skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Having acquired the requisite funds — more than five times the amount we would normally pay for a similar shipment, but still less than what was being requested by other brokers

Pay attention people, this IS the market price. Even most state's "price gouging" laws are limited to 30 days after the State of Emergency because if the emergency has lasted that long, it is probably external forces outside of the state. Just like is happening here.

This equipment has to be provided to the whole population, eventually, and each person needs a whole pack. So since this does not exist, the prices go up as every state and organization has its needs and tries to prioritize health care workers.

To those noticing you can wash N95 masks in certain procedures:

It is also possible to boil water from a stream to remove some impurities. Or you could just have more clean water, maybe even bottled. I wonder what people will choose?

We are still at the healthcare workers first, phase. The inventory does.not.exist, the inventory is not re-usable, there is a market that has no relation to what prices were before the state of emergency. Insatiable quantity and people just catching on can't effectively be in this market quickly. China limits factories and more.
Quick plug, my company released a lot of Rust code on Wednesday:
https://github.com/mobilecoinofficial/mobilecoin

The SGX and no_std support might be of particular interest to some of you.
Here’s [1] a blog post introducing Crank.js. It goes into detail as to why the library exists. The main motivator for the creator seems to be that they really disliked the suspense API and wanted to offer a better way using JS generators and async/await.

[1] https://crank.js.org/blog/introducing-crank
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Whitepages can’t shake lawsuit over personal information misuse
Hospitals are looking themselves how to fill the gap while supply of PPE comes back. Here's a an example of a tutorial for masks made using readily available tools: https://enmed.tamu.edu/diymasks/

There are many other tutorials online from various sources which use different machines (sewing machine, 3d printers, etc), so people can improvise based on what they have.

The PDF shows detailed price breakdown for materials of ~$5/mask and estimates 10 minutes per mask, since of course it's diy, there's a lot of warning labels, but it's better than nothing. If people can produce ~40 masks per day using basic tools, this can scale based on the availability of raw materials and tools.
WeChat Mini Programs (integrations / built-in "apps") usually aren't as rich as the equivalent standalone iOS / Android apps, but they benefit from WeChat's distribution platform and network effect.

Everything shared on WeChat usually deeplinks to the equivalent Mini Program within WeChat. These apps receive organic traffic through social sharing and can also enhance this through advertising on WeChat.

I do not see Chinese consumers switch apps much other than switching to video / streaming apps like 抖音 (TikTok) and gaming apps.
Sole proprietor here, crickets from my bank as well except some initial emails redirecting me to their PPP website signup.

The general sentiment in this thread seems to be that large banks absolutely suck for a bunch of reasons.

What would happen if I apply for the same loan through some other smaller local bank or credit union? As long as I only accept the loan through one place, it should be fine, right?
A bit unrelated, but I heard about this 2007 paper recently [1]:

> The presence of a large reservoir of SARS-CoV-like viruses in horseshoe bats, together with the culture of eating exotic mammals in southern China, is a time bomb.

I know the instant reaction is "people predict things all the time, some are bound to come out right", but this seems so specific that I think it's not just pure chance... we're just not heeding some of the warnings.

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Now one reaction to the blog post: it does make a lot of good points (especially about masks), but for the part about shutting society at least, it doesn't seem to account for the follow-on effects of being wrong. If governments had shut things down due to a 10% chance of a pandemic, and it was prevented, chances are decent that a lot of not-similarly-reasoning people would've been angry. A lot of people, some for good reason and some for bad, just don't trust their governments (or the media) enough, and of those that do, a fair chunk are going under a lot of hardship to comply. So they don't just say "okay, I don't see it that way, but I trust you that this is for the best, even if it means I can't put bread on the table for my family, so I'll just live with the consequences and stay at home." Now I'm not really saying this is an excuse for governments/media to send poor messages, but it's an understandable human component... surely you can't attribute everything to irrational probabilistic reasoning?

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2176051/#__sec2...
Some Formal Methods Humor
I think that networking frameworks go out of date much more quickly than base languages (see Python for an example). By not including it in the standard library, the recommended Rust library for web and network programming can change over time.
Most rust users probably aren't working at google.
Why We Fail to Prepare for Disasters
Any idea how often the final design and the prototype don't match in terms of volume and aerodynamics? I would have assumed that those parts are the easiest to model with high confidence.
> not sure what we can say about the CDC's decisionmaking here.

We can say "gee, we should appoint more truthful bureaucrats".

It isn't a crazy guess that (for this pandemic) a useful mask for a normal everyday person is anything that puts something in front of their face that makes it a little harder to breath and baffles the air currents.

There may be a shortage of proven face masks but there is no shortage at all of things that could be sewn up to cover faces and deaden air currents. The cost is tiny vs the risk of it not working.

