skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why does it take so long to develop a deactivated vaccine version of the virus to teach our immune system what to attack?
To add a little data on this thread, here's a list of queries that I subsequently !g'ed over a 30 day period. Maybe Duck/Bing developers will find it useful: https://gist.github.com/typpo/605a7cd9da88c3be061c6958a31fa2...

Aside from a limited set of head queries where they've added their own custom stuff, DDG is a wrapper around Bing. The results are identical and any webmaster can tell you that Duckduckbot is not crawling the web like Google/Bing.

In the same way that "Google is an advertising company", I see DDG as a marketing company. They've done a good job marketing Bing results with a privacy wrapper. I recognize the value, but it's different from competing directly on search.
So is the thing used in paint stores a a multi-axial spectrophotometer?
this was my experience. My endurance was unaffected by ketosis but my ability to generate instant power over and over again (mountain bike) definitely took a hit.
A case fatality rate (CFR) is calculated based on confirmed cases. The CFR for the flu[1] or any other disease is roughly based on the number of people who present to the hospital and are diagnosed, with or without serological testing. Therefore, in places with drive-by testing the CFR will be artificially lower. Likewise, using total infected as the denominator makes it a totally useless figure for comparison.

Knowing that, it seems pretty clear that COVID-19 is more-or-less 10x deadlier[2] than seasonal influenza, as the CFR for seasonal flu is ~0.1-0.2%.

[1] It's a little more complicated with the flu because of underreporting. I guess elderly pneumonia is common enough that doctors don't always care why it developed. So apparently the CDC uses a more complex model (e.g. total number of pneumonia cases minus base rate, non-flu season cases). But what they're trying to estimate is the CFR, which is by definition deaths/confirmed.

[2] At least from an epidemiological perspective, regardless of the percentage of symptomatic cases / infections. At the end of the day what matters is how many will die, not how scared someone should be if they're infected.
Fascinating. I'd love to see a system like that in America.
i just recently switched to DDG as my primary search. It's not as good as google, especially when it comes to software engineering documentation and maps, but everything else is fine.
Companies buy those ads on their own search results so a competitor can't target them for advertising
I'd point out that nobody (except for you) said anything about preventing companies from spending their money as they see fit. I don't understand where you even get that from.

The discussion was about fiscal stimulus.
I've been using DDG forever. I do !g once in a long time, but not often. I think the most common use case is Google's excellent calculator. DDG is buggy, and when it works, just isn't as good.
The market and the current administration both benefit from a low count of confirmed cases. The administration has already been criticized for repeatedly attempting to slash the CDC budget[1] and terminating the epidemic response team[2]. Trump also keeps attempting to downplay the severity of the virus so it would not be a good look if the true spread of the disease was widely known. Knowledge of the spread would also probably trigger more panic selling in the markets which the current administration also tries to avoid as much as possible.

[1]: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-cut-cdcs-budget-democr...

[2]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/0...
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Thank you! I see claims all the time that eating too much protein will kick you out of ketosis, without any actual science to back it up.
And 9 out of the top 10 American billionaires are self-made.

It's amazing how you can use the same data to argue the opposite point, just on how you frame it.
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This is fun to see on HN, which has shown a (justifiable) affection for L-systems.

I wonder if an example that is closer to the original root of L-systems (biological/botanical shapes, like trees) would be a nice addition the the initial basic examples?
I present, a single pixel on LSD:
https://ehrenjn.github.io/LSystems/lsystems.html?FADE_TIME_M...
If you have location history enabled in Google Maps, they tie it to ad impressions and offline credit card transactions they buy from Visa and friends.
Maybe the real benefit here is that due to the asynchronous nature of the algorithm, you could easily scale to more cores and the new approach will scale with it, vs. at some point, you reach a point of diminishing returns with the GPU?
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Are windows in some part of the world optimally oriented towards solar radiation? Most residential windows in the US are shaded by awnings or face completely away from the path of the sun. It seems like only multi-story glass-clad buildings would be moderately relevant for this technology, and refacing, say, the Salesforce tower seems like it would be prohibitively expensive to make sense from an roi perspective.
Yep. But ketosis and intermittent fasting are complementary. It's just sooooo much easier to fast when in ketosis.
This is just a straw man. No one is suggesting that they test everyone in the US, but at the level that epidemiologists and the WHO says is absolutely necessary to understand and respond to the spread of the disease.

That they’re not doing testing at anywhere near the necessary levels, while countries like South Korea are, is not “debatable,” but evidence of their failure.

