skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember back then accelerators setting were highlighted in all programming books I have read.
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It’s only a matter of time before this starts happening all over Europe.

> England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, said transmission of the virus between people in the UK was "just a matter of time".
He said if the outbreak intensifies, it may be necessary to close schools and stop mass gatherings of people for "quite a long period of time, probably more than two months".
“Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. (...) Women have had less intellectual freedom than the sons of Athenian slaves. Women, then, have not had a dog's chance of writing poetry. That is why I have laid so much stress on money and a room of one's own”

― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
Well, as a Swiss I can only state for the record that the government is not the enemy.

Essentially: The government is us.
I'm wondering currently we have 40-60 cases in other EU countries all originating in Italy, but there are only 650 official cases in Italy.
Based on this, it seems that the infection is widely widespread in Italy and the number of "undetected case" should be important (maybe for instance with a lot of asymptomatic carriers)
Is there any model to predict this type of dispersion? Any interesting article on this subject?
The DeutscheBahn said it will refund all tickets originally purchased to travel to events cancelled due to coronavirus.
It doesn't contain the floating point representation of that number, which would be infinitely long, but it does contain the UTF8-encoded constructive proof that uniquely identifies that number.
I'm not even sure that Terminator can be so easily protected. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terminators_(film)
It will be refunded with the refund reason "Goodwill".

(I work as a Software Developer at SBB and work on the system that does the refund process)
For your next trick, you will claim that what people really did before the Clean Air Act proves they want air pollution.

Or, maybe, individual actions and collective actions are different things.
Why don't you just play games on Windows?
Studies? Just check out how we do this in the Netherlands. It works great here in most bigger cities.
You don't know what you have until you miss it, I suppose.
When you can buy a 50" LED 4K TV for under $300, why would you attempt a repair of any older tech TV that is "probably repairable" for a couple hundred bucks? Take it off the wall; find a repair place; make an appointment; schlep it over there; wait for the results; pick it up; put it back on the wall vs drive to BestBuy and buy a newer, better TV and put the old one on the curb and be done with certainty tomorrow.

Any commodity TV is immediately beyond-economic-repair, IMO.

1 - https://www.bestbuy.com/site/samsung-50-class-led-nu6900-ser... (literally the first search result I found)
How's that? It can be true that everyone is on at least 70k, and some people are on more. It can't be true that everyone is on 70k, and some people are on more. If you're on 80k then you aren't on 70k are you?
I live in Graz and I'm hard of hearing. Hearing aids make locating where some kinds of sounds come from difficult, so I miss a lot of acoustic cues that pedestrians use to navigate their way through busy places.

I've been run down once by a bicyclist and once by a skateboarder while I was walking on mixed use pathways. The skateboarder took a harder fall than I did, still helped me up, and sincerely apologized. I fractured my wrist in my fall when the bicyclist hit me and not only did they not stop, they yelled at me as they cycled away.

Anyway, I too would support limiting the use of cars as well as on street parking in city centres and other similar zones.
> Shortening patents to 20 years type thing

It already is.
What is the basis by which jury likely decides intent here? Is it any different than "arbitrarily"?

The point is in a world of cheap computing, intellectual property is probably moot if its cost of production is nearly zero.
On Android it does.
But wait! It gets worse: Date-of-birth fields where they use a date picker, and the default/starting date is today.

I'm a bit older than the average HM demographic, so using a date picker to scroll back many years might take hundreds of clicks. Then I made a mistake (details long forgotten) and the whole thing reset and I had to start again. On the third time around I just quit.
Probability of finding colleagues matching your interests and personality in a random workplace is very low and even if you are lucky, such situations usually don't last long.
Vehicles like this one are usually targeted at young people that can't yet get a license for a standard car (usually you need to be 18 in EU), but can get a license for vehicles with max speed of 45km/h from ±15 (depending on country).
I love these small coincidences that remind us of how small the internet has made the world!
Do you imagine that the size of sewers, hospitals, schools, and power plants to serve 100K people are the same size as those to serve 500K people?

If you've got existing, working infrastructure built out for population X, you have a lot more building to do to support 5X. Often that requires tearing down existing, functional infrastructure and replacing with larger.
Vienna has a few roads recently been closed off to cars, and there are more coming. I'd say the cities of Austria appear to be paying attention to the advantages of this approach, generally a little more these days ..
The code actually can produce every possible melody in MIDI. They simply have not stored every possible melody explicitly (uncompressed) on a hard drive (which is impossible, as the size is infinity).

