skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Italy they suspended the football season last week, as it was legally impossible to host games in the most-affected Northern areas. Sure enough, they are already talking about resuming next Monday, less than a day after the current ban on gatherings will expire.

It's screwed up, and hugely unpopular, but I think we should just give up all these large events until April-May and then reassess. Zero chances it will happen though, too much money rides on sports these days. So people will die so that someone else can watch 22 overpaid athletes kick a ball.
Overwatch League (esports, but still crowded stadiums) canceled all China matches on Jan 29th. Then they canceled Korean matches on Feb 23rd. US, Canadian, and European matches are not yet canceled.
> So if a crash does come about, what's the Fed going to do seeing as how rates are already bottomed out?

potentially, negative interest rates, that’s what [1]

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/070915/how-n...
Been there, still can go there. I remember in 8th grade we had to do journaling in class and I might have been ok with it had it been a different teacher or just that no one would have read it.

Years later I learn that it actually helps your brain make sense of the day. Look at your day and the emotions that form, and look for cause and effect. Look to change the causes, or how you interpret them. You have a lot of life left and a head start on me age wise. Shit didn’t start coming together for me until 40, and it’s still an uphill battle, but worth it.

Try using the weather as a writing prompt to get the juices flowing.
I agree with the last part: it probably shows that there’s life out there.

It could show that life travelled here on meteorites etc. But it also could mean: life arises elsewhere, life commonly arises in the universe and may have also arisen here (and many places) independently.
Why Parasite’s success is forcing a reckoning in Japan's film industry
IRC and Matrix don't count users the same way.

With Matrix, if you just create an account, join a room, and completely forget about it, you're still counted. There must be a bunch of Matrix channels that count me at least three times because of the different accounts/homeservers I used when trying to make something work.

Meanwhile on IRC you (or someone else) needs to have a client running somewhere to be counted.
French cars are too quirky for the US market. French car manufacturers have a market that is both small enough and large enough to try out experiments that would fail elsewhere, and innovation that is deemed too costly for the US mass market: Fluid suspension - 1960s; sliding doors on cars - 1990s; avant-gard styling: all down through the many decades.

Many French cars are iconic: The Citroen 2CV https://www.erclassics.com/media/catalog/product/cache/2/ima..., The Citroen Parisienne DS https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcSnLQ... and the Citroen C4 with those strange door panels https://c4.wallpaperflare.com/wallpaper/340/990/475/women-si...

I spent many years travelling in France, my preference was for a Citroen DS3 with its distinctive 'reverse shark fin' behind the driver's window :) https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pict...
Convolution reverbs are pretty cool. For Ableton Live Suite users, Ableton has made available a MaxForLive device that lets you make your own impulse response files for use with their convolution reverb, I've used it.

Howto:
https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/make-your-own-impulse-respon...
Very hard to believe that more daylight later in the day is a net negative for traffic safety.

In any case, the solution is to pick one timeframe and stop changing it.
I still think a Venus colony would be super cool and maybe more viable than mars given the available energy and gravity... this just seems so cool https://youtu.be/bcHkWKp9e4Y

A cloud city
If containerisation takes off and ends up being perfect security it’ll make sense. An example would be running Android on X, apps would be able to read / modify windows of other apps via The X socket.
Their losses - somebody else's income. Somebody more competent has the money now and can spend it on startups.
With that comment about a completion system with inline documentation? How does argv not cut it when zsh does what you described?
That looks less friendly then irssi.

Also straight from the readme:

"Basic usage is possible, but expect bugs and missing features."

Not very promising.
Coronavirus Lockdown in Wuhan Is a 'Living Hell'
What "straight chart libraries" do you use? I'd be interested in digging into that further.

I agree that React / Redux state can take the place of a lot of the D3 models. That said, it's nice that D3 handles entry / updates and changes so you can point to redux and it "just works" and all the transitions, etc are handled as your app state is handled.
I have a somewhat special use case as I'm using an in-memory SQLite to drive a video game, so I do tune every query for performance.
China’s Coronavirus Figures Don’t Add Up
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There's no info on how the numbers were compared, but Matrix and IRC have a different approach to counting "present" users. On IRC, a user closing the client gets subtracted from active users count, on Matrix they don't. Thay may never even come back to Matrix ever again, but they will still bloat the number of users.

In this light, the number of users in a Matrix channel hardly ever decreases and is not representative of channel's popularity.
I was thinking Google might be it. I do this in Google Maps on my phone, but thought maybe even Google Maps was passe these days.
They were a service that was uniquely suited to the time of general widespread cellphone usage but pre-smartphone usage. You'd call the Moviefone number and get a phone tree for local theaters and then movie times. They were uniquely positioned to grab people and pitch them a movie at exactly the moment they were trying to find a movie (which doesn't sound revolutionary, but at the time the overall culture of movies and trailers wasn't nearly what it is and people were relying on the local paper for times).

