skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This advice seems to be directed at wearing masks to prevent oneself from becoming infected, but that ain't the point of having as many people as possible wear masks while out and about; rather, it's that you can be infectious without ever knowing it (i.e. you're asymptomatic) and wearing a mask (and gloves if you've got 'em) helps significantly mitigate the risk of you spreading it to people around you. That the WHO would advise against the widespread wearing of masks goes to show how behind-the-curve they continue to be throughout this pandemic; this has been widely recommended by pretty much every other authority for weeks now.

Also, "diversion of mask supplies" is a ridiculous excuse. Even an improvised mask (bandana, something handmade, etc.) is better than nothing at all. And if you already have full-blown N95s, might as well use 'em, taking steps¹ to sterilize them and maximize their reusability (I have two N95s, one previously used long before the COVID-19 outbreak, and one new one from my grandpa who found a box of 'em with his tools; I cycle between them, giving each at least 72 hours between uses per the rule of thumb that SARS-CoV-2 won't survive longer than that on an N95 mask, and if I ever need to reuse one sooner I'm content with sacrificing my oven for decontamination purposes. I also have some work gloves that I similarly cycle through, but I also recognize that these ain't designed to resist much contamination so I still take care to avoid needlessly touching things.).

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¹: https://www.msn.com/en-xl/lifestyle/coronavirus/how-to-clean...
The main instance is invite only for the time being but there are other open instances. Checkout full list here: https://fediverse.network/pixelfed?count=users

The most popular english open one seems to be: https://pixfed.com right now
Blog: Master Shifu and His Cloud-Native Mentoring Sessions
I think that’s some sort of bug/poor interaction with anti-tracking features.
Aristotle is notoriously a terrible writer. A lot of these books are thought to just be lecture notes and things like that pieced together. Compare that to something like Plato's and it's a big difference. I imagine nobody will ever beat Kant in the terrible writing department though.
The article is great until

Instead, Animal Crossing is a political hypothesis about how a different kind of world might work—one with no losers. Millions of people already have spent hours in the game stewing on that idea since the coronavirus crisis began.

Is it though? There is compound interest in this world, I don‘t think we are able to make all lenders „Tom Nook“s.
From bulletin #4: "-2147483648 is positive. This is because 2147483648 cannot fit in the type int,
so (following the ISO C rules) its data type is unsigned long int. Negating this
value yields 2147483648 again."

This is not true. If a decimal integer constant value cannot be represented in type "int", the next candidate type is "long int". If the value cannot fit in "long int" either, the next type to try is "long long int" in C99 and "unsigned long int" only in C89.
Germany started trials on April 22nd using a vaccine named BNT162. Apparently with non-infected people first.
Original Content podcast: ‘Too Hot to Handle’ might be a work of evil genius
Ask HN: Where does an alcoholic with dementia and felonies find housing?
My friend is 30 years old. Her father has no family that will take him in. He's on social security disability and that $700/month isn't enough for him to live on his own, not to mention he can't even remember what he had for breakfast. And he's been denied for low-income/subsidized housing because of his past criminal record.

Now she feels obligated to give up her ambitions and move somewhere where she can afford to have him live with her because otherwise, he'll end up living on the streets.

Her mom passed away from an overdose when she was only 25, and her brother was only 18. Her brother didn't graduate high school.

Despite this, she graduated from college, went on to obtain her master's degree. She is passionate about educating kids coming from poverty and has the technical abilities to scale her impact.

Now I'm afraid she'll give up her bright future and opportunity to help many more people because of her compassion for her father.

She feels alone. At 30, many of our peers still require the support of their parents, not the other way around.

What resources are available for her? Who can she talk to about this?
Impressive work! I just wish it had a less awkward API for serialisation and deserialisation. Compare the Rust example for Capnp with Protobuf:

https://github.com/capnproto/capnproto-rust/blob/master/exam...

https://docs.rs/prost/0.6.1/prost/trait.Message.html#method....

(Ok I couldn't actually find an example for Prost because all you do is create a normal Rust `struct` and call `encode()` on it.)
>Failed you? This sounds either very entitled or sensational. Has software caused you major grief in any way financial or the loss of limbs or loved ones? While this happens, very few people are affected by bugs in such a way, at least confirmed.

Many people have been significantly affected by software bugs. Therac-25[1] is one I constantly remind myself of; it killed 5 people. Here's a list for further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_bugs

I'm not sure what your definition of "very few people" is but we'd all do well to aim for 0 adversely-affected people as a result from using software we write.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
translate.google.com

"Region Stockholm
Eight out of ten corona patients survive intensive care"
Any reason Github OAuth needs permissions like Resources and Actions for login?
1. Non-ventilator hospital resources are also stretched to the limits in NYC.

