skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually have a proposal to help with the issue of doctors getting taken out of action by infection.

We need to train corpsman. Now. Specifically in the essential skills is to handle the average duties involved with COVID-19 hospitalization and care. Make sure they have enough skill to generally handle things, and if possible, prefer training/drafting in those who have already developed immunity.

I understand it isn't a trivial feat by a long shot; but right now medical expertise is to specialized in the sense that "general care" is beyond the reach of even a modestly trained individual; making the loss of one fully trained and licensed medical practitioner being lost devastating.

I'd propose the following:

A) Expedited training programs for conducting hospital intake, data entry, basic vitals taking, basic equipment checking/operations, and familiarity with COVID specific complications, and an escalation process.

B) Medical apprenticeship programs minus the 8 years of pre-schooling. We can get back to that once things have settled down enough. Hours spent count toward eventual medical training/licensure...somehow...

C) Same apprenticeship system should exist for ventilator operators

D) Expedited training in I industrial manufacturing aimed toward a medical device manufacturing specialization.

E) Insurance companies get to pound sand. Someone has to pay for it all sadly, if we're staying true to form; not necessarily saying we should.

F) Doctors/nurses/LPN's get assigned a squad of these gophers to manage patients, only popping in to handle abnormalities/specific complications.

G) Practicing doctor's are highly encouraged to train and guide anyone willing to at least provide some help.

Short of something like that, and I think we may start to see a pinch where as things peak, medical professionals start dropping like flies or burning through donated antibody laden serum transplants to cope with the absurd viral loads they're being forced to endure by necessity.

If we can figure out a way to dilute that by spreading out repeated exposure between different people (again, preferably those who have recovered), I think the system will stand a much better chance of coping. Furthermore, it decentralizes the very basics of medical care, builds/reinforces community bonds, gives everyone a potential way to help out once they've recovered, and will likely increase the quality of medical care for everyone by decreasing the severity of overwork our artificially constrained supply of fully trained medical personnel causes.

Short of doing something like that, I don't see any way to avoid losing a hell of a lot of skilled, hard-working, and invaluable people during this time of crisis. Hell, if I knew I'd already had the stuff and developed immunity, I'd volunteer. Throw in some modest compensation, and I bet you'd get even more. Or better yet, enstate a program of cost of care deferral by putting in hours after recovery. It's not the most easy thing to get off the ground, but it's better than nothing.
> Using super likes or paying for Tinder Plus/Gold is a signal of desperation and so people don't readily admit to it.

My personal experience (more than a few data points) suggests that that's not true. Tinder is full of boring, commodity thirst, and differentiation matters a lot.
Blogspam of

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-huawei-results/huawei-war...
Zoom's malware-like behavior is the reason I only use their web app, in a browser with minimal privileges.
It worked pretty well for three decades.
This is because other countries are understating infection counts because of poor testing.

Wikipedia has a very interesting table with testing stats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_testing#National_stat...

Many countries or regions have extremely high positive test ratios, for example Lombardy is at 37% positive, France at 20% while Germany is at 7.4% and South Korea at 2.4%.

If Lombardy tested more people they would find many many more cases and their reported death rate would decrease.

The fact that areas with high infection counts like New York and Northern Italy are reporting high positive test ratios is terrifying. It means that they are doing worse than the numbers indicate and they're limited by testing capacity.
> You are a complete idiot if you think that what is happening in Hungary is in any way comparable to how Germany is governed.

I thought that HN was for civil discussion..?

Where is Dang when you need him.
As an experiment, I have taken the habit in the past year to write down search queries I'm making along with a short explanation of what I expect to find (and sometimes even comments on the results) as I was also starting to wonder if I'm the problem given results seemed to get less and less relevant for a while.

With the benefit of hindsight, I'd highly recommend it and confirmed my suspicion that my queries weren't the problem, unfortunately.

