skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except that ignores the small detail that his company is selling a game engine with heavy use of GC, via Blueprints and C++ classes marked as UOBJECT.

I bet he understands one or two things about shipping games with such engine.

The sense I get from those tweets are the usual anti-GC discussions, mostly by folks that usually are even against modern C++ (as recently seen on some C++20 related discussions), which eventually derailed the discussion into something else.
I would agree that having wealthy parents generates a lot more opportunities to be lucky.
I very much agree. It’s well known that probability theory is insufficient to explain the evolution of a QM system (i.e. the Schrödinger equation cannot be expressed in terms of probability). This is an interesting fact about QM, but in no way constitutes a hole in probability theory or Bayesian statistics.
I wouldn't really call DigiD secure, it doesn't seem to be open-source. Plus, rolling some own protocol/crypto instead of using PKI, that has immense effort behind it to keep secure, is not a good thing.

Estonia has a similar solution, but "Smart-ID" was created after PKI was fully rolled out, it's terrible compared to that. Centralized, unverifiable, stores secrets insecurely, does some cryptographic bullshit. The two solutions somehow seem very related.
same here - using svelte in production and it rocks.
if you get the dirty end of the stick and your interaction with the virus is an endangering one you will have problems with your organs due to the virus itself and arising complications
I think you really illustrate GP's point in a fantastic way. Let's define "smart" as the kind of smarts that would be in abundance on HN: Technical smarts, rapid learning smarts, knowledge smarts, creative smarts, idea smarts.

A smart person might be good at school and individual contribuitorship, and so believe that they should naturally be good at political games as well. But truly, politics takes a whole other set of smarts and the things that make you an excellent IC do not much overlap with things that make you good at the political game: charisma, selling, risk-taking, deep emotional intelligence, extroversion, strategic intuition, sociopathy, commanding presence.

Many smart engineers can't even see see that the game is being played or they realize it long after the match has been won. They are not the players, but the pieces on the board.
Udik should have used e.g. rather than i.e.
They key part there is "if they decide to fine you...".

The max(€10m, 2%) and max(€20m, 4%) are the most that supervisory authorities may issue as fines.

But supervisory authorities have a legal duty to issue fines that are proportional which means than unless you breach the GDPR in a wilful and egregious manner you're unlikely to be fined that much (and if you are you can appeal the fine to a court who would reduce it to a proportional amount).
Pretty much. All it really proves is that an org meets a bare minimum of security standards. As noted elsewhere in the thread, it's used more for marketing and to serve as a "hey look at us we're self-regulating within industry!" than anything else.
I have the feeling that, unlike in 2001 and 2008, we haven't had a recession in a while so there wasn't a filtering process for unprofitable startups. Due to the quantity of $$ looking for an investment target, the unprofitable ideas kept getting investment $$ far longer than would normally be the case. But, eventually, it becomes apparent that some of these ideas aren't going to ever be profitable, because not every problem is solved by growth.

So, really, it's just as well to have a shakeout of unprofitable ideas now, rather than accumulate ever-more bogus ideas sucking up resources. The only unusual thing is that it's been so long since the last recession that this shakeout is happening without one.

Of course, we could have one soon, but I've been thinking that for a while now, so who knows.
Totally agree with you but I'll add:
I would suggest it's more primitive then that.

Examples from ALL species of vertebrates and invertebrates can be shown where "Bigger = Better".

In nearly every case it fits one of two criteria:
Sexual selection and Territory Defense.

Nearly every species will attempt to make itself appear larger to attract a mate, or scare off a threat.
Fortunately mortality for children is also very low. I completely agree with your perspective that this does not free us from worry or the human standard to care for others even when we are not immediately affected.

We are also unaware of any potential long term health affects to lungs, kidneys, etc. in survivors as is the case with SARS.
“I type fast enough that I have never had much use for snippets in my text editor. Perhaps if I’d used them more effectively, I would not have developed the RSI symptoms that I have!"

Often we have discussions about advanced code completion on HN. Many developers feel they don’t need it, or that it gets in their way, for example.

Reading stories like this convinces me even more that our editors (tools) need to be smarter. There is so much repetition is coding, it’s hard to believe we can’t do better.

This tool is often mentioned: https://tabnine.com/
It sends the keys you type in Cortana search, AFAIK. Thinking it logs all your keys is another kind of tinfoil hat crazy.
smoking is not contagious, a smoker can't infect or kill you directly with cigarettes
i read last week that it is indeed airbourne, not only from cough/sneeze but also from flatulence, out to 200 meters
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There's no tradeoff if you never actually trade, is there?

There's not actually any wise balance and other mumbo-jumbo fart-heads in the WTO like to spew out, if under no circumstance do you ban travelling or take any meaningful action.

