skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People have been making flood and drain systems for years, controlled by a super-reliable mechanical system. The downside is that these are typically much larger and heavier. The ones I've seen have a bed of gravel as the grow medium. It also has many gallons of water in the system, and no doubt that evaporation is more of a concern.
According to this paper[1] public health interventions temporarily depress the economy but it quickly bounces back. OTOH widespread death due to choosing not to intervene depresses the economy for much longer.

1: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3561560
Here's an archived copy[1] of that page.

[1]: http://archive.is/CKxPG
Sure, but how are people supposed to wear masks if they can't buy them anywhere?
I understand this... however, I have limited hours in the day and actual work that pays me to get done. I have limited time as a result to experiment and try any number of desktop environments. I also have limited projects that require windows, and because I needed an ahead of mainline kernel for my hardware, the VM software options wouldn't install. Again, limited time.

I'd much rather not be using windows... this time around, I tried WSL2 and Docker now runs in it as an option. I am surprised it works as well as it does. This means, practically speaking, I can use VS Code against my linux kernel/environment running under windows to do my actual work... Working in Linux, running in Windows.

I also specifically stated I would likely return and give other linux desktop environments a chance. I have two nvme drives in my system, one has windows, the other linux. I didn't even run the windows environment after install for 4+ months, until I needed windows and couldn't get a VM working.

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I have run ElementaryOS in the past and really liked it, and will probably give Pantheon a try next, without a full reinstall... It's not as good as MacOS' UI/UX, but iirc was pretty nice to use in practice.
But I run a custom patched browser and turn HTML off for most sites, unless it is inserted by JavaScript. Can we please all cater to the quirks of my specific setup? I don’t trust HTML, because it is used by a lot of advertisements, and there were lots of security holes in HTML parsers in the 1990s.
> Or do you think non capitalist systems don't have laws and a group of dictators must be at the top?

Empirically, for 100% of the sample size, socialist systems always turned into dictatorships after a few years at most.
A Hakko FX-888 or FX-888D is a good hobbyist iron if you're going to be soldering a decent amount. I have one and it's very much worth the money.

I've heard good things about the TS-100 as well but I've never tried one so I can't confirm anything about it.
I have a question that is related to the article, but maybe goes a bit beyond it: why doesn’t the Federal Reserve buy the actual asset in question instead of the mortgage-backed securities question? I had the same question after I recently got a better understanding of the actions the Federal Reserve and the US government took in saving Wall Street in 2008 via the TARP (my understanding is still probably incomplete though as you can probably see from this question) [0]. “Buying” the underlying asset off of the banks would have saved the banks in the same way, but people would also have been able to stay in their homes, right?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Progra...
> Therefore, it is logical to believe that we should offer more sacrifice and honor to God in these difficult times instead of less

I would be all up for this kind of voluntary natural selection if it didn't sweep up the people who didn't sign up for this shit.
This sounds terrible, but I can't stop laughing imagining badly photoshoped Hoff with thumbs up by the hospital bed.
^ this :)

I once solved a performance problem by using the pure-python mysql drivers and pypy, rather than the normal c-wrapped drivers and python. The result was actually faster than a Java version of the same program using the normal JDBC drivers.

Something feels deeply wrong with a world where database performance can depend on basic string interpolation performance deep in your client-side mysql drivers... Its soul-destroying to see a naive 'safe' parameterization code coming up hottest in Java profiling results.
I'm pretty sure the GP was being sarcastic, especially since they started out referring to such distinctions as snobbery.
It's hyped because it's small and good enough. Great to bring it to a friend to fix their headphones. I'm also planning to buy something like this as a secondary.

If you want some good primary iron, buy a Weller or a Hakko. They are widely available and have a good value/price ratio. Weller WS81 or Hakko FX-888D are both great starter irons. Most likely serve you for life if you don't need it to do any specialized thing.
They will be provided at the doors of the supermarkets
Nextjs SSR 9.3+ could be the first serious replacement to Rails. Its one of the only frameworks where you can mix Statically Generated Pages, Server Side Rendering and Client Side Rendering.

It doesnt have everything built-in, and the fact that Zeit has such tight control over nextjs to be a minus...but im expecting Next (and Gatsby) to some extent to drive full stack webplatforms for the next decade.

You have to write javascript anyway in Rails...why not go JS all the way ? And Typescript is definitely a fantastic language.
It's an overstatement to say that viruses are "unrelated to the rest of life". They have RNA or even DNA, which almost certainly makes them related.

