skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is strongly reminiscent of https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nidhiprakash/coronaviru... that anecdotally reported that COVID deaths are being severely underreported in the USA because doctors were told to only test if it would change the care given because tests were in short supply. But that means that if the person goes on to die, they are not actually counted as a case.
Okay, then collecting the data is expensive. Storage being cheap really doesn't matter. You can store tons of unstructured data but that data isn't valuable until it is structured which takes time and money.
First of all, fascinating!

Second, random thought unrelated to this thread:

If we think about a the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction, it's sort of different than most other chemical reactions, that is, most other chemical reactions are unidirectional, Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction is bidirectional, or perhaps we'd call it cyclical...

What would be fascinating, I think, would be to attempt to figure out what it would take to stabilize a Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction in one state... like what chemical or chemicals, and how much of them would do that?

Even more interesting... try to stabilize it in one state using electricity... or sound... or other electromagnetic wave phenomena...

If it could be stabilized in one state using any wave phenomena, then perhaps we might unlock some new understanding about this reaction, and Chemistry in general...

Anyway, my apologies, the above thought was unrelated to this discussion, but I needed to write it down someplace, and this was the most convenient place...<g>
Show HN: A natural language QnA portal for Covid19 research
Cisco owns Webex, so of course they'd use it. I've suffered through Webex with a previous employer and a current client, and it's just horrible. GoToMeeting is much better, and Zoom is better yet.
As others have noted, it's both. However, to the point of how dramatic the price war impact has been....

The day the oil war began, Brent dropped from $50 to $31 in two trading days, the greatest rapid decline in many decades. The 24% drop at that time was the greatest one day decline since 1991.
Through the prefers-color-scheme CSS media query [1], a draft [2] that is already implemented in mainstream browsers.

Websites can write stylesheets specifically for light or dark preferences. Browsers currently derive this information from the operating system's preferences.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...
[2]: https://drafts.csswg.org/mediaqueries-5/#prefers-color-schem...
What about Nim or pony or ...
Yes this. Grab the 'singlefile' add-on[0] and train yourself to hit that instead of bookmarking. You'll be much happier if you ever need the information again!

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/
I think it's meant to have a low heat signature, so efficiency was probably part of the consideration (less heat to shed).
Yeah it’s common advise to move a higher proportion of your wealth into cash as you approach retirement and I think it is the default behaviour of superannuation plans (I.e. pension) in Australia.
> That has a cost in lives too.

Four times as many people have already died from COVID-19 as are ever supposed to have died from great recession excess suicides, and we are just getting started with COVID-19. And the effect of recessions on overall mortality is much less clear (fewer die in commuting car accidents during recessions, for example). There's just no plausible way that a recession following this pandemic will kill more folks than the pandemic itself will, not even close.
If theres a silver lining to this pandemic hopefully it will make people realize the importance of having competent leaders and institutions.
It would look much cooler if the display was in the middle of the steering wheel, and round, like a big old classic computer display.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB78NXH77s4
This article makes a ton of sense to me.

Also, it aligns with my guilty belief/fear that this paper is onto something:

Chasing the Rainbow: The Non-conscious Nature of Being https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.0192...

Basically, the paper hypothesizes that all of conscious experience is just an artifact of the messaging layer between the real players -- our subconsciouses -- aka the geometry of our neural connectomes. (my spin)

tl;dr - Consciousness is pretty much just CapnProto or TCP/IP, which we happen to perceive as meaningful, when it's really just the chatter of subconsciouses shaking the air between themselves in complex ways, to signal things about the structures within.

And the next question: Communicate about what? Maybe just finding and gathering and converting structures with high degrees of symmetry out in the milieu. Like attracts like. Similar structures self-persist and reinforce one another. If similar enough, they can be merged and together sustained with the least energetic
Meanwhile, the unsigned 32-bit count of seconds (also) since 1970 used in pcap output from tcpdump, and used universally throughout the financial industry with no hint of a move away from it, will not roll over until 2106. If they are still in use then, code will interpret small values as implying a time after 2106, rather than as an ancient historical time before 2000.

It is hard to know why anybody thought it so urgent to go to 64-bit seconds counters for internal use in the kernel.
Yeah, if you look deaths as a fraction of population Germany seems to be on roughly equal footing with the U.S.

It's hard to say what's working.
PulmCrit – Splitting ventilators to provide support to a large group of patients
Reminded me of Macromedia Flash. :)
"do not even contain all the words in the query"

You may be overlooking where Google found the missing words or concepts in a page that linked to the hit, just not within the hit itself. That can actually be useful sometimes.
"Crazy" isn't the best choice of words. It has a loaded (negative) connotation.

