skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, "most" is not sufficient here. In South Korea the majority of cases were spread through a small handful of church gatherings. Consequently I have come to think that media coverage such as this post is a net benefit to society, although it is undisputable that they cast many innocent people in a bad light.
Wiki says a megachurch has a usual attendance of 2,000 people or more, so you are taking exposing up to 4 million people just to collect money.

It will take only one infected person in a church to spread it to a lot of people.

To me one of the scariest scene in the movie "Outbreak" was when the person sneezed in the theater.
This is big business.

Naming colours is a huge money spinning scheme.

Pantone has been given a monopoly because... Because no reason!

Forget open source as in beer software for the moment and let's write truly international canonical colour name reference.

I will get this going personally next month with anyone willing. I can support expenses and organise support and removal of all chores. I can ship the necessary tooling to participate. The project must he nonprofit by nature but I am fully equipped with the legal resources to trade donated time for real sweat equity first in line for being proportionally paid without affecting the nonprofit organ.

I love the idea of what you could achieve with the royalty income - what happens when the ODSS graphics programme worlf gets a no strings income and can be hiring and tooling the enterprise wetware necessary for the first rate conditions that only the big companies enjoy. Non profit charity organisations don't deprive their own people much anything. Sure enough for real is a helluva long shot but anyone? Shoot the breeze and scheme at least possible to collaborate via true accurate color rendition with a little bit of setting up I'm comfortable with. This is exactly the sort of thing that m6 late confounding partner wished our enterprise would be doing if our exit fell thru and his passing sure did (unnecessarily the route wasn't seen by a phalanx of attorneys highly motivated by closing fees. Ancient history now but I am speaking with genuinely passionate excitement at the fundamental principles and practice of the kind of business that is a strategic economic accelerator. I've decades of experience in media to lecture on why this is so crucial for business especially in the smaller business strata.
- There are millions of modules on npm and you are claiming this is the fastest of them all? I doubt it, and not only I doubt it: I find it misleading since it's hard to verify and reflects a lack of humility. To say "Our goal is to have the fastest node module" or "A module with performance in mind" is VERY different to "The fastest module".

- If I decide to use your code for something serious I cannot take your numbers for granted. The benchmark methodology does matter. You need show some signs of rigor so other people can assess how credible your claims are.

- Did you run this benchmark in a controlled environment without other processes running? Did you disable frequency scaling before running your benchmark? If you ran it in a desktop computer with a bunch of other stuff running and frequency scaling enabled then your processor speed was constantly oscillating while running your benchmark and the numbers are completely random.

- Did you know that v8 is full of optimizations that are conditional to how your code is written? Did you know that even a comment can dramatically affect how your code is treated by v8? In some cases V8 just gives up trying to optimize your code. Did you profile your code? did you trace v8 deoptimizations? Even if you did, you should not say this:

Why are all the other libraries so slow?

Because they did not spend enough time optimizing it.
Most developers give readability and cool code more importance
than actual performance and usability.

It's really the self-promoting tone and unbelievable claims that make the README file so irritating.
Not necessarily. By "God only helps those who help themselves," we are called to take reasonable precautions, and to pray for those afflicted as much as possible within our state in life.

Furthermore, the Holy Mass is the most powerful prayer that can be offered to God. We have celibate priests who chose to volunteer their lives and give up the goods of marriage just for the ability to say this prayer. We certainly do not abandon this prayer when we need it most.
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X11 screen locking: a secure and modular approach
Solving #1 is interesting because it would also be useful if you didn't care to use a Handshake name and also didn't want to depend on the traditional CA system. It could save the need to for companies to ever install a certificate on their employee's machines along with coordination around updating the certificate.
In Iran, false belief a poison fights virus kills hundreds
uninviting greyish green
#82A67D
cultrate bright light green
#2DFE54
muttering dusty purple
#825F87

#00000 fade to black on poetic combination descriptor
I heard a rumor that when the Bible uses the word, it wasn't actually English, modern or archaic, in the original.

Looks like it might be πειράζω.

Edit: and Luther apparently used the word Versuchung, which I'm not sure how to interpret because everybody seems to translate it as temptation in the sense of seduction, even though the biblical word should be testing or proving...
These structures are dotted all around central Mesoamerica and forms of them exist even in regions inhabited by peoples who are not otherwise associated (linguistically, ethnically, material culture, etc) with Mesoamerica at all, like Puerto Rico.

It seems that even in ancient times, the one thing you could count on to get the party started at any local watering hole from the caribbean to Acapulco (with the notable apparent exception of Teotihuacán) was a cry of "GÓL!!!!"
Some people are morons. That doesn't change based on whether they are conservative or liberal.

