skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Feed New York for one year

Economic comparisons across millennia are close to meaningless. For example, how does one compare modern New York City, with a population rivalling that of the ancient world’s human population, with a Roman urban centre?
Australia wants all visitors and temporary visa holders to leave
What's the Point of Nobel Prizes? (2019)
It could be theoretically possible to reduce distancing between immune persons. However this creates

1) a social and economic pressure to also get infected and ignore the risks

2) a control problem: Suddenly, many people are outside and socialize. How should the police differ between the two kinds?

3) even after the symptoms have gone away, the virus is still contained, e.g., in the stool. So you would need vast and repeated testing to check who is not infectious and immune.
There is this widespread assumption that Apple is looking out for the interests of developers on its platform.

However, like all large corporations, Apple is and always has looked out for its own interests only. If you keep this in mind, it's easy to understand why Apple does what they do.
FWIW "you've got" seems very US American to me (native en-gb).
Apple users may want to check the note taking, hierarchical tagging, page scraping and very hacker friendly iOS and macOS app Bear: https://bear.app. I'm a paying customer but there's also a free version.
I use pinboard.in
The rules you named are some I personally followed. One other extremely important thing is privacy when you want to crawl personal data like social networks. I personally avoid crawling data that inexperienced users might accidentally expose, like email adresses, phone numbers or their friends list. A good rule of thumb for social networks for me always was, that I only scrape the data that is visible when my bot is not logged in (also helps to not break the providers ToS).

The most elegant way would be to ask the site provider if they allow scraping their website and which rules you should obey. I was surprised how open some providers were, but some don't even bother replying. If they don't reply, apply the rules you set and follow the obvious ones like not overloading their service etc.
Did it come across as sarcastic? I certainly didn't intend that, of course they have more important things to worry about. They'd usually come in to do a day's work and now suddenly everything is closed and they've got to write this weird open-ended letter.

It's an NHS dentist, so unless we have millions of deaths I expect the practice will continue to exist and receive funding as before. Such practices are funded partially on the basis of the number of patients who are notionally "theirs" to look after and that hasn't changed even if providing non-emergency services is not a priority now.
I'm not too fond of that chart because all you can really see clearly on it is when the increase stops being exponential. It is pretty hard to see the base of the exponential (in most countries the increase in confirmed infections has been slowing down, relatively speaking, but that is incredibly hard to spot from that graph, which makes the situations seem worse than it already is).
Google keep.

I make one keep for each of my projects whether it is professional or personal. Even for daily tasks like shopping and keeping track of payments i make keep. I color code them according to category and have it as a chrome app and mobile app.
So basically you think there won’t be too much contagion and people who have jobs or are getting unemployment benefits now will still be in that state after a few months? And that the unemployment system can handle an almost overnight order of magnitude increase in demand? And that essential services like farms, shipping and grocery stores will survive long term despite the major supply chain disruption? That seems crazy optimistic to me but I guess I can’t convince you.

Please read up on the Great Depression. Economic downturns can be pretty bad. If they could have solved it by just giving everyone unemployment, they would have.

Edit:

> What do you think is the overall right length of time for the lockdown?

I don’t know dude, I’m not an economist. I just think the economic effects should be properly taken into account and weighed against the health effects. Yes, there is some amount of economic damage that it’s worth some number of people dying to avoid. That seems obvious to me, but people act like you’re a Nazi if you point it out.
If Apple wasn’t on the chopping block for antitrust before, they certainly are now. As a developer, I knew that Apple would relax their policies for large companies, but this…wow.
The entire system is set up to funnel economic activity into land then onto usurers.
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I'm not sure I'd advocate for this design... The traffic sharing and backoff seems crude... The "10% per minute" doesn't prevent sudden increases in load killing both providers.

I would design it like this:

Put all requests into a distributed queue, for example persistent pubsub.

Have workers take work from that queue.

Each worker should send a new request to a provider if the rate of requests sent in the past minute is < 2x the rate of requests in the previous minute, and the number of in flight requests is < 10x the average of the past minute, and the rate of errors, including timeouts, is <1%. If both providers are eligible, send to whichever has had the fewest requests in 24h.

This prevents flooding/DoSing a badly configured provider (a well configured provider would have ingress ratelimiting, and you could do away with all the above logic).

Have alerting on the age of the oldest item in the queue, and a monitoring dashboard showing dispatch rate to each provider, with response error codes.

All the state is local to the worker, and doesn't need persisting. If a worker crashes, the item doesn't get acknowledged to pubsub, and will be retried. If you like, you can autoscale the number of workers based on their cpu utilization.

