skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One goal is to flatten the curve so that we don't have exponential growth

The aim of mitigating measures is reducing the growth rate of the disease. But the mechanism of the disease is that you generally have a basic situation where X people infect at time t results R*X people at time t+1. That's fundamentally exponential process (even though you can extra factors, the process doesn't change 'till you get close to having infected everyone). If we can make R small enough, this become exponential decay, a good thing but still an exponential process. But when you do exponential growth. you have a doubling and on the last double, you get more cases than all the cases combines. So the peak is just MUCH higher than the rest of the curve and you can "flatten" a lot and still wind-up overwhelmed in the end if the growth process continues.
The UHH is a fun read, yes, but the biggest real-world
problem with the Unix Wars was cross-compatibility.
Your Sun code didn't run on Irix didn't run on BSD
and god help you if a customer wanted Xenix.
OK, you can draw some parallel here between
React vs. Vue vs. Zeit vs. whatever.

But

You made your point, proved yourself wrong, and then went ahead ignoring the fact that you proved yourself wrong.
This is a fair point. Part of the reason I would not make this bet in the first place is because I wouldn’t want the put myself into a situation where I either lose lots of money or risk causing financial hardship on another person. It’s lose-lose, in my opinion (I don’t think it’s worth $500k).

I understand how people can reasonably disagree about this and I take back calling him a jerk (although I hope I would not behave the same way in his circumstance). I also lack information about the specifics of what happened.
In the US a significant fraction of the wealth transfer from the poor via credit happens with these cards. The EU set a maximum limit for interchange fees, you'll notice such "amazing" reward cards do not exist there.

In the US what happens is the card company says to Bob's Hardware, you must accept all our cards or you can't accept any cards, and our "Premium Reward" card has 7% interchange fee so when Jimmy presents his "Premium Reward" card for a $1000 purchase, the card company takes $70 of that. Jimmy gets $50 and he think he's a genius for having this card. The hardware store needs to raise prices for all customers to allow for people like Jimmy. So when Sarah, whose crappy job barely is enough to live on buys a product that would be $500 the store charges $540. Sarah's card only has an interchange fee of $10 and Sarah gets none of that, but the shop owner is legally prohibited from charging Jimmy more than Sarah and they're legally prohibited from refusing Jimmy's card unless they also refuse Sarah's.
Ok so deaths per day is actually not increasing
Bizarre. I probably only could get 3-4 hours tops with that Carbon X1 (might have been 4th gen?). What distro do you run? Mine was running Ubuntu.
I’ve been trying to determine whether the oak in my front yard is a scarlet oak or a pin oak. The two varieties have very similar leaves.

According to the app rankings, based on acorn, leaf, and flower pics, it is a downy oak. Not perfect, but I am impressed that it picked up that it was an oak at all.
Household savings (latest): https://data.oecd.org/chart/5VU5

Household debt (latest): https://data.oecd.org/chart/5VU6

You can play with the charts to plot trends for as long as the OECD have data for each value. The position of the US isn't great, but it isn't terrible either.
You can always use something like dependabot, which should help you quickly upgrade versions and also protect you from breaking your build.
Also same boat. I read a LOT of sources. Big reason I pay the $10/mo for Apple News+ ... but i am also frustrated seeing that even in that garden, the other sources still want more money and want their own dedicated subscriptions.

That isn't how News+ is supposed to work. I can't afford 17 different $16/mo subscriptions. (example price is actually my local newspapers fee)
It's an excuse not to think. Now, if you feel that YOU are not qualified to evaluate the idea, that's a different story. Don't act on the idea until it comes from someone you trust. But that's no reason to tell others it's unworthy of their evaluation.
> Even with my 3% APY bank accounts (people seem to believe there are none of them in the US which is untrue!)

I'm one of those people. I have an account that started at 2.2%, and is currently earning 1.8% or so. I thought that was the best I could do without locking up my savings in long-term CDs.

Can you share any info on this?
Yeah the real message is "We're here for you - please use our website instead of our expensive humans for your support questions, they're overworked right now."
I know I've described it to you in general terms, though I don't remember sending you any specific links. Raids on specific threads are usually organized on chat servers and they're not likely to have identifying signatures like a single point of origin. You're not going to find a smoking gun saying 'let's take over this specific thread exactly as anigbrowl described.' I said you should look at it for examples of both targeting HN stories directly and general discussions of waging cultural warfare in the social space around technology.

But the link identifying you by name and praising you for restructuring discussions, while invoking a racist trope about policing, ought to give you some pause for thought.

You can keep saying 'oh that's not accurate, that's a misrepresentation' but there's an example of a troll celebrating the sort of discussion restructuring that I was talking about when I mentioned your manual move of the top comment yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22973436) - although I had not seen that particular kiwifarms thread at the time. It's not the only mention of your name there.

