skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The UK made SARS-CoV-2 a "notifiable disease" which means by law any death from it must be reported to central government and it must be allocated to that death when present.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/The-evidence-on-Covid-19...

But there’s another, potentially even more serious problem: the way that deaths are recorded. If someone dies of a respiratory infection in the UK, the specific cause of the infection is not usually recorded, unless the illness is a rare ‘notifiable disease’. So the vast majority of respiratory deaths in the UK are recorded as bronchopneumonia, pneumonia, old age or a similar designation. We don’t really test for flu, or other seasonal infections. If the patient has, say, cancer, motor neurone disease or another serious disease, this will be recorded as the cause of death, even if the final illness was a respiratory infection. This means UK certifications normally under-record deaths due to respiratory infections.

Now look at what has happened since the emergence of Covid-19. The list of notifiable diseases has been updated. This list — as well as containing smallpox (which has been extinct for many years) and conditions such as anthrax, brucellosis, plague and rabies (which most UK doctors will never see in their entire careers) — has now been amended to include Covid-19. But not flu. That means every positive test for Covid-19 must be notified, in a way that it just would not be for flu or most other infections.
Vim vs emacs, auto inference vs explicit, I don't think it will ever end. :)
Also advisable is to spend a couple of minutes going through https://www.multicians.org/myths.html
Methods for Building Successful Project-Based Learning Units
You can achieve copy-pasting that isn't very different from a typical GUI without deviating too much from the defaults. If you use a sufficiently new version of tmux [1] and a terminal that supports it [2], you can just right click and drag your mouse to select and copy text into the clipboard. All you need to do is put the line 'set mouse on' in your configuration. If your terminal doesn't support this feature, you can do something like

bind -Tcopy-mode-vi MouseDragEnd1Pane copy-pipe-and-cancel "if [ \"$(uname)\" = 'Darwin' ]; then pbcopy; else xclip; fi"

to achieve the same thing. It also looks like you can configure copy commands to pipe to a command of your choice with the upcoming version of tmux without having to override keybindings [3].

[1]: >= 2.4, maybe?

[2]: Any terminal that supports OSC52 (e.g, iTerm2)

[3]: https://github.com/tmux/tmux/commit/5aba26f2cb7aa9609a3c3d2b...
> The nature of college towns mean that there is a constant supply of “fresh meat” in the market, often moving to or from other cities, further disincentivizing improvement or good behavior on the part of the PMC.

I grew up in a tourism economy and absolutely hated it for this reason.

Not having to do repeat business allows businesses to do all sorts of sleazy thigns that would have gotten around and had them out of business in short order anywhere else. Because their bad behavior never comes back to get them the scumbags can out compete the honest businesses for all the things businesses need so the cost of commercial rent, a plumber's services, tires for a skid steer, etc, etc, all reflect an income level that a business needs to behave badly to obtain. Eventually the entire local economy runs in a mode where prices are massively variable because everyone rips everyone else off as much as they think they can and you can never trust anyone you do business with to give you a fair price and a massive amount of time and effort is wasted on price discovery because nobody can trust that they're not paying some integer multiple of what someone else got charged for an equivalent.

Deriving income from a large transient population is just an all around recipe for a crappy low trust society.
I prefer working for tiny companies. The last company I worked for had only 3 employees including myself. (Not startups though.)

With a small company, the software is not a "cost center".

Everyone has to pull an oar. You can tell pretty quick in say a 4 person company if someone isn't contributing.

No room for politics.
No news channel is unbiased these days but I don't know of any other news source that has as much criticism as BBC. They have a long history[1] of spreading misinformation and hate aginst many countries (specially India).

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_BBC
To be fair with the disinfectant that's been the case with India for years - I went in 2016 and they were doing it then as well.
More likely it was meant to be an internal service, or at least accessible only from a certain IP range, and someone ballsed up the config.
Shoulder pads are back in
Global quarantine has never been tried just because there was (almost) no global travel or communication.

And I think your second statement is false, preventive isolation en masse was practiced (to the extent possible) during bubonic plague.
Ansible also does 'outside' virtual machines.

See https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.3/list_of_cloud_modules.h...
Ok, fine. Just shut them down then. It's not like anyone needs their services.
I'm guessing you mean earbuds? Wireless or not, earbuds don't seem to last long for me. I've owned multiple Sennheiser and Beyerdynamic buds over the last years and not a single one lasted a year.

Bought a pair of "true" wireless ones this time around which seems a lot more durable, but time will tell.
It gives us much more information than "something". It tells us it is a list of the type of the second argument to the function we passed it. Or in the generic version a "something you can iterate over" of things of the type of the second argument to the function we passed.
Hey, guys I'm from India. There is a very strict lock down here. It has been there for a long time now. My city (Bangalore) did the lockdown a bit early. Like one more comment down this thread, there will be really loud horns in front of houses. That has not been going on around here.
True. There has fortunately been no dithering or mixed messages. The clarity and consistency of the messaging has probably saved India.
To define something as declarative or imperative, it is important to compare the definition model to the execution model.

