skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That all seems well-intentioned and plausible in terms of how things should have been originally. However,

1) I can't help but think of all the problems that apply in general to specifying requirements (too vague, too constraining, too expensive to hammer out to sufficient precision).

2) That's different from changing it retroactively. Would you change it again when JSON goes out of fashion? Or mandate HTTPS? I've not read the OP in detail, but the impression I have is that the existing service is very much functional. Even ignoring the cost of changing the law, do we really want our public institutions to be in breach of law whenever fashions change? I'd rather let them set their own priorities to a large extent - for example, specify a very general, minimal set of requirements and do better when they have capacity to do so. I'm fine with people building on top of that where convenient. It seems like a good thing, in fact.
+1 thanks for this app.

I prefer the voice actor. His voice tone, breathing and speech pace set him apart from the other person IMHO.
From what I've read here and elsewhere, they're putting everyone they would normally put on a vent on high flow. They only move to the vent when not doing so in the near term would likely result in death. That means, among other things, that they tolerate lower SpO2 levels than they would otherwise.
But the article isn't wrong. The article is talking about minimum monthly payments, which _isn't_ happening every month.

Paying for the article would allow the GP to read the article and see that
> Only if you assume your software is the worst possible variety of spaghetti.

Gravity always wins.

The thing about exponentials that if the constant is > 1 the trend line essentially looks the same, the X axis just changes a bit. So maybe a boolean doesn't double the surface area, maybe it's only 1.5, that still results in compound interest. Even at 1.1, it only takes 7 booleans to double your surface area.
Build your own network graph of potential infections
Was it instruction alignment or something more mysterious?

My anecdote from hand optimization is that I didn't even know some instructions existed.
The fact that the curve is being flattened is exactly what ALLOWS investigation into these deeper insights.

You can't measure infection rate when your patient is bleeding to death from an arterial wound.
We should try it anyway, because it might. If humans don't have to rely on employers, insurers, and creditors for their health, they have a lot more freedom to refuse the evil bargains offered by corporations. Much of the sickness of USA stems from our inability to say "no".
Zelenko's statistics to-date:

- 1450 patients total:

- 405 high risk patients,
- 3 drug treatment (chloroquine, azithromycin,zinc sulfate)

- Results: 2 deaths, 4 on respirators who recovered, the rest survived.
Growlers
The Community Edition is also open source.

https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/tree/master/...
> Except credit score is not indicative of risk in this situation

True, but the credit history (not score) is a good proxy of the willingness for the borrower to settle their debt once the situation improves.
On "This Week in Virology", a podcast that's been going on for quite a while but just got popular (imagine that), this was discussed, and the consensus was that there is definitely something going with clotting mechanisms and Covid-19. They started treating with Warfarin and Heparin just like they do with older conventional stroke patients.

It may also be implicated in the kidney failure that seems to associate with Covid

As for me I'm going to keep taking a daily baby aspirin like I have for years. I bleed like a stuck pig when I get a cut, but I can live with that!
Ask HN: How to stop building apps/solutions without knowing my audience?
I think many of us went through it.

Sometimes, we think like:

genius idea, I do not need any validation. I'll just make it and everyone will like it

99% of cases it passes through unmentioned. Not because it is bad. Mostly because you did not make enough effort to promote it to your audience.
> Target doesn't have any kind of social distancing policy so it was business as usual, no lines or anything.

That's definitely state by state, fwiw.

> but I've found myself drifting towards believing this is all complete madness, that politicians have failed to draw any distinction between reasonable health precautions in problem areas and unreasonable blanket policies

Well, yes, I don't think anyone was expecting for a pandemic in the US to end up being handled by slapdash decisions by non-experts and instead have some level of preparation, guidance and coordination from our extensive scientific and public policy experts who had prepared for this situation.

We might still not have masks or unemployment checks, but we'd likely have measured policy sooner and we'd actually be coordinating on things like testing.
It doesn't call into question the idioms of either language. It does call into question the idea of programmatically deciding whether or not something is a promise based on the assumption that the idiom was followed.

People bounce around between languages, especially to javascript. An expert javascript dev might not call things "then" but the many dabblers might. Going back to the original point this is a footgun, not only an avenue for malicious code to cause trouble.
Dex is pretty mature now.
The taxpayers obviously. Funny enough, most developed nations manage it. Instead we choose to spend our money on extravagant military spending and massive subsidies to the wealthiest corporations and individuals.
Math -> You use numpy, scipy, none of these have any significant dependencies. And libraries this complex are not even available for node.

Graphics -> Python comes with included Tkinter, and others are also one include away.

