skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As you are somebody who is responsible for stewarding the ActivityPub specification

I am not associated with the W3C in any way, and had absolutely no hand in creating ActivityPub. Chris Webber and many others deserve that credit. I don't attend the SocialCG meetings either (which are open to all).

The most I can say is I've implemented a library implementation in Go (there are other Go projects), and I voice my opinion in the community.

> I am seriously disappointed by this dismissive attitude.

Dismissive? My apologies, that's not what I am going for. I'm precisely showing how certain folks' expectations in the free speech community were unrealistic and showing a mature technology that precisely delivers what they want.

Consider what ActivityPub is not: it is not a way to physically get your free-speech in byte form forcefully delivered to others on the network. That's what multiple free-speech folks have repeatedly drawn the line at when I poked and prodded what their disappointment stems from. Instead, to get this technological capability, one needs to switch to blockchain or FreeNet protocols as this is what they do. The former actually requires consensus whereas the latter doesn't! ActivityPub as a technology does not guarantee any of this.

I think free speech is important (I wrote a whole damn blog post about it, and here I am writing more), and I think there are important conversations to be had around it. But complaining about ActivityPub not being a censorship-proof technology ("I got banned from one instance for being too conservative") is not a productive discussion to be had. There's better ones out there.
Cat will disappear really fast, finds new owner who will feed him.
If they closed airports and put up some checkpoints on the interstate to only allow select traffic through, I imagine that would cut travel pretty dramatically.

Courts tend to believe that the Privileges and Immunities Clause gives a constitutional right to travel between states. It would be a big hairy mess. In fiction, Tom Clancy explored it in Executive Orders.
Weren't epidemiologists saying this in mid January after the first scientific analyses came out of China?

Not sure there's anything novel here. Just another epidemiologist continuing to try and get the word out and people continuing to ignore the science.

Maybe politicians will actually listen to someone from Harvard now though, one can hope.
It's not a business I'm interested in running.
Not necessarily, although the language does not guarantee it, flattening to structs does happen in some JITs.

Grated it isn't perfect, hence the value types proposal.

Here is one of the CUDA commercial offerings for Java and .NET,

https://developer.nvidia.com/altimesh-hybridizer
Freestyle Ka-bu-wa-ke
I don't know how good this is at a corporate level but I use bitwarden (free to download/use, donations accepted). It's available in mobile/laptop (at least Mac) app form, extension form, and even website. Best password manager I've ever used (formerly used Dashlane).
I was curious to see how oRGB worked in practice so I made some code to test this, and uploaded to a JS fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/phv7x39q/1/

It is a very naive implementation, more work could be put in optimizing it.

Once I got around to fiddling with it I understood what the paper explained. I'm not new to colorspaces or matrix transformations but it is hard sometimes to grasp the concept from the paper.
Metformin is fairly safe and toxicity doesn't occur until you reach doses that are many, many times higher than therapeutic doses [1] [2]. Not a doctor, not your doctor, talk to your GP before starting such a regimen (especially for healthy kidney and liver function). My prescription was a 3 minute convo after my annual physical ("its safe, my kidneys and liver are working, I want to live longer [3] [4], and I will sign a waiver I won't hold you liable if necessary"), and I would've just ordered it online if my doctor said no.

[1] https://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/35/4/731

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5934269/

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25041462

[4] https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02432287
I'm not sure if you're left over from 2007, but practically all Nvidia GPUs since 2008 have had double precision arithmetic. Integers are still compiled to 32-bit, sometimes, but doubles have been standard for quite a while.
I don't understand the first sentence of text.

"The coronavirus can possibly infect a lot more people than there are those who can provide medical care."

Well yes, obviously!

(I assume they meant the virus can infect more people then can be provided medical care during infection).
I'm not addressing strategy, just the math to show sequence of returns does impact withdrawals.

Also, while I agree with you position, most people unfortunately are not in that kind of situation (of course, they typically don't have the $1M I used in my example either).
What I want though is a report that explains what incorrect actions the government took and the proximate and ultimate causes for those reactions. I want the causes addressed so we'll do better in the future.

Example: Why didn't we start testing with 100x or 1000x the number of tests? Maybe the reason is regulation on independent labs doing their own tests. Maybe there wasn't enough money banked up at the CDC such that, when a pandemic it's recognized, we can't immediately start mass producing tests.

The point is, I want it documented and explained what the failures were so that future people handling future disease outbreaks will perform better or at least not make the same mistakes. Further, a practice of exploring major mistakes would help motivate government bureaucrats to avoid making them. There should be a potential political cost to be dramatically wrong in vital scenarios.
May have changed, but yesterday Berlin wasn't listed in the high risk regions that was shared by Bavarian health authorities. Didn't check today, so.

