skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maintaining emergency stockpiles is the only solution to these episodes of commodity shortages, whether they're caused by increased demand or interrupted supply.

During normal times, the US may use several million masks per week. During epidemics, we may need more than 2 billion masks per week (1 per citizen per day).

We can't financially maintain 1000x production capacity for every potential emergency item. Businesses get screwed when they try to provide surplus capacity for our nation that it doesn't need the other 99% of the time: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/watchdog/2020/04/03/if-you-i... Even if we could it would be cost wasteful vs. stockpiles.

People talk about bringing all the production home, but that may be like getting rid of all your off-site backups and doing all backups onsite. It concentrates risk. What if there's a fire/pandemic/regional event that makes it so you need the emergency supplies, but also knocks out your plants that produce those emergency supplies? At least with some plants here, some plants there...if one country gets sick before the other, the currently-not-sick country can provide some supplies to the now-sick country, and vice versa when the pandemic ends in that place and moves to the other.

We probably need at least a 90 day supply of this stuff for the next pandemic. For n95 masks, I guess that's potentially 350 million * 90 days = 31 billion N95 masks. If they expire in 5 years, then we only need to manufacture 500 million per month to keep them up-to-date, and can pay maintainers to keep the supply rotating. We don't have to throw out soon-to-expire masks, we can sell them from the back of the stockpile at a small discount to end-users who need them regularly, like normal hospital or industrial use.

> building out the production capacity to actually be able to make PPE in sufficient quantities

as you put it, would require us to be able to make 10 billion masks per month (350 million * 30days), instead of just half a billion per month. Thats way more expensive. And those plants would sit idle for decades - who knows if they'd even turn on again? A rotating stockpile can be sold to hospitals for regular use, so we could constantly validate that the goods are good.
Absolutely!

Try writing a simple calculator app with ML and you won't even have marked up enough training data by the time I have written it algorithmically. When it's finished, the ML one won't be as reliable.

I've been involved in a few projects where ML was a candidate approach. Mostly the answer was just to write down what we already know about the problem domain instead.
The video justifies that it isn't: that paraboloids work to focus straight lines but not parabolic basketball trajectories.
ymmv but I kinda like Airflow for automating data ingestion tasks - mainly using its scheduling to run Python scripts that ETL data into bigquery.

BigQuery can also directly query data on gcs now I believe, so maybe that's an option if you don't need to do any transforms.
The free version of MobaXterm works great.
You can use pip to install the executable source files. Pip is preinstalled on most Libux distributions and MacOS.
Thank you! I'm glad you like the syntax!
Clickbait maybe, but as with all Times coverage of the Coronavirus there is no paywall, at least for me.
Can you expand upon the policies that have little evidence of effectivness that are being done by other countries. are Swedes also aware why the other countries are doing this?

Is it fear / politics / bad science etc?
> In my experience (UK), company tax filings are very simple if you have a solo business selling online, and not more difficult than tax filings as an individual

If you haven't done it before, I think it's realistically several days of work over the first year to get up to speed (e.g. dividends, payments on account, what you can expense, deadlines + fines, setting up a business account). Most of the time you'll have to do a personal tax return at a minimum and the company tax return would be on top of the personal tax return (so extra rules to learn and extra paperwork you could forget to submit during the year).

I'm not saying it's impossible and you shouldn't look at forming a company, but I wouldn't call it simple in terms of time and stress, especially when you want to focus on validating a modest side project.
In my experience Ubuntu shows a little animation of up arrows, and maybe even says "swipe to start" if you look long enough at the login screen.

