skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are there in-place macro tools that could be similar to this?

Examples:
- italics in a live markdown editor usually hides the asterisks after you've closed the pair, but can get them back if you backspace with your cursor at the 's'.
- [[]] style links in similar live editors hide/show content as the syntax has been designed to do.

These examples do it for me, the author, not just in publication.

Other examples include CAD software array-style duplication as a single example. Draw one thing, give a command like "copy 10 times" and then move the piece and see 10 copies laid out.

I can imagine using something like that `define` example in m4 and wanting the instruction to propagate throughout my text file, yet retain the command as a sort of undo/toggle option. Again, all for me the author as I think through my work in this editor, publication isn't really the point in these thoughts.

The workflow for applying formulas to org mode tables is fantastic. I'm still an absolute novice, but I can keep an array of TBLFM formulas[1] below my table which I write and execute at will (C-c C-c or ,,) and can retain as a sort of history of the table state. There seem to be an endless variety of hooks I can tap into for these kinds of table editing sessions.

I'm thinking about this in the context of the process of doing research and writing. When my thoughts are not concrete, I do not have a formal document I'm writing but I'm learning and thinking and connecting information. I am in the process of auditing a whole load of these tools and I want a tool that is the superset of all functionality I see, not sacrificing the awesome transclusion of TiddlyWiki or internal links in org mode for the drawing abilities of OneNote.

I think what I want is an exceptionally powerful "viewport" for lack of a better term. I take great inspiration from ZUIs and wonder how to apply the fantastic text based tools I know to a semantically zooming canvas. I don't like directories, I do like juxtaposition of disparate thoughts and projects. Can I have an AutoCAD/OneNote/orgmode? I want one. m4 seems inspires me towards this goal, even though I realize that's not exactly it's intention.

[1]: https://orgmode.org/manual/Durations-and-time-values.html#Du...
Does the game accurately depict them not starting or having a multitude of problems?
> all of the long-lived platforms today are programmable

Sure, programmable by what today we'd call "programmers" but certainly not by "users." This is because programming has become a niche trade (as I said before, like a scribal culture).

I'll give an example. Most users' experience with their host Operating System involves prodigious use of buttons. They know how buttons work and they know how to interact with them. But in all these OSes it is extremely difficult for a user to make a button that does something they want, then, say, place it on their desktop for future use.

In the past there were really good attempts at authorship in computing media (which is more like what the LRG was going for with Smalltalk etc), including Hypercard. In the latter system, you could pop open a button and see how it worked in a comprehensible scripting language. You could copy the button and paste it somewhere else. You cannot do any of this with buttons in the major OSes. The capability is not there.*

The only option available to "users" is to learn a full fledged, general purpose programming language with all the pitfalls that entails, which means learning build systems and all the rest. At that point they have to become what today we call a "programmer," ie a scribal-programmer.

Our dominant systems have been explicitly designed for a strict delineation between scribal-programmers and consumer-users. That's the rub.

* - AppleScript is a so-so attempt at this, but even that has been allowed to die on the vine.
If I recall correctly, Steve was very influenced by Lua. So he wanted to make a compact and embeddable interpreter but with nice consistent OO semantics, like Smalltalk or Self.

(My interest in prototype OO languages back then was specifically as authoring languages for shared virtual worlds so I wanted something with security baked in. The language I implemented accomplished this through very strong encapsulation, among other things.)

Like I said above, it'd be nice to see something like Io done with Wasm in mind, as a cleaner alternative to JS, say.
You should contact the US Embassy where you are living or speak with your Congressional representative in the U.S. but likely, unless it is dangerous where you are, you and your partner will need to go through the standard marriage-based/fiancee process and having your partner enter on a tourist visa and then apply for a green card is legally impermissible and risky - although might be forgiven in the end.
> I think there's a shard of truth in the assertion that: if you ask an epidemiologist how long people should remain locked in their homes, they'd tell you "forever". If you ask a capitalist how long, they'd say "lets re-open today". Neither of these answers are realistic solutions to this problem.

> Dr Fauci says "the virus sets the timeline; not us". This is, unfortunately, false. Western governments do not have the teeth necessary to enable this to be true, and it is not "naturally" true. Humans, at the end of the day, will do whatever they want. Americans are a weird, maybe beautiful, breed; there's a surprising number of us who would rather just get sick and possibly die than sacrifice the freedoms and amenities of normal life.

> At some point, maybe a month or three from now, people will get restless. They'll re-open businesses, remove WFH policies, try to get back to normal. There will be another surge in cases. At that point, what does the government do? Remind people "hey, we never lifted the stay at home 'suggestion', please stop"? Do they put more teeth behind it? Or, maybe then we'll have better therapeutics + small herd immunity, and we should just let the disease run its course without as many economically disruptive mitigations?

