skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
~90% of cases get a fever which is uncommon for a cold so if there were large amounts of people with the disease it would at least be showing as a huge spike of people with the flu, plus we'd likely see a spike in deaths. It won't be mistaken for just a cold. The way it's playing out in Italy is that there were a lot of diagnosed cases early on but once the testing caught up they seem to be on the same exponential curve as everywhere else, but this was only high in percentage terms and low in raw numbers.

There is definitely under reporting of cases (and some misdiagnosed deaths), but so far no reason to think it's a tip of an iceberg type of scenario and there are large masses of undiagnosed people. For calculating mortaility rates there's also the lag time between getting the virus and death to take into consideration.

Going back to your original post about the fatality rate in WA, the numbers are simply too low to indicate anything at all. There are only 4 countries on Earth we can get much statistical significance from and of those Iran is the only one that lacks testing at the moment.
I use hcoop.net and the wildcard address is one line in a configuration file. I do a little bit of filtering with a sieve filter.
This would make for an excellent after effects (or any post-production software for that matter) plugin. Would highly recommend going this route for the "Unscreen Pro" version that is yet to be released.

Separately, because I'd bet the makers are reading, are there any plans to offer the segmentation models or APIs locally? Was looking for this for the remove.bg product as well.
I just created a project with create-react-app and served it with npm's "serve" package. My client downloaded a whopping 10KBs, half of which are React's logo which is a PNG file. It's really not as big of an issue as you think.

Edit: For full transparency, this is the breakdown:

index.html = 1.37KB

main.hash.chunk.css + 2.hash.chunk.js + main.hash.chunk.js = 887B

logo.hash.svg = 3.2KB

logo192.png = 5.47KB
I have T-Mobile and auto-pay with a credit card that has had 6 fraudulent transactions in the past week. Might not be related.
It has been really interesting watching the evolution of the web. At some point during the frontend JS revolution, there was a flip from a focus on backward compatibility, progressive enhancement and low impact javascript to "Fuck it, let's make the whole thing out of javascript!"

Not 10 years ago I would have been debating if my dom actions for a touch slider were too much computation. Now? Why send HTML at all? We can make it out of javascript!

CSS animations were a boon because we didn't have to do any of that JS calculation, mmm precious pragmatism. What's that? You want the background to be a real time generated animation in canvas? I know just the tool!

I am glad we seem to be at a point where we can do it all performantly enough. But I do have to wonder how we got here so quickly.
I need this but for automotive paints
Hello, sbilstein! ;-) It's considered grammatically correct.

> When the salutation in your letter or email starts with Hello or Hi, then you should put a comma before the name of the person you're addressing. It is also standard practice to put a comma after the name of the person you're addressing. ... You could also use an exclamation mark if you wanted to emphasize an emotion (like surprise). [1]

[1] https://www.grammar-monster.com/lessons/comma_with_dear_hell...

I'm not an expert but I've always seen it written this way and plenty of other sources suggest this practice. e.g. https://www.grammarly.com/blog/comma/
Even if permissions are enforced, there will be enough apps that most users will be willing to allow to track them, and those apps can participate in this program without being exactly explicit about it to the user. The apps' privacy policies will essentially be a bunch of legal mumbo jumbo amounting to "and you have no privacy", and users won't even bother to read that.

Just because an uninformed user granted some app permission to track them, which app implied it could share that with LEOs, doesn't mean that the courts will consider warrant-less tracking this way constitutional. I don't know and can't predict whether the courts will or won't, but they well might not. There will be interesting cases arising out of this technology eventually. The SCOTUS has already said that police can warrantlessly use surveillance technology that is widely available to the public, but I doubt this tech will so become.
Or keep the studies and make UBI non-permanent: much like cold-war brinkmanship - incentivizing recipients to always keep in mind the possibility of future work.

I understand it's much more stressful than permanent guaranteed UBI, but it's truer to the real intent of UBI (which I believe is reducing the friction when deciding to try new job or state or whatever in a pursuit of self-actualization).
Using an iPad has inspired me to rethink things like terminal and CLUI is very close to ideas I’ve been wanting for work on for a long time.

My idea originally came from using ssh on my iPad and thinking it would be cool if more native controls were used over RPC instead of text to display what was happening on the server. Then I could more easily navigate the responses and maybe even if there was more intelligent autocomplete which a UI on iOS could take advantage of. Or maybe interactive confirmations and stuff (similar to what was Demo’d). And also then provide an easy way to edit files using either a remote editor or a way to sync changes being done in a local editor. Kind of how vscode seems to do it (e.g. a remote service handling the work)

The one thing a system like I’m describing would still need is the ability to switch from this rich interface back to the terminal when using things like tmux, curses, or vim/emacs because obviously those things still work well.

