skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Couldn't agree more. For those wondering, Rocket Arena was an amazing team game (last team alive gets a point, or optionally CTF rules) where each player starts with ALL of the weapons, armor and ammo in the game. Since everyone had a rocket launcher, railgun, grenade launcher, shotgun, etc, this focused the game on team strategy / communication and shooting accuracy rather than on timing the weapon / player health spawns. This would have been awesome by itself, but Rocket Area also made it so that rockets didn't do damage to your health (though they did hurt your armor!) so you could freely move with rocket jumping. This created unbelievable mobility and many beautiful custom maps were made; just imagine huge castles where your skill at rocket jumping allowed you to soar from turret to turret.

Here's a good video showing the mobility and skill involved in using all the weapons at once: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhzK5fL1mj0

Here's some of the maps that were common: http://www.bosskey.net/q3a/maps/standard.html
Talking to experienced people and observe the environment is also a good way to not repeat mistakes to learn a lesson.

Out of curiosity, which town are you talking about?
This morning we had:

France ex-IHU Marseille/AP-HP: 79160 cases, 7527 dead, mortality rate 9.5%

IHU Marseille/AP-HP: 3005 cases, 33 dead, mortality rate 1.1%

France doesn't use HCQ consistently yet. Didier Raoult who heads the IHU in Marseille has been using it systematically on all cases, even mild ones for more than 2 weeks. I doubt such a difference in mortality rate could be explained by a difference in number of tests performed or other parameters.

Everyone can have all sorts of opinions on the efficacy of the treatment but in the end, mortality rates don't lie. And no, differences in the level of care, health or other smaller factors cannot explain an 8x difference.

In addition to that, most patients seem to have elevated ferritin which would be a side effect of consuming too much iron. In this case, it is theorized that when the virus replicates, it creates non-essential proteins that take place of the iron in hemoglobin thus preventing red blood cell from carrying O2 and CO2 from and back to the lungs. Based on molecular simulations, it seems that HCQ can bond to those viral proteins preventing them from expelling iron from hemoglobin. It would also explain why it's useful to treat someone early on rather than later when their hemoglobin lost their iron... Source here: https://chemrxiv.org/articles/COVID-19_Disease_ORF8_and_Surf...
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It’s not size but industry that’s determining who’s hurt and who hardly notices.

Starbucks and United Airlines have been hit much harder than many small tech companies that have seen minimal impact.
Glad to see Dhall (https://dhall-lang.org/) mentioned here.

As we seem to be heading towards immutable-'everything' though, sometimes I wonder how valuable dynamic (in the sense of picked up at start) configuration is for backend services. It seems preferable to build everything, config included, into one single artifact. Potentially this gives more optimization opportunities as a lot branches could be completely eliminated (feature flags, etc.). No doubt the simplest way to build your config directly into your code is to just.. have it be code.

A potentially super annoying trade-off is that it's difficult to test minor configuration tweaks, and the annoyingness scales non-linearly with your build time.
Transgenic goats have been produced which secrete drugs in their milk -- one transgenic female goat can produce about six pounds a year of human antithrombin, a blood thinner, in her milk.

From 2009: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/07/business/07goatdrug.html
For a while, I wanted to make one of these for day-time use, to measure cloud cover and maybe get daily/weekly averages. Then I realized that solar panels make a great photo-diode for measuring light intensity. You just need a bit of math to account for ephemerides (sunrise/sunset in particular) and angle of exposure.
From what I've read it only works when given very early in the illness.
Probably partly social distancing. And part misdiagnoses of cause of death from flu to coronavirus.
New York City bans Zoom in schools citing security concerns
I love the idea, I just have one question. What happens if we want to raise the tax rate in the future?

As far as I can see we can either dilute the shares of the other shareholders, which really wont go down well with the shareholders, or we can buy shares in every company in the country, which will cost the taxpayer a mindboggling amount.

I mean I suppose diluting the other shares isn't all that different in absolute shareholder returns to what we have now, but the optics of seem somehow different and likely to cause trouble to me.
Imho "companies" should not pay income tax (they can pay sales taxes, asset taxes like property tax, payroll taxes). Companies should be able to retain profits to either reinvest in their business or to save for a downturn. Taxes should be paid by the recipient (shareholders, management) on distributed profits.

I suspect the only reason we have corporate income tax at all is because clever financial engineers find ways to make what is really personal income to shareholders and management look like retained corporate income.

(I would add "windfall taxes" to the set of ok corporate taxes since those aim to redress a monopoly profit situation).
The problem is anti-trust is sleeping with PE folks. Our government has people coming in and out of corporations with conflict of interests.

