skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They seem to be confusing mortality rate (MR) with case fatality rate (CFR). Mortality rate is deaths per thousand per year applied to the whole population. Despite its name, CFR is the proportion of actual cases who die, and is a probability rather than a rate.

The CFR is estimated at between 10 - 20 %, i.e. a symptomatic member of the population (a case) has a 10 - 20 % chance of dying. 30 % of the global population of 1.8 billion were infected over the several year course of the epidemic, which equates to 600 million cases leading to 60 - 120 million deaths.

MR was >2.5 %, so more than 2.5 % of the global population died per year during the epidemic. With a population of 1.8 billion, this equates to >45 million deaths per year over several years.
Market, and point in the career.

If you've got 15-20 years of experience and you've never stayed somewhere more than 12-18 months, it's a very different scenario than someone with 5-6 years, even in SV.
Steven Sinofsky and the iPad Announcement
I think so.

It is through self-identification however. The Chinese people keep their history record consecutive for about 3000 years, if discounted Xia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-Four_Histories

Several key factors:

1. Chinese characters have been used in China ever since Qin, and never been successfully replaced by external conquerers. The character itself is pretty much recognizable by today's Chinese citizens.

2. China's dominating philosophy/religion, the Confucianism, is pretty much alive and never been replaced either. This top-down, parental style state-over-individual system is still a key element in operation of Chinese society on micro/macro level.

3. The dynasty model. One after another, never changes.

All in all, it is still due to self-identification.
History has repeatedly shown that "infeasible" attacks are really just difficult.
Counting a physical process, so you have to allocate space. 0 is that allocation, and as you move along the number line, you update that space (using "add 1"). Note that you only update the space at discrete intervals, which has surprisingly deep implications.

Having a kid I've been thinking a lot about counting, and what it really is. It seems totally wrapped up in repetition, and so I'm wondering if teaching counting as a function of, say, circular motion doesn't give a better intuition than the usual "count this clump of things" approach. (Counting clumps requires the person to simultaneously introduce an ordering and then implement a kind of internalized repetition as they point and count rhythmically. My kid seems to struggle with the ordering part, and no wonder: N objects have N! orderings.)
I wonder how realistic it is to expect a vaccine in 3 months, given that we don't have a vaccine for MERS 8 years later (and not really one for SARS either)? Is it just a question of allocating resources and shifting priorities?
I had a similar reaction when the WHO daily situation report linked to the wrong document today (now fixed).

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...
If I understood this correctly, a pixel that is "on" in the tactile array is not just raised up above the "off" level, it is actually vibrating up and down at somewhere between 250 and 300 Hz.

That certainly makes the mechanics complicated, an array of such pins is not exactly off the shelf today either, I think?

It feels like the rest of the system, including of course the optical part which was a major achievement back then with custom silicon to get 144 photodiodes on a single chip, are more or less trivial today. But the complexity of a mechanical "display" is still not something that is solved by mainstream components as far as I know.

I wonder how reliable they are, I hope it's "very" since people are still using mechanical devices from 15+ years ago for something as critical. :/

Edit: I found this link [1] which shows a cross-section of a sensing pin connected to a piezoelectric bimorph. I can't imagine packing 144 of that structure that closely together, though. But perhaps the device offsets the bimorphs from the array, connecting the pins and bimorphs mechanically.

[1] https://books.google.se/books?id=6dWjBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA309
Are many Ring units sold outside of the US? I see them advertised as a way to combat this "porch pirate" thing. But to me, as someone living in the UK, the idea of a delivery person leaving a package on my doorstep for someone to steal is mad. If I'm not in I expect another delivery attempt or for the package to be taken to the secure local* depot where I can pick it up. If they decide to leave it outside my door and it gets stolen, I fully expect (and will get) another one delivered at no cost to me, other than the time penalty. Why is this even a thing? Is this a new thing that Amazon created with their delivery strategy and now you also get to buy the solution from them?!

