skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to me that that they already have a 4-day-long queue, and the error message is in fact a "the queue is full" error.

Why not a longer queue? I don't know, but I'd guess people forget about their order and buy redundant things, causing support and customer satisfaction problems, if the queue is longer than 4 days.
> > that hardly means that it is 100% ineffective otherwise
>It may not be 100% ineffective for a single event, it needs to be effective over the entire period of use.
Point 1, yes, sick people should wear masks. This is already known. Most people aren't sick.

I don't see the logical reasoning behind why it has to be effective over the entire period of use. The whole rational behind curve flattening is that we do as much as possible to reduce transmission. So being partially effective will still reduce the number of transmission and the chances of transmission.

Plus by normalizing mask usage more sick people will be encouraged to use masks because it is socially acceptable. A lot of people don't use masks even if they are sick because 1) lack of testing to confirm coronavirus and 2) embarrassment over using a mask because it is weird. It's easy for someone to decide to wear a mask or quarantine if they know they have Covid-19, but if they are just sick or mildly sick, or even asymptomatic, the decision to wear a mask or quarantine is much harder because they have to balance their other needs with the chances that they may just have the common cold.

> If you've worn one or watched people on the train in Japan or across Asia you'll know this isn't true at all. People are forever readjusting it.

Seeing as how there is a physical barrier over your mouth I don't see how you cannot use common sense to see that it is true. Not to mention my cited research study uses it as a potential reason why the masks were shown to be effective.

> They wear them for many reasons, and they're people so they're just as selfish as Americans or anyone else, and that's certainly my experience.

I guess this is a matter of opinion, so I can't really argue that you don't believe it.
It's really no different from native compiler optimizations, which are also mysterious and always changing, except for one key aspect: when recording timings to compare against other timings, you can control whether optimizations are turned on or off, to remove that variable from the comparison.
`gmailctl` resolves a few of these, actually. The big one is that there's a command to diff your config file with what's in gmail, so you can capture any accidental changes that happen in gmail-land. This also helps with version-controlling your configuration, since it shows you when you just forgot to upload your config.

The imperative behavior and filter size limits are still annoying, granted. You can deal with it by staging through multiple labels, but it's not great.
By that logic, Python, Javascript, and Java are all the same speed, just call out to C, or assembly perhaps if you really want to tune some code.
Absolutely. The bill may have been bipartisan, but Trump will be hoping its remembered come election time.
Now, I've got fat fingers. If I accidentally tap the wrong spot, I lose a todo. On iphone I don't see an undo. What am I missing?
Or use rustls, if you just need modern TLS. I found this back and forth of rustls vs native-tls (which picks up openssl/your favorite system ssl) helpful: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/any-reasons-to-prefer-native-t...
Or that they have significant additional effect over social distancing alone, which we won’t know for some time yet.
I just got a couple recruiters at the end of last week, and a couple consulting offers, but I'm freezing getting a new job until this is over unless the offer is amazing - and since I am at near the top of the pay grade in my area it seems unlikely I would get something that amazing.
Japan had invalidated all travel visas given to China.

It is a ban, just not in name.
Pynchon, JFK and the CIA: Magic Eye Views of the Crying of Lot 49
Screeching about how much the other guys suck is always easier than not sucking.
I'd imagine though that people are still eating roughly the same amount of food, so if restaurant sales have dropped then grocery store sales must have gone up (which I guess they did given the hoarding).
Yeah what you said.
There's no option available with zero danger. The question is how we want to weigh reducing the danger against compromising our values, and state sovereignty is a very important American value.
India did this two weeks ago, with a 48 hour notice and I was quite furious about it. Closing borders to foreign nationals is one thing, but closing borders to one’s own citizens is violating a fundamental right. I had my brother and mother visiting me and had to rush them to the airport and get them on the next flight back to India to ensure they get back home before the deadline.

