skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Completely solved problem? What about lab courses?
Not mentioned in the article or in the comments thus far, is that massage therapy has an alleviative effect on clinical depression in some people.[1][2]

It's not fully understood why massage (in particular, deep massage) might relieve depression, but it does reduce cortisol and increase general relaxation, countering the stress caused by depression.

Another study suggested that massage therapy can be approximately as effective as pharmaceuticals, but I'm unable to find the reference at the moment.

There's no particular harm to muscular therapy a.k.a. massage, and if you have a good and well trained practitioner, it is very pleasant and relaxing regardless of mental state.

1. Meta study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20361919

2. Women's health (Mass General Hospital): https://womensmentalhealth.org/posts/massage-therapy-for-dep...
The gist of my argument is that you have to cede control to them and trust them, for something that we could explicitly do before.
Dont be surprised when you can no longer access or they want you to pay. I'd rather not have to depend on 3rd party for my app. My $0.02.
Why do you consider it a power grab sooner than, say, people acting in good faith who really believe in their stated values?
I agree this is super exciting but those things come with a significant operational overhead that your traditional full stacks don't have.

one vm => many lambdas/microservices

react => server side rendering and state hydration, throw redux in there too

prisma => you can't beat the DB with code. Learn SQL and remove the middleman.

Jest => fair enough I guess, but I wouldn't use rspec when Ruby had minitest out of the box

Caching/Static site => wut? ... wut? there's much more to caching than HTML.

routes.js => probably great on the server, not so much on the browser.

And the best for last...

graphql => not a replacement for REST. You can do more with less by just making your client do the work or going with backend-for-frontends. If you don't understand your network then graphql is an easy vector for DOS (speaking from experience).

Meanwhile I can spin up Laravel, Rails, Spring or Django up and get a solid application running in a fraction of the time while in JS land, client server arch is a seemingly unsolved problem.

I sound bitter but I'm more incredulous. I don't actually enjoy writing for the browser any more, there are too many divergent trends.
I don’t know but it reminds me of the long standing insistence from medical institutions that women don’t have orgasms. Clearly doctors didn’t all think that because they were giving “relief from hysteria” with vibrators in the 1700s, yet the stance persisted.
Not an epidemiologist, but a Boston resident. Generally, people under 30 completely ignore anything about the coronavirus here. You have people hitting a different nightclub each night, going to parties, and that sort of thing.

A college town full of students who see their risk as 0.1% is not what you want right now.

Now, a more sensible thing might be to close the nightclubs, bars, and parties. But the city hasn't done that. Patient zero will probably infect hundred here.

And the people who will die will be the elderly (which includes a lot of faculty too).
I used SMP in 1995, using a 1.3 kernel. Board was an Asus with two 100 MHz Pentiums.

I saw about a 35% speedup on a "make -j 3" back then; there was a lot of coarse-grained locking still (BKL), and the hardware wasn't good to begin with.

I'm pretty sure IBM had nothing to do with Linux; the name that comes up in my mind when I think back to that time is "Alan Cox", not "IBM".

I did contract work for infomine.com in 1994; it ran on Linux.
Corey Feldman apologizes for (My) Truth streaming problems, blames hac
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Nine_%28tensegrity_spher... you can.
The Truth About the McDonald's Coffee Lawsuit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9DXSCpcz9E&feature=youtu.be
As opposed to the current open-source movement, which mostly consists of microserfs beavering away for a salary to make FOSS work better for all of the above?

Let's face it, when the biggest contributor to the Linux kernel is Microsoft, the open source movement has very little to do with RMS' ideals.
Sure, you will never completely eliminate all of these factors. But this is far, far short of "not completely eliminated". This is, "the confounding variables are almost certainly much larger effects than what you are trying to measure". The difference between python, ruby, and php in make a web framework, is much much smaller than the difference between web frameworks, statistical analysis packages, machine learning, and devops scripts. Python is used for the last three, ruby and php much less so. The difference between python and ruby and php is therefore going to be dominated by the kinds of tasks they are used on, and the difference between the languages is small compared to that.

