skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Author here. I've been working on this post for more than a month, and it represents more than 30 hours of writing / code samples on top of another two months of learning and building subscription products. Hope you find it helpful, and happy to answer any questions you have here!
> everybody already knows that allowing lots of people to die is bad for the economy

We now know that half of all European deaths have been in care homes. The elderly in care homes are not significant contributors to the economy. (And over in resource-extraction states, most of the population is often regarded by local thinktanks as "superfluous" – Russia, for example, only needs about 10 million people to run its economy, and it makes little difference whether the virus affects the other ~135 million people!)

Of course, there is a need to flatten the curve so that the virus doesn't begin to affect, by overloading the healthcare system, those demographics that are major drivers of the economy. You also don't want people to be scared of going out and consuming. However, if the curve can still be flattened sufficiently with businesses open, then there is little mandate to call for keeping them closed just to protect that aforementioned elderly demographic.
Vaccination rates vary by location. https://www.cdc.gov/ruralhealth/vaccines/index.html

COVID-19 lacks a vaccine, making the flu comparison problematic.
Find a fiduciary financial adviser / asset manager perhaps who gets paid based on service rather than periodic commissions.
>it is entirely predictable that code like this would have unnecessarily bad performance

Unless the compiler optimizes it out...
Lack of NoScript support was the only thing holding me back. Mozilla really called my bluff here, I was super whiny about them not supporting NoScript, but here we are :) Time to eat crow and upgrade. Great work, Mozilla.
What sort of non-trivial behaviour would you be interested in?
That's surprising in some ways and very unsurprising in others.

Gimp is primarily a raster graphics tool (pixels), where inkscape is vector graphics (lines and points).

If you've been using gimp to do flat graphicy design stuff with its pathing tool suite, it's unsurprising that you found inkscape a better fit.

What is surprising, is that gimp is a ridiculously simple program, and inkscape is slightly notorious for having a questionably intuitive interface, and vectors are also less intuitive than raster.

What were your use cases?
The private windows in Firefox Preview behaves exactly like Firefox Focus. You can open links by default in a private window in settings.

I'm not sure if this means that Focus will be deprecated in favour of Preview, or will it remain a stripped down version of Preview.
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Why is anyone excited about a new MacBook? I'd be excited to know they make them last over 5 years.
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This is not generally true.
That's kind of what I was afraid of, it's not my tech skills holding me back, it's my social skills. But those can be learned too, it just takes more courage. Thanks for the feedback.
That seems insulting to the Firefox devs. Firefox's devs are clearly better than that. The Customization page is pretty bare, they can still add it there without looking like your image.
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This is really clever! But it looks incredibly dangerous and probably emits an enormous amount of RF noise.

The article never says what "TEA" stands for:

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

Tranversely Excited Atmospheric
I absolutely love Inkscape!

Some features I'd like to see in upcoming releases:

- Calligraphic strokes, and the possibility to convert them to paths.

- Better UX for filters (e.g. adding a drop shadow and changing the parameters could be simpler)
All I can say is that the data does not support a conclusion other than that the death rate has flattened for some time.

The number of tests per 1000 people is increasing each day in the US.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/full-list-daily-covid-19-...

This means that it is increasingly likely to uncover more cases, independent of how many new infections there actually are.

Where is the data on overloaded hospitals?
In the 80s, we were borrowing money for mortgages (secured by houses with tenants and 20% downpayments) at rates over 15%.

I don’t find yields over 10% given the current economic climate to be unreasonable or evidence of “desperation” on the part of sellers. I would probably find rates of under 10% as evidence of desperation on the part of buyers...
I created the Remarkbox logo with Inkscape. Was a lot of fun to learn (watched a few hours of YouTube to get an acceptable amount of understanding)
Thanks, I didn't notice the date of the blog post and certainly didn't mean it as a personal affront because I appreciate the post. I'm going to switch to the nightly branch to try it out!
In the article they say they want to make 2k MRR in 2 months so it seems like there's some external pressure present.
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This isn’t true. And it has nothing to do with OSX.
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Seems to me that it's extremely valuable to compare the efficacy of different measures that were taken, and one of the easiest ways to do that is to compare the numbers between countries.

It's helpful if the X axis is not simply a date but in "days since community spread started", and you're relying on the represented numbers actually mean the same thing which depends on many things.

Here's an example: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-daily-deaths-trajec...
I am from Europe, Poland so pretty backward country. Not sure if I understood you correctly, you think therapy is more prevalent in the US?

