skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For-profit hospitals are a stain on the American healthcare system.

I worked for one of these facilities years ago, and elective surgery was the only thing the administrators cared about.
C has a proposal for #embed.

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2499.pdf
Sure, but my Fortune 500 employer takes 2-3 weeks to do that on average. Longer only if the new hire needs longer to unwind from prior commitments.
> Mr. Biden’s biggest problem is structural. Most of our online political communication takes place on internet platforms that are designed to amplify content that provokes strong emotional reactions, often by reinforcing tribal identities. Mr. Trump’s unfiltered, combative style is a natural fit for the hyperpolarized audiences on Facebook and Twitter, whereas Mr. Biden’s more conciliatory, healer-in-chief approach can render him invisible on platforms where conflict equals clicks.
Love this project. I run two different ones and find this project easy to use and maintain. Subtasks are particularly useful for our workflow.
Thanks, but the issue with the modular, ad-hoc approach is that you need to do a lot of integration and leg work before you get to the domain problem in hand and you'll need to maintain those integrations going forward.
I think DONKEY.BAS is more famous

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DONKEY.BAS
There may never be a vaccine. If one can be developed, it may take years and it may not be completely safe and recommended for everyone.
You're describing the past 20 years. Time to move on from that and stop treating this weird convoluted mess as if it's the only way to do things. JS as a compilation target will probably morph into deprecating it in favor of WASM.

In any case, most frontend projects have been using transpilers for quite some time now to deal with compatibility issues. It's browser JS is increasingly used as a compilation target. The exception is smallish websites where people don't care about older browsers or using new js features not yet shipped to browsers. Those exist, but it's becoming a minority.

For the rest of us, browser JS is something ugly and minified that webpack spits out and that you probably rarely even look at.
I like this idea, sign me in.
New Yorkers could be required to wear facemasks in public
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I work for a large city government (10K employees), most of our non-first responders were just furloughed ranging from full-layoff (1K), 10% pay (1.5K), 80% pay (3K), 95% pay (100), and 100% (5.5K). I fall into the 80% category.

It works out great for me because I now qualify for state & federal unemployment benefits that will allow me to net more than I'm actually making at least through 7/31 while working only 4 days a week.
Coronavirus Puts 5,000 Chinese Film and TV Firms Out of Business
But without the total population of each state, it is difficult to compare.

I think it is interesting to see the ratio of recorered/active/dead, but also it is fuzzy because the choices of each state about if the asymptomatic people get tested and the dobious deadth are tested postmortem.
Kinematic experimental study of Compton scattering in He atoms near threshold
What does "treat your computers accordingly" mean to you?
>> Yeah I think this is a bit of an artificial recession in that demand hasn't declined for any of the normal reasons, but because people are being forced not to consume.

> Right. I've been noticing on my walks how many Amazon delivery trucks there are, how many Amazon boxes are sitting outside in the trash piles. While people certainly aren't spending money dining out, they're still going HAM with their online shopping.

I don't think that observation indicates what you seem to think it does. Amazon's has been scheduling delivery for "non-essential" items far out to April 30th for some time now, and many people have been attempting to shift their retail shopping for essentials to delivery services in order to socially distance to avoid the coronavirus. Those boxes might have had things like toothpaste and diapers that people need to buy, recession or no.
Show HN: A “library.json” bookshelf protocol to build a decentralized Goodreads
Hey HN,

I wrote up a draft sketch of a proposal for a "library.json" format that would allow you to build a kind of open decentralized GoodReads - powered by a thousand indie sites.

The write-up is here: https://tomcritchlow.com/2020/04/15/library-json/

Some notes for HN in particular:

1. I'm not a developer so go easy on the json format etc. Could be better ways to do this - feedback welcome

2. I've specifically designed this to be easy to setup and use - I am aware of things like activitypub and indieweb stuff but frankly they are all too damn hard to use (and often start with hosting your own server...)

3. Would love suggestions on getting around the "book ID" problem. Feels like a major sticking point...

Thanks!
Load JSON into Postgres
Only four dupes ranging from a month ago: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=proximal+origin
"Git uses a home-grown URL parser"... Is this the root cause of the issue?
Apparently, you can only use images for zoom backgrounds :(
>I think the realization is that this isn't just a 1-2mo ordeal.

This is what happens when captains of the industry ignore pretty much any pandemic model that has been release in the last 50 years. Unless everyone catches it instantly and the whole process is over quick (which leads to massive death and long term economic impact), that it always takes a year or two of massive public change and a vaccine to get beyond the pandemic.

