skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do quick stuff in scala because Rust doesn't have a decent repl.
> Whatever China says must ALWAYS be a lie, on the other hand, the US numbers are not "suppressed," it's just incompetence. Meanwhile, nobody is batting an eye at Japan's ridiculously and obviously doctored numbers.

The phenomenon you're describing is called a reputation.
Well I guess all of those abstract discussions about what would happen if they strike is now a reality.

I just hope they can be okay living with the reality of people who needed things, especially life saving items. But hey at least they can make sure they get theirs, and hell who gives a damn what you can do for your country when you can put the screws to people who need your services.

You stop being a hero when you stop making sacrifices.
thanks for the tip; will edit
If you can get the goods to the Middle East (Qatar, UAE, Bahrain) I assure you there are filthy rich princes and sheikhs who (1) want to give the impression of a respect for fine art, and (2) are at absolutely no risk of prosecution, and (3) would drop the money just for fun / social posturing, not even as an investment.
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Looks mostly right but he is wrong about the Diamond Princess. Those people all went off home, which is not Japan. Mostly western states. So they don't count to the Japanese numbers, only did in the very beginning.

The rest looks indeed cooked, on purpose. Pasting images instead of tables is the usual trick.
I’m single with no roommates and my productivity is wayy down due to the mental stresses of both the times we’re in and the huge drop of social fulfillment (used to play hockey 5x a week, other group things 2x, and individual friend hangouts too) - zoom chats just aren’t the same.

I also very much need that “work” space to switch my brain into focus mode. My place has never been setup for work-focus as I work at a place that encourages not taking your work home with you - though I am thankful that now we are fully enabled to WFH rather than lose that paycheck.
The EU has pretty much watched all along while Orban was building up his unconstitutional power machine.
Why are you reporting things under your name? You don't want to get involved.

Calling the cops and telling them they have guns and kilos won't help because how would you know (in their minds) and why would they believe someone about ownership (they start looking at you). Any offers to setup your own operation makes it seem like you have something against the couple. Now you are the suspect.

Never threaten to kill yourself to get the cops attention because it will be focused on you not on why you are threatening to kill yourself.

Why do you continue to live there for years?
It would've been nice if the thing the Government _did_ do before this had worked out. Instead, a large company bought the awardee and they requested the government cancel the contract, which resulted in a re-award and... no ventilators yet:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/business/coronavirus-us-v...
> global inference

I think this is long-gone isn't it? It's local now.

> parser is hard to reuse outside of the compiler itself

A problem we repeat again and again!
Apparently high-priced items can be negotiated to be returned for ransom, this works by having the museum advertise a bounty for information and is being legitimized by a lawyer representing someone who received a tip about the whereabouts of the piece (some warehouse etc.)

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/dec/21/arts.artsnews
I tried Crystal for a small hobby project a few months back, and was generally impressed by the stability, ease of use and documentation. I found the type-system very straight forward, and with less mental overhead than Rust, obviously with all the design tradeoffs that entails. For the use-cases I'm interested in, Crystal has a little ways to go in terms of mindshare and ecosystem support, but it's a fun language to learn and try.
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In the US we are using the Defense Production Act to make ventilators--this is good, but really we need the focus to be on N95 masks. With the current level of disinformation regarding droplet spread this isn't happening--this is the tragedy. We need the leaders of the world to realize that it really is N95 masks that are going to be the key. You can safely restart more portions of the economy with everyone wearing PPE that is of high quality and effective. The fact that this isn't priority one is mind boggling.
You're not alone. Having young children at home is a huge hit to productivity, and it should be taken into account when setting your expectations. I saw a rule of thumb on Twitter for how productive you can be when taking care of children at home (can't find it now):

Number of pomodoros (25 minutes) of productivity = <Age of youngest child> - <Number of children> + 1
> That's kind of a tautology.

More specifically, it's begging the question. The actual definition of begging the question, not the mistaken usage.

To beg the question is to assume the thing which is to be proven.
This is a very uncharitable take, here are three things they are asking for from the article, all of which seem very reasonable to me:

"Workers from both Amazon and Instacart want more access to paid sick time off. At this time, it's available only to those who have tested positive for the coronavirus or get placed on mandatory self-quarantine.

Amazon workers want their warehouse to be closed for a longer cleaning, with guaranteed pay.

Instacart's grocery delivery gig workers are asking for disinfectant wipes and hand sanitizer and better pay to offset the risk they are taking."
It really does present itself as a pseudo-ad for Hatchpad. No date, no author...
are there a lot of IDEs that run in a browser? that seems like a really odd requirement to me.
I use .webm files all the time as stand-ins for GIF, and more and more sites/apps have support for inline playback nowadays.

