skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At work our program is about a million lines of code (plus third party libraries etc). We've got 124 different customer specific file/data integrations. Most of those integrations are file based, and the majority of them also involve us fetching or uploading via HTTP or (S)FTP.

Doing low-level file I/O, socket I/O, handling low-level HTTP and FTP code for each one that needs it, parsing XMLs from scratch five dozen times, doing all those integrations without abstractions... how is that an improvement?

And reducing line count by a mere 10x would do nothing for keeping it all in the head at one time. Even if you could get it down by 1000x, I don't think you'd accomplish much because the logic still has to be there.
CDC provides guidelines for donning/doffing N95 masks here: https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/ppe-training/n95respirator...

The process is straightforward. I was shown a different technique than they provided, and am not a fan of having dirty gloves on or around my head and face as they show there.

I have been trained to usa a gloved hand and place it over the center of the mask, use your other hand to lift the straps over your head, and then pull away and discard the mask and gloves. The key is to prevent any contact between the exterior of the mask and your face, and certainly not to touch your face with the gloves.

Removing the mask incorrectly risks exposure to whatever was outside the mask in the first place. For the kind of exposure nonmedical personnel ought to experience, and for extended wear periods, I would think the mask would act to integrate whatever you've been surrounded by. In other words, you've collected 8 hours of crap on the front of it, so you'd want to be extra careful with the dirty part.
See the comment down below from a cofounder of Pachyderm :-)
> A mask will not prevent you from getting the virus, since covering your own mouth from others coughing doesn't really help you. If you are sick though, it protects others.

What is the mechanism for this?

At first, I'd expect it to be the other way around--if I'm wearing a mask and cough the mask is going to bear the full force of my cough. All of the cough is hitting the mask, and the cough is moving at its fastest speed.

If I'm not wearing a mask and you are, my cough is going to be spread out some when it reaches you and slowed by air resistance, so your mask should only have to deal with a fraction of my cough and at lower velocity.

Thus, I'd expect your mask to have a much easier task than mine.

Is it that the drops of moisture (and phlegm and whatever else might be in a cough) are bigger at the point of emission and break apart as they disperse, and so they have a harder time going through a mask at my end than at your end?

If that is the case, I still have to wonder what happens on subsequent coughs. I cough, producing big drops that the mask stops. Still, the viruses in the drops have to go somewhere when the mask absorbs the droplets, right? Does my mask end up moistened with virus-contaminated water? Will my subsequent coughs as they blast air through the mask then be able to knock small virus laden droplets off my mask?
Please find all the standards, list them down. I can help to find the common pattern and help this project out.
Dolt is and always will be open source. Feel free to fork a copy and make it your own.
I can make you an insanely intricate door if you want with a cheap CNC machine. But I don't see a ton of demand for it.

Also, the vast majority of the cost of a half million dollar home is the land.
Choose your side. Do you think this project is on your side ? then provide your contributions in form of directions the project needs to take. Thanks.
Masks offer very limited protection. It’s similar to wearing medieval platemail to protect against a high powered rifle. Partial protection at best.

Direct sneezes or coughs right in front of you are safer but you also need eye protection. That still leaves the ears open and microabrasians on your skin.

False confidence with the expectation they’re safe with an N95 mask is even worse than no mask at all. It’s like those kids in the news some years ago that held up a book to stop a bullet and killed someone.

If you wear the mask in a constrained area with a group of people, such as an elevator, you may as well not even have it on.

The only sure way to not get the virus is avoiding people.
Damn, that's quite striking.
FSS are paid by the order–you see a preview of how much you'll make before accepting an order (broken down into IC pay, mileage pay, and customer tip). ISS are paid by the hour and sign on with an hourly wage agreement.

Haven't worked as an ISS, but I presume that they have no say in their orders as they aren't paid per order. I actually have no idea if they even get a portion of tips.

source: have run for Instacart before.
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If someone failed, its an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.
Feel free to share what windows tried and what failed. It will help out other readers.
It's a Californian law mandating that subscriptions that can be started online, must be cancellable online. https://www.androidauthority.com/california-online-subscript...
You were saying "The article is trying to sell you on a laptop that performs like a bulky heavy gaming laptop but travels like a mid range spreadsheet pusher." but i was saying it does not perform like a bulky heavy gaming laptop because it has an inferior GPU compared to those.

I am sure once it's on a more equal footing there will be some small gains but nothign earth shattering, alas.
OK, apparently it's bullshit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22734799
Ok. I saw all those "make a blog with Eleventy" examples but an integral part of a blog is images and of course automatic resizing of preview etc of those.

But cheers, I'll check it out some more.
Please share list of other standards.
Dick's version of the Man in the High Castle has a good meditation on forgeries.

