skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt Adobe's largest consumer base is on macOS. Of course Adobe and any other software maker won't be happy, but if it's worth it, they'll target macOS on ARM. Some software companies might decide it isn't worth the hassle.
When I was doing a lot of sanding, I had one of these masks, and taped it around the edges to my face. The mask would have been utterly useless if I hadn't done so, as all the dust would have just come around the edges. I just used painters' masking tape. It worked.
The thread is about Austria, not Australia; the article states that supermarkets will be providing masks free of charge.
Can the "mask shaming" be worked around by wearing a bandanna or scarf over the top to hide it, or does that reduce its effectiveness?
Yup. Same for me. What is it with them?
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DIY Making an N95 Facemask for Healthcare Workers
Advocating against the use of other protective measures - condoms, helmets, safety belts - because they're not 100% wouldn't be given the time of day, and it's high time people stopped tolerating or even assuming good-faith from people repeating the same anti-vaxxer level crap they've read someone else regurgitate in another threads.

Actual lives are being put at risk by this anti-mask idiocy; dangerous advice shouldn't be allowed to spread unhindered any more than Covid itself.
A custom virtual machine and wifi. As a user, I'd much more appreciate exercises of modularity than featurefullness. Not that I don't sympathize with the maker. Over-engineering can be fun.
Can recommend "The UNIX Programming Environment"
The "Monster Mash" page looks like it was generated by a GAN.
That could work. There is the drawback that on the biggest logical separation (like state in US) these are large boarders compared to area, so a lot of them would be overlapping in how people could work together across the regions
Maye because Ender is a child there and the other books are him growing up and being wise.
Quarantine Begins: NY to Fine $500 per Violation
it sounds like this is the only idea you want to express and without explaing it. Well stick with it and have a good day pal ;-)
My favorite thing about the Mirra 2 is how you can set it to follow you when you lean forward, and it still gives good back support.

The worst thing is that it's so comfortable I can sit in it for many hours straight, so I don't get up and move around as much.
You forgot the part about some (less fortunate) economies depending heavily on exporting consumer (discretionary) goods to developed countries, which means that the dip in spending in US/Europe/China will lead to a big downturn in these countries.
The first half of that first sentence is so darn Sci Fi.
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I've always had an issue with the screenshot flow on my computers. They save to the desktop by default and I can't seem to find screenshots easily when I needed it. They create too much clutter too. So I set out to solve this problem. My major concern was with privacy so I made sure to make it work entirely offline. Here's the final product, let me know what you think. - https://visionshot.app/
I suspect the Python or Haskell equivalent of

_q+(s-+/_q)><>q-_q:s*v%+/v

would be longer, but it would also probably be more readable.
Is there a point at which the lender can screw up so much that the house becomes property of the borrower?
Huh, hadn't considered that, but yeah, that would definitely be a health risk. Thank you!
It really depends on how you measure the value of the contributions. Simply looking for lines of code (LOC)? Looking for LOC but without drivers?

But even if: is every LOC to be seen as equal contribution?
> I think it would be OK to give compensation package to executives if it's tied to the profit that the government makes from the aid.

That still has the perverse incentive of gambling with other people’s money.
That’s nice in theory. In practice, infinite cheap loans skew the mathematics considerably.
David Hume – “we are more influenced by our feelings than by reason”
That statement doesn't prove what you think it proves.

The study isn't designed to determine the percentage of TCM practitioners who believe in/use rhino horn.

It is a study of TCM practitioners who believe in/use rhino horn to determine how they use it.

That 15/15 survey participants believe in rhino horn is part of the study's design, not one of its conclusions.

I have no idea how many TCM practitioners or patients in China believe in the efficacy of rhino horn, and neither do you.

I do know, having occasionally visited Australian TCM practitioners (who trained in China) for acupuncture and related treatments, that none of them have any belief in animal-based remedies, endangered or otherwise.
Are there any good resources that build up from no experience in CA to a Universal Constructor?
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This was the main reason to write it. I wrote a small script searching github for projects that use FuzzyWuzzy and then sorted them based on their license into three lists
a) GPL License b) Incompatible License c) no license.
From these three only a) is licensed correctly. From 1k repositories only about 100 used the GPL, 300 an incompatible License and 600 no license at all. So I figured there has to be some interest in having a more open licensed alternative ;)
It's called NATIONALIZATION, which is what Mexico and so many others did to the US oil industry who came into their countries in the 40's, 50's and beyond to develop their oil industries - - then told them they were stealing it all, get out. I watched Russia do it to Western oil co's in the 90's, although Putin allowed / allows the oligarchs to control some of the oil industry still.
This is where the criticism against too big to fail comes in. We have a lot of eggs (jobs, contracts) in one basket.
>Good human narrators add nuance and emphasis and energy
Imagine you have a product that is used in 3 or 4 different countries and you need to produce regular training videos for customers in those languages.