But the cool thing was realizing that this would also be great on the desktop. Looked into some terminals like Hyper thinking maybe I could hack those up to get a proof of concept for myself, but can’t find the time. And obviously it wouldn’t work for the iPad where I really wanted it.
I learned CPR back when you could get a lifetime certification.

A few years ago, I took a class taught through my employer at the time (VMWare) and got recertified. It had been more than thirty years, but not that much had changed.

CPR isn’t hard. Spotting the drowning person, that’s the hard thing.
Luckily we can already implant false memories with advertising.

https://www.wired.com/2011/05/ads-implant-false-memories/
One of the fun things about working at Sun back in the day was that there were folks trying to fix some of the issues that were legitimately raised by the UHH.

That said, I shared Don's disgust with X. The difference between running X on a workstation and SunTools felt like a 300% slowdown.

And yet today I sit here typing into a window that is being displayed by an X server running on a Windows OS on a computer that is acting pretty much like an X-terminal for my Linux server. It has warts, true, but its still flying as they would say on Firefly.

I have often wondered what the world would be like if we had decided to move the GPU into the monitor and ran a parameterized display system over HDMI rather than something that looks like a cancerous NTSC composite video signal.
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The issue is not making the oxygen. It's distributing and delivering it.
Requires a bit of initial setup, but possible it's what you're looking for: https://github.com/denisidoro/navi

Also, at least some of the scaffolding for CLUI seems to be available at
https://github.com/replit/clui
So you can only securely access the top 50 websites, and need to go in person to buy the key.

That sounds like a beyond ridiculous system. We can do better.
What would be the ways to keep JavaScript virtually “off” but viewable?

I mean, it’s all the same framework-min.js working like a modern COBOL, not like custom mathematically significant compression or advanced dynamic P2P webpage distribution, right? Feels to me like a meta rendering engine could be created so none of the functions needs to be runtime evaluated or content be fetched by it or whatnot.
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I think the best use for CRDs is for creating seamless extensions to Kubernetes itself. I see Knative as being in this genre.
I can somewhat understand this.

1. React targets a rolling release platform which keeps on changing. On top of that, most people are not always on the latest version. If you are targeting something like an enterprise, you'd be stuck with IE.

2. React also has to run on 3 implementations of the web platform (Chrome/v8, Firefox/Spidermonkey, Safari/WebKit) which have no "obligation" to follow a standard. Many (Safari) can have enormous delays in deploying features to the public at large. Unlike Java, JS devs (especially front-end) don't have the ability to enforce a runtime platform or else they risk loosing users to their competitors. So you have to transpile code to run on browsers which doesn't speak the latest syntax.

3. JS also has enormous backward compatibility.

4. JS decoupled most of the quality-of-life features from the core language. What is generally part of the compiler or IDE (in case of Java/C++) are separate libraries that have to be manually installed by the user - so you see these huge npm installs for each project. No language escapes from this. In case of Java, all of this is hidden under the install size of eclipse/intellij. Though I do agree, that in some cases, JS devs have taken this modularity to the extreme (Specifically the thing that happened with left-pad)

5. Then there's the problem of how your frontend is tightly coupled with the product. How your frontend is built, performs etc determines your search ranking, your user retention, your customer experience. All of this directly defines your revenue.

Web as a platform is a wild beast. It's much more complex than we ever expected it to be and CRA does put a balm on all the pain points.
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This description sounds very much like CLIM, which was a graphical, clickable CLI originally designed in the early 80s for Lisp machines. (CLIM is much more than that, but building a graphical CLI is one of the things that's easy with CLIM.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp_Interface_Manage...
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Because Filecoin being a tradable asset as well as a utility confuses how it's valued. If it rises quickly, it's better to sell then spend. If it drops, it's bad for those running servers. Both ups and downs are being driven by forces which have nothing to do with cost of services, that's the problem. Unless they fix the price of Filecoin against the USD to make it a real utility, it's a get rich quick scheme.
I will have to educate myself on the specifics of corruption in Israeli politics, but we're dealing with a particularly virulent freewheeling kind of graft in American politics where pretty much any curb would be significant.

Right now it is literally all graft and no progress at all to the point that we can barely pass the same bloated terrible budget we pass every year.
Thanks, please give me my money, I will settle in Thailand and will never work again. I'd rather learn Chinese or violin or read books.
Having an industry veteran like Itamar weigh on a pointless complexity that everyone seems to be in love with right now? Extremely valuable. Possibly saves peoples' lives, financially speaking.

