skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool animation, but how reliable are the numbers?

There are no reliable tests, governments are not doing a lot of testing, most cases are asymptomatic.

How do you even know the death rate, and how many people need ICU? The animation says 1-20, seems crazy.
any relation to Cat [1]?

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20150205081218/http://cat-langua...
Actually, some of the best food I've had has been frozen but cooked correctly, ie. using convection. For example, Healthy Choice used to have a Marsala Pasta steamer in a balsamic wine reduction. If microwaved properly it was tastier than 90% of the expensive pasta meals I've had at 4 and 5 star Italian restaurants. And I live in NYC so I know good food.

That said, it's very possible healthy choice employs very skilled chefs to either do small batch production or has figured out a way to do large batches without sacrificing quality.

Their microwave steamer container technology also factors in, since most microwave meals taste bad due to excess moisture.

I don't think automation and quality have to be mutually exclusive. The same goes for spirits. Some small batch Icelandic vodka I had was absolutely horrible compared to the mass produced Grey Goose, despite costing more.

I see the benefits of covid. Culling the inefficiencies in our markets. Shale fracking, unnecessary luxury services like mid-tier restaurants, etc..
> what is a VC backed meal kit company

How about a meal kit company?

Words mean what people who use them intend them to mean, so we end up with things like this:

noun

a new business venture, or a new commercial or industrial project.

adjective

of or relating to the beginning of such a venture or project, especially to an investment made to initiate it

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/startup

NB: dictionaries are not authoritative sources for living languages, rather they can only be historical records. Thus, words mean what people who use them intend them to mean.
It was previously (before that it was Navteq, Nokia bought it in 2007 and made it Here).

A consortium of german automakers bought it a few years ago.
I highly recommend reading about the business model canvas (definitely get this book [1]) and the "double diamond" framework [2] in design thinking. I'd also recommending reading some Steve Blank [3] for the "mainstream" understanding of "startup business".

The Lean Startup [4] is often recommended, but I've been told it's extremely beginner-level (though I haven't read it, so my analysis might be unfair)

If you want to get really in-depth, there's a lot of really great interplay between the design discipline and entrepreneurship that is often overlooked. "Design Thinking" is much more than a buzzword, check it out.

[1] https://www.amazon.com.au/Business-Model-Generation-Visionar...

[2] https://www.designcouncil.org.uk/news-opinion/what-framework...

[3] https://www.amazon.com/Startup-Owners-Manual-Step-Step/dp/09...

[4] https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Startup-Entrepreneurs-Continuous...
For whatever reason, whenever the Indian government does dystopian or downright anti-human shit, a whole bunch of apologists descend on threads to support the government. Does India have have a "50 cent party" like the Chinese do? Or is it a lack of civic/rights education in technical colleges in India? Ive noticed this even among Indian/Chinese expats that go complete nuts defending whoever they have in power back home.
It's a direct inspiration - hence the name ;)
I also think a more important qualifier is the primary focus being development of a proprietary product or service, as opposed to e.g. consulting or providing infrastructure. (Not sure exactly how to word it properly to make the distinction clear, but I think you get the gist)

In my book, a VC money is not a prerequisite for being a startup (although that tends to be how things go these days)
ALA converts to EPA and DHA to some extent.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9637947
I do think it will have long-lasting effects. In Columbus, Nationwide Insurance announced they are keeping 4,000 employees as work-from-home. These were mostly employees at satellite offices, but either way I think it’s a sign. From my own experience a lot of large corporate jobs in finance, insurance, and government really don’t need an office for most employees. They’re going to look at the costs of having a physical footprint and I think that’ll override fears of people doing nothing at home.

One thing that worries me about this movement is how intrusive corporations will be about spyware, webcams, etc to “make sure you’re working”. I can envision daily reports of mouse movement and eyeball tracking, or other extremely intrusive and draconian measures. I’d rather corporations just focus on work output, but that will also necessitate a more lean and skilled workforce.
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Can you share the format of the log book? Interested in doing that for my career. Having a documentation of problems I faced, even not in detail, would help a lot in the coming years I think.
Agree, but I bet LSA is still a good baseline due to it's simplicity.
Curios how the benchmark compares when adding SSD on RPI 4? https://jamesachambers.com/raspberry-pi-4-usb-boot-config-gu...

I don't think it beats anything, but I am sure IO improves fairly significantly.

One of the things I found to be a problem is that most container images found on different registries are built for x86_64. You would need to rebuild those containers yourself on the RPI.
How is "local monopoly in a town" substantively different than "oligopoly in an area"?

It's not really super convenient to get service 60 miles away.
> You know that the app can be removed at any instant, once the lockdown is over?

