skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This makes me wonder what the differences are in various countries that help skew those numbers one way or the other.

I know in the US, how much debt you have has zero bearing on your ability to qualify for welfare programs, but savings can negatively impact your ability to qualify. So owing less doesn't qualify you for more aid, but having too much savings can screw you out of benefits in an emergency situation.

Some countries have programs that provide health benefits just because you exist. In the US, a lot of our benefits programs are "needs based," which means you have to qualify for aid and one of those qualifications is that you don't have savings because as little as $2000 in the bank can disqualify you.

I don't think it's as one dimensional as the above comment seems to suggest. But I bet there are inherent incentives in the US to not bother to save for various reasons. It would be interesting to see that investigated in earnest.
Coronavirus Antibody Tests: Can You Trust the Results?
Well, it is explicitly true that a vaccine exists.

Over 70 different vaccines exist.

They are all being held back, because none has been through the legally mandated clinical trials, which are progressing with the ordinary slowness of science and bureaucracy.

Actually, under the circumstances, the speed at which testing is progressing is amazingly fast for the medical-scientific bureaucracy.

Of course, using untested vaccines would be terribly dangerous -- much more so than the virus itself, given that so far we both don't know whether the vaccines work or what adverse reactions they produce.
I really hope that's not the sitution the US is heading to.
But I get your point. Opening up the public gathering business will be gradual process, and the governers of each state could make that decision based on the new cases count.
I'd rather let people follow the social distancing policy and stop this mental gymnastics about the necessity of tracking. P.S. I'm in the US, so I can actually freely move now.
Reminds me of a Kalman filter
It seems you’re saying death is ok because it’s a small amount. Any death is bad if it could’ve been prevented.
I gave it gibberish and got “ Yeah. dhcherfs are very very good, let me tell you, to be perfectly honest!! the best news.”
I put arch/gnome on a system right next to an ubuntu box.

It was like a different gnome - quickly reaching the desktop and lots of nice differences (like the privacy menu wasn't crafted by marketing and legal)
While I agree with you, the demand for harsh, business-killing lockdowns seems to be driven by the media rather than politicians - they regularly post scary articles saying that even young people will get disabled for life if they get the virus, that 10% of the population will die, and so on.
Don't Focus on Not Falling
Boeing Terminates $4.2B Deal to Buy Stake in Embraer Unit
I tried watching this classic because I ski Timberline sometimes but it's just a godawful movie all the way through.
Bucheight
https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/sars-cov-2-viral-load-and-the-...
> Don’t think that there won’t be politics because there wasn’t politics before. Politics emerge when the players believe the game is zero sum. In a recession, the players are more likely to believe the game is zero sum.

Another related quote from someone I read on another post "People call it politics when they are losing" [0]. A major draw to work for a early/medium startups is that there is "no" politics/bureaucracy, to get out of the "cog of the machine". As the company grows, processes are naturally developed and when the term "politics" is more frequently used. This projected recession is accelerating the development of processes, i.e. politics, for all companies.

[edit]
[o]: hackernews, motohagiography
I understand exactly how the author felt, it's the same way I feel everytime there is a news story about an event(many times paid for by my tax dollars) being put on by government subsidized organizations that I can not attend/view unless I sign up for a third party privacy mine like Instagram, Twiiter or Facebook.(or Fortnight)

Recently this had real world consequences in Canada when the police decided to warn residents of an on going mass shooter event only for people with Twitter, worse only for people with Twitter notifications turned on.

I think it's great that government organizations use social media to connect to citizens but when that is the ONLY method used, it forces citizens to agree to corporate and private EULAs in order to access publicly funded services, which is not great at all.

It's time to legislate against any exclusive services being government funded. If it's available through a government web site thats fine put it on social media too but don't subject me to the whims of for profit corporations to obtian publicly funded services.
Thanks! Follow-up question: So I'm guessing a "component library viewer" is a local web app that you run to view WIP/finished components (like for https://storybook.js.org/)? If you have a link to an example I'd love to check it out.
Definitely good for a few laughs :) Thanks!

I loved that there's an "(inaudible)" in there at one point, and the audio called me a "stupid reporter" after a question.

I guess it's easy to simulate Trump because his speaking style already closely resembles a Markov chain. Like, this is pretty a pretty decent impression (from the linked site):
Q: "how do we stop the rona?"
A: "I know ronas very well -- our ronas are treating us very poorly...our ronas are not good, not good...our ronas are crooked."
Always felt like Python 2 is going the way of Latin, it won't develop anymore, but it will still be used, in ever fewer niches.
I am 3300137xxx. I also was on March 30 at 10:31 AM. I have heard nothing.

