skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Millions? Where and when? Plus why criticize something thats advocating staying home in order to save lives.
SpaceX bans Zoom over privacy concerns
The problem is the hospitalization rate is too high even for a younger population. If you could target even 2% hospitalized at 60% of population, you would still need >4+ years at current capacity to get through this. You'd also still lose 1/1000 lives (of younger people) which still is unacceptable.

Why is it guaranteed you need to get herd immunity? Can you not take the Singapore/SK route indefinitely - heavy contact tracing + mask wearing + limit mass groups to keep basic reproduction number under 1 indefinitely?
The current "best case" scenario of your government is 100k-240k dead; less than one order of magnitude is basically nothing in an exponential crisis. 240k to a million is just two doublings.
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We could also just take some time to relax and focus on self-care because the current situation is really stressful for most people. I don't think everyone benefits from the added pressure of being expected to produce some great work with their time in isolation. Some of us just want to get through the work day and then spend some time playing video games or read a book.
try obs streamlabs or twitch studio - they're a lot more beginner friendly and built with OBS if your daughter just wants to record or stream.
Looks Like a Depression, Not a Recession
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> It was interesting to observe that since this was written, both F# (from 67 to 32) and Lisp (63 to 29) have risen dramatically on the TIOBE index.

The TIOBE index is pretty much meaningless for any language below the #5 spot, under which the percentages are so infinitesimal that the ordering is completely useless.

For example, a jump from 63 to 29 means the market share for Lisp went from to 0.12% to 0.37%, and I suspect the error margin is several times that delta.
The open internet winning was to Microsoft's detriment at the time, which was why they fought it so hard and why IE was so broken but difficult for corporate users to abandon. Microsoft wanted ActiveX to win.
I didn’t become a Data Scientist in 6 months
Someone mirrored it: https://michaeljcole.github.io/wiki.unrealengine.com/
TikTok managed to build something that requires less attention and focus than YouTube (I can't believe that's real now that I'm saying it.) If you're wondering how it would improve your life then the answer is: it wont and it's probably not meant for you.
"Annus mirabilis, the year of wonders, that is the name of this period in which calculus, law of gravitation, the color spectrum, these discoveries changed the world forever."

"Let's all become Isaac Newton this month."

Those comments come across pretty tone deaf to me. I imagine the person who wrote it doesn't have any young children and enjoys a relatively high degree of privilege.
Is there "dangerous information" or only stupid people? Sometimes I worry focusing on the former is actually dangerous, because it ignores why people aren't capable of critical thinking in the first place.
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> What about going for a walk, a meal, shopping, hanging out in the park, a theater, concert

All these things have been deemed non-essentials in large parts of the world, and the government is enforcing it. Clearly if preservation of life is goal #1, the government can certainly shut down most life to pursue that goal. In reality, the government -- and by extension the people -- make the decision to value life in quality of life terms -- in other words, money. Thus, while I don't think people who say we should open the economy up right now are correct, I don't fundamentally disagree with their premise that human life is valued monetarily by governments all the time when deciding what policies to enact. And that is okay.
Bleh. Clearly written by someone who isn’t trying to work a full time job without childcare for tiny children. This whole period will set the low watermark for my inadequacy as a parent and worker. Can’t wait for it to be over.
At the time you wrote this comment, approximately 45k people have died as a result of the coronavirus worldwide.

Glass is half empty for you then, right?
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Depends on how empty or full you think the glass is I suppose. Nothing wrong with encouraging others to be their best version of themselves in a time of crisis.

Like I said, people die every day. More are going to die during April. It sucks. Make the most of a bad situation. As an individual, nothing you do can move the needle (besides the social distancing and other guidance), so look inward.
also: there are countries other than the United States.
The Common Lisp condition system is actually just a dynamically-scoped hook system.

Handlers are the actual hooks; conditions are the object that may trigger some of the hooks when they are signaled. Restarts are an addition on top of the hooks that allows for easier non-local transfer of control; they provide little that handlers do not provide unless you count the Lisp debugger - by design, the only way to leave the debugger is by using a restart.

