skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> filter out worth-while content

Isn't that the opposite of the goal?
Discourse is going nowhere because people think that it's fair for the American Government to enact restrictions on global companies based in America, in a way that makes it impossible for a company from another country to operate fairly on a market (Europe) where American Institutions have absolutely no jurisdiction.

How is that even legal in a country where the free market is basically God? Free market as long as it's in the American interest?
Better not update it to Android 10 though, as they canceled the project.
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> a) The stats coming from Hubei are adverse selected; they are from patients who already had severe enough illness to go to the hospital

I don't think this assumption holds true. In a panic, many people are trying to get diagnosed based on rightfully held fear. These are people who have the energy to travel to many hospitals and stand in lines for hours. In some places, people who are seemingly symptomatic are also encouraged/forced to be diagnosed despite not feeling the need to go to a hospital.
The problem is it's not a either/or situation. If China can spy on you, the US likely can as well with its likely greater resources.
Probably that law enforcement will force you to unlock your iPhone.
We already see Airbnb using dark, anxiety-inducing UX patterns (e.g. 5 other people are looking...).

With them needing more revenue, this tactic will likely escalate.
Obviously you set up a home office in case they want to see it, and then still just work from your bedroom :)
It's legally impossible to even build San Francisco into a place like Manhattan. Most the city is only zoned for two stories.
This is a great write up that has the potential to save many beginners the headache of discovering these methods the hard way.
I was just quoting, but also wondered about that seemingly random threshold. Looks like a crude measure
It can also be solved by going after the shady hosts for fraud. Those hosts know what they are doing and it is illegal.
There used to be a time when the game would render to a buffer slightly larger than the screen, then blit the right portion of that buffer to the screen. This meant that scrolling just consisted in blitting from a different offset. Composing the background image, then, would only require changing the bits behind animated sprites (so you would usually intersect the old and new position of each sprite with the background tile grid to find which tiles to draw again).

All of this changed with the advent of 3d hardware acceleration, but I remember doing it up until 2005 to get significant performance gains (on bad hardware).
This is a badly retold, ad-heavy version of this referenced article:

https://www.idahostatesman.com/living/health-fitness/article...

Sfgate's narrative is to potray this as a Grand Trend, yet only one actual "California refugee" (Brindle) family is listed, and they clearly state that their reason for leaving CA is economic, not because of vaccination requirements.
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Glad to hear that your health is improving. I have my own set of experiences that lead me to support your argument, the medical community seems to suffer from a lot of defensive or downright elitist behaviour when it comes to a discussion of their field with anyone outside it. It seems like a very 'siloed' industry with little cross-communication at the front line of care. The emerging field of Psychoneuroendocrinology seems like an attempt to address that by 'dealing with the interrelated disciplines of psychology, neurobiology, endocrinology, immunology, neurology, and psychiatry, with an emphasis on multidisciplinary studies aiming at integrating these disciplines in terms of either basic research or clinical implications.' in their words; https://www.journals.elsevier.com/psychoneuroendocrinology
Which means that both pilots 1.set the parameters (not a single button push), 2.follow closely that the plane does what they would have, 3.ready to take over at any moment, as the AP cannot even reliably detect it's not on the happy path; this does take off some of the cognitive load off the pilots, but it's very far from the narrative "push button and have a coffee" that's being peddled here.

In fact, it's more of "hold this heading and glideslope" than anything else - a smarter cruise control, if you will.
It looks like the author is showcasing his product, hence the random screenshot of test coverage as well.
It's interesting that MERS was about twice as deadly as the Spanish Flu. I guess because it happened in a certain part of the world, the Western media just decided it wasn't worthy of wall-to-wall Snowpocalypse yellow journalism.
There is no "fair" here. China routinely puts soft pressure on foreign companies for making statements that it dislikes. That will likely expand in the future as China's soft power grows. See anything Taiwan, Tibet, or Hong Kong related.

Clearly some other countries are still sovereign anyways and have gone against the US's wishes.

No true free market exists.
> I mean, it seems likely that pretty much everyone who dies will be tested. Except for victims of auto accidents or whatever.

Availability of test kits is the bottleneck for accurate statistics, and they aren't being used on the dead because there are many more living people who are symptomatic and need them.
Interesting, thanks.

Tesla should put Lidar in their Semi Trucks. Since they'll be constantly driving the whole country, they would have a lot of regularly updated scan data that they could deploy to their lower price point vehicles that only have cameras.
With a Tesla you hang a banana off the steering wheel. The weight tricks the system into thinking it is a hand.

