skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not going to flag this as I'm not into flagging, but I don't think this link is worthy of discussion for two reasons:

1. It's old. April 6th.

2. That's not a problem in and of itself but here, the article states in the present tense:

"As one of the hardest-hit locations in the US so far, the city is scrambling to find enough ventilators"

But that article was wrong and in fact, wrong on the very same day it was published. On April 6th Cuomo had this to say on the topic of ventilators:

https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/coronavirus-crisis-ve...

But on April 6, Cuomo noted, “We’re ok, and we have some in reserve.”

For people in New York who don't notice the date on the article it could cause a lot of concern, but there's no need for any. New York never ran out of either ventilators, nor sedatives:

"Now New York appears to have passed the apex. Deaths, a lagging indicator, crested at 799 on April 9 and hit 606 on April 16, the lowest figure since April 6. Hospitalizations are also declining, and on April 16 also hit their lowest level since April 6. Cuomo today has so many ventilators he is giving them away: On April 15, he said he was sending 100 of them to Michigan and 50 to Maryland. On April 16, he announced he was sending 100 to New Jersey"

As far as I'm aware nowhere ever ran out of ventilators.
Yes!!

An article by two engineers critical of RMBK's design had been published long before. In 'Kommunist' no less (the Central Committee's journal).

Source: Adam Curtis documentary 'A is for Atom' (1992)

KGB censorship is not needed, societies rarely listen to what alarmists/cassandras have to say anyway.
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In a few years, not now, we'll be able to look back and say with some confidence which actions saved lives (and didn't have an equivalently large negative effect on the economy). It does seem likely that, in areas with dense populations like cities, rapid early isolation made a significant difference in the overall impact on the care system. It is still entirely unclear what the longer term outcomes will be, since we can't all isolate indefinitely, so presumably, everybody will get infected eventually.
There was a website where you could download and play free games called gamehippo. I don't know if they still exist, but it was one of the best sites to discover free games.
"bar girls" != "woman" (sic).
> Advertising is a form of communication and like most communication, the person originating the communication often has a goal or desired outcome in mind.

So what? It's still "an attempt to psychologically manipulate the public". Advertising is adversarial, it's fundamentally bullshit.

Leela : Didn't you have ads in the 21st century?"

Fry : Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games... and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams, no siree.

How is that "a socially beneficial activity"?
SmartEdit Writer (https://www.smart-edit.com/Writer/). It never worked out for me as a commercial app, but it's got a dedicated user base who love it, and it fills a real need amongst creative writers.

It's 100% what it needs to be for its niche set of users: creative writers, Windows desktop users, simple to use, organising, planning, writing, editing (the editing part is unique).

I love the app. Use it all the time myself. It has 1000s of users and almost no support issues. Best thing I've ever built.
Since it's range based sharding, was Vitess ever considered (a popular CNCF MySQL range sharding cluster approach that came out of YouTube)?
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Now what's the matter buddy, ain't you heard of my school? It's #1 in the state!

People have been true to their schools since at least 1963.
this is a list almost entirely about how video games make money. There's very little here of substance about video games as a medium, and very little that seeks to investigate how video games function as cultural artifacts. This isn't a list for people who want to make video games or who want to advance the state of video games as an art form, this is a list that only serves the capital class, and looks almost exclusively at video games through the lens of business opportunity.

The first article starts out largely about Animal Crossing, and another Animal Crossing article appears on the list, but neither even attempt to interpret the game in any way, or to consider what the game might mean and how it relates to life as we know it. Compare with this recent Atlantic article: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/04/animal-cr... and you'll see what I mean. I find this incredibly ironic, because Animal Crossing is rich in content about labor, economics, and consumerism, but these themes are taken at face value and never critiqued in any meaningful way. While the author has cobbled together a list of articles about how games make money, the list is bereft of any interpretation of games in general, even the game about making money. Nothing in this list will improve the reader's literacy when it comes to interpreting and playing games.

A handful of the articles are just marketing about upcoming games. What makes this article on of the best articles about games? It is little more than an advertisement. https://www.polygon.com/2020/3/2/21155158/valorant-project-a...

To simply call these articles the "best gaming articles" is incredibly self-centered, as the viewpoints expressed in this list have an extremely narrow focus, and the focus is almost universally on money-making.
for any service whose core data is a 'collection of things', BYO prioritization & queueing makes a lot of sense

too bad integration is really hard or this would be general
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I think so too, but it still breaks the language by rendering the main word we have for "someone who perpetuates a hoax" ambiguous.
Correct. Other people's idiotic choices have deadly implications for everyone else. That's why we can't just let people ignore this problem. They don't just hurt themselves.
That's supposing that Chinese numbers are accurate. Which I don't believe.
The ability to produce food or manufacturer essential items doesn't suddenly disappear. If you think money flow suddenly makes things disappear remove your brain worm.