> Point being, this isn't a situation where predictions about the future are useful. Its constantly evolving.

The philosophical capitalists would state that actors should be free to choose their desired level of risk.

You statement suggests a stereotyped version of a capitalist who might order everyone to go out and work.
What if the model's prediction is wrong with high confidence? What if the cat is labeled as a dog for both perturbations? Then wouldn't the system train against the wrong label?
waifu2x is quite reasonable for manga though; it's quite commonly sharp lineart. I ran it on some old poor-quality jpg scanslations I had, and the results were good.
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I'd say it's well branded, for the target demographic of weebs. It's also a generally memorable name.
By that point almost everyone will have been exposed anyway no matter what quarantine measures we take. At this point we're just trying to slow the spread, but essential activities have to continue (food, transportation, utilities, healthcare, infrastructure, military, emergency services, etc) and so everyone involved in those is going to act as transmission vectors. Once the vast majority of people have been exposed, any further widespread quarantine measures will become moot.

The airline industry is going to be crippled though, and might still be operating at limited capacity in October.
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Random websites simply do not get my phone number (and if they persist, they often receive 123-456-7890 which quiets them down). I do not use gmail (and random websites would not get it if I did). I also do not use fb/linkedin, but even if I did, random websites also would not get that information either. Do have a github account, but again, random websites will not receive that information either.
So even if an employee has a mask of their own they're not permitted to bring it and wear it while they're working? That makes absolutely no sense. Has Amazon offered any sort of explanation for why they wouldn't allow it?
That is likely true but if this runs it’s course naturally we will see an enormous peak and then just as rapid a drop as we reach herd immunity in a couple months

The true choice here is between a lot of deaths and a couple months of staying at home and fewer deaths but years of staying at home.
That's true up until someone brings it to their church, a funeral, school graduation and the entire community gets it and it's like a small bomb going off. Truck drivers still go through small towns, packages still come in and out, they get food.
It's not necessarily dubious to change a protocol, but it is concerning that they didn't report on the changes along with their reasoning.

It would make sense, if they couldn't get 300 research subjects, that there would be a change of protocol. Also, I think it could have been a good idea to switch from viral load and t cell recovery time to something more meaningful and quick to measure like TTCR and pulmonary condition, but again, they don't explain the change so for all we know the change was to get their names on a more exciting paper.

I see no reason why they would drop the placebo either.

We really do have to wait for the bigger and better trials.
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Payroll Protection Program Loan (PPPL) is supposed to be rolled out today, and it's been false start so far. Two banks that I'm working with don't have anything up and running and claim SBA did not provide enough guidelines (technically not true).

See links below for more information:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahhansen/2020/04/02/small-bu...

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/02/jpmorgan-says-its-not-ready-...
Even if the current US shutdowns are effective, no more than 5 or 10 percent of the population will have gained immunity. We'll be nowhere near what's required for herd immunity.

The shutdowns will at best give us a "do over", a second chance. The only way to end the shutdowns and not have cases explode again will be to replace them with a smarter strategy: wide-scale testing, fast contact tracing, antibody tests, mask-wearing, temperature checks, social distancing. The federal and state governments need to be planning this now. The virus has an R0 over 3 and getting it below 1 will not be easy.

This all disappears if we find a vaccine or therapy, but hoping for that is not a plan.
> The one thing I wish they would do, though, is improve the error messages when a query fails.

Yea, we definitely need to do better there. But it's harder than one might think initially :(. My suspicion is that we (the PG developers) will have to write our own parser generator at some point... We don't really want to go to a manually written recursive descent parser, to a large part because the parser generator ensuring that the grammar doesn't have ambiguities is very helpful.

> At the very least, if I know which position in the text is the beginning of an error, I can fix it.

For many syntax errors and the like we actually do output positions. E.g.

postgres[1429782][1]=# SELECT * FROM FROM blarg;
ERROR: 42601: syntax error at or near "FROM"
LINE 1: SELECT * FROM FROM blarg;
^

(with a mono font the ^ should line up with the second FROM)

If you have a more concrete example of unhelpful errors that particularly bug you, it'd be helpful. In some cases it could be an easy change.
It would appear someone doesn't like you either at your company or god perhaps. No one treats people they care about like that
There's no centralized system to do this. Everything relies on thousands of little trading businesses. Those businesses are now closed. It will take at best a couple of months to get a different system in place.

