skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google didn't move to clang/llvm because they hate copyleft. They moved because people who work on compilers prefer to work on clang/llvm, and if you have a compiler group you need to keep them happy.
I had problems with copy-pasting Chinese text from PDFs before. The characters would come out as Kangxi radicals, rather than Traditional Chinese characters. They look the same, but are different code points!

https://pingtype.github.io/docs/docs.html#translateButtons
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The Carboniferous period stored that much carbon because the microbes at the time were unable to break down wood[1]. So yes, everyone should read about the Carboniferous period in detail to understand just how many millions of years of stored carbon in ancient plant material we're recklessly blowing out into the atmosphere all at once.

1. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2016/01...
Then why is WHO chairman praising China?
Not WHO inspectors, WHO has lots of chinese allegiance, The CDC is the organisation who is blocked from entering.

https://www.foxnews.com/health/us-health-officials-on-corona...

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jan/30/china-asks-...

https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/06/world-health-organiza...

Google also seems to heavely favour WHO's website compared to alternative sources of information. Probaly all in order to combat "fake news" some dystopian world we live in.
Headline misleading, as it's not clear that his research had anything to do with being sued/etc for calling himself an engineer.
Who is using Golang within the biggest tech companies?
One Million Dollars
The Cozy Rooms
The coordinate system(s) used by cell differentiation can collectively figure out body location down to a single cell. Using those inputs to define how the cell differentiates from a stem cell line is how nearly all the body differentiates, why would neurons be different?

Beyond that, it's pretty clear that there are very hardwired parts of the brain around bootstrapping. You're born with the ability to recognize faces, and mirror neurons reflect the actions of those around you in a very similar way to you taking those actions yourself.
No, since I strive to journal on a factual based tone. Barely do I jot down any emotions or opinions about people.

Phrasing a situation down into facts helps to change perspective away from the ego pov and to dissolve any anger or other negative emotions.
Thank you! In Europe (well, outside the UK at least - I lived in France, Belgium, Germany and Austria) TLOTM is pretty much unknown to my generation. It is only left as a figure of speech, probably due to the movies.

Since multiple movies were made in the 60s, I suppose that it was not always so.
Not sure if this has been on HN already but Johns Hopkins also has a covid dashboard up, presumably using the data present in the repo: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594...
There's insurance for this type of thing, and I'm guessing that the organizers do not have it.
That thread enlightened me to a great trick to force cert renewal even if it's been done too recently: add a second (sub)domain and make a new cert with both
Jitsi Meet: open-source video conferencing
I've had a good experience with Camelot extracting table-based data!
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I agree it's inconclusive as to whether the whole thing was to increase sales in the short term. But keeping it a secret from your own staff is highly suspect. Like I said, they had their own support staff regularly telling their best customers (some of whom paid extra for Applecare) that they were basically imagining things.

All allegedly because people are too dense to understand the concept that rechargeable batteries degrade over time? I learned this fact some 30 years ago as a child playing with toys.

So, maybe it wasn't to increase sales in the short term but it certainly was done to protect Apple's brand. Which, in turn increases the company value.
That looks so much better to me. The cognitive load is significantly reduced
You can look at the counts by date. The majority are past the mean time till hospitalization, and the the number in critical condition hasn't increased in days.

>If 42 were critical, that doesn't necessarily mean they were the only ones who needed hospital treatment.

Percent hospitalized isn't the thing to look at. It's percentage of people who need intensive care or a ventilator that matters.

Many people were hospitalized for observation. Some people received IV fluids. How many of those people were saved by IV fluids vs. just being a nice to have is unknown. But that kind of care can be done in mass tent hospitals or even at home.
Peeking Behind the Curtain of 2001: A Space Odyssey
My top JavaScript articles from 2019
similar for Redshift: https://crst.github.io/vrqp/vrqp.html
https://archive.md/MusGO
Oh hey, that's my web site. :) Those PDFs were generated through a rather nasty process (print to PDF on a Mac OS 9 system), and the quality is a little uneven.

There's a nicer version of that PDF at:

http://mirror.informatimago.com/next/developer.apple.com/doc...

as well as a 1997 update for some newer interface elements:

http://mirror.informatimago.com/next/developer.apple.com/doc...
American Society for Microbiology Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) Resources
> The problem with this type of call being made by governments, which I hope will become abundantly clear in retrospect, is that governments are incentivized to lie about the severity of the situation (consider CCP response to Wuhan, White House response to unsafe quarantines, etc.).

