skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's liability. Letting people onto your property is liability no matter what the context. Unsupervised kids roaming my property is a no-go and not my responsibility.

I get that people want to have their ideals here, but there's a whole "risk to the property owner" side to this conversation that's not happening.
Broken Kingdom: Fifty Years of the Phantom Tollbooth (2011)
It’s not very murky. She encouraged people to go to Chinatown. She just didn’t put it on her twitter feed.
I think the upcoming hey.com service is going to do something similar to that.
Global coronavirus death toll could be 60% higher than reported
> How many flights does NYC receive per day?

If you read the article you'll see that doesn't matter. By the time Seattle took action the disease was already widespread in the population at large.

Other factors, like size, density, and use of public transport, are discussed in the article.

> The most affected countries are the most visited ones. Which also makes me question about the effectiveness of lockdowns.

The countries we have the best data on are developed countries.
Again, read the discussion on the different tactics and approaches -- lockdown is only one of the issues.
There was a time when I looked "down" on tiers of schools, differently.

It was like what I was qualified for was better, Ivy League was a pipe dream and unnecessary, and everything else was a joke.

Around my sophomore year, I was interning in a Federal Work Study program, pushing pencils right next to someone studying a Princeton. When I realized this fate was still intertwined, I immediately transferred to a cheaper school with a less coveted reputation, and also took summer and winter community college courses to get a few extra credits to just get out of there faster and cheaper.

My current thoughts are that Ivy League is a world of its own (along with a few others like Stanford), and then everything else. Nobody cares about how good your state school is at Journalism/Business/Finance/Econ/Computer Science, at that level you either have the degree or not. At Ivy League, the network and opportunities are totally different, and the association is more important since you just go there to drop out anyway and say you went. The faster you drop out the cooler.

All I can say is that the cards I had available to play became very clear.
> the "popular kids" at school were the overachievers, not the jocks

This may be a silver lining in an otherwise very gloomy comment page?
When I was in HS (though not in the US), popularity was highly correlated with wealth and/or political activism.
Anyone know of a way that library maintainers can automatically test if changes like this will break consumers?
Submitted because this book was one of my favorites as a child and I appreciated the extra context from the article. I recently gave this book to one of my children, who is at just the right age for it.
Literatura y derecho: “El Proceso”, de Franz Kafka
That was their April fools joke though.
> Thank both the greed of the ruling class

He didn't say "they need to work" (although they might). He said "we need them to work".

No matter how greedy the ruling class might be, we still need medical people to staff hospitals, police to police, firemen, etc. These people are not serfs or cowards because they're going to their jobs.
Many a career has been birthed from Hero coding, sadly.
The 99% of us who are losing our jobs and eating through our savings shouldn't be forced into a moral dilemma of working to remain solvent vs. quarantine/distancing to protect others. This is entirely a failure of government to quickly and effectively manage the pandemic with country-wide health measures as well as adequate economic support, especially for the most vulnerable. A check for $1200 is an insult.
> It's actually suspected that the whole epidemic in Europe originated from the first confirmed infection in Germany.

According to virologist Dr. Drosten, this idea has been mostly disproven. Some scientists believed it initially but after more debate, the consensus has emerged that both Italy and Germany got their virus directly from Wuhan or Shanghai.

Source (in German language):
https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/info/coronaskript174.pdf page 79
The comparison was by product offering, not market cap.
It's a good thing then we don't have any country with just 200 people in them.

It's same excuse used when someone asks why safety of women comes before men, conveniently ignoring that the scenario itself is so far out, it's not going to happen.
I agree. I think the issue with mask recommendations was ultimately that politicians/public health officials were worried people would put on a mask and then feel invincible, therefore leading to more spread.

