skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems to be using scale and price changes to mislead. The modern equivalent would be Lebron James funding a school system, which seems like a similar commitment. We can imagine Lebron eg paying the police force of Cleveland for a quarter of a year. Perhaps more comparable numbers to Rome.

Nothing about the numbers for the globe or the us compare to ancient Roman numbers.
I'm a big fan of OpenTripPlanner [0]. I mainly use it for accurate isochrones of public transit networks (super handy for figuring out where to live) but it has support for foot, bike and car routes as well. There was some PoC code to support traffic data [1] but it was removed [2], I believe because nobody was interested in maintaining it. If someone wants to add it back and maintain it I doubt they'd object.

[0]: https://github.com/opentripplanner/OpenTripPlanner

[1]: https://github.com/opentripplanner/OpenTripPlanner/pull/2077

[2]: https://github.com/opentripplanner/OpenTripPlanner/pull/2698
physics basically--same reason why wings aren't built with high rigidity (or with bricks).

brick walls have good downward (and in-line lateral) force resistance and suck at every other direction and torsion. tornado forces are multi-directional. wood frame walls are strapped down to the foundation in earthquake/tornado zones. plywood acts against (some) lateral and torsional forces.

plus, flying bricks are more dangerous to squishy humans.
If you're trusting China's numbers I don't know if I shoukd trust your analysis.
"Never Attribute to Malice That Which Is Adequately Explained by Stupidity"
Climate in much of the US is far from being mild. Winters are pretty cold at lower latitudes, and summers can be very hot.
> Compared with individuals screened but not enrolled, participants included in the study were on aircraft at significantly lower altitude (mean of 0.6 m for participants v mean of 9146 m for non-participants; P<0.001) and lower velocity (mean of 0 km/h v mean of 800 km/h; P<0.001).

You'd be fine ;)
This is also a cultural difference i think.

The US as a society is highly individualistic. Living on your own at 18 for instance, is considered absurd in a lot of regions of the world because children are supposed to care for their father/mother later in life.
*sense of proportion

FTFY
I switched to Notion a couple months back and it's been amazing for me. I've been able to consolidate my notes, my archives, my daily schedule, etc into one place. They don't have an API and I'm pretty much fine with that. Without the API I'm much more mindful of what's going into Notion and spending my time thinking about things instead of automating too many things to be able to keep up with.

But that's just my use case. I'm sure 99% of their users want an API.
Does anyone believe the numbers being reported by anyone? There is no way possible to accurately provide numbers. There's not enough tests. Not everyone is holding their hand up and saying I have a fever, but I'm not going to the doctor for a test that may or may not be available.
Firefox Bookmarks and Zotero
Does science advance one funeral at a time? (2019) [pdf]
Simdjson 0.3: fighting global warming with ridiculously fast JSON parsing
This is just bad house. I'm sure that one could find comparably bad wood house. Usually nothing like that is happening.
Unmasking the Arkham Knight
Did you read the link I posted? It's a legal analysis of that order because ...

"The Executive Order does not suspend the California WARN Act in its entirety, nor does it suspend the law for all covered employers. The Executive Order only suspends the California WARN Act’s 60-day notice requirement for those employers that satisfy the Order’s specific conditions. "
Half or fewer of the people qualified for an H1B get one in the lottery.
Slightly off topic, but does anyone else think it would be nice to have a policy against linking websites with aggressive/obnoxious paywalls?
Logan's Run is such a 70's scifi movie, but hey, Farrah Fawcett. Richard Jordan acted in this film and my favorite role he played was the Secretary of Defense in The Hunt for Red October "When I'm not kissin' babies, I'm stealing their lollipops."
Not to mention, of course, that if you stroll around, you might look suspicious and some suburbanite may call the police on you.
The project looks very good. It would be nice a feature to modify the time range, for instance on the Covid-19 trends, Zoom is -50% over the last 30 days. It would be interesting to know the change over 2 or 3 months.
Ultra Manifestation 2020 Review
In two if the three studies a third of the people who survived were able to come off ventilation. It’s not a panacea as the article says, but I suspect without ventilators the death rate would be more like 100%, and I’ll take my chances with 1/3 versus 0 any day.
A few thoughts on work life-balance (University of Glasgow)
what about a stone/brick/concrete house with insulation?
What I'm worried about is the number of people who will suffer as a consequence of this worldwide lockdown.

