if you're certain, you undermine the force of your opinion this way. Comparing the two communication styles there's a tradeoff between reducing friction (unnecessary? examination) and encouraging communication in general, with possible benefits for cohesion, shared understanding and expertise but also the possible detriment of communal navel gazing. If you trust the studies this refers to, encouraging equal turn-taking overall has long-term benefits for productivity.

I think both approaches have failure cases where communication becomes ineffective. Individuals will adapt to each style to different degrees, and there's no total substitute for savvy folks who are alert to social forces at play, and guide discussions when team members over- or under-play their hands.

To share the generalisation used by this piece, the suggested conversational style is more hospitable to women. Where this article talks about psychological safety, equal participation etc., I think a lot of male engineers feel safe in much more confrontational and argumentative situations than women - they can even find a kind of fun in conflict, or regard it as totally impersonal, where many women would find it deeply unpleasant and to be avoided at all costs.
Cover your mouth when you sneeze, CFD edition
There are people still, in every thread here about it, downplaying it.

I’m sure someone will be along momentarily to tell us that it’s no worse than seasonal flu.
Not to nitpick, but I'm wondering about the tradeoffs of adjusting volume/playback rate in an effect (https://github.com/joshwcomeau/use-sound/blob/master/src/ind...). I'm kind of wondering how this works in a concurrent mode world when there are other, higher priority things React is deferring reconciliation/effects for.
> They offer an opt-out process that suspends lending completely.

That's not how copyright works in the US. Maybe it should be, but it's not. The owner of a copyright gets to say how it's used, they don't merely have a right to refuse to uses if they're aware of them.

There are certain exceptions, such as compulsory licensing (e.g., in the US you can get a license to cover a song at a fixed-by-law rate) and fair use, but those aren't opt-out mechanisms either - those are permissions that the copyright holder can't refuse.

Maybe it should, but the law doesn't work that way right now.

> If we're going to talk about the alleged illegality of a controlled process for sharing data, I'd like to start with ad-tracking, since that clearly affects a larger group of people and because its legality seems to rest on a similar premise (at least, to this layman).

Copyright doesn't protect data, it protects the creative expression of ideas. Data itself isn't copyrightable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc.,_v._R.... Therefore, nobody is infringing any copyright I have by tracking my behavior via ads.

Maybe it should (or maybe copyright shouldn't protect anything), but the law doesn't work that way right now.
Online banks.

I can understand why securely exposing an API for banking details would be challenging, but I would love a way to access my account statements and daily transactions programatically, without having to pass my credentials to shady 3rd-party apps.
this whole covid19 debacle is exposing a very real change brought about by the internet.

we are being forced to adapt and to develop new ways to relate to information, to asses it's trustworthiness, etc...

it's an epistemic phenomenon. perhaps another facet of this phenomenon are the filtered information bubbles.

But this pandemic really puts the pressure on us to face the reality of our current information society.
The math. We had the fatality rate and r0. As soon as it was obvious that it spread out of control on China, it was just a matter of time. You didn’t need to be an epidemiologist, you just needed a high school maths education.
>If this framework of allocating resources (time/money/effort) now under my control is a religion, then so be it.

Yeah, that's what I'm afraid of. That's, like, the worst aspect of religions. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy of hoping for/boosting Armageddon because you're convinced you got it figured out and know how to come out on top.

>You can't force people into obligation

Of course you can. Lock them out or lock them in. In fact, that's the perfect way to deal with those who are trying to play both sides: make them choose. That makes it a lot easier to determine what needs to be done vis a vis the tent. The worst thing these privileged people can do is to draw attention to that privilege, then, because it welcomes intervention. Their behavior becomes self-regulating in this way.
Most people don't have a <relationship> with an expert, so they are still left out on their own, having to decipher the world as it comes.

When you don't have relationships with a technical community, there's no interesting anchor to stop you from gyrating with the news of the day.
Well expressed, thanks for your thoughtful comment. The beautiful things about standards is how many there are to choose from!
Meetup was/is fundamentally a marketing platform for event organizers.

The value it brings is the user base. So it had to always find ways to bring people to the platform to keep the value for organizers. However, more casual users resulted in more no shows, legal issues, spammers etc.

As a result considerable amount of effort went into operations.

It was a great idea but as a business scaling it required proportional investment into operations, so it never made any real money.
"You will be home before the leaves have fallen from the trees."

-Kaiser Wilhelm II, addressing German troops leaving for the front, August, 1914.
Don't call yourself a typical developer and read up!
Guessing this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
Create a Blog Using GitHub Pages and Jekyll Theme
>> So what have people done? SWEs jet out of the office at 5, many are running startups on the side, some are consulting on the side.

I'm not the GP poster but that sounds like a good deal. So collect a paycheck, nod during the corporate circle-jerk of design meetings for weeks while working on your own startup and side consulting?
This site screams at me don’t reinvent the wheel. The premise is that frameworks aren’t enough and developers are wasting time working too hard on things they already know.

When I hear things like this it begs the question: Exactly how easy do you need it to be? Should UI developers not be required any greater effort than copy/paste?

The reality is that most of the components the site proposes are already copy paste if you aren’t locked into a giant framework like React. Like some other comments have said there already is a common platform for building reusable UI components: web standards. The world surely doesn’t need a framework for riding on top of your framework.
It does sound like sensible corporate behaviour. It is also not a fact, but a claim by Amazon which it can use as a convenient and possibly somewhat hard to verify excuse to fire a employee it finds troublesome.