No. "[G]overnments" aren't "incentivized to lie about the severity of the situation" any more than anyone is incentivized to lie about anything.

It's true that some governments and some government officials are in the habit of blatantly lying, but that shouldn't be turned into some kind of anti-government generalization. Pretty much all the accurate information and advice we currently have about this outbreak comes from governments as well.
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Money before people - nothing new under the sun!
There is the WHO: https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1234871709091667969

COVID-19 is roughly 20x more lethal than the flu, and we have no therapies or vaccines.

Fortunately (contrary to my prior understanding) it does not spread as efficiently as the flu, and there are measures that can be taken to help contain the spread.
That shouldn't affect market cap since they're capturing the cash equivalent in value through the sale. It's trading physical assets (probably with poor returns) for cash assets.

Spinning off less-profitable divisions would affect market cap.
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You have it backwards. Droplets on surfaces are the primary transmission mechanism. The virus can survive on surfaces for hours. People then touch surfaces with their hands then touch their faces.

Droplets in the air are a transmission mechanism but only for short range (3-6 feet) and only a danger from people who cough or sneeze on you. Respirators are effective at stopping that transmission but they are most useful for people treating the sick. But they aren't effective if worn improperly. For most people, avoiding the sick is enough.

Surgical masks are useful for the sick to keep cough and sneeze droplets from spreading. They are also useful to keep people from touching their face.
For something like bank statements, I'd use the rigidly-defined formatting (both number formatting and field position) to inform how to interpret OCR misfires. My larger concern then would be missing a leading 1 (1500.00 v 500.00), but checking for dark pixels immediately preceding the number will flag those errors. And I suppose looking for dark pixels between numbers could help with missed decimals too.
Oh, the author was one of those two? Nope, no credibility; not because of a mistake (though such sloppiness would qualify for a credibility loss), but because of how they handled criticism, as linked by sibling comment.
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Experts baffled as Trump asks why they can't use flu vaccine against coronavirus
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Tanner Electronics, famous suplus parts outlet in DFW, is closing
Understanding PHP 8's JIT
I am inclined to agree that it's difficult to form a good opinion here: the information available is horridly imperfect and even conflicting. I saw a news article a couple of days ago that said masks don't help prevent you from getting the virus, yet that very article included a WHO infographic encouraging the public to buy and wear masks. Alas...
Absolutely! Right now it’s a manual process though, you would need to add sources to the one newsletter you want to keep. But we’ll make it much easier in the future, sorry about this.
True! Many of the ticketing companies offer insurance in terms the buyer decides to cancel or the event cancels - they still get their money. But it's extra cost, which not everybody is willing to cover!
After 19 years, I think that first envelope is getting a little yellowed.
Benjamin Franklin knew Smith personally, and was present at the drafting of the Constitution, so there is at most one degree of separation. I haven't actually read Wealth of Nations myself, but its worth noting that a lot of compromises had to be made on all sides to encourage states to actually join (IIRC the income tax was originally illegal because the initial wording implicitly said that slavery couldn't be taxed out of existence, and this was intentionally worded to encourage southern states to join).
I wasn't taking a position on that, I was addressing the oh-so-clever remark that was trivializing complaints of "socialization of losses" with the argument that "duh, that's what insurance is, what's the problem?".
But not well vs stocks. Gold still hasn't recovered to it's all time high from ~10 years ago.
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Another linguistic example would be the military phonetic alphabet, which intentionally adds extra syllables to each letter for the purpose of making them easily distinguishable even over noisy lines.
AFAIK there are different tests with varying accuracies. Those with low accuracy tend to be ran multiple times to help. Despite having to run multiple tests, capacity for these low accuracy tests is much higher than the tests the CDC attempted to distribute, and these are the types of tests countries with a huge number already tested have tended to use.

Testing by local hospitals and universities in the USA has also been held up by FDA regulations that only recently (last week) were waived.

The USA is behind this thing by a long shot. We are thinking about stuff now that we should have thought about at least a month ago. Another example is the federal government contemplating covering tests when insurance won't. The time to contemplate this was months ago, not today. This should have been decided, at the very latest, weeks ago so it could be rolled out at the proper time.
That is how it is supposed to work. Over the past couple of years we have seen the President break with tradition and uses his megaphone to berate and belittle the fed to try and get what he wants. Of course we cannot know if the fed has ignored all that, but by appearances, the president seems to be having an influence.
I'm fairly certain that having plants before the Sun contradicts most scientific consensus. Though, right now I'm focused on the things that are strikingly similar to our current observable knowledge. I also leave a lot of room for the scientific community to discover reasons to adapt their theories, as has historical happened. It is important to note that 'light' existed on 'day' one, and perhaps in a few hundred years we will discover a more specific description of how that was true, but the story doesn't claim plants grew without light. (Regarding the 'days' of the creation story, I certainly leans towards interpreting that poetically, for a few reasons, not the least of which being the lack of the Sun until 'day' four.)
I know it's widespread. The extent to which that's the case, unfortunately, we have no idea because there hasn't been enough testing.

