skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
talking about Roam, that's the problem with any subscription based service/software. It's difficult to trust, and in this case, with something so important.
Also thank you, will check out The Archive.
Paid by who? Your comment would be much more interesting if you implied something concrete, instead of the more common (and boring) "people who disagree with me must be paid off by ... someone".
I think it’s the opposite. The initial conditions have a profound effect on the exponential nature of the growth. Half the dose could mean that your immune system can suppress it. There is probably critical rate at which both growth rates match.
Densely crowded environment where people were unlikely to maintain social distancing, poor quality health care, probably poor quality sanitation. It seems reasonable to me that a prison would fare worse than a cruise ship.
Most modern software shops don't document at all. They would definitely benefit from writing down a problem statement and description of the solution so that everyone is on the same page.

Documenting doesn't have to mean design-first development, it's a way to make sure you're working the right problems and building the desired solutions before you waste your time writing code.
Any herd immunity scenario is conditionnal on immunity is long-lasting, which is far from certain considering related viruses are recurring seasonally or in single-digit year intervals.

Don't bet the farm on it.
I'd love to hear the details of why web developers like this feature? As opposed to say, clicking through the various dimensions in the responsive design mode? I guess the idea is seeing the changes live: So as you're fixing one aspect ratio, make sure you're not simultaneously breaking another?

If you're using something like Webpack, that supports hot reloading, couldn't you simulate this just by having multiple browser windows open, each displaying a different dimension size? So then is the idea that having to set that up manually each time is a pain?

(Not judging, just seeking to understand, I'm a huge fan of any kind of speed increase, but I'm curious if I'm missing anything here.)
I think they're referring to this: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/22/french-study-s...

The idea is that nicotine may lower your chances of infection, but once established I imagine that smoking will definitely reduce your chances of survival.
Kaj al vi! Restu sana.
Thanks for mentioning that. I'm one of the main developers of it.

I feel a bit sad that I rarely have time to work on it anymore. It has evolved into kind of an infinite project. After the merge of the technical very nice Gusanos engine (another open-source Liero clone, heavily scripted by Lua, with lots of advanced graphics effects) into OpenLieroX, it has a lot of nice features now, but the code is somewhat bloated (although this merge has progressed really far, and was done on a very low level). E.g. I would like to get rid of most of the old stuff totally and move the whole logic over to Lua. The network engine is another part which probably needs a better more modern reimplementation. The rendering also could probably be improved a lot. It's all software pixels, via SDL, with lots of graphics effects, and that's slow.

OpenLieroX homepage: http://www.openlierox.net/
Code: http://github.com/albertz/openlierox/

Official and Open Liero: http://www.liero.be/
A popular basketball player is hardly an authority in giving out wisdom on this matter. Not because of their profession, but because whatever wisdom they gathered through their exceptionally unique life situation is not going to be transferable to the life of 99.999..% of the world. This is not sound advice for how most of us should orient ourselves in life.

He was the top or close to the top of a zero-sum system. There can only be a limited number of hyper-popular NBA players deified in our collective consciousness. Of course he is going to be biased on his work/life satisfaction. The relevant bit is, we are not Kobe. I am not Kobe. You are not Kobe. We never will be Kobe. Now, what is meaningful for us to do?
96% are without symptoms yet.

There was a nursing home in Massachusetts which had 51 out of 98 residents testing positive but asymptomatic in early April. While this sounded encouraging in the sense no one was critically ill because of coronavirus, a few weeks later 19 had died and about 30 more had tested positive.

Let’s wait a month until there is a clearer picture about the impact of the virus on a particular population of people.

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2020/04/04/coronaviru...

https://www.wcvb.com/article/85-of-patients-at-wilmington-ma...
Generating MIDI Music with GPT-2
Fine non-Covid point:

>>> The United States has more people behind bars than any other nation, a total incarcerated population of nearly 2.3 million as of 2017 — nearly half of which is in state prisons. Smaller numbers are locked in federal prisons and local jails, which typically hold people for relatively short periods as they await trial.

