skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see any particular reason to trust the opinion section of the Boston Globe over the US Surgeon General or the WHO, but that's just me. I'm even more hesitant about calling that claim a "flat out lie". As far as I can tell, these are just two people with a point of view, who don't link to a single study on the matter.

Seriously though, do you have any evidence that the consensus of the medical profession is that getting the general, non-sick population to wear masks is useful in combating the crisis? I'm open to the possibility that it is, but remain rather skeptical.
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Can you name and shame the country?
This is not how it works. We don't hold any copies of users' passwords these days, there are hashes for that. Certainly, some old, or poor quality in-house software still do it, but then it won't offer you integration with whatever SSO service anyway. And single point of failure is very real, if you trying to operate world-wide: sign-in with X may suddenly become illegal, or inaccessible outside of the USA.
You need to modify the memory controller so I'm guessing a FPGA is required, though maybe a microcontroller can be used as well. Also note that they only got the AND/OR operations to work on a couple of the eight DRAM modules tested so chances are you have to be lucky or source those parts as well.
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This is pretty absurd as your hypothesis makes no sense. The drive for revenue is going to override any government demand for oversight. Any government stupid enough to put up this would kill tourism which is the lifeblood of many cities. Money speaks and I don't see any government enacting this anywhere irrespective of AirBnb being there or not.

Now for Airbnb I am taking the reverse and contraion position that they will actually come out this ahead of most hospitality companies. Simple they don't own any assets and have the ability to ratchet down or up depending on the macro-environment. Also let's be honest here is that host will come back as its a another way for them to monetize their assets especially the economic situation right now.
Faster iteration in the future. Infrastructure benefits the user in the long term.
Well take a guess why the left hand in some regions of the world is considered dirty even there is water around to wash? Because toilet paper is seen as improper cleaning.
Every consumer GPS receiver I have seen and even some aerospace-grade receivers that I have (limited) experience with report data over a serial connection as “NMEA sentences”. You can read about them here: https://www.gpsinformation.org/dale/nmea.htm#nmea if it’s a USB GPS receiver, it’s likely internally a USB->serial chip with a GPS receiver communicating over serial. The data that I have seen is always been high-level focused on navigation such as speed in MPH and heading in degrees and of course, long and lag. Not to say that you can’t find a device that reports phase and Doppler shift, this is just how everything I have seen worked. When GPS receivers started getting cheap when I was a kid, I was very excited to experiment with them using Arduinos, etc so hope this helps!
From your "sciency article"

> Even experts who favor masking the masses say their impact on the spread of disease is likely to be modest. Many are also afraid to promote mask buying amid dire shortages at hospitals. But as the pandemic wears on, some public health experts think government messages discouraging mask wearing should shift.

> “It’s really a perfectly good public health intervention that’s not used,” argues KK Cheng, a public health expert at the University of Birmingham. “It’s not to protect yourself. It’s to protect people against the droplets coming out of your respiratory tract.”

So even this pro-mask article makes it sound to me like wearing a mask will not protect you from getting the virus. At best, they're effective at presenting people who don't know they're sick from infecting others. And that only works if you can mask a significant portion of the population without a shortage of masks for people who we know need them. That doesn't seem to be the case in the United States at present.
If only there was a way to suspend the entire economy.
The slow dismantling of Prop 13, which Prop 25 played a part in, has certainly helped a lot. However, Proposition 218 remains largely intact, and California's ballot-box budgeting woes are far from over.
Well by that logic - Somewhere far far away, in a distant galaxy, someone must have gone.

Let's engineer a virus for the virus!
>Those sort of people seem to struggle in US politics

Like Trump? From day 1, he's promoted:

Border security

Travel bans

Bring manufacturing back to the USA

Reducing dependence on China

He seems popular enough, but it's all the other people in politics that have done everything in their power to stop him from solving this problem before it happened. For example, here are 219 Democrats who want to take away his travel ban authority in order to allow open borders for coronavirus. [1]

If they had gotten their way, coronavirus infected would still be streaming into the country. When Trump implemented the China travel ban, he was called a xenophobic racist by Joe Biden [2] in early Febuary and most anyone else in the Democratic party. Since his travel ban, most every other country implemented them as well. It was only weeks later, that the Dems turned around and claimed Trump didn't act soon enough!

Besides, even if California had more ventilators, would they maybe stockpile them away to make the situation worse for political gain the way Cuomo did in New York? [3]

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/2214...

[2] https://medium.com/@JoeBiden/statement-from-vice-president-j...

[3] https://twitter.com/ScottPresler/status/1243899847394164736
It starts, yes, but the experience is still as miserable as on Windows. They just brought the Windows idiocies with them.

The debugger (clrdbg) is still artificially restricted from running inside anything else than MS' IDEs.