The majority of my news comes from NPR (IPR locally here in Iowa). The main people that comment on their Facebook page are clearly liberal and clearly also some of the biggest idiots you've ever met.

Being in a position of leadership also doesn't automatically mean you're not a moron.

What I know is that the Republican President and also the Republican Governor of Iowa are taking this very seriously.

Also I highly recommend people actually watch the press briefings because what I've found is that any time I actually listen to what Trump says, he makes a hell of a lot more sense than whatever clip the media generally chooses to play out of context.
If you'd like to, go ahead! You'll find that most Christians in the United States do not attend megachurches.

(If I had more time I'd try to get you numbers, but any time I go down this rabbit hole it takes awhile to come out)
No mention of the bungled CDC test or the 6 week headstart that was squandered? “15 cases soon to be 0”?

This has been an unmitigated disaster thus far, especially if you compare us to South Korea.
So, there were WMDs? We're not talking about ancient history here. Lots of us can remember the lies that got us into Iraq II as well as those that got us into Iraq I.
Interesting - I read in Polish but not as well as English. I imagine there could be a lot of good wordplay that is missing. Maybe one day I’ll try and pick up the Polish version
The people who are struggling and don't seek help, preferring to go to the kegger, are the ones who drop out. Sure, there are probably some who do really well and still find time to party, but they are a brilliant minority.

University is a filtering mechanism as much anything. Our culture no longer has any formalized rite of passage the way indigenous cultures have. Getting through university, especially in tough programs such as math, hard sciences, or engineering, is the only rite of passage we have left. Even the days when someone could graduate high school and immediately get a factory job that pays well enough to support a family are gone.
Any number of events drawing in many hundreds of people is a serious problem that can rebound on many thousands of people later on.

It's good that some states are actually effectively stopping such gatherings but this serious problem apparently remain and may appear as a flood of refugees into these states.

Note, one of the States mentioned as having large megachurch gatherings in the article is Louisiana, which was 4th in terms of numbers of deaths in the last 24 hours, not really behind the curve at all.
I think the essay about undersea cables is actually by Stephenson, not Gibson (unless he happened to write one too)
The stuff about killing the demonic people who purposely infect others kind of remind you who he was though.
Surprised? Not at all. As long as society relies on people having a shared myth to separate out "them" from "us," politics will be an inescapable part of us.
"I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God..."
At minimum, China does not include asymptomatic cases in official counts.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-24/china-s-h...
France Officially Sanctions Drug After 78 of 80 Recover from Covid-19 in 5 Days
It's definitely a problem from a public health perspective, and that's why there should be legal measures to stop such large gatherings.

However, these types of articles are often used to cast aspersions on all Christians. That was essential the point of the parent comment. Why single out megachurches? You could find plenty of similar examples in the business, social and government realm of large groups continuing to meet.
Good point. Sounds like a journalist may be inflating things to make a story.
I don't agree with everything you say, but I do think it's noteworthy to express your opinion in a way thats non accusational and explanatory from an external perspective.
Ok, now you’re just trolling us. I watch Trump’s press conferences. The word salad is still word salad. He clearly has no idea how to handle this and is incapable of taking responsibility or decisive action.
Econ 101: Today, masks are $500. Tomorrow, 100 companies in various industries begin to repurpose their factories to produce masks and arbitrage the price down until it isn't profitable anymore. Supply increases; thus, there are more masks than there were before the price increase. Even if you don't like who gets the first mask, you can't deny that supply increases, and therefore more people now have masks.
They don't want to let their prestigious profession become what it essentially is—a body mechanic.
Are you in Louisiana?
I believe you. I just think comparing church counts sounded like a way to downplay their significance as a potential source of spread.

The other factor is that larger congregations means more opportunity for wider spread from a single infected individual, so again greater potential impact than the apparent count would imply.
This headline is technically right, which is the best kind.

More seriously, the article could find 3 megachurches that are still open. Pretty much all churches are shut down, except ones that are live streaming services. For something so unenforceable to be so widely adopted "Not many megachurches packing in crowds" seems like a more appropriate headline.
I fail to see how explaining that, "Yes, you need to know medicine to practice medicine, or people will die" is considered being contrarian. Would you rather just revel in ignorance?

So here's my idea: stop treating invasive medical procedures as something that can be trivially learned in a short amount of time. In short, drop the God complex. You're out of your depth here.

The need for action doesn't mean acting foolish. Irrational behavior in the name of "just doing something" will needlessly deplete more resources.
The entropy of a signal is the logarithm base 2 of the number of signals that you could possibly be trying to send. Because with perfect compression, that is how many bits you need to encode that many different signals.