It also showed queries are usually only advanced topics as one of my other habits (writing down summarized information in my wiki) lets me usually skip searching online for low-hanging fruits or information I already encountered.
I can't follow along with that. We're in peace times.. banning people from going out of their home is something I would not have believed possible until russian tanks are at the gates of Berlin again, or the day of reckoning is coming after all.

The mortality is not increased [1], the number of acute respiratory illnesses is not increased [2]. German hospitals are not overwhelmed, indeed we gave away hundreds of respirators and treat a large number of patients from neighboring countries right now.

There are single cases of overwhelmed medical systems, but those are few and in places where this has happened before [3] and frankly those places have not been in great shape before.

I can't see the justification for these draconian measures with so little evidence. What I do see however is a perverse dynamic between sensationalist media and power hungry politicians. It's infuriating how critics are defamed by newspapers [4] and even high-profile experts ignored [5]. The economic and social downfall from these measures will be insurmountable I fear and dwarf any risk now or even in the foreseeable future from sars-cov-2.

[1] https://www.euromomo.eu/
[2] https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/none/path/s56f...
[3] https://milano.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/18_gennaio_10/mil...
[4] https://www.welt.de/gesundheit/article206667595/Wolfgang-Wod...
[5] https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-a...
How would it be any different from any other e2e group chat?
You wouldn't be able to inspect the code anymore or see the plain text stack traces.

Also does this actually work with the new model of .pyc files in __pycache__ dir?
For adopters, i.e. organizations that want to invent something new on top of existing open-source code, there is a huge difference between the VS Code-kind of open-source where the project is still fully controlled by a single vendor and vendor neutral open-source. E.g. Kubernetes wouldn't be where it is if Google hadn't put it into a vendor neutral open-source foundation.

You can tell from the many adopters of Theia, that there is demand for this. You don't see such downstream products based on VS Code, because of the lack of vendor-neutrality and because it was not designed to be customizable (beyond extensions). Finally, the fact that you can develop your IDE once and run it in browsers and as desktop app is important, too. VS Code doesn't do that directly as VSO is private code.
My father and I both have the same first and last name, and same mailing address Our birthdays are two days apart. We use the same pharmacy. DOB (including year) is important!
The numbers given there aren't accurate for my region. Or maybe they're some number of days behind.
Negative prices:

Wyoming Asphalt Sour $ -0.08 (was $ -0.19 earlier today)

http://www.mercuria.com/media-room/daily-price-information

It was $ -0.47 on Monday:

https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/mercuria%20...
Ask HN: Recommended articles/research work and books from ACM library
ACM has now allowed free access to digital library for 3 months. What are some of the journals, research papers and books which people recommend for reading?
Zoom Client Leaks Windows Login Credentials to Attackers
I did this for a forum I used to host for many years. I crawled versions for people (using a user with the same rights as they did so it wouldn't contain anything extra) with static assets and referred images and zipped that up, so they could browse the old posts locally and nostalgize. It worked really well.

Maybe the people at UE need to be taught how to use wget.
My wife is a nurse in a hospital in one of the COVID epicenters, though she does not work with patients that have tested positive, and she is not getting adequate protection. The PPE policies she's subject to have already resulted in some of her colleagues being infected, but nothing has changed. She is not allowed to wear a mask for most of her patient interactions.

I don't know what to do.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16210600
You can't prioritize some content without deprioritizing other content, which effectively amounts to censorship. Algorithmic "timelines" (which aren't timelines at all) are one of the biggest mass scams ever perpetrated. It allows giant companies to sit and mediate personal friendships, and extract rent for anyone who wants more reach (even within their existing, opt-in audience).

I think daily about ways to get people to stop donating content to these censorship and surveillance platforms. Most people don't run businesses, so they never realize the rent-seeking nature of these jerks.
It's one of the best class mobility pathways.
Grocer uses robots to delivery grocery orders amid Covid-19 pandemic
I like string processing libraries that implement a multi-document feature like the one mentioned here. There's always some efficiency to be gained- maybe the public API has a lot of branching or initialization, maybe it acquires a lock, etc. Batching will amortize that cost, or open up new opportunities for SIMD processing. Letting the user reduce overhead through batching isn't something I see supported in other libraries, even ones that advertise high performance.
> The references say they can do this, and have been interested in doing it, so why wouldn't they be using it?

