skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), 15-20% of people infected require hospitalization. If this becomes widespread, it will overwhelm the US healthcare system. If that happens, anyone who needs urgent care for any reason, has fewer resources available to help them.
You can replace the battery on your iPhone. It's just not user serviceable.

And Apple has for the last few years been focusing on improving the performance and stability of older phones in order to sell services. So your planned obsolescence remark doesn't really apply any more.
It’s fairly ingrained.

NCRs market share especially among chain QSRs and FSRs is fairly dominant if they were founded 15+ years ago. Easy to configure but hard to do complicated things (No well supported places to integrate, requires a partnership which NCR doesn’t give easily). They fell behind in implementation speed compared to other vendors and were slow to market with effective online ordering integrations and chip card acceptance.

In some ways they are a victim of their own success. Small business owners in a tight margin industry aren’t ones to upgrade hardware and software when what they have works. Further the state and configuration is complex and maintained in multiple locations making upgrades challenging for those not using systems. When I was using it they’d done a big overall switch from version 6.7 which was a release that wouldn’t die 7.0 but there were ongoing issues with the new version that held us back from upgrading for a long time (thinking promo rounding rules and inventory calculations downstream). The upgrade hesitancy makes it hard to get the needed integrations.

Now NBO (formerly MenuLink) is hot garbage. And don’t even get me started on Configuration Center (CFC) or Command Center...

Trying to get hundreds of franchises to agree in an interface change is a special circle of hell. The only thing wise is converting to a new POS system.

I administered and did integrations for a large chain (1000+ stores from 2013 to 2016).
It’s not easy at all. While I successfully managed to replace the battery in my 7+, it was a total pain in the proverbial.

You need three different, weird, screwdrivers, have to keep track of many different tiny almost-identical screws (say goodbye to your motherboard if you get them mixed up), and prise off a very fragile connector.

That’s aside from the fact the battery is glued so firmly that there’s a good chance it’ll go up like a firework while trying to get it unstuck.

Possible, yes. Really easy? Hell no.
For me, the mystique and beauty of forests lie in that they grow and thrive without intervention. They are a beautiful, unintentional, complex anarchy. They are the product of millions of years of millions of species going extinct, an incomprehensible sum of events, an unconscious wandering to its current state.

Human inventions and ecosystems are boring in comparison. Every choice was to serve a human desire, and 99% are boring logical reasons. Why does the toaster have a handle? To pop the bread out. Why does the server have a status light? It was a feature request. Why does the computer recognize faces? Because there was a business case for it.

Nature's causal "why" is "because that's the way things worked out", and that's magic. There's a beauty in asking "why are bluejays blue" and not being able to know.

Computers operate semi-autonomously, sure, but so do stand mixers and water-treatment facilities. These are still just human machines built for human uses. Until we have computers that reproduce and thrive alongside us rather than act in our servitude, they haven't even scratched the surface of the magic of an earthworm.
They're also four to five years apart, and IP67 was more or less top-of-the-line during the time when most smartphones still had replaceable batteries.

Also, this entire argument feels like it's getting way too much significance. It's definitely doable, even with IP68, there are tons of replaceable-battery-operated waterproof devices out there, this shouldn't be a reason.
That’s a lot of dysfunction for such a small company and you don’t seem too solution-oriented. Why would a 50 person company even have a CIO?
that youtube channel is really great!
But how would you define luck, anyway? I think it was Oprah who said something along the lines of "luck is when preparation meets opportunity".
Everybody who buys a $500-1500 phone can pay $20 at a corner shop to change a battery. A battery hatch to make it completely "end user replacable" won't make any difference.
Advice for England: https://111.nhs.uk/service/covid-19

I don't know what the US advice is, but the English advice is "please don't visit hospitals unless you've been told to do so".

We have people who'll come out and test you if needed, and we have "drive through" testing stations.

Telephone 111 or your GP for advice.

https://twitter.com/DrSdeG/status/1233715830170562561?s=20

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-information...
Officials: Dozens at WA nursing facility show possible coronavirus symptoms
gpg is widely agreed to be a train wreck, but age is not generally suitable for encrypted backups because it doesn't offer any form of authentication (so an attacker can replace a backup with a malicious one).
I mean, 7-15 years after the initial invasion? It's hard for me to believe that after 20 years the recommendation wouldn't still be the same.
I can't recommend iNaturalist enough. You can learn about the world around you by uploading sightings of any plants and animals you see all while contributing to a rich dataset for scientific research. I regularly upload birds and occasionally other fauna from where I live and work.
I think when people talk about phones with replaceable batteries, they mean ones that are replaceable by the user themselves.

