skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay yeah two files but like fifty trillion lines each.

Cool stuff though.
The WHO has been urging everybody to get prepared for 10 weeks now, while constantly giving the same good advice (test, trace, lockdown, social distance).

People are pretending this is all WHO's fault because they said some wrong stuff in early January, when the correct conclusions were not at all obvious. And they've been completely correct and transparent since late January. It's almost April now. At this point, it's just a worn out excuse.
If it’s really about what the software does, then the conversation would be about exposing proper APIs that let me view the data, query it, schedule operations on it, etc.

But then offering a shinier/slightly more bespoke way of doing that becomes a competitive advantage for your product, and now you get why everyone wants to build their own custom UI.

The reason why the aforelinked to Open UI project will never be the One and Only way to build UIs on the web is because there’d too much economic value in being able to do precisely what it can’t do!
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Biotech VC Bob Nelsen called it right on the coronavirus
What does a "clean UI" mean, and why would that be worth having a confusing UI that leads people to mislick?

Why would there be a fundamental tradeoff between whatever "clean" means, and being confusing? Surely it's possible to build a UI that isn't confusing, but also has whatever positives a "clean UI" has?
Add Ashes of the Singularity to that list too, great worst case for benching gaming rigs cpu bottleneck.
Art can be contemporary. Science not. We are currently looking at 200k deaths in the USA [1] from COVID-19, in the good scenario. How is it even compatible with their 0.01% mortality rates? Have we forgotten how to divide numbers?

[1]https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/490138-birx-says...

P.S. They even make the claim that COVID-19 has 1/10th the mortality of seasonal flu :facepalm:
supply chains and competency.

the component manufacturers are all right there, which simplifies things.

plus china is really good at building stuff. you want a factory to make something? their ability to spin up production is excellent.

the pay side of it is really much less of a factor than people think. china's just better at this stuff right now.
Most people probably know this anyway, but, try incognito mode.
I think the LEO argument for requiring firearms for safety is weaker than the public's interest in encouraging the social and strategic/tactical training police need to get to a point of operating functionally, which, to me, would necessarily involve a reduction in the necessity for carrying, drawing, and firing a service weapon.

They may not like what they'd have to do in lieu of just shooting an alleged suspect, but that's different from it being less effective.
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I agree, I still cannot make up my mind about masks...

It seems like "back in the day" people trusted the experts, becuase well, there weren't many alternatives (?); but now thanks to the internet everyone can google for a while and feel like they have a worthwhile opinion.

It seems like now it's possible to find an expert (and/or data) to justify any opinion.

I am not saying this is bad, but that it's just different. The game has changed.
Learning about ECS and how to use them made gamedev so much easier for me. Although now I'm hamstrung by only being able to work on games in languages/frameworks with a solid ECS library (does a good/community agreed upon one exist for rust yet?).

ECS, the observer pattern, and behavior trees are probably the three main things that answered all the "how on earth do they build something this complex" questions for me.
Well I’m sorry it’s apparently not working for other folks, but I felt substantially calmer after listening to the song. My wife on the other hand didn’t like it at all. Thanks to whomever posted it.
Thanks, that solves the size problem for me!
I got hit with something similar the other day. The funny part is; I have systems in place to document everything I do as part of compliance. Plus it just makes my job easier. There's nothing worse than solving the same problem twice.

Lately my employer has been so on edge they want me to document the work I'm doing. So basically they want me to perform some work, document that for compliance purposes, and then document that I worked and documented it again just so someone can read it in their inbox instead of the self serve help desk. It's insanity.
> It's time it happened with reactive DOM rendering.

This is framework nonsense. Rendering isn’t related to the DOM.

https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/
Regarding #5, I imagine there are a lot of portaloos just sitting around, as there are no festivals and outdoor events going on this summer.
>with serious

without?
Thank you for the heads-up.
Like Oauth? Or what? Okta is for startups

Please ask a more specific question so we know what you need
Yeah, this was true for basically everything like, 12? years ago. But it has been steadily getting less and less true as time goes on. Doesn't stop it being repeated constantly though.

There should be a formalized law for this - anything that was once widely known as true (because it was) will continue to be treated as gospel far after it ceases to be the case.
It really boggles one's mind that a mask would be referred as FFP2 repeatedly and somehow be tested under KN95 that only existed in China* and was only recently approved in the Netherlands.

But it's all just speculation at this point without more information from the health minister.

