skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Testing could have been done faster

Testing could have been done at all, period. Until ~two weeks ago, US hasn't been doing any meaningful testing; courtesy of a) FDA/CDC bureaucracy boondoggle, and b) both state and federal governments still thinking "it's just a flu".

> no attempt was made at containment

And why is that?

> would not have made any difference

Monitoring hotspots as they develop would vastly improve the ability to control the spread. Perhaps social distancing measures would've started earlier.

> How many other countries even have a National Stock pile with PPE and ventilators?

You mean the one that's being made by seizing PPEs earmarked for hospitals?

> How many have cargo planes flying supplies?

Everyone who has a cargo plane or can charter one.

> Hospital ships sent to hot spots?

It's just a moving hospital.

> Field hospitals like the ones designed by U.S. Army Corp of Engineers?

Everyone has their version of a field hospital.

> An organization with the capabilities of the CDC?

CDC was even more impotent in this case than WHO.

> The rapid-testing from Abbot Labs?

Strangely not used when it mattered.

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The rest of the world has been watching US response for almost two months now. It's hard to see it as anything but the worst in the entire Western world.
But none of that is 'fraud' - they're being quite straightforward in telling you that they're cancelling and not refunding because they can't afford to refund. It'd only be 'fraud' if they were deceptive. 'Fraud' doesn't just mean 'something against my interests.'
Great work, a friend of mine is molecular biologist and she is furious about how in germany they don't use alternative methods for RNA Extraction like Phenol/Chloroform (labor intensive but no shortage of material) / SPRI (with magnetic beads) or skipping it altogether.
I read the clause and interpreted it as "company can move down the street" not close down and sell my membership.
What’s wrong with this? That’s want he wants from life and found a willing wife to do it.
By that metric, California is doing 10x better than Switzerland with 4x the population. And 10x better than the UK with 0.6x the population.

There are so many variables involved that it's hard to know how to rationally compare different regions. How much is demographics, population density, and other variables vs competence.
I had this exact same issue, but if you're willing to buy "pizza-packs" or "bread-packs" or whatever marketing they put on it. It's just flour + sourdough for a markup.
Here, your phone video will be streamed and made available to your PC applications via WiFi. This is the easiest and most flexible way to do it.

Requirement - both your computer and your android phone should be connected to the same network with android connected via WiFi. That means you can either -

Connect both your phone and computer to the Internet using a wireless router.
Or connect your Android to the pc internet using virtual router (Only for windows 7)
Or connect your Android to the PC with a shared wifi network (needs rooted phone with ad-hoc networking enabled).

Install IP webcam app.
My main beef with the roku is the sluggishness of the UI. And I have a few of them in the house (ultras or whatever the top of the line one was as of six months ago. Amazon had a sale and I bought a few). I also have a bunch of Apple TV 4Ks.

Say I am watching Plex and then want to switch to Netflix and then maybe go over to Channels to watch some News on MSNBC. The Apple TV can do this without reloading the app or losing my place in the video. It is nearly instant. The Roku has to reload the entire app taking a minute and losing my place.

But I do like the Roku remote. So there is that.
Nice idea, but it would likely have problems with regulators. I am not a doctor, but these are my thoughts.

Yes, there are "non-pathogenic" strains. I'm pretty sure that my mild symptoms that encouraged me to self-isolate a week earlier than the government lockdown were the result of one of those strains.

However, SARS-1 had long-term consequences for those who were infected in the past [1]. I think that the risks of these sequelae are the reason why prevention is recommended instead of herd immunity. It's possible that the mild strains of COVID-19 will be so prevalent in the environment that I won't be able to avoid them completely, but pursuing eradication is possible (e.g. smallpox, rinderpest) and will probably be the focus of much public health attention in the decades to come.

Edit: You're right that a live attenuated vaccine like polio can mutate back into a dangerous form, and this has been a problem for eradication efforts. Therefore vaccinated people should self-isolate for 2 weeks to find out whether it will mutate.

Also, as you say, "immunity" might not last for life. Perhaps as little as a few months. Isolate for 2 weeks every 3 months, and risk the vaccine mutating to a more dangerous form? I don't think that's a practical solution. I do agree that the non-pathogenic strains should be researched heavily, as a source of clues for developing a vaccine, it just won't be as simple as infecting people on purpose with a different strain.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr...
In this case, it generates a new resource; ideal for one-off e-mail addresses. If you do a GET on most websites you get a different result as well, e.g. the news has updated or in the case of HN the comments or news order has changed.
So I'm no expert in medical sciences, but have some basic knowledge. Here's what I think:

You're basically proposing a form of vaccination. Essentially everyone knows that a vaccine would be the way out of this mess. There's loads of research on Vaccines for Covid-19 right now. Your idea isn't exceptionally surprising, as you write yourself it's close to how some of the early vaccines worked.