And $29 is still four to five times as much than just buying a battery and doing it yourself.
One thing that would really help is to charge oversized passengers more than right-sized passengers, and have separate seating areas. One of the most uncomfortable things about flying coach is having to sit next to an oversized person.
This is much like the practical paper tape answer: punch it on a 8-bit tape (ASR-33 TeleType) and flip the tape. :-)
While I fully support right to repair, hack and alter - I really think this is design decision that should be owned by designers and not politicians. There are N number of devices without removable batteries and there are M reasons why designer might not want them. Politicians should just ensure that manufacturers must respect the right of customer to open the device and alter it in anyway they see fit.
Why can't I move the base stations?
> So where does AMD go from here?

The most important for AMD right now is to maintain that position and level, so they can get market share (especially in server space).
That's what I wanted to say :)
How would you define the difference?
That's exciting! If pull requests are enabled I can always send one once I'm up and running! Looking forward to checking out the good stuff in there!
How many people will actually do this with their five year old phones? Probably not many.

The ones that are worth anything to anyone already get shipped off to third world countries and refurbished en masse.

I have a really hard time imagining any significant environmental impact from this.
The chance of getting in early enough to a $2B company that exits comfortably has to be under 1%. Maybe under 0.5%. CB Insights has an article from a few years ago saying 1.28%.

Taking out companies below $2B, companies that didnt pan out so well (Magic Leap, Zenefits, WeWork), and you doing the right things to take advantage of your equity, I’m guessing that number drops to 0.35% or 0.25% or 1 in 300-400 startups.

Might as well not consider such an unlikely scenario. Plus if things don’t pan out at a startup and you’re just looking for money. You quite possibly made less during those years.
I also went to that Wikipedia page. The “multiple possible / probable causes” listed are:

“orbital cycles; decreased solar activity; increased volcanic activity; altered ocean current flows; fluctuations in the human population in different parts of the world causing reforestation, or deforestation; and the inherent variability of global climate change”

Only one of those is human related. Bizarre.
How do you differentiate influenza from covid-19? These folks probably just have the flu. I live in WA state and I had the worst case of the flu I can remember about 3 weeks ago. Did I have covid-19? No way to really know.
Apparently having a runny nose is not common, only 30% of patients had it, but the study was of 40-ish people: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

Still, a bad cold isn't fair to subject others to, either.
This article is not good, I encourage reading the paper its based on instead: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.10615.pdf

“In some ways, adversarial policies are more worrying than attacks on supervised learning models, because reinforcement learning policies govern an AI’s overall behavior.If a driverless car misclassifies input from its camera, it could fall back on other sensors, for example.” TIL fail-safe components are 1) ubiquitous 2) work 3) only an option for supervised learning components.

“A supervised learning model, trained to classify images, say, is tested on a different data set from the one it was trained on to ensure that it has not simply memorized a particular bunch of images. But with reinforcement learning, models are typically trained and tested in the same environment.”
First, a RL environment is not equivalent to a supervised learning data set. Second, the train validate test paradigm is not thrown out in RL research, its why OpenAI put their Starcraft agent on public ladders.

“The good news is that adversarial policies may be easier to defend against than other adversarial attacks.” This sentence refers to Graves et al. adversarially training their agents. Adversarial training is, of course, also conducted frequently in supervised learning.
They're automated systems in support of the 702 program. The companies in question had to have done work to assist, by the nature of how the program works.
Yep, but I spent $79 three times before they admitted the problem after threats of a class action lawsuit. I was not refunded the difference and expect future problems to continue to require threats to rectify with little hope of refunds.
blog posts are mostly shared via twitter, I don’t think the part you quote is inaccurate.
I think one of the best things the alarmists do is say we only have ten years left. When those predictions are proven wrong again and again eventually people will notice the pattern.
What Went Wrong at OpenAI? [audio]
Interesting. Given the documentation of strptime, I would have expected that to not be possible at all (since constructing a datetime without a year isn't possible directly)
I have one as my home router and got an additional two to run as GlusterFS nodes and couldn't be happier (well, Gluster performance is really unsatisfactory with ~50MB/s from these two running in replicated on 1 LUKS-encrypted SSD each, but I've realized now that probably I shouldn't expect much more with this kind of setup and you really need to run distributed on larger number of smaller nodes to make Gluster performant, so can't blame the APUs).

Now I'm having a hard time to decide what I should go for for additional worker nodes in my cluster - go all-in on PCEngines APUs, Odroid H2, Udoo Bolt or a larger number of some incarnation of RK3399 SBC (Khadas VIM3/NanoPi M4/Rock Pi) or even Raspberry Pi4s - or if it's better to wait a bit for some of these new AMD SFFs.

If power-consumption, space and noise wouldn't be a factor it'd be a no-brainer to get two or more 19" rack servers, but that's a no-go.