EDIT: According to officials, one county in germany is considered high risk (link in German): https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus...
Which GPUs do not have double precision arithmetic? As far as I'm aware, all of AMD's and Nvidia's from the last decade have double precision support. It may not be fast, but it's there.
> Amazon has been pushing us hard to switch from FedEx/UPS/USPS to using them for most of our packages

I hope that there's always a USPS option. My apartment complex has package lockers that can only be used by the USPS, so that's the only safe way to get packages delivered when I'm not home.
What do you think about Marc Lipsitch's analysis is overblown?
Covid-19 school closure takes toll on expats' mental health in Vietnam
That is explained in the following sentences.
Note: we have an update coming that includes a "Limit to Designated Sites" feature in the base Multi-Account Containers extension: https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/pull/165...
Based on the current version of the "Goals" text it's more of a SPIR-V surface syntax: "Trivially convertable to SPIR-V"

Sounds like a good thing at first blush, if shaders can be then decompiled to this in debuggers etc.
> I have to fully quit the browser and restart it.

You can use about:profiles and click the "Launch profile in new browser" button for the relevant profile. The UI is not amazing, and I would not recommend it to a non-techie given all the noise in it, but it does work....
From my personal experience in Croatia, I never used a Microsoft product during my studies. Moreover, using Linux was mandatory for some courses.
It all seems like a huge waste of resources and effort to me. Personally, I would rather see all that money/resources going into developing some kind of FTLT. There are planets out there, way out there, which are much more suitable for life. Even without FTLT even if it takes us 2 generations to get there.
No, it means the assets have been reworked to support a higher resolution.
Hey Elon, this is for you
If you drop a few volts on the 12 V cable of a PC you're about to start a fire.
Amazon has become my "last resort" place. These days, I check eBay before Amazon.
The phrase "gain of function" seems to mean the virus differs in some way that makes it more contagious or deadly.
Are we doing anything to increase capacity in the United States besides making testing kits? I know we will learn more about treating patients with COVID-19 over time, but that doesn't add more beds and nurses. As healthcare workers themselves get sick, and supply disruptions compound, I would expect capacity to go down. It doesn't undermine the author's point, but I have no idea where the positive slope on the capacity curve is coming from in liberal democracies where the government can't commandeer labor and order factories to be built overnight.

(Theoretically, the solution in liberal democracies would be to pay health care companies to maintain the potential to expand capacity, like we pay farmers not to grow crops. I'm sure we could have a huge off-topic conversation about whether that would actually work, so let's just leave it at "theoretically.")
Maybe we should wait a bit until figuring out what works and what doesn't in this case.
Absolutely zero trust in for-profits, especially ones who only care about an exit or getting bought by Microsoft, Google, Facebook, etc. It'll be too late to get your data out of their hands at that stage. Regardless, so far we've seen that no software/company is 100% reliable, no matter what their expertise...
You can make pressure inside just a little bit decreased and make this thing fly 1 mile high, for practice. Call it “Denver” or something.
The natural question that comes to mind is what ratio mixture of a sugar and an artificial sweetener can be used without encountering the negative metabolic effects. Being able to reduce sugar and calorie intake using such a mixture would still be better than nothing.
China hasn't just stopped it by a little either. The reproduction factor in hubei is near 0.5 and has been for a while. They will succeed in eradicating the virus in that locality before too long if things continue on their current trajectory.

The difference is that they are actually trying. We aren't, yet, but soon we will be compelled to.
wow that's pretty.
In the microbial world, the mildest strains will survive the longest. Ideally it would even become symbiotic to help fight antibiotic resistant bacteria.
Ask HN: What are some good financial podcasts for serious investing?
The dangers of radiation on Mars are greatly exaggerated. The dangers of low gravity on Titan and elsewhere are greatly understated, as is the immense distance between Mars and Titan.

A floating habitat on Venus is harder and less attractive in every way than a rotating space station, which is clearly our next milestone in space. In terms of planets though, there's a reason Mars gets the most attention: it's obviously the best choice.
That's true, also food makes up a lower portion of people's expenses these days, with housing taking a higher amount.
I found 1Password to be good, used in a 500 person organisation
This was not a great article.
Do we know how long 2019-ncov can survive on contaminated inorganic surfaces if not sanitized?
The Soviet campaign in Manchuria started before the bombings.

Japan's forces on the mainland were swept away by experienced, battle-tested, and overwhelmingly large armies redeployed from the Eastern front.

Japan's plan for the defense of the home islands consisted of pulling everyone they could out of Manchuria, but relying on its resources and industry to support the war effort. This obviously required the Soviet Union to uphold it's end of their non-aggression pact. Which it didn't.

