skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm really not a medical expert at all. But, just thinking about it one could at least speculate or argue: A smaller payload means the virus takes a longer time to "become very active" in the body and delaying this "ramp up" period may give your body's immune response a longer lead time from when it first "sees" the virus to when it becomes dangerous to you.
I get what you're trying to say, but there are plenty of people who are legitimately equally opposed to both major candidates in many elections. No party should feel entitled to a vote and label those who oppose them as "protest votes".

If you think a given politician is bad, that your candidate is better, and you lose, then that's just how it is. Nobody was supposed to vote for you. If you align with a political party, then was the party's job to pick a candidate that was at least likeable. If they lose, it's because someone found the other party more appealing for some reason. (This, of course, ignores vote rigging, voter intimidation, and other methods of actively suppressing/discarding votes)

There are politicians out there you'd think are absolute demons based off internet comments and they only won because of so-called "protest votes", but going outside and talking to people, it's surprising how much support they have. It becomes pretty clear why they won.
I hope a doctor or nurse or respiratory therapist can correct me, but my layman’s impression is that intubation itself isn’t causing deaths as much as having to be intubated means you’re already in dire straits.

I was recently intubated 3 times in the last month and had no ill effects. I know that’s just an anecdote but no doctor ever told me it would be super risky. The alternative to not getting it however usually meant death.
Train and Bus Cleaning
Those two snippets are not equivalent. If you were trying to make an argument in good faith, you would have read the code properly and seen that for yourself, and/or read the comments below the snippets which point this out and link to a further explanation.
Android users hit with 'unkillable malware'
On a separate note - DVDT and billiontoone (David and Bobby) - you guys have been impressive on how you have handled the conversation in this thread. You are polite, informative and a template for me to follow. In addition to what you guys are doing, kudos on your PR skills.
But that's if things stay bad for awhile.

Tourism was the first sector to suffer in this crisis and my guess is it will be the last to recover.
In the UK pretty much every courier offers a pickup service. You book it in, they give you a label to print, they turn up and take it. It's probably exactly like that. If you order from 6 shops, they ship 6 packages to you.
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Also current situation shows there is a 100 year risk that will likely return the average risk of short term renting to the original (pre AirBnB) value. So in a Long enough time frame AirBnB didn‘t change anything?
What I was perhaps clumsily saying is that no matter what argument I make to say that I think exploiting loopholes is dishonest, there will be an argument based on a different definition of the word that will refute my argument. Any min-maxer worth their salt will surely use that approach and so no meaningful dialog is possible on that front.
Most Userdir URLs like that just go to 404 pages anyway. That is the bigger problem.
I've been aiming for x86-64 calling conventions, but must admit I've had a tendency to mix them up. It doesn't matter much in this case though. There are no variadic functions used in this post. I'm cheating a lot with the printf-function. You can see the implementation here: https://github.com/bordplate/js86/blob/master/Emulator/Proce...
And flour. Had to put my sourdough starter in cryosleep.
Does esophageal intubation happen much? I was intubated a month ago due to non-COVID respiratory failure. I also ended up getting pneumonia but no one knows when I got it. If that happened to me would my medical team have told me? Speaking generally obviously since you don’t know my case of course.
You are ignoring the parent‘s point, that IS&T is responsible for that software.
PILLAGE was too long, so we use GET.
CPUSets Linux Kernel Documentation
Ahahah, this reminds me: after I learnt unicycling and started practising it on longer paths, I started hearing a weird regular "tick" sound from somewhere in the uni(cycle). I was wondering if something's broken, but it was hard to "debug":

- the sound obviously stopped when I stopped riding,

- just turning the uni's wheel on the ground didn't seem reproduce the noise,

- you can imagine it's kinda not very easy to look down and esp. reach for various parts of the uni when you're riding.

At some point I finally managed to look down for long enough to discover, that it was the sound of my shoelace flailing around and hitting the shoe with every turn of the wheel... I realized that this sound must be there even on a "normal" bike, but uni is apparently so much quieter...
Pay closer attention during chaos
Very cool but I think the ~ $170 license for Inlets might be a deal killer for most.
You are right, the image on the website is just very small. The input USB port is the one that is mini-USB, probably for durability reasons (microUSB breaks easily).
>Here's a nice quick map to view how it's playing out across the planet: https://google.com/covid19-map/?hl=en

I found this map breaks down the case numbers with a higher level of detail https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...
Database Upgrade with Docker
The saddest part is that her life savings was $6k.
I'm basing my comments on data:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

In what way did the U.S. "completely drop the ball"?

