skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Money may contain a host of infectious agents, including coronaviruses, at any time, regardless of the presence of a novel outbreak. For this reason the WHO recommends — in general — washing one’s hands after handling money.

It became common practice that the delivery personal is leaving the package and backing off. While keeping distance, trying not to engage in further physical exchange.
Why is there such little emphasis on “traditional” testing, that is, regular unit tests? At least some portion of the code base is surely suitable for normal unit tests. For example data structures, scheduling algorithms, file systems, ...
Is there a good resource for a reasonably educated individual on the theory of farming. That is the theory about growing any foodstuff or useful growable product (livestock,plants,edible mushrooms, even houseplants and pets) and selling those products. Managing the economics, top soil, automation, machine repair and maintenance.
IIRC in the past GCC (or maybe just some of the maintainers?) has been resistant to that kind of architecture because it makes it easier to write proprietary extensions/plugins/backends/frontends/etc. to GCC. I'm not sure whether that has changed.

LLVM was designed to be a lot more modular, so it fits these use cases a lot better. In your example, you have the front ends (C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran frontends in LLVM proper, Rust, Zig, etc. as third-party front-ends) compiling to LLVM IR, opt for optimization, and different backends to generate machine code from IR.
ugly? Most definitely, offensive? Not really.
The first step is to get rid of any state or local laws preventing government entities operating last-mile networks. That should have never happened.
Thanks for this reply, I'm interested in the 'down-voting' you are describing, do think that type of HN member behavior is related or not related to the 'defensiveness' and 'techno-utopian ideals' you feel characterizes the HN community? For you, does 'increasingly political and divisive' signal whether an online community, in this case HN, is 'particularly healthy'?
So after a few data points, we're already declaring that a huge stochastic system has now suddenly turned deterministic? smh
Time spent looking at exponential graphs
Flash ran massively better on Windows than on Macs. One of Job's specific complaints was that it didn't run as well on Mac as it did on Windows. And that's because they couldn't get the same graphics hardware access they could get on Windows.

The flash player was a perfectly performany piece of software. The piece of shit programs people wrote for it were slow but that was not inherent of Flash. The same people went on to wrote piece of shit HTML 5 apps that peg out your fan just as much.
Been a long time since I used it, but this is sort of how Illustrator works. You do setup a canvas at first, but you can draw stuff anywhere in the whole workspace. It’s not infinite and doesn’t auto expand, but it is huge.

The canvas is more of a way to group objects for export, you could resize and duplicate them all over the workspace.

I used to use them as an ad how version control system, duplicate objects to play around off canvas, and then “commit” to a new canvas.
This forum is littered with a sea of such articles.

There is a high risk of riots in Europe and the USA - everybody being advised to wear masks - articles like these are a tone deaf response and we are living in much more dangerous times than most of our leaders realize.

Not for nothing the Horsemen come in a variety pack of 4.

I would like an ecology of rightists, leftists and liberals because to me that is what brings out the best in the West - but if we have a monoculture of any faction we are lost - and China knows that. There are even Straussian books like The Three Body Problem written about it.
Yes, Facebook deserves blame for automatically sending all those things to them, even if an app only wants to provide optional Facebook login for users who opt in.

However every app vendor by now should know that Facebook is hungry for data and careless use of Facebook software is to blame in them.

As is Apple (and Google) to blame for providing no privacy measures for users.
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Goyave is slower than Gin but provides more features such as regex in routes, validation, language support, among others.
No. Viruses from humans cannot be carried by dogs or other pets, except in very extreme cases. Stastically speaking it doesn’t happen and it’s not something to worry about.
>So these spike proteins effectively targeting the human cells is a feat achievable only through the process of natural selection.

I'm calling BS on this. I know for a fact there is the capability to measure protein binding potential via simulation. That's the entire point behind such programs as Foldit, and the tools that it was assembled from.

Furthermore, while yes, one might start from the backbone of a virus already known to cause illness (cited as a reason it must be natural selection of course), the issue with that is that such an approach is easily recognized, and also bakes in all the existing medical treatments that are currently in existence for that backbone. Gain-of-function research is specifically tailored around inducing human compatibility in non-human compatible viroids in part to specifically create highly infectious agents we haven't had to deal with before. Research that was actively taking place in the Wuhan BSL-4 lab.

I offer the following as a convenient assemblage of resources pointing toward the conclusion that this virus has been the center of a hell of a lot of research effort in the recent past; and some other ancillary happenings in the world of higher ed.

https://harvardtothebighouse.com/2020/01/31/logistical-and-t...