It's just words for the idiots to feel secure while all it really matters is economic growth.

I'd love to be proven otherwise, but then, under what circumstances would WTO advice a full ban on travel to/from China?

Perhaps never?

There you have it.

Just words after the fact, rationalizing inaction to two year olds -- "there's nothing to worry about", "the chinese are taking outstanding measures", "maybe there's something to worry about, but mah economy", "perhaps its too late to contain this"
As far as I could see in some Twitter videos coming out of China some people need to be on respirators and in a horizontal position. At the limit you can also do that in sports- and concert-halls, which is what the authorities seemed to have done in Wuhan.
I've been reading la Repubblica a lot today since I live pretty close to where the disease is spreading. They always reiterated that patient 0 who started spreading the virus in Italy is not yet identified. They had a "suspicious" person identified but that person later on was tested negative.
In Michigan we have webcams on the front of our snow plows, in addition to their GPS location. This is useful for seeing road conditions throughout the state in places that don't have traffic cameras.

Just click the little icon that looks like a snowplow on this site. No plows out today, however...

https://michigan.gov/drive/
> If 2% of the people I know died this year, that would be the worst disaster in my country in my lifetime.

Not trying to downplay the seriousness of this virus, but it's very unlikely to kill 2% of the people in any country — it kills (maybe, approximately) 2% of the people who are infected, but far less than 100% of the population in your country will ever be infected.
I know of a really nice vulnerability but I know when to shut up. I almost scammed a legitimate business by mistake. Made sure to pay them with a normal bank transfer instead. Don't want to complain in case their account gets closed down or something. Not touching PayPal again.
“The bigger issue here is that - unlike tire manufacturing - the subsequent cycles of innovation are too short for a majority part of the workforce to keep up with changes. Why? First, because the complexity of those solutions creates a prohibitive cost for their employers to easily migrate on short notice and keep up with the cycle. Second, because the vast majority of new tech are just small optimizations in the real world with a limited impact on business making migration a risk and not an opportunity.”

It seems the worst thing that can happen to you is to work on a successful, stable product. Almost by definition you will become an outdated dinosaur. To keep up your own market value you constantly have to insert friction by jumping on new stuff that doesn’t really improve anything.
I will probably be downvoted for saying this, but...

The seasonal flu alone kills half a million people every year. So any mild disease that is as contagious and barely twice as fatal will kill 1 million. And that's what's going to happen with COVID19. It is far more severe than the flu.

We know COVID19 is as contagious, given how fast it's spreading and how unstoppable it is (R0>2, asymptomatic transmission, airborne). And we now have 4 independent estimates that place the Infection Fatality Ratio at about 0.5% to 1.7% which is between 5x and 17x deadlier than the flu (0.1%): https://twitter.com/zorinaq/status/1230977769795776512
Incidentally, this makes COVID19 comparable to the 1918 Spanish Flu (IFR ~2%) according to experts (see link above). And keep in mind the IFR, unlike the CFR, is the metric that takes into account undetected mild cases. The Case Fatality Ratio is around 9% right now.

So based on this, I predict it will go pandemic and will kill 1 million, and probably a lot more.

COVID19 is the most severe (ie. contagious + fatal) airborne disease since the Spanish Flu.
If you touch a smoker, you don’t get lung cancer and risk death.

The hype for this is part media sensationalism, part risk of it spreading everywhere.
Lasers, electron microscopes and x-ray scanners used for testing and verification in the semiconductor manufacturing industry plus loads of custom and open source tools.
Not smoking might be a solution to one of those problems but not coronavirusing isn't for the other.
I think you're looking for this: https://f-droid.org/
It has the ability to affect the global economy in ways that the others dont. If people don't want to go to work due to an increased risk of mortality, business will shut down. If everyone is forced to go to work and they all get sick and are unable to work for several weeks, business shuts down. Finally if everyone gets sick and 3% of your workforce then dies, that again causes massive economic disruption. This is also occurring on a time scale far shorter that people getting sick from smoking or heart disease.
Are they running 2x 25Gbps NIC’s per server over standard cat 6? I thought 10Gbps over cat 6 was generally accepted as the fastest it can reliably push?
And definitely more of an experimentalist than a theorist in any case.
Interpreting sexual selection in this scenario:

Dutch were really short because of malnutrition.

Perhaps people were trying to make sure their children become taller despite being so short. So they tend to marry the tallest people. This works because of improving nutrition.

Perhaps this preference for height became ingrained culturally in the society. This cultural preference becomes ingrained since it can be reproduced by relative isolation (cultural and/or physical).