You can strip the audio out completely from those files, and have like 20 second recordings that map out to ~1-2MB vs +10MB for GIF. All in all, it's pretty great.
Emphasis mine, from TFA:

> Workers from both Amazon and Instacart want more access to paid sick time off. At this time, it's available only to those who have tested positive for the coronavirus or get placed on mandatory self-quarantine.

> Amazon workers want their warehouse to be closed for a longer cleaning with guaranteed pay.

> Instacart's grocery delivery gig workers are asking for disinfectant wipes and hand sanitizer and better pay to offset the risk they are taking.

"Making sacrifices" is counterproductive cheap talk if it just ends up making the whole logistics chain infected and worse off.
They probably are not asking to be considered heros.
Here are their demands:
https://medium.com/@GigWorkersCollective/instacart-emergency...

- Safety precautions at no cost to workers — PPE (at minimum hand sanitizer, disinfectant wipes/sprays and soap).

- Hazard pay — an extra $5 per order and defaulting the in-app tip amount to at least 10% of the order total.

- An extension and expansion of pay for workers impacted by COVID-19 — anyone who has a doctor’s note for either a preexisting condition that’s a known risk factor or requiring a self-quarantine.

- The deadline to qualify for these benefits must be extended beyond April 8th.
For a van Gogh that would never work. No legitimate art dealer would touch it. Regardless of the amount of time in between.
I used Crystal with VS code, I don't remember the autocomplete issues, but I'm not a big consumer of that functionality. Syntax highlighting (and I think formatting) were supported with the plugin I used, which was good enough for my purposes.
It's not possible without specific hardware support.

Context-switching on most current platforms with virtual memory requires fiddling with things like page mappings, and that simply must be done from supervisor mode.

The ability to switch tasks in hardware has existed on some historical machines. For example the GEC 4000 series basically implemented a microkernel, including the scheduler, in hardware. Switching to another process was done with a single hardware instruction.

I don't think anything current has such features besides the
long-obsolete and unused taskswitching feature on x86 processors.
Whats that number like in the US? Is it also 99%?
Plus if you want VS Code in the browser there's Coder.com (both hosted and open source varieties)
Sounds like they're rationing availability to the most cash liquid users. This is nothing more than price hikes to profit from a tragedy and it's shameful.
I wish there was something like this for the UK!
The federal government needed to act as a facilitator, connecting manufacturers with ventilator companies or other experts in medical device manufacturing.

With the supply chains broken, work could have started to bring up new domestic part manufacturers. If all medical device manufacturing was prioritized, lead times would probably shorten to weeks, not months. This is happening by industry already, but again the federal government's facilitator role could definitely speed it up.

Even in a crisis, there are business interests that need to be looked after. A company can't simply decide to stop making parts for its customers and shift to making medical device parts. It would probably soon run out of money and not be able to pay its workers. Here the federal government could eliminate business risk by giving out loans/grants for retooling and guaranteeing the purchase of parts that are made.
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>>I just hope they can be okay living with the reality of people who needed things, especially life saving items...You stop being a hero when you stop making sacrifices.

Amazon is hiring, go and become a hero.

(Risking your life for less than a living wage? F that.)
There were pictures out of New York over the weekend of hospital workers using trash bags as gowns.

The only people who dislike "amateur" equipment are the paper-pushers who are safe at home behind their keyboards and screens.
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Will check them all, thanks!
Github Repo: https://github.com/forwardmiami/300hp-server/
“The present study sought to assess under which emotional (set) and environmental (setting) circumstances psychedelic users consume such substances.”

This study in no way even seems to purport that people who are depressed (or “with low well-being” per the WHO test) benefit from any of these drugs.

Instead, it proves (supports, reaffirms, etc.) that, based upon the individual’s initial state of well being, those with a lower well being benefit more than those with an initially higher well being.

In other words: if you feel like crap, you will feel better, overall, than someone who already feels fine does.

Of course it also has some interesting stats about in which environments they took which drugs, not that we haven’t kind of known those all along.
Honestly does anyone believe China’s death statistics? I think the west believes than more than even those living under communist rule in China, and that says a lot.
The bad actors who want to steal your passwords and credit-card data, and the state actors who want to spy on Persons of Interest, don't know each-other or talk to one-another. A VPS provider being compromised by a series of private individuals doesn't imply that your VPN running on such a service is going to be sneakily MITMed, because there's no obvious profit motive in doing so (unless you're a very publicly super-rich person who is also very publicly using the service, and it's very obvious how to blackmail you if you could just get data exfiltration via that service. Like Jeff Bezos with WhatsApp.)

