skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem to have defined (very narrowly) what life is not.

It’s also not clear if you are discussing “why I do something” (purpose of an action) or “why am I?” (purpose of me).
CDC says USA deaths are at 6,500 as of yesterday 4th April [1]

Considering they were reported in the news[2] as 600 on Tues 23rd, 1000 on Thurs 25th, 2000 on Sat 28th, 3700 on Mon 31st, and the infection rate increasing steeply, to have “only” 6500 or 9100 a week later is quite flat.

Yes deaths lag infections, but on the same CDC page the total infection count graph has only been increasing faster over this time, from 80,000 to 260,000.

Doubling every three days would become 7-10k dead midweek, 15-20k dead by now, this weekend. (That’s the reported infection rate in NY and Michigan, by the media), and it’s half that or less.

Has the death count slowed significantly this week? A Phantom of vague rounded numbers?

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/case...

[2] https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/03/25/coronav...
That's your assumption with Chinese CDC number, which is true. But Chinese researchers and MDs also publish papter on Lancet/NEJM/medrxiv which sometimes contradicts CDC's reports, which I think is much more believable.
what are your resources to learn the lang?
To the news people that keep pushing negative info, spreading fear, and yelling fire in a crowded theatre where there is no fire will be held accountable. Karma physically demands it just like gravity demands you remain yolked to the earth. Blood is on your hands for partaking in the CCP bio-attack propaganda.
I remember playing team fortress on my IBM Aptiva with the awful modem/soundcard combo which meant I could either play online or with sound but not both. Given the abundance in time inside all of a sudden I think I'll give this a try. Thanks for sharing!
The mistake is thinking in terms of linear social progress, which is trivially perverted for rhetoric. People are certainly more civil and aware of acute racism and racial discrimination. But in material terms, being black makes you acutely more vulnerable to all of society’s problems: poverty, prison, poor healthcare, poor access to jobs, poor education, low wages. The civil rights movement—and MLK’s life—ended before addressing this. More relevantly to now, only 1 in 5 black Americans are able to work from home.

Segregation still exists, it just largely uses other mechanisms today other than red lining and direct racial discrimination in businesses and government. I recognize claims similar to “we”re doing better now than we were in the 50s” as one technique of many to focus on social, not material or systemic, gains, though I suspect in many cases this does not come from an intent to do so.
Most likely lack of data. NYC has data with deaths vs comorbidity but I haven't seen it for anywhere else: https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/imm/covid-19-d...
It seems kind of a sham to write this for a generic audience when specific job sectors are likely to be much worse hit. If you’ve built a career in management at a large retailer for instance, and all the large retailers are hurting the same, your resume probably doesn’t matter at all in this downturn.

When will you get a chance to elevator pitch someone while on lockdown?

What do you do if you don’t like data privacy practices or dark patterns of platforms like LinkedIn or social networks?

In reality this article is written only for white collar workers in industries likely not as strongly impacted by the recession who are looking at job options at other white collar positions also not heavily impacted. And in that case the advice basically boils down to “do what you would normally do.”

In that sense it’s kind of a frustrating article masquerading as though it’s helpful to people hitting hard times.
21 days ago Belgium was at 4 deaths, two doublings away from 33. They were at 30-40 total deaths 16 days ago, now they are at ~150 daily, total doubling every ~4 days.

so going from 30 to a few thousand in 21 days is what is happening. Can NC avoid that? Maybe, but I wouldn't bet on it personally.
At a glance, this reminds me of the Gardener project https://gardener.cloud/
Can confirm VA has several mainframes still in operation. They also have a container working group evaluating kubernetes, and some active cloud deployments. Two extremes in a gargantuan organization.
I agree but to add to this: Deviation from a system is not the same as not using a system. The former is as you said much easier and it is in a sense consistent as well.
Biggest companies pay the least tax, shows new research
New Jersey Pleas for COBOL Coders for 50-Year Old Mainframes Amid Coronavirus
Then in what sense does self reliance and minimalism demand poverty? That’s self imposed exile.
A practical approach to Tree Pruning using sklearn
I'd argue that not all experience is equal. Sometimes developers with deep big-company experience have a skillset and habits that is great for big-company but terrible for a startup environment. The opposite is also true.

Plus all the things @cosmodisk said on the sibling comment.
Yes, that's currently what I'm experimenting with.

This is very early stages and completely experimental.

The idea I'm experimenting is to compile typescript to another form, I completely see your point about too verbose though, but I'm also toying around with jsx.

Basically what I'm trying to do is a svelte where instead of this:

{#each cats as { id, name }, i}
<li>
<a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v={id}">
{i + 1}: {name}
</a>
</li>
{/each}

You have have the native JavaScript map functions and so on.

Again, this is completely in the early stages and just playing around until something feels right.