You know what can disappear, become depleted, or stretched to thin? Trained medical personal. And money flow can't replenish that resource.
> but I've never heard about someone complaining about kids roaming.

It's a thing:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2018/09/05/mom...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/04/14/parent...

https://www.cnn.com/2015/04/13/living/feat-maryland-free-ran...

https://nypost.com/2015/04/13/cops-coerced-our-kids-into-squ...

Apparently this is somehow seen as neglect, a type of child abuse, by others.
Credentials used to be a shortcut to less work.

Do a little more work up front, and you can do less/easier work for the same pay down the line. It was mainly a test of deferred gratification.

Now if you are lucky enough to get a good credential, your skids are still greased to some extent.

However I say that credentials used to be a shortcut because now the amount of work it takes to get a decent credential is way higher than it used to be. Is it really a shortcut if getting to the shortcut takes more work than just taking the more common path?

You can look at it from a supply-demand perspective. The easier path is the one with the same demand and less supply. Thirty years ago most people had still not caught on that credentials were the easier path. Now they have so credentials are no longer the easier path.

There is nothing intrinsic about any line of work that makes it always a better option than another. You have to weigh your personal preferences and the supply and demand for each job.

I remember in high school how powerful peer pressure was, but once you reach your late twenties none of that matters anymore.
That's true, but as the example of Muddy Waters shows, a good investment analyst who focuses on frauds can find enough evidence to short a stock without relying on anything except public information. It's entirely possible that NMC was someone's short thesis and the tweet from Muddy Waters gave them enough new information that they decided to trade.
Yes, but the difference is that "hoaxer" is already an English word with an established meaning, namely, one who perpetrates a hoax. "Truther" did not already have an established meaning before it was coined to mean what it does.
I think that this breaks down when you look at the case progression. Likely west coast cities and NYC/NJ had similar case counts at the beginning of this, but made different interventions and had drastically different outcomes.
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>than to have my entire financial life ruined.

You know we can just literally choose to not have this problem, instead of buying into other people's narratives.

>Not once did anyone raise any alarms about, maybe these young people shouldn't go into this line of work

Actually plenty of people do. It's just not a very thrilling subject to the U.S. populace.
You absolutely gain or lose momentum from the gravity assist, even in KSP. Changing trajectory is just a side effect.
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At the same time, we can't just let zeal/fear drive us into making the short-term safest choices that may not be safest in the long run. I do think we're overshooting the other way.
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It's pretty much the same thing as the classic hero problem solver and it's in computer programming too. The person who does a good design, tests, finds bugs ... doesn't get as much credit as the person who puts in Herculean efforts at the last moment to save the day.
> The current state of both cities has nothing to do with what they did or didn't.

I disagree.

Specifically, Deblasio took forever to close the schools. I don’t live in NYC, and I remember when before they closed the schools wondering why they hadn’t done it yet.

So some actions matter more than most.
> Bay Area politicians including the speaker of the house Pelosi were encouraging lots of people to come to Chinatown parades.

That seems like a rather murky assertion...

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pelosi-tweet-chinatown-tou...
Amazon isn’t even as large as Microsoft. What an absurd statement.
Good point. Game theory requires some understood rules and a set of participants, as do any market. Game theory provides a good explanation of the current state given the rules of the game and its participants. The rules could easily be different if participants behaved differently.

Executive comp levels go against the needs of shareholders, who would otherwise benefit from the money being invested in the company or distributed back to themselves.

Game theory can provide insights as to how Gresham’s Law’s effects might play out, and how sticky the stasis will be in any market that has only bad currency.
Mandatory military service is nothing more than nationalistic brainwashing.
I implemented a simple markup language, “Mod”, that was similar to the “POD” language used to format the Perl man pages. There's a summary here:

https://github.com/mjdominus/mod

The main desideratum was that I should be able to use the same sources to generate TeX to send to the compositors, HTML for the web version, and a plain text version output. (In the end I sent the HTML version to the compositors instead.) Also I wanted inline tests, so that when the book said "function `foo` returns 7" I could have an inline test that would check that automatically. I added some features I needed that POD didn't have, like a code to generate an index entry. And I fixed some things I didn't like about POD.

