skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I'm a proponent of restrictions, your argument doesn't make much sense.

It's irrelevant if the economy is human-made or a natural phenomenon, because it is nevertheless what keeps us fed and with a roof over our heads.

There are indications that this depression is as bad as the Great Depression and might be even worse. It is true that there is no food shortage right now, but we might have one, at least from where I'm from, esp due to drought, which affected crops all over Europe. And guess what, during the Great Depression people starved to death.

So if the restrictions continue, I sure hope there's a better plan in place other than taxing the living shit out of the middle class that still have jobs and pay their taxes. Because we all know that the money required to keep the unemployed from starving will not come from the rich.
Just comparing the numbers is one thing, but there is an inherent unfairness: the risk of death is much higher in certain groups (mostly the elderly). And the economic damage is also distributed very unequally: some sectors are wiped out, some are barely hurt or even profit.

So the cost is in one group and the benefit is in another. It can't be easily helped but it's extremely unfair.
Really well put. It's a combination of this phenomenon and a push for commoditising engineers/makers. Paradoxically it's based on "sound economics" - the clear advantage of commoditising "resources" and the clear advantage of anticipating a future stage (which in a massive asymmetry of information is what checkbox-investment appears to be addressing).
Have fun in your Prius.
I mean, I am "pro-FOSS", but I use OSM when walking and cycling because it's simply the best data source out there. I've used it all over the world from the Peak District, to European cities, to remotest South Africa.

Osmand is great but maybe you should consider that there is no one app to solve all of your problems, especially given that you've already accepted that OSM is data, not an app. There's Osmand for outdoors kind of stuff, maps.me for a simpler, slicker Google maps like experience, Graph Hopper for advanced routing and planning, cycle.travel and others for cycling, hike maps, transport maps, the list goes on.
I don't necessarily agree, it's just the personality of one person, whom you might not even work with regularly depending on what their role is.

Sure, you might say that's a window into the rest of the company, and it's true in a way, but the HR person being slightly humourless does not always equal a bad job.
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 Dank Mono Italic.
The care homes actually are far lower than just people who are staying at home: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cuomo-coronavirus-patients-new-...

About YouTube - Well in practice it’s probably more flexible but taking them at their word, they said they’ll take down any videos that contradict the WHO. The WHO are against wearing masks. The CDC has changed their stance finally — since April. Wear masks when indoors!
Are the human requirements for water, food, and shelter also a "human invention"? These needs are only fulfilled by a functioning economy.
> 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.

Raw milk is being dumped because processing facilities to make it safe to drink are shut down. Meat processing centers are shut down or running at below capacity - beef is already disappearing from shelves. Vegetables likewise, farmers are losing ways to get to market.

The lockdowns have interrupted the path from source to store, and we're approaching a food shortage because of it. People will go hungry if we can't get the economy moving again.
Why is it "interesting" to you? Is it not an entirely natural progression, that people would start realizing the stigma arising from associating diseases to geographical locations, and start changing the status quo?
If you're European like me, tell me where did they shut down factories with the numbers California is seeing? They have much more strict restrictions than Europe that is considered the epicenter right now.
I don’t know much about typefaces, but Roboto Mono looks fairly similar to me.
After using windows since 95, I can't do it anymore. It doesn't feel like its my computer.
There's also live online play e.g. on discord or roll20. Each table is different, do a search for groups on social media and ask about what their games are like.
Get lost, seriously.

We all have the same voice here, and I'm "spreading" whatever the heck I want. It's not "misinformation" just because you happen to have a different appreciation of the facts. I don't have to answer to the nerd police, here or elsewhere.
They probably have legacy software and turnover problems... those are usually required before getting a "butt-in-seat" mindset.
It is very possible to lose money betting on the obscure stuff. I'm not going to say what exactly but its just luck and you compete with all the other poeple thinking they can make a quick bug.

The mistake is, that at the end of the day, to get an 'edge' means:
1. You take the money from someone else
2. You have to spend so much time on this topic, that it becomes a job
3. Its still more risky, less awarding and just gambling than having a carrier within a proper profession
4. Don't let get draged into this gambling shit by people telling you how easy it is. Their main motivation to do so is to get your money
5. You are never the person who has the good odds. Not in poker, not in a casino, not online.
Windows 10 is practically adware https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.html
They can also be fulfilled by a half-functioning economy.

There's no shortage of any of those things in the Western world.
First of all, I don't understand why Microsoft is doing this. They are making more from online services than they ever made from selling windows licences so it's not like they need the few cents advertising generates. Probably the windows group trying to up their own numbers, not noting they are hurting the company as whole.