As a result, they were charging millions for ad placements - it's entirely possible that on a cash basis that AOL made their money back from the purchase simply because they were able to bundle advertising packages.

Studios spend stupid amounts of money to promote their movies (look up how much Kevin Hart was paid for single tweets to promote movies).
The obvious counter point would be the neutrino.
They can get you an interposer double the old size
For me, undo is probably one of the greatest inventions in computing next to the compiler and the internet.
> What are the things that D3 did right to get the acclaim, and why does it keep it for so long?

Once upon a time, there was an infovis library for Java called Prefuse. Then the developers abandoned that library for a Flash infovis library called Flare. A JS library called Protovis was inspired by Flare, and then Protovis itself was replaced with D3.

I've used 3 of those libraries (never wrote any Flash code). The only one I would actually recommend people use is D3--it's literally the first (honestly, only) infovis toolkit I've used that doesn't feel like pulling teeth to get anything done.

What D3 does differently from its lineage is that it is data-centric. Each datapoint is an object, corresponding to a DOM node, and the layouts in D3 don't actually draw anything; they just set properties on the object--you're responsible for actually converting those into setting SVG properties for display.

It sounds like this would be a nasty headache, but this way is actually much better than the traditional way of handling things (where the visualization is essentially treated as a display widget in a normal GUI toolkit). Any time you want to progress beyond a basic "display a graph with static data," you start to need a lot more fine-grained control over display elements. Want to link multiple displays of the same dataset, so clicking on one in one screen highlights them in all the others? That's very hard in prefuse, but quite easy in D3.
That actually IS the basic idea---there was almost a 1:1 annihilation. But it's not 1:1 exactly (look around you, matter everywhere). We quantify the baryon asymmetry as

η = (n_baryons - n_antibaryons) / n_photons

where the n_species are the number densities of those species. Since baryon number is additively conserved, the asymmetry now reflects the asymmetry in the past.

From WMAP we estimate η ~ (6±0.25)E-10. The question is: why is this SO damn small? There was alllllllmost a perfect cancellation. But not quite. What gives?

On the other hand, it's not QUITE as early as you hope---the anti/baryon annihilation is to light particles and radiation, not the negative pressure needed to cause inflationary Big Bang cosmology.
I just read that in Kermit's voice. (Morgan Freeman was having a RDO.)
One hopes that they'll use the money to release a Mac version that isn't terrible.
I vehemently implore you to spend some time outside the Valley bubble.
Just what the world needs, Fox News as source for Coronavirus news. Item number 2 right now.
I disagree. It's just more infrastructure to maintain and would allow for anonymous harassment which is what caused mozilla to move away from IRC to begin with.
> one participant was excluded because he was an extreme outlier in learning rate (>3 sd away from the mean).

Can anyone explain why did they do this? Was it just to prove their hypothesis? I bet this guy had really high numeracy scores as well.

Edit: They also botched some of the numbers:

> (Fig. 1A: mean learning rate = 1.25, range = 0.81–2.0, sd = 0.24)

The 2.0 point is not included in Fig. 1A, the highest learning rate is 15 lessons over 10 sessions or 1.5, so they included the outlier in that range but removed it in the plots.

Also I don't find it unreasonable that a person completed 20 lessons compared to the others 15, so I don't see why this was so extreme that he had to be removed. You could argue that the later lessons are harder so it was unreasonable, but then you just confessed that the learning rate metric is not linear so your regression models doesn't work since it assumes that going from .5 to .6 is equal to going from 1.5 to 1.6! Even though as we can see from the plot many of the best learners got stuck at lesson 16 for an entire session without making progress, while the slowest learners took 10 sessions to reach roughly the level these fast learners reached after the first. That is almost a 10x difference, but this plot shows it as just 2.5x.
Schalke 0-1 Bayern Munich – DFB Pokal – FootballGH – Video Highlights
It'd be nice if this ended up turning into it being more common for tech conferences to be attended remotely, would be a good step for environmental friendliness to reduce all the flying around the world for tech events
Some Greek chanters got permission to go into the Hagia Sophia and record a TV special (for Greek TV) of chant music several years ago. While not a service, it is the music that would have been used at a service. (Either that, or this is another case of convolution reverb and some clever video editing. I'm not sure. But it sounds pretty cool.)

Part of it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1aUZcHaJb4

Another:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eCZyvczZaM&t=98
2020.02.29 CAA Rechecking Bug
That's very interesting! My only experience with a pen UI is from using the iPad with an Apple Pencil, which doesn't seem to work the same way. As far as I could tell, the Pencil works like a very precise finger. It's great for writing, but I didn't notice any further enhancements beyond that. Of course, it might just have been that the app I was testing it with (Microsoft OneNote) didn't fully support the Pencil at that time.
Your website demo video is impressive and I can imagine there are many businesses that would save a lot of time and man-hours by incorporating a solution like this.

