skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've gotta compare deaths, not confirmed cases, because cases are being so severely under-tested right now (especially in Sweden, which has a nearly 10% case fatality rate, indicating that they're probably only catching 1 case out of every 50, or more). Deaths are the most reliable statistic we have right now because they're the least likely to be under-reported (though they still suffer from that). Once this is all over and we can do population studies based on widespread blood antibody testing then we'll have better stats, but that's years out.

So, comparing the deaths per 10M population, Sweden is currently at 1,014, whereas North Carolina is at 114. So Sweden is suffering roughly one order of magnitude worse from the pandemic than North Carolina is at the moment. And keep in mind that North Carolina went into a shelter in place order over two weeks ago while Sweden hasn't yet, so there's a loooot more pending cases in Sweden's pipeline than NC's.
I've been thinking of leaving for the past several years. But as the primary income for my house hold, I need the higher pay of tech.

I've gone to a number of career counselors. Trying to find something else to do. I have a number of other passions/interests. Just not sure how to turn them into a career? How did other people determine an alternate career to get into?
I wonder how much comes down to the legalities of refunds and compensation. If the flight goes and you don't get on it then you lose your ticket money usually but if the airline cancels then they have to refund I think.

In my own case I have a flight from Singapore to London on May 30 approx with BA and I can't get to Singapore as it's closed for transit. If BA fly and I can't get there I'm not sure I can do much but if they don't fly I can probably get compensation like the EU standard 600 euro for a delayed flight. I think BA are still flying emptyish at the moment.
All about Python Dictionaries
- use of "wuhan virus"

- unsupported claim about Macron unpopularity; he certainly was unpopular, to the point of riots, but the coronavirus response seems to have improved his popularity.
San Diego is a very red city/county. It has always had an extremely strong military presence. It also has a very high retiree population. And add the fact that it sits right on the border with Mexico and you might start to see why it is the way it is.

I lived there for a short while after living in SF my entire life and had to cut my stay short because of the overall atmosphere of the county. To me it feels like the reddest place in CA.
> The strength of emacs is that once you can program it it's extremely easy to write extensions for it

It's not easy by many miles. It's possible but learning the emacs-environment to some aceptable level can take much time and toll.

> Compared to this writing extensions for vscode, for example, is much more convoluted.

Depends on your competence and tooling I would say. From what I've seen, it isn't much harder than writing something midly complex for emacs, But very simple stuff is easier done in emacs, something like single functions. But those have the price that you need to learn emacs lisp on decent enough level first.

But the question is, if you already can code, then why bother with creating elisp-code or an vc code-extension? Today there is a good change that you already known some useful tooling-language.
Compilation? I write a JS file and then do node myfile.js...
> And in recent times, it has worked.

This is what __REALLY__ bugs me. Personally I'd love to see money poured into actual R&D rather than people abusing the "ML" and "AI" acronyms. Investors don't care about your R&D at all and commonly see it as a huge risk factor. Which it is of course. A semi-working prototype has a much better chance of succeeding so they stick to that.

But as a consequence many people(myself included) are not even bothering with pitching anything to anyone and invest their own money, time, resources and savings into it. Blocking? Yes. Painful? Absolutely. Slow? Incredibly. I'm sure the next AI winter is around the corner, if it isn't here already: The virus outbreak might be the catalyst that triggers(or has triggered) it, given the staggering amount of people going full "I have AI which will provide a cure, vaccine and time travel to go back in time and warn the world, just gimme cash". I doubt anyone would deliver on any of those promises(and that's me being optimistic). But the crisis will likely push a lot of investors to pour millions into the empty promises that have a few buzzwords thrown in. I hope I'm wrong.
Ive not left yet but have all but resigned myself to a different field, likely EMS or nursing. Eight years in (health and ed tech) and its become project management with little actual engineering work. Im only 27 but I regret waiting this long. I started to see signs that my interest was waning a few years ago and figured I just needed a change of scenery...three changes later and I think the message is clear.
I don't know or care about shingled, thatch, whatever, but I am not going to entrust my irreplaceable data to a vendor that refuses to tell me or anyone else what they are selling.
Who is to say what's essential?? You've basically locked everyone in their homes, and now you are even trying to deny them delivery of goods they may need. Even things purely for recreation may help ease the tension and stress of lockdown and encourage people to do what the government wants them to do: stay inside.