With that said, I don't consider all things author disabled as "ads". Some are just annoying attempts to get people to explore w10 and the included software.

What I consider ads are:

1. The stupid preinstalled games and apps that fill your start screen upon your first boot.

2. The preinstalled Microsoft games (these contain actual ads)

3. The third party app suggestions.
Wow, that's not great – thanks for the report!
I find it extraordinary that the goalpost has completely moved without even a debate about it.

We were told to enter this lockdown to flatten the curve to under the capacity of the healthcare system so it is not overwhelmed.

Now we are being told we can’t leave the lockdown as someone more could die, ie the objective is not to remain under the capacity of the healthcare system but to go to zero deaths at all costs.

If the healthcare system has spare capacity, which seems to be the case pretty much everywhere, this lockdown is no longer justified.
It’s great to finally know what that font is. (And avoid it personally, to be honest…)
> also had some 900 images of suspected child pornography on the hard drive, says a criminal complaint.

So not an example of someone being arrested just for operating a node, then.
The solution is to send a clear signal to Microsoft that their behaviour is unacceptable by switching to Mac or Linux.
Show HN: Notes-CLI – A simple Go CLI to take notes on markdown
The success he's referring to could be the success of Elon's vision, rather than Elon himself.
I am not saying that - in fact I am deeply skeptical of the UN’s claims when it comes to this.

However they are speaking about people in other countries. Even in the USA, livestock is euthanized and the food chain is severely disrupted. Supermarket food is going to cost more. Food insecurity exists even in the USA. Malnourishment is a big thing.

If you want to learn more about it, listen to what the UN is warning about:

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/04/22/africa/coronavirus-famine...
I think the answer to your question is precisely that, with all the campaigns in the west telling women to follow their own path, do whatever they want, etc. they ended up predominantly choosing careers they actually like (nursing, teaching, anything that has to do with people)

There are always exceptions, obviously.
There was an article yesterday about framework vs libraries.

I think it's exactly why I don't like godot for the same reason I dislike unity, unreal, etc: they're frameworks.
I think intent matters here. Spanish Flu is from so long ago it already has a universal name, whereas I think referring to COVID-19 as the Chinese virus is usually only done by people who'd like to blame China.
It's kind of a complicated issue. I do think that we should refer to the 1918 flu as just that. However, since that's so far back in the past, you won't find a lot of people pointing their fingers at Spain and accusing Spaniards of being inhuman scum. On the other hand, you have a LOT of people saying "Chinese flu" who then jump to the conclusion that the Chinese people themselves are to blame and inherently 'bad', aggravating racism against the Chinese. The Chinese government deserve a lot of criticism for so many things, including their persecution (and most likely execution in some cases) of Chinese citizens who reported on the pandemic. But hate crimes happening right now against Chinese, and people who happen to look remotely Chinese, are very real. I see little benefit in referring to the 2019 Coronavirus/COVID-19 as a "Chinese flu", while I see huge downsides.

In sum, while I think "Spanish" flu is more factually incorrect, I see talk about a "Chinese" flu as more acutely harmful. So - 1918 flu, COVID-19, IMO.
Imagine your company has a multi-stage interview, your job is to do the whiteboard coding part, and your pool of known-to-be-of-equal-difficulty questions is very small.

You also know that, when people are thinking through a challenging problem in a stressful situation, they mostly won't want to engage in small talk at the same time. Although you can give them hints and ask questions at appropriate times.

It's easy enough to imagine how that could get tiresome, once you've done enough that no solution or mistake is new to you.
non-antialiased fonts is still how I prefer fonts to render on my low-dpi screens by a large margin
Fundamental flaws in US health care and worker protection exposed. That's what this is.

Compare to the system in my native Belgium:

- a month of 100% paid sick leave, paid by the employer

- followed by five months 60% of wage in sick leave, paid by social security

- protected from redundancy within this 6 month period

- if made redundant afterwards while still ill after 6 months, obligation for the employer to pay (significant) damages

- 60% of last wage sick pay afterwards, capped to a generous maximum, unlimited in time as long as the illness lasts, paid by social security

- high quality healthcare regardless of employment status

- jobless benefits when healthy without a job, unlimited in time, recently made somewhat degressive

This makes for less of a power imbalance between employers and employees. Huge short and medium term social stabiliser. Certainly not without its flaws, but great to have in place during these times of severe economic crisis.
Lego City is a rogue state? This changes everything.
Actually upon closer inspection it seems to be a font that’s very close to Operator Mono Italic but not exactly it... So don’t take my word for it, I guess.

Edit: Okay, it's Dank Mono. Should have checked the font options on the website.
> Even before the pandemic hit, parts of East Africa and South Asia were already facing severe food shortages caused by drought and the worst locust infestations for decades.