I think that is the case with lots of calls to re-open now. There are so many businesses that could return safely now if people followed safety protocol, but realistically not only will there be unintentional safety errors but loosening of some government restrictions will lead to the loosening of people's personal safetly restrictions they have been doing since the start.
I created a template which to the extent that I used it completly replaces the need for virtualenv and integrates well with declarative setuptools: https://github.com/takeda/example_python_project

With direnv + lorri when you enter the directory, it is as if you enter virtualenv, your code behaves as if it is installed with pip -e, if you call nix build it takes care of all dependencies and the command created in bin/ behave like binaries, have all dependencies needed.

I plan to update nixpkgs code that processes setup.cfg and make this less trivial example when I find some time.
Passformula: Create Complex, Unique Passwords and Remember Them All
Is the $25 license per user or per machine, and per year or perpetual?
This just makes it worse. NYC is denser, more interconnected, more unqeual, more public transit oriented, and all these other things that make it high risk. Being a higher outbreak risk, they should have taken more precautions earlier, rather than fewer precautions later. The difference in number of cases in each region isn't the story. It couldn't be, precisely because these places are so different. The story is the differences how each region approached precautions. You'd hope NY, as a higher outbreak risk, would have been more cautious and more willing to listen to experts than Seattle.
Missing Statistics
All across the world there are postponed surgeries, treatments, doctor's appointments for vital issues etc. I am interested if there will be official studies/investigations into how many deaths this has caused.
Regarding NPM, you can do user-level "global" installs on NixOS, see toraritte's answer in the same Stackexchange question. NPM should work fine within a project, but if you need specific dynamic libraries that a Node package implicitly depends on, you can specify them using Nix, and this means you automate the process of installing system dependencies for anyone else who touches the project too.

While you could use nix-shell, it is IMO a dated and very manual way, preferably you'd use direnv or lorri to automatically load a default.nix or shell.nix from your project root directory where libraries have been specified in `buildInputs`.
Imagine it's February 2020, multiple european countries decided to start softly locking down due to the scary news from Asia, even though they have barely any cases. Fast forward a week.

Your argument would basically be saying at that point "China has much more cases even though they have stricter restrictions, which means restrictions don't work!"
Don't sell an email client, there is a reason they are all dead: too much effort, too many edge cases (POP3, IMAP, Exchange, Gmail...), not enough margins.

Instead, sell me a hack that can make Outlook look like that. You worry exclusively about the UI, Microsoft does the heavy lifting behind the scenes.

Best case: you make a ton of money by selling to actual businesses (rather than annoying geeks and other weirdos who dare use uncommon clients); slightly-worse case: you sell it to MS.
It's been 10 years since I was a well behaved and anhedonic teenager. Not only did I fit what the newspaper describes but I actually read the The Economist cover to obituary (the obit is the best part). Now that I'm past that it seems the "wild years" don't so much disappear as move back half a decade.
I've always felt that this is a misconception. My friends did a ton of drugs, had parties and participated in hobbies, especially in college. Now they're all Engineers, PhDs, Doctor's and Entrepreneurs. They just happened to work hard at school too. They don't have kids cause they're busy, so it might be as bad.

But no, it's because they're rowdy kids doing 'bad things'.
Sure but what about Sweden, who’ve been doing fine despite having no strict shelter requirements. And how do you explain the fact that recent studies show similar infection rates between Germany and New York State? My take is that the lack of consistent federal messaging caused unnecessary gatherings like Mardi Gras to continue. But we could’ve had better results even without resorting to authoritarian orders.
I'm old school--I try to give my customers what they want.
Prior to 1978, that was indeed the case. Rising property values were kicking seniors on fixed incomes out of their homes, then Prop 13 was passed.
Ask HN: Input on ridiculously small needs. Cloud, and which Cloud?
Hello I've traditionally been a SI for behemoth preexisting or software projects that have architecture chosen by fiat. I've got an opportunity now to choose the complete stack for some clients. Goals are to stay small and functional during development (read consumption based) and be able to grow to production workloads without having to throw it out.