Not sure what you mean by "ordinarily" tested. This pandemic is quite a unique situation.
Ask HN: Limitations to Scaling a Hardware Device to Reduce Disease Transmission
Inspired by the COVID-19 outbreak, I recently had a eureka moment and think I have an idea for a simple hardware device that could reduce the transmission of diseases. I’m in the early stages of prototyping it, but the availability of components on Digikey and the factory lead times listed are not anywhere close to the scale and speed needed. I know there are more options than Digikey, but I can't help bu think at some point the supply chain will not meet demand. I If that's true, then the ship has already sailed for massively scaling the device and making a dent in the spread of the current outbreak. If that’s the case, I’ll still build it in the hopes that its effectiveness can be proven, and that it will be useful for the next outbreak. Obviously, to even sniff the required scale, the design would have to be made available to anyone who can make it.

So the questions are: If the goal is to produce millions per month, how quickly could a company like Microchip ramp up production to the point where they are producing that many ATTiny85’s? How many alternative sources for similar products are there available? What about batteries (coin cell or otherwise) and SMD component manufacturers of resistors, LEDs, accelerometers, etc.? I’m assuming that if the device is small enough, then a nationwide network of PCB manufacturers would be able to keep up. Is that wrong? What else am I missing?
Yes of course it is a ploy, it has 2 effects:
It is maddening employees by binding them to stock market (preventing strikes for example), to make them accept pay cuts more easily.
It increases stocks because there is a lot more money on the market
Eh, except this tool seems to obscure some pretty useful information. It's certainly a nicer to look at thing, but the removed information about query portion detail is pretty vital to quickly working out issues.
Why researchers are creating “human yarn” and turning it into textile
While it's true that dividends immediately impact market price by making it lower, the market also prices in the expectation of future dividends by inflating the price.

If GE stopped paying dividends altogether, for example, the market price would tank.
This is why iPhone didn't initially ship with double-tap to zoom for PDF paragraphs (like it had for blocks on web pages). I know because I was assigned the feature, and I went over to the PDF guy to ask how I would determine on an arbitrary PDF what was probably a "block" (paragraph), and I got a huge explanation on how hard it would be. I relayed this to my manager and the bug was punted.

Edit: To add a little more color, given that none of us was (or at least certainly I wasn't) an expert on the PDF format, we had so far treated the bug like a bug of probably at-most moderate complexity (just have to read up on PDF and figure out what the base unit is or whatever). After discovering what this article talks about, it became evident that any solution we cobbled together in the time we had left would really just be signing up for an endless stream of it-doesn't-work-quite-right bugs. So, a feature that would become a bug emitter. I remember in particular considering one of the main use cases: scientific articles that are usually in two columns, AND also used justified text. A lot of times the spaces between words could be as large as the spaces between columns, so the statistical "grouping" of characters to try to identify the "macro rectangle" shape could get tricky without severely special-casing for this. All this being said, as the story should make clear, I put about one day of thought into this before the decision was made to avoid it for 1.0, so far all I know there are actually really good solutions to this. Even writing this now I am starting to think of fun ways to deal with this, but at the time, it was one of a huge list of things that needed to get done and had been underestimated in complexity.
Well, we don't hear about the ones where the IT/Engineering team IS properly valued.
Don't trust any service with your phone number
Insurances that exclude high-cost low probability events... that's funny.

What are they for?
Alvin Weinberg published his "Science and Trans-Science" article on roughly this topic in 1972 [1].

He said: "Many of the issues that lie at the interface between science and politics involve questions that can be stated in scientific terms but that are in principle beyond the proficiency of science to answer."

"The protagonists often ask for the impossible: scientific answers to questions that are trans-scientific"

Pretty good stuff.

[1] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/177/4045/211.full...
Discussed in 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8815917
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The different protocols for testing patients around the world are producing to much noise to make general claims.
Wickedness in a problem domain is an argument for a competitive, decentralized approach, in order to more rapidly search a larger solution space. Yet instead we seem to demand gordian or manichean solutions and strong centralized institutions to implement them. When the trains don't run on time, instead of seeking out a fray of Dagny Taggarts, we look for one Mussolini. And so wicked (hard) social problems beget disproportionately wicked (counter productive) answers.
I believe that the instinct to over-engineer is based in part on bad prior experiences with trying to separate concerns after it's 'too late'. Either your own personal experiences, or those of your mentors.

