skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a resident of New York City I absolutely cannot fathom another lock-down, and unfortunately I don't think a vast majority of residents my age would take it "seriously".

A big reason the lock-down ever worked was the sheer exodus of people from Manhattan. Brooklyn and outer boroughs never really had full-quarantine. People hate to admit it, but my friends who live in neighborhoods with high minority populations complained of constant block parties and drinking in the streets - largely pointing to why queens and Williamsburg were hit hard.

I lived a mere three blocks from one of the hospitals that was overrun with patients and for months had multiple chilled semi-trailers filled with dead bodies.

New York has been absolutely decimated, I honestly don't see small business and restaurants coming back in even two years, even if a vaccine is found. I'm starting to shift to the side of finding a compromise to help working class people get back on their feet. Government hand-outs will NOT fix this.

I whole-heartedly supported the first lock-down, but I no longer believe a second lock-down would really help anyone. Obviously, masks should become a social norm but I believe once daily testing before entering certain businesses or buildings will become commonplace. It's already common practice at hospitals and certain federal buildings.
I get your point. It all depends on age, weight and how far one has to walk.
For elderly people not having to walk to trash their cats litter (mine is like 8+Kg) plus glass bottles, plastics etc, can be a life changer.
I still however see some of these automations more like bullet points in hotel advertising rather than really useful things.
Why stop at ICU capacity?

What's been mystifying me is all the R0 graphs. They go up above 1, regions get more strict, they flatten, then slope down to around R0=1....

and then they flatten out again. Right at around R0=1.

It's maddening. We should keep it sloping down beyond that point.
> I agreed with that before Tesla's Big Battery

Tesla's battery isn't really grid-scale energy storage of the kind you'd need to do 100% renewables. It's more for smoothing out fluctuations in the grid than for filling in for intermittent sources when conditions are poor.

If the gamble on renewables works out, it will be because of geological hydrogen energy storage. That's the only way to get country-days worth of storage at a price that's actually feasible (if it works in practise like it does on paper).
I'm not the person to whom you replied but my answer is: Sure, and I do, quite a lot, but it's not the same. I've deleted 12 different things from my calendar that my family was going to do between early March and now. A trip to see friends in another country, three baseball games (just the ones we'd bought in advance), two different conventions, and more.

All ruined because of this stupid virus.

None are replaced by a brisk walk outdoors.
Developing the first oral anthrax vaccine for livestock and wildlife
a complete joke...worse than security theater...at least you only have to deal with that at the airport.
You're right - it makes me feel a bit better. But the underlying point ... that I'm surprised this sort of thing is getting backported, I think is still the same.
Sounds like a dystopian police state
I'm not really comfortable talking about this because is just speculation and I don't have enough time / data to defend my position. If you have specific questions though please contact me.
Didn't know about TripActions and letting 500 people go on a Zoom call.

That is just ridiculous in the worst way.
There's no actively maintained port right now, but jcs@ ported it to OpenBSD a while ago. His branch[1] is a couple months behind now, but it wouldn't be terribly difficult to get it working again.

It's mostly POSIX code so it's pretty portable.

[1] https://github.com/jcs/serenity
Ok. I'm going to do it. The (m/M)edium is the message. It's relevant whether you're delivering your message on twitter or medium or god forbid facebook.
I had a vague idea that Red Hat was in some sense now responsible for Java 8:

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/09/24/the-future-of-...

But that particular bug was backported by someone at Oracle.
Also strongly agree with this. Never used to skip a meal, rarely used to exercise. Now most days I only eat dinner and often exercise beforehand. Would not have thought such a metabolic schedule would be realistic.

On days when I have to eat breakfast/brunch/lunch for social reason I notice a 'food is around, I better eat it' urge afterward all day long.
The vast majority of games are not store exclusives. And the alternative is not a single mandatory store that magically has everything. There's a lot of apps that would otherwise launch on iPhone but don't because the developers don't want to or can't deal with Apple's fees and restrictions. (See anything that only works on jailbroken devices, or open source projects that only release on Android.)
It's not rational when at the same time the fact that you're overweight with a heart condition and cholesterol problem that could kill you is a flashing through your brain.
The US is at or near the top for cancer 5 year survival rates.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/cancer-su...
Rand would argue it looks dated because NeXT is dated. It’s a relic. The logo reflects the association to the reality, that is, NeXT is an old idea from yesteryear.