It is pretty confusing the first time, and annoying every time after that, didn't conciously know about the "Enter" trick before now.
Employee request like protecting their health. Why would a company grant that request? /s
That if you're under 54 corona virus isn't any more deadly than the flu?
This way X and music also works:
https://github.com/kpocza/LoWe

Of course, it's a bit circumstantial...
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences (1960) [pdf]
Yeah, but scientists are so preoccupied with whether or not they could make dinosaurs without stopping to think if they should.
Here are the issues with the herd immunity strategy:

- The R0 of this virus is higher than we once thought. The median R0 reported here is 5.7. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/7/20-0282_article
- This means that some 80% of the population would need to be infected before reaching herd immunity
- This also means the peak of infections would be far more concentrated.
- Even with R=2.5, the number of hospitalisation necessary in an unmitigated peak would utterly overwhelm any health system
- This overwhelming situation would mean a lot of people who otherwise would survive with medical treatment (oxygen etc) would end up dying
Bezos is not a Democrat, but yes WaPo like all reputable journalists has been critical of Trump.
> It was basically the same mistake UK did. Now they have very slowly begun to adjust away from the misleading path they originally set on.

How so?

I don't see any adjustment.

The UK strategy was to not pull the trigger on lock down too early, and then to flatten the curve in a way that fills our front line health service's capacity without overstretching it.

All while increasing numbers of beds, ventilators and distributing PPE as widely as possible.

That's broadly what's happened.

What DIDN'T happen is... well... more or less anything proactively in February. But we're certainly not alone there.
RHEL and CentOS are different things. RHEL source is available on its own, independent of CentOS. e.g. http://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/enterprise/7Server/en/os/...
I only see the first paragraph and a notice telling me to create an account to continue.
I'm sure I'm out of touch being old but my school was just fine AFAIK. I can still remember in general, what I learned in every class from 1st grade to 12th grade. I can't remember a single class that didn't teach me useful stuff.

Going backward 12 grade, AP calculus, english lit, programming (mostly self study), auto mechanics (elective), physics. 11th grade applied math, english lit, programming, American history, 9th grade geometry and proofs, yearbook (which taught me how big a project is, how to layout a book, how many students coast, there were basically 3 of us that did 85% of the work), world history, student store (learned what it's like to have co-workers and a job and responsibilities like showing up to school 45 mins early to run the store in the morning), I'm not going to fill it all the way back to kindergarten but is school different now?

I didn't grind out paperwork in 8th grade. I took German, Chemistry, Writing/English, Geography, Typing (yea that was a thing), Algebra
That's what Wine does (and it often works surprisingly well).
I've been on the brink of installing KDE many times over the years. What held me back was that screenshots always displayed bulky window decorations which I have no use for on a 13/14" notebook. Also, for space efficiency, I want global menus period. I think Ubuntu pre-18 with Unity got a lot of things right - a lean UI getting out of your way and yielding space to actual apps. I can do without the collection of desktop apps for either Gnome or KDE - on Gnome the file manager is particular anemic, on KDE it seems too Windows-y for my taste. And I don't use Gnome's mail app or video player but rather "best-of-breed" apps like Thunderbird and VLC anyway. So I guess I'll be looking at lightweight DEs/non-"DE"s going forward (but I'll give KDE a try for sure).

It's sad because gnome worked very well for me so far, and I've actually seen Ubuntu becoming the mainstream choice for freelance dev teams at many places over the last couple of years. I do feel guilty to criticize other people's hard work given for free to me without constructive criticism but as far as I'm concerned gnome shoots for a future and audience of desktop users that just isn't there when IMHO the goal should be to preserve what precious free desktop apps we have and not making app development any more difficult or gnome-centric.
As for Windows native window management, FancyZones is better than nothing. You can overlay zones, I have split each monitor in half with two zones each, then overlayed a bunch of smaller zones for stuff like terminal windows, etc.

https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/tree/master/src/modul...
GTC 2020: Simplifying GPU Access: A Polyglot Binding for GPUs with GraalVM
You have repeatedly missed the point of the discussion because you are hyper-focused on the implementation details that are irrelevant to the end user. I honestly don't know how you jumped from the JVM and CLR to Unisys Clearpath (twice) and Mesa/Cedar except as a red herring. The topic of discussion is Web Assembly which implies a modern browser.