Name literally anything on the Amazon store, and I can come up with a reasonable senerio where someone could legitimately need it. P
Does AWS CDK handle state drift and state transitions in the same way Terraform/Pulumi does?

I believe AWS CDK uses CloudFormation under the hood which can not "intelligently" fix state drift in the same way Terraform can. CF can only tell you that tthee state has drifted, but cannot actually figure out how to fix that drift which IMO is one of the biggest strikes against CF.

The "State" section of this article has a better description of what I'm talking about: https://medium.com/@endofcake/terraform-vs-cloudformation-1d...
Nonpaywall link?

I checked Google Cache and it's still paywalled.

Impossible to have an informed opinion without reading the article. As "saving from capitalism" can mean so many different things.
Shipping non-essential items is not the problem here. They can ship whatever they want, but while doing so have to protect their workers. Amazon is infamous for creating horrible working conditions in their shipping centers, it's not a surprise that how they react to the virus is observed very closely. Especially in a country like France that already has a critical stance towards big US companies.
Wait until the political ads start to pick up the slack.

Cheap ad space and a serious need to own the libs? You better believe we'll be seeing the propaganda machine roll out in the next ~6 months.
There are people still trying to get home, this is a crucial service for them and specialists who are required around the world to keep things running.
There are some LLVM optimization talks that show otherwise, where longer vectorized code actually runs faster than the smaller version, though.
What's wrong with wuhan virus? Its a virus, it's started in wuhan ....
Like spanish flu ... Is it forbidden to name it with a link to china?

Also here is a link supporting my claim:
https://www.ladepeche.fr/amp/2020/03/25/gestion-de-la-crise-...
A path to the fundamental theory of physics
Except that they won't be able to meet demands, especially for important products such as medical or safety products.
They are not devoid of personal responsibility for following bad orders either.

Someone else on this thread already referenced "Superior Orders" which I was thinking about as well.

We as a society already determined in the 50's that doing bad things because a superior officer told me to does not negate responsibility for the actions taken.
Some coronavirus social distancing may be needed into 2022, study says
Spanish flu, surprisingly, did not start in Spain. What is the purpose of linking it to China? Anyway, how do you know about Macron's popularity?
Making 6 figures to play and create all day if just awful. Boo hoo. I feel like the luckiest guy alive to get paid handsomely to do what I love.
ok so this is helpful because I'm planning on starting a blog and want to use it to document some of the cool things I've done in the past.

Would you (as a reader) prefer my trip to Norway to be dated when it happened, or when I published the article?

I am mostly wanting to blog to curate my memories of things I done or thoughts I've had but I'd be lying if I didn't also hope it might help me make 'friends' online and find people with common interests.
Islamic Fulani militants kill pastor and 10-year-old boy in Nigeria
German cathedral polishes shrine of St. Corona, saint of resisting pandemics.
I've been wondering, do they upgrade you to the highest end seat on the plane then?
GitLab community advocate here! I wanted to let everyone know about a challenge we're holding right now. If you send us your review of GitLab vs GitHub (whether positive/negative/neutral), we'll send you some swag. We know competition is good for end-users, so now it's our turn to evaluate what we're doing right and what we can improve upon.

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2020/04/14/github-free-for-tea...
I hear tell that a lot of the places where modern Fortran shows up are contexts where faster-than-C performance is desirable.
Dog trimming kits makes sense. People are using them on both their pets and themselves. Standalone freezers went almost immediately when this began. This also makes sense as people decided to buy freezable foods in bulk and needed increased storage capacity.