Stats -> Scipy does a lot of the stuff. There is a built in package for stats. Again, no stats package has 100 dependencies, and node doesn't even have anything with even 1/10th of the features

ML -> I mean node has nothing here, nothing, while pytorch has total of six dependencies. In node, left pad might have these many.

Python doesn't need left pad, isNumber, isInteger, isOdd, isPromise , take your pic.

> In fact, one of my biggest issues with Python is the cross-platform incompatibility of many packages which makes it a terrible choice for my deployment. (Even worse if the project has Cython components!)

But python has high performance libraries written in C, can you even use node for any of the cases where python has platform compat issues?

It is a tradeoff, and there is no comparison. Python needs far far less dependencies than node. e.g, Flask has 2 total dependencies, express has 48 direct dependencies, and even then flask comes out ahead on features, so much so that you would need many more packages to do the same stuff with express.
It's very hard to give short examples because for any short example you can find another language that does the same thing with similar effort. For example, this:

https://edicl.github.io/cl-who/

is basically PHP embedded in Common Lisp. So any example I give you to show how cool CL-WHO is you could render it in PHP and conclude that PHP is similarly cool.

The Big Win only happens if you want to combine a feature that is best served by language X with some other feature that is best served by language Y. In the non-Lisp world, you now have to start gluing together code from entirely different ecosystems, whereas in Common Lisp everything lives together in the CL ecosystem (including nowadays the ability to call C code). So I can combine CL-WHO seamlessly with other programs written in CL (and C). That turns out to be a huge win in the long run.

It pretty much comes down to Greenspun's tenth rule [1]. Macros and the ability to embed DSLs are a huge win in certain domains. Two which I have personally worked in are autonomous spacecraft control and chip design. You can do things in Lisp that you could not even conceive of doing in C short of, as Greenspun's tenth observes, basically re-inventing Lisp.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule
Yeah, the clinical culture isn’t really designed to handle a novel infectious disease. Of course patients are going to die.
I think it would be great to do the reverse - take existing programs and map out the calls in a graph structure that can be visually displayed.

Hardest part of looking at existing code base is to "mentally map" the call stacks and overtime, atleast for the way my brain operates, I tend to build a 2d map in my mind. It doesn't have concrete positions for blocks (functions), but there is a sense of structure in the brain that persists. I can come back to the code base and it is evoked automatically.

We need visual tools for examining codebases just like we have tools for examining database schemas. Perhaps its not that simple though.
> Except that savings for tomorrow would probably end up in the stock market.

For far lower returns. With reduced demand, there's not much for that extra money to do. To the extent investment drives growth it's when it goes into innovation (R&D) or if businesses have demand but are capital constrained (and I suspect even that's more like speeding up than creating growth, exactly—you just get 5% growth now instead of 2.5% over two years, or whatever). Sure maybe you could spend it on advertising and marketing but all that can do is get us back to "people spend too much".
I really dislike this new colloquial and overly-familiar communications style.

And startups are the worst... hardly a day goes by without an app telling me "we <3 you" or "you're looking nice today." Ugh, no, stop please.
Good point, thanks for correcting me.
This is "decision making under conditions of uncertainty." [0]

It's not that your questions are bad, it's that in practice medical professionals have to operate without answers to them. Doing so involves communication with peers about their own observations of what may work better/worse, such as in this article. Double-blind randomized trials are not the only source of actionable information: Case studies also form a significant pillar of knowledge, especially pending results from more systematic studies.

[0] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4757-2068-6_...
When I lived in Taiwan there was a Belgian guy who did this, driving around his VW microbus with mixed cases of Belgian beer to deliver all over the island. It was awesome.
The unspoken assumption is that you don't just pin and move on with your life. You take as much ownership over your package.json as you do with your own code, and know that you must actively review and upgrade as necessary (as opposed to just running "npm install" and trusting in the wisdom of the cloud)
It's pretty simple. Tesla has the best technology right now and likely will for the next few years. Causing Tesla to leave means China loses out on future technology. Ergo, China will likely side with Tesla. Witness the incredible subsidies and favorable loans Tesla has been receiving in China.
The last place we should be looking for assistance is charity from businesses. That's never worked, ever. The whole idea of "fiduciary duty" cuts directly against it. Occasionally you can convince someone that charity is good marketing, but that's mostly noise.

We literally have a government that is supposed to help us manage these crises. That's what it's for -- blessings of liberty, domestic tranquility, general welfare, all that stuff. We have a government to do for all of us what we can't do for ourselves.

And it won't.
Guessing the 26 million who filed for unemployment won’t be better off. Average salaries are higher than unemployment.

Not sure what the point of this oft-repeated fact is, if not to gas light the trauma out there.
And you're an extremely rude person.

