skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the infectious disease world, droplets and aerosol aren't the same thing.

https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/16/coronavirus-can-become-a...

> The reason the measles is so, well, viral, is that the microbe is so small and hardy that it is able to stay suspended in the air where an infected person coughed or sneezed for up to two hours, making it one of the only viruses that can exist as a true aerosol.

> Now there are conflicting reports on whether the new coronavirus can. The studies suggesting that it can be aerosolized are only preliminary, and other research contradicts it, finding no aerosolized coronavirus particles in the hospital rooms of Covid-19 patients.
Serious bugs in Safari security model – multiple CVEs
Quanta Magazine is not great reading for the practical and expeditious.
Reminiscent of soup kitchens from the Great Depression.
Right, it all makes sense, I'm just curious about the process and long term scope of the program. The official announcement that I am aware of is pretty spartan.

It also shows the conflict of wanting to keep as many people employed/working as possible while also wanting to keep people quarantined.
"Common sense" and "intuition" is what let people look at the early stages of an exponential curve and say "this won't be a big deal". These things are no substitute for expertise.

And I don't recall anyone saying face masks were useless when worn by people who were already ill.
Okay, I'll bite. The problem with "it's real" is that it's unclear WHAT is real. In science, we may start with "does it work", but the aim is to progress to "why it works" and follow the rabbit hole down to underlying principles.

"Reiki works" means what exactly? That people report feeling better? That it reduces measurable symptoms in a disorder? I think there's some evidence to support both of those claims. But now if we dig deeper, does it have anything to do with Reiki or is the underlying principle belief, human contact, or something of this nature?

If the mechanism is belief/social contact/etc the tendency is to just toss it out. But from a therapeutic perspective, we would then look at whether it does anything better or different than therapy, hypnosis, or some other evidence supported treatments, of which there are many.

Honestly "all this spiritual mumbo-jumbo is a crock of shit" is not very useful either. "What parts of it are supported and unsupported?" would be more useful and avoid the false dichotomy you've set up here.
I'm not sure if/how that would even matter in the context.
There are known mechanisms, but they are recorded and discussed among the mystics and esotericists. There are long, though obscure, documentation on these different phenomena. They are outside what is accepted by the mainstream consensus, so I can see why you would consider those mechanisms as being "unknown".

I probably should have explained this part better. I wrote in a different comment, but let me make this clear:

1. What I mean about "subtle energy" is not the same as the "energy" of physicists.

2. Subtle energy is experienced by some people. Not everyone is aware of how various forms of subtle energy affects people and non-living things.

3. Not all forms of subtle energy is the same

4. Subtle energy is responsive to will and intent.

5. The problem is that, what we experience as consciousness, is in turn influenced and agitated by subtle energy.

6. Subtle energy carries information: emotions, concepts, awareness, sentience. Some forms have higher "content" than others.

6. Reiki is a specific form of subtle energy, but no one actually knows where it comes from or why attunement works. Attunement is supposed to tune a consciousness to the source of reiki, but no one has luck finding out what that source is. If they have, they are not talking. My friends (I am not attuned myself) who were attuned had tried, but not luck finding out about it.

7. At best, the characteristics we found out about it is that it is universal (rather than personal), non-local, is not qi (despite the name), is not emotional, or elemental, or fluidic. It is very "light", without much substance (compared to some other forms of subtle energy). We were trying to understand this in order to distinguish it from secondary effects that _do_ have locality, or are experiences of side effects that are personal. (In other words: what are the experiences a practitioner have to know that what they are doing is working?)

As far as how it effects disease, there are a lot of literature on that. Again, not in the mainstream consensus.