The level of coincidence is striking me as too damn high. I've noticed most of the stuff pointed out in the above article, and to be frank, that not long after research was conducted on producing chimeric, highly infective strains, the next major pandemic just happens to spawn out of a region containing a BSL-4 isolation lab? Right next to a bunch of researchers who just happened to be notorious for participation in not just gain of function research, but also in isolating strains of human compatible coronaviruses endemic to bat populations?

If you can seriously read that article and then discount that constellation of coincidence as being uninvolved, I have a lighthouse in central Texas to sell you. Profitable and self-sustaining. Mariners basically fork over money and I'm just tired of raking it in.

That articles keep getting posted that this thing has to be natural, flies in the face of any semblance of sense.

EDIT: found an old thread on this very article. Now reading up on comments. Outlook may change. Learning things is fun.

Old thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22344022

Looks like there are some analytical techniques that do suggest the thing is under some form of natural selection. I'm reading up on them now, trying to grok the math, but a lot of it seems to have a pretty heavy reliance on being able to trace things through lineages. Something I'd think you'd either have to have the all the data for the transitionary period for to get a truly accurate picture from, and that by the method itself is generally always an underestimate.

I'm slightly less gung-hi on the engineering at the moment until I've had enough time to absorb this, but the web of social interactions still rings to me as where there is smoke, there is fire. Therefore, I'm leaving my post largely unalteredfor posterity.
Yeah, YAML templating is just silly. I nowadays use Jsonnet (https://jsonnet.org) whenever I need to generate a configuration that needs some parameterization/computation in it. +1. Would advise to others.
Do you have a source that the 9sqm claim? It seems... completely unbelievable.

My wife's parents grow various vegetables in an area of that size, and there is no way it could provide all their vegetable needs.
Have you ever seen all the trees that get removed for large solar arrays? I have not seen any analysis of that aspect of solar farms. Our power company has recently torn down entire forests near me to create 'clean energy'.
I do not think coal is good but I worry about all the nasty chemicals used to produce PV panels.
Lots of trade-offs.
People were flying less and cancelling flights far before the govt mandated lockdowns
Thanks, I'm intrigued that you mention going to another online community to learn what people think of this online community - can you say more about this? are these people HN members?
Well, the point is not touching your face, with or without gloves if you're out. The gloves will hold the first contact, if you ditch them later you cannot get contaminated.
The world at large can make it work if people are willing to do these jobs for short periods of time in their youth before moving on to other things.

The world is going to die of starvation if we literally can't find anyone who will do this work at all for any amount of time at any pay rate.
Polynesian People Used Binary Numbers 600 Years Ago
For a while I worked in video decoding/encoding. That was true engineering. I loved reading up about cache and assembly and then applying this knowledge to our code. It was ok to work on one function for weeks just to get 20% speed up. Now I do enterprise and it’s just horrible. Between dealing with stakeholders and 3rd party systems that barely work there is no room for systematic engineering.
I don’t believe most start-up get “stolen,” there’s just a limited set of words and many are in use in different fields. Plus trademark expressly allows different marks by industry. A recent example here was a screen share app sharing the name with “screen,” the Unix tool. But shouldn’t that be okay? Most people won’t be confused between the two.
Yeah, as shipped they tend to have random looking patterns from procedures in the factory searching for bad blocks.

Edit: it might be hard to see in a dd of the disk, because all ones or all zeros for blocks tend to be special cases in the FTL to not even have blocks associated and just mark that it was all zeros/ones to avoid wear.
It's intended as an ultimatum and a demand. At some point we have to shift from calming people to fighting back; we can't wait until soldiers are in the streets to say that months of martial law is unacceptable.
I’m not the one making an article with a lie as a headline. Why is everyone okay with prefacing data with deception?
Here's an answer I put up on gamedev stackexchange a while back with that idea in mind -> https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/166448/rts-attac...
I am up for doing some fruit picking if it can be organized correctly. The strategy of allowing in migrant labour would be a political fiasco.
Perhaps someone with a better understanding of virology can clarify this for me.

My understanding is that the coronavirus binds to relatively generic cell receptors present on lots of different cell types (ACE-2 and possibly others) and this is responsible for the wide variety of symptoms, depending on which of the many susceptible areas of the body get infected first.

This may also enable lots of different species with these similar generic receptors to become infected. This virus seems like the ultimate generalist.
I have no doubt that even with those inconveniences, solar is still cleaner than fossil fuels. Research has proven out EROEI [1] (energy returned on energy invested). Wind also, and the blade disposal is a mostly solved problem at end of life.

Very cheap to pay to plant new trees somewhere else (about $1/tree, sometimes cheaper in bulk, but to be avoided when possible), and the containment of hazard waste from the PV manufacturing process can be managed. Not so much for the output of coal and natural gas generation.

Coal is dead, incredibly dead, natural gas is right behind it.