You phrased it in context like you thought using a Mac was preventing you from using a mouse with a middle button, especially when it was right after the section complaining about the Magic Mouse.
My comment was intended as a commentary on the questionable ethics of promoting an app's ability to remove copyright attribution.
In Naples, where I am from, if you work in a bar you're not allowed to touch the espresso machine unless you have worked there for at least 1 year. Maybe, only then, you could start asking questions about how to use it. So, I agree, you don't learn how to use those things unless you have worked with them.
TypeScript supports 'function f(x: any): x is T' as a way to declare that if f returns true, x may pass as type T

https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/advanced-types....
>A hat store is non-essential.

And then 3 months later you find out that all of your food supply workers sourced their hats from the hat store and they can't hire more workers because the hat store went out of business. Where did the store get the hats from? Who knows?

Obviously this is a contrived example but just the other day we heard that a flour supplier can't supply enough flour because they don't have enough bags.
https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Round_Rects_Are_... might be relevant?
Name squatting on crates.io is another issue entirely, though. It's also a can of worms that I won't open.
I actually can’t use anything other than sublime. Nothing beats its simplicity and lack of complex buttons.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/09/politics/coronavirus-testing-...
This seems far more technically subtle than HN can shed light on.
...few in government considered.

This is a commonly-referenced trope, but it is seldom true. Even if those in government really were as dumb as they pretend, the lobbyists and spooks whose orders they follow are not. The normal economy has been destroyed and vast resources have been given to cronies of the Fed in order to produce the sort of nation we'll be suffering in the decade to come.
Are they really donating their time, aren't they Canonical employees? Canonical being a company that is paid mostly by companies that use their distro in production?
The rest of the OECD seem pretty real, and mostly seem to do alright.
As the stock market becomes "overvalued" some investors pull their money out and invest in other "undervalued" assets. Real estate has been a major asset of choice over the past decade. Perhaps that will continue or some new asset will come into vogue.
The validity of hit contracts should probably be upheld in the following way: the contractee must pay the amount (in addition to whatever penalties they face), but that money is seized. It could be put into a fund that helps victims' families.
I hate this framing. It is pressuring, dehumanizing as it contextualizes human endeavor in transactional terms, usually in a market.

I know this goes against the ethos of high-tech, but humans don't have an imperative to be as productive as possible. They don't have to make the most use of their time. They don't have to get as efficient as they could. These are metrics that work fine for our machines, our code. But humans are not machines. Sure, we shepherd the machines, and sure sometimes we are in rivalrous dynamics that increasing efficiency has a payoff, but it is never the goal in itself.

The real "currency" we have, if we are using the term in the sense of denoting essentialness, is our humanness, our mortality, our psyches, our connection with other people and seemingly mundane but meaningful parts of our lives. I mean, look how many of us started baking their breads and enjoying it. It is not a wise use of the "currency of time", but it is part of life very well spent, as our internal reward mechanisms have been telling us.
He’s just resting.
The other truly painful move was to discourage the wearing of masks.

The US Surgeon General, on March 28th, was on Twitter insisting that wearing masks was contraindicated unless you're coughing or sneezing, or taking care of someone with a confirmed infection. [0]

He tagged the WHO and CDC, because he was following their advice.

This wasn't deliberately calculated to kill tens of thousands of people and destroy the economy through harsh lockdowns when people started getting really sick. It just... happened to have that effect.

[0]: https://twitter.com/Surgeon_General/status/12440202923658158...
A properly fitted N95 shouldn't be removed unless you're ready to take it off completely and throw away. Seen a lot of people basically ruin those by repeteadly putting on/off, touching the filter, placing them under the chin, etc.

What's more, deciding to wear an N95 should be done if you're sure you're going to be on a high exposure area, and/or wear said mask for extended periods of time (think in hours, 4 to 8 hours).

If you're not a healthcare, or essential worker in a high risk situation, you should consider donating your N95s.

Edit: last paragraph, read as "in general", not particularly directed to P, but partly to GP.
Do you have data? I’m wondering if you may be overestimating how quickly ideas are adopted en masse.
No particular reason why a higher orbit is any better than a lower orbit. As long as you're a good 1000 kilometers away from the GEO belt at closest, and preferably a little inclined so that closest approach only happens ~2 times a day, both high and low graveyard orbits are equally good for avoiding collisions.
I'm curious what you switched from that is giving you FOMO right now. If you've mostly worked in strongly-typed languages, you simply can't get the same kind of IDE experience with something like Python. The tools have come a long way and are at least decent now, but will never be as sharp as they will be for languages like C# or Java.
I'll look to see if there is anything I can share publicly...
I took a semester of contract law, though I am not a lawyer either. I believe what you write is not accurate. I vaguely remember a case about someone who sold a refrigerator for four times it’s retail value to a low income couple, collected three times the value, and then sued for the remainder. The court would not enforce further payment. However I believe it would not reverse what was already paid either.