I am reasonably convinced researchers into vaccines right now turn every stone to look for possible ways to make a vaccine as fast as possible. They probably got the idea already and if it's a feasible path someone is working on it.

That said making a vaccine still faces some basic challenges that every medicine faces: You want to be pretty sure that a) it works and b) it has no massive surprising sideeffects. Given that you want to give it to potentially almost everyone on the planet, you want to be really sure.
Yeah, the Feds actions here sound terrible but there have been a whole bunch of stories of hospitals themselves being a shit of unwillingness to buy and unwillingness to use masks.

The problem is the Fed should be competent enough to centralize the process but they seem to have made themselves just one more part of the mess.
100% serious, not a low-effort political comment: I don't think they're at all afraid of being accused of being partial.

Over the last few years, one of the things that has bothered me the most is that the strategy of saying "fake news" or "bad journalist" (for males) or "nasty question" (for women) and proceeding full steam ahead is proving to be remarkably effective. There is zero accountability.
Absurd? Really?
How about people "stackoverflowing" solutions? Yea, blame the examples, not the implementers...
Sure, you don't develop something on the side for an existing IDE which treats your content as remote and potentially insecure, prohibiting access to DOM and other useful APIs like embedding editors. If you are building an end product for particular developers you want to be in the control of final developer experience, you don't want to deal with limitations of iframes because your content is not remote, you want to change styles, access DOM and have good integration with editors. Consider new Arduino IDE, they have to provide similar UX as old IDE for smooth transition. It requires disabling many features by default and complete restyling and rebranding. There is no way to do it with VS Code apis.
For all our sakes, I wish you the best of luck with this idea. I'm sorry I don't know how to help you but your idea sounds promising and it's super invigorating to see high agency people try to implement their solutions to our problems! :)
Another interesting read on the topic (April 2016): https://www.facebook.com/notes/blake-ross/aphantasia-how-it-...
Ok I'll bite: they provide a marketplace for people to list and book rentals. You may not like it but it's what they do.
Wait, Am I the only one to notice right away that FF FINALLY added a "Default Zoom" option to its settings? Or has this been there before recently and I've missed it? If this is new then THANKS 1000x.

For YEARS this was my main annoyance with FF of not having a general zoom added to all webpages and was the only browser that didn't. FF would remember your set zoom for sites (provided you didn't check "site preferences" in clearing history) but it just became so tedious to have to manually zoom pages you haven't visited before.I even tried to resort to some clumsy add-ons that tried to makeup for lack of system wide zoom

{FF as default browser user since Opera died and went to being chrome. Although I do test others out once in while like Brave/Vivaldi/EdgeChrome I'm still loyal}
Pardon my ignorance, but does the test detect the actual virus or fragments that result from the infection?
According to Berlin 5€ per m² is a fair market value for a 50+ year old apartment. It's obvious that new construction can never reach a price that is this absurdly low.

I've never understood this focus on rental pricing. The problem has never been the price, how can prices constantly go up if nobody can afford them? Well, the answer is that someone can actually afford the price and for some reason you are competing with that person that is far more richer than you. Remember one of the core causes of inflation? Too much money chasing too few goods? It's not just printing an excessive amount of money that is necessary to cause inflation. You also need a shortage of goods. You need to have more people than housing to cause inflation of rental prices. If there are 10 houses but 15 people then you can be assured that landlords will only care about renters with high incomes and construction companies will focus on building for these high income people first and only after there is enough housing will they build housing for the less wealthy residents.
Everyone knew what was happening in China. The starting line was the same for all countries. I became 100% sure we were in for a hospital-overrunning pandemic by mid-January. I can tell because that's when I started emailing friends/family telling them to stock up for a quarantine.
Interesting. I have the 4K Apple TV and sometimes apps feel extremely sluggish. Netflix clearly has some sort of compounding problem (maybe a memory leak) where simply scrolling through the app gets progressively slower until it’s nearly completely unusable. Killing and restarting the app fixes it temporarily.
It is the same with one's ego: the less noise your ego makes, the more you are able to see of other people.

http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
Totally not serious stab at actual semantic representation of your claim in clojure.

