skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Covid-19 isn't a retrovirus. It does not directly change the host's DNA. The article is talking about deletions in the genes of the virus.
Totally. Existing purely to screw over tenants in favor of maximizing profits by ripping off regular people. Adios.
This appears like frivolous comedy but if enough people see this, it has the potential to change discourse slightly on this topic. Most of the people who make this comments do so in earnest, thinking they’re contributing something valuable and original but after seeing this they’ll realise it’s not as original as they think.
Off topic, I wish HN downvoting cost something, maybe a bit of karma. Downvoting is too common.
Sorry if I'm missing something, but is that the list of colleges that will be onsite in the fall?
Yes - there are some pain points - but my experience is that the 2x is worst case. It gets MUCH closer to 1x with experience, and I'd dare to say it will be closer to 0.75x over the long term.
Indeed!

I bought a pfSense-style router recently, and a Pi 4B, both from small shops (one Swedish[1], one French[2]). They shipped within 24h. These people are hard at work, and they deserve all the credit they can get.

In particular, the Swedish one had a very nice knowledge base on their products (they select / assemble parts themselves, cost is as low as it gets, I value the work they do since it's saving me time and hassle).

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[1]: https://teklager.se/en/

[2]: https://www.kubii.fr/ (sadly, language is Fr-Es-It only, but I guess we've got Google Trad for that)
Benefits and Costs of Using Social Distancing to Flatten the Curve for Covid-19
Take a gap year and do what, exactly? Sitting around your parents' house for a year is probably worse than getting the coronavirus, for an 18 year old. Maybe much worse.
Providing rental property is yet another industry in which "Why don't we just screw over people with no options" has prevailed. It may be legitimate in that people need places to live, but it is far from legitimate in any way regarding getting what is paid for.
Could you develop your train of thought to illustrate how this comment is coherent with another you've made elsewhere:

> Affordability has nothing to do with gentrification.
Not so much user-friendly as normalising the user-hostile
Sure you could, via intentional infection by cultivated strains.
C++20 surely has one.
It's like finance or law or any other field with some hothead cutthroat personalities in powerful positions. Where there is perceived power there is an attraction to people who feed off of power alone. Egos are a plenty and often cruel to others trying for the same goals. Lots of people are hypercompetitive rather than collaborative, and see any peer as an adversary or challenger rather than leaning into synergy.

This kind of stuff would happen at conferences too, a couple notable cases of screaming matches from the audience to the presenter have happened. Sometimes vindictive professors will go to a rival professors's grad student's talk and just grill the poor kid, asking them impossible questions and being hypercritical. Usually the grad student's own professor has to step in and try to deflect the assholes line of questioning. Sometimes the professors are even in the same department. It's a total cringe moment for the rest of the audience, and is definitely a phenomenon that is slowly growing out of the field as professors retire.

Take a look at the comment section of this blog to see it first hand: https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2017/08/02/how-not-to-perf...
Stores often sell cheaper on Amazon than on their own storefront. The 15€ ball I ordered on Amazon would have been 20€ if bought directly from the sellers website.
Read. Code. Zoom.
Usually breaking a lease is 1.5-2.5x a month's rent. This will definitely be cheaper than paying for an apartment you won't use, even though it sucks.
> I also wonder about attributing poverty deaths to economic shut downs.

But this is always the case. If you can't solve this issue during normal times, how could you solve this issue during crisis? Force part of the society to pay more taxes during this time? There's certainly a lot of people dying all over the world due to poverty - these deaths could be prevented as well. Since there's less production things are probably even more scarce and expensive during crisis - if economy is shut down and people can't be productive.

Regarding ethical/moral dilemmas, to me it seems like the trolley problem is definitely highlighted during this crisis (it to some extent exists also during normal times), but now it's extremely apparent in my opinion.

Especially because also another question is very apparent - how valuable are different human lives?

Loosening economy means less deaths within general population, while it means more deaths specifically for elderly. Loosening isn't binary either so there's a balanced line that you have to draw. So you have to draw that balance between somewhere where you have to weigh economic damage, young productive human lives vs lives that are about to end anyway.

For instance. Would you save 20 people who were expected to live 1 year compared to a person who would go on to live 40 years?

If we considered years and probably higher quality years it would be 40 > 20 however death count would be 1 < 20
Data transfer on par with first tier regions. S3 a hair more expensive (starts at 2.4 cents per GB rather than 2.3). All in all, not bad price-wise.
Darned regulatory environment, inflicting clean air, water, and food upon the poor! How dare they!

(I agree with you about the property value stuff tho)
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This site was failing to render correctly for me on Chrome for OSX.
Source for “most people?” As of April 11, 71% of people who have applied have received benefits: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/23/coronavirus-unemplo.... And state’s have geared up processing since then. (Maryland launched new computer system last week.)
The article talks too much about the problem, and when it comes to solving it, it gives very shallow information.
There are a lot learning communities in reddit and one of major problems is the abundance of link material.