If we found a living organism which didn't have RNA or DNA, that would be a good candidate for an alien. It would help if we found it on another planet though.
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Are there masks for sale then? Here in The Netherlands there are no n95 masks available for the average person. I understand that hospitals and 1st aid responders need them now, but in the short term I would like to be able to get some.
This is the short term effect. We need to worry about the long term too. We need to worry about an economic depression rivaling that of 1929, in which a lot of people will die of hunger.

Yes people are dying and we should do everything possible to stop that. However I'm getting worried that there's no plan in place for how long this lasts or what happens afterwards.

A possibility is that it's not possible to control this virus, without continuous restrictions on movement, until a vaccine is ready. We're talking about a 12 - 18 months timeframe. If we keep the current restrictions for more than 2 months, we are already fucked, let alone for 12 months. Purposefully slowing down the economy for 12 months would be a disaster.

There's also a detail missed by the pro-economy camp of course: even if you relax restrictions, that doesn't mean we won't go through a severe economic recession, simply because people have already lost appetite for investing in useless shit they don't need, especially when other people are dying around them. This economic recession was inevitable, with or without restrictions.

But we also need to ensure that people don't end up dying of hunger and that's a conversation worth having. It seems to me that politicians don't have a clue about what to do and were this is going and that's freaking scary.
The people in rural Africa argument is BS.

Here is a 2016 report (see link in this CNN story)

https://edition.cnn.com/2016/01/19/africa/africa-afrobaromet...

that found:

"In Africa, less than one in three people have a proper drainage system, half of the population live in areas without paved roads, and only 63% have access to piped water. Yet, 93% of Africans have cell phone service."

Over the course of the next five years, 4G and 5G coverage in Africa will likely cover 95% of the population.

The really strange thing about Starlink is that there really seems to be no business case. It seems almost like it's based on taking the half-assed broadband coverage in the US, and extrapolating to the rest of the world by assuming it must be worse.
Ok, then let's talk Europe. Denmark has been in a early and disciplined lockdown for 3 weeks. The amount of deaths per day seem to have stabilized. The Hospitals are not overrun

When should Denmark end the lockdown?

(And if Denmark had a random sampling from two weeks ago, and one from today, would they be better positioned to know when to end the lockdown or not?)
Ask HN: How do you measure the growth rate of your market?
How to know if it's growing, or shrinking, or is just stagnant?
Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Sheet for organizing 2k people 3D-printing
We are a group in Norway that are organizing 3D-printing for shields for use against Covid-19. The group have exploded the last day and we have problems loading+using Google Sheet.
Hope you have some tips to help us grow (past ?) Google Sheet.
Or chemists, or biologists, or engineers...

Or children for that matter. ;)
The Zeno mask: impossible to wear safely.
Yes. Countries that have managed R<1 have their population wearing masks in public.
Yes. When each function is a single character [1], juxtaposition is enough to show the calling order - eliminating the need for brackets in many cases, and reducing syntactic noise.

[1] There's a handful of two-character primitives, as well as some special callable symbols (eg `freq @), but they don't come up nearly as often as the base set.
Both, to a certain degree.
MSDS data sheets are only intended to list the hazards associated with a particular material for an employee of a company using that material. You can't really use them to determine the relative risks of two materials. Often times a MSDS is simply wrong and no one cares enough to get it corrected. A second MSDS issued by the same manufacturer for the same material can be different than the first.
Depends on whether you breath in and breath into the pipe (which is not ok), or just breath in from the pipe, and breath out elsewhere (you will need some valve that will regulate the flow here).
No, just an attempt to invoke a name that presumably these people would listen to since they don't appear to listen to anybody I trust.
How many could face the Eye of Sauron and be themselves still..

Aragorn? Some of the council maybe. Great Eagle, quite likely not.

They come to save ringbearer once Sauron is overthrown. If they tried to do it when he was bending his whole being on finding the ring and possessing it they would fail and deliver it straight to him.
Right during a global mask shortage.

So how does that work? No mask, sorry no groceries for you.
Are n95 masks considered basic? I would think a basic face mask refers to something like a surgical mask, which doesn't protect the wearer but protects others from getting infected by droplets from the wearer.
Are you seriously suggesting that _all_ Earth-based astronomy should be stopped? Do you know about the issue involved in making telescopes? In making space telescopes? Look at the James Webb telescope; do you think the cost and difficulty lies in the launch?
Am I reading this right?

Brokers hedged their position to reduce the risk of rate rises, and when the Fed came in and helped them out, they're now complaining they can't also claim from the hedge. That's like blaming firemen for putting out your house fire because you now can't claim as much from your insurance.

