skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the most likely explanation for that is that they confused the numbers of quarantined->infected and infected->dead people
For interesting reads in Deep learning I follow these:
- https://distill.pub/
- http://colah.github.io/
- https://lexfridman.com/ai/
- http://iamtrask.github.io/
And some interesting reads on Uncertainty in Deep Learning
http://mlg.eng.cam.ac.uk/yarin/blog_2248.html
Fun with Decorators, Protobuf and Apache Beam
The sources are here: https://github.com/stamen/watercolor. You can import the project into Tilemill (https://github.com/tilemill-project/tilemill).
Not arrested. They were given a warning and asked to sign a sort of declaration that they agreed what they said were wrong then were sent to home. Still bad but not the same as being arrested.
Where do you draw the line? If I use the BigQuery UI to analyze data, is that "infra" or "software"? I use Cloud AI Notebooks to spin up a private Jupyter notebook in the Cloud, is that "infra" or "software"?
"Watching Myself Code" is a simple but incredibly good method to have self-retro sessions for self-improvements.

It might be hard to find the exact time to observe, though. Commit history could be an indicator.

I will definitely try that. Any recommendation for a screen recording tool on Mac?
* Compute period is 10% of all electricity production*

You found stats on that? I’m surprised
> Maybe my comment is sort of useful to some

It definitely is. And thank you for the extra details. In Fiji (where I live), kava is a recreational beverage and there is almost no info on medicinal use. As kava use grows in the west we're slowly learning from anecdotes like yours.
Per another HN thread on that, they're really not hospitals so much as warehouses with beds in them. Not that they necessarily need fully equipped hospital facilities for the purpose of housing and treating the infected, but it's still a mischaracterization to call them hospitals.
pretty cool. I found someone who lives ~15 minutes away from me.
Yep my mother researched all of her familiy history, it took months and years. Then when she ran out, she researched my Dad's family history (even though they're divorced). Now she researches family history for friends or random local people. I'm assuming she's an outlier because she's a total history buff, but she's been subscribing for years.
> there is little (maybe zero?) hardware encoding support out there

There are companies offering cloud AV1 FPGA encoding on beefy servers. I'd imagine the performance and quality is much better than what is available to mere mortals right now.
Yup. Specifically, many people have speculated that FEMA has contingency plans where they would even be able to set up internment camps for as many people as needed, if required to quarantine an epidemic or other national emergency. Not too far from what's going on in Wuhan.
> Outsider artist Leonard Knight built Salvation Mountain in Niland, California out of concrete, sand, and accumulated junk. He used so much salvaged paint to cover it with brightly colored religious messages that the county declared the site a “toxic nightmare” due to the amount of lead in the soil and considered dismantling the mountain and hauling it to a toxic waste dump.

How does someone get to build such a mountain without anyone taking notice and considering the impact? You need a permit to extend your porch but nobody looks more carefully at someone building such an artificial mountain? I understand that when powerful economic and political interests are concerned some of these worries will be artificially dismissed but this doesn't appear to be one of those cases.
Ask HN: Where do you store your photos?
I'm thinking about moving away from the cloud and building my own.
I was wondering where you store the photos you take on vacation
Face masks likely don't help much: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/01/29/8005317...

WHO says they can, but only if used very right, and only alongside other measures: https://www.who.int/publications-detail/advice-on-the-use-of...
Google tried to acquire JetBrains multiple times in the past but owners didn't want to sell their cash cow; this is their way to have a large influence over them by paying them a lot for Android Studio, making JB CEO happy and supportive. AFAIK JB teams often work at Google offices and vice versa and it looks like a slow mental assimilation process in progress. That doesn't mean they won't change their minds in the future.
stuff that is happening with CoreOS is a complete NIH show. it's really akward what they are doing.
Google found this: https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-google-microsoft-green-cl...
All of it.

I think rushabh's point was that the Odoo model is an open source core with closed source paid components, whereas ERPNext is fully GPL'd.

ERPNext monetize via a SaaS model, but you are free to self-host.
No, ed(1) is the simplest and the standard text editor. And it has more than 16 users.

