skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Commercial HVAC at Risk of Spreading the Coronavirus
That’s because it is a dark pattern of hiding the true price through death by a thousand fees.

They try to get you from every angle. They mark up the price. They add a service fee. They add a delivery fee. They add a tip (which is its own can of worms...)

If it was just “Buy whatever you want at regular price but we’ll throw on $40” a lot of people would balk.
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Just an FYI, but your thoughts aren't so important you should copy-paste spam them all over the thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22961402

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22961382

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22961354

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22961374

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22956622

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22956559
Been a huge fan of the Roost Stand ever since I got it. There's no heat sink, but there's only four small plastic contact points between the laptop and the stand. My fans are often on when running several Docker containers, but the surface of the top bar never gets that hot.

I have a 2018 13" Macbook Pro.

(I'm in no way affiliated with Roost, I'm just a happy customer.)

Roost: https://www.amazon.com/Roost-Laptop-Stand-Adjustable-Portabl...
> bankrupt

What do they have that you want, or what do you think you're going to do differently?

Why did it go bankrupt?

If they claim it's only bankrupt because of COVID-19, then it must not have been very profitable (if at all) if they didn't have enough money to weather out at least 3 months. So I recommend not accepting that explanation.
How many customer service niceties are you exchanging with your instacart deliverer?

Before covid it was a short "thanks" or "nice day out". Now I don't even seen them because they usually just leave it outside the gate.
> You’re on a slippery slope and don’t consider that this is an exceptional situation.

The basis for those civil liberties is a document written by people accustomed to seeing 400k Europeans die of smallpox every year.
More like an exokernel.
No they're definitely saying not to wear masks because they think it's net harmful. For example

> WHO also said community masking could lead to a "false sense of security" and cause people to ignore other evidence-based measures like handwashing and self-isolation.
The CFR will be much higher than the IFR. For example, approximate flu IFR is 0.05%.
Any income earned would count against your unemployment benefit.
Even if we have one, the larger problem will be scale. Having more than one type of effective vaccine available may actually be useful, since our existing manufacturing capacity for the different manufacturing processes can be used.
> For example, some scientists found that covid-19 shared some non-trivial segment of RNA with the HIV virus.

This is "zombie information" and a perfect example of the kind of nonsense that should be stopped. The single paper this came from was thoroughly debunked by a hundred real scientists the day it was posted. (It used statistical criteria so loose that it could have said any virus was related to HIV.) The paper had never passed peer review, and was retracted by the authors from the preprint server it was posted on the next day.

You are part of the problem.
I think you need to rethink essentially all of your assumptions/math. COVID is not more prevalent than the flu and certainly more than slightly more fatal.
Anyone can make a mistake.
I think the parent comment is just describing some of the perceptions they've seen about PHP. I've done PHP work, but I've noticed the same perception. Also in my area, there's a lot of PHP work, but it's generally much lower paid. I know a lot of tech people here, and some of them are writing really modern PHP - for much lower pay than a .NET developer at a comparable job. It's definitely possible to do great work in PHP, and it's also definitely perceived (rightly or wrongly) at least in some circles to not be awesome.
I'd add anything plugged in unattended that could burn down your apartment. There are reports of fake UL certs.
New Character Bug in Messages Causing iOS Devices to Crash
It just depends on the store. Not all stores have markups above the store price.

just depends on the terms of the contract they have with each store. Markup is likely shared.
Is it really in the spirit of anti competitive laws if the consumer wins?

This is more like one business owner (FBA seller) trying to sic the authorities on their competition (Amazon Basics) in order to keep a competitive advantage. This seems more anti competitive than what Amazon is doing
I tend to think of Hurd as "bad."
This is how it begins. Then as three or four companies gradually consume all smaller services (which is happening and has been happening for years), you need to sell your soul to them to view anything.

My advice is to just say "no thanks" and move on.
How do you know they made a typo, rather than that's what they meant?
We believe this price is worth it if you “live” in the App Store Connect. Your feedback does matter however, thanks.
On the surface, you're right, but in all of those systems, you still need a governing majority. In parliamentary systems, coalitions are formed after the election. In America, the coalitions are formed before the election. The two major parties, really, are big tents comprising a handful of minor parties within them.

You can see this manifest in the ideological breadth of representatives within the same party, across different constituents. In a parliamentary system, some of those constituents would elect the same representative, just under the banner of a more appropriate political party.
Keep going north.
You wouldn't believe what people can believe in. People who don't believe corporate messages are not target for corporate messages.
Here are the swiss salaries - https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/a8t87g/swiss_phys...
Most are the same as US. They pay anesthesiologists more, dermatologists less, gastroenterologists more, etc. Most are about the same as here. They also have universal healthcare.

