skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
JSON-LD is just the same old RDF data model that the W3C promotes unsuccessfully for that last 2 decades, repackaged with trendy JSON syntax. It's almost as unreadable as the XML serialization and still put very little value on the table. It shines however with people who like to do over-engineering instead of delivering a product.
By the book people, especially managers are one reason companies eventually go down/shrink. It kills creativity, hinders progress, and like you said leads good peoples departure
On the other hand, that’s a fairly entitled viewpoint.

Users are using infrastructure I finance, to do things on the website(s) I created. If you want privacy from the services youre using, create or host your own.

IANAL, but this is not legal under the GDPR. The GDPR requires op-in. Moreover, you cannot make non-anonymous[1] data collection mandatory to use a product, unless it is necessary for the product to function (in a strict sense).

[1] Anonymous does not seem to include pseudonyms like a random identifier in the GDPR, since pseudonyms could be linked to real identifiers in the future.
I mention this idea in the paper (which is linked at the top of the website). The problem is that this technique increases register pressure when the generator is inlined, which in turn increases spills, which reduces performance.
How many “users” of google analytics are worth it anyway?
It's down the list/text. But please keep in mind: this happened 1918.
Part of the problem with slack is it sells itself to small conversations, fast responses, the "im" type. It is all good and well, but email lets you think slightly more and keep topics contained and searchable.
2019-nCoV epidemic: understanding control
Selenium Testing: Code vs. Codeless
But the vote is secret. Analytics is not.
There are many cases where your DOCUMENT is uploaded to Microsoft.

Much clearer.
I'm seeing smoke in the suppositions you're making so I'd like to help you.

The point estimates for mortality rate, R0 and the like all are subject to interpretation/manipulation. The health agencies have allegedly been subject to regulatory capture both in China and in the USA.

1. The communication of the CDC has changed markedly since the appointment of Pence to the head of the coordinating council. The messaging appears to be more controlled and filtered.

2. The frequent changing of the definition of what a "confirmed case" is in China leads me to completely disregard any published numbers much like other economic metrics published by China.

3. The restrictive testing conditions of the CDC likely has led to multiple cases not yet being discovered in the USA.

As a scientist I'd like to see independently reproduced results across other independent population samples. I think it is healthy to take a more Bayesian approach to these statistics, because you should let your beliefs be updated by additional data and factor in your prior assumptions.

Citing data from a single study from a Chinese health agency just isn't enough for me to change my beliefs completely, my prior knowledge is too strong when combined with everything else circulating in the political/regulatory sphere.

My personal distributions for what the values of mortality and R0 are both still have really fat long tails. But of course that's subject to change.
I get that people are scared and trying to reassure themselves. This is really not the way to go.

I don't know how to foster some kind of constructive discussion of preventive best practices or whatever, but medical devices that aren't cleaned properly and kept sterile cause horrifying and deadly infections regularly. This even happens in hospital settings.

This article doesn't even seem to be bothering to address the need to disinfect everything. With lung issues, that's a not unimportant detail.
64-bit ARM NEON (SIMD instruction set) is much more efficient vs 32-bit. And not just NEON, there are more registers as well, deeper pipeline, etc.
Which competitor? Can you link to it please?
I’m not seeing smoke either, but I still went out and bought my family a two weeks supply of food.

I felt silly. But my justification was that it’s more convenient for me to do my shopping a few weeks ago, than in a month when it’s much more likely we won’t feel as comfortable around large groups of people.
Terrible advice.

Part of the knowledge of a large system is due to having discussions with others.
Who was healthy 1918? Aristocrats and generals maybe. There was still a World War going on when it started.
> especially men

It seems this is unique to China as men are much more likely to smoke there.
I meant bots with sufficiently sophisticated adversarial motives (ad fraud? blog comment spam? automated wordpress exploitation?), who I'd expect want to avoid being recognized as such.
> This means, in an ideal world, if you are pissed off enough about the company collecting it, you would have a chance to alter it and mess up their metrics.

I really don't have the time or malice to do this. I can and do move on to something else.
I'm reconsidering my intuition in the face of the fact that the sample is from OP's blog and not a customer-facing business.
It’s you who requests those resources,

That does not matter, at least in the EU where citizens are protected by the GDPR. Article 6 of the GDPR:

Processing shall be lawful only if and to the extent that at least one of the following applies:

