skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
* Barro's calculation doesn't take into account the economic losses from an extended shutdown. But in an email, he says any decline in gross domestic product has to be weighed against the economic value of saving lives*

Not so simple. Consider that the shutdowns themselves can lead to even worse consequences:

https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN21Y2X7

And I just posted an article about millions becoming infected by tuberculosis, an even more serious issue.

Here is the thing...

The politicians and media in the west have utterly failed us, telling us not to wear masks. The WHO still continues to do this and YouTube censors anyone who disagrees. It’s not just bad for free speech — it’s irresponsible! In Austria, masks led to a 90% drop in cases, as they did across Asia.

The lockdowns are a last resort, after public policy has failed to contain the outbreaks

Masks are supposed to protect others from you. They keep the germs in, doesn’t let them escape when you cough or talk. An N95 mask with the valve is actually worse than doubling up surgical masks, because the germs can go through the valve under pressure.

What good is social distancing and quarantines when residents use elevators? Masks on the other hand greatly reduce R0 and aerosols.

Cuomo just found out the “shocking” statistic that most hospitalizations are from people who stayed home. Elevators play a huge role.

Masks and gloves are a way to return back to work, restore social life in common areas too. Please watch this video:

https://youtu.be/oScxm_xy1i4
Yes, Azure is an OK choice if you are unfortunate enough to need to run that legacy tech stack.
I still can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not.
ARMI – An open-source nuclear reactor analysis automation framework
Fzf Integration with Zsh Completion
This is a very impressive integration of fzf's speedy fuzzy-match CLI, with zsh's completion menus for command line parameters:

https://github.com/Aloxaf/fzf-tab

https://asciinema.org/a/293849
The title is just doublespeak. The article ends with the line: "At 12 weeks, he says, the benefits from a shutdown exceed the costs."

The economy is a human invention, there is nothing natural about it. You can't go on the safari and find a wild S&P500. These consistent demands in the media for a blood sacrifice is outrageous and dehumanizing to the people that have to suffer the consequences.
I think this is quite a hard problem to solve. A Python wrapper of some some monolithic C library can check & reject any input which doesn't meet the spec, and tell you why. But a Julia library typically wants to be generic, you should (for instance) be able to pass it weird numbers that contain units/error bars/gradient info, that the library designer knew nothing about, and have these propagate through. When this works it's great, but when it fails, the failure point tends to be 10 layers down, in internal workings you've never heard of. That's part of why error messages are inscrutable.
Counterpoint: The world is way more than twice as connected as it was then at a macro level.
Well, you don't need to do much for this, because there are only two ligatures that were commonly supported: 'fi' and 'fl'.

For the kerning, ok, that's more work...
Pay attention to sales tax laws too.
I would say that culture matters a lot more in the hiring/interview process when you expect each individual you're hiring to be a multiplicative force. For smaller startups that are growing, this tends to be true. For larger companies, they tend to grow more linearly, so an individual that only contributes raw units of work is usually sufficient. So I don't think it's purely the percentage of the company that each hire represents, but more so what you expect out of each individual.
Masks and gloves can restore economic, social life and prevent new lockdowns
Using value of statistical life figures of the federal government, and lives potentially saved by the shutdown, we are still saving much more in life $ value than the cost of the shutdown on economic output.

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/835571843

And, I might add, the situation isn't fully yet understood, so it's not like anyone making these calculations is doing so with the real known risk factored in.
If anyone would like to see a Meshroom scan, here's a fire hydrant I 3d scanned in Downtown Portland, Oregon:
https://socialhome.network/media/uploads/2020/04/30/94efe3d3...

