skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that it is very labor intensive and the manufacturing capacity is simply not there to make billions of doses in a short timescale (months).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_vaccine#Manufacturin...
Judging from all the positive comments in this thread, clearly I must be missing something. This looks horrible to me. Instead of meaningful CSS classes you just get a bunch of small classes that do very small things, which you're supposed to combine until it looks like what you want. How is that better than writing your CSS manually?

(Again, I realise the failure is probably on me. But I don't get it.)
> I think it's a wise move because of both outcomes:
1. There is no pandemic ...
2. There is a moderate pandemic

Given the information that we currently do and don't have, there's clearly more possibilities than just those two. (I am not making any claim about how likely any particular possibility is)
That sounds significantly more difficult.
Or they're being praised for "fixing the website"
It's a bit of a joke. It was written by Matt Stone after all.
Right now wind+solar account for less than 1% of global electric generation.

I'm highly skeptical that prices can remain low as that scales out to 10-40% of electric generation, given constraints on things like rare earth metals. There is also the issue of equipment wearing out relatively quickly compared to conventional/nuclear plants.

SMRs, built using mass production rather than one-off construction, and possessing safety qualities far beyond current reactors, will be necessary to provide safe, reliable, clean and cheap energy alongside "renewables", IMNSHO.
Articles like this make me think. There is most certainly a generation of tech workers that have not truly experienced a recession or bad times.

I came of age in 2000, but missed the worst of that crash as I was in school. When I graduated in 2004 things were starting to pick up where I lived (Toronto), but it was nowhere near like it has been for the past 5 years where simply updating your LinkedIn profile would cause a flurry of recruiters to inundate your inbox. The 2008 recession both didn't hammer Canada as bad (especially outside of traditional manufacturing) nor tech really much at all.

My generation of tech workers have simply not known hard times. Many of my college colleagues are obviously not saving and drive $90K Mercedes and live in very nice houses that would stretch tech salaries (Toronto is a bit insane with housing prices right now).

I have no idea if coronavirus, Trump, or what will cause the next recession nor do I know how bad it will be, but if it does impact tech workers, a lot of them are going to be unprepared, I think.
A prominent journalist has been locked up in Belmarsh prison in harsh condition for months. Even if there was some coverage now, it's still massively undercovered. That should have been on the news just about every day or two - as a form of news media self-defense if nothing else. Politicians answer other questions should also have been asked why Assange is in custody.

Not to mention the under-coverage during his years in effective imprisonment by the UK in the Ecuadorian embassy.
The furniture auctions were insane. Aeron chairs everywhere.
I imagine true of couches; certainly true of mattresses, per 16 CFR Part 1633, Standard for the Flammability (Open Flame) of Mattress Sets.

At least one company sells nontoxic mattresses: https://www.nontoxicbeds.com/
That's actually the critical difference. Incompetence and carelessness are normal - public administration and epidemiological control are difficult activities in any country - but active repression of medical personnel is not.
Or a crypto currency backed by tamiflu.
New Wrinkle Added to Cosmology’s Hubble Crisis
We can criticise the regulators as not doing enough and complain that they lack resources, but the reality is, they don’t need to compete with (and beat) tech giants, they only need teeth. Ideally the regulator (FTC or whatever) would just write some sensible laws (e.g. no fake reviews or no lies in ads), then burden the tech giants themselves with enforcing these laws... then investigate not necessarily non-compliance (i.e. evidence of fake reviews), but also lack of process, i.e. the inability to detect potential fake reviews... and of course impose humongous fines (% of worldwide revenue, a la GDPR but actual fines, not just threats).
> -140C only works for CO2-rich streams (> 10%).

The chart in the article by the link suggests -140C would work for pressure of 0,0004 atm.

How did you get that number - >10% ?
We're software developers after all.

I feel sad knowing that what I've trained for and my passion aren't helpful at all to fixing this crisis.
Loading NumPy arrays from disk: mmap() vs. Zarr/HDF5
Not really. Religion is based on belief, and math is based on knowledge and logic. (As to the arousal and other "experiences" - that's just a psychological side effect that has nothing to do with anything.)
This is not true. If genes control physical features it does not make any sense to preclude genes from controlling mental features.

From evidence we see that culture is flexible among different races but by the above logic alone there must be some genetic factor that we aren't able to measure yet.

I wouldn't be surprised to find a paper that addresses this on some level.

In fact did you know that in the field of anthropology. There has never been a scientific evidence found for a human culture or civilization where women in general dominated and took the overall leadership role? When it did happen it was temporary and the baton was handed back to the males voluntarily. Many anthropologists including my female professor who taught me the concepts at UCLA believe that the prevalence of this fact across multitudes of cultures may point to a biological phenomenon rather than a cultural one.