Since not all lists are sorted, there are more lists of a given size than sorted lists.
It is very much like Catch-22 - which I have to say i don’t think I ever finished (was too young to really get it). I do remember some of the absurdities making me chuckle.

My family has told me stories about people like the main character, running his rackets in Catch 22. It must have been a truly crazy time
I don't think it'd be too hard to note that these churches are outliers. The author uses 'some' to cover three churches that are still meeting in person, and 'some' to mention that two other churches are not meeting in person.

Spend a few minutes at http://hirr.hartsem.edu/megachurch/database.html, see which one deserves the use of the word "some". Why couldn't the author determine which was more representative and thus accurately portray what most churches are doing? If I'm right and most churches have closed, wouldn't it be more persuasive to read an article that says "everyone who believes what you do is doing this, you should too"?
He is now, but he was downplaying a week or so and is still raising hopes for a miracle cure to a quite irresponsible extent. This sort of mixed messaging is extremely unhelpful and it’s not surprising that people are confused.
When people say it behaves like an implicit first parameter, they’re not claiming it literally is a parameter/variable. Of course it’s a keyword. Of course you can’t assign to it. You’re writing long rebuttals to made up arguments.

You’re also misusing terminology by saying `this` is “dynamically scoped” (it does not have dynamic scope[1], that would be terrible) when documents you’re quoting say “dynamically bound”. The difference is important, which is why three people have corrected you on that now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scope_(computer_science)#Dynam...
I am 100% not trolling. I find those briefings to be very informative.
Apps like Kuler are IP territorial land grabs.

I'm so disappointed with the level of understanding of colof (and other widely used and tremendously important knowledge) that if anyone has a London home for opening a reference library I'd start by filling out a wall with the books. I long plotted opening a wework like office and furnishing the place with everything I need to return to business or try build anew bug can't afford to do simultaneously with buying the lease. You need professional lighting and environment for reading this kind of subject.
Don't we already have that considering how many people watch the services on TV thru the religious channels.
Not that I agree with Trump or his handling of all of this but he didn’t actually call it a hoax [1]. Repeating this makes conservatives even more convinced “the media” is just out to get him.

[1] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-coronavirus-rally-re...
Did you read what I said at all? It started as a shit-show. Everything unexpected always starts as a shit-show. That is life.
Historically the early church was persecuted, making meetings very difficult. There are plenty of biblical examples of extenuating circumstances. A theme in the bible is that a heart of obedience matters more than the act of obedience.
I think some European countries have tried to deploy Dermatoloists and Gynecologists, etc s into ER in the present scenario after a training course.

Some medical students also could be utilised, if there is acute shortage, perhaps.
Show HN: One Thread per Core in Rust
A nice demonstration of how the K REPL can be used as a calculator and exploratory tool. The concise syntax particularly shines in interactive cases.
I'm not suggesting that people will become quickly reinfected, I'm saying that their immunity will be temporary, such as one or several "infection seasons".
what i'd use it for: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/stock-v...
Anyone who assembles no matter what legal authorities have said should recognize that they will subsequently have no need of a legal or moral right to seek admission to a hospital not owned by their church. Otherwise, they must leave their survival in the hands of God, without the opportunity to take anyone down with them.
If there were 1100 last week, when everyone sensible was already self-isolating where feasible, then presumably normal attendance is much higher than that.
Also if you're going to demand reparations or place blame, you should be blaming the people who are still ignoring this virus in America and needlessly spreading it in spite of authority figures and evidence not to. China isn't blaming the first person that got the virus, and we shouldn't be blaming the first country. At what point are you going to start shifting blame from who started it to who's continuing it?

We should be focusing on the people who currently still aren't dong anything: megachurches, Spring Breakers in Florida, virus-change deniers.
It's called being Trade Dress artist of manager, or at least before the uncalibrated www came along, there was great need for the role and I will attest the importance of making it a separate job function with direct bottom line affect.
Siv – Nimlang Static Site Generator
An accelerator for maritime tech in Asia: Betatron
South Korea handled it fine. They didn’t downplay it and claim it was no worse than the seasonal flu.

When it’s your guy who fucked up, it’s interesting how all of a sudden it’s “this could have happened to anybody!”
I mean, there’s a difference between “gulf war 2.0 was dodgy” (which is fairly well documented at this point) and claiming that a pandemic is ‘politically motivated’. What does the latter even mean? That the virus is itself fraudulent? That the virus is an artificial creation? That the virus is sentient and spends a lot of time on twitter? I can’t think of any reasonable interpretation of that.
While I am quite concerned with people who take unnecessary risk and ignore restrictions, there're quite a few people who take this to mind-boggling extremes.