Therapy doesn't always have to be focused on very negative illness like depression or anxiety. It can help with positive sides of psychology. Maybe calling therapy a coaching session would be more appropriate in my post, but tbh it's almost the same thing
I’m saying worrying about “policy” when it comes to the economics is missing the forest for the trees. Even if everything opened up tomorrow, people aren’t going to spend money in large swaths of the market. It’s not open up and they will come.
I’m not a python programmer, but isn’t this a good way of turning truthy or falsey answers into actual Boolean values?
Could the historical data be adjusted for this blip? Because now it looks like Sweden's curve is flattening.
TCO.
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No, not all Apple users have what they want.

There is no "just stop" for people who need or want capabilities that only Apple devices have, but don't want the walled garden. It is not a free choice, not what those people want, and therefore sucks.

The brutal fact is there are only two mobile OSes where essential apps are available (such as banking), and Android being the other one, is not suitable for all users and has its own walled garden issues.
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They don't do the same thing.

Inkscape/CorelDraw/Illustrator/etc. are drawing programs. They deal with vector images.

Gimp/Photoshop/Paintshop Pro/etc. are painting programs. They deal with bitmaps.

They're fundamentally different paradigms. Very little intuition from one carries over to the other. Of course, they've been adding some bridge functionality (Photoshop smartobjects, etc.), if people want to nitpick, but the core UX is designed for something fundamentally different.
If you go to the site, they answer these concerns. The reporting is also delayed, and so can be very bursty. Here is the raw data, which shows a flatening.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/new-covid-deaths-per-mill...
I'm curious to learn what time frames do you have in mind.

Ptolemy already wrote of Khunnoi (possibly Huns) in second century.

Huns were heterogenous groups of many subjugated tribes of various races and ethnicities. What they had in common was that the ruling elite claimed tradition with Xiongnu or their political system resembled it.

What I thought Finns were Tacitus's Fenni, who were likely Germanic and have somewhat acquired the language from their conquerors who came from steppe. I'm not referring to Attilla's huns. There were nations coming from steppe for centuries prior.

I speculate, we may never know for sure of course.
> The comment was asking for something that exists. It was only a google search away.

There are hundreds of commments each day that do the exact same thing. They might get ignored, they might get an answer, and in other contexts, it's even a totally joyous occasion, AKA https://xkcd.com/1053/

> instead of making accusations that people are afraid to talk about something that they have already talked about

Maybe if people want to frame this as an unfounded accusation, they shouldn't blindly downvote a comment like that within minutes of it being posted (not just one or two downvotes either, everybody piling on while they still can).

As it is, it's demonstrated black on white. Or is there anything in my comments I "should have googled", too? What's the rationalization for them being punished? What rules do they violate?
https://boogheta.github.io/coronavirus-countries/#currently_...
In order to draw a conclusion, we should look at the _real_ interest rate vs. the nominal one.
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In a perfect world, it would be more hybrid (probably either 3 or 4 days at the office, the rest at home).

But, given the choice to stay at home or go back? I am having trouble saying that I miss the office. I never worked remote before this. I'm not sure our team's productivity is hurt, I'm saving tons of money on gas, and saving all the travel time as well.
There is also a personal component - I just plain don't miss the office.
“We are our habits”
And there I was hoping this would be about using tea as a gain medium to make a laser. Green tea is slightly fluorescent, right?
That's a fallacy. At any point in time, there will be patients showing up with viral pneumonia in the hospitals, with some seasonal variance.

For there to be a discernible difference here, you need a "critical mass" of cases. How many such cases are necessary depends on the incidence of severe cases vs non-severe cases, but we do not know the amount of non-severe cases, because we did not test everyone.

Antibody studies suggest that there are 10x as many cases as reported. If that is true, then there could have been hundreds of thousands of cases that went undetected along with some more severe cases that were labeled as "viral pneumonia".

The different rates of infection in different countries may well have more to do with the amount of testing than the actual infection rate.
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I don't think the claim is that Amazon is evil, or that the alternative to permitting bad practices is Amazon laying people off.

The idea is to make things better. Labor laws, union efforts, and employer initiatives have proven again and again that this is a positive sum game.

Put another way: Amazon's ability to provide jobs is negatively impacted in only a very small way by fixing bad practices. They just need to be incentivized to do that.
I love the raise of open source / hobbyist experimental science. I have two used qPCR machines at home (which I bought for $450), and I have established relationships with Sigma-Aldrich and other consumables providers, so I now can e.g. run my own qPCR tests for SARS-CoV-2 RNA presence, as well as many other experiments.
We are trying out https://www.hcaptcha.com/ in our application.

