skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The USA have alerted NATO allies and Israel in mid-November (!) about coronavirus:

Yes, the US alerted allied nations of a new disease that ought to be watched. Similar warnings went out for SARS, MERS, and Ebola, as well as (for example) the 1968 Hong Kong flu.

>The ban on China travel came two months later. Two months of inaction that have cost a lot of lives.

"Patient Zero" arrived in Seattle from Wuhan on January 15. At that point

* The WHO was still denying that COVID19 could be spread by person-to-person contact.

* Trump was still impeached by the House of Representatives and awaiting trial in the Senate.

What would have happened if on January 1 Trump announced the only thing that would have prevented COVID19 from arriving in the US: A complete and indefinite shutdown of all land, sea, and air borders?[1] Trump would have been denounced by the entire world as a racist sexist fascistNaziKKK preparing to seize unlimited power to avoid being removed from office, using the thin pretext of a disease that seemed only China's problem.

>"[the Democrat's] new hoax"

No. Trump called the Democrats' response to what the administration was doing about COVID19 a hoax, consistent with his describing what led to his impeachment as a hoax a few sentences before the above words.

[1] And before you say that that wasn't necessary, that a 14-day quarantine would have been sufficient, a) That time period wasn't known for sure then. Very, very little was known about the disease or SARS-CoV-2, partly because China wasn't saying anything and WHO wasn't inclined to get China to talk. b) A 14-day quarantine for all visitors is effectively a shutdown of the border. Very, very few people are willing to visit any country that mandates such a thing at entrance.
At my university computer science course, there was a student who had sight issues. He was actually one of the better students. Most of the time he was writing the code with high-contrast theme enabled and extreme zoom, like see only few words at a time kind of zoom.
It's abundantly clear that he took issue with the entire article, it wasn't some rant about racism.

Original tweet: https://twitter.com/cory_foy/status/1251705040873689088

It's also quite clear he takes issue with the Trump administration and Marc's attempts to downplay their role in the current crisis and our preparedness.

> The IRS? Turns out they're actually racist for requiring a bank account to transfer money to.

Cory didn't say the IRS is racist for requiring bank accounts, he's saying racist/classist policies prevented people from getting them in the first place.

You're intentionally misrepresenting his response to claim everything is about the current crisis — it is obviously not. Nor is Marc's original article.
You can do similar stuff with Alfred, which happens to already be quite useful for frequent tasks. At least with Alfred 2, dunno about new versions. Create a workflow, put in a single hotkey trigger block and choose for it to pop up Alfred's window with the selection and the cursor in the beginning. I'm using alt-shift-space as the key. Now you can select text, mash the hotkey and run any of the other workflows that have a ‘keyword’ assigned, plus have ‘script filters’ populate the result/tip list before anything is run. I'm using this to invoke search engines or to add notes in Org-mode, without bothering with the clipboard.

While I'm on this topic, let me add that Lua is way faster than Python or even JS, so it enhances the responsiveness if used for workflow scripts or ‘script filters’.

I'm also using the Automate app on Android to very similar ends: it can have your workflows invoked via the text selection menu or through sharing (no addons with more payment and embedded ads code necessary, like with Tasker).
TT-RSS is pretty great. For Android, I suggest the open source client of the same name, from the same author. For iOS, I suggest "tiny Reader RSS":

https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/tiny-reader-rss/id689519762?l=...
Oh my no. There's the plethora of Web APIs to attend to, with ever new things that require support in order for websites to work. And each of those creates complex security concerns. The js spec is ever moving, with new syntax and features. Accessibility concerns interact with all of these other parts. It's "normal" to ship complex desktop apps deployed to the browser now. And THEN, after all that, you need to maintain backwards compatibility with old standards.

You basically need to handle an operating system where the VM is built on top of your browser, with all the security responsibilities and changing demands of developers working on your platform therein.
I use uMatrix, however the whole site fails to load in Palemoon.
Do y'all have "cat flaps" in your country? In my country you can get electronic cat doors that only unlock for a particular collar tag or microchip.

Of course in my country they're more for keeping out the next-door neighbour's cat than foxes or skunks.
They were doing it in Amsterdam for years for the recreational market, and still do with truffles. Is it just profit making motive that is coming into play here?
It’s Naval Ravikant:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Ravikant
The government should be helicoptering money into the system, it can print endless amounts of it.

It should do it as long as the rest of the economy (consumers / businesses) are not. However, the money should be going to Main St, not Wall St.

Equity and Debt holders can and should be taking haircuts and losses in recognition of the risk of their investments. Bailing out Wall Street just leads to continuing asset bubbles as investors seek returns independent of risk.

