skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As I see it, there are so few cases in California because of the measures that have been taken

How do you know though?
The flat curver movement has set themselves up so there's no accountability, no reliance on data, no proof that it's working or not working. Just repeating what other people have said and patting themselves on the back that it's working.

Sweden has less per capita infections than many other countries and they have no full quarantine just basic social distancing and hand washing.
Yes, but in this case it was all bark with no bite. The author has made 0 commits to his fork since forking (in Feb).
I’m not under house arrest. I’m working from home with my family around me. I’m actually enjoying it for the most part. We’ve picked up baking, started going on walks together as a family. It’s not anything like dying for a month or whatever weird equivalence you’re trying to draw.
>Interesting concept, I'm not entirely sure what I think of it. Land ownership interests me a lot more than homeownership

Before accumulating wealth, most people are interested in having a shelter.

Let's say someone has 50 years to live, from a point on. To have a shelter, it will cost him a = 50 * 12 * rent if he rents, b = x * 12 * rate if he buys a house and pays the mortgage, c = y * 12 * rate + 50 * 12 * land_rent if he buys just the house and lend the land.

So picking the smallest from a, b and c might be better for that particular individual.
I'm pretty sure "heavy fire" can kill cell cultures in lab too.
I personally think Black has the most beautiful style of the Python formatters. For example, I really dislike yapf's way of doing things.
They seem to be at least trying:

(10) Paramount throughout the process should be respect for all fundamental rights, notably privacy as well as data
protection, the prevention of surveillance and stigmatization.

On these specific issues, the Toolbox should therefore:

(1) strictly limit the processing of personal data for the purposes of combating the COVID-19 crisis and ensure that
the personal data are not used for any other purposes such as law enforcement or commercial purposes;

(2) ensure regular review of the continued need for the processing of personal data for the purposes of combating
the COVID-19 crisis and set appropriate sunset clauses, so as to ensure that the processing does not extend beyond
what is strictly necessary for those purposes;

(3) take measures to ensure that, once the processing is no longer strictly necessary, the processing is effectively
terminated and the personal data concerned are irreversibly destroyed, unless, on the advice of ethics boards
and data protection authorities, their scientific value in serving the public interest outweighs the impact on
the rights concerned, subject to appropriate safeguards.
Tell that to the coal mining communities that were affected by the closing of coal mines by Thatcher in the 80s. From the reduced expectations of the multi-generationally unemployed, to the social isolation that a lack of community services brings, to the paucity of opportunities for both young people and those who want to change career. 40 years later those communities are still dealing with the consequences of these actions.
But what if I want to build a home next to a meatpacking plant? The Japanese zoning system designates nuisance levels to land. The lowest level only allows residential and the highest allows industrial. The general principal is that you are allowed build a low nuisance building in a high nuisance zone, but not vice versa.
Link here to the comment https://twitter.com/richturn_ms/status/1245481405947076610
also have it for (ง'̀-'́)ง
Cygwin isn’t backed by Microsoft.
> So far. We're still experiencing hundreds of deaths per day in the city, significantly more than all other causes combined. Your analysis is vastly premature

Even if it's 150 per 100k, or even if it's 500 or 1000 per 100,000, is that too much? We need to establish an upper bound for the number of deaths we're willing to tolerate. It cannot be "zero". There is a balance between acceptable mortality and economic consequence that I fear few people are willing to discuss. The medical establishment's goal is to save as many lives as possible, and due to that strategy, they will go to any length to make that happen. I do not once see a medical professional saying "well we can't save all these lives because it would be too expensive". The concession seems to only go one direction: The economy must suffer at any and all cost to minimise mortality as far as possible.

So again, what is an acceptable mortality rate? 2%, 5%? A realistic upper bound that's a fair trade off between economic collapse and mortality rate needs to be decided.
Fashion Magazines Replaced Celebrities with Doctors as Their Covers
Great marketing page. Gotta love the fluff!
All police are bad people.
I'm not sure the economic toll is necessary. We just haven't bothered to try to mitigate it. It's like the lockdown itself; do nothing for a long time, then we'll use a nuke.
One page from a different book every morning
Thousands of poor defy lockdown and gather
Most of this structure comes from the ordered set properties. Special relativity can be seen as a consequence of trying to quantify length by projecting to two ordered sets.

K.H. Knuth, a professor at Albany, has been working on this for some time. He also has some results about QM.

A free version of his paper "A Potential Foundation for Emergent Space-Time" (2014). What Wolfram is talking about seems to me a consequence of the principles K.H. Knuth has been investigating since at least 2011.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.0881
The current project I'm working on is Python+Black for backend and React+Prettier for frontend and I've really enjoyed the consistency / not worrying about formatting.
There are going to be two effects. The first is a very large upward moment directly beneath the ship at the point of explosion, followed soon after by a downward moment when the explosion void is filled by the water and everything around it is pulled inwards to fill the vacuum.

