skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why hedge funds underperform indexes in bull markets but beat them in turbulent times.

Hedge funds have only outperformed the market twice since 2008.

Once was during the financial crisis of 2008 (-19% vs -37%) and once was 2018 (-4.07 vs -4.38).

It's unclear what benefits you are getting here.
The death rate of 3.4% as claimed is massive. Some people look at that and think it's small, but for something so contagious that's huge. If it spreads on a pandemic scale someone you know will die from it, almost guaranteed. You just can't say that about the flu.
H.264/H.265 is the standard for video today.

Not sure where you're getting that idea that open codecs have won.
Actually, in Italy, leftists political figures grossly underestimated the extent of the problem, urging people to behave normally.
This is Zingaretti, current secretary of the Partito Democratico, at an after-work gathering in the epicenter of the epidemic: https://www.iltempo.it/resizer/670/-1/true/1583598486385.jpg...

Zingaretti is at the moment quarantined in his house and he's infected with the virus.
One of the ways the virus kills the patient is causing a cytokine storm [0][1]. And tocilizumab suppresses one of the cytokines in humans [2].

0: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/02/here-is-w...
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine_release_syndrome
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tocilizumab
By interpolating, you mean like given two colors, you want to generate the intermediate gradient colors, like on this article[1]? If that's the case, I don't see why interpolating two saturated colors would provide a shade of gray. Can you clarify?

[1]: https://www.alanzucconi.com/2016/01/06/colour-interpolation/
YC has had its share of bad publicity. I don't think one more company full of seemingly-bad people will shock them any.

So long as 'pg or someone doesn't double down on their love of them, at least, but that'd be incredibly unlikely.

Then again...
>just a generation ago having a large catholic, and poor, family was one of the most prominent qualities of Italian life.

I would not say so, no. That's speculation, this has not been true even for the south for a long time now. The only large, poor families you see are from immigrants nowadays.
Or you know... Feb 29th, every four years.
I'm presumably thinking she thought I'm 5 months pregnant nobody will hire me and my kid needs a home so I'll take their money. I'm presumably she also thought that allowing them to continue tricking people into ISA agreements to learn as much as they can by watching youtube might be wrong.
No. Language was not a problem at all. For people who are accustomed to writing code for modern CPUs, switching languages is no big deal: they all perform as good as compiler and language runtime are designed. That's because CPUs are forgiving to the programmer, and they employ a lot of techniques to run _arbitrary_ code well. GPUs were super "dumb" at the time, but they had truckload of ALUs, and people wanted to maximize usage of ALUs at all costs. Because running a power-hungry cluster on a task for one month or two months actually makes a lot of difference. So you choose a tool that gives _the most control over tricky hardware_. And this is going to be a vendor-provided tool. So, if CUDA was based on Forth or Unlambda instead of C++, people would've used it anyways.

OpenCL advertised "write once, run everywhere" approach, it was completely bonkers when it comes to HPC. Optimizations that one applies on different hardware make code look completely different. It has its niche, but not in HPC. I am no longer in this industry, so maybe things changed. But at the time, some teams picked up OpenCL and quickly dropped, as it didn't give enough bang for a buck, and tooling didn't compare with rather polished CUDA stuff.
Fortunately, the universe will be able to resolve our dispute rather convincingly, and rather soon, even.

I predict that:

1. France will have an exponential explosion of cases.

2. France, after dragging its heels, will eventually undertake similar quarantine measures.

3. Whatever economic damage that early mitigation would have caused will be inflicted multi-fold, as the country reacts too late.

4. Those same doctors will be shrugging their shoulders, and crying: "How could anyone have foreseen this?"

5. People in the next country over will be busy arguing that the virus is causing irrational panic, and that all these measures are an overreaction.
Covid-19 Map
As someone who occasionally has to program fpgas, the syntax of vhdl is not why performance fpga programming is difficult.
It doesn't seem ridiculous that they would have tested dozens of variations for different properties.
and near in future one day amazon will say to the business owner - "just walk out"
Bamboo remote agent administration with Ansible
From English Wikipedia article "Advanced Video Coding", with cited sources:

"The commercial use of patented H.264 technologies requires the payment of royalties to MPEG LA and other patent owners. MPEG LA has allowed the free use of H.264 technologies for streaming Internet video that is free to end users, and Cisco Systems pays royalties to MPEG LA on behalf of the users of binaries for its open source H.264 encoder."