2. The high death rate might mean that they are at the point of only intubating hopeless cases, who otherwise have a 0% chance of survival.

3. If you don't flatten the curve, you're going to be killing doctors.
There is nuance if you're willing to see it. That you can't get to a point where it "never pays" doesn't mean people don't become more willing to steal as situations become more desperate and vice versa. You see a lot more copper getting ripped off during a recession.
Isn't that basically the same end result as using json.loads except a different format (that has no actual spec).
https://certification.ubuntu.com/

"Ubuntu Certified hardware has passed our extensive testing and review process to make sure Ubuntu runs well out of the box and it is ready for your business. We work closely with OEMs to jointly make Ubuntu available on a wide range of devices."

So in this case it is a collaboration between Ubuntu and OEMs
> Would we accuse the ancient Spartans of “government overreach” if they mandated that each warrior, facing the enemy, hold his shield before him and not abandon it and run away?

The Spartan state was already so brutal that this extra requirement - to hold a shield and not run away - wouldn't be the straw the broke that camel's back and finally classifies the government as overreaching.

Remember, in Sparta the helots were owned by the state[1], and spartiate children were raised in the government agoge child-soldier training system, where a common rite of passage, the krypteia, was to go out into the countryside and kill any helots who were too, to use the modern derogatory term, "uppity."[2]

[1] https://acoup.blog/2019/08/23/collections-this-isnt-sparta-p...

[2] https://acoup.blog/2019/08/16/collections-this-isnt-sparta-p...
I have no idea if it is a toy project or not? Do you have evidence things are often broken for example?
Definitions of games are quite prolific.

In academia many end up going back to Huizinga's "magic circle" [0] which he was writing about in the 1930's, before any video games were around(although many immediate mechanical precessors were in evidence like pinball and slot machines).

From the perspective of a game creator or player, what tends to be of primary importance is the information conveyed through the game, which can be primarily aesthetic(a pretty picture) or deal with specific themes and principles. In this light, introducing the magic circle is of some importance because of its clarifying property: the information is exploring these concepts, and not some others that you might be interested in.

And so it goes with many opinions about games, too: if it doesn't cover the topics they want in they way they like, players reject the game. Some players need to see violence and power struggle, others need cozy reassurance.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_circle_(virtual_worlds...
It seems many people wonder why Apple's CPUs does so good compared with x86 and other ARM makers in Geekbench.

Here are my guesses:

1. Intel is still leading all the rest for single core performance, but it does that at very high frequencies and using a very high power envelope due to process node.

If Intel could use 7nm, they could have had a much higher performance if they desired. I can speculate here that they wouldn't have gone for the absolute best performance, because they don't have to. Their goal is to make money, not to make the fastest CPUs they can.
When Intel had a clear lead, they improved the CPUs little by little, each generation.

2. AMD has the best performance per dollar and watt and also the best multicore performance. That does bring them a lot of sales and they are happy with that. Their goal is to stay a bit ahead of Intel, so they can sell more CPUs. So their strategy is to be have a better value for dollar. Also, even if they are technically ahead in some areas, there's due to Intel being behind TSMC.

3 ARM

Arm makes CPU designs and it seems it doesn't care too much about having a clear lead in performance. Maybe with their investment in Ampere and the push towards ARM on servers from the likes of Amazon, they will start to care more. But right now, ARM makes a ton of money by licensing slow and power efficient cores to hundreds of licensees.

4 Qualcomm

It's not clear if Qualcomm has the know how to push performance. Or that they are willing to allocate the resources for that. I can speculate that they would have done that with 8CX and SQ1 they built for Microsoft if they had the know how and made business sense.

Qualcomm doesn't see Apple, Intel, AMD as threats. They compete mostly with Mediatek, Samsung, Huawei. From here, they are very safe. Mediatek optimizes for the absolutely cheapest CPUs they can make, Samsung doesn't care much about CPUs and most of their phones use Qualcomm while Huawei doesn't threaten Qualcomm much yet as their best CPUs are on par with Qualcomm's and they don't sell CPUs to other phone makers.

So Qualcomm thinks they can do the same things for the foreseeable future: get some cores from ARM, optimize them a bit, pack with their modem and make a nice sell to the Android makers.

The disruption of this model where most CPU makers are happy with slower CPUs can come from ARM server space.

If the companies pushing ARM for servers are smart, capable and hungry enough, they might start to eat Intel's and AMD's pies. That would push Intel and AMD to make better optimization and the tech might slip in mobile CPUs, too.
> The other type, the interesting one, is the one where you can work directly on those flat files, not needing some kind of admin interface. Now this can be great!

I am not sure I understand; could you please explain?
That sounds like working directly on flat html files; or are you talking about working directly with a DB that then writes to flat files?