I photographed it on my iPhone 8+ and used Meshroom to generate the mesh. The turntable animation was done in Blender.
Great idea! One could embed windows 95 a la https://win95.ajf.me/ just to run IE within the page with all the right rendering. Or a subset of custom font rendering to a canvas :)
Yup. The addition of restrictions on shared mutability were fairly recent (Swift 4 IIRC) and actually go further than just structs, which was slightly surprising to me when I read the proposal: apparently the Swift compiler is allowed to insert checks to dynamically ensure exclusive read/write access to a class’s properties as well.
You're right. I read your comment and thought it was in reference to the thought of an Inter Planetary network, not realizing you were talking about a present day usecase. Sorry.
I've actually heard about IPFS being used by some private cloud/on prem operators to speed up delivery of container images.
>> HIV has had much more exposure, probably trillions invested globally, and still no vaccine after 40 years of research.

So what about Covid-19 future vaccines? And the media exposure that get this kind of research?
I can relate. I think the daydreams contribute largely to the optimism. When you're young you still have all the opportunity. As you go through life it either does or doesn't match the daydreams. You also get an updated sense of how reality is likely to play out. It can dampen the spirit.
> It’s not like his track record is any more exceptional than Musk’s.

Everyone makes mistakes, but to conclude that Berkshire Hathaways' track record is "not ... more exceptional than Musk's" is beyond folly. Their success over decades is unparalleled.

Furthermore, Berkshire on principle plays the long game. They rarely act on short-term events.

Tesla was also badly affected by the Covid-19 measures. The Fremont plant is still closed. You would have expected Munger to dump airlines sooner; but would you also have expected Musk to dump his TSLA stock, too?

For some people, being an investor means looking at a time horizon of decades, not months.
I moved away from Ubuntu to Debian, four ideological reasons, roughly a decade ago, when Ubuntu started to do crazy UI changes, and included ads in the OS (I don't know if this is still the case).

Debian on xfce4 also works fast on my old laptop (and my new laptop).
The "what did you have for lunch" question strikes me as a bad idea.

If I am interviewing someone and that is their only question, it is an immediate "weirdo-flag" if it gets to the stage where we are making our minds up and aren't sure - I can imagine the feedback now: "asked a weird, pointless and irrelevant question during an important situation" is a negative thing and could be a decider. Would this person do something equally odd and inappropriate in an important client meeting for example?

If you've had a really fun, jovial and friendly conversation with the interviewer then 100% sure go for it, but I find most interviews are a bit from stilted and fraught and it does not feel that this sort of thing would be appropriate.

My favourite sort of question for this when you have no other questions is something like "What is a typically day like for you?" or "What is a day-in-the-life of this role like?" It is useful for understanding if the role really is what you think it is, and from there you can branch out to get a bit more into the details ("ah - what SCM do you use?" "oh right - how are code reviews done?" "interesting - how do you track work to be done?" "I see - is there dedicated UX people?" etc etc)

Won't always work since the person interviewing you might not be in the team/role you are applying for, but I think it shows interest in what you will actually be doing if you got the role, re-inforces that you have relevant experience (if you ask appropriate follow-up questions), and that you are curious.
Could he quit smoking after 45 years a painful story
We can listen to the quote here, and it's not about Elon at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1Oi3esiry8&feature=youtu.be...

And to me, he is only attributing a quote to Elon, nothing else, but the audience takes it a different way. Regardless the quote above is not about Elon.
When the Indian Rupee Was at Par with the US Dollar
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India faces surge in cases as economy forces ease of lockdown
In what sense is the latter font "cursive"?
Nigeria Records 239 New Coronavirus Cases in 24 Hours
> Consider that the shutdowns themselves can lead to even worse consequences

Are you saying that when people cannot travel by airplanes, go to a theater or a restaurant, then this is inevitably causing children to die?

What kind of sick society is that, which cannot make a different economic arrangement?

I understand (obviously) there are jobs that are required for functioning of the modern society, but to claim that it cannot be organized (especially given we have Internet) so that people could avoid mass gatherings is insane.
We were actually just talking about compiling something like FreeType to JavaScript, but then you'd find yourself re-implementing a browser with layout engine etc...