Not according to this article : https://www.news18.com/news/tech/aarogya-setu-registration-w...

> According to officials with knowledge of the matter, the government of India is making it mandatory for all new smartphones to be sold in India post lifting of the lockdown to not just have the app as a pre-installed service, but also ensure that individuals register on it and set it up, before beginning to use their new smartphones. [...] This will make the Aarogya Setu app an inbuilt feature on all new smartphones, that will be sold in India going forward.
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China and Asia can take leadership for sure, but it doesn’t mean that the US / the west shouldn’t.

Viruses do not care about passports as long as the world is connected it’s everyone’s problem.

The US and the west had good candidates for SARS and MERS vaccines overall only a single team continued to work on them the Oxford one and that’s mostly because Saudi Arabia was still interested in funding it.

SARS should’ve been a wake up call and if it wasn’t enough then MERS less then a decade later should’ve been an indication that SARS wasn’t a black swan event.

We had two examples within an extremely short time frame of how coronaviruses can mutate to become as deadly or even more deadly than pandemic causing influenza strains and for the most part the western world decided it’s not a priority.
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Conflating tobacco induced deaths with covid19 deaths is, for one, a giant big mental shortcut. Then throwing lockdowns in it. And finally ending of a 'mother nature is wounded' note. This is not Reddit guys.
I believe it would since cannabis also has sticky trichromes on its bud and surrounding leaves.
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I am sure an app developed in 2 weeks will be very secure. Incidentally, I've worked with a bunch of ex-MMT developers for quite sometime, I wouldn't consider most of them very competent.
It probably isn't still a thing in the UK, because we now have things like national minimum wage and stronger protections against child labour.
>In C you cannot encode a Turing machine that is executed by the compiler at compile time.

But you can get quite close with macros
Yes. It is not based on any existing tool(except Django) and I didn't hire anyone(yet?)
Building a patient monitoring system with Go and Vue in 3 days
Faster, yes. Still lots to do.
I could, but with the same effort to set that up, I could have a full k8s setup...it doesn't actually save me any time to do it the "simple" way.
Hi, this is Zo (co-founder).

"Nearly one in two Americans has a family member who is either currently or formerly incarcerated."

Source: Cornell University & Fwd.us study

https://www.fwd.us/news/groundbreaking-report-half-of-all-u-...

"34% of families with a loved one in prison are sent into debt by the cost of maintaining contact."

Sources: https://nyti.ms/35qNlNZ; http://whopaysreport.org/executive-summary/

Here are some additional sources on the exorbitant costs loved ones of the incarcerated face:

NYTimes: https://nyti.ms/3aVrqzD
Marshall Project: https://bit.ly/2y95Avf
Wired: https://bit.ly/2xsGRBJ
Prison Policy Initiative: https://bit.ly/3d3DtMw
I think, what is discribed in that comment, is essentially what free speech is all about: a spark for a broader discussion. It also is what the Springtime Revolutions of 1848 were all about: free communications and free assembly to facilitate a discussion, which may lead to a (democratic) formation of will. Inhibiting such a discussion by any means of authority (and an appeal to common good as perceived by that authority) is much like what had been before this and what that revolution was an answer to. In a sense, we're on the best way of backtracking to before 1848. Is this really the answer?

As to the discussion here, mind that it is not the discussion that was and may have been there, but a meta discussion on this discussion. The particular discussion is gone, with no traces left.

Regarding bipartisan divides, mind that I am located rather far away from the US (as may be guessed from the previous context, in Europe). However, the big platforms, which have established some kind of oligopoly for virtual assembly, while mostly located in the US, are of global concern and shaping discussions and chances for them happening at all in a global manner. Politics are derailing all over the world, with regard to a second half of the 20th century context, and there's no obvious answer in place. However, inhibiting virtual assembly by silencing those controversial sparks, which may ignite them, probably isn't the way. At best, it may just further the divide. (On the other hand, having a "spark free", homogeneous conversation is probably much in the commercial interest of anyone selling targeted advertising along with providing the very platform for this conversation.) Free speech in a lonely, homogeneous (echo) chamber, maybe in company of a few friends, who are consenting anyway, isn't what free speech ought to about in a political sense. It's more than a right to verbalize.
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> So we should give all this data to the foreign companies instead of our own elected govt?

Seems like you haven’t read about the contact tracing technology and the policies of Apple and Google in what they’re developing. There is no data taken off the device by those companies through the APIs they provide. Apps developed by the government healthcare administration can take the data and push it anywhere though.
Can "Machine Learning Engineer" positions be remote for 2020? (can fly in to meetings ~twice a month or so, but for personal reasons + covid I'm only looking for remote or Bucharest, RO this year)
I found the xenophobia thing quite interesting : "In addition, the behavioral immune system appears to contribute to xenophobia and ethnocentrism. One implication is that these prejudices tend to be exaggerated under conditions in which people feel especially vulnerable to the potential transmission of infectious diseases."

