skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How I used React-Loadable to more than half my React app's load time
Dementia rate fell 44 percent since late 1970s: Framingham study
My favorite thing in Tokyo (I wrote sarcastically) is being on over crowded trains in the winter and their policy of not running the ventilation systems "because it's winter".
> Some were earning as little as R400 (about US$27,22) per month.

I find this horrible to parse, though presumably you get the hang of it eventually. I assumed it was missing a zero until I looked up the exchange rate. A grim situation (the wage).
Cruise has GM manufacturing behind it, too.
Then why is China shutting down public transports, telling people to stay home, and cancelling public events? Hmm?
Sure, it's like those stories about governments incentivising people to hunt pests by paying for body parts...eventually people circumvent the metrics in a counterproductive manner, in the animals case by breeding the pests instead of capturing them.
They are useful in some cases.
But it's not for everyone.
https://www.ccjdigital.com/starksy-robotics-wraps-nearly-10-... It's possible that they relied too much on remote assistance. Really hard to say what state their tech is in and what stage investors want to see before putting in cash.
One reason having an OEM backing is one of the only ways to survive in this space.
> How many people do you know with malaria? It's a tropical region disease.

Malaria is not inherently a tropical region disease. It routinely plagued Europe until the 1950s. Russia for one example had a huge Malaria outbreak in the early 1920s as did Eastern Europe broadly.

"Gustavo Pittaluga (1876-1956) estimated that in 1923, 18 million people suffered from malaria in Russia, and that sixty thousand deaths occurred out of a total population of about 110 million (Anigstein, Pittaluga, 1925). Similar observations were made throughout the whole of eastern and south-eastern Europe and the former Ottoman Empire."

http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104...
Next generation distributed, event-driven, parallel config management
Excel is used for very very expensive professional tasks.
Yes, it is a magnitude deadlier than the flu.

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 or asymptomatic cases.

«There is no evidence for that»

There is, see https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... :
In those who survive intensive care, [...] aberrant and excessive immune responses lead to long-term lung damage and fibrosis, causing functional disability and reduced quality of life.
I'm slightly confused by the claim this article makes about performance. It says:

> Generally, FreeBSD performs better than Linux - Don’t expect exponential differences, but many tests have shown that FreeBSD performs better than Linux

In that same line, it links to https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=3990x-fr... which says:

> Lastly is a look at the geometric mean for all of the benchmarks conducted for this FreeBSD vs. Linux scaling comparison on the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X. In the end, both CentOS Stream and Ubuntu 20.04 (development) delivered similar performance and were basically tied for first.… At 16 cores, RHEL8-based CentOS was about 17% faster than FreeBSD 12.1 while at 128 threads the lead expanded to 28% based upon the geometric mean or 21% when comparing the GCC9 results on FreeBSD 12.1.
on a side note, i have a week of PTO booked in tokyo then a week in kyoto/osaka, leaving friday. do you think its safe to travel?
Most western countries have proper regulation regarding waste disposal. Plastic pollution is a big is a big issue, but wont be solved while big economies decide to export their waste to places with less strict regulations. This is - in my opinion - the point that needs pressure from conscious citizens.

We are only now starting to measure up the microplastics impact and their origin. Switching to reusable cups is a drop in the ocean, when tons of the stuff is released by simply washing clothes or makeup off your face.
I didn't read too much into it, was mostly just vaguely disappointed.
Ask HN: How to spend a six month sabbatical?
Hi HN

I have just finished up my undergrad and wont be starting my Master's until fall this year. The programme I am joining is a bit more IT heavy (think quantitative economics mixed with some software development) than my undergrad. I have been advised by acquaintances in the programme to get extremely comfortable with Python before starting.

I do have some basic Python experience from a summer internship but I still am nowhere near any sort of profiency. I wanted to ask you about how to best spend the coming six months in order to prepare for the programme?

Would it make sense to get involved in the Open Source community or am I simply too inexperienced to contribute?

Is there anything I could study besides "pure" Python (e.g. algorithms or another language) that would make sense to have in my developer toolbox?
Wal-Mart sells something like 2 million bicycles a year. If they're actually selling "really dangerous" bicycles then it should be easy for you to point at some actual statistics about it. After all, in America there are regularly recalls for things like

"we manufactured 600 bicycle forks that might crack and pose an fall hazard"[1]

"we made 800 bicycles where the caliper might come into contact with a broken spoke"[2]

"we manufactured 4,100 steer tubes that can become loose"[3]

[1]: https://www.cpsc.gov/es/Recalls/2016/enve-recalls-bicycle-fo...
[2]: https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2017/Trek-Recalls-Disc-Bicycles
[3]:https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2016/Box-Components-Recalls-BMX...