That's pointing me towards dynamodb, bigquery, for nosql'ing and minisql for sql. Thoughts? Experience what should i look into?
>Is there some mechanism the virus would use to migrate from the forehead/cheek into the eyes/nose

i'm not a doctor/virologist/biologist/whatever, but one could imagine someones' perspiring face may aerosolize whatever was on its' surface due to the evaporative cooling effect.

I don't know whether or not that's practically feasible.
Users are split on which they prefer. Also, the site guidelines call for original sources: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
>There's not much going on in high schools, 15 years old kids living at their parents who can't even buy alcohol.

I was doing hard drugs in house parties at 15 and I was one of the older ones. I had a friend who had to have his kidneys replaced by the time he was 16 and knew of 5 girls who had abortions before they were 18.

There is plenty going on in high schools.
> No Music

I presume you're not a fan of lofi? K-pop? Dubstep? Video game soundtracks, in general?

There's also an element here of how people express their tastes: Now a days, everyone has infinite access on Spotify/Youtube/Apple music. So I would say that music has become very decentralized. Anyone can put something on Soundcloud or Bandcamp, and anyone can listen to it. So the label of "pop" is maybe not as descriptive as it could be.

> No Cool behavior

I want to say something sardonic and rude like "So what, like smoking and getting pregnant as teenagers and raping people?" But I literally have no idea what you mean by cool behavior, and that's what my mind goes to when you say "cool". What do you really mean when you say "cool behavior"?

> no new anything

What do you think of twitch.tv? Or Esports? I presume your thoughts are not positive?
Filthiness, trash and rats have zero to do with coronavirus.

COVID-19 is spread principally by breathing, which is unaffected by cleanliness.

And if you think people are packed into subway cars in New York... have you been to Tokyo?

I'm not saying New York is a paragon of cleanliness, but you will have to show some scientific evidence that curbside trash pickup or the occasional subway rat has anything to do with the prevalence of modern-day diseases. Because they simply do not as common knowledge suggests.

Modern diseases like colds and flus are spread through close contact in schools, office buildings and subways the exact same as they are every other major city on the planet.
There is a statistic at this link for causes of death before Corona, it is worth to keep that in mind (https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/new-york-cause-of-death-...).

Coronary Heart Disease, Lung cancer and Hypertension can all be mitigated by a healthy life and the numbers seem to suggest that Corona has made these illnesses even more serious than before.

An AMA would be great and i can certainly see that being middle-aged with a co-morbid condition has gotten a lot more serious.
Scammers Cash in on Coronavirus Panic
Kids being kids for me, when I was a kid was:

* walking to the local convenience store
* roaming the woods
* playing paintball in the woods
* building forts
* playing manhunt
* going on _long_ bike rides
* paddling out on a canoe in our neighborhood's lake
* staying up stupid late, playing video games with friends
all in a single room together, also eating pizza

We also didn't go _into_ other people's properties, in general. We went into this weird county-owned forest thing, or walked the streets on sidewalks in our suburbs (and ran across 6 lanes of traffic to get to the other side of the street for the store)
I know how the wooden beams in my office smell. My mind can summon the smell of the handrails in the train station, disturbingly. The smell of my clothes, and crotch, before and after workout, it's right there. It takes me a while to accept clothes I got from other people as my own. Using strangers' detergent alienates me from my own clothes.

I don't like to touch things I know other people touch. (It's a weak effect, and doesn't bother me.) Is this related to smell? Do I not like getting other people's smell on my hands? Or is it just hygiene training? Hard to tell. If you were to count, I'd be smelling my hands a lot less when riding a bicycle not my own. Judging by that study.

It's interesting how the authors speculate about the link between self-smelling and consciousness. I am who I smell.
Nextstrain has a nice graphical overview of virus pathways.

It might well be that containment failed, and that a single person caused hundreds or thousands of the deaths in Italy, much like patient 31 in South Korea.