Here is Matt Stroller’s take on Private Equity. https://mattstoller.substack.com/

The reason why US is being decimated by COVID-19 is we’ve lost a ton of our competitive edge by offshoring and the rich wankers want to profit at any cost. Even if it means other people die.
If I'm a company whose value is hypothetically tied to the number of people I kill. No hard feelings, companies are amoral. If I kill you, that's just business.
Bazel uses a subset of Python for describing build rules

Bazel's configuration language is called Starlark[0] (used to be Skylark). It's not a strict subset of Python. It has implementations in Java[1] and Go[2]. I haven't had a chance to use it yet, but it seems very useful as a general-purpose scripting language, especially for embedding into tools.

[0] https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/skylark/language.ht...

[1] https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/tree/master/src/main/jav...

[2] https://github.com/google/starlark-go
The QC35 was the first product that made me realize Bluetooth had turned a corner. The way my calls could transition from QC to my car when I start it, back to the headphones, seamlessly, we a revelation. As was the time I walked to the bathroom without my phone, and my music kept playing, 30-40ft through tile walls.

I'm very, very happy with the BT performance of my AirPods as well.

I bought some Outdoor Chips 2.0 snow sports earpieces for my ski helmet a few years back, and they took me back to the bad old days of bluetooth; static and cutting out when you dare turn your head the wrong way or put your phone in the wrong pocket. They went back to REI, and were replaced by Sena Snowtalk which works the way that modern BT stuff (cars, Bose, Apple, etc) works.
Show HN: Convert between .NET Core appsettings and Docker Compose variables
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No, I just chose it over US English for the L-shaped Enter key and over UK English because # was easier to access. You can see the layout differences here:

https://www.apple.com/uk/shop/product/MLA22B/A/magic-keyboar...
Recommend this book, the earlier editions are a great introduction to what goes wrong with security.
America is having an unemployment crisis. Europe chose not to
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Hello! My team is currently creating microservices written in .NET Core. A lot of my teammates don't commit appsettings in their .NET Core microservices, opting instead to simply commit changes to our docker-compose file. This is fine until we need to debug something, and then it becomes painful to manually map the environment variables from the docker-compose file over to appsettings.development.json. I created this to make my life a little bit easier, and hopefully it helps some other folks too!

It's not perfect, and won't support every possible format for docker-compose environment variables (block scalars, for example), which seemed a little overkill for a weekend project.

I'm definitely open to feedback and suggestions! Thanks!
Publicly naming the providers and threatening to block at the provider level with a short timeline. Some action from what has been a paper tiger.
And even more annoying if you would rather not restart your services unless absolutely necessary (ie. you're handling long-lived TCP connections that cannot be handed off gracefully). Not to mention that some kind of configuration tweaks (ie. ACL changes, quota changes, etc) might happen at a vastly different cadence than software rollouts.
> It either works or it doesn't.

No, not really. What the criteria for starting/stopping treatment are (e.g. is it being given to early or late stage patients), what other treatments/drugs are also used, what dosage is used, etc can all effect this.
There would be some monstrosity anyway. Just like there's just one Google-like search engine, one Facebook-like social network, one LinkedIn-like job-network, etc. Network effects lead to having a very steep distribution between market participants in each sector.

Taxes or no taxes Amazon got big because they relentlessly pursued these effects, and after reaching critical mass, there was not much anyone else could have done.

Now, of course these advantages should be taxed.
Are These 10 New Consumer Behaviors Here to Stay?
Are the actual subscriptions created in stripe ? In other words, is it Stripe dependent for subscriptions ?
Precise clocks don't care about your sentience or lack thereof. They still measure the gravity and speed-induced time dilation that is entirely missing in quantum mechanics. Relativity is a physical phenomenon that does not require sentience to operate, and time is part of that physical phenomenon.
Let me ask you this: if there was no change, no interaction even between qanta, would there be time?
That's true, I've considered that but I haven't found an example that is as easy to scan for quick demos.
It's not easy to find a new job these days. I had a job but the job offer got retracted due to Coronavirus/economy. I hope I can have interviews next week. Love to do some contracting/freelance work to keep me afloat
Thanks for clarifying! I am not an accessibility expert so sounds like I misread the report :D

What GCF did is commendable, and I am happy to hear that they did well on the accessibility side. At the same time my goal was less to point out an issue with GCF, but rather to point out that government websites may not feel as slick as we're used to for a variety of reasons that a quick look may not reveal.
Because Twitter is where everyone hangs out. It’s a low friction tool.
OP, I am assuming you're the author of the article. I think it could be improved by relating it to an experience when the advice given wasn't followed. At the moment I am struggling to gain anything from it.
And one reason they "last" is because they're not subject to the same use profile (eg, traveling) that the wireless ANC models typically are.
Could be like the overseas holdout stuff though. Don’t pay a dividend or buyback ever, but spend money lobbying on a one time holiday where a big dividend will be paid to everyone but the government share holder, or paid to them at a reduced rate. Eventually an admin comes in and makes it happen like Trump with the overseas money tax holiday. Holding out makes more sense than ever paying out.
This is a pretty awful Wikipedia article. Unless it’s a plea for an actual expert in the field to go in and fix it, I’m not seeing how this is a good submission :(
5G Cellphone Radiation Potentially Much Safer Than 4G
Actually, Emacs is a low coding editing environment, because the strength of emacs is that once you can program it it's extremely easy to write extensions for it, even for one off tasks, because it's so quick and easy.

