skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Covid-19: Multicenter prospective study of safety and efficacy of chloroquine
Thanks very much! I've made a few small static sites this way, and it's worked really well. However, it is missing several features that you need for larger (or more frequently changing) sites: asset minification, markdown compilation, etc.. Once these things become a pain, I'd either bring in a library like Misaki or Stasis (although I haven't actually tried either of these myself), or move to Hugo/Gatsby.
It's the revenge of 1950's pop sci fi; gleaming (stainless steel), tail landing rockets thundering around the solar system. A fully fueled Starship can get anywhere in the solar system fast. Refueling in orbit is the key.
I use Karabiner Elements to map space+1 through space+0 to F1 through F10.
I'm not sure I understand what you are getting at here.

Studies with lab rats have control groups, placebo groups, populations, etc. We don't give all the rats in the world some drug we have a hunch about.
The USN has been watching too much Macross in their free time. And couple this with fuzzy deep fake videos, media complicity, and high-ranking "reliable authorities" behaving as actors must be getting a good kick out of trolling the public for "natsec" "reasons." Without independently-verifiable evidence, big claims are most likely big yarns.
> Obviously there are many practical issues with this, namely that it would require way more and detailed data on purchases than anyone has and would be completely politically infeasible.

And the fact that a lot of people don't have any money right now, and haven't made money since March, and don't know when they will be able to make money again.
I've known of DBAs who had drug-testing.
forbearance and tax relief will do wonders for those who own properties however this does nothing for renters or cover the other considerations, food and utilities.

the only solution is to replace lost income with a maximum cap of how much is restored. As in, take the reported income filings or individuals across a set period prior to the nationwide lockdown and use that to determine aid to go to those people. No wholesale just because you are breathing you get money. No bonus on top of it for children. Hence the number will likely need to be larger than $1200 for one month and taxes at all levels need to be forgiven for the air. I am betting on nearly $2000 per income earner up to their income or that cap.

however you will have to accept you will have people who will waste this money as well, you can easily find numerous cases where people treated the last stimulus as a bonus
Agreed! The only problem is that once you're used to hiccup, writing HTML becomes a chore!
> Oracle DB also has been the leader performance wise for complex queries and large datasets

SQL server has a column store type of storage, and major innovations like 'froid'. Oracle is not such a strong leader there.
Also, on a whole lot of workloads clickhouse is much superior.
Wasn't there a startup on hn some weeks ago that used a crypto mining approach to server management that was much cheaper?
Common Misconceptions Concerning Heuristic Search
> IME this is a great interview question to ask potential employers.

That also sounds like an easy way to immediately exclude yourself and cut the interview short. It's sort of like interviewing someone for a security position, and them asking "by the way, what brand of locks and safes do you use, and what's your alarm company and specs?" It's not hard to see how it could be taken the wrong way, and giving information about internal security procedures (even generalities) to someone not contractually obligated to the company in some way doesn't seem a good idea to me.
This is so true. I've been in plenty of small business that are trying to do the best and their constraints are usually based on the ability of early hires.

Big companies have inertia to deal with for every change and once you get burned by something trivial that gets blamed for problems, you get very shy about improvements.

I'm in the process of building a system that had to make alot of compromises based on existing expectations. It's probably a year away from being where I want it to be because every change is so slow...

It's frustrating to defend these decisions every time someone comes along and notices how hard it is to use the system. I have to explain that every part of the system is broken out currently to find issues and fix them, the end goal is to stack everything together, but right now all the sausage making is on display and frankly it's appalling...

(edited for readability)
end goal is turning a push button system that had to be carefully monitored for breakage (while it was running after hours) into a staged system that gets checked and verified during business hours, but still fires off after hours.
Bypassing memory safety mechanisms through speculative control flow hijacks
For managing files, the commandline is strictly more efficient than GUI if you ask me.

For navigating: try ranger.

https://github.com/ranger/ranger
Some of us just have big hands. :3
PC-Sherlock – A Game of Logic and Deduction
Here's a news report about it: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52506114
Thanks very much! Best of luck with your Clojure journey
You said:

> Employees at this level are astoundingly uninterested in performing well, or, in other words, there is a reason they are working entry-level positions. This makes management yet more difficult because managers may have to become near micro-managers of cat herds trying to get the company to produce whatever it is supposed to produce.

which very much sounds like an indictment of all low skill workers. If you didn't mean that, perhaps you could reword that paragraph.