Lacking any better skills to identify and avoid those problems when they begin, they try to stop it from happening in the first place. Fences get erected everywhere in case they might be needed, and they frequently turn out to be in not quite the right spot or shape. The code becomes coupled to the bad interface instead of to other code, and the fixes are just as bad.

YAGNI in theory is about trying to develop those other skills, but gets twisted into an excuse for bad tech debt loads.
A team of researchers led by Nicolas L’Heureux at the University of Bordeaux/INSERM is working on a new kind of medical textile that they hope will fly below the immune system’s radar. In tissue engineering research published earlier this month in the journal Acta Biomaterialia, the team introduced a completely biological human yarn that can be twisted, woven, braided, or knotted to produce textiles with different properties.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S17427...
This is very much worth a read, even if someone re-flags it.
There's a common misconception that voluntary carbon market projects solely consist of planting trees - that's not the case. There are also forest protection projects, energy transition projects, and so on. ClimeWorks' project could be certified as well... but then carbon credit buyers would realize it's just less effective than the alternatives. I guess that's why ClimeWorks's go-to-market strategy is 'high-tech' branding: they go after technology lovers rather rather than informed investors.

Also see what I mentioned about CCS. AFAIK, the most promising CCS technology consist of burning biomass in power plants, and then using geological confinement of the sequestered carbon. The reason it's more effective, as I mentioned, is because the carbon is captured where its concentration is high - less entropy to fight.

It's absolutely true that current offsetting methodologies won't always stay so cheap - and as prices rise, new innovative methodologies will develop. Buying carbon credits is not an impediment to innovation; but it has the advantage of rewarding projects for being efficient, rather than "technologically cool".
5,000 people die in New York City every month. Well over 10,000 people die from the normal seasonal flu each year in the US alone. Also in car crashes.
Yes, seems like Ampere is the big public server player now.

Marvell bought Cavium which has the ThunderX line. (ThunderX2 being a rather HPC-oriented chip, I think there's a supercomputer already built with it.)
Marvell also makes networking-gear-oriented smaller chips (e.g. Armada 8k), one of which is in my little ARM Desktop (MACCHIATObin) :)

NXP (Layerscape) and Mellanox (BlueField) also make network-oriented chips that have around 24 Cortex-A72 cores. NXP's is in SolidRun's newer workstation product.

Meanwhile Amazon bought Annapurna Labs and they make the Graviton (2) for the AWS cloud.
This isn't something you can touch physically but it's going to have the biggest impact of all things.
This is the real confirmation that Arm servers are legit and the x86/amd64 monopoly is over.

There's also Huawei HiSilicon's Taishan/Kunpeng stuff, which you apparently can buy if you're a serious business, but now it's available in the public Huawei Cloud, but only for the Chinese region it seems??

Oh and Fujitsu is making some epic chip with HBM2 memory and the new Scalable Vector Extensions. But that's only available if you're making supercomputers.

And Nuvia is going to be a thing eventually.. they have not announced anything yet, we have no idea which ISA they are even going to use (could be RISC-V or POWER or SPARC for all we know) but a prominent UEFI/ACPI-on-Arm person is now their VP of Software and is still referring to the Arm ecosystem as "we" https://twitter.com/jonmasters/status/1234734345350369281 :)

And yeah.. press F to pay respects for Qualcomm Centriq and AMD Seattle.
I realize this was flippant, but truly, as has been pointed out before, central banking can't help much if factories aren't operating.

Be well, friends.
Ha yeah that works, if you don't want to do anything else on your computer for a while as it does its thing....
I would get a second and third opinion, and then decide. I guess my point was that I am not going to trust any one individual based off of their credentials.
Or a proxy for a few hundred Austin residents who are annoyed by the traffic jams. Or as a proxy for bots representing a competing conference. Or who knows. That's kind of the problem with random internet polls.
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They exclude unmodelable high-cost low-probability events.

The exist to cover modelable high-cost low-probability events.
In certain countries billboards are illegal (New Zealand) and for example cigarette advertising of any kind is illegal in Australia.
My 3 year old loves snakes and ladders. It reinforces numbers, how to follow the rules of the game and how to move about. We also have a floor sized version with two dice that allows him to practice adding.