The upward hit should actually be easier for a ship to resist because there is only air above the ship and it is “relatively” easy to lift the ship out of the water and into the air, but the downward pull means the ship is going to be pulled against the water and that will not move out of the way as easily or as quickly as the air. The second effect is what leads to the most damage.
History Doesn’t Bargain
There's not really a point there, just ignorance on display. People throughout history have starved in gutters for want of money for food, yet here he is espousing the idea that if you just want it hard enough, you'll find the money to eat, regardless of price gouging, shortage or whatever else. This is just factually wrong.

And if you end up going without, that's your issue. Not only that, but that's the best and fairest system, the way it should be! This is a pure expression of "Fuck everyone else, I got mine"

> maybe you should remember that the person who made that point is a human being and not a monster.

Yes, totally, because saying their posts are ignorant and cruel is totally the same as treating them like something other than human.
Social distancing could last until 2022 in the US
I was into portuguese demoscene Amiga/PC and never heard of it, then again it was back in the days when we exchanged floppies via the post.
Thank you I've been saying this for a while but have been being crucified by the flat curver movement who takes no accountability in proving that their method is working with hard data.
Is it just me, or does the name of this product not instill confidence?

Edit:
Parent company has a class action settlement for sending unsolicited text messages to grow their user base

https://www.joyatcpasettlement.com/Home.aspx
This exactly. The amount of money that you are willing to throw away at an investment without any internal resistance is what makes a difference. For many people even though talented, this amount is close to zero. Even more so, if you grow up with this mentality, it is a lot harder to change when you are e.g. in your 30s and already have some buck behind your back to eventually invest in something other than education/property.
It's worked well for me: [Bob Dylan, Yacht, Bjork] => Halfby. Recommendation makes sense, and triggers fond memories of feeding last.fm :) I like the agency in this site.
My Windows 10 Setup
I am super excited about this. WSL1 is great. WSL2 will allow me to run docker images without struggling with vagrantfiles so that's awesome.
U.K. 166 deaths per million with a full lockdown in place
> Rampant cost cutting, outsourcing, and lack of protecting domestic production has absolutely devastated US manufacturing.

This is utterly false thing that you learn if only read news articles. The value and quantity of manufacturing is now the highest it has ever been in the US.

What has declined is the number of workers and the share of GDP. This applies to almost all OECD countries. As economies change from industrial to post-industrial, the share of manufacturing declines naturally because manufacturing productivity increases.

Agriculture is something like 3% of the GDP, yet developed countries produce more agricultural products than they did when 90% of the economy was agriculture. The same thing is happening to manufacturing.
There are some downsides:

Overcrowding, traffic jams, very high housing prices, high prices for food and everything else. Yes, you earn more, but you pay more for living in smaller apartments, so the standard of live isn't guaranteed to be improved.

Here's a comparison from Numbeo:
You would need around 3,630.58$ in Austin, TX to maintain the same standard of life that you can have with 8,100.00$ in New York, NY.
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...

I think that moderation is best, and there probably are ranges of population density which are the best. Urban sprawl is bad, as is overcrowding in the city center.

In some parts of the world, you can live in a rural area and travel to work by fast trains, so you can have your cake and eat it, too.
It means riding the top wave while enjoying the Sun, hearing the cool background music coming from the loudspeakers on the beach, and feeling like a champion.
All absolutes are wrong.
That is how the Vision Fund sold themselves. In practice though, most of the businesses they invested in looked a lot more liked non-innovative, monopolistic, Shock & Awe plays.
Appreciate the appreciation for a well crafted email. Nowadays it feels like emails are filled with mindless drivel as a part of some drip campaign or retention strategy optimizing for a high open rate rather than delight.

Hopefully things change, but over the years, I've become allergic to subscribing to anything by email – I'd rather go to a website when I want to
Come on, everyone who has played Dangerous Waters enough knows that the best defence against maritime patrol aircraft is for the captain to boldly surface the boat and take the pesky plane down with a shoulder-launched missile ;)
My aim these days is usually around 70 chars, plus whatever the block indentation is. That way, I can always move the editor viewport to the right to keep the local region on the screen.
When I worked with Halide, on a thing that is relatively close to the image decoding (transform a series of angle-amplitude pairs (radioastronomy) to the image, a lot of sprite-with-opaqueness painting), I was perplexed to find out how hard it is to work in Halide with non-constant offsets. The functionality was essentially non-existent back then (2015, I assume).

In fact, any scatter-gather operations were non-existent in Halide.

