skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Related article with an interesting gif showing the color changing fiber: http://news.mit.edu/2020/model-how-strong-knot-0102
Twitter is testing a community-based points system
Seems like you haven't worked with actual large scale golang code bases then.
I don't see how containment is possible without much more robust testing.

How can you contain if you aren't detecting?
Ditto for logging framework, unit test framework, base http framework...
Mass Effect is an action RPG, so I'm not sure why you're even comparing it to those other games. Of course it's nothing like them.
Decoding evolution and transmissions of novel pneumonia coronavirus
May I ask for a little more information about these designs, in how they're structured and if it's local only? I've been thinking about buying land in, you guessed it, northern Portugal, and I'm interested in mixed old-agricultural and forested land nearby a river. Sounds pretty similar to your area!
Constrained optimization is great and probably helpful but calling it a path to fairness misses what makes something fair.

Fairness is not a result, it is a process. Any time people come with a model they made in a closed room that is going to make important decisions for or about other people fairness is impossible.

Fairness is the ability to appeal decisions, fairness is taking part in building the model, fairness is voting on whether the model is suitable and giving consent before your data can be fed to the model in development or production.

Optimization strategies can not achieve any of these things. We're not a little numerical tweak from fairness.
It depends. There’s 1 federal return (albeit with many different forms) and 50 states (each with their own system). TurboTax, H&R Block, and CreditKarma keep track of all the changes for you.

And if you make a mistake in your software and the user gets audited, you can bet you’ll be sued by the user eventually.
Tide pods are actually delicious however.
What do you mean with adoption?
Facial expressions don't tell the whole story of emotion
The “Cheerios Effect” (2005) [pdf]
I looked for strings that I am sure only appear in my code, and I found several copies of them, but not mine.
The Defence Ministry said technical problems are normal for projects of this scale.
Cortex has a design much more like M3DB than Thanos; I wouldn’t expect the same problems as Thanos at all.

(I am a Cortex maintainer)
Of course, I'm not going to treat anything here as the absolute truth, but I'm looking for things I might have missed.

I read the article, but other than keeping food and not touching your face etc. I didn't see much actionable advice for me. I'm not taking any prescription drugs, I don't have any family members close enough that I could treat them and handshakes are uncommon at my office.
Imagine how much weight you could gain doing that many lunch interviews.. yikes
Greta Thunberg’s mother reveals teenager’s troubled childhood
> The standard of evidence is what I see when I use the language at work. And so far, I don't see much that validates the golang designers' claims to be honest.

Either we're talking past each other or you're being deliberately obtuse.

The claim is that Go was designed to be a language in service to software engineering, for programming in the large. The evidence for this claim is that the designers claim it, that's totally sufficient. The fact that your experience of the language doesn't sync with this claim is irrelevant, because it has no bearing on the design of the thing. If you want to claim that the designers have failed at this goal, that's a totally separate argument.
The USDA recommendation is just to provide the small amount of vegetables a family normally eats, not to provide all their calories. 50 sq m is absolutely tiny, and even with the most calorically dense crops like a 300 bushel/acre corn crop, that 50 sq m is producing less than 1000 calories a day, it won't support anyone.
I don't really have an issue in Canada with payments. Contactless w/ Visa/Amex/Interac is basically ubiquitous, and cash is fine when you don't want to rely on the networks. That thing you describe with Starbucks is here too, not that I really care about waiting 90 seconds for a beverage at a Starbucks, on the occasion that I visit one.
> The graphs of numbers of confirmed infected all seem to be bending down

Those numbers are dominated by the reports from China. If you look at just the cases outside China, then those are still on an exponential curve with a doubling time of about 6 days.

My plot of the WHO numbers outside China:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQTpoR9gmgei...

Source of the numbers: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...
> It might not be as elitist as rust or clojure but if collaboration is important for your project I'd rather have simple

I'm not a rust fanboy, but I wonder why people have the assumption that programming should _not_ be elitist. Where did we get the idea that programming should not be a skilled trade, but rather something the everyman can do?

> without foot guns rather then amazing with dragons all over.

Ironically, Rust and Clojure have less "footguns" if we're talking about concurrency and parallelism.
God dammit we need reform to make tax preparation companies extinct. Why is something mandatory so complicated?
Ah this is really interesting, it didn’t occur to me while reading the paper, I just assumed crystals grow reliably.

Because they’re running sha512 on the crystal data, the output will always look random. But if the crystals have a bias in their preferred growth patterns, especially if there’s a non-trivial probability that they don’t grow, knowing that may be an attack vector, you can use that information to simulate the process and possibly produce the same output.

