skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the past couple of years, search has reverted to late 90s levels of result quality. Google used to get you exactly what you wanted for close to 20 years. Now you have to cross reference several search engines to find something other than terrible blogspam and obvious advertisements disguised as reviews. Search seems primed for disruption again.

I appreciate DDG's privacy focus, but their results are often crap.
Linked lists, graphs. Granted, it's not the same structure, but it gets back there eventually.
>2^32 == 4GiB

That's bytes, not bits.
> It's amazing how email spam exploded in the nineties and was fought over for a couple of decades before the current uneasy truce was established.

What truce?

My spam box is as full as ever; the only difference is that automated spam filtering got better. And in the meantime, on-line advertising industry exploded, so I assume most of the would-be e-mail scammers are now promoting their stores and Kickstarter wares with ads on major social media platforms.

Unfortunately, you can't do automated spam filtering on phone calls, because the content isn't apparent until you pick up and start talking.

I believe the much smaller frequency of phone scams in the EU comes from countries here having actual regulation against cold-calling private individuals with business offers.

(Plus, the US and the UK are a much juicier target for these international scam calls, because everyone in the gullible population speaks English, unlike in the rest of the EU.)
Or rechargable batteries. Even lithium ion batteries weren't better than state of the art NiMH batteries when they first came out in the 1990s. Evolutionary improvement let us develop quadcopters, e-bikes, e-scooters, electric cars, smartphones, e-cigarettes, tablets, and countless other devices that simply weren't that practical 3 decades ago. And this process continues.
Is anyone but you conscious? If so, how can you be certain?
How to Use VPN
Yes you can, but with the addon it is easier, and you can set your custom user agents and store within, it is just for comfort.
> really customize things to the point where it looks unique

Why? I'd argue most UI/UX missteps stem from the ego (designer, engineer, executive) to want something unique. If anything, there should be more of a convergence on best practices.

Users won't have to relearn "the basics" in every app and everyone can focus on real problems.
I used to volunteer for this fine organization!

There's 200 hours of my textbook voiceover work available through the system, and every time I remember that it puts a spring in my step for the day.
Yes, with an abbreviation like CNN it is remarkably presumptuous to not define it in this article. I followed the headline specifically because it was in the title and I assumed it referred to the news network.
I would find it more likely that it was a reference to determine if CNN was being objective and truthful.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN_controversies
The estimates seem to be reflected by international numbers to a certain degree, ranging from 1%-3%. With the disease in exponential growth, dividing #death/#cases is not the right calculation to make, as it might take 3-5 weeks before a patient dies from the disease. The Princess Diamond ship is currently at 1.2% iirc.

Your factor of under-representation of cases seems to cancel out the delayed onset of mortality at the moment.

The end of the flu season is incomparable with the demands on the health-care system due to COVID-19 since flu-demand is at least 1-2 orders of magnitude smaller. The advantage of the end of the flu season is that we can identify cases quicker.

W.r.t. lesions caused by COVID-19 comparable to the flu. Yes, both cause permanent damage. However, COVID-19 seems to attack more of the lungs and in general, both lungs, whereas influenza often is isolated to one lung. I am not a specialist, but I have read scary descriptions of COVID-19 lungs from specialists.

The stringent measures are already happening and the effects are already being felt. The stock market has responded by evaporating 4000 billion in value. Given the past lackadaisical response of government, it is likely we will see further effects either way: response or not.

If nothing is done and millions of people will get infected (think: 2 billion people) in a short amount of time (1 year), we will see widescale breakdown of services, global turmoil and panic. Hopefully, we will be able to slow the spread, develop a vaccine and 500 million people will get infected instead.
Two is one and one is none
I'm guessing it's not as much a barrier to entry, but it's making US and the UK more cost-effective. There isn't enough competition among the international scammers for it to make sense to start calling the rest of EU countries.
Huh? Europe is generally populated further north than North America is.
The point of the leg and cast example was to show that anecdotal evidence can be useful. I deliberately chose a clear and simple example. Indeed the case of vitamin D is more nuanced.
Sanders and Warren raking in the most tech industry dollars
I think it's worse than that; they wouldn't test Carl Zha's family because they hadn't had direct contact with Chinese travelers recently.

https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1231745522123202561

Everything about this looks like an ordinary flu-like virus with massive oversampling at the lethal end of things. Aka since Corona-chan testing is expensive compared to the normal flu screen, you only get it when you're on death's door, which makes it look much worse than it is.
This touches on some interesting history: lifetimes were originally (in other PL literature) called "regions" (MS Research's Verona also uses this terminology). Lifetime was chosen because an analogy to time seemed more intuitive for this concept than an analogy to space - space analogies being usually used for sections of program memory, rather than periods of program execution.
Show HN: Tool to generates line drawing from a photograph
`sort -u` is slower for me.