Essentially the rest of the world has caught up with where the epidemiologists were in January.
> scads of bugs that weren't caught by the unit tests

Which is fine! Unit tests will never catch all the bugs - neither will type safety. Neither will code reviews. Neither will manual testing. But unit tests do catch the kinds of bugs that unit tests are good at catching, which eases the burden on the manual testers.
Powerful JS processing unfortunately coupled with Safari
What is product development really? And how to approach product development
These kind of CTAs are everywhere these days and it's rather frustrating. Wish there was some solution to filter out sites that use completely not-ignorable (like in the corner) CTAs.
Databases like PostgreSQL don't offer insights into the query plans, does EventReduce parse the SQL statements to determine which tables and rows will be affected by a query and run the appropriate caching or cache invalidation logic?
I'll try it in dash, my other project is still a jquery thing for the foreseeable future :D
We are currently on the brink of a huge recession. Good luck.
Hello, thanks for the book. It seems we'll have to learn RUTILS. Anyway in machine learning and other fields python and java have huge libraries. I think the algorithms part is the best since lisp libraries can't compete with other libraries like the more than 8000 packages for R. Don't know what happened to clasp (C++ Lisp), and other gnu scientific libraries, ffi. Other languages and libraries are moving fast (Nim, Julia, Cristal, Kotlin, Rust), but lisp macros are still strong. I would like to predict a bright future for Lisp but I don't see anyway it can compete with all the other options.
This is one of the reason I don't like to put application logic directly in the database.

It makes everything harder: caching, testing, abstracting, balancing, etc.
Common toxin made in gut can cause bowel cancer
"Running half a restaurant with full overhead?"

Why would you assume that they would have full overhead upon re-opening?
Unit tests are code, and all code has a cost. Writing unit tests without any benefit is harmful behaviour.
Real world example: testing dumb getters/setters.
Restaurants were closing or limiting business before official lockdowns in pretty much every jurisdiction that has had a lockdown. You need to look a week or two before official lockdown dates to see the start of declining business.
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> The hardest thing about opening a restaurant is staying open long enough for people to find out about them, so it's in the landlord's best interest not to evict restaurants that will likely do ok once the restrictions are lifted.

Have you ever started a restaurant business? You seem to have an overly simplistic view of how things actually work.

Restaurants are really hard to run, 90%+ of them fail in the first year and profits are very slim.

What you are saying is technically true, but is so simplistic that it's absurd. How does this sound? "the hardest part of starting a saas company is staying open long enough for people to find out about them".

Also, rent is usually by far the biggest expense of a restaurant. Current government aid programs don't cover rent (sure 25% of PPP may be used towards rent, but that's a pittance that won't make a difference). Restaurants are going out of business in droves because they can't pay rent.
On 2: any initiative to rewrite Gmail will get shut down or reworked again without notice. See, Google Inbox.

Highly recommend giving up on Gmail as an interface, and treat it as an IMAP/SMTP server only.
> Here in the Cotswolds we're spoilt for choice - there's at least one good food pub in pretty much every village.

To be fair for every Green Dragon (Cowley) or Tunnel House (Coates / Sapperton) there are plenty of tourist traps selling pre-made cook-chill food from microwaves or tired carveries.
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>Great Depression

> So I am quite certain this will be but a hiccup

> ignoring the mass death of WWII

It's not about saving capitalism, it's about saving people from terrible outcomes.
I like your idealism and hope you're right but have a feeling we've quarantined ourselves AND our economy. When things open back up again it's going to be brutal.

Children begging in the streets brutal.
You're absolutely mad - this has no relation to reality at all.

> Is it fish caught in that same day like you can get in any Greek taverna in the Cyclades?

The UK has some of the richest fishing waters in the world. We have so much that we export worldwide. Of course it's available in London.

> Suburbia? Is there anything else for a radius of 50-60 km?

How big do you think the suburbs of London are? It's not LA. Draw a 60 km radius circle around London and take a look at the expanse of rural England for yourself.

> I've visited London only once 10 years ago

Clearly.
> Meanwhile Android seems much more 'sane' for me as a user

In my view it's devolving into an awkward, less and less usable system. I run a phone with stock Android 9, and it does not let me set notifications to "vibrate only". I only have a choice between muting the phone(which makes me miss calls etc. because it basically plays dead) or letting it annoy me with a notification sound every couple minutes. There is no inbetween.

Also, it does not have a way to toggle automatic screen brightness aside from the switch buried in the settings.

This is, to put it mildly, insane and near unusable in my opinion.

The last 5 years I've used exclusively Windows Phone 8 and Blackberry 10 OS, and both of those are still years ahead of Android's usability even though they're both not being actively developed anymore for almost the same period. I still don't see a current smartphone on the market that comes close.
1) source on that? AFAIK the number just means how much americans have in liquid cash.

2) Why would Tracel Insurance not cover pandemics? Mine did and will continue to cover it.