With GM's Super Cruise you can go completely hands free, that's the intended use, but it has eye tracking to make sure you are constantly watching the road.
Well, I extend my cognition quite extensively to my pen and paper notes, my whiteboard and my code. Suddenly I get a sense of familiarity with the spider...
Interestingly, the tables i know from random access machines are basically of type

bin -> bin,

So what were saying here that random data is stuff we cant meaningfully into a table?

I think thats a good statement.

Tables are non random data. (Crypto keys are again data, because they are bin -> bin in terms encrypt and decrypt, but the number itself isnt a table)
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Interesting - they cite a paper that gave Corbyn a much better chance at winning in Britian, and yet he lost very badly.

So, does this paper really pass muster, despite the detail?
Definitely need to improve Privacy Policy. I've just used some random privacy policy generator a few months ago when it was just a random side project.

There is a paid PRO plan in the app. It's pretty standard for site builders - pay for custom domains and premium blocks. I'll add this info to the website.

Thank you for the feedback!
This leads to situations a society has to be willing to accept without crying how much money is wasted - namely: You will have empty beds/hospital wings/hospitals most of the time. And people will sit around doing 'nothing' aka training for the day when they are needed.

I'm not convinced that the current political climate in either Europe or America is prepared to do that.
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People already mentioned map, but isn't search history Google's most valuable proprietary dataset?
stream.map(f).collect(…)

is where checked exceptions failed. #map is a generic method that should obviously throw each of the checked exceptions f can throw, but without some kind of generic sum type Java can't express that. Everyone is forced to choose between "can throw any exception" (e.g., Callable<T>) and "can only throw unchecked exceptions" (e.g., Function<T, U>), each of which spreads virally and punishes anyone using specific throws clauses.
New banks are getting FDIC approval[0]. Latest one was approved last Friday.

Perhaps you meant something else?

[0]: https://www.fdic.gov/regulations/laws/bankdecisions/depins/i...
But you can use your awesome vim skill to feed text into a OpenOffice document, and while the OOo internals are probably 100x more complicated than vim, the user interface for "text on my screen" stays the same, and transition is smooth, even though the internals underneath is vastly different. If git requires 'everyone' to know the internals before they can use it, as opposed to rcs,cvs,svn,perforce users who can more easily flip around between those for most basic usages, then its on git for having a complicated shell around a complicated set of internals.

It would have been nice if there was a simpler shell around the complex machinery for those (us?) who don't want to do crazy stuff, who don't need to be able to do crazy stuff and who could settle for only the simple 90% of the tooling like we do with the alternatives, but are forced to use git for external reasons.
Yeah, my wife wanted to open a separate account for her new job, and they said she'd have to go visit the original branch.

This is at Deutsche Bank, by the way, not some podunk obscure bank.
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What framework can take advantage of these new chips right now?
> everything is hush hush or online. No one has the _____ to stand up and say this is not right.

What do you even mean by this? Online is how you reach the largest audience, so of course people are speaking out online if they want others to hear what they have to say.
We don’t know the actual death toll in Wuhan. The number we get is people who were diagnosed and then were determined to have died of the disease. What we’d really like to know is simply how many people have died of any cause, and then subtract a base rate. The total deaths figure is not being provided.
There's really no good reason that a network connection open in the background needs to use extra battery, if configured carefully. If configured incorrectly, it absolutely would, but a background connection doesn't need to regularly wake the phone up, just as Google's own push messaging service doesn't.
> Buy a whiteboard and write the goals for the day on it, for instance

As a solo dev the biggest productivity booster for me, from a physical and mental aspect, was purchasing a whiteboard. It honestly feels like some sort of hack. Prior to having one I would use pen and paper but that didn't quite scratch my itch - if I made a mistake I would have to scribble it out and that space was now wasted. I can't quite explain why but on a whiteboard my brain juices just flow. Made a mistake? Wipe it off. Need more space? Wipe it off (or purchase additional whiteboards).

My high school maths teacher once said something that has stuck with me since - "When you're stuck on a problem, start fresh on a blank piece of paper." - he must've meant a whiteboard ;)
It is a flying problem known as "The Children of Magenta"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ESJH1NLMLs
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This is true. But what I wish for is better public transport in countryside. Automated train that can run also late at night and more bus would have relieved most of my woes when I was living in the countryside.
>By the way, MSR is hiring for Checked C

Only internships ATM according to their web page
I use it. Last week I had >500 tabs open. Firefox ran without a hitch. But really, if you don't use tabs this way: don't start.
Threat from a disease is a combination of tendency to spread, circumstance of initial outbreak, and deadliness. The latter alone isn't what makes it a matter of urgent global concern on a simple pragmatic level.
Slightly off topic, but what should a map or flatMap implementation on boolean do? Presumably run on true and skip on false? That’s not really what I expect from map (that it’s filtered the input). I could imagine book.filter.map as a way to conditionally execute
I think the target will mainly be developers who already provide a version of their app on f-droid.

