skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course it's an anecdote, that's my point - an anecdote doesn't give the national picture.

" social isolation then what magic do you suggest will make the outcomes different there?"

If you'd bother to consider outside the narrow confines of the USA you might want to consider what 'magic' the Singaporean, Hong Kong and S. Korean systems are using because they are considerably more dense and doing really well. Sweden is also dong 'kind of ok' without any lock-down.

The real issue however is the suppression of people's right to communicate and gather, even if online.

We have a situation in which the nation is forcibly locked into their homes, and large conglomerates are suppressing further their ability to communicate. This is existentially disturbing.

The most important right we have is to effectively gather and confer with one another, because the first thing authoritarian regimes want to do is stop people form 'meeting to figure out how to get rid of the regime'.

I wish the protestors would practice better social distancing, and I do think we should remain locked-down, but I absolutely support their right to voice their concerns.

In fact the government should be doing much more to mollify concerns over freedom of movement and expression etc, legislating limits to such rules, requiring oversight etc..
In part due to the latency noted elsewhere in the comments, I find myself interrupting people more when I'm remote. With video on, the visual cue of someone getting ready to start talking makes that easier to avoid.

Secondarily, I have a much better time assessing whether other attendees are following a conversation. If I'm feeling lost, but everyone else looks like they're following along, maybe it's just me — and I'll sit tight and try to catch up. If others look bewildered, I'll start asking questions.
Pixel art by definition involves the careful hand placement of individual pixels to create an image. What you are talking about is just a 2D game.
If you depend on an unmaintained codebase where the original developers are no longer available, then that's a substantial business risk by itself.

Too many software development projects are treated as one-off events where people commission them and assume they will work forever without updates. Software requires maintenance, and people who commission software development projects without planning on how they are going to be maintained in the future are taking on risk. Any risk involved in updating that abandoned code in future is a consequence of that decision.
In addition to the good points mentioned by others:

1. Out of the total time spent in building an application, a non-significant amount of time is spent on boring tasks to make the application real world ready.
In some cases at least, you use third party libraries and custom developed components to do so.
Including those in a learning resource/tutorial will, at least in some cases, make the code exponentially more complex to absorb.

2. Some of the code you use for building production-ready applications is proprietary - either proprietary to the developer or to the company.

Sidenote: I would argue that we have an abundance of resources. What we don't have is that many laser focused "here are the 35 most common gotchas you will face while moving this to production and here is exactly what you need to do" type of resources.
but how many native wayland apps do you run, most of those that i run (even chrome) did not have native wayland support and where run by x, so they are bury.
We’re seeing a much stronger resurgence this time. These transitions won’t happen overnight, but will be over many product cycles. It was a recent surprise revelation to the public how powerful the 4000 series is!
I can tell you if this were true he wouldn't be programming a language that has to deal with jvm.
What's the price of adding an extra controller on a motherboard?
Is noise gating why you can't talk over each other? I am terrible at doing this (I think of it as synthesis - 2 excited ppl grabbing the idea, running with it, then the other interrupts and takes over) and while I acknowledge it's a bad behaviour, why do video calls or most digital audio ones not let it happen? I get there's delay so they can't exactly blend the two audio streams together, but what is this crazy limitation that only one person can talk at a time?
I bought my stuff at Ducky's, over in the Industrial District: https://www.duckys.com
It's necessary for quite a lot of Latin scripts.
Thanks for the link to the HN discussion.

The Regent language (Legion is Regent's runtime) is yet another async task-graph-based PGAS language/run-time, similar to, e.g., HPX, but leaving out what in my opinion made Sequoia interesting (e.g. the memory hierarchy abstraction capabilities).
I wonder how they'll get past the RISC/out of order execution issue that still is an issue with ARM chips.
The author, Andrew Gelman, is one of the best statisticians of our times. And his criticism that they should have consulted an expert seems fair, since this blog post clearly shows that the study did not give strong evidence for a high prevalence of Covid-19. It might have all been false positives.

The off-topic comments make more sense when one has read the blog for a longer time. The author has criticized so many studies over the years that he must feel a bit of frustration by now. I guess the hacker news crowd wasn't the intended audience for such comments.
Dose every node need a full copy of data?
For me, body language. I hate voice calls because I'm lost without it.
"back then you didn't just have to know what Pi is, you had to have the smallest program to calculate it"

A floating point division on two three digit numbers used to be used as a good enough approximation to 𝛑.
The numbers are a pretty good reason to see it slow down right now. They hit the peak in casualties in the beginning of April.
> something changed with dict enumeration order between python 2 and 3

Enumeration order in dict keys was never guaranteed (until 2019), even on 2. So basically that code relied on undocumented cpython behaviour that was strongly advised against, i.e. it was broken already. 3 simply made the brokenness more visible.
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Alt title: Distance learning is a skill we need to help educators and students develop.
That would ensure the amount of psilocybin is more evenly distributed across the material, but you still wouldn’t know exactly how much psilocybin you’re getting per dose.
Not OP, but if you're looking for solid performance in a tiny form-factor, I'd suggest One Netbook 3.
That was cool, also check the comments for a neat thread by someone that worked on an early PlayStation game!
Thanks for sharing. This is indeed a very helpful blog post
How has that project not been sued into oblivion by Royal Dutch Shell yet...?
That's all uncannily similar to my experience porting our ~350k LOC app.