I probably have a lot about this wrong but I recall the professor saying “if that’s he bargain, that’s the bargain!” Is not a good description of contract law.

Contracts are important and generally are upheld. However there are limits to how much of the governments time, resources, and monopoly on physical force the courts will marshal to enforce contracts.
But how many people are losing their healthcare? ... during a pandemic?

And how many of those people won't go to a hospital because they're uninsured now?
I use pycharm daily and have nothing but praise for it. The free edition will probably take you very far, if you want the database features of the paid version there's always DBeaver
Kim Jong Un may be dead or in 'vegetative state
The headline is uninformative. Now that I have read the article, the article is informative.

My initial assessment was incorrect. I assumed it was about people not paying balances. It is actually about people not paying minimums, i.e. they can't even carry their debt, yet alone pay it off.
haha i understand what you mean, but debian's https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian page is not an accident :)

i made my comment more as a joke, shit happens everywhere, and as i said maybe not to this extend.
While I was reading the linked complaint [0], I found some redacted passages. I've restored them using the original sources [1]:

> The Salmond Affair indeed stinks to high heaven and no aspect of it stinks more than the role in steering the affair, throughout, of Liz Lloyd, Nicola Sturgeon’s Chief of Staff. Lloyd is also known to be personally friendly with David Clegg of the Daily Record who published what were claimed to be leaked details of one of the “allegations” against Salmond.

I find it interesting how the complaint includes the voices of hoi polloi, both in support of and in critique of Murray's behavior. I find their timbre delicious, as they seem unaware that they are contributing to the delegitimization of the prosecutorial process.

[0] https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04...

[1] https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/08/the-alex-sal...
Given that civil service, outside the military, has been demonized by the right since the Reagan years I expect that, at least at the federal level, major incidents of a non-military nature will be handled by slapdash decisions made by non-experts.
Downvotes are not for disagreement.
Unemployment insurance pays people more money to stay home than they would make working a job that exposes them to covid. Hence these businesses can’t find people to hire and they have to shut down.

I think the small business sector will probably be very slow to recover and have a long tail of impact on tourism and recreation. E.g. why would I visit xyz place when their cool cafes, bars, bookstores are still struggling to reopen?
And speed
> Very common things like native file/directory selection dialog (preferably with format/suffix filtering) rule out a whole slew of “tiny GUI toolkits”

I've found nativefiledialog to be quite good for that use case
80% of the military budget won't cut it though. Social safety nets cost a lot of money.

Yes, the US spends ridiculous amounts on the military (though on the other hand: that military is what gives them global dominance, which also is worth a lot of money), but just cutting that back won't give you a European style safety net. You'll have to increase taxes by a lot for everyone making more than the median, increase sales tax etc, essentially: pay more, not just reshuffle what you pay now.
US consumers really aren't so bad.

Savings rates have been inching up ever since bottoming out around 2005.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/personal-savings
I think you may have misunderstood. It is pretty standard to use chlorine in the purification process, but that chlorine is not left in the water. There should be negligible chlorine in any water coming out of the tap. I've certainly never been able to smell it let alone taste it anywhere in Canada.
Great for him, if true. He has not published data in the past[1], so we weren't able to verify his claims.

Assuming they are true, it's still not enough to go on when making decisions for other patients. For example, these drugs could result in lasting heart damage for some patients who were going to survive the virus anyway.

1. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/zelenko-669-coronavirus-pa...
I hate this argument.

What about when the private company is bigger than multiple countries combined?

This whole “it’s a private company, so it can do what it wants” misses the point: These companies are so massive that if they kick you off, they can ruin your life. You may think that’s ok because it’s affecting the “degenerates”, but what about when it happens to you? There’s hundreds(?) of articles about how Google kicked people off their platform for no reason.

Look at the (somewhat) recent Markiplier incident where people were banned for spamming the chat despite Markiplier telling them to spam. It only got resolved because he was big enough that Google would listen.

Saying it’s ok to censor because it’s legal and it affects the “bad people” is the same argument that people use to justify police violence: “They wouldn’t beat up someone if they didn’t have it coming for them.” Because we all know that bad things only happen to bad people.

Yes, the First Amendment only applies to the government, but free speech as a concept is a thing too, and should be fought for, regardless of who is negatively affected.

If these people are burning down towers, send them to jail. But a random nobody who is just spouting conspiracy theories? Ignore them. Conspiracy theorists will always exist. They always have, and they always will. If you want to help them, you aren’t helping my pushing them down; You’re just making their views stronger. Education fixes idiots, not censorship.