Sourceish:
https://youtu.be/Ta4ef1xBeMA
It’s pretty much because they don’t want people going more than 5km away from their houses so as to make enforcement easier.
Also, Melbourne is locked out from the rest of the state with police roadblocks due to low cases in the country and high cases in the city, so a lot of hiking spots are inaccessible.
There is a difference between anecdotal evidence and scientific evidence. There is also the issue of what is true for an individual might not actually be true for most people.
> No language in the 21st Century should have implicit information loss. There are likely C# analyzers to prevent this kind of bug, or you have other choices.

I like the Rust feature of semicolon discarding information. Is that not what is happening here? Really contrived example that he accidentally wrote "return true".
Immersed is the most interesting I think because it allows for virtual monitors. The others mirror whatever monitors you have but you are stuck with their limitations to some extent. With immersed you can create a monitor with size and shape that you couldn't or wouldn't ever physically buy, which is amazing.
I live in a suburb of the Bay Area where temperatures are usually in 70s and 80s. Suddenly it is going to be 100 for 5 day straight. I have never seen anything like this
> That is, if you survived through childhood back then, you’d likely expect to live just about as long as everyone today.

Somehow I doubt that very much. I grew up in an emerging economy. Between the last few decades, life expectancy at birth went up from mid 50s to high 60s. Infant mortality went down, but not enough to cause the rise in life expectancy.

Anecdotally, I know most of my immediate family didn't make it past 70, but that's changing now. Relatively simple to treat chronic diseases such as cardiac issues and diabetes got them.
That would probably describe me if I lived alone, but I have five kids and not being able to leave the house to even go to the local park has been terrible. But we do it anyway. It did force us to subscribe to Disney+ (the first time we have ever used a subscription or streaming service) just to get a bit of peace and sanity for part of the day.
Metabolic and mental health!
I used to buy tons of Kindle and physical books before I discovered Libby and now all I do is search the desired books on Libby through my Public Library cards (you can have more than one Library cards in Libby as some libraries such as San Francisco and Los Angeles just ask for you to be a California resident) and just read them on Kindle free. It also has superb easy-to-use UI and there is always a book available for me to borrow. Love it.
I laughed hard.

Your own code.

Yes, the name "boilerplate" is deceiving here. Not sure where to draw the line. This boilerplate does have some features - websocket with rooms, working with Markdown, S3 file uplod, API Gateway with AWS Lambda, webhook from Stripe and many more.

Is there name for boilerplate with "popular" features?

The book's code is actually free and hosted here:

https://github.com/async-labs/saas/tree/master/book

We charge for book's content which is bunch of explanations and diagrams.
> […] could be used to build and improve infrastructure.

But what about Infrastructure Week?

* https://www.npr.org/2018/05/15/611389675/why-its-infrastruct...

* https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/23/politics/donald-trump-infrast...

* https://theweek.com/articles/839005/all-infrastructure-weeks...

/s

> There doesn't seem to be a lack of money but it never seem to do anything useful.

Well, at the federal level, there are two chambers of Congress and the Executive. Given that there's an election coming up in November, you may wish to do vote for the folks that you best think will change the situation.
I don't mind, but i'd love to see more people create blogs on their own webspace. I enjoy looking at others' portfolio/ self-made blogs, it makes me more willing to tip
I’m not sure how herd immunity is going to work when there’s evidence suggesting that there is no long-term COVID-19 immunity as people are getting reinfected
Given some isolation from prying eyes, a good non-technical method of making a key is to use a blank and grind it by hand. By binding the cylinder and wiggling the key, it leaves marks for each pin that is bound up; grind a little and repeat. Obviously not going to work for certain lock styles with security pins, or Medeco locks (but nor will audio work either, unless you can somehow hear a pin rotating a specific direction)
Our built-in-the-late-90s house has one of those in the hall closet upstairs. No door on it, just a hole. There’s some flashing and a “chute” that’s just a piece of sheet metal angled at 45 degrees to keep stuff from free-falling the whole way down, so it doesn’t look unfinished, but it’s basically just a hole.

Really it’s just a laundry chute. If the laundry room is directly under you, why make it fancier than that?
Much of the bailouts you're speaking of are loans, not grants. The very large exception is the Paycheck Protection Program, which will in most cases become grants to small businesses.

Given the need to institute social distancing, this is the only thing which is keeping hundreds of thousands of small businesses alive. Without the PPP, and other loans to large businesses, we would be seeing tens of millions of permanent job losses.

Much of this money was not spent, it was loaned. And without it the lasting economic effects would have been catastrophic.