Depression, loneliness, suicide, addictive behaviours (alcohol, tobacco, recreational drugs), high stress due to varying economic factors, panic (media induced) etc ...
The loss function needs to be differentiable. The paper uses square
hinge loss which is differentiable.
Joplin [1] to take secure, E2EE notes stored in the cloud and markdown-formatted.

It also has a web browser addon for taking web snippets, and it even supports MermaidJS diagrams.

[1]: https://joplinapp.org
The answer to DAE questions is always yes, regardless of the question.

I think it’s a bad idea - there’s no need to ban discussion of an article because not everyone can read it.
Sure, but it's specialized because not enough people do it, so not enough people know how to do it, so that's no explanation. You're basically saying "Americans don't build with brick because they don't build with brick".
In southern Europe houses are also often inherited. Thus quality of the construction is important.
The value of specialized personnel isn't as large as I think you're expecting. Most hospital care boils down to "put them in bed and deliver medication and food at the appropriate times", and patients who need more are likely to die no matter what care they get. It's tragic that some people will die who could have been saved with intensive specialized intervention - but once everyone can be intubated, there's probably no "overload threshold" where lots of people die when they would have otherwise left in good health.
We were in Target one night and a flash flood warning came through on everyone's phone, felt like a movie hearing the alerts cascade across everyones phones and see everyone stopping and viewing the alert.
IMO, the best practice is “don’t”. If you think the data you’re trying to scrape is freely available, contact the site owner, and ask them whether dumps are available.

Certainly, if your goal is “learning in data science”, and thus not tied to a specific subject, there are enough open datasets to work with, for example from https://data.europa.eu/euodp/en/home or https://www.data.gov/
Good! I hope many people will follow.
He is constantly showing Europe that the US is an unreliable partner. I believe after the acute phase of the Corona crisis, US European will have changed forever. Russia and China are sending supplies and medical teams not only to their allies but also to lot's of African and European countries. Whereas the US does the exact opposite. Who do you think will have more influence on the world in the coming years?
Worth noting that many lawyers are also out of work due to courts being closed.
This was this kicker for me. Based on 2018/2019 taxes, I do not qualify for the stimulus check. However, I was laid off in Oct of '19, and have been earning 3/4 of my previous salary. The jobs I was getting were strictly short term freelance gigs based on corporate events. Since they have all been canceled until ???, I'm making even less. Yet my government says tough cookies based on previous experience not current situations. Luckily, my landlord is very sympathetic. Hopefully my ISP and utilities will be as understanding.
Wiki.js is what I’m currently trying out as a way to manually capture things, but I use a combination of Diigo and Opera’s My Flow as my normal go-to.

I’ve been developing some thoughts around rolling my own database wrapped with a service api to be used by a custom application that pulls my data down from Diigo or Pocket, etc. and then stores it locally. It’d be nice to then build out wiki pages in some way from the local database.

In short, still haven’t found anything that meets all of your bullet points.
A folder in dropbox, and Pinboard for bookmarks.

I mostly enter plaintext files by date and grep as needed. "tags" == "words in the file" for me, I make sure to stick a keyword somewhere if I really want to be able to find it by "tag". Related files go in folders named so they'll be adjacent to the file that references them. More specifics: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22279802

Works on every system, syncs any way I want, and I expect it to still work decades from now.

Bookmarks tho are currently just in Pinboard (I should fix that), in part because I mostly don't organize them - I use full-text search with the archival account. I have a pretty good memory for "I know a thing exists with this phrase / a couple words, I just don't remember the name", so that covers the vast majority of my retrieval needs.
So the US government does not lie then ? I know a few people in Irak,Syria,Lybia,Sudan,Somalia and venezuela who would disagree
More on Zoom and Privacy
Care to provide a basic Google source that says N95 Surgical Respirators are made from pulp?

