skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look at the bar graph. It's hard to tell exactly what the numbers are, if people chose multiple answers, but 40% has to be based on the idea that using a credit card even if you pay it off at the next statement means you "can't handle" an expense. That's crazy. It's basically prepper/goldbug logic. Consumer credit is the devil, so anyone who uses it has failed at life.
In 2010 I just kept forgetting to fill out the census. My census guy left notes on my apartment door begging me to call him. Finally, one day, he literally popped out of the fucking bushes with the census form.
> Mortality rate is much, much lower than 3% if you exclude the elderly and the critically ill

Yeah, fuck them, right?
Yep. There isn't even a split/join method in std::string ... you need to use boost for that (wtf)
as a VJ i really like these systems that automate my daily work away to an extend where i still can appear like doing something.
I understand some organizations work that way. I'm saying it's bad.

The point of developers is to make software that people use. So if we want to do our jobs well, we have to understand how we are creating value. Product managers may manage that information flow, and they may get the final say in decisions. But if they are specifying software in enough detail that developers can be 100% ignorant, then developers can (and should!) be automated out of that work.
After the quarantine was done, it's been established that he doesn't have the virus and can't transmit to you.

He can however get infected after an outbreak in your community
What alternatives did you use- Microsoft Office for those?

Now I'm imaging if Oracle had invested in creating as many competitors for Google products as possible, Samsung-style, even in markets that don't make sense.

Back in 2007, Sun had been working on an iPhone/iOS competitor named the jPhone. Imagine if Oracle had ended up continuing their work. Then there'd be two competing smartphone OS's powered by Java.

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q2.07/0ADA49EA-93A...

https://www.informationweek.com/call-it-the-jphone-sun-shows...
The article claims that the oldest company in Kosovo was founded in 1999. I assume this is related to when it gained statehood, because it seems patently implausible that there are no institutions more than twenty years old.

The trouble is, all sorts of entries on this list predate the formation of the modern states in which they reside. Serbia's Apatin Brewery (1756) clearly predates its time as a part of Yugoslavia. What's the requirement for inclusion here?
To be fair, using gsuite is only for hn hipsters. Anybody reasonable uses MS office. And please don't even tell me Google is open. There is no company on Earth which has more lockdown than Google.

When I was an intern at Microsoft in 2008 summers, they already had fully functional web based office which was a decade ahead of what was at Google at that time. Google is good only at pr and that's what they use their oss and surrounding efforts for
Let's remember that you can't attend Google Meet calls from any browser besides Chrome.
you have been auto-milkdropped!
The Pope’s Astronomer
I am not hiding that we are SSPL (I am trying to defend it here :)) But to understand your concern, you are saying someone owns the (copyright or whatever legal structure is) term "open-source" and us using is a violation of that.
Hmm... I've been in the valley over 20 years now and I never worked at an "adtech" company.

In fact I very much prefer a company where customers pay for the services we deliver - something they want, as opposed to something the user typically does not want: Ads.
Communion wine is typically only 12%-18% alcohol by volume, so probably not.
Even worse, we don't know how many people have actually been infected. The reported death rates aren't reliable either.

All the estimates we're seeing are almost entirely from unreliable data coming out of China.

So I'd take these estimates with a huge grain of salt for now. We should be in a much better position to have reliable estimates in a month or two.
> decimal: 49894920630459842177293598641814316632

This 128-bits can also be represented in, let's say base-50K, by using five words chosen from a 50,000 word dictionary. If you also make "this", "This" and "THIS" separate, then you can get away with a 17K word dictionary. Depending on the language, if you use roots and then vary morphology based number, tense, etc., then the number of root words (and the choice you have in making them simple) can be reduced. Such "pass phrases" can be easier to remember, transcribe, etc. (Also you will get random, humorous, offensive, etc., phrases...)
A better word is "unfalsifiable".

