skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Australia is outside of the Covid Belt of temperatures that is ideal for SARS-CoV-2 transmission.

Australia is spared for the same reason most of Latin America, most of Africa and hotter climates in Asia have been.

Nigeria, Egypt, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand don't have such low death rates because they've been running testing at the rate of Germany and doing tracing & lockdown & testing & quarantine as well as South Korea. It's the hotter climates. It's hot in Melbourne, Perth and Sydney during the Winter in the Northern Hemisphere, ie during the outbreak so far. Melbourne has been shielded for the same reason Lagos Nigeria has been.

Australia's measures are without question further helping to limit cases. Having a warmer climate during the outbreak time while simultaneously implementing aggressive measures, is the ideal double whammy to get a good outcome. The climate makes it dramatically easier.
I don't see any mention that it'll be on Home, "General Availability" just means that it's no longer part of the insider preview
Those numbers are unrealistically high, but even so I wouldn't blame the government for them. If Wuhan hadn't set a bad example, I doubt anyone would have even considered universal house arrest as an option in the government's toolkit.
I also separate Github personally and professionally as a FTE. In most countries the company where you work has full access to your work computer, which implies also to your personal github and everything related to it.

As a freelancer they don't have access to your computer so things are different.
I guess it's subjective. I've been using Linux on Windows 10 pretty successfully for a year now to do some things that would otherwise be much more inconvenient.
> Canada is giving every Canadian $2,000 every month.

No they're not, if you worked even one hour, you don't qualify for any of the $2,000. Your income must be zero to qualify for that program.
No, 2% is the case fatality rate. The true overall mortality is far lower. Germany did a randomized test recently of a town and calculated that 2% of the population is actively infected, 14% possess antibodies indicative of a current/prior infection, and overall 15% have been infected at some point. Once this broader testing was completed, the overal mortality was found to only be 0.37%. For comparison, a typical flu season is 0.1%.

https://www.tagesschau.de/regional/nordrheinwestfalen/corona...
Not use a platform like Upwork/Freelancer to hire remote workers
Cool! Is this using something like libffi to translate calls at the application↔system framework boundary?
I'm in the process of transitioning our production Hasura deployment to use Keycloak. So far things are pretty straightforward.
Blazor may not work like Web Forms, but the philosophy is similar. Abstract away the fundamentals of HTML/JS, making back-end devs feel like front-end devs.

I started my dev career a long time ago in Web Forms. I went so long without understanding HTTP POST/GET/etc that it harmed me.

Anyone remember UpdatePanel? AjaxControlToolkit? Blazor gives me the same feelings.
You could just filter out anything that begins with a dash and pass it to mv. It seems like mv always interprets that as an option anyway, even if you have a file named --help or whatever.

I like this kind of thing! Minimal code but very elegant from a UX perspective. The oh but you could just mv foo-{bar,baz}.txt crowd is completely missing the point.
My takeaway is that you shouldn't link personal data to an example.com email address.
I don't understand your argument. Are you thinking that there will be two kinds kinds of counties at each point in time, those "deemed safe" and those "deemed unsafe"? If so, that would explain my confusion. I imagine that each county would be advised to implement one of a small number of strategies, in consideration of the peculiarities of that county, its economy, its normal levels of travel, its immediate neighbors, and the effect they are likely to have on their state (and even the nation) as a whole.

Are you thinking of the people who would be willing to drive far distances simply to, for example, go out to eat? I would assume that this analysis would be included. Close proximity to a large population that's on lockdown is, in my opinion, a reason to keep the lockdown in a county, even if that county doesn't yet have many cases. But the next county over might or might not open up. Sure, people near the border from the second county will just go into that third county, and that's fine - as long as there aren't too many people coming from the first county.

Politicians and pundits simplify and say stupid things, when taken literally, but when it really comes down to it no one is really suggesting that the state of affairs within a county be the sole determining factor for the degree and form of economic activity which will be permitted. We have to look at the larger region. But once we look at the larger region, it will probably make perfect sense to completely lift the shutdown in some counties (esp. in Alaska, Montana, Wyoming, etc) while keeping a strong shutdown in other places.

Edit: I assume that we will also be looking at individual industries independently. Can the companies in a certain industry in a certain region reliably commit to following strong anti-COVID practices? If so, we might let them open up, while other industries are not allowed to. We don't have the time to create certification bodies or licensing departments to handle these specifics, so politicians will just have to make the best decisions they can.
Unfortunately no. This would have been a very useful feature to me since currently I use a Windows laptop to write code to run on a linux gpu server under my desk.
We had one of these at work earlier this year, except a 3rd party contractor suddenly found that their Atlassian account, including all their other clients, were now listed as part of our account. Neither we nor they wanted this.
I think what's really going to a create a different sort of world, not a Utopia but still vastly different, is trans-humanity and post-humanity.