From what I remember these operations were introduced at some point, but we moved away from Halide.

Also, it was not quite simple to transform a loop that draws sprites over the entire image into a loop that draw sprites over part of image and draws many parts of image in parallel (change nesting). Hand-written CUDA version of the algorithm ended up with exactly that.

Thus, if you need some partial-derivatives-numerical-kernel, Halide is good for you. If you are working on the video decoding, Halide is not that good for you. If you are working on video encoding, Halide will be more of a nuisance than a helping hand (early exits from loops, computable access ranges, etc).
I posted it because someone outright asked me for information a few days ago concerning how the pandemic is impacting the homeless population:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22819760
This was about mechanical strain from vibration.
> And when there are assholes, can't we handle everything on a case-by-case basis, as it arises?

Don't interpret this comment as support or lack of support for codes of conduct (I honestly don't have an opinion about the topic). This is just an observation: there are multiple species of attention-seeking internet troll who want very, very much for you to treat their absurd behavior "on a case by case basis."

> I'm going to be downvoted for even admitting this? That's why I debated even posting. I don't like operating like this.

The mob is handling our comments on a case by case basis!
A word, you are a good man. The people you are arguing with are broken.
If there's a systemic problem, I believe it should be reiterated until an acceptable resolution is found. It is systemic, so we should recognize that an individual's reinforcement of the problem is a small part. There is a greater sum that equals a militancy towards disenfranchised groups. A discussion is to be had at both a micro and macro levels. Please don't leave it at the micro. Some people are unaware and information is key to arguing this plight.
Show HN: Simple Brainfuck Interpreter in Python
Yesterday I had some free time and decided to have fun with the brainfuck language [0]. Its concepts seemed simple enough that I thought I could make an interpreter in 30 minutes.

It took a little bit more because of loops, but I had a lot of fun building it. I even woke up earlier today just to make it work with nested loops. Here's the link if someone wants to check it out [1]. The "magic" is mostly on the eval loop [2].

There was this thread yesterday on how to rediscover the joy of programming [3]. I think that implementing simple interpreters in your language of choice may be a way to have some fun!

[0] https://repl.it/languages/brainfuck

[1] https://github.com/joaoventura/brainfuckvm

[2] https://github.com/joaoventura/brainfuckvm/blob/master/brainfuck.py#L27

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22860682
> But we shouldn't forget we had to waste 0.1% of all 328 million lives (one month/78.54 years under house arrest) and counting.

It's only a waste if you need to waste it. I'm sure plenty of people are using this time to be productive doing things they would otherwise not have the time to do.
Interesting, I was not aware of this.

As it happens I am awaiting delivery of a Ryzen 5 3600, good to know it's likely to be even better than userbenchmark suggested!
print as a function and headache-inducing string handling hardly resemble the python I came to like either. those two things bring python3 down from great to meh for me. biggest language change blunders I've ever seen. I feel a wave of disappointment every time I have to type a paren on a print call in python3.
I used to use Linux as my main OS for ~5years and I would dual boot for maybe 1-2y of that time.

In the end, I just found that I am more productive with Windows. On Linux, I really hated driver compatibility issues (happens quite often on laptops), core programs are not so stable (KDE window manager) and skype sucked on Linux.

Also, I could not game on Linux so that sucked even more. On Windows I have steam with 0 worries about registry and dll hacking with WINE.
Unfortunately we don't live in a world of one or the other. Both things happened and both were bad.

Either thing not happening (along with countless others) would have been best.
Slow or no slow, I couldn't understand how it works. Windows kept opening wherever one least expected it, i got multiple copies of tabs with some introductory help text when i just wanted to get back to my project etc.

For once, I'm not going to complain that something is made in Electron :) It was unusable to me in other ways too.
Ad shows up with an ironic twist in a Coronavirus article >> somebody screenshots and posts to reddit >> instant front page >> even more free advertising but somebody calls the CEO who tells his subordinates to find somebody to yell at
I used to think per capita means more but in this case does the absolute growth rate have anything to do with total population?
Why limited to neighboring countries though?

The fact is Sweden has no full quarantine and they have less infection rates and less fatalities per capita than many countries with full quarantine.

It's clear that full quarantine may not be effective.
Codes of conduct have come about because apparently we need them. The before-time, when adults were meant to just get on with each other like adults, resulted in some marginalised people feeling very pushed out. So, as usual, a handful of unkind people ruined it for everyone. I don't love having to spell out that racism or transphobia or whatever isn't acceptable, but experience has shown that we do have to say it. So it's a choice between feeling a bit bad about some humans being mean, or projects tending towards a monoculture of big-ego masculine types and hardly anyone else feeling like it's worth the hassle.
But then they'd say "We can't have multiple people with the same first name", here they claim they can't have anyone named Jeffrey.