(...)

"On August 26, 2010, MPEG LA announced that royalties won't be charged for H.264 encoded Internet video that is free to end users.[74] All other royalties remain in place, such as royalties for products that decode and encode H.264 video as well as to operators of free television and subscription channels.[75] The license terms are updated in 5-year blocks.[76]"

[74] "MPEG LA's AVC License Will Not Charge Royalties for Internet Video that is Free to End Users through Life of License" (PDF). MPEG LA. August 26, 2010. Retrieved August 26, 2010. http://www.mpegla.com/Lists/MPEG%20LA%20News%20List/Attachme...
[75] Hachman, Mark (August 26, 2010). "MPEG LA Cuts Royalties from Free Web Video, Forever". pcmag.com. Retrieved August 26, 2010. https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2368359,00.asp
[76] "AVC FAQ". MPEG LA. August 1, 2002. Retrieved May 17, 2010. http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Pages/FAQ.aspx
I would love to test this in Brazil because people here are creative with stealing so it would be very interesting to see how this would rollout with people trying to say they didn’t pick things up or things in that manter, WhatsApp had e o change a lot because here in Brazil people abuse the security aspects to the maximum.
> The CDC and other well-educated organizations believe they should go to hospitals and other health care providers first, infected people second, vulnerable populations third, and others last.

> Popular greed combined with ineffective controls are upsetting this logical ordering, and increase the overall risk for the population as a whole.

Look, it's not my fault that gov't didn't prepare for this situation — high demand for masks — and that I did.
Do Your Buses Get Stuck in Traffic? The Downs-Thomson Paradox
Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disorder. The severe cases who contracted the Coronavirus seem to experience an autoimmune reaction towards otherwise healthy lung tissue.
Just Because I’m White with Troubles Does Not Mean I’m Bereft of Privilege
No worries, I understand. I think I'm all good now. Maybe just some text on that final page with these details would be great.
Part of the problem with these new technologies is that every car company gives each capability a unique name. It takes considerable effort to untangle the meaning of all the manufacturer-specific names to determine whether Audi Active Lane Assist is the same as Lexus Lane Keeping Assist but not Mercedes Distronic Plus unless it's Mercedes Distronic Plus with Steering Assist.
Doc, it hurts when I do this!

So...
I would not worry, past governments have already terribly affected the long-term solvency of the country.
The latest survey of 250 million zones [1] shows that 10,787,502 zones are DNSSEC signed. And that number continues to increase steadily.

[1]: https://stats.dnssec-tools.org/#summary
I always wanted a "demo engine" whereby one feeds in the melody and chord name, and then a style(s). The AI would then use pattern matching to make a fuller score in the chosen style(s). The output could be midi and/or an audio file (such as .WAV). Bonus points for vocals if given lyrics. I could make Elvis diet parodies: "Ain't nothing but a round dog..." Band-in-a-Box software sort of does this, but lacks realism in my opinion.
I'm lead developer of a quite large Java code base and I found the artivle super helpful in giving a name and shape to something I've half observed but really come to appreciate.

Over the past two years we've been slowly moving our code base in this direction general, eliminating Exceptions, for example, in favor of more detailed Result<ValueT, ErrorT> return types.

With lamdas, writing this kind of code does require more boilerplate in Java, but it's getting better.

Nonetheless, ADTs and pattern matching are sorely missed. The Visitor pattern is an alternative and is well worth it for key data structures, but is too verbose for one off usage.
> For what it's worth, Reddit becomes equally curatable

Any place is. The person you're replying to is convinced that Twitter is "the best" but any network where you invest can be really good.