You seem to be making this "either / or" its simply another tool.
> The most offensive idea I'm seeing here is that Americans are somehow too stupid to be trusted with masks because they can't put them on properly...

And yet when I watch the news on TV, I see multiple cases of people wandering around outside with a mask over their mouth but not their nose. Perhaps the news people should be pointing that out, and doing a "here's how to use a mask properly" section.
> if a CEO fscked up the company so much, it needed government bailout, they don't deserve a bonus, no matter what their contract says

What the CEO really is, is a marionette for the shareholders. That's why all the CEOs act in the same way and that's why they always get their bonuses. Also they got lots of bonuses in the previous year for running these schemes.
To everybody complaining about shortage: You really don't know anyone with basic sewing skills?

Here in Slovakia masks or similar face-covering measures are semi-mandatory for 2 weeks already (mandatory since today) and it's non-issue. Many people know how to sew a decent-looking one using instructions from internet and some leftover cloth.
I don't get why this is downvoted. If you want to take part of the benefits of capitalism and maximize your profit, you should be ready to waive some benefits if asking for collective support.
it makes perfect sense for a company that sells crayons to publish free coloring pages.
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Thanks. Since you're here, I'd like to take the liberty of asking:

1. What was the inspiration behind that answer?

2. Have you stumbled upon other such quirky techniques elsewhere that rival yours?

3. Any interesting anectode about someone who put your solution in production / research paper / homework and later reached out to you for help?
It's simply that copper is too expensive to use on an extensive scale such as hospital fittings.

Copper costs about twice as much as stainless steel per tonne and that is with current demand levels. Squeezing supply would raise that significantly.
You’re welcome! It really is an exciting project!
Looks very familiar. Thanks!
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More on chloroquine/azithromycin and on Dr. Raoult
Ah, the classic false dilemma logical fallacy.

There are more than two ways to address this problem. I am not an epidemiologist but I did watch a 3blue1brown video on YouTube last night. As I understand it, one of the most effective containment strategies is to test everyone, then take anyone who is infected as well as recent contacts of that person and ask them to self-isolate.

Imagine if we had rapid-result test kits that were deployed at all central choke point locations (say supermarkets, doctors offices, etc). If you needed food, you would have a test and the test would determine whether you contracted the disease. If the test was positive, you would have to submit your recent activities and contacts (perhaps aided by technology, such as tracking phone records or an app that tracks nearby bluetooth). The sick people would be placed into isolation and the contacts would be asked to quarantine.

What I see is a lack of foresight and innovative thinking from the very leaders we are seeking advice from. They're just giving us lazy answers that serve their own agenda. It's disgusting. We could have had effective testing in the US by now - we have made a conscious choice (probably out of inaction) not to develop them.
why couldn't you cache it?
oh huh! not sure how that happened. here:

https://colors.lol/outward-bound
The U.S. weighs the grim math of death vs. the economy
Co-Founder of Wing – Launched an AI Enabled Assistant You Can Count On
Dune is soft sci fi. TBP is hard sci fi. They're very different formats of stories. Good hard SF generally doesn't have character development. In fact character development is a kind of subgenre called bildungsroman. I don't know why ppl these days expect characters to change as though it's some inherent part of a book. Some books are thought experiments or about world building. Part of reading for me is to try experiencing something novel. But on your hate for TBP, I'd say the huge fanbase, the Hugo committee and Obama would disagree with you on that one.
Have you considered that forking an important piece of software so the name is literally not an ableist slur is, in fact, helping the disabled?
A man successfully asked out his neighbor via drone during quarantine
I don't know why people are asking this again.

This 125b cash is from BH, not from himself. He doesn't decide it all alone. If you want you can buy BH stock and follow along and be one of the shareholders.

It also isn't 125b cash, but 125b not in stocks, in possibly very liquid investments and well diversified.

I doubt it matters what he does with this money, unless you want to do the same. He completely missed the boat on the last ~10 years and I doubt he's the best example nowadays, his company is just very rich because for many decades he got the fundamentals right. You can as well invest like him if you learn what he knows, but I doubt you can get as rich as he did, because he did it in a different time.