However, your other idea is great! You might enjoy https://paschke-images-test.s3.amazonaws.com/welcome.html ;)
> There's not adequate evidence

The final thesis thus should be that there's no adequate evidence that there are two strains. Not an affirmation that there is only one strain. Absence of proof vs proof of absence.
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Asthma, type II diabetes, obesity, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, MS, etc
Not only that, COVID19 also spreads slower. The incubation period is longer.
I think he refers to the ligatures
You missed https://github.com/zubairq/pilot on the list
Often public policy will use "quality-adjusted life years" saved as a more precise metric in decision-making, which allows for valuing e.g. an intervention that saves people 10 years of life on average more than one that saves 2 years of life on average. Using this metric, it's not clear that we're saving more in life $ value than the cost of the shutdown: https://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/economic-cost-o... .
The interim health officer dr.erica pan who Elon musk named in his tweet is not elected.

Elon musk is not forcing anyone to work.

Are liquor shops and smoke shops ‘essential.’? They are open too. Factories need to be open. They are not like other places of work. It is possible to maintain social distance and more effectively than at a Costco warehouse. At Tesla, they work next to and with robots.

At the end of the day, I support Elon Musk because I know how Alameda County operates. He can’t do anything worse.
I find it interesting that it’s ok to call it Spanish Flu (while it wasn’t even originated there), but is politically incorrect to call this one the Wuhan virus or the Chinese flu. Political correctness has always a political intention I guess.
I’ve seen actual cursive code fonts (just one, I think. Maybe someone knows which one I’m talking about) and this isn’t it. I’m assuming the stylized terminal/descender (particularly on the “t” and “f”) are probably what are causing it to be described this way.

Edit: I’m blind and didn’t see the comment on the bottom :/ This is the cursive font I’m talking about.
Some of the letters in the comment do look like cursive
Abiogenesis
Lawmakers ejected in scuffles at Hong Kong's legislature
I agree the ligatures are a bad idea, and I use a ligature font in my editor. I quite like ligatures, I find they moderately enhance readability, but you need to know exactly what they are for it to be useful: readability can't come at the cost of precision in a code sample.
For people who find the default padding too big(I did), you can control the presets with the Settings button - and if you want pixel-level control, you can export the carbon-config.json file from the Settings > Misc > Export config, edit in your favorite editor, and import it. I use a padding of 12px, instead of the (IMO) super big 56px.
You would be surprised of the number of companies who still has a “butt-in-seat” mindset.
That needs to be part of our webring! I contacted the webmaster.
> What kind of sick society is that, which cannot make a different economic arrangement?

Aye. Specifically, the market must work in favour of society - if it's not working in a way that we find to be ethical, we have an obligation to regulate it. It must not be treated as a power that kills people and allows us to throw our hands up and say "that's fine" - if something is to kill hundreds of thousands of children, we must treat it as harshly as the pandemic we're currently in.
Emacs is largely written in e-lisp. Does it have problems with lag? I don't think so.

I think what made (makes) those editors laggy is a heavyweight representation of text and a creating a lot of garbage when processing said text.
What we are discovering under the lockdown arrangements is precisely which jobs are actually required in the economy, and which are there just to cause some financial figure to increase.

Other than the stupefying boredom and colossal holes in the safety net due to the ideological blinkers of politicians and their cronies, exactly what isn't being done that needs to be done in the real world?

The farmers around here are still as busy as ever with their lambs. The wheat is growing in the fields. The rapespeed is below and as fragrant as normal. Supermarkets are stocked, and food is on the shelf. The power is on. The Internet is working. The drains function and refuse is being cleared.

Are some people scared that we might realise just how much activity is really fluff?
> These are the stories fearmongers tell because it happened to one or two people many years ago.

Here's a recent one:[0]

> Gibson’s arrest grew out of an ongoing probe of the “Freenet” — an online network that allows users to anonymously share images, chat on message boards and access sites, the probable cause statement says.

0) https://eu.courierpostonline.com/story/news/2020/02/09/craig...
..How does it compare to other similar services, eg. mailinator, that provides one obfuscated email address?