Sounds like it isn't all caused by the pandemic.

With the US essentially joining OPEC, maybe we could divert ethanol destined corn to famine relief.
I think what the parent commenter is saying is that maybe the virus stays in the air like that but it's not a way in which people get infected, otherwise the clusters wouldn't be so tight. Any tracing would be impossible for example. One possibility is that you need a threshold amount of virus to infect you so close contact is necessary.
Oh wow, i've stumbled on your site before. It's a masterpiece, and was definitely an inspiration for the work we talk about in this blog post.

Super interesting, what you're saying about the OpenType Sanitizer – i'd wondered why it appears you can't use bitmapped fonts in browsers (although another commenter claims you can – i don't know either way).

I'll have a look at Bits'N'Picas, thanks for the heads up!
> There's no shortage of any of those things in the Western world.

Yet. And let's not talk about more advanced things that are also needed. Like medicine, transportation, power etc pp.

"Hey, don't worry about the economy, we can always go back to how life was 300 years ago, we can easily do that with a fraction of the people". Ok, cool, but do you really want to live like that? Are you sure that everybody else wants to?
Not all epidemologists are in agreement.

Sweden's has basically said the costs of shutting down until a vaccine is found (or until the numbers are low enough you can test-and-track and impose quaruntine or testing on all visitors to the country) are worse than just letting it run its course.

Bare in mind that all government decisions are heavily biased by the optics of that decision, as seen by the average voter when passed through a media filter. If it genuinely cost more QALYs to implement shutdown+exit strategy than just "attempt mitigation with focus on elderly and delay things until you've got enough equipment", it would still be very hard to argue that viewpoint in front of the media.

Arguing "The economy is more important than grandma!" is very difficult, requiring a dive into life expectancy, quality of life metrics, isolation side effects, economic depression side effects, QALYs and what exactly an "economy" even is (and, importantly, what it isn't, like all the non-captured-by-gdp utility gained by just hanging out with friends in the park). Can you imagine a politician trying to argue that grandma is a necessary sacrifice in front of the cameras?

Admittedly, making such an argument isn't impossible: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-8281007/amp/Forme...
Are you sure about that? Many essential businesses rely on goods that are produced by inessential businesses. These shortages can cascade throughout supply chains.

The big one that no one seriously considers is people running out of money, and then their governments running out of money. It's hard to tax people who can't work.
It's ironic that you talk about stigmatization, yet indulge in baseless speculation about execution of pandemic reporters.
Huh? What is super weird about following the money? I was looking for Signal business model and was not able to find it.
> Are some people scared that we might realise just how much activity is really fluff?

Yes, the people who own shares (or other stakes in the economy) are worried about it, because they might be the ones who ends up with the fluff.

I think the worries have been described in famous Kalecki's essay: http://gesd.free.fr/kalecki43.pdf

The lockdown is just a different way of getting the economy close to the state of full employment - by reducing consumption rather than by increasing production.
Well you also can’t eat money. So at a certain point there just will not be any stuff to buy if the shutdown continues and people just get checks in the mail. That is magical thinking.
The notion that only old people are affected is wrong. And hospitalization rate doesn't differ much between age groups, only fatality rate. And if the healthcare system breaks down due to number of cases, you start seeing a lot of young people dying too.

So you'll get a significant percent of the workforce incapacitated, either because they get sick and need hospitalization, or because their parents or grandparents die. During such a pandemic the economy suffers anyway, because appetite for risk or for buying useless shit people don't need goes down.

N.B. people often point at Sweden these days, as being in a not that bad situation, however note that the Swedes are very disciplined and many of them have isolated themselves voluntarily. Given their culture, their slightly optimistic scenario can't be easily replicated and the jury is still out anyway.

And the comparison you're making is inhumane and possibly a false choice. We should strive to save both the "whites in their 70s" and the poor people of Africa.
Just as is the case for mental "disorders", none of these conditions are attributable to a known gene or gene combination, or have a 1:1 match between carrying a certain gene combination and having the disease (meaning there must be an environmental trigger in addition to the genetic predisposition).

For almost all of them (possibly all of them in some cases), there is evidence of links with auto-immunity and the presence of active pathogens (including viruses, bacteria, funguses, etc), suggesting that the illness is related to the body's efforts to fight off or cope with pathogens, or to some effect of the pathogen's activity.

Those who invoke conditions like Huntington's Disease and haemophilia are on more solid ground, as these are directly attributable to single-gene mutations. But these conditions are also very very rare, unlike mental "disorders".
I spent a bit of time yesterday installing Proggy fonts on my T420 to get crisper characters while cramming more on the small screen :)
I recently tried to use IPFS to share 20 gigabytes of data on a local network, using ipfs-desktop.

