skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was an article a couple weeks ago about a group that went on a rafting trip and experienced just this. The guy scheduled to pick them up tried telling them about it on the ride home, but no one believed him until they saw it on the news.
76 million.
flattened growth because the number of new cases is not growing very fast; it does not mean they have no new cases...
I am aware of that, but there is still doubt in that data. Apparently the tests used in a lot of Chinese people have really bad false positive and false negative rates, so it could lead do conclusions such as apparent reinfection. We'll have to wait and see if it happens with more people, especially in regions with more accurate testing.
Motivation and the Law of Attraction
I feel sorry for anyone on lockdown with you.
Anybody have a non-paywall version?
I agree with you. What this pandemic has thrown light upon are the sectors that are weak and vulnerable.

It has shown its soft underbelly where attacks are easy. Logistics and distribution is already good. We don’t have food shortages. In fact, we are still able to cover the panic buying as well as the future needs for extended lockdowns.

Ag must be proud of what it has achieved. The problem is before the farm gate. Harvesting certain crops..citrus for example in the OP..still needs people and if people don’t turn up, produce will rot.

So Ag is ripe for automation, as it were...all kinds of Ag at diff scales must be automated. The way to do it is not to automate machinery but to automate tasks or automate platforms.

Currently there is a lot of importance for AI and vision. While robotics and automation is certain data centric and data reliant, most of what is done is not relevant for actual farm automation. It’s data used for post farm gate for logistics and traceability and commodity market speculation etc.

We need automation for food crops that is entirely different than automation for commodity crops. We also need automation for different farm scales..from 5 acres to 10k acres. Because a 10k acre farm in the mid west can grow corn and soy for feed but it’s that 20 acre farm that grows greens and tomatoes and cabbage.
Does anyone have additional information about this? Can't reach technical support or even access my client area.
Good point. It reminds us that it's not only physical violence that counts. Sometimes psychological violence (harassment, blackmailing etc.) is even worse, especially when kids are put in the mix.
You are absolutely right. It's a very difficult problem to solve, and the current situation makes it far more challenging.

But knowing that you are not legally required to stay has to be an improvement.
If you are pushing your new converts to install/update to bleeding edge kernel releases, you're really doing them a disservice and setting them up for failure.
Very recent (March 28, 2020) non peer reviewed preprint:

"Correlation between universal BCG vaccination policy and reduced morbidity and mortality for COVID-19: an epidemiological study"

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.24.20042937v...
Given that lifting quarantines seems infeasible, what do you suppose should be done instead? Same message, just communicated better?
Poverty does two things to us: limits our degrees of freedom (available choices) and diminishes our decision-making capacity (a famine/crisis response[1]). In extreme cases, poverty leads to sleep deprivation in which we cannot make even basic rational decisions.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20518805-scarcity
How would one extract an algebraic function from the network’s weights? Why would the function the network approximates necessarily be algebraic?
This has happened to me when I was a student. I didn't understand EC2 billing cycle well enough and ended up using much more than my student credits. The final bill amount was high as a student (but still less than $1000). Contacted AWS support, they waived the charges but cancelled my account and told I couldn't use that email address anymore for AWS.
The dealers might be police confidents.
> You guys all need to study existing tech better before starting to write your own solutions

that would be a first
I don't really see this - in my experience Apple makes the distribution process more difficult (but I've never published an internal app through App Store) and iOS developers charge more than Android/JS frontend devs and are harder to find (at least in my local market)
The thing is, though, Covid-19 doesn't cause coughing in asymptomatic cases.

I had no cough before developing fever and muscle pains, and only a very mild cough afterwards. Are you suggesting that asymptomatic cases are not infectious?

Likewise, according to the article, "nobody there was coughing or sneezing".
Choosing Between Rust or Go?
I know it's not really "amazing" because lots of software allow you to record screen but it's great that you made it too damn simple. That said, a suggestion to consider webm because 5.6mb for 7secs isn't probably justifiable.

side note: if you're on windows, win+g is a great new tool for the same.
That's not how a W2 works. All of those other forms of compensation are, of course, in their 1040 but are probably on a K1 or other amendment.