That isn't correct. "Local Jails" hold two general populations: people serving less than a year (generally non-felony convictions) and people awaiting legal process. The infamous Rikers Island in NY is technically a "local jail". People regularly stay in these facilities for YEARS. The AVERAGE stay at Rikers is 6+ months. (Total stay, not time between appearances.)

The distinction between "jail" and "prison" in the US is academic. For purposes of disease, and certainly from the perspective of inmates, both are prisons where large populations are locked up in confined quarters for years at a time.
You can be reinfected. It sounds like there's already some evidence suggesting that reinfection is at least significantly less likely than initial infection.
> is there anything interesting or alive in it

I watch the robins foraging for worms on mine. I can look out the window and see fat bumblebees lazily weave among the patches of clover in the late morning. In the afternoon, I get to see my child scrambling across it looking for dandelion flowers to make a bouquet.

If it were a wild garden, we'd have none of that, and I'd have much worse insect (ticks, mosquitoes) and deer problems.

I enjoy the sight of my small mini-field. The wilderness brings me disease and pestilence, which I'd prefer to keep at a distance from where my family rests their heads.

I'll take the mower, thank you.
Not quite this huge, but then again states generally try to get them flu vaccines. It's reasonably common for prisons to enact emergency measures to stop the spread of the flu.
Well, you could always just use a shebang or call bash/sh directly on the file.
> I kind of assume the virus grows exponentially inside the body and would dwarf the initial constant.

Perhaps a more mild initial growth stage gives the immune system more time to respond.
Amazon might be worried sellers will turn to usual tricks of reusing ASINs, somethingAmazon is really wink agains wink wink nudge

https://sellercentral-europe.amazon.com/forums/t/to-many-sel...
It was alleged the U.S. government was robbing American taxpayers in order to support grain trading companies by subsidising trading with the Russians.
The article does mention that the predictive tracking feels worse:

> predictive tracking will feel much worse than direct (technically lagging) tracking when there is no system cursors to match.

Additionally, we can see the lag between the red box and your cursor in the video of your screen that you've uploaded.

https://i.imgur.com/ZEBcGch.png
Soft skills engineering - because it takes more than great code to be a great engineer

No such thing as a fish - Comedy podcast talking about unusual facts produced by the QI researchers (QI is a popular BBC comedic quiz show)

The Economist morning briefing

Some football/soccer podcasts (Totally football show, Zonal marking)

Some foreign language podcasts (Italian Scientificast)
vendoring my dependencies wouldn't save me from a rare issue I had dealing with npm packages, for example I had a package that relied on an underlying api call to a machine learning cloud api, the api call became deprecated. Not writing code is the only sure way to have no bugs.
>“It adds to the understanding that we have a severe undercount of cases in the U.S.,” said Dr. Leana Wen,

There it is! Now can we get back to normal. Of those 4% with symptoms, what tiny percentage need advanced hospitalization? Of that tiny percentage, what tinier percentage still, die?
Thanks, I'll take a look at this!
A test is a snapshot of time. A person could pass a test and be shedding viruses two days later. A person could shed viruses, get over it, and pass a test.
Show HN: Yet another periodic task manager
And you would be right. There shouldn't be two spaces. It's some old convention from typewriter times. Nowdays space is not fixed width. It's fluid and it's job of the system (browser, graphic editor) to make it right width.

In fact first thing book designer / publisher will do when they get text from author is run it through cleanup script to fix all mistakes and inconsistencies and one of those will be double+ spaces.
Yes true, I forgot that there's an income taper.

Seems the payment starts decreasing for people earning something like the 70th percentile?

(It's hard to figure because it differs for filing status)
English is already international language. Maybe it is not perfect but it is enough for not to create new international language.
Doctor Strange 2Thor:Love and Thunder and More Marvel Get Release to Coronavus
"Typhoid Mary" was an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever for at least 38 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mallon
I can’t believe this is not a new account. Blanket propagandistic statements are not the conversation we have in Hacker News comments.
I tried their plant identification game. I think they could really benefit from hiring a game designer.