Mostly when people buy art, they're buying provenance, proof that a celebrity artist in history touched this particular object.

Forgers have gotten incredibly sophisticated, finding ways to duplicate the texture of historical paints and style of brush strokes of masters.

I think we'd do a lot of good for the world by commissioning as indistinguishable fakes as possible for all famous works, putting them in a room where the originals are all shuffled in, then sending them out into the world so any museum or private collector can have one, with some chance it's actually the real thing, but mostly the value would collapse to however sublime it is to actually look at the work.
You can make a solid case and I tried: https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2020-03-06-so-you-want-git-for-...

But there are some limitations for large tables. Diffs only work if you order the file in the same order. Plus, you have to import the data into some other tool to do anything with it.
Yes, I understand the reason for the low counts. As I keep repeating, you want to pay attention to the flooding of hospitals with Covid patients, that you can't hide (unless you're very authoritarian with strict media control).

These places are not buried in dead people either. Their intensive care systems are not being flooded. Their hospitals are not being flooded by a million cases.

Mexico is not seeing what NY and other high-infection climates have. Given the poverty, poor healthcare system, poorly prepared healthcare system, high traffic and trade with the US via NAFTA and in general, it should have an enormous number of cases by now, and as a consequence a large number of daily deaths and intensive care cases hammering their healthcare systems in every major city. None of that is happening. It's not happening for the same reason it's not happening in Texas.
Things 3: note taking

Spectre/Halide: photography

Cardhop: contact management

Carrot: weather

Superhuman: super email

Stardew Valley: mobile game

Headspace: meditation

The Guardian: news

also other subscriptions include: Spotify/Apple Music, Protonmail...
Well, yeah, it's Nippon right?
Let me get this straight (all of these are straight from the article):

1) Nembro, in the province of Bergamo, is the municipality most affected by Covid-19 in relation to the population.

2) hypothesis - not at all remote - [is] that all citizens of Nembro have caught the virus ... Given the decline seen in the last few days after the peak, flock immunity has likely been attained in Nembro.

3) 158 deaths would equate to a lethality rate of 1%. That is precisely the expected and measured lethality rate ...

So, the worst hit city in the worst hit region, with collapsed medical system and elderly population; the absolute upper bound on possible deaths; and we get 1% until herd immunity?
This, again, is the upper bound of ultimate worst case, based on the article.

Isn't this a huge revision DOWN from the previous 2.5-3-6-8-15% numbers people are throwing around?

EDIT: what's up with the silent downvotes? I'm quoting the central number and assumptions directly from the article and asking a question.
Should I take it as "you are right but I dislike it"?
Slightly related - how does ML track new data input and ensure that the data hasn't introduced a regression?

I would assume there's an automated test suite, but also some way of diffing large amounts of input data and visualizing those input additions relative to model classifications?

What are the common tools for this?
UI components have stabilised. Since the day of the first usage. Its the different mindset and competing frameworks that creates the noise.

The day it results in stagnation is where we will find the true pattern. Patience.
And they only have ~5 million people to deal with. Easier to contain a virus in a city-state as small as Singapore.
It will probably be a relatively opaque increase in cost. A lot of the cost of using IC/Shipt/etc. is actually in the cost of the products rather than in the delivery fee. Each service has its _own_ cost for each product (in fact, as a shopper it is suggested to download the customer app so you can answer questions about prices).

True "delivery fees" are only enacted for non-subscriber or small orders.

source: am infrequent Shipt/IC shopper
And I thought being a 10x developer meant cranking out high quality code..
A much simpler explanation would be to preserve stocks of masks for medical personnel who actually really need them. It's certainly beneficial for your average person to wear one at all times - look at the declines in flu happening right now as we separate from one another. But it's essential for medical personnel who are on the front lines of this war.

It's often helpful to evaluate conspiracy theories using Occam's Razor. What's the simplest explanation which fits the facts?
I wonder if at some point we'll develop new materials and techniques that make it easier to do this, with safer chemicals and less equipment. It may seem far-fetched but you never know. When I was a kid I would've thought it pretty far-fetched that people could 3D print ventilator valves at home that are actually saving lives during a pandemic.
No, not in the US, why would they be illegal? Some places, like a bank, may want to not let you in (though I even doubt that these days). But certainly not illegal.
You're correct and apologies for the confusion. I didn't mean to imply that EE is open source. It is proprietary and source available. I was actually more concerned about the comment that EE is "off-limits" to contributors and wanted to set the record straight.
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I wouldn't call this background music. In fact, I'd say it works best when you give it your full attention with eyes closed. Nevertheless, 'Music for 18 Musicians' is a go-to when I need to simmer down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILpCKQlDmhc
Here is an example of what top down planning helped me to build something https://github.com/imvetri/ui-editor. There are doers and talkers. open-ui.org is a doer.
Have you ever shopped for closets? Every major closet retailer has pictures of their product holding a ridiculously small number of apparel.[1][2] I, and especially my wife, have more than 4 shirts. I would like to see how a closet design looks when full. Sure the nearly empty closet looks cleaner, but it does not represent my use case, or that of anyone I know.