Instead, you might get whatever elements of your identity stolen that Linode's account-management servers have possession of; or your VPS instance might become host to crypto-mining malware and then get shut down by Linode (which will come at no cost to you, other than the downtime.) But neither of these things will really focus on you personally. They're automated bulk attacks.
I know of none off the top of my head, though perhaps when they say "IDE" they really mean a code editor, so there's Cloud9, Coder.com, and the like.
I was referring to the "Intel-specific" part of your comment, not the price. I'm a professional composer and haven't ever come across an Intel-specific plugin -- loads of people use AMD. I think what you meant is x86-specific, but as other people have pointed out in this thread and others, it's expected that Apple will provide the ability to simply recompile for ARM. No big deal.
When we look back on this in a few years I think we will see the virus shutdowns accelerated some trends that were already slowly happening:

- The demise of many traditional retail businesses

- The concentration of surviving retail businesses into big box stores and higher-end retailers (like the stores at Westfield malls)

- Increased usage of online shopping and gig delivery services

- Even more growth for Amazon, Walmart, and Target

I would expect, in general, to see more concentration in most industries after the virus shutdowns end. Retail is the most obvious example.
My general file card on Rust's appropriateness:

It's for anywhere you want an iron grip on memory and correctness and the cost of screwing up is very large and don't need a quick minimum viable product.
You'd expect to be writing a database or a high availability proxying server or any kind of driver or a game engine
Often, the canvases are cut from the frames with boxcutters.

I understand that an art heist is a high pressure event with little spare time for niceties, but this willful damage might be the thing I find most offensive.
I've used python with gstreamer to create my own music player as well. It was a fantastically enjoyable project and I use it for hours every day. Strongly recommend it for anyone who wants a fun challenge (and who is finicky about how they listen to music).
Show HN: Dashboard for Covid-19 cases in the US by state/county
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Guangdong China: 320,000 tests by Feb 28,

2820 positive cases.

Positive rate: 0.8%

Iceland: 3,787 tests by March 18,

330 positive cases.

Positive rate: 8.7%

Clearly Guangdong did more testing with respect to its epidemic than Iceland.

Let's look at New York State:

172,360 tests by March 29,

59513 positive cases

Positive rate: 34.5%
It's the perfect case for the news media. Literally every day you can publish breaking news "Cases +X! Deaths +Y!" and it gives you a hit of anxiety so you keep checking and checking.
To be honest, ReasonML doesn't seem to have not even half of the community than F# has, nor the IDE tooling for that matter.
When I started using Linux in the 90s, especially because I was young and enthusiastic, sure, I would grab tarballs from kernel.org and build them on the day of release.

That is simply not how it works anymore. Your distro vets the kernels. They patch them. They ensure that if that well known Intel wifi bug is still around that the patch is applied (note it already exists!) or better yet already in-tree. A late breaking bug of that nature is not a huge concern for your everyday Linux user.
Why aren't they recording at home? My understanding was the many of the characters record individually anyway. At least the child actors definitely did, so it must be possible to act and edit together this way. I think cartoons all record individually.

You only need a half-decent microphone.

You could do it on a bad microphone if you wanted!

The Archers is a timeless part of the background noise in many family kitchens in the UK. Seems a shame not to fight through this little piece of calm for normal families in this time of crisis.
Human to human communication is such a better way to do it.

We've adjusted our "standups" (I say it with quotes as our standups are pretty informal compared to what some folks describe) to include folks who usually weren't included (president of company) before and done a better job of tracking time on our own.

That seems to make everyone happier... granted we're a small shop.

There's probably a "bad boss / culture" thing here for folks who are desperate to do these things... are just going to do it and don't know / care to do better / have no clue how to really grok productivity and the inherent vagaries of it.

Everyone else is just chugging along without these issues.
This was one of the things that came up in the meta-discussion last week.

HN loves to make "well ackchuyally" posts that are technically correct but meaningless to the layman. It's a result of the "points scoring" format of the site, same as Reddit. It leads to people having to make cumbersome posts that fully specify every single point that might possibly be the subject of any disagreement, and that's antithetical to good, informative, concise content.

Pedanticism is not the same thing as content. In fact, it usually crosses the rules of the site into "not giving the most gracious possible reading of a comment". And yes, you have to strike some balance between being pedantic and being accurate.

To the layman, if you don't already understand the difference between aerosol and airbone transmission, there really isn't one in practice. Being around an infected person can cause you to become infected yourself, without direct physical c. That is the short and long of it. It doesn't shed off their skin, just when they breathe, or talk, or sneeze, or cough, and potentially can linger for hours. There is no meaningful difference in how you would behave if this was airborne vs aerosol.