I haven't managed a business employing low-skilled workers because--and the reason that I grew up on food stamps--my father owned his own small business employing two to three such workers digging ditches or running electrical and construction type work. And the margins were incredibly thin and he paid them almost nothing and we still didn't have enough to eat. At various times throughout my childhood, those workers would inevitably have a heated argument with my father or otherwise steal from or slight him in some way. I think about that time a lot. Part of the reason that I think he continually failed as a manager/owner was that he had worked for medium sized companies when he was younger and went about replicating their management style in his own business. I often wonder if he would have done better if he made and treated these employees more as co-founders in a venture and allowed them have a sense of ownership and self-direction. I'll never know.
This may be a killer app for capability (security) model' approach. The "bored admin" of another comment in this thread has a 'superuser' ACL grant, and would leave auditable traces [if using] a provisionally granted security capability.
> 1) What do you do about bonds? A very large proportion of all debt is packaged into bonds, and reducing their yield will have a substantial effect on many pensions

US Treasury pays bondholders some, but not all, of the interest income due. Shared haircut between bondholders and the taxpayers. This is a catastrophic loss with a nation state providing what amounts to insurance, and incredibly cheaper not only economically, but from the struggle and hardship many would face from foreclosure and relocation.

> 2) Who is going to pay the wages of the people paid to administer these loans? Are they going to accept a deferral of their wages?

PPP loans (forgiven when used for payroll) for mortgage servicers. Those folks are still going to be needed to account for bondholder payments, with the Treasury picking up the tab instead of homeowners.
Does it compile to WASM so you can have the same code on client and server?
No, this has nothing to do with net neutrality. Your ISP isn't discriminating what data you consume, whether it's from cloudflare or another CDN.

This is about the fact that bandwidth is usually bought by capacity between networks rather than usage and they're passing those savings on to you instead of charging expensive per-GB costs like the major clouds.
I don't know what things are like in the RPM world, but for Debian each new PostgreSQL version is packaged at apt.postgresql.org as soon as it's released, by the same people, and to the same high standard, as the packages that go in the stable release.

(Also, since Postgresql 10 they changed the numbering scheme so that the major version changes for each 'breaking' release.)
I'm at Stanford, and at least within the CS department, the online classes are nothing like you describe. Some professors are using video recordings from previous quarters, while in many other cases, it _is_ some off-the-cuff Zoom meeting. As a lecturer, it's been difficult to transition.

I have my doubts that students will be back in the fall. The contagiousness of this virus is not going away, and students (particularly undergraduates, almost all of which live in dorms at Stanford) are far too densely connected for social distancing to be effective.
No DNS for your website
I struggle with similar questions. Probably we'll never know.

As of your first point, there may be another natural virus, as of yet unidentified, possibly carried by a different species, that brought the disease to Wuhan. From the virologist chatter I hear, the genetic difference between RaTG13 is too large to have RaTG13 a recent direct precursor of SARS-CoV-2, either through genetic manipulation, or via culturing.

Alternatively, everything that came out of China since Jan 2020 is pure BS. As of yet, there is no independent verification of the origin of RaTG13, which conveniently was found 'lying around in a freezer' in Jan 2020, stored there all the way back in 2013. Nor there is independent verification of the genomic sequences of all the other viruses that are 'lying around in a freezer'. Nor are the Chinese authorities very open to international collaboration on this matter.

The sharp politicization of this issue is worrisome in itself.
Several ways, none of which are any good for a lot of software.

You can sell free software, but it is very much the exception rather than the rule, and it is pretty disingenuous of those who promote it to keep making this claim.
How do you know you're not repeating a talking point from the 1800s? Taking history from one source is drawing a line through one point.
Superheavy is the easier project. Elon Musk is focusing on the hardest problem first.
Awesome effort.
Petition: Open-Source the UK Covid-19 Contact Tracing App
The story I've heard is that Columbus botched unit conversion, in that he translated degrees to miles using a formula that recorded Arabic miles and assumed it used Roman miles instead (neither of which is particularly close to the statute mile used in the US today).
True, but alone I can't make a difference. We must unite, in the workplace and as consumers. That's why it's as important to be vocal about it and convince other people to stop ordering from Amazon.
Yeah that would be curious to investigate for sure!

I can only speak to my own experiences, but while I have observed the phenomenon you describe in preparation for travel/while travelling, Chloroquine dreams were waaaaay more dramatic than anything I've experienced with other travel. I forget what the exact timeline was, but I think I started taking them about a month before departing, and the dreams started about two weeks before departing, and stayed pretty much constant until a few weeks after I'd been home and stopped taking the pills.
You're handwaving a lot of serious effects of a powerful solar storm. The biggest issue by far is the power grid and depending on severity it can go from "we had a small spike that was easily absorbed by the network" to "the cables melted and set fire to everything around them".