The global certificate store is still a thing.

On that note, the cryptography support varies wildly between platforms, because they still insist on using SChannel on Windows. And I guess that means that they have to use SecureTransport on macOS, to avoid appearing to play favourites or something.

The action at a distance that it encouragtes would make you think you're in a haunted house.

Despite bringing the Windows mentality with them everywhere, there still isn't a competent migration story from Framework, so what's the point? Legacy code is still a pain to port, and you'd be crazy to actually want to write new code in this mess.
I’m also a Zürich resident. There is a healthy competition between ISPs and it’s easy to switch between them since the fiber network is provided by the city. When your contract is expiring, ask your ISP for a loyalty discount. I’m paying CHF 35/month for 1 Gbps (although in the last few weeks it hasn’t been that fast).
> Interpreters, which read the program line by line as it runs

Byte code interpreters do that? That would be surprising. Programs are represented with 'lines' in byte code?

Things he wants, let's look at SBCL, a Common Lisp implementation (see http://sbcl.org ):

> compile short bits to native code quickly at runtime -> that's done by default

> identify whether a section is getting optimized -> we tell the compiler and the compiler gives us feedback on the optimizations performed or missed

> know anything about the native code that’s being run in a benchmark -> we can disassemble it, some information can be asked

> statically require that a given section can & does get optimized -> done via declarations and compilation qualities

> compile likely sections in advance to skip warmup -> by default

> bonus: ship binaries with fully-compiled programs -> dump the data (which includes the compiled code) to an executable
The UK deputy chief medical officer was questioned on the UK deviating from WHO advice at a press conference.

She pointed out the W was for World and suggested they have a different focus. I thought it was a brilliant swerve. Accurate, but I suspect not the whole picture.
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> at the time it was obvious to everyone that he was being lazily framed

Well, at the time, it was obvious to most people that OJ had murdered Nicole and Ron Goldman.
afterall how do you know you are not breaking the speed limits?

Exceeding the speed limit is still illegal even in places where the lack of speedometer is not illegal --- they just don't care how you know your speed.
You can have a monolith and still suffer form these problems and need these technologies, as soon as you introduce a load balancer.
Very unrelated—SpicyPass looks quite attractive—one feature that is missing from some of these managers—possibly because the host OS does not allow it—is typing of the passwords as if from a keyboard rather than using the clipboard, which is potentially readable by malware.
I've chided the other commenter for dropping the "Ok boomer" trope here. It's definitely not ok.
you can download the client here (https://www.maltego.com/downloads/) and use the community edition for free. The trx-lib is only needed to write your own transforms.
The message should be that simple, non-N95/FFP3 masks only have minor protective effect for the wearer, but can significantly reduce the spread of droplets by the wearer and protect others around them. Furthermore, wearing masks in populated public places should not be a recommendation, it should be enforced.

There is also reason to believe that enforcing wearing of masks in public spaces INCREASES social distancing, because people are less likely to slip into an illusion of normality in certain places.
During peak hours, SJC has as much traffic as it can handle already. Why would you want to force more general aviation into that mix?

Also, 880, 101, and Coleman are all gridlocked during rush hours.

Doesn't the Civil Air Patrol still use Reid-Hillview?
Can zoom on mobile to tick more countries, but can't unzoom if my viewpoint is on the plot:(
Another advantage of gmailctl is it uploads the filters using the API, so you don't have open Gmail settings and manually import an XML file.
Wouldn't it make more sense to test and ask all passengers to wear masks before they board the plane? By the time they are flying in crowded airplane, it's too late. This approach doesn't seem to make much sense.
At some point you have to put it down to enemy action, even if they don’t realize they’re acting on behalf of the enemy.
There are still speed limits in the US, but how you determine your speed is up to you.
Can you explain why you lose that ability? It's not obvious to me.
So we are back to the polygraph, we don't know it's accuracy so there is no way to tell if a human is lying or not. Taking it to the extreme, video evidence falls back to being no more valuable than eye witnesses.
Apologies for being inflammatory, but screw the CCP. The world needs to knock them down a few pegs.
The article makes a good point about wearing masks being a reminder to people that "things are not normal". So I would say that saying "masks are not necessary" actually serves the reverse purpose of emboldening people to go out because it's not quite that serious yet.
https://www.kaggle.com/c/deepfake-detection-challenge

> AWS, Facebook, Microsoft, the Partnership on AI’s Media Integrity Steering Committee, and academics have come together to build the Deepfake Detection Challenge (DFDC). The goal of the challenge is to spur researchers around the world to build innovative new technologies that can help detect deepfakes and manipulated media.