Officials who are more worried about preventing a response to the potential crisis than the potential crisis should not be in charge if there is a potential crisis. We want people to change their behaviors if there is a crisis. Ideally even before the evidence in overwhelming that there is a problem.
They need to go. It's clear they've become a rent extracting parasite at this point.
I know of two egregious examples:

1) a private university near me with multiple thousand students, and nearly 1,000 employees (faculty and the like) "tweaking" their payroll numbers to exclude adjuncts, TAs, student employees and such, so they could claim they were a "small business"

2) a startup who closed a $25M round of funding in March, has no product/revenue as yet, and works 100% remote, talks of having a 14 month runway, got a fairly large check "because they're offering money, we should take it" (regardless of need)
Yes, that’s why it’s a bad implementation of a good idea.
Connect Club Virtual Place. Online meetings and networking app
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What's wrong with Rust's networking support? I actively wouldn't want it in the standard library, because you'll almost certainly end up stabilising something suboptimal. And then your stuck with it. Its not like it's hard to use 3rd party libraries in Rust. Its literally a case of adding one line to your Cargo.toml file.
Don't forget about spin as well, which can significantly change the trajectory due to the Magnus effect
Can you say more about Go and homogeneous workloads? You might be referring to mixed IO- & CPU-bound tasks, and Go's former inability to preemptively schedule tightly written loops? (Solved along the way: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/10958)

Or something else?
I was not talking about Boom Overture in particular but Super sonic flight. Boom is just the first that could bring it back and innovation can happen from there. Do we really want a world in 100 years we are still flying subsonic?

And if people use it makes the world a better place by some definition. The worst you could say that it used more fuel.
I was hoping for a question like "Should we all stop bringing up Rust in message threads about something else entirely?" with answers like "yes," "hell yes," "a thousand times yes," "motherfucker yes!," and "hellz yeah."
Debugging Bash Scripts
I imagine the FBI uncovered this by noticing US data in foreign states research centers.
The market can remain irrational for a long period of time. WeWork was worth 40 billion two years ago. Now it's worth a negative number.
SpaceX ironically is building its launch site for the future in Texas. Probably because the cap is already taken.
https://outline.com/XrxNyV
It sounds like you were using Paperspace's remote desktop. I find that if you connect to it with Parsec, none of the issues that you're describing apply.
Vegetables get freakish in the land of the midnight sun (2014)
On the contrary, a number of people are shipping Rust libraries in their apps today.
I often wonder what Jakob Nielsen would think of modern UI haha. Every decision goes against what he believes in. I wish someone would show him the inscrutable Snapchat UI.
Wasn't that like 5 years ago and several spun-up media sites later?
> I'm simply criticizing what passes for "science" these days.

Using scare quotes like that makes me totally confused what you're trying to say. If it's

I'm simply criticizing what passes for science these days.

then why not say so. The scare quotes give an impression you have a problem with all science, not just bad science, which I don't think you meant.

For a discussion of how poisonous to meaning this practice of using scare quotes can be, see David Stove's chapter Neutralizing Success-Words, an analysis of leading 20th C philosophers of science doing it. http://nekhbet.com/popper/chapter-01.html part 3. It's extremely enlightening and pretty funny, as Stove always is.
> The apparent distinction arises from our separation of physical and mental processes.

The distinction is that discovery is of something that exists without human intervention and invention exists because of human intervention.

For example, telescopes are invented ( human made ). The moons of Saturn are discovered ( not human made ).

You created a straw man and argued about dualism. The question of discovery and invention has nothing to do with mind/body problem.
"For security reasons, these insecure and buggy features are in fact features, for your protection"

.... but I'm on the phone with you, logged in to my account, reading everything about the account to you that you are asking me for security reasons... the same thing that a hacker would do....
They didn't just "not recommend" masks, they affirmatively said "don't".
> We’re now inventing new vaccines from scratch and could plausibly go from nothing to a marketed vaccine in about a year.

The fastest vaccine development timeline to market in human history was for Ebola. That took 5 years.

A Zika vaccine was started in 2015 and still has candidates in phase III trials. Why is everyone so optimistic in this case?
He doesn't say if he used the SARS-COV-1 sequence as part of his analysis. His theory would fall apart pretty fast if the sequences coincide or at least a viable path of mutations can be inferred between them. If a common sequence is interrupted temporarily by an unexpected slice of HIV sequence, he'd probably be onto something.

There were elements associated to Malaria discovered in the sequence at the same time. Are they also new to the beta coronavirus family, or are they a similar random surprise/coincidence exclusive to SARS-COV-2?

> ... he appeared in 2017 alongside Prof. Henri Joyeux, a figurehead of antivaccines, and a joined his voice to denounce the dangerousness of vaccines and compulsory vaccination, believing that there was a risk "with good will at the start, of poisoning the entire population little by little".