Furthermore, the announcement was made by the minister of health on Twitter and hours later an undated announcement appeared on their website. As unprofessional as it gets. Decisions like these are usually made by the Ministry of external affairs, whose twitter account I was following in anticipation of something like this.
It's not the end of the world. California currently almost 40 million people. So $650 per capita.
No, not at all. Java FFI is extremely expensive.
A Tutorial on Remora – A Rank-Polymorphic Programming Language [pdf]
‘Anything good I could say about this would be a lie.’
What they don't have, though, are significant resources. A US state might have ideas on how to deal with coronavirus, but it would struggle to pay for it without significant federal aid, so would need to wait on the federal government. They're in a very different situation to, say, an EU country, where nearly all revenue goes to the member state, not the EU.

As an example, Ireland and Alabama have about the same population. Alabama's revenues are about $10bn per year. Ireland's revenues are about 80bn EUR (90bn $) per year.

A couple of weeks ago, Ireland announced a shutdown of everything but essential businesses, with a package of financial supports (chiefly paying minimum wage to everyone put out of work, plus supplementing up to 450 euro per week of the salaries of temporarily laid off workers where the employer continues to pay them) which will cost ~4bn over a 12 week period. In addition, it made extra resources available to the health service social services and so on which may come out costing about 3bn. And the government has signalled that this is really only the start; more billions will be required. In practice, this will be paid for in the short term by issuing debt.

Alabama, by contrast, couldn't do this sort of ~full shutdown without federal support; at a cost of $8bn it would be almost its entire annual revenue, and US states have very limited means of raising debt. US states really had to wait for the federal government to move before they could take serious measures (or else risk total economic devastation).
California objectively seems to operate much better since Prop 25 excluded the minority party from having a say on the budget. The behavior in a two-party system of a minority party that knows it's going to be a minority party indefinitely is frequently to sabotage everything possible in hopes of making the ruling party's life difficult, or to make them look incompetent. Stripping them of power doesn't turn legislating into dictatorial rule by fiat, it just moves it into the consensus-building processes of the majority party. Two-party rules with a sidelined minority party looks a lot like a coalition government in a multi-party system.
Coronavirus and Autocrats: Never Let Pandemic Go to Waste
Reminds me. Prop 13 was passed in the 70's when Brown was governor. One of the things the proponents hammered on was Brown's budget was running a surplus.
You've got asymptomatic super spreades just like in the case of SARS. The impossible situations abroad could be solved through the embassy. My country is flying in citizens from abroad in military planes.
Manage your team like building a machine. It should run on its own and keep running without your input. If you're always micromanaging, it won't have room to run on its own.

The role of many managers is to observe the team, relay/filter information coming in from other teams and out to other teams.

At a later stage you can start to optimize the process. Observe common mistakes and inefficiencies - things from sexual harassment to too many emails dragging the team down. You don't always want to patch mistakes with more tools and regulations, as every patch has a cost. Treat every problem like a bug. Sometimes there is a root cause, which causes several problems at once.
Bill gates was recently talking on TV about how the virus could have mutated from anywhere... there's also swine flu, bird flu, mad cow disease, yet Jewish and Muslim people don't go around blaming Mexican/American people for their swine consumption sins (at least they shouldn't).

Blaming it on the fact that Chinese people ate Bat meat is as bit culturally prejudicial as calling it the Chinese virus.
Oh cool! Version control is useful. I might give it a shot sometime. I didn't have anything of the sort.