Until there is more information, I can totally picture a scenario where Amazon uses the excuse that they can remove a troublesome employee from leading a walk-out by (falsely) suggesting they have been in contact and need to self-isolate (the pay is nothing for them). When the employee disputes that and come in they get to fire the individual under the pretext that he was not behaving appropriately and endangering other workers.
> A viral article implores us to “flatten the curve of armchair epidemiology”—that is, to listen only to authoritive sources like the CDC, not random people spouting on social media.

> This was notable to me for being the diametric opposite of the actual lesson of the past two months.

So, because some (unspecified, unnamed) experts weren't able to predict the future with perfect accuracy, we should give equal credence to "random people" instead?

Medical professionals, scientists, and public health experts are still the best available source of knowledge about preventing the growth of this pandemic.

Spreading the message that we should ignore epidemiologists is wrong at best and dangerous at worst.
The 3900X and 3950X sadly still have issues with idle power, the lower end chips do much better. A 3400G for example self-reports less than 10 W at idle, entire system is around 20 W out of the power socket. The uncore of my 3900X consumes more than that in idle according to itself...

The usual desktop (3500-3800 series) chips perform similarly well, it's just the two-chiplet AM4 processors that have been somewhat plagued by problems like this.
> Social distancing is a drop in the bucket

This is a frustrating and sad thing to read here. Social distancing WILL save lives. Even if it is a "drop in the bucket", and I don't believe that to be true, once hospitals are at capacity every SINGLE severe case that social distancing prevents or delays is potentially a life saved.

> ventilators make a tiny difference

Would you say that to the families who have a loved one on a ventilator right now?
Enrollment in higher education is down over the last 10 years. There are already too many universities/colleges in the U.S. There are too many Ph.D.'s being granted in a quite a few areas. The funding per student today is much less than it was 20 years ago which again was less than it was the 20 years before then. This is not going to change. Building more physical classroom space is not needed and is too expensive. Society is not willing to fund these places. Around 50% of higher education courses are taught with adjunct labor that typically pays little and without benefits. I don't see that building more universities would change this. Especially when demand is decreasing.
That's gonna give me a panic attack.

Sibling's Pink Floyd works. Or here's one from my stack--the louder I play it, the more peaceful I feel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwPnvYiCVfA
I would most likely want to manage them as a single code base as the business logic among the various states would be largely common (upwards of 80% or higher).
Apple Blocking Covid Apps
Over the last week I’ve been working with a team around the clock to build an app to fight the spread of COVID. It’s a simple game that gives you incentives to stay at home throughout the day, and hopefully puts a smile on your face in an otherwise bleak time.

Unfortunately, Apple has taken an isolationist stance to COVID, rejecting any and all apps that relate to it no matter how beneficial they are to the public. Developers around the world are beyond frustrated that their efforts to pitch in are being blocked.

We’ve entered our app in one global hackathon (more to come soon) to gain publicity and hopefully catch Apple’s eye. I’m not usually one to solicit help, but liking our project devpost could actually going a long way towards flattening the curve.

Go go go smash that mfing like button for the sake of the planet

https://devpost.com/software/stay-home-pyqn19
Show HN: Covid State Testing
> develop useful tools like CRISPR not simply look for the most beneficial research to solve a specific problem

You're describing a 40+ year body of research as if it were a project to develop CRISPR as an endpoint. But that's nothing like the process that actually produced CRISPR.

Take the Hsu et. al. paper describing CRISPR-Cas9 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4343198/), for example. That paper cites 100 other papers, with multiple citations in each decade going back to the 1980s. (The first paper cited was published based on research that likely happened 10 years before before the sequencing of the entire genome of an organism.) And those 100 papers lean on other papers, etc.

Science is not an engineering project.
That definition misses a significant portion of the commonly used meaning: someone who is unpleasant (as in mean, annoying)

For instance: stop being such a git - this is not imploring someone not to be stupid, it's saying don't be annoying, awkward etc.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/amp/english/git
They will need to think about this out of the box. One way is to select, say 500 employees, test them and have them live as well as work from the office building. The building is empty anyway so plenty of space to make some living quarters. In other words, they get quarantined in Apple’s space ship building instead of at their home. For a company with $100B in bank, very few things are impossible.
Oh cut the bullshit

> This means that multiple readers can access a digital book simultaneously

So this is just piracy. That's not how book lending works.
Not to say "You have this backwards", but starting a company (especially SaaS) is really for people who love to work and want to work some more, not people who want to get out of it. You will take more risk and work harder for potentially more income, eventually.
Learn from My Mistake on Writing
Sorry that came out in not the way intended. I was simply using your post as a starting point for my comment to be to a more general audience. Your comment was nicely put and opened up the discussion for others as well. Your question was, from my perspective, a good pointed question which needed, in the general sense, to be asked.
The thing is, it didn't quite spread out of control on China. There were a heck of a lot of cases in Wuhan and Hubei, and markedly fewer cases elsewhere. We might guess that this is perhaps just a side-effect of exponential dynamics, but I'm not quite sure about that.
Alright. Advice taken.
Sniff children? Is that what they call cocaine in DC? or is that the other way around... I honestly don't know what you are referring to
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I actually started writing my blog in Crystal, took a little break, and started writing it in Nim. I really like Nim a lot. Some of the code came out more concise in Nim. I like how Nim handles nils better. Options instead of temp var shadowing. I would've finished my blog in Nim had I not ran into an issue with embedded-style templates. Think eRb in Ruby. Crystal handles this by compiling and embedded. Nim doesn't support that. I had to resort to something like Mustache which I didn't want to use. Ultimately, I went back to Crystal and finished it.