https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.en.html
I'm working on pomodoro-timer.app.
My next step is to publish it as a PWA to the google play store :)
Is it open source? Mind sharing a link?
We are planning on releasing a self-hosted solution! We'd love to get in touch to make sure it fills your needs. Could you email us at usecodeflow@gmail.com?
I wish we'd develop a similar agency to the US Digital Service. I think any modern government should have a digital/IT branch... a MIO (Minster of Informatics) etc. I know it's idealistic but I think we could pragmatically solve Canada's digital issues carefully without costing us billions in consultant-overloaded failures.
You are right of course, I was just aiming for the simplest possible editor. Would you agree that having support for backspace still just barely counts as editing?
I am not so sure. This is a handwavy advise I always hear from contemporary business wizbangs, but I don't think it is objectively or universally true. Pedantic, careful and attention to detail, perfectionist products that just work without things breaking all the time are a pleasure to use from the standpoint of the customer. Figure out the implementation details, funding, motivation, etc. as an entrepreneur - shipping broken products to paying customers is something that I only see in the software industry. You don't buy a vacuum cleaner and expect to send half of the missing screws to the customer 6 months later. Hell, just 20 years ago when you bought your SEGA game cassette, it shipped as a final product. Not to be patched ever. Once its out to the factory, if you found a bug, tough luck. Yes, this analogy has its limits, but silicon valley mentality of this startup hustle is questionable.

I recommend watching this incredible talk (it's about software) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk
The story is implausible because it rests on top-secret data about the "real" number of cases being shared with Tencent News and making it all the way to the lowly data-entry operator updating their website. All those disease-tracking websites in China I'm aware of link to a long list of local government press releases and seem to simply aggregate the numbers in those.

https://xw.qq.com/act/qgfeiyan

https://news.sina.cn/zt_d/yiqing0121

https://ncov.dxy.cn/ncovh5/view/pneumonia

I don't believe they have privileged access to government secrets. If the government wants to hide something, the last thing they're going to do is share that data with a news org.
I refuse to talk to non-blind people about blind people. That is such a patronizing move.
They can write me an email if they are interested to talk about different products. mlang@blind.guru
Poisoned tech anecdote: I recently noticed that in one of my favorite bars the coffee grinder has a screensaver.

Considering what should and shouldn't be done is much less popular than finding ways to do it.
The real terrifying thing is how many people will ignore international expert consensus to push their own worldview narratives.

China is bad, everyone else is good. Anything more complicated than that is essentially discarded.

I think they've doing a good job. The world health organisation does. What's the actual problem here other than the usual China flamewars?
its a telnet but you need to activate it first. often backdoors are simple shells like telnet or such services. but it usually requires some 'magic packets' or such things to open the port to it or start the service. if you look at the POC you see it's not simply making a telnet connection to a port, but it does some other stuff first to prepare for it.
Interesting. I can track 100% of my kernel panics on MacOS to kernel extentions (VirtualBox in particular). Hopefully this improves stability.
Panama would not seem to pose any problems as it's all code generation with MethodHandles/VarHandles. That should be directly callable from Kotlin.

As for Valhalla, it remains to be seen how it's usable from Java, let alone anything else. But Kotlin already has a form of value type (inline classes) so perhaps it'll be an extension of that.
Unfortunately the fact that lower budget TV was recorded onto tape at 60fps in the old days of analog television has effectively ruined high frame rate for everyone.

Gemini Man just came out at 120fps in Cinemas and 60fps on blu ray and regardless of your feelings about the quality of the film, I would have thought anybody with eyes could appreciate how amazing the high frame rate looks.

But no, it’s all people moaning about how it looks like a soap opera and “so unnatural” (too lifelike).

It seems anyone who tries high frame rate is crucified for it, so directors aren’t exactly incentivised to try again.
They don't have to be foolproof, it's enough if they're better than wearing no mask at all.
Chinese government definitely doesn't have it easy on the internet. Whole host of conspiracy theorists were saying: wtf couple hundred infected why are they locking down cities and closing provinces - they must know something we don't. And now you get people saying they didn't do enough.

In this thread people are still sharing articles about how there akshually 10s thousands of dead and how the virus was intentionally released from a government lab. And at the same time surprised that the government arrested people spreading panic on social media.

It took them a month to recognize atypical viral pneumonia and report it to WHO. Another ~10 days to isolate the virus (no mean feat, read the paper) and sequence it. Here in the Netherlands people would be just sent home on paracetamol - I had a pneumonia couple years back so I speak from experience.
Those prices are too good to be true, reminds me of the sites that sell windows or office licenses to personal users for like 10 bucks.
Would this quarantine happen in your country or any Western country? I doubt it.
Not really. China has the highest population on the world on absolute and relative basis.

It it very dangerous for China letting a new virus spread. They have lots of 5 Million inhabitants cities. On Norway or any low density country in which people live isolated in Winter anyway not so much.

China is not trying to save the world, it is trying to save itself.
I co-wrote a tool called TimeSnapper that has helped me perform “self-retros” exactly as described in this article.

It’s on Mac now as well, though not free.
And for those who wonder how hard can it be to understand those accounting standards, this is what a typical accounting standard book looks like:

https://www.pbookshop.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/imag...

This thing will definitely hurt your foot if you drop it.
Correct. And even if you could, you would find everybody has some of these potentially dangerous mutations somewhere.

The problem only comes if get the right combination in a single cell and then the cells starts to multiply.