Maybe they created a tool called Jeffrey, and it's too integrated with the DB...
The paper "Out of the tar pit" (https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/blob/master...) discusses this in more details. Basically it argues that one needs to separate the complexity into essential complexity (complexity inherent to the problem) and accidental complexity (complexity due to the way the solution is designed). The idea is to reduce accidental complexity as much as possible while making the essential complexity more managegable.

The paper also discusses that you can separate a program into

1. state (data that changes over time)

2. behavior (computational logic)

In order to reduce the accidental complexity, you can use functional programming (which is purely behavior, devoid of complexity due to state mutation) for the behavior part. For the state part, you can use a relational database to manage it in a more systematic manner. They call it functional-relational approach to software design.

If you do game development, you likely heard of ECS (entity-component-system) and data oriented programming which in a way promotes this approach to software design.
Apple Watch ate the entire smartwatch market.
Any1 with a referal/link to the actual forum (/data)? Because it looks like it's pretty contained. But I still would like to cross-check the accounts with previous leaks to understand where they came from.
Currently an order of magnitude more deaths than their otherwise very comparable neighbor Norway, or 5x as many per 1M pop.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/norway/

Will be very interesting to follow during May, as Norway is now opening up again. Schools and kindergartens will start again next week.
I seem to perhaps be in the minority here, but I got onto the slow ring just for WSL2 and it has been excellent so far. I am primarily a Ruby developer and things just work.
JVM Memory Has Multiple Regions Young Generation, Old Generation, Metaspace
lol. The headline sounds nothing like one for a Google product
That sounds like it will lead to a lot more restrictions than there are today.
What niche is this supposed to occupy? I can't seem to find any information on when/why KolibriOS would be a good choice over more traditional OSes.

Stated differently: is this a useful thing, or is it an exercise in "how far can we push a pure-assembly project"? The latter would of course be fine, but I'm quite curious to know which it is.
I don't understand this sentiment. I have VS Code and a fantastic file manager (Explorer). What more do you need for web development?

Most decent languages work great cross platform. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be missing.

To be frank, the only think that bothers me about web dev on Windows is that the Elixir repl doesn't support "up" for editing the previous command.
The phrase "mutual aid" is right there. As is "organizing". These things imply an ability to cooperate with coworkers. These laws were made to explicitly protect collective bargaining, which absolutely implies other people.
Remote Work Playbook (2019)
I read it's not due to climate I read it's because there was already a Coronavirus in the area and they have built a herd immunity.
A lot of criticism here about the WHO. But what is the legal obligation of the United States to listen to anything the WHO says?

So what?

The virus is called COVID-19 for a reason. The virus was discovered in 2019. Each country can do their own thing.

Trump shut down international travel from China. He should have shut down travel from everywhere.

Once that virus was out of the bag, then it became impossible to stop. How do you stop something at the beginning, that you don’t even know exists? You can only try to slow it down. To isolate the infected. And to contain it.

But once an infected person leaves the border, then the virus will replicate in the next country. You only need one person to reach exponential growth.

The WHO even stated that they think the virus was building steam in all countries all over the world, and they were correct.

Here, it seems the politicians don’t understand biological science, and they don’t listen to their experts, and that they don’t understand what exponential growth is.

Further, the CDC refused to advise Americans to wear a mask, even a cloth mask to help reduce the transmission velocity of droplets. This was a bone-headed decision, that was entirely in the realms of control of the United States.

And then, the media keeps bringing up how China silenced an eye doctor, but what would this have done? Stop the virus? Doubtful, it was already building up steam in China. Make people more cautious, and wear a mask? Maybe, but local Chinese news TV were already advising that people be careful and vigilant, and wear a mask when outside. But not everyone was following that advice.

In contrast, what happened in New York, when rumors got out that the governor was shutting down the state? The result was that people fled to distant states! Some went to Rhode Island, and others went to Florida. Remember, all you need is one infected person to mess it up for everyone.

But really, I think what impacted the United States the most, was when Trump announced the travel ban from Europe. Everyone flocked home, and there were no health checks. The virus was already building up slowly, but this was the catalyst that accelerated it.
> My fear is that 2-3 months of lockdown isn't a cure, it turns into on-and-off lockdown, herd immunity is never established because immunity wears off in 2 years, and a vaccine is 2-5 years out.

I wonder if any models take into account the availability of drugs. I wonder because (perhaps because I studied pharmacology back in the days) while not effective as a vaccine, proper clinical management of this disease with drugs would help a lot in helping hospitals.

Instead the media seems only to focus on a vaccine (which is putting all eggs in one basket, if it fails).