I wonder if we'll see a rise in xenophobia, and consequent long-term shifts in government policy, due to COVID-19?
I am sure a big factor with this is being married with kids also.

I work in sales and pushing 50 but have no kids or wife. I am spending most the day today drinking coffee and trying to learn to think in functional javascript.

The day just does not look like this when I am in a relationship. I can't even imagine if you throw kids in the mix. If I had a kid I would be spending my time wiring up their brain instead of trying to rewire my own.
Actually I've heard exactly the same - including the conclusion of vegetal carnivory - for tomatoes too.

Surprising number of links here: https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=tomatoes%20carnivorous%20stick...

If you pick on, this https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/attack-of-the-kil...
I actually quite liked Canggu and that scene. Each to their own I guess.
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> It means no multi-line lambdas so you end up with these unreadable list comprehensions

You can have multi-line lambdas, just use parens:

(lambda: look.ma.im
.on_two_lines)

And, yeah, if it's complex enough that it should have control flow, you just write a nested function.

And your example is more clearly expressed as a plain loop:

new_list = []
for item in items:
for sub_item in item.sub_items:
if item.is_the_best:
new_list.append(item)

I don't like the comprehension syntax. The correct comprehension is:

[item
for item in items
for sub_item in item.sub_items
if item.is_the_best]

Hopefully that makes plain what they were going for, but in practice, list comprehensions are often a contradiction in terms.

> Not to mention these random global functions everywhere.

We ought to be able to have it both ways, it should be possible to lift a closure and treat the variables it closes over as arguments, but I wind up doing that manually just so I can test them directly.

> Lines copied into the console care about indentation which is definitely not a fun DX.

I think the issue with breaking copy and paste is the real valid complaint against indentation-sensitive languages. The tooling just isn't there, and this continues to be the case after 20 years.
I sure don't get the sense that people are thinking harder about the future.

The great majority have quietly and calmly made the choice to socially distance, but they looking into the near future when they expect to feel safe enough to go back to the things they were doing before, not contemplating their place in something new.
https://twitter.com/pokershash/status/1251452345994510336?s=...

Check at 50 secs. There is police commissioner there. And the guys still got killed over bunch of rumours.

Don't believe that the government
or law enforcement is there to protect you.
You mean, even more? Google haven't not been evil for quite some time.
like you can do that on a quantum computer machine. not everyone works on software
This is seriously bad news and it will continue to unfold around the world until you can't take a piss behind a bush without the government knowing (it's happening back home in Australia too). The Australian PM stated [1] that further reopening is contingent on more installations of the contact tracing app. There are undoubtedly some within governments who see this is a wholly beneficent solution but getting this system in is a foot in the door to the ultimately authoritarian goal of surveillance nirvana. Within every government exists groups of people whose job is to dream up systems like this. One more giant bite out of the elephant that is privacy.

Will it be abused? Even if governments had a perfect track record of respecting privacy and the stated intentions of technology it would still be cause for concern. But they don't... governments [1] and companies [2] have almost programmatically abused and overstepped because it's possible, profitable (economically and politically) and rarely if ever any consequence.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/01/morrison-says-...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Ana...
Sadly, vending machines are filled with mars bars and not celery stalks. Cities are overflowing with McDonalds' and Pizza Huts. You can stuff 2000kcal worth of fast food down your gob for under a tenner of whatever currency. But if you want a healthy salad, you'll be paying a premium. I feel like there's a business opportunity in healthy fast food, but as far as I can tell there's no such thing, at least not in any of the cities I've lived in.
I quite like http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org if you can get past the very annoying intro music. Whether it's stimulating or simulating is for you to judge.
I'm specialized in creating new mobile applications fast and flawless, but I can also help to improve existing applications. I would like to be involved in projects around remote communication platforms but I'm not limiting myself to that.
Freelance consultancy gigs or fixed price projects are possible.

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Expert in
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- C#
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- Objective-C
- HTML / CSS / JS
Also worked with
- React Native
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- PHP
... and a ton of other things I probably forgot to mention!
Would like to work more with Rust!
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I know python. I have rarely found negative indices useful except to pick out the last item of a list, and I've done a decent amount of it, though no numpy/pandas yet. In what way is negative indices particularly useful for these latter two?

