skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Viruses are actually quite a bit like indoor air pollution. If you inhale less virus, you're less likely to get infected. Even if you get infected, you're likely to get a milder case with a lower dose of virus.

Viruses may still be infective if captured by the mask, but they're much less likely to infect you. If they're captured by an intermediate layer of the mask, they pose no threat. Even on the surface of the mask, the chance of you being infected by a virus particle that you touch on the surface of a mask when you take it off are overwhelmingly less likely to infect you than virus particles that you breathe in. Of course, when removing a mask, you should sanitize your hands afterwards, which nearly eliminates the risk from virus particles you may have picked up by touching your mask.

You should not pull your mask below your nose. If you do however, the chance of a virus particle coming off the mask and then going into your nose is dramatically less than if you had been breathing in these particles directly.
Out of curiosity, what do you feel makes Nim better positioned in this space?
author here. yup. tried to make that clear by constantly referring to Gruber's spec. A few years ago I didn't even know there were different flavors of markdown. Fortunately/Unfortunately Gruber's is the one that stuck and is universally accepted by all markdown tooling, hence it is now the lowest common denominator we must work with.
Not true in the slightest. I used for periods of my life StackOverflow, Jira/Confluence, and bbcode exclusively and hated interacting with each of their markup languages.
Mpv too
Laughed out loud here. But I still think there's more to the original argument: If someone takes this argument at face value, they may conclude that Roman society was a modern capitalistic one, with sponsorships for athletes, celebrities endorsing products and so on. Almost reminiscent of The Flintstones. It won't be of much consequence, but it would be a bit silly.
You create empty lines by adding two spaces at the end of lines. MD has invisible syntax. To me this without doubt is the worst thing about MD.
https://aatishb.com/covidtrends/ is a pretty cool related resource
A More Hopeful View of AI’s Impact on America’s Rural Worker
Great, So when do we start?

I would love to see ads that are only relevant to my life instead of penis pills.
You are right that most immigrant rags-to-riches stories that immediately come to mind involve them getting off the boat with a handful of dollars to their name. But they seem to forget the value of the college degree that they carry and the lifetime of high-quality education that preceded their arrival in the US. The immigrants you speak of might not be as poor as you make them out to be.

I do not know if many American families can get access to the same resources for early education if they are not already from families that are economically affluent.
The 1.5m distancing rule that so many governments (and sadly once more their lackey scientific experts) has very little to do with physical properties, but is chosen so as to allow for the least possible required adaptations to factories and offices.
Cost is complicated because we autoscale from 2-3 readers up 10+ readers during peak traffic. Instead of running 10 replicas 24/7, we can spin one up and within about 10 minutes it's handling reads. So we have a few instances that only run for about 3 hours a day and others that run maybe 6 hours. That is a big cost savings over running them all 24 hours a day. We couldn't bring up new replicas like that when we were on normal Postgres RDS.

Pricing is also surprising compared to vanilla Postgres RDS because reader nodes double as spare writers. A multi-az deployment of Postgres RDS plus two single-az replicas is more expensive than a 3 node (1 writer and two readers) Aurora cluster. E.g. on 2xlarge instances, this Aurora setup is $3.48/hour vs $4/hr on RDS for similar effective hardware and fault tolerance.

Running directly on EC2 is going to be much cheaper obviously. $1.51/hr for three 2xlarge instances(if you want to failover to an active replica) or $2.01/hr for 4 if you want a dedicated failover instance (like RDS does).
You should point out that your quote is a quote from an entirely different article and not a direct statement from the piece you linked to (though it is quoted).
I wasn’t referring to whether we face fewer struggles.

What I think needs citation is that this causes depression.
I think your mental accounting of saying you use Markdown 99% of the time in Vim is primarily when you alone are concerned.

But consider also that you are "using" Markdown when you read Markdown written by others, on documentation, in a browser. A wholistic accounting would probably move Markdown higher than 1% of your time!
IMO Asciidoc tables can get messy quite soon, to the point that at that point I'll just use HTML.
There are the illegal services, yes.