So where's the evidence of the tens of thousands of "really dangerous" bicycles being sold in America?
Tao3D – A language for dynamic 3D animations
Why operators are useful (2019)
This is a bit shortsighted. Just because a country is in debt doesn't mean the best way forward is to pay off the debt as fast as possible. Once you're out of debt you'll still need to have an economy and well educated people to run the place. Imagine if the US took an even more extreme example and refused to pay police officers before the national debt. Good luck for recovering from actual anarchy.

You can't reverse past bad policy, you can only move forward from where you're standing.
...which notably was the case in one of original SARS vaccine attempts.
Hotpot and hiking with Huawei rotating chairman Guo Ping
For those of you curious about the state of COVID-19 in Japan, I created an open source tracker that has gained a lot of momentum.

Source Code: https://github.com/reustle/covid19japan/

Tracker: https://covid19japan.com

Twitter Thread: https://twitter.com/reustle/status/1229313493808992257
Was this written by _the_ Matt Stone?
I only realized that at the very end, which gives this whole thing another dimension.

Good read.
Wow, I interviewed with Starsky for a summer internship position back around the beginning of December. The interview went well, but I never heard back from them. I just assumed that I didn't quite clear the bar, but it looks like they got the news that funding wasn't coming (timetable from the article matches up) and just shut hiring down.

During the interview I asked my interviewer about Starsky's long-term prospects, and he said that they would have near doubled in size come summer. Lol
That's a nice sob story you have there, Joe.
Duh, but that was not the question.

The question was how common that is in practice? Take the key recognizable seconds of top # songs of the last # years. What percentage will or will not fall under this algorithm (possibly after normalizing the key)?

Not 100% seems obvious, but is it 90%? 50%? 5%?
Because they're an authoritarian state, grasping at straws, and they can. The new politicians in Wuhan are connected directly to Xi, and they're doing all kinds of stuff that has no scientific basis, just to be doing stuff.
Using a throwaway because HN doesn't have a "post anonymously" function and I don't want my handle to be associated with this speculation.

This comment might seem like fearmongering so I'm going to try to stick to the facts or my thinking. Feel free to debunk the below!

My friend sent me a link to research that said it is a recombinant virus:

https://gnews.org/121400/

"Russian Ministry of Heath proves COVID-19 to be “man-made”"

(This seems like a weird niche source that is relying on Google translate.) Can you comment on if you've read anything about this?

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

In China a scientist was jailed for making GMO humans (with the intention to resist HIV) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Jiankui_affair

https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/30/21042530/china-gene-edit...

"China jails scientists behind first genetically engineered babies" (The Verge).

And the same friend I mentioned above sent me a link showing that the Coronavirus has some superficial resemblance to HIV:

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/ewuw0b/indian_sc...

"Indian Scientists suggest Corona Virus has uncanny similarity to HIV-1" (Reddit link and discussion - the top comment seems very informed and from a pharmacological background).

Given all of the above considerations, isn't it quite likely that scientists were attempting to GMO an AIDS immunity vaccine, but it "escaped"?

Honestly I think that governments don't mess with viral weapons development, which is also stupid as it would just kill them too.

However it seems very likely that rogue Chinese scientist(s) could have been researching this.

Do you have any thoughts about all of the above resources?

I think the citations I've just given are pretty much garbage, similar to chemtrails or flat Earth theories, but on the other hand they do appear to be serious research publications and now that we are reading about the entire Olympics being cancelled due to this, it does seem worth analyzing.

If it was a rogue scientist then there is no incentive for a large coverup. Any thoughts? How can it he a recombinant virus if someone didn't GMO it?
Welcome to international politics. The US and Russia were in the UN together throughout the cold war -- cooperating on some issues while being at odds over others.
“Turn on instantly”

Most of my analogue gear will drift tuning if you don’t warm it up for ~5min ;)

But yeah in general I agree with everything you’re saying, but I also like software. Different tools for different tasks :)
Article like this make me so depressed.

The conclusion is always (from my point of vue) : we are fucked.

We need a magic device that will remove gigatons of CO2 out of the atmosphere in less than 30 years and we need it to do it without using energy or consuming rare material.
And you can't do much with CO2 at the end.
https://www.reddit.com/r/vivaldibrowser/comments/62adz5/the_...

That apparently only covers Chromium changes to allow an HTML UI, not the actual interesting bits of the browser.
In no way is this refuting or at least commenting on the original post.

> [..] played down the threat, lied, covered up to save face, imprisoned whistleblowers, and refused to let international experts in.