As far as I can tell there are two things that could have been done better:

1. Much more funding for the National Stockpile of PPE and ventilators.

2. An early attempt to do a lock down.

Testing could have been done faster, but given that no attempt was made at containment, this likely would not have made any difference. It may have made things worse in some cases.

How many other countries even have a National Stock pile with PPE and ventilators? How many have cargo planes flying supplies? Hospital ships sent to hot spots? Field hospitals like the ones designed by U.S. Army Corp of Engineers? An organization with the capabilities of the CDC? The rapid-testing from Abbot Labs?

The U.S. has done a reasonably competent job as far as I can tell. The U.S. has a very good expert leading the federal response, in Dr. Fauci. How many countries have such an expert in charge of their response?
How else we could shatter the illusion that heroes exist?
Have you ever used a complex database in a formal, by-the-book, third normal form?

The number of tables explodes, the number of joins become a pain and every single data change requires careful planning.

As for the "many database systems support materialized queries", I only know of a few that truly do: Oracle and DB2.

PostsgreSQL supports them, but you need to handle updating them yourself. SQL server kind of supports them, but are limited.

In other RDBMs you can work around that using triggers (or similar concepts), but that IMHO is definitely a bad practice and the times I've used that (usually because there was no other option) has only brought me grief.
If anything his comment reinforces negative stereotypes about the two regions. So many people in the Bay Area look down on Oakland like it’s a blighted disease-ridden wasteland and think the peninsula is some kind of haven for the rich and well off.
Show HN: Wiza 2.0 is on Product Hunt
Please tell that the virus, if you take a closer look at even warmer spots like New Orleans.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/map-reveals-hidde...
My guess is that it's a simpler approach. Maildir stores messages in files, so persistence out of the box.

Meanwhile https://thehackernews.com/2020/01/openbsd-opensmtpd-hacking....
And US numbers look really, really bad compared to Europe.
Why don't they just sell some airplanes to covert the refund costs?
> Makes you wonder if the real reason they built that feature in the first place was as an excuse to monitor everything you watch and monetize that data.

It is. Roku has a lot of competitors (google, Amazon, all sorts of cheap mfrs) yet you seen their device in the impulse buy displays by the cash registers in Safeway. They aren’t making money on the sale of the device, it’s on the ads and more importantly the info stream.
Apollo Client and Local State Management
> Names should be stored as display_name, first_name, and last_name. A display name is not the same as just first plus last. They have different purposes, so don’t shove them together.

It all comes down to the purpose of the database. There is no one-size-fits-all solution. For a hospital which need to register newborns, you can't even count on everyone having a name. For a library database, you need both first name and last name of authors, since books are sorted by authors last name - but having a "display_name" would be redundant and violate normalization.

If you can get away with having a single "name" field, this will say you lots of trouble. Only add additional fields if you need it for some use case.
And standing desks. I've been trying to source some for my business (to retail) and all of the cheaper models are sold out. The models we have been able to source are a harder sell at their price point.

https://www.elementrelocations.com.au/work-from-home
Nobody is willing to pay market rates for masks. There was a story about this a couple days ago.

It’s really absurd how many trillions are being wasted on a shutdown but hospitals don’t have the capability to buy masks.
No, it's natural. The conventions are different in different areas of software development so it may look weird to different groups.
Prince, famously, didn't have what we'd recognise as a name for years. All the "Unknown Soldier"s don't have names. "John/Jane Doe" doesn't technically have a name.
Tourism in my nearest city (Oxford, UK) had plummeted before any travel restrictions were in place. My guess is it won't come back very quickly after they are lifted.
From the readme:

> Ideally the board is "infinite"; the "creatures" can progress infinitely in any direction, so it's best if they don't hit a wall

> The most obvious data structure for Life is a 2D array. But that will have walls, and while it could be re-allocated as necessary to grow indefinitely, this would get extremely memory-inefficient for, say, a glider that shoots off in one direction and leaves nothing behind.

> What I landed on was using a HashMap whose keys are locations (row/column) and whose values are booleans, indicating aliveness state. This allows the structure to be incredibly "sparse"; i.e., memory usage is tied to how many cells are alive, not where they are or where they've been before. It only needs to actually record the ones that are alive right now, and the ones that might become alive next cycle (direct neighbors of the currently-alive). These keys of the current HashMap are then iterated over as the only candidates for being "possibly alive" in the next cycle.
Just an idea, would it be possible to use plumbing pipes or construction scaffolding instead?
Yep, exactly, materialised views are the ideal way to create query specific schema - but there's always a cost, namely, refreshing them needs to be done thoughtfully.
Reminds me of the Gervais Principle - I think this has ruined me for working in larger companies: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle/
I also remember your articles on Linux&C about buffer overflow, sockets in C, etc... ;-)
These two criteria are not sufficient when winning the games offer life-changing sums of money and prestige.