It isn't just regular "energy". Some people have tried to copy subtle energy and play it back en mass. The mechanism they use is similar to that of homeopathy. How effective it is ... I have my doubts, but maybe it works. Since we (people who practices Reiki) don't actually know the Reiki source, I also have doubts we can copy it mechanistically.
I don't think caring about the user and making profits are mutually exclusive. A company that is interested in delivering what the user wants and needs will often make profit. It's not a case of 'with the user' or 'against the user'.
Shrink hacking.
My understand is this is largely because the land mass was pressed down by kilometers of ice. With the ice gone we can expect it to spring up very quickly same way Scandinavia did and is to some extent still doing today.

I have no idea how much can be expected to come up but my
very quick and inaccurate estimation would be something like 1/8th to 1/5th of the ice thickness pressing it down.
2 is not a practice, it's a belief. It's still possible to practice something without believing it works, or without believing some theory behind the practice.

People used to navigate by the stars because they believed the stars were fixed points on a dome that covered the Earth. The belief was wrong, but the practice worked.
COOL! I live in a tick-infested beach community in northeast Mass, USA. Maybe soon it won't be such a high-stakes deal for summer houseguests to inspect themselves carefully. One guest got the dreaded, but she was lucky:
antibiotics dealt with it.

Thanks docs!
Explain the "use soap and water" meme then.

We know hand sanitizer can be carried in our pockets and easily and immediately used when we are at risk.

Once again experts lied rather than getting distilleries and other factories to ramp up production.
Pentium 2/3/4:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium
The largest enterprise SaaS application in the world runs on Oracle.
Indeed. Our local school system has implemented a drive by food pickup so that the children and their family can pick up food.
most people don't go to the grocery store every (or multiple times per) day.
"...watching friends who want from an IPO party to crying and packing up their car back to Iowa within 6-months." LOL

"I really wonder whether everyone is prepared for what it means to live in scarcity instead of abundance."

Everyone? Not a chance. You and I who have previously experienced and survived the closest to it? Maybe.
Required reading for the Venezolan captain : "How to Avoid Huge Ships" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Avoid_Huge_Ships
> And I don't recall anyone saying face masks were useless when worn by people who were already ill.

They were, however, saying you don't need to wear it if you don't have symptoms, despite clear evidence of asymptomatic transmission.
Of course it does, at least in the West. Maybe not a perfect meritocracy, but that is... or rather was, the ideal to strive for.
> Why would that happen? please elaborate on that.

Because then it will just be a matter of drivers. Currently, as you say, they need to polish other things like camera handling, audio etc... But once this work is done, it's done. Then porting to new devices should be just a matter of drivers.

> I used to run ubuntu on the nexus 7 in 2013

Today they are bringing an usable touch interface which was not the case.
Yeah, something is really wrong here.
Level up your life with this powerful skill
De-paywalled: https://archive.is/pinkQ
Software failures are fixed by reboots/patches. Hardware failures are fixed by service. And that service costs much more for vendor. Very few users are ready to replace hardware switch in their laptops.

Keyboard is a different kind of switch and they are major source of pain for many users. My macbook is broken because of keyboard, for example. One reason why new hardware devices like phones and tablets are coming without keyboard is this reason. Apple is not "brave enough" to replace macbook keyboard with touch panel, but they would do that if users would accept it.
I was laid off via a video call a few years ago.

Granted I knew it was coming, but it didn't make anyone feel better when the drone hired to give us the details grabbed the conference room camera off the wall and pointed it at the ground after they gave their 3rd or 4th conflicting answer to questions, and had backtracked a bit on who would receive what payout.

The irony of staring at a dirty carpet with some spots of trash was not lost on anyone.

Layoffs sometimes seem to get passed to the last folks who can't refuse to actually present the layoff... and they're often not very good at it.
If you could do that... what are some other possible products?
https://youtu.be/RjqWSUPxBZs
Other than testing, it would be interesting to hear about some other usages.
Covid-19 vaccine candidate shows promise in first peer-reviewed research
The wealthiest will find ways of either not paying those taxes or leave the country.
Using UBI images to minimize container vulnerabilities
>The method you appear to be endorsing is, in my view, the opposite of open and transparent.
> Let's say my company is going through rough times. We all know something is coming. Anxiety levels are up.
> Let's say my leadership knows many of us are going to be laid off.