The problem will be when does the government withdraw that support? And how? As business and consumption returns, the government should reduce its addition to the money supply proportionally.
I tried notebooks, but my writing is poor and I don't enjoy it. I usually stick with just opening a text document and writing bulletpoints. I can express myself a lot faster as well that way. Mind you I probably write too much thanks to being a pretty fast typist.
No time to read the whole thread right now, but feel free to get in touch (email is in my profile). I'm blind since birth and have had various software development jobs. These days I shifted a bit and started my own company doing digital accessibility consulting.

If you'll become totally blind (e.g. need to transition to a screen reader some day), I would advise you to leave the Mac platform. The built-in screen reader seems good at first, but falls down in complex work. Support for web browsing is suboptimal (Firefox is a no go) and the screen reader is only updated in the regular OS X release cycle. This means bugs will stick around a long time and it's totally unclear what the status of a bug is. Also, hackability of VoiceOver is limited. I find that a must for a tool that I am 100% reliant on.

I'm very sympathetic to Linux and run it in many places (Raspberry pi, home server, some stuff on VPSs), but I think Windows is a better accessible desktop experience now. Microsoft is trying tu push accessibility hard in most of their projects, this is often lacking in open source projects. Even if OS projects want to do a good job at accessibility, they usually miss the manpower of knowledge to do so. Especially given Docker and WSL (Windows subsystem for Linux), it is easy to run Linux-based development workloads on a Windows box.

My editor of choice these days is VS Code. That team is also very active on the accessibility of their editor. I use the free and open source NVDA screen reader. If something in NVDA is broken, I can at least look at their Github if any work is being done and if needs be throw in a few patches myself.

So, summing up I would say: find out a set of accessible tools to do your job, learn them before you get blind. Relying on vision until the very latest moment will give you an enormous productivity hit when the switch to 100% screen reader use comes (based on my experience training low vision and blind users in a previous job).

From what I've seen from the thread, others have already touched on some advantages of being a blind coder. You'll get a better mental model of your code out of necessity and depending on your team/employer you can be a more valuable team member because you also bring knowledge of software accessibility.

Hope this helps and good luck!
I wasn't aware it's particularly fancy, as you can get it even in discount supermarkets here (Germany) - it costs a bit more than the house brand butter but not by much (I think KG is something like €2-something for 250g).
I live with two people with ADHD and I'm not seeing it. The OP describes giving up too easily for hard tasks, which is fairly common (I mean I have it) without any other indications for ADHD.
Psylocibin is already synthetically available as I understand - its a pill they get in Johns Hopkins trails for smoking cessation. Anyone know how that is produced?

Another point they make is about psylocin. As I understand, as soon as psylocibin hits your stomach acid it gets converted to psylocin anyway. People use lemon to do the process before ingesting in order for it to hit them faster.
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So it seems that with concepts we can reduce the tricks of template code!
Do you have your own examples where you needed SFINAE stuff?
> ... multiplication ... in a CS context ... almost always considered O(1)

Not when you're doing cryptography it isn't, but when your numbers are always machine-register sized, multiplication is O(1).
Denmark is in general pretty well known for doing stuff with yeast. The yeast used in most of the worlds lager beer are all "descendants" of a yeast cultivated by the beer company Carlsberg which have been distributed around the world. And the pharma company Nova were among the first to produce human insulin with yeast.
Well, it was impossible to buy masks for much of the lockdown in France, so…

But banning the sale of masks isn't the most stupid idea we had in France, I'd say it was forbidding jogging from 10h to 19h in Paris was the worst, with all the joggers clustering from 8h to 10h and 19h to 20h
JAMstack tutorial to create a website with just clicks and no code at all for $0
> It's 2020. We don't have the deck stacked in our favor like we did in 1945. We've got massive obligations and a populace that's becoming increasingly demanding of bailouts, loan forgiveness, UBI, etc which are all untenable given that our existing social programs are already approaching insolvency.

US Social Security is effectively funded by US Treasuries. There is no "locked box" that somehow the US government "saves" contributions into. The national debt is debt generated now to be paid in the future, perhaps. The question about what that borrowing is spent on now is the question. Right now, spending it on social programs will aid the individuals that otherwise would be in dire poverty. Spending it on infrastructure (and the US infrastructure is woeful) is useful investment that will generate returns in the future.

So the answer is to do both.
Or just let cows graze in fields? You don't even need to harvest the grass then.
You don't realize how much of our retirement system depends on equity markets.
This was no composition by a performing monkey!
I never understood why Dvorak is a thing.

I and others like me can touch type with Qwerty just fine. I can comfortably do 70-90 wpm, which is above my speed of thought. I don't suffer from RSI either and I've been touch typing for 20 years.