It's not FOSS, but seem to be a viable alternative to give a go. So far it does the job, though the images load a little bit slower than recaptcha
Yeah, the title is "Simple Homemade T.E.A. Laser", not "Simple Homemade Tea Laser", and that seems like a weird change to make.
I haven't used Spring, but I had high hopes for ASP.Net (C# is a very well designed language) and found that not only was the ecosystem around it decidedly lacking, and even the core libraries like EntityFramework were much less flexible and well designed than I am used to in the PHP/JavaScript ecosystems. And they didn't seem be that actively maintained either.

PHP usually has a good library for most things. JavaScript usually has 3-5 good choices (but nothing rails-like). .NET often seemed to have nothing, or only proprietary options.
> imagine a 16-bit floating point format (P&H call this the "Nvidia format", but I can't find that documented anywhere but there): 1-bit sign, 5-bit (biased) exponent, 10-bit mantissa

According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-precision_floating-point_...), this is the IEEE 754 standard binary16 format.
I made a similar (though less complex version) of this for tech trees.

https://ldd.github.io/react-tech-tree/#examples

So the answer is, to make games!

I used it my library for my own game here:

https://ldd.itch.io/nu
As a library worker myself, I keep noticing and continue to find HN's fascination with libraries interesting. What do you think that's about?
Inkscape is outstanding. Thanks for all the hard work.

My one and only complaint is, for very large drawings, selecting a large number of elements and moving them is very slooooooow. It would be great if, going forward, performance improvements can be made.
Seriously? It’s not like we have the shelter in place orders just because of some media influence. These policies are driven by state governments working closely with medical and epidemiological experts. The countries that took these policies seriously and implemented them early have been much less impacted than e.g. the US, so why do you think the shelter in place policies don’t make sense?
Exactly like?

I'm under the impression Firefox Focus on Android uses the native (Chrome) renderer, not the the Gecko engine.
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Plug for an old project of mine: https://tabcloseddidntread.com
Congratulations to everyone who have made this possible.

Inkscape may not be perfect and perhaps it's not the best tool for graphics professionals but, as a person who is really bad at anything having to do with graphic design, drawing, layout design and graphics programs, it's the only vector graphics program I have been able to learn at a relatively decent level, allowing me to make effective diagrams for slides, papers, etc. With every other vector graphics editor I've tried, the learning curve felt to me like climbing a vertical ice wall.

So kudos for how intuitive it is, and hoping for many new versions to come.
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This seems like a fun project, but I don't really understand what's going on here.

I see a bright light, a lot of metal and electronics, and then what appears to be a laser point. Scientifically, what's going on here?
The first time I saw it, I thought it was a UI bug. Is it supposed to expand, cartoonishly, beyond the confines of the existing bar, when you select it for input? It feels like an element designed as a helper for people with limited wrist/hand mobility (who need a larger target area) or poor eyesight.

I guess I'll head back to SeaMonkey now. The UI hasn't changed in a decade but at least the UI hasn't changed in a decade.
A quick search revealed the following:

* https://github.com/Lokno/click-captcha

* https://www.phpcaptcha.org

* https://source.netsyms.com/Netsyms/Captcheck
Congrats on a v1.0 and thank you for all the hard work. I've used Inkscape & Gimp & script-fu as a professional-grade Adobe CS replacement for a some time, and it works very well. There are some bumps and a lot of DIY, but the experience gets better every year. I am also in the process of teaching my daughter to use Inkscape and Gimp.

I'd love to see the wiki back up, and more v1.0 examples of scripting. Ideally there would be a Inkscape specific Scheme-based language for scripting, with scripts not needing to be packaged as extensions but loaded into a directory. Insert 'I'd do it myself, but..' lame excuses here. I'd love to, but other projects occupy my time.
Except it will be impossible to sort out deaths from COVID and deaths due to lockdown measures.
Thank you! I code with Sublime on files mounted with sshfs, and could not figure out why %autoreload (automatically reload imported modules in iPython) did not work. Apparently %autoreload watches directory updates, which are only triggered with atomic saves when using sshfs with cache.
Súper bro science. It’s hard to take it seriously. Weightlifting is an integral part of soccer training. And cardio does not kill your gains.
Which, all things considered, seems lower on the cloud. Could you give more details on this answer?
Nevertheless, they are necessarily chosen by the author's goals and biases. At the very least the list is colored by the author's notions.

Again, had it been possible to show the set of books in toto, that might have told us more.
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I could never grasp Gimp either but found photoshop made sense to me.

I just wish it wasn't so expensive.
I guess the "poor" in "poor language" is in the eye of the beholder and I get your point. Have you found yourself lucky in convincing the world in not using any language yet?
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What makes a good engineering culture?
If you want to do that just use bool().
Thanks for looking it up!

