skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unlikely to be at the 10% end in Wuhan. Mortality rates are properties of epidemics, there's no such thing as a mortality rate of a disease per se, because mortality depends on the prior health of the people infected, the sophistication of the health care system, and the load on the healthcare system.

If this coronavirus becomes an epidemic in a region with poor access to healthcare then we may indeed see mortality rates at or above 10% if people cannot get access to supplemental oxygen.

On the other hand if you get coronavirus now in a country with an advanced healthcare system and have access to an ICU then you have excellent chances to recover.

Since we do not know what countries will be affected in the future we cannot begin to guess what the eventual mortality rate will be.
"In a speech at Georgetown University, [Zuckerberg] argued that his company shouldn’t be responsible for arbitrating political speech, and that because political ads already receive so much scrutiny, candidates who choose to lie will be held accountable by journalists and watchdogs."

"In the 10 weeks after the House of Representatives began its impeachment inquiry, the Trump campaign ran roughly 14,000 different ads containing the word impeachment. Sifting through all of them is virtually impossible."

Sifting through that volume of ads seems like a problem that would benefit from at least partial automation.

Does anyone here know of any (preferably open source) efforts in this space?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done
Garbage Collection at Food Courts
>Meanwhile, it’s been 15 years since my first 2 GHz+ MacBook, and a new MacBook still has a base clock around that range. Maybe it’ll turbo boost to 4 GHz for 10 seconds before it exceeds its thermal envelope.)

The short version is that MacBook is not designed for speed/performance but looks. It overheats by default.

2700k could reach/overclock to 4.5Ghz w/o much trouble, given proper cooling - 2011. The reason for lower base clock is the Intel TDP definition.
Was it easier back then though? Because now you have all of these website creators that let you make a website with no coding needed at all. It seems way easier now, just with less motivation for anyone to make a website of their own now that social media is such a big thing
Fourth reason: To be to be remembered after you’re gone.
Getting things done, one of the widespread methodologies for organizing your life based on a book with the same name by David Allen.
Tangentially related question: I really dig the buildings that have been converted to 3dview on google maps. No other really comes close.

I'm 3dprinting a mini-city for someone, and want to get that data. Is there a good way for me to get that data somehow?
I just love to hear this.

/sarcasm on

With 26 years in software development, low level linux (kernel "stuff") and low level windows (kernel "stuff" again), with work including from analyzing malware to writting DRM that was left unbroken for 3 years, to high level software, system administration on various unixes and unix like beasts, including low level networking, fluent in c, c++, asm x86/64, go and some "stuff" I am not proud off (c#, java, python, js, php), expirience in management, team leadership, working for bluechips, US three letter agencies and army (as a part of my previous jobs), annoyingly proficient in security (..., there is more, but who cares) I earn 24k netto euros a year and consider myself lucky, due to a fact that I cant move to another country based on broken marriage and my wish to still parent my kid every second week. Oh, you have 120k salery? I wouldnt complain if I were you.

/sarcasm off

Just my 5 cents, Instead of counting the money, concentrate on what makes you happy. You will pass better on long term. At the end there is not much you can take into grave. And money certanly doesnt make it softer.
I went a little overboard with fountain pen ink a few years back and stopped using fountain pens until recently. I'm left handed, but my wrist placement (underhanded) doesn't cause any problems with ink smear. I found that using them for notes and summaries "slows me down" and I process information better. YMMV.

I use the Herbin ballpoint for quick notes and I really like it. For longer sessions, I'll whip up a Pilot Vanishing Point as I find that the added flex causes less fatigue. I also ordered Yookers felt tip pens that takes FP ink (https://yookers-shop.com/). I love the Sharpie pens, so if they feel the same, I might just hoard them and slowly empty my ink collection.
The Sims is where I learned the appropriate way to interact with others based on what provided higher relationship status. I grew up in a very rigid, structured family without a lot of external interaction so this was my primer to "succeeding" later in life. I still experience crippling anxiety from social interactions, but at least the The Sims provided an appropriate socialization path to allow for quasi normal relationships with coworkers.
"Users with vestibular disorders need control over movement triggered by interactions"

Also: it's fucking annoying.

I appreciate how much UX devs put into affordance and usability patterns, but I equally despise they "hey let's make this animated and more complex" for no good reason.
Video meetings that just work.
What about users of RPA software like UiPath, Blue Prism, etc.?
The importance of interactive data visualization
And yet Germany's engineer salaries are still substantially better than, say, France, let alone Spain or Italy.