[1] https://cleantechnica.com/2018/02/03/solar-power-can-pay-eas...
OneWeb reportedly heads into bankruptcy and SpaceX might be next
You've been posting a shocking number of nasty swipes at people. If you keep doing this we are going to have to ban you again. Would you please just follow the site guidelines instead?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Even if the virus is transferable between species, pets aren’t a particularly worrying vector. Most pets only have contact with a few humans, and those humans usually already have contact with each other.

Places like kennels and dog parks can increase the pet to pet transmission, but if a city locks down then those opportunities decrease as well. So worrying about pets won’t change any of our current approaches.
Cheap air travel facilitated the global spread of the virus, they're not exactly innocent bystanders.
OneWeb doesn't come as a surprise, but f I had a dollar for every time some expert predicrted Tesla or SpaceX were going to go down for the count...
https://next.reality.news
tl;dr but what's wrong with a new name?
hey, thanks! would you be willing to say more about your experience of the 'reply thread spiraling out of control'?
I'm not sure the UK nationalizing car companies is a great example that we should be looking at - via British Leyland, they nationalized a lot of brands that never really recovered (Rover, Triumph, Austin, etc.).
Your second link goes to a still image. I assume you mean this [1] video? Though I don't see how that supports the statement that China has spent a big portion of its national reserve.

[1] https://twitter.com/laurie_garrett/status/122072527639456563...
Just gonna come right out & assert what kind of faith is backing the question eh?
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This line of thinking is the worst sort of ideological nonsense: the tax payers are bailing out a failed company with their own money, but because that bailout is administered by the government, which is, a priori, hopelessly inefficient, we dare not ask for anything in return lest the government really screw things up?

In case you didn't notice, these companies are already failed, and we're bailing them out. You're not "investing in them with a profit motive", you are forcibly having your tax dollars transferred to them. It's ridiculous that we would do so without any upside on the recovery. This is corporate welfare plain and simple. The really shocking thing is how our corporate oligarchs in American have turned "nationalize" into such a dirty word that regular people reflexively dismiss it as if it were Stalinist communism.
Wow it was based on a real world story. Makes the meme even better.
This certainly gives a new twist to the story, but it doesn't change the fact that natural gas is no real solution and that the greenhouse gas emissions of natural gas have been underestimated in the past.

It's not that switching from coal to gas is bad for the environment. It's simply that both are bad and we need something else.
"it's clear what you are doing"

Mind reading? How science-y!
thanks, can you say more about this? which aspects of the HN demographic do you see as being important to consider here?
I'm currently using a Netgear LB1121 with external antennas connected to AT&T's 4G network. It's maybe a smidge better than DSL, but not definitively so. Both throughput and latency are all over the map (2-sigma 1 to 70 mbps, 30-60 ms). I don't get a publicly-routable IP. So instead I have to buy another service and expend a bunch of IT-administration mental energy to use a VPS just so I can SSH home.

The basic rules of radio propagation should make it obvious to anyone that something like satellite (or even terrestrial) RF links will never achieve the density of fiber. And like power lines, they'll be something we run once and then occasionally fix for many decades. That may be too expensive in some parts of the country, but around here the argument rings hollow.

But you're right. It may be good enough for now. I just don't think it'll be good enough for decades.
Knight's clients remained whole from that debacle because they were capitalized enough to absorb the losses, and if I remember correctly another broker stepped in to take on their clients as well. Knight was also not really servicing retail clients.
Rabies, influenzas, haemorrhagic fevers, West Nile, coronaviruses, and Zika might like to have a word with you on the subject.
Perfectly put. And employment agencies in the UK could not care less about your photo. Source: I worked[1] for one.

[1] I initially typed that as 'whored'. FYI.
Yes, certainty in future economic projections is delusional, but it’s a delusion that is well received by society. Humans prefer confidence over competence, and abhor uncertainty. Right now, we have a lot of uncertainty.
thanks, will you tell me more about the 'astroturfing' at HN?
It seems that they outsourced almost everything to different companies rather than taking expertise in house.

SpaceX seems to be doing everything themselves. Amazon seems to be doing a lot but will likely outsource launching of the birds. Wouldn't be surprised if they fly on SpaceX rockets in part....
Let's all try to be nice to each other. Everybody's stuck at home and frustrated right now.
That's much lower than it was even 20 years ago, and the renewable number is far higher.

California is a bit unique but its not rare for the state to be getting up to 40% of its power from solar at midday.

We are moving in the right direction, but probably not fast enough.
Reacting to a bad comment with an even worse comment is not ok here. It's against the site guidelines, and you've been doing it a lot. We've had to ban you before for that, so would you please stop?