Diverting a sensitive topic to a false-equivalence seems to be a go-to tactic of those in favor of China (Chinese government to be precise, the actual Chinese people are the biggest victims here).
A bunch of this resonates with me, having spent many years in climate tech as well. I laughed at the part about selling a pilot to a utility in three months though. That's like super lightning speed in this industry.
What is their source of revenue? Couldn’t find it on their about page.
Show HN: Yope – An idea-focused note-taking app using PWA technology
1) Ground aircraft are always kept out of the ILS critical zone when there is IFR traffic landing, which happens to be all commercial flights and almost all business aircraft. Autoland being used has nothing to do with this, besides, even GA planes can autoland today with RNAV GPS LPV approaches.

2) Autoland is never a requirement — usually, deciding to try an autoland landing or diverting to an alternate airport is the pilot’s game time decision.

3) Not “almost all” commercial aircraft have autoland capability. It requires specific certifications for the pilot and crew as well as the aircraft itself.
Ask HN: How are people deploying ML models in production? Could use advice
Hey HN!

How are people deploying ML models, specifically GPU-bound ones, in production?

While there are several serverless options for CPU-bound models, we haven’t found comparable ones for GPU-bound models.

The goal is to automate ML scaling and deployment with a serverless architecture. We want someone else to manage infrastructure while we focus on model development and improvement.

1) What’s the best way to deploy GPU-bound models with a serverless architecture, where the models are exposed as API endpoints and consumed by JavaScript code in a browser?

2) Are there other options we should explore besides the ones below?

Options considered:

* Google Cloud GPU instances: requires us to spin up/down instances based on demand. Another problem is this option requires us to create and assign SSL certs, which is problematic since the number of GPUs (and thus SSL certs) will be dynamic and unknown ahead of time.

* Google Cloud Functions: does not support GPUs.

* Google Cloud Run: does not support GPUs.

* Algorithmia.com: one model is based on FastAI and needs to save models internally, which isn’t supported. Additionally, we need specific versions of PyTorch with specific CUDA versions.

* AWS Lambda: does not support GPUs.
Cloudflare and Google's dns resolvers got a lot of adoption bc they provided a way for normal people to get around censorship, but they're inherently censorable bc they're run by centralized companies. There are new initiatives aiming to create a distributed dns layer which are promising like https://handshake.org.
That curve is pure bullshit. No real life event fits a polynomial with that much precision when it is sampled so poorly. They're cooked, both intentionally and because of limitations in equipment, personel, and ability.
The point is that if doctors had been free to investigate and alert the existence of the disease very early on, it might have been contained to a small number of cases right from the start, and never gained any traction in the population in the first place.

The first few weeks of an outbreak are absolutely crucial, and the Chinese authorities actively obstructed efforts to address the issue in that period precisely because of their authoritarian system.
Mark Hurd also stepped aside quickly
This assumes that the only way a project like this could be pulled off would be for the state to open a "money firehose" and spray it onto buckets held by private corporations. Is there any reason it couldn't, in theory, be a state controlled venture? Especially for something as seemingly basic as "planting trees", I don't see where the corporate expertise comes in that the state could never replicate.

"The state will handle this" is not only a legitimate structure in totalitarian dictatorships, it's used across the developed western world for most public services.
1. Come up with the vaccine

2. Test vaccine on animals

3. Prove to regulators vaccine is safe enough for limited human trials

4. Conduct limited human trials

5. Research effectiveness of vaccine / absence of side effects

6. Conduct broader human trials

7. Step 5 again

8. Scale up production of vaccine

Now, imagine that you can fail at any step and go back to the starting point.
This makes me wonder what the Astros did against Charlie Morton... He has a ridiculous amount of break to his curve.
Covid-19 Will Mark the End of Affluence Politics
Not you. But this isn't a competition for salary. If you think your work and skills aren't valued correctly, you should look for another job. It is not that important that others have high salary that they (maybe) don't deserve, what is important is that you get the salary you think you deserve (important from your point of vue). Of course, whatever you get in the end also depend on what the business is willing to pay to have you.

If you feel stressed, you may be giving too much of yourself. If you are giving more then you like to, to compensate for your teammate, you might need to find teammates that are up to your level, that carr as much as you, an a business that care as much as you too.
Secret doorway in UK Parliament leads to historical treasure trove
If the outbreak started in the USA, would you expect the USA to welcome a team of Chinese Government epidemiologists?
Maybe participation in the holy communion by drinking from a cup of wine shared with the entire congregation isn't the best idea right now.
I’m paying Climeworks 1000$ to remove a ton of CO2 every month. Not very cost effective, but a start.
The Milan fashion show was basically cancelled and whole cities in Italy have been cordoned off under the threat of military action if the quarantine isn't followed.