Markdown hadn't been invented yet or I probably would have modified that instead of POD. Pandoc hadn't been invented yet or I probably would have used it.

But Mod didn't take long to make, and it worked well enough that it didn't get in the way while I wrote a book in it.
Of course you are correct, but the article is also a “so far” assessment. We’re right now in the middle of the response. Every assessment, right now, is at a point in time. And so, to a degree, premature. We can only look at the information we have currently.
I think the opposite. That can't go on forever. And regular people are already well sick of it.

Besides, you can't run society like this for long so eventually it resolves somehow. Hopefully the "somehow" isn't terribly unpleasant and we are still intact.
>The average Austrian, if he doesn't life in Vienna, is simply not confronted with smog.

"coughs in Graz smog"
>If the federal government rolled in with a heavy hand, we’re all stuck with whatever they think is best.

Yeah, like saving people's lives instead of entertaining some muppet's idea of what it means to be scientific.

Hint: If you're not listening to trained, professional scientists while attempting to sound scientific and curious, you're probably just performing an intellectual jerk off.
In many parts of New York City, the water contains tiny bugs called copepods[1] (actually a rather interesting bug).

For some, that is an issue. For some that is an advantage (protein!!). For most, it makes no difference.

But I wonder how common such a thing is outside NY, and what other surprises our water contains.

[1] https://www.foxnews.com/science/whats-in-your-water-probably...
It that were true "math class is tough" Barbie would never have existed.
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>see just how quickly we’re trading our liberty as a society for the semblance of security.

Are you referencing the Benjamin Franklin quote here? Because the quote means the exact opposite of what it is typically used for.

The state has every right and responsibility to defend the general populace against threats in spite of personal wants and wishes.
Coronavirus death total 60% higher than reported (no paywall)
I see a lot of people dismissing the shared air space & HVAC systems as possible vectors of infection besides close contact, but you have to remember a very important factor:

Droplets exist in a continuum, not a binary of big == fall to ground, small == stay in the air. There's a range, and as they get smaller they stay in the air longer.

Large droplets (>50 μm in diameter) settle on the ground almost immediately, and intermediate-sized droplets (10–50 μm) settle within several minutes. Small particles (<10 μm), including droplet nuclei from evaporated larger particles, can remain airborne for hours and are easily inhaled deep into the respiratory tract. [0]

As such, while particles that stay aloft longer may not exists in sufficient quantities when it is just one infected, or a few infected inmates, that changes with the # of infected. With each infected inmate the concentrations of those small particles will increase.

Let's say that normally the small particles exist at 3% the necessary quantity to infect another person. Then 33 inmates and staff get sick through close contact, and all of a sudden the concentrations of small droplets is sufficient to infect people. You hit a critical mass, and each additional infection only makes it worse, creating a rapid downward spiral.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4147198/
Most recent project is a static blog generator which I wrote in both Perl and Python. For an example see https://plurrrr.com/

Source is available at https://github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog
There was a movie where no one leaves the house and everything was delivered by pipes. The kitchen had pipes for everything: milk pipes, syrup pipes, etc. And outside the house was just a big dark infrastructure filled with pipes.

I can't recall the name... (It's not "Meet the Applegates" but I think it might have come out around the same time. Had a real "Brazil" feeling to it. Might have been British.)
Customers do not ask for software complexity
> The current state of both cities has nothing to do with what they did or didn't.

What's your source on that though?
NYC, to put it bluntly is a country of its own. It requires a completely different calibre of management in the City Hall. Definitely not what they have right now
For fans of the "Rich Purnell Maneuver" from The Martian, check out the NASA paper: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/201500...
I had one professor in university who called lowercase xi “squiggle” and wouldn’t make much effort to draw it properly. He would talk about, for example, “d squiggle d t,” and so on.

The advantage of a xi is that it looks nothing like an x so coordinate transformations (xi = f(x), tau = f(t)), are easier to keep track of.
Yep, in Canada British Columbia's case count was ahead of Ontario until mid March. Now the latter is an order of magnitude more severe
Telescript [0] is based on this idea, although at a higher level. I wish we could just build Actor-based operating systems and then we wouldn't need to keep reinventing flexible distributed computation, but alas...[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescript_(programming_langua...