With Manchuria under Soviet occupation, and the Japanese armies routed, this plan completely fell apart. The invasion convinced Japan that capitulation was the only solution more than the bombs did.
You can tell that you have an idea how to optimise the process and can look into it in your free time. You can negotiate possible outcomes if you be able to finish your free time adventure.

Then you can decide if you want to finish and polish your solution and present it to the company.
> (incredibly boring show)

I heard the ending is worth it, though.
The dividends (assuming it's in an S&P index fund) are only about $27,000 per year.

You'd actually want a better mix of income generating assets than straight stocks to make sure you have income and are keeping up with inflation.

And a million is more than enough to retire. (Perhaps not enough for you or me, but that's a lifestyle choice.)
> Then throw in the malcontents who will just expose people for whatever irrational reason they want.

I've heard some younger folks saying they want to spread coronavirus because it will kill off some of the old people who vote republican. So yeah, even if it's not happening some people do feel this way.
I noticed that it actually flashes the full content for one second before loading the paywall. If I quickly pressed the "reader view" button in my browser I could read the whole article without the paywall.

/ hacker skillz /
Agreed - it was simple math because I typed it on my phone.
Rain Shadow
I'm teaching at University of Trento. At the moment I'm using google meet + google classroom.
Today my class was followed by 45 students, and everything worked well.
Yesterday I was unable to record the lesson, but today it worked. As a backup, I used Audacity to record the audio (the slides are freely available online)
Why yes, let's test out something that can kill billions on Earth before trying it on an uninhabited area.
But Commerce Clause let's the Federal Government lock down travel between states. This hasn't been tested in the courts but it is what the Federal Government believes.

source: https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/aboutlawsregulationsquarantin...
nice gallery on their website, I feel sorry for the construction workers that discovered some of those nests
It is not possible to run the entire VM due to lack of OS support for some features required. However, even you could run all of it, it would not yield the best performance due to control flow divergence.

We did some preliminary work on executing some parts of the interpreter on a GPU this year: https://github.com/jjfumero/jjfumero.github.io/blob/master/f...
I have first hand experience living in Vietnam and I talked to enough expats in person to report that some of them literally went to the other side of the world to run away from problems back home. But this article brings up a much bigger issue, which I feel should be discussed, but currently isn't:

Western people define a large part of their identity through their work.

As a result, forcing them to stay at home to curb Covid infections will tear out a part of people's identity and, thus, be stressful emotionally. I predict that'll happen not only with expats, but also with many proud employees back home in the EU or US.
BitWarden. It's open-source so you can audit the code or create your own version if necessary.

https://bitwarden.com/
It's the expensive k8s distribution for enterprises with large IT budgets. It adds enterprise-focused add-ons and is very opinionated. Its primary target is people who have a large existing IT staff dedicated to running on-prem / self-hosted, but lacks the expertise to run a "community supported" k8s distribution on their own, and maybe has no existing CI/CD workflows yet.

If your problem is "I have a BigCo with my own infra running RHEL" then it's almost definitely what you want. It follows the old saying of "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM." It gives your boss a vendor to yell at when things go wrong and its add-ons can provide an onramp for enterprise-type ops and devs who are still unfamiliar with CI/CD and containers.

Where it's not very good is if you're not a BigCo. If your org has one or more of the following characteristics consider other distros / managed cloud hosting first: a nimble ops team, existing cloud buy-in, a limited budget, a heavy "dev-opsy" culture (i.e. existing CI/CD/container processes), a desire to avoid vendor lock in, or less conservative management.
Switching from humans to human-infecting bacteria would be a very unlikely species jump.
> On Jan. 15, when the traveler to Wuhan who became the first known U.S. case returned to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, ...
At the time, 41 people in Wuhan had been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus.

Just goes to show how much the known case count lags the true infection count in the community.
They still have a long way to scam as many people as Facebook or Google, I dare to think.
I'd take it for free -- I can always use the parts for something.
How do you make sure you don't overwrite people's saves?

Surely this can't work for a larger organisation?
Heh. How can you think a fringe, extremist and ideologically-based organization like the "Communist Party of Great Britain" is objective and credible about the USSR? These communist organizations have a vested interest in lying about the humanitarian and economic disaster that 20th-century experimentation with communism was. I suspect you're in that boat as well, in that you couldn't support these communist regimes if the mainstream historical account of their societies is true - right?
It means someone edited it. As everyone knows by now.
Take a look at SAASPASS which has an enterprise password manager, access control policies, single sign on, directory services and multi-factor authentication.
https://saaspass.com/

I work for an SI that implements SAASPASS IAM to corporates.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confusopoly

Confusopoly (aka Dilbert's confusopoly) is confusing marketing designed to prevent the buyer making informed decisions.