So I would rather say that Ansible is much less declarative than Terraform, because Ansible tasks (the different steps of an Ansible Playbook) are executed sequentially.

The tasks of Ansible are its statements, so yeah we would say that each Ansible task is declarative. And still, a requirement for that would be for the task to use a module/role which is idempotent, right?
Another proof, Ansible natively offers loop, blocks, and conditional to control the execution flow throughout its tasks.

(This is not a critic of Ansible. I am happy to use it as is, as a high-level scripting mechanism.)
<div class=prewrap>Strephon kissed me in the spring,
Robin in the fall,
But Colin only looked at me
And never kissed at all.

Strephon’s kiss was lost in jest,
Robin’s lost in play,
But the kiss in Colin’s eyes
Haunts me night and day.</div>

The proposed method is not applicable to the HN Comment Formatting Problem.
Pretty shoddy indeed. Makes me shiver to know the Googlers behind this are getting paid somewhere between 250-500k/year
Modern pandemic response analysis is of course not weighing pro's and cons of lockdown, but instead anticipating outcomes from different scenarios and mitigation strategies.

Ie. What may be the outcomes of not locking down by any measure, and is this response in any way realistically viable? The deeper reflections are missing from public discourse.

The problem is that scenario analysis cannot really be open to the public, and is also highly complex where "small" variables may turn out to have high impacts.
Ask HN: Uber for Shipping Containers?
Why aren't there Uber for wharehouse,shipping container?

Let's say I want to move some goods from port in china to port in Thailand, factory can drop their goods at the port in china.

How am I supposed to get the slot for container in ship? And how am I supposed to take my shipment from destination port to wharehouse?

It seems like it should be possible to pull Uber on this.

Right now you need to phone bunch of logistic companies and agencies and their associates, we don't know how long that chain could be and how many middlemen are there.
In my country the government is exemp from fines for GDPR
So going back to who you were originally replying to that spawned this little thread and trying to tie this all together because I’m lost with what you are trying to say.

What is this problem that shouldn’t exist, this root cause? And in which scenario does it go away: with the status quo laws or with their removal? And why would the scenario remove that root cause problem?
Both the product and the landing pages are so generic that I would have a hard time calling them a rip off. Every major audio/smartphone company has a product with very similar featurset in their lineup, and this is just Google following suite.
On the Architecture for Unit Testing
is it a criminal offense to access an open website? if you had to use even a default password you could imagine it being improperly accessed,but if it's just open to the internet how is a criminal offence committed?
Teslas in the US can automatically stop for traffic lights and stop signs
I’m a (foreign) American citizen staying in India and happened to arrive here a few days before lockdown started. I don’t understand how this is a mystery: India quickly locked down the entire country and going outdoors was consistently punishable by police hitting people with sticks (thankfully it seems like the brutality has eased up since the start and police are doing things like making people write sorry on the beach or do squats instead) People are taking the virus and situation seriously, without an unusual spike in fake news. You can’t even order anything outside a narrowly defined “essentials” category online. Thankfully food delivery is opened up.

To all the Indians here who are in the same situation, phew, I understand your pain. Hopefully this next extension is the last one and then it’ll be more limited to hotspots: and we will all be able to order from amazon again soon. I also hope the economy can open quickly and smoothly when the time comes.
My primary concern is all of the works that die because they're no longer commercially viable but are still locked away; I'm actually willing to make an exception for the rare blockbuster hits if it actually means everything else becomes available.

My thinking is author's life for unpublished works (to protect works-in-progress), 10 years after publication unconditionally, followed by a sequence of renewals that require some level of public availability to be granted.

Obviously, there's a lot of details to be worked out: What constitutes publication? How long is the initial unconditional period? How many renewals are allowed and how long is each? What are the actual requirements to get a renewal?
Come down south to Ohio, we've somehow managed to escape many of the zealotry on both sides. We'll have most retail open by May 12th if you need anything
In suburban NY you don't have ubiquitous natural gas. Some, but not all, new developments are natural gas, but many existing ones are heating oil. Propane is also a possibility, but much more expensive so is not used as often as oil except for cooking.
The template language is weakly typed and code written in it, too, can “crash” when it runs (which is the compilation time) for the same reasons.
If you ask GDPR, then yes[1].

[1] https://gdpr.eu/eu-gdpr-personal-data/
This is something that has really struck me during the Corona crisis: the misplaced Western believe of superiority towards Asian countries. I am European and I feel embarrassed about how much arrogance is displayed by some people and governments.