Smokers are routinely excluded from analysis of cancer rates, for a similar reason; the effect is so large that if (for example) you're looking at diet, and the difference in diet is correlated with a difference in smoking rates, any findings are invalid.
I'm glad it got banned too - bot replies are the worst.

And since it's nit-picking, it's worth noting that the "could/couldn't care less" thing isn't at all as clear-cut as you are making out.

In the early 1990s, the well-known Harvard professor and language writer Stephen Pinker argued that the way most people say “could care less”—the way they emphasize the words—implies they are being ironic or sarcastic along the lines of the Yiddish phrases like “I should be so lucky!” which typically means the speaker doesn’t really expect to be so lucky. Michael Quinion of the wonderful World Wide Words website makes the same argument.

and

Both Merriam-Webster and dictionary.com have weighed in and say “could care less” and “couldn’t care less” mean the same thing. Their reasoning is that both phrases are informal, English is often illogical, and people use the two phrases in the same way. “Could care less” has come to mean the same thing as “couldn’t care less.”

https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/could-ca...
MSFT has 144k FTE (https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/MSFT/profile?p=MSFT)

GOOG has 118k FTE (https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GOOG/profile?p=GOOG)

APPL has 137k FTE (https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL/profile?p=AAPL)

AMZN has 798k FTE (https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AMZN/profile?p=AMZN) Note: this seems incorrect.

INTC has 110k FTE (https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/INTC/profile?p=INTC)

HPQ has 56k FTE (https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/HPQ/profile?p=HPQ)
"Plenty of people self-teach from MOOCs".

Are there studies (not from the MOOC providers themselves) that demonstrate that this works?

I got the impression that the MOOC thing wasn't working out as well as expected. The hype around them certainly seems to have cooled off since their peak a few years ago.

My hunch is that it's only a small subset of people that thrive with MOOCs.
Taiwan seems to be handling it extremely well, but over there they had first-hand experience with SARS, and they had plans in place for when it was going to be back, because consensus was that it was going to be back.
That's exactly what the RAs did
So a Y2K style hindsight? I wonder if there is a phrase for that type of thing.
You're under no obligation to do anything. Individuals are simply exercising their own right not to engage based on their own experience.

From other comments, you seem to be drawing a distinction between "social pressure" and "individual choices". Can you explain when one becomes the other?
Google releases ELECTRA, a more efficient NLP model
That could be interpreted as "they have not shown themselves to be a reliable partner" (ie we don't know) instead of the correct "they have shown themselves to not be a reliable partner" (ie we know they aren't), though.
That exception only specifies students with an "unsafe" home life. It doesn't say anything about students who aren't in danger at home but nevertheless will lose the income from a part time job, access to quiet study areas, good study partners, and many other significant downsides.
> have police forces

Literally their own police forces? How does that work? Where do they get the authority to be police from? Who are they sworn to?
Yes, scientifically rigorous does not equal moral. And the eugenics debate is coming up in a different form now with Gene therapy. From a moral perspective, I don't know of any genuine and sincere arguments that we should not genetically engineer an infant who was born with a devastating genetic disease. If we can cure sickle cell for example, we of anything have a moral imperative to. But, that technically lies under the umbrella of eugenics. It raises questions of what is a disease - if blue eyes (or, more realistically, dark skin) lead to discrimination in society, is that enough of a disadvantage to be worth engineering a child to have brown eyes or white skin? In general the consensus is no. So where is the middle ground? Or, is it a false question and fixing sickle cell is not even on the same sliding scale as changing skin color? We don't know the answers yet, but these are active moral and ethical questions that are technically under the umbrella of eugenics that we need to answer.
What about lab work that demands physical access to facilities and equipment? Not everything can be virtualized.
Not sure if this is "good" advice, but this would make for a very appealing kickstarter: cool gadget with very useful functionality for popular activities (music festivals, hiking, skiing) that could even help in an emergency. It hits a lot of the right notes.