3) What's your logic with that the delay? This is over 5M people unemployed, and the extra stimulus will end at some point. If they want to keep their lifestyle they can't afford to wait for a higher paying job
Has anyone read his books? Seems like an interesting way to get into programming. I enjoy reading, but I never thought that a book about programming would present it's ideas and technical details through stories.
Understandable. In DFW, the Dallas North Tollway has always been a pretty fast North/South artery but these days I would say the average speed is around 85-90 MPH. It's obscenely fast now that there's no traffic.

Also, I believe since it's technically a private road only Texas State Troopers patrol it and there's only so many of those guys to go around.
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Its amazing how often READMEs fail to describe what a repo actually does!

I suspect that this information seems so obvious to the maintainers that it gets overlooked. But its frustrating when a repo looks like it might be what I need but all I can find are installation instructions.
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Without fanfare, Apple launches new iPhone for the budget-minded
He did not ever express concern. The weird thing about the disease is it’s not like Alzheimer’s where you realize you’re forgetting things. Instead it seems you lose the ability to realize. I think by the time he’d be concerned he had lost the ability to be concerned, if that makes any sense.

Lots of people around him did. However, I don’t think any of us thought it was a disease. We just thought he was becoming a jerk or “couldn’t scale” as Cloudflare became a bigger organization. I was angry at him when he left. Felt like he’d abandoned this project we’d started together.

I feel incredibly sad and guilty I didn’t even question whether he could be sick until when I heard his diagnosis about 6 months after he’d left the company.
I had one (it was either cheap or free from someone who wanted to get rid of it years ago) and I loved that it was my first TV with HDMI input at a time when HDTVs were out of my price range.

I had a small apartment so my desk/office area was a corner of the living room and I could run an HDMI cable over to use it as a secondary monitor for watching stuff on the computer.
Even the fact that it would display 1080i was a huge jump from my previous bargain bin TV.

It was the days of Windows Media Center and it was before cable companies got rid of Clear QAM channels so I found that I could just take the shared cable in my 3-apartment house and hook up to a cheap Hauppauge card for tuner, guide, and DVR. Add a cheap USB IR receiver/remote and it was like having the "good" cable with the bells and whistles (but with a better interface and for free).

Eventually got an HDTV when prices came down and income went up, but a few years ago when a girl I knew was looking for a CRT to set up a retro gaming station for her young daughter, I donated all 111 lbs. of it gladly. That thing is probably still going.
For a normal family, if you no longer need to commute to work, car ownership is significantly less expensive than your grocery bill.
I’ve seen tiny organizations with massive management overhead. Friend of mine got a vacation denied by a 5 person all remote company because they didn’t file the correct paperwork asking for a day off!
“ Nationwide downturn in house prices” there’s nothing certain about that happening. Look at 2001. It may.. but all the free money being thrown will prop up prices some. Plus supply in the tank because people aren’t moving.

https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2018/06/real-house-prices...
Only because there is only the WebKit engine available on iOS, it's not like the processor does anything special with regards to JS, if Apple opened up to using additional HTML/JS engines in iOS 14 it would be powerful for all the alternative engines as well.
"it's worth considering that most of these people are probably hourly wage earners"

I'll consider your unpopular opinion because it's healthy to think about a range of scenarios...though curious to know why your optimism operates on this premise?
List of sources to find interesting reads
Show HN: A framework for freelancers operating outside platforms
Oil to price below zero - filled storage, overcapacity, less demand
How to Introduce Data-Driven Culture to Your Dev Team
Or that you're being considered for a similar job but under a different hiring manager.

Another thing to note about Google hiring is that it's very different for different role types. Specifically, for SWEs, Sales, and other roles that are expected to function in a largely boilerplate manner, it's fairly cut & dried how things work, but for roles that are less clearly defined (for example, "program manager" or "solutions consultant") the actual responsibilities can be so highly variable (or so niche) that interviewing for them is a specialization in itself. These kind of one-off situations is where Google's "automate all the things" general mentality falls apart.
The Great Depression resulted in the welfare state. It forever changed the balance between state and private sectors. It certainly was not a hiccup.
IMAP, et al, require mail to be unencrypted on the server side; they are only encrypted in-transit.
There's nothing to say the two events are correlated. As far as we can tell, they could have been underperforming sales people who were let go. Hiring/firing is _not_ based off the single criteria of raising money. There are complex business decisions between events like this, regardless of the coin in the coffers.
Because you want your landing page to load instantly and React or any other JS-generated site just can't compete in loading speed with a static HTML page.
Ok, looking further into this:

“Nevada uses the "Reserve Ratio" formula to determine previous experience, which is the method used by a majority of the states. The Employment Security Division maintains a permanent "Experience Record" for each employer, consisting of accumulated taxes paid, accumulated benefits charged to his account, and average taxable payroll for the prior 3 years. Each year, the employer's reserve ratio is calculated from his experience record to determine his tax rate under the schedule in effect.”

http://ui.nv.gov/ESSHTML/ui_information.htm
Stack Machines, Koopman is the only treatise that I have seen that really digs into the question.

http://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/stack_computers/index.html

My memory of the conclusion is that register machines are a bit faster for general programs. Stack machines are better in some special niches.
(High volume/rapid Interrupt handling comes to mind)

I should read the book again myself...
A Floating GCC Optimization
Hi Hackers,

Freelancers on platforms can trust they'll be paid for projects and that paperwork like invoices gets generated in the backend.

