skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm really fond of my endless tinkering in Emacs, to optimize and automate away all kinds of repetition and tedium

Me too, my .emacs.d directory has thousands of commits. It's fun. All procrastination is fun. It feels mischievous and therefore exhilarating.
Covid-19 fatalities takes up to 2 months after infection, symptoms have a median of just over 5 days from first exposure.
Thirty years ago I was walking farmers soybeans fields, making weed maps and then writing prescriptions of what to spray. One feverish afternoon with the temperature hovering in the nineties I had an idea. What if we had a plane flyover, grab images and have a software program identify the weeds and spit out a prescription?

I talked to some professors at Michigan State and other software developers I knew. The consensus was it was a great idea but the technology simply was not there or even remotely close.

Little did I know several years later Monsanto would come out with genetically engineered soybeans that you could simply spray Roundup over. Walking fields, weed maps and prescriptions of chemicals became a thing of the past.

To me it was an excellent example of how technology can blind side you at times. Now of course weeds are becoming resistant to Roundup and prescriptions might make a comeback!
Off topic:

What persuades front-end developers to make their site capture backwards navigation. No TechCrunch, when I press back I should go to the previous page, not yours again.
Wait a minute, I can run Windows, MacOS and Linux on the same machine with VMware Workstation. I run MacOS in a VM. The same goes for Linux and Windows.

So you don't need a MacBook or an iMac to run MacOS.
'We did it to ourselves': scientist says intrusion into nature led to pandemic
You got it backwards. Kubrick actually screened Lynch's Eraserhead to the cast and crew of the Shining to help them prepare for what he wanted to accomplish
What are various companies doing in response to the crisis?
I used to use it for daily webex until the snap broke it.
v8 matters and still requires Python2 to build.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=942720
lol, I did not expect this. I submitted this myself yesterday and it got 2 upvotes.

To the people with suggestions, especially jdsully: thank you! I will probably give these a shot.

To the people who say "blah blah someone who doesnt know x giving an opinion on y blah blah", ok, what is wrong with sharing an experience? I'm not sure how to interpret this other than you take what I write way too seriously? It's an explorative piece...

Edit: I wanted to mention too that it's really cool reading other's stories around this topic. Thank you for sharing!
"Doctors are often able to reopen blocked blood vessels through techniques such as pulling out clots or inserting stents. But it has to be done quickly, ideally within six hours, but no longer than 24 hours: “The message we are trying to get out is if you have symptoms of stroke, you need to call the ambulance urgently. ”"

After a family member's stroke, we were told that 4 hours is the magic number.

Per the Mayo Clinic: "Therapy with drugs that can break up a clot has to be given within 4.5 hours from when symptoms first started if given intravenously. The sooner these drugs are given, the better. Quick treatment not only improves your chances of survival but also may reduce complications." https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/stroke/diagno...
...Let's also ask if the tests have a high false positive rate?
This comment lessens the discussion; the one you replied to does not, even if it is not the best suggestion.
On 1), what do you consider "not that serious"? IE, what are your metrics of choice, and what are the acceptable values?

Regarding the cost-benefit discussion, my perspective is that people only want to discuss the downsides from a reduced economy. Second order effects include reduced vehicle deaths, reduced deaths from pollution, etc. IE, my discussions has felt agenda driven because it considers first order effects only.

If we're going to compare apples-to-apples, I'm willing to have that conversation. If the conversation is limited to "people die during recessions", it's a pretty clear signal that agenda is driving and would not be a productive use of my time.
Contact apps won't end lockdown. But they might kill off democracy
like no mismatched push/pop, etc.

My guess is virtual stack pointer update prediction latency.

To expand on that, Intel's CPUs have had for a long time a separate piece of hardware dedicated to a "virtual" stack which speeds up push/pop instructions. If pushes and pops are not mismatched, then all stack operations can stay entirely within that and there's no need to update the "real" stack pointer nor stack entries upon leaving the loop.
> Just take their mobile phone number, and text them en masse with a quick Y/N question as to whether or not they got sick?

I've been wondering why this isn't just being done for everyone in the country, every few days?

"The main symptoms of COVID-19 are X, Y, Z. If you think you may have COVID-19 please respond "Yes" to this text message. This is free. Your response is private and used to understand the spread of COVID-19 in our country. Please visit http://some.link for more information"

If someone responds "yes" you could follow up with some more questions, if that was useful. And then text them a few days later to see if they're feeling better or worse, or maybe ask them to describe how they feel.

There are lots of problems with this idea: people lying or not taking it seriously; people not responding; not everyone has a cellphone; some people will be worried about privacy, etc etc...