Social security contributions (to pick the most important one) can only come from wage income so the question remains: how are they paying into social security and, if they are not, why is that allowed when it is generally assumed that it isn't ?
See for instance this page which explores some of the possibilities (and problems)

https://www.pagetable.com/?p=568
Well, I'm not well versed in the details, but I do wonder if cooperative multitasking isn't a better idea nowadays in the age of ubiquitous multicore.
In the article they explicitly talk about this, the technical term is that it is spread by aerosols (basically, smaller droplets) in addition to droplets. This is similar to TB, which generally requires patients to stay in negative pressure rooms and their caregivers to wear N95 instead of surgical masks.

As with all things with infectious diseases (like asymptomatic spread) it's less useful to ask whether it's possible to spread in a certain way, and better to ask whether that way is a large driver of new infections. For hospital workers, maybe; for the general public, probably not.
Court: Research on bias in online hiring won’t violate hacking law
Grain grown for feed and fodder is inedible for humans.
I don't understand the Reason hype when F# / Fable already offers this
If you think that’s important then open one.
How does raspberry pi run on stock Ubuntu?
America needs N95 masks. These people are trying to get them to health workers
I never finished that book, because about two-thirds of the way through the narrative thread seemed to be coming apart (to me, anyway). But I did find the themes of educational philosophy and social organization intriguing. Yesterday, it occurred to me to give it a second try: specifically, because Stephenson's theme of social organization in "clans" (or whatever he called them) seem to me to maybe give some insight into today's identity politics.
> I would say install Algo on a dedicated droplet or backup your VPS before setting it up.

droplet == host?
Struggling to get zoom off the ground? Here's a Zoom “how-to” for ease:)
This is an important distinction for experts who know the terms of art, but for regular people it is maybe misleading to keep insisting that "it isn't airborne".

It is traveling through the air, you can get it, through the air, if you are near another person.

I have seen this misunderstanding in real life. People who think an outdoor festival is safe because "it isn't airborne"

As well, at least one expert, in South Korea, states that it is possible to become aerosolized and actually airborne in the right conditions (many people, singing, shouting, in a small area). Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAk7aX5hksU&t=1559s
It might get 5.4 sometime, but it is probably sticking to the Longterm stable kernel release set like the rest of Debian Buster:

https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html
It certainly diminishes their options.
Don't we already see much talk of our living in a "gerontocracy"? I'd like my older family to enjoy better health and longer life as much as anyone, and God knows this pandemic is giving me a healthy sense of my own mortality at age 30.

But... Sometimes I still want my older relatives to stop being such damnable Boomers and get out of the way, in terms of how society is run.
I mean, Discord is basically re-skinned IRC, and tons of "normal" people who have never heard of IRC use it every day.
Sunburns. Human skin generates Vitamin D out of UV damages to it, which plays roles in hair and nails but also in maintaining healthy thoughts somehow.

Apparently kids in arctic regions receive “sunbathing” sessions in a dark room with UV lamps for this reason. I’ve been thinking to replicate it but haven’t been able to find much technicalities in it...
Ah, Hacker News, where you get downvoted for making a joke.

(to be truthful this comment didn't really add anything, which makes it fair game to downvote, but I still got a bit of surprise seeing a decent joke grayed out)
Ok, but theoretically the virus could end up on a box of cereals if someone didn't wash their hands. At that point, having breakfast could be hazardous.
What are you interested in? The recommendations I can make for someone fascinated with LISP are different than the ones I can make for someone interested in computing history are different than the ones I can make for someone interested in processor design and so on. There's a very wide selection here.
This whole issue is overblown. Employees, retirees, and generic Wall Street investors have a preference for buybacks because it leaves equity holders with the ability to put their capital to good use. I don’t want GE to invest in vanity projects if they don’t have good ideas. Buy back shares, return capital to shareholders, and let shareholders invest in something else.