"It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it".
> the US CDC banning private companies from selling test kits has to be the stupidest crisis response I've seen in my lifetime.

What happens when the kits are faulty or non-experts interpret the data? Lots of folks will think they're safe and go home to visit at-risk elders.

> All that said 'the hospitals are being overwhelmed' isn't a good reason to shut down most of the economy.

The hospitals are overwhelmed, so there will be no help for you when you need it. Any care that would have addressed accidents, infections, major medical emergencies will be under duress. People will die from preventable reasons.

> There is a correlation with bad economies and war breaking out.

This is outrageous to suggest.

> there needs to be a better reason than 'ICU nurses are overwhelmed with work' to strip people of their right to make their own mistakes.

Unfortunately when you get covid-19, you can spread it along and become part of an infection chain that leads to the deaths of others.

Do people have the right to drive under the influence?
What do you mean? I assume you’re referring to the Jones Act https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_Marine_Act_of_1920

Why wouldn’t someone be able to sail this tanker to a US port, fill it with crude, then offload it at a non-US port? Or even re-flag it as US and trade between ports directly
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>The distribution of case fatalities from SARS-CoV-2 is still very much up for debate.

Really? It seems to follow the same pattern everywhere.

>1: about 20% of all patients regardless of age require supplementary oxygen to survive the infection and it'll be straight up the worst experience of their life.

You mean all patients in bad enough state to end up in the hospital? 20% of all patients who have contracted SARS-CoV-2?

>And 2: those who develop pneumonia (again no corr to age) run a pretty high risk of suffering permanent lung damage.

A little googling, and everything seems to corroborate that it is in fact correlated with age and given that smoking seems to be big risk factor, even if age in and of itself wouldn't be, we'd see it a lot more in older people.

Pretending like massive lockdowns aren't having a very negative effect on drug abuse, mental health, domestic violence, and increasingly looking like food production as well, would be disingenuous. Now, maybe all of those negatives are outweighed by whatever would happen if we opened up, but surely it must be okay to at least have the discussion.

This might be a bit provocative, but I'm genuinely curious. Let's assume that suicide hotlines are filled up due to mental health problems from being forced to stay inside. If someone is advocating for a lockdown, should they not have the right to call?
This interpretation makes an obvious mistake at the end of the "Sentiments toward Go" section. The question asked was:

> Rank the following programming languages in terms of your preference

And the blog writes:

> people who responded to the Go Developer Survey tended to like Go.
> However, we also wanted to understand which other languages respondents enjoy working with.

For some tasks, I would prefer to work with Python or Bash, though I dislike these languages. I rarely enjoy programming with Python, but I sometimes prefer its environment, especially its universality and some specific libraries. I suppose I'm not a single counter-example where "prefer to use" does not mean "enjoy using".
I can't believe basic things like typing out an email in Outlook visibly lag at times. I'm a decent typist, but I find it absolutely ludicrous that this quad-core monster is at times half a word behind on my typing
Young People Most Infected from Coronavirus in India [April 9, 20]
modules and vendoring is still a pain and I don't want or need a network resource to build my code. If a vendor directory is present, use it!

While things are better in Go 1.14, it is not solved. I do not want to set up a company proxy for our private repos. I can't count how many times some combination of GOPROXY, private repos, vendoring, and modules have been a problem.
I would not use those rule numbers.
> something changed with dict enumeration order between python 2 and 3

Dicts were by definition unordered until Python 3.7 [0], so you were relying on undefined behaviour. If you need an ordered dictionary and support Python 3.6 or below, you should use OrderedDict [1].

[0] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2017-December/1...

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.html#collectio...
That's a quote that's supposed to highlight the absurd comments that you're responding to,
You seem to have found life, liberty, and peaceful pursuit of happiness. It just isn't in the USA.

To avoid tax and banking trouble, you'll want to ditch the US citizenship. Avoiding the trouble is probably well worth the fee and the trip to a US embassy.
I'll pass that on, though we're not likely to be back at work for a while.
How smart is the sync engine's "merge" system? Can it cleverly merge files, or if it sees a single file that has diverged, does it just create a conflict copy and let the user sort it out?