Controversial, I know. I'm not advocating anything political here just science. Morally I feel both sexes should be judged on equal grounds but even believing this on a moral level, scientifically I cannot deny what has been observed, and much of academia feels the same way.
There seem to be relatively few themes out there, but it seems the intent of Tailwind is that you are building a custom design. There is no reason these themes couldn't exist, but you'd also want custom some components to completely break away from the behavior of the ones supplied.

Your question is intriguing to me because I come from web development long before the Bootstrap was available. Teams I worked on would frequently take custom designs and turn them into clickable HTML templates with all UI components before spending a lot of time with the site itself. Bootstrap took this a lot further, but also enables the early parts of design to be skipped. You then have your issue with the site looking like a Bootstrap site.

My personal opinion is that Tailwind along with this new offering enables a better way out of that situation. Bootstrap is still known to more people and has less of a learning curve which are important points for some.
Hokkaido announces first COVID-19 fatality and urges schools to close
That can't be a simple calculation given the tremendous disagreement and controversy over how much time is "left" (until what?)
I'm really confused by all this arguing against simply having more information.

Is the information about the criticality of the bug (whether or not the app crashes) relevant to the business decision?

Yes, of course: "When I press the 'more' button in the developer's bio the app crashes" is a more important bug than "When I press the 'more' button in the developer's bio I don't see more text."

Might the criticality of the bug not be relevant to the business decision? Again, yes: "When I press the 'more' button in the developer's bio -- ok, stop, I don't care about this bug."

In some cases the criticality is relevant to the business decisions, in others it may not be. It probably usually will be. The app shouldn't crash, because even if it only happens to 1% of people, they're the ones writing reviews on the app store.

So the criticality is a big red "Hey! This should probably be high-priority!"-flag, but it's not the only piece of information the PM is going to use.
A Quora Designer Breaks Down the Notification Maze
This is pretty worrying, both that there appear to be significant medical issues with the chatbot advice, and that their product analytics aren't mature enough to be able to tell them that.

They claim the doctor who raised concerns ran ~2400 tests, with 20 legitimate errors. An error rate of "0.8%".

The doctor who raised the issues claims this is more like 800 tests run to completion (where you can even get results), and that many of these were repeated tests, so far fewer separate tests. This would suggest an error rate of more like 2.5-10%, depending on how many repetitions he was making.

Separate to this, Babylon published this data about his usage of the app in a press release without his permission. They say this is ok because it's not personal data, but while it likely doesn't count as health data I would say that it is personal data. That said I'm sure one could diagnose Munchausen Syndrome with it, so potentially it is health data. It is _very_ worrying that they have such a cavalier attitude to data protection.
So where can people buy sofas and beds without these chemicals? I recently asked about this at Restoration Hardware (an expensive furniture store), and they had no idea about it.
Yes, I guess my point was that malaria can and has existed in europe and america. It is defeated by
1) Wiping out mosquitos (DDT)

2) Limiting chance of mosquitoes biting people (aircon)

3) Limiting the population with malaria (the fewer people with malaria, the less chance of a given mosquito biting someone with malaria and thus becoming a carrier)
I think it's harder to find an error in a program than in a proof. At least for proofs that can be verified automatically by a computer. And that scales with the difficulty of the problem. A proof that a program copies files from one place to another is not interesting. However a proof that your algorithm can safely share state without a lock is.

My point here is not that dependent type theory is going to take over the industry and we should all learn to write proofs!

It's more that we can if we want to. Writing a proof with tactics in Lean feels a lot like programming with typed holes in Haskell (it's harder but the experience is similar). With training a motivated programmer can write proofs that verify their designs which provide a strong guarantee of correctness.

Whether types are more expressive than programs... I think they are? That seems to be the whole point of Synquid: you can express complex constraints and proofs in your types that enable it to derive the program for you. Is that easier than simply writing the program?

I think one should consider that writing the correct program is harder. And where getting it right matters a lot I hope that synthesis will one day allow us to derive those programs from their specifications (or at least the parts that matter the most). It would save a lot of the burden of proving that the program we wrote implements the specifications.
It definitely is the 'correct' way of doing it, but it will mean you use IE when in windows, which is often/normally not the correct way
The easiest way to experience a sensation of quasi-religious vastness from math might be pondering large numbers.

