skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There seems to be a huge amount of innovation going on in this right now, which I think is ray of sunshine in this otherwise increasingly bleak picture. Part of me wonders though if this is because everyone is focusing on it, or rather we are so desperate that we try anything that looks like it might work.
> For decades large portions of the US population have prided themselves on ignoring whatever the government says.

The fault lies where? The government/state that has lied about pretty much everything or the people who have been lied to?

The amount of "believe government", "trust government", "obey government" throughout social media makes me wonder. Not to mention all the messaging about compliance. Even more astounding coming from someone who has "hack" in their username.

Also, "ignoring the government" to some degree and "civil disobedience" is part of being american. It's what separates the US from Britain, EU, China, etc.
Right now, it's your word against Reuter's. Do you have a source?
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Come on, there's a lot of know-how to building a platform that can resist an earthquake.

An alternative is build a waterproof wall around it. Or enclose it in a waterproof enclosure. (We do know how to build submarines.)

With some thought, you can think of many more arrangements much more resilient than what they had, and would not have been particularly expensive.

Such as bulldoze a mound and put the generators on top of that.

Other problems with Fukushima had similar simple solutions. Instead of venting hydrogen gas into the enclosed building, where it built up and exploded, vent it to the outside. Cost: a vent pipe.
It reminds me every fast python library is not written in python!
> Masks can protect other people primarily. If you're sick and don't know (asymtomatic), developing symptoms only now, if you're sick and don't have any option but to go out etc.

I'm aware of that, nevertheless what I say is true. Wearing a mask raises suspicion of you being sick. The irrationality of that doesn't matter.

> When people sneeze, droplets can go more than 5 feet. Masks reduce exposure to such droplets.

You're still going get them in your eyes, you're still going to breathe them in, you're still going to get infected. Why aren't people recommending to wear glasses or better yet, goggles? Why not a whole ski outfit?

> https://medium.com/@Cancerwarrior/covid-19-why-we-should-all....

Literally nothing in there says any more than "won't harm at worst, may help at best". No science, whatsoever, just speculation.

Let me then speculate how it might actually harm: You're carrying around a net to catch all those aerosols around you, then you'll be breathing against it constantly. You bring it home, at which point it is essentially a bio-hazard of which you need to dispose of properly, which you won't, because you're an average person.

Do I have any evidence on that hypothetical risk? No, but neither does the other side that claims it doesn't do any harm.

> And masks can remind people to not touch faces...

Yes, I omitted that.

>... and remind others that we're in a pandemic.

...as if people needed to be reminded about that. Soon enough, they'll have heard enough about it and start ignoring it again.
It is one of the great mysteries of life how an author can write a couple of books (this and Speaker for the Dead) that are literally all about loving the 'other' and still be homophobic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card#Homosexuality
We have a long history of companies abusing the government subsidies in France. So when the covid-specific aids were announced 2 weeks ago, there was a big concern that some companies would abuse them.

So yes, this announcement was really expected
”I even recall them mentioning lawsuits brought upon them that the company won, which I guess somehow disproves the danger.”

I would guess they won the lawsuits by showing that they had good safety rules and made all reasonable efforts to have their personnel obey them, not by convincing the court/jury that these jobs are risk-free.
They might have been very late with testing. I know this was barely on the radar in France even 2-3 weeks ago. MRSA has also been suggested as a component.
Would love to have a promo code and happy to promote your service in exchange as well. Thanks. Looks very useful!
Though I would miss the daily K post, but here it is!
In your example, I find the typewritten text to be very beautifully laid out. The latex rendering is cluttered and uses a font which is too thin.
I agree with the first sentence but not the second; buybacks aren't "stealing from the market", they're returning money to the market but "stealing" from the revenue service. The tax treatment of dividends is less favourable.

Executive total compensation is a wider problem, but shareholders seems generally satisfied with letting boards have almost as much of the company money as they want. Only people who really take it too far like Carlos Ghosn get punished.
But it's not an East Asian government or a medical expert who made the website that started this thread, is it? It's fasteddie31003, whose HN profile reads "Software engineer in San Francisco."

Leave the medical advice to medical experts, just as you expect the medical experts to keep their mouths shut about the advantages of Rust over Go or whether Vue is the right choice in 2020.
I wonder if in this lockdown era, it might have a new lease of life.
It's not "stealing" from the market. All it does is increase the value of each share in proportion.
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In French : https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2020/03/28/le-gouver...