.. How do I get the phantom address?

.. I hear people say, having multiple addresses is not worth the hassle as it enlarges your impact area for spam. I’m undecided but I’d like to hear your opinion on this.
I don't think it's very controversial to call Operator Mono Italic a cursive font.

Edit: In case it wasn't clear, only the font used for the comment is cursive.
Im sort of half surprised at the down votes and not surprised at the same time.

I think you're probably right to a large degree. To paraphrase you're basically saying yes, there for sure is a very real genetic and environmental component, however if we simulate a reality where everyone runs their bodies and minds in an optimal manner we'd be far less likely to see all forms of disease including mental illness/psychiatric disorders.

The takeaway is if you're struggling with it, they are both important components that ought to be a part of a wholistic treatment plan.

I was watching something on Health Theory the other day and she psychiatrist being interviewed said they start with an elimination diet and the nutritionists have more success than the psychiatrists.

Food for thought.
We will see a second wave of devastation in 6 months when foreclosures hit. We are fucked even if there isn’t a second infection uptick.

The handling of this situation is a perfect demonstration of how the current political system fails us.

Half the people want lockdowns to continue and cite research papers supporting the argument. The other half wants it to end so they can pay their bills.

People are going to die. It can’t be helped.
Lem's Ijon Tichy stories are surprisingly funny. He has a reputation for seriousness (because of "Solaris", I assume), but they're among the funniest sci-fi stories I've ever read.
Sorry, but the font is way off. there are holes in the pixels
Get a hidpi screen.
I'm actually far less bothered by programming ligatures than cursive font for comments. It just so happens that Operator Mono bundles these unconventional features together, so I kind of lumped them together.

But yeah, using ligatures in code that’s meant to be shared isn’t a great idea.
Can we change our climate future?
I've had so man bad experiences with ppl that I just came to hate them in general. I feel bothered by noises from outside, I hate my neighbour who just wants the house clean and asks me to clean outside of my room. She just wants a friend, but she akss for a thing back to just talk about how bad her back is and blabla...
I liked the first few weeks of quietness when social distancing started,no I'm bothered by every noise that comes into my space.
The Calculus According to Leibniz
Disappointing reading a 2002 article without follow-ups. I tried searching the web and the Candian court cases database canlii.org. Perhaps this was settled out-of-court?
I come here exclusively to read the comments and sometimes participate in them. I often only end up clicking a link because I need more context to read the comments.

The comments are often insightful and intelligent. Its interesting conversation, from people with different backgrounds, different opinions etc. As opposed to most other forums, HN is heavily moderated and the crowd it draws helps. Sometimes I see a comment that looks out of place and an hour later it is either down voted into oblivion or removed already.

I also use HN to pick technology. I search HN for threads relevant to the technology I am thinking of using and read the comments to see what people think. This helps me get a whole bunch of different opinions and thoughts that I otherwise wouldn't have access to.

I also love the minimalist look of HN. If they'd change it, I'd be incredibly upset. It's one of the last places on the internet that always loads in an instant and doesn't distract me from the only thing that's important: the content.
Snap. It's only the last year I chucked away my slink, potato and woody CDs.

I had terrible problems with NFS and systemd. In fact, when testing Ubuntu 20.04 in a VM, the problems are still there even today. It's not freezing on boot as regularly, but it's still unpredictable and often freezes on shutdown.
That's not really correct, though.

For example, schizophrenia. It doesn't generally show itself until one's early 20's: there are many college students who find their studies halted because of it. It is really easy to have children before this. Depression can render itself after having children, especially in women. We treat it now.

Lots of non-psychiatric disorders are similar: no problems until early-to-mid adulthood. Plenty of time to have children beforehand.

The difference now isn't that genes aren't passed along to children, but more that we try to give folks a more normal life and less misery. And we frown upon the abusive practices that were so commonplace in asylums of yesteryear.
Is YouTube censoring people just for suggesting masks, or are they taking down channels that are otherwise full of misinformation and just happen to also recommend masks?