If it said that at the start of the article instead of the end, I would have stopped reading right there. He might have had a couple of significant wins 30 years ago, so I have to digress and assume it is the lack of context that makes him sound like an outright dangerous loon to listen to during this pandemic.
the key is raw material, e.g the heart of a mask is Polypropylene, the machine to produce masks is available to purchase actually, but you can't find those raw materials in the US
Bingo. It's amazing, this could have been the shining moment for his platform. Give domestic mask manufacturers immediate long-term federal contracts and a promise of significant tariffs when the dust settles. Instead he denied the problem even existed, encouraged people to get infected, and delayed our response by six weeks.
The internals aren't THAT different, so while I can't really answer your question (I'm not working on CPython), you might still find it interesting from the POV as to how interpreters work.
Probably, because having such insights informs banning it.
Of course they don't - there is no upside to tell people to do so. If it fails, 3M could be sued; if it works, 3M would lose sales.

That said, if you don't have any other mask, I fail to see how viral material can survive a soak in alcohol for a few minutes and then drying overnight in a warm spot away from flames (alcohol is flammable).

But see
"Disposable N95 Masks Can Be Decontaminated, Researchers Confirm":

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/health/n95-masks-decontam...
Lies, Damned Lies and Coronavirus Statistics
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I still think web applications massively out-scale mobile apps. The majority of software written is not general purpose consumer level "shink wrap" apps and never was.

Still, a very large portion of mobile apps are connecting to some back end service. I think I have exactly one app that stores it's data locally without a server connection (not counting games).
Kakao has a separate app for everything. Quite different from WeChat. KakaoTalk, KakaoTaxi, KakaoPay etc etc

I wouldn't say that those are all extremely well integrated with each other.
I am paying those fees, albeit indirectly: the money I pay for the food is also going to cover those fees. Just as if they have delivery drivers; I’m paying for their driver’s costs as well when I order delivery.

If the prices being charged don’t yet include those delivery fees, they will soon. It’s no different than how prices went up to cover credit card fees.
Correct. I remember traditional UI, watching users do things behind 1-way mirrors and grinding irritating and inconclusive statistics to try to get to a better interface. This used to be a speciality.

Now all you have to do is stick a bone through your beard and pronounce yourself a "UX Guru" and off you go.
Being almost 50 I agree completely.
I remember enjoying learning software rapidly in various topics which made me know a broad set of tools on at least mediocre but mostly advanced level, from photo editing to system administration.
Nowadays it is a pain and suffering in most of the cases and I was starting to believe I became ancient. Thanks Pmop to prove otherwise.
And as the article says the most frustrating is becoming beginner in a tool again that you knew expertly just because the UI reorganizes the very same things and you cannot use it anymore to the same level while it is still there somewhere, you have to relearn.

All this for some questionable variation in visuals. Sacrificing usability.

E.g. I hate what MS did to the Skype, it was a favorite one helping me in countless life situation form business to love but I avoid it now at all cost. It is simply almost useless. But this is true for many others, also I reluctant learning new software as it is not that straightforward as before.
Another hateful thing is that I rarely find something intuitively but have to Google what is the current awkward logic for its placement and activation method. The "best" is when new unwanted features in new versions are forced on by default and coupled with forensic level of investigation for the method of turning it off (assuming it can be, as in a few it is just forced on you, no questions asked, I am looking at you damn notification center! I had to chase you each and every time between OSX updates being harder and harder to achieve the goal of killing you)
A little while ago I saw a conference talk about gleam. [1]

It was my favourite talk of the conference outside the keynotes.

The first ten minutes is a good high level introduction to erlang itself.

I've been meaning to check gleam out since, this HN post has served as a good reminder to do so.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaKR2kt-DXI
When people want better docs, do they mean better doc tooling or better doc writing? Because personally, I'm a huge fan of cargo-doc and its integration to the ecosystem. Just yesterday I found out about #![deny(missing_docs)] - which combined with executing code snippets in cargo test - enforces really good documentation discipline and ensuring that everything is doc'd, and that docs don't become stale.
Even in the past few months alone it feels a lot more reliable.
https://thakoni.com/tim-harford-why-we-fail-to-prepare-for-d...
this will be good for isolation lolz.
Scientists trial cloud brightening to shade and cool Great Barrier Reef
>I suggest one mode of accepting responsibility for time and resisting the lure of both “Progress” and prediction is promise.

This confused phrasing frustrated me too much to go on.
> It was six years ago. It was retracted. The person responsible was fired and blacklisted from the industry.

Shouldn't the company itself be "fired and blacklisted"?

> What did people like you want to happen?

See above.

> Because EVERY news source has at least one skeleton like this in their closet.

It's not their "closet". They did it INTENTIONALLY to push an agenda. Meaning it's a problem with the institution itself. They intentionally set out to create "news" where it didn't exist to further their agenda. They retracted once they got caught. I wonder if you would be so dismissive of the "sins" of other "news" institutions that don't align with your bias or agenda.
Their stock is booming as well.