On the other hand, without those extra deaths, authorities would simply have waited a bit longer with a lockdown, people would have acted as usual for longer, and the end result might just have been very similar with a delay of a few weeks.
“The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.”

― George Orwell, 1984
Moar ‘Merica!
My early-2000s experience in mid-size-city Texas - not even Dallas or Houston - was getting closer to the OP. It wasn't that extreme, but the bright students were in magnet programs (or private schools, if $$$$), and were loading up on APs, SAT IIs, and all that crap. And the goal - accomplished by a handful of my class - was Harvard, Rice, Columbia, Duke, etc.
Sweden has about 10 times more deaths than their neighbours. Oh and this is with 80% of the population in VOLUNTARY lockdown, their bars and restaurants are open sure but they're empty.

The US would probably be at over a million deaths by now if life had continued normally without lockdowns.
This is similar to what Incredibuild does. It distributes compile and compute jobs across a network, effectively sandboxing the remote process and forwarding all filesystem calls back to the initiating agent.
I meant to reply to this at the time but forgot to come back—sorry.

The kind of conversation you're talking about is desirable and has taken place throughout history, but not on large internet forums. It requires small groups. This is true even when the conversation takes place in public—think Socrates at the agora, or the Federalist Papers, or debates in journals. There may be hundreds or (in electronic media) millions of listeners gathered round, but the number of speakers remains small.

On a large, public, optionally-anonymous internet forum like HN, where anybody can—and will—pipe up with their opinion just because they have one, there is basically zero chance of a conversation on a difficult, divisive topic going deep into new places. Instead it will either dissipate into repetition of conventional opinion or—more likely—turn into a fight along tribal lines. I have a feeling one could model this using statistical mechanics.

Once you understand this, it should be clear that it's not a question of being afraid of arguments or questions about anything. It's about how to operate this place in a way that encourages its strengths while minimizing the worst of its downsides—how to 'let your profits run and cut your losses'. The longer I do this job the more I appreciate McLuhan's "medium is the message" insight. The content that appears here is so deeply conditioned by the size and structure of the forum that I'm tempted to say that other factors are negligible. That would be an exaggeration, but not by as much as one would assume.
And/or it mutates (which will in all likelihood be into something less deadly/more like the typical flu).
Or better gear that uses it.

https://www.shure.com/en-US/products/microphones/mxa910
No need to use the past tense — CreateProcess is the primitive in Windows NT. (It's been 20 years...can we just call that Windows now?)
How many flights does South Dakota receive?

A tiny number compared to NYC or Seattle. Yet, the state hasn't issued stay-at-home orders, and now they have a major outbreak.
True. Though, formally, US is the only one to step out of the Paris agreement so far.
You say you’re stubborn on what you take an interest in. Could you expand on that?

The other prompt that felt interesting to me was that you feel an intellectual limitation in terms of what you retain, what does that look like in practice?
Those ratios looked off to me so I tried it out today.

Now, the amount of moisture a flour will absorb depends on many things, including its age, source and your climate. I'm in an arid region of Canada, and our flours are typically harder than most. Having said that, I'm lucky enough to have access to relatively fresh, locally milled flour.

So as I said, this moisture ratio looked off to me compared to what I usually bake with.

At 300 ml of water, I didn't even get a dough that would combine. I added about a tablespoon and a half of extra water, and still got a much firmer dough than I would usually want. After resting for 20 minutes, folding it left creases as it wouldn't stick to itself.