My girlfriend received hers this week but I know she applied after me. Though she is in medical services.
Because of potential vulnerabilities due to the lack of patches (in the future)?
> how do you think that will affect the economy?

I've heard that argument before but people never clarify how it will affect the economy. Can you clarify?

Personally I don't know how deaths of 80-year old people (on average, like in Italy) can possibly affect the economy in any serious way, especially compared to the disastrous damage from lockdowns.

You're also discounting the hunger and a lifetime of poverty and misery created by these lockdowns for millions of young people who are not susceptible to that disease.
knife and fork
`git log` does this. Filter by --author or --grep to find the task ID or whatever.

If you want to produce a sum-total set of changes... it's a dubious/imprecise desire, as intervening changes may affect the result. But you can still do a potentially-good-enough job by cherry picking commits you're interested in from a common ancestor, and diffing the end result against the ancestor you started from. If the cherry-picks don't apply cleanly, there's no straightforward diff or answer, and then it's of course much more complex.

---

edit: or I just googled around a little, and if all you want is the sum of all changes in arbitrary commits that you can find with log: `git log -p | diffstat`

if you add -> remove -> restore a line, it'll count that as 2 additions and 1 removal.
Interesting. I didn't know the US aid depends on the saving. How does govvernment know how much saving each person has? There's no formal process to report savings. On the other hand, the tax reporting would include annual income, which I thought is how most of the aid looks at. For example, the latest $1200 won't distributed to ppl with high income.
WHO's index of 96/100 for Russia (contradicting all other sources) makes me question WHO methodology or sources. I get that my personal experience cannot be authoritative source (except for myself) and is purely a single data point at best, but still...

Russia is a vast country, but as a former local (north-west region) I'd say that it's generally not a good idea to drink tap water there. I haven't talked much about water quality intentionally, but I believe everyone I know holds a similar opinion, and doesn't drink unboiled tap water.

It could be "safe" in a sense that one probably won't get sick from occasionally drinking it, but anecdotally - in comparison to bottled water, tap water is of questionable quality just about everywhere in Russia.

Unless we talk about separate kitchen taps with reverse osmosis systems. Even then, most people I know, don't drink that water directly but only use that to fill the kettle for boiling.
Whatever happened to Luna Lang? https://luna-lang.org/
This is a really good wizard that covers more of the edge cases than I expected it to!
Sorry, my hovercraft is full of eels.
I didn't state a preferred position, just that it's not that simple. For example, some forms of libertarian thought would definitely disagree that government has any role outside of contract enforcement.
I drink my real coffee at breakfast: two strong cups of a dark roast. At the office, I will get a couple of cups of cafeteria coffee in the morning--I don't regard it as serious coffee, just as something to sip in the course of the day.

Over the last six weeks I haven't been to the office, so the two strong cups at breakfast have been all I have.
you have beautiful pys
> routinely shipped software entirely built in Max.
care to elaborate? music-related software?
There seems to be a reasonable path to effect regarding regulation of ACE2 which is the primary receptor molecule for COVID.

https://www.qeios.com/read/article/571
I agree, but so is a group of male inmates (many of them older) compared to the general population. Until more testing on this group is done in a few weeks and symptoms emerge, we won’t have a clear picture on how many are truly asymptomatic.
Thanks - that's the kind of thing I was looking for, but this line stuck out to me: "However, the evidence of the relationship is limited by the poor quality of many of the studies, the retrospective nature of the studies, small sample sizes and the potential problem with selection bias." The book I mention gives me enough reason to doubt that what we know about Covid-19 at this point is anything like the whole story.
I was quite fond of Kuro5hin.org, a discussion community that just kind of petered out.
I'm wondering, can't existing Python 2 software be automatically converted to Python 3? It might be ugly at times, but still better then vulnerable...
Apple 2e from 1983 was the quickest, it is said: https://danluu.com/input-lag/
> There is no free speech issue here. I am not obliged to let you stand in my yard and yell, even if it's the best spot in the neighborhood.

You’re again ignoring the size of the space. If you owned all the publicly available land in a city, and stopped just me from protesting on it, that’s a free speech violation. When YouTube first started, this wasn’t an issue, but now it is.

Also, I’ll say it again: free speech and the First Amendment are different things. I recognized that in my post, but you seem content to blur the line between the two in the name of censorship.
Netcraft confirms it.
Side note, my wife spent two years studying in Vienna. As a result my daughter was born at Semmelweis Hospital. I took some time to read about Semmelweis and he seems to have been ahead of his time. Great contributor to medicine.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/22/french-study-s...

https://www.qeios.com/read/article/571
The governor of Illinois was recently asked a specific question during a press conference regarding whether non-essential businesses were allowed to operate for web or phone orders with pickup options. He stated clearly that this is not permitted under the current stay-at-home order (but it will be permitted under the new order starting May 1).