It would be possible to make something pretty cool out of the database I think.
It's comments like these that make me realize I have a lot to learn about computers, I understand those words separately but together it sounds like a line from star trek.
EU Report Says China Deflected Blame for Pandemic
Ah, I meant 'in the literature' not in the thread. Just commenting on the frequent disconnect between 'why we do things' and why we do things.
But the long queues in front of the grocery stores would be terrible for containing the propagation the virus.
Nationally, yes it's "advised" because the Federal government can't demand it short of martial law or similar.

That said, most States have required lockdowns or shelter in place.

In the US system of federalism, the state governors+legislators have much more control over what happens in their state than the President+Congress.
It would be pretty ironic if it became harder to buy pot in legal states than non-legal states because the only sellers left were the ones following the law.

As funny as that would be, I think allowing pot delivery is the right call. No reason to shut down businesses that don't pose much of an infection risk, it's more economic strain we can't afford.
The numbers that are quoted for Austria (which has the listed IFR of 1.66% in the document) weren't obtained via antibody tests, but via PCR tests. Here's a better source than the one linked in the document: https://www.sora.at/uploads/media/Austria_COVID-19_Prevalenc...

Most of those tests were done on April 4th and 5th which was 3 weeks after Austria started relatively strict lockdown measures, which also impacts that number, as this will result in the test to find an even lower number of positive people.
NASA engineers build new Covid-19 ventilator in 37 days
(spoiler: it's just sinophobia)
Right, it could literally be as dumb as: all the tests were processed by one person, and that person is infected with covid-19.

Drawing signal out of the noise right now is very, very difficult.
I have not looked at it in many years, but Intel's VTune tool was designed to help coders analyze and hand-tune code.
If the virus moves fast through a population (like we might expect in a crowded prison) then all the population in one provision will have a single strain.

However, this is 4 prisons: do staff or inmates move between prisons more often than say every week?

It is possible (although unlikely) the virus strain is less spdangerous.
Talking about "The Shining": Doctor Sleep is one of the best "scary" movies I've seen in the last years.

The submersion was amazing.
This is an old thread, but I have to thank you for recommending this book. I ordered it and have been hooked! Incredible writing and storytelling. Thanks from this Texan.
The proof was in the counter example I provided, which is one of many. There are clearly instances where labor is present, but there isn't any value being generated. If labor had intrinsic value, that would not be the case.

I'm not discounting the value of labor relative to output, and it's clearly related to how we assign value to that output, but I think the labor theory of value is too simplistic and places too much value on labor and not enough value on utility.
Seems like central EU is a very vague term. I meant Slovakia, you probably meant Germany. I don't really low-ball the price, I checked one of the supermarkets current weekly offer, 1kg Chicken breasts (standard quality, respected manufacturer) this week 4,29 E. [0]. You might argue that this is a special offer, but we have similar offer all the time in one of the different supermarkets around.
Your point with beans etc. is valid though. Just the fresh vegetables are very expensive here and feels almost like a luxury item.

[0] https://imgur.com/a/sGOCC5V
Early on, there was some discussion of the possibility that folks whose initial exposure is via the eyes would have a more mild illness than if the exposure was via nostrils or inhalation, because the immune system would have time to begin work while the virus was multiplying more slowly in tissue less suited to it.

I haven't heard anything in weeks studying anything like this, though, so I don't know where we ended up, if, indeed anybody knows anything at all.
I had a "I feel like this already happened" moment reading the article. This clears it up.
Hackers deface church service on Zoom with child abuse content
How is the guy an asshole? Don't make bets you cannot afford.
One thing i found interesting while living in Dubai was that (from what I heard) the water authorities provided potable water to buildings, but most buildings had dubious storage/distribution.

