skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like your initiative, the attention and how you've acted to the what I think has proven to be a DIRE logistical and production problem since at least 2008.

But, I noticed this part:

> Got a butternut squash in your pantry? Maybe a couple of tomatoes?

Both of those are out of season, the Butternut squash has decent shelf life, so could have been harvested and stored back in the Fall. However, most of the store stuff you get as a perennial, especially those tomatoes, are going to be hybrids that have sterile seeds.

I really do hope that this Outbreak is what makes Backyard and Community Gardens come back in a way not seen outside of Europe since WWII.

I agree that making clones is an awesome way to increase yield and maintain good genetic lines, this is actually how most MJ/Hemp people got their early genetic lessons--grandmothers and mothers who had spent time with them in the Garden telling them how to preserve desirable genetics.

And it paid off really well for those who could provide a steady and stable genetic line, I met a few of them.

I agree that potatoes are the best intro to gardening as its by far the easiest and if planned correctly can yield quite a lot of harvest for the limited space (think vertical planters).

Maybe its because I had to do this at large scale that my brain has shifted to outsourcing anything not deemed super valuable (fruit tree clones or High CBD experiments) to have in a Nursery, but I really am a fan of these guys:

https://www.rareseeds.com/

I was hoping to get the Catalog this year to share with others as the Gardening Season is coming up, so if anyone is interested in doing that I can buy/send you the money via BTC if you have the hardware to do that as its total Gardening-pr0n!

https://www.rareseeds.com/store/whole-seed-catalog/2020-whol...

> I'm thinking I'll have quite a bit of time to spend in the garden in the coming months. Hopefully I can make a small difference in my community.

So rad, I'll keep an eye on your posts this season! others as the Gardening Season progresses.
well, China failed and we're suffering unimaginable consequences. If they have the ability to imprison and isolate millions of Muslims, why didn't they isolate patient zero to patient xxx? Is not like they don't have the manpower, or laws for that.

Once you lie for the millionth time and thing, people might just not believe you anymore. In other words, China's Social Credit Score is zero.
> Hell, just think of all the suffering that's been caused by people believing in some random stuff written by other humans in an old religious book without questioning it. And people think it's deepfakes that might be civ-ending?

But that suffering was civ-ending for some civilizations. I don't really care if some civilizations thereafter survive and go on to forget about this impending crisis. I care that MY civilization survives.

I also don't care to survive in a civilization if it is ruled by suffering.
Subcutaneously injected UV-inactivated SARS coronavirus elicits immunity in mice
I don't understand it because between my girlfriend and me we seem to use about a roll per week. I thought it was because I usually take a dump at work, but even after lock down our usage doesn't seem to have changed significantly. And yes if it does run out then the shower is right next to the toilet and I have visited Nepal a few time where water is the way to clean.

(When I was young schools and public toilets always seemed to have horrendous tracing paper like stuff).
Underpromise, overdeliver [Covid-19 vaccine] [pdf]
Fwiw, you can run Pi-hole locally just fine. But using the hosts file like Maza does may be a little bit faster than running a DNS-server.
Quick random google search.

Software engineer Google - Average total compensation: $144,652 (ok written in 2014, like I said it was a quick google search - https://www.infoworld.com/article/3304439/man-or-myth-the-3-... )
Software engineer Khan - Average total compensation: $119,140/yr - https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Salary/Khan-Academy-Salaries-E45...

So not that much different to those in similar fields in the similar area.

So if the CEO took a 50% pay cut they could hire and extra 3-4 engineers a year. But that’s just straight salary costs and the cost of staff isn’t just the salary cost.

But that argument can be said of any charity, non-profit, business, school, hospital. “If only the top surgeon took a 50% pay cut, think of all the extra nurses we could hire...”
The number of confirmed cases is not really a great value to track, because countries test differently and change tactic after a while.

Look at this graph for instance, number of tests per million people vs number of confirmed cases per million people. They're highly correlated, which means the more you test the more confirmed cases you'll have. In some countries it's the opposite, the more cases you'll have seeking medical assistance, the more tests you do.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/tests-vs-confirmed-cases-...
there was a predicted funding gap of 30 billion pound by 2020 ... That is an effective cut.

Please, just stop this. Departments asking for more money than they know they'll be allowed and then getting less is a universal truth of organisations, both governmental and corporate. It's called negotiation. Being given more money than you had before is not, and never will be, a "cut" in the English language. That word has a precise meaning and it simply doesn't apply here.

Likewise the NHS wasn't asked to find 20 billion in "cuts". That doesn't even make sense. You can't increase your own budget by reducing it. They were told that if they really needed that much they would be expected to find it through increased efficiency. Keeping a check on NHS waste is a key function of elected governments which voters expect them to fulfil, simply writing them blank cheques has been tried before and didn't work (as in costs went up, but healthcare outcomes didn't or didn't by anywhere near as much).