I don't know of it's an obligation to use google's firebase pish notifications though. I might be mistaken, but I think that Conversations use its own push notifications already:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.siacs.conve...
> Results show that if as low as 20% of infected persons are asymptomatic and can transmit the virus, then even 95% quarantine efficacy will not be able to contain the virus.

Heavy statement coming from LANL and not some random twitter user. I am firmly in the “very afraid” camp now.
It's called loop unrolling and improves performance by eliminating loop control overhead and reducing branch mispredictions. Maybe they had a compiler background :)? /s
Something that Java typically gets the blame for, but was actually introduced in CLU, adopted by Modula-3 and C++ before Java was even born.

And with my .NET hat, I hate having to dig into outdated documentation to discover what exceptions might come my way, so one ends up catching any kind of exception, just in case it might blow, in critical code paths.
The core language is fine but the surrounding ecosystem is volatile.
I think Europe got rid of magstripes 15 years ago. IIRC 2005 was the deadline.
For a first run, he got a lot of support and seemed to do very, very well in debates and in media interviews. He came across smart AF and human. He also has plenty of time to run in 2024, 2028, 2032, etc. because he knows where the landscape of the people are at and what needs to happen. One could only hope he also would be considered for Veep too in whoever takes the nom.

The media and the DNC are doing everything they can to hype up everyone but Bernie. And let's not forget the DNC will more than likely "decide" the primary is "too close," so they can use the superdelegates to decide against the popular vote. Then there's the Electoral College, which will be another, similar hurdle. Bernie has two Mt. Everests to climb, but he's got his crampons on and rope coiled. The key is the elites of the DNC must not arrogantly overrule the representative democratic process (psephocracy) to fit their agenda.

Disclaimer: I have no horse in this race.
Running background services in Android is tricky. Most device manufacturers put their own battery management software on devices, which makes it almost impossible to run long-running services in the background. And since this framework would either perpetually run in the background or run frequently to check for new messages, your app is guaranteed to be throttled(force-killed) by most devices. And being force killed means that your app cannot receive push notifications even from FCM.

I'm curious to know if anyone is using this framework in the wild.
Google stopped listing a TwoBitHistory page after DMCA claim on the word "did"
On my Pixel 2: Pull phone out, putting on finger on the fingerprint reader while holding it > tap on terminal. It's just all one motion. Super convenient.
The community have been very vocal on a number of issues and thoroughly ignored and steamrolled over. Or the direction changes once the desired outcome is established.
As other commenters have pointed out, this is gimmicky, shallow and clickbaity. All that they did was count from 1 to 68 billion.

Any piece of digital data can be converted to a number, and if we apply their argument then you can be "creative" by just counting numbers.

But we all know that's not true. Once the search space becomes that big, you can't actually "enjoy" any of these melodies. Because you can't listen to all of them in your lifetime, the ones that you WILL hear are going to be awful 99.999 percent of the time.

Hence, the "creative" process is navigating this search space, and figuring out which melodies are catchy. Better yet, trying to figure out how or why our brain decides to like or not like a melody.
The greatest, most joyous programming is deleting large chunks of code.
He complained once before about this stretch, and yet he kept driving auto pilot at the same location? I would never dare to do that, and sounds suicidal. Also I would never dare to fully trust auto-pilot and I think they should change the official name to driver assistance instead, until auto-pilot is ready.

Which is how Tesla want to treat it according to the article: "Tesla says Autopilot is intended to be used for driver assistance and that drivers must be ready to intervene at all times."
> There are so many places where computation is far from free and size matters (embedded, HPC for example).

Even in more typical use cases, it matters: for example performance or memory use can mean the difference between a small or large EC2 instance which has very real cost implications. Or it affects battery life of my phone app. Or between my application feeling fluid or laggy.

All of there’s things have real implications for users.

I very much care when I need a top of the line computer to run some shitty application that should be able to run on 20 year old hardware.

Yet I also understand programmer ergonomics and recently implemented an interpreter for a domain specific language in an already not the fastest language because productivity mattered more to me and correct easy to write domain code mattered more to me. But the point is that it was a conscious decision made after weighing the costs and benefits, not just because I think compute and memory are free. They’re not, this has a real cost for me being able to run it, in terms of servers, but with the benefit that I can replace complex buggy code that took me months to write, with simple easy to understand code that I could write in a few hours (and a thoroughly unit tested parser and interpreter that took a week to write)
And it was never intended to be used as full programming language rather to bootstrap the CPL compiler, hence the B.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPL_(programming_language)

In an alternative universe, had the CPL project not suffered management issues and C would never had happened.
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That’s an unfair characterization if you’re talking about the crash in Arizona. Perhaps: “Did you hear about the Uber crash where the AI couldn’t track a pedestrian jaywalking at night across the middle of a nearly pitch black two lane highway and then killed her?” would have been more apt. https://youtu.be/ufNNuafuU7M

That being said, I’m a huge skeptic of the current state of self driving cars. I would have assumed these systems use LIDAR as well as vision and could have at least slammed on the brakes.
> And people will sit around doing 'nothing' aka training for the day when they are needed.

