skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I happened to have watched this old scene recently from a TV show. It's apparently well established that smell is one of the strongest triggers of memory we have.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpUjnfF6ZhQ
I miss TechShop, too. If making is your passion theres good news: it isn't dead. Current virus issue excluded there are many smaller maker spaces you can join in the bay.
After this huge list and today's farce of pretending to drop a call to avoid talking about China, I think we can safely ignore the WHO from here on out. They're either in China's pocket or don't know their head from a hole in the ground.
To be fair, the UK started off with a long string of facepalm official policies towards the covid19 epidemic. I mean, they were famous for jumping enthusiastically into the "let everyone catch it in one go and get it over with" bandwagon.
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> today's farce of pretending to drop a call to avoid talking about China

Source?
Anytime I try to automate/scrape Amazon I get captcha'ed after a 1-2 attempts. Anything special you're doing with selenium?
Probably because some URLs are really too long and would risk to fill the screen with too many characters.

This particular instance implemented by GCC10 seems the perfect example: if your terminal has no support, you get a short string like CWE-415, which is probably enough for Google; but if your terminal does support this feature, clicking on it will immediately bring you to the right page.
I'd measure using Wikipedia as one of the most used resources worldwide. Currently, loading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_disease_2019 once with warm cache transfers 1.3MB. Single Google search takes just short of 1MB. At this rate 1GB will run out pretty quickly.
I find pass quite hard to follow and grok what it is doing and what assumptions or consequences of using it are.

And for the life of me I can not get it to prompt for the password in the terminal, which is infuriating.

First glance of SpicyPass looks promising in my eyes.
China had longer for it’s quarantine to show up in the data. Remember, time is not an axis of this graph, just # of new infections vs total infections.
Funnily enough Scala provides the same feature set. However, because it is even more powerful than Kotlin there are also more ways to achieve the same goal. Doing any of the advanced stuff makes it hard to use that Scala code from Java. Using java from scala is easy. And still kotlin appears to be gaining ground on scala.
I would recommend Company of One by Paul Jarvis. Very quick to read and filled will strong advices from a successful solo contractor/counselor
It's not a trade-off. There's no reason why you can't have a blazing fast and expressive language that also has good C FFI. A single good programmer could make a language that was as expressive as Python (that is, not very), faster, and with a good C FFI in under 6 months.
I have made Amazon Fresh bot doing exactly the same using puppeteer.
I think they were trying to keep china on their side by not offending them. Politics intrudes into medicine. Perhaps they were even right to do so, they appeared to uncritically accept and repeat China's blatantly lying figures (though behind the scenes I think they knew exactly they were being lied to) and perhaps that was necessary - I'm not a politician so I can't say - but I don't like it at all. But I am not in a position to judge as I don;t have all the facts.

> Banning non-essential travel from/to highly affected countries early would probably have helped to slow down global spread

I think the point was that people tend to get round those travel bans - people instead of going from A to B (now banned) go A to C to B. But again, I don't know and would like to understand why they though that way.
Other than startup time, isn't AoT more like pessimization, as runtime data can't be used to optimize performance?
> The same is with “don’t hoard the food” with appearing articles about shortage of cheap workers in agricultural sector.

Hoarding food increases demand, thus exacerbates potential food shortages.
Dead on. JITs are high interest credit card technical debt when it comes to performance. It says a lot that all the performance-sensitive parts of widely deployed JITs are themselves implemented with AOT compilation.
Interesting. Wouldn’t that allow someone to sign up for service Y with an email address associated with an account in your system using service X, in order to get access to the account in your system?

Maybe there’s something I’m not seeing, but it seems dangerous to rely on the identity provider’s email address to authenticate the user.
You're looking at the problem the wrong direction ;)
Similar thing has been happening in France since the lockdown and 1 million Parisians fleeing Paris. In the region of Bretagne several cars with Paris plates have actually been vandalised [1] (first article that I could find, in French).

[1] https://rmc.bfmtv.com/emission/coronavirus-en-bretagne-des-v...
It was only mid March when the WHO finally admitted that SARS-CoV-2 could potentially remain airborne for an extended period of time. They still go out of their way to deny that it's common for it to spread in the air, they're clearly skeptics (when it's the only great explanation for how it spreads so rapidly and effectively among large crowds of people).

The WHO has been an epic disaster this entire time, wrong several critical times and behind on everything. They should not be regarded as to have much credibility after their failures on this pandemic.