Everyone thinks their particular "well ackchuyally" is important, but usually... they're not.
This is accurate. My university has silent floors, "quiet floors" (rarely enforced), and a few well used open collaboration areas with movable furniture.
Screenshots are not standard practice- in fact, since they're a great way to leak secrets being displayed on screen (passwords, confidential information), that's probably the opposite of standard practice.

Standard practice is monitoring emails, chat, web traffic and so on.
> This is a false equivalency. China is a totalitarian state that quite literally controls information; Japan and the US are not in any real sense.

This is true, but what makes both the US and China (and many other countries at the moment) similar is they are controlled by governments with strong nationalist tendencies. Any state has the ability to control these stats by limiting the availability of testing. A nationalist-leaning state has an even stronger incentive to do so, because it leans even more heavily on the thesis that its nation is essentially different than others. This however, runs into the reality that this virus doesn't differentiate based on our cultural construct of nations.

Until a few days ago, you saw this most markedly in India, which just recently made a sudden U-turn in its denial of the problem.

In China's case, nationalism is coordinated with its totalitarianism, which as you point out makes it different. The Chinese response should be scrutinized for its initial failures as much as its later successes.

The saving grace in the US is that even though we have leadership incentivized by nationalist and self-preservatory urges to minimize the true magnitude of the problem, hospitals and state/local officials can publicly express that they are seeing a large number of likely cases that they can't test for, and publicly demand more testing and treatment capacity from federal authorities.

That is pretty much the dynamic that has been happening in the US for nearly a month - exemplified in the public war of words between state governors in initially affected states (CA, NY, MI, etc) and the Administration. And at this point, it's abundantly clear that the tide of truth is on the side of those state governors and public health officials. This is why military hospital ships are now showing up in Los Angeles and New York.
> This is nothing more than price hikes to profit from a tragedy and it's shameful

If it's shameful to move more freight in a crisis than less, let them be shameful. This sort of armchair moralizing, without the consideration of unintended consequences of one's proposals, if enacted into policy, can cost lives.
This is, in fact, something the federal government is historically quite good at. The Apollo program was (from the NASA side) primarily an organizational project. The feds have traditionally been in a unique position to do global information-brokering.
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"... if that really is your name."
I recently setup WireGuard on my new dedicated server and it is amazingly easier compared to OpenVPN. I've setup several site-to-site and client-to-site VPNs on OpenVPN so maybe I'm just use to all the iptables/route gotchas, but not needing to do the whole CA/easyrsa stuff is a huge bonus.

I like how their official tutorial video shows all the raw ip commands and then shows their wg-quick configuration script. That way you understand what the script is doing and what commands its running.

One big limitation is that it cannot bind to a specific IP address. The author states it shouldn't matter because it won't respond without the right auth key (and it doesn't support TCP so people can't tell if it's sitting there listening) but I found I did get into weird routing loops where packets will come in on one IP and go out on another one. The primary outgoing IP is what shows up when you run `wg show`.

It is super weird to implement a brand new service and have a config option for the port, but not the IP address(es) to listen on.
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A core part of many abusive relationships is the message "No one else cares about you, no one loves you, I'm the only one who will help you". The abuser will socially isolate the victim, cutting off friendships & family. What friends & family remain, the abuser will work to discredit or estrange, all the while telling the victim the abuser is the only person they can rely on.

I think you are imagining abuse victims as fully rational actors straining to break free, if only they had somewhere to go or full custody of their child. But a long time victim of this kind of abuse has been taught they are helpless, worthless, and alone. The only thing more frightening than staying, is leaving.
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Its just an inductive pickup. In most phones some of your voice is fed back into the earpiece, this is called sidetone and is used to make you self regulate the volume of your voice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidetone
People handling our food not having sick leave, not having access to things like soap and hand sanitizer -- that effects their customers, too, and puts them at risk.

Food deliveries are generally safe for customers to receive assuming we wash our hands, but that doesn't mean what happens to people on the other end of the delivery - whether they're sick, whether they have access to PPE - doesn't have impacts on us, too.
It's already compulsory in neighboring Czechia and Slovakia, not only in the supermarkets, but at all public places
Also, my initial impression was “it’s legal now, so it’s not as exciting”. Even if it were exactly the same weed it wouldn’t be the first time that someone found the illicit aspect the most fun... drinking or smoking underage is more of a “thrill” than being able to do it every day legally, for instance.
Because every place I've worked (including corporations) I've had local admin on my box and could see the entire process tree. Usually you have to be running all the antivirus and monitoring stuff to connect to the employee network/VPN, but when you're off VPN you can kill those processes off.
When you say it's "obvious why this happens" are you referring to racism or something else?
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