Doing cat from left to right helps readability - it's important.

Performance-wise cat gives you 64KiB blocks of data, while direct pipe can give more. My programs (mmuniq-*) use 512KiB input buffer, so indeed with redirection you can reduce the number of read/write syscalls 8x, but it doesn't change much of the timing frankly.

Parallelization is an interesting aspect, which we didn't discuss really.
No problem! Don’t hesitate to get in touch on github if you have questions / issues.
2^32 bytes is 4 GiB, but 2^32 bits is 512 MiB. In the GP's hypothetical array, I believe you would index (array[idx >> 3] >> (idx & 7)) != 0
BBC invests in Pocket Casts to support an open ecosystem
British economy 'to grow 0.16% at best under US trade deal'
as basch said, that's not how copyright works in photography. If you're tagged in a photo as a subject of that photo, it is not your photo, and if you take a copy of it then that's a breach of copyright. It belongs to the photographer.

Our expectations don't match with actual law here.
Webpack 5: Module Federation. A Game-changer to JavaScript architecture
Uh, not in 93, but around 98/2000 definitely it looked like this. Well, without the animated windows effects. (I’m looking at v1 only, on mobile at the moment)
POWER actually became a royalty-free ISA very very recently, way after the initial RISC-V hype. When the term OpenPOWER was introduced, it was mostly about the ecosystem – open standards for boot/ABI/etc, openness to board makers (hello Raptor), open firmware and so on.

BTW: RISC-V being a royalty-free ISA does not mean every implementation is gonna be open source. Though it seems like SiFive's implementation is.
A short excerpt of the paper to potentially pique your interest:

Many viral surface glycoproteins and cell surface receptors are homo-oligomers, and thus can potentially be targeted by geometrically matched homo-oligomers that engage all subunits simultaneously to attain high avidity and/or lock subunits together.

The adaptive immune system cannot generally employ this strategy since the individual antibody binding sites are not arranged with appropriate geometry to simultaneously engage multiple sites in a single target homo-oligomer. We describe a general strategy for the computational design of homo-oligomeric protein assemblies with binding functionality precisely matched to homooligomeric target sites. In the first step, a small protein is designed that binds a single site on the target. In the second step, the designed protein is assembled into a homo-oligomer such that the designed binding sites are aligned with the target sites. We use this approach to design high-avidity trimeric proteins that bind influenza A hemagglutinin (HA) at its conserved receptor binding site.

The designed trimers can both capture and detect HA in a paper-based diagnostic format, neutralizes influenza in cell culture, and completely
protects mice when given as a single dose 24 hours before or after challenge with influenza.
Currently watching the lecture series, and it's a great experience. In fact, this made me understand the blog post to some level I wouldn't have thought possible only a few weeks ago.
There is research showing that the figure of 400 IU is based on a statistical error [1] (that's the original article, there's plenty more if you search).

Most articles I have read recommend somewhere between 2000 and 5000 IUs. Some recommend higher.

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4210929/
For paid fonts where you license them for web use (sometimes by the view/download!), it isn’t unusual for them to require you to use their css/js/etc to embed the font so they can track where your license is being used, by how many people, etc. That’s the justification they present, at least.
This is something key that I feel most employers looking for “passion” don’t get.

I have a lot of passion for the small startup business I’m working for... I have a vision for their product, the ability to execute that vision, and a strong sense of ownership and desire to put out a great, premium product.

Problem is, my vision and the owner’s vision are not the same. He likes quick fixes and focusing on the daily grind, I want to work out big, longer term things. For as much as the owner wants people to share his passion in what he’s building, I know for certain he wants that passion to be “blindly working for whatever he says is important at the moment and not being too passionate beyond that”.

That kind of passion, IMO, is unrealistic and unfair, but I suspect it’s what most employers really want.
I'll take a stab at why you're being down-voted.:

>case fatality ratio (CFR) is around 2%, which is 20x higher than the flu.

[Citation needed]

>This number is likely to rise when ICUs are becoming over-constrained and cannot take new patients. This is already happening in the north of Italy as we speak.

[Citation Needed] I can find citations for crowded hospitals in popular media, but nothing about the death rate increasing.

>Third, there are reports showing lasting damage to kidney and lung tissue (sponge-like structures). Even when surviving COVID-19, previously healthy people might become chronically ill.

[Major Citation Needed]

>very stringent measures are required

[Citation Needed]

That's probably why. There are 4 claims you've made that need to be backed up with facts.
Here's an article from the Lancet describing patients with high rates of organ function damage. It's not as useful as the one linked by edejong because it's a very early study. It shows that quite a few patients already had damage on admission, more than those that subsequently died so clearly many patients survived with organ damage, but it doesn't follow up on how many more may have suffered such damage after admission. So it's evidence, but not as strong.

https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736...
> The key differentiator with RISC-V is its pretty near cutting edge compared to every other free core out there.