I'd expect the above to scale to 10k qps per worker, and 5Mqps for 1000 workers before needing a redesign.
Fair. I was assuming you could do something at the evaluation layer that was somewhat equivalent. But it makes sense the bare metal ones are doing something at the machine code layer.
It's not only a syntax for anonymous functions. It also binds the function to the context where it's defined.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

Looks weird at first but you get used it pretty quickly. And I gotta say the auto binding thing is awesome.
On Surviving Screens and Social Media in Isolation
The reason it's not researched much is because giving someone an antibody will not confer immunity - it will only treat the immediate virus.

It has value, but there are usually better treatments available that more broadly fight a variety of viruses and don't need to be so specifically customized as an antibody.
Data or it didn’t happen.

“Most” and “upper middle class” tells me you’re probably making this up whole cloth. “Most” Americans don’t make it to the upper middle class.
That's an interesting proposition. For example there is Google Dataset Search where you can "locate online data that is freely available for use".
Neither the lack of strolling nor the heightened suspicion are true of all suburbs in the US.
I have no problem with abbreviations over a limited scope but
looking at this code[1] I can't figure out what the author meant
by 'm' and that makes me wonder if the author does know what he's
doing.

[1]: https://github.com/leontrolski/leontrolski.github.io/blob/ma...

edit: Ok, I should have read the article first. It's probably for https://mithril.js.org/
unfortunately copper readily oxidizes in atmosphere to form carbonates (green), by touching would form sulfides (black). in general copper compounds can leach through the skin and are toxic (although in large amounts) to humans too, not just to bacteria and other microbes. brass however might be safer for long term touch. i actually saw quite a few brass handles in old buildings' doors in europe
Zoom admits some calls were routed through China by mistake
I actually don't think the problems were due to dust, ever since I read this a year ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/bjtyaw/macbook_pro_k...

But putting that aside, I still see that as an execution flaw, or at least, it's a way in which design and execution are so intertwined that the distinction no longer makes sense. A computer with a non-replacable keyboard that breaks after a year is a badly-executed product. The way to execute it better would be a keyboard that doesn't break, whatever design decisions that entails.
Unicode already has this.
I'll say it again:

We get it, we are going to have to shut down the main street economy for months, and potentially on and off for years.

OK, we aren't rioting yet.

So, elites, what's the plan to keep people from starving and being thrown out in the streets? A one time $1000 check at some point in the future isn't a plan.

People who swarm criticize anyone saying "this is crazy" need to start presenting feasible economic plans, or they are gonna see fully operational crazy in a month or so.
Gates? Never really seen much bad attributed to him past being a spoiled kid.
I tried to find a source to back up what you’re saying about hiQ “snitching” to employers about employees searching for jobs, but all I can find is vague documentation about the legal suit hiQ v. LinkedIn.

Do you have a link to an article or something?
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This can be done in Org files using text source blocks with `ATTR_HTML :target _blank`

https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/14320/org-mode-lin...
I'm skeptical that the public can endure a single 2-3 month lockdown to begin with. But a lot can change in 2 months, so it is far from certain the lockdown will last that long.

For example

- a treatment might be found which reduces the fatality rate, making it a less dangerous disease

- widespread testing might show that a significant portion of the population already had it and were asymptomatic, thus we have herd immunity sooner than expected in places like New York and Spain/Italy

- antibody testing might become mainstream, so if there was a certificate for people who have already gotten it, that subset of the population can return to a normal life.

- the public support for the lockdown evaporates if it goes on for too long and unemployment skyrockets, so the government might move to a more moderate measure - e.g.: only lock down the people at risk, and let everyone else return to a normal life.

- rapid and cheap tests because widespread, so perhaps you can just get tested before boarding a plane, or entering a shopping mall, etc.
One thing is that we Americans loooove remodeling our houses. We have whole TV channels dedicated to the topic. So, besides the benefits that other people have mentioned here, wood-frame structures are easy to change to suit our needs.
I don't know.

On one hand, speaking for the US, far too many struggle because their cost and risk exposure far exceeds their income. For too many, it exceeds their income potential.

Billionaires are a product of that. Too much went away from labor.

That trends immoral. And it is currently legal. Corruption itself is basically legal. Maybe it should not be, or... better:

Say the US was a more robust social democracy. The vast majority of people have income appropriate to their cost and risk exposure, do not struggle, live modest, reasonable, fulfilling lives.

Would this question come up outside smallish circles, rather than the more general discussion happening today?

I know I would not care. I care very much in the current scenario. Too many are in real trouble, struggling, working more than is necessary.

I have arrived here:

Do the people right. Beyond that, make as much as you can.

It is harder to make billions in that scenario, but the net happiness in the world is far greater.

Say someone makes a few billion, or even just one and change. What is the meaningful difference in happiness between that and tens or hundreds of billions?

Agency is about all I can think of, and really that is a different question:

Should individuals command nation sized resources?

