skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
and Xsan. Everything else is either in the base OS (Content Caching), or open-sourced/abandoned (Calendar/Contacts Server)
Speaking as an American, I'm aware. But the morons wrt this particular crisis...are universally from one of those two choices. You can certainly find fault with the other choice, but they don't nearly have the "ignore facts, ignore what anyone other than I tell you, ignore even the evidence of your own eyes" message.
I think the real question here is whether or not the disruption will continue?

If things continue as they are for months, there’s simply going to be a change in mindset and we’re going to realize that there is a new “normal”. Full protective gear for a normal workday could easily become the norm.

Maybe they underestimate how long “this” will continue, because they expect “this” will drastically change normal life.
How accurate was the bro-lawyer from Silicon Valley? Do these really exist?
That's what I'm thinking. People all over the world knowingly make unhealthy decisions because it makes our lives more enjoyable in the short term, at the expense of usually shortening your lifespan. I don't see people putting up with forced isolation for very long, especially when the vast majority of people won't die from it.
The question is how long will it remain contained?
1) yes software companies, especially ones that host any kind of public facing app, need to be able to manage authentication.

2) every business is going to have internal applications wether bespoke or something on top of ERP/CRM software so the same applies here.

3) when you use an app (either professionally or personally) you need to have an exit strategy, you’d think Oracle’s latest games would teach everyone that. All these SAAS apps have nothing, so self hosting with directory/file servers is the way to go.

3) MS and Apple OSes really need some of these things to function in a corporate environment. Unless you’ve got everyone on Linux or are doing BYOD then you’re going to need directory servers to coordinate IT.
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The chinese are also using mass surveillance to keep the problem under control. You need to show a qr code on your phone that proves you are allowed out at many checkpoints.
If it's the fault of anyone, it's the fault of decades of clever sociopaths realizing that humans will swallow simple lies more easily than complex truths, and exploiting the trait to gain power.

That's a complex truth, and I don't like it either.
Tools don't exist for their own sake. They exist to solve problems. In the world before javascript, we still had interactive applications on the internet, we just built them with different tools, which were usually worse than the security model of javascript. If we got rid of javascript, we wouldn't get rid of interactive applications, we'd just build them a different way again.

Also, you can definitely be fingerprinted without javascript. The web is a huge stack of technologies, and most of them can be fingerprinted, all the way down to at least layer 4. (...and layer 2 if you're not on a network you control)
That doesn't make sense as a concern. Layoffs are a loss cutting measure. If you are doing layoffs of things they produce then essentially by definition what you have isn't all that economically valueable to be worth stealing. It shouldn't be something they could "sell".

If it is of value then why are you letting them go instead of producing something else of value in a follow up? Layoffs would be a squandering.
Americans will prevail due to their uncanny ability to adapt to adverse/diverse conditions
Immigrating to US under NAFTA (Computer Analyst) with a Computer Science (not Engineering) degree doing software development. Do people still use this route? What's the success rate now do you know?
Does the virus damage olfactory neurons, or does it cause loss of smell via different mechanism?

For what it's worth, my grandma lost her sense of smell permanently in her 30s after a car crash. Unfortunately, now she can't tell if the food is burning.
JavaScript is not necessary on the majority of pages it's used on, but to say everybody should stop using it on the web is absurd. JS makes Google Docs, Slack, and a thousand other applications possible; without it, they'd need to be native applications instead (which, while needing to be manually installed, almost always don't have the level of sandboxing that browsers normally provide.)
34% of all healthcare expenditure in the US is "administrative costs".
I love Postgres as much as the next guy but there are three things that really annoy me:

Postgres is still laid out for for 9 to 5 workloads, accumulating garbage during the day and running vacuum at night. Autovacuum just doesn't cut it in a 24/7 operation and it is by far what has caused the most problems in production.

No query hints and no plan to ever implement it. Making the planner better only takes you so far when everything depends on table statistics which can be easily skewed. pg_hint_plan or using CTEs is not extensive enough.

Partial indexes are not well supported in the query planner, thanks to no query hints I can't even force the planner to use them.
Monitors too. There's a rise in 2k but still very few 4k monitors out there. Also even if phone's did 4k, is it really work on a 6" screen?
This, so much. The root of all of these issues is a drastic overestimation of the average persons cognitive ability. To use IQ as a proxy, the mean (100) is shockingly incompetent and to paraphrase a famous comedian, half of us are below that average.

There was a time when merit tended to bubble up into positions of authority but that has been increasingly untrue for decades, for a host of reasons that all point to a rotting western culture.
I think the suggestion is that we can afford to oversubscribe a program like this, because it'd be a guarantee that you'd be able to eat (i.e. food on demand), not a push-based delivery of the resources (money/food stamps/etc.) required to be able to eat, that people would then feel that they "should" use up, thus using less of their own money.