Compared to this writing extensions for vscode, for example, is much more convoluted. You wouldn't create a new vscode extension for a 1 hour task, while with emacs it's trivial to write some small code which can help you with your current task. I often do.
At least some portion of those network effects are to do with economies of scale as relates to tax avoidance and creative accounting. Levelling the playing field can only increase competition in the marketplace.
Complete lockdowns across multiple countries and cessation of all economic activity certainly is unprecedented.
I use schemy [0] for non trivial config tasks in .NET projects. LISPs in general are well suited for this.
Very small implementations are easily done and data is code, it’s pretty great.

Of course, if one has already access to a Python runtime that is probably fine as well.

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/schemy
I have a theory that Svelte originated from his work with Rollup.

He was already a great developer when he started Rollup, but writing it brought him to a new level.

Rollup is super clever: most bundlers back then would treat JS modules like giant strings and concatenate them. It was just plain string concatenation, similar to require.js's "define()", so you needed a runtimes that answered to "require()". Modules were assembled during runtime. [1]

Rollup, instead, uses an algorithm to transform the AST of multiple modules into a single AST, inlining all modules and turning them into variables [2], and renaming duplicate identifiers. The final code looks like something that a human would do if asked to put everything in a single file. [3]

This is done by manipulating the AST returned by the Acorn parser, something he seems to have become an expert on.

I'm pretty sure that it was during the development of Rollup that he had other ideas for crazy optimizations, but unable to apply them to a Bundler, he created Svelte.

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[1] https://requirejs.org/docs/api.html#deffunc

[2] https://github.com/rollup/rollup/blob/1e1a11107dbee11636dcf9... and https://github.com/rollup/rollup/blob/1e1a11107dbee11636dcf9...

[3] https://risanb.com/posts/bundling-your-javascript-library-wi...
57 minutes, apparently.
"Companies should be able to retain profits to either reinvest in their business or to save for a downturn."

Sure except profits end up as dividends or stock buy back. Companies end up with limited cash and will still need a bail out.
I vouch for this. That's exactly what I ended up doing, in the same order even.
We initially handled browser-specific bugs in an ad hoc manner, and kept hitting unexpected issues with slight variations in hardware and software. The most common issue was that things failed in a way we weren't expecting and the solution was better error handling.

The usual tools for cross-device/browser testing (e.g. BrowserStack) didn't work for video chat: we could simulate network disruptions but needed actual hardware for testing and debugging video/audio issues.

So we bought/pooled a ton of devices and had a QA team in our European office methodically test across devices and browsers.

We were also contending with provider (TokBox) issues early on in '15, which were mostly resolved by mid '16. Our business model, and pivots that focused our target market, didn't enable building out that level of infrastructure in-house, and I wouldn't recommend it if making any kind of vertical play, i.e. unless your customers are developers.
Can someone explain the dearth of research looking out how zinc deficiency might explain variations in outcome after SARS-CoV-2 infection?

Both ADAM17, which helps ACE2 shed from the cell, and ACE2 itself, are zinc finger proteins and use zinc as a cofactor.
You don't need sugar, You need carbohydrates, which are supplied in the flour. 4 ingredients are required, Flour, Water, Yeast and Salt. (though, in a pinch, you can do without salt, but it works as something of a regulator to the speed of the yeast and it affects the texture of the dough. (And you can do it without the yeast. but then it's sourdough. (Water and flour though, I'm pretty sure those are really required))) Fat isn't required either, but in some doughs, it can help with the workability or flavor.

Try this: Mix yeast and a batch sized quantity of water. Nothing really happens, but the yeast (depending on the type you've added) will dissolve or break apart. Add some flour, about what you'd add in sugar. Mix it so that the flour is not in clumps.

If the water temperature is reasonable, the yeast will start to break down the carbohydrate in the flour into sugar, consume it, and start bubbling. Then add it to bread, as the yeast has been proofed.

Some yeasts don't require the proofing step (SAF red for one). It's perfectly fine to add to the dry ingredients. I like that stuff, super reliable and easy to use but despite being french, I've never seen it outside the states. Some yeasts are better for sweet breads (like panettone, cinnamon rolls, or others). Some yeasts come in little sachets just suck and are hard to work with, like the stuff I had in the cupboard pre-pandemic.
“ There is absolutely no evidence that HCQ or HCQ/azithromycin would have any effect on seriously ill patients with viral pneumonia.”