And if it's just a security camera watching my property/car, then a dumb one sounds fine and cheaper. Not to mention it'll actually look like a security camera which is arguably more valuable as a deterrent.

* rarely that local.
When you select your seller on Amazon, make sure the seller is Amazon and not a third party seller "fulfilled by amazon"
> Another bad idea from that era - Wirth's insistence that you shouldn't be allowed compile-time arithmetic in Pascal.

This restriction has since long been relaxed in Wirth's later languages Modula-2 and Oberon which both supersede Pascal.

https://www.miasap.se/obnc/oberon-report.html#appendix
In the US road costs are split among the three levels of government. Unfortunately road/fuel taxes at the federal and state level have not increased this century, resulting in a huge maintenance backlog.
I'm in the process of turning my Toshiba Libretto 110CT (a subnotebook from 1998) into a simple remote terminal (over ssh) with custom server software to handle emails, rss feeds, chats and so on. It runs under FreeDOS and connects to WiFi by a combination of PCMCIA ethernet adapter + mobile router with built-in battery. I love the form factor and the "oldschool" keyboard, I have regenerated the battery and it's quite light so it's really portable and handy.
Works really well for Poland. Chicago is sometimes (jokingly) considered the second biggest Polish city.
> So when it came time to buy a new laptop, I went to Lenovo’s web site… and literally could not find how to customize and purchase a laptop.

Never understood why they do this. Is their store that buggy? Are they playing games with inventory management? There are some days where you just can't order the computer that you want.

I've repeatedly had a hard time configuring ThinkPads with high resolution (wqhd or 4k) displays. It's definitely supposed to be a standard available option on several models but for some reason only appears in the configuration menu like 20% of the time.
It's usually a C++-ism, since in C++ generic iterators overwrite operator++, and when writing generic code, you must allow for this, since ++i is equivalent to i.operator++(), while i++ is equivalent to `auto x=i; i.operator++(); return x`.

Given the author, I assume that this is also common in D.
> The iPads Pro outperform MacBooks computationally.

Off-topic, but it's an interesting choice to pluralize "iPads Pro", especially in a sentence where it could easily be singular ("The iPad Pro outperforms MacBooks computationally"). After all, there aren't different tech specs on the different iPads Pro (of the same generation). They just differ in screen size, IIRC.
ipad + youtube ( or twitch) has replaced TV for many people, and ipad is definitely a game changer in some niche professional markets where autonomy and keyboardless makes it a true alternative to paper (any people taking notes while standing).

i think the most lacking features are related to pencil interactions ( which still can't be used to enter text in iOS text fields easily), but i feel it's really slowly getting there
Or, you know, you accidentally create Slack ;)
There's some info about the code at https://worldwideweb.cern.ch/code/ and a github mirror that appears to contain a usable app bundle: https://github.com/cynthia/WorldWideWeb
This is where many folks don’t understand enterprise. The tech has gotta work but it shouldn’t impact the business in a negative way either. This is why out of the box, no vendors are perfect for us in the banking world because they just don’t get it yet and hence, kicks off a huge wave of customisations just to get it up to an enterprise security standard.
ipads have a non-insignificant footprint as point of sales systems these days too, so I wouldn't say ipads are _only_ a consumption device. They are also a pretty solid task specific unit for certain specific industries.
goes on to explain misuse.. jk sort of.

What when allocation fails or disk full etc?
Quite the opposite. Not only are urban populations increasing, but the so-called economies of ride-sharing and same-day delivery increase the number of vehicles on the road significantly. NYC has done studies.
> The iPad was a new class of device, sitting between a phone and a laptop. To succeed, it needed not only to be better at some things than either a phone or laptop, it needed to be much better. It was and is.

For me the problem of the iPad is that it's merely inconsistently better at a slew of entertainment/consumption based activities but for everything else it's worse than any decent laptop. As even consumption-based workflows may involve intermediate bursts of typing, and just to extend the iPad's range into more uses I am tempted to have a keyboard -- but then it almost nears the inconvenience of carrying a laptop.