I would argue no.
Same here. I've been using a 'notes' file since I first got into Unix back in the late 80s. I've kept with it ever since. I still haven't found something I like better. So portable, easily searchable and easy to manipulate with standard unix tools, etc.
Something to note: The stimulus checks are an advance on a 2020 tax credit, so you'll get it (much delayed) next year in your scenario, as long as you don't make above the threshold by the end of this year.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/31/coronavirus-stimulus-checks-...

> That could change if the Treasury Department decides to alter its guidance.

> That could include some kind of declaration form where you could provide evidence that your 2020 income has dropped, such as an unemployment insurance claim.
I thought the whole single-char-var thing was for very short-lived variables.

I very much prefer

for c in internalProductCategories
p = fetchProductsInCategory(c.id)
m = getAccountManagerName(c.id)
results.append({categoryName: c.name, products: p, manager: m.name})

to

for internalProductCategory in internalProductCategories
products = fetchProductsInCategory(internalProductCategory.id)
manager = getAccountManagerName(internalProductCategory.id)
results.append({categoryName: internalProductCategory.name, products: products, manager: manager.name})

They're both clear, neither needs comments, but one is unnecessarily verbose.
Reusable open source components all governments can use is still a huge improvement over the status quo, where each government overpays contractors to build suboptimal solutions that remain closed source.
It's been at least a decade or more since I have been on /. . It really seemed to have went down hill when the Bush election was going on, they did a lot of political coverage and it just ruined the feel of the site. People started exposing their political bent and the site in general just became more snarky.
Slowing the Spread with FCOJ
> Is it enough to join triumvirate, influence senate?

Crassus, Pompey and Caesar were not just incredibly wealthy relative to the average Roman. They were rich compared to Rome. They could buy the state. That’s simply not true in modern America, where D.C. can, in times of crisis, spend trillions unencumbered. (Something no individual, presently, can.)
This is exactly the problem. It would only work in the short term - but would not provide any immunity. It might not even eliminate the virus - so once you stop the antibody treatment - the patient might relapse.

Still better than nothing and in extreme situations, it would give your body more time to produce an adaptive response.
Maybe so, I wouldn't know.
they have thousands of people. 13 layoffs is probably any given week.
Vanilla-js. Werd.
If the content-type header failed to get sent, or if a browser (lookin' at you, IE) chooses to ignore it in favor of what it thinks it probably should have been, then the result can get rendered as HTML. If you have some json that has angle-brackets in it (which, being JSON, would obviously not be HTML-escaped) and the result is rendered as HTML, this can result in your browser executing attacker-defined javascript in Twitter's origin.

Sending it as a "file download" has no effect on what happens when the endpoint is called via AJAX, but in the event that a browser navigates to it directly, ensures that even the dumbest of browsers do not render it as HTML.
Until when do I have to wait for an Organic Raspberry Pi to play with?
Wait till you see what it does to scope!
That is an interesting thought and one can only imagine the possibilities. It could alter a lot of what we know already.
iAWriter
Saves files to markdown on iPhone and syncs across iCloud. I wish it could sync with google drive or dropbox, but it's the only good markdown editor I've used.
I like asciidoc because latex math is part of the standard and not something you may or may not get like with markdown. There are a couple of other nice things (like tables) too.

I think the complexity of asciidoc is probably why there are only a couple implementations though, which is a real bummer.
For the short to medium term, a high % of their wage is replaced with unemployment benefits. This was also extended a bit by federal money, right? So it’s not like 25% of the population drops to 0 income.

Edit - your math is also counting babies and kids. Not many babies or kids lost jobs in the past month.
Xamarin is mobile and macOS only.
LOL might be too dated, for this crowd but man that movie was a classic to those that worked thru that era.
>Some top doctors can earn at least nba coach level figures //

Ethically?
Hans Rosling: The best stats you've ever seen (2006) [video]
I think we're using it because GitHub renders GitHub flavoured markdown well.

Thankfully it also renders Org files pretty well, which AFAIK supports everything listed and more.
How do you make PDFs? When I’ve used html features I’ve resorted to weird tricks with WebKit but that’s really not great.
The latter requires you to read the assignment to figure out what the variables mean.
Thanks, and for those who are wondering how squared hinge loss is differentiable, I found:

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-squared-hinge-loss-differentiab...
Mithril's approach (as robertakarobin refers to) is that diffing VDOMs is cheap (where as updating the DOM itself is expensive), the "library" in this post takes the same approach.

It's interesting, there's a lot of chat about performance with these frameworks, yet I'm not sure how much is relevant to the real world. When I do eg a

document.querySelectorAll('*')

on airbnb map view (I guess a pretty good example of a mid complexity SPA), there are 3407 DOM elements - doing a diff on the VDOM elements of these should quick.