In the large, European salaries for technical professionals are just way worse than American equivalents.
Honest question: How is this at all 'cyberpunk'?
Do you clock your time in org-mode? I find that helps me keep todos up to date even if I am working tasks based on an informal plan only in my mind.
There is also a small scale producer that is not listed in the article: Kakimori (Tokyo).

https://kakimori.com/english

I own one of their ink pens but I use it rarely so I can't say much about durability.
You might find NetLogo interesting. There is also a free course on using it in terms of complex systems on the Complexity Explorer website. It is presented by the Santa Fe Institute, which you probably already know is at the forefront of this type of research. https://www.complexityexplorer.org/ for Complexity Explorer, and https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/index.shtml for NetLogo.
It would already be nice if it was Julia LLVM JIT style.

Many of the "why Python is slow" articles usually hand wave the fact that other languages, just as dynamic, like Common Lisp and Smalltalk, have quite capable JIT compilers.

So it is a matter of having enough resources to throw at it.

Maybe PyPy and Numba are as good as it gets, unless some big corporation is willing to spend big bucks into improving Python's JITs.
I agree it’s interesting but I’m guessing the flagging is because this cuts too close to the no politics rule for submissions. Even quite neutral posts often turn into political argument in the comments, so one that could easily be seen as anti-Trump is going to attract too much mud slinging.
etymonline is a perpetual delight.

The maintainer answers emails fast, too: i asked him to provide a RSS feed for blog posts 6 weeks ago and it was live 90 minutes later!
I think that both sides create a burden. In my opinion, the difference is that, it is a one-to-many kind of matching scenario. One person (the one opting out of using the preferred messaging method of all their friends) creates a burden to many people, while all those people create a burden just for one person.

If it helps, you can try visualizing it as a fully connected graph that initially has equally weighted edges between all nodes. But then the weight of all edges connected to one specific node goes up by multiple factors. That node loses out much more than all the other nodes.
On a smaller scale, this is def. a thing that's coming. Take the OP-Z for example, which has a dedicated Unity engine track (in addition to sample, synth, MIDI, FX, performance and even DMX).

Realtime ray tracing (see e.g. NVIDIA iRay) is being patched into many realtime 3D systems at the moment, and I suspect will become more popular for projection mapping art installations this year.
The advantage of fountain ink is that it flows with minimum pressure, you barely need to touch the paper. This is noticable if you write for hours, but few do these days.
I think anyone who had spent time living outside of North America will recognize that the cultures of Canada and the US are indeed nearly identical. Especially in the context of this thread, which is about the workplace.
I think it depend what you want to measure; there isn't just one thing to measure.
"The Ontario government, during negotiations with Cisco for a juicy corporate subsidy, indicated that salaries are 'very competitive' and that they'd do 'anything to keep it that way'. Literally stating that he wanted to keep us 'poorer' to guarantee the jobs. (Sorry I can't find the reference)."

This was also a point made during the amazon pitch - cheap labour.
Cookie Clicker cost me my job (2013)
The stagefright stuff was never fixed for most people I'd bet, it's just odd that no one's just decided to try to take over a billion phones. 90% of them don't seem to get monthly patches in a timely manner/at all, or are so old there's no patch anyway.
That's really good news and we need more of it for sure. But looking at objective total $ invested (and growth), it does not paint the same picture. Those examples are still exceptions rather than the new norm, we just don't have that many (would-be) unicorns/fast-growing companies. Even if we did, I am still unsure the salaries would go up and most companies don't give equity... I am rather pessimistic about this tech boom narrative that the medias try to sell us. What I see is some large firms taking advantage of a low CAD while most tech companies are still at low/zero growth and offer very mediocre salaries. Maybe it's only in Quebec though.
NASA is a big place, so you can’t make statements at that level of generality.

Here’s Arun Viswanathan’s google scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jdotmygAAAAJ&hl=en
Why would that break the ability to make phone calls though? Unless they mean now you have the capability to break it, not that unlocking it may break it
For the life of me I can't see why anyone would need picture in picture for browsers.
More features most people don't need.
Please come down to earth Mozilla.
You have lost your way.
Please revisit NCSA Mosaic and witness your roots.
This is the best thing I’ve ever read. The answer has been right in front of my eyes. I’ve been searching for a good note/things to know/knowledge storage app for decades. And a single text file seems like the best option. I’ve already started transferring stuff today to a text file.
>having an entire company about exterminating the viability of bots is horrifying.

I have a website I use to make money to feed my family. Shitty bots mess up my website, cost me money. A SaaS offers a solution, which saves me money.

What about that line of logic is horrifying to you?
Yes I know. But the order of execution can vary even if you don't run in parallel.

For example if you have two targets, A and B, and B depends on A's output but you forgot to say so, then `make` can build B before A even if you don't use the `-j` option.
Good thing I chose not to be famous.
Ever meet old money? They manage it; that's how they pass their money on through the generations. If you're a tech dude in the Bay Area though, you have my sympathies: many predators.
Well, I still think that allowing Javascript onto the web was a fatal mistake. HTTP/URL/HTML and eventually also CSS was a fantastic combination. This stack was progressively learnable via self-discovery.