IMO to be revolutionary the iPad should convince you not to buy a laptop, or it should be as light as the kindle so that you would consider reading it Star Trek style for 20-30 minutes per day, as even the iPad mini is a bit weighty. Right now with the focus on iPad Pro and Air I think Apple is going toward the former.
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When I did maths in high-school and university, most indices were 0-based,not 1-based. 0-based indexing is so common in physics and engineering (e.g. the initial time of a system is T0, not T1).

Note also that, in maths, both the cardinal and the ordinal numbers start at 0 - defined as the cardinality of the empty set and the set containing the empty set, respectively.
CNY movie to premiere on China’s TikTok because of coronavirus
Such a great site! Love the simple design and lack of ornamentation.
You could always try to contact him direct:

https://stephen.sh/about
Yeah, it works because a lot of motorways in Spain have two lanes, and people like to drive fast, so lane hogging isn't tolerated.
I concur, because I observe this exact problem for years now. I work for a company producing modular hardware for decades. Until like 5-10 years ago all countable stuff was counted from 1 as is only logical. Processing blades, interface ports, chassis, internal modules of same type, logical elements (sessions, channels etc.). And then on seventh day devil came by :) . The biggest customer along with several other wrote a new revision of standard we are using and there everything is 0 based. And now we are in hell. Yes, it is mostly contained but even after years of developments of new product, years in production sometimes we still find bugs around 0 based numbering. There are multiple places where 0-based is mixed with 1-based or just used incorrectly. And talking to humans about hardware become much more error prone and inefficient - "please connect card one, port one to the switch" - first as in 0 or 1? Should I specify it this time explicitly? But he probably knows what I mean. Or maybe not? And if he is wrong I will waste another day waiting to change wiring again. Screw it, I'll tell him explicitly. Every goddamn time.

All of this because some arrogant programmers (or ex-programmers) think that they know better than everyone else and that changing legacy and/or logically correct conventions is good because of their religious beliefs that "0-based is better for everyone and every task".
Firstly, it's a very positive sign that you're reaching out. That is usually the biggest hurdle.
Getting professional help is the first critical step.
Connecting with someone who has been through this and come out the other side (and there's thousands out there) is the second.
With the greatest respect to others here, I disagree that continuing to go to work is a must. Looking after your health is the priority here, otherwise the ability to go to work might be taken away due to the physical limitations that inevitably come with Burnout.
How do I know this? See below.
Meanwhile, if you hit me up via email or LinkedIn, Id be MORE than happy to set up a call.
If my 5 years experience in managing this proves to be of some value, then I'm happy to give up 30 mins of my time.
In the meantime, please take care.
https://www.rebuildingburnout.com/about-me
Gruber is right that the iPad hasn't revolutionized an industry like the Mac or iPhone. But the iPad was launched smack in the middle of the iPhone and the Mac, not in the middle of a green field.

The iPhone had competition below it, from feature phones and Blackberrys. But there was nothing above it. Similarly, the Mac was launched into a very nascent market, where there were competitors (PCs), but it wasn't facing competition from above and below in the same way the iPad was.

Perhaps the iPad would have done better and grown faster if it had been made by a company that wasn't worried about cannibalizing iPhone or Mac sales. But surely part of the reason the iPad has been as successful as it has is that it runs the same apps as iPhones and has attracted devs who might not have otherwise been interested.
Yes?

Let me tell you just one story about this. I used to work as a systems engineer for one company where we had Hadoop as the data warehouse solution. One day my co-worker decided that he is going to get into DevOps and his first thing will be to touch DNS settings. He also thought that the best course of action is to push his changes without a review. His code was deployed to staging.