This tweet by the WHO on Jan 14 will go down in history for the 21st century as one of the dumbest things said by anyone prominent in the medical sphere (it's astounding they left it up):

https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3906512

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/who-official-appears...
This mask thing is a strange phenomenon. I suppose it is similar to panic buying toilet paper - people just feel the need to do something and blame someone. In Australia, although there has been panic buying of toilet paper, nobody is talking much about masks, or the lack of strong recommendations to wear them. In the USA, this is apparently a major issue, and a source of suspicion and mistrust of the government and various healthcare bodies. I don't get the obsession with it.

As a public health intervention, social distancing is vastly more effective and deserving of emphasis than mask wearing. There aren't enough masks. Public health orgs were worried about running out of masks, which is exactly what has happened, and this is a huge problem for doctors and nurses who whinge about it a lot less than your random person on twitter decrying the apparent conspiracy to stop mask wearing.

The surgeon general's tweet (February 29) at the time was reasonable. On Feb 29 there were 66 cases in a country with 327 million people.
>Byte code interpreters do that? That would be surprising. Programs are represented with 'lines' in byte code?

kdb+/q has a bytecode compiler and each line is turned into bytecode and run, line by line. Also the performance is as good as C, most of the time.
Because, to repeat myself, there is evidence that surgical masks used by a trained (in the use of masks and in proper behaviour around the sick) clinicians in a clinical setting do have efficacy. These trained people in an entirely different setting than the ones your are advocating their use in by untrained people will also:

- not reuse masks

- remove masks correctly and at appropriate times

- dispose of masks correctly

- engage in several other related behaviours that will prevent transmission

World of difference.
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Time to market I'd guess?
Time To Market
What a bizarrely naive article to completely fail to appreciate the many historical economic benefits from central bank market interventions and investments that wouldn’t be possible with the gold standard...
The U.S.'s $13B aircraft carrier has a toilet problem
Sorry, I assumed parent meant backend and web services, like REST, GraphQL or RPC APIs, and not server side HTML rendering, that's why I excluded certain languages like PHP. I also skipped over interpreted languages like Python and Ruby since they mentioned compiled.

Also, that doesn't look like a great metric, since it's just the number of website using a particular technology. That's going to be massively skewed by prefab solutions like WordPress and all.

I liked that the StackOverFlow survey asked people what language they used professionally. I feel that's much more relevant.
I would say Scala, or maybe F#.
Your assessment is outdated. You have not been following what has been going on in ETH. There's trustless banks running on collateralized stable coins, paying interest, there's decentralized real estate trusts paying out income on rent producing real estate on a daily basis, thanks to rollups and zksnarks, decentralized exchanges are processing transactions at more than 2000 per second, car loans are being funded and backed by liens all recorded on the ETH blockchain, I mean I can go on and on but ultimately you need to catch up on a very fast moving industry.

The government can respond to a crisis without printing money. It's called fiscal responsibility. This money printing is going to cause a deep depression and a crash in the monetary system. It's no joke what's going on right now. And when you're reeling and looking around for someone to blame...look no further than the Fed.
very soon there will be an actual reason for the public to care about signed material and verified origins, haha
A "leak" we found as this:

Our code parsed a large HTML-like string read from a file and extracted a small portion. Then we created an array with those extracted strings (many files). The original large HTML-like string was no longer needed.

The problem: The (V8) runtime never created a new (very small) string and copied the section. Instead, it kept the huge strings around. So while we needed only 64 bytes from many kBytes of a string, we ended up keeping the kBytes anyway. Since those were pretty big arrays we ended up with a huge amount of wasted memory.

We ended up with a hack-function to do a substring creation that forced V8 to create a new string, by using string addition, preventing V8 from "optimizing" and using a pointer into the existing string (code shown is only the core part of that function):

s.substr(start, length - 1) + s.charAt(start + length - 1);

This was a process size difference of hundreds of megabytes, since we read a lot of files and extracted a lot of values. Array(100000) of 64 byte strings vs. Array(100000) of many kBytes of strings, just to give an idea of the possible magnitude. The more long strings you extract small values from the more of a problem you get.

This also could be a response to @Ecco. This leak is caused by internal runtime behavior. There actually is an open issue for this, has been open for quite some time. I don't understand it, this only isn't a huge problem because not many people have code that extracts tiny parts from lots of strings and then keeps references to those tiny strings around. But that's legit code, and anyone who does runs into this problem, and it is not a problem of the JS code. Maybe the optimization should force a copy if the large string could be GCed, but sure, that's quite a bit of work. Still, the current state of simply keeping references to the original string for all substrings seems problematic to me.

The issue is this one I think (I only just googled quickly): https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=2869

Somebody's blog post: https://rpbouman.blogspot.com/2018/03/a-tale-of-javascript-m...
I believe the incident you're referring to was actually an apartment building outbreak, not a study. As an event it seemed to confirm the airborne/atomized/fecal-oral spread early on. Somebody got someone in another part of their building sick.
Ask HN: Anyone else prefers the Mac butterfly to scissors keyboard?
I really like the butterfly keyboard as someone who types most of my waking hours they are super fine. I prefer them than scissors because of the lower travel where I am able to type much faster. Had no issues. Anyone else with me?
Wow. Thanks for sharing.