Here is a chart for Australia:
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/heres-how-much-money-aust...
Hard to say how much they earn when working private as well. Anecdotes from the medicine subreddit suggest a lot.

Canada:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/06/canadian-doctor-protest-thei...

Medscape always sets the bar low when comparing US to other countries. I don't know why they do not include these ones. Here's the Medscape report that conveniently leaves these three countries off (wonder why): https://www.medscape.com/slideshow/2019-international-compen...

I'll try to find more sources for the other countries as I am interested as well.

220k is likely on the low side for PCP here. Offers coming in more around $250-270 range.
I don't completely love any setup, but I'm starting to think that Windows 10 + WSL is the best open-source development setup. Huge variety of hardware, plus all hardware actually works right, plus pretty much any popular desktop app works reliably and has a good GUI, plus all Linux CLI tools are there and work right.
> x[index] is *(x+index)
> index[x] is legal C and equivalent too

Can't be unseen, I can't believe I never thought of that.
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People probably aren't going to renounce their US citizenship due to higher taxes, but they will move states if taxes in one are significantly lower. This is one of the problems with trying to implement something like universal healthcare on a state by state basis, you need to increase your revenue in order to do so, and the people you most need to tax (the rich) are also the most able to jump ship.

I'd love it if someone could point out if I'm wrong here.
Maybe originally, but not anymore. Demographers regularly survey women in various countries about how many children they want to have, and in Japan women want to have on average 1 child, which means they’re having that many children by choice and not accident.
private company doesn't fly. The moment they started curating their content, they are no longer pipes, they are editors.

As such, they are subject to freedom of speech rules, and likely will come under increasing scrutiny as they very well should.

Its about time, too.
It's not just far from certain. It is simply unlikely. The "hypotheses" for explaining seasonal variations in transmissibility are nothing but a wild-guess/hope.
I do find the "censorship by private companies" discussions particularly interesting as a number of comments seem to overlook that we're conversing this very topic on a heavily censored and moderated forum that tailors its permitted content either directly (moderators) or indirectly (users downvoting). Its content, moderation, and selection are the primary reasons we enjoy visiting this site and having discussions. Articles get flagged on a weekly basis, and most (all?) probably for good reason. Is that unwarranted censorship, or a core component of what makes this website "successful"?
All the things you name are available to a phone app as well.

Only 'kinda'. You might get 1 camera feed, and you can see what the weather report was for the area. Tesla has something like 8 camera feeds, and they can tell if visibility was compromised because the other car situated at 7-o'clock to the rear was in a building's deep shadow. The app could only kinda get that if one were lucky.

suddenly about the only thing they don't have is whether you were looking at the road, and the condition of your tires and other vehicle specific metrics

That and a lot more! Also, with far superior granularity, and with fewer data quality problems.

(BTW, Assuming a deal with your credit card company, they probably can approximate your tire age too).

Again, mostly. I would agree that the apps could compete. They're competing at a significant disadvantage, though.
Flexbox was originally invented in the late ’90s by Mozilla (using vendor prefixes — `display: -moz-box`, `-moz-box-flex`, etc.) in order to use CSS to style and lay out their Windows 9x app UI. We’ve come full circle.

https://twitter.com/frankyan/status/1253063046060109824
Dumping costs on the customer is fine if it’s transparent. Hiding behind tipping rather than wages based on the cost of providing a service is unsustainable.

I mean what do they expect? A shame based tipping economy for delivery?
coughing or sneezing -> not healthy
> We are now up to 13 with 7 more on critical condition.

Minor note, but it appears we are up to 14 now - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_on_D...

> Another Japanese man in his 70s died on 14 April, making him the fourteenth fatality.
Today I learned... _magic_

#include <cstdio>

void sw(int s)
{
switch (s) while (0) {
case 0:
printf("zero\n"); continue;
case 1:
printf("one\n"); continue;
case 2:
printf("two\n"); continue;
}
}

[0] https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/Q26LWG
For those who shoot 4x5 (or larger), it's reasonably simple to use a view camera as an enlarger. In a weekend, I built a mount to hold a negative and a light in place of the usual graflok back. Primary materials were laser-cut wood, RGB LED strips, and diffusion paper. I built an Arduino-based controller for use as a variable contrast timer (changing the blue/green mix on the LED strips when printing). The whole rig was about the cost of a good set of contrast filters and took 15 hours of my time.

The back holds the negative on the camera, which I put on an old aluminum tripod and point straight down in a blacked-out bathroom. I develop through a 150mm Nikkor W 4x5 lens; held open. Since I use the timer for timing and never touch the camera/enlarger while exposing the print, the setup is rock-solid and vibration-free.
You can probably make more with Instacart right now.
Some enlargers for 35mm only are not that big and can be had for half-nothing used. I’ve got a 4x5 Omega here, which is a big beast, but you don’t need that unless you’re going large format.