The same could be said for architectural renderings showing a handful of visitors at a place designed to be crowded.

[1] https://www.ikea.com/us/en/images/products/pax-corner-wardro...

[2] https://www.closetsbydesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/C...
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It's not legal. They are hoping that people will be chill given the circumstances. Controlled digital lending has to match the model of a library/video rental stores where you borrow/rent something for a few days then return it. Even if you are not actively using the App/Website, which is easily detectable, they cannot return the item to their digital pool while you have it checked out.

Companies have tried to create Just In Time (JIT) media services that return digital items to a pool when you are not actively using them. This essentially creates micro loans with a time span of minutes to hours.

I can't remember the name of the company that was attempting this but they were shutdown due to a copyright lawsuit.

EDIT: They actually mention the company in the FAQ. ReDigi lost their lawsuit [1].

[1] http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isysquery/68b0f5b0-959...
Aside from the cooperative multitasking discussion, I thoroughly enjoyed how you discussed the rust async/await concepts in detail and learned a lot from it. I find your article providing a lot more value than the rust documentation, which is unfortunate since that makes the learning curve somewhat difficult.
The mush is because we don't actually know, and we're all afraid to admit it. Like, does this thing confer a lasting immunity upon those who survive? We have educated guesses, and can draw some inferences, and cite statistics and cases from countries at each other, but until it's 6-months later and we have incontrovertible proof, it's mush dancing around the honest answer to many of the questions floating around is: We don't know.

The second problem is that we're clearly terrible at collectively digesting new information uniformly. New information is evolving our understanding and things said a week or months ago no longer reflect our current understanding. But not everyone's subscribed to the same newsletter, so we're not on the same page. Back in January, based on SARS and MERS, and how much that affected the western world, the comparison to the flu was apt. Was. It's not longer January and that comparison is bad and is liable to get you branded a right-wing capitalism-death-cultist.

There's no way to read only what's changed, so either to get into the muck and drink from the firehose, or defer to experts, some of whom are actually paid to deal with this.

Go read a book, the muck'll be here waiting for you when you get back.

When you do, ask the experts, when you get back and update your knowledge correspondingly.
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> honestly, i'm surprised that their demands are so few and so modest

The biggest problem here is that this is one of the most "expendable" workforces we've ever seen–hiring cost is rock-bottom, training is done through an app (requiring no human interaction or pay), and shoppers are just sent a shirt and prepaid card (Shipt) or a lanyard and card (Instacart).

I feel like the organizers understand this and know that if the overlords decide they don't want to deal with the strike, their accounts can be deactivated with the click of a mouse, wasting less than $50 in resources (though usually less because of the ROI they've already exhibited). All the company has to do is ramp up advertising or add some new hire incentives.

Keeping the demands reasonable is how they're self-preserving. Anything too extreme, and they just get replaced with no change. It's a good _starting point_, but there definitely need to be more protections for our gig economy workers in the future.
Thanks for the comment. Its always cool to see gitlab comments sharing insights that would be hidden by other companies.

Off topic but while you are here I was wondering if gitlab would consider having the bot that tags issues as open for community contributors not tag issues on enterprise edition features since community members are unable to develop on these and it makes it hard to find issues that are actually open for the community to contribute to.
They are restyling because it doesn't look "great", so Google follows the trends to make restyling unnecessary.
At what temperature and altitude?
We are talking about the confirmed positive cases, these people are all potential spreaders and are supposed to be closely monitored. This is a standard CDC playbook (lots of people I’ll, find out what’s common to them). The list you gave, if true, is total incompetence of e CDC to a level which has never been demonstrated before - in fact, the CDC has generally done well with their playbook even if it was a couple of weeks late (and we’re 10 weeks since I heard from a friend who works with the CDC that they’re watching it)
The entire app is source available, you can download it and look at it all but a section of the features are licensed under a proprietary license which is what you pay for when you pick a gitlab plan.
How does Chrome ensure that changing these designs does not regress site layouts? For example, the date controls now have new affordances (the calendar and clock buttons) which occupy more space - won't that break some sites?

I recall from AppKit days that replacing the system label font (San Francisco) regressed layouts, and there was some back-and-forth with designers to ensure the new font did not have greater advances.
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There's something deeply unnerving about ugly code, I don't think we can just say 'well it works'.