But surely there'd be something useful to learn from it? And it seems like it should be easy to do, really, if you got the mobile providers on board (or just order them to help).
I see nothing here that talks about employer tax benefits for paying for employee student loans - just a discussion of payroll tax credits and some stuff about healthcare benefits. Do you have any layperson articles or guidelines from a company like Gusto or other HR companies that give guidance on how to pay employees' student loans down and get tax deductions/credits?
Numerous ways to say “thousand years” in a scientific paper
Apple has said that Python will be removed from the default macOS install.
It reminds me of the Win2k installers, I really like it. Just feels unfinished, as Mate does too.
Not built-in but hstr (https://github.com/dvorka/hstr) and tldr (https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr) are awesome.
CIDR get more IP details from CIDR range
Where is the true part? I see the subjective word "overinflated" and a misdirection about what "popular websites" do.

This is more a case of a press release being a press release no mater who says it.
So long ago that the resolution was introduced by Jeff Flake, that legendary lion of staunch opposition to Trump...
Median of 10 days though.
It’s a combination of the tool and how you use it. And the environments that tools run in today are sometimes dramatically different than they were 25 years ago. As constraints and limitations change due to technological progress, economics, etc., so too does our software. I don’t see anything wrong with that. Nor do I see anything wrong with tools that adopt a tenet of not changing, both have value.
It seems kind of ridiculous to cite "reduced deaths from pollution" as an upside while people are also being forced into confinement, no?
As someone else has said on another comment, it just needs the experimenter to be infected and a bit careless, and there is your high percentage of positive results.

Plus yeah, to be honest, you dismiss staggering stupidity leading to juicy headlines at your own risk.
https://toc.cryptobook.us/book.pdf
If you're confused by this, you may need to check your news sources. Experts have been explaining all of this for months. First, people need to stay locked in and keep distance in order to slow down the spreading so health care systems don't get overwhelmed. Second, the disease itself can only be stopped once herd immunity is reached. Ideally, herd immunity is achieved by vaccination, once there is one. Until then, social distancing is needed to limit the number of deaths and keep the health system working. Third, it is not yet clear whether long-lasting immunity can be achieved at all. It's very likely, but there is not yet enough data. Immunity may last from 2 months to 2 years or longer. We don't know yet for sure.
‘I’m Just Living a Nightmare’: Oil Industry Braces for Devastation
8-bit computer – clock PCB assembly
They make agreements with the publishers and SetApp delivers the app updates (usually the same day as the regular app updates are released). SetApp lets you have a certain number of “active” machines. My account (which I got whenever it launched) let’s me have 5 machines but the standard plan might be 2, I’m unsure. Any annual upgrade terms don’t apply, your access is predicated on having a SetApp subscription. So for an app like Ulysses, I don’t have to pay the annual IAP or subscription (the Ulysses subscription extends to iOS too fwiw although other apps like Screens still have their own separate iOS apps, which makes sense).

I actually discovered TablesPlus thorough SetApp and liked it enough to buy the Windows version for the times I use Windows.

There are a number of apps in SetApp I’ve already paid for, but talking to a friend who is a SetApp author, if I install the SetApp version, that actually helps him get paid more so when I do have overlap, I install the SetApp version.

(My friend makes decent money off of SetApp which made me feel a lot better about the whole thing and feel comfortable it wasn’t predatory towards indie app makers).
India has the largest English-speaking population in the world. Yes, larger than the United States; it has a lot more people.

That's not a technicality, nor is it fair to Singapore to call that a technicality: it's a small country, but the vast majority of its citizens speak English as their home tongue.

English has official status in only Guyana and the Falkland islands, of all of South America. That's more like a technicality, especially since Creole is the actual spoken language of the people.

Belize is in Central America, which is part of the North American continent; the Caribbean (and its various English-speaking islands) are also lumped in with North America.
You can buy an Windows or Linux "computer" and run MacOS in a virtualmachine. VMWare Workstation is great for it. You can do it also with Virtualbox or KVM. But the latter doesn't have "hardware acceleration" support.
Somehow I was instantly able to remember the controls almost perfectly although it has been 20 years since I've played it.
The media is not monolithic, but a large subset of it is fervently against Trump, against Trump supporters, and against Republicans in general. The worse the pandemic and shutdown get, the more this subset of the media can use it to bash Trump, Trump supporters, and Republicans. Generally speaking, the worse the economy gets, the less likely that the incumbent president will be re-elected. I don't think that this media slant is the result of a conspiracy, though, at least not for the most part. I'd guess that probably most of the slant comes from subconscious bias, not conscious intent.

I'm against Trump too, for various reasons - for example, I don't like his authoritarian mindset, his stance on torture, his stance on surveillance, and his foreign policy towards Iran - but I'm not a fan of the constant hysterics of the anti-Trump media either. Some of those people would claim that Trump was somehow being deceitful and evil even if he just said that 2 + 2 = 4.