Yeast has been almost impossible to find. Lots more people are making their own bread.
maybe the testing showed that the 8-14 would fail in rebuild but the 2-6 where small enough that would pass.

or that the 8-14 where used in "serious business" where you could not fake your way around and the smaller ones for consumers or smaller firms would not notice or could not cause bigger harm.
I'm not sure if drives do this, but it's theoretically possible to linearize a random write workload, with the disadvantage that when you come to read the data, a sequential read becomes a random read.

Typically stuff you write randomly (small files, databases) one tends to read randomly, so it's usually worth linearizing writes.

The only case where you are at a performance disadvantage is when you did random writes followed by more than one linear read.

Things like LogFS do this, as do most SSD's. I'm pretty surprised modern HD's don't do it internally too.
Marijuana is a medicine therefore more essential then 99% of other products for sale now that are listed as essential.
How to Find a Remote Job?
Sorry, should have made my point more clear.

VSCode made some unique design choices which enable them to support connecting to any Linux server, VM or not. In contrast, these design choices may not be possible for other IDEs. So, because WSL 2 is, effectively, a Linux VM, supporting it in editor is harder than supporting WSL 1.

As for "I really don't get" part, I wanted to say that WSL 2 sounds like a regression to me, WSL 1 makes it possible to achieve something (namely, local-ish cross-"os" net/process/file-system integration) that is entirely impossible otherwise, while WSL 2 is a nice packaged-up solution but functionally does not do more than people already get (Hyper-V).
Here's one recent attempt:
https://github.com/braydonf/gpk
I love computers since I can remember, and started learning to code when I was still in basic school. This lead me to think that the tech industry was the obvious career for me. During my time in the industry, I felt miserable. I would say that the main reasons for that were:

* Meaninglessness. Most of the projects are simply not necessary, they do not help society in anyway, they just exist to make someone else wealthy.

* Tedium. The intellectual challenges aren't there after a while. There are countless intellectual challenges in the field of computing / computer science, but they are usually precisely the ones that industry has no interest on.

* Micromanagement. "Agile" and similar management practices (yes, I know, you're not doing it right, blah blah blah) are downright humiliating and infantilizing. Almost no other highly skilled professional has to tolerate such level of intrusion on their day-to-day activities. I love deep thinking and creative expression. The modern corporate setting prevents this by design.

* Open-spaces. See above.

* Idealism. I was so excited about the possibilities that the Internet opened for humanity. Now we have ad-tech and horrible exploitation of "gig-economy", warehouse workers and the like. This is definitely not what I have in mind when I started.

* Conformism. The tech industry is extremely conformist. Monetary consideration always wins. Deference to power always wins. "Hacker" used to mean something completely different. Almost opposite to the current definition.

I realized that what I always loved about computing was the endless creative and intellectual possibilities allowed by the medium. This is more or less the opposite of what the industry values, despite what they might advertise endlessly. There is nothing cool about it. It is stale and anti-intellectual.

I don't need a lot of money to be happy. You probably don't either. Time on this earth is the most valuable thing we have, and I would rather spend it waiting tables than enduring one more stand-up meeting.

I think creative nerds are the life-blood of the industry, but they tend to be shy and not assertive, so they have their life controlled by the "business types". I honestly believe that if the nerds told them to fuck off and started spending their time working on things they think are relevant, the world would become much better quickly. This won't happen, I know.
The 64k compo was particularly weak this year. I'd recommend checking out the 4k intro and 4k executable graphics compos for some stellar work.
Nitendo Switch is sold out across the world partially thanks to animal crossing.
You probably meant "are NOT doing anything similar".
I wish I had grown up in Finland! The demoscene was a faraway oasis of pure geek fun I never reached as a younger and thristy programmer.
> and we just all hold our breaths and hope none of them make bad choices. Personally I would call this “government irresponsibility”, but I guess we’ll find how it turns out within a few more weeks.