I have a feeling that the playing field for small-form-factor, power-efficient and quiet compute clusters is going to change dramatically soon with new products based on AMD and ARM, but also not sure if it's worth waiting if I want things up and running by this summer.
I don’t think it makes sense to criticize Obama for going to one meeting at his kids’ school. Having an important job doesn’t mean you should spend 100% of your waking hours in that job. It’s good to sometimes do something else, to stay mentally fresh.

Also, as a CEO it’s useful to talk sometimes to a broad range of your customers. Doesn’t it make sense for a politician to talk to a broad range of his constituents?

If your philosophy is that people who care about their kids can’t be president, you will get a president who doesn’t care about kids.
A new battery is $40-80, say. If the phone would have a hatch your cost of the replacment operation itself would be $0, and for a current iphone the cost of the replacement is maybe $20. I don't see how the $20 makes the difference between very attractive to keep and not.
Mortality rate in China is 3.8% nation wide, 5.8% in Wuhan.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-...
That's a prefix code, they're defined by no code word being a prefix of another (so if you put them in a trie the code words only appear on leaves).

A trivial example is the reverse:

_.
_..
_...

Which can be decoded by, at worst, reversing the string first.

(Sorry if I've misunderstood your example)
Yeah, 1 in 2000 is 500 micromorts, somewhere in the 400-500 micromorts region.
Often the cloud sell is less a sale of “the cloud” and more modern development and configuration practices such as being able to do a reliable auto update. I’ve had a lot of vendors sell hosted solutions with the premise that since they will deploy an update regardless of the customers input it prevents the risk adverse business side from preventing updates.

It does provide resilience but it also increases the complexity which may not be the right trade off in some instances.
This is perhaps interesting as a meta-example, because I’m confident that I would trust in the institution behind the Doomsday Clock during the Cold War.

In today’s climate, I don’t. It becomes just another menacing signal where I don’t have the time, energy, or even ability, to untangle whatever web of alliances is motivating them to scare me.
>These folks probably just have the flu.

Perhaps you're missing the part of the article that says:

>There are also two confirmed cases associated with the nursing facility.

I'm not trying to say they definitely have it, but it's foolish to brush this aside as "probably just the flu" when they appear to have been exposed to the virus.
It's worth noting (as mentioned they are under security review) that apparently ClearviewAI lost their client database (hopefully that's all) to hackers last week. Along with being sued by the big boys, that's gotta hurt.

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/02/28/clearview-ai-los...
From the article: "There are also two confirmed cases associated with the nursing facility."

Also, there was recently a death from Coronavirus in Seattle, and there has been community transmission in the nearby neighborhood of Mill Creek.

So, what evidence do you have that that "these folks probably have the flu"? At best you are dismissing concerns, at worst you are making things worse by trying to convince people not to take this seriously.
I don't think of random nobodies talking climate change on reddit as being very politically powerful. Do you think you might be elevating them to some privileged position they do not possess in this description?
I'm not a picking sides politically, but I see this as a perfect microcosm of problems of those two presidencies. I always thought during Obama's term it was a problem we got ourselves into and couldn't just leave, however much I don't think we should be interfering/policing other countries the way we did in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"There's likely absolutely nothing the CDC could have done to prevent it from entering and spreading within the US"

The point isn't to prevent it from entering and spreading within the US, but to slow down its spread to give the medical community more time to study it and develop treatments and vaccines, and for the US health care system to prepare by increasing capacity, equipment, training, and staffing.

Sadly, little preparation has been happening because people haven't been taking it seriously, and have been squandering the advanced warnings we've gotten from China.

Something else to consider is that a slowly spreading disease is much easier to manage than a fast-spreading, uncontrolled outbreak. The latter leads to an overwhelmed health care system and many more unnecessary deaths.
With a coronavirus test. The CDC screwed the pooch by shipping defective kits and restricting the criteria for getting tested.
Yeah, that was really gross. On the brighter side - random liquids got absorbed in place, rather than flowing all around the floor like they do now ;-). I suspect someone at BART is a vintage guitar buff, the grillecloth over ceiling speaker panels looks like it's from a '50s or '60s Fender tube guitar amp.
And grabbing them back from the loo
> If Nato had stepped in after Syria used chemical weapons we may not have had a global refugee crisis.

Let me give my point of view: if NATO countries had avoided supporting, training, financing and arming the "rebels", the war would have been over in six months- it probably wouldn't even have started. The refugees, the destroyed cities and the hundreds of thousands of deaths are fully on the conscience of the West.
Show HN: Simple Photo Gallery – pretty and simple photo stories
I didn't like any of the existing ways to easily create photo galleries that can tell a story. Amazon Photos, Google Photos or iCloud are easy to use, but not flexible enough for me, when I want to create a photo story from a trip and share it with friends and family.

