skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The largest straight line distance across the US is 2802 miles (Florida to Washington), according to the internet. That's 15 light milliseconds in a vacuum. That's roughly a frame of delay at 60fps. You need to multiply by another 1.5 to account for the speed of light in fiber, and fiber doesn't go in straight lines, but at the same time datacenters and users are unlikely to be literally as far apart as possible, so let's pretend those cancel out.

You don't need to be across the world for it to matter, just across the continent.
So what is your go-to nodejs framework? and which NoSQL database do you use?
I suspect one problem is that their current health wearables don't sit on generally accepted core temperature measurement points. Wireless earbuds would be a great place to stick an infrared temperature sensor, though.
We get a lot of grief down here in Florida, but what people don't get is that we are the way we are because the worst people from every other state retire here.
I was going to mention that! Despite living here for four years I've still not taken the time to have a ride on it, but I should certainly do so this year.
I'm fairly certain that number would be _A_LOT_ higher if nobody isolated.
I'm also speculating that the general amount of people dying from infectious disease will fall, the flu takes a toll every year, we could prevent a lot of those.
Why suffer through the common cold if you can simply avoid getting it to begin with?

As I read your question again, I think you may have misunderstood what I meant in my previous post. I do not think the actual virus is a good thing, I wish for that to be over as soon as possible, but the isolation part, more of that please.
I'm not too familiar with CARES, but I think the difference is that that is a one-time loan, whereas I think the Dutch government is taking up 90% of the salary costs every month, for a period of at most three months (so adding up to 270%), and is a gift, not a loan.

That said, my overall point was that different measures can lead to different results - not that specific measures were different.
Oh damn! Thanks for the heads up. She sure will :)
Oh hi ArtDecider.
As a rule, you want your resistors made of metal. Semiconductor resistors have a lot of really surprising behavior.

But, yeah, if precision and stability do not matter, it's cheaper to make them out of silicon.
I will be not popular here, but I have no problems with this so called social distancing (as it is in Germany). The local newsletters write at lest 3 articles daily how bad it is. But it isn’t bad at all! One may open the door and can have a walk. One can drive to the woods and still have a walk. Phones and internet are working fine. It’s not that families of 4 would be locked down in 25 square meters flats for months. Perhaps it’s my subjective perspective: I was homeless and broken decade ago, but now have supportive wife, side project with bright perspective, still employed and with full fridge.
Just watched the episode of The Office where they watched the DVD Logo hoping it would Exactly hit the corner.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QOtuX0jL85Y
Productive-box: show your most productive hours in pinned gist
if types is what you want, typescript is a toy compared to something like purescript. Interop is another thing. That JS interop is typescript's killer feature in my option.

Typescript strikes a great compromise between enough flexibility to get out of your way + type checking to keep you from hanging yourself. Its also easy as hell to learn. I can hire a js engineer and upgrade them into a typescript one in a day or two.
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I would like to see the ideal use case, and the worst-case-scenario of using this tool.

I would recommend options below each comment/video: thumbs up (with number), thumbs down (with number), and report comment/video link or icon (with reason why options or comment area).

Edit: added an option
Gnu Cobol is an interesting project, they support a lot of dialects. One big draw back is the generated code isn’t thread safe so cgi is about the only option for server side apps. Maybe someone more familiar with the project could comment on that?
>It says: "there’s no such thing as “identical options”. More specifically, there are no two separate things which are identical in every way.

Doesn't have to be "identical in every way".

Just "identical in every way that matters (regarding the decision)" e.g. making the subject equally hesitant or equally willing to chose one or the other...

E.g. two potential love interests might be very different but equally tempting, and people have had that problem of choice (or regret when they chose) hit them very heavily...
Why would you make a 1930s machine using 1930s processes? Use a CNC machine, metal injection molding, and change the design to be able to use off the shelf screws and bolts where ever possible. Forgot all the brass, looks nice but it will add to the build.
Back and forth conversion is not fully supported, we try to have good match (see e.g. https://www.texmacs.org/joris/latexconv/latexconv.pdf ). TeXmacs has its own format, so no: you cannot collaborate with people which want to edit LaTeX files. But you can convince them to use TeXmacs. :) I've never regretted. I go back to LaTeX sometimes but most of my documents are now created in TeXmacs. If you need a tool to collaborate then use things like Lyx or TeXstudio, etc... We had to get away from TeX to remove the intrinsic limitations of that technology. There is not much you can you if you want to stick to complete TeX compatibility.
I was using paymoapp for a while, it was better than others that I had used in the past. Then I came across clickup.com, it is much better than paymoapp in my opinion. I switched and so far it has been pretty good. It is also cheaper than paymo, if you pay yearly. I still haven't exhausted the free plan though.