Possible that when you're further along you can have a kickstarter for a commercial version that's officially created by the open-source project. The more (mutually compatible) devices out there, the better the mesh, right?
> Undergraduates who live in an MIT residence or fraternity, sorority or independent living group (FSILG) must begin packing and departing this Saturday, March 14. We are requiring undergraduates to depart from campus residences no later than noon on Tuesday, March 17.

This is strange. Isn't the travel they are forcing quite possibly a cure worse than the disease? And are they really expecting students (many of them international) to go home within a week, seeing that flights are getting cancelled all over the place?

They do seem to have reasonable exceptions for students who "have concerns that they would not be allowed to return to MIT due to visa issues" or who "will have difficulty returning to their home country if it has been hard-hit by COVID-19" or who "do not have a home to go to, or for whom going home would be unsafe given the circumstances of their home country or homelife". I'm wondering how reasonably these will be implemented, though.

In what way are dorms worse than personal homes for diseases anyway? Are they not trusting their students to prepare their own food? Why don't they just close the dining halls instead?
Why Making Design More Accessible Is Key to Your Product Success
The ratio is, but the absolute value difference (which is what actually matters for humans) grows beyond bounds for both.
Romania has closed all the schools and banned gatherings with more than 1000 participants.
Somewhat related: it took me until my 20s to understand that male and female sexual anatomy can be mostly mapped 1:1 given how a fetus develops.

Also until my teens I thought the vagina was basically a penis-like sleeve that just dangles there on the outside. I'm pretty sure this is because of the heavy reliance on anatomy diagrams in grade school health classes.

It's kinda funny looking back and seeing all the "whoops" moments in personal education.
iOS 14 reveals iPhone 9 and updated iPad Pro details, Apple TV remote, AirTags
Can you define an API call better? Is it any call made with your application/key? If so, how do you handle monetary DoS?
Many states in the US have laws that specifically exempt colleges and universities from the majority of tenancy protections that regular landlords must abide by.
How Outdoor Voices, a Startup Darling, Imploded
That's not an option.
Reaction in Poland has been radical AFAICT (22 cases so far):

Major universities decided to close today. Public events called off. Football games without spectators for next few weeks.

In France, events >5000 and then >1000 people were cancelled.
> Also the bit about being no worse than the flu is not true for any age group

It does appear to be true for the very young (ages 0-9), who are at relatively high risk from flu (especially <2), but at shockingly low risk at dying from COVID-19. Admittedly not the population in consideration here.
The goal at this point should be to flatten the curve as much as possible to prevent overwhelming healthcare until a vaccine is developed and tested. Nobody thinks this is going to be a permanent measure.
Be fined? Is that in a contract? Seems odd with private companies being able to fine people.
Two weeks ago today Italy had 322 cases. Today they have over 10,000. This thing moves fast. The situation will be very different a week from now so maybe their only a few days ahead of everyone else.

This site is good for tracking the data: https://studylib.net/coronavirus

Click on a country to see the graphs.
IANAL either, but force majeure refers to being unable to fulfill a contract. The dorms are still standing and legally habitable so that doesn't really seem to apply here.
>ESR is not only an ultra-libertarian

You say that like it's a bad thing...
I don't know about the people you're talking about, but I've been accused of insufficient concern about it myself. I don't agree with that accusation.

I am not panicking or obsessing about it, though, and I think people perceive that as being unconcerned. But it's not. I take it seriously, and engage in reasonable protective behaviors, but I am not afraid. Why? In part because there is little reason for me to be actively afraid (yet), and in part because fear is unhelpful and counterproductive.

Could this be a "black swan" event? Sure, it could. But we're not there yet, and losing sleep over it won't change the likelihood of it becoming that.