Okay, let me provide you another source or two.

Here's the 3M 1860/1860S N95 Surgical Respirator. FDA approved for hospital use in the US (also the standard one used). Approved by Health Canada in Canada. Approved by TGA in Australia. This is the light blue one you see on the news.

* Straps: Braided Polyisoprene
* Staples: Steel
* Nose Clip: Aluminium
* Nose Foam: Polyurethane Foam
* Filter: Polypropylene/Polyester
* Shell: Polypropylene
* Coverweb: Polypropylene

https://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/1538979O/3m-disposable-r...

Here's the 3M 1804/1804S N95 Surgical Respirator (https://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/1547881O/3m-anz-psd-heal...). Also approved by FDA for hospital use. Same with Health Canada and Australian TGA. This is the white duckbill type you see on the news.

* Straps: Polyisoprene
* Staples: Steel
* Nose Clip: Aluminium
* Filter: Polypropylene
* Coverweb: Polypropylene
would you mind to ellaborate on how do you organise things in notion?
I could use some ideas and inspiration thanks!
It’s better to think of it that way. If you get sued, all of your written communications will be read.

It’s pretty trivial to supervise email in O365 or Google, so if you’re a risk or someone feels like it, it’s likely your communications are getting looked at.
Luigi Micro Front End Framework
It's a photography pun. The whole thread is photography puns.

Just as well they seem to have stopped down pretty quick. I don't think there's enough depth of field to really capture the subject.
Reducing the load on the medical system is the immediate goal, but the total number of people infected will also be smaller.

Take the extreme example of Taiwan. If reports are accurate and they maintain their current situation, the literally flat curve there will lead to a few thousand people getting infected out of 23 million.

Or compare this outbreak to the first SARS, where asymptomatic spreading was much less of an issue. Very few people globally got SARS, exactly because interventions to stop the spread were effective.
Intellij and asciidoc, the plugin for it is excellent.
Also 1968 Flu pandemic killed 1 million people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_flu

Different perspective. AIDS was (and still is) definitely much much scarier infection than COVID-19, but yet it did not fundamentally change how our society operates.
A flat text file. I will never again use anything proprietary or even non-human readable. A single text file combined with search does everything. If you require multimedia then just put the path to where it is on disk as text.
Markdown drew its influences from predecessor structured text languages whose goal was minimum formatting of ASCII text in a structured way such that it could be parsed and re-rendered into any other format.

The goal was simplicity and readability in plain-text email and Usenet posts so I'm not surprised that fifteen years from its inception, and thirty or more years on from some its antecedents, we're using text and thinking about how we use text differently. One of Markdown's pivots from setext was the addition of code blocks. In the environment that setext was created, a code block would simply be rendered much like everything else: in the plain and probably fixed-width display that your email was also displayed in. By 2004, email had rich formatting, Usenet was on the wane, and people still needed a lightweight text format to share. Markdown filled that need, as did a number of other similar alternatives, though I forget their names.

My first exposure to such lightly-formatted ASCII was setext [1] which was the format chosen for the Mac- and Apple-oriented TidBITS email newsletter [2]. As a contributor to that newsletter, Gruber would have been intimately aware of the format.

Twenty years ago, I used setext in code projects basically the same way as nearly everyone uses Markdown now. I like OP's suggestions though I've always liked the 'lazy' approach to ordered lists.

[1] setext: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setext

[2] TidBITS: https://tidbits.com
React's state stuff is just a really basic, batteries-included solution that works for basic things but doesn't really scale. There's nothing special about it in terms of performance. Once you get beyond a certain level of complexity in your app, and need to bring in richer state management, React's mechanisms become dead weight.