According to the article, tall men were favored whereas average sized women were favored. I wonder why tall women weren't favored versus average sized women? I think these preferences are in general populations but were exaggerated here?
I read an article a while back where they said there are a few bands of severity (this was how they treating in China). First level of seriousness was oxygen / respirator. Then for even more serious cases they had to actually oxygenate the blood outside their body. Basically the problem was people can’t breath because of fluid or maybe it’s damage in their lungs so all the treatments of the severe patients were to help that.
E. T. Jaynes gave some very good answers (symmetry groups and maximum entropy principle). You should read "Probability Theory: The Logic Of Science". In it, you will learn that the supposed "hole" has been closed pretty nicely.
You also have the issue that the most vocal users are also the ones who produce the least code.

At least that's my experience.
Or you could say that the interpretation of data is fundamentally and unavoidably subjective.
I don't understand, why tall people will have more kids?

And why they didn't have more kids before the time when they were shortest?

What could drive tall people having more kids in last 150 year when they went from shortest to tallest?

Did anything big happen in last 150 year?
It depends on how you define "important". Fundamental shifts are great, and they advance humanity a lot all at once. But ordinary achievements that help a few people at a time, a little bit, take on a cumulative importance of their own.

Even after the big "hard" problem gets solved, there's a gold rush of a huge amount of more ordinary work to pick the low-hanging fruit. Those aren't usually hard problems, but finding relatively obvious solutions for the first time. That wheel will be invented over and over for each sub-domain and specific set of requirements, and will gradually come to look like yet-another-TODO-app as everybody craves the next big leap. But until it comes, there remains a lot of room for making somebody's life just a little better by re-applying the last one for the 999th time.
>Generally, a company will charge the highest price they can get away with, irrespective of the cost it took to produce the good or service.

That's not what those "everyday" people think. They think the company can increase the prices beyond the breaking point arbitrarily and always get away with it. That same logic is then used to prevent new competitors from entering because they charge above market rate during their first few years. For some reason they never think about what happens once the suppliers are begging for customers because there is too much competition.
> On the other hand diseases don’t reach 100% of the population on the same day.

That's absolutely true, even in Wuhan the %age of infected people on the total population is relatively small, but much larger than the # of ICU beds that existed.

And the virus had a long time to spread around there before any countermeasures were taken.

Even so, ventilators and ICU beds are not normally all available either.

> Quarantine has been surprisingly effective in China, though at significant economic cost.

It would have been a lot more effective if they had done it sooner.

> That seems to be a much larger concern than the capacity of heathcare systems.

Yes, and I'm sure that at some level that's the right trade-off, I'm just not sure what that level is and whether or not we are already past it.

> If this becomes a true epidemic it’s going to be bad, but societies have been dealing with epidemics for a long time.

In Italy they went from 0 dead and a handful of cases to 7 dead and > 200 cases. Most of them are old people and people that were already ill.

Historically the way we deal with epidemics is by developing medication. That takes time and in the meantime the damage could be substantial.
That's only for salaried employees. As a freelancer, you're generally out of luck AFAIK. (Unless you are a member of the Künstlersozialkasse or similar.)
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Couldn’t be worse than the ones that heat up water to make steam.
Can you remind me again why hackerone is relevant here? Who claimed where that they performed a PCI DSS external scan that failed?
> if they had to chase subscriptions

They already pretty much do that for their tv channels and iplayer with the tv licenses.

Regardless of that, I do not see how subscriptions would damage impartiality.
True, that would have been more correct. However, keep in mind that these people who are found ill now in Italy probably have contracted the virus weeks ago, before it started spreading substantially to other countries. Or before we knew it was already spreading anyway.
> After saturation, however, the CFR will move asymptotically toward approx 15%.

> Medical system saturation is believed to be the main reason the CFR in Hubei is much worse than other provinces.

This would practically be a Denial of Service Attack on any health system, no matter the country in which that health system is based in. Which is why it is so important to try to contain the virus spread before we get to the "move asymptotically toward approx 15%" phase.
My favorite book of all time. :)
Eggbeater in water polo is usually used to rise out of the water. Taking shots on goal is much more effective with your upper body out of the water.

Most people can float on their back without much effort.
Except that according to the CDC, second hand smoke causes 41,000 deaths per year in the US: https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/heal...
Is there any research on how to talk to these people? I know a flat earthed and anything I say just makes them dig in more.
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That's rather how a lot of Amazon reviewers are. Vine-rs are also now the only group of reviewers that can officially review products for free. Naturally when you are getting something for free, it's hard to really take value into account. A lot of 2-star $100 products might be "5-star" if you pay $0. That's something Amazon recognizes in its own policies towards normie non-Vine reviewers.
Possibly. I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt because I haven't heard of any problems with DigiD itself, but you could certainly question whether that benefit is deserved here.