That said, what I see coming out of the US government, and particularly Trump's statements, make it much more difficult to remain calm.
Maybe it was due to more body hair being common? And that hid the clitoris?

Or maybe oral sex on women was less common in the 80s and 90s so people weren't 'face to face' with the vulva as much?
As a non-US national I never really know what a "semester" is with respect to US universities. Not sure what a better title would be though. The key information here in my opinion is that students are being told not o come back in a few weeks following spring break.
Could you elaborate please? My company is slowly moving towards Thycotic, it would be great to know its pain points in advance.
Public university
ForwardTacotron: Simplified Tacotron for fast and robust Speech Synthesis
A lot of companies in London are waiting for the 100 cases in London mark to trigger the WFH fallback. This will be breached tomorrow so expect London tech companies to be totally remote by end of week.
https://filepush.co/2Hvm/degradation-of-hobby.jpg

My guess is something like this: Once the project becomes big/useful enough and normal people are now using and relying on it, then they can start ousting the eccentrics/untolerables because at a large enough population, normal people just naturally outnumber them.

Disclaimer: Image is just an example to express an idea/concept. I do not endorse whatever is in the image and my post does not represent my employer, Unemployed Inc.
Even the Boston-side fraternities are subject to licensing as dormitories. It’s unlikely FSILG Alumni corporations would kick someone out but it could put the license at risk. If MIT says they’re closing Boston can consider that to be a suspension of the form license.

—a former mit fraternity president
I am not a doctor but I honestly do not see why the current state warrants such drastic actions.

Is it, objectively, so much worse than usual seasonal flu epidemics? An honest question, any scientific/quantitative pointers appreciated!
Interesting, also I thought some states don't consider dorms to be residential. So maybe that adds more flexibility for schools. Like I don't think you can use your dorm address on a state ID or driver license?
I don't know if I have an axe to grind - I've said time and again my response had nothing to do with the OP. It was a general observation. I should have actually put it up at the root level instead of responding to OP. Did you see my messages about "general observation"?
Not really similar. Nutonian did straight-up genetic programming symbolic regression. This does genetic programming to discover ML algorithms.
How would they know if you're done with finals?
Then virus is "a small price to pay for salvation". May be the world will finally see that all occupations that can WFH should be free to WFH.
In other words, even without Google, Huawei maintains 80% of its sales.

But looked at from the other direction, that's a 100% drop for Google sales for every Huawei phone that's sold.

I've said it before but ...

Rule number one in business is 'Never, ever, turn away a paying customer'.
The Economist even wrote about force majeure a couple of weeks ago [1]. Gist was that Chinese firms may use it to void contracts, and Chinese courts may uphold these choices to the frustration of Western companies.

This probably also applies to firms in general now, but the article is specifically about its use in China.

[1] https://www.economist.com/business/2020/02/22/chinese-firms-...
"The law" is ultimately just a particular form of social pressure, there's nothing magic about it. If someone is forced into bankruptcy because a twitter campaign got them fired, that's practically the same consequence as being forced into bankruptcy because a court imposed a large fine.
Gotta love ESP32s, huh? It's great to see more affordable "commodity-style" boards with some extra radios built in.

This looks like a very cool project - I might pick up a few of those 'T-beam' boards and see if some people want to try taking a hike with them. Thanks for sharing!
If you turn off your ad blocker, you’ll see they’ve actually massively increased the amount and presence of their ads.
Subjectivity is not the core of the problem but the disregard of the importance of reason. It is the idea that a philosophical conclusion is the same as a political position and that any political thought itself is inherently justified which is false.
I am pointing it out as an observation but apparently it feels like I've poked the hornet's nest. So much hostility for criticizing HN.
If all you want is a development machine and electricity is not particularly expensive, you can buy a used 32-core, quad socket Xeon with 128GB of RAM for half that. Dell r910 or similar. It's about a 500W load.