* If you are able to create a space per sub-reddit.
* A bot to upvote/downvote/add videos can make it a thing?
I once thought like this too. And then I studied engineering to learn that I hated it. I ended up switching into the humanities. Once there, I began to apply a combination of statistics and computer science to address very real problems (crime, vacancy, civic participation, neighborhood economics etc.)

We don’t actually live in a world governed only by the hard sciences. There are people here too, and I’d argue that understanding people is just as difficult as understanding the laws of physics.

Some of the biggest challenges in society today are not questions of hard science, but rather about people and groups and institutions. I think our current situation exemplifies this.
BuzzFeed as it appears on Facebook feeds is much different from BuzzFeed News, which has done some admirable reporting.
In what way? Buzzfeed news has done some great journalism, and have been Pulitzer finalists several times over the past few years.
I think its a typo in footer, 'GIve it a try,', 'I' in give is capital.
I’ve always done:

> Mod+| for vertical split

> Mod+- for horizontal split

I’ve been using it like that for years, but haven’t seen it in too many places like that. It just feels super logical since the symbols look like the split!
Most authors don't see a dime though!
An informative article! And this is the key issue: "One needs to gradually and continually increase the amount of caffeine consumed in order to experience the stimulant effect.".
No, the original argument was that DirectX, or any other proprietary API from Apple, Nintendo and Sony, don't need the extension jungle of Vulkan and OpenGL, the former with almost weekly updates.

Which than feds into learning the APIs and not having to deal with multiple execution paths.

In DirectX there is only one way of doing RayTracing, in the Khronos APIs, well it depends. Same applies to lots of other features.
Reading padding bytes is UB, so the compiler could choose to optimize that memset call so that the padding bytes aren't touched.
More Descent, Less Gradient
I see this claim a lot whenever people criticize Buzzfeed's news division. That department is still being fed by the cash their clickbait empire brings in. Furthermore, the number of quality articles Buzzfeed puts out is honestly quite slim compared to more established new companies. One decent article here and there doesn't salvage their reputation.

Everyone familiar with Buzzfeed has a clear mental image when that name is mentioned, and "quality journalism" or even "journalism" aren't the first things that come to mind.
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My main annoyance with Tailscale is the reliance on Google. I need to refresh my memory, but I think this makes a VLAN shared with other people impossible.

This is why I'm still using https://zerotier.com -- also no affiliation.
Sure it was bots or just people signing up with throwaway accounts to get something for free? When I don't trust a page but have to provide details I always use fake data, doesn't mean a bot has filled it out.
This is very cool. Pardon my ignorance about this, my bio education is limited. If I understand it correctly, would it be possible to purposely infect willing volunteers in order to find a potentially attenuated strain for a vaccine?
The improvement of hashmap applies only to high collision nodes that also implement comparable. It's a very special case. java.util.TreeMap has always been a red/black one.

On a flip note: HashMap in Java is sort of jack of trades, it's node based which means it has poor memory/caching characteristics - around 36bytes per standard node (compared to ~10 for array backed one) - and Nodes+array tend to be top3 objects in heap dumps. The iteration is sort of 'random' (unlikely LinkedHashMap) which has been a source of lots of issues not manifesting during testing. However, it doesn't degrade in virtually any use case. Normally, I don't use it - either a custom one (CompactHashMap), LinkedHashMap (being the go to hashtable), or ConcurrentHahshMap.
Sure, if the shop is too cramped, don't open. Stick in some proviso in the order that nonessential businesses can only have 1 employee for every x square feet.
You don't need a politicized liberal arts department to teach engineers to write.

We would be just as well served if we went back to learning classics, for example. I was disappointed to go through college having touched nothing older than Shakespeare officially.

But I got plenty of feminist and minority-focused literature that was irrelevant to my particular (non-white) echnicity. Why should these modern authors take such a heavy precedence? Isn't it hubris to presume that your ideas are superior simply because they are new? Students are a captive audience when the entire institution is leaning in the same direction.
> if your feeder organisation for hiring at the FT is Buzzfeed

Everyone starts their career somewhere. Don't hate. I thought we believed in meritocracies, and people proving themselves with their work rather than their pedigree.
Not quietly. By mid-day people were buying up all the Pepcid AC they could find.

https://www.businessinsider.com/heartburn-medicine-pepcid-sh...
> Javascript code doesn't just stop executing for no reason,

I would say it stops unless there is something keeping it running.

Think about your single-page-web-app. When you click on some widget on it a click-handler triggers and executes that code. But then it stops. When the user doesn't interact with your web-app no JavaScript is typically executing, unless you have set up a repeating polling loop with setInterval().
> even (or especially?) most C++

C++ hits the particularly nasty sweet spot of hiding boilerplate just enough that you have no idea what you're actually calling while also not having a sophisticated JIT that can do escape analysis and other tricks to optimize that kind of code.