String theory predicts numbers other spatial dimensions. (at least 11) You can test for these. However, these extra dimensions can be arbitrarily small. You can prove that no extra dimensions greater than 1e-30m (or whatever) exist. This does not disprove string theory. Well, now you have to test for smaller extra dimensions. Let's say you prove no dimensions larger than 1e-40m exist. Still haven't disproven string theory: they could be smaller. So on and so forth.

These extra dimensions have to curl up. The way in which these extra dimensions curl up constrain the masses and properties of the various particles. There are a stupidly large number of different ways these extra dimensions can curl up. Something like 10^500. So there's no way to measure the various properties of physics and the universe in a way that falsifies string theory. Regardless of what experiments show, there are still going to be an immense number of curlings that are consistent with the measured reality.

IMHO string theory is still science, but it's depressing, fruitless, dystopian science. It lacks... hope.
Though clearly there are some advantages with removing ambiguous chars... I feel like it's more of a UI / UX thing-to-polish than a problem. Lack of polish creates the problem, the ambiguous chars themselves are not inherently an issue.

If it's ambiguous, you could accept either and transform it to the correct value (implicitly, or as entered, or whenever makes sense. your users don't ever have to know). Or if you can't do that / the differences matter, do something like 1password does with chars and letters: show them differently https://www.dropbox.com/s/a29g2uiggqujzjl/screen%20shot%2020...
So subreddits are either echo chambers or hopelessly conflicted? I'm not defending WSB but isn't the entire point of internet forums / reddit discussion to argue about things? I absolutely hate any subreddit where only one train of thought is allowed and everything else downvoted.
This is Google we are talking about. I would imagine they started working on competing strategies even well before Microsoft announced officially they are going to use Chromium.

You people seriously undermine the tech awareness of marketing teams, of Google no less.
> To be fair, using gsuite is only for hn hipsters. Anybody reasonable uses MS office.

Know many teachers?
i think it's ok. as long as you don't abuse it too much.
There's another adapter you can get to solve the power button issue!

There are PCI slot brackets with power and reset buttons.

https://www.highspeedpc.com/ATX_Power_Bracket_p/atxbracket.h...
being a VJ is almost as bad as being the janitor, so i appreciate the help.
> is behaving

Google has always been this- they use OSS for PR and are bigger enemies of openness than Microsoft. They just had the luxury to pretend otherwise
The small accounting firm we use never sends sensitive information (e.g. tax forms, spreadsheets) in email.
Most students in my state use gsuite.
This is in the same county (Solano) that the flight carrying people stranded on a cruise ship with corona virus infected people flew into. I wonder if that is connected in some regard, or if that's just a huge coincidence.
I will check them out. Thanks for the links!
Competing on price is actually hard because people who are price sensitive will go with the open-source version. We want to compete on the flexibility aspect of open-source - the fact that you can change the code however you want as per your needs, the fact that you can deploy it however you want (and hence have complete access to your data)

But I get your point. Need to do more work here.
I think you need a different kind of talent to build the "hard startups" he's talking about. Sure, there are a million folks who can throw together a CRUD photo-sharing app, especially with the improvements in cloud services and development frameworks in the last decade. If you want to build an AR headset, maybe there's a few dozen people with the right expertise to make it happen.
> If Facebook suggests B and C to each other, that's unarguably an invasion of privacy.

How so?

Alice tells me she knows Bob and Charlie. I mention Charlie to Bob - completely normal human thing to do. Maybe I think they're in the same circle but I've forgotten exactly why or how I found that out - completely normal human memory behaviour. Where's the invasion of privacy?
How exactly does 5G work? [video]
I've read from previous descriptions of MLIR that "dialects" could be reused in new compiler projects, such as embedding XLA in a non-TensorFlow product. This paper mentions a new example I had not considered: language-independent OpenMP.

In other words, an MLIR dialect of OpenMP could be reused in both Fortran and C. But it can also be used in a brand new programming language that just wants to enable multiprocessing. With OpenACC extensions, targeting GPUs would be nearly automatic for a new language!