If that system gets rolled out, the US as the country is over because it is an admission that the US is not capable of maintaining it's existing economic system.
Yes, but unfortunately, while we don't allow flights from Paris to Seattle, we still allow flights from Miami to Seattle.

Good responses from particular states are undermined by bad responses from others.
No, the morons will just blame the president.
This company does, https://www.siscog.pt/en/
She might qualify but an analysis would need to be done of her qualifications and her COVID-19 research should help with a green card application as well as an O-1 application.
New York has 1,600 ICU beds; there are a bunch of counties in rural America that have zero. The CFR in these counties if the virus gets out of hand will be appalling.
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I've been building and deploying Nim web apps for clients over the past couple years. The language is just getting better and better and the library environment is filling out nicely too (not to subtract from the stdlib, it's very complete too). It's been a really great experience.

Also: available to hire if anyone is looking to work with Nim.
Seems safer to me to park CPUs in known safe spots where they can spin until modification is complete. CPUs could check if there's a pending patch when they attempt to reschedule, and when all CPUs apart from the patching CPU are safe, then the patch can go ahead.

Trying to retry an operation (so it's transparent from the user's perspective) or reset state to the way it was at the time of the protection fault sounds harder to my mind.

PS: I looked at the ftrace doc linked above, and it's architecture dependent of course, but for ftrace's purposes, they use generally use breakpoints on the place being modified.
Research In Motion (RIM) later renamed to BlackBerry Ltd. 37Signals renamed to Basecamp. I wonder if at some point Apple Inc. would rename to iPhone Inc.
My guess we will be out of quarantine by memorial day.
It's hard to be like "omg everyone should have food, shelter and sanitation" and "omg climate change from overpopulation"... There's even a national security memorandum from back in the 1960s discussing various population restriction methods.

Just throwing that out there.
Are you suggesting it wasn’t known that battery replacements were available for iPhones? I know I personally replaced several batteries over the years in iPhones, I don’t think that was a big secret. There were shops you could drop your phone off at and have anew battery put in for fifty bucks in an hour overseas at least.
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Swift: The Future of Machine Learning?
Yeah, I teach python to elementary and middle schoolers. The first lesson is getting everything installed and maybe explaining the basics of how files work on computers. PythonAnywhere is a really good idea though, I should look into that...
Whenever I read these health experts, I get the impression they feel the economy is just some superfluous activity to keep the masses engaged.
Got it. Thanks.

Are security and privacy the reason for the aversion to phone number and social methods?
I think, actually, this statement is misguided, for a couple reasons. Its very likely that people are underestimating the average city's "hospital beds per capita" metric; frankly, a ton of people live in the average city (duh). Are there enough beds in many of America's tier-2 (say, Austin) and tier-3 (say, Cleveland) cities to cover all of the population?

By comparison, outside of cities, the spread will be far, far slower than within. Yes, healthcare is worse, but there's an order of magnitude fewer cases. People travel less. They go to the store once every two weeks, not every 4 days, even when there isn't a quarantine. They don't visit the new hipster restaurant down the street. They don't live twenty feet away from their neighbors.

NYC has 25% of all of the United State's cases, despite having ~2% of the US's population. This is the same story that is playing out in every state. Let's take Indiana as an example, being that they're having a relatively moderate outbreak with mostly rural areas surrounding a top 15 US city by population: Indianapolis has 41% of the state's cases, despite representing ~12% of the state's population.

This shouldn't be a surprise; diseases spread faster in cities. But, what you're asserting is that, eventually, rural areas will see the same spread that cities are. This feels misguided. That isn't to say that some, or even most, rural hospitals wont be "running hot" for a really long time, and that the virus wont spread and these areas, but its simply unlikely that the situation will ever be as bad as in major cities.
Nothing is paused. You will still have to pay for everything, maybe latter, but eventually you will get kicked out.

I will probably go to prison, child support is still enforced. There is ZERO sympathy.
I am actually worried about this issue from a slightly different angle: I think having a sufficiently large population being effectively home-bound for quarantine will result in a larger than expected amount of unplanned pregnancies later in the year. In addition, I am not sure if pregnancy tests and contraception will be considered to be an essential item with respect to timely delivery and restocking. Pharmacies remain open, but if people get worried all at the same time, then the just-in-time supply chain for these items may not prepared. Finally, there is the issue of having sufficient clinic and hospital beds for abortions and pregnancies respectively together with strained and overworked medical staff.