This is already an accurate description of most fire departments and militaries around the world. It shouldn’t be too hard to accept that a similar necessity of spare capacity occurs for healthcare.
Do you know anything about Hello Bank ?
Women were not pushed out of CS or discouraged. Just go look at the evolution of degrees by gender and pay close attention to the absolute, not relative numbers.

What happened is that as personal computing took off in the 80s, men's interest in the field soared permanently while women temporarily showed interest and then dropped off again. The same happened with dotcom.

The article you linked is a giant exercise in selling the same tired old narrative, even as it debunks itself. They even spell it out: when Grace Hopper "invented the compiler" it was actually what we'd call a linker today, and the work was in fact mostly clerical and rote because there were no abstractions to compile.

As soon as tooling for that came around, that changed, and we started architecting something we would now consider code. Which men appeared to enjoy more.

I have a much more convincing argument though. 15% of CS degrees are given to women, a number that has remained mostly flat for two decades (but only because men dropping out of college during that time, otherwise it'd be lower). Half the top 25 programming languages on stack overflow's survey were created in that time.

None of them have female creators. Not one. Where are all those genius female programming language designers we keep hearing about? If women are just as capable, are they just too lazy then? Or is creating a good programming language and making it successful such a stubborn gamble of both abstraction skill and confidence that women fall out of the distribution?

Oh no it must be because people tell them they can't do it. Nevermind that gender orthodoxy has sung only one song for the last 40 years, while being amply funded, and they all prefer to go study third rate sociology instead of getting a real STEM degree...
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The EU generally talks to the industry affected by some regulations, this is generally to prevent deploying a regulation or law that doesn't really work in practise and to find a reasonable compromise (of course, sometimes multiple industries end up at the table, some with more political power than others, which is how you get the EU copyright reform pushed by newspapers and yellow journalists)
Exactly. It’s like server analytics. Averages are less useful than percentiles.
It's time Elon should really consider augmenting Tesla's cameras with LIDAR.
Plain text is internally ropes-something, indented with meters of vimscript, colored with a syntax model that is okay to change, hard to create from scratch, etc. it’s all hidden from a regular user who uses a subset of all features.

But if you ignore the non-ms movement, shortcuts and advanced transforms, it is still a text editor that everyone may use. You can’t put your text (text, not a current mode!) into a state that looks okay but requires a vim guru to continue or start over because something is broken in the model. That’s different from git issues where working copy looks okay, but the branch and merge are broken in subtle ways.

>Plain text is just a lot simpler than a VCS repository.

Than a Git repository, not a VCS one. Not saying that VCS = plain text, but much simpler models exist for merging teh codes.
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Oh my... I don't even know why I wrote Bluetooth. Of course it's NFC. There are some similarities, but it's obviously two different protocols. I stand corrected.
I've never had trouble sending to gmail.

I've never had occasion to send to yahoo mail, but recently sent a test message to an account I had there. Yahoo said it was spam. I marked it as not spam.

After that, sending to yahoo was fine.

I also had never sent to outlook mail. I made an account and tried sending mail from my domain. It went to the spam folder. I told outlook it was not spam.

Tried another message...still spam. Told it that it was not.

I think I'm up to 10 or so such messages now, and outlook is still saying they are spam.
It sounds like Bunq would be right up your alley.
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You’ll never use a filthy public bathroom again if this startup has its way 2017
Haha, yeah, definitely not the effect I was going for :) They are real though, but I see what you mean, lots of room for improvement.

Thanks for the note, fixing Firefox!
Really? I mean, there are so many fewer dead than potentially infected who may just have a cold.

But if that's true, it just confuses things more.
MERS had apparently a low infectivity, making it a low level threat to the rest of the world.
The exposure time and the dynamic range of the sensor affects the visibility of the person in that video - it is very likely that a non-distracted human would have performed better.

The vehicle was equipped with both radar and lidar. The victim was detected as an unknown object six seconds prior to impact, and at 1.3 seconds prior to impact when the victim entered the road the system determined that emergency braking by the driver was required, however the (distracted) driver was not alerted of this.