Health costs have been rising everywhere ... more with rising life expectancies and the resulting average age

And the NHS budget has been rising too.

Also you are comparing a Facharzt salary to a consultant, that's not a fair comparison

Alright, fair enough, then focus on the original statement - doctors and nurses get anywhere between good and extraordinarily good pay relative to the average salary in the UK. There are doctors in the UK earning significantly more than the Prime Minister, and their pay went up significantly during the last Labour government (not sure about this one, didn't look, but I assume pay inflation has been only slightly lower).

The point is that significant amounts of the money given to the NHS ended up being spent on increased OpEx like salary increases, rather than CapEx like capacity increases or efficiency improvements. Obviously the NHS must raise salaries at least in line with inflation, and really more in line with global healthcare inflation to avoid brain drains. But the idea its hospitals are run down because evil central government keeps cutting its budget is just far wrong.
All the Hilariously Aggressive Coronavirus Propaganda Banners Found in China
Could you elaborate on who some of these groups are?
> Some arguments from there like to explain their results as "superior" hospitals and the "lack of hygiene" as the cause of the results of Italy, Spain, France etc. and I just don't buy it.

That sounds pretty wrong, and it's not what I've been hearing here in Germany. The "official" story is that testing ramped up earlier relative to when the outbreak started, and that through luck so far the virus hasn't infected many retirement homes and old people in general. [0]

If you break down cases / deaths in Germany by state and by district, you find that the districts that had big outbreaks the earliest also have the highest death rate now.

Heinsberg, the original hotspot, is now at something around 2.5% [1]. So I think it really is consistent with the story that testing started relatively earlier so fewer cases were missed, at least initially (there are reports now that non-symptomatic contact persons of confirmed cases are not getting tested anymore due to test shortages). This would imply that the death rate would converge to the world-wide average over time, which seems to be happening.

[0] https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/covid-19-warum-die-todesrate-...

[1] https://interaktiv.tagesspiegel.de/lab/karte-sars-cov-2-in-d...
The IEEE article:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/design/go...

The Arxiv paper itself:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.08445
It was 6x back when Poland joined the EU in 2004, so a lot of progress has been made already.

It's a lengthy process, but it's happening.
Face is an exaggeration. Its unusual to touch peoples face unless you are very close to them .
He actually did better when he was a complete unknown. Berkshire is huge now because Buffett averaged 20% annual gains for decades. Now his returns are down because it's hard to find good deals on companies big enough to matter to him.
COVID-19 started as a chat group screenshot, then a picture of an government document. Both were leaked and could be classified as rumors at the time.

Many of them can be fake, but it's the way infos flow, because can you trust their official reports? The world was told that this virus doesn't transmit between humans.
Similar to that I've been using NextDNS - in addition to the adblock you also get custom whitelist/blacklist, analytics... and also supports DNS-over-TLS (works well with Android's Private DNS feature) and DNS-over-Https

See: https://nextdns.io/
I believe he thinks that old media is mostly dead, or at least a rather poor investment (cigar butt at best, but they're not doing cigar butt for decades). And he's focused only on his fiduciary duty towards shareholders, whom he calls partners, not the world at large.

Someone like Seth Klarman may buy those if they get into deep distress. If it happened it would probably be via senior bonds and chapter 11.
Honest question, do they even see it as we do, as lying, or something else? Or perhaps they see it as lying but it doesn't carry the negativity there that we here do. Or perhaps such behaviour so reflexive that truth/falsity doesn't even come into decisions. Genuinely curious for real insight.
Folks, we need to understand that there is a real-life war going on in front of us, in the form of a trade war mostly but also a so-called 'cyberwar'. This is precisely the event that we've been predicting in the hacker community for decades, and the very important thing to realise is that "Truth" is not what it seems, any more.

Duplicity is the order of the day among all the governments of the world - those in power know the real truth, gleaned from their statistics machines - but those of us on the other side of the propaganda mirror are well and truly scheduled to be the victims of this battle.

NONE of the worlds' leading countries are being truthful about their circumstances. Beware the media dependency we've all been kettled into having. Seek alternative sources, always, for the information you think you need in order to survive this war. There are, literally, NO trustworthy mainstream media sources any more - they've all be usurped by the military industrial pharmaceutical complex, period.
It probably qualifies as hazmat, which has a whole slew of special handling and storage requirements and raises the cost.
Your comment immediately reminded me this commercial : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbMOLg-2SFw
Thanks! It would be great if you could specify the salary range here as well.
> The roads in the UK are awful.

Not in my experience, though admittedly I live in London.

>In the UK our council tax pay are supposed to pay for road repair.