This is a fundamental repricing, going forwards ecommerce will become the norm as the slow adopters move onto it quicker. SHOP could be worth way more under a post pandemic economy. This isnt the same economy as three months ago, certain companies are worth more and certain ones are worth less. The money to be made in options is in understanding these repricings and exploiting them, a stock at ATH right now is a stock that may actually grow more in the future, its post pandemic outlook is only in the process of being priced in......
That'd be a nightmare if .io got taken away.
Handshake.org works to solve ICANN's TLD issue (they control the entire namespace) and charge like $185,000-250k for a gTLD

Nobody really uses opennic and it has the same issues as ICANN "a single party controls the namespace" with naming on Handshake it's verified, with no trust going to a single authority.

Handshake is a decentralized root zone file, how it should be.
Check out Handshake.org (uses a coin to prevent sybil attacks)
Namebase.io to bid on TLDS
Nextdns.io (enable handshake) in the options
Some good guides and a video here:
https://dns.live/start.html

Works on top of regular DNS and supports top 100k alexa domains to prevent abuse/theft

I just bought a few TLDs
DNS Live offers free hosting etc (ns/web) if you get a tld off of Namebase.io

Sorry if I seem a little biased. A cool thing to play with though. The internet naming system should be way better especially with whatever this corrupt .org sale is to some illuminati Ethos Capital, ICANN selling .org to themselves? lol

California just halted the .org sale in the spirit of an open and free internet. ICANN has too much power, and would have made over a billion on the .org sale.
I think this reads better if the dog's job is "to bite the hipster if they change the UI/UX", but yes.
Where do you bet for money to "support yourself"? Good Judgment Open doesn't have cash awards.
Having rarely seen a VCR that wasn't flashing "12:00", I came to the conclusion that a clock was simply feature bloat.
I get the feeling that it isn't the main Rust community that does that kind of thing. Most of the actual library authors and major Rust users I've interacted with and seen in the community seem to be very level-headed about it and don't think that it is a panacea.
Oh my. You know what. I might have been on a VPN.
There's some potential here. Not every Joe Shmoe knows or even cares about privacy so dumbing it down to "Product A: Good" and "Product B: Bad" is a start at least.
I've said this before and been buried, but a decentralized free app can replace Uber Eats etc. and make the commissions close to or equal to zero.

Things like Bitcoin and Ether would really help to make that a reality.

You would not even necessarily need a map in the app. Just relay the GPS coordinates and the app can display the distance that the delivery driver is at.
Yes, so humane to bring in tanks to deal with a peaceful protest. Lol, I have to laugh because the viewpoint you present is so sad.
This distinction is used by all CUA-derived GUI toolkits. Unfortunately by default windows uses same outline style for both default and focused buttons so there is no visual distinction. (there is an alternative button style on windows that distinguishes between these two states, but it tends to be used to mark buttons as two-state and anyway looks distinctly ugly and non-native)
I thought you were exaggerating but holy moly it's 100% true.

What happened? search for images: "gimp 1.0" vs "gimp 2020". Wow.
I do think it's likely the study does overreport the infection rate. People who are really curious about their past COVID-19 status are not representative of the population as a whole. And stratified sampling can help to try and correct this, but... we all know that you can't really "save" or "fully condition" a convenience sample.

On the other hand, it's hard to reconcile their finding with anything less than 90% or more of infections being missing from the case count. And 10% of the infection fatality rate is really exciting news. It also means that it's exceptionally likely that jurisdictions like New York are a huge slice of the way (15% of population infected?) to herd immunity.
> Erlang sits an an optimum where you can just write blocking code in actors and it does the right thing

This is what I missed the most about Erlang when trying to use Akka's actors - the simplicity of writing a function that blocked until it received a message made for far more straight forward code.
Yes TWRP can flash any (non-recovery) partition. But I was thinking in terms of being able to flash the entire device, which TWRP "can't" do because it uses data on the device itself as the source image. More importantly, malware could modify the recovery partition to reinstall itself after such flashing.
Yes, agreed, all I'm trying to say is, as software engineers we have some assumptions about processors (and compilers/interpreters) that they do things in the order we specify... but that's not always the case, and sometimes that introduces non-determinism.

Processors (and compilers) are not supposed to leak the implications of their non-determinism into user code... but unfortunately it does happen. Rewriting the order of instructions sometimes happens incorrectly (which is why we need memory barriers).

It's not my area, but two things that come to mind, are out-of-order execution where the CPU will re-order micro-ops, and speculative execution, where the CPU will execute one or more branches before the result of a conditional is known.

Both of these issues have lead to bugs in the past and will continue to be a source of bugs in the future.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(security_vulnerabilit...