skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably Homo Econimus. If Homo Econimus is good at one thing, it's math, to the exclusion of pretty much everything else.
I actually really enjoy experiences. I've used the product myself and it's a great way to experience a new location with a local host.
In South Korea, a Number of Covid-19 Patients Test positive After Recovery
Then go kill yourself rather than expose everyone to the risk as well, you libertarian nightmare.
The Forestiere Underground Gardens in Frenso are over 100 years old. The trees grow in wells connected by shallow tunnels. It does look more like a Tatooine underground house than a garden, but still neat. It's open for tours in normal times:

http://www.undergroundgardens.com/
Niall Ferguson (spelling)
> ...noticeable reduction in the spread?

I believe the SIR model [0] answers those questions. 3blue1brown's video on the topic is super digestible and informative [1].

In short, the discovery of a prophylactic if not a therapeutic treatment are our best immediate bets, absent which, quarantines and lockdowns will have to persist to curb the spread of a disease as infectious as covid-19 whilst we patiently wait for an effective vaccine against it [2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compartmental_models_in_epidem...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxAaO2rsdIs

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine_efficacy
MSNBC's SRuhle suggests Biden create “shadow government” to counter Trump
I feel like it's unfair that you're getting downvoted. This seems like a genuine question. Clearly people are buying groceries and toilet paper but with so many people out of work, it may be surprising to hear that people are buying non-essentials.
Is this a legitimate news site... or is it one of those "Bill Gates spread coronavirus to kill people, the evidence is he said we should reduce population growth rate and we interpreted it as him saying he wants to reduce the population" sites?

The fact that segments are repeated makes me think it's not a reputable site (in case they manage to fix it, screenshot as of the moment: https://i.imgur.com/M2Glm84.png). Also the poster's username on here is very similar to the site name...
With the average adult getting two bouts of common cold each year and mild COVID symptoms resembling a common cold, I'd think a large fraction of the population might think they had it. I wouldn't dear to guess in which way this shifts the estimate.

I think it's understood, that with such a small sample size, results are to be taken cautiously. You have to start somewhere though.
Far-UVC to control the spread of airborne-mediated microbial diseases (2018) [pdf]
> The only way this will work on a nationwide scale is if the federal government coordinates it.

Your comment made me think of a wild and impractical idea. Airbnb, Uber, Lyft, Etsy and others unlocked a gig economy in specific industries. Is there any possibility to do the same with PPE?
> This would be one place where free software could really shine - you could convert a lot of people with "every application works the same, and we promise we won't change the UI more than once every two years unless we really have to.

This is one reason I use Xfce. My brother once told me that my computer has looked basically the same since I used Gnome 2, and he's right.

I'm not entirely immune. After switching fully to GTK 3 it took me a while to find a decent style that had scroll bars or not terrible scrollbars. The one I'm using right now (ClassicLooks) has a few issues (e.g., I can't tab through GUIs because it won't highlight the active option), but overall is acceptable. I'll fix the highlighting issue eventually...
This technology has a lot of potential. I have played around with Status for a while and it has a real potential to surpass the safety functionalities of Telegram and Signal.
We're definitely considering it!
> It’s totally inappropriate to desktops.

I don’t agree. It’s important for the user to know a login UI is the real thing. For example, Windows NT used to have you hit Ctrl+Alt+Del to make the credential dialog appear so that any fake lookalike was impossible.
.com price rises are on their way after ICANN approves Verisign contract
> First, the basic principles of how to write an efficient prefix sum are the same as before. Definitely read [1].

That's slightly outdated. The state-of-the art is: https://research.nvidia.com/publication/single-pass-parallel...

(EDIT: well the state of the art is CUB, but that paper is a bit more approachable than the CUB docs, which are still very good).

> though it does miss a direct performance comparison to CUB.

For perspective, CUB prefix-sum is as fast as a memcpy on the GPU. It achieves the peak memory bandwidth of the device.
>Given how many people are currently unemployed - how is it that we can fail to ramp up our own ability to produce this needed equipment? There is no shortage of labor.

Labor isn't the limiting factor. You need machines, raw materials, supply chains.

There isn't an AWS for N95 mask manufacturing.
European coronavirus contact tracing app sparks uproar in the privacy community
Here’s the news from Reuters

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-cyber-...
One way to work around this, stolen from somewhere on the internet:

bwrap --dev-bind / / --ro-bind /opt/zoom/os-release /etc/os-release /usr/bin/zoom %U

Where you set /opt/zoom/os-release to something appropriate. Should be enough to copy your current one and set VERSION_ID to 10.

(it's pretty simplistic)
Some jobs should not be done.

That implies there are times we should root for people to lose their jobs.

This may not be one of them.