I always bought bottled water there, that decision felt justified when my water came out sandy one day. (Though I suspect the building). I had friends who drank tap water for years and were okay, so mileage varies.
Sorry - but this logic does not add up:

Consider that this radically new environment requires a totally different social calculus.

>>>>>>>>> You are denied access to your family right now i.e. 'civil liberties' are already exceedingly curtailed.

How are all these arguments against 'contact tracing' holding up against the fact you are literally, right now, practically locked in your home.

In most places if you see your family right now you can be fined. There are police out there right now checking to make sure you either going to the grocery store or some other important thing.

Right now you are living under the most serious curtailment of civil liberties in American history. So why are you not screaming against it?

The reason is that here on HN people care about 'government information'. It's a 'hot button issue' so people react with concern.

>>>>>>>> You could make the same argument you are making now to justify requiring everyone to be tracked during a regular flu season.

No, absolutely not!

The 'flu' is not existentially destructive to civilization, it's not requiring you to be locked in your home right now.

COVID is pandemic, which we have 'controlled' by locking down in our homes. Obviously, this cannot last, so we need a 'solution' to get going.

Masks are not enough and neither will be general social distancing. Absent a vaccine there are only 2 proven solutions:

1) Eradication (like Taiwan) where nobody but incoming people might have it, and they keep a very close eye on people coming in.

2) Contact Tracing (like Korea). People can generally move freely, but they have to have contact tracing and if the gov. requires them to get a test, or requires them to show their 'social contact history' they have to.

These are the only solution that has proven to work.

The 'lifting' of social measures over the next few months is in the US is going to be very dangerous because COVID will just come right back again.

The US economy is like an airplane without an engine heading straight for the ground, like a person who's heart has been stopped. It's going to come apart at the seams unless something can be done.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The Choice

So the choice is:

1) Open up and have the pandemic come back
2) Stay in your home, the economy tailspins, it falls apart, the country falls apart
3) Vaccine
4) An aggressive social policy that works, the only one on the table seems to be Korea.

Obviously there are problems with 'social tracing' and government involvement, but in light of the existential problem we face, they are small.
https://www.iswatersafetodrink.in/fiji

LOL GTFO. This is nonsense.
These issues are old.

- Large programs / graphs? I can browse maps and photos of the entire planet from my web browser. ZUIs are well understood now. Also, computers got really big and fast. My graphics card has 8 GB (!) of RAM. Find a VPL that was designed for the era where graphics are cheap.

- Automatic layout is hard? Yes, an optimal solution to graph layout is NP-complete, but so is register allocation, and my compiler still works (and that isn't even its bottleneck). There's plenty of cheap approximations that are 99% as good.

- No formal spec? They sound desperate to come up with excuses why something can't work. How many (textual) programming languages had a formal spec before they got popular? I tried to look up when Ruby got a formal BNF grammar, for comparison, and it seems the answer in 2020 is still "nope, whatever parse.y does (13,000+ lines of C), that's Ruby".

- Difficulty to create editors? This is a legitimate concern, as it's true "there are no general purpose Visual Language editors", but that's an economic issue, not a technical one. Plain text is one of the very few formats where we have general-purpose editors. In most areas of computing, profitability has taken over, and companies refuse to cooperate. There's no one word processing or spreadsheet or database format, either.

- Lack of evidence? Again, they're holding VPLs to a higher standard. When a language like Ruby appeared, nobody asked for proof. Simply creating something that some programmers liked was sufficient.

- Poor representation? That's an issue with all kinds of programs! If I had a nickel for every horribly written program I've had to deal with in my life...

- Lack of portability? This is another symptom of the editor problem, above. Make a standard file format, and actually figure out how to get people to use it, and there's no problem.

These issues are from an article written in the 1980's. The same day as its publication, Apple released the Macintosh IIci, with a 40 or 80 MB hard disk, 1 or 4 MB of RAM, and a 640x480 pixel display. (For all that computing power, the starting price was $6269 -- only slightly less than the $6615 starting price for a Honda Civic that year.) Clearly, visual programming was a non-starter in that day and age. So were 90% of the other things I do on my computer every day. That doesn't mean they're bad ideas.