Any recommendations appreciated.
My piece of advice is this: if you are fortunate enough to keep your job during a recession, be ready to look for a new job quickly after the recovery.

I kept my job during the 2008 meltdown, and I suffered from a bad case of salary compression [1]. Although we didn't lose our jobs, our salary froze during the first 4 years. Our bonuses got cancelled, so effectively our income went down. On the fifth year we started getting meagre raises, and when I finally left after 7 years, my salary went up dramatically. I estimate that when I left I was getting paid easily half of market rate.

Moral of the story, I could have left after a couple of years in a recovering economy rather than keep the same grossly underpaid job for so long.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=salary+compression&oq=salary...
> So you have the choice between saving the money of poor people now and reinforcing the suck of the whole system, of letting people suffer for a chance of a redo and purging the ones that lead to this.

What a terribly wrong take. If you really believe the system is that corrupted, and that horrible then you know darn well that the count of people who suffered during this emergency won't make a difference. There will be "accountability" in some form, but it won't be driven by how many people did or didn't get money for food at all.

Whether you help them or not won't change the system. So instead you're saying scores of families should go hungry so you can stay on your high horse and lecture.
Managing Application Secrets Like a Pro Using Google Secret Manager
I think the biggest take-away, that especially Hollywood needs to take note of, is what everyone gets wrong -- you don't point a whip antenna at something to get the highest gain, you want to be at a right angle to the source. Remote controls often have the antenna oriented the wrong way for distance/gain, and I've seen people orient wifi router antennas to "point" to usage areas, etc.
I thought this is some kind of meme - from must over should to don't care.
This seems paranoid. The kids are all surely already using Google for everything else. Tor and Tails would not only be an immense hassle for them which would make it much harder to get anything done, or use most school-relevant software, it also doesn't even help prevent any tracking in this case. If a service requires you signing up for an account with your real name, then that's all they need right there, because then they can just tie everything you do to your name.

Using Tor in this scenario really makes no sense, unless you plan to have them all use fake names, a fake school name, redacted/altered school material, etc.

And if you don't want to use Google, the privacy policy for that other service seems totally normal and fine. Respectfully, I think you may want to have your school consult with a technologist, rather than trying to give them software guidance based on your own understanding of the issues.
Senator Blumenthal Mad That Zoom Not Offering the Encryption His Law Will Outlaw
Median hides a lot of information. What you really want to know is how many people over 70. Still Germany and Italy are almost equal there at 20% over 65. South Korea is about 13%.

Given it's so close between Germany and Italy, testing probably accounts for the majority of the difference.
Designing and Scaling sliding window based Rate Limiter
You mean the gal in the bikini right above the diagram of a dipole?
That sucks, I'm sorry to hear that. Now when you extrapolate it out to a statistically meaningful sample, what happens?
> The fact that you're willing to live with it doesn't mean it's not still a terrible design.

Typical HN smugness.

One person who actually has the product, has used it for months, and has themselves designed capacitive gesture button circuits then went back to traditional buttons - says “they aren’t that bad, work fine”...

And a trove of people who have never used the product downvote and tell them they are wrong.

OK.

No; it’s not a terrible design. I’ve maybe twice had to repeat a gesture. It’s drag up/down for volume, tap for mute, and drag forward for skip song. It works fine. Where the hell do you get the opinion it’s a terrible design if you’ve never used them?
School districts start banning Zoom because of online security issues
Could you please explain why you think this means science is broken?

There are real issues in academia, but I disagree that what happened here is wrong. We did publish our data, we just didn't do it in a journal article. In my fields, this is actually fairly typical and journals are less of the norm unless you have a big result.

The whole problem is that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Sometimes when you don't have much funding and there's only a few grad. students in the lab, that evidence is no longer worth the time to collect.

See the comments below about the "neutrinos travel faster than the speed of light" paper. There is a real danger in publishing theory-breaking results when you don't have 100% confidence in them.
There's also Fortress Forever, for anyone who misses TFC: https://store.steampowered.com/app/253530/Fortress_Forever/
Show HN: Covid-19 Be Damned People Still Need to Give Presentations
I worry a lot about my kid writing or saying something that would be innocent child's play when in person but might be construed as domestic terrorism if seen in the wrong data dump by the wrong enforcement agency.

How can you teach right and wrong in an environment like this?
Trying to learn Machine learning and writing about it. Latest post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22786374
This is my real concern.

I assume that Western countries have some hope of containing this, but poor countries with large informal sectors?

I can't see it working out well, at all.
WebAssembly Without Emscripten
I don't think using the open-core model gets them off the hook.
Could this be used to fingerprint IP origin devices?
This. I think at times there's a certain mind trick you have to play on yourself. You have to believe something is possible for your own reasons irrespective of popular opinion. The insight is that popular opinion is often wrong or exaggerated or less relevant to your personal situation than you realize.
Mostly politics. During the 90s and early 2000s there were initiatives to build national IDs tied to biometrics. The initial response from the reactionary element was that it was the mark of the beast, etc. it would also make it harder to exploit undocumented labor.