And some Brokers over-hedged. That's speculation and that's exactly what unsophisticated, under capitalized, unregulated (for this purpose) retail brokers are explicitly banned from doing. So again, what the fuck? They should get margin called all the way to bankruptcy!?

There are a long list of laws dating back centuries about not being able to insure property for more than it's worth. And that's what over hedging is in this case: betting against the very product you create. It needs to be banned. The people doing it need to be prosecuted, not offered sympathy.
I noticed the same thing :-)

I wouldn't know how widespread it is, but I'd point out this is a cultural and linguistic thing. The quoted researcher's native language is Portuguese, a language in which "carne" means "meat", but if left unqualified means "red meat", and more often than not means simply "beef". One can explicitly say "carne de boi" (cow meat) or "carne de porco" (pork meat) for clarity if necessary.

In Brazil for example, a country of shared heritage and language, even pork is culturally considered to be white meat (or at least, not "red meat") in certain situations.

I believe the word in this context speaks more to Portuguese cultural attitudes, from an epistemological perspective, than to English language usages.

If I look up "carne de peixe" (literally "fish meat") on Google you can find results, but they seem few. To me (I'm a native speaker as well) it sounds odd, though not ungrammatical or paradoxical. Just weird.

Lent is a time period during which Christian believers are supposed to abstain from luxury and worldly pleasures, including fasting of meat. The current cultural perspective is ultimately probably at least somewhat influenced by the fact that in Catholic theology, fish is not included as meat during lent, and may be consumed.
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> PAY THEM A LOT BETTER

I think after covid19 the industry will be further cut back in the workforce to levels far below covid19.

My two cents, the biggest lesson the pandemic has taught us is that certain critical things need to be fully automated.

Farming & logistics will see large amounts of capital rushed into them after this because people will get the need to push the industry forward.

Even if there were solutions 100% more expensive than paying workers I suspect corps to buy them because of the value that they have in disaster scenarios like this.
If the idea is to remove old & deprecated features from C++ that would be (C++)—-
I definitely appreciate how Linus mentioned his daughter identified him as a "social distancing champ" - many of us developers have been practising social distancing long before anyone heard of COVID-19 ;-)
The reason could be that they don't even have enough masks for their medical staff...
Musk is from South Africa. I would expect him to have a better grasp of the distribution of needs of the worlds population than many american innovators.
To be specific, a project like the TMT started in 2003 or so (17 years ago) and was a follow-up to 3 other projects that had been going on for a while. So we are talking 20 - 25 years of funding to get to one telescope.

Very cool, but this telescope is going to be followed by the same "you can't do that" issues that spacex has always faced - but on land (ie, hawaii will fight it, canary islands will fight it etc).

Now the opportunity if you talk to astronomers for space based observation is incredible. I think folks in canada have tried to get canada off the TMT pork barrel train (anyone have the details of these efforts?)
until first-world governments cannibalize themselves and are outcompeted by something new
Yes, specially since it was contributed by Microsoft and Samsung.
How do you avoid heap allocations in Haskell?

Automated reference counting is technically a GC, but a kind of GC that can be enabled only for a subset of objects. In languages which force GC on everything (even reference counted GC) the incentive to provide abstractions that work without GC are much weaker. It is just hard to opt-out from GC once you have it and once all your stdlib relies on it. I thing D learned it the hard way.
JFYI, the N95 masks are NOT intended for the average person anyway. (in EU they are called FFP2/FFP3)

They need face fitting and some basic usage instructions.

If not correctly fitted they won't be effective, as air (like in more common "surgical" masks) will enter (and exit) from the sides.
A major part of 1984 was the Ministry of Truth spinning lies about reality. How do you square censorship against government spread of misinformation?
You're pretty free in terms of expression, religion, and sexuality here. In fact, it's probably one of the most sexually liberal places in Asia. Hell, prostitution is even legal here.

You do need to follow the rules though or face incredibly harsh punishments for any crimes (including drugs etc).
Nice, what did you do and how much time did it take? I've been hesitating to contribute but it would be great to read a blog post of someone just starting to contribute to see what it takes! It might be enough to get over the fear.
I think you have to think of it a bit more from Amazon's perspective. If you accidentally burn through your entire startup capital and shut down, they lose. If the risk of this sort of thing becomes well-known, then startups will start using other services rather than AWS, and the small fraction that grow big will be less likely to use AWS.

