skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're espousing an unfounded conspiracy theory based on a very forced interpretation of one person's offhanded remark.

Instantly disprovable with facts:

1. NY is not politically aligned with Trump in the least. They have received a huge amount of federal support.

2. Los Angeles is not politically aligned with Trump, they have also received significant federal support.

This kind of intellectual dishonesty among the anti-Trump is as shocking as Trump's own level of intellectual dishonesty.
I have a lot of friends across the planet and everyone seems to think they are handling it better than others, when provided with proof otherwise they have a toolkit of responses to murky the waters.

The US response has been utterly terrible. For a government that spends far more per person on healthcare it's absolutely shocking. This isn't including private/insurance payments.

Completely dropped the ball and the whole world is watching you do it.

Here's a nice quick map to view how it's playing out across the planet: https://google.com/covid19-map/?hl=en
The Nostalgia Machine
I'm curious, I've been seeing a lot of calls for 3D printing similar looking Face shields, which are very different from face masks. What is the use for this? Are they actually useful to health care professionals? Face mask + goggles fully covers the 3 places the virus can enter (mouth, nose and eyes), but these shields seem like they would be more useful for people who have the virus than those who don't.
> I have to say that running into a partisan defending the honor of the late Mohammad Reza Pahlavi on the internet is a new experience

That's a really unnecessary quip to make against GP, especially since you failed to address the substance of his argument.
> Separating makes searching/indexing on last name easier.

What do you mean "last name"?

If you have two last names, then what?

If you have no last name, then what?

> Keeping them separate inevitably results in a convention to put company names in the last name field for corporations

If you only have a single field for name, this problem disappears.
> The stuff goes to places politically aligned with president.

Do you have a source for this? The article here doesn't say where the stuff is going.
"This story is available exclusively on Business Insider Prime."
You can test all you want, with a spread like in the USA, there will be trouble to have proper treatment for all the cases. If such testing had begun earlier, then maybe lock down or near lock down scenarios could have been avoided. I see little chance, even with such 1 mio tests, to get it back under control without some kind of lock down or similar restriction to slow the spread. Where do you put all the infected people without locking down? If everyone infected is just told to stay at home, even if everyone complies, it is like a self quaranteen, like a lock down for those people.
> Has the author seen an actual police state?

Have you? It usually starts with people excusing and defending police state behavior. And usually happens during "days of chaos and confusion".

> As long as Americans see the police force as an evil to be starved

We see the police, like government/etc, as necessary evils.

> instead of a social necessity to be filled with capable people with proper training, the police will never get the funding or oversight needed for improvement.

What? Police are already well funded. Some police department are funded better than armies.

> The cycle continues.

Hopefully as it is the only way to maintain a free and civil society. The state naturally tends toward tyranny and a free people naturally tend toward anarchy. If the "cycle" doesn't exist, it means we are living in a tyranny or anarchy.
I'd extend this to all his writings.
I have nothing against Clojure, but I agree with Donald Knuth who said: "Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute." [1].

I could be wrong, but I don't find Clojure to be "simple" for humans to read (or write). Here is an example from the blog post:

So let’s write a simple one. Let’s write the factorial function.
(defn fac [x] (if (= x 1) 1 (* x (fac (dec x)))))

Note the "simple one" here. I don't know for others, but this is not simple for me as a human to read, understand and reason about. For instance:

if (= x 1)

As a human, I read this like "if equals x one", which does not translate to my natural language where I would say "if x equals one". So I need an additional mental effort to do the translation. This is not the case in other languages where "if x equals one" would be written like "if x = 1" or "if (x == 1)". If the gap between the natural language and programming language is big, it is difficult for a human to use that programming language. And for Clojure, this gap is big IMO.

(I (wanted) (to learn ((some)) Clojure in the past) but [quickly] ([(realized it was (not) for me)])) [2].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16430751

[2]: https://twitter.com/b_e_n_a_s/status/1244417191556063234?s=2...
Trump and his minions have to get their cut.
I could say that with Dirigible you can experience one of the fastest development turnaround times due to the In-System Development paradigm.

For example, exposing REST service is extremely easy: https://www.dirigible.io/api/http_rs.html. Just (1) create new project and new *.js file, (2) paste the example code and (3) save the file, the service is already exposed and you can see the result of the execution in the Preview view (or just copy the URL in a new tab).

Another big topic is the Low-Code/No-Code development - after some modeling, Dirigible generates for you a full-stack application with Database Tables, CRUD REST services and UI.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im_BMYNnLZQ

The project started almost 10 years ago and since 5 it is member of the Eclipse foundation.

In the end I could say that Dirigible is perfect for the job it was created, but you have to try it out for yourself to build confidence in it. Getting first hand experience is straightforward - (1) just go to https://www.dirigible.io/, (2) click on the "Try it Out" button and (3) try some of the samples available here: https://www.dirigible.io/samples/
What make you think that US's handling has been better than most European countries?