Here's another long-running one about the open source community where HN comments/users are being targeted from the first page: https://kiwifarms.net/threads/open-source-software-community...

Now sure, there's room for a long philosophical discussion about what is a troll and who is or isn't a troll specifically and so on. I'm citing Kiwifarms as an accessible easily searchable example that's also relatively tame, but I might note that the header on every page there links to an imageboard specializing in nazi and loli media. Draw your own conclusions about what lands on HN from that particular social funnel.

To repeat, my point here is not that you should moderate people-i-don't-like more aggressively, but that said people see your existing moderation approach as an asset.
This is nice! However I don’t think it’s very accurate to put a number to a whole country, when even the health of the pipes in your own house or even in your neighborhood can affect the quality a lot.
You should be very careful about reading ZH. There is so much toxic paranoia on there it can be bad for your mental health.
I don't want to have to memorize a litany of new keyboard shortcuts to do basic tasks.
> I never learned proper touch-typing

That's kind of sad. The most productive 2 week class I ever took was a touch typing class in 8th grade. We learned on mechanical typewriters where you really had to hammer the keys. This has paid off for me enormously.

> quite slow by coder standards

I spend very little time typing code in, that's not where my typing time is spent. For example, I am typing this while looking at the screen, not the keyboard. I catch and fix mistaeks much faster. When I'm transcribing text, touch typing doubles the speed because I read the original while typing.

I also try and optimize my code for readability, not minimal keystrokes.
This is my workhorse, 'to'.

No argument: start fzf (this really should read "to $(fzf)"), jump to that dir.

One arg: if the path is a real file/dir, jump to it, else use zoxide (z in rust) to soft-match it from history.

https://github.com/xkortex/bashbox/blob/master/aliases/core....
And a lot of fear-based political groupthink. It is hard to make reasonable arguments against lockdown because "Science" and "by not being careful, you are literally killing people"
Did you mean 1%?

And what about the percentage with permanent lung damage?

Or if it mutates? Or recovery immunity does not last more than a year or so?
And it doesn't even check if it's a Promise. It's violating it's own naming contract. At least it should be called: isPromiseLike? To check if something is actually a Promise all you need to do is a `foo instanceof Promise`.
Author really needs to put the assembly under a profiler. Others have mentioned things like poor instruction selection (loop).

In my experience it's good to first attempt a rewrite in C using intrinsics. This gets you thinking about data and register layout at a high level and let's you better identify mid level optimizations before committing to assembly.
Where do these additional resources being consumed by the overwhelmed health care system come from? They come from people who can pay for the services by participating in the productive economy. When you shutter the economy, it is impossible to be certain there will be sufficient resources to supply the health care system (or anything, for that matter).

It is not necessary treat people as toddlers. People are already capable of managing risk and will take precautions as they see fit for their situation. Those who are not able to provide for themselves are most often able to find someone within their community to help.
"Let me quickly set the scene for when I started: I had zero exposure to x86_64 before this."

So, to sum it up: guy who has no clue writes worse code then one generated by a decent compiler.
A friend from Germany told me that they are looking exactly in this and they found that dead COVID-19 patients had clots. He's a smart and well informed guy and it made sense at the time, but I did not find some primary sources to corroborate.
It's also not a surprise to see a similar process of stabilization play out at a higher layer of the stack, as it previously did at a lower one. Neither is it cause for regret; this is how lasting foundations get built, especially in so young a field of endeavor as ours. "History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes."
That's why I wrote "largely free'd us", not "absolutely 100% in every case free'd us".
Show HN: Setsale – generate a checkout page for any file
If the effect size is large, the benefits of randomization go down. A very effective treatment would be evidently very effective without the burden of statistical proof. The randomization is critical when you are looking to differentiate small effects from random noise.

That said, large effect sizes in one hospital don’t control for confounding variables.
I built xa4b.com as a user access and payment API gateway. Let me know if that interests you.
"'It works' can mean lots of different things..."

"The proning and the high-flow nasal cannulas combined have brought patient oxygen levels from around 40% to 80% and 90%, so it’s been fascinating and wonderful to see"

People die, if their oxygen levels are getting too low. This method gets them up again. Sounds like "working" to me.
This sort of cavalier attitude where 1000 dependencies are yawn-inducing in their commonality is why I feel vindicated in never having wasted my time with this kind of ecosystem. Eventually the house of cards will come down. Let's all pray that it happens sooner rather than later.
Or lager whiskey?
What if that doesn't happen for 6 months because there are a few cases every other week?
I’m not familiar with go, would this persist to other people attempting to install the package?