A star NFL quarterback with a $100 million contract may well still play the game even if it's unfun and if people don't want to play with them.

More generally, competitive games quite often degenerate into a "whatever is within the rules" mindset, and that's perfectly fine.

Since this is top of mind right now, and since perhaps someone out there may have not read it yet, it's worth linking to David Sirlin's "Playing To Win" - http://www.sirlin.net/ptw - the book is about competitive fighting arcade games like Street Fighter but it covers many other games and the philosophy is enthralling.
The majority of the replies from non-medical professionals here on this supposedly intelligent forum perfectly illustrates why that happens. People think they can tackle any problem and come to the correct conclusion with a minute of thinking alone, with no real knowledge or experience or testing. Now extrapolate that to the entire US or world and it is sadly not surprising that people think they know best and doctors and nurses and patients be damned.
But I'm getting my opinions from the experts? See [0]. They recommend covering your face. I agree with them that cloth is more effective than a plastic shield but I'd expect a plastic shield to still be better than nothing. You've got to try and stop droplets from leaving your mouth and reaching other people.

A face shield would be better than failing to create a makeshift covering from a shirt for most people and it'd be resistant to decomposing so it could be stored long term in a home. It'd be a reasonable thing to stockpile.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-si...
Don’t use offset for paging. Presumably you’re sorting the results by something, add a condition on that value in the where clause based on the last row in the previous page.
Playing to Win (2000)
from the article, 3 million masks.
> This is universal to STEM degrees I think. In mechanical engineering classes you analyze a beam, in real life you ...

Hard to believe this. Don't these degrees require rigorous laboratory assignments where the student learns to differentiate best case scenario with real world uncertainties? STEM is not just some IT certification
I don't want to spend all my time honing one skill (programming). So I chose a job that is constantly challenging to keep me stimulated intellectually, and moved from frontend to backend/infra (took 18 months). Learning how to get up to speed with whatever technology being thrown at you is the skill one should develop, and not focus on specific framework or programming language per se, because they come.

Also, programming is not the only skill that will help you in your career as an engineer.
Can you please elaborate on the feature engineering part a little bit?
The issue is an injection attack. The ability to insert either unsanitised HTML data or data reflected inside the context of a JavaScript code block which results in JavaScript execution (by <script> tags, being able to specify data in DOM element events such as onClick or onError, or being able to specify code in onClick/onError events). I don't consider this a flaw in JavaScript itself, rather how JavaScript is harnessed from HTML.

Once JavaScript execution is obtained* it's possible to inject a JavaScript keylogger and/or rewrite the DOM to request authentication details from the victim (resulting in credential compromise). Alternatively, it's possible use AJAX to perform GET/POST requests to the same domain, routed through the victims browser which includes all cookies etc - effectively this is a time-boxed account compromise (CSRF controls do not apply when requests are executed from the local domain).

It's also possible to coerce a browser into triggering the exploit in a hidden iframe on a completely different page (eg you browse to evil.com, there's a hidden iframe which exploits an XSS vulnerability on facebook.com, compromising your facebook account if your currently logged into facebook on the exploited browser). I'm pretty sure samesite=strict only fix this if the XSS vector on facebook.com requires the user to be authenticated prior to exploitation, similarly, samesite=lax will not prevent attacks which require authenticated POST primitives.

*I'm a pentester, so that's sometimes my job, I don't break laws.
Yes, and if I look at the numbers it does look worse to me.

New York has a population of 20 million and it currently has a number of dead comparable to the UK with a population of 67 million, for example. New Jersey seems to fare worse than Switzerland with a comparable population, for another example.
It's has been like this for quite a while. I tried to buy a webcam for a project about 3-4 weeks ago and found they were all gone.

Funny enough, at that moment, I just thought it was because Amazon had problem on stocking and delivery. I didn't even realize it's because of the high demand for remote work etc.
Why not use pooling? You can test 64 samples at once and use a binary search if the pool is positive.

See: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.26.20039438v...
You’re allowed to leave your house. Exercise, pet walking, and essential shopping and other essential activities aren’t banned. Put on a mask and go for a walk in your neighborhood and keep social distancing.
There are about a million infected individuals right now, and climbing, and each hospitalised patient in ITU may need these procedures several times a day. An ITU team performing the procedure might consist of 2 to 4 people and the shields should be discarded every time. The number of patients is also rising rapidly, so demand is very high.