Thanks!
Calling All Australian Energy Technology Suppliers
SBB (Swiss federal railways) have an amazing plan. For around 1000.- a month, you have unlimited train travel within the country and access to a fleet of Teslas parked at major train station to complete your journey. It’s a bit too expensive for me but I love the idea. I wish they had cheaper cars for more people to afford it.

I see they offer more options now and it goes from 600.- per month with a 1/2 fare card and a Nissan Leaf to 1800.- with a GA and a Tesla.
How are you going to best network effects and the race to the bottom?

It happened with news (the cable news cycle) and it’s happening with social media.

The bare, sad truth is that any private or public societal scale information sharing function eventually gets captured - driven to relentlessly pound away at subconscious fight or flight routines so that they keep their cut of the audience.

Eventually the need to keep the network alive (advertising) overcomes its ostensible mission of carrying valuable signal.

As long as the two are not divorced - the advantage will lie in exploiting the vulnerability of our neurological systems over investing in carrying more in depth, boring but accurate news articles.

At some level we must recognize that we need to get the best of a central source of truth while also ensuring that this source of truth is not captured by the governing bodies of a country.
And all you have to do is work every day during a pandemic.
The sales guys will certainly be getting hydrated off AppFlow
Set it in your environment / shell startup files (.bash_profile, for example)

export POWERSHELL_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT=1

and, in theory, you should be good to go (unless/until Microsoft decides to change things up).

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After logging out and logging in again, you can verify this has been set properly by simply running

echo $POWERSHELL_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT

in your shell (it should simply output "1").
Jubilee Jim Fisk and the Great Civil War score
I remember your site!
I was planning on adding a service worker to my trivia game so I could eventually add it to your site but never got around to it!
Yes. Last time we rushed a vaccine during a pandemic we got pandemrix.

That was approved in Europe but not the US.

1 in 55000 people who took pandemrix got narcolepsy.

The risk is small, but the outcome is a severe debilitating illness that requires constant care for the rest of their life.

We may decide that risk is acceptable, but we need to know about it.
Google translate is correct. I was going to make the same comment, the article is talking about ICU patients and does not mention if they were intubated or not. The 175 patients in the study might not have been put on ventilators, the article does not specify!
Just don't copy the wordpress plugin system.
I'd argue that many people wouldn't know wether they were looking at a PWA or a native application written in a JS container format (like react-native).

I can't think of a way that native apps are more convenient? With automatic updates it's even less convenient to have the updates go through the app store.
Really interesting post. Can anyone comment on how serverless deployments help and/or exacerbate the deployment problem?

To give a theoretical starting point - Acme corporation has a serverless API deployed at api.acme.com powering website acme.com. The staging system is deployed at staging.api.acme.com, and the corresponding web app (e.g. staging.acme.com) targets that API. Staging gets deployed to production via a pull request that triggers CI/CD, which has no ability to do an X% rollout (i.e. the underlying serverless function is updated).

Developer John Smith is writing a feature and merging to his personal branch "jsmith" - he can test his branch with jsmith.staging.api.acme.com and a corresponding development web app. When he's finished the feature, he does a PR to the staging branch, which is packaged into a PR to live.

You may be able to see I'm trying to get input on our own release system :) It's worked quite well so far but I'm still paranoid about not having gradual roll-out - in my experience in bigger companies, there was always some A/B testing in place so bad deploys could be reverted quickly. If the sysop gurus of HN gathering on this thread can pass any comments/critique it would be greatly appreciated.
Have you also read Alasdair MacIntyre's "After Virtue" from 1981? As I understand it basically revived Aristotelian virtue ethics as a viable philosophical theory, indeed by thoroughly criticizing modern (post-Enlightenment) justifications of morality. It's probably my favorite book of modern philosophy.
I told my customers to think about multi cloud and plan accordingly for it.

The reply?

Why? We just want to pick one and stick with.

Customers want the vendor lockin. They even embrace it.
The Swedish "Very high excess" is a bit surprising.

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Extremely high excess: UK, France, Spain, Italy

Very high excess: Sweden

High excess: Switzerland

Moderate excess: Portugal

Low excess: Denmark
I've spent some time on A = B as well. Very pleased to find someone else interested in these things on here!
I see no reason why a robber posing as a cop would want to draw more attention to themselves than necessary.
I think you're underestimating the number of people who need cash ASAP.
Can we expand the capacity of the healthcare system for those treatments? Oxygen is not without danger, but it can be safely handled by non-professionals, and it's relatively easy to manufacture.