Also the Qwerty layout is more international. In non-English languages the Dvorak assumptions break down, the layout being optimized for English. And good luck finding Dvorak versions for other languages. Whereas all localized keyboard layouts that I've seen are based on Qwerty (for languages using Latin chars obviously). So for people communicating in more than English, like myself, anything non-Qwerty would be a pain.

So the biggest problem with Dvorak is that it is non-standard and it ain't worth it imo. I have issues with using other workstations, of friends and colleagues, just by having reconfigured Caps Lock into another Ctrl.
We’re working full steam ahead! Crisis come and go.
CLIs are like that. On the bright side, things rarely change. So the stuff you read in the manual 30 years ago still likely works. I prefer it over relearning GUIs with every update.

Of course, you might as well disregard the manual and discover things on your own as you need them. Nevertheless, it helps to go at this with a mindset of "this feature surely already exists" lest you're compelled to develop a worse version of the feature yourself.
more than 5,500 articles about covid-19 in pubmed, growth in knowledge goes along growth of disease. This is a great resource
Probably no one has that insight. No doubt some will emerge right, by virtue that every option has been mentioned.

After 1918...didn't we have the roaring 20's? Can we hope for that scenario? I know WWI also ended
I don't really find one easier than the other, but I do use indentation in the same way sighted people do. I find it a lot easier than counting braces in my head.
The mistake we all make is thinking the market includes us, the patients. If there is anything resembling a 'normal' (price discovery) market, it's between hospitals and other care providers and the government. The entity with the funds can foster healthy competition between the entities with the product/service. If you need medical attention, you need medical attention. A treated patient is not the customer, they are the output.
Odd that you hyperfocus on the racism piece, when he said racist and classist. Honestly, if you have an argument that fundamentally accepting race and class injustices lead to the damaging reality we're living now, I'm not seeing it. I feel like the only argument I'm really seeing is "surely it can't be as simple as systemic injustices", which just seems like a silly caveat to me. Of course it could be, and likely is.
I'd love to hear more about this cheap, efficient extraction of psilocybin from mushrooms.
Interesting that they save on ham by using fish! In Germany & Austria it's the opposite, pork is super cheap and fish is expensive (they don't use ground pork to fake fish products tho).
I disagree. The fact that so many websites choose to be non-compliant is a big flashing signal that I don’t want to be on the site anyway, because they do not care about my privacy.

Especially the sites that have notices like “We value your privacy... so here’s 50 third parties we share your data with that you have to individually opt out from”. If they truly valued my privacy, they wouldn’t be sharing my data with so many third parties in the first place. They wouldn’t need to tell me and let me opt out.

Before GDPR, I’d have to read privacy policies to find out who doesn’t value my privacy, but now, after GDPR, the websites tell me with an in-your-face banner so I know to close the tab.
Networking is already first class on most operating systems worth naming, even the ones without a good browser.

A modern browser as a basis for the Shell/userland of an operating system is essentially Chrome OS with a difference in user experience that’s about as different as the set of features from browser to browser. A lean userland might be desirable, but even operating systems with lean out of the box userlands usually have a package manger that can quickly expand the base of software available to you on the system.

And speaking of package managers, the stuff going on with Nix and Guix is a lot more interesting than reinventions of Chrome OS. Check them out, the system can be about as lean or thick as you like depending on how you configure it.
Wow. So the "Pandemic Response Team" that Bolton eliminated was really just two people in a white house advisory committee, who had the three people reporting to them moved to reporting to other committee members.

If existance of two people on a comittee were the only thing standing between success and failure, then the US still has some deep systemic problems.
It sounded equivalent to 3-4 grams of dried mushrooms, which is a moderately large dose (well that's what they described as a "sweet spot"), but not out of the ordinary. Trips are graded up to level 5 with is > 5g dried. Terrance McKenna talks a lot about 5g in silent darkness.
> Enterprise version

> High request volume (over 2,000 requests per day)

What ? or do you mean free version is restricted to 2000 req per day

edit: wasn't this a "reverse geocoding api" 5 days ago, and something else 6 days ago ?

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=jamesbhe
People are intentionally inserting identity politics into their articles to get views and upvotes. Even if it means being intellectually dishonest. It’s really a shame too, because there are legitimate criticisms to be made of the original article.
Johns Hopkins trials administer a pill, so I assume it's available somewhere.
If he didn't know how to write C++ but has a CS degree then presumably he knows another language like java. Many language features are interchangeable so it sets you up for picking up a new language fairly quickly
I wouldn't normally quote politico as a source, my politics don't align. That said:

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/19/why-new-jerseys-ven...
Lawmakers in New Jersey, which is quickly becoming the new epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic, are worried new emergency triage guidelines for the state’s hospitals could push younger, whiter patients to the front of the line.

