skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you've described the primary issue right here.

There frequently seems to be a lack of effective, timely, and unambiguous communication on such topics. It seems like much of what's out there is either overly dense and confusing (to the layperson), or overly simplified to the point of not addressing the psychology of what people are worrying about. There's often no attempt to explain the _why_, and sometimes the tone even comes across as a bit condescending.

Such an environment seems like the perfect recipe to encourage rampant speculation and the subsequent spread of misinformation. Simply telling people "you're not an expert", no matter how well founded, doesn't really help anything here.

There's a snippet of a few minutes from the Washington State press release last night (starting @ 10:25) that I thought was an example of reasonably good communication on the topic. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kILL-maWoJw&t=625)
Agreed. One thing that has helped me avoid the dumpsterfire is to never see the comments, only the tweets. Its a medium that is very easy to join + use and the diversity of the sorts of people on twitter is amazing.
I guess a significant part of HN readers are in the US; my sense is that most US residents are currently avoiding any trip to Europe for the next few months, due to the Coronavirus epidemic/issue.

I guess you won't get much interest for your event, in terms of attending in person.

Edit: not sure why I am being downvoted.
Homeland season 8 predicted this.
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Apple Just Disabled Clearview AI's iPhone App for Breaking Rules on Distribution
A Portland nonprofit is using artificial intelligence to help save wild animals
Do you need the `arm_64bit=1` flag to get 64-bit kernel, 64-bit userland or no? I would have thought 64-bit everything would have been the default.
I assumed you were being precise when you asked "why can't people speak more precisely" and also when you asked "can you explain how your comment relates to mine?"

I am not the person you originally responded to, fwiw, and I agree that trying to speak precisely is a useful exercise, even if I believe it is impossible except in highly formalized languages.
2% within confirmed cases. There is a part of the iceberg which we cannot see because mild cases will not seek care. Actual mortality rate is far lower than that. You should check mortality rate for outside wuhan population. It is 0.08%
There are no high end phones with removable batteries.

Today, the closest would the new Samsung Galaxy XCover Pro, but they it is in a completely different market. The iPhone is a high end consumer product while the XCover Pro is a mid range rugged smartphone.

For a more relevant comparison, we have to go back to the Galaxy S5 (2014). It was a flagship and IMHO, a very good one. It had a removable battery, IP67 rating, and was on par with iPhones specs-wise. The main downside was its look, and it is probably the reason why Samsung switched to an all glass design.
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It isn't political nobodies, though. I mean, it's them too.

But, it is the entire media system, the university-political complex, and all of the largest and most powerful political parties across the West.

It's pretty much just this one dead guy, a few internet memers, and a few Republicans versus the entire entrenched political structure of the western world.

On one of those sides, you can have a career in academia. On the other, you're lucky if you don't end up dead in a ditch.
How did you work the touchscreen underwater?
Lawyers, doctors, and teachers are all positions that have some form of certification. Potential employers can be guaranteed that all potential employees meet the basic knowledge and skills requirements.

Nothing of the sort exists in the programming field. That, coupled with the high salaries, means fraud is a real problem when trying to hire programmers.
There's also 64-bit Ubuntu Server and Core.

→ https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/
Doing this could deprive hundreds of people of a life saving device.
So running the Pi in 64-bit is really overall beneficial. I'm running a customised version of Ubuntu for the Pi4.

https://ubuntu.com/download/raspberry-pi

I've also customised the image by adding users, public keys and such. Removing some of the cloud cruft.

These instructions make it very, very easy and you can do this on an x86 machine. Just make sure to use /usr/bin/qemu-aarch64-static (64 bits) instead of qemu-arm-static (32 bits).

https://powersj.io/post/raspbian-edit-image/
More troubling to me than the closed source firmware is that the bug in TFA seems like something that the most basic of a test suite should be catching.

It’s reminiscent of Apple’s “goto fail” lack of certificate checking - another easily testable case that simply wasn’t.

The test authors don’t even need to be on the same team/manager. They can just write black box tests to the spec, like the author of this post did.

I’m not even some big TDD guy. It just seems to me that in these core security-critical libraries/functions that should be pretty side-effect-free that you should have some basic “receive x, produce y” functional tests to make sure the API is doing what it claims to do on the tin.
A cpap, or especially s bipap will come pretty close. Not the same in that isn’t true life support, but it does make breathing _much_ easier.

I use a cpap at home for sleep apnea and was on a bipap for about 48 hours when hospitalized for pnuemonia.