Being an entitled jerk who blames other people for your own negligence is bad, and you shouldn't change that. But openly giving companies the opportunity to be kind (while admitting that it was entirely your fault) potentially helps both them and you.
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I use it when I need to move large files on usb between linux, win and macos since ntfs support on macos is such a nightmare.
ExFAT is the standard file system on SDXC cards. And it is patented. So it is both very relevant and encumbered.
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you better tell these guys to stop wasting their time, and fast!

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32147628
Not just illness. Elimination of lead is a prime suspect for the decrease of violent crime over the last 40 or so years.
Informing hundreds of thousands of people that a government enforced quarantine took away their job permanently isn't a good way to keep a government. If the government instead helps them stay on pay roll, life goes on
Supermarkets will be providing surgical masks (not N95) free of charge. In places where none are available, use will not be mandatory at this point (though strongly recommended).
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In Slovenia it is mandatory starting today. In the meanwhile you can buy it here...
I can give you infinitely more examples of people neither wearing masks nor obeying social distancing, and that is in fact supported by your “example”. I hope “anti-mask” people could stop attacking the straw man already.
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I think the important part of the discussion is to separate the concept of protecting others from the concept of protecting yourself. As a population we can likely protect each other somewhat by wearing poor/basic masks. If it reduces spread by a few percent it's worth it so long as masks are available without starving supplies in healthcare.

Healthcare staff must protect themselves as well, so need real protective masks. So long as those masks aren't available to healthcare, we should avoid buying them in the rest of the population. In the meantime perhaps a lousy scarf can be used.
So, if I'm interpreting the downvotes correctly:

Newspapers with emotive articles about not having space for the bodies: reliable & obviously true

European Union all-cause mortality monitoring data, used since 2009 and collected by ECDC/WHO/EUROSTAT/EISN: obviously incorrect

Got it.
Presumably companies with strong finances and other options for financing would not want to take on shareholder-unfriendly terms like a multi-year ban on paying dividends or doing buybacks.
I don't need explanation. These are my admittedly US centric observations of social gymnastics. They're honest, sincere and correct and I'm perfectly aware that they risk offence among the prevailing audience.
Even though I'm baffled by this obvious case of throwing out the baby with the bath water, on the upside, the explanation is only kind of backwards. Protecting families from the cyber war torn online spaces with their fraudulence, leaks and other goings on is not entirely unreasonable outside of this context.
That is indeed what US and Western European media have been repeating for decades. It doesn’t necessarily match the people’s experience.
Sorry, you make zero sense. First of all, not everywhere are ICUS and morgues overwhelmed. Some towns in Italy and Spain are hit bad, South Korea manages it without even having lockdowns.

Second, and that's my point: you can have the same result with two very different scenarios: either a lot of people have/had it but in the vast majority of the cases it goes without symptoms at all. So when a big part of the population gets infected only then you start noticing "ICUs being overwhelmed".
The second scenario is: it causes serious problems for a substantial part of the infected so even the small number of those who got the virus will flood the hospitals.

And those two scenarios require different responses.
Not really ... I had a couple fake dumps on our private cloud storage that got flagged by our security team as PII but I actually thought that validated the idea. The biggest downsides to the idea is that you would really need to flood the world with fake data to drown out the real dumps and you'd need to increase the cost of validating an individual dump.
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The entire series is an amazing meld of epic fantasy and philosophy that delves deep into topics surrounding human nature and human existence. We had a similar discussion on reddit[0] a few months ago and i'll summarize it here. You'll find topics like violence and its relation to power,civilization as violence against nature, phenomenology, existentialism versus essentialism. Arguments for anarcho-primitivism, arguments against anarcho-primitivism. Mutualism versus individualism versus collectivism. Class struggle and class consciousness.

The entire series is a piece of art. It also happens have a myriad of badass characters appearing and disappearing throughout the novels, so there's always something to look forward to in the next book.

[0]https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/d1vfs3/philosophy_...
Do they all need to be editing the same sheet? At work when we ran into loading issues we separated it out region wise and provided links to each sheet on a webpage.
For public health use (as opposed to medical use), the difference between an N95 mask and a surgical mask is pretty small. They both make a huge difference.

It's true: air can come around if the seal isn't perfect. However, you've eliminated most of the virus. At that point, other modes of spread become dominant.

In a medical setting, where you're guarding against all modes of spread with a full body suit, googles, etc., and where you're dealing with large numbers of exposures, it's a completely different story.

Ballpark numbers for masks+frequent handwashing suggest that they'd bring R0 close to 1, assuming a whole bunch of unvalidated assumptions (e.g. they have the same impact on coronavirus as on the flu). At that point, we should be able to get things under control with social distancing and similar measures.