On facebook, I've gotten rid of people I don't like and now it's only people I admire + interesting articles. My reddit front page is great for me - programming subreddits interpolated with cute animal gifs. I use Instagram maybe twice a year but I'm sure if I invested into finding people I admired, it'd be worthwhile too. Ditto with HN - most comments are self assured pronouncements made with absolute confidence and minimal expertise. But once you start to recognise certain usernames, you're able to sift the wheat from the chaff easily.

Twitter isn't "the best". Nor are any of the others. Each has it's niche.
Show HN: Ksniff – kubectl plugin to preform network sniffing on Kubernetes pods
Note this is a last resort move for patients in critical condition.
Legitimate disputes won’t kill your score.
That's if you ignore all the people who recover completely and are released from hospital. We're still down ~20% from peak number of active open cases (47K open vs 58K peak).
Browser vendors are moving in the exactly opposite direction, removing visibility into any technical information beyond the green padlock icon.

Today, it takes a few more clicks to see the detailed certificate information (let alone the CA name), than it used to be.
In which way would be Italy incentivizing births?
This is why H.264/H.265 are dominant today. Because end users aren't exposed to licensing.

I can freely record video on my Sony camera and watch it on my iPhone, Mac, PS4, Switch etc.
Maybe just a little before Casper was founded, I bought a memory foam mattress off of Amazon that was well-reviewed and could be delivered with Prime. It's been a great mattress. That's still an option today -- and at a few hundred dollars cheaper than the main DTCs, I'm not quite sure where they can really provide a ton of additional value.
Live updates and links:

* https://www.germinfo.org/

* The Guardian's "Coronavirus live updates" daily living article

General Info / Background:

* https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03/dont-panic-the-compr...

* https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D4V36_nMqQNh1tusNVqozNjP...
It seems like we should be reconsidering all restaurant meals? Why take the risk if you can eat at home?
No, HEVC licensing is an insane mash of several patent pools and a few companies trying to extract a buck out of anyone that uses it. It's significantly less clear and more complex than what H.264 was and the license fees are higher as well... If you even have a legal team that can figure out who needs to be paid.

I'm on the phone so I can't really look up all the resources, but they shouldn't be hard to find. But this licensing mess is also why most oss development stalled and we still don't have an encoder that would be anything close to the quality of libx264. Instead, most important OSS experts have moved on to AV1.
Aside from people needing to sleep (back when computers didn't do our trading for us), there's also the matter of information flow: the reason quarterly earnings announcements happen after market close is to avoid giving slightly-faster people an edge.

If you could read and digest an earnings announcement faster than all your peers, you could make trades based on the new information before the price has moved.

While yes, some types of trading does rely on exploiting (usually small) information asymmetries, and "incorrect" pricing, it's much fairer if people have time to digest big required disclosures and all be able to get their orders in at (essentially) the same time: the opening bell the next day.
What's wrong with that? Is it worse than Comodo?
This seems like applying insurance modeling to security. Is this a new way of looking at risk or a reinvention?
Getting divorced during a recession is the worst. The recession takes half your money, your spouse takes half of what's left, and the lawyers take half of what's left of what's left. So you end up with about 12.5% of what you started with.
There does seem to be some secondary spread in Australia however this seems to be from close contact with people who have been overseas. We are a little late to the game having established effective screening and information sharing early On. There is a expectation that the next few weeks will show a marked increase in community spread.
Italy would monopolize the news if international news reported on each idiotic thing Italian politicians say or do.
I don't use a loyalty card at any of the stores I shop at, and anecdotally, there's about a 50% chance that if I say "no" when the cashier asks if I have a card or want to create an account, I will later on discover that they've used a store code to give me the same discount.

This is without any prompting on my end, I never ask a cashier to do this for me.

So apparently it's common enough that some cashiers on-instinct just stick a store card in whenever someone says "no". It's common enough that none of them look at me surprised when I refuse.
LSSP? I've noticed that some TSSP openpilot users use an alternate steering angle sensor for their openpilot installations called ZSS because the stock sensor isn't too accurate.