I too would like to see additional spending on infrastructure, and I think we can afford it, but I find myself frustrated to see it framed as bailout vs. infrastructure. These financial lifelines are meant to keep our economy treading water while we necessarily social distance. They're not to save corporations from excessive speculation.
Fun fact, the metabolism of the sun produces about as much energy per unit volume as a pile of mulch.
In typical Russian apartment washing machine is installed in bathroom.
As someone in the area, agreed!
Spoiler alert: apparently they already do https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Our-Spaceship-Moon-Coverup/dp...
Many people in first world countries will. Some people in first world countries and probably most in Indian villages don't even have 4g yet. So I doubt that in 1000 days they will have 5g when we are barely producing any devices today with that capability.
A Tool to End the Pandemic
I thought the same thing until I saw it on a Next computer. The colorful little square brings a glint of playful personality to an otherwise-serious-looking black cube.
In most countries, maintaining the minimum restrictions needed to get R~=1 is a deliberate policy choice, not something that's happening by accident.
Couldn't find any 8u265 binaries to download. Am I missing something? In what sense is it "available"?
That makes sense, you could make a puzzle game with this
Only seven countries have done worse than Sweden[1] in terms of deaths/population. It's worse than the US, 4 times worse than Germany, 95 times worse than South Korea and 1895 times worse than Taiwan. Despite having plenty of advance warning and (wasted) opportunity to learn from what other countries had done.

[1] https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
Oh Shit, Git?
> CNC retrofits (even when successful) tend to be never ending projects. This is partly because the kind of person who retrofits a machine is seldom satisfied with it.

There are two primary reasons for the infinite refit:

1) No definite project for the CNC

If you have a definite project, you have a deadline and want that project done. The project also has a monetary implication so you have a budget.

I bought a Formlabs Form 2 for this reason. I didn't want to dork around with 3D printers--I needed to print parts. And it worked, we were printing parts within 3 hours of unboxing the machine.

2) Too stringent budgetary constraints

A lot of people doing CNC refits are scrounging parts from EBay, swap meets, etc. Consequently, the project doesn't have a definite plan--it proceeds in fits and starts when a critical number of pieces have been found.
Let's face it, it's not much to do with being a good communicator. People don't go on twitter because they want to be more effective at communicating, they go on twitter because that's where the audience is despite it being a terrible place for communicating complex issues. (Here, let me link you to that 27 tweet thread, which, inexplicably, is 27 separate posts instead of a single post because we're insane).
To those pointing out that dillo, netsurf, and phoenix didn't get anywhere... You're not wrong. But, on the other hand, the last thing anyone thought we needed was "yet another" search engine in 1997 when google dot com was registered.

You just never know.
Hmmm Java is normally super backwards compatible, even leaving in deprecated API's for several major versions. I wonder what the reasoning behind this change was.
Seems a nice way to send a basket with dirty clothes down without having to bag them or bring them through common areas. Was the basement in common with other people or it was all yours? Nice idea though, although hard to survive in modern times where the mere thought that a child could open it and fall down the basement onto the washing machine would deem it instantly.
Apparently this is news to people but Area 51 is a pretty massive military base with a daily workforce in the thousands. The primary reason it exists is a combination of history (nevada test area) and geography (groom lake allows radar/radio testing with limited observers on the horizon). If anything someone working at area 51 is a HUGE discounting factor in UFO nut nonsense.
Indian reservations are truly in horrific condition. I have spent many days in Navajo nation during my time in Arizona and it reminds of developing countries
How can you link to the swedish numbers and still hold them up as an example? Their numbers are terrible compared to the rest of Europe.
Which came first? I assume that the logo wouldn’t have been designed without knowing what the product looked like, but I could be wrong.
I hope this comes off as politely as it is intended, but do you think your friends' observations also hold across class boundaries and not just across ethnic ones?
Here in the UK the cases are going back up again. We're currently lower than France, Spain (which seems to be really taking off), Belgium, Luxembourg and Sweden, but have higher rates than Germany and the other Nordic countries. We've had local lockdowns, but we'll have to see if that works. It's the holiday month, and seaside towns are fully booked with tourists. People were desperate for a holiday, my family included, but it seems premature, and these busy seaside places are not suited to social distancing. Hospitals are trying to get the elective work going again, but everyone's keeping an eye on the numbers, which threaten to choke elective pathways. Generally, everyone seems to be struggling a bit psychologically. People are slightly grumpier, slightly more aggressive. Petty crime seems to be going up. My shoe trees were stolen at work. Why? My wife has had to park her usual intellectuality stimulating work and homeschool our children for several months now. She's done with that. I totally empathize with the writer. This has become a war of attrition.
What? This happens every year - always.
The TikTok ban and the openness trap
Infinite Dinosaur Comics generator via GPT-2
Yeah, their treatment of Aaron Swartz was despicable, and extremely hypocritical.
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The price does not make it better work.