In other words: no continuations here.
Me: Everyone I know uses _language_, this is trash!

Also me: First programming job.
Didn't they have a chance, and intentionally made things wrong, repeatedly, for years?
It looks like the recruiter updated the title after it was published to the website. I'll go ahead and add a system to ensure this doesn't happen again. Thank you!
A friend wrote "Train for a Mars mission: how to survive social distancing while working from home with your kids around without losing your sanity" https://medium.com/@szopa/train-for-a-mars-mission-how-to-su...
Hack Quarantine links and mentions blocked on Facebook
Hack Quarantine is an online hackathon aimed at solving the issues surrounding COVID-19, partnered with many hackathons, organisations, and computing societies across six continents (Antarctica is proving a little challenging, however!). The event has been promoted by reaching out to these communities – primarily through Facebook and Twitter. Recently, Facebook has made this challenging.

On Wednesday 25 March, Facebook announced the COVID-19 Global Hackathon, two days after our event began. The same Friday, Facebook began marking all links to Hack Quarantine as a violation of their community standards. While we understand that Facebook is taking action to prevent the spread of fake news, this has affected our ability to share Hack Quarantine with the world and trying to get as many people involved as possible.

This blacklisting affects all messages containing “hackquarantine.com” and mentions of our Facebook page in both Facebook feeds and Messenger, where messages containing these are automatically marked as “Couldn’t send”.

While we all want to work together to help everyone affected by COVID-19, Facebook has made it harder for people to come together. We believe there is a place for both hackathons, and hope you can stand alongside us in this.

The Hack Quarantine Team
> And, if I'm dual booting, I'm probably confident enough to configure UEFI to support dual booting.

This doesn't really fit with the oft-repeated advice to windows user looking to try out linux that you can start with a dual boot.
It's not at all absurd. Napkin math: 1% fatality rate * 60% infection rate * 7.8 billion people = 46.8 million deaths. You can plug in all sorts of adjustments, but millions is totally plausible.

Or another way to look at it is that the US could easily see 100k deaths. [1] The us is about 1/20th of the world population, so scaling up we get 2 million deaths.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/world/coronavirus-live-ne...
For sure! To be clear, I was applauding your work. My criticisms were directed at human drivel. Impressive model.
Author here. If you specify an IdentityFile then that’ll be tried first (as an explicit identity) but if that doesn’t work then by default, ssh-agent identities will be tried sequentially afterwards. IdentitiesOnly suppresses that behaviour.
Everyone is going to die.

I know that this will make it sooner than we thought for some, but for those who are going to die from this, this was always going to be their death date. I'm not trying to be insensitive and I'm not saying we shouldn't try our hardest to mitigate problems. We absolutely should. But when problems happen, lamenting has it's place, but only does so much good before it starts to do harm.
And had a lot of inherited wealth to support his intellectual endeavours without being exhausted by a day job.
Yeah I miss even the 10 minute drive home transition from work to home mode.
And there are 6.7 billion folks not in the US who all matter too.
This would be a legitimate argument if their pervasive shadiness and deployment of dark patterns were an accident, or an error. It's not. They have already done things "right" in their view, and it is reflected consistently in their actions.

If they make any corrections now, it will be on a PR basis in response to perceived customer upset, not because they are sorry or wish to respect users or privacy. They've been actively and plainly lying throughout this thing.

You can't even use Zoom without agreeing (via their abusive TOS) give up your civil rights.
> HTML has collapsing margins but they seem kind of half-baked. Is there enough functionality there to be useful, or is it best avoided entirely?

Generally I'd recommend avoiding them entirely, as the rules for when margins should collapse are nuanced and sometimes applied inconsistently between browsers.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Box_Mod...

