skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, to see what the fuss was about with respect to donating those coins to creators.

I didn't view sufficient ads to be rewarded with any crypto in the timeframe (monthly?) and none of the webpages I visit regularly seemed to be eligible for BAT donations. The latter seems a chicken and egg problem; it's an opt-in system for the website administrators who might already have alternative monetization (Google ads, patreon).
This is no time for bleeding hearts. The virus originated in China. It is at best massively disruptive and at worst deadly on a large scale. Limiting contact based on the probabilistic prior of Chinese nationality is prudence, not xenophobia.

And, by the way, this is an example of where blanket dismissing all anti-immigrant sentiment is empowering to those who you slander - when you minimize legitimate concerns by treating a complex problem as black and white you galvanize moderates who see nuance.
So in that situation, would Mozilla then be the good guys by adopting DoH and fixing the user's broken network level DNS?

So basically whether Mozilla is doing the right thing or not here is entirely dependent on who the archive.is operators decide to target?

What about all the services that will be fixed for users after Mozilla makes this change, due to poorly operated DNS from the provider?
Thanks, I got the point about how mentioning it can show us an unambitious team.

My main concern was around if we were not transparent.
It wasn't clear whether this fixes existing installs with existing keys, or if its only fixed for new installations.
Fuck it. Time to WFH for a couple weeks. I'm going to miss the free espresso.
> the fact that there is no sick leave in America

A lot of places of employment have sick leave. Years ago I worked at a rural supermarket that gave sick leave.

> and the fact that most everyone works at-will.

And, an employer that fires people who get sick soon finds no one wants to work for them.
We talk about our reasoning for paying local rates at https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-group/global-compen...
This was extremely helpful, thank you!

Perhaps you can help me with some follow-up questions:

- Let's imagine a standard excel sheet (a 2d array), with columns "A", "B", "C", "D" ... "Z".

1) Let's say I want to create a model, that takes this input: A single row where all columns have values, except for some (random) columns. I want it to autopopulate those columns with values that are most probable according to the data I trained it with. That is, _every_ column is both a "feature" and a "target". Is this possible?

2) Can I train the model by telling it this: "This input should DEFINITELY NOT confuse you" -- that is, can I "weigh" the inputs (or do I just put in more of them?)
No seriously, it’s almost impossible to get via Mexico and into the United States, then straight to the Bay Area, within the incubation period, to the transfer the virus in community without leaving a massive wake of sick people elsewhere.

Claiming this is related to illegal immigration is baseless xenophobia, the probability vs regular air travel is 0.0001%.
It’s going to take more than a couple weeks for this to take its course.
this seems like a conversation to have on wallstreetbets rather than HN
>You haven't looked at the numbers. There's so much option trading that it affects the entire market a lot

The question is "what effect does have?", not "does option trading effect the market?"
You make a valid point. Overall, I look at fasting as a form of preparedness before a situation because it trains the body and mind to not crave to eat in excess. But, as you correctly pointed out, I was thinking of fasting as long as much as possible to try and limit digging into my food reserves. There may be strategy in saving body fat for later in a crisis. I'm not sure.

My line of thinking is that, early on in a crisis, I don't know how long a crisis is going to last or how intense the looting will be. It could be that a week goes by and all the store shelves are bare; although I'll have potentially put myself at risk by lowering my body fat, I'd still feel more secure having extra food for myself and perhaps someone else than having eaten most of it when I didn't need to and now there's no more food to go around. Having extra food around the point at which I may need to get out of Dodge seems preferable to me than to hit the road with only bodyfat and few to no provisions.

I don't think there's a good answer to that. You make a great point. I do still think fasting is a useful in helping people break food addictions and learn self control.
I don't.

But do I have to assume that illegal immigrants are spreading the virus in the US?
If you’ve ever wondered why the military has a [extremely Sgt Maj Sixta] grooming standard, this should enlighten. Gas masks don’t seal on beards.
Around a star that's going supernova in the next 1e+5 years?

No, thanks.
There are zero confirmed cases in Mexico.
Supposedly that's why Hitler had his distinctive mustache.
It's only the best and easiest option as long as what you consider your beard style to be is actually aligning with what that diagram shows. When does a walrus moustache become a horseshoe? When does a villain moustache become a dali? That diagram tries to deliver its message by using ambiguous terms instead of fixating on the actual problem (which is to prevent your beard crossing the seal).
As a programmer, there are two options:

1. quarantine.
2. vaccine.