I'm sure you realize that council tax is supposed to pay for a lot of things, and that council incomes are way down over the past 10 years.
Looking purely at the stats,I'd say they deserve it.Also,the PM and the cabinet had substantial cuts to their salaries some years ago,which was initiated by the PM himself.
Practical experience with developing native cross platform applications in my experiece strongly aligns with geekbench results.

Cross platform as in most CPU intensive code is in C++ that is exactly shared between both, only trivial but obviously needed differences in input handling. And for Android the renderer is Vulkan and for iOS it’s metal, both essentially identical in how features are used.

Some super high end Android phones come close in some cases, but on average iOS devices wipe the floor with Android ones.

I want to emphasize that on top of Android HW being slower on average it is also hampered by the decision to use Java. Some api’s are Java only requiring JNI, which is slow, to access. Another issue is GC pauses, they are small but can result in skipped frame here and there, making the experience subtly worse.
Despite all that, the real undeniable facts are that no country has prospered inside the EU sad much as the UK has. And that the UK was stinking it up big time before it joined the EU.

The UK has traded limited political power as a member of the EU for no political power at all. And in return it has gotten a much worse economic position, where it will be stuck between pleasing the US, EU and China in turn for the foreseeable future, while losing the economic benefits it got from being the default English speaking gateway to Europe.
This crisis has been eye opening for me, the American propaganda machine is working more than ever. It's just sad to look at from the outside. You can't make it go away by throwing money at it or calling the army, all you need is a structured government and a solid health/social system, which is exactly what the US lack.

China's been demonized for a while, and more often than not for good reasons, but the US seems to be completely blind and deaf about their own issues. Trump daily conferences about covid19 will be taught in school textbooks in 50 years as a prime example of propaganda. "We're the best" "We have the best experts" "the chinese virus" "the invisible enemy" "wartime president" "nobody has done anything like that before" "we have the biggest [cargo plane] in the world" while literally showing a picture of it [0], what is this, a dick size contest ? "I don't take responsibility at all", "it's going to disappear one day, it's like a miracle" "we're doing great, it's gonna be so good" "our country is doing so great", answer to "what is your message to student blocked at home": "You are a citizen of the greatest country of all time, and we are attacked ... we're winning the battle and we're going to win the war". The icing on the cake is blaming china saying they hid the infection (every experts knew by the end of december that shit was about to hit the fan) as a reason why they didn't take any actions before mid march. "Nobody knew there would be a pandemic or epidemic of this proportion", besides the hundreds of experts who're telling exactly that for months now while at the same time saying "I’ve felt that it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic"

Compare that to all the other countries, especially in Europe, that are basically saying "this is bad, it's just the beginning, it'll get worst". I wish luck to all americans, especially the ones at the bottom of the social hierarchy.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/fkm07Xd.png
That's because it's not performance that's holding back PWAs. With a bit of work, perf was good enough for web apps on an iPhone 4S or earlier. iPhone 4s was released in 2011, so if low-end android devices are not hitting 2012/2013 iPhone performance levels, then they're also good enough for PWAs.

It's the lack of platform APIs for things like offline storage and push notifications that are holding back web apps, not performance.
Significantly less.

This feels like somebody setting up a GoFundMe to pay off their credit card debt. They paid their CEO an absurd salary, and now they need more money. That sounds like a you-problem.
I wish iOS also supported private DNS natively. Seems like it would be right up Apple's street.
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Right, but this mentality leads to greater good type causes to require martyrs amongst other types of people. A failure mode of this is brain drain - see most civil service jobs in the west or NHS doctors in the UK. Additionally can create brain drain which the beleaguers the original cause.

I guess you can see personnel as an investment towards the cause too
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Does anybody else find it ironic that a Republican governor (Arnold) commissioned the $200m mobile hospitals and that a Democrat (Jerry Brown, subject of one of the best Punk songs ever) dismantled the project?
> But how big of a market is that really?

You can't know until you do extensive market research.

>a lot of rural areas have semi-workable 4G coverage

Yes, but also extremely restrictive data caps and expensive overage fees per kilobyte.

>small wireless p2p ISPs

Yes, that would be the biggest competition to LEO satellite broadband. However, PTMP (point to multipoint) WISP requires line of sight and expensive CPEs to reach speeds over 20 Mbps for more than 1-2 km (0.6-1.2 miles).
There is still shared capacity, and RF noise problems (as with satellites).

>it is going to be a niche solution

Unfortunately, yes. And if it ever gets anywhere near to being profitable and threatening the traditional fixed access telcos, they'll just spend some pennies (compared to revenue), lay fiber to most of the residences, and do a mix of FTTH and FTTC (VDSL2 with profile 35b for up to 50 Mbps at 1km (0.6 miles) or 350 Mbps at 100 m (0.06 miles)) to save costs for users who have good-enough-quality twisted pair telephone lines but are too far from the DSLAM to get good speeds.