But then there a lots of legal ones, like sex with a sex worker without getting an STD for life.

You don't have a car or plane so they will all be the same down the road in your small town aka Rome. Rome would have been very homogeneous with ethnicity (Yes it would)

You have better soap and washing powder now. Today you can chose someone with good dental.

The past wasn't this imaginary movie using 21st century props everyone thinks it was. It was shit. It was boring.

Rome was bush weed. Today is MDMA
If you already do this every day for 1/10th of that compensation with no way out, the misery and boredom are already the norm.
How to Print Triangle to Console?
Note that ffmpeg isn't super fast when you want to cut a file into several pieces, mostly because you'll have to start it over and over for each piece (unless you delve into some black magic with its filter graph, which is beyond my patience).

For splitting an audiobook into pieces, so that you can use the seek bar sanely, `mp3splt` can be used in one run pretty much at the disk's speed. Its format language for metadata is atrocious, but thankfully putting the result into a script frees me from revisiting the horror.

Here's the command I use to cut into 10-minute pieces without a 1-minute piece hanging at the end, and to name and title the pieces sequentially—so you can be spared the ordeal:

mp3splt -t '10.00>2.00' -o '@f @n2' -d . -g 'r%[@o,@N=1,@t=#t @N]' "$1"

—where $1 is the source file, and `.` is the current directory as the destination.

IIRC it also comes with oggsplt and flacsplt—but no such luck for aac or ac3.
I was talking to some folks about the ill-advised CDC and WHO recommendations on masks, the resulting poor handling by the US government, and the rampant cargo-culting by people on Twitter, Reddit, and HN who decided to just signal-amplify the misinformation from US government agencies without critical thought.

While we were doing that, I decided to go see what Taiwan's timeline looked like. Pasting here for your sake.

New Year's Eve: Rumours of viral pneumonia in Wuhan. All inbound flights from Wuhan subject to inspection

Jan 5: All Wuhan travelers exhibiting upper respiratory inspections are now subject to screening

Jan 20: First positive test

Jan 21: Mask export ban, production ramp-up

Jan 31: Taiwanese government forced monopsony on masks (1/3 reserved for healthcare personnel). Announces rationing first week of Feb

Feb 2: Taiwanese defence personnel dispatched to bolster staffing at mask factories

Feb 6: Mask rationing starts

Feb 15: Mask production by end of month projected to be 10 million / day. Taiwanese population: 24 million

Mar 9: Mask production 9.2 million / day

Mar 16: Production 10 million / day

Mar 22: Production 12.6 million / day

April 3. Taiwan: Population 24 million. Density: 649 people/sq.km. First case: Jan 20. Cases: 348. Deaths: 5

April 3. Florida: Population 21.5 million. 136.5 people/sq.km. First case: Mar 7. Cases: 10268. Deaths: 170

Did we have to make the choice between the economy and lives? Did we have to choose between grandma and the dollar? Could policy have changed the outcome?

You decide.
We don't have spam calls over here in Germany. I _never_ received one. There were 3 calls I remember that were doing research stuff, but that's all. And telling them to not call again would have solved it, btw.

It seems to be related to other stuff the US is behind on, but I've given up on finding out how it could be fixed in the general (last 20 years) political climate.
Windows store is already more than UWP, nowadays Win32 is also part of the store and after Windows 10X the models will be even more so.
This kind of story is pretty standard at Google:

1. Hire the best of the best, typically PhD level.

2. Assign them to random crap project that have precious little to do with their specialty and strengths.

3. Assume that if they were smart enough to earn a PhD on topic X, they'll learn quickly how to do work on Y, even if X and Y are completely unrelated.
My biggest problem with the ticks is that they're dead keys if you want to be able to write accented characters easily. I write à code sample` way too often.
Yes, retail workers are the unsung heroes of this crisis. They should all have as much protection as a physician. A cashier deals with 200+ customers per shift. With the current infection rate, they have a very real chance of being infected every single day they show up to work. They're being rewarded with, if they're lucky, an extra $16 per shift. If you have extra masks, leave one as a tip to your cashier if he/she is unmasked. You might save their life.
If the first word after the newline wouldn’t fit on the last line before the newline, you can’t see whether there is a newline.