"Enfin, les employeurs bénéficiant du dispositif de chômage partiel, lui aussi financé sur crédits publics, sont appelés à « la plus grande modération » en matière de dividendes."
On exception it populates linecache so that tracebacks are normal and you can debug it normally with pdb post-mortem debugging - https://docs.python.org/3/library/pdb.html#pdb.post_mortem

Nothing else at the moment, but I've written down this point to contemplate in the nearest future -- thank you!
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The app behind it is made with React-native and we also do have free content in the app to help deal with anxiety, stress and a course about the coronavirus.

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I mean people who can't work aren't going to be able to make rent. Landlords then cannot make mortgage payments so they default. Mortgage lenders are now up a creek without a paddle.
Not a single mention of the disastrous pollution caused by the disposal of millions of non-biodegradable single-use masks into landfills.
Yes, they are a big innovation. Yes, the tech is saving lives. But come on, this is 2020, not one mention of pollution?
More on what BCG is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCG_vaccine

> BCG has been one of the most successful immunotherapies.
The mask denialism in the comments is incredible to see.

Let's all agree (without polemics): masks can be helpful, so we should encourage everyone to wear them, unless there is a shortage, in which case priority should be given to healthcare workers/elderlies/front-line staff/etc.
I've heard good things about both irons! About to order one myself for field work and looks perfect for most use-cases.

(I personally have a Metcal PS900, very happy with it)
Yup, it's the neighbour function being the problem. And of course updating even more boids, but that just scales linearly, but its noticeable when decreasing the neighbour radius which gives each boid less other boids to adjust to.

My neighbourhood implementation is the naive n^2 loop, so it's probably trivial to make it better. Quadtrees, or even just simple caching / zoning would probably allow me to dish out many more boids.

It also doesn't help that in order to be easy as a workshop, it's written in a way that's easy to implement, but slow to execute.
This. They also housed 100+k Malaysian commuters locked out of JB when the causeway was closed in local hotels.

Win win win for workers, employers and the country
> Sure, there is a smalll minority of uneducated people that believe that. Most do not.

I don't think so. Rhino horn is just a stand-in for TCM that everyone is aware of. Most Chinese believe in TCM, even doctors, who tend to practice a mishmash of TCM and western medicine.

It's plausible that most Chinese men believe that Rhino horn could cure their impotence - if only they could afford it.

EDIT:

Face the facts, downvoters:

"We interviewed 15 TCM practitioners in Hong Kong, investigating their familiarity with rhino horn, prescription experiences, and perspectives toward its use and trade. All interviewees believe that rhino horn possesses medicinal properties, despite general unfamiliarity with its chemical composition or any active ingredient."

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/19400829187874...

Note that I never claimed that a majority of TCM adherents support poaching. That is not the case.
> put all your bits into a good sized buffer and use DMA to push them out

Sure, time-honored technique for audio. Very on the mark.

But it doesn't really fix the "latency is forever" problem. Buffer too much and your control will lag. Too little and buffers can bottom-out. Best is to over-spec the metal and then be the only code on it so you don't need to buffer at all.

(Worst is, you didn't get to spec the metal, and there's a whole OS full of someone else's Bright Ideas between you and that 200us-or-the-reactor-goes-blooie control loop. Good luck, you're gonna need it).
Do well at your job - the people who survive these things the best are the ones who are able to keep their job.
Yes to everything
Why aren't we letting them fail instead of allowing these idiots to stay in business? Say American Airlines went bust. It's debtors would get its planes and other company assets, who would then in turn sell them to other airlines. A new airline might form to take its place, which would probably be a little more prudent than the last one.
You pay more taxes on dividends, you still pay taxes on Capital gains, just less.
If you've ever met physicists, you will understand that this is exactly the sort of thing physicists do.
A friend built a log cabin in Kentucky with different coloured glass bottles and jars interspersed in the chinking so that light comes through. Really neat effect.
I've always thought that as more of a mutation source rather than a more direct driver for evolution and therefore our artificial classification divides.

Mutations happen constantly: transcription error, radiation, and yes horizontal transfer, but many other factors decide if the mutation sticks or not. But gene transfer doesn't break a hierarchical classification system much more than solar radiation does.
From what I've read in the press, if you don't take the drug cocktail regularly, it's 100% mortality.

I remember that first newspaper articles on the mystery disease in the early 80's. They were only 1 inch or 2 inches long and talked about mystery cases of Kaposi's Sarcoma at first, then mysterious pneumonia cases. Then a tidal wave of longer articles as it became an epidemic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaposi's_sarcoma

A former roommate of mine was a nurse in Toronto General's AIDS floor (or wing.) One day she said to me about her work, "All that crackling." The advanced patients' lungs crackle as the ventilator forces their lungs to expand and contract.
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>“I accidentally invented a necklace that buzzes continuously unless you move your hand close to your face,” he said.