“A raw binary sequence was then generated by assigning 5 bytes per crystal pixel based on size, orientation, and color, with crystals ordered from top left to bottom right in the vial region (see Supplemental Information for details). These bytes were concatenated with those of adjacent crystal pixels and of subsequent crystals to generate a long binary sequence. This sequence was then split into sections of 64 bytes, and the sha512 algorithm was applied to each of these sections. The resulting binary sequences were concatenated to form a larger-output binary sequence.”

The sha512 is the reason the output is uniform, but if I were doing this, I’d throw a time stamp and maybe some calls to drand48() or something into the pre-sha mix, to guarantee that the input can’t be easily replicated.
> ... It sucks for commerce and tourism, but that's just too bad.

Which is exactly why coutries with heavy tourism, such as Thailand aren't reporting the real number of cases they have (my personal assumption).
Real weapons are not like that. They are expensive, they can fail to kill their target and they can also cause collateral damage. If death notes were as easy to obtain as guns there would clearly be an increase in homicides but that's not true with military missiles.

The Slaughterbots video is absolutely awful. First of all quadrocopters have an incredibly small payload capacity and limited flight time. A quadrocopter lifting a shaped charge would be as big as your head and have 5 minutes of flight. Simply locking your door and hiding under your bed would be enough to stop them. The AI aspect doesn't make them more dangerous than a "smart rifle" that shoots once the barrel points at a target.

Do you know what I am scared of? I am more scared of riot police using 40mm grenade launchers with "non-lethal" projectiles who are knowingly aiming them at my face even though their training clearly taught that these weapons should never be used to aim at someone's head. The end result is lost eyeballs and sometimes even deaths and the people who were targeted aren't just limited to those who are protesting violently in a large crowd. Peaceful bystanders and journalists who were not involved also became victims of this type of police violence. [0]

[0] https://www.thelocal.fr/20190129/france-in-numbers-police-vi...
saw a report in Chinese recently about these products’ radioactivity https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/rIa5bFkSt4tffYDWuNyB1w

Should really let amazon remove them
You need special equipment to accept cards.
Well crap. Time to file my taxes for this year and cancel my account.

This is the reason I won't sign up for any new startup ever - it seems that eventually they all get acquired by one of the old guard behemoths anyway.

No matter how virtuous and privacy focused they are, that all gets destroyed when someone buys them.
The problem is that they are composed as riddles, with the whole thing made so that unless you trained yourself on solving riddles, you might not figure out that it's a fermi problem.

Meanwhile asking questions that are grounded in the actual work you're going to have the candidate do, often gets you people making the estimation even if they haven't heard of Fermi Estimation, ever.

That's what makes them riddles, to me, and mostly useless BS in actual interview.
Google TyDi QA, a data set that aims to capture the uniqueness of languages
See https://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article "Language Design in the Service of Software Engineering" for some of the design goals of Go and how they led to its current design. (For example, gofmt/gofix make automated refactorings across a large codebase (different teams) easier or more pleasant.)
New research on reasons people hate refugees (Psychology Today)
Intuit better have the next $7 Billion ready again and again...if CreditKarma did so can another company.
Coverage-Based Fuzzing with Libfuzzer
Give me the numbers.

People panic over everything imaginable. The only defense is logic. (which unfortunately is only a slow and long term defense)

At this point I feel I am more likely to win the lottery and get struck my lightning twice before I get this virus. And even then, what is the death rate for healthy adults?

It's amazing how easily people freak out these days.
Did they not have the equipment?
All job interviews are stressful. Are you just scapegoating whiteboarding?
I was hoping for some kind of mathematical formalism for a design scheme - this is not that.
Reinventing the Greenhouse (2015)
There has been concern on this point from epidemiologists and public health professionals for some time:

Director of Johns Hopkins School of public health, health security program: https://twitter.com/t_inglesby/status/1231363420907343873

Dean of Nebraska’s college of public health: https://twitter.com/unmc_drkhan/status/1231284337435381761

Sentinel testing of ILIs (influenza like illnesses testing negative for the flu) in major metros was to have begun at least a week ago. But now delayed for some unknown period of time due to reagent failure on the PCR test kits.

For further context, BC in Canada has alone managed to run more tests than the entire US as currently reported. We have 60x the population and more travelers from the source region in the key Dec/Jan time frame. If we wait till the severe ARDS cases show up like in Iran and Italy it’s already out in the community and causes unnecessary panic.

As the person in charge of viral testing at Brigham and Women’s / Harvard med just tweeted today:
“ Reminder: As of today (Feb 23), the US remains extremely limited in #COVID19 testing. Only 3 of ~100 public health labs have @CDC test kits working and CDC is not sharing what went wrong with the kits. How to know if COVID19 is spreading here if we are not looking for it.”

“ Now >10 days since CDC recalled kits w still no explanation for failure. Failure to share what went wrong hinders progress by all labs nationwide. Expeditious sharing of information is a must during epidemics. We say this to China and CDC should practice as well.”