I'm not trying to split hairs. It is possible that, despite the interest, the technology isn't at a state where it would actually be useful in practice. However, your new citation is stronger.
Docker Containers vs. Virtual Machines – Know the Differences
Given that these are the five most popular series in modern fantasy, you've certainly got good taste! I'm always on the prowl for new books to read. Do you have any favorite SF/F books that are less well known?

Here's a few dozen or so of my favorites. I'd love to hear what HN thinks is good fantasy!

My recs (in no particular order):

- Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett -- heist novel with talking objects!

- Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente -- David Bowie meets Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy!

- The Sacred Throne series by Myke Cole (book 1: The Armored Saint) - Steampunk armor!

- The Shards of Heaven by Michael Livingston - Great historical fantasy set in the time of Augustus Caesar

- The Red Threads of Fortune / The Black Tides of Heaven by Jy Yang - Two paired novellas!

- The Craft Sequence by Max Gladstone -- Law = Magic! Extremely well written

- Assassin's Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy) by Robin Hobb -- One of my favorite series of all time.. I cried!

- Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly -- A spy thriller set in a Vaudeville-era secondary world. Burlesque! Spies! Politics!

- I Am Not a Serial Killer by Dan Wells -- Title says it all, really...

- The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin -- Fascinating series...

- All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anderson -- A mix of sci-fi/fantasy set in San Francisco, incredible

- The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anderson -- A tidally locked planet! Monsters! Escapes!

- The Paper Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg -- Origami as magic!

- Damselle in Distress by Kiley Kellermeyer -- Fairy tale satire!

- The Thousand Names (The Shadow Campaigns series) by Django Wexler -- Napoleonic era military fantasy!

- The Promise of Blood (The Powder Mage series) by Brian McClellan -- Dudes snort GUNPOWDER and get magic!

- Wool by Hugh Howey -- Post-apocalyptic world where everyone lives in a silo! NUTS.

- Disenchanted by Robert Kroese -- Hilarious fantasy world, several books in this world

- The Lies of Locke Lamora (The Gentlemen Bastards series) by Scott Lynch -- Best heist novel of all time? You decide!

- The Queen's Poisoner by Jeff Wheeler -- Secondary world that feels like King Arthur and the Round Table adventures

- The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers -- A space ship with crazy aliens!

- City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett -- The gods are DEAD! ...or are they??!

- Saint's Blood (The Greatcoats series) by Sebastien de Castell -- Snarky adventurers? Yes. Rodents of unusual size? No.

- Kill the Farm Boy by Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne -- Fantasy satire, with a FEARSOME Dark Lord Toby who yells about crackers!

- Spellslinger (Spellslingers series) by Sebastien de Castell -- Snarky magicians? Yes. Talking squirrel cats? ALSO YES.

- Justice Calling (The Twenty-Sided Sorceress) by Annie Bellet -- A lil romance + A lil D&D = fun times!
Chinese Netizens Use Ethereum to Avoid China’s Covid-19 Censorship
Apologies, I wasn't trying to argue that I do know. I was arguing the same as you imply here.

That because we don't know, you have to view the statement from the Amazon spokesperson as another unverified fact. Which, if you read your original response, you didn't. In this case, the information bias came from you. I was (possibly not clearly) trying to point out that lack of verification of the claim he was sick and/or in contact with somebody who was is important, specifically because it is advantageous for Amazon that everyone believe it to be true. I am not saying it isn't. We just don't know. Hope that makes it clearer.
Less bullshit jobs? Surely not!