I was called into to investigate an outage on staging later on. Needless to say I was unaware of the changes but this is not the point. Hadoop datanodes were failing with the following:

"Cannot connect to NameNode: host.name.tld port x"

I was was trying to investigate why. Unfortunately I did some quick testing as root and I could connect to the host and port combo. I went through all the changes in Hadoop configuration but there was no change that could cause this. Finally (several hours later) I wrote a simple Ruby code that did the exact same thing and I run it as hdfs user. I run the code and it failed with the following:

"Cannot open /etc/resolv.conf"

As you can see the Java codebase was failing with the same reason but nobody bothered to check for this problem in the library so the exception that you cannot open a file resulted in a different exception. It turns out my co-worker was very eager and security aware and he changed the resolv.conf permission from 444 to 400. I also made the mistake to investigate this as root first and not going through the unrelated changes. If Hadoop's Java was decent enough it would have printed the exact error message instead of something that is related but not exactly the error you are facing. This is what I push for regardless of the language, catch the error exactly where it happens and log it there and I think this is what the parent was referring to as well.
I actually use iPad for coding nowadays. It is of course slower than using a keyboard but also a quite relaxing and fun way of programming.
> Around the year 0 the Chinese culture was en par with the level of western
> culture and technology - speak Rome.
>
> Only during the middle ages the west fell so far beyond and Chinese had indeed
> a superior level of technology, knowledge and administration. Things reversed
> again with the industrial revolution and the center of industrial GDP moved to
> the west again.

I think you've got shifting definitions of the West.

The Roman Empire was on par with China, but the Roman Empire was centred around the Near East – Greece, Turkey, Syria, Egypt, etc.

Western European parts of the Empire were very under-developed, and only really served as a buffer for Rome. (Consider how quickly the Roman Empire gave up the West after moving its capital to the East.)

In the Middle Ages the West was behind, but it was in ancient times too, so no difference. And the Near East was still on par – no difference again.

It's only really modern times that have been difference, with the West exploding out of nowhere. But that is probably just a blip, and in the grand scheme we will probably end up with China and the Near East rising again.
Google Confirms Chrome Security Shocker: All Paid Extension Updates Suspended
If you buy a lot from Amazon, you can choose Internet Archive as your supported charity for AmazonSmile.
There's an interesting thought.
Code-your-model: modularized modeling based on a project-specific DSL
>On top they seem to heat a lot with electricity — something which you only would do in an emergency in the alps.

How else would you propose heating a property in England in the winter?
Thanks.

EFF's analysis of Amazon Ring egress traffic mentions some possibly useful tools for inspecting SSL/TLS traffic. Specifically: mitmproxy and Frida.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/ring-doorbell-app-pack... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22165568)
The primary purpose of a standup seems to be a forcing function. It forces developers to make progress. The embarrassment factor of having to admit you did not finish your tasks for the day is what drives these meetings. I've been through the grind on both sides: as a developer and as a manager. I thoroughly detest stand-ups. When I started my company, I decided not to do them. I have a one-on-one with each developer everyday to understand progress. I don't ask for progress reports, since I can see their commit history. This seems to more effective than wasting their time and mine in a pointless meeting. I still do stand-ups with sales people though. They seem to like the camaraderie of the big meeting.
That looks sweet - I did a small search on EBay, and - dang - they are expensive. The only two I could find where around 150€ each.
Is this what you are searching for? http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/LineMode/Defaults/Distribu...

There is more available at the following website: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
I bet this was done on purpose with tongue in cheek.
> The iPad has been a spectacular success, and to tens of millions it is a beloved part of their daily lives, but it has, to date, fallen short of revolutionary.

Why does everything have to be revolutionary? Pretty much everybody I know who has an iPad love using their device. It's a wonderful tool for media and web consumption, it just works for that use case very, very well. It can be used effortlessly, for multiple hours a day. Does it really have to do more?

Personally I just don't use split-screen apps on the iPad, but I'm not the least inconvenienced by the feature being around, behind some strange gestures I don't really bothered to learn.
Despite the US leftist whining about the disappearing middle class, the US middle class is still a beacon to the world in actual prosperity. The Us can afford 80% to own vehicles to drive on its still decent roads, while its only 60% in Europe and 25% in much-touted China.
Then this should be re-evaluated. They had no need for written communication systems, because they have (had) the most robust word of mouth, oral history of any human society.