> Weirdly, thinking about Graham’s number has actually made me feel a little bit calmer about death, because it’s a reminder that I don’t actually want to live forever—I do want to die at some point, because remaining conscious for eternity is even scarier. Yes, death comes way, way too quickly, but the thought “I do want to die at some point” is a very novel concept to me and actually makes me more relaxed than usual about our mortality.

https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/11/1000000-grahams-number.html
Notebooks as Markdown Documents, Julia, Python or R Scripts
CSS Color Palettes for Web Developers
Stupid question: instead of embedding an entire browser in each-and-every app and trying to keep that secure, why not package the native desktop framework as a shared, versioned component and the app as a tiny thing that depends on it?
This is the sort of thing one would worry about in developing countries. It's so sad that it's an issue in one of the richest countries on the planet.
Empathy can be detected in people whose brains are at rest
Here's what Nils Melzer the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture had to say:

> Question: At what point does imprisonment become torture?

> Nils Melzer: Julian Assange has been intentionally psychologically tortured by Sweden, Britain, Ecuador and the U.S. First through the highly arbitrary handling of proceedings against him. The way Sweden pursued the case, with active assistance from Britain, was aimed at putting him under pressure and trapping him in the embassy. Sweden was never interested in finding the truth and helping these women, but in pushing Assange into a corner. It has been an abuse of judicial processes aimed at pushing a person into a position where he is unable to defend himself. On top of that come the surveillance measures, the insults, the indignities and the attacks by politicians from these countries, up to and including death threats. This constant abuse of state power has triggered serious stress and anxiety in Assange and has resulted in measurable cognitive and neurological harm. I visited Assange in his cell in London in May 2019 together with two experienced, widely respected doctors who are specialized in the forensic and psychological examination of torture victims. The diagnosis arrived at by the two doctors was clear: Julian Assange displays the typical symptoms of psychological torture. If he doesn’t receive protection soon, a rapid deterioration of his health is likely, and death could be one outcome.

Source: https://www.republik.ch/2020/01/31/nils-melzer-about-wikilea...
I used to live at a fractional address and it was pretty much impossible to represent your address accurately in a lot of systems.

I ended up usually writing it as "200h" instead of "200 1/2".

Worked surprisingly well. One of the advantages of having deliveries still carried out by actual people where the address apparently doesn't have to be an exact match.
It looks like Netlify-cms runs the git and static website software on Netlify backends. So you're not getting the freedom to do whatever you want in the frontend like you do with my approach where the static site generation and git handling happens in the browser. With Netlify-cms you are tied to their implementation of these things on their backend servers.
Have you seen the amount of telemetry built in Android/Chrome or any Google product?

Windows is only now trying to level the playing field to that which Google already assumes.
I wish we had a step inbetween. Something more than "just a webview" but something less than, well, all of electron. Give me like a really cut down browser that's consistent across platforms and embed it.
The reason you don’t want to do “all of the tests” and “deal with the results” is not about the probability of a false positive, but the consequences of getting one:

“In the United States, estimated deaths per year include: [26][27][28][29]

12,000 due to unnecessary surgery

7,000 due to medication errors in hospitals

20,000 due to other errors in hospitals

80,000 due to nosocomial infections in hospitals

106,000 due to non-error, negative effects of drugs

Based on these figures, iatrogenesis may cause as many as 225,000 deaths per year in the United States”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iatrogenesis
Raise a Glass to WikiLeaks (2010)
The problem I've always had as a night owl is related to the gym. I would always get the best workouts in the evening, with the downside being that I wouldn't be able to sleep that night. Though I was technically exhausted my mind was still buzzing from the adrenalin.

I've reluctantly forced myself into doing morning workouts now, but if any other night-owl there has any advice in making evening workouts work, please share.
I mean, and this is just my opinion, this decline has been happening for a loooong time. Reagan just made things even worse by the war on drugs. Consolidation is just making things worse. I mean seriously look at the effective tax rate in the US for corporations over time [0]. The US is just making legislation to benefit corporations instead of individuals.

[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/US_Effec...
The virus is like the flu unless you’re old or sick. These are facts and you are still wrong. More specifically:

0) In the case of the parent, I was saying that the virus spreads and infects people in the same manner as other upper respiratory viruses. It does, this is a fact, and fatality rates are not relevant.

1) I’ve never said that I have no concern about old or sick people. I said that young healthy people should not panic. You’re simply virtue signaling to stoke fear.

2) It would indeed be concerning if hospitals are overwhelmed. Currently, they are not (anywhere) and therefore, again, people should not panic.

3) Comparing tiny ratios with large error bars and freaking out over a “20x” difference in relative risk is pointless; the risk is still quite low.

It also overlooks the far more relevant fact that you’re thousands of times more likely to get the flu than covid-19. At this point, you should not panic.