The one exception being contexts. Contexts allow you to hook into react's virtual DOM and "talk about" a subtree of it instead of just the very next layer down. This is something that an external library can't replicate, so it's more of a fundamental primitive than setState and hooks are.
It's incredibly ironic that one has to avoid doing what Google does in order to be kept in their index.
Every developer that works with relational data should learn the basics of ANSI SQL and at least one or two of the major SQL platforms (Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, etc.).

It’s really not that complicated (if you can figure out redux...) and the knowledge will make you a more well rounded developer. These are skills and knowledge that will be valuable and applicable for many years.

Don’t allow your ORM to be a knowledge crutch.
In practice I am not sure how true that is. There is a phenomenal ecosystem around org-mode that will require an amazing amount of work to recreate in other editors.

I haven't seem other editors get close to the convenience and integration org-mode has in emacs. For example, org-babel lets me dynamically generate entire sections of a README on github[0]:

#+BEGIN_SRC python :results output raw :format org :exports results
... elided python to generate org mode ...
#+END_SRC

Not to mention org-capture, org-agenda, or the various org-export-* functions. The deep hackiness of emacs lets this stuff just work naturally. And the quality of org-export is just amazing, especially when compared to say pandoc. I have done all of my university assignments in org-mode, augmenting with latex where required, and it just works. Same concept with my website, I have a tiny function to turn org-mode buffers into live html rendering experience with basic elisp:

(defun make-blogging-mode ()
(interactive)
(toggle-word-wrap)
(toggle-truncate-lines)
(flycheck-mode)
(flycheck-vale-toggle-enabled)
(add-hook 'after-save-hook 'org-mode-export-hook)
)

And a file hook (at the top of the org mode file so it runs automatically for me)

# -*- find-file-hook: make-blogging-mode -*-

This isn't just a simple, context-free grammar that any other editor can emulate. It's an entire ecosystem that needs to be translated, and many have tried and failed.

Edit: Forgot to mention tables and the spreadsheet feature. Another hurdle a text editor will need to implement to recreate the experience

[0] https://github.com/dpbriggs/redis-oxide/blob/master/README.o...
I use my email/imap drafts !!
Its on my encrypted server and synced to my email client and can access everything from any device.
Especially when paywalls aren't really hard to bypass. Usually any thread involving a paywalled article will include an archive link.

For example: https://archive.is/qG0hS
There is a Sublime Text plug-in [1], but it's been a while since I used it. I think it's in Python, not elisp.

If you're just looking to edit Org files, Emacs is hard to beat. I don't use Org files so much anymore, more OmniFocus & Markdown/Sublime.

[1] https://github.com/danielmagnussons/orgmode
I don't see how obvious discrepancies between the official Wuhan death toll and on-the-ground accounts constitute "wild" derivations.

Moreover, Radio Free Asia is quoting named residents, so this cannot plausibly be described "anonymously sourced US propaganda" or "fake news". [1]

In general, I think one should be skeptical of any statistics produced by a totalitarian dictatorship for Western consumption.

[1] https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/wuhan-deaths-03272020...
Americans reduced retail&recreation movements by 47%, going for groceries by 22%
It may be true for few weeks or so, but if this continues the fallout will be widespread. Lower wage jobs is the bedrock of the whole economy. How much lawyering can you do if you have to take care of your own food prep, childcare, or - simply put - your clients start disappearing one by one because they cannot pay? How much longer you can continue to pay to the banking staff if mortgages and business loans default like house of cards? How much longer can you pay to programmers at Facebook when advertisers like restaurants, spas, hotels are not paying for advertising?...
There is also the willingness of Chinese companies and individuals to ship PPE gear to the US. If the government there were really still in crisis mode, you would expect it to clamp down hard on that sort of thing.
Population of USA: ~330M people.
25% of that is 82.5M people. Explain to them how 90% GDP isn't dire when they have no job and income.

Dire is a matter of perspective.
OT this is the first time I've seen the arrow function syntax in ES6. My god it is horrible.

const Cell = (value, i, j)=>m('button.cell',
{onclick: ()=>move(value, i, j)}, value
)

I can see why people are using things like clojurescript instead.
How can we trust a country that that is willing to block Tiananmen Square or even Winnie the Pooh from social media?