California has high fuel taxes relative to other US states. It has low fuel taxes compared to most other countries. From random source [1], California is $0.35 per gallon. Fuel taxes in Canada vary from $0.64 to $1.55 per US gallon [2].

[1] https://www.salestaxhandbook.com/california/gasoline-fuel

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_fuel_taxes_in_Canada
A big lesson I learned from people here that survived the dotcom bust: you don’t want to be the last person laid off at any company. Don’t feel great if the lower performers are out the door first while the economy starts the circle the drain.

The reason is because there are companies that are still hiring and that will make it, but they’ll soak up their fill from all of the early lay-off talent and there will be very little left for you when you’re the last person to turn off the lights.

I guess the moral of the story is to keep your resume fresh, and if a good opportunity comes by during this time it might not hurt to consider it.
This! The housing market seems to have punished anyone with a conservative financial mindset.
8 weeks sounds pretty awesome when a $100-millions company gives you 2 weeks (minimum legal here in Canada)...
Worth noting this is from last week. What's Germany's rate now? Since Germany started testing extensively and early, and death is a lagging indicator, I wouldn't be surprised if this creeps up to the more expected ~1.5% we see in Korea or the Diamond Princess.

I check the worldometers numbers everyday, and already Germany is up about half a percent from when that article was written, but I'm not totally sure that site's numbers are trustworthy.
Germany's curve is way better looking than ours though. Eventually it's very likely that Germany will settle at a lower population-adjusted fatality rate than the U.S. But it's not going to look at good as their raw CFR would indicate.
I think it has to do with shifting expectations. All of us who use the Web seriously, and have been for years, want a full text search engine. The average user wants what Ask Jeeves promised to be: something that takes vaguely question-shaped queries and spits back a fast answer. Or a glorified URL bar to outsource memory and effort.
Trolling is a art
They did? There was literally nothing in there that hasn’t been said several times and the structure of this pretty short article was "1. Official data and official analysis; 2. A single anecdote as counterpoint; 3. Meaningless official opinion on the anecdote that’s meaningless as it’s nothing but a single anecdote". I like NPR, but highlighting this as "better reporting"?
morningstar.com reprints just about everything in WSJ as f far as I can tell.

https://www.morningstar.com/news/dow-jones/2020033114017/xer...

There's a Lucifer's syndication joke in there somewhere. I'm just a bit too tired to tease it out.
Or perhaps it will come from the profit of the company?
You need HyperCar: HyperCard for Cars!

Then you could delete the buttons you don't use, and make the ones you do use really big, with cool pictures, and funny sounds when you touched them.

HyperCard Adventures (hypercardadventures.com):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19237052

https://hypercardadventures.com/
Microsoft did a similar thing with ASP.NET site. There were quite a lot of old articles for ASP.NET WebForms that were really good references or if you were working with someone that was new to WebForms you could just point them to a particular article and say "read through this, this has almost everything covered on how to do this".

Very frustrating.
Here's a don't: don't bring some BS document for the fired person to sign. They have no reason to do so and shouldn't feel pressured to execute something like a non-disparagement agreement, unless it comes with a big checks stapled to it.
I assume you have a day job and in the course of your duties, you charge people for your time while working with open source frameworks. Would it be hypocrisy for you to expect a wage while building solutions based on other people's efforts?
USA Fever Heatmap: Isolation working since Mar 20
Are you contemplating compulsory education? What we already do to kids so they don't resort to hedonism?
Yup. This is the one I followed and the results are perfect.
He also has a baguette recipe which is quite similar which comes out just right too.

Also, if you are running out of yeast (like I did) you can just save some of the dough and learn how to feed the culture with flour and water daily.
I have actually contemplated a scenario where they pump oil into a hole in the ground for safe-keeping. It has several benefits:

* You're still producing oil meaning jobs are being maintained and money is flowing.

* You're potentially even refining some of it - at least certain types.

* You're safely storing it where it probably won't be stolen and is safely available if it ever increases in value.

* Storage is extremely low cost, potentially even free.

They could even pump it and then store it in the same hole it came from.

Okay that last part is obviously facetious, but there is something absurdly comical about two countries playing a game of chicken with their own petro-economies in the middle of a pandemic.
Bayesian Online Changepoint Detection in Python
Economies are surprisingly resilient. It’s systemic causes not temporary disruptions that cause long term issues.

Just look at say Japan after the tsunami which not only killed people but also destroyed a lot of critical infrastructure.
This happens often when there is a price shock--a kind of oil chicken where everyone keeps producing at a loss because they need to pay back the investments on the venture.
Since oil underpins the cost of so many things, are we seeing the beginning of a deflationary cycle?