Gibson and many others have tried to imagine the transition from human to post-human which is largely about the power of brain computer interfaces.

To me, the convergence of advanced and/or general purpose AI, high bandwidth brain computer interfaces, and new levels of immersion in virtual/augmented reality provided by the new BCIs have a potential to transform the qualitative nature of human existence and so there is plenty of room left for science fiction along those lines. Although I will admit that I have not in any way explored much of that genre.

One idea is of a type of video game that involves high-bandwidth neural input enabling a type of waking lucid dream, where the AI reads your brain and modifies the scene to align with it. Maybe several people and advanced AIs are involved in this game. And suppose that there is a type of almost-human level AI being simulated as characters. Or maybe real humans plugged in and acting without lucid dreaming powers but the ability to affect the environment if they activate certain types of triggers recognized by an AI.

That is pretty far-fetched, but I think I have described a scenario where gods and magic are real.
I see a dozen questions with no answers.

Where is our leadership when we need it?
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None that anyone can talk about.
This sort of anti-hype is not useful. I've seen a number of people say such things recently, so I figure it might be worth correcting, sarcasm notwithstanding.

First, yes, ingesting large amounts of bleach would likely be hazardous to one's health. The article that was linked suggests that there is a drug which is FDA approved, and used in a therapeutic context today, which may also be effective at least in vitro against the new SARS virus. It's not "haha bleach," or aggressive pulverizing, or any other dramatic form of cell death you can easily imagine. It's a drug [that was linked].

Second, bleach actually _is_ used in vivo. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5402722/
Totally agree. Feels like a “windows has to be first” type of thing.
WSL was very cool from a pure tech standpoint, but I've never been clear what the actual use case for it was. WSL2 seems to be more along the lines of coLinux, which I felt the same way about when it was new.
According to FAQ [1] it will be.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-faq#does-w...
the idea is kind of old and even Wolfram played with it in his previous work/book, ie A new kind of science.

If you're interested in the subject and also can appreciate what feels like a piece of performance art give the following book a shot: https://www.amazon.com/Alien-Information-Theory-Psychedelic-... It's mind-blowing and uses as one of its starting points Wofram's 1D cellular automata work.
non paywalled link:

http://archive.is/mhfp8
Why would they allow an account to have more than one email address?
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Small quads generally do remarkably little damage to themselves in most typical crashes. Remember this thing only weighs 102g, and half of that is a battery held on by springs.

In typical indoor use (can't get more than a few meters high, unlikely to go faster than a few m/s), this'll crash way more than one time before it show any signs of damage to anything except the (replaceable) props. (Sure, you won't be handing it down to your grandkids in your will, but it's not as disposable as "fly once, crash, throw it away"...)
the performance on /mnt issue is not yet fixed https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197
If you're really married to the idea of "keep different hash-functions of the password ( ldap supports this)" then I think you are going to have a tough time without really digging into candidate products' customization hooks or considering some manner of virtual directory. IME maintaining multiple password hashes is not at all a common LDAP server feature. Many products will stand in your way of exporting password hashes (just try and wrest this info from Active Directory or Auth0) and you may not be able to control the hash algorithm besides.
It is not a noble lie to tell people it won't be ok if it really won't be ok.

Really, if every jurisdiction in the world overwhelms their hospital capacity it won't be ok.
If you heard the statement "manager coerces their employee into sex" things immediately come to mind, either involving withheld promotions or firings, so I don't think that's nearly so cut and dry.

A better definition of coercion is to use power over someone to make them do something you want. Might even be a dictionary definition.

All of the examples could be coercion using this definition, and its clearer how to treat the grey zones:

the punch uses physical power over you; without trying to make you do something it's not coercion though

Advertising might be if they're using tricks to bypass your judgement

Threatening to punch someone is definitely coercion, unless you are stronger than them/they don't have that power

Stealing your wallet definitely is

Firing somebody sometimes is. The big questions are:

- does the company(or manager) have power of the individual? Eg. Can the employee easily replace the company; do they even need a job? Are they on a work visa?
- is the company trying to make them do something?
Or how about from people who have actually used them? I put getting a study for years because the whole thing seems such a massive scam. Shame on me: I really needed a bipap, and now I feel so much better. But I could have figured this out by trying one for a week, as others have suggested. It blows air into my nose, for heaven’s sake. How many years of med school does it take to learn about that?

Also: wore it 8 hours the first night, and every night since. Not that hard to get used to.
Interesting new ideas I got from this passage:

* Pandemics as a major cause of mass surveillance.

