skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although I'm personally offended, being unimaginably (for me) old, this does make some sense. After all, many countries have been angsty about demographic inversion. And SARS-CoV-2 could resolve that within a decade or less.
It feels very borderline to me, given that it doesn't really address the question, but instead goes more like "actually, you don't want what you ask. instead, what I'm selling is better". At least that's how it comes across to me.
Wealthy individuals and their children are probably more likely to have social connections to others with capital who are willing to assist them as well.

A raspberry pi 4 kit with 2GB of RAM can be as low as $60 now!! Tinkering with computers can be inexpensive. For those who want it, there is a cornucopia of tinker-able machines out there. Many smart phones have terminal apps you can download. There are also a lot of websites out there that’ll let you do something akin to tinkering.

It seems to me that, in many cases, it’s a matter of getting people’s attention or interest in tinkering with their computers than access to tinker-able machines.
If I buy all the toilet paper in a store and resell it for 5% more is that considered price gouging?

What if I sell it to another middle man who also distributes and sells for 5% more?
Open letter from Italy to the international scientific community
Check out Toptal
The US we are trying as hard as possible to track the exponential pandemic curve as closely as we can.
Honestly what you say doesn't make any sense.

Major Manhattan avenues are thronged with people. Bicycling on the sidewalk is going to be way slower than using the bike lane. Plus sidewalks are bumpier with more obstacles... what cyclist is going to choose the sidewalk?!

I use Citibike all the time in Manhattan. The only bicycles/scooters I see on the sidewalk are the ones pulling up to a building on that block. Everyone else is on the road because it's just faster and easier and safer.

The only blocks where you see cyclists possibly more often on the sidewalk are the handful of cobblestone streets left in the city, which are honestly just murder to bike over. Or a certain small number of roads that function more like highways where cycling in the road is unsafe period.
A lot of countries posses radar that can detect stealth aircraft in a certain area, but cannot be used to create a fire solution or even narrowing it down to an area more than a couple square miles.

I believe as a design tradeoff, these planes are much more "invisible" (lower radar cross section) at tracking and targeting radar wavelengths, which must use much smaller frequencies.
These are bast shoes [0], known in Russian as lápti, which were the typical footwear in villages until the 20th century. They are strapped to the leg so that they don't fall off.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bast_shoe
For a software engineer with no experience in machine learning / AI, what does it mean to build your own language model? Does it require coding? Hundreds of hours of audio data from your own voice? A significant amount of computing power?
The more explicit reason to view him as credible is his body of work. The award was ostensibly given in recognition of that work, so to cite the award in support of his credibility is pretty much the same thing as citing the work, just with an appeal to authority thrown in. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, an appeal to authority is as valid as the authority you’re appealing to.
> it's not their fucking business if I don't worry about my device security so much

precisely. It's obnoxious.
Where are you getting this from? Carbon fiber is more failure-prone than aluminum is. There are some very nice bikes made out of aluminum (up to the several thousand dollar range). Steel vs aluminum is more of a choice in ride comfort vs weight.
I'm glad I'm not the only one finding cmake's "magic" approach to software building totally unhelpful, and more on the problem rather than solution side of things. You know there's gone something out of hand if your very meta build tool's build itself takes much longer than the project you wanted to build in the first place.
I suspect you meant engineered to be quieter?

Excluding intentionally loud exhausts, the intake on a lot of bikes generates more sound than the pipes, at least at speed.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22575356
Thinking about it from where I am right now, I don't think it is crazy.

Let's think about it again: China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan. They are countries which are very connected to each other; and yet, somehow, they managed to contain it. It's 'herd responsibility'. The people are applying social distancing and hygiene rules, that's why it's working.

It's possible, as a knowledgeable politician, that you recognize that it's impossible to implement such measures in your country. The reasons are beside the technical abilities of your government: Your citizen are not committed enough to the hygiene. And that's not because Asians are cleaner or superior, they have been exposed to these viruses before and thus they are already trained to deal with them.

It's not the same deal for many countries of the west. We didn't have much trouble in the last few decades and thus people have forgotten why we do most of the hygiene measures in the first place.

