skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HTTP is in a similar sorry state. For example, it offers pipelining support but nobody can reliably use it because it probably won't work on some forgotten about machine somewhere on the path.
> after we had switched Mac Firefox builds to cross-compile from Linux

Do you happen to have a link with more details about how that's done?
Italy and Spain have done from nothing.
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Queues the covid party’s In 3, 2, 1. Start with a group hug followed by a round of beer pong. Hangover Next week will be killer though
"Learn a new skill" works perfectly fine now.

The problem is, most people aren't good at learning new things, especially as they age.
Double blind peer reviewed trials are a good goal but in the middle of a crisis you can't let a desire for perfection get in the way of the good. There is enough imperfect evidence that this treatment stack (that is, several drugs used in combination with hydroxychloroquine) has benefits that it should be considered a potential part of a solution. Waiting a couple of years for perfect studies to be carefully conducted is waiting until the crisis is over and the treatment moot. What is well known are the side effects of this drug, their likelyhood, and how to ameliorate them.
> "ionising radiation" broadly refers to particles (alpha/beta particles; cosmic rays) and EM radiation types that are sufficiently energetic to directly or indirectly (respectively) displace electrons in the atomic structure of matter they pass through

"Detach" would be better than "displace" there.
Minimalism is only a luxury in the sense that some people really don't have a lot, possibly anything at all, in which case minimalism simply doesn't apply to them. That doesn't mean that minimalism is a luxury to the haves over the have-nots. To the vast majority of people, minimalism would be considered a burden.
Email is also universal. The difference is that fax has a legal exception carved out for it that permits HIPAA-compliant systems to consider fax as secure while email is considered insecure and thus non-compliant.

Of course fax is horrendously insecure. But the legal exception stands, and when your security posture is dictated by regulatory compliance and not by results, then it's the best solution.
> You can't have a fancy type system and interop with C strongly

ATS would disagree with this statement, strongly.
This isn't a news site. There's no guarantee of timeliness on any of the links submitted here.

This old article could be of interest again as all schooling and most work takes place at home, over computer. A reminder of what some of the remote monitoring capabilities are, and what boundaries those in charge of them will cross.
I disagree. I and I lot of people I know go out of our ways for local food reviews, and word of mouth is also incredibly powerful.

And you must remember that for every local food ad there are 300 ads for McDonalds or Walmart, and they are just as effective, altough likely for another demographic.
For a country with ~10% over 70 years old, and assuming infection fatality rate of ~6% among those, then IFR would already be 0.6%. So suppose that what you've read is the current statistics, it does not contradict the calculation above.

People 65 and over comprise >16% of US population, which is relatively young for a developed country. Here's US age structure: https://www.indexmundi.com/united_states/age_structure.html
Awesome! I've moved away from JS to Go recently, but this is sure really useful for frontend stuff.
Meanwhile Germany has a 1.5% cfr, how did that happen. Did Germany underreport deaths or Italy underreport cases
This is a great episode about Bose's life and gift:
https://www.20k.org/episodes/thegift
If they dont build it we should just strip them of all the plans and open source them
But your number of inputs is huge, and cleaning steps in between others in a reusable/reconfigurable machine is a difficult challenge to overcome all on its own. It’s not impossible and smart people are working on it, but it is incredibly hard.
Yeah Italy missed a lot of cases with their testing, which makes it seem higher. Spain also.

If you look at Germany, South Korea you see a much lower death rate, but they also have younger populations. In this case you want the min, not the max or the average, because the death rate of the virus should be fixed. The lower the rate just tells you how effectively the country did their testing, and thus how accurate the denominator is.

What complicates that greatly is the fact that the age of the population matters a lot. And Italy has one of the oldest populations. Countries in Africa with very young populations would expect a much lower death rate - complicated again by their relatively poor population and health systems and incompetent and corrupt governments.
Link to the actual paper:

https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S1473-3099%2820...

Estimates are in the last column of Table 1 (page 5).

These seem roughly in line with CDC estimates for the US, see e.g. the first chart in this article from 6 days ago which compares flu mortality rates with COVID-19 per age bracket:

https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-compared-seasona...

To the (many) commenters here dismissive of the paper -- because in a "foolish" way it relies on "doubtful" "suspect" "junk" "Communist" Chinese data making it "not worth the paper it's written on" (all quotes from other comments here) -- the authors specifically address "adjusting for demography and under-ascertainment". The fact that they came to results similar to US data, as long as their methodology wasn't cherry-picked, would seem to be a good sign.