If I were doing something like a clock on a page (or an animation for example), I'd probably just do it out-of-band of my framework. These kind of things tend to be few and far between anyways.
My Galaxy Brained Quest to Find the Worst Companies and Invest in Them
I can count on zero fingers the number of times my bank has called, however. I don't have them on my contact list. I have a few businesses, mostly family, friends, and colleagues. Spoofing one of my contacts is a pretty tall order for a robocaller outfit, and likely would raise the cost of the call high enough to make it unviable.
Well explained

I'd add one point

> This also incentivized the governor to make their province to generate as much tax revenue as possible (good for both the governor and Rome itself)

That society was slave labour-based, so at some point of their history they needed lots of tax revenue, to support the army, for it to collect as many slaves as possible (or, in general, for it to protect their sources of slave labour). That particular arrangement with provincial governors was one of the solutions they tried. See also the progressive extension of the right of citizenship, first limited to the city of Rome and few other places, then after various intermediate phases, extended to the whole of the Empire: citizens were the ones who were taxed.
Yeah I use it too and it has worked great. It's just markdown, the data is easy to export and the search works well so it's easy to find anything that I drop in there.

They also have a new alpha with an improved editor https://bear.app/alpha/
I beg to differ. It's the authenticated part that's the problem. That assumes you're tracking every connection to perfect granularity. Are you going to change the QoS for each host? Are you going to enforce every host to authenticate to determine which tier of service they are provided?

You want QoS? Fine. Provision your network for it, let everyone enjoy it. As soon as you start putting levers in place to pick who gets the better service tier, you get crap like Verizon throttling essential services right when they're needed the most because someone decided that their bloody contract wasn't looking like they were getting fleeced enough while said service is trying to ensure the damn countryside isn't completely burnt down.

Once the mechanism is in place it'll get abused, because their is always a buck to be made by doing so, or an ideological ambition to be realized. Sometimes it's just better not to even open that damn door. DPI and traffic shaping be damned.
I do, in ClojureScript. Here are two of my main projects:

* https://github.com/Cirru/calcit-editor
* https://github.com/Respo/respo
This is a pretty good point. However, there's also the chance that they can't use the gear and that's why they're sending it: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=virus+t...

However, could be this was a one-off genuine mistake (things are hectic). I'd love to know more
Do you think it's really overzealous or misconfigured to block unusual use of content?
I can't imagine how pissed Netflix and Spotify are right now (and a whole host of smaller companies).
ditto lol
I think this is just GSM Cell Broadcast [1].

It seems strange that it would be complicated or expensive to set up. I've used cheap, aimed-at-tourist SIMs in developing countries where cell broadcast was used to send news and adverts, which is very annoying.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_Broadcast
> McDonald’s Corporation really can be held liable if you spill hot coffee on yourself, and maybe that’s good, but if you employ a mechanic and he spills hot coffee on himself while on the job, you might be held liable.

There's no easy or accidental way for an independent garage owner to be regularly keeping communally-drinkable liquids at > 82-degrees Celsius.

Apparently, the real lesson for Armenians is that American corporations and industry tend to diversify corruption at a level invisible to those used only to corruption at the direct human-to-human level.
I feel like this article should be retitled, “What every American should know about life in America.”

(Saying this as an American)
I’d say it’s not specifically Armenian. In fact, your answer illustrates the cultural differences the author alludes to.

1. Many countries are much more collectivist than the USA. If in your family or clan or tribe or village someone starves, and someone has food (or money), then the expectation is that the food flows to where it is needed. There is much less “mine vs yours”.

2. The difference between market exchange rates and purchase power parity, taking into account the cost of living. A household gross salary of say 72k p.a. in the Bay Area might really not be very much, but 6000 USD per month seem huge for a family in the Philippines or Armenia. So you should be able to give up 1000$ a month easily - it would help the family at home immeasurably, while for you going from 6000 to still unimaginably opulent 5000 should be peanuts.

3. As highlighted by the author, the USA epitomises wealth for many. The reality that many Americans also live precariously or even struggle hasn’t arrived in less educated circles (and most US TV shows consumed abroad don’t help to correct that picture).
But at some point, the medias are rehashing the same statements: Stay home, and follows good practices.

As an individual, there's only so much you can do and there's no need to keep yourself distracted from other matters.
If you think it's unfair, don't use it.

As long as people keep using Apple's products and platforms, they will do what they do.
I think there's a plausible case to be made that there exists a 75% slice of our jobs that could produce 90% of our GDP. I'm a lot less confident that we can construct such a slice, and almost completely sure that government planners trying to reify the term "essential business" won't construct it.
future virus and worms will be scary...
If only they had agreed to letting their content be integrated into Apple’s platform…