I just felt it was worth pointing out that this is a noble-sounding but poor idea.
> Given how many people are currently unemployed - how is it that we can fail to ramp up our own ability to produce this needed equipment? There is no shortage of labor.

Labor isn't the only limiting factor:

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/16/8149292...:

> COVID-19 Has Caused A Shortage Of Face Masks. But They're Surprisingly Hard To Make

> ...

> Both the masks made for medical personnel and for consumer purchase require a once-obscure material called melt-blown fabric. It's an extremely fine mesh of synthetic polymer fibers that forms the critical inner filtration layer of a mask, allowing the wearer to breath while reducing the inflow of possible infectious particles...

> And there's now a global shortage of melt-blown fabric due to the increased demand for masks — and the difficulty in producing this material.
^ This is the correct answer. Too difficult for the WHO to come up with apparently, their rep thought the smart move was to hang up.
I think Xubuntu is a good alternative. XFCE doesn't have as much eye candy, but it certainly surprises me far less and usually is very pleasant to work with.
> Photoshop pros use macros

> Unix pros use text editing macros

pros are like, 0.01 %
Business as Usual, During Alterations (Science Fiction)
I have, at least for the free trial amount. It didn't really stick for me, because of no mobile app so I can't add transactions on the go, and the budgets just seemed...forgiving? I want to control my spending, I don't want to be told it's okay and that I can spend more. At least for me, I want hard cut offs. It's a fine service, it just didn't work for me necessarily. I also don't use their multi-currency support as I don't travel or have multiple currencies.
Funny. I'm walking down the corridor almost in total darkness trying to get my son to sleep. I get bored and with my free hand reach to my phone, open NH and stumble upon this title.
Totally unrelated to its content but I had a (quiet) laugh :)
Of course not, if you can automate feeding. Sadly the current armless interfaces are not efficient enough, otherwise there is a big potential there as well. But the bonsai approach if applied young enough, should give efficiency boosts, too.
I don't have an anti-Amazon agenda to push, even though they deserve criticism. However, we can't ignore the fact that corporations and the rights of workers are both economic and political at once. This whole article is about a collective labor action. Is this journalism not an example of a political battle that most of us, as workers, are forced to confront? Why not just delete the entire post?
Wells and septic systems are often regulated by state and local zoning laws. So, houses are not sellable without these things, as it stands. The initial builder of a house pays for the installation. And then it passes to the next owner as part of the property. Property owners are ultimately responsible. Landlords are responsible for providing clean water in accordance with tenant-landlord law. In U.S. this problem has long been solved. Sometimes you get poor local management like Flint, MI that screws things up. But by and large, solved problem.
I’m worried about the YMCA. They do an admirable job of serving the community and poorer populations, but they apparently do so (at least here) by discounting on income.

If they lose any significant portion of the people who could afford to buy home equipment, can they still serve those who can’t?
It's starting to feel like it would be news if it didn't happen
Relevant quote from my reading yesterday: "Time itself is on the side of increasing the perceived need for usability since the software market seems to be shifting away from the features war of earlier years. User interface design and customer service will probably generate more added value for computer companies than hardware manufacturing, and user interfaces are a major way to differentiate products in a market dominated by an otherwise homogenizing trend towards open systems." - Jakob Nielson, Usability Engineering - 1993.

I think he partly got the prediction right, that usability would be big differentiator. Apple and MS over the following years had big efforts focused on consistency in their interfaces and we had what many consider a golden age of UI usability, at least from a consistency standpoint. I think what happened next is that two things came along and basically reset the state of UI design back to zero: Mobile and the web.

Both platforms were so radically different that Apple and MS UI guidelines were useless. We got a horde of web and mobile designers experimenting with all sorts of novel interfaces. Experimentation is a great thing but consistency has definitely suffered. I've long thought there was big money to made by somebody wrapping up a complete linux distro, with a set of common applications (libreoffice, et al) but putting in the (very significant) effort to standardize _every_ interface, write good manuals and provide customer support. Sort of like the service that Red Hat provides for servers but with a desktop focus. Maybe they couldn't eat MS's lunch, but if they could demonstrate big productivity gains for businesses, maybe they could.

In the last decade I think we've seen the (much needed) injection of artistic talent into the UI design space. UIs today are much more beautiful than in 1995. That's because businesses realized that users value beauty and hardware improved to the point where more visual effects could be provided without sacrificing performance. In the next decade I think we'll see a resurgence of focus on accessibility and usability centered around design guidelines that coalesce out of consensus in disparate communities rather than corporate policy. I think especially that as Moore's law continues to flatten out, and network connection speeds start to platau we're going to see a renewed focus on responsive UI design and application performance. I am excited about these trends and feel optimistic about software design going forward.