There's enough confusion around these orders though that I believe some non-essential businesses were operating for curbside pickup anyway.

There's also a drive-in movie theater trying to open up around here but the government is saying no. Decisions like that just anger people because they don't seem to be based on common sense. The risk there is so low that the government would gain a bit of goodwill if they just said "fine, open it up and make sure to follow all guidelines".
hmmm, that's so strange. I've tried a few times and can't reproduce, the string replacement is working on my end.

https://imgur.com/a/CjXyO7u

What browser are you using?
A typical illustration of Dunning-Kruger here.

This guy is jumping to conclusions after spending only a few days learning to write code in machine language.

In my opinion, it takes about six months someone smart to reach a beginner level, and at least a few years to reach expertise.

He says he is not an expert, and he is right, but he jumps to conclusions anyway...

It is like saying, I am not an expert on climate, but I did this little experiment in my garden and I haven't seen any proof of climate change.
Apologies for the way this was linked to. The 6% is from this study:

https://www.miamidade.gov/releases/2020-04-24-sample-testing...

"Our data from this week and last tell a very similar story. In both weeks, 6% of participants tested positive for COVID-19 antibodies, which equates to 165,000 Miami-Dade County residents"

That is what the commentator is referring to in the linked post.

So if you plug their own figures into the calculator:

Sensitivity .8866
Specificity .9063

and a Prevalence of .06 based on the study, you get the 62% false positive rate.

As the prevalence increases, as with the NYC study which found the positive rate to be 21% (prevalence), the false positive rate decreases, down to 28% of the NYC study.
Europe’s cities are making less room for cars after coronavirus
That rant is more than a decade old and not as relevant as people like to tout. There are issues with esperanto but most of what is lamented there is really subjective.
>Blanket propagandistic statements

Blanket implies "all". Are the OP's following statements incorrect?:

"no evidence of Human-to-human spread" when they had evidence, "no evidence of asymptomatic spread" when we all had evidence, "no evidence of aerosol spread" when there was evidence in public view

Taiwan warned the WHO with respect to human-to-human transmission. Is this in dispute?

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20200412_01/

>not the conversation we have in Hacker News comments.

These are precisely the sorts of conversations people should be having.
How Let’s Encrypt made the web safer for everyone
Being on a ventilator is traumatic. So much so that they generally put you under. Can you imagine waking up with a tube through your mouth and down your throat forcing you to breathe? It happens and people panic and have to be restrained. People get PTSD.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/ptsd_com...

If you can get the O2 up to a livable level without a ventilator so that the patient is supported enough to get well, that that is a good outcome.
There’s no scientific proof that Covid -19 was made in a Chinese lab
I applied as well and have yet to receive funds. I also received the email about the $1k/employee change and that was last that I've heard from the SBA. As such, it sounds like many of us are in the same boat.
Seems like that would quickly fragment unless the ecosystem consolidates around one particular vendor or all such vendors consolidate on a standard fork.
I personally also had a very frustrating experience with the CARES act, specifically PPP loans. Applied as soon as they came out, directly with the SBA first, then with 3 different banks. Still waiting :(

However, at the end of the day, businesses are not what's essential, people are.

And that's why it's so infuriating that the government has acted pretty much exactly on the opposite view. It has prioritized saving huge businesses and propping up the public markets (stock/bonds/futures/etc).

In my opinion, it would have been a lot more effective to give money directly to people, then let them figure out where and how they need to spend it to get through the crisis. Businesses would then adapt accordingly to survive, or fail if they couldn't. But at least then most people would be ok.

Now inequality is going to be worse than ever. People that already had a lot of money got saved and now they can keep making loads of money, while the people that really needed saving, pretty much got abandoned instead.
Doesn’t basically everyone in the bay area?
It's an interesting (if quite long overdue) strategic move on Apple's part, as moving into the mid-range drastically increases their addressable market. Their biggest rivals can afford to compete on specs in the high-end, but likely don't have the vertical integration to do so at a $400 price point (especially when Google captures most of the software ecosystem revenue via the Play Store).
What would kill Python 2? RCE in pip?
English is far from the international language. There are billions of people and entire continents where no one speaks English.