>“After scrapping that idea...

So instead of adding an inverter/NOT gate, he just gave up?
You give a very valid reason to tryout an implementation in C++. I will definitely look into it. Thanks.

Would love to see the benchmark results! Do share a link if you can.

Thanks for auditing and taking the interest!
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I wish people would stop saying people "always" have fees waived. It's absoloutely not true.

I had a personal project, where I wanted to occasionally do short but highly parallel jobs. Once my scripts didn't close everything down correctly and a week later I had spent £600. That's a lot of money to me personally. I asked politely and it was never refunded.
Big automation for little side-projects
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The world would get pretty full after few generations. What do you want to do with 20 billion of 30-year olds? And with 50 billion? Or would you just kill everybody after certain age even if they are healthy?

We can't showel everybody to Mars/wherever in maybe next 500 years, if not more. A tiny base for few, with prison-like life isn't that attractive proposal either.
Or, they're written in pure python and run under PyPy.
Also, how many of those microservices do exactly the same thing, but are implemented by different people who don't know about the other microservices existing.
Ken Shirriff used them in his Xerox Alto ethernet gateway [0] for bit banging a 3Mb/s ethernet signal.

[0] http://www.righto.com/2018/01/xerox-altos-3-mbs-ethernet-bui...
so can the Fed keep this up indefinately? What are the consequences of these actions? inflation? if so aren't we trading a crash for permanent(or at least long-scale) lower purchasing power for all consumers?
« Les entreprises qui ont besoin de trésorerie aujourd’hui, en particulier les grandes entreprises, et qui demandent l’aide de l’Etat, ne peuvent pas, ne doivent pas verser de dividendes. Et nous veillerons à ce que ce soit respecté, a souligné M. Le Maire, vendredi, sur BFMTV. Toutes celles qui auraient bénéficié de reports de charges sociales ou fiscales et qui auraient versé des dividendes se verront obligées de rembourser cette avance de trésorerie sur les charges sociales et fiscales, avec une pénalité d’intérêt. »

Dans le meme article.
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And it'as all drug related
So the collective owes you a bailout, so you can gamble some more?
Good, it should be server side only.
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Maybe we shouldn't base our civilian energy structure on what has practical military value, even if it made sense as an expedient in 1957.

Operations is hardly an advantage of LWRs over MSRs, especially if you stick with simple designs instead of LFTR (as almost all real projects are doing). Those also make maintenance pretty simple. Building for robustness is a lot easier when you don't need build lots of active safety systems or an oversize containment dome due to high-pressure coolant. And some designs use existing nuclear-rated materials.
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I'm a much better programmer than I was 5, 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago. Still not happy with the code I write, however.
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Any chance you can share a photo? It would be really interesting to see the result on a "real" house.

I see some fine examples on duckduckgo search results, but they look too extravagant: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=house+made+of+glass+bottles...
Ask HN: Has any study been done doing a random sampling of a population using an antibody immunity test? It seems the natural next step given we have such a test.

Until we do that, I feel like we have no idea of the actual infection rate and population immunity.
Wars tend to wipe out the young. After WW1 it became popular in France to marry old men.
Is this an "ironical" link?
At work, I need an x86 Linux VM. Privately, I would be very happy to run an ARM Linux in a VM, if there will be VMs offered for ARM Macs.
That's strictly false.

The article clearly states that _initially_ companies were called to moderation, and that _now_ a law project will be passed to strictly forbids this.

"Le président de la République Emmanuel Macron a franchi un cap, vendredi matin, lors d’une rencontre téléphonique avec les partenaires sociaux, en annonçant que M. Le Maire soumettrait au premier ministre Edouard Philippe un projet pour encadrer strictement le versement des dividendes. Ils devront être suspendus quand les sociétés bénéficient des reports d’échéances fiscales et sociales"
The decision to treat absence of evidence as evidence of absence is surely driven by evidence of absence of masks, if you pardon the pun. It's very reasonable to prioritize healthcare workers who are far more exposed than anybody else and the lack of formal, peer reviewed studies is a welcome opportunity to subdue a panic buying bidding war.

If truth was the only concern, I think that comparing the rough numbers between "masked countries" and "unmasked countries" should be more than enough to recommend masks. It's a planet-wide experiment and the control group is clearly seeing worse results. And it's not just SEA countries, there are also places in Europe that didn't play down masks, like the Czech Republic. And their metrics are looking quite good so far, with far more liberal measures than in neighboring Bavaria, except for the masks. With much of the intra-European spread being incubated in ski resorts one would expect them to be hit quite hard as well. And the Czech Republic doesn't have a magical stockpile either, from what I'm reading there's a lot of improvisation going on there regarding masks.