If this is stock though, there's more than just timing I think.
Allegedly? They've admitted to causing the coup d'état in Chile.
> I've never heard of an entire country being shut down because of the flu.

H1N1 in Mexico [1], I was a Biology major during this time at a University in San Diego less than an hour away from the border. I recall this vividly and it still stands out in my mind just how corrupt Big Pharma is [2] and what control it wields, but Corona seems to be having a more political and economic destablizing effect than H1N! did, then again H1N1 was happening in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. Still, given the wide-spread nature of this I can't help but draw parallels.

1: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103502...

2: https://web.archive.org/web/20150710024016/https://www.marke...
I saw this and thought "SXSW, wasn't that some sort of cult?"
Thanks! We appreciate it. We believe Savvy and the new regulations will strengthen the individual market.
160M Atom Simulation of H1N1 Flu Virus
I personally find eBay to be much better for items that I can't buy from the manufacturer already. Individual sellers have reputations & reviews separate from product reviews, and those ratings are among the first things you're exposed to when interacting with a seller.
> 2 pins would be plenty

No. You are gonna burn wires.
I was privileged to know Richard and spend some time with him. He was a phenomenal mathematician, and a gentle soul. I will miss his wit, wisdom, intelligence, and conversation.
That's just using nothing but the features of ANSI Lisp, which was at the time of its standardization already criticized for being large and facing pressure to stay small.

The hashing stuff feels a little "bolted on" in ANSI CL. Add-on libraries can round out the functionality.

In another dialect, TXR Lisp, the whole (let ...) part above reduces to this:

(hash-pairs hash) ;; get key-value pairs as two-element lists

such a function could be had in ANSI Lisp.

To reduce a sequence into a histogram returned as a hash in TXR Lisp, we would do a group-reduce

[group-reduce (hash) identity (op succ @1) INPUT-LIST-HERE 0]

The idea here is that the input items are projected through a function (here specified as identity, to take the items themselves) and grouped into buckets by the projected value.

Within each of these buckets, an independent reduce (i.e. left fold) is going on, whereby a hash table holds the reduce accumulators.

For maximum flexibility, group-reduce asks the caller to specify the hash table rather than making one implicitly; hence the (hash) argument.

Likewise, the initial value for the reduce (shared by all the buckets) is specified explicitly. reduce is too general a concept to justify making it a defaulted optional argument that goes to zero.

Here, we somehow abuse reduce. We start the accumulator at 0, and at each reduction step, we ignore the new value coming in, and instead produce the successor of the accumulator as the new accumulator value, so all we do is count the reduction steps in each bucket, thus producing a frequency histogram.

(op succ @1) is needed rather than succ because the function it denotes takes two or more arguments (it gets called with two), whereas succ requires exactly one argument. If succ ignored arguments after the first one, it could be like this:

[group-reduce (hash) identity succ INPUT-LIST-HERE 0]

But relaxing the checks on the number of arguments in library functions for the sake of code golfing isn't a good idea. Further, if the function constructed the hash implicitly, and geared toward numeric processing, making the default accumulator zero, it could look like:

[group-reduce identity succ INPUT-LIST-HERE]

and if we cripple group-reduce by taking out the projection we can get it down to:

[group-reduce succ INPUT-LIST-HERE]

Basically, Lisp can be succinct to the point of diminishing returns, if you have the right set of functions for the task at hand.

The traditional, mainstream Lisps assume that the developers will make these for themselves, especially for tasks outside of list processing.
I am not European, but I hope EU can act jointly to handle this.

Otherwise, EU's future is jeopardy.
> Mattresses were a notoriously opaque and user-hostile market. A decade ago I was working at a startup aimed at helping people make better purchasing decisions

Who is this startup, and can they help me identify what I love about my current mattress so that when it's done, I can buy one much like it?
TLSv1.3 removed the requirement on the certificate ordering. I haven't tried but I believe you can supply multiple certificates (and chains) in there.
It's crazy how entrenched the notion is that contracts have an inalienable divine right to be honored.
It's funny how the hobby that I had as a kid, which pretty much cost me nothing (aside from the cheap, used, laptop, I bought with my allowance) now makes me more money/year than most people that I know.