“We do know that it exists, institutional bias exists throughout all of health care,” Persichilli said Wednesday
Emailed you just now :)
NHS Nightingale: Instruction manual for 4000 bed temporary hospital [pdf]
I don't get the fuzz about Mozart. The only thing he definitely proofs is that if we had a great and free education system for ALL kids (not only for the "privileged") he would be just one among thousands of geniuses...
Sorry but it is not allowed to make spirits at home in Czech Republic.

You can use certified distillery to make spirit from home grown fruit and pay taxes (although not as much as for commercial alcohol). This spirit is used for personal use only and could not be sold.
Covid-19: Exercise may protect against deadly complication
Very strange that before the virus people were talking about how a record breaking time between recessions was among a number of indicators pointing to a recession, likely a strong recession that would rule out the possibility of a V shaped recovery. Now everything is because of the virus and reactions to the virus. Never mind that markets had been hollowed out by nearly a decade of rampant low interest stock buy backs and other future wrecking methodologies. Essentially the only content in this article is yet more evidence that current market followers are incapable of even the most basic introspection.
Oslo is very liberal when it comes to public drinking. It's not uncommon to get fined for drinking in parks in other cities in Norway. I've only heard of someone getting arrested for it once though, and that was because he refused to pour out the beer when requested by a police officer and chugged it instead.
I dont think he would have been called sexist for that. Be accurate and dont flame, especially when you get the big picture right.
It probably was. What role did post-dot com, post-9/11 monetary policy play in creating the real estate bubble?
Covid-19 and HIV: Follow Me Down the Rabbit Hole
Aminoapps fired all employees and is handing the app to an outsourcing company to scavenge the remaining user values.
I remember Atul Gawande mentioning in one of his books that patient deaths slow when their surgeons take a holiday.
As a suggestion, be slightly more careful when stipulating sides. The FSF, mine and others interpretation contrasted with the OSI, yours and others would be a fairer statement. There are individuals using "Free Software", and there are organizations using "open source".

One of the key points of the creation of the term "open source" was the distancing from the ethical aspects of Free Software - to turn its face on it and "hope for the best". Yet, of course the ramifications of ethical creation, usage and sharing are usually still there on "open source" projects, since it's how things often tend to go when creating Free Software - _despite_ the new term, not _because_ of it.

> I will continue to use the term “open source” to refer to the whole shebang, which has been best for communicating to most people who aren’t fighting over terminology semantics as a means to push ideology.

By charging "open source" with the ethical+practical unity of Free Software, you are doing exactly what the very creators and advocates of the term wanted to avoid - "ideology". Therefore this point sounds so... weird?
I thought the same. Captain Obvious called a second time. Of course CNNs are still heavily biased towards texture, because nothing has fundamentally changed in the past 5 years.
If you want to try it, older tts voices such as eloquence are intelligible at much higher speeds than the modern natural sounding voices.
Why Japan’s rail workers point at things (2017)
Is cybersecurity paving the way for a new form of war?
In any case, harassing people for wearing a mask is stupid.
Drinking with children present is taboo but not illegal. So that kind of makes sense if they have nosy neighbors.
How do I speak English confidently and fluently?
Aphantasia is a condition I have never heard about.
Your experience and the description on Wikipedia lets me think I was born like this as well.

I had many arguments with my wife about how I did not have visual dreams and did not see anything when I close my eyes.
When she says she sees stuff when she closes her eyes, I always assumed it was some sort of metaphor and it was usual for human beings not to see anything when their eyes are closed.

I think when I "visualize" something, not limited to math and code, I do not see anything per se. Mostly I think my thoughts are directed graphs whose nodes are concepts I have in memory.

May I ask how did you get a diagnosis? And did you learn anything of use thanks to this diagnosis?
It can be structured as an income tax that starts out negative. Everyone of working age is paid the UBI, which is designed to act as the safety net. This frees up a ton of overhead as means-testing, benefit fraud, etc. all goes away.

Then when you get a job, the UBI starts to reduce, at a rate LESS than the money you are earning. So if you're paid $1000 monthly UBI, and get a $1000 job, it might reduce UBI by $500. So you're always better off working. You'd probably want a sliding scale so maybe the first couple of hundred only reduces your UBI by 0.20 per dollar, or whatever. It can be structured so the net tax take for the government is the same. Yes this probably means people earning more than say $100,000 pay a bit more in tax. I'm okay with that.
Ive found proponents of the systemic racism explanation for all racial discrepencies to be extremely hostile to disagreements like yours.
The woman who discovered the first coronavirus
edit: lol i got downvoted for posting a link that subverts the paywall?

Yes, I always downvote links that bypass paywalls.