That puts the whole "China is doing brilliantly" WHO comedy show into perspective.
Japanese HR startup to hold virtual hackathon focused on combating coronavirus
I'm not convinced that dynamic typing helps productivity. In my experience, an expressive type system allows one to deploy code much more quickly. The key word, of course, is expressive. Neither Go, nor Java, btw, qualify as having expressive type systems.
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My sister used to be a cook for two one-star restaurant and a five-star hotel (now in a better paid yet more laid-back job).
Your assumption is normal (i had the same) but its false. Even when they reduce some leftovers for sauce/juice, they trow away a lot of food to make it look good.

And its even worst for the "grande cuisine" where they throw away multiple dishes when someone at the table goes for a piss and the waiter forgot to tell the cooks.

Maybe in fast-food or with bar cuisine this is not the case, but from what i know, they are probable the most inneficient users of food.
> Santa Clara County is hell bent on closing Reid Hillview airport

It's already scheduled to be closed.

Some NIMBY found out that avgas is leaded, and it was game over. Nevermind the million single-occupant cars per day on the adjacent highways.
Point me in the right direction.
It's assumed that, if you're signed up for a service with an email address, you control that email address.

This is generally a reasonable thing to assume, and can be verified for whatever account providers you support.
I thought Hangouts "classic" was phased out already. But they have extended its life until June 2020. Not many differences with meet, but not available forever.
Hold on to your butts!

By the time this coronavirus crisis is over, the stock market is going to accelerate into overdrive.

Infinite QE, will push stock prices higher and higher.

Trump is going to give $4 Trillion dollars away, to corporate America. That’s with a T. These are going to be in loans, that can be forgiven.

Housing will likely double in 10 years. If you thought a $700,000 house is expensive now, then in 10 years, this will look like a bargain. That same junk house will go for a cool $1.4 million.

Everything will cost more. Groceries, gasoline, cars. But your salary will remain the same.

I hope you can afford a 60 year mortgage, because that is what you’ll need to get.

Welcome to the next stage in America. The rich oligarchs got their way, and will now begin to enslave your children.
It definitely depends on the device. You can find a lot of information about Doppler GPS in speed record communities on the internet, e.g. in this speed surfing record tracker:

https://www.gps-speedsurfing.com/default.aspx?mnu=item&item=...
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The authors are welcome to sue when the civil courts reopen in California, which may be a few months in the future, and already something of a fait accompli. It’s kind of like The Purge out here, albeit with felonies still illegal but most laws unenforceable and people sheltering inside in fear.
Which is in retrospect is a good move as more than one people here casually explained that they aggregated identities from different third party at login for convenience... I'm not really sure this kind of behavior is RGPD compliant.

Not familiar with latest sso implementation but what happen if base email used with a third party change. Does your token get revoked or does it persist? If so you can now detect that foo@aol.con is the same person than bar@gmail.con which is valuable information for dubious data broker.
In average around 100-150 people die in car accidents each day in the US.

Yesterday 520 people have died because of bat-flu.
New Seasons Markets in Oregon and Washington are doing all these steps as well.
Software question - what library did you use for the chart ?
You're talking about Huginn, right?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21772610
> But that's what you're doing.

I don't think the WHO is trying to get people sick, or that China is doing this to the USA, or anything like that. I do think that something doesn't smell right, but I'm unwilling to make any kind of conclusion on what it might be.

As for the person-to-person thing, I lived through the storm of data and information and distinctly remember them claiming there was no evidence of person-to-person transmission after I had seen multiple bits of evidence out of China. To prove that, I'd have to do a lot of wayback machine work.

People have been contagious before symptoms and also without showing any symptoms. I thought this knowledge was widespread at this point. The 3rd case and 5th case in NZ were a couple where the 5th case (wife) travelled to Iran. The man got sick after she returned. She was not sick. They tested her and she was positive and became the 5th case.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&object...
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&object...
Probably sexual transmission, so not too suprising. But there are many other reports which the CDC acknowledges on this page: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-si...

The question on ACE/ACE2 has references itself:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2...
Definitely agree that YAML is not a silver bullet. One thing that I’ve found to improve my YAML editing experience is to use a YAML language server [1] backed by JSON schemas. It provides a real time feedback cycle rather than handing the file off to another program to choke cryptically.