Machines cost about $500-1500 dollars. Do require a percription though.
Marine Lt. Col. Pete Ellis, "Bush Brigades", 1921.

https://warontherocks.com/2015/03/the-bush-wars-ellis-on-ame...

https://warontherocks.com/2015/03/the-bush-wars-ellis-on-pop...
Eh, it fits nicely with HNs political bent.
> they ignored recommendations to increase the military presence to a level that they could effectively remove the Taliban

I am extremely skeptical that any feasible amount of troops on the ground could have achieved such a goal.
There are LOTS of competitors, but of course, not all are apples to apples.

Here is a partial list of some of the more active wysiwyg editors:

Quill: https://quilljs.com
Slate: https://www.slatejs.org
Trumbowyg: https://alex-d.github.io/Trumbowyg
ContentTools: http://getcontenttools.com
SummerNote: https://summernote.org
Squire: https://github.com/neilj/Squire
Editor.js: https://codex.so/editor
ProseMirror: https://prosemirror.net/

I have personally been happy with Quill (the have their own system for storing text which is interesting.

Many of these have active branches, especially in Vue or React etc.
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I saw on the news, they are now using CAT scans to detect as a first pass. Apparently the damage done to the lungs has a distinct popcorn like outline, easily seen on the scans.
Would you also hire a respiratory therapist on retainer to operate it for you?
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This has genuinely given me hope. It would be great to see more ideas and work around this.
Why get an official battery replacement for a phone that’s out of warranty?
> apparently deliberate suppression of information

There's an alternative explanation: that the CDC massively dropped the ball on making enough test kits available.

The CDC comes off looking pretty bad regardless of whether it's deceit or incompetence, but they're pretty different things.

Hanlon's Razor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor) would tell us which to prefer, although it's not always right.
As someone who has no experience in POS systems at all (other than using them as a customer I suppose) what are your pain points with them? What would you change/add/remove?
Competition works.
Yes, while 겁 is made out of ㄱ ㅓ ㅂ, native Korean speakers would expect a string reversing function to operate on precomposed syllable codepoints rather than breaking them into the components.

I do agree with the overall point; just thought this specific example was a bit odd.
GPU / laptops
Possible for short periods, but unreasonable for all of life. Also privacy is a right and I shouldnt have to discontinue the legal use of something in order to avoid tracking.

Some people's job requires them to have a phone on them, should they have to choose between a job and privacy?
I've literally called such problems I've received in interviews O(shitty) or O(don't do that).
If it’s on the open market it’s presumably not saving any lives.

If it does get to the point where we have to pull everything off the open market, then maybe, but you can always go and offer it to a local hospital.
iNaturalist was the final product of my Master's degree thesis team. I haven't contributed to it since school, about 11 years, so I don't deserve any credit for its success. The folks who have kept it alive are personal heros - they sacrificed a lot and invested so much to build the community that exists today. It's probably the project I'm still the proudest to have contributed to.

When we started, our goal was to encourage people to go outside and engage with the world around them. We dreamt that the data gathered by the community would be used in scientific research, but weren't confident it would ever reach enough of a critical mass. It has! More surprisingly, we had no idea how important iNat's image dataset would become for computer vision research.

Again, so proud of the folks who have helped to make iNaturalist thrive and so glad it still exists in the world.
The influenza test exists, bit it has a very high false negative rate. It is useful in epidemiology, because if you test large populations, you'll get enough positives to learn something -- but you learn virtually nothing from a negative influenza test.
Depends on the Pi. The A53 based Pis did a little worse in 64 bit mode on average IIRC (probs because of the cache pressure).
That’s parts and labor. I think GP is talking about labor.

And I remember having a feature phone with a replaceable battery. Often became difficult to find a new battery after they stopped selling the phone. So if you think the lack of a battery is the only reason you’ll stop using your old phone? You’re probably only gonna get another year.
Ask HN: Do you use tech tools to assist you with learning? If so what are they?
Isn’t competition great?
A history of ballot design shows the evolution of Election Day
Probably better to hire one to train you in it’s operation.
So happy to see Timehop in this list. I was a little worried about releasing not-a-bug-but-a-feature, but it played out great :)
CPAP is a good way to prevent someone from getting intubated later on. It doesn't reduce the risk entirely, but early and aggressive CPAP usage can definitely reduce the likelihood of a pt needing intubation further down the line (more common w/ asthma/COPD, but there is some evidence supporting its use w/ ARDS pt's as well)
When an A/B test costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, you might be reticent too.
That’s a good place to start but there’s more to be considered. The data could be even more valuable than the value they were able to capture from the transaction.

What if they gave it all away for free? We wouldn’t fine them $0. The revenues earned should be considered, but we have to keep in mind that price does not equal value, and if a transaction occurred then the buyer was probably willing to pay more than the list price for it, that auctions only result in the price being equal to the amount the second-highest bidder was willing to pay, and that your data once sold by the telco company could end up selling for even more in future markets than it is selling for in today’s markets.