So, I build Simple Photo Gallery which is a Python tool to create static HTML pages that you can host yourself. The gallery is very customizable, but the defaults allow you to start very quickly.

Feedback is appreciated :)
design decisions come from marketing, not designers. Replaceable batteries are as much a business/product strategy decision as it is a design decision.
Lets give apple something to flex their muscles on. I'm sure they can spin this positively too.
By that weird logic, better their battery than their entire phone battery included.

In France any store selling electronic products is mandated by law to accept your used batteries and electronics, and I'm sure most of europe has a similar thing. So this is neither better or worse in any way on that front.
A hundred years might enough to bring the population back up after civilization collapses. Collapse will put a damper on CO2 release, and the pulse of reforestation of formerly occupied areas would absorb a lot of the CO2 overburden.

Anyway that's the optimistic view.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=813368
> The truth as of late has a strong preference for left leaning positions.

Can you give 3 examples?
Yes, but these folks were not tested correct?
I don't remember a recent flu year that's prompted governments to weld people inside their dwellings.
Nobody worried about climate change thinks that additional deaths from heatwaves are going to be a significant issue compared to ecological collapse, food shortages due to crop collapse, and of course rising sea levels causing mass migration.
>Health officials said that additional positive cases are not expected.

What does this mean? That everyone who could have got exposed are already sick? Or that two weeks have passed with no more new flu-like illnesses?
Oh wow, Miranda is still using an SK combinator reduction evaluator dating from 1986, in K&R C. It isn't even using supercombinators, which I read about in https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/the-imp...

Combinators are fun, but not very fast :-) https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/800087.802798 http://ioccc.org/years.html#1998_fanf
I guess it depends a bit which field they work in exactly. I'd be rather surprised if rigorous DL researchers in NLP haven't heard of him because I expect "Universal language model fine-tuning for text classification" (and tbh. also "Fine-tuned language models for text classification" due to the universality of the idea) to show up in any half-decent literature review of the field.

Most DL researchers I know also have a pretty good knowledge of available libraries and make it a habit to check them pretty often.
Indeed, pollution with CO2 is the whole topic.
Again, from the article: Dr. Jeff Duchin with King County Public Health also said that an additional 27 residents and 25 staff members are reportedly ill with respiratory symptoms, hospitalized with pneumonia or are being tested for coronavirus.

And two people have confirmed cases and are currently hospitalized.
Herfindahl Index
Wedding surprise for couple on frontline of coronavirus
"Workstation" is a pretty vague term that has shifted over the years, but anyone who's using it as a distinct category from mainstream desktop computers will have at least something in mind that a workstation would be better at than a regular desktop computer. Web browsing, simple office apps and games definitely don't put you in workstation territory. Krita can be used in a workstation/professional context, but I don't think the choice of CPU is relevant there—GPU, monitor and digitizer are what a professional user of Krita is more likely to care about.
Yes, but the high number suggests that it may not be the flu, since immunity to flu lasts a few years, so people are unlikely to fall sick in high numbers like this, and also are in the same facility as people tested positive.
Assuming you’re in the US and have insurance you can usually go on your insurance company’s website and find a local provider (doctor). You can then just call them up and say you’re looking for a new primary care physician.

Also, many areas have urgent care centers for things that are serious but maybe not emergency room serious.

Unfortunately, cost is a variable in the US and I can’t give any good guidance on that. (Not a doctor, standard disclaimer.)
Similar concept, in Ruby, acting as a filter in a pipeline, by me:

https://github.com/francois/surrender
When new, before a couple of the clips on the rear cover get broken etc.
For those like me that prefer the original Twitter interface: https://twitter.com/lpolovets/status/1233569586332618752?s=1...

This threadreaderapp inserts a lot of ads making it harder to identify the content of the tweets
Because the flu is simply much less lethal than this.
Are there "even" any examples of Android phones with user replaceable batteries that are comparable to current iPhones. I.e, with same/similar IP-ratings, similar battery capacity, similar ish power consumption, similar weight/thickness, similar screen size etc.

I think a smarter legislative move would be to enforce cost and accessibility measures for replacements, then manufactures could decide on the trade-off between design and cost.

E.g if EU said that all (new) phones could have their battery replaced for 30€/3% of purchase price/something else, within $arbitrary days, Apple could do that instead of making their phones (in my view) worse, while lower-end Android vendors without service infrastructure could make their phones thicker or less waterproof with an old school battery.
Deep Dive into Redux Toolkit with React – Official Redux Toolset
> At least in China, somebody knew the ground truth.

I wouldn't go that far, judging from reports of death certificates with "Unknown viral pneumonia". But I agree that China seemed a little more on top of it... once the world got wind of it.
Statistically it is still far more likely that they had the flu. I think it is dangerous to overstate the problem because then when it really does become an issue it will be dismissed because of all the previous folks "crying wolf."