This approach absolutely infuriates me too, and it is the fault of "the government", but I am very curious what a more precise explanation is. Is it the current individuals in government? The ongoing culture within government? The broader culture of the country? Or maybe a mix of some of these, plus other things that I'm not able to perceive or imagine.

I bet we (humanity) could get get pretty close to the correct answer, if we made a collective and proper (easier said than done) effort to find out.
> Even if you are an elisp expert, emacs is by now quite inferior to VSCode for most things

Emacs' core strength is that you can shape Emacs to fit any need and workflows you may have. Secondly, you can also shape Emacs to have those workflows apply consistently across any domain you work with.

With VSCode it's always the opposite: You need to adapt to whatever VSCode supports, and each domain needs to be handled differently.

In my book, that will always make VSCode an inferior tool, even if what it does, it does indeed do excellently when considered in isolation.
Division by constants is another example.

C compilers will convert constant divides into reciprocal multiplication. All the handwritten assembly I have seen uses the divide instruction.
>It's not that terrible if the customer knows what they're getting.

Between cigarettes, credit default swaps, and asbestos, I think this is a phrase we should become very wary of saying with a straight face.
Character (code point) iterators are useless.

For parsing text-based formats, UTF-8 has the nice property that the encoded byte sequence of a character is not a subsequence of the encoding for any other chracter or sequence of other characters. This means splitting on byte sequences of UTF-8 works just as well as spliting on code points.

And for text editing you need to deal with grapheme clusers anyway, which can be made up of a variable number of code points - so having these be made up of a variable number of bytes doesn't make anything worse.
We always think that grass no the other side is greener, but not really. It's yellow :(

It's the same with how a lot of tech folks idolize farming. In reality it's a tough job with long hours and cold weather.
Wuhan pneumonia (武漢肺炎) is the term used in the Chinese speaking world (at least it is in Taiwan), and Wuhan (and probably its virology institute) is the origin point of the virus. There is no shame in using this term even if it’s hurt the feelings of CCP shills.

On the other hand, the "spectacular" rise of Macron popularity has evidenced by a single poll is highly suspect and will likely won’t last. From what I read on my Facebook feed, lot of people want some heads to go down...
Human trimming kit is sold out too
Well that's true. A court order is a court order.

Obviously you shut down. I don't think any reasonable people have an issue with that. What I'd like to understand more is what are the steps sufficient with guaranteeing, (or, I guess, better protecting), health? I can't really make out what is not being done that needs to be done vs what is being done that shouldn't be done vs etc etc etc.
Can you write a single feature that's available in WSL 2 but not in VirtualBox?
A ton of comments here talk about arrays and basic preconditions. See frama-c.com. even in c++ where encapsulation helps class/function contracts and unit testing is a must
I suspect someone joining the military after being in college and private industry has a higher chance of completing the pilot program than someone 18-20 years old which make up the bulk of the military recruits. (Assuming they both meet all physical requirements.)
I left when project managers tried to Taylorize programming.
Virtual Doping Tests
Lot of car batteries are going to be dead.
One of the worst things about engineers in general and HN specifically is we all pretend that law is executed like code, in a vacuum, idempotently based on the inputs. That's was, is, and will never be the case.

Abuse can be exposed and punished, and very often is.
Money Is Losing Its Meaning
Politicians need to take this seriously. During the 1918-1920 Spanish flu pandemic, San Francisco initially did really well, but then it called the end of the pandemic too early and lifted social distancing and masks requirements. The pandemic returned in a big way, making San Francisco one of the hardest-hit cities in the U.S. Read more at https://thepeel.news/stay-at-home-orders-worked-a-century-ag...
> The US accepts 22k deaths a year without blinking due to flu. That’s just the flu. What’s the magic number we’re willing to accept? 50k? 100? There has to be a percentage of the population we are willing to accept as casualty because we already do, just unstated.