And remember -- The Lancet is one of the most prestigious medical journals in the world. They're not going to publish something "junk".
I feel Japan will be another interesting place to study. We've had corona spreading since late January and as recent as last weekend, a majority of people were out living life like normal.
Back when the fax process was first being implemented, it would have been a convenient advancement. So while your point does have general merit, it's not particularly applicable here.
Hmm I guess 15 years ago eFax was actually a thing because it saved people from having to buy fax machines, and you didn't need to be home to receive/send them. I feel like most people around me who used faxes in any capacity knew about it.
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Show HN: Simple multiline find and replace with sed
Sadly, it is more likely, you'll get in a mudslinging contest with a troll paid to spread desinformatsiya.

You'll make sensible responses, then get back either some whataboutism with a supposedly supporting but irrelevant article link, insulting meme, or some other technique designed to destroy good-faith discussion or the concept of truth.

Repeat a few cycles and then lookup the account and find that it is either new w/few followers or has a history of troll/bot activity that as analyzed by sites like Bot Sentinel [1]. Then, you report as fake and block.

The only exceptions I've found were not to people posting articles, but making comments, where you can sometimes wind up in a discussion.

They are professionals (of varying skill), you are the person who can't tell he is the mark.

This is almost always a game where the only winning move is to not play.

[1] https://botsentinel.com/
Probably not a relevant cautionary tale unless a bunch of students were expected to be stuck at home with their school computers.

Oh wait, that's basically all students right now.

Also, there are tons of front page stories that aren't recent. The wiki page for Boids recently made a splash. Recency is not the axis we optimize for, interest is.
Video quality still look like real player in 98?
Ironically, that could also be a huge boost to some real recycling programs, and not just with protective gear.

Once people are focused on recycling something they use every single day and there are easy mechanisms to do that, recycling other things becomes less of an issue.
I don't even categorize what I own; my list is a simple .txt with newlines between "categories", but I don't even name the latter anymore. I've done a lot more (cost, categories etc.) but nowadays I just ... keep it minimal ;)
It is based upon Chinese data that we know is effectively junk, to which they add pure speculation: The methodology for determining those infected but not symptomatic is complete guesswork. It is invented rationalization atop garbage data.

A few countries are starting mid-sized randomized studies to look for antibodies in the general public and that will give us a much better idea of the scope.

To which it should be noted that already there is fake news spreading making broad claims that they already discovered XYZ (saw one atop Reddit).

I realize there are China sympathists on HN, however it is widely known and acknowledged that China has been very deceptive about the scale of the outbreak and the number of deaths.
Hi HN,

I've made a website for generating sed scripts with Rust and Typescript+React. Built this in a week to learn Rust with GraphQL and Diesel, and a bit of front end with React. Feedback is much appreciated.

Github: https://github.com/esemeniuc/replace.sh/
Yes I am well aware of how inefficient and ineffective government is, that is one of the primary reasons I remain a libertarian...

As the saying goes, Government: if you think you have problems just wait until you see our solutions
I mean, they’re the differing opinions of two people who are each successful for reasons that are complex and different.
I have found that a minimal version of no-knead bread is already good:

700ml flour, 350ml water, 1 to 1.5 tsp salt, 1/4 tsp instant yeast. Mix in bowl, cover, let stand for 12-16 hours. Put dutch oven in oven, heat to 250C. Take out the hot dutch oven, sprinkle some bran or flour or cornmeal on the bottom, scrape dough from the bowl into the dutch oven, sprinkle some bran on top. Bake 30min with lid, remove lid, bake 20min more.

I am sure extra steps (autolyse) and extra work (folding, shaping) would improve it, but even this minimal procedure makes tasty bread.
“sand won’t save you this time” is also excellent. https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2008/02/26/sa...

“i always recommend a good pair of running shoes”, indeed.
This is a cool hack.

But unless i'm missing something, there's no source of persistent patterning here. Nothing like morphogenesis as it usually happens in animals. The tissues are shaped by assembly, and that's it. I can't imagine these things will stay functional for very long.
We used to do this under pressure in heavy-walled alloy cylinders being irradiated with megawatts of microwave energy behind a blast shell facing into the deep woods at the far end of the specialty fluorochemical research plant.
One sentiment I see on hacker news a lot is that "government is inefficient (and that's never going to change).". But I read about PE and I think: public servants cannot fight these sharks.