(a) the data subject has given consent to the processing of his or her personal data for one or more specific purposes;
That's technically correct, but NTPv4 has the concept of eras [1] which gets incremented when that number would normally wrap.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5905#section-6
SSL status isn't changed with the pro plan. If you want non-SNI clients to be able to visit your site, you need the Business plan which assigns IPs to your website that serve your SSL even without SNI present, but this is usually unnecessary as the non-SNI client base gets smaller every year. All of the major browsers support modern TLS and SNI so the free plan will work as long as you don't need to support users running XP or odd mobile browsers on 5+ year old Android.
Ah yes, thanks for the correction :)
Anecdotally, I've noticed vastly different information depending on which filter bubble my account is placed in. For example, on my Twitter handle associated with my real name (no posting, simply retweets and likes), I see overwhelming "panic mode" posts and news regarding COVID-19. On the other hand, my other Twitter handle has the exact opposite news regarding COVID-19.
you're right. I was responding to the initial, deleted comment.
I except to see an increase in Internet usage. could be interesting to see how the current capacity can handle the load if sourcing materials from china is a no-go.
It still baffles me why any nation deliberately brought infected people across the border into their country.
So a cryptominer won't bother you then.
I’d expect someone making claims like that to have receipts for them...
> The ROTL macro is missing

It's missing in the landing page, but the paper [1] linked at the bottom of it provides two implementations:

// C
#define ROTL(d,lrot) ((d<<(lrot)) | (d>>(8*sizeof(d)-(lrot))))

// C++
template <class uDataT>
inline uDataT rotl (uDataT d, unsigned lrot) {
return (d<<lrot) | (d>>(8*sizeof(d)-lrot));
}

[1] http://www.romu-random.org/romupaper.pdf
I just put a copper and aluminium thing with large mass (about 100g) directly on the processor. Under light load it is about 20 over ambient. Despite CPU stress tests, I have never had it throttle.

Make sure it touches the usb chip.

Edit: my rock pi has a proper heat sink and it runs even cooler. 12 over ambient
If you don't own any SpaceX stock and aren't planning on flying on one of their spaceships when the time comes, why do you care?
I don't usually get to pick and choose what I share when you run analytics. For example, I might be fine with telling you that I saw a certain article on Hacker News; I however might not be OK with you seeing all the articles I click on.
Do the browser And/tracker blockers also block Fathom? If I switch, will I see higher numbers than with Google Analytics?
An Early 2020 Market Forecast – Seattle Housing Market (2020)
> Fire engineering and management, Space X is beginning to look like Boeing!

If you don't own any SpaceX stock and aren't planning on flying on one of their spaceships when the time comes, why do you care?
Using and integrating a twiki as part of whatever you do ensures there is always a write-up. Encourage everyone to write up and make looking through docs as part of your review/discussion process. For this to work, you'll need to sort of make it integral to everything you do. Info in a twiki becomes stale over time, but better to have some stale info that can be updated than to not have any info at all.

Something I wished companies do is to ensure that discussions happen in internal mailing lists (rather than in individual email accounts) and have all mailing lists searchable and accessible to anyone in the group. This would simplify understanding how certain decisions were arrived at.
Well... thanks. But not because I'm lazy, for I had no idea about this bug there. I just thought OP had an off topic moment based on random connection.

But now, after reading your link and giving it a bit of thought, what s/he wrote makes perfect sense even without your link.

So... thanks.
My reaction is glee, so many years of being screwed over by Intel. Also I love rooting for the underdog!
For database backups I've always done the simplest thing, I take a daily dump of "unchanging" databases:

* /var/backup/db/db1/monday.sql

* /var/backup/db/db1/tuesday.sql

* /var/backup/db/db1/monday.sql

For databases that change more frequently I instead backup every 1, 3, 4 hours as appropriate:

* /var/backup/db/db2/monday/00.sql

* /var/backup/db/db2/monday/04.sql

The appeal of this is that I always have "local" backups, and I don't need to consider rotation at all each one gets the most recent copy when it runs, and I have an alert/alarm to make sure files are recent enough that things aren't broken. I appreciate that if your databases dumps are 600Gb each, or something similarly sized you'd waste a lot of space, but for small things the simplicity of this approach is a good win.

(These get copied offsite as part of the backup of the whole filesystem. In the past I used to backup only some stuff, that failed the first time I tried to restore a mailserver and didn't have /var/lib/mailman archived! These days I explicitly backup "/" excluding only /tmp, /proc, /sys, and /dev.)
That good reason is that there is no general "formula" for leap seconds, unlike for leap years, they have to be looked up. So you can't do "offline" date calculations if they included leap seconds.

I think that UNIX time stamps are generally a very good approximation, and if you are comparing long enough time intervals for the error to get over one second, and/or that error to matter, you are doing something wrong anyway.

For exact time interval measurements that you have to get exactly right, don't use UNIX time stamps.
Unit tests do not negate the need for Integration Tests and they do not negate the need for manual tests. You can get overlapping coverage and slack in certain areas in some cases... medical equipment and aerospace are not areas you can come up short with some of the longer testing cycles.
https://raft.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Just playing devil's advocate here:

"Nor should they be allowed to do so as this is a abuse of power and a intervention into politics and moral aspects companies should not do."