Given the fact that people will not self-quarantine mainly due to economic reason, the hope is to rush the vaccine as fast as possible through the FDA, and then to mass-produce it.
I've never had pedialyte, but I don't imagine it tastes better or worse than what I make. :)
Right, but I can make the decision then on whether to return to work. As I said in another thread, I know I'll probably get it eventually and be fine, but I don't want it when the first wave hits and the health care system is jammed. Better for everyone if we WFH if possible.
Are you going to be demanding to see a passport from everybody you get near so that you can figure out which ones have Chinese nationality? It would be useless anyway, the number of new cases reported is now apparently larger outside China.
Might be better in the long run to just develop some immunity to it.
Heard of it but never tried it. Thanks for the suggestion!
> “RT is funded in whole or in part by the Russian government.”

Irrelevant.
maybe it's stadium seating for a species that doesn't mind a few gamma rays
> I always wondered if it was because I questioned the policy of paying people differently based on their location (more specifically, some algorithm's idea of the rent in their area) rather than the work they do.

I had the exact same experience. Even if you lived in SF, they pay way below market rate. I have sympathy for their engineers that don't have any other options but to take their deal.
Functionally the grocer has a limited supply also because there is only so much production/shipment capacity. I agree if you do it early enough your impact is minimal.

But if you withdraw early enough from a bank then the bank can in theory safely exit from its positions and become more liquid
Are you stocked up for six months? If everyone works from home, Amazon, Uber Eats and Wholesale ain't delivering.
I use an SD female to microSD male, plugged into a PQI Air Card (which can use Dmitry's hacked Transcend firmware to run Ubuntu), inside an iPod.

Some of these adaptors are useful for geeks like me!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21533819
Yes, absolutely. It provides a whole new set of connections to improve their view on the IRL social network. It's hard to quantify exactly how much it benefits Facebook but it's not hyperbole to say it contributes positively to everything that makes Facebook money.
I've worked many places in my life from gas stations to restaurants to brick & morter stores, and now tech. Throughout all of this sick leave has been encouraged if not mandated. The idea that America "has no sick leave" is simply incorrect. We just don't mandate sick leave by law - and it has actually worked itself out pretty well.
Nah, the mortality rate is higher, around 9%, similar to SARS. Dividing total deaths by total cases is wrong. You need to divide by the sum of deaths plus total recovered cases. With that in mind it's already way higher.
The problem I found with OOP, is that it requires you to leave huge swaths of your code open and accessible, while you continue to develop and build out your code. This requires a larger cognitive load to understand, internalize, and remember the mechanics of your code and all its relevant business logic.

In C++ and Java, you have these member variables, that act as global variables within the Object. Any member variable can be accessed at any time, either read or written to, by internal functions that are allowed to modify it.

This appears to work ok, while you write out your toy code for your CS 101 class, but it doesn’t seem to scale too well when developing real-world production code.

What I find better about Functional Style development, is that my functions are much smaller, and all inputs to the function, are validated, and its outputs fall within a narrow band that is acceptable. And by forcing the validation of all inputs, this tends to stop defects during development, very quickly, and very visibly.

The unit testing of pure functions becomes simpler, and it allows you to systematically perform rigorous validation of your code.

The added benefit, is that once I build out my functions, then all that complexity, is hidden behind a one-liner function call. And I just pass data containers from one function to the next, until I get my final desired result.

This helps to minimize the footprint of the codebase, that I must remember and internalize.

And since most of the parts are just dumb components, now, I can focus on remembering the core parts of the business logic instead.

Nothing is absolutely perfect of course, but this is as close to a programming silver bullet as I can get.
Q&A on Coronaviruses (Covid-19)
> At present, it is tempting to estimate the case fatality rate by dividing the number of known deaths by the number of confirmed cases. The resulting number, however, does not represent the true case fatality rate and might be off by orders of magnitude...

> A precise estimate of the case fatality rate is therefore impossible at present.

Taken from
https://smw.ch/article/doi/smw.2020.20203
Is it ethical to breach the paywalls of monetized academic publishing?
I think this thread is interesting and kind of funny, because it reminds me of work where I maintain some systems that keep track of projects for PMs, and I originally thought my job was to make everything consistent. But there are a whole slew of ways to express the "closedness" or "openness" of a project, and the PMs have evolved conventions where they want to be inconsistent and resist all efforts to make it all make sense. You have a project status which may be in progress or closed or something else. You have a closeout milestone which may be in progress or closed or something else. And you have a time entry code which may be open or closed. But it turns out there is no simple way to make these consistent, because people use inconsistent combinations to express things...but it's hard to tell what.
Companies don't throw money at products just because they can.
What you’re saying sounds like a PC custom build enthusiast. I respect that, I like it too.

Please be mindful of the fact that consumer products are not designed for the workstation/server type of load. It’s related to why the hardware is cheaper compared to the server hardware. Also, the consumer ISP connection is most likely not as reliable as that of a data center. I’m working remotely from home and I experienced this many times, bad performance in peak times or a half of a day of downtime can happen, without any warning. And account for maintenance, everyone on the team must be able to figure out a problem or deal with getting someone else in to fix it.