There are, I'm sure, other sources of media bias on this matter as well, but this is the one that immediately comes to my mind.
I hope you're fine in that case... I'd assume they meant without slashing existing work. But yeah I agree, clarity would've been nice :\
Nope, perl was mentioned just above. This was the second worst way. ;-)
> Speaking as somebody who considered learning Python several times over the course of a decade I was seriously put off by the uncertainty around 2 vs 3.

And yet Python is still one of the most popular programming languages, with its popularity and use growing.

Theoretically it could have been done better, but it was going to take time no matter what approach you took and it worked out in the end.
Gossip and social interaction.

It can seem pointless but when you find out that the random co worker shares an interest/friendship with a senior figure in the company, as you witness a brief exchange. A major mistake many make is not realising who "knows of" others in the workplace, they may normally never even greet one another.

The mail/parcel facilities guy mentions he is helping set up that new set of desks or has to come in early for a major delivery. Small things but can be very insightful.

On nodding terms with the help desk person who then happier to help you when you need urgent help.

Making polite small talk waiting for a meeting or con call to start. About some minor incident, feature or event in the office you both use. Even just waffling on about the carparking situation or the local supermarket or sandwich shop you all end up at when visiting the Office.

When you send that email to the team and whoever else. But you get that brief bit of feedback (it might just be a glance and a grin) across the desk that you just won't get via remote messaging services.

Overhearing or partaking in random conversations in the office which a snippet of become useful sometimes months or years later.

Having impromptu training sessions as either as teacher or pupil because well we are all there and now is as good a time as ever.

Opportunities as the person speaking to the person who is first asked.

I got offered an internal extra role which involves little but ensures I get an additional payment monthly on top of my wages and useful on the CV. All because stood by my then managers desk . I have changed my main role several times in the 9 years or so since but still have this little extra role and the payment.

Hosting and receiving guests on behalf of others or the department as in the Office.
Over the years I have made a lot of contacts this way and got involved in a number of projects and ongoing operations simply from being the stand in host or dragged along by a manager/director as their person who understands technology or simply for a second opinion..

Plenty of times sat in the office and become the resolver (even if asking those working remotely) in the eyes of those that need help. Even though credit given to others the person helped remembers your face and name.

Getting offered the extra tickets for a event the company sponsor as others pull out and well your there.

As I look back over decades of work it's nearly always meeting people in person even in passing where things happen. A quick interaction which I have forgotten may be remembered by someone who comes back into your working life decades later. Much less likely your recall those you once called or emailed in passing years later.

I work at home regularly but would be extremely concerned if unable to regularly visit my employers offices.

Never be in the office to often but been there regularly enough.
Thanks for the link!

But that does not tell me why there is no standard way for a key map / layout to be transmitted by the hardware to the software.

When the vendor makes the keyboard, he's the one choosing both the physical layout (A vs Q) and the USB microcontroller behaviour, so nothing prevents transmission of physical layout in some way to the software.

In 2020 we do not have to tell the software what the screen resolution is, what the drive size is, but we still have to manually tell software AZERTY vs QWERTY ...
Due diligence, Danny DeVito, double dare, direct debit?
It's interesting to see the effect of a strong confirmation bias at play. I appreciate you taking the time to respond, and would challenge you to think through your perceptions if you started from a different assumption.

Narratives drive how we see the world. In concrete, objective, measurable terms -- what do you mean by a "left-authoritarian consolidation of power"? From my perspective, the right is the one really good at consolidating and protecting their power, while the left is a little ADD about what they care about. (And are thus less effective at being in charge, even if more Americans profess those beliefs.)
Deciphering the visual language of Humboldt squid
Ioannidis was right all along.
Except all those times it fails miserably. Like doing this to AVX SIMD.
Try https://MyTapWater.org or https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/ for better info in the US
I would buy a normal computer and virtualize MacOS on it. You can do that with VMWare Workstation or anything else, but VMWare is better for it.

That's what I would do.
Society if Python 3.3 was the first version of Py3k

(picture of utopian society)
museum installations and touch UIs, as well as visual stuff for events
And obviously maddox.xmission.com
Wow this is horrifying:

if (diff := coord - lower) < self.view_dist:

I would've assumed walrus would've only been used at the top level of the expression, not nested inside a conditional!
Calling WHO a malicious institution is a bit too much, but let's just say that their track record is far from stellar, some examples:

In the 2017/2018 flu season the WHO recommended a trivalent vaccine for the common flu (https://www.who.int/influenza/vaccines/virus/recommendations...)

It turned out that another type B variant was the dominant one that year (https://en.ssi.dk/surveillance-and-preparedness/surveillance...) which caused a total of 1,644 deaths in Denmark, which is almost four times the current death toll for Corona virus in Denmark.