The situation looks worse to me.
If he was serious he'd know to spend the money on Covid-19, and only that.

Vanity projects like girl’s health and education, and UBI show he's just not serious about the current issues at hand. (These are low even without covid-19 and have a lot of funding already)

Plus girls heath and education is best helped through helping pregnant mothers / with children up to 2 years. But that's science over feels.
> That's not fun, that's boring. The fun part is looking at the data and gleaming all these potential patterns from it, seeing what potential is there and what could be

Exactly! This is the reason why I love my job. It gets even better when you uncover a non-intuitive insight.
I think that's great that 67% of supply was quickly re-allocated. Imagine if this was a hotel. How many people would loose jobs and how many buildings would have to be demolished.
> The stuff goes to places politically aligned with president.

Not even. It is going in to HHS/FEMA warehouses where "vetted" medical suppliers can buy the inventory at wholesale rates and resell it to hospitals at market rate. A prominent GOP fundraiser just quit his day job to start a company named Blue Flame that within a week was on this coveted list.

Edit: I found a good Reddit comment that lays it all out with sources: https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/fwu2m0/hospitals_...
> denormal will have better performance

No it wont! In general it will have worse performance. Deliberate denormalization can be used to optimize for particular queries but it will make other operations more expensive and/or error prone. So it has to be done very carefully and with a full understanding of cost vs benefit.

And many database systems supports materialized queries which give the same optimization without having to compromise the schema.
The handling in the UK was bungled as well. But most of the countries we are doing better than had community spread much earlier than us and we had the giant advantage of seeing what happened in Italy and preparing.

I think if community spread had started as early as in the U.S. as those countries I think we'd be in a much worse spot than many of them.
And yet anything more substantial than a single-line function clearly demonstrates the breadth of syntax required in Haskell comparatively, e.g. https://gist.github.com/honza/5897359
Can definitely relate to this. Work for big consulting firm (F500) as a data scientist, end up in this weird software engineer/ml engineer hybrid role.

I personally love it but am doing more pure software engineering now as the infrastructure is not there and I need to build it myself.
Yes I do plan to open source it soon. It will be open-source and free.
Evolving a cure for Covid-19 using computationally guided antibody discovery
--

I could not find a single link that nicely summed up the effort happening at Distributed Bio / Centivax - With that in mind, here are a few different pages and videos about this interesting project.

--

Announcement about successfully engineering potent picomolar antibodies that block known neutralizing ACE2 epitopes, preventing the novel coronavirus from infecting human cells.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzX2qlyn_MM

A video about how they are using ML to analyze and mutate their existing CoV1 antibodies to block CoV2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkbycGC_fsQ

A Centivax page (not sure how it fits with Distributed Bio but seems to be connected) that explains the project as a whole.

https://www.centivax.com/covid19

A page that describes the underlying effort to engineer monoclonal therapeutics against 21st-century pathogens through computationally guided antibody discovery.

https://www.centivax.com/monoclonals

This all sounds very hopeful and interesting to me. That said, it would be great to hear from some folks on HN who have a deeper understanding of all of this.
> Most businesses that need the loans have been closed for 2-3 weeks now and it will most likely take at least another 2-3 weeks for them to see any money from those loans in their bank accounts[0,1], if they are lucky enough to qualify. Very few can wait that long before having to close for good.

I agree - but that wasn't the point you raised in your original post.

> So you only get up to 8 weeks of payroll, from the moment you get the loan (it won't cover anything you already paid), and then at least 75% must be used for payroll. So for example a restaurant, is very unlikely to be able to meet those requirements, because they are barely employing anyone right now, and their biggest expense is their lease, which they won't be able to cover with 25% of the PPP loan that should be used for their payroll.

The intent of the program would be for the restaurant to maintain their payroll at pre-shutdown levels, rehiring and paying their employees to do nothing if necessary.
At that point I think you have gone above Conway's Game of Life and are now just in the superset of "Cellular Automata".
This is my least favorite thing about Wikipedia -- it's taken all of the whimsy out of general knowledge resources.
It's gotten amazingly slow while it used to set example for other sites.

That said, most real estate related sites suck very badly. It's almost like everyone should stick to a single platform or smth.
Gsm Feature Codes
Trying to find codes that work for note 10 plus with Verizon
funny how rust doesn't seem to let you easily work with dynamically sized array. Why pick a hashmap to represent the world instead of a vec ?
Mind linking, that sounds terrible.
A Simpler Origin for Life
Yes that is correct. Email outgoing mechanism usually stores in a Queue and providers retry sending mail for about 3 days (depends on provider to provider).