It doesn't help that, often, the default response to not having a clear understanding of resource ownership in a code-base is to make a copy.

I also find that people struggle to internalize the costs of memory allocation. These days, the default allocators on modern systems are fairly well tuned for crap code, and the cost of any one particular allocation is a complicated function of all the allocations that came before it. They're different orders of magnitude in the badness scale, but any one allocation never looks so bad, just like any one memory load/store never looks so bad.
If you find a safe enough strain, it might as well be a vaccine.
Maybe people don't know how to open it? Some websites exactly show users where to find the download afterwards. With Firefox, downloads pretty much disappear. In Chrome they're a bit more visible but easy to overlook. You could also trigger false positives with antivirus software preventing users to open it. There are a lot of reasons why users might click download but don't install or run the software in the end.
And the (UK) Times/Sunday Times are propped up by the cash the Sun brings in. That doesn’t mean that Times journalism should be seen as an extension of the Sun.
>you can only do so much with Java being a reference heavy language.

This is definitely not true, implementing array based hashtable is trivial and outperforms in most cases java.utl.HashMap. It's just the decision to have LinkedHashMap (in java 1.2) extending HashMap crippled the latter. The issue has been discussed quite a few times in java core mailing list.
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HSE not to be confused with HSE: https://www.hse.gov.uk/
Android phone GPUs only do Renderscript, OpenCL is not officially supported on Android.
Yes. I appreciate you asking.

Today's gentrification is caused by wealthier people moving into neighborhoods, and making them less affordable. BUT this affordability reduction is relative to the price we were at before.

The price we were at before is already extremely unaffordable due to insane building restrictions and a NIMBY attitude baked into regulation.

If the city allowed the building of high-rises everywhere, would gentrification stop? No. Certain neighborhoods would get gentrified, and become relatively higher priced. Overall, however, city affordability would skyrocket.
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I know you prefaced your ignorant question with "Ignorant question:", and I don't think it's wrong to ask questions of experts on HN. (That's one of the best things about this site!) However, I'm downvoting you anyway because, despite that preface, you seem to be falling into the trap of a smart geek in one field vastly (vastly!) oversimplifying the complexities of another field, and acting as if all we needed to solve this problem was for someone like yourself to come up with this fantastic idea.

No, you can't approximate a human immune system with red and white blood cells in a container of liquid. No, adding some other cells in there won't help. If that were effective, we'd be doing it already. You are either overestimating your own ingenuity or underestimating the ingenuity of tens of thousands of scientists, doctors, and engineers.
Your comment is wrong and historically anachronistic in a number a ways. I don’t really have the patience to go through it point by point, but I’ll say this:

The idea that cafes were locked off to certain people because of lack of wealth or not being the proper social class is demonstrably false. Plenty of places catered specifically for avant-garde artists, obscure literary movements, and other things not deemed proper by the upper classes. Plenty of other cafes were focused more on workers, especially in somewhere like Paris. It was a part of everyday life.

> ...they also used the cafe’s writing paper, but apparently many of them did not bother to order anything.

> Between the two world wars, in 1925, there were over 1,250 coffee-houses in Vienna...There were special coffee-houses for pianists and others for string-players, for operetta composers and for serious composers, for stamp collectors and court councilors, for radicals and conservatives. Almost each self-respecting soccer club had its coffee-house, and almost each unrespected ministry.

> And there was a generous assortment of ‘Viennese Schopenhauer’s’, such as the Hungerkünstler (Hunger Artist) Ottfried Krzyzanowsky who could go without solid food for days, and was nourished by the stale coffee-house air. He became a local legend but never wrote a line.

This hunger artist later died of starvation. Many cafes were filled with poor artists. If you read Hemingway, you quickly learn that he was quite poor while living in Paris and had to strategically plan his meals.

I recommend the anthology book On Bohemia by Graña, specifically the essay The Viennese Kaffeehaus by Joseph Wechsberg. (Quotes are from the latter.)
Digital integrity of the human person, proposal for a new fundamental right
Britain breaks record for coal-free power generation
Where I've found that TypeScript is a hindrance is where I want to code fast/lazily.

E.g. if I need to add a Bar property to a Foo object, in plain JS you just do it as and when you need to without any extra hassle. This makes hacking something together really fast and low-friction which is nice.

Typescript wont let you do that though - you need to go off and define the Bar property on Foo which you might argue slows you down, or seems inappropriate if you only need Bar in certain circumstances and not every time or whatever.

Personally I find that the extra rigor that Typescript forces is way worth the extra hassle - it prevents so many subtle bugs, makes refactoring a lot easier, helps multiple people work together on the same code in a sensible way, and IDEs work so much better (in my experience at least).