But my point is that even if DigiD is secure, that's still not going to help you when the tax service uses it incorrectly.
Was this previously called Tile Molester? (ugh, these names)
I would be ok, if you had compared coronavirus with the flu we have learned to live with, which kills way more people each year... but smoking? is smoking transmitted over the air? If someone smokes next to you, then you will also start smoking? Do you die from smoking in a few days?

Coronavirus is on the news because we can't control it, we can't see it, it can spread without show of symptoms, it can be deadly... has no vaccine - thus the fear of a pandemic.
In my opinion, the issue here is notation and a bit more. I did about eight years of college in math, changed paths, changed careers, changed careers again to ML/DL research, and now will finish a CS undergrad degree this month.

I put it in context because it's not quite a direct comparison since I have been in greatly different situations and ages between studying math and CS, but putting that aside, I have to say I have greatly enjoyed the computer science means of teaching more than math, doubly when it comes to self-learning. Concepts in math are generally taught entwined with the means of proving those ideas. That's important if you're a grad student looking to be a math researcher, but (IMO) it is not so great if you're a newer student or learning on your own and trying to grasp the concept and big picture. A proof of a theorem can be (and too often is) a lot of detail that really doesn't help you grasp the concept the theorem provides or is used towards, often because it involves other ideas and techniques from higher levels or just different types of math, both of which are out of the scope of the student learning the topic. Worse yet, it is standard for a proof to be written almost backwards from how it would be thought out. Anyone from a math educational background has the experience in homework of solving a problem, then rewriting it almost in total reverse to be in the proper form to submit. This means not only is the proof of the theorem not useful towards conceptual understanding, reading the proof doesn't show you chronologically how you would discover it yourself. That is a lot of overhead cost to break through to get to real understanding, real learning. As you mention, notation as well is another thing you need to break through.

I have found computer science and related classes to be taught more constructively. Concept is given first, and then your job as student learner is to construct it. Coming from the ML field, I love comparing math and CS proofs of topics here. Explanations from CS people of back propagation, for example, are always visual, and books/courses will have you construct a class and methods to do the calculations. Someone with a bit of programming knowledge can follow along in their language of choice. Math explanations get into a ton of notation from Calc 3+, and it's going to take a lot of playing around and frustration to get a working system out of the explanation. Even the derivation section on Wikipedia is not something most people will understand and be able to turn into useful output.

The more I see other ways concepts are taught, the more I wish math had been taught a different way. There is a lot to break through in order to get to real understanding, just by the way it's formed and taught.
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> HackerOne appears to be completely broken and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

Completely disagree with this.

I launched a HackerOne program for my company last month (for free, not using their “managed” service).

Of the many reports people submitted, we triaged 30-40 valid reports (most very minor, one or two moderate). We paid out a few thousand dollars in rewards.

At the same time, we also did a more traditional 2-week penetration test with Cobalt (https://cobalt.io/) that cost over $10,000, and HackerOne was the clear winner when it came to the number of high quality security reports worth fixing. And H1 was 2-3x cheaper after paying out the bounties.

I’m sure HackerOne isn’t great for all companies, but just posting this to refute the blanket statement that HackerOne is “completely broken” across the board.
Summer = fewer colds?

It could be problematic, though, because lots of people travel during the summer. There are probably millions of people queued up to visit Italy, Spain, Britain, etc. The Europeans take long vacations, so populations will be particularly mobile in July and August.

I wonder if the U.S. might be slightly less vulnerable to contagion, since Americans tend to visit beaches, national parks and other less crowded places, whereas in Europe the tourist attractions are in crowded cities.

It's going to be an interesting few months before a vaccine is hopefully found.
English people were small at the time of the Boer wars too, there were problems finding enough suitable soldiers, the food rationing in WWII actually improved diet for the average worker.
Yes, it's still chaotic. You'll get the same results every time with no parameter variation, but any variation creates dramatically different results. The circuit exploits sensitive dependence on initial conditions, things like temperature and manufacturing variations between the transistors. EDA simulators fix these conditions by default, but you can do things like iterate over a range of values for them, and see that the results change dramatically with each change in input.
If this is asymptomatic do they eventually get sick or do they just harbor the virus?

I don't understand how the virus can be asymptomatic? How does it reproduce and what triggers it to become symptomatic?
Infrastructure as Code is here to stay
The EU and further integration was a bad idea, please change my mind.

> Deloitte consultants proposed doing the same with police facial images, but the idea was met with unanimous opposition from law enforcement officials

It is bad enought that mandatory passports now include biometric data. I don't see how I should support the union in any way, although my government certainly pushes in the same direction. At least the latter can be severely punished.