I thought it was an express goal of RISC-V to not depend on cutting-edge features in the ISA, in order to avoid the IP issues that constrain most other architectures, and also to keep basic implementations simple enough for e.g. educational use. Although RISC-V also puts quite a bit of emphasis on being open to extensibility, which requires some extra attention in e.g. making efficient use of the ISA encoding space.
Go ahead and put her name in yourself! :P

The data set is fairly informative for it's size and publicity.
Browsers are restricting third party identity for privacy reasons, which means they now need to offer a specific API instead of letting developers build something out of third-party iframes:

"It's important to note that many of the tricks (like hidden iframes from PSPs) that are used to make payments frictionless today are going to become useless as browsers roll out more changes to protect user's privacy (e.g. killing 3rd party cookies and storage). The privacy improvements are good but they have significant side-effects on UX. PR API and PH API offer a way for websites to invoke a payment app from another origin (eg. shop.com invokes paypal.com) without losing context (the payment app is rendered in a modal window not via a redirect) and without needing to know up front what payment methods the user supports (good for privacy)."

-- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22465032
The original post specifies guy, so the parent commentor used guy. They added gal in an attempt to be more inclusive, presumably.

I sympathize with your position but you come across as looking for things to be offended about when you criticize reasonable language choice.
Silicon Valley Leaders’ Plea to Democrats: Anyone but Sanders
Seasonal flu kills ~650K/yr every year. We live in a risky world. [1]

[1] https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=2...
Data center companies use less energy than expected
Apologies, maybe I oversimplified the original problem. I'm dealing with IP's (both v4 and v6), subnets, ranges (which may or may not align to subnets). These map to one or more datacenter numbers.

I could indeed define data model, parse the data thoroughly, optimize in-memory data structure, and so on. That requires rigid data structure, knowing access pattern and understanding the problem space. I'm not there yet. Instead, I created this generic tool which works with any text files, and fell into a rabbit hole of over-optimizing it. That's it.
Even with all that popularity, I'm amazed that there's even a market of this size for a paid UI component library in 2020. There are many more quality, OSS UI component libraries out there these days than could possibly be counted. It seems like such an oversaturated space. Kudos to him for managing to overcome it!
In the Trollbox chat log I see

>~anonymous is now known as wuhan-clan

Is this added lately? If so, its very convincing.
"Masks are actually not recommended, but won’t make anything worse" - sounds very short-sighted to me. If a lot of people start buying and wearing masks just because it makes them feel safer, people who might actually need masks (i.e. medical personnel) might have trouble getting them...
Good old days :D
But which instance? You have to trust the hoster of the instance, but there seems to be little info on that...
Just a little note on using Facebook for the calendar. That was also an excuse for me to not deleting Facebook, but I imported the calendar to Google.
It's been a year and I don't miss any of it.
When will it be possible for a semi-technical person to buy or
build a RISC-V Linux desptop computer?
Moorcock famously despised Tolkien's work. I always wonder if he invented Melnibone to be "how elves would really turn out"
Talk about it lol.

I'm in the business of lending money to the people who buy all the things you haul.
I did not know this, so thanks for sharing!

Micro-algae and Macro-algae are great for absorbing metals that are in water, its used in wastewater treatment: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1319562X1...

When you take an algae supplement it also helps to remove metals from the body as well. Algae is great
ARMv8 AArch64 is actually a massive simplification, they got rid of all the crap that accumulated in 32-bit arch, it's very clean and nice. The presence of some very specific (but immensely popular) float rounding instructions does not make an ISA complex.
Even there is a Half-life 3 and it's loading forever.
Microsoft signed a deal with Sony to support their cloud initiatives for gaming, so clearly Microsoft does not see it as an issue.
Totally Ordered Enums in Python
Discourse [1], popular forum software, does this as well.

[1] https://www.discourse.org/
Windows 93 is what became Windows 95.
Klingons = Space Orcs
Hey sivaram636, can I request that you redirect port 80 to 443? You've already got TLS and HSTS enabled, but people can still use your site via HTTP, which is what you linked. Optionally, you can follow these instructions to preload your domain to the HSTS preload list: https://hstspreload.org/?domain=supportexamples.com
he sounds like a really standup kinda guy
Robinhood is down this morning
"...The results suggest that push-up ability might be a simple, reliable and D.I.Y.-in-your-living-room method of assessing heart health..."

I call BS. Body weight exercises like push-ups are more difficult for taller people.

<sarcasm>A a better predictor of heart health might be how quickly you can clean the top of the refrigerator. </sarcasm>
Why Having Well-Connected Brain Hubs Matters
> The downside from even stepping outside, where you risk getting killed by a falling tree or any such random event, would be effectively infinite.