At that stage you might then be able to pick up evidence from circulating tumor DNA ( https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer/testing/circulatingtumordna ) from a blood test.
Virtual threads (Loom) are also not anything affecting bytecode generation, so Kotlin will work with them out of the box.

Really, I don't get this claim Kotlin will lack Java features. Most big Java upgrades these days are at the VM level. Kotlin gets those mostly for free, once they choose to upgrade to newer bytecode features (which they are slow at doing admittedly, but that's because they're in the middle of a compiler rewrite).
> And praised null-safety just gets in the way too much.

If you mean getting in the way of writing reliable software.
And machine learning! ML makes everything better!
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If they were going to make a microkernel they would have done it when they made mach, not after 20 years of writing kernel GPU drivers, network drivers, etc.
No. The Canadian government spent $1B on a simple gun registry, a basic CRUD app that barely worked. US 'healthcare.gov' doesn't need to be that complicated, but it was $2B, screwed up by a Canadian contractor, CGI. A small team of Google devs had to come in and fix it.

Most companies that screw things up that bad, will fail. If they don't, it's still their right to waste money on dumb projects - it's their money.

Government failures (at least in Canada) generally exceed those in the private sector for that reason, exposing the dire systematic problem if 'no competition, no oversight, lack of competency' on a scale rarely seen elsewhere.

Not only is there 'no incentive' to fix problems, often there's also a negative incentive.

It's 2020. The technology to put my medical history online has been available for 20 years. Ontario, Quebec etc. have still completely failed to do this. I still have no easy way of finding out which clinics are available for me, and when I do go to a new one, they have to open an entirely new file, totally unaware of my historical medical issues. To make matters worse, it's literally illegal for me to pay anyone to provide me with medical services. It's kafkaesque.

A very basic medical history system, that merely documented doctors notes etc. could be done 'on the cheap' (relatively speaking) - but it's far from happening.

Even an intelligent regulatory mandate could solve the medical records issue, i.e. providers must participate in XYZ system, with ABC components, designated by the government. But we can't even have that.

It's really bad and I don't see any path to getting better until government develops a whole new attitude towards IT.
Maybe they can convince and buy pro.be domain from the Belgian registry (who have marked it as "not available"). That way you could have a subdomain for every conceivable phenomenon, surface and orifice.
For online maps I'd guess that placing an emphasis on navigation instead of exploration/discovery means that the navigation route as well as your current position on it should be always clearly visible. The map underneath then get desaturated and toned down enough to never interfere with that. Whereas paper maps never had the problem that you want to see an overlay amidst all the map lines.
Fibreglass can be reused to make cement which has the benefit of reducing its production emissions by up to 16%.
https://www.compositesworld.com/blog/post/recycled-composite...
You're saying there are no resources and opportunities beyond Earth?
It may require some adaption (as you mentioned, we can manipulate our own environment) but the rewards are likely to be substantial eventually.
As an undergrad in CS I can say that that politics limit your moves, at least where I live. So the answer is YES.
It’s enforced for the public sector. Which is frankly great in my opinion. Our communication departments have always been the black-sheep of privacy.

Between us, I’m not sure why they are so addicted to various tracking that tells them that absolutely no one clicked on 90% of their content, but they are, and they lack the technical ability to do it themselves without relying on frameworks that steal privacy information.
Where did you hear that?

Because what I heard is that Google pay JetBrains nothing. They forked IntelliJ Community Edition to make Android Studio and have their own development team, which honestly sounds much more like Google to me.
> I realized I was spending about a quarter of the total time implementing the feature tracking down which functions the bugs were in!

This was a huge problem for me back when I was doing web development and had to support IE6. I write hundreds of lines of code which worked fine in Firefox, but then it would crash in IE with no descriptive error message and I would spend an eternity gradually commenting out more and more of my changes until I found the offending line through a tedious manual brute force bisect/test process. I was able to increase my productivity by testing every individual little change in IE as I made it, so that when I got some vague error, at least I knew there were only 10 lines of code where it could possibly be originating from.

However, these days with all the linters, typecheckers, and good error tracebacks in browsers, I'm much faster if I leave all my testing for the end. In fact, I've spent the last 2 weeks refactoring one of my side projects and only bothered testing right at the end. There was only a handful of simple bugs that TypeScript and Mypy couldn't detect, and the in-browser errors told me exactly where to look to fix them.
>> For the past few weeks, I’ve been obsessed with improving my productivity.

I was skeptical about the article from this first sentence. Productive people hardly ever think about productivity and especially don't have much interest in writing articles about it. This is because productive people (in the sense of value-production; not value-capturing) are not focused on optimizing processes, instead they're focused on following the shortest possible path to reach their goal; processes are not needed; they evolve naturally to fit a purpose and don't need to be 'designed' explicitly.