[1] Yes I know Erlang exists. I wish more people would use it.
Btw, any plans for Raku variant of the book?
Typically in the past I have recommended that anyone without a high school diploma or G.E.D. not read The Underachiever's Manifesto. After reading about your experience and how things are today, maybe if every high school senior read it then things might generally cool off a bit. Sure there will still be those that don't but there will always be a few.
Washington closed schools only 5 days before New York did (3 if you exclude weekends)
Kind of reminds me of the kids I grew up around in San Jose back in the 1960's and 70's. A lot of them thought they could party, skate through school and then go work for FMC or some such just like their dads. If I had to guess 75% of them have long ago left California because they couldn't cut it.

At least in the Bay Area teens appear to be way more buttoned down and smart than my generation. Don't get me started on the boomer generation. My teachers said my and even more my younger sisters generation were a very welcome relief from those guys.
I agree. de Blasio did terrible and Inslee acted way faster than Cuomo, but there is a reason that Buffalo is much better off than NYC even though they are both under the jurisdiction of New York law. Anyone who has lived in NYC as well as other cities knows just how different it is.

My family is in New England. Massachusetts has 10x more deaths per capita than New Hampshire even though, if anything, Massachusetts has been a bit ahead in terms of closures and interventions.
Has anyone here had positive experiences with Dask?

I chose it as an alternative to manual batching, where a dataset couldn't fit into memory. Anecdotally, it was great when it worked, but caused a lot of random bugs, and I spent more time fixing them than the time it saved in the first place. (This was mid-2019 so maybe it has improved since then)
No, we might not all get infected eventually, if there is an effective vaccine.
A book can be helpful for other reasons. For a programming book, beginners especially may benefit from a linear structure that covers a predefined amount of content.

For example, you can go from zero rails experience to being able to build a site with Michael Hartl’s rails book. As a reader you can stay focused on the book and roughly assume you can understand Chapter 2 with the information from Chapter 1.

Conversely, a common complaint about intermediate-level Haskell is a lot of it is scattered across blog posts, and is difficult for beginners to follow.
Having a billing address is a far cry from identify verification
Nobody can back up any of these claims right now, it’s all belief and speculation. If someone says they have analyzed the outbreaks in Seattle and NYC and can control for all the differences between them, they’re delusional.
Require masks in enclosed public places.
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Title should be "Global coronavirus death toll could be 60% higher than reported"
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At the time, that was enough for "only" two doublings in cases at the projected rate of spread.
if they only knew what their company is doing... but they don't. ignorance is bliss.
I live near Green Lake in Seattle and in my experience on nice days Green Lake is so crowded that people are certainly not 6ft apart consistently.

I also do a lot of hiking and on nice days the popular (and most accessible) trails are utterly packed with people. There would be no way you would be able to consistently stay 6ft apart.
The idea would be to isolate the vulnerable and let everyone else get it.

As a society we have shown time and time again that we only care about "disasters", not the continuous but far greater and less expensively solved losses. Nuclear power vs coal, air plane accidents vs car accidents, the life expectancy reduction of poverty vs COVID-19...
It's hard to figure out what a safe and credible plan is for closing down the world or even a city. The city and state have been adjusting it as we go. The whole point of the problem of closing the parks and then people still going to them is that they are spreading coronavirus. because we in Seattle were mostly successful keeping people from doing stupid things like hanging out together in parks, we had a lot less spread of coronavirus. New York City waited way too late and that's why there are more cv 19 deaths in just New York City than any other country in the world.

What's your plan to settle what should be open and what should not be?
That explains it. I missed that bit in the link, thanks for correcting me!
I’m surprised there’s still people who think he’s just a calculated puppeteer who has everyone fooled with his act. If it’s an act and he’s actually sharply insightful then I would’ve expected someone in his inner circle, present or former, would attest to the same. But every former cabinet member describes him as “what you see on TV is what you get behind closed doors“.
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Here's some stats i dug up the last time when we were comparing LA to NYC...Seattle's differences are probably even more extreme. Sure they could have done better from a policy perspective, but the difference in outcome is not purely driven by policy and the stats between areas with widely divergent levels of transmission opportunity aren't really that comparable.

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'More subway' doesn't really capture it. NYC has ~70x the daily ridership on metro rapid transit.

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

Overall population density is much higher as well:

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

NYC also has the lowest car ownership in the nation, so you're basically left with walking or uber/taxi/public transportation just to get to the store/doctor/etc.

https://www.governing.com/gov-data/car-ownership-numbers-of-...

Also ~25% more airline traffic hauling bugs in from everywhere.

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

Combined with a long transmissable dwell time before symptoms, wouldn't surprise me if 90%+ of the people in NYC were materially exposed.
"Please, before we start the meeting, can everyone in the room allow app microphone access for the best experience?"