If you're curious, the tool I came up with had a DSL like this:

$excom = from:example.com
$exorg = from:(example.org OR example.net)
if ($excom AND $exorg) AND -(to:me OR in:spam)
archive
if cc:person
label "Person"
end
end

and it'd auto-translate to this:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:apps='http://schemas.google.com/apps/2006'>
<entry>
<category term='filter'></category>
<apps:property name='hasTheWord' value='(from:example.com from:{example.org example.net}) -{to:me in:spam}'/>
<apps:property name='shouldArchive' value='true'/>
</entry>
<entry>
<category term='filter'></category>
<apps:property name='hasTheWord' value='(from:example.com from:{example.org example.net}) -{to:me in:spam} cc:person'/>
<apps:property name='label' value='Person'/>
</entry>
</feed>

which it would translate back to this:

if (from:example.com from:{example.org example.net}) -{to:me in:spam}
archive
end
if (from:example.com from:{example.org example.net}) -{to:me in:spam} cc:person
label "Person"
end

It didn't treat the filter as a blob (it actually parsed it and removed quotes etc. if appropriate) but it also didn't really change the underlying language either.

But it had variable and did let you nest conditions which made it easier to write some things. (Or so I hoped. In the end I didn't feel it was worth it...)
In a way that's already available today with -Wall, Wextra -Weverything -Wevenmoreeverything -Wallforrealthistime, clang-tidy, MISRAC and various other static analyzers.
If you were to get the information you were after it would be specific to a particular implementation, and a particular version of that implementation. The nature of how JIT is done for JavaScript is not defined in the spec and varies a lot (starting from totally nonexistant many years ago).

To have useful performance measurement tools that are going to help your code run across multiple implementations would require a) all of those implementations to work the same, forever, and b) the semantics of this to be specified in the standard.
The stimulus bill includes a tax break for the 1%
I'd be happy to help you with this. My rate is $235/hr, minimum 30 hours. When can I expect your deposit so we can get started?
I am surprised no one has mentioned Qubes OS yet on this thread. Are they many Whonix users not also using Qubes?
I’m also in Japan. I’m shocked at how complacent people have been. It’s like city after city worldwide, people know what’s coming down the tracks but think it doesn’t apply to them. If we dodge this bullet it will be an absolute miracle.
Yes. I meant if it's active after 17 days, which at the moment seems not to be the case.
I'm sticking with the 5 days rule.
I really do not understand this toilet paper thing. I mean as long as there is water, why people do not wash their asses. It is cleaner anyway...

When I was young and we visited grandparents, we used newspaper.
There's a csrf token set in a php session that's hard to guess that needs to be provided in form data, yes.

Probably difficult to exploit that way without first finding another bug to retrieve that token from a random origin.
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Toilet paper. Post apocalypse media usually uses soda, sugar, cigarettes, Twinkies as currency, but nobody mentions toilet paper.

Bread shortages were unexpected too, in a nation that mostly eats rice.
> [...] their current response has been one of the most effective (108 cases, 1 death).

While I generally agree with your overall point, this statistics is severely out of date. As of this post, the current numbers are 283 cases and 2 deaths[0][1].

[0] https://www.cdc.gov.tw/En

[1] https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html; numbers can lag by a day or two.
Maybe. Knowing something is possible is sufficient for enough people to give things a try.

I know I've been successful in doing so; I've never built a simulator of this magnitude but I've successfully solved difficult problems with novel solutions simply from hearing it was possible to solve them in a given manner.
You are missing the market here. If you pay Canadians high wages and you set high prices for fruits you cannot sell them in poor countries. And this means that the profits for that Canadian corporation will be cut in half. And the rich people at the top will suffer.

In the mean time poor countries will start planting their own trees with their own people and appropriate prices for their country. And Mexico will have their own corporation making money.
A new wheel.
Ask HN: Why do out of memory exceptions exist in a virtual memory OS?
A virtual memory system is supposed to give a process access to more memory than is physically available. Given this, why do languages like Java and Python throw out of memory exceptions? Shouldn't the program be able to use virtual memory instead of throwing the exception?
Coalition governments are often very stable across many election cycles. There’s rarely one single party entirely in charge.
Because JS JITs aren’t deterministic. Just starting the profiling or introspection tool could change internal behavior.