(state-claim
(but
(past-tense
(desire (learn me clojure)))
(past-tense
(realize me (not (good-fit? me clojure))))))
He did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22810925
you can check with with https://centralmilling.com/store/#central-milling-organic

most of it's out of stock as of right now, but they're updating their stock every day. I was able to order a 25 pound bag of flour from them yesterday. Take a look in the morning and you may have some luck.
Using markup does not really change anything, that is just a way of serializing a data structure. You can represent the same information in normalized form.
1. It's _some_ students demand automatic pass.

2. What students actually need IMHO is no tuition for this semester, and the opportunity for a do-over next semester (if the crisis is over by then). But that's more difficult to demand, so these people go for an easier, and lamer, alternative.
I'm sure you could hack something together if you're not too worried about the design or long-term duribility. For us it's really just a side business right now to compensate for our main business not attracting many customers right now.
I encountered the “No meme” that I mentioned on Twitch (twitch.tv). Over there, “No meme” is similar to “No joke” and “memeing” is similar to “joking” except that there is an overarching theme/meme that is being referred to as part of the joke in question. Sorry, I should I have been more clear.
Considering this is relating to an API, the mention of whether to use GET or another method implies a REST API, in which case GET is described as:

> safe, meaning that applying it to a resource does not result in a state change of the resource (read-only semantics)

It should never be used to -create- anything, only to retrieve existing resources (and not change their state). For creating we have POST requests. Obviously no one is going to care or do anything about it if you use GET, but if we're going to be pedantic le
t's not mischaracterise GET requests.
Various sources are putting the base rate of Aphantasia between 1% and 3%. Both myself and my brother have it, but neither of our parents do. I feel like this is evidence for it being a recessive inherited disorder. Considering we're both male, it might also be weak evidence for X-linked recessive in particular.
They don’t reduce risk of infection in day to day situations. They’re specialized medical tools used in appropriate situations.

Also, please put on a mask and leave your house. You aren’t on permanent curfew. Do some essential activities each day.
I'm not an expert in this area, but I don't see nationalization as the best answer. If you have a government that can handle airlines better, then it could be considered. In India, Air India is the nationalized carrier. The amount of taxpayer money it has wasted while providing substandard services is truly appalling. I think it's better to let certain businesses just fail and deal with the effects of those failures than propping them up through unsustainable means. In any case, the people working in the industry would need some sort of support from society.
Maybe this lisp syntax intro is a good place to ask veterans a related question.

I find s-expressions quite beautiful and simplistic way to express both logic and data as a tree. On the other hand, top-level evaluation rules are often glossed over, and seem to mess up this elegance. I feel like there is a set of braces missing at top level, for s-expression concept to be complete. I don't really know enough about specific rules or reasoning why they need to be introduced. My mental model of top-level execution is an implicit `(do ...)` block. In rest of clojure code the `do` is a special form that is frowned upon because it is used only when side-effects are necessary.

As it is, the 'module' concept is strictly tied to a file, which feels unnecessary. If top-level was enclosed in braces and evaluated with same rules as the rest of s-expressions, maybe we could move away from concept of files and, for example, store our code in a graph database. This would allow for IDEs that can collapse and expand code tree as needed.

Rich Hickey uses expression 'place oriented programming' as derogatory term (PLOP) for relying on exact memory addresses as places for our data. It would seem to me that same term would apply to our coding practices - we tie code implementation to specific locations inside files on disk. This seems like accidental complexity that introduces mental burden. If location of implementation could be divorced from specific location inside specific source file, we could concentrate on implementation that is always in context where code is actually used.

Is there any decent discussion of such concepts, or some other language that explores such direction? I'm lacking both terminology and in-depth knowledge of code evaluation to express this in more clear way.
The great thing about Clojure is that it's not tied to the JVM. JVM is just one of the hosts.

So I mostly do frontend development at the time and I know Clojure since before. Because of those two variables, I've chosen to use ClojureScript so now I 99% of my professional time write only ClojureScript, with the remaining time being 1% JS when needed. Otherwise the only time I see JS is when I have to understand how a library works.