* Granted it doesn't differ from the American standard by far.
Demand is decreasing because prices have sky rocketed. This is very similar to private hospitals working in concert for price gauging. The only way to get this under control is state jumping in and introduce some real competition. Education doesn’t have to be expensive and everyone deserves education they want. From what I understand, demand for CS and general tech is as high as it has ever been but people can’t get in to quality providers with reasonable cost.
Covid-19 and the Success Story of Taiwan
Sorry, you're right. The messaging was that it's primarily the travelers.

My feeling is that the quarantines definitely should have gone ahead, but in justifying them to the public the govt. seemed to place a little too much emphasis, such that people interpreted (as they do, in a crisis) most significant risk as only risk.
> Is async/await a good idea for an OS kernel, even a toy one?

You might want to look at Joe Duffy's posts about Microsoft's Midori OS. In particular the post "Asynchronous Everything":

http://joeduffyblog.com/2015/11/03/blogging-about-midori/

Their findings sound pretty compelling to me. Personally I'm convinced that eventually we'll see much more system-level use of async/await style mechanisms. Perhaps with Rust, perhaps with C++ once coroutines land in C++20.
Is "種" even acceptable as "(bread)dough" in Chinese? Google Translate gives me "麵團".
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Meetup is by far the worst company I've ever dealt with. I'm not the sort of person to leave negative reviews on anything. I've never given less than a 5 star review to an Uber driver. But I will straight up say that Meetup is an atrocious company that has consistently (over a period of several years) ignored its customers (organizers), made obnoxious decisions that negatively affected its customers, increased prices, decreased quality of service, and just generally been an absolute nightmare to deal with. I truly loathe this company and wish there was some way to export my group members (but of course, Meetup has deliberately made that impossible). Almost every group organizer I have spoken to feels the same way.
At a guess, this is perhaps a consequence of the fact that the entire rest of China has been treating everyone from Hubei like a plague carrier since January regardless of whether they've even been there in years. Any country that didn't, at the very least, quarantine people who'd been in Hubei plus their close contacts back then probably can't expect the same results, and even that plus contract tracing and testing plus social distancing only seems to hve delayed the inevitable.
Overview: "Taiwan is one of the very few places (along with Singapore and Hong Kong) to avoid strong repercussions for its citizens, despite the fact that many still work and reside in China. Taiwan owes its success largely to the emergency implementation of data analysis and new technologies."
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We're a company that does a lot of event driven marketing (ex. send text/promo after certain event or in customer profile).

We've been struggling creating the right eng flow to make this easier for us and the marketing team - anyone here face something similar / use a tool of some sort to empower marketing?
They literally just posted this a few days ago https://twitter.com/WHOWPRO/status/1243171683067777024 when we know it's false and that masks do offer some level of personal protection on top of making everyone around you safer, given that you can infect others while asymptomatic.
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(I'm sure that epidemiologists reading posts like the OP feel a lot like software devs reading opinion columns about cybersecurity or cryptocurrencies.)
Hey everyone, Interaction Designer who is working on the project here. My day job is working at Google but this is a really rewarding volunteer gig. The folks behind this are humble and top notch.

The functioning masks use FDA-approved surgical guide resin, not an extrusion-based material which might exhibit problematic porosity. We're only pursuing materials that already have FDA clearance, and working directly with hospitals and industry partners to scale.

This is not a DIY, at-home effort. The adapters we are using are printed in an industrial facility and are currently being fielded by many MDs. We will have over 400 out in hospitals next week and have a goal to put out 50k before this is over.
No pictures I can share yet since we don't have release forms but please feel free to AMA. I speak for myself, not my employer or the larger MasksOn org.
> Having a smallish team makes it possible (although not easy) to have a team that are all high performers. And that team can easily outperform one 2x-5x as large if not more, because there is a large communication overhead to scaling to more people.

^ This. As the project gets larger you can't find enough "star programmers" in a timely manner and have to fall back to mediocracy. Read "The Mythical Man-Month" and the associated Brooks' Law for context.
Except for the nasty first sentence you make debatable points... I’d get rid of the deplorable usage of the word “cesspit”.
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This whole mess has been a repudiation of business-as-usual politics, but it has not been a repudiation of scientific experts.

Scientific experts across the world have been alarmed for months now. The only problem is that, as with any new and uncertainty situation, the error bars started absolutely enormous, so the range of expert opinion has been wide. This is the case in any crisis. With the benefit of hindsight, you can always find an expert who was wrong, but that doesn't mean anything.