Also, since you don’t know window width, that can happen even if, on your terminal, the last line of a paragraph is only 3 characters and the first word of the next is “A”.
https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20150417/superbugs-...
Searle either misunderstood AI (and computers) or explained himself poorly (as philosophers often do), so misunderstanding Searle isn't a major problem.
My solution is to create par2 files. This is a manual solution though, and doesn't help you when you go and edit the original pictures. But what's great about par2 is that you can it allows you to correct errors.
They were already with Edge.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/progressive-...

This is like the evolution after migrating to Chrome.

Also Google does the same with PWAs on Android and ChromeOS.

If they are signed and distributed via the store, you can access OS APIs from the browser directly.

https://developers.google.com/web/android/trusted-web-activi...
If you want a trading game, why not play one that is designed for that? Catan, Bohnanza, ... https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamemechanic/2008/trading/lin...
Face, by far. Obviously. (Spit that you eject through a useless mask counts as "face").
http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/ has normalized graphs.
Sure it does, Xamarin alongside React Native and PWAs are the official SDKs for Surface Duo.

Also WinUI, is the only Windows UI toolkit that is actually being developed, instead of getting only bug fixes like the other ones.
Talent is also luck. Everything is luck.
I read these accounts of scams and I can’t imagine any legitimate scenario where I could possibly expect a call from a bank about any of my accounts - checking, savings, brokerage, CC, mortgage.

With everything available online, there is no reason to step into a branch or have an ongoing phone ‘relationship’ with a bank. I can’t remember the last time a financial institution called me about an account. Even credit cards have moved away from fraud check calls to simple and foolproof yes/no verification messaging.

Outside of non-specific marketing and upsell calls, any call I get out of the blue can only be a scam.
A JPL project manager teaching a course I took blamed it on the public's "mathematical illiteracy." He explained that there are diminishing returns on mission success rates so NASA often had the choice of paying X per mission attempt each with an 80% success rate or 2X for a single launch with 95% success rate. 80% sounds bad but the chance of two launches failing is 4%, which means a 96% chance overall success rate. If the first launch succeeds, they can usually save between 20-40% of the total budget (the remaining amount is overhead to build backups and keep scientists and engineers employed in case the first launch fails). However, since NASA is no longer doing world shattering stuff like landing on the moon, the human echo chamber amplifies each failure and drowns out the successes. Since NASA has to justify many appropriations on a per project basis, failures lead to projects getting canceled and NASA doing less actual science, even though their budget rarely shrinks - with more and more money instead allocated to inefficiencies like maintaining unused real estate/hardware and spreading out manufacturing across all districts in order to curry favor to get more projects going.

That's just for robotic/satellite missions. It's ten times worse when a manned mission ends fatally.
no i think you misunderstand. those three questions the commenter posted aren’t about running from fear or anxiety — some would simply call “questions about how we collectively overcome massive and pressing challenges” more relevant, in the short and long term.
The video shows both real sensors and a simulation showing the vast majority of particles contained in a 6-ft range and then falling to the ground.
Bodies are being left in the streets in an overwhelmed Ecuadorian city
meeting IDs need to be numbers to make it easy to join meetings by phone. no particular reason they can't be longer though.
The difference between 0.5% and 30-40% is 2 orders of magnitude.
How is a shared runtime much lighter than electron? While you can share some memory, I doubt it's most of it.

If I check the dozens of Chrome processes on my machine, the largest part of their working sets is private, which is evidence against significant memory sharing.
People put too much behind Markdown is what happened. It was just a random idea on a blog post. But people made it a universal authoring standard and it is just not up to the task.
I get plenty of stuff done on my phone.
Not if you don't rub the walls, ceiling, and floor.
Ensure that the dataset containing your postgres data is configured with record size equal to postgres page size or close enough (Lots of places use 8kB ZFS records for 4kB pages).