Any American who didn't take advantage of a demand-driven food supply program on a given month, wouldn't be costing the program anything. It just means that they'd be able to instantly access food when in need, without first qualifying into the program.

Think less "food cash" (like food stamps essentially are), and more "no-limit food credit card" (with the government as the account holder.) You'd just go into a grocery store and buy whatever, and if you couldn't afford it, you'd pay for it with the food credit card (= the government would pay for it.) But if you don't use the card, it isn't accruing or expiring a balance. It's just there, waiting to be used.

One can think of this another way, with a different moral color but the same in-practice effects: imagine if they made shoplifting from grocery stores legal (i.e. every grocery store is now also required to act as a food bank), and the government promised to pay the store back for any shoplifting-related shrinkage. That's essentially what this program would be, except with the store able to track inventory through the till, since the food would still be being "purchased."
Do you have a source for that? I think we are doing all this, so some people can live 3 years longer.

A few more months like this and people will start dying from other causes (crime, hunger...).
It's easier not to touch your face if you see a glove when you raise your hand, it's a visual cue to stop.
Except most of the people willing to take the risk ARE the boomers and elderly. The millenials are the ones sheltering in place and posting about it on Twitter.
There are a lot of products that either fork or directly extend PostgreSQL for OLAP workloads. Greenplum[0], Materialize[1], Citus[2], PipelineDB[3] etc etc.

[0] https://greenplum.org/

[1] https://materialize.io/

[2] https://www.citusdata.com/ (edit: I said TimescaleDB, I was thinking of Citus)

[3] https://github.com/pipelinedb/pipelinedb

Disclosure: I work for VMware, which sponsors Greenplum development and sells commercial offerings.
There's some question of how successful they have actually been.
I’m sure for now people are willing to go along (also who would tell a pollster they want people to die, but that’s a separate point). If this goes on for months expect public opinion to change.
> wonder if imperative programming is actually a beginner-friendly abstraction

You know, a very common newbie Lisp question is "why is my list still the same after append".

I bet you no Python beginner asks why their list is different after list.append(3), having expected a new list to be returned and the original one left alone.

Imperative is intuitive; the real world is apparently imperative. Though it can be described by functions in which t is just a parameter, the way those functions play out is that the past values of t are not available.

To take a more level view, the expectations w.r.t. append could be conditioned by prior exposure to other languages. However, any exposure to computers at all reinforces the imperative view. Almost all content is manipulated destructively: documents, settings, you name it.
> If you’re an Amazon customer, here’s how you can practice real social distancing: stop clicking the “Buy now” button. Go to the grocery store instead. You might be saving some lives.
20% hospitalization rate is what everyone should focus on. CFR is 3% but hospitalization of young adults is extremely high. When young people have to get treatment and they can't - they'll suffer and have serious consequences if not death.

Edit: Listen to the person replying to me. It is not 20%, but 3.3%. I am off by an order of magnitude.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on some of Dean Radin's work. For example, these studies on the sense of being stared at. Here's one of the conclusions:

>We conclude that for both data sets that there is a small, but significant effect. This result corresponds to the recent findings of studies on distant healing and the ‘feeling of being stared at’. Therefore, the existence of some anomaly related to distant intentions cannot be ruled out. The lack of methodological rigour in the existing database prohibits final conclusions and calls for further research, especially for independent replications on larger data sets. There is no specific theoretical conception we know of that can incorporate this phenomenon into the current body of scientific knowledge. Thus, theoretical research allowing for and describing plausible mechanisms for such effects is necessary.

http://www.deanradin.com/evidence/Schmidt_DMILS_BJP.pdf

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228455060_The_feeli...

Radin has many similarly compelling studies with "small, but significant effects" that suggest the conventional understanding of reality needs to be expanded.

In a material reductionist paradigm, this makes zero sense; people simply cannot "feel" other people watching them, especially from different locations, and if they think they do then there must be some trick at play.

This paradigm's emergence hierarchy looks like this:
(from) Physics (emerges) -> Chemistry -> Biology -> Psychology -> Consciousness

Radin suggests that the true order of emergence is:
Consciousness -> Physics -> Chemistry -> Biology -> Psychology -> Mind

Consciousness is fundamental and pervasive, like a quantum field. This offers, in my opinion, a satisfactory explanation for all nonmaterial/nonlocal phenomena, including intuition, reiki, transcendence, remote viewing, psychedelics, etc.