Your justification for apple not removing them is that it brings them into the realm of making moral decisions which companies should not be making. Yet people call for Clearview AI to make the moral decision of not selling facial recognition tech. It's a two way street. Why should apple not be allowed to make this moral judgement, yet Clearview should have to? Shouldn't Clearview just stay out of moral decisions, and as a company just try to maximize profits?
(Covid-19): FDA Issues New Policy to Help Expedite Availability of Diagnostics
I'm already being downvoted to oblivion, might as well reply. The fact that airlines cater to disabled people isn't even in question, that much is obvious to anyone who has even seen a plane take off. What's in question is what if a disabled person wants a seat that was sold as a premium to someone else? I'll give you a hint, they won't get it. They have no problem shoveling your disabled body into a terrible seat. Furthermore, not all disabilities are covered. My brother for example nearly died of blood clots, and is on blood thinner forever. If he used this as evidence for a seat with more mobility, he'd be told to pound sand. Keep flagging me, munchkins.
A tuple usually has different properties compared to a Tuple.

For example, you can have a List of type List<string>, which would be a list of any length containing any string.

On the other hand, a good tuple implementation (especially a typed one) could allow tuples like (string, integer, boolean), i.e. only arrays of length 3, where the first positions holds a string, the second position holds an integer and the third position holds a boolean. So yes, usually they are represented as arrays, but on a higher level, they are fundamentally different.

As for unions, the parent comment is not referring to the Set operation, he's referring to Union Types.

With this concept, a variable can be one of many types. For example:
var input: string | number
And at Runtime you would have to find out whether it is a string or a number, to be able to use it.

(Not here arguing whether Dart does or does not have these language features, just trying to clarify this misunderstanding)
I don’t actually have any fully pure unit tests in my codebase at the moment. The exception is some algorithmic stuff which has a bunch of tests. In practice, I’ve almost never caught a bug because of a unit test except in an algorithm - but integration tests involving 3-4 small components are great.
Ok one more element for the theory that the virus is circulating undetected in many places around the world. Seems quite in line with the Italian scientist that also estimated that the virus is circulating largely in northern Italy since mid-January.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity (it is not stupidity, but more not thinking it through).
This is entirely speculation, but I think the poor air quality could also explain/contribute to the differences in COVID-19 mortality. I read somewhere that smokers were more susceptible to the disease. It seems like populations with poorer air quality could also be more susceptible.
I think one thing you have to do first is decide what’s really institutional knowledge and what’s really a make-work project designed to appease the people who still get a kick out of playing solitaire. Documenting how to make a Saturn V rocket engine is institutional knowledge, documenting endless workflows that will be stale before you’re finished are not.
Very interesting. It feels like the US is way behind on community surveillance, in part due to errors in roll-out of the test kit and low availability of test kits, but also due to the assumption that it’s not spreading in the community at large. The patient in Solano County, CA was only tested after having been hospitalized for several days, because he/ she didn’t have any travel risk factors.
That's where fuzzing comes in.
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Comparative genetic analysis of 2019-nCoV receptor ACE2 in different populations
Note that this only works in Safari and in certain contexts inside of apps.
not funny!
This is one of those "It depends..." questions, where it really does - on so many variables that it would be a major chore just to list them all. So an easier way to go about just establishing an idea of where to put the first bite would be to get an idea of the lateral limits. You are already familiar with the startup side of the spectrum, so spend a little time thinking about the extreme opposite: multi-century continuity, the US military's system of knowledge transfer. To be clear - you really don't want to emulate it, even to the degree that IBM did with their manual that helpfully informed employees of the correct way to sit at a desk, but know what the extreme looks like. Maybe pick a few high level concepts out of it:

* Graduated levels of mastery: few people need the details for standing up a production database, but all department members need to know that a company process already exists for it.

* Training dependencies: the mapping doesn't have to be perfect, a little goes a long way in giving shape to a training program.

* Training records: log employee training sessions, from self declarations of 'Yes I read this brief' to consultant led seminars.

Basically 80% of the military's comprehensive training program can be implemented with a network drive of docs and a spreadsheet. A couple of places I contracted for was pretty heavily reliant on Microsoft Sharepoint. I'd be surprised if there wasn't a fairly decent open source suite of components that could give you a solid starting point for a training program what would be somewhere in the middle of the spectrum.
It's tildes.net, the best overall description of my goals/values for the site is the announcement post: https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes

It's not a competitor to Reddit in any meaningful sense though. If anything, my "target user" is almost the complete opposite of what Reddit prioritizes now. Calling it a competitor probably only makes sense if you still think of Reddit as the way it was like... 5-10 years ago.

It's invite-only to register, but feel free to email me at the address in the blog post and I'll send you one. (That offer's open to anyone else too.)
Automate everything that can be automated. Avoid setting up things using GUIs.