The majority of browsers now support Web Assembly and about half the global population has a web browser and access to the internet - and now, access to an actual universal bytecode based execution runtime by nature of being part of the web browser standards instead of an OS feature or framework installation or (god forbid) Oracle TOS.

The C FFI part was an analogy. The whole point of Web Assembly is that it can't call out to just any library on the OS.
An interesting point regarding the "ministerial rule" is that the other Scandinavian countries don't have the same restriction on politicians, at least not in law/constitution.
Thomas E. Dickey on NetBSD curses
Yes, I'm a frontend dev. I know my todo list examples, haha.
If those kind of risks were imposed on banks they would only work with businesses they knew very well or not at all. As it is there were significant questions from the banks side on what they would be liable for if the loan was ultimately found to be invalid, or fraud.
> You might have learned Rust pre-1.0 or non lexical lifetimes. They've made a tremendous amount of work to improve the language and make it beginner friendly.

I still use Rust almost every week for personal projects, I enjoy it and I still would not qualify it as quick "zero to productive". It still fall behind C++ in term of productivity for me.

Many things that few lines of C++ allow you to do in few lines requires mental gymnastic to wrap around the borrow checker, strict typing and Rust error report system in 10-20 lines.

Comparatively speaking, I program in C++ since 15 years and in Rust since 3 years. Still, everything I do in rust takes between 1.5X to 3X more times to do than in C++, even if the tooling is better.

I know I am going to make enemies saying that with the number of Rust fanboys on YC, but... this is my experience.

And it is not a surprising experience.... Anyone that programmed in OCaml or strict typing language like ATS already experienced that... The strict typing gives you runtime safety and make your program "just" run (less bug-prone) compared to Weaker typed language....

But... it has a cost... like everything... And the cost is much more mental gymnastic... meaning time... meaning less productivity.
Thermodynamics do not set any such bounds, but equilibrium statistical mechanics does describe temperature-dependent state transitions.
Performance is the tip of the value proposition iceberg for Rust.
Join together with some fellow biohackers and make a fun transgenic plant. It's not that expensive or difficult, if you choose the plant well. Then you're a proud God of GMO with your intellectual spawn multiplying to (probably not) conquer the earth...

But some plants are very tricky and costly.

I remember making my first transgenetic GMO in an afternoon back in the day.
Anecdata: I distinctly remember spending a lot of time lying on my stomach in hospital beds during several stints of double pneumonia I experienced as a child, some 30 years ago. It's hard to imagine that front line doctors didn't know about proning a month ago.

Is this a technique that went out of vogue since my childhood, only to be replaced with a reliance on sedation and ventilators, and is it making a comeback due to the lack of ventilators?

Or it it because proning unconscious, intubated patients is hard work and requires three nurses? I can imagine that being difficult to do when your ICU is swamped. Here's what that looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_6jT9R7WJs
> Linux is just the most popular, at the moment, with a small subset of developers in a certain age-range. Mostly web-developers working outside of the enterprise environments, such as startups. These are people that think MySQL is a real database, PHP is a proper programming language, and Bash is the only shell.