It just adds too much cognitive overhead to reasoning about your layouts to be worthwhile imo. Whereas with spacing components, what you see in the virtual dom is what you'll get.
How do you know it will be worse for almost everyone? Parents will die, children will inherit windfalls (family farm? Dads truck?). Boomer politicians die, we see new blood in politics.
Ask HN: Ways to team build while WFH?
We're all stuck inside and it's boring. I asked my team if they wanted to have lunch over a Slack video call, but that seems boring. Any ideas how 5 or so people can do something together online? What about for like 20 people?
Microsoft acquires open source SharePoint killer, Mayan EDMS
> I see a lot of love for Legere in this thread

There is strange uptick of "love" of corporate leaders all over social media for some reason. Certainly PR is at play, but also it's likely that the internet and social media has become more popular and attracted more uniformed masses. Just the other day on reddit, there was a Gates' thread and the "love" there was cult like.
Are there actually a lot of shared components between systemd (the init system), systemd-boot, and systemd-(everything else in systemd)?
Yes, just press E. Just like in GRUB.
I’d hope they weren’t entirely unusable?
a world where we trust napkin math for fatality rates is a world i don't want to live in

(before you downvote, please appreciate the subtle dark pun)
Yep, totally. Motion control would be a different case altogether. Zeno's Paradox was supposed to be a puzzle, not a solution.
Yes, in the same way I miss creating an `XF86Config` or `xorg.conf` by hand.

The same way that a good case of food poisoning brings back memories of past travel abroad.
My feelings really go out to you. Hope you all come through healthy and caring for each other. Meanwhile, it's even tougher for people with kids at home who still have to go to work. Not all of us are lucky enough to be able to work with zoom and github.
And the Trump administration's estimates from today are 100,000 to 240,000 deaths in the US alone:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/01/coronavirus-could-kill-more-...

Several million worldwide seems very possible. People downplaying this for too long is a large part of why it's gotten so bad already.

Why worry? There's only 15 cases in the US. Why worry? There's only 15 cases in my state. Why worry? There's only 15 cases in my county.

Who knows what it will look like in 2 weeks.
The US expects at least 100,000 deaths. Extrapolated to the world population at the same rate, that's 2.4 million deaths.
The Senator Who Saw the Coronavirus Coming
Curried Functions
I feel for the parents. Some of my coworkers are struggling. Thankfully we're all lucky enough to still be working now but it's definitely tough. I'm the primary care giver for my father. While that's meant preparing his meds, preparing meals, and taking him to doctor's appointments, etc. With the closing of the senior lunch and his few friends unable to visit I'm now full time social director. Much more stressful than I'd have anticipated. On the other hand, he isn't a child and generally stays out of my way while I work.

Best of luck to you all. The number and variety of stressors right now is off the charts. Hope you and your families come out the other side stronger for it all.
That's a pretty small window, size wise - you don't have to be very big before it makes sense to bring someone in to focus on regulatory, especially if you are trying to move quickly to approval to market. W

I'll have a closer look though, for sure.
Well, almost all reals are... I would be more impressed if you found a new number that isn't!
Here's a list of free udemy courses
https://www.udemy.com/courses/free/
With more widespread use, it is becoming obvious to more people that they are shady liars.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/03/31/zoom-e2e
> truly shines in its ability to provide ephemeral credentials. It can even "package" arbitrary secrets for you

Those credentials should not be generated, stored or provided centrally in the first place.
45k was 21k a week ago, and under 10k a week before that. Today it'll be ~+5k more. That number is increasing every day.
In the midst of a pandemic where teenagers are liking and sharing these videos I do think that public interest concerns apply.
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That's right.. i am trying to understand if thats so obvious then why companies like google, samsung , amazon is unable to imitate that apple product mindset. in terms of technology they have everything or even better than apple but still product quality is far less.
I can't say I agree there. The intent of the website is to motivate people to make the most of what they've got.

Does it work for everyone? No. Of course not.