This has a prize pool of $1 million.
The pass source code you linked to is just a wrapper for the unix toolset (and has twice the byte count, not that it matters). Pass has a completely different crypto implementation and security model than SpicyPass. The two are not synonymous, either in features or UX. I elaborated on more of the differences between the two in a different reply to a similar comment.

tl;dr different strokes for different folks. I didn't write spicypass with the intent of replacing pass.
I like this chart because it shows when various countries jumped off the trend, presumably heading towards recovery. But I agree, to be useful as a comparison it should be normalized by total population per country in addition to the testing/reporting part that you mentioned.

Additionally, it'll also show a second wave, if that starts happening anywhere.
Kind of? Vital parts are still closed (like the debugger), and the tooling still assumes a closed-source world (for example, with OmniSharp, jump-to-definition to dependencies just gives you a synthetic source file that only contains method signatures).

It's also not exactly run like a community project. The issue tracker feels more like a customer support system: "can you try updating to the newest release now?" abound, with no mention of what the actual problem or fix was.
Many more people would use masks and gloves if they were available for purchase. This could never be implemented in the US unless the government was supplying everyone with masks. At this point it’s almost criminal to buy masks for yourself when health workers don’t have access to enough of them.
The thing is, javascript performance is mostly "good enough", and honestly that's what really matters.

When you have workloads that are mostly io bound, having syntactic sugar like js async/await to avoid blocking is really a huge strength.

When we write systems, we operate under constraints, and frequently the largest constraint is time to market rather than pure performance.

Dynamic typing can be a huge strength for TTM.

If performance was the only concern, we'd all be in straight C with inline asm.
This.

At least that is what I often think, when I hear people describing micro-services. If there is no data sharing between computations, then the problem is embarrassingly parallel [1] and thus easy to scale. The problem is not the monolith, it is the data sharing, which micro-services only solve if each service owns it’s own data. To be fair people advocating micro-services also often argue that they should own their data, but in quite a few of the instances I’ve heard described, this is not the case.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassingly_parallel
I guess in that case you can also skip teaching them about angular momentum!
It is the consensus of medical professionals and officials in those countries that have demonstrated that they can greatly reduce the spread (China, South Korea, Japan).

It is not the consensus in countries that currently still see an explosion in cases.
I've never worked in outsourcing and almost every job I had in my >15 years career as a developer included at least somewhat-gnarly & often truly-gnarly code.

It is very rare to see a codebase several years old that can be fairly describe as "in good shape".
Why exactly are they taking notice?
You can make a Pi boot much faster than that. The main thing to disable is wait for network available. Other embedded boards I've used eg Rock960 are ssh-able within about 20 seconds or less.

Edit - much much faster (4 secs), actually:
http://himeshp.blogspot.com/2018/08/fast-boot-with-raspberry...
> Am I the only one here that finds it odd

1) In the US, for a pre-employee startup, you actually don't need to do anything at all to start a company initially. Especially if you're a solo founder (sole proprietor.) Just register your domain, develop your prototype and start marketing and selling.

Your bank will let you deposit one or 2 checks into your personal account regardless if it's to your company name.

2) If you later want a bank account with a company name, you need to:

- first register a DBA (doing business as) name locally

- create a bank account in that name.

Note that banks generally don't enforce 2-owner accounts, so if any founder has a check, they can draw on the company account themself. (The bank officialese is, "that should be defined in your articles of incorporation.") Also, I haven't seen any advantages with SVB, so just use a bank you're familiar with.

3) For taxes, as a sole proprietor, if you want to add a Schedule C for that company name on your personal tax forms, you can do that (just use separate personal and company receipts and ensure revenue is greater than expenses if you want to deduct the expenses.) But I'd recommend just keeping expense spending to a minimal amount and not bothering with the Schedule C for the first year or two.

4) If you want to incorporate, use Stripe. There's no reason to do so before you get investors, so don't. They will probably make you change your paperwork anyway later. You're not shielded from liability except under strict conditions.

5) For your first "employees", make them contractors. You will have to 1099 them if over $600/year. So for small stuff, keep that under $600/year.

Some clients will require a DUNS number.

Some clients will ask for permission to debit your account to clawback invoice payments. Don't allow that.

If you want to hire employees, that's more complicated, but you can use Gusto or whatever HR/Payroll cloud service these days. However, it's unlikely an early startup can afford even one employee. (YC likes multiple founders because they're free staff.) The only thing you can do very wrong legally is to fail to pay employee witholding deductions.

6) The parent poster mentioned a lot of overhead activities. If you're a new businessperson and don't see red flags with that, have somebody explain what "overhead" means.

7) If you have recvenue and want to hire a CPA or bookkeeper, the one question you can ask to see how competent they are is, "So how do R&D tax credits work with software development?"

8) I discussed US, and Canada is similar. Europe is very different and requires things like advance pension payments of around a million euros, so YMMV.