Unless you meant the de facto language for business and research, or the language spoken in the areas I care about, which is different from the international language.
I didn't get the point of this at first (and still kinda don't). I think the most useful thing might be this link: https://python-release-cycle.glitch.me/. It's a nice visual representation of Python version lifetimes, which is useful when deciding which versions you want to support. I wish they'd put something like that on python.org.
What motivated the Python devs to abandon backwards compatibility with Python 3? I don't see any major departures or revolutionary new features transitioning from 2 to 3. While there's certainly upgrades (e.g. strings), there's enough small changes that upgrading to 3 is rarely a pleasant experience.
Probably it will fit your request https://stackshare.io/rapidapi/alternatives
They have had conversion tools for it since the early days of 3. The issue is it wont get everything.
Amnesty International campaign against this and are currently calling for the release of ICE detainees.
Judging by a skim of their releases even those obviously gasping for air don’t necessarily get the care they need. It’s a truely massive system which in itself is part of the problem, though the exceptionally low bar for the care of prisoners is Amnesty’s primary angle.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/04/usa-covid19-p...
Yes! Please track down this book "This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom" it examines time and the value of it in the way your seeing it. Long but great write up on it here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/20/if-god-is-dead...
"All these consequences are implied in the statement that the worker is related to the product of labor as to an alien object. For on this premise it is clear that the more the worker spends himself, the more powerful becomes the alien world of objects which he creates over and against himself, the poorer he himself – his inner world – becomes, the less belongs to him as his own.

The alienation of the worker in his product means not only that his labor becomes an object, an external existence, but that it exists outside him, independently, as something alien to him, and that it becomes a power on its own confronting him. It means that the life which he has conferred on the object confronts him as something hostile and alien."
True that people shouldn't be upset because they repelled a bill sooner than it could be implemented? How does that change anything if people wanted the bill.
I get notifications to update my Rails apps from GitHub as a matter of course when there's a CVE in my dependencies. Does this kind of thing not exist/is impractical for JS?
Maybe around 2006-2010, http://ajaxian.com/ was an inspiring aggregate of web related articles that I would visit daily.
Adversity isn't solely an economic argument though. It's a genuine effort to try to identify the true outliers. If you stand out significantly in a school district with a high absentee rate and low test scores it might indicate that you have perseverance and aptitude far greater then average and may be a better indicator of future performance then being a little above the mean at Phillips Exeter. These are not the most comfortable conversations to have because being above average at Phillips Exeter is an impressive feat and I don't want to discount this, but it's also important to recognize the people that rise through adversity. Can you answer the first 2 questions I posed in my original comment?
The first IPv6 RFC(1883) was published back in 1995, 25 years later, IPv6 only network is still rare.
Exactly like in Sweden. Our ministry of health has _almost_ given up the claim that asymptomatic carriers don't spread the virus by now, so... Progress!
The $1200 stimulus check is something of an aberration. You typically need to apply for things like food stamps, Section 8 housing or Medicaid (our government health insurance for the poor).

When you apply, you basically swear this is true to the best of knowledge and if it isn't you can be accused of fraud and potentially charged with criminal activity, or just have the money taken back in some cases. (My knowledge of the system is limited, but I was on food stamps for a while. Having something like $2000 in savings can disqualify you, iirc.)
Inside the Ethics Committee BBC Radio 4. Not many episodes, and getting quite old now, but still an interesting look at medical ethics and UK law. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007xbtd

There's a bunch of audio comedy that I love, but it comes and goes -- BBC Radio 4 don't keep it up on their website. (Party, Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme, John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, Cabin Pressure, Bleak Expectations, Don't Start -- most of these are available to buy or from other sources).

They've also put this page up and some of these look interesting: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5Jrn1bynjTc6tPj3SV...
suck.com, stellar.io, yahoo.com's directory
No it's not, Mrs. Torrence.
Reaching Out to the Hacker News Engineering Community for Support
Hi Guys,
A while ago I posted in here in regards to open-sourcing the tech behind our failed E-commerce startup Veniqa. We received a lot of constructive feedback from the community and the surge of traffic also pushed Veniqa to spotlight making it one of the top trending projects on Github for a while. Thank you.

We have been making a dedicated effort to address a lot of your constructive feedback. We recently added a quickstart mode for developers to launch the entire platform locally in minutes to save grunt work and ease code contribution.

So, if anyone in the community wants to make some open-source contributions in this quarantine season, we'd be glad to get your help.

https://github.com/Viveckh/Veniqa

Our immediate next plans involve:

- Trimming down the custom business logic and making the platform a more general-purpose e-commerce solution

- Test Suites

- And gradually venturing into developing analytics plugins for the platform.

- You're definitely welcome to bring in ideas of your own.

Thanks once again guys! HAPPY CODING.
I read something like that too. I came away thinking that ingestion might be a better way to get it than inhalation. I think you really need to keep it out of the lungs and nervous system. But that's all my impression from who knows where.
When will it be available?
That won't work across window boundaries, since each window environment gets its own distinct version of Promise.