With central banks around the world pumping money into the economies, can the extra money counteract the downward pressure?

It's a weird time to see glut of oil and glut of money flowing around.
Actual professional engineers don't have strange, gamified interviews to guess someone's skill level.

Is all of this modelling the problem of the hiring bar or training to beat it really solving the right problem?
Do any of the solutions to this constructed problem actually work reliably or are they just elevator close buttons, frobs that may not really function but provide a sense of control?
I paid $0.99 at Costco in OKC, OK on March 25th. I'm not sure what the price is now.
At $7 a gallon for West Texas crude on the futures that translates to under 17 cents a gallon. Course that doesn't include refining and transportation costs plus federal and state taxes.

I don't know about your area but here in Michigan we're still at $2 a gallon. My friends in Austin, Texas say gas there is $1.35 a gallon. Is it fair to assume that middlemen are making obscene profits or am I wrong?
In English too
Filter bubbles aren't inherently bad. For example, Google bubbling up news from my city makes sense, but if it were to show me small news from every single city on the planet, that would be insane. Similarly, I enjoy it when it gives me some article about Animal Crossing that I've been playing lately, but doesn't show me any sports news that I have zero interest in. There are just so many different interests out there that it's simply impossible to follow every single one, so having news bubbles absolutely makes sense.

When people talk negatively about bubbles, they generally focus on the couple cases where being in a bubble is harmful, such as when it comes to science, politics and so on, but ignore all the other times where a bubble is good.
Mac users are not the only group who know what those words mean.
I'm not sure if asbestos was seen as benign, it always seemed more like a case of an indispensable wonder product to which nothing else came close.
Be warned that for all intents and purposes "San Marzano" has become a meaningless phrase that people slap on their random tinned tomatoes because they know food network audiences are looking for it.
I've idly wondered what would happen if you made a search engine based on a custom crawler that only logged sites without any references to Google.
You'll have to look up your state taxes, they can make up a fairly large amount of the total cost of gas as the price goes down.
Less fat people.
Fair enough. It just confused me, I thought it somehow got accepted into the spec without me noticing :p
No, I know what you're talking about; this is an issue in general if you'd not using tooling that's aware of the ins and outs of C++. The point is that the IDEs I have used essentially run the compiler on the file, so they can actually understand what the templates are doing and get through them.
It would be so beautiful if we could start back the global economy with more remote work & less oil.
They can raise property gax, income tax, or gas tax, and yes the Fed govt can print money and grant it to states, as it does for highways and Medicaid.
The latest I have is 1.08%. Johns Hopkins has it at 775 deaths on 71,808 cases. Their very low mortality rate has held throughout, and they currently have a very large number of recovered patients, implying it's holding through the progression (most countries with good mortality numbers lose that as the cases get worse; you can spot this delay by the very low recovery cases as a percentage).

So far among nations in Western Europe, 1.08% is extraordinary. France is at 6.6% at a similar point in recovered cases vs positive tests. And Germany is the second oldest nation at the median, behind Japan, among major nations. That mortality rate is a remarkable achievement so far.
Gas futures (RBOB) are currently trading at slightly over 50 cents a gallon:

https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/energy/refined-products/rbo...

Of course the realities of the supply chain won't allow 50 cents a gallon fuel in the US, but it's interesting that April contracts (RBJ20) settled around this $0.55 mark - deliveries will shortly be happening at these ridiculous prices.
People who have or care about Apple products were likely get that, but the title says "SSH", not "Apple". "Catalina 10" means absolutely nothing to almost everyone.
And most of that perception of hype (positive and negative) is likely paid for.
Organizing the data is part of collecting it. For something like customer checkin data it would seem to be organized right at the point of collection. The clerk types your data into a database record and submits it to the store.
They are also tomatoes bred for taste rather than shelf life, which makes a significant difference. Unless they’re in season, I’d personally never use “fresh” tomatoes from the produce section. Canned tomatoes from a good vineyard will taste better and even be cheaper sometimes.

For whatever reason, my generation (20s) tends to have a some repulsive initial reaction to canned goods. But as long as they’re packed sans preservatives, many fruits and vegetables are probably better for you than the “fresh” ones at the grocery store.
I still have a paperback book that claimed to be a comprehensive, not curated list of internet sites. It didn't even come with electronic media as became customary with computer books later on.
The "decentralized approach" thing wrt Germany is something I’ve seen mentioned several times in English media (I assume Drosten said it in a press conference). I don’t know how it is in other countries, but it seems to me this is only great in comparison to the US problems of broken centralization, and only regarding the testing. There are several demands of higher centralization in Germany when it comes to information: reporting of cases, information about hospital beds, and distribution of patients based on those.
Simdjson 0.3: Faster JSON parser
Wonderful; though I've been using it for quite literally years at this point. It's pretty rapid compile times, coupled with easy-as-anything C integration meant writing performant CLI tools or daemons with it was a breeze.