The worst case scenario might be that your power grid is down and nobody can intervene because every intervention site is on fire. Big cities would be particularly affected since they don't do well for long without power.
Excellent ! Really love the traceback coloration, would love to have that enabled by default, should probably check pythonrc if it can hook that up. Also, RST support would be nice to render docstrings. Also, nice sphinx docs dir, perhaps enable rtfd.io or something that will publish them somewhere as HTML ?
CMD+. does the same as escape in most situations. Works on MacOS and iOS.
> You can program your touchbar with something like BetterTouchTool.

I just have no use for a touchbar. After all, I have a screen! I never look at my keyboard.... it’s all about tactile feedback, which the touchbar notoriously lacks.
To be fair, almost every single major retail establishment has this same policy. Many of which have also been fined. This is no where near unique to Amazon.
Even though I had plenty of experience in leadership roles, I preferred to join startups as a senior dev. Later, after I understood the lay of the land, I would move into leadership roles as needed.

This helped me develop relationships with other devs, QA, ops, etc. Also, I could learn or discover the reasoning behind trade offs and compromises that were made before I proposed changes.

One time I went direct into a director/manager lead role. It was a nightmare, some on the team thought I didn't know what I was talking about -- even though they were not using source control until I brought it up during my interview. They had not been exposed to professional software development before my arrival and took little stock in my advice/leadership.
You speak as if you're hunting for an option where nothing bad happens to anyone?

The bonds are going to fail somehow; the question is in the allocation of that failure, not whether they fail. (Partial failure, not total failure.)
To be clear, it is not unconstitutional for the federal government to do so. The contract clause only restrains the states.
Is there a reputable non-profit I can donate to that provides this treatment? The idea that $3 is unaffordable for so many is so sad. I would gladly provide for a number of people to be treated if I could trust the money goes to them.
I think the difference is that, while before personal health was only on the line on an individual basis, now it's on the line on a collective basis and AMZ apparently seems to not care for human life in general...
There is the reality that ~ 10% of the population has an IQ so low, US army cannot recruit them by law. 10% is a lot of people, a few tens of millions in US. I have someone in the family that has the mind of a children of 8-10 years old, for that person a "low skilled" job in an Amazon warehouse would be excellent; the alternative is zero income.
This is really a side-note. I think Caddy is great.

> Still the only web server to use TLS automatically and by default.

This sounds great at first. It also makes it too easy to hit the Let's encrypt rate-limit by mistake and get stuck for a week. I really think that the default should be to use the staging environment certs[1] instead and have the user actively decide when they are ready to go live.

[1]: https://letsencrypt.org/docs/staging-environment/
> or a realtor or a welder

Both of those do require certifications (at least for some types of welding) and for good reasons tied to legal requirements and safety.
Here are a few examples of "sweatshop" conditions in the Amazon factory from the article:

- No chairs for a 12-hour shift

- Time spent going to the bathroom gets removed from your break time

- 30-minute lunch includes a 30-minute round trip to get to the lunch room
I genuinely don't understand. Proxy cache web server sends static html from ssd/RAM. Static site framework web server sends html from ssd/RAM. How is that different?
SAY NO MORE

you do have feedback with the touchbar! As I recently learned, the trackpad click isn't really a click. It can be triggered by software! And bettertouchtool has a specific action for "touchpad haptic feedback". That means you can trigger a touchpad click when you tap a touchbar button, and it perfectly fine as feedback.

Yes you do have to look. I'm not recommending touchbar actions for things that you do so often that it's a problem (though I have a big button to switch between firefox and vscode, big enough that I don't have to look). But it's not like I was using fn keys without looking either
Correct, but note that they don't really support the idea that the virus was accidentally released from the lab either.

> A large amount of the initial cases had no connection to the Wuhan seafood market. Factual.

But misleading. The article you cite notes the much likelier cause: the long incubation period means that those who did come into contact with the market infected others.

> The CCP has ordered the destruction of evidence at those places and imposed gag orders on the scientists involved.

Correct, but the Wuhan CDC is also where most of the early analysis of covid was being done after it was discovered. The CCP also silenced doctors in hospitals, they generally tried to cover up covid in general. Keeping the scientists working on it silenced isn't any different than how they treated hospital workers.
> How did people program working solutions before instant online answers

Slowly
I'm referring to Cloudflare as the network provider. It seems not-net-neutral to be charged different amounts depending on the relationship between the storage provider and the network provider.

If the argument is a semantic one, that net neutrality is so narrowly defined that it doesn't apply to them as a CDN rather than a conventional ISP, it still stands that the situation is not-net-neutral if we generalize that to include CDNs, which it ought to, since that's what the N stands for.
In addition to the other replies to this comment, I'd add that the value of endowments has shrunk significantly due to collapses in economic markets.
30 millions jobs lost and counting.
70,000 deaths in the US alone.
No international cooperation.
No organized plan to contain the pandemic, or even demonstrate confidence. to the markets.
The endless stream of scandals before that can only be dismissed if you buy into the endless propaganda machine.