When you’re doing darkroom work, what kills you cost-wise is paper. There’s not really getting around it: good paper is not cheap.
Here the supermarkets buy from the private label. He is still in the business. Maybe with less margin, but bigger volumes.
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I mean, if you actually dig a bit deeper into the story there, Li Wenliang had no expertise in the field, was going off very little information, and was sending out mass messages saying that SARS had returned (which was absolutely not true; SARS is far worse, with 25x the mortality rate of COVID-19), which would have incited completely panic.

Yes, in hindsight they should have listened to him, and back in January I was pissed off about this because it set China’s response back by about a week, but these days a week of wasted time sounds like an excellent performance compared to almost every other country.

It’s not about the political system. Imagine an American eye doctor posting on Facebook that Ebola was going around in NYC. They would definitely face immediate professional consequences — probably more than Li Wenliang did. My impression is that the full extent of the consequences he experienced was a stern talking to by the police, which is what you get here when pulled over for speeding.
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Having a single spot to work at, never to change location, posture, or surrounding sight sounds like a nightmare to me.

I have two sofas, a small desk and a bigger one in two different rooms, a balcony, a table in the kitchen and one in the garden. I frequently switch and move between all of those, which helps me a lot in getting out of coding slumps and refocus. I was so happy to give up my static one desk multimonitor setup at the office for a nimble 13" laptop work from home situation.

To each his own.
The consumer doesn't win in the end if there's only one major retailer that survives. There's lots of benefit in diversity of retailers competing against each other.
The callback number would be special and ask you for a special code.
Alexandria also mostly had copies, they were famous for stealing books from arriving ships in order to make copies for a while there.
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If they raise prices then they invite an instant flood of competition and lose their monopoly. They have no power to raise prices and restrict competition. Their only competitive advantage is pricing. Amazon's only profitable products are AWS and its stock. The benefit of losing $2 billion a quarter doing retail is debatable. Would you prefer a world without amazon's subsidies given that they have no power to exploit anyone?
I quite like Yggdrasil's [1] approach, and there are other alternatives. Of course, it doesn't fix everything, but with many project working on different aspects of networking, we might get back to an "internet" that's closer to a mesh between non-interoperable networks (GNU net, cjdns, private VPN-backed LANs, zigbee, etc).

Because, on your local network, you can run whatever you want (but it better be ipv6-aware software using DNS, it's easier to fool like NAT64 or yggdrasil do).

[1]: https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/
I get my Coronavirus info from following people on twitter - who are mostly honest even if biased and understand that there is a lot of unknown and being honest about it the best place to start.
Or, markets will shift away from abuse, and they will have difficulty regaining customer trust cough Blockbuster Video cough
It looks a bit like a binary exponent, but according to clang and gcc it's erroneous: 'invalid suffix '+0x0001' on integer constant'.
What about when it's on another site that you don't have access to? What about when it's a type of content that is relevant to you? This is hacker news so I'll assume you're involved in technology in some capacity - what if something like Stackoverflow was purchased by Facebook or Google and you couldn't view questions without a valid Facebook account?

You're seeing step 1 and not realizing that step 4 or 5 is the entire web gated behind walls.
My understanding here, from the quote in the article, is that one is ok to say 'Take vitamin C', but it is not ok to say 'Take vitamin C, it will cure you [of x]'.
In my experience, most software offering PPAs also offers debian repositories that get setup in your /etc/sources.d/ (usually the install instructions are just to run "curl https://somesoftware/installer.sh | bash", which you should doble-check of course). Thereafter your regular apt-get update && apt-get upgrade updates that software too.

It is really not an issue in my experience. I currently have the following software installed (and updated) this way: docker, virtualbox, nodejs, yarn, skype, vscode, teamviewer and sublime text.
Prior to March 3rd, the official position of the WHO was that
"The flu is worse"

I don't expect the WHO to be infalliable, and I don't think this reflects malice or incompetence (they updated as information became available) but that's kind of my point. The WHO is not infalliable. The things they say are not gospel truth. Categorically banning discussion of anything that contradicts what they say is a horrendous measure that will suppress critical information, because _even the WHO_ contradicts the WHO. If the WHO is wrong again, but we are not allowed to discuss it, we will never find out. We will instead _enforce_ incorrect information, and people will die.
Not everybody moves to the lowest-tax states. There are plenty of people in New York and California, despite the lower taxes in Florida and Texas. People balance costs and benefits, and effective mass transit is definitely an advantage.
FWIW, I'm Irish; I lived with Northern Ireland all throughout my youth. I was canvassed to fundraise for IRA when I was in college, and I knew people who knew people, in a way only teenagers are proud of.

There's a mechanic to terrorism. Young people are radicalized, older people are cynical profiteers and hardened sadists. The campaign serves as its own recruitment. The harder the enemy clamps down, the more unjust they appear to be, and the easier it is to recruit.