Not associated with them, just a happy user.
Yes definitely. Similar to what we already do for KNative

https://docs.solo.io/gloo/latest/guides/integrations/knative...

RE AWS API Gateway... Gloo is more full featured and self hosted. Even wrt performance, in fact, we've seen anecdotal evidence of Gloo performing better than AWS API Gateway for things like calling Lambdas.
Ask HN: Looking for a simple web hosting solution
Can anyone recommend a simple hosting solution for a small web service written in Python? Just an instance where I can run gunicorn and point a DNS endpoint at it would be great. I've been using PythonAnywhere up until this point which was perfect, except they don't support socketio which I now need. I'm trying to avoid services with complicated features and configuration like AWS, and I'm avoiding Heroku because I'd have to rewrite a bunch of the code to deal with the fact that they don't let you store persistent files.

Thanks for any suggestions!
Except what we're learning now, hospitals can be a death sentence. If you've under 40 and need a non invasive ventilator, it's nearly a 50/50 chance you'll survive. If you need intubation, that chance drops rapidly.
As a lazy person who never closes applications unless necessary, and also one who occasionally does light reverse engineering, I feel discriminated here.
On PC, it worked perfectly. On smartphone (Android), it works really bad. That's the reason why I (sadly) had to leave Wekan behind, it just didn't fit my use case because of this.
It's also because we have open laws (sunshine laws) that require things to be published publicly.
Well, I've also been travelling on trains since the early 1980s and I don't really recognise that at all - are you in the South East?

I'd actually say my normal commute into Edinburgh from Fife is actually quite enjoyable - getting a seat isn't a problem in the mornings and maybe once a month I have to stand for 10 minutes on the train coming back, which is hardly an ordeal. Fellow passengers all seem fairly pleasant as well!

I would say that 95% of my train travel has been between Edinburgh, Glasgow and up to Inverness and beyond.
That deciding to flip a coin to decide means you are already out of the dilemma...
As I eluded to in the thread about the iPhone SE: Choice is king.

Personally, I'm like you. This is my heaven, three weeks "alone", being able to pick my interaction method and being in control of my surroundings means my senses don't get assaulted. Truly it's paradise. (if, a little bit more extreme than I'd like).

However, not everyone is me. I would like people to allow me to exist in this way and for society to accept that I'm not just a recluse or unable to work this way.

But at the same time, I feel for all those who are truly people's people. That feed on social interaction, not just in the office. I used to somewhat envy them, society is basically built for them. But now I'm actually very worried for them.
Yup ! I suggest waiting until there are better treatment options before getting sick!! That's exactly why we're all staying home.

Stay home. keep healthy until there is a vaccine or a better standard of care.

If you want to riot, wait until there's a better thing than just going on the ventilator at the hospital and dying. Unless you want to martyr in protest which is also a valid way to go.
I've got a friend who served for a short stint on a nuclear submarine and because of the lack of available bunk space, he slept with a few other in the torpedo room
Is it fish caught in that same day like you can get in any Greek taverna in the Cyclades? Or frozen fish brought in from half a continent away?

> What do you imagine does surround London?

Suburbia? Is there anything else for a radius of 50-60 km?
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The article and the response above are about the mental toll of social distancing.
Would you use this passwordless authentication?
Exactly. This is what CSS Animations [1] were made for.
And you don't even need to do collision detection, as CSS can already alternate directions and loop infinitely.

https://bouncing-logo-css.glitch.me/

Just needed a tiny bit of JS to set the sizes and randomise the logo colour.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Animati...
Advertising is taking a much bigger hit here than 2008.
Forget Boilerplate, Use Repository Templates
Git: Newline injection in credential helper protocol
For catering and restaurants:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Spitalfields_Market
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billingsgate_Fish_Market
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithfield%2C_London#Market

You have to arrive at these markets extremely early in the morning. This is the case with any b2b market, e.g. Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsukiji_fish_market
This comment was surely made in bad faith.

Just because something good came out of this on a personal level does not 'negate' the negative in any way.

Bad things can have some good consequences, however minor.

(See: technological advancement in times of war. Or illegal
human experiments impact on science).

You're saying nothing by trying to imply a negative thing is the cause, we are aware.
Yes, indeed, choice is king. What I wrote is from a very selfish point of view.
I regret that some people have it like this against their will, and I wish they could get back to normal asap.
Except, I don't wish that truly, because they would force me with them. Whatever the most people want to do, everybody is expected to do, therein lies the problem.
In the face of a pandemic, can pharma shift gears?
So, if I understand you properly, being sick enough that you need to be in a hospital is bad for your health? And the sicker you are the more likely it is that you won't recover?