(...)
The term has been adopted by economists. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director Richard Cordray, championing meaningful regulation for the financial industry, used the term confusopoly to refer to large financial institutions (Cordray 2014, 4'04"-4'26") :

"There's actually an economic term for this; it's called "Confusopoly." If [the sellers] can confuse the consumer enough then the consumers won't necessary know what choice they're making and they can be talked into just about anything."
— Richard Cordray, 2014/01/08
I wasn't referring directly to this article with the "fearmongering" opinion. However, in regards to Lipsitch's analysis he uses a lot of "may be, we don't know, etc.." speculation that seems to hint that even the experts don't quite have the full grasp of the situation yet either.

I am all for safety and notifying the public of immediate threats, and taking the correct precautions. But, at this point it seems increasingly that these predictions and analysis are being too quickly released with not enough information so you get great amounts of speculation which therein fuels panic.
Please just fix the macOS CoreAnimation patch. It was introduced with so much fanfare ~6 months ago but it doesn't do anything, in terms of power use, for a large contingent of Firefox users. Firefox still nukes batteries, especially with video playing.
I suspect you mean "Gall's Law" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gall_(author)#Gall's_law).
I wonder if children being born over the last decade will come to despise taking photos, because from their first memory they have been constantly interrupted at play by mom or dad trying to get their attention for a picture. My niece's every trip to the playground is documented in photo and video; she looks down from the playset not at her mother's face but at the back of her mother's iPhone.
> 2006 being the last update makes me not want to use it.
Why
He already hedged his bets by saying it was a huge problem. Hoax, real, no problem, big problem, he's doing a good job of covering the important possibilities.
> If they closed airports and put up some checkpoints on the interstate to only allow select traffic through, I imagine that would cut travel pretty dramatically.

> Courts tend to believe that the Privileges and Immunities Clause gives a constitutional right to travel between states.

Interstate closures happen all the time for all kinds of reasons.

If someone wants to unconditionally exercise their "constitutional right to travel between states" when epidemic control measures are in place, they can walk or swim.
You can do just about anything in moderation and it won't be bad for you, short or long term. For example, having a cigarette or two a week over a few beers with some friends. Completely abstaining from superficial, temporary feelings of joy can be detrimental to some people when they finally do give into temptation.
But GP did help the point along, though
I was quoting from the ‘about’ section of the linked page. I’m not deliberately trying to pick on or criticise this data structure, it’s certainly a good way of manipulating some forms of text (I’ve used similar data structures for efficient HTTP processing/mangling). It’s just that there can be hidden costs and the O(1) claims appeared misleading.
"Would one need domain expertise to build a startup on <domain>?"

I'm more interested in learning about any domain in which the answer to this is no.
I'm not involved with the spec discussions, but I suspect it's just because 32-bit floats are heavily preferred on GPUs for performance reasons. If there were a lot of popular demand, I imagine 64-bit doubles could be added, but games overwhelmingly prefer 32-bit; it's mostly the scientific community that wants 64-bit.

Besides, if JS interop were the driving concern, 64-bit doubles would be the default, since that's what JS numbers are.
It does not mean that.
> you're not going to make a separate online order with a fixed-overhead delivery fee from the less-upmarket store

If I were doing this, I would be far more likely to make a separate order online than physically. It takes no effort to do it online, but to shop at more than one physical store is additional inconvenience.
Structured logging in Elixir using Loki
Architecture is very much about culture. I'm not sure I'd call it a social science, but the science part of architecture - making sure that buildings don't fall down - is left to structural engineers.

If you read how architects justify their designs, they're full of references to culture, philosophy, and occasionally - too rarely - practical research into how people move through and live/work in spaces.

It's a social activity in that architects design for other architects. Clients are secondary.

CS is actually no different, it's just far less culturally self-aware. There's nothing objective about CS. It grew out of a specific philosophical current, and it could easily have gone in other directions, emphasising other kinds of entity relationships - e.g. less atomised and sequential, more contextual and associative. That in turn would have influenced the design of the hardware.
I have used fastmail for ~10 years. However google still has far too many ways to track me.
This has been a debunked conspiracy theory.
Glass cliff would be a particular subset of this kind of thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_cliff
Monk fruit may be promising, there has been studies in Mice where Monk Fruit even lowered blood sugar levels. However, I agree more studies must be completed.

Another study including Aspartame, monk fruit, stevia and sucrose was kind of interesting which showed sucrose (as expected) had the biggest insulin spike, but interestingly the participants made up for the sucrose calories in their next meal and actually had higher insulin spikes in the subsequent meal compared to the sucrose group. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27956737

Probably best to avoid all sweeteners.
Tips for the depressed
I'm pretty sure you could use float, it was just heavily discouraged for games since the VM typically executed the float bytecodes in software.
Will it help them though if the virus is freely spreading worldwide? They may get off lockdown and get reinfected by American tourists, for example.