Starting a set of services should be as simple as "docker-compose up", building should be as simple as "make", checking out the code should be as simple as "git clone", etc. You shouldn't need a shitload of wiki checklists that describe how to install dependencies and how to check out all the git-directories with correct versions relative to each other. Save your wiki for high level documentation

A must for this to work is to avoid configuration state in your servers that is not captured in your source tree. This is the most critical because it's easy to forget and it can quickly become a blocker, not just for RnD but also ops. You have this super important service that everybody depends on and it always works, suddenly the server burns while go-to-guy is on vacation and nobody knows how to bring it up again from a clean slate because it involves several hours of clicking around in some proprietary GUI and ticking all the correct boxes. If you can't reproduce this service today, make a VM snapshot already, then start work on fully declarative service configuration.
Huh, what? WWI started on 28-07-1914 and ended 11-11-1918 while the spanish flu started around january 1918.
I'm sorry your pc got stolen. Just wanted to say keep it up!
> Those tools that you use daily on the browser that saves you time and makes your life easier got to that point because they had a way to learn how they were used.

As far as I am aware, Hacker News has never used Google Analytics.
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.NET Core 3.0 will reach End of Life on March 3, 2020
Two bits of advice:

1. I checked out all the cheap ones, and Zacurate was the only brand I could find that was under $50 and had actually been properly tested for accuracy.

2. If you buy one from Amazon ("ships from and sold by Amazon.com") or that specific brand from "Beyond Med Shop" (which is owned by Zacurate), you won't get a counterfeit.
I run a geek-tech blog in Hebrew. I used analytics for a while in the past, but the numbers were completely off. There were posts with almost more comments than visitors based on the analytics.

Took me a while to realize that most of my readers block analytics since they're super privacy-saavy. I shut the tool down, it's useless for some crowds.

Nowadays I also doubt if it's ethical for any crowd.
It goes to Miso (the robot company) which is leasing the robot to the restaurant.
Building a Founding Team for Your Startup
Venkatesh Rao is widely posted on HN, though.
I don't think there's any reason to feel silly. I grew up with parents that would take reasonable preparations for a variety of possible disasters - earthquakes and fires being the two of note for California. Cans of fish and fruit will last decades and can be cycled out over time, dried pasta will last years. Jars of sauce or preserves have similar lifespans, crackers can last months, dry grains as well.

I don't think it's difficult to imagine situations in a lot of places where natural disasters can disable things for several days, maybe a week or two. A couple weeks of food seems like a good thing to have on hand, regardless of place, time or situation.
What Are GPUs Bad At?
This is cool.

I co-own a Google group called Blind Dev Works. I had no idea this existed.
As China gets wealth they will reduce their environmental impact. They will have the money to do so. It's not blaming them to state that poorer countries don't have the resources to clean up their production. Progress is required to develop clean energy, that will require economic activity.
Not that that matters to me since I have (re)captcha blocked, too...
Water is interesting, because humans are so utterly dependent on it to survive the coming 2-3 days, that even if the probability of it going away is remote, the consequence is the maximum. As a result it's hard to not suggest it. Having said that, yeah, we almost surely won't lose water due to this virus.
Actually I sort of think the Telsa battery is crazy risky.
I'd really love to see suburbs have collocated batteries so I didn't have to have to have strip of lithium ion batteries attached to my wood house.
And even if they do have money, the uncertainty around makes people more cautious when spending, limiting unnecessary consumption.
I expected the answer that amateur solutions won't work from medical professionals and expected that to be correct.

But obviously, the question many people are concerned with now is "can't we triangulate?" When you have an epidemic threatened to overwhelm medical facilities and we know the physical construction of some these devices isn't by itself that complex, isn't there a way a more organized and knowledgeable DIY approach could work when the naive, uninformed approach certainly wouldn't?
Writing an Azure DevOps Pipeline Extension
Your friends are not going to be by your bedside when you get cancer. You need to be forceful and stick to your beliefs.
Toddlers you say.. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been in a senior leadership weekly meeting where someone thinks it would be a good idea to assign a senior executive the task of grouping together everyone’s phone plans and deciding policy on who gets the company phone, who gets reimbursed and who is sol.
> Transferring ownership of property

Whilst you might buy the phone, I believe you effectively "rent/license" iOS, no? Which means Apple are restricting not what you do with "your device" but "their OS". No ownership of iOS has been transferred.

(I know the two are intimately tangled and this is nitpicking but we're well into the legal nitpicking weeds here.)
The article focuses a little bit on homeownership, and its supposed relationship to opposing feudalism, but fails to realise that the current system of land ownership is what has caused this concentration of land, as well as creating a new feudal system. See Georgism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism) for an explanation of this idea, something thinkers as early as Adam Smith contemplated (in a less developed form).