I know I sound like a buzzkill. I am writing this with good intentions.

Even if this works right now, it’s not a reliable long-term solution. Maybe instead of dumping a couple of grand on consumer PCs to handle server’s work, look into building a proper server. Or you could find a datacenter provider to rent their hardware, something that is not as shiny and full of features like AWS.
How to Deal with Competitors
Build higher, build in places that aren't landlocked, build against green space.
Mortality rate is much, much lower than 3% if you exclude the elderly and the critically ill. Based on the Chinese CCDC's report released last week, covering 72,314 confirmed infections, mortality rate for a young healthy person is an order of magnitude lower.

80+ years old: 14.8%

70-79 years old: 8.0%

60-69 years old: 3.6%

50-59 years old: 1.3%

40-49 years old: 0.4%

30-39 years old: 0.2%

20-29 years old: 0.2%

10-19 years old: 0.2%

0-9 years old: no fatalities

I think most people are blowing it out of proportion. It's just a bad flu, and it seems to be responding well to remdesivir treatments in early trials. I also think that, with the news we're getting now about asymptomatic/minor cases, it's highly likely the real number of infections is much larger, which would mean the CFR numbers are way too high.
No seriously, it’s almost impossible to get via Mexico and into the United States, then straight to the Bay Area, within the incubation period, to the transfer the virus in community without leaving a massive wake of sick people elsewhere

I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but Tijuana to San Francisco is only 520 miles -- 9 hours drive without traffic, and you can to it with only one gas stop in between (YMMV).

So it seems very easy to get from Mexico straight to the Bay Area without leaving a wake of sick people behind.
You're exactly right. Outside of deep deep tech (e.g. self-driving cars), you'd have to really, REALLY dig deep to find one or two startups that failed because of lack of technical talent.

Now consider how many startups failed because of lack of customer demand - nearly all of them.

This isn't just an indicator of an oversupply of talent, it also suggests an oversupply of capital. Cheap money lets you find talent, but it doesn't guarantee a path to a profitable business.
Fry’s Electronics to close another California store
Your wages aren't even competitive for SF.
Set the computer to start on a keyboard press.

I lived for years with a desktop with a broken power button. Didn't miss it.
Tesla's intention with the meaning of the word is clarified very well both in the web site, and in the UI of the car.

I mean absolutely no disrespect to you and I understand your feelings are probably coming straight out your heart. However I would like to point out that when you say that the world does not meet your expectation and that somehow is a problem with the world and not your own self is very arrogant.
Everyone can't WFH. But if you can, you probably should.
@stouset said it more seriously, but I can try a different take: considering stars like Betelgeuse go supernova only once during their lifetimes, which exceeds ours by many orders of magnitude, the odds of an individual human generation witnessing a cosmic event of any significance from this close are disappointingly low.
Mullet? Check.
Also, another one-off question:

What if the data I have is relational? Must it all be squashed down? Imagine a family tree: can a "node" simply contain "parents", and the model will figure out "virtual columns", or would I generate this input manually (for thousands of columns), example columns: "parent(0).parent(0).child(0).blood_type", "parent(0).parent(0).child(1).blood_type", etc.

Consequentially... I will definitely have more questions like this. What is a good resource to go off on my own, or with a more suitable audience?
I can only compare roughly, but I compared my footprint now, which is 0.4 Earths http://joshuaspodek.com/my-ecological-footprint, with the average American, which is 5.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_footprint. I figure I contributed about average for American before.

My TEDx talks cover some of the major changes http://joshuaspodek.com/my-tedx-talk-is-online-find-your-del.... The important part was shedding the myths erroneously justifying flying or packaged food. Then practicing and finding the joy, community, and connection that life is about when you avoid polluting behavior.
I don't see how it _can_ improve anything by anywhere near the claimed amounts. Most practical work is basically dot product, which has been so heavily hand-optimized (and then some - via Fourier/Winograd for convolutions), there's no blood to squeeze out from that particular stone. Kernels of this quality can not be arrived at by the compiler - a competent human always beats the compiler when she has to.

As a result, your optimization efforts will necessarily have to improve things elsewhere, where a competently written deep learning framework spends single digit percentages of its inference time. As a result of that, in turn, the best you can really hope for is single digit percentage gains, barring some exotic architecture which doesn't consist almost entirely of dot products or some degenerate cases where hand-coded convolution and dot product kernels suck, which are, by definition, uncommon.

I mean it's great to have this - a rigorous, testable, theoretically grounded approach to execution graph manipulation is a hard thing to achieve for something as general as this, and everyone will benefit from not rolling everything from scratch every time, but let's be realistic here - this is not going to "fix" Moore's law or anything like that.
Translation: the only startups willing to play YC’s sweatshop game are fruit flies; they want meatier deal flow. I doubt the founders of hard startups are that stupid.
Sorry, so they built a system designed to vacuum up even more personal information and accidentally turned off the screen where they tricked people into giving the information up, leading to it being collected by default?
As laid out by the actual expert at Trump's coronavirus press conference tonight (not Trump), American regulations on safety and efficacy mean that "rushing" a vaccine will take about one year.