Are you positing that the same people would have better survival rates at home?
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Regardless of timing or events, the 30mil individual bonus was still taken while 10% of employee's salaries were cut. That's excessive and a slap in the face to those employees.
SARS-CoV-2 Transmission
USA and Canada had the "bar car"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_car
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vouched for this comment, you're correct, sorry I bungled the date and thanks for correcting
London developers do not get paid well vs cost of living. I interviewed for a city based senior data engineer role at a large insurer and was supprised that they choked at 45K basic not much package.

Generally uk dev pay is very bad compared to US or even other Europe.

Contract work used to be basically the only way to make good money but this has now been nobbled. Not a good city to work in.

As a result permie developers generally don't have a huge amount of a savings.
Swift is missing a lot of features, and that's why you can see a lot of type operators and type-level programming in some TypeScript code. For example, there is no Higher-Kind type support in TypeScript, but with some primitives from TypeScript, it's not hard to hack it out yourself. I doubt it's viable in Swift.

Among those mainstream languages, not many of them having such an advanced type system, with very few exceptions like Scala - even with GADT, dependent types ahead. It's light years ahead of its peers.

But I believe there are still some abstractions can be expressed in TypeScript but not Scala because the gradually/dynamically typed languages start from the opposite side from the spectrum.
As unread this comment on a white background on my phone (Note 8) I can see the burned-in remnants of the keyboard.
California: Nurses suspended for refusing to treat Covid-19 patients without N95
Yeah the BBC News DOG was got burned in to our plasma TV pretty bad when I was a kid
Jobless claims total 5.245M as 22M positions lost in a month
M-x pong

emacs works on every platform I've ever used, and tramp lets you access everything/anytihing else. I have one set of startup files that has grown over the years.

Anything that can't work, doesn't work, works poorly can be tweaked adjusted rewritten or replaced.
Sure but if devs were paid half but then the other half went to healthcare or more lucrative unemployment insurance etc perhaps the cost of living in SF and the surrounding areas wouldn’t be so great... as a free market economist by training I can’t believe I’m saying this I just know that for the vast majority of us not in the 1% of their fields when we get let go having these safety nets is really nice.
> you don't need to right be next to a field to have fresh produce every day and yes

You kind of have, because frozen produce is not the same as real fresh stuff. Yes, better-off people living in metropolises like London or NYC (like many of the users in here) probably lie to themselves in thinking that their money can purchase better food compared to a peasant in Turkey who lives just between an orchard and the Aegean See, but that is not the case.
Crypto Investing as Impact Investing
And there is another Apache project : Apache Hue, as a django web app
I d put between group 1) and 2). Not in 3), because there is not "quick charts", and datasources are not managed at application level but in configuration files and require more "administration" tasks.

https://gethue.com/
Yea, economic theories that all assume that consumers are rational actors. Thank you, next.
A guide on measuring design's ROI
Results of Universal SARS-CoV-2 Screening in Women Admitted for Delivery in NYC
"There's no such thing as an independent 'observation'." It's not as if you can see macro objects without bouncing photons off them, either. Does this point have to do with QM specifically? At large enough scales the amount of interaction needed to observe something is incidental to the thing itself. At small enough QM scales the interaction needed for observation is non-trivial. But is this a difference of kind, or just a difference of quantity?
Six Great Icebreakers for Remote Meetings
Can we stop calling this free healthcare? It's not free.

It's just vastly better organized in a way that (largely) protects consumers from capitalism where it doesn't belong.
I agree with everything you've said. I used to use Xquarts and xemacs but then that became available for a quick download.

I will mention cmd-c / cmd-w is still an anomaly. I sometimes capitalize stuff or close windows.
Some of us need social interaction to be healthy and live alone. Walking in the woods only does so much.
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I'm a bit surprised and saddened by how literally this comment is being taken by replies. I think it's an apt comment, so I'll explain how I see it. My takeaway of the point is that we now live in an age of excessive abstractions. This is just a fun toy, so I don't want to be too critical of this case. But in other applications, excessive abstractions allow us to ship things that don't work, but look like they do. This fills the internet and our phones with garbage.
Your article actually makes a different distinction to the one you intended:

> There is a difference between being laid off and fired.

> Generally, we treat your job loss as a layoff if your employer is not replacing you, and you'll qualify for unemployment benefits if you meet all of the eligibility criteria.

> If your employer is replacing you, we generally will treat you as being fired.

Some companies here are firing people so that they can replace them with people willing to work at a lower salary.

The article also allows the concept of no-fault firing:

> If you were fired through no fault of your own, such as not having the skills to do the job, you may be eligible for unemployment benefits.

So I think from a dictionary definition, it's an OK title; from an emotional perspective, I can understand how someone telling you that you were fired can be jarring.