If you'd have asked me to write down a list of issues with C++ in 1989, I'd have a list that was similarly useless in 2020.
It says that while it is considered partially based on skill, it has a large element of chance. It seems likely they would have invalidated it based on that alone.
Can't talk about Esperanto without linking Justin B. Rye's cautionary "Ranto": http://jbr.me.uk/ranto/index.html
Bierautomat is also common in Japan, luckily!
Thanks! Tried, it seems to work! Repo updated, too. This seems to be what it does, for those curious:
https://github.com/cryptoquick/demo-cra-ts/commit/5c84aa48e9...
The game may have become a draw due to insufficient material, e.g., K-KB, K-KN, and of course K-K. Chess also has a 50-move rule that results in a draw.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifty-move_rule
I think beer delivery like this is tricky here because someone 21+ needs to sign for it. The poor beer guy would end up needing to wait for everyone, and skip houses where nobody was home.
Well, it lowers your chance of being listed as an infected person.

Presuming this is true (lots of evidence but still much too early to be sure), there's two possibilities: nicotine makes a person less likely to be infected, or nicotine makes it less likely that the infected will develop any symptoms. No symptoms, no test, that's been the rule until quite recently.

If it's the latter, it could explain what's going on here. I doubt that's the explanation, but it's possible.
Ido sounds better.
Where did you read that? Superficially that might make sense - less virus particles == less obvious symptoms - but there are a wide variety of virus responses that show virulence and infectiousness aren't necessarily correlated.

If anyone wants to read more about this I can't recommend highly enough the book Spillover by David Quammen, which was published in 2012, and covers zoonotic (animal-to-human transmission) viruses, including SARS. Reading the section on SARS made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. It's uncannily similar to what's happening with Covid-19, and explains a lot of the background involved in these kinds of viruses.
I did. 3600001xxx (first 2000 applicants, I believe), basically as soon as it opened up. I've had a hard credit check from the SBA and an email from them on the 4/13 letting me know it would only be a $1k/employee advance, nothing else. So I somewhat doubt their line about handling it first-come first-serve. I only have one employee.
When you're building a data or signal flow.

It's easier to reason about when you can see the branching, merging, and direction of flow.
>where you cannot drink the water because of too much chalk

Is this a taste issue or a health issue?
They're not "legacy features" merely because your tastes have changed. They're still just "features." Calling them mean names doesn't change that, it just makes it harder to take your argument in good faith -- same as calling desktop icons "bad habits." I'm a happy GNOME user but ascribing moral judgements to common computer functionality is kind of weird.
It's worth noting that is the manufacturer claim but has not held up to independent validation.

Specifically, the Premier Biotech/Hangzhou Biotest Biotech test was validated by a Chinese provincial CDC and found 4 false positives out of 150. [1]

It was also validated by the COVID-19 Testing project and found 3 false positives out of 108. [2]

The Biomedomics test used in the Miami Dade study was also validated by the COVID-19 Testing Project and found 14 false positives out of 107. [2]

Hence I would recommend taking the results of the California and Florida studies with a huge grain of salt as the prevalence rates they found were within the false positive rates of the tests used.

[1] https://imgcdn.mckesson.com/CumulusWeb/Click_and_learn/COVID...

[2] https://covidtestingproject.org/
> at what point

When at least one large studied group has an outcome (symptomatic recovered, asymptomatic recovered, or dead). So for this group I guess a few more weeks.
I'm not sure how different areas lockdown restrictions work differently, but in my San Francisco neighborhood all the small furniture and mattress places just have phone numbers posted on their doors. I've seen the mattress man make some sales even.
This is maybe the 7th take on this multi-viewport browser in the past few years. Is there some hidden business model I'm missing to justify the number of similar projects?