Should we fine them how much they were able to gain from it without pricing in how much the victims lost from it? And how well can we evaluate how much the victims lost? The problem with the government getting all the money is that the focus is removed from the victims, and questions like these aren’t given complete consideration. Would we have a better valuation if the victims were to receive compensation, if only due to the conversations that would arise from such proceedings? And also since, well, they’re the victims?
Similarly, web comic ads seem to consist entirely of ads for other web comics.
So? It has a point. I disagree with a lot of it, but...

* The fundamental point: A study with 100 comparisons will erroneously reject the null hypothesis at p<0.05 for 5 of them, which is a good part of why we adjust for multiple comparisons. But the same issue holds if we do 100 studies, and reject null for 5 of them. One of the fundamental problems with p values is that we don't really know the baseline number of things being compared in unpublished and preliminary research, which in turn makes the p value somewhat meaningless.

In effect, we've unfairly penalized the study with multiple comparisons vs. the same findings showing up from studies with individual comparisons.

* Studies with multiple comparisons are great engines of hypothesis generation. Setting too high a bar for rejecting associations means that we'll possibly discard too much.

* Most of our tests for multiple comparisons assume a degree of statistical independence which just isn't present.

The abstract is particularly horribly written, but those three points are reasonable points. (At the same time, there's circumstances where obviously we need to adjust appropriately or get absolutely stupid, irreproducible results-- e.g. fMRI data.
I'm sure this is the reason. Not being honest about it is a problem.
The better thing is the new (not yet widely available) antibody test, which can determine if you had it even after you recover.

Useless in a clinical setting, of course, but highly useful for epidemiology
Corona Virus Information from the New England Journal of Medicine
Does the replacement work nave a warranty?
> I appreciate that free software "won" to some extent, but if it hadn't have won as fast, we might have had some knowledge transfer happen that was actually useful.

I was recently listening to the 2007 "Copyleft Capitalism: GPLv3 & the Future of Software Innovation" talk¹ by Eben Moglen (who incidentally happened to have worked on IBM's APL interpreter), and he makes the opposite argument: it was the source code hoarding of the Microsoft-driven personal computer industry that was the biggest impediment to knowledge transfer and innovation.

¹ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68aimESyyeU
Why didn’t they buy working kits from other countries though? They had weeks to do that.
And iPhones are usually ok.

Some other phones need to be taken completely apart for a battery replacement
> They are used with little modification to correctly model climate of Mars, Venus, tidal locked exoplanet and previous historical eras on Earth. You just set the parameters and they pretty much produce the climate that exists o

why are they wrong all the time then ?
Here [1] is another interesting low-cost version of ventilator. It's an immersion two-phase continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) device, of which all the parts are printable. The patient still needs to be able to initiate breaths themselves, but it will cost a lot less energy to breath.

Combine it with a (admittedly lot harder to make) homemade pressure swing adsorbtion system that delivers high-oxygen air, using zeolite sieves and alternating pressure [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHiRTMQCf1Y

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylj4oOnlIY0
Because the phone itself is still fine and works really well, just the battery doesn’t hold a full charge and doesn’t deliver the full output current anymore.

Now I can use the phone for another 1-2 years which is great. I love the form factor as well and right now Apple doesn’t have anything comparable, but I hope they’ll make a small phone again.

Also, the unofficial replacement is not that much cheaper, you get a no-name Chinese battery (which is often worse than the original and more dangerous) and it might break things like FaceID/TouchID because the security chip will be reset and the non-official repair shops don’t have any means to reprogram it (as far as I know).
A stable military dictatorship is the preferred form of government.
config.txt only affects the kernel and doesn't affect which userland is selected.
It seems a little perverse to reward the most verbose devs, unless clients pay by LoC?
Beacause then you know that the battery is actually good, not some refurbished old battery with patched firmware, or a cheap knock off that’s going to lose half of the capacity in a month, if not outright explode on you.
Why did they go with Intel, which has a spotty record the last decade? Apple even ditched them for the iPhone.
I just replaced the battery in my iPhone a couple months ago. I ended up paying Apple over $300 because the glass on the bezel had a small crack on it and they wouldn’t touch it unless I replaced the entire screen too. It’s not “just $20” to replace an iPhone battery.
How the probabilistic horse race confuses and demobilizes the public [pdf]
I think the CDC comes off looking like the victim here. Years ago, Trump fired the pandemic response team [1] with a cited reason to 'cut costs'. Clearly there must have been some other reason, because firing a pandemic response team is guaranteed to increase costs, not reduce them.

Either way, the CDC has been intentionally handicapped by the Trump administration who specifically and intentionally reduced their ability to respond to crises like this one.