VDSL2 is quite servicable, it is unclear to me why is it so underutilized in the USA. DSL is a dedicated service, since the telephone line isn't shared with multiple people nor multiplexed in any way, so it provides a very stable connection, if the speed is conservatively set per the line's maximum length.
Strongly disagree. The more money is in being part of a NPO, the more talent will go into NPOs. Hence, your first point 1) isn't as clear-cut as you make it out to be.

Right now, if I'd want to work for a NPO, it would only come with a severe pay cut. So I stay with FPOs, although I believe that many NPOs are way more important in what they are doing.
> Most reasonable devs are not jackdaws

Most devs are not reasonable.
The reason I have been left without product document is because Oracle bought the software the organisation was using. Cannot stress enough the value of keeping an offline copy of the documentation of a product rather than relying on a companies website or similar.

Edit: Also want to add software installation files are very important to keep offline as well.
Ah ok then torrents don't make much sense.
> I say this as someone who is neither Chinese or American. But I just notice the eagerness of western media to portray chinas doom and incompetence.

Mid-European media generally say that Chinas and south Koreas big data approach to takle the problem was for great benefit. It raises concerns that regulations which have been taken there and which are considered in Europe as well, might become standard once the crises is over, severly restricting freedom rights.

I do not wittness discussions of incompetence dealing with the crisis in China.

I do see discussions of acting much to late in the UK and the US. Might all be my information bubble.
I threw together a quick-and-dirty implementation of this game. You can play it at http://paulichess.jsdavid.com/

The interface is _extremely_ janky and the rules are not fully implemented (I just started earlier today), but it should give you a basic idea of the play style.

I'm pretty sure the game is gonna turn out to be extremely unbalanced, but it'll be interesting to see how people who are much better at chess than I am can do at it.
Email. Anything not communicated in an email doesn't get done. You can use the email threads as a todo list.
Yeah my biggest problem is making the effort and having the practice of learning vocabulary.

(Well the grammar is my biggest problem too, but everybody struggles with that when learning Finnish. It is very regular, and drilling in a classroom is easy "minä olen", "sinä olet", "han on" is very easy. But doing that in real-time when trying to form a sentence is way harder.)

I can manage the rolling Rs, and I can almost say Töölö properly, but I need to concentrate and remember! Until recently I'd been coasting because I was working in English-speaking offices. I suspect now I'm looking for another devops/sysadmin/developer job I should not limit myself to English-only offices, but I'm not sure how realistic that is. It doesn't help when I go to shops and people greet me in English!

I appreciate your kind offer, thank-you. For the moment I'll pass. I need to talk more to my wife and neighbours! (We've been told that I MUST not speak Finnish near our child, and keep the separation near total until he's older. Right now I speak English to our three-year old, and my wife speaks Finnish. He'll understand and reply in the appropriate language to each parent. That's pretty awesome and I'm lucky that I can understand at least 85% of what he says. Though sometimes I have to ask him to translate when he uses words I don't know talking to his mother!)
Agreed. I wish more companies/nonprofits/whatever would make better decisions early on about their infrastructure, or at least gradually graft in better tooling over time.
No, they've cut down to 'essential service'
My father-in-law was just getting used to his new posting when Admiral Rickover came for an inspection. Talk about pressure.
Nations should work together when their interests coincide. That's just a generalization of the idea that nations work to support their own interests. But, quite often, those interests are in conflict.

Some people appear motivated to shit on some nations while ignoring the depredations of others. Perversely, they are opposed to the nation of which they are citizens and embrace "the other side".

For example, the claim that "China appears the less capricious partner" ignores an enormous amount of evidence that China screws over international partners with no hesitation should that be in its interests.

See the recent stories about WHO delaying the release of information from Taiwan about the coronavirus.

https://www.ft.com/content/2a70a02a-644a-11ea-a6cd-df28cc3c6...

(The U.S. currently being lead by a lunatic is a side issue.)
The obvious case of the epidemic in China progressing into a global pandemic wasn't clear to traders back in early February. I'm not sure the market is a beacon more than it is a barometer.
I read further up [1] that Pi-Hole auth is http not https, so if you cracked the WiFi aready, sniffing the webadmin password might yield a quicker return than brute-forcing (depending on strength of password, and owner's login frequency). Assuming the maximum password length of PiHoles is not < 20 chars.

[1]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22717938
On Windows, a large hosts file may lead to noticeably slower name resolution performance. Maybe it's less of a problem on Linux/macOS...?
It’s not a mystery that “normal folks’” work output doesn’t scale and is limited by time, whereas tech/math/science related work output scales with almost no marginal costs so it’s worth much more money per hour of labor.
Human poop cannot polute oceans, fishes tend to poop and pee as well
Everyone is an expert here, no matter the topic. You see how full of shit people are when you are reading comments on a topic you actually have better understanding of.