If you're posting to HN, you're responsible for helping to take care of this place, to the best of your ability and awareness. If others are wrong, correct them respectfully. If they are ignorant, teach them. If you know more, share some of what you know so the rest of us can learn. Tearing others down helps no one, and worsens the very things you're complaining about.

I'm sure you wouldn't litter in a city park just because others do, nor would you fail to put out a campfire just because you were mad at other campers. Please bring those values here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Any private investor would demand the same.
I would suggest advertising some fruit-picking jobs at a guaranteed $50/hour to test your theory that Americans don't want them at any pay rate.
Lies? The main points were; not ‘open’, which wasn’t wrong or a lie; ‘full web’, again none of the points were incorrect, and hindsight show flash on Androids was a poor user experience. In terms of ‘reliability, security and performance’, flash was a train wreck - no falsehoods there. It certainly rinsed the ‘battery Life’ on my Windows laptop at the time. Finally, it clearly wasn’t designed with ‘touch’ based devices in mind.

Jobs last point harks back to the main development platform for the Mac being Metrowerks CodeWarrior for Macintosh. Apple were essentially beholden to a third party with regard to improving their OS, which along with licensing other hardware vendors, nearly put them out of business. Whether you or anyone agree or disagree with his motive, you could see why Jobs didn’t want to run that risk again. There is also the elephant that is the App Store in the room, but again, once bitten (retailers not carrying Apple Compatible software), you can understand the decision, without necessarily agreeing with it.

> Apple denied Abobe access to APIs they needed to make Flash run better on Macs

It didn’t run particularly well on Windows, Linux or Android either...
If you made a 3.5% profit (total, not per annum) on your incredibly risky investments between early 2009 and 2014, that's a fail.
Cheap car travel facilitated the global spread of the virus. They're not exactly innocent bystanders.

Globalization facilitated the global spread of the virus, anyone with an international supply chain is not exactly innocent bystanders.

Social activity facilitated the global spread of the virus. Meetup.com is not exactly an innocent bystander.

etc...
Our best guesses are the best we can do. Are you familiar with the research around the bias bias? Or the fact that smart people tend to be more subject to biases?
Thank you for an actually well reasoned response with citations. You haven't persuaded me yet but I'll go and have a good read.
There is a platform for Germany by the ministry of agriculture organizing it and it seems they had 30k prospects last week: www.daslandhilft.de - one problem as I understood is that this is not all unskilled laborer work, but the there is quite some machinery involved where skilled personal is required.
But in turn, the income of average Russians is 1500% less than in the western nations so the ratio we pay here is adequate.

Besides, Russia has good internet only in major cities (>1,000,000 million residents) with residents living in high-rise buildings (like NYC) so the distance and the cost to lay the cables is minimal. Now compare that to a single-family residences in California and you see the argument is false.

P.S. Russians making $200 per month are officially considered middle-class in Russia.
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> China has suggested a radical change to the way the internet works to the UN, in a proposal that claims to enable cutting-edge technologies such as holograms and self-driving cars but which critics say will also bake authoritarianism into the architecture underpinning the web.

[PDF link to the proposal](http://prod-upp-image-read.ft.com/712584fc-7045-11ea-89df-41...)
The climate problem isn't entirely a coal problem, but coal is by far the single largest contributor. It's also quite replaceable. Phasing out coal remains the simplest, most straightforward mitigation. Once we do that we can tackle the other stuff.
That's not "my theory." That's what I have read over and over for some years now.
thanks, can you say more about what you think makes a member of an online community, in this instance HN, a 'jerk' ?
Related: further corroboration of infection in the dogs in Hong Kong.

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/artic...
This pandemic will boost automation for sure. I hope, I can transform my side project to robotics startup afterwards. Current home office regulation saves me commuting time and I can do more development for myself.

Outdoor machinery is hard topic by itself. It’s not comparable to controlled environment where surgery robots operate. It’s permanent dirt, dust and changing weather conditions.
Its not a 'line of thinking' , it was an interpretation of parent comment 'getting a return on their tax dollars' in terms of pure monetary profits. Because thats the usual interpretation of ROI when someone buys a stake in a private company. You are ranting about something irrelevant, if thats the case, what does this have to do with stalin.

Maybe gp meant different, i don't know.
Netherlands does lots of pigs and tomatoes too. Apparently a fair amount of dairy as well.
It does not need to be most Americans and a lot of office workers would prefer to be farmers if the wage were correct.

We have markets - let the prices rise and we will see more farmers in the future.

E; I know it is not your theory Doreen - but it is a popular species of liberal (meaning democrat + republican) political propaganda.

Everything Moravec's Paradox ever said, everything Peter Thiel ever said about automation - it's right in front of us now.
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