Are there an examples of private equity losing these types of takeovers? Are there examples of public agencies fighting back and winning?

PE doesn't take over public agencies. But they extract public money in a clever way and that seems at the root of problems with big government too and it feels like it is seldom mentioned.
I'd be inclined to invoke Hanlon's razor here.
But maybe a cloud "solution" costs too much.
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That is kind of my point. Thinking you can plan a successful confirmation of a theory is just bollocks and pure arrogance. It will either work or not, no way of knowing. We should still fund it.
Germany tests a lot more, and started testing earlier. Italy got overwhelmed, for a very long while only tested suspected people (those that have fairly severe symptoms)
Germany's median age is 47.1 compared to Italy's 45.5. It holds for South Korea at 41.8 though.
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Good god, imagine what this thing is going to do to overpopulated parts of the developing world like India, Bangladesh, Nigeria etc
And the top (for me) response:

they left off the word VACCINE. it is just the FLU VACCINE causing a hyper-immune reaction, a cytokeine storm that is triggered by pansy corona causing a body to attack itself; no one is dying from corona::

This world is lost.
That’s almost certainly unrelated to your Firefox settings. The rate at which you get captcha’d is mostly based on the level of suspicious activity from your IP address and nearby IP addresses—though if you mess with headers too much, that can also do it. I’m decked out for privacy in Firefox, and I never get captcha’d. You may have a malicious extension or other malware on your network that’s doing something nefarious.
I think people are overestimating the competence of government IT programs.

It's possible to quickly make the technical changes, but when politicians asked the small group of people with direct knowledge of the issue, this is the answer they got.

The small group of people are not plugged into SV mentality quick iterative work. They include (for example) a Perl programmer who has had the same job for 25 years and isn't interested in learning new skills.
Kettle meet pot https://www.thelocal.com/20200309/germany-blocks-protective-...
Interview with the CDC director on coronavirus, masks, and an agency gone quiet
That's the most difficult part for me. We need more than a schedule - we need instructions how to modify the schedule and perhaps ingredients based on what we get.

The "Quarantine bread" receipt was wonderful last week. This week, for some reason it turns out terrible (dough very sticky, bread burnt on the outside, etc.) No idea what went wrong and what I should have done to fix this.
> Fixing this system will make the difference between real people getting unemployment checks or nothing.

Let them get nothing. Then they'll call for the heads of the governors, the very people who couldn't care less about the system until it stopped working. They are the ones who could have made a difference but actively chose not to because it just wasn't that important to them.
But people are going to say "it's just 0.7% for most people, why are we destroying our countries by doing nothing for three months? Why don't the old people just stay inside?"
CBO estimate was 10% that’s probably conservatively low but still not in the range of 32.

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56314
Why is this flagged? It seems like an interesting article from a reputable source.
Valid point. Depends on what solution you are looking at, so. One extreme would Office, nobody would develop word, excel or outlook by themselves if that wasn't the product to be sold.
OK, point well taken. But I did click on the link assuming this was a recent development. Too bad there isn't something in the headline to indicate its age.
Please don't make me relive nightmares of trying to learn the language.
Often times, these legacy systems were custom built, as far as the applications go. Decades of institutional knowledge that is documented no where, without the application running, no one could replicate it. Couple that with all the other systems that are integrated to read and write from the 'legacy' system.

Couple that with the fact that the government has almost no in-house development talent for most agencies. Couple that with the fact that they don't have someone that can understand and articulate the requirements to a vendor. What you end up with is an open-ended pay-as-you-go contract that runs up into the billions. Oops! This field was supposed to be 16 bytes, not 32, so there was an undetected buffer overflow on some down stream system and now your last 6 months of transactions were invalid? Oops, the government didn't specify 16 bytes in the contract, so the fault isn't on the vendor because they have no control over the downstream? Rinse, repeat. It's a real boondoggle out there.
Not everyone over 70 will be infected.

edit: bad math
China only counts certain cases. For example if you had covid and retest positive later it doesn't count unless you have physical signs. Your death doesn't count unless it's in a hospital. Many barriers are in place to prevent you from being admitted.
You claimed that

> religions plug into the belief systems of the gullible

And

> our history set us up to avoid skeptical thinking at all costs

If I understand correctly

The second claim is paradoxical.