Also, here is my first reaction, as a citizen, if the government has declared 'herd immunity' as their strategy: STAY AT HOME. I'd also probably warn the closer one and avoid contact with them too.

So the UK might win twice here: Have enough social distancing by fear (and fear is a hell of a thing as you experienced in the last few days); and also have its population adopt strict hygiene and distancing rules making it safer in the future and readier for the next disease.
I've been waiting for Mycroft to release something new, https://mycroft.ai/

Caviat, they keep having delays and may never release v2 imo
I agree that filters need more love from Gmail, but a simple text search can cover a lot of specific use cases.
I don't think that first rule applies here, precisely because they were upfront (and thus byteshock isn't insinuating some hidden motive, but directly criticizing what they said)
To clarify current national-level lockdown effects are expected to be seen starting twelve days from now.

Some or the old red zones which covered the starting point of the infection are currently with 0 new detected cases since 3 days so it seems lockdown works IF u put them in place soon enough. [ https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&... ]
It's totally insane and I am amazed more people in politics and the media aren't calling it out. Other countries have already demonstrated it can be contained with rapid testing, tracing and limited lockdowns so why are we doing this?

Lets assume 60% of the population are to catch it, they have said they want the worst of it over by the winter. That's 40 million people. If 5% need an ICU bed and the average ICU stay is 2 weeks (both conservative numbers) and infections are spread out perfectly over the next 8 months we will need 125,000 ICU beds, the NHS has something like 5,000 and most are already used for non-coronavirus patients.

You run our of ICU beds the fatality rate is going to rocket, more like 3-6% then 1-2% and we are looking at deaths of 1.2million - 2.4million, let alone all the deaths that come from a completely over-run NHS.

How can you describe a plan that will allow the collapse of the NHS and the death of millions anything other than insane?
If it's a liver cell in the pancreas, it's already ignoring normal cellular signalling. And in terms of replicating, these are derived from stem cells. Cancer is partly defined by cells becoming more stem-cell like and being able to replciate, so by definition they've already been turned into a state where they're predisposed to be cancerous (or basically are cancers by definition), and the coaxed to become a pancreatic cell, but unsuccessfully, so it's not a good place for it to go wrong.

It's a known problem though and not an insurmountable one. There's been a lot of work with encapsulation of these cells in a barrier that will prevent the barely controlled tumor that is an artificial pancreas from breaking out and wrecking havoc. And methods that are getting better at controlling these cells like the one in this thread are promising ways of mitigating this risk moving forward as well.
My number one tip for employees is a simple one: above all else, be responsive. If your company has an instant messenger app, your response time should be in seconds, not minutes. If you're going on a small errand or putting together a snack in the kitchen, it is to your benefit as much as everyone else's to update your status. A simple 'be right back' goes a long ways. When managers can't get ahold of people working from home is when they start to ask questions, run VPN reports, and reign things in.

In reading the comments below, this seems to be wildly unpopular. I can understand where they're coming from. Being available may be very appreciated by others, but it really hurts when you're deeply involved in something. I manage this by marking myself as busy when I know I'm about to dive deep into something, but you can't always see it coming, and I can understand the resistance to this approach.
> Why are people even touching files they shouldn't be touching?

I don't think it's accurate to say they shouldn't be touching the files.

It's possible to make two unrelated changes in the same binary file just as it is possible to make two unrelated changes in a source file (or other merge-friendly text file).

Just as there may be nothing wrong if one person changes the function foo() in a file and someone else changes the function bar() in that same file, there may be nothing wrong if one person opens a CAD file and makes a change to a drawing in one part and another person makes a change to a different part of the same drawing.

In that case, they could coordinate by communicating (even though their tasks are unrelated) but then they're just doing the same thing as locking the files but manually and informally (and probably inconsistently) without the benefits of automation.

Of course there are times when locking catches failures to communicate, but that doesn't mean that that's what locking is for.
it will inevitably come to this. but we also live in a world of deterrence through mutual destruction, not defense
> That said, no car is really loud sub ~3000 rpm...