That some people incorrectly think they are channeling God's will is not evidence against these ideas.

edit: oops, just saw your reply to my other comment. sorry to split the threads apart.
Like guns the virus is much more of a problem in urban places than rural places. Americans not in cities aren’t going to take much more of this shutdown imo.
This occurs when you've joined the call with computer audio. I was super glad to see that popup when it started appearing a while ago. I don't work for Zoom, but here's how you can manage Zoom vs. microphone stuff in more detail than just Mute:

If your Preferences > Audio > "Join audio by computer" setting is enabled, then it'll do so automatically. While in a call, if you want to disconnect the microphone rather than mute it, hit the dropdown menu to the right of the Mute button and choose "Leave computer audio" at the bottom.
There is nothing close to a lockdown currently in place anywhere in the US or Canada. Not to say that that's what's needed, just pointing out that China's policy was more extreme.
If done properly (i.e. everyone except law enforcement, medical, utility and delivery workers stays home, with military/police enforcement, then everyone who did not stay home is tested multiple times) eradication is possible in a month.

Unfortunately we found out that almost the whole world, with some possible exceptions, has leadership that is either incompetent or has other incentives, so we will probably have to wait for a vaccine for a full return to normal life.
> It's the fault of those in charge.

While that can never be discounted, we also need to factor in disinformation from both China and WHO as late as mid-January [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/who/status/1217043229427761152?lang=en
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That's armchair quarterbacking from people with more than enough money for shelter and food.
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Mild cases in America are being told to quarantine at home where they'll infect their families.

Americans are not wearing masks universally.

There are no bans on movements between hotspots like New York and the rest of the country.

And Americans expect to successfully contain the disease in weeks.
I feel like that's a strong differentiator of Canada and the United States - America seems like it's always holding its breath and waiting for the next revolution which will change everything, while we here in Canada just want things to get back to normal.
Western leaders aren't even trying to contain the disease, and they readily admit that. It's all about flattening the curve, and a flat curve stays flat a long time.
There are zero hospitals in America that over capacity right now including NYC.
But the American people didn't vote these morons into office. Trump lost the popular vote, but got over 80 more electoral college votes. One party consistently uses a combination of sleight of hand and rounding errors to exploit the faults of the voting system in their favor.
Apple in 2020 is such a weird thing. Some of the things they produce - mostly in the software realm, I guess - have really careless and egregious bugs and design problems. But then they still come out and make amazing little features like this one that nobody thought to ask for, and don't get highly publicized, but really speak to that classic detail-oriented Apple mindset.

It's like there's a huge cultural schism running through the middle of the company, or something.
Very excited to see gc:arc make it into stable.
But that's closer to an in-vitro, number, right? It doesn't account for how transmissible it still is?
Yeah, but if it’s reachable by default then it’s (by definition) open to the world. Otherwise (if you mean routable by default) you will still end up temporarily punching holes in your firewall, which you will need to close afterwards, and possibly recycling your ip so you aren’t still routable on that last used address. sounds like you would personally end up being a STUN server!
Jeff Bezos donates $100M for Food banks
It's expected that Amazon would protect their workers by being transparent about the situation, implementing special procedures in warehouses to prevent the infection from spreading between workers, offering workers paid time leave when they show symptoms.

They could, for instance, limit the orders they accept to base necessities like food, cleaning supplies, etc.
I wish i could reply to the comment below about means testing. The reality is even if this were means tested, many people wouldnt opt into it...so short story, I agree with you, it would be much cheaper than you're describing.
You can also try BigBlueButton (https://bigbluebutton.org). Open source, and a lot of nice things done better than the usual online meeting standards (e.g. included whiteboard and slides are real slides and watchers have a lot of flexibility in watching them).
More nuance is exactly the problem.

This isn't a matter of a specific little bit of math inside a bigger ball of math or highly custom machine that needs nuance.

This is a literal effect we have on other humans by letting them go underfed.

Why do we need more nuance in the rules around apportionment in the well walked context of "people got to eat"?

This is just asinine at this point in human society. Especially with a much more educated society that can argue cogently around it sitting on their hands wanking their custom theories, tacitly enabling this.

Society needs to focus on stable support of our shared human needs first, stores of usable foods, basic products, etc.

It does not need to enable everyone's imagined pipe dreams, and emotional castle building, to become literally true. That's romanticized emotional ideology the others don't have to enable. Free speech does not mean you get what you're asking for.

When you're hording toilet paper and flour, but shelves are full of garbage caffeine tricks, sodas, "craft beer", sugar bomb cereal, you know your society has jumped the shark.
He received his visa on his ninth try in the 90s. Is there anything that prompts you to doubt his citizenship?
Can you blame them? This is the US, we have no safety net for non-corporate persons. If people don't convince themselves the disruption will end sooner than later then they may as well start looting because we're going to die starving and cold in the streets.
I am British. Never been to uni, but have a successful career contracting as a software developer in London.