9) If you need affordable web design or QA, let me know and I'll share my contacts.
An illustrative link: https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2017/03/everything-is-heritabl... (A short post with a nice chart, contains a further link to a proper paper.)

Regarding the pessimism of genetic pre-determination and this congenital disadvantage: I think the real progress of society is how it learns to make lives of different people productive and satisfying. E.g. nerdy types had it hard in, say, 19th century Europe, but now they have a great and important niche in engineering. Same happened to many more predispositions of people that now lead to something interesting instead of pure misery.

I think this process is not going to stop.
It should be a common sense to cover your face during pandemic. It is 3 centuries old wisdom: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_doctor_costume

It is amazing how people naively believe in politician’s bullshit. The same is with “don’t hoard the food” with appearing articles about shortage of cheap workers in agricultural sector.

Next week a dude is coming to each flat in a complex with hundreds of flats to inspect pipes. There is pandemic outside, but it’s best time to inspect pieces. Politicians scream every day about pandemic and how one should stay at home. Maybe this pipe inspection might wait couple months!?
Well the opinion section of the Boston Globe is also written by a person (in this case two people, with separate credentials listed at the bottom). The Surgeon General tweeting is also an "opinion section". And if you think that whatever the official government official says must be true, feel free to go browse the official POTUS twitter acount.
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No, I have not. Does it do saner things than the “my way or the highway” standard Go toolchain?
Except when you reserve your cart they have to put a clear timer on the cart reservation, and you can DOS them by reserving all carts and holding them with bots.

During the Corvid pandemic the programmers are the only ones who’re gonna get fed XD
What’s TTM?
Save-On-Foods has another - different issue. They normally let you modify orders, which is great. However I've noticed that modifying when there are no additional available time slots for your post code does not work. Your time slot stays reserved however upon trying to check out you will get told that they do not deliver to your area. Eventually new slots opened up and I could update my order but a frustrating bug all the same.
Yes which is very useful in videoconferencing. We don't want to run Microsoft Teams or Skype elevated. You won't be able to control elevated applications though. You're still on the other side of the watertight hatch.
Now I'm confused and curious as to what the ‘library filing scheme’ means. Does it mean shared libraries? IIRC Unix stuff was statically-linked at first. And then again, what are ‘indexing’ and ‘data path switching’?
Even relying on GPS is overdoing it. Paint a white stripe on a tire using a permanent marker, and then mount an IR emitter and phototransistor in the wheel well. Knowing the diameter of the tire and the time between revolutions lets you easily figure out speed.
I've seen quite a lot of Asian tourists wearing masks after the MERS outbreak in 2015 and we weren't even in a middle of a pandemic. So it would be cautious to wear a mask in public during this pandemic if you've got one.
Actually this crisis is exactly why we don't need that separation. We need a government that can actually respond to crisis.

And even if we truly needed a new monetary system, crypto is just not the answer. Crypto has always and will always be useless as a currency and even as a store of value. Blockchains sound amazing to some but they are useless in the real world. It's been 12 years, every single use case, speculation aside, has been tried and failed miserably. The ship has sailed
You're not wrong, but I always wonder how the verbosity and crazy class hierarchy of Java code doesn't make things slower.

I know that compilers are smart, but the API doesn't make things easier at all
> dead bodies [...] data should be generally more reliable

Not to be too heartless towards sick people, but I think deaths is the only data that's really useful. In addition to reliability as you mention, I have no idea if "infected" means "light cough with a fever and the sniffles" or if it means "on a ventilator in a hospital". Deaths and being maimed are permanent and way more significant to me.

(Hopefully you'll forgive my overarching editing in quoting you)

Also note that you can set the plot in the linked page to show deaths. It's just not the default.
> Because JS JITs aren’t deterministic. Just starting the profiling or introspection tool could change internal behavior.

All all JavaScript JITs this way?
Hard to use active cases since it's not monotonic. If you switch to linear the resurgence becomes more visible.
That's a design choice.

Less implicit means safer but also more verbose and more cumbersome to write.

Rust priorities safety over everything else, also over productivity too in some case.

Absence of function overloading and automatic type conversion is a good example of that in Rust.

Is it the right choice ? Only time and multi-million line codebase will tell us.
Whilst I may be young and relatively healthy (mild asthma) I'm still sticking to delivery. Near to me there are few grocery stores and if I wanted to go to a larger store I would typically take transit. I've tried to minimise my impact by only ordering every 2 weeks as opposed to every week, but it seems like this is how I can have the lowest impact given the situation.
Provided there is enough of a GPS signal to get an accurate position, the GPS speedometer will be far more accurate than the vehicle one that's essentially based on the circumference of the tires.
I suppose it's a matter of perspective.