Too bad Nielson was totally wrong about customer service though. :-(
That's if you hit the backboard. But you don't need to hit the backboard and plenty of people can normally make the shot without it. Funfairs / carnivals probably are doing something with the hoop itself.
China doing what it always does. Trying to steal from western corps and research to make up for their own screwups.
You must be real fun at parties.....

Friend: I'm going to grab more drinks from the store

You: There are several very large assumptions implicit in that sentence

Friend: ?

You: Your car can break down, you can get in an accident on the way there, the store can be robbed and you can get shot, you may get a call about your parents dying on the way, a meteor may strike and kills us all...
Do you have a link to this Money app, or perhaps a news source? I only found the older desktop version from some time age when searching Microsoft Money app.
That's a bit different. I can fake swipe-up on a GUI but I can't fake Ctrl-Alt-Del.
> And it's not legal for me to be a contractor out of Germany with just one client (they'd have to hire me).

Are you looking for abroad projects too? What if you setup GmbH and issue 2-3x amount invoices to EU or global customer(s) per monthly/gig. Then pay your benefits/taxes yourself.
Almost makes you wonder if balajis has a personal gripe with vox or recode or Ezra or Kara.

Balaji is a crypto bro and epitome of technocrats who thinks just because they are (rich|famous|networked), they are experts on everything. Fact of the matter is, Balaji doesn't know any more about Covid than what is reported. He's using hindsight bias to claim that media reported was false.
Maybe Chinese emigrants in Italy are young so they didn't notice the wave. But Taiwan/Hongkong/Macau? They are testing and tracing. When their recent travelers to Europe and America came back, a lot of them were infected and caused a spike in cases. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/09/world/asia/co...
Select Wat from SQL;
> I've actually seen applications where the first button on the toolbar is a hamburger menu and when you click it you get a dropdown with File/Edit/... etc options, that work as expected. I can live with that for now.

So instead of just having File/Edit/etc. on the toolbar they're nested inside another menu? This seems like introducing an extra click for no reason :(
SpaceX recently released new 4k footage of the first stage returns to the landing zones:

https://youtu.be/fbbSCqaeWyA
A story having political overlap does not make it off topic for HN. That depends on how well it serves the site's mandate, which is intellectual curiosity. Lots of explanation about that at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....

Intellectual curiosity depends on how repetitive a topic is. The more repetitive it is, the less curious—curiosity withers under repetition: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

When there's a major ongoing topic (MOT), HN gets flooded with many follow-up submissions about that overall story. The test we apply in such cases is to ask whether a submission contains significant new information (SNI): https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....

When a follow-up story doesn't contain significant new information, it falls on the repetitive side and tends to produce repetitive, generic discussions. Those are worse for intellectual curiosity: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

Worse, repetitive and generic discussions tend to devolve into flamewars. It's as if the mind resorts to conflict to amuse itself when there isn't any material for curiosity to play with: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

The key thing is whether the comments in such a thread are about interesting new information contained in the new article, or whether they could be copy/pasted from any other recent thread about the topic. HN thrives on diffs: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... Basically the question is: where's the SNI?

All: if any reasoning here is wrong or unclear, have a look at the above links. Then if there's still some question that hasn't been answered, I'd love to know what it is. These principles have built up over many years of operating Hacker News. The same situations and questions come up repeatedly; you'll notice that as we've posted explanations over the years, the answers have slowly been converging. That's I link so often to past explanations: in addition to giving more information, it lets readers see how the answers have developed and why they are the way they are.

The question of how to treat politics on HN is a hard puzzle. It has constraints that make a solution nearly impossible. Worse, without a solution, the site will destroy itself. My answer here (plus the links) is our best attempt at a solution. If anyone thinks they have a better solution, I'd love to hear what it is—but please familiarize yourself with the material first, because if it's something simple like "just ban politics" or "just leave the threads alone", I've answered many times already why that won't work.

p.s.
If anyone doubts that the current topic is a MOT, I pasted a dozen links to major recent threads here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22902685. Look through them and you'll find plenty of generic discussion.
Permaculture in general sadly does not produce at scale at all and scaling up is very labour intensive.
It seems to be happening at the individual state level, but without smarter coordination between states there's a lot being left on the table.

WWII had the benefit of an extent Works Progress Administration [1] that had lot of power to swing jobs between and among states. It also had a lot of little powers that added up, like the Federal Arts Project (FAP) that pulled together the artists to create such works of art as "Rosie the Riveter" to motivate.

Maybe little things like a Federal Dank Memes Project could help in a time like this, maybe not. The "Rosie the Riveter" equivalent memes are out there, in some states, scattered and crowd sourced to social media. That more states don't even realize what their neighbors are up to in mobilizing PPE is itself a failure in coordination at the Federal level.

As we get through this we're probably going to need to talk a lot about renewing the New Deal.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration
Three Twins ice cream company closes, citing coronavirus pandemic
I found this intriguing as well. Two possible reasons:

* If your name is associated with some preexisting score, this might influence the chances of the mail getting accepted or rejected.