It started already in the beginning, when the virus was spreading rapidly in China. Reports about the failing Chinese authority were all over the place, but nobody seemed to worry that when the virus would eventually reach Europe, we would be in trouble as well. After all how could we, with our superior health system and our governments that would react quickly and rationally on such a trivial threat as this.

When the virus had reached Europe, it had already reached South Korea and Taiwan as well. These countries had learned from the earlier SARS outbreak how to deal with it and thoroughly tested everyone that could possibly have the virus, symptoms or not. The reaction I saw in the media was mostly about the breach in privacy that these measures brought. Surely this was not something that we, as enlightened Western societies, would want. And anyway, what were we frightened of. This virus could never spread so fast in Europe as it did in China, because .. Well because of what actually.

Now that the pandemic has wrecked havoc in the entire Western world and most people are realising that a strategy of first constraining the virus (like in Wuhan) and then testing everybody to contain in (like in South Korea) is the only realistic way to deal with it, one might think that a bit of humbleness towards Asia would be in place.
Think again. What we're seeing more and more instead is denial. Investigations are started if the Covid virus was manifactured in a laboratory in Wuhan for instance.
I’m astounded that you literally did no research in this matter before commenting. Amazon has had a minimum wage of $15 for a couple years now. They’re paying an additional $2 for everyone now to account for the coronavirus, though it sounds temporary.
Cognitive errors in understanding 2019-2020 coronavirus crisis
Just imagine the complete mess their Desktop would be if the OS sent downloads there, lol.
I've come to appreciate snake case (or hyphenated words in languages like Clojure) because it adds a little extra space in the syntax, and this break is easier to read I think. Long camelCased phrases are often really dense.
Former Tesla and Lyft exec Jon McNeill just launched a fund that plans to spin
Gallery of database schema diagrams of open-source packages
this is a local council (as opposed to central government) though so I'm not sure how it spies in this situation.
I still love coding. I suspect its because I work on fun projects and I have lot of autonomy.

I described what work is like for me in an interview once:

"You know how if you throw a tennis ball for a golden retrieve he'll go fetch it and bring it back? If you aren't familiar with golden retrievers, you'd think 'he'll get sick of this in a while'. The thing is, they don't. I'm like that with coding!" [coding since 1985]
It's been raised many times before. By me and numerous others. The standard library is generic, which isn't the end of the world, but you can't tell from the documentation how you can work with the output. It's common for someone to ask a question and be told "add .array to the output". They'd never know that after reading the documentation.
There have been many, many "Fixed C"'s.

That's the problem. This isn't a technology issue, it's a social one.
But then the temptation to get weird with the keywords sets in. . .
> Wireless headphones are a solution to a manufactured problem,

You can think that, but getting rid of wires is an improvement over nearly any situation other than sitting at a desk. And even then, I still sometimes slide away from the desk and yank on the cord.
Opening curly brace must open a new line!!!!!
Non-commercial doesn't really matter to the thread.

Commercially, you see the occasional upstart, but inevitably they die after a few years. I used Airmail for a while but they just stagnated (they barely kept up with Gmail and struggled with Exchange) so I had to drop them.

The market for commercial desktop email clients is super-small: the intersection of the already-niche subgroups of people who will pay for email clients, people who will pay for desktop software, and people who will pay for already-commoditized software. The effort is simply not worth the small rewards, particularly compared to the impact one could have by building on existing commodity clients.
The site has a login and lacks SSL. Hopefully this will be remedied soon.
Anything to do with traffic, road usage, or population movement I suppose?
A couple of points. On this. Phone cameras are mainly used by people who don't intend to do any (or only very minor editing). Overall, both IOS and Android can produce great results even with mediocre lenses/sensors. Computational photography basically enables them to compensate for that and machine learned configuration of editing steps a pro would do manually actually produce nice results. Of course these results are not intended for further post processing and lot of the applied edits are lossy in the sense of compressing dynamic range, clipping blacks for contrasty look and feel, blurring out noise & detail not visible on a tiny screen, etc. But considering iphones have very high resolution screens these days that should still be fine for that and simple prints. But lets be real, most of this stuff gets produced for and consumed on phone screens by people who are not even close to being decent amateur photographers.

But for anyone who is used to dealing with proper gear (cameras & lenses) and having the freedom to make very subjective artistic choices for things like white balance, local contrast, tone mapping, noise reduction, etc. what a phone does is always a compromise. And also it's a 1 size fits all solution optimized for mass appeal, which usually means "oooooh blue sky, pretty saturated colors, super sharp/contrasty photos", which as any postprocessing enthusiast knows are all variations of compressing dynamic range (i.e. super lossy steps).