I have no problem with slicing. You can't get it accidentally wrong because the syntax is visible. Negative indexing vs positive indexing can't generally be distinguished just by looking at the indexing statement, which is where I tripped up.
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Python’s edge cases are just as odd as every other language

>>> a=16
>>> a*a is a*a
True
>>> a=17
>>> a*a is a*a
False

“is”, “==“, and “=“ are all very different and none of them match their mathematical equivalents very well.
>I wonder if we'll see a rise in xenophobia

I think it's already there.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_xenopho...

It is a form of innate social distancing if you will. Of course in a globalized society this instinct is more harmful than useful.
>I wouldn't expect the benefit to be significantly positive.

I was in Canggu in feb and it was full of digital nomad types and pretty prosperous. I just looked it up the other day and the nomads/tourists are gone due to covid and the locals are broke and often have no food. I sent some money to a soup kitchen operation to help feed a few who used to have decent jobs. They were definately better off before.
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He sounds like Robert McNamara, wonderkind of business in his time, relatively inexperienced in politics and military.

Then came Vietnam. Eventually McNamara would admit

> "We were wrong, terribly wrong. We owe it to future generations to explain why."

You can read more in "McNamara Recalls, and Regrets, Vietnam" https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/09/world/mcnamara-recalls-an....

Besides military problems, we face environmental catastrophe, which Silicon Valley's ethos that technology will solve it, when it's mostly exacerbating it, and I expect Schmidt will end up more than "wrong, terribly wrong."
How would you feel about:

y[end(1)]
y[len - 1]

Either one then constructs a "reverse index" value, and the actual index is determined by the slicing operation.
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You're saying LLVM is slow even when generating code without optimisations?
What are you using Perl/awk for that it's needed so often?

I've been a software engineer since 2005 and worked my way up to being a VP of Engineering currently and never had to use either Perl or awk (or similar). I often read about these tools on Hackernews and I find it quite mystifying as I manage to have written Java, Scala, C#, SQL, and so on for 15 years and happily never needed them.

Is this a certain kind of engineering job that requires searching through text files so often and requiring specialized tools? I've managed my whole career with ctrl-f, and highlight-all matches.
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The stockbrokers of Magic The Gathering play for keeps
I don't really follow your argument.

Are you saying that low oil prices are good for "green energy" since low oil prices motivates the use of renewable sources in the refinement of oil? First result on Google [0] says refineries "may use about 1.5% to 8% of feed as fuel". While a large emission source, in the grand scheme of things, converting refineries to use renewable sources seems less prioritised compared to replacing oil derived fules at the end user.

That shift however, will of course be less attractive in a world with low oil-prices. So in the end I think it's still hard to conclude that low oil prices are good for renewables?

[0]: https://pdf.sciencedirectassets.com/277910/1-s2.0-S187661020...
> For policymakers: Make laws to support folks who have to self-isolate/quarantine.

I live in NYC, and this is something that still feels like a gaping hole. My wife has been job hunting since before we were on lockdown in February, and its been truly horrifying how many businesses COVID-19 hiring plans have been along the lines of "work from home until the very fist day the governor says we can go back to office". These aren't just "old school" BigCorps either, most have been small tech firms. Even worse, she finally ended up with a "offer" from a government agency I won't name that refuses to give her a start date yet because, even though the rest of the office workers are WFH, they refuse to hire remote because of "taxpayers" (who are ironically funding her to not work via NYS unemployment benefits).

It's become quite clear to me that we can't trust businesses to do the right thing here. The desire for "butt in seat at office" from folks making decisions at employers here is going to end up flooding our subways with commuters who have no choice but to come in because they don't want to lose their jobs. Theres no reason office workers successfully working from home shouldn't stay there as long as they feel comfortable, and not make it terrible for folks who truly do need to commute (retail, food service, medical, etc). Maybe I'm just biased because I work for a remote company already, but I'm seriously worried what the big cities in America will look like once the initial restrictions are lifted.
Great article but I think this comment has a better point than this article. Especially the beginning of the article, is just unnecessary. I love the approach of Mr. Rosling which is basically go with the data and don't overreact.

If it's something bad,it's bad. You have to take precautions to it. But panic and fear is the things you have most likely not to on most of the situation. Because it'll lead you to the poor allocation of the resources. Although, these are just my opinions :)
Why did this happen? Was "%" significant in some way? i.e. maybe it was passing the path to sprintf?
I think this is true.

We are a smaller company, laid off 4 employees, one technical, and three in sales.

Then, we added a family member, with a newly created role.

Oh, and hired three interns as fulltime devs.

Just realized, as I typed this.
> I've managed my whole career with ctrl-f, and highlight-all matches.

Imagine you have to do this for 100 files.
Does a polygraph care?
This is only for government employees.
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