And if deliver fails, the sender also gets an email (from their own MTA) mentioning that delivery failed.
"But the agency has refused to provide any details about how these determinations are made or why it is choosing to seize some supply orders and not others. Administration officials also will not say what supplies are going to what states."

This seems incredibly negligent at best. If they're afraid of being accused of being partial, transparency about the rules and procedures are essential. They way they handle it now will only stoke the fire of mistrust and conspiracy theories. How can a government be this inept?
Secrets stored in cookies really shouldn't be accessible, the Set-Cookie HttpOnly flag should stop all JS access to a cookie. The HttpOnly flag still submits a cookie when you do an ajax GET/POST, but you cannot access the cookie via document.cookie or similar.

There's also external resource integrity checks which prevent modification of third party resources without breaking the local site. jQuery CDN code snippets do this by default: https://code.jquery.com/ .

You can't trust one script to access a cookie without trusting all scripts to access the same cookie though - while I can see some merit to the idea when it comes to hiding secrets from XSS/untrusted code, I'd say that in most (99.9%) situations effort would be better spent actually implementing CSP and good data sanitation rather than caring about implementing JavaScript level trust models.
Resources to Support Small Farmers and Local Food Systems During Covid-19
> “Irish slavery” is usually a sign someone is a racist asshole who has no idea what they’re talking about.

So long for the praised HN guidelines.
https://www.universalhub.com/2020/baker-got-krafts-involved-...

The Feds seized 3M masks that Massachusetts purchased. The governor found a supplier to get more masks and had the Patriots (football team) fly their jet to China to pick them up to avoid seizure.

Massachusetts has transported 300,000 masks from that mission to NYC under state police escort: https://www.masslive.com/patriots/2020/04/coronavirus-respon...
Summary of the idea from the link in the sibling comment, partially in the words of the author (edited by me):

[There might be] natural strains of SARS-CoV-2 in the world that have mutated to be non-pathogenic (asymptomatic), but are still infective and will provide immunity to the more pathogenic (deadly) strains.

[If there are and] we can find one of these non-pathogenic viral strains out in the wild we could [use it] much like the live attenuated (oral) polio vaccine.

The submitter seeks help to test this hypothesis.
As someone living in an area that is frequented by AirBnB travellers, mostly young people who want to party, I agree. This house has become a pain.
I haven't read any of their book yet but I found they have page with book collections:
https://dl.acm.org/collections
It’s okay to admit you’re wrong. It’s okay to not understand everything. It’s okay to defer to experts.

So many people on HN and in tech have the same attitude that if they just spend 5 minutes thinking about something then they can intuit an answer and that they must be right. This is a dangerous way of thinking. If anyone took what you’ve been saying as correct they’d be endangering themselves and depriving medical professionals of tools they need.
I believe https://luna-lang.org has plans like this, though they're kinda definitely not hurrying things...
IMO, using DNS for anything other than hostname lookups is a complete hack. I'm looking at you, SPF.
It's already a mandated option in Italy; there are a large number of jobs that can be done with a little adjustment from home.

On the other hand, some jobs (e.g: lawyer reviewing some documents together?) require some tech that it's not there since there was not a necessity. I wonder if some startups targeting specific niches like that will rise.
What if you're ordering by 'last name'?

Say it's an HR app. Do you just assume the last word in the name is the last name?
> Face mask + goggles fully covers the 3 places the virus can enter (mouth, nose and eyes)

I believe face masks are only 95% effective at best and that's only with a proper N95 which a lot of medical staff appear not to be able to get hold of. Hence they're wearing things like Buffs or cycling masks to make do. In that situation, having another layer that can stop droplets etc. from reaching the mask in the first place makes sense to me.

Plus it stops a whole lot of messy body fluids from reaching the mask and goggles which cuts out a swap/clean cycle (again, difficult if there's no spares!)

[Edit to correct 'googles' to 'goggles', FFHS]
Presumably you could just ask them for it then, and seize it as a last resort and explain why. There's no reason to take it without explanation.
Once you come to understand that the federal US response has nothing to do with health or saving lives and everything to do with various people lining their pockets it makes more sense.

At least California (and more specifically, the Bay Area) seem to be on top of it.
Playing with Systems of Equations and Conditionals
You have to just remind yourself what signals come in during a crisis (esp new kinds people aren't trained for) takes a while to make sense off. Nothing will make sense initially.

Even for decision makers up and down the hierarchy. Most of the time people, even responsible people with good intent, have no clue what the right move is. But they have to make moves for all kinds of reasons. And problems compound.

It takes time for mistakes to surface and unwind things. So give it time.
> which I assume isn't primarily Japanese speakers, otherwise they wouldn't be using romaji for the names

Romaji gets used for stylistic purposes for plenty of things that aren't meant for non-Japanese. Surely as a manga reader you would notice this?