Contrast someone doing non-work in his cube all day, where you may mistaken what he’s doing for something useful, against simply forgetting about the existence of an employee who no longer needs to even pretend to do work.
>> higher pay + unpaid leave

if your pay was low, and you get sick leave, then management is going to count the sick leave as part of your pay (even tho you don't necessarily use it up). This then incentivises the worker to "use up" sick leave even if they aren't sick.

Higher pay + unlimited sick leave (unpaid) means that the pay is upfront. The total amount paid being the same would mean that the worker doesn't have to fake a sickie every now and then to get their fair share of their wages. Managers also would not see any sick leave as the worker taking advantage.
I think that getting any kind of practical processing from biological neurons from a mouse or a human is ... well, hard and pointless.

However, the idea of getting biological parts interfacing with silico has lots of applications. For example, it could be used to build cheaper DNA printers where the "printing heads" are genetically modified bacteria.
And from there, it would be possible to arrange all sorts of chemical processes using bacterial metabolism. One could for example build sealed bio-batteries with an infinite lifetime, whose DNA is kept mutation-free using a digital master in the embedded digital controller.
California’s Fertile Valley Is Awash in Air Pollution(2018)
Drive-By Heat Sensors Could Help Detect Vehicle Occupants with Covid-19
Most of this is good advice, but I'd disagree with declaring "Today is your last day."

I've been on both sides of the layoff conversation, and usually there are some loose ends relating to work-in-progress that can be tidied up with dignity if everyone has a couple days to do it. We're talking about reworking next week's client meeting, or sorting out some team/project responsibilities that ought to be handed off cleanly, or whatever.

Assuming that there's trust in both directions, too, it's decent to give laid-off employees a couple days to retrieve or delete personal information that's relevant to their life going forward. A work emailed picture of grandma's birthday party. That sort of thing.

The person you lay off today is likely to stay in the industry, and to mingle in the future with people that might be important to your future success. Take a moment to think how you want to manage that relationship. Tossing her/him out the door that day is one approach. But it carries a price.

A favorite example from finance. The guys who founded Kohlberg Kravis Roberts were thrown out of Bear Stearns quite summarily in 1976. They built quite a mighty firm in KKR and did not do a penny of business with Bear Stearns for many years.

KKR is still around and doing fine. Bear Stearns went bust in 2008. That single example isn't cause and effect. But it's a marker.
Agreed. The future of productivity apps is on the web. Pretty soon the only category of apps that will have to be native is heavy multi media apps like video editors and digital auto workstations.
Ever seen a roadmap for a bank heist?
Regardless of your political stripes, this is a failure of preparedness and leadership at so many levels. America deserves better. But deserve has got nothing to do with it. We have to work towards being better at this. No amount of throwing money or thoughts and prayers will fix it. Voting, maybe. But holding leadership to account is part of the function of democracy.

The failures here are disgraceful.

When the dust settles, let's please remove the leaders who suck at this.
In the US the deaths are accelerating, but they lag by many weeks or even months in some cases. Lots of new cases are being identified with the increase in testing, but the proportion of positive tests is not changing, which is evidence that the spread is well past the "explosive" point. But each community follows its own mini-epidemic, and there's still tons of uncertainty. We will see how good of a prediction it was eventually.
Spending more doesn’t necessarily mean that you expand your living standards. It can also mean that you finally have the money to put into some necessity that you put off, like fixing your roof.
Hyperrogue[0]. It's a rouge-like game that takes place on a hyperbolic plane. The developers have done quite an excellent job of making the non-Euclidean geometry essential to your survival strategies.

To boot, there are extensive options for manipulating how the space is projected and the geometry itself.

Really cool stuff!

[0]:https://www.roguetemple.com/z/hyper/
Why don't people use MacPorts instead? I've never had any problems with it.

Homebrew wants to screw around in /usr, Macports installs itself in /opt and doesn't interfere with things in the MacOS world.

Set your PATH to have /opt/local/{bin,sbin} and everything Just Works.
I like their products and Omnigraffle in particular, though they still seemed to have old-school high pricing.