However, those with their own clients and that operate outside platforms have to do all these things manually, and usually get paid late (or not at all, 7.5% of the time!)

That's why a couple of freelancer friends and I built Freelancer Protocol, to ensure freelancers outside platforms get paid on time, every time and have the paperwork they need generated.

Please do give feedback, thanks for checking it out! :)
But not at the SVP level, at least not at Google.
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Where do you draw the line between a query and application logic? Does a join or aggregate function count as application logic?

On another note, a few hours/days spent implementing application code can save you 5 minutes of writing SQL.
Focusing on the wrong metrics can ruin a dev team's culture
Source on the first claim?

The S/L strain study has been heavily challenged, see commentary at https://nextstrain.org/help/coronavirus/FAQ#is-one-strain-of...
Because rent, lights, and staff need to be around the full shift.
I honestly don't know. I picked up a Compaq monitor with a magnetized grille from the trash in 2002 or so, and used for my secondary pc (a venerable P200 MMX that took a LONG time to recompile the 2.4 kernel on a then-unstable Debian Sarge).

No idea how the previous owner managed to magnetize it, it never happened to me.
Facebook to tell millions of users they’ve seen ‘fake news’ about coronavirus
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How to create link content previewer with React, Vue, and Vanilla JavaScript
It just how the community is. I've spent far too much money on my Amigas and almost everything costs a fair bit. TBH though when projects are successful they do tend to do quite well (the new Amiga 1200 cases must have sold a fair bit, and the vampire 2 cards). If you go to the Amiga meetups there are loads of people there. I don't think anyone expects them to become super-wealthy.

Considering the machines are now ancient and people put a lot of effort in to keeping the hardware relevant, I personally don't mind paying the extra.
The subdomain kinda screams “conspiracy nuts”.
Internationalized Deliberately Unreadable Network NOtation (I-Dunno)
Do not put any data that would devastate you if it became public into any networked computer.
The actual limit is residency slots. Every year there are many students who graduate from medical school but are unable to practice medicine because they can't get matched to a residency program.
How is the decoding logic implemented inside these machines?

Any informative websites?
The first iPhone cost $499 in 2007.
I suspect this is one of the reasons advertising on Instagram is going gangbusters. The combo of better targeting + a format that naturally lends itself to storytelling makes for a much more compelling advertising platform.
TL;DR: how to debug a GCC optimization (in this case because of an undefined behaviour). A practical case in the Pharo language virtual machine.
Here's a note about it in the Git mirror repo:

Malicious URLs may cause Git to present stored credentials to the wrong server - https://github.com/git/git/security/advisories/GHSA-qm7j-c96...

..And the commit that fixed it:

https://github.com/git/git/commit/9a6bbee8006c24b46a85d29e7b...
Optimism is essential, though so is pragmatism. Why do you think "we'll start opening back up in May."? And do you think it will be 100% of businesses or a slow and select approach? (assuming US / western region here).
The study was not "stopped". They removed the high dose arm because of these issues and continued with the low dose arm, although at least one source (Biocentury) called the emergence of the toxic effect "stastistically insignificant trend".

Which doesn't mean that it's not bad (it is), but that you can't rule out the null hypothesis there (assuming that what Biocentury wrote was correct).

I don't know enough on the safety profile of hydroxychloroquine as opposed to chloroquine to tell if they're different on that regard (the French institution in Marseille uses the latter, IIRC).

Any pointers on that?
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Turns out the inventory you hold to flip can be enough to get you killed during a crash. Ask Lehman Brothers.
Software stocks emerge as downturn winners
What's the advantage of using React for a landing page that could be a 10KB static HTML file ? (non-sarcastic question)
He conveyed no intent, he was supposedly "thinking". A bunch of millenials got burned and Musk paid for babysitting.
It’s harder for restaurants to drastically reduce overhead because major expenses like rent and utilities tend to be fixed.
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C++ does have a standard package manager. It's the system package manager, instead of a language-specific one. Whether that's good or bad is a matter for some debate, but it does exist.
My comment was in the context of Apple's Product Red offerings, not the charity itself. You can't buy an Apple product and have proceeds from the purchase go to the Product Red charity unless you purchase a bright red device.

But I appreciate that you're willing to read through an entire thread and then take my last comment completely out of context for your "witty" response.