One question I've had, and which the paper does acknowledge, is the AST. The paper states that MLIR does not currently target syntax and recommends ANTLR instead. The AST is still a manual process (my own language uses a port of CPython's ASDL).
Fume events: The toxic gases that may be harming aircrew and passengers
winamp visualz for the masses, finally!
you say that like it's something bad - milkdrop is a very respected package here...
Nintendo was selling playing cards, Facebook was a student only network, Google wanted to index the whole world, SpaceX sends rockets in space and Uber's founder wanted to get a cab. Hard or soft, there is no rule of thumb.
And pipe them into TTS for all kinds of fun...
Geico seems to do a good job at auto insurance. But like everybody, they try to get you to also sign up for other insurance, and it appears all other insurance under their banner is actually from random other companies that aren't run by them or seamlessly integrated with their systems. And furthermore, their partners seem to be only interested in the association so they can overcharge, more than making up for any multi-line discount.
Fascinating stuff, and well presented too.
I appreciate telemetry. Just give me my taskbar and start menu junplists back.
Based on the programming languages, and the lack of a stated preference for open source / free vs. proprietary, I'd strongly consider checkmarx or veracode for a corporate environment.

We've used all the tools at work and are running a pretty significant number of applications, in a fully ci / cd environment.

No tool is perfect, but make sure you have the right language support, versions, framework support, etc. Also, make sure you have someone qualified to do static analysis, because the tools all have false positives, as well as can miss things.

Happy to talk via email.
The cumulative cost of additional wakefulness
If things were truly bad they can just go work for other FAANG. That is not the case. Since it's HN.."Google must be bad but people are just lazy"
There are very cheap USB to microSD/SD adapters.

Add that too a good USB hub and you have what you want.
I remember the old winamp days, it is pretty cool that that stuff is now up for further production.
"probably fine" with 95% confidence actually fits the data
Actually there is several period detected in the brightness, one being ~420 days (give or take 10 days or so), another is ~2100 days. Several of those having a (nearly) simultaneous minimum might very well explain the stronger than normal dimming we just have seen. The other thing that got some attention is that Betelgeuse did not start to rebrighten January twenty-something -- like expected -- but reached a minimum slightly later, on February 10th or so. The correct conclusion of course is not "it is blowing up" but "we got the period length slightly wrong", closer to 425 days or maybe the period length is not exactly constant.
yes, finally, no more Vjs, let's have auto milkdrop
> It's a bunch of mumbo jumbo from someone that takes the academic side of finance too seriously (LTCM anyone?).

Because they used standard, well-defined terms from that particular field? "Gamma" is further from mumbo-jumbo than 90% of computer programming vocabulary - it has a clear definition and everyone in the field understands exactly the same thing by it.
I'm sure Amazon definitely has boring jobs.
I mean why exit 50% of your position rather than ride it out? I figured you might find cash more prudent.
Nearly a quarter of the United States population is 60 and older.

https://censusreporter.org/profiles/01000US-united-states/
Stocking up for months is entirely realistic. Canned beans, pasteurized milk, etc.
You are citing case fatality rate for MERS and SARS, but not the flu (which is typically 0.1%), and yet in any given year the flu has killed many more people than MERS or SARS. Why? Because millions get the flu whereas MERS and SARS were contained.

Now consider that COVID-19 is much more contagious than the flu and it has a significantly higher case fatality rate than the flu.

Furthermore, people can and do protect themselves against the flu with a vaccine. There is no vaccine for COVID-19. And still further, no one is immune because the disease is new to humans.

So yes, while covid-19 has a 98% survival rate, a widespread outbreak could kill hundreds of thousands of people.
To quote George Bernard Shaw: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

Besides, there was a time when the supposedly reasonable thing to do was to use Internet Explorer. I am glad the unreasonable people have consigned it to the waste bin, which is exactly where it belongs.
> That's sort of the crux of this discussion.