It's important to say this because later, you're going to start to hear bloviating from politicians who failed to act for months. "Nobody knew this was coming." "Everything that went wrong was solely the fault of $enemy_country or $rival_party."
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What has struck me most about Epidemiology, are the qualifications needed to be someone pursuing a career in it.

It seems like an Epidemiologist is most likely to be a doctor with some knowledge of statistics. On the contrary, I would have thought that a statistician/operations research person with domain knowledge of medicine would be a lot better suited to study epidemiology.

A lot of the existing models also seem really naïve for something an entire field depends on. Tradeoffs between human life lost due to the disease and effective human lives lost due to economic downturns seem entirely unstudied.

Czechia's actions of forcing people to using masks seems to have worked amazingly well for flattening out the curve. The "science" not seems to support it, and official recommendations are now moving back to recommending masks for all. The popular hypothesis for this, is that it stops nonsymptomatic carriers from being spreaders.

Now this sounds like a fairly obvious thing to realize, and to an extent, existing models should have caught this a lot earlier.

I grew up as a kid with an almost religious belief in Science. Over time, I have come to realize that a lot of our sciences are at best empirical and at worst entirely unverifiable. I am a 100% certain, that in a 100 years, we will look at medicine and nutrition of the 2000s, the way we look at humors and blood letting.
OP is running a wordpress site. k8s with any wrapper adds a ton of accidental complexity for some very, very meager savings in this context.

Its great people like to play with trendy toys and write articles about them to drive traffic to their business. But this is really bad advice if you take it at face value.
I joined the ACM in college. I found the library pretty useful as a "typical developer" and took good advantage of the free access that my employers provided. I paid for ACM library access out of my own pocket when I left for a smaller company, but let it lapse a couple years ago when I realized that most of the papers I was reading were also available elsewhere, and that the journals I was following no longer had as many compelling papers.

(Reading papers on a regular basis is something that I encourage developers and managers to do; it's a good way to expand your toolkit and get ideas for different ways to solve things. A paper a week -- maybe an hour a week, on average -- and that's like fifty new things you've been exposed to in a year. These add up, and eventually can make a big difference in how you approach problems).
Kind of funny in this entire thread there's no one mentioning the posting for a job in Camrose that was on Hacker News only a few days ago:

https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200144575/software-engi...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22642185
Yeah initially it was moved for pay, but now it's moved for expertise and population density. If you wanted to hire a 50,000 experienced assembly worked and 5,000 engineers tomorrow, China is the only place you could do it.
Czechs are doing it now.
WHO are still (1) telling people that they don't need to wear protection on their faces unless they're having overt symptoms of the disease or caring for someone who is, and (2) downplaying aerosols as a possible factor in transmission, despite known superspreading events associated with e.g. people singing in a choir (where, last I checked, you don't have a lot of coughing or sneezing). This sort of stuff has real consequences.
I forgot to tell: you are focusing on US (the Trump mention), I work in a US company (so I keep up with the situation there) but I live in Europe and I see the situation in the countries around me: it's full of populism, not "the rich and powerful".

I don't have a specific paper in mind for the math, but the knowledge from college with a major in statistics (and demography). It does not make me an expert, just a bit more qualified than most people.
Okay, yeah, the mask thing absolutely blows my mind. I have absolutely no idea what their motivation for saying this is, when just about every expert in every east Asian country disagrees.
So does git. I know, I know, git doesn't provide the features you expect from a full fledged database, but neither does Dolt.

Dolt even has some content in a GitHub wiki, which uses git as a database backend for a web app: https://github.com/liquidata-inc/dolt/wiki
This isn't a techie thing. Everyone in service gets paid more than similar skills in back of house, because humans are social. No one tips their factory workers.
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Give me a break...twice. The guy who ingested fish tank cleaner was a tried and true moron. And when you have a crisis of this extent you do what you have to do and relax the, ah, formalisms a little.
>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?

That wasn't my takeaway.

My takeaway is that if you have some intuitive sense that shit's about to hit the fan and authorities keep telling you to stay calm and don't take any special precautions, all while danger is clearly growing, it's best to lean towards following your intuitions gradually just in case things ramp up. You shouldn't buy 10000 rolls of toilet paper, but all those people who thought, "Hmmm, maybe I should buy some masks and a couple extra bottles of hand sanitizer. Maybe not visit the movie theater anytime soon as well" while authorities were saying "Go to work and be normal. Masks are useless"... well, they were right and it would've been better to take those then "unnecessary" precautions.