I've never actually heard anybody discuss any treatments besides ventilators, so I have no idea what's feasible.
I actually like JIRA a lot, as long as you are not trying to customize it too much. A simple Kanban or Sprint board should be enough for 99 percent of teams, please do not try to make it more than what it should be.
> 2 32" 4K monitors hooked up

Two identical monitors is the happy path. Nonidentical ones get interesting.

I have a small high-ppi laptop hooked up to a large low-ppi monitor, and that confuses a number of apps when moved to the monitor they didn't start on. Most notably Visual Studio; some widgets are the wrong size, and the text is slightly blurred due to some up/downscaling issues.
Maybe taiga.io?
I suppose that if the incubation period is long enough the virus can have an arbitrary mortality rate and still spread.
Bollocks.

This is old, early internet era naïveté.

Sure - anecdotally- you could perhaps convince one person by highlighting information.

But the plural of anecdote is not data.

At scale - sunlight and exposure increases dissemination of bad ideas.

Designing ideas to sound appealing in a viral sense means that even their dismissal and refutation by authority sources only increases their spread in the target population.

“Of course the governments going to deny they made the corona virus! They aren’t stupid.”

“Of course scientists would say that, they need grant money.”

All the ideas that grow from the root of this tree fail at scale.

Malicious actors are beyond the scope of this axiom for example - they don’t care about being defeated in argument- they just want to let vulnerable people know they exist, and then have them fall into their ideological orbit.

Competition over information networks only drives the news cycle effect - a market adapting to target the weakest link the human Fight or flight response, over giving better quality news.
Australia's coronavirus tracing app's data storage contract goes offshore to AWS
I think this is correct. My experience has been that when it's using a tracking url it fails (I Ad block and Tracker block) and I see the tracker url in the address bar, but when I click again, it just goes directly to the real URL; presumably some fallback Twitter put in to deal with people like myself :D
If people want that, there are already tons of other VPN options. Donenfeld didn't leave it to third parties, he doesn't want cipher negotiation at all. Other people can do whatever they want and the base project remains untainted. I personally don't really see the difference between having negotiation built in vs. the community building their own solution, the community has just as capable developers. OSS is projects building on other projects and WireGuard fully embraces that to provide a package that does only what it has to, but does it really well.
A national risk assessment has increased the danger level on non-eu companies for storing citizen data.

So we’re just trying to plan ahead for the unlikely event that we’ll need to move off those services.
Many writers are terrible by accident, but Kant elevated it to an artform.
Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok all have PWAs, plus many more well funded businesses.
> I agree that python datetime objects are problematic, but for the opposite reason. It is tzinfo that is the sneaky disaster, the plain datetimes are fine.

Why naive datetimes should be fine? How are they fine? What do they represent?

> For longterm minimization of pain, bugs and effort, you convert datetimes to UTC

This COULD work if naive objects had an IMPLIED UTC in their contract - e.g. naive objects are declared as ALWAYS UTC. Your argument fails as soon as you pass a naive datetime object somewhere in a library/framework and it gets accepted, and/or you try serializing it without augmenting with a TZ. As I said, naive datetime only works if you control 100% of their usage. No libraries, no external points of contact. And, the reason because tz-aware objects sometimes fail for the opposite reason (e.g. libraries assume naive objects) is a fault of the API design (they're not distinct types), but the problem lies in the existence of the naive version, not vice-versa.

For the records: in the backend I always use tz-aware datetime objects with a fixed UTC timezone. That's the best way IMHO not to get crazy with time problems in Python. So, your points about datetime handling are all valid and correct (timezone is mostly a "UI problem" and should not leak into the backend) but they don't prove your "naive works better" argument.
I concur with those saying keeping the 9-to-5 is probably the most stable. It sounds like you've done some thinking and had some life realizations (which is good), and now are valuing things different in your life. This is perfectly normal and good. Of course if there are really bad reasons you don't want to go back (toxic environment, etc.) then don't.

But put it this way: if you go back, and it doesn't work out, you can always leave later. The worst that would happen is they would fire you or lay you off, and then you would get unemployment, which you probably wouldn't be able to collect if you quit.

Maybe going back to your job with your new perspective might even be healthier. Sometimes I just need to care less about my work, and more about my life.

Also, as someone who was self employed for a bit, never underestimate the value of health insurance, especially if you are likely to have medical costs. It's really expensive if you pay for it on your own. It honestly shocked me, and that was for just me, and I have no health conditions.

As for financial freedom, there are two parts: what you bring in, and what you spend. My first suggestion as a stoic would be keep your lifestyle simple. Don't let lifestyle inflation eat away your money for no reason. Having money allows you to save, invest, and take more risks.

Maybe you could start a side hustle to look for clients before you make a leap. Sometimes getting a taste will really change how you feel, and it's best to do that before making any changes that can't be undone.

Good luck.