The world is not better by any measure.
I have the same laptop. It was the first Retina model Apple released in 2012 and it held up great for a long time. Last year, it started to have random kernel panics. Seems that was a factory defect and Apple used to fix it for free, but now it's "vintage" so they won't do it anymore. I can't believe it has a HDMI port and a SD card slot. Don't think those are ever coming back to Macbooks.
Why would you use Esc that puts your fingers away from your home position?

Use CTRL-C or map something like "jj".
Many workers experience monopsony for their labor for reasons that might not make sense to you (switching costs, rational risk aversion, fallible human psychology). A union on their side just levels the playing field. Empirically, societies that support monopoly bargaining by unions (and structurally encourage creative thinking and incentive alignment between unions and employers) have become much better places for their worst-off cohorts. Possibly not better if you're a smart and talented entrepreneur or highly skilled technologist; parts of the US are clearly great for that. But you may have to step over homeless people to get to work.
You can write a script for that, something like `xdg-open $1 & disown` will cut it already. However managing the default applications on Linux is a ridiculous pain in the ass.
Is there a quickstart that just goes: do this to make a reverse proxy? i.e. you have a great manual, but I'm looking for a tutorial.
If Chicken Is No Longer Pink, That Doesn’t Mean It’s Safe to Eat
The fact that he changed that without taking into account any of the other flaws in his work suggests that he is not, actually, open to criticism of his work.

Here are some examples. He shows charts estimating per age range fatality rates and leaves out the most vulnerable group. He estimates an IFR and thinks that is comparable with a CFR. (They are not.) He is apparently unaware of the fact that IFRs have long been thought to be a bit under 1%. (For example https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s... in mid-March was the paper that convinced the UK to do a lockdown - it used an estimated IFR of 0.9%.) He does his own IFR calculation for the least vulnerable groups without looking at research showing the full IFR. He complains about hospitals being underloaded while refusing to acknowledge that hospitals would be overloaded without lockdowns. He fails to admit that it is extremely hard to limit transmissions within managed care facilities, and in an environment with lots of COVID-19 around you, personal distancing measures provide very little protection. (In other words we cannot simply "isolate the old people" and expect it to work.)

In other words he is ignoring every widely known fact that undermines his position. Which not coincidentally are the facts that lead everyone else to the opposite conclusion from his.

Given that he can't fail to have seen many points like these, his leaving them out of his analysis shows dishonesty on his part. And no, he is not attempting to correct this fault.
As I read it, the point is not to authenticate individuals but rather to use the relative scarcity of passports as the bounding factor for executing a sybil attack.
Love this! I'm really REALLY interested in this post because I'm facing the same issue and TBH I'm not that great with servers myself.
Well, and a few shell scripts that do the glue between docker-compose and an output that BTT can easily understand. You can write shell/applescript with BTT, but it's not really a good experience
Use a thermometer. Not that hard.
So is torturing a password out of someone hacking? I suppose if the torture method involves a hacksaw.
Thanks for this article, dolftax! I followed all the examples on my machine with no problem, and I learned some new stuff.

I have a question: how difficult is it to implement the ast? It seems like that the bulk of the work for this static code analysis.
This is why I don't expect a "V" shaped recovery. Consumer spending will be down because a lot of people will be spending their income on paying their past-due bills.

Credit reporting is going to hurt a lot of people too, and that will also decrease consumer spending because people will have less access to credit.
I posted the same content 5 days ago here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23021574

No reaction at all. I am really curios to understand what I did wrong at the time.
This is an excellent demonstration of one of the reasons the politics of economic policy is so difficult: so many people think that financial crises are caused and averted by magic, and "math" is simply some detached-from-reality thought exercise. It's the modern version of an ancient villager sacrificing goats to ensure a good harvest and sneering at good irrigation practices or crop rotation.

Paying attention to the economic effects of a policy as it ripples through the financial system isn't taking a position on who should be protected or prioritized between (eg) capital and labor. Economic outcomes for labor are downstream of the financial system too, which is why the effects of the 2008 GFC didn't play out as simply "the richest people get slightly poorer". Someone 100% interested in outcomes for the poor and middle-class (employment, income, etc) still needs to understand the "math" of how proposed policy will play out in the real world.

You may think you're on the side of the rights of labor/the masses against the rich, but you're actually just standing up for ignorance and blind superstition over reality, an approach which hurts rich and poor alike. (Unless, of course, your only goal is to get high on your own misinformed outrage, in which case, congrats)