The nondeterminism can come from lots of places. In JSC it’s that the JIT polls the heap for some of its profiling and it profiles concurrently. So OS scheduling decisions affect what types the JIT sees.
Are voters in California suppressed?
Then it’s problematic to be so JS and V8 centric. Also the post specifically talked about JS being faster than Python and slower than Java so that’s what this thread is about.
Consumer pressure for long-lasting phones might be a solution, but I don’t think modular phones is a solution. The idea of modular phones runs directly contrary to the tight integration that makes reliable phones possible and sleek.
Show HN: AI Designed Tshirt Collection
Second that. We analyse where our users are coming from across all channels and added only that. This made it really easy for the users to both remember what they used and also to sign up/sign in almost instantly.
Dear Ponsin,

You are right on! To focus on our service stability and security are our top 2 priorities. We will work as hard as we can to keep improving. Thank you for your great support!
Given that that story, with that specific wording, has been a running joke circulating around the Internet for years, I suspect your co-worker's kid has never said any such thing.
In Bulgaria between 8.30 and 10.30 shops are open for the elderly only.
I'm not sure how effective this is but it strikes me as a good low tech move.
specifically for standups: you can have a predefined list of people, displayed in fixed positions in the grids. guests can have another box displayed in the same order for everyone.
I always thought php was just a templating language. Any recommended books or resources?
A family member of mine was the original author of pi-hope. He sold the company to his partner last year, so any changes in aesthetics would be due to the change in ownership.
I'm still of the opinion that pandemic preparedness should be treated like a threat to the nation and part of the military budget. It should not be up to the states to prepare, it should be federal and treated as any other military threat of an unknown enemy. It's crazy to think that we spend so much on tanks and fighter jets and military but can't find some loose change for viral pathogens. What about when the enemy deploys a virus against us?
Ordering groceries creates employment at a time when unemployment is higher than literally ever before.
It is just a bad choice to cut emergency preparedness. This is California, how many mass transit boondoggles survived the 2011 budget cuts?
Adoption rates matter too. I learned angularjs when it was widely used, but only a couple of years later the world has moved on to angularN, react, and Vue
Not to detract from your overall point, but it's not like most people have newspaper these days.
Man = Virus
Ask HN: What is one great, easy-to-read book about CS that is not widely known?
Data structures and algorithms: "Competitive Programmer’s Handbook" by Antti Laaksonen (https://cses.fi/book/book.pdf).

Operating systems: "Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces" by Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau and Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau (http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/).
We've learned not to believe screenshots, anything shared on social media, or even regular media. This is another on the list. (Social) media is still worse - I grew up with newspapers photoshopping party logos from crime scenes, and even photoshopping buildings from campaigns.

It will boil back down to basic philosophy, questioning everything. Our senses have always lied to us, just as our emotions and motivations. Maybe we'll just learn to be better at discerning the lies.
Chinese medicine has a lot of costs for little if any benefits. Disease from live animals is just one of them, but then their is the medical resources wasted on not really cures, hospital profiteering, and not to mention causing entire species to become endangered or even extinct. Peer review and control study the stuff that works and call it normal medicine, the rest of the folk cures might as well be homeopathy.

Blame Mao for calling this junk Chinese medicine in the first place, before he pushed forward the concept to make up for a lack of real medical resources, it was all just a bunch of disparate folk cures in and around the country.
Coronavirus: How do 3M newly unemployed people get health care?
Somewhat related/shameless self-plug: I created an R package [1] that provides data on travel times between NYC subway stops. These data can be used to, e.g., visualise and analyse the subway network [2].

[1]: https://github.com/bldavies/nyctrains

[2]: http://bldavies.com/blog/how-central-grand-central-terminal/
> I think that by “between python and java” they meant “faster than python and slower than java”. I think Java still beats JS unless you get lucky.