* The historical context of festivals. Surely they existed before the plague but I wonder if they became more popular after it. I never thought of festivals as a sort of cathartic release from (and perhaps political rebellion against) shelter-in-place orders.
I agree that real estate shouldn't enable a "get rich easy" scheme,it maligns incentives of everyone involved.
... and that's exactly why I used the word "perhaps" before should. On paper importing a front end framework to a template engine shouldn't be done if you're following software design principles KISS, minimalism, and reducing technical debt. You can always render initial data on server side and maybe you should as business logic lives there.
Neat! I think your choice of C and Python as the languages to be taught is very right. The idea of showing the use of C in both Desktop/Server and Embedded environments has long been the approach i had advocated. C is truly the de-facto "universal" language and students should be made aware of it from the start.

I would suggest the following additions;

* The Arduino "language" is C++. Use this as a gentle introduction to C++ as a "better C". From there you can move on to proper C++ (do NOT teach "Modern C++" in the beginning). The intent is to show how "C + some syntactic sugar for expressing abstractions" is quite powerful and that is what is C++. This should prepare the students to embark on a proper study of C++.

* Instead of using the Arduino "language+library" through the IDE, show them how to use the same GNU gcc toolchain to program the MCU directly in C. See Make: AVR programming by Elliot Williams for details. This teaches the students the idea of a "cross compiler toolchain" and all other related matters from first principles.
> anything modern.

Which is? What makes it modern?
This is possibly the most irresponsible project I've ever seen.

There appears to be a deep lack of regulatory experience, along with a deep lack of QC, and it's presented as a jailbreaking, i.e., what is done to your phone.

Some kinds of regulations are written in blood, or, in this case, bloody sputum.
I suspect modern politicians are far-removed from their predecessors, in that these historical figure heads performed other roles in society and as a result of their effectiveness they were elected [by the citizens they had already benefited] to wield political power (determine the direction for tax-derived resources to be deployed [1] [2])

Now, the modern "career politician" may be one who can say many words and appear reasonable and educated [3] despite having only spent his/her life in classrooms and "seats" of progressing political levels.

I'm assuming that for the past few decades, POTUS has been just a ceremonial role for mass media consumption. If you need a metaphor (American football), the POTUS is a lineman, the vice POTUS is the quarterback, (Queen Amidala and Handmaiden Padme) the coach/offensive&defensive coordinator/ team owner are people you will never see on a screen (sidelines).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoninus_Pius

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Quinctius_Cincinnatus

[3] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ted-cruz-green-eggs-and-ham_n...
> And here’s why I don’t think the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis fully applies to programming languages. When we program we categorize the world in English (or Spanish, or any other natural language), and then we encode that into a program.

I'm not sure I do that. I'm often "thinking" about code by stubbing out functions or classes. I definitely don't translate algorithms I'm familiar with from English, I just write them directly.

But say that's how we do work. What happens next? Someone else looks for a bug. Or someone else adds a feature. Maybe you refactor.

A real software project is a team effort that requires countless interactions between authors over time.

The structure of the programming language dramatically influences the development of a large scale project. There are selective pressures all the time, you can rarely put into words why certain things are "idiomatic" to a language, but when a particular expression is confusing or odd, someone is likely to clean it up before long.

So, yes, programming languages are absolutely languages.
Works just fine, but FS is slow-ish. Your paths look like:

\\wsl$\Ubuntu-18.04\home\username
Because you probably want to eat. And you probably want the electricity and internet to stay on. And you probably want things to continue to be available. All of those require the economy to be functioning.
""isn't there an argument in favor of infecting more people sooner in order to increase the immunity rate of the population, particularly if those people are at lower risk of complications for the disease?""

Only if you would like to see the hospitals overwhelmed with cases that don't result in fatalities but kill lots of other people and also kill people with underlying conditions that would otherwise live full and productive lives.
Duke Cunningham is in there.

Too bad he went the corruption route later in life:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Cunningham
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On a Win10 host, I want to edit code in sublime and have the runtime environment in linux. I want fast code search and fast build times.

I've found no way to accomplish the above.

Code in Windows + Windows Sublime means build in WSL will be slow because cross-os i/o

Code in Linux + Windows Sublime means code search will be slow because cross-os i/o

Code in Linux + Linux Sublime + Winodws Xserver means interface is laggy because, well, Xserver

VSCode gets around this by running in a client/server model with client on Windows and Server in Linux... but then I'm stuck with an Electron based editor instead of Sublime.
> Elder Scrolls

The sheer seriousness with which that series takes itself and how ridiculously cringey it ends up being, due to broken AI and a host of other problems, is something of a hilarious meme:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcybVOrBgpzUxm-mlBT0WTA/vid...