Another example:
On the 3rd of march the general secretary of the WHO issued this statement: https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-...

It says for example this:
"Evidence from China is that only 1% of reported cases do not have symptoms, and most of those cases develop symptoms within 2 days."

And yet here we are with a 96% asymptomatic rate being reported in a prison.

I would rather that the WHO delayed their news flow, instead of reporting too soon on what they think. Oh, and probably they should trust the Chinese regime less than they do.
.. first try at "proceed with caution" was a `whois dbooks.org' and just see that .. next is `curl -v https://dbook.org` and scan for any nasty looking things.. point of origin, unexpected content.. etc.. definitely did not connect with a browser..
This is reductionist. There is a crowd dynamic here. Something needed to be done quickly. A minority of senators cannot keep waiting until they get what they want. Republicans would then blame the democrats for stalling the bill. GOP has become either stupid or plain evil. I have no doubt any more after events of the last one year.
Same. My boss doesn't micromanage technical decisions.

Wouldn't work there otherwise.
Awesome idea but desperately needs some width and vertical lines to actually be useful.
Numbers I have seen where median 5.1 days from exposure to first symptoms and a median of 8 days from first symptoms to death in Italy. So, a median of ~2 weeks from exposure to death. https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/03/09/coronavirus-incubation-period... https://www.lastampa.it/esteri/la-stampa-in-english/2020/03/...

However, early estimates are going to be biased without the slowest fatalities. Further, that’s also population specific.
> These are precisely the sorts of conversations people should be having.

Indeed.
Is there any evidence that would convince you 20% of NYC was exposed and developed immunity?
They are using markup where they shouldn't be. If, in word, I type italic text using stars, that just means I'm wrong in that context. Similarly, if I use escapes, such that I expect \n to add a new line, I'm just wrong. That doesn't make it less useful where it originated.

Edit: I amusingly had to try twice to get the italic text there. Double stars did not bold. I don't know how to escape the stars.
Yes, in Thomas Sowell's Affirmative Action Around the World

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_Action_Around_the_...

"They tend to benefit primarily the most fortunate among the preferred group (e.g. black millionaires), often to the detriment of the least fortunate among the non-preferred groups (e.g. poor whites)"
Comments could use native italics and links instead of HTML markup.

More comment would fit on a line with a proportional font.

Headings would be great for breaking up sections of code, and could be collapsible. Maybe linkable as well.

Things that are arrays of arrays or tuples, like enums, could be tables.

When you pass three functions to create an observer, there could be a table with columns "Parameter name, signature, implementation".

Async code like observables and a thread's run method could be in a different font than code that executes right when you interpret it.
> When you're building a data or signal flow.

All code, or at the very least functional code, can be directly mapped to a DFG. Should all functional programming be done visually?
As others have noted, it would be cool to see this broken down into more meaningful units.

You won't be able to map out every individual house with it's copper/plastic/lead piping, but watershed maps might be nice for this. Also would look way cooler. :)
8,399,000 people in NYC, 21 percent of that is 1,763,790. 1% of that is 17,000.

So far as of Saturday at 6:49pm EST 16,919 have officially died in NYC.

I think the anti-body test in this case is fairly close and the death rate is probably 1% more or less depending on the demographic distribution. Obviously there are a number of people in NYC who will die over the next month even if all new infections where halted right now.

The serology tests are just wrong when only a small number of people in the sample were infected, which is what we’ve seen from the stuff in CA so far.
There is no standard that says quo/rem or div/mod should mean one or the other. And in fact there are more than just two choices for how to implement these. See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulo_operation
You might like Smalltalk. Programs are stored as images. An image holds the entire (fully introspectable, editable) runtime and your program. You can browse through your image with a powerful suite of built-in tools. Pieces of the image can be "filed out", or serialized to a file format.

You can see an example at 15:00 of this video - some snippets of code and then showing the System Browser.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGaKZBr0ga4
Will you host guests at all? If so how does one reach you?
If it was properly engineered, sure, why not? It would be no different in principle from driving over a suspension bridge.
The language is pretty sweet. I guess nothing that you can't do other languages, but it has some good mojo now it's raku.
Bringing up Perl 6? That was a low blow. ;-)

I'll be dead in my grave before I recognize anything past 5.8.1.

Just like how they still haven't made The Matrix 3.

Sh. Quiet, you. :)
A crude mathematical model from Swedish authorities on the Stockholm outbreak used two parameters: 1: the fraction of undetected cases (assumed to be mild or asymptomatic) and 2: the relative infectiousness of that group compared to the “detected” group.

The larger the undetected group is, the lower their relative infectiousness has to be in order to fit the observations. The best fit I believe was 1/25 detected and 11% infectiousness of the undetected group.
Do you even need to be an official to do that? Perhaps a newspaper could do it, to accurate news.