Like, if both Alice and Bob has changed somefile.txt, but Alice has added a few lines in the beginning, and Bob a few lines at the end (i.e. something that would "git merge" cleanly), will the sync engine merge that into one file?

I'm very curious about what thoughts you guys had on this issue, because I can see arguments for both sides.
the reverse order would be bad science
macOS' thermal management of macOS appears to be better than Windows': https://youtu.be/LGOmbNRlZdM?t=495 (8:15)

It also gives a better battery life on average compared to Windows on the same machine.

And the new Mac Pro is apparently a beast in performance and cooling.
It's very fun that you just destroyed the third $50 part and now have to work overtime because your hobby is too expensive.
Because we still call them Land Lords
I still have a hard time believing those benchmarks. Are they really comparing the same things - just compiled for different architecture? Or is there more behind it - one is a "mobile" benchmark, the other something else?
How I Failed to Deal With Legacy Code (And what I learned in the process)
> The cynic in me just thinks that it saves the game developers from the need to develop good AIs.

Balancing a multiplayer game is generally much more difficult than doing a single player game with AIs.
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> Today the quality of governance in East Asia sets the global standard. The leaders who turned their countries around, such as Deng Xiaoping in China and Lee Kuan Yew in Singapore, planted the seeds of knowledge, internationalism and order in their societies.

Am I reading The Economist or Pravda?
Per the site Guidelines [0]:
"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Swine flu killed ~500k, it doesn't look like this'll get there.

... Are you willing to put money on this? It'll be the easiest money I'll ever make

The US is already at 3x more deaths from Covid-19 than the most pessimistic estimates of how many died there from swine flu

Those 500k deaths you're talking about? All happened in Africa and Asia. This pandemic has barely begun to hit India and Bangladesh. Same with Africa
> What happens when the kits are faulty or non-experts interpret the data? Lots of folks will think they're safe and go home to visit at-risk elders.

That is basically what the CDC did. Having one organisation in a position where a totally ordinary and probably routine failure will kill tens of thousands of people, or worse, is stupid. It isn't like government officials are the only people in the world who care about stopping a blossoming pandemic; the law shouldn't pretend otherwise.

Better to ban tests if there is something wrong with them than preemptivly screw up the response.
True that, in ermany you legally have to pass through a notary, while in the US it would simply be wise to do so.

The incorporation of my company in germany, including documentation, notary fees and registration, cost me less than 1.000 € and took 7 days from notary to registration. VAT registration took almost 5 weeks, so. But that was independent from the legal entity.
And perfectly on Firefox 75 on Linux.
lcds dont work great in not native resolution, even if its perfect 2x scaling it still little bit bury, so if you did that (set the displa to 1080) on the same display im not sure that's fair, at least that's what i noticed in my experimentation, and i had/have a dell, apple , huawei and asus laptops with hdpi.
for me the difference between high enough and 4k on a small laptop display is not that noticeable/important and it comes with drawbacks (at least on linux for now)
I'm sure the author tried some debugging but it's a bit sad not to see any in the post, instead their workaround is simply presented.

I would assume the root of the difference in behavior comes down to calling fsync when editing files on such a mount.

In lieu of having macOS's userland source I grepped through through copies of ed's source from GNU and OpenBSD. I don't see any calls to fsync. Whereas Vim by default does. Note most instances of vi are actually a link to Vim/a minimal version of Vim. Normally I'd test this with with some quick tracing but it appears I've not configured SIP to allow DTrace on my machine and I can't be bothered to reboot right now.
Mostly the driver doesn't matter; for the CI stuff you basically want to carry out "actions" on "events". As a concrete example you might wish to run your test cases when a new pull-request is opened, or an existing one is updated.

The way that glue/integration works is going to be somewhat specific to the setup you're already using. That's why you'll find Github Actions being documented for Github, Jenkins for self-hosted repositories, etc.

Broadly speaking it doesn't matter which "thing" you use to drive your CI, the key is that it works reliably and that the stuff which is executed is inside your repository. That way:

* Developers can run it manually if they wish (e.g. "make test")

* The CI system can be swapped out in the future, if you need to.

As a concrete example once I migrated a company's repositories from bitbucket, using their pipelines, to (self-hosted) Github Enterprise. Because the pipeline just said "Run .git/tests.sh" porting the glue was trivial.

I even published a github action for those using github, so that you can launch your project-specific tests in a portable and simple fashion:

https://github.com/skx/github-action-tester
(Unless that's what you meant to say to the parent - I apologize if I misread :))
We can only assume that if the author of previous comment actually missed them and not their faces, they would have said so.
In Canada everyone out of work gets a $2000 check almost right away and basically no questions asked. And we're definitely less wealthy than the US (even per capita). So very unclear to me why the US can't do the same
It's biased towards people who give blood.