This discussion is about property being zero-sum. It isn't zero sum.

> Most people don't start out with money though

There are endless businesses one can start with no money.
I don’t trust Amazon to buy important things. Like expensive electronics. Or things where the risk of counterfeits are too high. I’d rather buy it from Target, and pay more, because I can get access to reliable customer support.
Technology architecture and engineering organization should coevolve
it is nice, however there comes a tradeoff...
someone who plays the sideways game. aka premium burn. google options greeks theta.
Do you get as upset when those same figures are given for the flu?
We got into the habit of ordering a bunch of different adapters every time a new standard presented itself. New FireWire 800? Order adaptors for going to FW400 and Sony's odd duck version. New flash card? Order adapters including to some weird things (I'm sensing a pattern Sony). Seems wasteful but it has saved our bacon quite a few times.
How about 802.1x? It's still safe and I can do many fancy networking tricks (VLAN, etc) with it. But it's not compatible with a lot of "IOT" stuff including Chromecast.
not true, VJ is almost half of the whole presentation.
You seem to imply it is ! If you back your claim then it shouldn't be a problem.
Sounds like a Power over Ethernet thing?
Obviously something like this would only make sense under extreme circumstances, when you have to leave the house, but can't use a fresh mask every time, because of shortages.
PCI PS/2 adapters were quite common when they were needed, just like PCI USB adapters a few years later. I don't know if i'd call them cursed.
Google Nest Cam outage takes down live video, history
> Your premise is obvious: They must have been in contact with someone who traveled.

That’s not even obviously true. They could have gotten it from someone else who, in turn, got it from someone who traveled.
mortality depends on the country in which the patient is treated in my view.

according to WHO's situation report, Singapore has 91 confirmed cases and 0 death so far. in most developed country, mortality rate seems to be on much lower side. Of course these numbers can change at any minute.

https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situati...
We have had detailed investigations from virologists on here suggesting it is likely not synthetic. This is quite the reversal. But this guy is just a public health researcher, which is a different set of skills. He also lives in Taiwan, where hating on mainland China is understandably a bit of a national pastime. I would wait to see if anyone else who is serious puts their weight behind this hypothesis.
It's been dead for 20 years. Fucking people need to start caring about clock cycles again, and not running bloated Electron UI elements.
I was hit in a chain reaction collision started by a USAA member. No particular problem with them paying, but I chose subrogation.
HCQ is hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial that is still widely available because it is used for autoimmune diseases. It is a prescription only drug. The antiviral property is described in this Lancet article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...
A man atop the world’s biggest tech fund paid an intermediary to smear rivals
> Given what we're seeing in other countries, that seems doubtful.

Do you have a source for this? You're waving away the work of hundreds of thousands of people in public health. Do you know something about epidemiology (and interventions) that epidemiologists don't?

You can't understand a complex scientific field by reading headlines as a layperson. You don't know what people are doing to prevent the spread and you don't know what they could be doing if elected officials were cooperating with scientists.

Here are some obvious things that reduce the spread of viruses, some of which were mentioned in the articles I linked, which you seem not to have read.

- Free health care. In countries where primary care, patients will submit themselves for testing sooner, allowing precautions to be taken before they infect anyone else.

- Not allowing the Japanese cruise ship passengers into the US, as the CDC recommended.

- Discouraging hoarding of masks, especially by healthy people. Cloth masks are most useful when worn by people who are already infected, not by healthy people.

- Deploying testing kits quickly and providing support for the clinics getting them up and running.

- Quarantines, which also need human administration.

Nothing you've written contradicts my original thesis, which is supported by actual experts and bipartisan officials in the US: that this illness will kill more people and have greater economic impact because the Trump administration (and Xi regime, for that matter) mishandled the preparation and early response.
I'm not sure how you can push an update that takes multiple services down for 17 hours. Unbelievable.
Probably a joke from a bored Allstate agent.
Yes, that's how quarantine works. Did you expect him to be locked up forever,?
Not sure why you think USA is going to have such a better response to this either.