If you're a founder or CEO, then you do need to think about processes, because you're not a value producer, you're a value capturer. Processes are your bread and butter; they're a tool to keep you in your position; so thinking about productivity and preaching about it is the shortest path for you to maintain control and increase your influence.

They should make a new word, "captitivity" to differentiate productivity in the sense of creating value efficiently versus productivity in the sense of capturing money efficiently.
Not yet, still a work in progress. But I can upload it to github, wanted to do that anyways.
the dnc and associated state organizations are not government organizations and there are no rules or regulations on whatever processes they use to select a candidate for the presidential election. they can literally do whatever the hell they want.

for that matter there is no (federal level) law or regulation requiring a public vote for the president at all. the constitution establishes the electoral college but the methods by which electors are chosen and vote are left to the state themselves.
FYI, this: https://github.com/SAP/styleguides/blob/master/clean-abap/Cl... exists and is slowly being adopted for new code. But everything takes time.
Yes, if it worked. But unless they fixed it recently the Virtualbox implementation was super buggy/unusable.
Scala isn’t owned by a company making tools, but in the recent years it has experienced a big transformation on the tooling space with projects such as mill, Ammonite, Metals, Scalafix or Bloop. I’m obviously biased because I’ve worked on some of these tools but having worked with other programming languages lately I’d dare to say Scala tooling is solid and good. In some regards, we have better developer workflows than Kotlin and Java developers have and there’s a huge stream of innovation in this space.
Who's using Kotlin for development other than Android?
> You're missing the fact that the tlab pointer is only ever moved forward, so it always points to recently unused memory. Until the reset happens and it points back to the same memory again, the application managed to allocate several megabytes or sometimes hundreds of megabytes, and most of that new-gen memory does not fit even in L3 cache.

Yes, you are right about stack locality. It indeed moves back and forward making effective used memory region quite small.

> These are not free. The faster you do minor collections, the more likely it is for the objects to survive. And the cost is proportional to survival rate.

Yes, that's true. Immutable languages are doing way better here having small minor heaps (OCaml has 2MB on amd64) and very small survival rates (with many object being directly allocated on older heap if they are known to be lasting in advance).

Now I understand your point better and I agree.
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The low-latency part might not even be true. RC means that you don't have CPU consuming heap scans, but if you free the last reference to a large tree of objects, freeing them can take quite a lot of time, causing high latencies.
I can say firsthand how real & vicious local politics can be in academic institutions.

I made the mistake of openly questioning the research funding of a new professor I began working under in undergrad. It turned out he was the only one who taught the last 2 courses I needed for my CS degree. He took it all very personally. Nearly a 4.0 , success in math & programming competitions for the college, research, none of it mattered. I never finished my CS degree because of those 2 coursse. Years later I went to talk to him about it candidly, hoping I could just keep my head down and finish. But it didn't work.
I believe people have gotten pretty good about auto accepting anything, in no small part due to the 'hey, just wanted to let you know we use cookies, like every other website on the planet!'.

But if people really did overwhelmingly say no, I just see no way for most of the internet to exist. You get overwhelmingly less per click/impression for 'dumb ads,' and news sites have already had to resort to click bait today. It'd pretty much guarantee anything not owned by one of the top 10 would be paywalled in some way.
I know I am--and lovin' it!
When you enter Seoul from the airport by bus, you see a couple of flat-topped hills across the river next to the World Cup soccer stadium. They're about 100 meters tall and just over 2 kilometers from end to end. You wouldn't find anything unusual about them if you weren't used to the Korean landscape -- there are no naturally flat-topped hills around here -- but that's the old garbage dump for this city with a population of 10 million.

They surrounded the garbage with concrete walls to prevent wastewater from leaking into the river, poured a thick layer of soil on top of it, planted trees, and built walkways. Now it's a public park. The underlying garbage still emits methane, which is collected and burned to power the adjacent soccer stadium and other facilities.

We humans made these mountains of crap ourselves. We might not have the budget and/or political will to remove them, but we do have the capacity to make them look significantly less crappy, and perhaps even useful, if we want to.
Honestly for $16 honestly if it does the job it’s great value. Do you want him to hire a full time UX/UI person?
What if I don't want to improve my productivity ? Just take time. After working for years on some projects I know that I'm writing the more efficient and concise code after days of "doing something else". Several days of thinking for only a few hours of coding in the end.

I've solved concurrency issues I had for weeks by walking for several hours in the forest. Code should not be about productivity. Life should not be about productivity.

This article seems to be written from someone that is addicted to work. Why should we force ourselves to organize our days to improve our coding time ? We should organize our life to improve our reading, playing, resting time. Life is about surprises, unplanned things, meeting new people and breaking some habits.