In the 2010s, that shifted with demographics and those folks saw ID as a tool suppress voter turnout and advance the immigration policies.
In some regions, so far, I believe so. We can also expect fewer deaths from the flu, which is not insignificant. We'll see whether this remains true.
> I don't own these headphones.

You and everyone else disagreeing with me. “Important” as I in “I can use them all day without ever using a gesture control”.

How are you going to disagree with me having never touched the product? You literally NEVER need to use the capacitive controls, all the VITAL things are buttons. Does that wording work better for you?
British Museum online collections:

https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_onlin...

BM prints and drawings virtual gallery:

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/galleries/prints-an...
Does a right to use Alexa come without a requirement to send data to Amazon? I'm not sure.
But how do we define mortality? This is not an existentialist question, it is just that somebody infected needs one or two weeks to die. Closer to the truth might be deaths/infected-10days-ago and that will be a lot bigger.

If instead one divides only those that “completed the process” meaning dead/healed, events which also happen in a more similar time frame, that ratio is also a lot higher.

TLDR: I need help understanding what a “death rate” should be.
Yeah. Navigate to: Windows Key search > "Sound Settings" > Output > Manage Sound Devices

The "Manage sound devices" panel should show a list of "Output devices" and a list of "Input devices." Click on one to disclose a Test button and a Disable button. You should see your headphones show up twice in the "Output devices" menu. Testing one of them will result in a clean sound, the other will result in shit sound (due to SelfVoice). Press "Disable" on the one with shit sound.

Then do it again next time Windows Update runs and clears your user settings, and again, and again, because apparently clearing settings to default is something that Windows Update does now (I've seen it in other places too).
Sweden prepares for possible tighter coronavirus measures as deaths rise
Hey - please do! Discord is the best place to connect: https://discord.fortressone.org
Thank you, it is indeed similar, however the idea of oneinfra was to reduce the responsibilities to create the Kubernetes API service for each cluster and that's it. The scope is very reduced in purpose. Provide something somewhat easy to set up by users and service providers, and almost trivial to integrate with, so they can start creating isolated Kubernetes clusters at will, either for internal consumption, or for external consumers.
wow, I thought I would get some nice tips to position my wifi routers and repeaters antennas, but it too much information. Useful for who wants to get deep knowlegde, but I think I still need an easier guidance for my routers.
You are right about the `out` argument, I'd forgotten about that. But even avoiding the wasteful memory allocations, numpy still is about 60% slower than Julia, as it makes multiple passes over the input data. (If there's a way to get numpy to just make a single pass over the data and remain performant, I'd love to know.)
The amish absolutely are not self reliant.

They have people drive them to Costco and the court. They take buses and it is not uncommon in an Amish Community for one of them to have a phone line in a barn for emergencies.I have seen them use farm equipment that they technically shouldn't use and plenty of them just farm out the labor to someone who will use the equipment. They usually have "go to" people outside of the Amish sect that does shit for them that technically goes against their beliefs.

I have lived around Amish people my entire life. I am in a county that is famous for them. They are in no way self reliant. They are a cult that at this point, only half asses their own ideology.
I like Svelte very much. My biggest struggle is with tooling, especially the lack of proper IDE support. I know there are several IDEs with plugins for Svelte, but they're either obsolete or lacking essential features. That's why I won't use it for me next project, just not worth it going against the wind.

Now, I am looking at Flutter. Seems to match my needs, and it's also actively maintained.

Never underestimate the power of proper tooling and abundance of documentation, better be productive rather than cool.
It was not very expensive but I got lucky and got the place during depth of last financial crisis (part of reason I came here, I thought maybe it could get worse). It had a small 1200 foot house which I added to and fixed up pretty nicely.

To be fair I don't make the money here I made before. But I don't really need much except my PCs and food and a few basics. I don't eat out, don't buy expensive things, don't buy things I don't need, don't go on expensive trips and it works more or less fine. I live on here per month around my rent in the city before I think so actually have more left over when all is said and done. I do miss a lot of the amenities of the city sometimes. Good company and food for instance. I do not miss the noise and car fumes and office bullshit.
> And that is exactly what the US will do, if it is able to ramp up the production of medical gear in the coming months.

"I would like you to do us a favor though."
I’m blown away with how many people here haven’t used them and are telling me I’m wrong that the capacitive are optional and do work just fine.
Exploring Elixir & Phoenix. Solved some AOC & exercism problems with it, and wrote a BF compiler. So far, enjoying every bit of it. The language itself is beautiful! Codes are available on my Github[1] account :).