So I agree with you on the Java side, I'm not a Java developer and I want to stay far away from it, but I love Clojure and I need to be close to it, any other language feels inefficient and slows me down. But there are other hosts you can use, if needed.
But that just means people won't delete any of the quoted message and you'll end up with an entire thread of messages above the actual email, which is going to be very confusing for users.
Yes, Metroid III (SNES) was the last game in the series that let you go off track. I've played through it many times and never took the exact same route. Everytime it's a new experience. It's unfortunate that the games that came later copied pretty much everything from Metroid III except for this.
My brother in law has aphantasia. We've had long conversations comparing our experience, or lack thereof, of mental images. One thing he says is that for remembering faces, its more like he can store a hash or metadata of a face, then when seeing a person again, can check that the hash or meta matches. Also, he doesn't get "earworms", that is, pieces of music that encode and replay in his mind ad nauseum. When asked to imagine a given piece of music, he inadvertently hums.
Yeast. I haven’t needed yeast in years, recently I found a recipe with yeast I wanted to try and found out that, at least where I am in Germany, yeast is sold out.

I heard about the webcam thing from my boss, he asked me if he gave me a webcam years ago when I started remote working. He did, but it was in the attic and I had to go looking for it ;)
A word by word replacement would be great. For example in an RPG, begin in all English but as you go on begin to slowly replace common words (with explanations as necessary); then later begin to fix grammar and sentence structure.

I recently read Shogun and it's pretty interesting how you pick up a few bits of the language here and there.
Europe is ahead of the US in this pandemic so it's not currently possible to say that somewhere in the US is doing better than a comparable location in Europe based on the raw numbers (for that one would need to look at stats relative to e.g. time since n cases).

On the other hand, it is possible to say if they seem to be doing worse.
I think the odds are about 2 to 3 that the wealthy and connected in the US use the pandemic as an excuse to use free money to wholesale loot everyone else.
So how would this compare to the naïve approach of using a cursor in another fast, memory-mapped database, like LMDB?
No, it’s if they made the money themselves or not
That assumes people who read it actually have been in school; there are a LOT that never had anything about database design.

Your other points make a lot of assumptions and there's a lot of footguns in them but other commenters have pointed them out already.
They don’t provide the general public any significant protection. It’s basically the same as not wearing one, except you’re condemning health professionals to increased risk, exposure, and possible death.
The 'proper' IKEA standing desks you mention are all sold out here in Australia. I had a look at the OLOV legs but it looks like they only go up to 90cm.
Easy to say now. Back then, probing probing, always probing...
I'm working on a similar project [1], so here's a short feedback:

- Closing widgets does not work correctly (add widget 1 and widget 2, close widget 2 => widget 1 closes).

- I cannot move some widgets (the last one? or after removing one? not sure here to reproduce)

- Are there any custom widgets, or are all of them iframes to existing sites?

[1] https://dashboard.darekkay.com/
You can make your own yeast: https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/31/21199708/yeast-diy-baking...
Does Linus still actively work on git? According to this he handed the core maintainer role in 2005.

Pretty crazy I use git, and love computer history yet have never heard of junio Hamano
Monoprice is your friend. Single motors (cheaper) are OOS but dual motors and hand cranks are still available.

Couldn't be happier with the dual motor I bought a few weeks ago.
Nothing about that person is intellectual, all about gaslighting and fear-driven policing.
You’re not listening to what he said. He argued no such thing. You however seem content to deprive doctors and nurses of important tools and compromise their safety and patient safety so you can selfishly take something that provides zero protection to you.
With my underwater basket weaving degree that I want the government to forgive my student debt on? A long time.
Does anyone seriously believe that the various 3-letter agencies will keep their nasty little fingers off this? And that once the vaccine arrives, we may as well keep it in place "for the sake of the children"?
Germany decided to mix 10 specimens and run a test, only then - if positive - test individual samples. They increased their testing capacity 10x (roughly) overnight. https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic...
So you're saying it's a good idea to write what your types are in your code, but rather than writing them in a form that can be automatically checked by a computer and used for code completion and refactoring, you prefer to write them in a comment?
In the US, individual states had to affirmatively enact law to allow it. Virginia was the first, which I recall as they were the only place I could find one back around 2010 for a transaction. There are still only a few, slowly increasing.

In the UK, I believe they are only authorized within the City of London (=/= “London”). But it looks like they can do “international” documents.

The gripping hand here is whether your receiving party will accept an online notarized doc even if you can get it done. Best to confirm that first.
Why on Earth not?

They're simply ASCII files, of various encodings.

And mutt does, QED.
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