Once the Javascript-coders infected the web it almost immediately turned into a write-only medium.

I worked at a browser vendor whilst all of this was happening. I was busy with the mechanics of building a particular browser. Couldn't make sense of the javascript/webstandards stuff in detail, but I trusted these people were smart enough. I did notice the people who were running this stuff (they were making the formerly kinda static html/css web standards dynamic by defining vast amounts of javascript API:s) were all very young people. Probably a median age of 21 or so. (Some "wunderkids" around 17 or so.) The average age of the people actually implementing stuff was closer to 28-30 in this company. Nothing against young people in general.. they can bring new thoughts etc.. but.. they do tend to lack experience.

In retrospect I regret that I didn't engage with this young crowd more. In general I wish there had been more discussion between these two camps.
But in the context of Canada versus USA the difference seems marginal.

https://neuvoo.ca/tax-calculator/?iam=&uet_calculate=calcula...

Using the USD equivalent amount in CA
https://neuvoo.com/tax-calculator/?iam=&uet_calculate=calcul...

Works out to ~$74k

And that’s including our healthcare and other social services. That ~$2000 CAD goes a long, long way and I’d rather have it doing what it’s doing than gain it for what I’d lose.

And the marginal rate is not what you end up paying.
Algorithmic Control: Automated Decisionmaking in America’s Cities
Chrome allows you to force zooming without switching to desktop. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Force enable zoom.
The immigration process itself has gotten appreciably worse though.

A few years ago, it took me fifteen minutes to renew a Work Permit at the border. Last year, it was an intentionally unpleasant all-day affair. The online system is horrifically backlogged, far beyond the 100 or so days it says on the website.
Are you seeking help in constructing the mechanics of a model or in taking an existing model and projecting it into the future? Or both?
The continual expansion of web standards for one off devices and use cases only ensures that only Google can afford to build a browser.
Container file system layers are based off of tar files; some folks prefer containers for data management due to the tooling available vs tar/gzip. You can compose using a Dockerfile, version with hashes, label, and push/pull/transfer with registries.

I think there are benefits in using containers for data management when properly implemented.
Of course the average ticket is higher, that person is buying a larger sandwich.

Let’s say 50% of Dunkin’ customers don’t buy food at all, just coffee. If your group in question becomes “people who buy a beyond meat sandwich” of course the ticket price goes higher.

The same thing would happened if you limited the results to “people who bought a bacon, egg, and cheese bagel sandwich.” That sandwich and a coffee is gonna run you about $9.

There are also smaller, cheaper food items that cannot be made in beyond meat versions (donuts and hash browns, for example).
This happens every time a new kernel is pushed out (security fixes...). Debian's suggested way is to use the debian-installer-netboot packages for updating, e.g. https://packages.debian.org/buster/debian-installer-10-netbo...
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It depends if it’s the act of signing itself that is ceremonalized, or the quality of the ink on the paper.
Google should invest in making keep into a auto flashcard learning system. It would be awesome if they integrate this with annotations from Google Books like Google Docs.
Windows 10 Warning: Anger at Microsoft Rises with Serious New Failure
Agreed, fit and finish in the Tesla models is terribly low end. More like a 90's Ford Taurus than any other upmarket brand.
Actually no I don’t!

Good paper doesn’t even have to be too expensive either. Maybe more than a college ruled notebook. But I don’t take copious notes so something aesthetically nice to use is a big plus for me.
For personal knowledge, most graph-based ideas were pioneered by Niklas Luhmann in his Zettelkasten system. This system is described with lots of detail in [1] and made him extraordinarily productive.

Essentially, Luhmann had one small card per semantic unit. Cards had alphanumeric IDs. Cards backlinked to other cards using said IDs. He also used a card branching mechanism implemented in IDs as e.g. 123 -> 123a -> 123a1 which he called Folgezettel.

Lastly, he also had cards whose role was mostly to connect topics by serving as a link hub.

It's a really simple system that you can implement using plain text, Org, Markdown or some note taking application like Apple Notes or OneNote plus a few conventions.

After trying many things, for personal use I think nothing beats plain text (or a plain text format). I don't need a server, I can easily sync things, and it's really future proof.

I have also scaled this kind of setup to larger organizations, albeit using a more classical wiki-like approach (read longer articles instead of small semantic unit cards). For example, GitLab has excellent continuous integration. You can use an Emacs or Pandoc inside a Docker to export Org or Markdown files into an HTML.