So at this point, what should the leadership do, in your opinion?
As of 2018 40 million Americans received more than 57 billion dollars in SNAP. It seems like largely the US has been and will continue to keep people fed. Note also that this is just 1 Federal program and doesn't mention the multitude of other state level and city level programs that exist as well as private charities, religious organizations, etc.

Please note I am not saying the system is perfect, shouldn't be expanded, or is beyond criticism in some way. I just think that a more nuanced conversation is warranted if we're going to talk about these sorts of things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supplemental_Nutrition_Assista...
Thanks, I mixed those up. Minor details aside, the larger point was, in order to brew "your best" cup of coffee, you need consistency in the brewing method with the least amount of variables (save the other important variables such as quality of bean, roast profile, water composition, water temp, etc). The aeropress gives you that.
I wonder if there is any client that has a halfway decent visualization of RLS policies. Last time I checked, pgAdmin didn't, and Postico, which I use day-to-day, doesnt' (at all).
Not true - technically everything is free so it will be fine to keep giving as-is; the combination will help stimulate the economy and improve the lives of all Americans
One plus isn't the same as Oppo. One plus is the cheaper brand from the same manufacturer.
Tone deaf and self-righteous moralizing is absurd in this era
That one's a bit of misunderstanding on how it got conveyed.

Soap and water is better than hand sanitizer. If you have access to it, it should be preferentially used. Sanitizer is great for "I just got to the car after grocery shopping".
Alternate link that doesn't require agreeing to give up your privacy: http://archive.is/h8d3C
Loads of Old PC Games Will Keep Your Damn Kids Busy
However, it's still unclear whether asymptomatic people contribute significantly to the transmission.

Last comment on that I heard from CDC interview by WSJ: "patient becomes contagious either after symptoms appeared, or right before that (couple hours)".

And using common sense, if a person doesn't cough or breathe hard with air droplets, then they must be way less contagious naturally.
Antibody-Dependent Enhancement
Out of curiosity, how many people are working on Rust as permanent employees or otherwise paid by Mozilla? I thought Rust is mainly developed by individual contributors but "load has shifted to the teams responsible for the code" and "reorgs" sure sounds like there's some kind of hierarchical leverage and long-term planning in place.
Can you please give us more info about your workload? Is it very high throughput DB? Especially for Inserts and Updates? I searched on ZFS and PostgreSQL performance a couple of years ago on the Internet and popular opinion seems to be databases with Copy on Write type of file systems don't give the best performance.
For sure you can make good decisions based on the info available and still lose. You can also make bad decisions and still win. Sometimes decisions that seem vital are totally pointless etc. etc. etc.
Why would you buy a cheaper phone when you already have an older high-end one? You don't need to upgrade every few years.
anecdata: i like a good story and this one wasn't bad
The article emphasises that Reike should only be used in combination with actual proven clinical treatment, and not as a replacement of those (which is obvious and dangerous quackery). So compare clinical treatment with Reiki on the side to clinical treatment without Reiki. And maybe also clinical treatment with a more conventional placebo on the side.
>Their competitors have 10x the costs and don't get anything done on time either.

SpaceX is a private company. Do you have a source for what their actual costs are for any of these projects?

Musk has claimed all kinds of things relating to costs with his other public companies, and none of it has been true.
I've heard that premium processing has been suspended for H1Bs. If someone on an H1B loses their job right now, what does that mean for their ability to find a new job?
Wouldn’t out of order TCP require whole new client libraries as well. All the TCP client code expects well ordered packets. So if you’re doing that, might as well go all the way to a new protocol. Which isn’t this then QUIC? I’m not familiar enough with either to know what the practical differences would be between QUIC and out of order TCP.
and yet according to the USDA, "11.1 percent of households were food insecure at least some time during the year, including 4.3 percent (5.6 million households) that had very low food security".
Curious why this post was flagged? Not sure what rule is violated.