“As someone responsible for overseeing virology diagnostics at our hospital @harvardmed @BrighamWomens - the need for clarity and quick turnaround is paramount to keep the hospital running smoothly in event of local transmission. So far, process from CDC leaves much to be desired”

https://twitter.com/michaelmina_lab/status/12315038051598131...
It's the cloud that is not viable in a software world. Software is too important to introduce unnecessary dependencies and weaknesses.
Mount Everest became a multimillion-dollar business
I think there is a real need to understand how much of a vector our phone screens are. People touch their phones, wash their hands, and then touch their phones again.
Protective eyeglasses is a good one. I wanted to get some anyway, but keep forgetting about it.
London is just too expensive for the salaries some of these companies are offering though..
mostly due to two clusters - a cult church in south korean and a ship in japan.

will be interesting to see what curve you can get once you remove those two clusters.
Makes about $30/mo in Brave Browser referrals https://www.trump-news.today/
Conspiracy theories make the promulgator automatically look like a quack.
Food items should include things you can eat while/after your digestive system is wrecked, also known as the BRAT diet, bananas, rice, apple sauce and toast.
Spoken Languages
> access to C libraries

Have you tried the "cgo" facility and found it lacking? If so, how?
And the other major political party consistently adds complexities to the tax code either as a form of social welfare or to extract revenue to pay for their projects. The EITC, the AMT, the NIIT, all sorts of deductions.

Unfortunately, there is not really a constituency in either party for simplified taxes.
Any good credit karma alternatives? Seems we must switch.
> That being said, with death being so rare among the young, I don't see why most people should panic more than they do about flu season.

This is my thoughts why Covid-19 is much more dangerous than seasonal flu: first it is much more virulent, and hard to detect, many of the infections in Korea were due to one 61 years old woman alone. Secondly the mortality rate is higher too, estimated at 2-3%, with the serious cases at around 10% (please correct me if I am wrong). Those two above combined means if left unchecked, Covid-19 can easily overload our medical system, as what is happening in Wuhan*. So I will most likely won't perish or suffer any long term health problems from Covid-19, but our society as a whole might be devastated if we can't contain it. There is no need to succumb to irrational fear (like what's happening some countries), but we should all be prepared.

Actually I am worried about Iran, the embargo from America means their medical system are lacking all essentials. That's why they have so many deaths, second only yo China.
And all of the documents that you need are free online. I can’t imagine there’s much more to it than a time investment.
Minor point, but not all fifty states collect income tax.
It has never been a credible promise. Unfortunately.
A collection of thoughts....

De Re Metallica, mentioned in the article, was written by Georg Acricola in the 16th century. It was not translated from the original (and highly idiosyncratic) Latin until the early 20th century, by a young mining engineer and his wife, Herbert Clark and Lou Henry Hoover. Yes, later the President of the US. You can read their translation at (or download it from) the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/georgiusagricola00agri/page/n4/m...

The book remained in use through the 20th century, discussing both mining and metallurgy.

Stellnungkunst is one form of power distribution, of motive energy across space. There's another mode, which distributes force across an area, through distributed water (or other fluid) pressure. This was widely used in the 19th century, and variants remain in use -- your dentist's drills and other implements, and an auto repair garage's air-powered tools are examples, as well as the mechanisms of some lifts. Low Tech Magazine has an article on this method as well:

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2016/03/hydraulic-accumulato...

As I've noted below, the notion of rod-based mechanisms is reminiscent of Neal Stephenson's "rod logic" from Diamond Age, as well as complex mechanical calculators such as the Curta, developed in the 1930s and still in use through the 1970s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curta

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2016/03/hydraulic-accumulato...
I have a similar app I'm working on called Tome:

- https://tome.cfapps.io

- https://github.com/d3sandoval/tome

Mine is focused on collaborating on Poetry and other Prose. I'm currently working on implementing versioning and sharing features.

This looks like an awesome bit of competition! Is it open source?
That would be the description of programming, right? Because that's how I always feel when I start writing a game from scratch, instead of using some click-and-play game maker.
The fewer ways just means that now you have to jump through hoops to fight against the language, ending up with more complicated code bases (and this has been observed in practice).

> People often laud the relative ease of picking up the language.

That's not a great metric to measure the effectiveness of a language. Furthermore, there are still gotchas that people have to learn to be aware of, and patterns of how the language does things that need to be learned. Again, the same can be said of Java/C#.
The specific advice for food storage is "weeks" not couple months - the couple months is directed at prescription meds. The different timelines allocated is likely due to the relative feasibility, the risk of running out, and the ease of resupply.
Lets not forget to note that these companies in the USA have actively lobbied against simplifying taxes for citizens. So yes the size of the country adds complexity but our nasty capitalism makes it worse.
libspotify and the old iOS Spotify SDK used to provide the ability to stream and play songs in your app, without having to play through a Spotify device or backgrounded Spotify app. This was particularly great in the case of libspotify because it was written in C, making it easy to bind to whichever language you preferred. It was complete enough to write an entire alternative client with.