He'll likely invest in businesses he knows, just like anybody investing should. Possibly brands, he's a big fan of businesses with a good brand and margins, who isn't? :-)
It's not exactly that, but with Plaudit [1] you're able to see which academics have read it and considered it worthwhile enough to endorse. Ideally bioRxiv/medRxiv would integrate it natively like several other preprint servers have done (e.g. [2]), but for now you'll need an extension though.

(Disclosure: I'm a volunteer working on Plaudit.)

[1] https://plaudit.pub/extension/

[2] https://psyarxiv.com/y38m9/
There's the same thing in France too
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Might be a typo? Usually you have 60/40 and 63/37.
Covid-19 Resilience at Brightbox
You expected me to take your brick-post of a rant seriously and take time to engage in thoughtful debate with someone whose thesis is that American leftists are "useless," and that the Glimpse team are somehow hypocrites for not engaging in some kind of active, real-world activism when forking a software project?

No, sorry... I'm just here to ridicule people like yourself and the energy being expended here on virtue signaling outrage.
> If you create a fizzbuzz application with good performance and clean code, you have solved one problem

You haven't necessarily solved a problem if the definition of "clean" is subjective and not actually associated with any real benefit to the client/user. In that case you've just scratched an itch or wasted time. Same goes for optimizing something that happens rarely or wasn't prohibitively slow to begin with. Crucially, it's not about what _you_ perceive to be a problem but what the _user_ perceives to be a problem.

Again, I'm not saying you shouldn't strive to write clean code that performs well but it's important to know what that actually means within the context of that particular project.

Some examples of a "pet" focus:

* The designer gets absolutely up in arms because something doesn't match the wireframes, but doing it as shown in the wireframes is much harder. You show it to the client and it makes absolutely no difference to them.

* A coworker spends time to refactor code to make it more Pythonic, aka rewrite look-before-you-leap code to ask forgiveness instead of permission. The code is now arguably worse.

* A user adds memoization to part of the code that doesn't have any particular performance issue. That code is now harder to understand.

The key is to focus on _real_ problems, not ones you want to work on.
Well I can't judge [0] and [2] for rather obvious reasons, but [1] would have been a much better link than what was posted, and it has a much more differentiated views on masks. The website that started this thread is plain bad. The Hong Kong page [1] contradicts OP's site in its recommendation of N95 masks ("N95 respirators are generally not recommended for use by the general public in community settings because special training is required for proper wearing and removal of the mask. Otherwise the infective risk due to inadequate protection and contamination may be ironically increased." [1] vs "N95 masks are better than surgical masks" on the OP's site).

Then there's stuff like "Going in public without a mask in a pandemic is like riding a motorcycle without a helmet." That's bad because it implies that surgical masks protect you, but all the information by actual experts seems to say that they generally don't, and that their primary purpose is to prevent the spread of the infection by people who don't know they have it.

I mean, the page even admits that "We only have anecdotal research at this point" on the efficacy of masks. Yet the headline claim, "Western countries are experiencing higher rates of COVID-19 infections compared to Asian countries because of the West's aversion to wearing masks", implies direct causation between mask wearing and infection rates. Why should anyone trust someone who makes such elementary mistakes?

We need the computer people (myself included, obviously) to keep doing the computer things and leave giving medical advice to the medical experts. The OP's website is bad and they should take it down.
As in beer and crisps? /s
It's not great evidence for intervention but it's good evidence against the idea that curtailing intervention will save the economy. Many people seem to be assuming the latter.

Edit: I'm not advocating either. I believe that we can have our cake and eat it too: reopen the economy AND keep people from dying. It requires two things. Massive testing and tracing (https://medium.com/@sten.linnarsson/to-stop-covid-19-test-ev...), and allowing businesses to reopen when they have proper protection, isolation and cleaning protocols in place.

Of course both these things require large amounts of money so developing nations are screwed, as usual.
Well they could loose so much you essentially end up squatting in your own house. And if it happened to enough people you could hopefully just wait it out until you had a claim.
But America being America. You'd have a local sheriff there smash down doors with the local SWAT team to reclaim the assets for someone who bought the debt on the cheap.
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Step 1: Server Side HTML

-> Website needs to be more interactive.

Step 2: Server Side HTML + Client Side React SPA

-> Website is now interactive but performance decreased.

Step 3: Server Side HTML + Server Side React + Client Side React SPA

-> Website is interactive, performance is good but now it's overly complex.

Step 4: Server Side HTML + Server Side React

-> Let's make it a bit more simple and even more performant by making it less interactive again.