I guess they have done their market research and concluded that lowering the prices does not add enough users. I like OmniGraffle a lot as well and recommend it to others. But I don't think anyone else has bought it on my recommendation. If you are the type of person (like me) who draws graphs maybe 10 or 20 times a year, the pricing is very steep, and people will just use something like draw.io.

I strongly dislike subscription pricing, but I think it might work in their case. They would be able to extract more money from existing customers + the barrier to entrance is lower for the occasional user.

I have tried to use the other Omni products, but the never really resonated with me. OmniFocus has quite a strict and focused GTD-driven model. I found it constraining and switched to Things. Though all these tools break down in a team setup, because they do not really support team sharing of tasks. OmniOutliner always felt too complex as a replacement for e.g. Markdown or org-mode and too limited to compete with the likes of notion.so.
https://zoom.us/healthcare

> HIPAA/PIPEDA plans start at $$200 per month per account, which comes with 10 hosts.
Preview Version of Event Hubs on Azure Stack Hub
Best Practices for Using Azure SDK with Asp.net Core
Oh man - that is the best first post. The issues are fantastic.
Source on doctors and nurses being fired? I haven't heard any reports of that.
I have a friend who has some intimate knowledge of MacOS installation software who refuses to use Zoom. "It's not merely because it uses the same install patterns as Russian malware," this person told me, "no; it's personal."

Seriously, despite this person's aversion to anything Google, Hangouts ends up being the one tolerable exception.
Kids that Graduated in 2001-2003 feel the same.... those year sucked. I was a summer intern in 2002, and saw half of my group get laid off. As an intern I was cheap enough to keep around, until the economy improved in late 2003, when I got a full time offer....

2004-2007 were good, then bamn another recession... then this....

The way money interests/lobbyist are running the economy and country, It is almost given that every 10 years there will be a major recession. While this time it was a virus triggering it, the economy has been over-heated for a while, and the crazy thing is that the government was running crazy deficits in a hot economy, instead of saving for the long term. (i.e. the feds and the goverment, have been 'juicing up' the economy for short term re-election goals).
I find it laughable that you talk about democracy, and then you praise "booting out of the government" elected politicians you don't like.

You're also misinformed about how the Italian Constitution says acts that limit freedoms should be passed which is—not how they're doing that—therefore Hitler.

We'll have to wait and see. Let's see if Orban gives back his unlimited powers (might very well not be the case, no idea), and if Italy gives back citizens their freedom. I know that even 20 years after 9/11, the Patriot Act is still in effect, and Americans were not given back the freedoms they took during the emergency.
I feel like visiting a webpage would equate to opening a door - not whatever happened here, it was probably more involved. Anyway, I invite you to sneak into a local business, let's say Lockheed Martin (or some business that works closely with the FBI), go up a floor and find some filing cabinets and deposit some random thing (something funny like Marx's Capital), and then get caught. Tell me what consequences do you think you might face?
For something to be a useful hypothesis, it must both match historical data and be good at predicting future data. Given that the signalling explanation is usually used post fact, and when used to predict is wrong as often as not (in my experience), it seems like a pretty useless hypothesis when used broadly.

Possible that there's a narrower hypothesis, or someone that uses it to accurately predict systems and behaviours. Would like to see it in that case.
Could be the usual bureaucratic reasons. Left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. Or the left hand is correct and they should all be quarantined and the mistake wasn't sending this guy home, it was not sending the others home too.
You can join Zoom meetings on your browser too. It's behind these twelve easy steps:

1. Go to zoom.com
2. Click "Join a meeting"
3. Enter meeting id and click Join
4. Ignore the automatic app download
5. Go back
6. Click "Join a meeting" again
7. Enter meeting id and click Join again
8. Ignore the app download again
9. Click at "If nothing prompts, click here"
10. Click "Join from your browser"
11. Agree to terms of service
12. Enter password and name, click Join

Yes, it actually requires you go back and try again at step 5. What dark pattern?
Most of don't look like what I'm looking for, but thanks