Get the idea? Regardless of your obsessive-compulsive downvoting of factual information, the relative risk to most people is lower than...well, most things in life. That’s why my argument is, and continues to be, that most people, in most places, should not panic.
The Beginner's Guide to Python Turtle
If he is extradited, he will not receive a public trial.
Secrets and Environment Variables to Cloudflare Workers
Canada is likely to be spared the worst effects of climate change due to geography so it might not seem like such a serious problem to them. Even under the worst case scenario, Canada will still be self sufficient in staple crops. And any mass migrations will have to pass through the USA first.
18% of cases, where the infected person both sought treatment and was actually tested. It is very likely that there are far more asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic people out there.

The 18% number is mostly useless because it's a textbook example of selection bias.
I have to imagine the heat/humidity is just as bad in places like LA/Atlanta that have previously hosted the summer olympics. Did they just not care about heatstroke back then?
Because one is controlled and the other is not.

If the color is indeed the one set by the dev/designer/... and it's juste not the right one, that's a controlled thing, it's not severe. The app is doing what you want it to, you just gave it the wrong instructions.

The crash on the other hand is uncontrolled. That's severe, because it's a case where the app is not doing what you want it to.

Severity is something for the dev team internally, priority is something for the product manager and business people that the dev team follows.

When you start mixing the two in a single thing, the dev specific needs are always what goes out the window first.
To me it is pretty simple. I look at places like Germany and Denmark and see how natural gas is booming. I then compare that to nations with a lot of nuclear. Nuclear is expensive, take a long time to build, and can not compete with the price of using a combination of renewables and fossil fuels. It is however the only current example of energy grids that work without fossil fuels.

My political interest in the topic is exclusively in not having fossil fuels being burned for power and heat. The economics of combining renewables and fossil fuels only works to a point, as illustrated by the energy grid of Germany and Denmark. Both countries now need to go to over capacity and battery technology to further reduce fossil fuel usage, and for about the same reason that nuclear has problem competing, battery technology and overcapacity cost too much.

As more countries in EU reach the same point we get fewer countries that need to buy during periods of overcapacity (as show by negative prices). This reduces the interest in building more renewables, and it becomes more attractive to stay at 100% renewable at peak conditions and have fossil fuels picking up everything when its not at peak. This is a typical example of a local maximum and a Nash equilibrium. Any action that goes towards 100% renewables at peak condition are competitive and any action that goes beyond 100% during peak conditions are noncompetitive. Such countries then get stuck, with the problematic consequences that fossil fuels continue to burn.
This virus looks engineered.

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcT58R...
The long road to Kentucky Route Zero
I notice this sentence:

> Effective bug triage is an essential hygiene and success factor for anyone managing a software release.

I could not agree more. To some extend, it applies to all change requests. That said, there is no need to be too specific in your change request specification.

Where I work, we have setup only a few parameters to help us triaging several hundreds of CR:

- Priority: Low, Medium, High

- Type: Add (new feature), Enhancement (small change on an existing feature) and bug

- env: Production, Acceptance, Development, ...

In 99% of the case, this is completely sufficient. As said by others, adding severity does not add useful information on a bug triage (it may provide information on the bug itself). If there is a data loss involved but the client is fine with it, that would never lead to a high priority bug. If the client care about its data, then be sure the priority will be high. It means that bug triage really is priority assignment (no matter the severity).

In our workflow, only high priority bugs (usually hitting the production) are subject to hot-fixes. All other tickets go into carefully crafted milestones (a package to deliver). As all CRs belonging to the same milestone are delivered together, they actually all share the same priority which becomes the priority of the milestone compared to other milestones.

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I’m with you there. It looks nice, but I don’t want to learn all that css.
browser is too important piece of everyday computing for the masses to leave in the hands of Big Corp. This is why my family uses Firefox
> marketing is doing engineering a disservice

I've never seen a company where both marketing and engineering agree on something. Marketing thinks we are a bunch of nerds and we think marketing floors have a much less density regarding neurons per square meter (so, in way we are both right).

By the way, marketing always win. They are closer to upper levels, the credit for success is (supposedly) theirs. They suggest all the bad tactics, technically and commercially. I can bet that a move like Chrome suggesting to ditch Edge is purely their idea, approved by upper levels and executed by engineers that can't say no.
I like the "dynamic but static" idea ! Doesn't this already exists if you have a static website but with some dynamic features (js client code calling some serverless functions or querying stuff on AWS for example) ?

I guess here you are adding the "you can edit it from a browser", is that right ?
China’s facial-recognition now works with masked faces during the coronavirus
There seems to be a lot less gaming of the negative than the positive reviews. So on Amazon, etc. I like to read the worst reviews and see if they talk me out of buying.

I suppose if this approach catches on, scammers will spend more time denigrating competitors than boosting their own products, and it'll become less effective.
Still has the same problems of

a) It's a Microsoft product (maybe has some microsoft logos removed?

b) It doesn't replace Pycharm for Django development, so I would need to use 2 tools instead of 1.