I don't see what about a computer screen makes rotating text impossible. People don't literally rotate the thing they're reading when it's done in print either. Text rotated 90° gets used posters (which you can't rotate) too. I've even seen it done in America.
GET can also be cached by intermediate proxies. This can cause failures that are very hard to troubleshoot. POST cannot be cached and therefore is more suited to this type of action.
> They’re fine little web browsers if you manage to enable web browser acceleration for the integrated intel video card.

Hardware acceleration makes things slower, not faster.

> Software rasterizers can’t keep up with that (even on 32 core, >200W TDP xeons, from what I’ve seen...)

You're nuts. Software rasterizers keep up with DOS games just fine, even on an old 386.

It's the fact that they're trying to use Javascript and other garbage-collected or object-oriented languages to code these rasterizers.
Who’s Still Hiring During Covid-19?
I installed the game but it crashes immediately on opening. I'm on an oldish phone (OnePlus Two) which may explain why.
Pretty sure only hn admins can edit a title.
Five years of Raspberry Pi clustering
> Americans should stop acting like a pointy-haired boss running over sysadmins. It's getting ridiculous.

If you aren't american, why do you care?

> Also, if you want to protest police brutality there are legitimate cases all around the country.

Police state isn't about brutality. It's about control. Like where you can go, when you can go, how you should exist. It's pretty much a state of mind. Where the population, out of fear, will accept any restrictions without pushback.

> You don't need to sell made-up outrage.

Physical restriction isn't "made-up" outrage. A single case of police brutality is horrible but not the end of the world. Police state is systematic. Also, people can be upset at both. Not sure what your angle is here.

It's strange how you relentless defend authority and cavalierly dismiss the issues of police state.
> It's called network effect. Just because it is open source won't magically make it federated and it certainly won't - magically or otherwise - convince a majority of users to leave their friends behind for a new network.

That's why I wrote about alternative compatible servers creation. Do you think it would be impossible?

> That doesn't help unless you have a verifyable build process.

This is true, and reproducible builds are getting better every day: https://reproducible-builds.org/
Not being pedantic, then, but is GET even the right verb to create a resource?
As opposed to his decades of work in pharmaceutical-related areas of organic biochemistry, yeah.
Your analysis kind of matches with Kelly's betting. 3 times is the optimal: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4230171-how-to-apply-card-c...
I'm not sure "you might want to look into this service that's unreliable and costs extra money" makes for a very compelling proposition.

This is exactly the kind of example that makes vertical integration so often more consumer-friendly.
Face shields provide specific protection against bodily fluids: sneezes, blood sprays, etc., that would further soil the masks you wear underneath them.

This study talks through the advantages of adding them to the repertoire for infectious disease control as part of your PPE: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5015006/
Nope! As I said in there, this is inherently in the nature of doing a PhD, and having done research in undergrad and MS I knew that going on. May not make it easier to go through tough stuff, but it does make it easier to not lose desire to do PhD.
It is typical to sort such things in multiple columns. You just need to decide if people with no last name sort first or last.
I don't get it.

How long can it take it build machines that produce masks?

It's been weeks with this shortage. By now, there should be some production lines that spit out a couple of million a day off these things.
To Firefox's credit, generally you don't need to. Almost everything I work with, outside of bleeding-edge experimental features, ends up in a setup where I write something for chrome and it works flawlessly in Firefox. And safari. It's only IE where solidly "old, tried and true" browser features end up breaking down in bizarre and interesting ways.

The only reason we have this big conversation about "supporting" different browsers is because one single holdout has been that bad for so long.

And to even MS's credit, I think a large part of that has been the fact that they're not "evergreen" (i.e forcing all users to be on the current version). They've always been doomed by the fact that "what they're judged on" isn't their current work, but is usually the version that's _almost a decade_ out of date.
Ask HN: Why are there no online notary services in the EU?
I'm in Denmark right now, and we need to notarize documents, the notary public is closed for anything that is not a business (which seems pretty unfair). So I looked for online notary services and it doesn't seem like I can find any EU ones, I suppose there must be a reason (like an EU ruling making it not worthwhile etc.)
I would add that the hypothesis can be checked very quickly and cheaply by genomic sequencing.

I can afford the cost of all the sequencing, what I need is access to a large number of samples from people infected with mild cases of COVID-19. My best estimate is you would need to look at north of 5000 samples to find a strain with the right sort of gene deletion.
> The situation looks worse to me.

What matters is numbers, not how things "look".
3M as in the mask manufacturer or as in 3E6? :D
I'm not sure what the solution is and I'm certainly no fan of Trump but I think his rise is strongly related to things being so bad they provoke protest votes.

There has been American ruling for a long time, certainly the period we might now call the good times. IE, once they did an adequate job. If there's a cynical nihilism among the voters, the willingness of the broad political class to provoke this feeling has to get a lot of blame.