The biggest "Expats in Paris" FB group had the admin do a long rant-sticky about being sick of people flaunting restrictions, resulting in overloading hospitals, specifically naming "solitary bicycle rides" as unacceptable, which I think is just across the line of hysteria. (Yes, it's forbidden, which does not mean it increases the risk of spread)
There's talk along those lines. Not sure what they've settled on? Keep in mind, they don't really know how crowded these facilities are gonna get. Space may be at a premium. But yeah, at the same time going home is not always the best idea.
People will still be able to hoard things. The difference is that only the rich will hoard, because everybody else never got the chance.

The normal market logic that high prices encourage extra production doesn't apply during an emergency, when the demand is panic-induced and momentary, and supply changes won't take effect until after the emergency is over.

The actual solution that makes sure everyone gets what they need and theres no hoarding is rationing: limit the number that one person can buy. And that's exactly what most grocery stores are doing.
The announcement for this at re:Invent was them literally driving an 18-wheeler onto the stage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vQmTZTq7nw
No, Pennsylvania.

The article mentions churches in LA, OH, and FL, but there was one in PA that isn't even a megachurch but was big enough to get an article that was basically the same as this one on the local news site. So they're definitely out there, but I haven't seen any evidence that they're anything but exceptions.
Can't we do it in AWK

https://blog.jpalardy.com/posts/alternative-to-sort-uniq-c/
Good monitors have modes for some color blindness corrections. I'm extremely embarrassed by the paucity of my domain knowledge and you are right for calling out this need because color blindness is far more prevalent than generally accepted. We all don't possess any reference on our brains. More data enters the optic nerve pathway from out brains than from our eyes.
Looks like even Batman is affected :-)

https://toonclip.com/player?key1=4de7921623
Well, here's a long shot for a long shot (this isn't me): https://twitter.com/johnmclear/status/1238603850417934337 Not sure if it fits your skill set but perhaps worth checking out? At least to hold you over?
The Aerogarden Farm and ZipGrow 2-Tower setup are fairly close in price (About $600 USD). Beyond that they're fairly different. The ZipGrow is certainly targeting a more prosumer/commercial demographic where as the Aerogarden, even the farm, tops out at high-end prosumer.

If you're an average person who isn't interested in dedicating their life to hydroponics, the Aerogarden is going to be the safer bet. It's small-ish, it's simple, it has a nice touch screen and beeps reminders at you.
At this point I refuse to even engage with conservatives that still support this administration.

I know this is bad but I don't really see the point in pretending to take them seriously - you have to be really really intentionally ignorant at this point to ignore the continuous lies and blatant criminal activity from the Republicans while still being intelligent enough to post complete sentences on hacker news.

I don't see how I could come to any other conclusion than their supporters either being intentionally very ignorant, or just very ignorant.
Coronavirus Act, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES) Demystified
This conflates the signaling value of certification and training, or to put it another way, selection effect and treatment effect. A qualification can be valuable for what it says about those who got in (Harvard, Yale, every other élite institution with low to non-existent drop out/failure rates) or it can be valuable for what it tells you about those who attained the qualification. Getting an A.S. in Computer Science from a California Community College tells you a lot about the recipient but knowing someone was admitted to a CC tells you nothing. Some qualifications are Harvard, some are that you passed a hard exam. One is much cheaper in time and money than the other.
And there has been media coverage of those organizations. We should call all of them out.

Though going to church might be the worst of all options since church goers tend to skew more to the older side of the population.
- Harry Potter and methods of rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky
Great intro to rationality, so fun to see a different take on a world you likely already know.

- Kindred by Octavia Butler
Such an interesting perspective on the psychology of what it takes to break a human being. In the worst way possible.

- The Humans by Matt Haig
Being outside of the human race, the language is so jarring and alien.
And that you would read it that way says more about you than it does about Tim, believe me.
For me the word mega in front of churches made me more concerned. Just because the crowds are so large.

The media's dislike for anything Christian makes this a two quadrant story.. possible three if the mega churches are in a red state.
I'm not sure why you classify abstract reasoning as cynicism. If you are less pessimistic about your fellow man its likely you are merely in a better position where you can afford an objectively less realistic position.

I know I don't regularly worry about how a broken system funnels food into American's trash cans while others starve because I personally have never been in a position where starvation is even remotely possible.
> There's no question that this is a violation of religious freedom.

I'm not sure I fully understand the argument. Does this mean that if a church is closed for any reason dictated by the government, it is a violation of religious freedom? For example, the local government decides that the church building does not meet the local fire codes and shuts the door. Is that a violation of religious freedom? I don't mean to imply that these situations are the same but the way you worded it made me start thinking about what is and isn't a violation, or what it even means to take away religious freedom.
“I, the Lord your God, love you. For anyone who doesn’t love me back, I made this nice little hell for you to spend an eternity.”