Also your supposition about tracking actual cases is false. Singapore has significantly curbed the spread of the disease by doing extensive contract traces, testing, and quarantines.
Clarifying my comment, if I was to create (say) a tool today to monitor my network, with graphical charts, push buttons, etc., it's almost inconceivable that I would choose to write it using an X toolkit of some kind, even if it were only meant to run on Linux desktops.

Instead, I would toss up a web server and write the front end using web toolkits, etc. I think a lot of others would too, and in that sense, desktop app development is being overrun by the web (plus Javascript, DOM, CSS, etc.)

It's true that web browsers have to run on something, but on some platforms, that something looks a lot more like bare metal. I think it's conceivable that X and Wayland will head into the sunset as tech like emacs has. That doesn't mean I don't like them--I do--but realistically their future is unclear.
DDG is fantastic and now my preference. I tried it a couple years ago and was constantly second guessing their results.

To have come this far as to it now becoming my daily preference, the team has come a long way and has instilled great confidence that they will continue to improve the platform
What's garbage is the US response to it.

Italy is running 2500 tests a day.

Oregon has the capacity to run a total of about 40.
I think this is the difference between velocity and acceleration. Flu deaths are known and well studied. Our hospital system has the capacity to treat serious cases. There are existing public health initiatives around vaccination and education. The resources have been allotted and accounted for and flu deaths aren't expect to suddenly 10x or 20x.

This virus is an unknown. It is spreading worldwide very quickly and the growth rate is exponential. Within months, hundreds of millions could be infected without interventions. Today the number of dead is very small. If the virus were to become as common as the flu, it could make infectious disease the leading cause of death, more than heart disease or cancer. We still don't know what the long term health complications are or if you can be re-infected. The science will be in shortly, but in the mean time an abundance of caution would seem to be warranted. I will be washing my hands until then.
Yep, Getty Images sued them and Google had to remove the view images button, making the process of viewing the source image more difficult and convoluted.

I've now resorted to using DDG anytime I need to do an image search, and have been using it more and more myself when searching for anything related to IT or programming.
What is the difference between a Minsky moment and a top?
Excerpt(s):

"Transport triggering exposes some microarchitectural details that are normally hidden from programmers. This greatly simplifies the control logic of a processor, because many decisions normally done at run time are fixed at compile time.

However, it also means that a binary compiled for one TTA processor will not run on another one without recompilation if there is even a small difference in the architecture between the two.

TTAs can be seen as "exposed datapath" VLIW architectures. While VLIW is programmed using operations, TTA splits the operation execution to multiple move operations. The low level programming model enables several benefits in comparison to the standard VLIW. For example, a TTA architecture can provide more parallelism with simpler register files than with VLIW.

As the programmer is in control of the timing of the operand and result data transports, the complexity (the number of input and output ports) of the register file (RF) need not be scaled according to the worst case issue/completion scenario of the multiple parallel instructions."

[...]

"An important unique software optimization enabled by the transport programming is called software bypassing. In case of software bypassing, the programmer bypasses the register file write back by moving data directly to the next functional unit's operand ports.

When this optimization is applied aggressively, the original move that transports the result to the register file can be eliminated completely, thus reducing both the register file port pressure and freeing a general purpose register for other temporary variables. The reduced register pressure, in addition simplifying the required complexity of the RF hardware, can lead to significant CPU energy savings, an important benefit especially in mobile embedded systems.[1] [2]"
Sooo, when do you guys think Google will pull the plug from ddg?
I use YNAB but I'm compelled to give this a try. I love the simplicity and I enjoy the transparency behind the product's development (not that it makes a difference while budgeting, but I'm a sucker for a personal touch). Really cool, I'm stoked to see how the trial goes. Thanks for sharing Jen. Keep up the great work.
I am a regular user.

Is there a way to report bad search results ?
The easiest way to tell is to actually test your blood: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0789G8KTG/
Although, given the 1918 Flupandemic and several other historical precedents, it should not have been a black swan, since it was known to occur. I've heard these referred to as "gray swans"; i.e. things that have the same impact as black swans but even prior to the fact there were people who were predicting it.