Since I am more familiar with rockets than with lasers, my first association with 'TEA' was 'triethylaluminum' [0] which can be used to ignite rocket engines. See also [1].

Now that we know what to look for, it does state that but it is a few paragraphs (too far) into the text:

If I understand it right, TEA stands for Transverse Excitation at Atmospheric pressure.

Writing a name out in full when using it for the first time and denoting the abbreviation that will be used further in the text might be a good idea in general.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triethylaluminium

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triethylborane#Rocket
This reminds me a lot of JetBrains MPS and their projectional editing features. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN2PflvXUqQ
Based just upon my unscientific observations and people I talk to. I see most people at my urban grocers without masks and hear from family and neighbors go to the store ever other day.

When I drove to my mothers house in rural area recently there were few people in the grocery store there and most were wearing masks. A few days later I drove to Fort Hood for a military deployment and again everybody in this tiny town of Gatesville were wearing masks in the store and really taking distancing seriously in the store.
I'm shocked that was the goal but I also couldn't grok the intent. The bar doesn't need to expand and look silly to make it obvious it's the selected input. We have perfectly adequate elements for that already. I assumed there were new features that they were trying to highlight in a non obvious way.
Systems smart enough to know when they're not smart enough (2017)
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They aren't the same. 1 month is not 4 weeks. 1 month, on average is 4.348 weeks, so 14 weeks is actually 3.22 months.
If you are more of a video person, here is 5 minute video from styropyro of him explaining and building one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1psxE4NlECQ
As kids get older they take time differently. Just had my third kid and I notice a great difference in how time is used. My 6 year old is happy to spend time with my playing openttd (how he plays is interesting to an adult), and I go do something else at the same time. The baby needs me to hold her all the time and so I can't really do anything.
It's not like the capital just fell into his lap from a friendly Wall Street banker. Those businesses are ALSO self-started (to the best of my knowledge), especially his Youtube success. He's a prime example of someone working hard, spending less than they earn, accumulating resources, and then expanding that into ownership of the means of production as well as employing others.

It's not for everyone. Sure, most people have no appetite for the level of risk involved even if they can scrape together the money to buy some revenue-generating asset (I know a guy who left the Marine Corps as a truck driver...moved back to Japan, bought a truck, and then opened a moving company). Most people don't have access to capital....nor will most people ever have the intellect to write tight software code, no matter how many government-backed Code Bootcamp Initiatives there are.

To bring this back to the original point though, telling someone to bootstrap a factory, which is demonstrably doable in the American economy even today (for flexible definitions of "factory"), shouldn't ever be a "controversial" piece of advice. Especially on an pro-entrepreneurship site like YC/HN.
> where "rest of us" is everybody who isn't a highly specialized rendering engineer in an AAA-game engine team

Then you should be looking at WebGL, not WebGPU!
> If you have a problem that manifests itself under one DE but not under another, you are doing something very wrong - unless you are doing something very deeply integrated with specific DE.

I see. So you're saying it's the "app developers" fault when a Linux user changes any system component of the Linux desktop stack i.e. display manager or desktop environment and the app fails to start or crashes because it only runs on GNOME, KDE or its X11 or Wayland-specific. It is actually an entire distro problem. When someone decides to make the switch to full blown Wayland or some other configuration, all bets and guarantees are off on stability and they start finding alternatives for other apps because the apps they tried don't work on their setup. [0] There's a reason why they say "UNSUPPORTED".

For example, Firefox couldn't start on SwayWM and the number of issues and combinations of people not running it on their distro setup was mounting. [1]. Such issues are easy to test on Windows and macOS but very difficult in Linux distros, resorting to trail through the whole desktop stack to find the issue as demonstrated in this ticket [2]. Such issues like this still exist in many Linux apps not just Firefox.

> Seriously, for a normal, user-facing app, all you should care about is at the level of the framework you used.

Like I said, no guarantees are made if the user ends up changing system components or old frameworks and the app crashes on their setup when it is specifically made to work on a default install of XYZ distro. The point is that the freedom to mix and match subsystem components makes it complicated to test your app or trace a bug which could at worst be a regression in one part of a Linux subsystem component, which is why some see it as a blessing and a curse here.

[0] https://www.swalladge.net/archives/2019/10/14/are-we-wayland...

[1] https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/3115

[2] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=397834#c1
Ok I can get that, though it's not that much of a problem with "finally" code blocks and modern idiomatic Java/try-with-resources. But (and I'm not pretending to be an expert here) I think attempting to write generic multithreaded service-oriented backends in a non-GCd language is going to give you a hard time with memory fragmentation (even more so with async/evented code), plus the performance, for all I know, isn't really all that great.