Correct. that’s against the thought right now. HCQ is great at preventing patients from getting to the serious pneumonia stage. Once they’re on a vent, they should be on another cocktail.
No, I'm serious. Thank you for explaining.

I've heard people talk about tv remotes as ``remote controls'' several orders of magnitude more times than RC gear.

I've never seen someone have to reorient their RC transmitter to get a better signal. Modern RC airplane/car/helicopter/boat transmitters have multiple fixed antennas (as do the receivers) and have for many years (since people switched from 50MHz radios to 2.4GHz spread spectrum radios). The range is long enough that it you'll generally lose sight of your vehicle before you lose the radio connection.
I'm reading klyrs' comment that way because he responded to my comment. I pointed out that many giant companies already face a straight tax on their revenue, called "sales tax". In order to make klyrs' response relevant, I'm interpreting it as the nonsensical objection that sales tax is different because it is a tax on "consumers", while a revenue tax would be a tax on "companies". The objection is nonsensical because, as I point out in my reply, you're collecting the same money from the same people.

If you want to interpret him as commenting that the ratio of elasticity of demand to elasticity of supply is very low, you then need to explain how that observation fit into the conversation.

> Why do you think sales tax can't be incident on the consumer as you imply here:

>> There is no framework in which "sales tax is paid by the consumer" is true.

In the tax incidence framework, in order for the tax to fall entirely on the consumer, elasticity of demand would need to be 0. The easy point is that this is never the case. But the better point is that in this framework, you don't assign taxes to a single party, and therefore "sales tax is paid by the consumer" is a conceptual error.
Unless you did such a trial, you cannot be sure it actually was the drug that helped. But if everyone gets cured, such a trial should be easy to set up. Unfortunately, things are not that easy in real life. There is no miracle drug.
I agree that "[a]voiding taxes by legal means, is neither illegal nor immoral".

And if that were the whole story, it'd be no surprise that those with more taxable income and resources would pay lower tax rates. It's true for individuals too.

However, that's not the whole story. It all depends on tax systems that are complex and gameable. And that in turn depends on political systems that are gameable, where big players can create the tax systems that they can game.

Somewhere in there we at least get to immoral.
The title of the article for those curious is: "COVID-19: Attacks the 1-Beta Chain of Hemoglobin and Captures the Porphyrin to Inhibit Human Heme Metabolism"
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The user experience is from the past millennium.

1. I downloaded the game and unpacked it. It would not start. Debugging reveals a dependency upon libpcre.so.3. This is not packaged (obsoleted by libpcre2). I hacked around the problem by making a link to libpcre.so.1. Imagine someone who is not a programmer, would he be able to figure that out?

2. I ran the game and go into the options menu. The text is so small it is almost unreadable and there is no way to make it bigger. We Quake players are all old farts now who more often than not have deteriorated vision.

3. I got the server list and attempted to join an empty server with low ping in the neighbouring country so I could experiment a bit. The game proceeds to download lots of files at 7 kB/s with no indication of overall progress. After four minutes of waiting I cancel out.

4. I find the menu to host a local server. Running it errors out in the console: something something DM4 not found.

5. I decide to write up what happened to HN. I quit the game. Gamma settings for the desktop environment are messed up.
#Features

- Shows total confirmed, recovered and death COVID-19 cases by country

- Shows daily statistics for every country

- Shows forecasts using ARIMA model

- Compares up to 4 countries

- Total data for all countries and daily data for every country can be exported as CSV

- Charts

- Map

- Supports Turkish and English languages (based on browser language)

GitHub: https://github.com/stfurkan/pancovid19
That was a one-off that made international headlines because it was a rare event. You'd generally trust stuff published in the Lancet; it gets thoroughly checked.

This is work done by leading researchers in the field, in a top-class journal. I'm going to trust it over random allegations on HN.
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Isn't time just a history of movement? For example, if you stopped the movement of everything in the universe (all the way down to subatomic particles) for a "moment" and then turned movement back on again, how long would that moment have lasted for? 1 second or 100 years? There's no way to define how long that moment lasted, since nothing was moving during that moment. So it seems to me that time cannot exist without movement which makes me think that time is a byproduct of motion (a history of motion).
Yeah, sorry - was more critiquing Paul's point about Windows, not your comment.
One more data point here, I too do not know of anyone who has died (or even been hospitalized) with influenza, despite my having a large social circle including plenty of elderly. I don't know of anyone who has died of covid yet, but our county has only had single digits confirmed cases yet. One of which is a well known farmer in the area, and he is hospitalized currently.
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