[1] https://github.com/wasi0013/
Texas and many other states shall look to NY and CA and contrast and see, especially if aid for massive unemployment turns out to be a partisan issue. Imagine President Trump wins again. He will note that many GOP states went a different way and ask which states truly deserves his favor. It’s the White House that will lead national recovery and distribution of aid, likely with zero real oversight.

Will NY and CA be left on their own? That is an interesting possibility to explore.

Jared Kushner: "The notion of the federal stockpile was it's supposed to be our stockpile," he said. "It's not supposed to be states' stockpiles that they then use."

Is that a signal for NY and their request for ventilators? How will recovery political aid look like from the same administration? Affectionate?
Yes, exactly. I also gave an invited talk about it at the largest domestic conference in my field. This is kind of unusual for a grad. student which should give you an idea of how unique the problem is. We actually received good advice about our experiment that we might try later. The issue is just how niche what I study is. There's probably less than 10 experts in the world on the specific problem I was tackling.
> The birds at the end cheapened the experience for me...

I agree. There is no way that the microphone were that sensitive. I understand what the artists were trying to "say" but yes it did distract from the power of the quiet
This is such a great description. Compare how Wikipedia describes the same process [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenosine#Research]:

> The adenosine analog NITD008 has been reported to directly inhibit the recombinant RNA-dependent RNA polymerase of the dengue virus by terminating its RNA chain synthesis. This interaction suppresses peak viremia and rise in cytokines and prevents lethality in infected animals, raising the possibility of a new treatment for this flavivirus.

Absolute gibberish to someone with limited knowledge of biology.
The follow-on effects might even be worse than this.

Worldwide, people are living longer. If this virus is more problematic for older people, then they will take up all the medical resources. And they will continue to infect more health care workers.

The result, is that there are now less medical resources, to handle those that don’t have the virus, but have other medical issues. The medical system may collapse, and these people will die.

This is exactly the problem that hit Wuhan. Their medical system collapsed from the overload, that other people began dying. And those that didn’t have the virus, went to the same hospital to get help, and got the virus at the hospital. So now, they have both, their medical problem, and the virus.

Sadly, this appears to also be happening again, in New York City.
I think it's going to come down to the new grad students. Eventually, they're going to look at the lack of results in string theory and decide to work on something else for their career. And then, eventually, the ones working on it will die off. Science progressing one funeral at a time, as the saying goes.
TLDR: PEBCAK

But damn they spent a lot of time to get to that conclusion.
You must install uBlock Origin and live in a completely different and serene internet. :-)
I use Roam Research for search, tagging, daily thoughts, and everything else. The software has changed my life and there is a growing developer community who is making it better every week. Very culty product that is getting popular quickly.

www.roamresearch.com
Ok, so just to recap; we have my first hand anecdote of compairing the hot Sony to the hot Bose, and to you telling me I’m wrong and I must be wrong because despite you having never touched the Bose 700, “it’s a technology”. Ok, just wanted to make sure I had that right.
There are Unix programs where a single executable answers to different names, and behaves accordingly (e.g. busybox works as ls or cat or ..., I think).

You could have a single site, with different names, where the filter is preset by the URL used.
I thought it is ulisp in c
It seems to me that you are conflating ethics with compliance.
Expanded access programs for Remdesivir
I would never know about bus and local supermarket hours and changes through the news in any of the two cities that I lived in my life (Sao Paulo and Los Angeles). I would (and I did) find the supermarket and the bus company websites. That's not "news".

Cutting all news is a good strategy for some people for improving mental health. Just like anyone can have a cabinet full of chocolate and just control themselves to each a small piece twice a week, but it's much more efficient to just not have chocolate at all at home.

Also, the general tone of people that don't want to read news anymore is that they personally don't want it for themselves only. So, that's unrelated to people that consider it crucial and want to do it responsibly.

Lastly, I've seen this desire of consuming less or no news in a lot of people that are not the "HN crowd" or privileged people in terms of money.
I ran into this trying to get a smart thermostat. Nest is problematic right off the bat because Google, and their main competitor Ecobee comes with an onboard mic + alexa. Luckily I found an engineer who posted a comment/review mentioning the alexa mic can be unhooked inside the phillips-screw-accessible rear housing in <30 seconds... so that made it an instant buy. The idea of an always-listing wifi thermostat in my house is incredibly creepy.

This happened again with the LG CX, surprise! It has a mic for alexa too! Luckily it's only on the remote. Guess which little dot is getting a tiny bead of epoxy first thing?
I agree but don’t think “don’t run out of money” makes for very helpful advice, hence a bunch of other suggestions that help you not run out of money. If a doctor told me “don’t have a heart attack/stroke/etc” I’d probably have some follow-up questions.
More people are going to die, too. You haven't provided any basis for asserting the overall ratio of deaths to recoveries is going to drop.
https://xkcd.com/1172/

(leave your mouse over the image and read the hover text :-))