For the first, I argue that religions are not an entity outside us (preying on "the gullible") but inside our minds as a running process to make sense of our experience (as active skepticism). Just a well as the scientific method. However metaphysics answers different questions than science. I'm no authority on if either can be definitive.

... with thought as computational process, my question can perhaps make a little more sense. And only meant for pondering on the topic.
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IFR = #fatalities/#infected.

You might think of Attack Rate, the % of population who are infected.
And I'd be inclined to counter with Grey's Law: "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."

http://wikidumper.blogspot.com/2007/07/greys-law.html
That's very true. I'm also a software professional looking for work, and so far my network has been a good source of promising leads.

On the cash front, in addition to the importance of having reserves, I'd suggest that the importance of having multiple revenue streams has never been clearer.
This is somewhat at odds with 21% of recorded outcomes so far having been deaths. There would have to be a hell of a lot of undiagnosed cases to bring that down to 0.66%.
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> This article also doesn't mention lasting effects.

The problem is ARDS: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.

Some portion of the people who enter the ICU develop ARDS and typically need to be put on a ventilator. A large percentage (~40%) of those people die, and the many of the rest may be left with lasting effects.

Here's a great video detailing the mechanism of ARDS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPtH42Lnt_Y

COVID-19 patients who don't develop ARDS seem to have a much better long term prognosis.
truly mind blowing. I guess most people wouldn't bother closing accounts for free services, but I have to imagine anything involving a recurring fee would be routinely closed as part of handling the estate. how do they not have a process for handling a relatively frequent event?
When you're brought up in a consumerist lifestyle and taught again and again that consumerism is good and that you should aspire to consume more and produce more so you can consume even more, it can be hard to break the habit.

Buying a bigger TV than your neighbor gives you a dopamine boost, you feel like you've achieved something, you're moving up in life. It's addictive.

And the industry wants us to consume. The plastic industry pumped recycling initiatives to make it seem like plastic could be harmlessly recycled. They want us to think we can use as much plastic as we like, they don't want us to reduce our use of plastic.
Italy is probably not testing anywhere near as many people as they optimally should or rather the disease has outpaced their ability to test. Add in a collapsing medical system and the end result isn't pretty. Unless you're on death's door I assume there's little point in someone taking up the system's time to get tested in Italy.

As a comparison, Germany has a <2% fatality rate and has tested more people than Italy.
I've seen stats to the effect that negative articles get thousands of times more clicks than positive ones.

We probably have a bad news bias for evolutionary reasons. It might make us less happy but more likely to live long enough to reproduce.
Good points. We believe we have fixed the physical-order-and- scraping-issue by using random uuids as primary keys, showing stuff in the UI always ordered by PK, and periodically doing a CLUSTER, which physically rearranges the table after some index (pk in our case).

We haven't thought about higher-order storage layers. I guess we should do that... Thanks!
As someone who’s been in a similar position, there aren’t really any alternatives that don’t piss people off. reCAPTCHA is a pain to get past for a small number of visitors, typically those using public proxies (e.g. Tor), but the majority just click a checkbox and are in.

Cloudflare already has a lengthy complaint thread on their forums with people insisting they switch back to reCAPTCHA for this very reason.
> Finding a remote job as a developer has been next to impossible

Seriously? Of all the jobs in the world, it's probably easiest to find a remote job as a developer.
When you mentioned borg songs, I internally cried because of the new Picard show. It broke the emotional core of TNG for a cheap thrill, and your mention of Borg songs reminded me of that.
Like the Phoenix: The Discipline of Becoming (SaaS Adventure)
NHS England to act over fears Covid-19 focus could ‘do more harm than virus’
some past comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19708982
If I Used Twitter
Surprisingly the film industry still uses fax machines. And some use FileMaker Pro believe it or not.
This is one of a series of posts I'm writing called The SaaS Adventure.

tl;dr:

1. We need to engage in conscious self-transformation, because the person we are today is not the person that can achieve our goals.

2. It’s easy to lose track of that process of transformation and revert. Therefore, we must practice a discipline of always becoming.

3. Often, we’re blind to the changes we must make. Therefore, the perspective of others is invaluable.
Covid-19 can kill: a lung pathologist explains ARDS and why it's important
Do you find it hard to attract college grads to do that?
Avoid ageist comments, please.