This will reduce write amplification due to excessive read-modify-write cycles.
I'm not in the US and there's a single key that corresponds to a back-tick. In fact, it hasn't yet been an issue for me on keyboard layouts for four different languages (from three separate language families, no less)!

Where is your keyboard from?
You gotta come to a compromise, a middle ground. Especially since a vaccine is at least 13 months out. We cannot continue this. And the problem with this disease is it's got this asynchronous transmission. It's shutting down entire nations, but not all regions are equally affected. And so, we may get this situation where NYC hits its peak in 2-4 weeks but then Dallas gets their peak in 2 months but then San Diego gets their peak in 4 months but then Phoenix gets their's in October and so on. This is how it's playing out across the globe. You can require masks in public. You can strongly encourage the elderly to stay home. You can shut down public transportation. You can go to 50% occupancy in restaurants and theaters. But you can't commit economic suicide. It will kill more people in the long run than the disease does.
> The EU and the US comprise several nations, so why does that not make sanctions "international"?

For the same reason sanctions agreed on by Russia, China and North Korea (also a group comprising several nations) would not mean "international sanctions".

Not that anyone would refer to that as such anyway, of course, because we easily recognize misleading propaganda when its used by the bad guys.

> Conversely, are international sanctions ever applied by literally every nation on earth?

Nobody said literally every nation on Earth, but it should refer to more than just two political unions which are virtually joined at the hip economically, (geo)politically and even racially, and constitute a mere ~10% of the world.

UN sanctions, for example, could justifiably be called international sanctions, though there still seems no point when it's more accurate and simpler to just say "UN sanctions".
Very interesting and hopeful. There is a documentary on Netflix and one of the features docs may have another solution.

https://sfist.com/2020/04/03/san-francisco-doctor-featured-i...
Windows and macOS do carry italics, strike-throughs, and the like through copy and paste. I think it's the tyranny of the teletype emulator that keeps us doing this. After all, why shouldn't we issue textual commands to a computer in a more sane environment?
I can’t abide these blatant contradictions. I just stood up for a guy who was swearing, that you tried to lock out in this very same thread. You are pushing NVC and in that very comment you mentioned that you would let this guy go for his communication style.

I know there are books that describe “the obvious”, we just had two years of Jordan Peterson telling common sense things to 500 million people and selling books on it. I don’t need another guru to tell me how to do the “obvious”.

You didn’t answer my question about who’s responsibility this problem communicating self evident ideas is. If you can answer that then you have a key to why NVC is silly.

You didn’t answer my point about NVC being more about papering over judgements of character or acknowledge that these treatments of communication necessarily fall into problems of attribution.

Associate me with religious critics however much you want. I have made solid points and you have lied. I’m done here.
"Support local bookstores, shop online with Bookshop"

In North America only?
indentation is not for lists in HN. It's for short code blocks.

If you want linebreaks, just use 2 linebreaks per line:

1. "There is no such thing as Covid-19"

2. "Covid-19 is foreign flu that won't affect any of us. Anyone spreading panic will be punished"

3. "Covid-19 just got here, but it's just a flu. Anyone spreading panic will still be punished"

4. "Covid-19 is a bad flu, be damned those foreign agents who brought it here. Still a flu, though"

5. "Things are under control, don't panic and keep up with normal life"

6. "Everyone stay home, let's close everything. Anyone breaking these rules will be punished"

7. "People is still gathering; we're forced to turn off civil liberties in the name of security (blame again other countries to direct public anger to the outside)"

8. Profit.
Given present day approach of using reverse proxies for TLS termination, that's not much of a limitation.
My guess is that people stop using their native clients due to the security problems and now their webrtc servers are beyond capacity.