It looks like this web playback SDK works by creating a local Spotify Connect device to play to, which I guess would technically work, but it’d be much nicer if it just directly played songs as libspotify did and now MusicKit JS does.
Yes, we should wash our phones too. It's very simple when the phone is waterproof.
I suspect cases are even worse. Screens are at least smooth and easy to clean.
Some quick googling led me to this[1] paper which says the PEGS signals are loudest in the 0.002 to 0.03 Hz range, while Advanced LIGO is primarily sensitive in the 10 to 10kHz range[2].

Reading into the aLIGO paper, seismic and similar noise sources are the main reason it's sensitivity is limited below 10 Hz.

[1]: http://www.ipgp.fr/~vallee/PUBLICATIONS/2019_Vallee_Juhel_Ne...

[2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.00439
I invite you to reread my comment, as I do not talk about whether the UK having Gibraltar is legitimate or not. I simply pointed out that as far as I know and as per the treaty, it doesn't have surrounding waters. This is not something the UK agrees with and it is a source of constant tensions.

If you want to draw comparisons with Melilla, it was an abandoned military plaza that was simply taken by the Castilian crown in the 15th century. It is not a colony, unlike Gibraltar (according to ONU). Morocco didn't exist as a clear political entity back then, so I am not sure what claims would they have to it.

And what I was "grumbling" about Morocco referred to the "Islote de Perejil", where Morocco claimed an inhabited island near Ceuta: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perejil_Island_crisis

And my personal views are that if Spain could easily get rid of Ceuta and Melilla most spaniards politicians would sign right of the bat. They are just a sinkhole of money, source of diplomatic tensions and immigration problems.
At the risk of going full doomsday mode (and besides stockpiling on food and masks) - lets say pandemic happens and some useful meds/vitamins do go out of stock - is there any advice what those are i.e. what kind of meds/vitamins would be practical to buy right now to help fight/slow COVID-19/infection in the future?
With few exceptions, you should be able to ask your MD for a 90 day supply with 3 refills (enough for 3 months immediately, with refills for the rest of the year).
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> If I want my photos to be searchable, I'm going to have to let someone run their AI on them.

In the next month or so, that won't be true anymore if you use PhotoStructure to host your photos and videos. Disclaimer: I'm the author.

PhotoStructure is software you run, on hardware you own. It runs on desktops, docker, or headless servers, like your NAS. Your library is stored in a cross-platform, open format, so you're free to change how you host your library. I'm still enrolling beta users to try it for free in exchange for their feedback. Later this year, rather than being ad-supported, a subscription will enable advanced features (like automatic tagging based on image content).

(and as the Solid framework becomes more useable, I'll definitely try to support it).
Thanks! It's built on top of Solr. It fetches the repos from GitHub - it should pick up any updates to repos within a few days. It's running on a couple servers with 20 cores each, which is not really enough for the traffic it's getting right now.
You're telling me -- I file estimated taxes quarterly in three states plus federally!

Anyway: both Switzerland (your example) and Belgium (my example) have multi-layered governments. Belgium's one is particularly complex, with "communities" which are language unions and "regions" that largely overlap but not quite, as well as province-level and city-level taxes. Each of these has their own institutions and most incur taxes. The multi-layered government is far more complex than the US, but this does not result in comparable complexity to my US filing. (I'd also argue it's far more sensitive: secession has been a possible outcome in my lifetime in a way that it really has not been in the US.)

Meanwhile: the IRS has simply agreed not to provide free tax filing software. Why is that good for taxpayers?
Schools in Milan to close for one week due to coronavirus
It's still a very popular route for sailing. You essentially ride the tropical conveyors from the Azores until the Indian Ocean. The Americas are a minor inconvenience, solved by the Panama Canal.

It's getting back which is the issue - your have the disastrously weathered cape of good hope, or the pirate-infested Aden. It's quite ironic that if you want to sail around the world, it's the ancient routes that are the worst parts.

If Columbus had discovered the Americans were an archipelago, or if the gulf of mexico had properly separated north and south, the discovery would have been a very popular trade route - even today.
You can't controll infections.

You can try to fasttrack vaccinies, but you can't really stop a virus with such a transmission way from spreading.

That is a problem but it is nothing new.

Every few years we will have new diseases and unfortunately they will spread and kill people.

The flu does that yearly.

Does that suck? Yes

Will it mean the end of the world or have a high impact on countries that have a robust healtcare system? No
What's the biggest blocker to making an OSS GPL tax prep software for the US market ?