I've often thought about creating products like these but as a one-man operation I am daunted by the "getting customers" part of the endeavour. How do you get a product like this into the hands of people who make the decisions in a business? (For anyone, not just OP). PPC AdWords campaigns? Cold-calling? Networking your ass off? Pay someone? Basically, how does one solve the "discoverability problem"?
I live 1 mile from Evergreen Hospital and 3 miles from the Life Care facility, and I'm immunocompromised. Most of my B lymphocytes and a bunch of my T helper cells are gone. In the past couple of days 7 immunocompromised people within walking distance of me were killed by this thing. I don't think I'm in hysteria, but I sure as hell am not leaving my house until I can be convinced that it's under control in my area.

So far it would seem that when COVID-19 finds its way into a care facility for the sick and/or elderly, it incubates for a few days and then starts killing people left and right. And some of the best hospitals in America (e.g., Evergreen and Harborview) can't save them.

We've seen what does and doesn't work in places like Japan, Korea, and Italy. Meanwhile most of the schools around here are still open and the workers transferring suspected COVID-19 patients to ambulances are using only loose-fitting face masks as PPE.

I feel like we're collectively failing an open-book test right now.
And ##rust on Freenode.
Good stuff. IMO, no one worth less than $1M should even be trading symbols, much less options. The "poor" should pour their money into low-fee Target Retirement 20XX funds and let them sit.
> That's because they have an entire government, with guns, enforcing the rules of the game they're playing.

So the guns are just a tool after all. The army isn't leading the rich because it's the rich who built the army. It's the rich who create the wealth and the guns.

> It's very simple: a handful of wealthy people can never be a match for an army of people with guns

It's simplistic. The only example you came up with just showed an error in judgement on the part of the rich due to lack of experience (some things were unfathomable for them), not a failure of wealth to give you that power. Both wealth and guns can "explode" in your face if mishandled.

Insisting the French revolution is the only true evidence that wealth is worthless in gaining power is like insisting the thousands of accidental gun deaths are the only true evidence that people with guns will just accidentally kill each other.

As you can see from today's situation those people with wealth learned from the past. They know where to push and where to pull in order to successfully keep power. They have refined the tools they buy with that wealth. And the civilized world has been managing to keep going this way without using a gun (well, not on home field anyway) for the longest time in history. A library will do a far better job at making my case than I can do in a comment. I strongly encourage it.
CDC: Influenza kills between 12-61k people annually
Why would you bother using a database like clickhouse to store data if you're just going to analyze it in pandas? Just store it in a csv, parquet, or orc.

> As i'm sure things like pivot tables and rolling windows are a PITA in SQL

I can't speak for clickhouse, but group-by and window functions are a very standard part of any SQL analysts toolbelt.
Good question. Why does it remind you of the aether and humors and not, say, the positron [1] and quarks? [2]

Sometimes experiment leads theory, but sometimes theory leads experiment. It's only when theory proceeds untethered to any possible experimental confirmation or rejection that it gets in trouble. In this case, they're making actual predictions that should be testable in the near future.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positron
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark
> Because the curve is almost not rising, even in linear form

That's the global numbers, which are still dominated by China. In China there may have been a real slowdown thanks to draconian measures.

But have a look at the WHO numbers excluding China. It's definitely still exponential. The doubling time has even been shrinking. My plot:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQTpoR9gmgei...

Source of the numbers: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...
Why are Americans warming to socialism? Because capitalism has failed them
The team that is building Mailbrew has also built Unreadit.
yup. it's extremely powerful, super customizable (when it comes to vim/neovim), but simple? never.

i would never recommend vim to a someone that is just beginning when vscode is right there.
Yeah, but isn't that just a necessary step in learning? It takes knowledge off-course for a while, but then who knows at the time what the right course will be?

Personally, I'm happy to see more theories and results around gravity and gravitational waves. When I read about physics in school and later, it was all about particles and interactions. They were talking about the theoretical Grand Unified Theory, but they only had 2 then 3 forces in the model. Gravity was always this big outlier, yet it makes the world go round (quite literally).

This article talks about the ability to detect gravity waves from neutron stars (LIGO, which is quite recent), and that made me think they are like spark gap transmitters: huge bursts of energy across the spectrum. Think of the history of radio: at first they used spark gap transmitters for wireless telegraph, but in time, they refined the equipment and now we have 5G. There was another recent article about detecting the fainter gravity waves caused by earthquakes. Maybe we'll get there in our lifetimes.
Multiples of revenue is a common valuation number that can imply the length of time an investor will expect they will be able to profit from it.