However, if you interpret the program itself as a self-extracting compressed archive, they actually have stored every possible melody (in a compressed way).

So the question reduces to how much the type of compression matters here (is ZIP allowed? is TAR allowed? what about more sophisticated like PAQ? and what about this Rust code?). This is what I/we discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22441328
Isn't everything already published in the digits of Pi?
I wonder what will happen to public transport.

In the press conference was said, that currently, they are worried about large events, where people are very near to each other for quite some time. But large train stations, like in Zurich, Bern or Basel, are not yet affected.

Also border controls do not seem to be affected. There are many people crossing borders to Italy or Germany for work by car or train.

All in all, I think the swiss government reacts very reasonably. But I also think that containing the spread already seems out of the question.
> grants, scholarships, registration fees and a myriad of other things have in recent times become volatile

Welcome to the sad reality of academia almost everywhere in the world. (sigh)
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I dont think thats the point of workplace. I'm not looking for friends, that is a different thing.
I've replaced the case of my NUC with a passively cooled one from Akasa. I forgot what I paid for it, seems the one I had sold for 50 EUR (old NUC I bought around 2015/2016). The NUC itself was 150 EUR or so. The highest temperature I can get it to is 50 Celsius or so. It was really easy to switch the case, though you did need external antenna's for that (bought them from Aliexpress).

I really want to switch it over to something equivalent from AMD. Unfortunately it seems that equivalent silent boards are mostly intended for specialized businesses. Meaning, the prices are high.

Even with a newer NUC I'd probably still pay something like 150 EUR for the NUC and 50 EUR for a passively cooled Akasa case. All the AMD options I've found are way more expensive than this unfortunately. Sometimes I cannot even find a seller for some of the options.

Edit: I'd prefer if the case is small. NUC is already small. It could be a bit bigger than a NUC but ideally not.
In the article the point is made, that president Trump will be able to hold back a global recession by force. I would like to disagree. I think the Virus will lead to a global recession, that Trump will not be able to hold back. Secondary effects and panic will drive the economy of the cliff. Once a major city in the US is blocked of, there will be a fire sale in the stock market. That's just my opinion though.
Yes, but it's usually less than 5x more.

I don't really see your argument. The per capita expenditure should be the same or less.

If really necessary, just charge real estate developers for it.
VW seems like such a juicy target for vendor locking. Their own software competence is probably limited so they could be made to make some bad choices. And they have a lot of money.
As a fellow Swiss I agree.

Remember when they banned Chinese exhibitors from Basel World[1] during the SARS crisis?

There was a hell of a lot of "Bloody Murder! That's such an over reaction!" going for that.

I was not so sure at that time. Ultimately (and mind you, it was a super painful decision and to describe the Chinese and Hong Kong delegation as royally pissed and offended would be a massive under-exaggeration) I figured that the BAG (health authority) was doomed whatever they decided. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

But since the situation could have ultimately run out of control I thought the decision was right.

I also think so in this case. Even though, it's hard core and will be very unpopular with a lot of the public (let alone 20 Minuten commenters).

[1] The most important watch and jewelry exhibition in the world, at least it was at the time. Hong Kong was the most important foreign exhibitor
They also stated that infections appear to require less than 2 meter distance between people for at least 15 minutes.
I've been wondering for a while why countries do not test people randomly like in phone surveys, i.e.randomly pick several thousand persons from a region and test them. Like in phone surveys you need to compensate for biases created from people declining to be tested, of course. It would be expensive, but it seems to me that it would yield a good picture of what is going on.

Maybe I'm missing something obvious and this is not possible, though.
Surely not? If there are more numbers that can be represented in any amount of bytes (as shown by the diagonal argument), then you cannot represent a constructive proof for each of them in any amount of bytes.
C is a pretty low bar. And yeah, not being able to do version control, diffs, releases, dependency management... it all adds up.
Absolutely the right thing to do.
If there's no flour, there's no Torah.
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I hereby copyright every combination of ones and zeros of length one to infinity, now you cannot sue me .
A long time ago I wrote a program for stress testing hard disks. You can download the modern version of it here: https://github.com/ncw/stressdisk

It got used a lot to soak tests disk for servers that were going into production or being shipped out to far away places.

However it quite soon became apparent that a lot of the errors weren't caused by bad disks at all, but rather by bad RAM. It even discovered a set of bad RAM for 200 computers which passed all the manufacturers tests but failed when in use.

Moral of the story: if you care about data integrity check your RAM as well as your disks! I run memtest86 then stressdisk on any new systems I'm building.