Speaking of improvised masks, would vacuum cleaner bags be a good MacGuyver material that's present in almost any household? It's surely better at filtering than random t-shirt cloth, but would there be a risk of ruining lungs with fibers from the bag material? The fact that they are apparently safe to force air through them in living quarters with a two kilowatts blower suggests that they don't shed anything harmful, but I'd be glad to hear any counterarguments from the wide variety of expertise present in hn readership.
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Is anyone of the impression that houses should NOT be purchased by companies like Zillow, Redfin, and Berkshire Hathaway?

After 2008, if the government had allowed the housing market to actually be a market, then we wouldn’t have the housing crisis of today.

Instead, corporations with access to cheap money, spent billions to buy distressed houses on the cheap, and held it for a few years, until it became extra profitable for them to flip it at a very healthy profit.

The game is rigged, fellas.
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Can somebody suggest some good resources in terms of books and/or e-learning courses about good investment strategies for the average guy? I know the difference between a bond and a stock but so far have kept my savings in safe low interest cash deposits and treasure bonds. I don't consider myself completely naive but neither financially educated. I am looking for material that allows me to master a sound strategy/approach ( even if not the most optimal) without investing a lot of time in studying and researching. Last but not least:I am based in Europe.
Not to mention family reunions would get weird when you are biologically exactly the same age as your great grandfather.
Well, there went 15 minutes of my productivity... thanks (not sarcasm)!
> Maybe it's just because I learned with the stuff?

Quite possibly. I learned to solder last century, using leaded solder, which was available in copious amounts in my dad's workshop for a long time, throughout my high school and university years. It took me a few weeks to get used to lead-free solder and it was days before I could solder anything correctly. I pretty much re-learned it. I sat for two days and did nothing but solder stuff at random until it started coming out right again.
It's likely that rituals were they way they structured complex activities.
Put the food beneath the snow and sing a song, using prescribed steps, so the gods will preserve it. Bandage a wound, put a poultice on it and sing a song, so the spirits will make it heal. Again, using prescribed steps handed over from generation to generation, because they knew it worked but didn't know why.
I know several people in Norway who suspected they had it, got tested and returned negative. Based on this anecdotal information, I wouldn't put too much stock in those kinds of guesses without testing.
So they can, they will just pay a penalty, which value we don't know. And that's only for guaranteed bonds. Partial unemployement is not part of it.
It's exactly the same as a dividend, except the tax consequences are opt-in for shareholders. Only those who sell their shares are affected, unlike dividends which are equivalent to forcing all shareholders to sell an equal portion.

Buybacks are just tax efficient dividends, and all of the hate against them is from people who don't realize this and haven't thought through the math.

In the article it says this rule applies to dividends, too. So at least it's not pure pandering.
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Our genes are the software.
I don't see that anywhere in the description? Last update shows March 20th. Listing I'm look at is https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.msfjarvis....
> Does (can?) there actually exist an organization or person which can report just verified facts (if a "fact" is even possible at all)? Am I just getting old and cynical?

I think it could definitely be done, but as a commercial venture, I'm not sure how many people are interested in reading actual truth. There seems to be a rather strong distaste for it.

I'm quite curious to see if we see a noticeable change when Trump is out of office, I sure hope that event helps normalize things at least somewhat.
I would be more interested if Planet took Linux support more seriously!
Again, what I say is not "stricly false" at all, I'm just quoting Le Maire. And he's just talking about taxes, not partial unemployment.
You omitted the important parts:

> Toutes celles qui auraient bénéficié de reports de charges sociales ou fiscales et qui auraient versé des dividendes se verront obligées de rembourser cette avance de trésorerie sur les charges sociales et fiscales, avec une pénalité d’intérêt.

So, he asked the all companies whose employees are being partially payed by the state to be very moderate in paying dividends. But they will force all companies which are getting direct aid from the state to stop paying dividends, or pay back the aid they got, with interest.
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I doubt there will ever be mass migrations off-planet. A far more likely scenario would be a few colonists populate off-planet with their descendants.

I wouldn't leave the Earth, as the Earth is a paradise. I was just out today, and the air smells sweet with the lowered pollution and the cherry blossoms out.
I am shocked and saddened to read such dumb racist thing on Hackernews. Must be the times we live in.

I could give you equally many examples of dumb things we eat in the west, but I won't join into your racist game.
I would suggest typora which supports markdown and automatically renders mathjax diagrams whose API is similar to LaTeX.
In the US yes, other places, that's not the case
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