When you see doctors and nurses in full scrubs with face shields doing their shopping, then you know you need this equipment. However if you're really concerned there are other options[0].

[0]https://www.amazon.com/Sinoocean-Astronaut-Spaceman-Costume-...
Yes, it's bad data.

They're going to use black-swan events for their training data - which is complete nonsense.

Their training sets will be full of false-negatives (good renters that can't make rent. I.e, people with long history of being able to pay rent, but suddenly can't make rent b/c extraordinary events)
You'll regret this decision as soon as you have to integrate with another system that uses separate first and last names. Or as soon as you want to build a sorted list of five thousand names or output a bibliography in a specific format or anything.

Technically the right approach to the problem of storing international names would be to store markup: a string with an associated structure and a discriminant:

<name lang="en">
<first>Kenneth</first>
<middle>Elton</middle>
<last>Kesey</last>
</name>
<name lang="ru">
<given>Fyodor</given>
<patronymic>Mikhailovich</patronymic>
<surname>Dostoyevsky</surname>
</name>
<name lang="es">
<given>Gabriel</given>
<family-paternal>García</family>
<family-maternal>Márquez</family>
</name>

You can then have precise automated ways to transform this into whatever derived form you need. Using a single name field is just avoiding the problem. Using multiple fields is a maintenance burden, because in most cases fields are not fully independent and you have to update them all to keep the data coherent.
Look no further than simple headsets.

Wanted to have a light, cheap one from Sennheiser (one of those for 20 €) for homeoffice use. Sold out on Amazon. Estimated delivery mid or late May.

And it's like that for all the inexpensive "business headphones". If you want some shiny-blinky-bulky-"gamer headset", Amazon will be happy to send you a dozen till tomorrow morning.

It's crazy.
Yeah there's the WebRTC you can hack in an afternoon and there's the WebRTC that covers the most common edge cases. The problem that the solution to one problem (for example your websocket going disconnecting mid call while WebRTC still soldiers on) can create three new problems when a different edge case arises.
A great deal of deliberate effort has been put into making it this inept, have you not been watching? A common tactic by despots is to eliminate anyone who will disagree with them, and when the despot has an IQ of 25 there are not going to be many left who can function as adults let alone in critical roles at the top of the command chain.
SpaceX to fly two tourists around the Moon in 2018 (2017)
And gym at home equipment is completely sold out, at least here in Spain, except the very expensive.
So this seems to have been written in 2017. Curiously I don't remember this at the time. It clearly seems very ambitious - but is an insight to the role of sales and reality I think.
These aren’t masks. Shields aren’t going to be as helpful as masks and medical workers need them much more and we need medical workers to stay alive.
Also Nintendo Switch, where it is now selling for (450$~650$) when you used to be able to find it for (250$~$300).
You can't easily separate "straight-up lie" and "politically debatable questions". There are tons of "straight-up lies" used for creating questions, making them "politically debatable" and then acting violently.
You're right. I'll get this going this evening.
Hi,
I made my own standing desk using Ikea's LINNMON table (120x60)(cm) but you can pick your own tabletop and the adjustable OLOV legs (apologies for the caps). Total cost is around £€$75 (I am checking UK site). The annoying bit is that I cannot convert it easily. I need to remove everything from the table, turn it upside-down, change the length of the legs, and turn it back up.

IKEA also has three "proper" standing desks (that you can adjust their height without doing the aforementioned) but they cost x2 and x5 of my desk, and I don't really care to change the height that often/ever.

(I don't work for Ikea, I just don't want to pay $1000 for something I can make with $100 (and have a better pension when I retire).
Land Ownership vs. Technology Ownership in South Africa
Since retail and commercial supply chains are different I'd suggest reaching out to a restaurant you have good rapport with or contacting a local drygoods supplier.

Flour is out there it's just not making it to the shelves.
Post your solution on or blog or github with a permissive license.
If your solutions is worth anything Bill Gates will come to you.
To be fair, compare US to 1/2 of Europe. So we won't know until first wave breaks.
IDK, this has just been the result of the "small government" doctrine. Which in itself isn't wrong, its just insufficient - it should be "effective government". At this point, it is every american's job to change that narrative.
Formatting helps for presentation, just as it does for human text.

(defn fac [x]
(if (= x 1)
1
(* x (fac (dec x)))))

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

This is missing semantics for morphology. Delimiters aren't strewn about randomly, they precisely delineate the AST.
I had to go to the hospital today for a follow up X-ray after a month long life threatening illness. Every single desk and checkpoint inside either had the glass windows slightly cracked open but essentially closed, or they were draped in plastic covers. My pharmacy also did the same thing.