For example, the David Quammen book "Spillover" essentially predicts it, and it was published in 2013 (subtitle: "Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic").
Still a likely trademark violation. But yes, not something Namecheap should decide.
HN title character limit didn't allow me to.
I've been trying to get through this paper for the last two days. It's somewhat sparse itself. Maybe I need to go read the code they wrote first...
SARS-CoV-2 has a viral envelope, which reduces the transmission possibility via objects[0]:

"The lipid bilayer envelope of these viruses is relatively sensitive to desiccation, heat, and detergents, therefore these viruses are easier to sterilize than non-enveloped viruses, have limited survival outside host environments, and typically must transfer directly from host to host."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_envelope
I think what finally sold me was the bangs. For example I can search "Array !mdn" and get right to the MDN docs and not worry about w3schools stuff.
ChromeOS is not a web based OS in the sense of being a 'web app' and neither is it's display or windowing system. I don't think anyone here is using the same definition of 'web app'.
I strongly suggest installing an ad blocker. Firefox for Android supports ad blockers like uBlock Origin.
I'm not sure this is much superior to Worldometer's tracker. It's been running for weeks and seems to be lighter to load on my slow connection. The graphs are definitely a plus, though.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
A while ago, I switched to per-site email addresses and a burner phone number I give to anything that isn't a financial institution or healthcare provider.
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I use it regularly, but for some programming queries the results could be better and I have to use the Goog.
I switched to DDG soon after they launched. I've been using search engines since the days of WebCrawler and out of habit still search today like I did back then. I don't do natural language queries, I search for keywords and want to use logical operators to narrow down my search. I also usually know some sites to search for things so I regularly limit searched with "site:...".

For most of the past decade Google's support for the way I think about searching has sucked. They got obsessed with tailoring results to users and linking everything to their profiles. They also went nuts with natural language search, filling results pages with bullshit, and letting paid placement overtake meaningful search results.

For me this was all made worse because I don't stay logged into accounts and I don't use GMail as my primary e-mail. When I need to log into account I do so in a private browser window. I also use ad blockers and have for decades now.

This all adds together to make Google useless for me. I'm sure plenty of people like their features but they don't do me any good.

It's aggravating to me because for a while in the 00s, before the DoubleClick reverse buyout, Google's search was vastly superior to the competition. Where all others were inundated with keyword spam and other early SEO bullshit Google returned germane results for just about everything. Their search page ads were even relevant because they were looking at what I had searched for instead of some historical profile.

DDG is closest to what old Google search used to be. I don't want to ask questions in an NLP search box most of the time. When I do I'll go to WolframAlpha. I'm really interested in just a full text search of the web with good result sorting. This is what old Google did fantastically and current DDG does well enough for my needs.
My experience pair programming:

- Pair programming works better remotely than people say, in my experience.

- It is a great way to share unwritten/unspoken information and best practices.

- PP is excellent for team cohesion and allowing engineers to get to know each other and their strengths.

- Not every engineering problem warrants PP.

- Some problems are better solved by one person as it can take too much time to get the other person up to speed with the issue.

- Pair programming often leads to better code, but you have to balance that with the overall reduced amount of work being done at once. If two people are working on one issue, you have to balance the benefit of that versus two people working on two problems.

- I'm more effective when I can focus, and sometimes I need to spend an hour deep-thinking about a subject and perhaps pseudocoding something. Pair programming with someone remotely and having long periods of silence would be... weird.

- People seem to view PP as a measure of success. The more a team is pairing, the more success being experienced. Right?

- If someone isn't into pair programming often, that's seen as a negative.

- 95% of people who pair remotely need better microphones or accoustic environments. I wish remote companies would ship their employees a pair of AirPods, a Yeti mic, and some acoustic foam squares.

- Pairing is more consistently useful for reviewing large code changes where it can be difficult for a reviewer to reason about the work that was done. Going through it with the author and doing a screen share can make all the difference.

My conclusion is that pair programming can be good for some things, but I would consider it a red flag if a company highly emphasizes pair programming or coerces people to do it. Treating pair programming like a panacea dismisses the fact that people of different personality types have been writing perfectly good software without pairing since time immemorial, and that there are other ways to improve code and product quality. What I think can be nearly as effective as pair programming is getting code reviewed early and often. I'm not the best at this yet, but I've noticed that life is just better when I don't do a ton of work and wait for it to be reviewed when it's "done".
The most common difference between us peasants and the people of means is that those other people ASK more often. Ask for more money, ask for a bonus, ask for lower rent. And then it adds up.

The one thing that holds most of us back is shame. But shame is a good thing in general. It's the glue that keeps societies together, preventing them from spiraling down to the lowest common denominator.

Questionable if this still works nowadays. But, anyway, the trick is to uncork some of that shame is small doses and be a little bit selfish every once in a while.
Not sure where you're at with philosophy, but "The Problem of Pain" by C.S. Lewis blew me away and changed a lot of my thinking about suffering and reality.
Does this work if AirDrop is disabled but Bluetooth is on?

How about if just AirDrop is off?
Even if they have a particular plane planned, equipment swaps happen all the time.
Just like Madoff or Trump or Weinstein
I’ve run into a few situations in the last 6 years, all in the last year, where my system wasn’t detected and I needed to reboot a few speakers. However, I’ve never lost any settings or had any other issues.