And yet here we are, doing it every day even though our 80 year natural lifespan looks like immortality to all but a few other animal species.
When I first learned of this behavior, I immediately replaced all calls to fork() with calls to the following throughout our entire codebase:

int checked_fork() {
const int pid = fork();
if (pid < 0) {
throw std::runtime_error("fork failed");
}
return pid;
}
I feel like there's a few more cost effective options than getting a $1000 card every few years lol.

Geforce now probably isn't it, but titans are overkill (unless you're also using them for work.)
Yes it is. He has a plan where companies over 100 million must over time give 20% of the company to employees and 40 percent of the board.
> As an Aussie an air purifier saved me from the bushfire smoke and the subsequent dust that was relentless for months.

It "saved you"? So you honestly thought you'd die if not for an air purifier?

Check out how much of a % of actual air move through your air purifier, unless you were truly scared for your life and were locked in a small closet with the purifier, I highly doubt this saved your life.

I'm not being hyperbolic, I'm being realistic.
Using Kalman Filter to Predict Corona Virus Spread
Using the photo commercially may be a breach of copyright. Having a copy I do not think is and likely Facebook could fix that I'm their tos.
From wikipedia [1]:

>> He stated that global warming is "the attack on capitalism that socialism couldn't bring", and that it is a form of "mass neurosis". Yet, he said that every business must embrace green products and green ways of doing business, "whether you believe in global warming or not...because the world wants these products".

From [2]:

>> A vitality curve is a performance management practice that calls for individuals to be ranked or rated against their coworkers ... Pioneered by GE's Jack Welch in the 1980s, it has long been a controversial practice due to its negative effects on employee morale and potential for bias and discrimination. Many companies have abandoned the system in recent years

All said and done, RIP.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Welch#Personal_opinions

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitality_curve

edit: added [2] link
I got curious about the US laws related to involuntary quarantine, last night. The federal government can only quarantine you as you enter the country or cross state lines. In Massachusetts, the state can quarantine you to a hospital or your home, and the compensation for lost wages is not to exceed $2 a day! It's a good time to be working remotely.
They asked what people are using it for right now and video encoding is one of those things. This is very direct. They didn't ask about solutions or what they should do about a particular problem, just about what people are currently doing.
Two-thirds of counties average internet speeds slower than broadband
To be fair, the average American male is 195 pounds, so you're exaggerating a little bit.

But it is weird how heavy cars have gotten. I guess it's a combination of adding security features and demand for larger cars. I'm in the market for a car, and everything is just a bit larger than I remember for a given class. I dislike big cars, so finding a good fit is annoying.
Thanks both of you, I've padded my own subscription list today :)

The thing about YouTube vs regular TV is that _I_ chose what to watch not someone else. I also chose the time to watch it.

Slightly OT, but the host of the original Scrapheap Challenge show is now hosting an EV YouTube channel called "Fully Charged Show" :)
My team is developing full stack apps with Clojure, and using Clojure on the backend with ClojureScript on the frontend is completely seamless.

I copresented a talk on the platform my team develops and how we leverage Clojure features there, specifically the ability to cross-compile between Clojure and ClojureScript that might be of interest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IekPZpfbdaI
Masks aren't really an individual thing that will keep you safe if only you wear it, but it helps if you look at a population that wears masks vs doesn't wear masks. If masks are worn by a certain percentage of the population, it's been shown to put a halt to influenza pandemics (according to a paper posted late last week). It stops people from touching their mouth, and stops infected people from spreading their germs to others. It's one of the reasons why the coronavirus hasn't taken hold in Hong Kong more than it has.

The reason it's not been recommended in the US is because it's not really part of our culture, and so we don't have a huge supply of them. Medical workers need them the most. But if we did have enough, yes they're definitely recommended.
Google's AI detects adversarial attacks against image classifiers
Are data scientist highly paid data janitor of the 21st century?
World’s stinkiest fruit could make super fast electric chargers
This site is truly amazing, it's really inspiring to see how some people can get so creative using the old Desktop GUI metaphor.
I'm personally curating a list [1] of all these websites and webapps that look like vintage desktop UIs.

[1] https://github.com/syxanash/awesome-gui-websites
There’s something of a social stigma around treating this thing seriously but alarm bells should be ringing at this point.

We have, essentially, a hurricane off the coast (so to speak) and no one can say with certainty whether it will blow over or whether people are going to take a direct hit.

Like with storms, there’s the fear that hyping it up too much will lower trust in the future. However, not preparing people and then having the worst happen is many times worse.

This thing should absolutely be taken seriously. The responsible thing at this point is to prepare for worst and plan. The worst being an overwhelmed healthcare system because too many people require hospitalization all at once.

If the hurricane blows over, we’ll have stocked up our emergency kits that we, frankly, all should have had in the first place.

But we should really stop comparing this to the flu.
NoScript (block by default) is the most potent extension a software developer needs in a browser.