Step 5: Server Side HTML

-> More performant than the previous iteration, also less complex.

You can see that nothing really changed but developers are super happy because they improved the experience all the time.
Asynchronous Tasks with Django and Celery
If you're interested in MIP/LP optimization models and have either AIMMS or GAMS experience and either CPLEX or GUROBI knowledge, the vendors of most power systems simulators probably have some openings. They're large codebases, but actively saving billions annually in the US. The problems of unit commitment and economic dispatch are well understood, but the business rules framework is massive for all the US RTO/ISOs and is always changing.
There's also VIA making x86 CPUs and some chinese companies on collaboration with AMD.
>In an August 2013 essay Card presented as an experiment in fiction-writing called "The Game of Unlikely Events",[173] Card described an alternative future in which President Barack Obama ruled as a "Hitler- or Stalin-style dictator" with his own national police force of young unemployed men; Obama and his wife Michelle would have amended the U.S. Constitution to allow presidents to remain in power for life, as in Nigeria, Zimbabwe, and Hitler's Germany.[174][175] Card's essay drew extensive criticism, especially for its allusions to Obama's race and its reference to "urban gangs

Further down in this comment chain I posted a link to a literary essay that enders game is about fascism. I got heavy downvotes. I'm sure that by quoting this paragraph from wiki I will get more downvotes. People are in denial about their heroes.
the helix should be fixed now, details inside the ticket.

it would be nice if you could double-check it.
I really liked BackupPC, but found the storage requirements to be pretty staggering for ~100 machines. IIRC (it's been a decade), large files that were appended to (log files, Zope DBs, pretty much any database), would get fully copied and stored for every backup copy saved. I also recall backup performance to be pretty bad, we had a number of systems that couldn't backup daily because they took >24 hours. We were adding new BackupPC servers constantly.

I ended up building a backup system that was a thin layer and used SSH+rsync+ZFS for all the heavy lifting. Eventually added a web-based GUI. Went from 10 backup servers to 1 because of ZFS snapshots.

ZFS snapshots is rsync+hardlinks on steroids.

The software is available at: https://github.com/tummy-dot-com/tummy-backup
I didn’t know about Eleventy! Looks super cool and definitely something I will try in the future. Thanks
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I have visited the ball courts at Chichen Itza, Uxmal and Palenque. Those stone rings are so high it would have been impossible to put the ball through the hole with only one's feet. I couldn't even toss my shoe through the ring using my hands.

I suspect there was a thick layer of earth to raise the level of the field, which would have put the players on a closer level to the stone rings.
I have this info from one of Robert Koch institutes press conferences from a few days ago. If I remember correctly it was claimed by a journalist in the Q and A section and not objected to in the answer from Robert Koch institutes president Lothar H. Wieler.

EDIT: Here is another source in cold print (search for "posthum"):
https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article206741617/Coronav...
I only did some small fixes for building the kernel with the clang compiler.

Probably the most confusing thing when getting started is finding something to work on. There's no real centralized issue tracker/TODO list/ideas list - discussion happens mostly in mailing lists [0][1] for specific topics. If you follow the discussion on YOUR_FAVORITE_TOPIC long enough you should be able to find easy work items, people able to help further, reviewers for your changes etc.

In my case specifically, I found the great people at https://clangbuiltlinux.github.io, which is how I got started.

[0] http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lists.html
F1 team helps build new UK breathing aid for Covid-19 patients
Lol what idiots would downvote this...
For exampe, in the Netherlands there are no capital gains tax.

I think I'll delete my YC account, as it became a shit show
Are functions that simply call another function a bad design choice?
It’s been slightly less willing to switch into edit mode through taps, which I suspect is a side effect of iPadOS drag and drop somehow. Very handy for letting me copy URLs to clipboard, so I was glad for the change.

Getting a cursor still works on the first try for me using “long-press spacebar” standard iOS method for getting a text input cursor, though.
> Perhaps interestingly, you can create a discovered check with two pieces on the same square, say two rooks. Like a double check in regular chess, you can’t remove the check by capturing, because you would only capture one of the rooks.

That wouldn't work. The king would have been in check because of the first rook already, so either the king had to move away, the first rook would have been captured on the previous move, something would have been placed between the king and the rook, or it would have been checkmate.

Unless of course the two rooks would have been in place but you create the check by removing an obstacle, that would work.
I worry a lot about things like this across the technology spectrum. Am I wrong?
Great way to help out event organisers in this difficult time!