The issue I’ve seen is:

https://github.com/go-yaml/yaml/issues/558

> Please do follow semver as it's a nightmare for us to manage particularly using go module (you can't stick to a particular version).

And of course everybody’s idea of a breaking change is different, so this idea that you can’t install a particular version seems unworkable.
I feel like Jonathan Blow's jai language looks to do things like this as part of the language, at least to the developer.
These cases should really be handled at the compilation/transpilation level, since there is one, and users should just write latest generation JavaScript without these concerns.
Smart abstraction!
I've since open-sourced this, contributions welcome.

https://github.com/seanfisher/codenames
While it’s true that working hard is not sufficient to have things pay off, I think waiting to find something that pays off to work hard would result in most people missing the opportunity they were given. To sustainably work hard is a skill, and unless you’ve practiced it in advance of an opportunity showing itself you’ll find yourself unable to work hard when you need to.
Well, as I think you'll find I just mentioned, the Virginia health commissioner is one of them.
The primary/top database (Numbeo) you source is of dubious quality - i.e. Opinion based. Other sources vary wildly in reputation and don't offer information down to the city level you offer in search. The link to the CDC is to the homepage and offers no further depth on the subject you are reporting on.

Don't understand why you have a marketing type message that offers a calculation cost of savings from not drinking bottled water. It is not based on if the place searched has drinkable tap water or not. Also where do you get these prices?

As a tech demo it is fine - as a reputable source of information its on par with John Daly recommending Grey Goose to prevent Coronavirus.

This site is contributing to confusing or mis-information about tap water quality. For those who don't take the time to consider your sources, it is doing them a dis-service. You should label this at the top as a non-scientific tool of evaluating of tap water. It almost seems like you are working for a bottled water company.
You're going to get massively downvoted here because you dared question the hive mind.

None of their approaches place any consideration on the damage caused by the mitigation efforts themselves. Suicides, domestic violence, overdoses, and other negative outcomes are all up and will cost lives.

At what point does the conspiracy theory that much of it is a pure power grab become validated?
It depends on how you work, I have a lot of small projects which come and go, so setting up the paths every time I start or finish something would be inefficient.

Although I might adopt it for different weird system configuration directories which I often forget the path to.
It hasn’t changed; we didn’t want to freeze the AST forever, so we went with the token approach. There are libraries to form an AST though.
One reason why we may have one line packages is the demand FAANG places on applicants. On three job screens from three different companies, I was asked, "Which npm packages have you created that we'd know about?"

For many who are hell-bent on entering these companies, yet have no known packages under their belt, they very well might fire off a one line package that actually gets some downloads, to be better "prepared" when screened.
And 400,000 is about 1/7th of the number of total deaths in the USA in 2018, according the CDC

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db355.htm
My guess is they didn't even need to be fast, just render once when the window is configured and keep a cache of rounded corners in the window system complete with the masks. They're tiny, and symmetrical.
Check fcsapi.com
Not sure how the business is run but fiat and crypto are covered and it is free...

Edit: typo
> anything more complicated than launching executables

mv is a simple executable. GP is talking about stuff like generating reports or sophisticated orchestration in .sh
I haven’t heard about selling at all. Have a pointer?
> In the worst case the whole target demographic of a software is powerusers but the UX still trades off usability for a flat learning curve.

> Imagine a point of sale system. Retail workers have to use that stuff the whole day. This means it nearly never makes sense to sacrifice power user efficiency just to be able to tell some manager who will never have to work with the damn thing: "Look how easy this is to understand".

I’ve made comments about how frustrating this exact scenario is before. I’m glad to see someone else notice that.
Sound a lot like the devices people criticized Tesla for delivering.
Probably like a gallon altogether from all sources, sometimes more. Cheers me up knowing that soon I’ll be so intense

I actually think the jittery feeling is the best part
Right, making significant changes to the entry points of a library should be marked as a breaking change and bump the major version.
As mentioned in this NASA training video on Remote Sensing for agriculture:

https://youtu.be/pdR4GbMcRiM
> But many (though not all) hospitals are seeing a decline of cases and even furloughing workers because of lack of activity.

I'm thinking: Give it time/we need another solution, because even under lockdown, cases will kick back up.

Illinois went into lockdown March 21, so given the incubation period no effect was expected to be seen until the beginning of April - which is exactly what happened, between the last few days of March and April 13, the growth rate plummeted - from 20-40% to 4-6%.

The drop in new cases during that period made it look like we were past the peak, but since then it's been really stable at 4-6%, so we are coming up on a second peak in the future. That's when I expect the extra capacity will be needed. In absolute numbers, it's already at 3x new cases per day with the slower rate than it was back at the higher rate.
> followed by them slashing my credit limit 3 days later.