40,000 years of oral traditions accurately reproduced over the generations. We 'civilised Europeans' can't even do 80 years.

The argument can be made that the FNP of Australia are not only the longest running civilisation, but in terms of actual human activity, the most advanced.

Longest-running, still in operation, mineral mines (20,000 years). They had cryptographic systems which not only kept the peace between 300 different languages, but enabled a massive trade network to flourish.

Personally, I consider China young in comparison, and the West absolutely juvenile.
I thought it was a pretty good post details wise. Wouldn't call it "barely scratching the surface"
I have two T480 laptops (work and personal) running Debian and Arch. Highly recommended. If you do get the ThinkPad, update the Thunderbolt firmware before wiping Windows, as Lenovo hasn't released the update on LVFS for the T480 yet, and apparently there's a might-break-hardware class bug.

https://github.com/fwupd/missing-firmware-lenovo-thinkpad/is...
As of what is known today, the earliest Chinese writing dates to ~ 2K BC, or about a thousand years later than earliest written languages in Mesopotamia. The Chinese Bronze Age starts at 1600 BC, whereas you have the Bronze Age starting around 3000 BC in Egypt and Mesopotamia. All evidence points to Chinese civilization being about 1000-2000 years "younger" than Mesopotamia or Egypt, and also younger than India.
It's been known for some time that anything out of the top 10 that uses a pow algorithm for which you can buy hashpower in the market is pretty easy to run a doublespend on. It doesn't seem to have had a huge effect on adoption of those coins though.
It's a nice overview article for anyone interested in the topic of IE from financial documents. However, for industrial level solutions Tesseract does not cut it. Abbyy is the best OCR engine on the market currently. Receipt IE works just fine with rules supported by a small BiLSTM as fallback just because receipts do not contain a lot of text. With invoices this approach is suboptimal. On a general note no DL approach will give you fast and high enough results just because any advanced network would be too slow and too generic. If extraction takes more than 5 sec. it is hard to sell such system.
Spot on. I've been using an iPad Pro for 3 years now I use it every day and I love it but I still can't reliably get two apps to sit side-by side on the screen.
My 2012 MacBook Pro is in great condition and probably would’ve stayed that way for awhile, but sluggishness was just becoming too common. Especially when I’m off mains, running an IDE, a browser, and occasionally compiling
NHS Digital migrates two major services to AWS
Deliveries left unsecured on a doorstop is a common practice in the US, typically found in low-crime residential areas. It was by no means invented by Amazon -- it's been a thing for a long time.
Redefining the Boundaries of Success in a Fantasy Cricket App
Show HN: I Was Unlucky – DuckDuckGo to Google Fallback Firefox Extension
I think a lot of people from our community has the same experience as me. I tried using DuckDuckGo as my primary search platform a few times due to privacy concerns, but I always went back to Google because I wasn't satisfied with the results sometimes.

To solve this issue, I created a tiny Firefox addon which adds a new button to my DDG search page called "I was unlucky" and if you click on that button, it redirects you to Google with the same search query. I found it very useful.

I know you can do the same with appending "!g" to the query, but that's much more effort. :)
Enterprise ThinkPads are amazing machines. They're very sturdy (although the X230 notoriously has a weak screw holder in the top left (or is it right?) corner that will almost always break and make that corner of the case a bit wobbly. Annoying but not critical. And the i7 top of the range version that comes with the 180GB Intel SSD... Well, the SSD is bad and can be thrown out. It has a bug in its firmware that was never fixed by Intel and never acknowledged by Lenovo so no recall, and no fix. Just throw it away and replace with a 256-512 GB SSD.

And the parts are cheap and plentiful. Get the docking station if you can, I paid 30$ for two a few years ago (top of the range dock, the one with all the connectors and 2x video out)

Also, the IPS upgrade is well worth it.