Apparently it hashes the entire file, meaning it will read it entirely, so I killed it because it took way too long. Apparently there are other methods for fingerprinting large files, like reading a limited set of chunks. I asked on IRC but I did not get a thorough answer.
> Are you sure about that?

Yes, because plenty of economies that modern westerners would describe as grossly inefficient and half-functional, at best, have managed to provide all of those things over the past century.

> Many essential businesses rely on goods that are produced by inessential businesses.

This is false. Consider reading the lists of essential businesses enumerated in the shutdown orders. Businesses that produce goods consumed by essential businesses are essential.

> and then their governments running out of money.

This is also false. Sovereigns that control their currencies cannot run out of money. Especially in a recession, when they have a lot more headroom to inflate[1] by borrowing printed money.

A government is not a household, and its budget is not balanced like one.

[1] During a recession, wealth is destroyed, and the money supply deflates. Deflation is bad. Deflation is incredibly bad. You can combat deflation by having your central bank cause inflation, by printing money, and lending it out - to the government.
Also to destroy your point on Rust making it safe for your end users.

Library that doesn’t have stable C API is next to useless outside of its original language/community/etc. and I have been bitten by this a few times already myself (my great libraries in D’s std cannot be easily exported outside of D).

Do not repeat my mistakes - provide stable C API (and ABI by extension) as soon as you can. You cannot make it safe though it’s simply not accounted for in the land of linker “technology”.
This is a false equivalence and you even hint at that very fact yourself ("Spanish Flu" => Spanish first broke worldwide censorship vs "Wuhan Flu" => Place of origination).

There was no worldwide censorship of Covid-19. So what must be "interesting" is the lack of any real argument being made in your post, instead leaving a convenient gap where an argument should be so everyone can get into a trollsy debate about projecting their own political feelings upon this awful contentless comment.
The first problem with this article is that they calculate peoples worth based on expected earnings but as if they’ve still got their whole carrier ahead of them. But in reality Covid-19 just is not very dangerous for people under 50.

And of course that whole reality thing where there is an end to giving people free money while nothing is being produced and the stores are not going to remain stocked if the factories are closed.
What has a drought to do with the current COVID induced crisis?
What Is REST API?
Thats a weird idea of trying to reuse the word 'hoisting'.

I'm also not getting what the magic is. That little what Jamstack can actually do, might just not need a CDN?
I've actually been using Raspbian Desktop installed on a laptop to develop software for raspberry pi. For some reason it's faster compiling xojo apps than windows or mac. Debian FTW!
Additional Linux distributions support for Swift
goal : build a game
- 1st solution : use framework + n days dev time
- 2nd solution : use libraries + 10xn days dev time
Yes it is. Tuberculosis has infected a very significant fraction of humanity (far more than covid-19), but the disease is usually in a "latent" stage. Basically it enters the lungs, strolls around until a Macrophage attacks it, lets the macrofage attack. Once inside the macrophage it will use the weapon of the macrophage to kill the macrophage instead of itself (the result is called a "granule").

At that point usually it'll go dormant, and slowly eat up the macrophage, not multiplying very fast. This can last for years, even decennia. And then at some point it'll come out and start multiplying again, and after a year or so the host will be dead.

Between 1/4th and 1/3rd of humanity has a latent TB infection.

Lately TB has become more and more resistant, so the treatments are losing effectiveness (plus treatments only ever "win" by getting the disease back into the latent stage, which only works once for some reason). The vaccine has been losing effectiveness. It still works on kids, it generally does not make adults immune anymore. And even if you're vaccinated, that does not help against latent infection. With a latent infection, weaken the immune system and it'll spring to life ... and kill you (HIV being the big immune weakening culprit here, some Hep in Africa, or just plain cold or very hot weather). Even immune kids can get a latent infection and die from the disease decades later when there's some complication happening (like for instance COVID-19).

Under normal circumstances, TB kills between 1.5 and 2 million people worldwide, yearly. That's 2-3 TIMES more than covid will kill, except TB has done this every year, for at least 200 years (maybe more). TB has (slowly) killed a billion humans, minimum. Due to medical care being rationed everywhere TB is expected to kill 30-40% more this year.
Not only that, it assumes the payload stage weights as much as the Orion capsule...
I think it helps in physics because you very quickly condense a large number of different mechanical situations into basically one numerical integration problem. Students quickly are able to calculate anything forces related and are able to see how every class of mechanics problem is basically the same problem. This is difficult traditionally because the mathematical tricks, such as rotating coordinate systems, take over the physics.