That's some fucked up shit... that probably dropped your credit score a couple of points too (just because of utilization)
China's New Coronavirus Cases Spur Fresh Limits
To be honest I didn't see any of that. I saw considerable media coverage underplaying the severity of the risk.
> "...it’s wrong to assume labor is the underlying source of value. Labor has no intrinsic value."

primarily a value judgment stated axiomatically, rather than proof.

you could also argue that labor is the only intrinsic value, with all other value being projected onto the output as fashion.
My Five Years Without Pants
No, I'm not a machine learning software engineer, so no productionization on my end. I do find paths forward for the companies I've worked at but a report usually consists of a 1-to-1 with a c-suite pitching the project. If I've written a model, the notebook speaks for itself and naturally looks glorious with plots and what not. I have been known to create power point slides or do larger presentations. It is part of the job but I've never associated the terminology "production quality" with a presentation.

>25% of my code is formatting and capitalizing.

I haven't personally used it because by default I tend to write reasonably clean code but https://github.com/ryantam626/jupyterlab_code_formatter or similar might help.
WW2 (for the US) lasted, what, 4 years?

Now concentrate that death toll into 4 months. Or less.
I suspect that over time there will be more pushback against dependencies, as I've seen in other communities, viewing dependencies as liabilities carefully chosen.
I got a bit excited thinking this may go into latency of dereferencing pointers in C.
400,000 is just over 0.1% of the total population of approximately 328 Million
> However this time I didn’t rush to implement, thanks mainly to the influence of Ed Ashcroft. In retrospect Ed’s first impulse when he had an idea was to document, not implement. We produced a series of widely read papers and soon had other researchers and brilliant students of our own working on it.

I'm not sure this actually applies to most people. The document vs implement struggle is something I see in modern software shops a lot. It certainly depends on the personality: some people just like thinking through everything and producing a coherent writeup before writing a single line of code, but for some writing code itself is an act that clarifies the still-murky concepts and helps to produce a good writeup.

But in the end, most people aren't producing novel enough technologies that the benefit of a complete writeup is there. You don't write something brilliant and have other researchers work on it; you merely write something for the benefit of a future colleague understand your code quickly. It's a very different class of software development.
Marx was a bit further removed from day to day decisions on rocket architecture than Musk if I understand correctly.
Insanity can be written into contracts. Like an employer who states you aren't allowed to write code for anyone else for at least 5 years after termination.
I agree. Our tap water in Portland, Oregon is superb. But when I travel to other states, like California, I'm not sure how they can drink their tap water. At least in Southern California it tastes bad and has the distinct smell of chlorine. Though I suppose if you live with it 24/7 you might get used to it and not notice the taste.
Maybe Canada is an exception, but in most places the chlorine is left in the water because the distribution network isn't entirely sterile.
> You know, as a kid I learned BASIC from school friends, neighbors, and family members, and taught BASIC to many more, by trading the source code freely.

Well you can still do all fo that. Get your friends to send you their BASIC code and type that yourself into the console.

Even as a kid, you weren't paying somebody to host your code.
Go tried it; went over like a lead balloon. Theory; lead balloons don't fly anywhere.
Although minimal, but the base snap installation does consume disk space. I also think they have a daemon running to help with updates.
The people do not have to be sustained by the businesses during this decidedly non-normal time. Not if we, as a society, decide it's more important to keep people alive than to maintain the economic status quo.
China sends team to advise on North Korea’s Kim Jong-un
I usually don't care much about such things but how are you financing this project? I did not see any evidence of a paid plan.

If I were going to depend on this I'd like some assurance that you'd be able to keep it going. That you've run it for 12+ months (I think) is helpful.
> Deno appears to be trying to become the Linux of Javascript, through the innovative method of abandoning the concept of "package" entirely and just running code straight from wherever on the Internet it happens to live today.

I really like Deno for this reason. Importing modules via URL is such a good idea, and apparently it even works in modern browsers with `<script type="module">`. We finally have a "one true way" to manage packages in JavaScript, no matter where it's being executed, without a centralized package repository to boot.
I mind duck typing! That's why I'm so fond of Typescript, where everything that shows up where a promise should be is reliably either instanceof Promise, or instanceof something that implements Promise, or a compile-time error.

Absent that evolved level of tooling, and especially in an environment still dealing with the legacy of slow standardization and competing implementations that I mentioned in another comment, you're stuck with best effort no matter what. In the case of JS and promises, because of the norm I described earlier in this thread, best effort is easily good enough to be going on with. It's not ideal, but what in engineering practice ever is?
These are aggregate metrics - in a country like the US that's in top 5 in terms of income gini-coefficient, I suspect medians will paint a very different picture.
Cowards who only dare to release the truth piecemeal.