But a "fuck this"? Why? If it works for people, good, if not, move on. No reason to bring down someone for trying.
That assumes Microsoft broke the spec and the hardware was designed for it. The scenario in the thread is that the hardware broke the spec and Microsoft just made it work. I don't think that's much different than a lot of other software. Look at all the application specific code and fixes added to graphics drivers, for example.
While the quarantine could provide a great opportunity for some to achieve great life goals, things could be quite different for parents working and caring for young children. With two working parents and a toddler at home, I'd be so happy to accomplish bare minimum work and home duties; pulling an Isaac Newton be darned!
My guess is you're doing better than you think. Be gentle with yourself and watch that self-talk. It can be a killer.
Exactly.

Most of us will live through this. Yes, the world will be a bit different, but different is not always worse. There may be some good things to come out of this around the world.

Keep calm. Wash your hands. Wear masks if you got 'em. Help out your friends and neighbors where you can.
Conjecture unproven before man.
The curve is steep and moving steadily up. We're still weeks out from seeing if the very late extreme measures were enough.
Schools Are Spying on Students
In modernity it has two meanings, but its roots are tied to terror. It's only been adapted as a colloquialism to mean "crap". Somewhat like how "aweful" and "awesome" have drifted to mean totally opposite things when their suffixes and etymology suggests they should and originally did mean something very similar.
Sounds like they're advocating not sitting around playing video games or trying to make viral TikTok videos, and instead using the government mandated alone time to try and work on things that are difficult in our always-connected world. Just because not literally everyone can make use of this time doesn't mean they are tone deaf.
This is obviously a luxury, but I've found having a separate room helps a lot. Putting my laptop to sleep and turning off the light acts as a transition.

If you don't have a separate room, you could also plug your computer in somewhere, and go on a short walk every day.
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Agreed. This is a very stressful time already, and we've got at least another year of this. If some people are insanely productive, great! Lucky them. But if the best people can do is staying home, taking care of themselves and their families, and not freaking out, they get a gold star as far as I'm concerned. No need to raise expectations.
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Side projects are for your enjoyment only. "To scratch an itch." as mentioned in "The Cathedral and the Bazaar".

If somebody else happens to use it too, that's all well and good. As long as you want to do it for yourself, then just go ahead and do it. Don't worry about anybody else. On the other hand, if you're not getting any enjoyment from it, then just stop. If the idea is good enough, somebody else will take over the reins.

Relevant phrases from "Linux is not Windows":

Increasing the number of end-users of proprietary software leads to a direct financial benefit to the company that makes it. This is simply not the case for FOSS: There is no direct benefit to any FOSS developer in increasing the userbase. Indirect benefits, yes: Personal pride; an increased potential for finding bugs; more likelihood of attracting new developers; possibly a chance of a good job offer; and so on.

But Linus Torvalds doesn't make money from increased Linux usage. Richard Stallman doesn't get money from increased GNU usage. All those servers running OpenBSD and OpenSSH don't put a penny into the OpenBSD project's pockets.

1. The Cathedral and the Bazaar: http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-...

2. Linux is Not Windows: http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm
Many more will die as indirect consequences from the pandemic. When health services are overloaded, chronic conditions get deprioritized, and emergencies are slower to handle. Not to mention all the jobs that simply stop existing or are endangered. I'm very afraid for my elderly relatives who in many cases live alone and can't afford to get sick or stop working.
The latest number I saw was 99.4%.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/30/health/coronavirus-lower-deat...
Finding things to be happy about is part of how people cope with things.
5k dying a day and it is only getting worse. Not sure what point you were trying to make?
I agree with the theme of this, but the company I work for has been taking the COVID lockdown as an excuse to have more remote meetings, some of which are late at night for me (since this company is based in California and I'm in NY).

I definitely agree with making the best of a forced quarantine, I've been trying to get my brother-in-law to study for his GED (or whatever they call it in NY), but it feels like for the happy few that have a remote-friendly job, this crisis has actually decreased my free time.
> Those comments come across pretty tone deaf to me. I imagine the person who wrote it doesn't have any young children and enjoys a relatively high degree of privilege.

A whole lot of millennials don't have children and won't anytime soon. Some of us don't have time, money, savings, security, or desire to do so. Assuming kids is what's tone deaf.
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Thank you!!! Its relationship to regex is actually precisely the part that piqued my interest.