Also, testing RAM is hard! Memtest86 does an excellent job, much better than the manufacturers tests.
When the sewer and water service is under existing streets and needs to be dug up to support higher density housing, that project is enormously more expensive and disruptive to the locals.
In sane languages like Common Lisp this works since 90's if not earlier:

* (/ 1 3)

1/3 ; result is a fraction

* PI

3.141592653589793d0

* (* 1/3 pi)

1.0471975511965976d0 ; fraction * fp -> fp

* 9999999999999999999999

9999999999999999999999 ;transparent support for bigints
They are using subcontractors for at least some of these positions. But I don't know whether for all, hence my suggestion to ensure they outsource all the lowly paid position, if they wanted to hit this arbitrary metric.

It's all a bit tongue in cheek and silly.

It does have some real world consequences because of some regulation that requires companies to publish some information about the ratio between CEO pay to lowest paid employee.

But as we noted here, who is officially an employee and who ain't is flexible.

Uber and eBay and Amazon are an even more extreme example: Uber drivers and eBay sellers are at the heart of what makes those companies tick. But they are not employees.
Indeed. We have pavement level cycle tracks in the part of East London I live in - I tend to stick to the roads since if if I'm doing 16-18MPH and a pedestrian wanders into the cycleway, it gets tricky.

I absolutely do not blame the pedestrians - its all too easy to do.
Android had this "Option" key until Google decided to blindly follow Apple.

Today, an artifact of this feature is still accessible by holding the Back button for a long time, but it is set to simply show the Overflow menu (if the App has one).

I wish so much that Android would have sticked with it. Similarly, many Windows notebooks swap the right Ctrl with a "Context Menu" key. It basically lets you right click with the mouse, but it could have had so much more potential ...
It makes sense if you think of it in terms of a manual typewriter - the carriage-return lever winds the platen (the line feed), and if you keep pushing the lever, you return the carriage to the beginning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter#Standardization
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How much federally funded research becomes a product you (or anyone can use) that isn't protected by some intellectual property? Hint: its not a lot. Because people don't work for free, chemicals don't buy themselves, research and development needs to be paid off. If you want to upend capitalism and the market economy, fine, but figure out a sensible way to do that before trying to break the current system by removing the mechanism the creators and inventors and commercializers of new and novel things are able to do that.

I am talking about IP-protections more generally than 'copywrite' alone per parent's discussion. Moving copywrite more in line with patents would be a sensible change.
You live in a flat country, were cities are quite densely populated and you don't have to travel a lot.

Mine is not.
Swiss resident (but not Swiss citizen) here. I believe Switzerland is a very unique case in that the Swiss have a culture of local (ie. Canton and Commune) level decision making via direct democracy. You grow up wielding a certain power, and you know your decisions matter and will affect your everyday life. This ingrains a close relationship between the citizens and their representatives.

What I'm trying to say is that I don't think it is possible to just take the Swiss model and transplant it elsewhere. It requires a multi-generational cultural conditioning to develop the civic mind that the Swiss have nurtured. It is also not clear how scalable it is ultimately.

It requires a certain amount of enlightenment without which the system would not work.
I live in Austin, TX and because Twitter launched at SXSW 10ish years ago our tiny downtown area turns into a neon cash grab desperation cyclone all spring. Festival season kicks off with SXSW March 22nd.

It's already a mess of people from all over the world smashed in together. The city can't maintain it as is. It's already a sewer orgy of drunk/drugged people from all over the world trading regular diseases. I'm going to seriously limit my outside time while it's going on.

It's worth so much money to huge companies that don't even live here and is what the city is known for. I seriously doubt they'll cancel. They really should.
I’m a (sort-of) contractor. My rates and selection of projects strongly takes the team dynamic at the clients place into account. Sure, I do have a rate that I aim for, but as long as a certain minimum is met, I’m likely to choose a place with a sane team and healthy social interactions over a dysfunctional hell hole. And places that pay everyone a reasonable wage at least tend to have that more often than other places.

This approach has shown to substantially improve my quality of life.
The level of support, organization and acceptance you get if it was "your decision" cannot be replicated by authoritarian governments at all.
If you're 5 and asking "how many months have 28 days?" and insisting the answer is "all of them", you are technically correct. In that extremely limited sense, this headline could also be correct.
The "mentions in literature" chart that's posted in the article is comparable to "volume of searches", because they both pertain to societal change. A data-centric evaluation of the phenomenon would focus on actual "occurrences of hiccups".
Of course it's cancelled, Berset put 1000 people as a hard maximum with events with below 1000 people attending only allowed under risk assessment measures (ie. they might even cancel events below that threshold).
I've always found Switzerland pretty authoritarian. Try hang out your washing on the wrong day of the week/in the wrong place.
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> Notable: [...] No updates recently.