[1] https://github.com/redhat-developer/vscode-yaml/blob/master/...
There is a similar confounder for deaths: old and multi diseased. Yes you may know the body count with corona but you do not know the body count due to corona.
The information on the WHO website as of 2 days ago said that masks will only prevent spread from people who have symptoms, but not protect people who do not have symptoms, unless they are caring for someone who has Covid-19. This is, of course, logically inconsistent, and made me distrust the information from WHO.

That information is now gone from the website, and they no longer appear to be saying this. There is speculation that WHO was intentionally distorting facts in order to prevent hoarding.

I think it might have served them and us better to have been truthful and transparent: "There is a global shortage of masks, so please do not hoard masks. Priority should go to those who care for covid patients, and those who have symptoms."
Cheers, yeah my reading on it tended to the conclusion that it could aerosolise, but that was a limited vector compared to droplets (but limited doesn't mean none).
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You could seal your mouth with duct tape -- it won't change the fact that you are more likely to aquire SARS-CoV-2 through your eyes than through your mouth. Are you covering your eyes?
Python suffers the same issue. There's some discussion about dealing with it in this PEP and the pages it links: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0509/
> But opinions of the case, by my recollection, fell along predictable racial and political lines.

Just racial. Hard to believe now, but polling on racial scandals in the 80s and 90s, including OJ, Rodney King, Goetz, etc. didn't show much difference between Republicans and Democrats.

The opposite is true now, of course. Basically the Limbaugh wing now dominates the Republican party.
The device is rigid but the disk inside (note the device is a square, not a disk) is very much deformable. This can be verified by sliding the metal springdoor to the side and handling the floppy disk revealedd underneath
Thanks for the story details, quite interesting. In the end this was unfortunately a case of picking the wrong tool for the job. Don’t use JITed / GC languages when you‘ve got hard realtime requirements.

Don’t build a datastore on the JVM if you care about tail latencies, you‘ll be fighting the GC forever (see Cassandra). Don’t rely on auto-vectorisation in your inner loop if possible, one tiny change could bring that house of cards crashing down.

I‘d be interested in how your team ended up picking that tech stack. Was it a „rational“ weighing of options with pros and cons? Was it „eh it‘ll be alright“? Was it personal preference and/or prior experience?
Does someone have a source without this nonsense?
https://guce.advertising.com/collectIdentifiers?sessionId=3_...
I am mildly concerned about the internet being a requrement for participating in society. The utility argument makes sense but people should also keep in mind, not having internet access should not exclude anyone from things like food,safe shelter,clothing,property ownership,trade and employment. Inconvenienced? Sure. Pay reasonable extra costs for having to do things offline? Why not. But let's not go full on dystopian like China here. The cure should not be worse than the disease!
I'm sure that's not an exaggeration at all, so do you have a source for that claim?
I’m on your side but what you refer to is not static typing and it’s not mandatory either.
This WHO rationale is bizarre.

I have to go out to buy stuff periodically. What do I do?

Should I wear any kind of mask or not?

According to WHO guideline, I should not wear masks....
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I'm not a fan of either but the scissor keys are better than the butterfly keys. I prefer the greater amount of key travel, and these keys aren't destroyed by a single grain of sand.
>you are more likely to aquire SARS-CoV-2 through your eyes than through your mouth

What is the evidence supporting that claim?
You. You are the single point of failure; if you are compromised, then all your accounts can be accessed by the compromisor.

If you're looking for a point outside yourself, then memorising all your passwords would be an option.

But beyond that, I don't think your criticism is warranted. There's always a single point of failure - sure - but we can still consider gradations of how centralised that point is, and how likely it is to fail.

With a hosted password manager, you're at the mercy of their server code; specifically, at least for 1password, I think they have a 'dead man's switch' which lets you get at the encrypted content without the master password. This is more likely to fail than a password manager which stores all its content locally and really encrypts it (e.g. keepass). In this case, human error outside of yourself can't compromise you. But technical error can, which is why there are more steps that can meaningfully increase your level of security. Like running your password manager on a separate, air-gapped computer; or sandboxing everything you run a la qubes.

Are any of these especially likely to compromise you, as a user? No, but reducing centralisation and dependency still improve your chances, and are definitely worth considering if you are e.g. running a drug smuggling ring.
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I once had a dream of being in a ballroom of a fancy hotel, and the smell was overpowering. I was thinking that there must have been a murder and they've bleached the carpet.
Turns out, my wife was already taking a shower and used a new brand of shampoo. I couldn't stand the smell of it.
Somehow, contemporaneous reality entered my dream, rather than a memory of a past event.
Another excellent reply! Thank you! This will definitely come in handy for personal projects; like autonomous robots; it helps to have redundant systems and it seems that GPS is more accurate than odometry or accelerometers that suffer from drift