There two sides to a buyback transaction, and saying it creates no value is BS. Someone is SELLING.

If the issue is just using debt to buy equity, then there is some discussion to be had, but even then, the result looks more like a need for a stress test/capital buffer rather than a ban. Alternately, just modify the tax treatment of buybacks to look exactly the same as dividends.
SMBs in Europe and ZA hit hard by Coronavirus
Can't say I agree. The relative cost of bundling is minimal. I don't really think about my setup at all -- it's such a minute part of my daily workflow.

Anyways, your disdain for front-end development will probably preclude a lot of people from taking your stance seriously.
Buybacks are just dividends but more flexible for the company. It boosts stock price because it tells investors that the share is more than a speculative vehicle.

Returning value to shareholders isn't nefarious.
I don't "hate" TBP, so not sure why you chose this characterization. I just find it overrated. When I finished the trilogy, I wished I'd have gotten back the hours I spent reading it. That's neither the mark of a good book nor a good writer. And let's not pretend that the Hugo committee is some sort of arbiter of truth. Plenty of real stinkers (N. K. Jemisin anyone?) have won it.

Also, If I'm in the mood for hard sci-fi, I'll read Peter Watts who is (again) on a different league. Blindsight and Echopraxia navigate similar (but not only!) themes to TBP in a much more intelligent, thought-provoking and cohesive way.
Please submit the original source if possible. The tweet is basically a link to a blog post.

https://www.yac.com/blog/how-to-use-zoom-101
What about all those grounded commercial flights?
Christian Eschatology
Fortnite and Tinder Monetize Signaling-as-a-Service
Maybe it doesn’t need to? If a computer can simply look at the weld with sensors and detect attributes it can overlay them on the video feed for a welder to see. Then you can turn welding into a lower skill process and create more job opportunities.
Look at the Occidental deal (a few months ago) or the Goldman Sachs deal (2008) for a template. Preferred stock with a fat dividend plus options (warrants) to buy stock in the future.
A lot of companies and educational institutions already had Teams licenses through their Office 365 contracts, but weren't really using Teams. Now they're using it, a lot, because "it's already paid for". Simple as that.
Unfortunately not in time for Ubuntu 20.04 which will be shipping with a 5.4 kernel. Can't wait for Ubuntu to have this builtin!
I'm with you on Moby Dick, though I always feel guilty about that. I was loving that book, up until the whaling and "whiteness" chapters. I never got past that. Les Miserables, by contrast, I absolutely loved — even the essay-digressions. Hugo is an absolutely genius at dropping what seems at the time like the most inconsequential seed into the plot and then having it flourish into a great reveal a hundred or so pages later.
I'm not the GP but I'd be super interested in any computing history recommendations.
But domestic abuse is truly a different level of horror.

Trust me, there are very tough situations that you haven't seen or you wouldn't say that.

Fortunately domestic abuse has some legal status. But falling with a mentally deranged person in a shared condo is dangerous and more usual than you think.
Well I'm not saying this is the right place for his frustration, but it is a bit annoying that the narrative around domestic abuse is that it's something men to do women, while in reality the statistics show us that both men and women are guilty of domestic violence at about the same rate. There are thousands of shelters for women in the US, while for men there are less than 5 scattered across the country.

Men and women should both have access to resources to protect them from abusive partners. This issue isn't as gendered as it seems to be.

https://nypost.com/2017/10/29/these-shelters-help-male-victi...

> Hines said some men don’t even realize they’re being abused until they read pamphlets — mostly geared toward women — listing abuse signs. “If you are the man, that’s a very difficult process to figure out,” she said.

> In the U.S., about 31 percent of men and 37 percent of women have experienced sexual violence, physical violence or stalking by an intimate partner, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
OVH is having a major datacenter outage
> Taxis haven't gone out of business yet.