Reminds me of people talking about government surveillance pre and post Snowden. If you wanted to encrypt all your messages and avoid Facebook, etc, you were a conspiracy nut because it was impossible to surveil everything. Overnight it became "Of course they monitor everything. Why wouldn't they? But we have end-to-end encryption now and we can completely trust it."
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For people with serious lung issues. Yes, these are done without causing serious lung issues. They are far safer than ventilators, which can promote antibiotic resistant secondary infections.

I have edited the above for clarity.
The official experts are often partially under the control of their governments and their politics. Eg, the doctors getting arrested in China for warning people. Sometimes, these agencies are just overconfident too, like how all our health agencies saying over and over that we have ample capacity and supplies - then New York happens.

The experts are definitely what we need, but not all experts are created equal. It’s like during wwi - it took a while to weed out the useless commanders/generals since the peacetime systems failed to promote based on ability

(Edit: Incidentally, I think we have some great people in Alberta at the moment. Very lucky for us)
You need a way to get analytics on which event is providing high-value customers. That means tracking leads, and getting those leads into your sales funnel. There's a reason Salesforce leads in this field, but even having a spreadsheet full of contacts after the event that you follow up with might be enough to validate your pipeline hypothesis. That said, this is going to be a rough season for in-person events.
Those new sliders are horrible. They don't give you an accurate idea of their value, or even that they are to be interacted with. Very bad.
Exactly, cherry picking the most optimistic thing the most optimistic expert said two months ago is a tremendously unfair way of evaluating the field.
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Though I have a long history with IDEs I feel just as comfortable with the console, or the lighter-weight, electron-based IDEs.

For the last couple of years I've lived pretty much exclusive in the Ruby/RubyMine, Python/PyCharm, Scala/IntelliJ worlds.

However, I recently finished a medium-sized Crystral project only using VSCode. For debugging, I wrote unit tests and kept Sentry running. The compiler pretty much catches everything else. The combination worked out very well.
種 should mean "seed" in this context
This sounds like I’m on prank show. You talk like this in real life? Why are you using all these big words? Why not keep it simple stupid?

It’s way worse to write like you do than to list stuff out with semicolons,
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I sent a similar text to a medically vulnerable friend on Jan 25 saying I thought it was "scary, but not the scariest thing in the world right now", despite having spent some time working with an epidemiology research group. In hindsight, I knew enough to take the risk much more seriously.

This article: https://virologydownunder.com/past-time-to-tell-the-public-i..., plus the rising mortality numbers, spurred me to start warning the medically vulnerable people in my life on Feb 23. I am very grateful to the authors for helping me do the right thing.

At this point, it seems to me that our experts are still letting us down in two important ways:

1. They aren't rebutting this implicit notion that any mortality risk below 1% can be rounded down to zero. As a consequence, the idea that it might be a good idea to let younger, healthy people just go out and get the virus and get immune seems to still have currency, and this is really dangerous. We can't open things back up until we have a credible plan for driving the infection rate toward zero. Leaving aside the risk of life-changing injury, a mortality risk of eg 0.5% applied to eg half of young adults would still be by far the most dangerous thing that happens to most of them this year, and a huge personal tragedy for many of us. Do the math and work out how many people you know would die.

2. Simple, inexpensive measures like widespread masking, handwashing, gloves and eye protection will clearly be important components of any credible plan for driving the infection rate toward zero, unless we get an early vaccine. The experts should be hammering the point that we all need to be fastidious about those things whenever we open back up again.
You had a terrible union, but you seem to be saying that the worst the union did is th same as it not existing. In a competetive market, since you accepted the job with the union cut, you would have accepted the job if there was no union and management just offered to pay less.

That's good odds on average.
"We are currently looking at 200k deaths in the USA"

That is a prediction. It is not yet a fact.

Right now we just don't have a good idea of how many people 1) how many people are currently infected, 2) how many people have already been infected and recovered without being tested, 3) how many people were already immune and would never have been infected, 4) how the way you are infected changes the outcome of the disease.

The mortality rate depends directly on those numbers. Until we know those numbers, we just don't know for sure. With H1N1 initial estimates of the fatality rate per infection were almost two orders of magnitude too high. A similar error may or may not be happening here.

The best we have right now is a tiny handful of limited, non-representative, "accidental experiments" like the Princess Diamond, that may or may not represent how the disease spreads in the community (note question #4). This will however soon change as more randomized testing is done, and in particular, anti-body testing to determine who already got the disease and recovered.