>Will the governments ban conventions? Close restaurants and bars? Shut down shopping malls?

So Yes.
Considering Hokkaido became hotspot within two weeks of Snow Festival and Brazil recorded first case soon after Carnival, there is a good chance that other countries will start to look unfavorably at events with large crowd.
F-strings are the one obvious way to do string formatting. There may be other ways, for legacy backwards compatibility reasons, but f-strings are the way to do string formatting.
I haven’t personally used it, yet, but my team has been really happy with TestCafe. The tests seem much less flakey than selenium.
I’d love to see some work put in to making this work with React Native. I spent a day trying to get this to work a few weeks ago with no joy, and I couldn’t find any indication that anyone else had managed to make it work either.
Can we state that math is something like religion? The search for The One Truth? I feel oddly connected with the author and his thoughts mirror mine almost completely, I was just not able to word them...
Wait for five seconds?

That's the first mistake.

You should always wait for some kind of state change, you're just building in fragility.
Just to make it clear in case readers were unaware:

CDC: Center for Disease Control - a US Federal agency.

WHO: World Health Organisation - a United Nations organisation.
Parks will temporarily close. He'll have time/space to take on other extra responsibility. Just boring reallocation of human resources?
Just stay away from people. You can literally do that in your own home. The virus cannot travel very far in the air, so you won’t be infected unless someone in your home is infected.

You can have food and other supplies delivered. If you’re worried about the packaging or delivery person being infected, you can potentially sterilize the packaging and wear an N95 mask when dealing with deliveries.

Going elsewhere runs the risk of you being infected during transit.
>Now I feel that's a problem; because, very often, those discussions are those when you "win" an argument (especially in the eyes of colleagues or managers) or lose it.

I think you are way ahead because you're coming from an empathy and a desire to understand other people's positions as far as I can tell, which is crucial in advising people.

Becoming more aggressive is one implementation you thought of. There are other implementations such as becoming better at making convincing points.

The point of the debates you have at work is the pursuit of a useful truth in a given time frame and a course of action that will lead the organization in the right direction.

The problem when your convincing skills improve becomes that you'd be able to argue one position or the other and still be able to convince people, during the same debate. That spot is harder since you know your rudder is huge and you must be _very_ careful and you damn better be right.

Bullying in conversations, monopolizing speaking time, interrupting, and trying to win by raising one's voice because their points don't stand on their own is no way to go in my opinion.
I’ve never been involved in fundraising, so I have to ask: how often to investors balk at the last minute? Seems like a dick move.
Also, the superdelegates would not have voted for her if she had lost among the pledged delegates.

How can we know that? Because that's precisely what happened in 2008. Hillary had tons of superdelegates lined up behind her when the primaries started, but then Obama got more votes, so the superdelegates switched.
WHO politicking can be explained with other than an (IMO semi-bigoted) "China has a lot of investments in Ethiopia", it's got to do with trying to deal with an authoritarian country that doesn't like losing face. If WHO said something that can be taken as an insult, China can tell them to GTFO, and the WHO would lose first hand experience of what's going on there, which might make things more catastrophic..
Making use of lost time with podcasts and audiobooks
I believe TV licensing fees generate far more revenue than the direct ticket sales anyway. I bet in some sports, ticket sales barely cover the costs of building the seating and stadium. If you didn't have a local public, most events could just be held in a field.
It sailed when they added the for loop - everyone was happy using while loops, things worked and it was simple.

Now there are TWO ways of calling a block of code repeatedly based? How confusing for new users. Python really went downhill since then.
> Do you really think it will be any different in the USA or Europe? Will the governments ban conventions? Close restaurants and bars? Shut down shopping malls?

You are poorly informed. The Italian government did precisely that this weekend.
I think Vue can be best described as a fairly light-weight framework that takes the best aspects of Angular and React. You can do templates like Angular, or render functions like React. It's fast like React, does data binding like Angular. Vuex is very much like Redux. It lacks Angular's injectable services, though.
There are alternatives like transformative justice:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformative_justice https://savethekidsgroup.org/defining-transformative-justice...
I need a cheat sheet to use tmux. I've no doubt I'd find it valuable if I spent some time learning it, but I can also appreciate this thing for adding a nice function without changing the way I work. Not a dig at tmux!
San Francisco has Moscone Center. One unlucky unscreened attendee and good bye world. Skipping all conventions until all clear.
It’s also really expensive. This new operator works with any Mapping type without needing silly hacks.