I’m still worried they are going to force obsolescence on my older play5 and play1 speakers. I also wonder about how stable the company is, totally based on the clients not being native apps, which isn’t logical but I sometimes feel there’s a couple of audio engineers and a logistics guy with everything else outsourced.
Yes, they will be able to age-weight the sample population in order to adjust for that.
Why not default to having the UK toggle on for UK users?
The comment above is partially true. The data sources for each country are different, and thus have different error profiles.

It's statistically incorrect to assume they can be merged and treated as a single data set.

What is more useful is to examine well bounded and vetted subsets of the data.

Once the South Korean cases become more mature in a couple weeks, I think we will have very high confidence mortality data.

Including poor data quality sources will just introduce biases.
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When google first moved search to the address bar they started the transition to using page titles as addresses. This is a somewhat sloppy way to go about things, but when I visit this site, I just type "hacker news" not the FQDN.
Go into google search options and select verbatam to include all search terms.
> and if you make it too hard for them to get data about you, they'll simply collect data about other people.

I strongly disagree, and with all respect, this is a naive view.

This might be true when you're looking at the mapping of individual company to individual person (ex: "You to Facebook" or "You to Google.")
But the ecosystem approach to building a profile on you is more comprehensive than you think.

Example: you might get very very good at removing your phone and TV/Movie interests from Facebook, or never having it on there to begin with. But then Media Conglomerate X owns a cell/wireless provider, internet provider, and hell maybe even a cable company. There's a high probability that you pay for >= 1 service from this company, that can be matched back to your Google profile and/or Facebook profile - via a DMP (data management platform) or something similar.

Oh and remember when you used your real phone number to make a reservation at a restaurant? AND they needed a credit card on file, just in case you don't show up? Well those are uploaded and grouped in the same data pools.

And then when enough stores / restaurants / ecommerce sites pool this information, they can build a pretty reasonable shopping profile for you, make (very good) estimates on your demographics, etc. Almost like it's crowd-sourced!

Therefore the "you" that is supposedly a "small, statistically irrelevant piece" is actually part of a group that has an ecosystem of companies and DMPs pooling data to make that group smaller and smaller.
> Also you can't go full keto if you also want weight training, imo.

You absolutely can, and people are doing it just fine.

Check out Metabolic Autophagy: https://www.amazon.com/Metabolic-Autophagy-Intermittent-Resi...
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They even have a better version, the Multi Container plugin. You can separate multiple contexts (fb, goog, banking, memes..), and each lives in a separate container. Takes a little time to get used to, and if used with privacy badger, ublock origin, FF built-in anti-tracking, might give good results in reducing your exposure to online tracking.

Yet some mobile apps still use heavy analytics which is sent to some domains, again, you need something like netguard, vpns, to filter your mobile traffic. Privacy becomes a pain https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3chaoswest-32-toll-of-personal-pri...
Well I agree that governments can do some beneficial things. But there's a few problems with what you're saying here (and I hope I'm not taking you too literally): firstly, all the rules you list can be handled with alternatives. Secondly, the fact that the sudden disappearance of government would not lead to a utopia doesn't mean that governments are fundamentally needed (although they might be). As an analogy: if crude oil disappeared tomorrow, we would not have a renewable energy utopia - we'd have a disaster. Does that mean that there's no alternative to crude oil? Of course not. Finally, a "situation where the powerful could take advantage of the weak" is really just the situation that we have now, and must always have. It's really a tautology.
There are free software projects attempting to solve the same problem in another corner of the ag industry

https://openthc.org
Let's say there's a new can opener in the drawer [1], it's the same size and shape as a can opener but because it's not what you're used to you try to use it in the normal orientation and it doesn't work.

Even though the tool can open cans, rounds off the sharp edges and requires less grip force you reply with: a lot of OXO folks blame the user or social conditioning. It's BS.

Is that a reasonable response?

I'd argue that it isn't.

But to answer your question I use more precise language for what I'm looking for, specifying the city and state I want results from, specifying the type of thing that I want.

A lot of my searches are !bangs,

!godoc - for searching Go packages
!gems - for searching ruby gems
!sx - for getting only stack overflow results
!w - for jumping to a Wikipedia article
!gh - for searching github

- [1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000079XW2?tag=duckduckgo-ffab-20&...
They're pretty close according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin_index

"White pasta" 40 ±5 vs. "Beef" 51 ±16
Given the current state of health in western countries, I would claim the stasus-quo is actually disordered eating.
Google search was an unfortunate period in my life between my otherwise great search history bookends of AltaVista and DuckDuckGo. I think I’ve been on DDG for probably 5-6 years now. Results are absolutely good enough.