As a slight aside, is there a resource / subreddit for people like myself to raise these sorts of issues with people who can investigate and affect change?
At least we can go self hosted now: https://jitsi.org/
And lets be real- the areas hardest hit have Democrat governors. No one was prepared for this.
Think of it like tinder but for misery
Without a nationwide plan, we won't be able to control the virus. Localized responses is good at controlling hot spots. We need to put out all hot spots at once which requires a federal plan and more testing to control the virus.
Actually you only need to go once a day to get the three meals under this program.
The only financial privilege needed to use a credit card safely and responsibly is the discipline to not spend more than one can pay when the statement arrives. It's nothing more than self control.
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Economies of scale. A $16.50 meal for five is going to be a lot nicer than a $3.30 meal for one. I get that you can cook in bulk, but having variety is in your diet is very important.
One of my nearest neighbor's kids got it here. He had the classic "ring" around the bite and the tick was fairly well gorged and swollen when they pulled it off. So it's here. But that family moved here from Indiana so they didn't grow up with the tradition of daily tick checks like folks living in rural areas here do.

But, damn, that map showing the incidents in the eastern States is sure impressive.

It would be interesting to study the tradition of "tick checks" here and there to get an idea of how that might affect those numbers.
> "rent control" (in the form of not just preventing rents from rising, but also capping the initial lease price landlords are able to ask for) would fix a lot of things.

Why would this stop houses from being left empty? It seems a better idea for stopping housing being left empty is to heavily tax houses which are left empty.
I have not been laid off myself, but I have a a friend that has been laid off, and an acquaintance that has taken a 10% pay cut. Separately I know 3-4 other people that have lost their jobs that are a degree apart, far more than in 08.
Indeed I see it now. The statement was published on April first and no mention in the news was weird.
Superconductivity discovered in extra-terrestrial objects for the first time
I'm planning on trying out the new Prologue framework. Seems promising from the readme!
https://github.com/planety/prologue
All the groceries are currently open. All the farms are currently working, minus migrant labourers, because we would rather have crops rot in the field, than let them into the country. All the truckers are currently hauling.

The only part of the distribution system that isn't working very well because of the shutdown is the part that distributes dollars.

Any service disruptions right now are not due to the shutdown - they are due to the actual effects of the virus. Look at the MTA. Half of its employees are sick, and the other half have called in sick. Train service has been reduced, and passengers are now packed like sardines in a can on the trains that are still running. Look at the supply chain disruptions - they aren't caused by people being stopped from coming in to work - they are because people can't, or are afraid to come into work.

As well they should be, given the state of healthcare in this country. Who is going to pay for their care if they are one of the 20% that need hospitalization after catching it?
https://www.pcmag.com/news/breaking-down-vpn-usage-around-th...

>31% of Chinese internet users use a VPN.

>17% of North American internet users use a VPN.
Zoom has 200M daily users, up from 10M in December
fwiw, TestFlight got absorbed into Apple through an acquisition. so they’re first party now.
Thank you! I missed this doc https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
The short biography was "The Artist and the Mathematician: The Story of Nicolas Bourbaki, the Genius Mathematician Who Never Existed" [0]. It dedicates a good chunk of the book to the life of Grothendieck. Grothendieck was a member of the group that used the Nicolas Bourbaki pseudonym. It's a fun read you can finish in an afternoon. Not sure how accurate it is.

[0]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/208933.The_Artist_and_th...
What majority? If the majority of people are stupid enough to rise against the tyranny of social distancing, they deserve what they get. At least, I hope that doesn't happen.
It uses a rather primitive garbage-collector though, right?
> Aren't there diseases where someone are caused not by the microbe directly but by the body's immune reaction to it?

Yep. For example, that's what causes the "cytokine storm" in COVID-19.
The Black Plague was spread by rodents. Coronavirus currently required a human carrier. I do agree about the "So Far" bit though, if precautions aren't taken, eventually someone will catch it and it'll spread.

It's already happened in a few places.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/us/coronavirus-funeral-al...
There are going to be many excellent comparative epidemiology studies when this is over, comparing the approaches of different countries and what worked and what didn't.
Apply for Express Entry to Canada. Assuming you're qualified you could have a permanent resident card in 180 days. [1]

[1] https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/se...
Kurt Gödel is another sad tale [0]. Died of starvation.

When I was a child, I really enjoyed a book [1] on the topic of brilliant but odd people.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_G%C3%B6del#Later_life_and...

[1] - http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/strange.htm
Why not? I've found Quanta Magazine great reading for pretty much everyone. All I can judge as an expert is their articles on mathematics, and they're not technical reports, but a howler in a Quanta math article is rare, whereas in any other popular article I would expect to find at least one major error per statement.
OT, but I've been getting a lot more feelers for (remote) jobs over the last two weeks. I'm not switching, but I hope that that translates into more work for those who need it.