Could it be that they are limited by the number of servers that are available to them? A webrtc bridge shouldn't have a bottleneck and should perfectly scale. Who is their cloud provider?
Jitsi Meet Security and Privacy
The LinkedIn export includes stuff you probably don’t want to include for someone viewing your CV outside of LinkedIn. There isn’t a way to customize it, which is why there are so many tools for doing so.
> The on-disk binary format is incompatible across major versions

This is my major bugbear. If Postgres were able to upgrade its datastore on the fly (optionally, of course) that would make a massive difference. Instead I’ve had heart-in-mouth moments when Homebrew has decided that it wants to upgrade Postgres. (Yes, I do now use brew pin, until I transition off Homebrew for good.)

#2 for me is inefficient enum storage. Each value takes up 4 bytes. A single-byte enum would vastly reduce my database size.
Sounds like Junta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junta_(game)

Essentially, everybody has a role in a banana republic government. President hands out money which everyone tries to get into their swiss bank account. If the players are not pleased they can start a revolution and it turns into a Risk game. After a revolution the roles can be switched.

Great fun with the right people.
Richard Feynman has a good explanation for 3.

http://www.informationphilosopher.com/solutions/scientists/f...
I assume you are talking about the fact that adjacent lines are merged into a single paragraph.

Have you written traditional plain text emails or write any plain text documents? You almost always hard wrap your lines for readability. Even in HTML, newlines are mostly equivalent to just spaces.
Whatever you describe as ‘everything’ can be dismissed easily with everything else.

Talent is built, educated, trained; genes are partially luck.
Nevermind the fact that big businesses are about to go bankrupt too. The airline industry is in trouble. Deep trouble. The tourism industry alone is huge and completely decimated right now. Disney World is shut down. Universal. Beaches shut down. Entire regional economies are built on tourism, like Florida's. You're putting hundreds of thousands of employees out of work. And even the big businesses have capital expenses and they're not sitting on 6 months worth of savings. They're going to have to make massive and permanent layoffs that will take years to crawl back from.
encryption keys issued in China, calls routed through China etc.

I see denial is strong or HN has already it's army of wumaos.
That's an incredibly cynical take.
Well, not apple to be fair. Developers are free to set their prices to whatever; it just so happens some developers set their prices to $0.99 and set that as the expectation
I'll have to look more into this, thanks for the tip. I have found it incredibly difficult to figure out how OneNote was intended to be used. The in-app tutorials are basic in the extreme (describing only the visible UI) and I couldn't seem to google-fu it well. There are endless YouTube videos and reddit fluff posts but even the technical looking channels just have a 10 min video where the main content consists of a stylized "Science is cool" header with some vectors or bio notes.

As I said I used it in my full class load for a month then entirely gave up on it. Too many papers and too many large documents of notes, I have much more reusability and ease of access and searching my pile of md documents next to a pile of PDFs (I write `zathura path/to/paper`) at the top of each section in my markdown doc that I edit in vim, then when I want it open I put my cursor on it and hit `gx`. This beat out any OneNote workflow I could figure out in a month of daily use.
Richard Feynman – The Distinction of Past and Future
No, Wall Street will not do fine. There's real risk of a great depression and a series of bankruptcies and massive layoffs.
Why do people answer the phone at all when it's not an actual person (family or friend)? There's no reason for a business to call you. My phone sends any call that's not from a number in my contacts straight to voicemail - if a voicemail even gets left that's not just someone hanging up, you can return the call to a number you know is real. The IRS deals almost exclusively by mail, banks have apps with account notifications. There's not many good reasons to answer unexpected calls from businesses.
Your persnickety line is precisely why you would use Gold instead of commodities for the comparison.

The appreciation of Gold is perhaps the best stand-in for the value of technological progress since then (including financial technology, e.g. if the Roman held onto that gold to from then until day).

And to be really persnickety, staple purchasing power is hardly a ruler for enormous wealth.
We're usually not very proactive though. Although we adapt and evolve it's usually as a reaction to pressure that can't be ignored, and by that time the cost is high if we do adapt and higher if we don't.

For those who make it through, they'll be wiser and more prepared for similar situations - and their descendants may be too, at least for a while.