I've got it rising now, so we'll see if it still turns out, but if you're trying this with typical American store-bought 0 or 1 flour, I would recommend starting with 5-10% more water and adding flour if necessary once it's combined.
For IQ, the average (mean) is heavily influenced by the number of low performers. It’s not a good indicator of what is going on with the ‘normal’ kids. Some of the observations here might indicate that there is a growing population of kids with social and mental problems. This is probably a much bigger problem than a mild decline of the median.
Playing Around with TensorFlow in the Browser
If there were such a thing as a "this person isn't worth showing ads to" profile, people would game the system to try to earn those tags. Even if you never made ad-influenced decisions, it's probably still worth showing you ads to normalize them for people who do.
First paragraph talks about build. The build by default happens in sandbox, with many things disabled to force reproducibility. It sometimes makes things annoying, for example there was one Ruby package that was downloading a file during build, so whomever was making a derivation needed to download it in advance)

The second paragraph talks about fetching sources which nix does before build starts, each source is required to be provided with hash, this ensures that it is an identical file that author of the derivation used.
Our customers want faster horses, not cars ;)
> How many flights does NYC receive per day?

Looking at 2019 passenger statistics for the big 3:

JFK[1] = 62.6 MM
LGA[2] = 31.1 MM
EWR[3] = 46.3 MM
Total = 140.0 MM

> How many does Seattle receive?

Equivalent 2019 metric for SEA[4] puts it at 51.8 MM.

So as a ballpark measure, greater NYC process 3x more than SEA.

The CDC[5] reports ~13k cases in WA, whereas NY alone is at ~267k cases; add another ~102k for nearby NJ.

Extending the benefit of the doubt, that's ~20x positive incident for 3x flight activity. Even if we pretend that WA is under-reporting by a factor of 2, and half of NY cases are false positive, the argument still falls flat on its face...keep in mind, NJ isn't even being accounted for in this thought experiment.

[1] https://www.panynj.gov/content/dam/airports/statistics/stati...

[2] https://www.panynj.gov/content/dam/airports/statistics/stati...

[3] https://www.panynj.gov/content/dam/airports/statistics/stati...

[4] https://www.portseattle.org/page/airport-statistics

[5] https://www.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/index.html
Show HN: A cosmic perspective – an experiment on the nature of consciousness
The graphs for Austria and Portugal are interesting. They show historical peaks earlier in the year, probably caused by the flu, that are higher than the current spike caused by the coronavirus. Especially for Portugal, the past peaks are way higher. That would seem to suggest the current numbers, while high for the time of year, are not completely unheard of.
It reminds me of the techniques used in railways to smooth the transition from straights to bends.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track_transition_curve
They have perfect grades because of grade inflation. It's cruel that because the boundaries of what is tested have narrowed, those who wish to prove themselves must focus on perfection rather than mastery.
My twin brother was much more popular than I was in high school. I was one of the nerds working hard to get into a good school. I never heard anything about the parties, drugs, sex, etc. going on until my senior year. My own brother rarely talked to me about what was going on.
Do you feel passionate about any particular subject, trade,
or issue at all, regardless of whether or not it's connected to tech?

Reminds me of this famous scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu2HhlTEHMc
There is also the likelihood of this virus to have already infected a large % of the population. Antibody tests will confirm that.
Different company. We evaluated Vitess in comparison to ProxySQL. While Vitess was very promising, it was a large refactor and an all or nothing proposition to switch to it. ProxySQL allowed us to move to it piecemeal and adopt a crawl, walk, run solution in adopting it.
> The world isn't software engineering; if anything, it's philosophy.

Always follow the first link on a Wikipedia page (excluding parentheticals with etymology and pronunciation), rinse and repeat: you eventually end up at philosophy.
I may be off base here, but it sounds to me like you just aren't interested in the subjects. One of the biggest factors to learning is how much interest you have. There are tricks you can do to get yourself more interested, but it does take a fair amount of work and isn't always effective. But if you wonder why sometimes we can remember silly details or whole complicated plotlines from stories but can't remember a simple math formula, a lot of it is actually your interest levels. Your brain prioritizes the stories because it is interesting, you can relate, and thus form strong neural connections. It is much harder to do that with a math equation that is fairly abstract and not in constant use.

So I would start at finding which thing interests you the most. What meets the job criteria that you are looking for BUT also excites you? Then focus on moving in that direction.