Old IT folks are like explosives experts: if you see them fleeing in panic, follow them!
Note, this list is based on things I've read about, but I don't actually know what specific security software is typically used by a large employer.
Wow, can you tell me where I can find out about how to do those things, like:

> Want to make a computer that several people use locally, each with their own screen, keyboard, mouse? X can do that, and permit those users to view and interact with any combination of each others display data.

> One says, hey can you sort this for me? Another says, "sure", and a window pops up on their screen...

Is there literature or something about setting up complex things like this in X? I'd be interested in learning more.
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When I took swimming lessons at the YWCA in Wilmington, NC (where they did after school daycare in the late 70s), I went all the way through their process. My next step would have been to get into SCUBA.

They never taught the “Elementary Backstroke” to us, even though this was Wilmington, NC and we were just fifteen minutes from the beach.

The backstroke I learned was more like the crawl, just done on your back. After a while, I stopped bothering to use my arms and did a lazy backstroke using just my legs. I could do that for hours on end. The lazy backstroke wasn’t YWCA approved, but it worked well in the ocean and in pools. The only danger was that you couldn’t see what you might be about to hit.
> Locate X must be "used for internal research purposes only," according to terms of use distributed to agencies, and law enforcement authorities are forbidden from using the technology as evidence — or mentioning it at all — in legal proceedings.

So it's obviously useless to law enforcement, right? Since parallel construction and evidence laundering are illegal and not something that they would engage in…
Just curious, can you expand a bit on the analysis? I see that by binary search you get O(log(S)) to identify a single positive, and naively rerunning search from the beginning P times yields O(P*log(S)). One can certainly do better by avoiding redundant tests but at some point one needs to start reasoning about the distribution of the positives in the samples and I'm not sure how to do that.
There will be workaround:

You can't confiscate social capital or favours someone's parent did to someone as "young adult" then that young adult did it to these parents kid and barter continues.
Right now we are releasing everyone who has non-extreme flu symptoms without testing whether it’s flu or covid-19, so even a small false negative rate would be a great improvement.
I think Tandem (https://tandem.chat/) was designed for this use case
> Building a new React app with create-react-app requires 4304 directories and 28678 files.

Finally, of course I don't consider myself the only person thinking about it but someone finally pointed the elephant in the room because it's been bugging me for a very long time, especially with anything related to NodeJS it feels like to actually get somewhere you need to pull hundreds if not thousands of tiny libraries dependencies. Once 1, 2, 50 of those tiny libraries becomes unmaintained and fall into a high risk vulnerability and there's no replacement that's it , you have to start taking care of it yourself. It could happen in any language, yes, but I feel it's more prone to happen in NodeJS given the nature of .... pulling hundreds of modules, even with Java/Maven you don't really pull that many libraries into your application unless it has some really wide scope in it.

I don't have any beef with NodeJS itself but the whole subject of having so much boilerplate code needed to get yourself started is a bit insane. I get that hardware has become more powerful and storage is cheap but... at which point is it no longer okay and becomes a burden to distribute said apps?
That's pretty neat! I'd imagine it's that small because of minification too, but my experience with the React front end codebase at my work has left me rather scarred. So. Much. Bloat.

My biggest issue is with people pulling in dumb libraries on npm that seem to live on someone's self hosted server though, so some branches will CD just fine, while others don't, and then I have to troubleshoot why something completely out of my control isn't working. Ugh
Recent threads on this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22297963

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22307500

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22309478

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22473148

Others?
Browsers could disable downloading of external resources for CSS :hover and :active. When the user interacts with the interface, the CSS will still get applied but the tracking URL won't be accessed.
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Yeah but lower lines of code from being able to rely on things just being there/ callable speeds things up so much!

The React CD takes a minute and a half longer than the backend one, and the back end one has testing and libraries of its own to pull as well.

Some of this comes down to SCSS, Babel etc, but most of it is built into CRA anyway
You sound very confident of that, but the fact that investors and developers keep moving to the platform shows that there's a good chance you're wrong.

From what I can tell, the new hybrid architecture that D-Wave rolled out recently can handle way bigger optimization problems than before, and slice and dice them to fit on the still-fairly-small quantum chip. As long as optimization problems are important (and they seem to increasingly be so), something which can find lower energy states (better solutions) in a shorter time is indeed an advantage.