In a past life, I had a '69 Ford 250 with a big-block 390 that would beg to differ... but it got between 4 and 6 mpg so even in 2001 that was too expensive to keep...
> My argument is wrong because it is silly. Gotcha.

No, it's so wrong that it is silly. That wasn't supposed to be the reason why.

Stop looking for cheap gotchas.
Reminds me of a stand-up routine by Dara O'Briain, "for the sake of balance, we must now turn to Barry who believes the sky is a carpet painted by God".

Obviously an exaggeration in this case - but here one guy is a recognized epidemiologist and the other is a SV tech guy.
Oh yeah. And the room never closes, right?
There are so many of these work from home how-to articles because they're trendy, but almost never useful.

I worked from home for ten years, then back to the office for three, now back at home. I can tell you that what works for one person does not work for everyone.

For example, I am most productive in the morning, and wake up motivated and ready to work. For that reason, I don't take a shower until lunch, then use the afternoons to sort of wind-down with less productive things like meetings, reports, and such.

My father worked from home in the 80's. He was the opposite. He was better in the afternoon. Because of that, he had to force himself to take the mornings seriously. He did that by getting up every morning at 6am, doing the full getting-ready-for-the-office thing, and even went down to the corner store for coffee every day as a sort of "commute."

He would end up at 8am sitting in his home office in the laundry room in a full suit and tie ready for for the day, while I'm still in my sweatpants until after noon.

(Equipment-wise, from working home in the 80's was very different than it is today. Think a big desk with three rotary telephones, filing cabinets, a VFD calculator, and a Telex machine.)
That's a really bad name for the Arab world :P
Given the damage this pandemic has already dealt to the world economy, it's going to be remembered for a long time. It'll join black death and the Spanish flu. Brexit, in comparison, will likely end up as a footnote.
Apple platforms offer an API (SFSpeechRecognizer) which for some languages supports on-device recognition. Trivial to set up, super easy to use, and pretty reasonable accuracy.

Disclaimer: Working for Apple, not directly on this API but in related subjects.
Ugh I know exactly what you mean! A lot of websites have been slowly morphing into "watch this 20 minute video of us explaining to you something that could be documented on 1 piece of paper"
> cumbustion engines.

accidental but brilliant name for an adult film
I've been hosting a YouTube trippy video room for 30 minutes now. My only suggestion is to kill the pop over modal every time somebody wants to join. Kills your ability to interact as the modal can pop up anytime

Should just let anyone pop in without the need to accept every individual person
Google trying to build a competitive advantage for themselves is not surprising. A lack of at least some level of pushback is slightly more worrying.
That's the price being paid for the storage, but is it actually covering the cost of providing that storage? Or is it just 100-300 people who thought "Huh, neat, I'll toss a host online and see how it goes" ? I'd lean towards the latter and assume those storage costs are heavily subsidized by a few people satisfying curiosity.
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Musician, Artist and Provocateur, Dies at 70
Show HN: Coronavirus Spread Simulator (Monte Carlo)
Why Twitter's new website feels so slow
Linux Kernel Development and Writing a Simple Kernel Module (2018)
Moving your arms isn't like breathing. It's not some autonomic nervous function.
Great point - but - shutting down the economy is not a 'conservative' policy, it's up there with 'extreme risk'.

Many sectors will crumble, it will ripple through the economy like dominos, credit dries up, investment halts, you get into an economic death spiral. There's very real possibility existential meltdown which will indirectly cause a lot of pain and death.

So 'lockdown' is 'conservative' from the viral perspective, from any other perspective, it's 'very risky'.
My kids were unfortunately indoctrinated by chromebooks and iPads in our public school system. Using real computers to do things is way too complicated and frustrating for them. Most kids are just like them - they're great using very limited technology for very specific things. The rest of computing is a mystery to them. They type on keyboards at less than 30WPM. At their age, I was doing 50 or so - a requirement for the typing class to 'meet expectations'.
I know nothing about all of this, but I guess the idea is there are too many closely concentrated people and too many variables to control for, so if there are new cases, they could potentially turn into new outbreaks if they aren't detected and handled in time. And it's likely just a matter of probability whether or not they all get detected. Even the most advanced and restrictive surveillance state in the world can't possibly catch everything with 100% probability.