Anyway, I do remember the Solyndra scandal, but I’d wager most don’t. I mostly recall the sparse media attention given at the time.

Agreed, that was one of the sloppiest and mishandled lay-offs I can think of. That should be a case study of exactly how not to fold a company.
Curious what their definition of "struggle with hunger" is? I couldn't find it on their site.
All of your individual benefits are far outweighed by the collective loss of stability
Changelog for 5.10:

> Device Enrollment: Enable FileVault support on first user login

> Send all traffic through VPN

Great work Apple!

> Release date: Apr 1st 2020

Oh dear, Nevermind.
But donate cash, or at least contact them to see what, specifically, they need. Donating that 3 year old can of creamed corn hiding in the back of your pantry is worse than doing nothing at all.
Coronavirus, the Energy Guide
Did you do the math? Somehow it doesn't work out
Simplicity: Monoliths and Microservices
“If there's a big fall in salaries, there's also going to be a big fall in property values.“

I don’t think so. Rents will go up and housing ownership will be concentrated even more on wealthy people and big companies.
> At least if they implement UBI then the need to build the wall on the border will increase.

No, a border wall will remain an ineffective boondoggle that serves only vanity even with a UBI.

> You cant give away money for free and NOT have strong borders.

First, a UBI is defined as lacking means or behavior testing, that doesn't mean that the universe of recipients isn't either just adult citizens or adults who are either citizens or lawful permanent residents. The higher UBI with either of those recipient pools, the less economically attractive illegal immigration is, especially if UBI replaces or reduces (say, by $1/hr for every $2000/yr of UBI) minimum wage, thereby reducing the attractiveness of under the table sub-minimum wage labor.

Second, even if UBI wasn't a tool for stronger borders and did make illegal immigration more attractive, it wouldn't magically change the fact that the border wall isn't a tool for strong borders.
I predict that UBI will come, but without the "U".

The middle class will be taxed more and you'll have a bottom rung getting free money, essentially.

The first two $1,200 checks from the government is the start of this.
They both mishandled lay-offs?
Disney furloughs employees 'whose jobs aren't necessary at this time'
Feeding people was solved in the 20th century, perhaps almost too easily. See correlation between poverty and obesity in the 21st century, vs the 19th century.
Not sure which field of bionanotechnology (I assume you meant bionanotechnology ) you work in, but for the one I work in, the metaphor of biology and computer science is extremely intertwined—like very explicitly. Circuits, computation, the whole nine yards. If you’re talking about graphene or something that is an entirely different field. I can’t see how this book was a terrible critique of bionanotechnology—or at least an excellent discussion of the hardships faced.
"Other people have their own time slips" is a very true statement.

"SpaceX will meet one of Musk's deadlines" is, thus far, not a statement I'd bet on coming true.
No, it sounds like they are voting with their pocketbook. Let NPR do what they want, I say.
This is a crucial move. A LOT of kids in particular relied on school breakfasts and lunches. This will make sure they stay fed.

And with a lot of people out of work, unemployment offices backlogged, and a long turnaround time for SNAP eligibility (and many of the newly unemployed ineligible for it anyway), the alternatives would likely involve some combination of mass starvation and food riots that destroy grocery stores.
The word "energy" in this domain is not being used to refer to the same thing as "energy" in science and engineering.

And by the way, the word "energy" did not originate in science and engineering.

So statements like "there is no known form of energy that can do what the commenter is claiming it can" are incorrect, because they are meaningless when applied to homonyms.

They are just artefacts of people talking past one another.

I think the commenter who explained that "subtle energy" is best understood as an atomic language term that means something different from "energy" has it about right.