I have no idea what that bias is or if it's significant but it's definitely possible that it's still biased in some way.
it is interesting. I don't get exhaustion because I don't talk to the assistants that much, but people talk to their virtual assistants in a different cadence or register. Instead of "alexacanyoutellmethetime?" it is "ALEXA...WHAT...TIME...IS...IT."
The sites I've looked at simply don't have enough advertisements for that to be at all plausible. Ads on these sites are so sparse that it's eerie compared to legitimate news sites. Only a small fraction of the content on these sites is going to get any real traffic, and without a regular audience base the handful of ads spots they do offer are not going to bring in much money. I counted just three ads on the "Metro East Sun" homepage and only two on their current top non-bot story—one of those ads was from the Trump campaign.

And even if they do expect to turn a profit off these sites, the clear patterns in their non-bot content need to be explained. Why do all of these sites seem to be focused on mingling Republican propaganda with their filler content? Why not have some sites featuring clickbait for a different audience?
Becoming aware of the true extent of their mess and having a good grasp on the problem are two entirely different things.

Moreover, the only reason why China's covid19 outbreak threatened the Chinese regime's control over the population is because the Chinese regime failed to address the problem in a timely manner after intentionally turning a blind eye to the problem, and afterwards attacking it as a political threat instead of a public health crisis.
They're basically the kind of people who would be picked up in secret by the FBI/CIA and co in the Cold War for inciting unrest and instability, because who would benefit from a sweeping pandemic in the US and consequent instability?

Superficially, it'd be the gun sellers, because more individuality and chaos means more people will want to "protect" themselves.

But beyond that, internationally there's foreign nations that can benefit from the US being disorganized. It means they can buy in / loan out financial dependency (e.g. China building ports and infrastructure in Africa which they will gain full ownership of if they can't pay off the loans), which leads to control and an advantage in e.g. trade deals.

Plus if the US is finally forced to deal with its own problems, it won't stir as much shit abroad. Russia seems to have an interest in (re)claiming territory; who is going to stop them from claiming Afghanistan (again) if the US is too busy dealing with an epidemic and/or a revolution?

Disclaimers: Not an American, not a historian or politician, I'm just spewing random bullshit, citation needed etc.
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Have you been lately in Romania? You would be surprised how much disposable income people have there.

The country is one of the biggest cereal producer of EU, a major car industry player and has big reserves of oil and gas.

Anecdotally, since turism/horeca services is really a minor part of the GDP, the COVID-19 will not affect it too much. Whereas in West going out is a major activity and has much influence.
Hubble Space Telescope turns 30
You are absolutely right!

When considerable effort is put into deciphering what you (think) you hear beyond following the topic itself that is exhausting!

When I use good quality connection I can pay attention more to the meaning rather than the words spoken.
Here's a radical idea: allow people that want to ignore lockdown to do so, in exchange for refusal of anything but palliative care if they get sick with Coronavirus.
These kinds of tools were all over Sun when i was there in the late 90s. Sun really tried to make simple, focused tools for seemingly everything back then. They simply needed to work cleanly and be easy to use.
And indeed they can be counted as COVID deaths if they had respiratory illnesses because the CDC direction is to count any suspicion of COVID or the contribution thereof as a COVID death. [1]

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/coronavirus/Alert-2-New-I...
Anyone tried running Fedora on this machine yet?
(perhaps the beta of Fedora 32?)
You are in fact correct, and you are welcome to use this CDC guidance as a reference in the future, should it come up: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/coronavirus/Alert-2-New-I...
Unemployment right now is $1050 a week here in California ($450 state + $600 federal). Should be noted $2000 CAD is ~$1400 USD also.
Aw, I was thinking bw between the CPU and GPU directly, my bad.
Mainland China lost a five thousand people and got less than 90 thousand infected without warning. Germany still receives praise for a "competent" response with so far the same number of dead and they're so far at more than 140 thousand infected. And that's one of the most praised responses in the West!

China responded badly and recovered. West is still in an arrogant denial.
Ask HN: How to get good at social media?
I feel absolutely shit when I am trying to be relevant by spamming the trending tags, repeating what is already there in the form of SEO spam, email spamming, asking people to subscribe to thing they probably don't even care about.

How do you handle this?

Trying to keep track of what's trending tires me out. Why is it always hate, hate and hate. Why is it always politics or some celebrity expressing their "concerns" or cute puppies.
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> I’d assume most people, particularly landlords and local government would want to avoid that.

This seems like a “prisoner’s dilemma” situation. It’s rational for an individual landlord to evict a delinquent tenant and seek a new one. However, if everyone does this the entire market collapses. It’s better for everyone if the landlord takes a short term haircut to preserve the market.

Since cooperation is expected to break down between individuals, the government must step in to prevent collapse.