And MSSQL has great features, like lack of pagination, VBA is a proper language, ASP.NET was a proper framework, IIS is not a complete shitshow, and enterprise-grade is not a term describing overpriced bullshit software. Get your head out of your ass.
The Windows kernel scheduler causes much trouble for our simulation software which runs 7 out of 8 cores at full pace, and then mysteriously gets suspended by the kernel when left to run over night. No Microsoft, its not OK to suspend a user task, and it’s not OK to reboot my box for an update while I’m running simulation software. If I end up having to reboot to a non Microsoft OS to run the simulations, I may End up never rebooting back to Win10 (once a solution to our external 3rd party tools is found).
Hahahahaha, I've sent this to everyone I know. Thanks!
Agility is learning from software, changing code A LOT. Rest is Agility Theatre
The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two (1955)
This is an excellent example, the chief epidemiologist in Denmark had a clash with the Danish PM about this, because evidence does not support closing borders as an effective policy when we already have a pandemic. In Denmark, the measure was intruduced despite this, presumably because the government wanted to demonstrate forceful action. Sweden still has open borders (not that it makes much difference since most other countries have closed them :) ).
Which brings up the thought - what about the efficiency of solar powered greenhouses? As solar cells are more efficient at catching the sunlight than plants - might boost the overall efficiency of growing things without negative environment impact.
Spawning an external binary does not necessarily involve the shell (if it did, how could the shell itself spawn things? It’d be shells all the way down)
> C++20 async/await isn't relying to competing external libraries.

Standard library is a liability. It's only a matter of time before any non-trivial stuff will turn out to be worse than a 3rd party solution, and won't be able to catch up due to std's constraints (C++ regex being extreme example).

Rust has already learned that lesson with channels. So instead of having to say "don't use std's, use the other faster nicer thing", Rust skips over the tech debt part, and recommends the other faster nicer thing immediately.

And a clean separation of await from its runtime is actually pretty cool. I'm writing a GTK+ app right now, and I can await button clicks on its event loop.
Let's all remember this when peopel accuse china of cooking the numbers
When people make example of Go, they certainly want web framework in the language standard library.
It's about the same setup for all the other servers.
I'm on mobile so can dig up links later. But one of the things I see mostly cited in foreign press is the decision to not shut down all schools.

Universities and what would be equivalent to high schools are doing distance learning, but lower grades are mostly open. The department of health has mostly cited two things for not closing lower grades.

1. Little evidence that younger people are the main vectors spreading the virus.

And 2. That if we shut down schools parents would need to stay home (and are encouraged to stay home via our social programs), and that would include a lot of healthcare workers placing our system under too much stress.
You've made a claim (that people under 54 who get covid-19 are not more likely to die than people under 54 who get flu).

What stats are you basing that on please? Because I can't find any stats that support this claim.
I forgot about the IIGS. I remember walking through a mall and in the front of one of those boutique computer stores back then was a IIGS hooked up to a piano keyboard via MIDI and playing some amazing classical piece while it showed the notes on the screen in full color. It was amazing.
> If you don’t want to learn c++ for its own sake, that’s time you could better spend learning a language that’s not actively trying to harm you.

With enough time, you will realize that any language try to harm you and has quirks. Just different quirks in different scope. Rust included.

> Source: coded c++ for 20 years, now writing rust as much as possible.

I coded for C++ for a smilar time. Now I write Rust on my free time and I still enjoy C++.

This "nightmarish many-tentacled footgun monster" is still a pleasure to use for many use cases and far more powerful than Rust for some scenarios ( constexpr/consteval, template with const litteral, overloading, low level control on memory allocator and a gigantic ecosystem of high quality libraries)
The elastomeric masks allow any filter to be used in them. I have N95 pads in mine. Once a week I swap in "OV" (Organic Vapor) cartridges before I go change the cat litter, the activated carbon in the OV cartridges filter out harmful gases like H2S or even Chlorine gas.

Part of the point, is that the flat, simple, small, replaceable pads for the elastomeric masks use less "melt-blown fabric" than the curved, complex, large N95 face masks. Right now lack of the melt-blown-fabric is preventing us from making enough masks. So being able to make more masks from the same fabric would help a lot.

Most doctors felt the elastomeric masks were inappropriate for healthcare workers. Articles like this are important for helping to challenge that perception. https://elemental.medium.com/a-tiny-hospital-in-texas-might-...