It would be helpful if people would stop trying to be "scientific" while actually ignoring the meanings of things being talked about by each other.

That goes for the practitioners applying an unsupported veneer of scientific credibility to claims, but it also goes for armchair scientist types applying an unsupported veneer of knowledge about a subject they have chosen to not really study.
I don't know how many people have a valid medical need to avoid gluten, but I do know that in certain subcultures it is popular to imagine one has a gluten intolerance.

Edit: Just discovered spurious accusations of racism in this thread so let me clarify that the "certain subcultures" are not ethnic nor religious. I'm talking about the kind of people who believe in astrology, homeopathy, and acupuncture, who talk about fibromyalgia and craniosacral all the time.
It means that most of those genetic variants don't change which proteins are coded for (the genetic code is redundant) and the remaining ones don't make any difference to disease progression. Well, there was one mutation in Singapore where one of the non-structural proteins got knocked out creating a strain that was less virulent but better able to hide from the immune system. Zoonaotic diseases usually become less virulent over time in general and a strain like that might become dominant after a number of years. But don't expect any noticeable changes in during the current outbreak except maybe in a few small pockets.
There's a big difference between "well fed" and "properly fed." "Well fed," to me, usually means "gets enough, or more than enough, to eat." "Properly fed" means "gets the right amount of food, and sufficient quantities of most nutrients."

People don't often die of starvation in the United States. I don't have exact numbers, but if you exclude people who have eating disorders, I'm sure it's insignificant compared to almost every other cause of death. But, malnutrition is certainly a problem, and that problem gets worse when you have people who literally don't know where their next meal is coming from.
Very nice. I wonder if it can run Fuzix[1]. There's enough memory (128K), but I don't know if Fuzix understands how it's banking the memory, or how the display works, etc. If it can, that would be a very cool little toy.

[1] https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX

Edit: Surprisingly, many still on eBay. Just bought one for $19.65, in the original box, including shipping and tax.
£130k for a react job (or any software engineer job) in the UK? Where?
Your comment is condemning the logistical choice while ignoring that there are many different kosher authorities and no one would satisfyingly serve the entire nyc religious Jewish community
Update: new kernel are on top of this problem. https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/1/29/355?anz=web It's the old systems that will suffer. Hopefully only soda machines and not avionics or intravenous infusion pumps.
Replicators, brain backups maybe.

Probably plenty of seemingly sci-fi technologies.
> Feeding people will always be a matter of profit: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-dairy-....

I agree, sadly; I have actually been focused on mitigating the losses inherit in the Supply Chain itself, as on a solely Calorie basis we could easily feed the entire population, and is for the most part already at a post-scarcity level despite all the turmoil with Factory Farming and especially State subsidies that distort the commercial aspects of Agriculture (see last paragraph).

This underscores the 'what and why' better than anything I've seen so far and what can lead to Dairy Farmers being asked to dump milk to maintain prices via artificial scarcity:

> The dairy industry’s woes signal broader problems in the global food supply chain, according to farmers, agricultural economists and food distributors. The dairy business got hit harder and earlier than other agricultural commodities because the products are highly perishable - milk can’t be frozen, like meat, or stuck in a silo, like grain.

Other food sectors, however, are also seeing disruptions worldwide as travel restrictions are limiting the workforce needed to plant, harvest and distribute fruits and vegetables, and a shortage of refrigerated containers and truck drivers have slowed the shipment of staples such as meat and grains in some places.

Leedle could likely sell his milk if he could get it to market. Dairy products in grocery stores have been in high demand as consumers stay home during the pandemic, though panic buying may be slowing. Earlier this week, a local market told Leedle’s wife she could buy only two dairy products total per shopping trip as retailers nationwide ration many high-demand products.

Dairy cooperatives oversee milk marketing for all of their members and handle shipping logistics. Leedle said he will be paid for the milk he and other farmers are dumping, but the payments for all cooperative members will take a hit from the lost revenues.