* Conversely the mail gets rejected, this might ding your reputation for other mail you send in the future.
I found this LWN article from late 2016:

https://lwn.net/Articles/705160/

Though I haven't read it, through a slight skim, it seems to give an overview and historical background.
Evidence SARS-CoV-2 Emerged from a Biological Laboratory in Wuhan (Updated)
Tech Startups Ask Workers to Trade in Salary for Stock
I get that something has been setup and that some serious heads are involved but with respect to ownership / control of the .org tld what is being proposed if anything?

Or is this simply a representative organisation to protect the interests of domain holders?

Sorry if these are dumb questions.
These e-commerce sites are competing for stimulus money.
this is very cool! good job on "getting out of the way" + making it easy to enter data.

How do you know who to text (who is on shift, that is, as shifts change)? Or do you just text everyone periodically?
When people don't have options, they find themselves forced to choose between terrible working conditions and not being able to afford to eat.

When your workforce consists of people taking the only job they can find, you worsen working conditions until just above where people would rather starve than work for you.

The issue isn't pay, it's employment practices and on-the-job pressures. There are very believable stories out there of the working conditions.
> Airbnb, Uber, Lyft, Etsy and others unlocked a gig economy in specific industries. Is there any possibility to do the same with PPE?

Beyond volunteer sewing efforts that are already happening and do not produce medical-grade PPE, the answer is no.
Interface Builder for React
Ctrl+Alt+Del cannot be caught by any program, and is therefore reasonable to identify the login UI. Swiping up can be detected by any program, does not improve security as a result, and is ridiculous to have on a desktop UI.
What's interesting though is that states that reject the notion of safety nets because "one size does not fit all" are doing the worst. Perhaps if they gave it a try, they might see that it does fit. But then we see that the problem is actually that of bought politicians.
Category theory is thoroughly visual, though.
It wouldn't even be hard, many businesses would love to help, they just need to be labeled essential (so their people can show up) and given reasonable plans to make something given their resources.

In short what the world needs is plans on how to make n95 mask making machines. There are plenty of manufacturers who can take those plans and build the machines in a few weeks (I'm guessing on time line but it seems reasonable) from there we can make as many masks as we have raw materials for.
eh? That's done literally all the time. But before the fact, not after.

I believe ptacek was complaining about unilateral disclosure. I'm arguing that the researcher was pushed into it. However, it's still grey: just because you are presented with an option you simply don't like, doesn't mean you leak actual data. You can still disclose the breach without exposing the data. It's very grey.
https://farm.bot/
On the other hand, in the UK forming and maintaining a company is so simple and cheap that you might want to do it anyway to keep your business finances and liabilities separate.
Took me a minute to realize you were Job Snijders too lol.

We both know there are still garbagey nets out there using ARM32, MIPS and who knows what else out there for control plane processing. Only the big guys are gonna upgrade to support this.
37/2 = 18.5 tons which around the payload limit for a standard triaxle dump truck, So 2 truckloads.
Whats even more nuts is that N95's have taken this level of importance in healthcare at all instead of reusable P100 masks. I read a post on medium the other day about a hospital in Texas that does that and it was being treated as some kind of amazing discovery as if this was some unknown miracle device.

[0] https://elemental.medium.com/a-tiny-hospital-in-texas-might-...
The author does mention that:

What about Apple?

I can't comment on the current state of MacOS since the time I've spent actually using a Mac during the last 8 years or so probably totals to a few hours. Apple used to be good at this, and I hear they still do a decent job at keeping things sane, even post-Jobs.

But yes: that consistency, though still flawed in many ways (looking at you, iTunes^W Music.app) is what has kept me on this platform, unbroken from System 6.0.7 thru macOS 10.15.4.

Disclaimer: I've been in enough flame wars over this UI that I fully acknowlege that this is a matter of preference. You're not a bad person for preferring otherwise.
This is what I've been assuming - 200 to 250x. But 250xdeaths gives you the infected number from two weeks ago.

To get current infected you then have to multiply it by communication^(days to death), something like 1.1^14, with the first term varying depending on population density and lockdown measures, and the second on how on the ball that locality is for detecting cases and keeping people alive.
Even this amount of genetic material is a fantastic find, though. Maybe there's hope of some future technique being able to recover short sequences somehow.
Just note that if you're making something that needs to rebuild, such as a blog, it will take time for new pages to build into static sites. You can get around this by making template files into which the API will dump data.

I would advise you check out Gatsby for JAMStack, they seem to be the best for this stack currently.
Rust: The Secret Life of Cows
Right, but if I go closer to the metal how much of the latency is really truly intractable? 100 microseconds? 1 millisecond? 10 milliseconds?