I certainly do not blame the CDC for their issues this time around, they are generally an incredible organization employing truly top minds and very high tech. If there is blame to go around here, it is with those who think that science is fake and that no money needs to be spent on community healthcare or prevention.

[1] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/
Not if you want the result to be syntactically correct English and semantically meaningful.
Ask HN: Does anyone have celiac disease and how do you deal with that?
Hello, I would like to know if anyone has celiac disease and how do you deal with that? I know that this is not reddit or Facebook group, but I would like to hear opinion from you. For example, in my country (Lithuania) this disease is still quite rare, and it is quite hard for others to understand the depth of it. For example, even with grandparents I still need to tell them that they can't give any buns for kids, even single one or that you can't cook in the same pan if you cooked something with wheat and so on. My family has not been in a proper restaurant since we found about the disease. What are the most gluten free countries? How do you deal with this?
We had so long to mobilize a lot of resources for this, and test every person with flu-like illnesses, and isolate them. CDC releasing broken testing kits and limiting use of testing. And then the President calling it a hoax made up to make him look bad, and forcing all statements from federal health authorities to go through the VP.

Isn't this exactly how the situation got so bad in Wuhan in the first place? Authorities not releasing information and preparing fast enough because it can make them look bad. China was able to limit the spread somewhat because they took the drastic step of cordoning off Hubei, shutting down all travel. If there was a big outbreak in WA, do you think the US, as a democracy, could shutdown all airports, roads and rail at the state border?
“Tax companies unless they break the laws of physics”
A user-removable battery imposes a significant cost. As devices get smaller the cost is correspondingly higher. Adding a compartment means extra weight to strengthen the device. Plus a cover strong enough to keep out water.

Then the battery itself needs to be encased to protect it, lest putting it in your pocket causes a key puncture that sets your pants on fire.

Those costs are mostly fixed and would be a larger proportion of the overall thickness and weight in a modern phone.

It also means you can't use a split battery, L-shapes battery, or exploit any other spatial dimensions to pack in more battery... at least not to the same degree.

Is having half the battery life, or a phone 60% thicker worth it?
A replacement at an apple store in Germany is €55 [1]. That will get you an original battery that is probably at least €35. So they are probably charging around €20 for the work alone.

A guy in the street will sell you a third party battery and insert it for you for maybe €30 or €35 total. Depending on how much you could buy the third party battery for yourself, you are paying maybe €10 or €15 for the work there.

So what we are discussing is really this: is it worth changing the design maybe making phones bulkier, less waterproof etc, in order to save a €10-15 (third party) to €20 (original) expense that happens once?

[1] https://support.apple.com/de-de/iphone/repair/service/batter...

(All prices here are for older models as we were talking about cheap phones in the €100-€150 range, not X/11s)
Footguns don't enable more possibilities other than the possibility to shoot yourself in the foot. Arbitrary control flow is pretty much the textbook example of that. It doesn't allow more expression or make it easier to express the same concepts, it makes it more difficult for the author, future readers, and tooling to understand what is being expressed in the first place. Not to say it isn't necessary for the implementation of languages on the hardware, just that the additional complexity of such a construct is better served by being generated from higher level syntax through automation like compilers or virtual machines.

As for the question of conversion to basic blocks, the question to me is at what point does your macro expansion turn into a compiler plugin or extension? I think the idea of hooking into the compiler at different points in the pipeline and expanding it on a per-project basis is really cool, and it's an old idea that's present in many LISPs. Racket and Scheme have extremely expressive macro systems that allow you to basically write a compiler. It'd be really interesting to have a language where the compiler/virtual machine had great hooks for extensions written by the author of a program being compiled, so they could do crazy things at progressive levels of granularity and unsafety. I think MLIR has some support for that, but it's more a target like LLVM than a language in its own right.
I can’t wait until this happens with last-mile internet access too, and, in a funny twist of circumstance, quality electric cars.

What other long-moated industries are going to crack open in the next half-dozen years?
I'm starting to get the impression that most countries are dealing with this outbreak professionally. Except for Iran and the US. Ironic.
Not at all. They provide little pieces. Businesses still have to cobble them together. Which is my whole point.
One issue that I've noticed with their system is that usually when a person posts an image, they take a random guess at the ID, and then all their friends will dog-pile on agreeing with it. There are so many misidentifications on there and not enough experts to correct it.
presume he used a physical button (vol+ on iphones)
But image similarity is not the same as face recognition. I just uploaded the photo the author gave to Clearview, and it returned none of the photos Clearview found – just other front-facing flatly-lit mugshots of other people.

Of course Google can do this internally (and FAcebook could do it even better) – but the public-facing image search does not do what Clearview purports to do.
I wrote "What if people tried to speak precisely", not "why can't people speak more precisely".