So you have no evidence that they'll raise prices and the claim that they would is pure speculation. Which still doesn't explain how they would be able to when they still have to compete with each other and when the barrier to entry is very low such that if they ever did they would quickly get new competitors.

> Profitabilty: Here, I did your research for you, not too hard

Websites explaining why they currently spend more than they take in (answer: long-term investments like R&D and advertising), not how they would lose money on the average ride.

> Fair Trade absolutely has an impact, by your own admission! You are applying the "if you can't fix everything don't bother fixing anything" fallacy.

I never claimed it doesn't do anything. It's just not an example of dumping or anti-competitive behavior. Non-fair trade coffee isn't excluded from the market in any way. The higher price for fair trade coffee doesn't come from market power, it comes from marketing and selling a different product (a specific brand of morality) which is worth more money to some customers.

There is no cartel there. There is nobody stopping anybody new from paying higher wages and marketing their coffee as such, nor from paying lower wages and charging lower prices.
The company was led by a great visioner in the past. He needed great executioners alongside to complement him at management. Now that he is gone the company is led by the executioners who are doing what they are superb at - execution.
Some Harsh Realities of Life
Heh, well the list price for Waves Horizon bundle is $3,999 and that's one vendor...

A lot of the plugins those users acquire over time are produced by individual devs or small Indy shops, who may not be around any more or inclined to develop Arm versions of older products. You'll find threads on gearslutz.com where some people aren't upgrading to Catalina because 32-bit plugins aren't supported any more.
I already have screenshots going into a Dropbox -> Screenshots directory (with "Fan" display from my macOS Dock), which I like.

However I do want non-cloud OCR / text search on existing + new screenshots.

Basically I don't want you to change anything about my screenshot setup except make it searchable.

Does VisionShot do this for me?
That's kind of a tautology. If you assume the system is insecure, then yes its going to be insecure with that assumption. This is going to be true of any VPN system, so i think its an unfair criticism to level against this particular VPN setup.

If you want to be secure against local adversaries, use TOR.
I use WireGuard and it works perfectly fine as it is.

Can someone explain why we need/want to put it into the Linux kernel?
Can we assume that the virii can be suspended in the water vapor that is exhaled? If so, what effect does air temperature and relative humidity have? It was studied before that the infections spread fastest in areas where temperature is 8.72 degrees Celsius [0].

[0] https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3074131/coro...
I still have a tiny bit of the spool of lead solder I bought in the 1980's.
This article's title seems to imply global shipping and logistics infrastructure can't keep up with the incremental demand for PPE, but doesn't provide any further arguments or evidence to establish that.
If an abuser says B and the abused knows about A why wouldn’t they just throw that in their face and then leave? If you know your rights you’ll have the confidence to act.
> And very few people seem to be enjoying Gnome much at all,

Happy people don't comment as often as people who have complaints.

I personally have used GNOME for a decade and a half, and it continues to Just Work for me, and get better with each release.

I'm not suggesting that nobody has issues with it, but the idea that nobody likes it is certainly untrue. There's a reason it's the most popular default environment installed by distributions.
True, thanks for that
And I you, but the damage is done - I've just vaccinated a number of people against the predictable wave of headlines that follow every major event.
I didn't have much trouble adapting to underway conditions. But then I've always been somewhat introverted and love hunching over a desk doing projects. Underway was just a bit tighter spaces, flourescent only. Like knowing you were going into a really weirdly laid out half industrial half office space and you just weren't leaving for a while.

(I was lucky enough to be in a rating where I was on periscope every now and again, so I had that bit of extra 'view'.)
The Next Chapter of Meetup
Hosting a Remote Game Night
I could explain how analogies work, but then you'd just insist that the last sentence somehow doesn't meet the criteria for "analogy." I feel like I'm arguing with a bot here.
Johns Hopkins University unveils a free crash course on Covid-19
I had an old Staples office chair and started having terrible Piriformis pains in my hip - I think it was a broken spring pushing on the hip but who knows.