My wife is Polish, has degrees.

How difficult would it be (in terms of visas etc) to move to California for us? My understanding is that because I have no formal eduction, it can be hard to get a visa to move to USA (I think it would be easier for my wife).
> Is there anything different people should be doing if it's going to be another 6 months or longer?

With the sort of open-ended timeline we’re talking about, it’s important to take as broad a look as you can at the things you’ve had to cut out, what need they were filling for you, and what substitute activities can cover those needs.

Most people instinctively understand this for things like food, shelter, and income, but the needs higher up Maslow’s hierarchy also need to be considered. That’s things like stress reduction, emotional support, physical activity, intellectual stimulation, comraderie, creativity, escapism, etc.
Ask HN: Where can I find the number of people tested for Covid-19 per country?
I'm looking for the number testing that is happening not the number of infected...
“Stiff disk”? I thought “zhestkiy disk” would translate to “hard disk” just as well, which is not that far off from the actual english name for HDD/Hard Disk Drive.
The expectation here is to realize how dependant we are on Amazon, and how we tolerate the unsafe working condition at Amazon warehouses. Remember peeing in the bottle fiasco?
I think in both cases it’s a minority but a noticeable or vocal minority who engage in this sparring. Also the spring breakers are not the boomer age group.
Whose only option is that?
Cool initiative. I will take a look at some of the sessions. Can you post a schedule when they will take place?

I am in particular interested to see how much depth you expose the "non-programmers" to. Is it just an applied course? E.g., here is a function X that does Y. Or do you focus also on the implications in memory and, for example, Python's object model?

Good luck. We need more non-programmers to learn to code. Not for coding's sake. Most of them won't become developers. But it allows academics from all kinds of disciplines to teach their students advanced stuff. I see programming just like most students independent of the major must take Calculus 101 or Statistics 101.

BTW, I am the author of this introduction to Python (also for non-CS majors): https://github.com/webartifex/intro-to-python

I teach Python at a business school. Due to Corona, the campus was closed and I put all my lectures on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-2JV1G3J10lQ2xokyQow...

Subscribe to my channel https://www.youtube.com/user/webartifex if you are interested in more Python applications in the field of business administration. I am new to YouTube and will post at most 2 meaningful videos a month. No monetization, no hidden product placements.

See also this HN post from last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22669084
Shouldn't this be asterisked with a "So far"? The black plague devastated rural communities along with urban.
This is misguided. The capacity of the healthcare system in rural areas will be even easier to overwhelm.
Your big problem with 10 images is going to be overfitting. By modifying an image and training on that too, you're effectively teaching the network that that sort of modification shouldn't change the label. It learns a kind of invariant. That invariant isn't the same as actually seeing the dog from another angle, but it's better than nothing.
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This is fascinating. I have a hard time wrapping my head around how this is supposed to work though. Does this assumption never break down at any point? From the moment the iron is extracted and melted to the moment the knife comes into your hand... is there some kind of chain of custody certificate that says it's never touched anything impermissible? Are there entire kosher industries and factories I'm not aware of for making utensils and such?
Once there is a cheap and high reliability antibody test widely available, there are going to become two classes.

Those who move freely about and do what they want, and those that live in fear of the others because they can still get infected and don't know who is who.

Imagine a dystopian near future where you have to carry a government approved ID showing your immunities to get into establishments or to even move about the country.
I get the Postgres love but as someone who’s been doing mysql for a long time I found postgres really hard to use. Like even setting it up on Mac was a pain in the ass. How do I create a new db? Why is pgcli not as friendly as mysqlcli? After 2 weeks of head bashing and lots of stack overflow reading I gave up and went back to good ol MySQL.

For ease of use for a new comer, mysql seems to have nicer tooling and out of box use. I’ve worked with mysql on sites with millions of daily active users and it hasn’t been a problem. Snappy 10ms queries for most things. I guess one really needs to learn ANALYZE and do the necessary index tuning.

I’m just saying, use the tool you’re most comfortable with, has good ecosystem and gets the job done. For some it’s PGSQL, for some it’s MySQL, for others it could be the paid ones. MySQl8 is pretty solid nowadays.

There is no universal “best”, just as there is no “best” car. All about trade offs.
Not all US states are doing it the same way so it’ll be interesting to see how things go.
Let's get the virus on the phone and explain that we don't wanna. I'm sure it will be understanding.
Alright well when urban Americans start talking about breaking up the country over this I don't want to hear any kvetching from the rural areas.
This is a lie. China now has another outbreak, and several country's intelligence agencies have suggested that their original numbers were completely made up.