However, the filters do need to be swapped out from time to time. I don't think there's clear guidance on that yet, but there needs to be science backing up any kind of replacement cycle. Once per year would be atrocious, I feel. And of course the rubber itself should be constantly/consistently disinfected as you move between environments or take it off/put it back on.
I think he is saying that they don't get the opportunities because they are gifted kids, but because they are upper-middle class.
Face Recognition and Detection on iOS Using Native Swift Code, Core ML,and ARKit
If this is what u mean U saw, "Log in or create a free New York Times account to continue reading in private mode.", then u could be in a private browsing-mode, and hence u could not go further than first para.
Edit: spelling
I’m 20 and it took me literally minutes to realise I needed to swipe up. I thought the computer had frozen.
No. It isn't fundamentally harmful to children. It depends on how it's done.

One of the major differences between effective programs and harmful ones are the attitudes of the children in those programs. Both the hothouse parents described, and programs for kids "behind standards" push really hard with rote learning, high-pressure, and often punishment. On the other hand, effective programs, both for kids ahead, behind, and at grade-level have richer activities which build love-of-learning.

As a footnote, I looked at the web site you linked to. It cites a bunch of widely discredited Piagetan nonsense.
The size of the original iPhone has been insisted by Steve Jobs. Based on his insistence on the table high and low for apple store, there is a reason for that size.

I still bought a iPod lately for the size and 2nd phone SE for the size (and the weight).
We have partially closed borders but still open to EU countries, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, Lichtenstein and the UK.
Between this and the new Firefox fenix, soon to replace the old Firefox for Android, lots of good news !

Kiwi is still way ahead for its support of desktop Android.
Sorry i didn't see notification of your reply. Here is tool chain from ada they have IDE also if you want

https://www.adacore.com/community
The ~/.bashrc file usually.
I love the Linus on got talk, video quality is horrible but he is so insulting to SVN its so funny. He and only he is allowed be this arrogant and rude because he is so right.
I wonder:

Could you normally have two viable lineages, each with the same DNA, and each with a different expression of that DNA which is stably conserved over many generations, purely due to womb environment, etc.? In other words, if you cloned a woolly mammoth using an elephant surrogate, might the great great great great grandchildren of this clone still have some characteristics that are due to having an elephant surrogate ancestor?

Or would there be a tendency to converge to a single stable expression due entirely to genetics?

It‘s obvious that in principle the answer could go either way, but I’m not sure whether that’s true in practice, with naturally occurring organisms and naturally occurring DNA sequences. For the sake of this question, one is also tempted to exclude post-natal “cultural” transmission, but it’s not clear that can be easily distinguished.
True. In that article though, they thought that the commercialisation wouldn't seriously affect true free distributions like Debian. Shame that did not turn out to be the case. The fear of even slight differences has effectively forced or coerced everyone to toe the RedHat line, even when severely detrimental. What we lost was any semblance of true independence.
> Or it it because proning unconscious, intubated patients is hard work and requires three nurses?

I think in this situation, it’s letting these patients be managed without sedation or intubation.
> I use Linux everyday. But misrepresenting the desktop experience isn't going to get people to switch.

I really enjoy the endless battle with tearing, which sometimes is fixed, other times not. I also enjoy the battle of multi-monitor setup with different DPIs and scaling issues, mixing 1440p and 4k monitors.

As for browser hardware acceleration, hell, even on Windows, Firefox (on my end, and for many others) have stopped being able to play Youtube 4K videos without stutter.

As for games, those who want to game from their Linux install without using Proton can always run a Windows VM with GPU passthrough, that should add fun for days (in terms of configuration).
The very matter-of-fact education channel, Kurzgezagt, uses this style. I imagine partly because of the speed and ease of creation of the videos, but also for the unambiguous and direct capability in conveying information. https://www.youtube.com/user/Kurzgesagt
If you create an account the corona virus articles are free.
The learning curve is misleading. You can achieve parity with a higher level language by copying and pasting solutions such as the one in your stack overflow post. Yet, unlike in other languages, an opportunity presents itself to learn far more about the underlying tooling used to create such a solution.