I kept reading about different chairs, and as many have mentioned, the most important aspect for programmers is to move around and get up from time to time.

I ended up trying a "SONGMICS Standing Desk Chair, Adjustable Height Ergonomic Standing Stool", which I got from Amazon.

Trust me, you won't sit in one position all day, and my butt does get a bit sore when I sit for 2 hours, but after a week the hip issue disappeared, and its been nine months now and I'm satisfied with it.

The one aspect of this particular stool is that it pivots a bit so you can option to shift some weight onto your feet.

Not that I don't dream of a comfy captains chair (I did read and archive this discussion), but its an option you might want to consider.
From what I can tell at least two datacenters are affected.
It sucks because we use both for redundancy (they are suppose to be isolated from eachother) so all our products are unavailable.
Their internal systems appear affected too (OVH Manager, etc).
If you suspect one of your neighbors is being abused, call the police and report it. Don't wait, don't hesitate. Some people call the police because McDonald's screwed up their order. Call the police.
Ask HN: Can the Immune System Fight Covid-19 Without a Temperature Increase?
Right, the CDC FAQ seems to say don't wear masks.

However the CDC also says if you "think you might have COVID-19", you should "wear a facemask" "to help protect other people in your home and community." "You may need to improvise a facemask using a scarf or bandana."

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/if-you-are-sick/st...

Seems to me we should all assume we "might have COVID-19" and therefore follow CDC's advice: wear a facemask of some kind to protect other people.
WHat do you mean by reasonml for server apps? If you mean running js(output of bucklescript) then no it will likely not benefit node users.
This delights my inner nerd, but my outer curmudgeon is miffed: I've fallen out of love with teletype-based UIs (not text-based UIs) and it now feels like epic "turd polishing" taken to absurd lengths.

It's 2020, italics shouldn't be hard eh?
I am actually not sure. I know raspbian has modifications in it that take care of board specific issues in it, such as high power consumption/heat from some issue related to USB PD and/or power states. I am not too familiar with the inner workings of distros and how hardware-specific fixes are propagated, but I like the idea of sticking with officially supported OS/hardware combos for "set and forget" boxes.

Wireguard was too alluring to not try though, and now I really like it. I would like to move away from my homemade pull, build, and install scripts, but not for any good/justified reason. I suppose I just like the idea of someone being responsible for a software stack that I rely on.
Faster: Concurrent Key-Value Store with In-Place Updates [pdf]
not as simple as that. For example, on debian buster, the Discover search bar doesn't work if used several times; the favorites in the start menu sometimes reappear after being deleted; when I quit kmail by using the windows close button, Kmail complains it exited in an unexpected way, etc. These are not little quirks, these are apparent in a normal daily usage. I use Windows at work and it's past those issues.

But yet, I still prefer KDE because I prefer the whole myth of its creation (I say it's a myth because 1/ there's not much of a story 2/ even if it existed I'm 100% sure I didn't read it). I also prefer it over Windows and OSX 'cos it has things which are better : start menu is very clean, konsole works great, okular is super good, K3B just works,...

So I'm not criticizing the work done by KDE, it's just the end result that is 98% good (which for me, as an experimented dev/user means 101%), not 99.9%.

And while I'm at it, installing the next stable debian is always such an amazement to me. Things improve so much in stability and in those little bugs here and there. Having been a GPL/linux/... follower since almost 30 years, I can measure that. And it's soooooo great now... Can't believe that I've been able to see the whole thing happening. And now the pinephone thing is coming along...

(that was the emotional minute, thx for your attention :-) )
If you find this interesting, check out Project Hospital on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/868360/Project_Hospital/
Get a 3M respirator with the appropriate filters for handling lead. When finished, wash up with Hygenall Lead-Off.
You ever breathe out on a cold winter day? Your breath is humid.
Gotcha, will do next time.
I'll take the "fascinated with LISP" ones :)
A list from 10 years ago,
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9220o/ask_prog...