Quarantine isn't the only way to slow down the spread of a disease, and it's not unheard of for large changes in behavior to happen in response to large risks. Hand washing or even mask wearing could become more popular. E.g. https://zoomingjapan.com/life-in-japan/why-japanese-wear-sur...
> After years of indifference, individual investors seem to be finding their way back to stocks, for better or worse.

There's an old adage in London that it's time to sell when the retail buyers start entering the marketing...
They probably looked you up afterwards on Facebook or another site using Facebook analytics.
Tinder, like most apps, constantly call graph.facebook.com to report everything you're doing
What you're describing is essentially the commons clause and it's not considered open source because it discriminates against commercial activity. The point of open source is to give everyone a shared technology base to work from, including both you and your competitors. If they're contributing then you can take their code and use it to improve your product too. You can also use your open source offering to upsell them on those additional services. This is how it's always worked. I try to illustrate this with an example: can you imagine how inconvenient it would be for your product if all those open source libraries [0] you depended on had such a condition?

The reality is that the open source projects that are big today did not get big by refusing contributions from companies that were deemed to be too big or thought to be competitors. The projects got big by finding a productive way to work with those companies.

[0] https://github.com/rudderlabs/rudder-server/blob/master/go.m...
Nice! Bookmarked, will take it for a spin today.
What's the lowest power WiFi device we have now?
From what I’ve read “rushing” for vaccines means it will be ready in 2 years
We're always adjusting our calculations based on market research. Are you including the value of stock options as well?
> Do you honestly believe that the third world Mexican medical establishment is likely to detect cases early?

that assumes that something that you refer to as "third world" has a large enough international (asian for the most part) traveling populace to bring the disease back before countries that have a much higher GDP and thus much higher number of traveling citizens.

what you're saying simply doesn't add up.
There's a local provider which has a plan with absurdly low limits (something with about 100 Mb total, tens of SMS messages, etc.) + a low fixed price per month to match. Power outages are rare enough that this application doesn't need much of plan.
Sure, if what you mean by standard is it physically fits together but you can’t tell what the heck it’s doing.
Handy tracker, death vs survivor counter:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

note the extra links at the top too

ps. 2% of 7 Billion is 140 Million people
Maybe it would be better to get it early before the health care system is jammed?
I’m not sure that’s really true.

The NIH budget is about $40B, 90 percent of which goes to research via about 50,000 extramural grants and the NIH’s own intramural research program. Very little of this is expected to “work” in the sense that it produces an immediate improvement in human health. Same goes for the NSF. The DoE, NASA, and DoD also fund plenty of research beyond the ARPAs (DARPA, IARPA, HSARPA, etc).

The ARPA programs are outliers in that they’re more likely to take larger risks in exchange for bigger rewards, while the NIH (etc) are more incremental. Nevertheless, it’s not true that these programs try to avoid ‘failures’ at all costs.
Never thought that the solution to my problem of "this cable is 4 inches shorter than it should" would be just making my computer face the wall and never minding about the power button. I'm sure I'll be able to just drill and put another power button on the top of it... And CDs and DVDs? Don't remember last time I used some.

Thanks HN!!!
Funny because Selfie reminds me of a maximally compact version of http://www.projectoberon.com/
My first TEDx talk describes my process and how to do it http://joshuaspodek.com/my-tedx-talk-is-online-find-your-del....

My podcast shares me walking through many people to start their challenge http://joshuaspodek.com/podcast.

Do they give you enough to start with?
It's about time that someone harnesses the free power that everyone is broadcasting....
I've worked on projects with a more iterative pipe and filters approach, and it can lead to situations where it's difficult to maintain or test anything. The problem that frequently occurs is that there's a new configuration parameter, but it needs to pass through a dozen different levels to get to the place that it's used. That and structs on top of structs as parameters gets very complex fast.
NIH is about 40 billion, and does a lot less development.
The usual ten days of paid leave just isn't enough. When you have children you'll have used them up already because someone needs to take the kids to the doctor. But when the Coronavirus comes to your area you may have to observe quarantine or - God prevent! - you are sick for weeks. With a disaster of that magnitude you can't rely on individual goodness, you need the government because it has the deepest pockets.
New Dunkin Donuts' Snackin' Bacon
Since this is the first time that the world is facing such a pandemic, this must and I assume will be changed.
so glad you had fun into making a milkdrop fork so VJs can even get less relevant with this software i guess, just clicking through the presets, if not totally automated - i like it, since it puts Vjs into their place.