I really don't know how a bootcamp can teach you that much in 12 weeks. You might be able to cobble together a couple of react apps, but this will quickly fall apart when you run into problems/issues.
Great movies, well researched all round, painting a true believable picture of the people, clothes, ideas and vernacular of the day. Love them too.
That may have been an upside, but I'm pretty sure that wasn't the plan at the time. I don't think Google had the notion of "user accounts" before GMail was launched. I think the plan was more likely "serve ads via search engine results, but for email."
It would serve well to avoid the collapse of hospitals’ critical units indeed.
good news (sort of), Italian government did the math and shut down all of Italy.
The range of mortality I see is rather 0.3-1% [1] [2]

[1] https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1236321986122375168

[2] https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1235956761015783427

Not a doctor, but I suspect 3.4% is the upper end of the case fatality ratio (i.e. death among people tested positive) as opposed to the infection fatility ratio (i.e. death among estimate of people infected).
You talk to a lawyer in that situation... you don't take the cash.
I'm going to put my cynical hat on for a bit and notice that the company behind this format, Netflix, has a walled garden. They have a streaming service that is consumed only through a handful of apps that they are in full control of. They're not doing this for the community, for web standards, or the greater good. They're making this format simply to save some bandwidth for themselves, in a way that won't translate to the general community. The second picture in the linked blog article is literally a diagram of this garden. (Titled: "Compressed image assets destined for various client devices...")

I had a similar comment about the JPEG XL format (mostly developed by Google) and the CSS "Display P3" colour space extension (Apple), both recently featured on YCombinator. These mega-corporations are building an ecosystem where in 2020, the future, it's impossible to send a wide-gamut, 10-bit, or HDR still image to anyone via any of the following: web standards, chat, email, or document exchange formats. The best you can do is send an 8-bit SDR sRGB image and hope for the best. PC monitors, tablets, and most phones have no consistent support for colour management, 10-bit, or HDR. Televisions are leaving the entire PC and Mobile ecosystem in the dust. The closest approximation we PC peasants have is to upload a HDR YouTube video, send a link to it, and hope the viewer uses an newish iPhone. That's just sad, isn't it?

The stewardship of web standards by Microsoft (#2 biggest company), Apple (#3), and Alphabet Group (#4) have led to this. Now Netflix (#50) wants to throw their unnecessary format into the fray, almost completely ignoring the presence of JPEG XL and HEIC. They mention these alternatives in passing, and then notably don't compare image quality, features, or the compression ratio of those to their own format. You see, JXL is a Google's thing, HEIC is an Apple thing, and AVIF is a Netflix thing. So we're going to end up with as many image formats as there are walled gardens. I bet you too can't wait for whatever image format Facebook comes up with specifically to reduce their CDN bandwidth utilisation of Instagram pictures... only.

Notice also that their "idea" of making an image format readily available is a docker container, which is the most insane thing I've ever seen. Where's the Photoshop plugin? The Lightroom plugin? The Windows 10 image codec? Oh wait.. those are Adobe and Microsoft things, so... nowhere to be seen. Netflix Pty Ltd is not in this game to help someone else's walled garden.

No still image interchange for you peasant! Sit down, stay in the garden, and stream that content...
A useful metric is the number of tests which are coming back positive. I’d say if it’s 3% or higher then you are testing limited.
Matter of fact, they're all in the same complex; it's the hammock complex on third.
Because news organisations like the FT or the BBC published the same news that she had published two or three days before.

Granted, she was not the only one publishing them on Twitter, but she was the one I was following the most. Also to add, news organisations like the FT or the BBC were only publishing news that could be taken for a political spin, like in the case of Li Wenliang, they were not publishing news about people committing suicide on their home as not to infect their loved ones or desperate phone calls made by people who were trying to get their loved ones into an hospital (which were already full by that point).

Also, many of the hospital scenes I was seeing on Twitter on her account are similar to what now surfaces from hospitals located in Northern Italy.