I think we should maybe aspire to find a frame of reference for evaluating when to change and not.

During development, I find iteration can be useful, i.e. when you have code that's 'hot in your mind' and can be re-worked.

Another key that the article doesn't seem to reference is encapsulation. It's one of the most golden concerns in software.

If 'ugly' is confined to a single function and doesn't leak outside - then it's almost pointless to re-write it.

On the other end of the spectrum, if an API is 'ugly' it leaks all around the code inside and out. Re-write is more expensive, but could possibly be more worth it.
Mostly what we need is fewer restrictions on some better radio frequencies. Legalizing encrypted Ham radio would be a good start. If there was an ecosystem of infrastructure around those frequencies, we would have no problem whatsoever building robust mesh networks with higher bandwidth that could operate uninterrupted through crisis scenarios.

As it is, we've been left with scraps; and this article describes an amazing tool which shouldn't have to exist.
That's nice. Do you have any idea if it is possible to translate those rows into higher-level time-travel queries? Like if you could plugin an adapter to transform the rows into a data structure (parquet, arrow, json, whatever) that could be useful to analytics and ML apps?
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> Dolt is the only database with branches

There's also litetree, whose slogan is simply "SQLite with branches":

https://github.com/aergoio/litetree
GM make ventilators? Why not order BD, Stryker, S&N or other med companies?
Was this just a ploy to get union workers at GM their jobs back? I don't understand this. GM doesn't know the first thing about making a med device - procedures, clean rooms, FDA, etc. It will take too long for GM to understand how to do this.
If you have two iOS iWork apps, can each one sign into a separate iCloud account? Or are all iWork apps forced to use a device-wide iCloud login?
I think so, trademark infringment at least.
How does Dolt compare to DVC?
Thanks for asking. Right now we have one label accepting merge requests and then labels by tier. Does it work to filter on two labels? Or are we not consistent in labeling the tier? Another option would be to have an accepting merge request label per tier. But this might cause other problems, such as getting out of date when we change the tier before the feature is made.
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Only if every participant along the way played along and was dependable. You are talking 10 distribution levels and hundreds of employees. Good luck with establishing such a system, blockchain or not.

Bitcoin works because you don’t need trust, not because everyone is trustworthy.
Have been working from home for the past month I must say that I could not disagree more. The experience has been terrible for me personally. I feel like my team is substantially less productive, and nothing new is happening - just maintenance work. At this point I would probably not accept a job that is remote only.
Union busting is the norm sadly in the USA. Never forget the organisations that actually led to the workers of the world achieving a better standard of living*

*until mass consumerism and racing to the bottom led to these massive organisations flouting human rights but just out of view of the average consumer
> expectation of privacy

US law is irrelevant outside the US
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We Should All Wear Masks
It was never necessary. They restyle because it's easy and fun, and it gives the site greater brand coherence in static screenshots. And they'll continue to do it after this redesign.
Meh. We say "Chinese tofu dish" but "tofu" is the Japanese transliteration.
Here are some ambient songs by Aphex Twin which I also find very calming.

Stone In Focus - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q86g1aop6a8

Rhubarb - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AWIqXzvX-U

Tha - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGC90fmf8gw

Avril 14th - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6dGAZTj8xA
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This is the only answer.
> but the law doesn't work that way right now.

Are you certain you know how the law works right now?
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Why not nationalize the IP from all the ventilator manufacturers and make a best of breed version. But we would have to get it into mass production in a month to be of significant benefit.
Most developing countries are free to ignore intellectual property laws.
Great start page. Very persuasive writing, tells me what the project will do for me and not just what it is.
Been eyeing that for a while but got a bit distracted by this beast if you're into linux: https://system76.com/laptops/lemur
I like the solar integration. My ideal product would be a programmable LoRa transceiver integrates into a waterproof battery bank with solar, gps and a small touch screen. Should be about the size of a large handheld which could mounted on a house, tree, mast or carry it in a pocket/bag. Apps could be, SOS messages, chat and weather information. If it’s extensible (e.g. something like an app store or package manager), I’m sure folks will dream up additional uses.

Sort of like a more hackable/accessible phone and long range radio.
So I was piqued by your post, and actually looked it up. It looks like the bond / credit market in the US is just under $40 trillion [1], and the value of the US stock market is $37.69 trillion [2]. So they look pretty close?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_market
[2] https://siblisresearch.com/data/us-stock-market-value/
I told y’all that in r/wsb
That’s a pretty good angry Twitter rant. Here’s the (easier to read) link using threadreaderapp.com, my new found best friend!

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1244257620548038656.html?...

The premise that they would be trying to purposefully shove it into the court system to achieve a ruling one way or the other is interesting. That’s how you play hard in the paint!