However, we should remember that the shame is placed squarely on the shoulders of the company - in any case of firing, the company can always be seen as partially at fault, as it is usually caused by lack of forward thinking, agility, engagement or empathy.

So remember: Whether they laid you off or fired you, it is our job as a community to stand with you.
I wrote this tool a long time ago, which allows you to embed files and then access them as a "filesystem" with stdio. May be of interest:

https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/koio

If you just want the contents of the file as a symbol, the approach described in the article is 100% the way to go.
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I don’t think we have demonstrated the ability to provide protective gear nor can we guarantee food and shelter. We couldn’t keep toilet paper on shelves and nobody could get proper masks.
Of course. It's not like a global recession in the midst of widespread political polarization has ever caused problems before.
There seems to be an almost unspoken rule on HN that you don't say anything critical about Cloudflare. It will almost universally be downvoted even if it's done respectfully. You will even see people fawn over their post-mortems yet still not be critical or express disappointment at being affected by the actual outage. I am not sure why this is. It is very peculiar though. It's stranger given that Cloudflare seemingly uses HN as their primary marketing channel to generate discussion about the company but somehow that discussion should only ever be positive commentary.
> If you can’t afford it, do not lease or rent it.

I agree with you, but the problem is that the bankers aren’t telling this to people and have become over-reliant on subprime consumer debt like this. Uber launched a lease-to-buy program for their drivers so they could nicer cars on the road and then didn’t uphold their promise to attract more riders to Uber Black. Consumers are getting preyed upon so hard in the US and we act like it’s just business and poor people are dumb for a reason.

> And you can live without a car, it is about structuring your life better.

This is such an invalid statement for most Americans, and it’s deeply condescending to boot. There’s simply no viable alternative to car ownership for most Americans, period. If you have (or had) a job that required any sort of commute and you don’t live in a handful of cities with first class public transit (which are pretty much all in the northeast), you could spend up to 2-3 hours commuting each way every day using public transit. That’s just a non-starter for most. Even tech cities like Austin and SF have poor transit options compared to Europe.
How to overcome remote work challenges during the Covid-19 outbreak?
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The reason for flickering on specific patterns is independent of temporal dithering. This is caused by cyclic polarity inversion: http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/inversion.php

(temporal dithering usually is visible as slight noise on darker shades)
Good luck getting a job in the upcoming massive recession.
If we're in the realm of "non-standard linker tricks"...

Compilers will concatenate sections of the same name. You can use this trick to produce a concatenation of arrays across several files:

$ cat t1.c
__attribute__((section("some_array"))) int a[] = {1, 2, 3};
$ cat t2.c
__attribute__((section("some_array"))) int b[] = {4, 5, 6};
$ cat t.c
#include <stdio.h>

extern const int __start_some_array;
extern const int __stop_some_array;

int main() {
const int* ptr = &__start_some_array;
const int n = &__stop_some_array - ptr;
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
printf("some_array[%d] = %d\n", i, ptr[i]);
}
return 0;
}
$ gcc -std=c99 -o t t.c t1.c t2.c && ./t
some_array[0] = 1
some_array[1] = 2
some_array[2] = 3
some_array[3] = 4
some_array[4] = 5
some_array[5] = 6

This is the mechanism that linkers use "under the hood" to get a list of C++ object initializers that need to run pre-main().

It's unfortunate that there is no standard way of getting at this functionality in portable C, or to get it in C++ without actually running code pre-main(). Sometimes you really want a linker-initialized list things (of some sort) that have been linked in, without actually running code pre-main() (which has all kind of issues).

I would love to see a thing like this standardized in both C and C++. C++ compilers need it under the hood anyway.
On the topic of not having enough work to do, here's a couple questions to any Google employees:

1. As someone generally frustrated with the quality of the search results I get on Google, is improving search quality seen as any kind of priority within the company?

To be fair I can't think of any other search engine that returns better results. But I feel like Google's gotten very complacent with their search, which is not surprising given the fact that it's practically a monopoly.

2. Is there any initiative to rewrite gmail on the web? The damn thing takes like 30 seconds to load. For a company pioneering progressive web apps and web performance, it boggles my mind that they've put no effort into improving gmail's atrocious load times over the last decade.
To the author:

- Numerous Thanks

- Found a typo in the acknowledgement section, you managed to misspell Robert Strandh's name :D
20% faster single threaded doesn't matter. Websites aren't magically targeting the exact cpu power of your phone. Websites are 2x-10x too slow (and bloated, using up RAM and swapping), not 10%. this is a software problem not a hardware problem.

Even a tiny site like HN has problems on a phone when the comment count gets large
I meant to say company were borderline instead of country.
Yes, indeed, and I think the article fails to take into account that while some have a difficult time coping with this, others are doing better than normal.
There was no need to mention Florida in the article. It is 100% shitpost.
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