If that's your idea of "anything modern" then yikes, pass.
This is true. Speaking from California here, several Bay Area counties were the first I knew of. NYC started doing shelter-in-place like 3 weeks later.
Personal experience - 2700x with an SSD and 64gb of ram. Blazing fast working with large Java heaps etc, which is a lot of what I do. Gaming is a non issue as long as you have a decent GPU. Have a 1070ti right now.

That CPU is a bit outdated now, but just a nice benchmark to show the 3*x is definitely enough.
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What about Atom/VSCode? Atom development looks dead to me:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21142934

https://github.com/atom/atom/graphs/contributors
Sure, but it's harmless compared to cheating in a multiplayer game. Cheating in a single player game may or may not impact your enjoyment, but cheating in a multi player game will almost certainly reduce the enjoyment of others (even if it may increase your own).
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/HowToMakeAPrettyPromptInWindo...

Been using terminal and 2 row powerline. It’s amazing. Hard to go back to conemu or similar in windows.
It lets you check that a+b > a for unknown unsigned b or signed b known > 0, to make sure addition didn’t overflow. I’m rather certain all modern C compilers will optimize that check out.
Here's a list... https://candor.co/hiring-freezes/
So I just clicked on that link with a private browsing window and I'm logged in as someone else in my org's account.

Someone I've never met, talked to or been in the same room as. They live on the other side of the world.

I suspect some sort of IP-based cache has stored their cookie or a set auth-header.

Very creepy, Atlassian.
Exciting! Please be much more specific on your webpage "much faster" (so... 2X, or 10X, ... or just 10%)? Also for "requires only few MB". What are "few MB" for you? 1? 10? 100? :) Please be specific with all your claims and measure everything, to be more credible and useful.
Yes. Superdeterminism does away with the observer as a separate thing, so the question of free will doesn't even come up. Everything is just one evolving system.
Thanks. This information is important to me.
I abbandoned WSL2 because it couldn't work along VMWare but the tide seems to have changed.
What's the ongoing value of a site like Monster or Indeed? Or a cleaning service? There could be some amount of turn-over in these markets, or it could be something where almost all participants in the market only form long relationships. If there's high turnover, there's a decent market to be made being the matchmaker. Maybe not a >$300M market to be made, but there's probably some value in it.
> The batteries are connected in series allowing each weapon to have 2, 3, or 4 batteries. More batteries give the weapon more range. Fewer batteries make the weapon much lighter and more agile, but at the cost of range.

This sounds wrong. Shouldn't they be connected in parallel?
This isn't a program, but the document shortcuts (mostly the ones beginning with the control key)[0] on OSX have saved me heaps of time while maneuvering through text.

I learned them from Emacs on Linux and was pleasantly surprised to find that they work in almost every app on OSX.

[0] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236#text
I'm actually not happy with this news. They are the only one interested on some of the long term researchy projects especially in robotics area. In my opinion, this would be one of the highest impact area in next 10 years given all the advances in computer vision and reinforcement learning. It will take time, but imagine, one day, freeing up humanity from the burden of all the repetitive mind-numbing boring low paying jobs. You might say that people will lose jobs but I think we will be fine. If you ask where is the $1T business opportunity that would be powered by AI, I would point to this rapidly evolving field. To our misfortune most of the big tech with big wallet have strangely disorganized, if any, efforts. SoftBank is one of the biggest long term game in this area which believes in this promise.
No this is not true. Definitely not smart either. Not everything in the universe is a nice yin yang tradeoff, this is a philosophical and scientific mistake. There exists in this world solutions to problems that are the most optimal.

When humans think in terms of design tradeoffs they are thinking in a domain where there exists no theoretical or mathematical technique to find the optimum. This does not mean a technique can never exist, it just indicates a lack of knowledge. The keyword is design. How do you design the best looking website vs. how do you design the shortest distance between two points? I would say for the later, we have enough knowledge and theory to say that the shortest distance between two points does not need to designed... it can be calculated.

Design implies alternative designs and tradeoffs due to the lack of techniques to determine or find an optimum. Calculation implies greater knowledge.
It’s because “Windows Subsystem” is a thing. There was also a “Windows Subsystem” in the past that provided POSIX api’s and others.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/subsyst...

After WSL was dropped in favor of the VM approach in WSL2 it’s just a zombie name though I think?
The marketing team from Microsoft here on HN is amazing. The work you all have been putting in for the last year+ is amazing. It all started with VS Code and has since fanned out into a massive influence. I'd be super curious to see the metrics on ROI with the HN presence.
Christopher F. Rufo is a contributing editor of City Journal and director of the Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth & Poverty.

From Wikipedia: "The Discovery Institute is a politically conservative non-profit think tank based in Seattle, Washington, that advocates the pseudoscientific concept of intelligent design."

Enough said. Why should anyone waste time discussing this?