I see very little effort to create a memorable logo. All these logos look very much alike and neither of them feel like they have any soul to convey.

There is a hint at minimalist design, however I’d argue that minimal is easy to learn, hard to master.

What do you feel when you look at it? I feel nothing. They are just printing out their name in different variations.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not somebody who thinks good design is easy. Never said that. I do however believe that a brand needs some kind of character and uniqueness to their brand and these illustrations feel extremely generic.
Residential air conditioners are usually the largest "peaky" electrical demand and most utilities have a program where they'll give you discounts in exchange for being able to remotely turn off your air conditioner occasionally.
Security Is not a one way only street

When you are in danger an ambulance can drive faster than the speed limits, because safety of people depends on their ability to act fast.

Firefighters can break safety rules, because they have to sometimes.

An on/off switch is only natural when you think about safety, if Apple believe that the only security is the one Apple decided, Apple is wrong.

I'm Italian, but I am a computer scientist.

My grandparents were farmers, and I am very proud of were I come from.

We don't know strawmans, we only know hard work and honesty.

But good stereotypes on your side, I'm impressed!

I had the impression that using ad hominems was prohibited on HN, but I am used to miseducation of Americans...

Anyway, Apple is not building guardrails, they are making bicicles with training wheels, charging a lot of money for them and calling it "security"

If you are happy with it, I'm happy for you, but I'm an adult, I am able to make choices and can, sometimes, learn new things.
Everything is safe if no one else is doing it, I imagine the concern is that even hiking trails can get crowded. Not if you’re off in a super remote place, but if you’re near a big city and a large percentage of residents all want to go for a hike within 30 minutes of where they live on a Saturday morning, the trails will get crowded. There are bottlenecks like a narrow part of a trail or the public bathrooms where people will have to come into close proximity. And of course you will have people that will inevitably meet up with groups of friends they don’t live with on the hike and spread it that way.

If everyone were to hike as responsibly as possible it would be fine, but in terms of broad stroke rules for public health, it seems you have to err on the side of being more strict than you would be just for yourself because people are always bending the rules and acting unpredictably (whether intentionally or not).
He says he has done " no-contact outside activities" all along.
Get a window air conditioner or portable air conditioner... makes life much bearable for those days.
>Yes, very California bubble to think that women are equal and not like children or mentally handicapped

He doesn't say that women are not equal. If you read the particular article the line is from, he makes a totally unrelated argument in that line and in that comparison: that men don't attempt to argue with women because they're emotional/unreasonable in arguments.

And to translate casual talk for those that have to read everything literally, he means that some men, some of the time, don't attempt to argue with women because some women are emotional/unreasonable in some arguments. (That is, a seemingly absolute statement in a casual phrasing - not e.g. in some logical notation - doesn't translate to "absolute everybody/all the time/100%", but usually to some or at worse, most).
Yep, everyone in the biz called it green bar. I'll bet it predates 1967.
You've accused me of hypocrisy based on your claimed experiences with other people. How charming.

In any case, sure, sustainable animal farms exist. Could they meet the meat demands of the US? Popular consensus is no, and [0] lists many authorities who urge a reduction in meat consumption, but I'd be happy for you to convince me otherwise.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_meat...
Thanos Snap Your Repo
The talk on this is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxyAa_txM34
This was written a day ago and it's annoying to see the author state "cases are only going up" when it has been widely reported that the number of cases in Victoria peaked around a week ago - thanks to the strict lockdown.

Victoria is also unique in that it is the only state in Australia with a large outbreak. The government has huge economic and social incentives to contain it.

Victoria charts:
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/ten-graphs-that-...

I'm sorry that the writer is suffering, but as an Australian living in the US id prefer to undergo several weeks of draconian lockdown enforced by the police that could practically eliminate coroanavirus rather than what is probably going to be at least 12 months of restrictions in the US, and hundreds of thousands of deaths.
The problem is that when people refuse to wear masks, it's often other people who end up dying because of it, even when the other people took more care.

The reason, of course, is that masks are only partial protection for the people wearing them.
> Are these upgrades even in the planning phase?

I'm sure there are plenty of plans: the question is whether the general public is willing to deal with the cost.

PG&E (allegedly) delays upgrades:

* https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-07-31/pge-rebuts...

But this was supposedly allowed by (elected) regulators because they didn't want blowback from the electorate about larger bills:

* https://www.wsj.com/articles/pg-e-caused-over-400-fires-in-2...
https://github.com/clarete/hackernews.el This should do what you are asking
It happens.

But we still have 4 weeks of paid vacation.

Doesn't that happen over there?