The latest release was on Jan 21. https://github.com/notable/notable/releases
Or with more products and Stripe verified revenue:

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In Switzerland they currently have a good picture of whats going on. They were able to trace backe where all infected people got the disease from.
There's a law for that and it's democratically legitimized: https://www.admin.ch/opc/de/classified-compilation/20071012/...
Or you could buy a bike
Unions are pushing the FTC to investigate Amazon for anti-competitive practices
> more people are using their bicycles now means that there will be less people left stuck in traffic in their cars

It doesn't follow though

More people using bikes is not a direct consequence of less people using cars

It could be, but there is no cause-effect relationship

For example in Milan where I live more people are using bikes because many people moved in recently and owning a car is expensive here and the weather has improved since climate change started showing its effects

But they are people that weren't driving before, they used public transport

Most of them don't even hold a driving license
This is the most inspiring implementation of live web scraping that I have seen. However, I think it will only work well on semantic HTML. I don't know about AirBnb, used in the paper, but I can say many good words about GitHub. GitHub is an awesome example of a customizable web app thanks to solid, semantic HTML structure. You can see hundreds of web extensions and Tampermonkey user scripts for GitHub that work consistently. I wrote a few of my own.

As a co-founder of Handsontable, I am proud to see it used in this paper. Handsontable is a commercial spreadsheet component, however it is free for non-commercial purposes such as education, research, study, and personal use, testing and demonstration: https://github.com/handsontable/handsontable/blob/master/han...
Security is not binary, it's a spectrum based on cost. It's the same for censorship-resistance. If Handshake increases the cost of internet censorship for every country in the world, then it will have succeeded even if it's still possible for countries like China to censor it.
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> Original author should probably get one free renewal that should cover most of his lifetime.

I don't really get this. If someone spends 6 months, or even a year or two, writing a book, why should they be entitled to profits from the sale of that book for the rest of their lives? That seems a little excessive to me.
Another thing that often gets forgotten is the cost of (long term) employees leaving. They take so much institutional knowledge with them. I'm currently watching a case unfold at a client where all people with intimate knowledge of a crucial component left - the cost of training up new people on that component will eclipse any reasonable increase in wage that they could have given to the team, not even accounting for the increase in bug-rate while the new folks figure out all the pitfalls that software tends to accumulate over time.

Documentation helps, but people knowing their way around the code is better.
I stand corrected. For pi, it is only a conjecture. My point remains true for "Champernowne sequence".
What is data quality and how to ensure it?
I'm in a co-working space, and the primary reason I took it was loneliness.

But I think that, for me, a social app wouldn't be able to replace a physical work space. It's not just the interaction with co-workers, but also the separation of work and home. The routine of riding my bike to and from the office is like a mental barrier, helping me to switch between work and leisure.

By going to my office, I effectively switch to work mode. I'm less inclined to get distracted (HN, YT, Reddit, etc) while I'm at the office. Then, during the ride back home I have time to reflect on the day. By the time I'm back home my mind is clear and I can relax.

My findings are that (at least in the Netherlands) there is plenty of opportunity for new co-working spaces. Currently it's hard for small or solo businesses to find a suitable office. All offices I found are either geared towards larger groups (10+), or had ridiculous requirements to be eligible. All the 'innovation' spaces are hard to get in when you just make a software product. They require some 'impactful' business to be accepted, which basically means you can choose between creating yet another replacement for plastic straws, or blockchain.

I don't need foosball tables, I don't need eco-vegan food, I don't want to attend blockchain disruption events. I just want a desk to sit at, and do my work.
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I agree and you do raise a very important point.

One of the hall marks of the Swiss system is to push as much power as possible to as locally as possible.

Communities have a lot of power in their decision making as long as such decisions do not violate cantonal (state) or federal laws.

It demands, though, quite intense interaction with policies and referendums (there are usually about three referendums about various subjects on local, cantonal and federal level per year) and that said, I would wish that there would be more engagement and a higher ratio of voters actually going to the polls.
Switzerland is a rare example of a country with instruments of direct democracy (at the levels of the municipalities, cantons, and federal state), excerpted from [1] which has more details of how Switzerland implements direct democracy in pure format and in combination with federal structures.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy#Switzerland