They're now mandatory in some countries such as Slovakia.

How many of the "at home" deaths are care homes? Those have been an absolute disaster for their residents.
I actually paid for the Pascal and Assembler at the time. I still have the cassettes and plastic spiral bound A4 manuals somewhere.
A Swiss startup worked in this direction to offer brand protection and consumer engagement http://www.morphotonix.com/chocolate/
This article is the epitome of "back in the day, everything was better". There are no links to back up claims or credentials, and lots of relative facts without context.

Paraphrasing "rich kids are more literate than poor kids despite both having a lot of screentime" doesn't prove anything about books and literacy.

This is a pure opinion piece with cherry picked facts.
I like Menlo as a fallback; it’s fairly clean and not particularly flashy. I’ll admit I haven’t looked at the licensing for it though; I know it ships with macOS and is almost certainly under a less restrictive license than SF Mono but it might not be as usable as you’d like. I think it’s based on DejaVu which is fairly permissive if you’re
OK with a similar (if slightly less polished, IMO) font.
Actually, IE5 didn't do automatic ligatures; what you see in "finibus" is simply an "f" glyph and an "i" glyph which are close enough that the dot of the "i" nestles into the top-right of the curve of the "f", and the serifs at the base run together... just like they do for the "in" and "ni" pairs following.

(It was possible to render a real ﬁ glyph, but only by using the Unicode presentation-form code point U+FB01; IE5 didn't do automatic ligatures in Latin script, and even if it did, Times New Roman did not have the OpenType support for that.)

It does appear that the IE5 screenshot shows significantly tighter letter spacing in general than the body text, which is why we see the "fi" glyphs touching in IE5 whereas they're separate in the text of the page. I guess that's probably related to size-specific glyph metrics or hinting that is snapping the glyph advances to a narrower width than the "fake-bitmap" font produces.
Absolutely. As for hard sci-fi, Lem's work had a similar impact on me. I would also like to recommend the 'Pilot Pirx' short stories. Reading 'The Accident' (on OMNI) as a teenager is perhaps what got me into sci-fi in the first place.

Speaking of robot-related stories like 'The Accident', you might want to check out this very interesting article 'The Uncanny Robots of Pilot Pirx: Stanisław Lem’s Tales' (PDF) :
https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/IL/article/view/IL.2016.21.1....
Here's my screenshot, 100% zoom, Debian/kwin_wayland; https://i.imgur.com/tu1V1pp.png

Firefox 68esr (left) is crisp but has too tall characters(?) resulting in a gap in lowercase 'o'.

Chrome 80 (right) has this problem and is blurry in addition.
>The economy is a human invention, there is nothing natural about it.

So is agriculture. And we are currently looking at 30 million deaths due to famine this year with what has been done so far. If we continue the lockdowns it will be a lot more.

So the question is: are 3 million whites in their 70s worth 30 million people of color who are mostly children?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8300297/The-world-f...
Naughty Dog's stuff (Last of Us and Uncharted) is above the rest. Quanti Dream's Detroit: Become Human borders on interactive branching novel and is also good (as, most likely, their other two previous games Beyond: Two Souls and Heavy Rain, you van get all 3 on PC now btw). I also like the Nier: Automata a lot, I'd say the best thing about this game is story design.
The manager-tools.com podcast is excellent for things like this. Start with the Professional Subordination one:
https://www.manager-tools.com/2010/12/professional-subordina...
I am of the opinion that autonomy plays a major role in whether you enjoy working from home or not. If you have the autonomy to execute on a clear purpose that you have planned for yourself, there is seemingly no difference in whether that work is carried out in an office or at home. In my experience, all the need for constant feedback and 'catching up' is mostly a side effect of poor project management caused by kicking off work on unbaked requirements or where the estimations haven't been done well or where the dependencies were assumed to be in some state while they're not really there.

That said, you could still catch up from home, if not more, simply because you don't have to scurry around looking for a quiet place or finding the colleague.