The nicest part of Nim I feel is that it was super easy for non-Nim programmers to pick up and understand. The team would regularly contribute to the tooling despite not using it anywhere near as extensively as myself, which I think speaks volumes to it's ease-of-use
After the dust settles from the countless lawsuits, states will be forced to pay the difference as they ordered the shutdowns. State taxes will need to be raised on those who were lucky enough to keep their jobs.

Any remaining funds that can't be borrowed from the federal government will be foisted on the next generation through clever extensions, delays or creative financing.
Counter-point: no observer would consider an employer heartless for laying off people during an unprecedented economic downturn.

Do you consider restaurants heartless for laying off staff? Cruise lines? Hotels? Entertainment businesses?

It's a tough decision, but failing to make it could be the difference between laying off a few people and laying off everyone because the company goes bankrupt. The key is to do this in a respectful manner so the bridge isn't burned.
That's what I was getting at, S/S seems like a foundational step, before being able to whitelist/blacklist. You first need to be certain about the source of the call before you can actually moderate it. Without authentication, spoofing makes banning numbers meaningless and dangerous.
> You can pretty easily use a Python library from Ruby by writing a little loop in Python that accepts JSON input and produces JSON output, and calling that as a Ruby subprocess.

If you're a Ruby application, sure, you can use a Python library by forking off a subprocess.

Just make sure to document the installation requirements - in addition to having Ruby and the correct gems installed, you also need Python (which version?) and the correct pip libraries installed.

If you're a Ruby library, instead of an application, forking off a Python process is a nonstarter, unless you want to propagate those requirements out to every single application using your library.
Passion for technology, humanities drives Stanford med student
Excerpts:

"Fortnite has seen even greater levels of financial success: In the last two years combined, the game has brought in more than $4 billion in revenue – and like Tinder, it too monetizes primarily with signal amplification."

[...]

"In contrast to mobile games however, Fortnite is also free to win. None of the in-app purchases available impact the core gameplay. You can’t buy more powerful weapons or stronger armor that give you an advantage over other players."

[...]

"Fortnite’s monetization model is based on cosmetics: The skin your character wears; the looks of your glider and the tools you use; the way your character dances (emotes) – all of these are signaling amplifiers with different signal messages to uniquely express yourself in the game. And you have to purchase them."
Is this the company behind omniGraffle? I love their product. I don't know what other products they have, but it doesn't sound like the current situation should have an effect on them, at least not yet. Sounds like they have been struggling regardless.
Hmm, that's a bit disappointing…might I suggest trying out a LibClang-based IDE, if CLion isn't using it already? It can do wonders even to "stupid" applications. For example, my Sublime Text (by itself, with only basic knowledge of C++ keywords and such) with clangd tells me that std::make_shared comes from this code in <memory>:

template<class _Tp, class ..._Args>
inline _LIBCPP_INLINE_VISIBILITY
typename enable_if
<
!is_array<_Tp>::value,
shared_ptr<_Tp>
>::type
make_shared(_Args&& ...__args)
{
return shared_ptr<_Tp>::make_shared(_VSTD::forward<_Args>(__args)...);
}
It seem like what I would really want is a big screen in the middle Tesla style and glue an xbox pad on the steering wheel. And give me a fold out keyboard if I need to type something real. And maybe a minimal hud with just the speed and top speed. That's at least what I would do.
Exactly the point. The necessity for car ownership in the US is a monstrous tax collected and paid to car manufacturers and oil companies.
How the heck is Zoom even HIPAA compliant?
Agreed I've never heard of a 8 week cap either. Actually I thought it was the opposite, if you have WARN act its a 60 day notice period before the severance, its more like 8 weeks is a minimum. https://www.edd.ca.gov/Jobs_and_Training/Layoff_Services_WAR...
So does that mean the color of each of the two pills has been reversed?
Some viruses are more tissue-specific than others. But viruses do not reach, they passively float until it can jump to cell it can hook up with so it just needs to get into your system.
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office paper & corrugated cardboard are some of the higher value recycled materials.
Also if the crust comes out too crunchy, I just bake it at a lower temp and longer.
Are you the owner of bunghol.io?
That seems like the kind of nerd wish that 99.99% of buyers would never use and would make it impossible to drive somebody elses car.

Its like people who insist on working with dvorak in a company but much worse.
Yes, OmniGaffle is one of the many "Omni-" products they make.