Unfortunately the worst case death numbers for an uncontrolled pandemic crack into the millions in the US alone. That is, frankly, more deaths than anyone with a sound conscience is willing to accept.

Also, we have vaccines for the flu that significantly decrease your chance from dying of it. I get the vaccine every year. There's a big difference between being completely at the whim of a disease and being able to take proactive measures against it to help protect yourself. The only proactive measure that works against COVID-19 (which is much deadlier than the flu mind you) right now is social distancing, so it's not surprising to see so many people using the only effective measure that currently exists. Don't underestimate people's desire to not suffer a debilitating illness that leaves them unable to breathe for a week before killing them. Social distancing would be happening regardless of the official stay at home orders.

> Lots of obsessing over the current body count though.

I mean ... yeah. These are our friends, our family, our neighbors. Each one of them was a real person who is dying unnecessarily, and more deaths like them could be spared through better social distancing. This isn't "obsessing", it's a very real concern. You'd care more if it were people you knew dying. I've already had people in my extended contacts die of it (I live here in NYC), and it's rough. Hell, I already got it, and fortunately recovered. Let me tell you, spending days unable to catch your breath even just from walking is terrifying. You'd understand more if this was affecting you more personally. It's not just some abstract discussion about numbers.
I find this hard to believe. Not that you may like one over the other, but that one is superior.

Getting used to tramp, magit, and eshell has effectively made it so I will be in Emacs forever. Adding in developer modes helps. Same for org. But really it is the seamless eshell ability to "cd /ssh:mycomputer/" and not with about reconnecting a terminal over and over that is something I don't want to leave.
$ cd ~/.local/share/applications

$ cp /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop .

$ vim firefox.desktop

Add -P onto the end of the 'Exec' line. Now your click button for firefox will open the profile manager.
Also, I was looking at the helpmainstreet.com website that you mentioned in your comment and noticed they had a lot of businesses all around the country with links to gift cards. It's taken a fair amount of time for us to curate the gift card links for all the businesses on savemifaves.org, so I couldn't fathom how they could curate that many.

Looking through the links, it looks like almost all of them are links to squareup.com, toasttab.com, or quickgifts.com. I don't know about squareup.com or quickgifts.com, but when we were verifying the gift card links people were submitting (to ensure that people aren't setting up their own fraudulent gift card links for local businesses that don't already have their own way to purchase gift cards), we specifically looked at toasttab.com and realized that toasttab gift cards aren't all set up by the businesses themselves. Toasttab seems to set up their own gift card purchasing for local businesses, probably in order to reach out to the businesses and force them to sign up to claim their money from anyone who unwittingly purchases gift cards from there thinking the business must already be signed up.

So, we've had to spend a fair amount of time verifying submitted toasttab links to make sure the businesses actually signed up to sell gift cards through them, and that they weren't automatically set up without their knowledge. Otherwise, it's not going to help out that business much.

Looking at the helpmainstreet.com site, I'm a little disappointed, since I'm guessing the vast majority of businesses on there won't immediately and directly benefit from the purchase of gift cards as listed there. It's one thing to set up such a site as some sort of enterprise, but it seems disingenuous to use COVID-19 and claim that it's directly helping the businesses if it's not.
Can you try specializing in a different niche? There are so many different types of software, and it sounds like you already have the basic skills.

Might need to tailor your resume a bit but if you like coding it doesn't sound like you're at the point where it's time to leave everything.
Beanvalidation Like Validators in TypeScript
> based on backblaze data

I don't get that at all.

I've been in the WD camp since the 90s but Backblaze's data has always ranked them around "better than the worst" and slowly eroding my confidence in them.

For me, Backblaze's Stats have changed my perception of HGST who I've held in low regard since they were IBM with the whole Deskstar issue.