[1] https://takesmartnotes.com/
you missed the point. it's not that this specific api call can't take embedded \0; it's that there is no alternative api that allows embedded null. there's no way to open a file by using a string containing \0, no matter what api you pick, but you can write data to a file which contains null if you pick the right function. there's no apriori way to know which apis have this duplication and which don't.
Yeah a hand held jump starter is like $40-60. I have one that was left in my car when it got recovered after being stolen. Works great. Also doubles as a USB charger and flashlight.
but an MMS costs money, doesn't it? And it has do go through the carriers who might stop mass-sms like that.
I use PiP for various videos, whilst I’m working and not splitting the screen.
> Basically, only security updates and major bug fixes, with new updated installation media images.

With a tiny exception for the two most complex packages, Chromium and Firefox, which have different support cycles from Debian plus different levels of arch support. For those you get a wholesale application upgrade which may or may not work given your arch and version of stable.

Not a big deal atm, but if the web or the arm architecture ever takes off this may become an issue.
This is a failure in your hiring process as well. How are you vetting your candidates? Are there gaps in your process that are allowing people who are a bad fit through?

Where I work, we had a PhD leave within 6 months. She was not able to deal with the lack of structure. Frankly, neither can I, but my motivations are a little different from hers. The team leadership could have done better in focusing on specific deliverables and letting her gain confidence through small victories before leading her down an open ended death march with few tangible criteria for success.
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I find it quite handy when browsing YouTube. I even thought it was a YouTube feature before I realised it didn't work in chrome.
Who Needs High-Tech Film Editing When There's the Thrill of the Single Shot?
You are mad I use this feature all the time.
FWIW, it’s going away with the newer generation, but anyone in France over the age of 40-50 from an upper middle/higher class education would likely follow similar etiquette. Not sure if it’s still the case, but French students were required to use fountain pens from 1st grade till at least high school when i was growing up (as a leftie, being schooled by old school teachers who made you redo any assignment that had smeared ink was painful).
http://highscalability.com/

Weekly (friday) newsletter about scalable systems. Kind of an echo chamber for HN or a high quality digest of it, depending on your viewpoint.

Has sponsored posts.
Depends on the company, Google I believe begins at 15 days and you only get more after a certain tenure.
Run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2 (2015)
Here are more not-programming things.

Do you have early customers/friendly users? Have you done any UI testing? Paper prototypes? Do you have a clear idea of your users' goals?

While dated, read "The Design of Everyday Things" and "The Inmates Are Running the Asylum".

If you don't have users even to the level of being able to provide early feedback for non-functional UI designs, then you are probably doing too much coding and not enough user testing.

(That's easy for me to say, but there's a decent chance I'm wrong.)
Merly comfortably? At 10 million dollars, you can live off of 4% of that for the rest of your life. After 15% cap gains, that gives you $340,000 to spend a year. Outside of the bay area, you can easily afford a 5000 square foot house in a top school district, own multiple cars, take lavish vacations, own a second vacation home, pay for your kids college education and more.

What additional benefits are you imagining in which having more money would not "resign your children to mere comfort"?
Its helpful for increasing your ADHD.
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You can keep an eye on them, and those children will still take off full speed charging headlong to their deaths.

In the relatively recent path they just died and families had lots more children to make up for the loss. Now we have far fewer children and we are expected to watch then 24/7 without a lapse in observation or concentration.
A comment on reddit said they use it all the time when following coding tutorials. Seems like a handy use case.
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> unless some big corporation is willing to spend big bucks

It seems like the outcome of the Unladen Swallow project was that there was no point to JIT generally because the language semantics prevent the sort of accelerations possible in other languages. (I'm aware of how PyPy and Numba are successful exceptions.)
Luckily their "Hall of Fame" is open for anyone to see. And some of the accounts in there are pretty obvious junk accounts with the usual junk passwords. Would probably take like 5 tries to "brute force" your way in, which given the context of the site would even seem fair game.
We also have more genes overall, so in absolute terms the difference between us and chimpanzees or fruit flies is pretty large compared to the differences between those two viruses. Also we basically have all the ingredients to procreate ourselves (we only need to team up with someone from the other sex), while viruses partly rely on the protein synthesis machinery of the host. So viruses can do away with conserved proteins they will find in most of their hosts, we can't.
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You are never safe but millions/billions gives you options.
> We don't force socialize people

That's good. I prefer to keep work and normal life separate. Of course you can develop great friendship through work, no need to force it.

> We don't force video on people

Once you are established that seems fine, but when bringing on new members I get a better feeling that I am dealing with another human being instead of some random person bugging me on slack.

> I will never go back to an on-site company if I can help it.

Same
Isn't the reason they use DVI that it helps avoid the HDMI licencing costs? Not the FPGA implementation, but the adopter licence fee.
New Ryzen 7 4800H + GPU are coming soon, supposedly best for less