I fall in the last category but I do appreciate the best effort my cheap Nokia 7 Plus camera app makes. I occasionally use open camera to get raw dngs for editing in Darktable but they actually do a decent job with the jpgs given the noisy original. My shiny new Fuji X-T30 produces much nicer raw files with tons of dynamic range and detail that simply is not there on a mobile phone. All of the AI stuff that happens in a phone you can also do with a decent camera but it requires lots of specialized tools and tweaking (e.g. hugin for hdr stuff).

But the best camera is the one you have with you and for most of us that's usually a smart phone.
I need to turn off the alarm though :(
ICMR doctor R Ganga Ketkar had made the statement on Apr 11 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP_ta25JcbU) that this is under study and at this point is not a recommended treatment.

Subsequently a recent study in the US has said that it has no positive effect. Seems to be a dead end at the moment.
Arctic ozone hole that become the region's largest ever recorded has closed
yeah, it's a maypole, from https://unsplash.com/photos/Ewyf0fXFatw
People say SICP is bigger then Scheme and then get outraged when someone implements it in another language.
Right now, it could be useful to see which Sheffield politicians have been travelling to their second homes (or elsewhere) during the lockdown, or going to the Peak District.

The former Chief Medical Officer of Scotland lost her job by visiting her second home during the lockdown.
I'm using Amazon.de as an interface for VAT excluded purchases. Many smaller shops have better prices but don't want to deal with the extra paperwork to sell without VAT to businesses outside the country. However it doesn't work for items sold by Amazon itself as they will ship it from the nearest distribution center (it needs to cross the border to be VAT free in my case).
If you're trying to access from Europe (at least here, in The Netherlands) the link doesn't work.

https://store.google.com/us/product/pixel_buds?hl=en-US works.
It's difficult question in the interpretation of the CMA; if you're not asked for a password do you know that you're unauthorized? https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/computer-misuse-act
It also completely disregards the fact that wireless headphones were popular before the headphone jack was removed.
In the context of C++, the use of auto allows to avoid unintended type conversions during initialization.
They started doing it after SARS-COV-1 back in 2002.
The rest of the world actually respects intelligence and science (so far) but unfortunately in India it looks like the Fox-News/AM-Radio playbook is starting to win.
I am starting to think similarly. I am not bothered by lack of privacy nearly as much as I am about one-sided surveillance.
Another reason for C/C++ is that they are very permissive with implicit lossy conversions. If you specified explicit type, chances are the compiler helpfully made a lossy conversion for you.
go fmt

End of argument ;-)
Back then most Canadian cell providers used to (maybe still do) forward SMS from emails sent to a special address that was basically just <phone number>@telus/bell/whatever.ca. They would do the opposite to, as SMS replies would get send back as an email.

I used to SMS friends from my email client and later my iPod touch using email.
Terraform is also mostly declarative.

You write the state you would like resources to be in. When you run terraform plan, it tells you how the state might end up. You run terraform apply and then get to find out what actually happens.

Will it create the resources how I expect? What will the resource's properties be? Will it fail half way into the changes and stop in a broken state? Will it blow away changes without asking/showing me first? Will it refuse to do anything? Who knows.

It's a guessing game. The only way to be sure of what it will or won't do is to write procedural code and tests, so at least you know what decisions it will and won't make.

'Declarative' is just us fooling ourselves that we can make complexity easy to deal with.
>unusual for a phone to overexpose highlights

Although this is really quite recent. It used to almost be a hallmark of my iPhone that, unless I took care, things like clouds would be blown out. I was somewhat prepared for this as I mostly shot slides pre-digital for a long time after I didn't have easy access to a good darkroom any longer. And slides don't handle over-exposure well at all.
Isn’t set builder notation done in the opposite direction at least? Ie given these things which are elements of blah, take these values. In Python it’s reverse, which makes sense in English but is harder to read as a sequence of steps: take these values from this set but only if... Kinda like SQL: select from where

I prefer it as a sequence of steps that get performed one after the other like a pipeline.
Wouldn’t that be 256^256? That’s certainly a hell of a haystack
indeed. i’m using a new SE now I have to keep using my other hand to help adjust when I need to reach.
I like byobu, but I haven't been able to get onedark for vim/neovim to work with it. Any advice?
This is a good reminder that if you want good design, don't just rip off another site, implement it, and ship. Build a prototype, user test it, and when they say this sucks, try something else.

I'd love to see some more tech companies go the Berkshire Hathaway route: https://berkshirehathaway.com/ Metrics for load time, readability, usability, are great. :)
I agree, HashMap is unnecessarily hamstrung because the API requirements push it into a bucket chained implementation (C++ also made this mistake and is one of the downsides of std::unordered_map). And you can definitely write a faster implementation with an array based hashtable.

But I still stand by "you can only do so much being a reference heavy language." Unless you stick to purely primitive types, implement the hash table off heap, or Project Valhalla bears fruit, it's hard to get the data layout you'd want for a really good implementation. So I agree it can be better, but it's going to be hard to get to best - hence my comment.
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