Really? You can't see why the US might have a better response than Mexico?
i'd rename it to: "Milkdrop-VJ-Edition"
Why America Radicalizes Brits
downthread there's a USB-ISA adapter (lets you use ISA boards via a USB port) and that was so odd I chipped in actual money to see it happen
Handling 350k Requests for $3 using Lambda
This could easily diverge into a political discussion which should be avoided; but it should be said this system has been in place and working for decades now. Just as we don't see other diseases spread more swiftly within the US due to its sick leave laws (or lack thereof) it's unlikely that we will see the coronavirus do the same. Take a look at the 2009 flu pandemic. It hit the US hard, but per capita it's not even top ten. Much of Europe is.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic_by_country
but nest is a respected google brand name, isn't it?
IIRC there was a scandal not so long ago with a forex broker that was just not executing trades from dumb clients, sitting on the other side of them itself instead. I don't know if it's exactly illegal in a direct way, but it's a bad look, and I think there was a fine in this case.
Your wording seems a bit off mark. The Minister of Health is recommending everyone to always have an emergency reserve in case of any unforseen event, from illness to power blackout.
This was actually addressed in one of Levine's columns last week (scroll to the second heading, titled "Efficiency")

https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/opinion/articles/2020-02-20/mo...

Worth a read. Short version is that a lot of the ways people lose money are hard to just do the inverse of.
Charlie Chaplin really upset people with his later productions.
Musicians Algorithmically Generate Every Possible Melody, Release Public Domain
Asn HN: Idea for SaaS – an API to create product images that show scale
Occasionally, on Amazon, I've seen that some products will be positioned near a silhouette of a person, for scale. This results in an image that cleanly relates the relative size of the product to the consumer, likely resulting in higher conversion rates, but at the very least better expectations and overall customer experience.

I was wondering if an API that produced such images would be useful to people who sell physical products, but who do not want to go through the hassle of manually creating these "contextual" images (eg, hire a person to hold or stand next to the product for a photograph, or pay for a photoshopped image).

Nearly all manufacturers, retailers, _sellers_ have the canonical white-background image of the product, and they could boost their sales, reduce returns, and provide an overall better user experience by simply sending the canonical image to an API at a cost of, say, $1 each.

They could try it beforehand for free, which is fine, because it will contain a "SAMPLE" watermark across the image. If they don't like the results, they need not purchase the "clean" image.

The API could allow customization of what to show for context (silhouette of person? a dog? a bike? your own thing? (just train it by moving by superimposing a few sample objects for us).

Seems like it checks all the boxes:

1) Big customer base. Anybody who sells stuff online and uses pictures.

2) Great UX. Anybody can drag said image into some UI and see a sample result, and then pay for the "clean" download of it. Developers can use an API.

3) Very specific problem with very specific solution.

4) Insane margins. Fully automated.

The only trouble seems to be sales. But by offering free images (with "powered by ProductImageApi" watermark), and/or by hustling with sales (where salesperson can easily include a link to the images the prospect _could_ buy right now), it seems like an easy sell.

Thoughts?
One word for the people making these conservative predictions: Test drive.

OK, two words.
You seem to be assuming that once you get it you'll be immune. But there's some evidence that patients can be reinfected and the subsequent infection is worse.
3M's BE-10BR qualifies.
People get mad if their rates go up for no reason. Geico appears to have a rather clever (perhaps obvious) algorithm - it seems like after a few years, they start raising your rate when you make any change to your policy, no matter what it is. So they aren't jacking up your rate at random times, but it's always ratcheting up.
However many are not ignorant. In our apartment building, 50% are Teslas. No charging on site. But it takes time for people to learn the options available to them. Options which only increase as time goes by.
An Interrogation Program Worked Out on the Fly