At 66m/y in profit, that's under %2 annual return on their $4bn investment. To strip and flip the company on a 6-7 year timeframe would make sense. They'll probably need a technical CTO advising them on what's essential and what's not.

However, take us to school. The opportunity to add value is clear.
> Web browsers need to composite the video within arbitrary documents which may e.g. have elements that overlap the video (opaque or transparent) or may arbitrarily transform the video (CSS applies to videos just like any other element).

both Kodi and MPV have UI overlays that are composited on top of the video.
Also, hardware decoding APIs (vdpau, vaapi...) are mostly unrelated to rendering - see for instance https://github.com/NVIDIA/vdpau-hevc-example/blob/master/mai...
Ironic; as one of the primary reasons I haven't set up a matrix bridge to my IRC network is that the moderation tools are very lacking. :\
I'm always surprised by what comes across to me as a dogmatic need for a "study" to prove something. There is no study that says my yard needs mowing once a week to look good. I know it because I've lived it. Similarly, I've lived in code bases that were once dynamic and were rewritten to be static. This is not an academic argument: the compiler catches things that I would otherwise have had to remember to put into a test.
You'd normally want the 24/7 people to be part of the day to day operations, otherwise they will quickly stop being up to date, so their don't go out of the knowledge loop, so selecting the reasonable timezone set is not trivial.
> Look at, for instance, the acceptance of various social changes in the US, such as gay marriage.

We would both use this as an example - you think it is because people changed their views, I think it is because a big group of people bitterly opposed to this died off, opening the door to change.

I think we'll have to agree to disagree. FWIW, I hope you're correct. I'd love to see society avoid repeating mistakes, learning from alternative viewpoints and expanding what they consider. Sadly, the one concrete case I can have of changing viewpoints is my own: In my twenties I felt as you do. In the decades since I've seen people embrace willful ignorance and proudly stand by hypocrisy so long as they didn't have to accept anything that was outside of their "normal". I retain the hope, but I've lost the expectation.

Here's to the hope that my conclusions are wrong.
Sadly, it's not the "You have selected regicide." guy.
It's not the amount of light, it's the abrupt change in the sleep pattern.
Java is quite far away from finally solving NullPointerException issues. Kotlin, C# or TypeScript with their compile time null checks solved it mostly. Common to these three languages is that they need null to be interoperable with older language versions (C#) or with related languages (Java, JavaScript). Languages like Rust that don't even know null (or nil as in Go), have finally solved the problem.
Seems like two out of every five posts is about Coronavirus - I'm guessing there's some Coronavirus news fatigue playing a part. It would be very nice if dang and co. would steal the reddit concept of a megathread for this.
I think eyeballing a scatterplot is often more useful than just looking at the p-value.
I find chants very relaxing. And, it has nothing to do with a specific religion.

P.S. Its weird, but the Orthodox, generally speaking, "hate" Catholics more than they hate Muslims. In fact, a Muslim was /is the referee to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre https://www.reuters.com/article/us-religion-jerusalem-church... Might have to do with the split and a tiny thing like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Constantinople
Wouldn't that have happened on the first trading day following the 28th? People are saying that the outage four years ago hit on Wednesday the 2nd. That makes no sense for this narrative.
I think the confused person must live in Europe. I hadn't heard of any of these services and I've lived in UK and Czech Rep ... however over here we're all pretty used to the "ohhh this must be an American thing" feeling so I'm not sure why they're acting all surprised
Why is diabetes a risk factor?
Backwards compatibility is a bitch mostly. Tar defaults to using the tape drive because that's what it was originally designed to do. Using it to create file archives was a hack added later, but nobody wanted to break backwards compatibility with old backup scripts by changing its defaults, so we're stuck with its oddball syntax today.

dd is another program where the commandline flags predate modern usage (although it does at least behave nicely with pipes by default) and look totally weird compared to everything else. But again nobody wants to touch them because it would break millions of existing scripts.
The article mentions various ways in which text that appears normal can actually be screwed up inside a PDF. I have found this when running PDFs through the BeeLine Reader PDF converter that my startup built.

One workaround I've found is that sometimes it helps to "print to PDF" the original PDF using Preview on Mac. This doesn't fix all the problems, but it does sometimes fix issues with the input PDF — even though both files appear identical to the human eye.

Are there any other workarounds or "PDF cleaners" out there? It would be awesome if there were a web-based service where you could get a PDF de-gunkified, for lack of a better term.
I think many purchase online directly through the theater. I used Fandango until I started using AMC's app directly, since most of the theaters I'd want to go are AMCs.
> The Android and ChromeOS Linux distributions have moved to building their Linux kernels with Clang, and Google is currently testing Clang built kernels for their production Linux kernels."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_products_based_on_Free...

You have no idea how many places FreeBSD actually runs in.