So wars are often the wrong approach. Wars are a suspension of civilized conduct and due process. Anything short of total war, extermination and genocide, can act as a recruitment for an opposition which has a unifying identity, if harnessed.
> [2] https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152

Go back and actually read the full set of WHO statements in mid-January. They have a bunch of statements saying that nations should get prepared, one saying that specific studies haven’t yet found hard evidence for person-to-person transmission (because at that point most of the cases they’d managed to find were tied to the market). The WHO never, ever said that it can’t be transmitted, and they absolutely never said that people should do nothing about COVID-19. They were urging nations to act for months before they actually did.
With all this remote work happening due to Covid-19 I think video conferencing is making clear the issues with trying to push a high amount of data through a congested airspace. Even at home in a concrete building I have plenty of channel interference and regularly get dsyncs from spotty wifi when gaming over my LAN with my wife.
This Yale Law Journal note is a decent start for this conversation: https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-parado...
The thing i like most about this vaccine is that it's a T-cell vaccine.

Very broadly speaking, the adaptive immune system has two arms.

One arm, humoral immunity, is about detecting foreign substances in the spaces outside cells: B-cells make antibodies, antibodies inspect molecules floating around, a match triggers the B-cells to proliferate and make more antibodies, and then antibodies tell macrophages and various other brutal cells to destroy and eat everything in sight, resulting in inflammation, but hopefully killing the invader.

The other arm, cellular immunity, is about detecting foreign proteins inside cells: T-cells make T-cell receptors, T-cell receptors inspect peptides presented on the surface of cells through some amazing machinery culminating in the MHC I protein, a match triggers the T-cells to proliferate, and the T-cells themselves go round triggering self-destruction of cells presenting the foreign peptides.

(I'm leaving out MHC II and helper T cells here, let alone T-regulatory cells, gamma delta T cells and all sorts of other things i don't know about)

Both wings are useful in response to a viral infection, but ultimately, the cellular immunity is key. Viruses commandeer and replicate inside cells, so to stop an infection, you need to find and kill those cells. Cellular immunity does that.

Vaccines based on injecting proteins or dead viruses can only develop humoral immunity. Vaccines based on modified viruses, like this one, can also develop cellular immunity.

In theory. So far, there are no T-cell vaccines.
> This is a fact but mainstream media does not mention it at all because they don't want to invite conspiracy theories that the virus could be man-made.

Your statement is false. I searched my scraped database of local mainstream news an there were several articles mentioning coronavirus/HIV and a few dicussing the link of the two and/or describing the supposed conspiracy.
It doesn't compile.

It's trying to parse the e as scientific notation I think.

surprising_math.c: In function ‘main’:
surprising_math.c:4:10: error: invalid suffix "+0x0001" on integer constant
int x = 0xfffe+0x0001;
^~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tangential factoid: often people (especially tourists) say Newport when they actually mean Aquidneck Island.

Source: I've lived in that area.
Do you get yelling on the subway in NYC? Passengers in London famously don't even make eye contact.
That's not even the real benefit you get. What you really get is the ability to specify memory locality which easily has a 10-30x performance impact.
Which infectiousness rate are you talking about? How could your prediction account for the impact of increased immunity and other interventions?

My point is that the infectiousness will decrease in the summer because of these factors. There isn't much reason to think there is anything special about it being Summer.

Finally, it's a very tenuous link between common cold prevalence and coronavirus.
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The torrent for 64bit systems is now up.
> Prior to March 3rd, the official position of the WHO was that "The flu is worse"

This is a lie, and the product of many different organizations flat out making up claims about the WHO to deflect blame away from themselves.

The WHO has been telling nations to prepare since January. I mean, I'm an ordinary citizen and I got clued in to preparing in January from their statements.
It will increase, because vastly more people will have already been exposed. The seasonal variation in the cold exists for many reasons, including SCHOOL is open, and people tend to congregate in enclosed spaces more. None of these things are relevant to COVID
Sounds nice in theory, but deferring to the government for this is how to fuel the lobbyist industry and end up with regulatory capture.

Anyone can host a website, market their product, ship with FedEx/UPS. Preach people do that instead, rather than bow down to our government stamped and approved overlord Amazon.
As a Lisp programmer, I confess that when I see a performance shootout between Go, Java, and C++, I don't expect to hear the result that Go won -- and that its performance is on par with their old Common Lisp program.
Same thing happens on Etsy. You work hard, get your product out there. You are successful. Then, 100 people copy you. And you tank. And copyright, trademark, and patent laws all fail you miserably.
I would worry about being DoS'ed, and having my home network compromised because of a vulnerability in raspberry pi software stack. Other than that, I think it's a good idea. I do the same for a personal use server, but don't expose the port on the public internet.