Most popular libraries by the way all have the types defined already - check out https://definitelytyped.org/
This is a low quality comment. Can you please explain the comparison to Novell further?
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Ah, don't get me started on Stoicism. It changed my life. Helped me "self-cure" a long nasty trend of seasonal depressions. It's nothing short of a superpower to me, a magical skill. I never even dreamed of having such control over myself. And yet, happiness, here we are.

I tend to spend more time than usual thinking about current events, obviously, but mostly to anticipate, prepare myself, navigate the chaos (should I say 'thrive' even? Yes, I should, and I do).

But indeed, with a cold stare.

Plans are useless, but planning...
Obviously not—it’s not the amount of work done, but the value which the work provides.

Landlords contribute a small amount of value relative to how much they are paid, compared to other businesses. Most of the value is provided by the land itself, and the landlords merely have a monopoly on it. So I am less inclined to be sympathetic to PMCs which are suddenly being paid less, since they are generally overpaid.

We have to be careful to distinguish rent from actual productive economic activity, because rent provides no value and requires no work. Speaking here of “rent” in the Adam Smith sense of the word.
Totally agree with t0mmel here. You're trying to build a team, in task as well as in spirit. You can't do that with one of the team members running around un-building the team.
No: If (typeof x === 'string') {}

I personally love TypeScript, but I do have one big hang up. Janky builds in testing. Can't explain it, but sometimes the guarantees TS is supposed to provide don't compile over. Mainly while using nodemon or another auto compile. Have only ran into it a couple times, but it mainly crops up during module linking.

Also keep in mind you can use as modules via require('') and skip adding types to a js lib. Be sure to add --module commonjs or the equivalent in config.

Why I like TypeScript for myself is writing modules and api's. Mainly: inline documentation. And the pursuit of more of a deterministic
outcome in your programs. Still the linking issue bothers me.
Building a WireGuard jail with FreeBSD's standard tools
Spent too much time wonking a tmux config only realizing it was never going to work how I liked. You can't have it all with the mouse no matter your settings, there will always be a compromise. It also doesn't help that no one cites the version of tmux they wrote their configs for, nor that the configs are not backwards compatible with all versions of tmux for all settings.

It's really clunky, but I went from tmux to just opening new shell windows as needed. I need to be able to resize and scroll, selecting text and copy behavior should be exactly like mac os. Even used a tiling window manager with it for a bit, but it felt pretty restrictive so I went back to just using the cursor to move things around.
this is sort of how HIV production works in the lab, as it was explained to me. CD8+ cells (iirc) in solution with some other cell types/buffer medium are infected with some population of HIV particles, and the infection spreads to the other cells. this helps researchers see whether certain strains are replication-competent etc. you don't really need the red blood cells or oxygenation machine.

there's other approaches to make "organs on a chip" for drug trial screening, since lab models with only one type of cells don't capture the effects of other types, but it's really not fully baked yet.
A lot of people at age 22 live with their parents and play video games or do whatever.
Note your comment about how unimpressed you are is 214 bytes longer than the demo.
Thanks, sounds like sorting is an implementation detail, and not the main benefit in itself.
'Photoshopped badly by Google'
You can pick up most of the soft skills you learn in humanities by doing things like reading and practicing writing. The minimum functional skill level is low enough for a majority of people to achieve through practice with minimal guidance.

People don't have to spend thousands of dollars and four years of their life to paint or sculpt or whatever - it may not be proficient and lifelike but it'll still be art.

Your world wouldn't be all that much more drab if we stopped forcing engineers to learn "culture".
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Ah interesting to know it's not only JavaScript.

But I assume in a thread-based language like Java all asynchronicity happens due to threads. Then from the programmers' point of view method-calls always either return a result or throw an error. They don't just silently stop executing
They can track you right from your OS
The confusion of wealth and income is big with this one. All of the comparisons, unfortunately, don't make any sense.
Something cool to try is to blend your tmux bindings with your vim bindings:
https://gist.github.com/mislav/5189704

Mislav Marohnić has a super nice method of moving between tmux splits and vim splits the same way so you don’t really get stuck thinking one split is actually the other.

This would drive me crazy, but after a little hacking, my tmux/vim combo feels so nice and snappy.
That's what caused say, the rookery at st. giles in the 1850s? fascinating ... please go on...
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Portability and accessibility do work in tmux's favour which a tiling window manager (I was on ion3 for ages) cant emulate. I probably have a weird development style but with tmux/ssh and the same session I can..

* Work from my desktop

* move to my laptop on the couch

* nick off to a cafe (well perhaps not atm) on an ipad.

* keep tabs on long running processes on my phone and termux.

all with a consistent interface. I think it's worth getting a working knowledge up.
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