I don’t think the great firewall will let the bad news come out
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I would want some defense if someone was using say a trademark I made for kid entertainment vulgarly. Unfortunately marketing does sometimes mean policing language, if you would end up in an unfortunate position due to association
I vastly prefer adoc's tables because I don't need to concern myself with aligning anything to figure out what's what.
Lynx was annoyed in this way. An excerpt from the article follows: "Never mind the struggle to meet Maslow’s tenets of survival: being wild verges on illegal. There are limits to how long you can spend on public land. Fires are frequently prohibited, and hunting is closely circumscribed. Lynx came up against the law in 2008, when a government officer attended one of her classes undercover. She was unaware of his identity until two years later, when she was charged for running a course on public land without a permit and for cutting down a freestanding dead tree. She was barred from the national forests of eastern Washington for a year."
Each flavor (and version) of Aurora is compatible with a corresponding version of the open source software. For example Aurora MySQL 1.* is compatible with MySQL 5.6

At my current gig we use it in Prod, but we are also able to run our software during development pointing to locally installed open-source versions of MySQL just fine. I imagine it's the same for Postgres.
Show HN: I made a real-time Covid-19 tracker by country
It depends on how they became a billionaire. If all their employees and suppliers' employees have enough to eat, a good home, good health care, and the time, energy, and means to live their best life, then they're probably okay. The better question is: can someone become a billionaire in a moral way? I can't think of one.
Different government track the numbers differently. While I do believe Chinese government uses the best way to make it looks good on them, but I don't think the 'actual number' will be drastically different. Because if they do, then it's releasing false signal to citizen, which could cause a second wave of infection.
There is a very aggressive surveillance method in place, which I doubt is acceptable by other countries:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/01/business/china-coronaviru...
Totally agree.

Code should be stupidly obvious so that reading it consumes as less cognitive resources as possible.
High-frequency traders are winning big thanks to coronavirus disruption
Not that I'm in any way impressed with the response from most European nations, but your statement about seed infections and causing the global spread is simply wrong.

https://nextstrain.org/ncov
The macroscopic transformation is time asymmetric (the balls will not sort themselves back again) even though the microscopic transformations are time symmetric (elastic collisions and frictionless movement).

I agree with your observation of what happens to the black and white billiards. My question is - if the interactions are all time-symmetric (implies conservation of entropy), where does the entropy come from in the macroscopic system? My belief is that the microscopic model is flawed; if we simply introduce some randomness into the collision dynamics of two particles (which is believable given particle accelerator experiments / QM), then microscopic interactions are no longer T-symmetric.

It comes down to a philosophical interpretation of whether you can treat a system of two particles probabilistically (i.e. thermodynamically in aggregate) or not.
Vocation in the Time of Coronavirus
China has already seen an increase in divorces due to covid-19 [0]. Domestic abuse has skyrocketed in France [1].

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-31/divorces-...

[1] https://www.france24.com/en/20200330-france-to-put-domestic-...
In addition to crawl-delay there's also HTTP 429 and the retry-after header.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6585#page-3
That surprised me too. We handle that amount of HTTP requests per second, and you don't really need a lot of infrastructure to do it. Something is wrong here. I bet it's all synchronous code and capacity is being wasted on waiting. Also, I doubt they're tailoring each individual SMS so there are likely to be efficiencies to be had here too.
As a quasi-immigrant to the US myself, I applaud the author for having the courage to write such an excellent and detailed critique of life in the United States. I totally agree that life here has it's pros and cons.

It seems that it is expected amongst the native citizens that you be grateful to be provided the privilege of living in a developed nation (my own experience). If you want to critique, you can always go back to your third world nation where you came from ("if it's so bad, why are you still here?").

This article is an excellent showcase for why you can be grateful for the opportunities and still point out what isn't normal by other countries standards and what can be improved.

thank you