Or you could get an eight core / 32GB ram machine for under $230 on eBay.
Ask HN: How do you approach a problem when you are stuck?
I have been thinking about this. For eg, let's say I am following implementing a design pattern and I am stuck at implementing a specific feature adhering to that pattern. I usually search for it online and then try to implement as suggested (I don't have much experience, I am a new grad). What do you think?. Should I implement my own solution first even if it violates the design pattern, then check if my solution was correct, or do I search on the internet the correct way to implement the feature?
They have release it ope-source and here you can find:

Samples: https://as-ideas.github.io/ForwardTacotron/

Github: https://github.com/as-ideas/ForwardTacotron

Colab: https://colab.research.google.com/github/as-ideas/ForwardTac...
Ask HN: What would your preferred stack be to build a BI tool?
If you were building an end-to-end product analytics/BI tool ala Mixpanel today, thinking future scale in mind, what stack would you start off with?
I heard something like that before, like I guess there's states (maybe most of them?) where you can't use your dorm room on your driver license for some reason. Which seems annoying if you moved across the country and don't intend to return home. or your renewals conflict with other dates when far away.
Outside (mostly) of CS, there is a lot of engineering/science coursework that requires access to labs and other physical plant that can't be replicated online. Even in the humanities, I'm not sure the degree to which you can replicate in-person seminars with videoconferences.
You make it sound like a deliberate strategy. But even if it was playing out that way (I refuse to be the judge about that, fortunately I'd never be). I'd take it as a given that this "takeover" is a pure chance outcome, even if repeated, kind of like how Columbus never intended to discover America. Organizations like the FSF or any open source project are just not plausible targets for an elaborate takeover scheme, people with that kind of ambnition would surely look elsewhere.
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Normal triage is when you prioritize the most seriously injured patients so they don't die waiting for treatment. That's what hospitals typically do.

In a mass casualty event, hospitals engage in reverse triage which optimizes for throughput. They prioritize cases that can be discharged quickly so that they can treat as many people as possible. This means they'll label the most serious cases "expectant" and let them die. After all, it's better to save two or three easier people than to squander limited resources on one person who is unlikely to survive.

It is extremely rare for hospitals in the US to use reverse triage. I think the most recent time was during Katrina. The stories of that are not pretty.[1]

1. https://www.newsweek.com/vindicated-katrina-doc-tells-her-st...
This is really great. Node.js really needs more of these type of frameworks. I for one would love a non-Graphql version.
Looks promising.

Who do you compete with?
Or do you not have competitors?
There was a visit to Mercury colony close to Blue Mars epilogue (this is not much of a spoiler).
It's Germany or your experience that is different. See other replies, plus also:

- University in southern Switzerland is closed
- all universities and middle schools are closed in Slovakia
Why do we give Descartes credit with his skepticism when he couldn't even be skeptical of his own conclusion, Cogito Ergo Sum. How do I know that I am thinking? I need something better for an ontological proof than "just assume it bro cus it appears to you"

I think that people assuming that the appearance of their thinking = thinking is one of the worst philosophical mistakes that one can make.

You quote Plato with the allegory of the cave. That allegory is him patting himself (and all other "Philosophers") on the back being like "well, if you use dialectics which involves a back and forth between smart people for the purpose of finding truth, than those who have been more rational and dialectical are objectively more fit to rule because the see reality for what it is". This is notably the first written, non-religious justification of authority and hierarchy on the grounds that "the stupid farmers should not rule because they are stupid and don't see reality for what it is"

Why should I assume that the appearance of rationality describes reality? Why should I assume that the laws of thought correspond to the material world? I'm tired of listening to folks tell me that we can metaphysical prove Aristotle's the physical existence of the laws of logic (law of identity, law of excluded middle, law of double negation elimination) when it's so bloody easy to find counterexamples. Here's an easy one: "This sentence is false"
The AMZN number includes FT fulfillment center workers, so that number is in the ball park.