I for one find it refreshing that they're not always blowing smoke about supremacy the way Google is - instead, they keep pushing forward actual results, like this one published in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0410-x about some spinglass thing I don't understand, but it seems like it's something ideally suited for what they're building.
I (further) wonder what percentage of Fdroid apps lend themselves to Locate-X. Certainly qualifies for the "Anti-features" honor.

Regarding that which might arise; very interesting for sure, and almost certainly for the worse. I'll never embrace it, but do accept it - it's here to stay along with endless other innovations, or so I fear.
OpenBSD has one book about Motif in in the books sectin of ports. book/vol6a I think.
...I think you are misunderstanding the whole reason for the IS NOT DISTINCT FROM operator, which is exactly that.

"SELECT NULL = NULL" will return NULL, use that if you want the standard way. There are many cases where you want it to return true though, and the boilerplate for that sucks, so IS NOT DISTINCT FROM has a very useful place in the dialect.
If RSS is dead then I am reading this from the great beyond.
Depends on your intent. If you are referencing a world when everyone can only say "Hello", the comma may be removed
The issue with the EU directive is that it measures emissions just from the tailpipe, not for their lifetime. So an electric car always has 0 emissions even if driven on coal electricity. And a biogas car would have the same as a natural gas one. This hurts things like biogas needlessly.

There have been efforts to change this, don't know their status.
I am not personally familiar with ZeroMQ. Just wanted to point out that the Jupyter notebook uses it, which means it's widely deployed - https://jupyter-client.readthedocs.io/en/stable/messaging.ht...
I'm super excited about this. Looking forward to being able to share out imports from the host to plugins(remotes) that are loaded. Still waiting on documentation, so hoping that remotes can be loaded sight-unseen and everything JustWorks.

Inerbundle loading has been a really weird gap in the ecosystem.
Of course this also assumes every app is licensed to every employee.
Did they bring new production capacity on-line or do they just rent space from a contract manufacturer? They don't say, but it seem it's the latter.

One problem with the US healthcare system is the lack of spare capacity. It increases profits when everything is well, but if there's a pandemic or mass casualty incident there's shortages. Economists know how to handle inelastic supply and sudden demand shocks, but the message hasn't gotten through to public health. Perhaps that's intentional.
"NIH researchers found that our brains may store memories in neuronal firing patterns that are replayed fractions of a second before remembering."

So it's like a phonograph record. First the track is inscribed from the source sound (storing a memory). Then the needle is placed in a groove (by some triggering experience). Then the needle traverses the inscription, playing back the recording (remembering). The brain just does it on a different chemical medium than vinyl.

To me the most magical part is however the brain so deftly places the needle in the right groove as a response to the triggering experience. That seems to go beyond the phonograph metaphor.
Yeah, I'm just a sysadmin so I don't really get it either, but I've been following them for a while out of a layman's interest. My understanding is that there was already a body of work in the direction of optimization problems formulated as "Ising Hamiltonians", which is some mathematical construct that it's hard to calculate the lowest-energy configuration for; D-Wave took the most practical route to yielding actual working qubits possible, and can solve those Ising problems on there.

What we're forced to imagine is a future 5-10 years from now when they have 10k or 20k qubits, or they're all way more connected together, or something like that; there comes a point at which it will truly be very useful for big problems, and so the speculative player who wants to profit off of this would spend their time trying to actually make working models of something useful in reality which uses such an optimization solver as an engine underneath.
One tradition I'm happy got lost in the way is using FOO, BAR, BAT in examples. It made the simplest examples hard to understand and those words never made any sense to me.

It's always better to use contextual words in most examples.

edit: for more clarity this article (1) explains it quite well

https://dev.to/kiarathedev/why-i-don-t-use-foo-bar-baz-1kf7
it happened, https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/
I can empathize with that. In my experience front end does tend to pull in a significant amount of dependencies, and while I think we can do better I also think it's understandable to a certain extent. Web applications with the complexity we have now are relatively new and we're still trying to figure out how to do it properly. Sure, we had massive applications built with ASPX and jQuery before, but now the web does a lot more than display text and buttons to submit forms.
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I’ve always wondered if there is a way to stimulate a brain so that you could replay a memory so vividly that it practically feels like you are there reliving it again, like the way you might experience a dream but with more clarity, almost like a form of time travel.

I remember reading about some experiment in a psychology class where an old woman’s brain was probed and she was able to hear her highschool graduation sonata clearly as if it was being played in the room.

There must be a way, there’s so many memories I’d like to revisit firsthand, and people I’d like to see again that are no longer with us.