Yeah, that is what they meant, but it is a little misleading. Javascript's performance is usually within a single digit multiple of java's, whereas python is often significantly slower. Javascript is somewhere between Java and an abacus too.
How TV Logos Were Made Before Computers (2017)
Cuomo projects confidence. But he doesn't have enough means to solve it. He can ask, but it is not within range of his power to make that significant.

What US currently lacks in its response to COVID-19 is coordination, every states are sending different even contradictory message.

That leadership has to be from top down.
There a few wrapper libraries that provide safe Rust interface for a limited feature set on top of system's crypto libraries like OpenSSL, so the applications can benefit from decades of testing and get security updates without timely rebuilds. I'm maintaining one, for example, which has Rust bindings among 12 other platforms.
Its crazy how correlated the outbreaks are sort of regardless of policy differences outside of China.

So correlated that it also makes you wonder if Japan hasn't been sweeping a lot of cases under the rug trying to salvage the Olympics. It will be interesting from here to see what happens with their cases and if they magically "rejoin the line."
On their previous outage/lockout they offered me a $75 gift card.

I included the same offer email as a forward to finra and they offered me $725 shortly after.

I accepted.

They may have lost me the opportunity to have had 10k profit, but maybe I wouldn't have held, who knows, but by a fluke I came out 2.5k ahead after being locked out of my account for 3 days.

I took all my cash out that day so didnt have anything in play for this outage.

I actually tried to transfer in money that morning but that failed too.
When working remotely as a contractor I made a tiny whiteboard - https://onthesamepage.online/about
I still use it for quick notes and spontaneous collaboration, since there are no accounts or registrations - it takes a few seconds to onboard a person. Also I was surprised that German school are using it (it’s heavily focused on privacy and requires no personal information).
Sorry if it sounds like shameless promotion, but for me it was hard to find an alternative, something as simple as notepad.cc in its days, but for doodling.
FWIW, Save-On-Foods does this as well.
Ridership plummeted to around 10-15 percent of normal last week, but you still have more than 500,000 daily riders.

Obviously, health workers and others still need to go to work somehow but although you take 90 percent out of packed NYC subway cars and platforms, you still have plenty passengers for the virus to continue spreading.
Never hire anyone who’s top priority is not to first understand the whys of the current situation and understands how to move forward from there.

If they have “the answer” but don’t understand the “why we are here today” their decisions should be, at the very least, suspect.
I worked on the design and rollout of multiple sign in providers on a popular app. There are best practices that avoid these issues (users forgetting which service they used), but they are rarely implemented.

The trick is to be very forgiving: If a user tries to sign in using provider X, and we discover an email address conflict with an account that uses provider Y, we would simply ask users to confirm by clicking a button to sign in with provider Y. From that point forward, both provider X and provider Y can be used to sign into the account.

So many apps miss the importance of this and cut corners by only allowing an account to be associated with 1 sign-in provider, or forcing users to create passwords for these accounts, or differentiating between login and signup.
We have a private system, and already the quality is low. I live in the second largest city in the U.S. and I can only get spectrum "100mbps" in my building. Nothing I can do, the building is wired for spectrum. 4G reception is even worse, constantly drops.
https://medium.com/swlh/zoom-leadership-and-the-pursuit-of-h...
> And the combination of that doesn't leave much left for cellular to do.

you know how big the starlink antennas are? They don't fit in smartphones, not the directional ones.
I think so! They have a repo called "ASP.NET Core" on GitHub with an Apache license: https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore . ("Core" here means that it's the version of .NET that can run on Linux.) The "dotnet" organization also has repositories for the C# compiler and runtime.
Mandatory voting fosters a culture where being an informed citizen is part of one's civic duty, but ballot spoiling should absolutely be built into the system. If you force people to shoot up, you need to give people the ability to voice that they don't like any of the options presented, or that they just don't have an opinion.
The evidence is not nearly as clearcut as you suggest and periods of economic decline are actually associated with lowered mortality rates.
Are Github Actions out of beta? I haven't heard any updates about them but i seems its an abandoned feature??