I think there's a decent chance the outcome won't be nearly as bad as the worst case scenario, but the worst case scenario is pretty scary. There is a non-zero probability that this wave is only beginning, that there are going to be future outbreaks and pandemic waves this year, and that by year's end there'll be millions of deaths globally.
> I learned how to save it to my floppy disk.

All Gen Z "digital natives" that I met they never seen a real floppy disk, except as en emoji.

> Things like copying files from a thumbdrive to a computer, filling out a spreadsheet, adding a header or footer to a document - sometimes it is quite shocking

When there is a clear pattern of how the majority of consumers/users behave with a product, then the issue is with the product, not the consumer.

One day my Gen Z relatives complained to me about their iPhone battery draining so fast, I checked their iPhone Settings and was shocked at how iPhone default settings were set to suck up their personal data all the time. And quite shocked that they didn't know how to turn it off..
Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services > Significant Locations & Product Improvement (turned off)

I'm a millennial, who used PC at times when the ONLY notification was the Error message. Even for OS updates you had to buy PC magazine to know that there was a new OS release...
There was no internet, and the PC was so quiet...As a child of the 90s I had to navigate through every file because I had nothing else to do.

Being curious about every function of the software doesn't seem to be a thing of the new generation...surprisingly, this generation, Gen Z, knows more about Social Media Settings than their device Settings.

It's like our generation, the millennials, drove the manual car before we started driving the automatic car....Gen Z, digital natives, started driving Tesla as their first car..

I always remember this quote by Andreessen:

"The spread of computers and the Internet will put jobs in two categories, people who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do."

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/business/story/2012/09/...
I’m not shocked at all that Brit’s still want to get wasted at the weekend regardless of anything. Disclosure: expat Brit!
Not OP but in my case I had older machines that Linux ran well on. Played a lot of ET Wolfenstein...
Matters zero. Might as well go by eye color, shoe size or blood type (don't though).
got it. Thanks for replying.
Rice may be relatively high GI but it and similar foods do not usually give you type 2 diabetes. Junk food does. Rice is far cheaper than that. I don’t really think you can make the case that T2 diabetes is a poor man’s sickness.
I agree with what you just wrote. But, the premise is wrong, I think; We don’t know if lockdown now vs lockdown later (in UK’s case) will result with 0.1% vs 1% of life lost, respectively.
I really believe that working remotely or from home is a skill that needs to be developed over time in most cases. There may be some people who are just naturally better at it, but the first time I had a remote job we went from five days in the office to five days at home abruptly and I was horrible at it and inefficient at my job.

With my current job we started doing 1-2 days of working from home a week over the last year or so. Doing it part time has given me a chance to develop the skills and space needed to be successful and now that we are being pushed into it full time I feel a lot more prepared for it.

I do agree, though, that for most people who aren’t used to it or haven’t had a chance to develop the skills needed it’s going to be a rough transition and productivity is likely to decline, at least temporarily. Some of that may be due to working remotely, but I’m sure at least a part of it is just due to the general circumstances and anxiety surrounding it.
With statements like "the markets are up", and the hyperbole of "so we're saying 'we want to kill 200,000 people'" and "killing everybody", which even the anchor has to reign him in on, Mr Pueyo seems like such a douchebag. he comes of as incredibly unlikeable (at least to me). especially compared to Mr Edmunds, who goes through how herd immunity is a good end-game in a measured and calm manner. to which he seems to offer no counterpoint. they even both agree on lowering the peak, just not on how to do that/when to do it.

edit: it seems reasonable to me to suggest not impose quarantine measures too early, to not drag those measures on for longer than necessary - that just makes it more likely people will disobey it. indeed, because a vaccine is so far off, herd immunity seems like the only plan for now.
I’m of the opinion that everyone should learn to code, but not because the coding is universally useful. Rather, it’s because learning to code is the best way I know to learn to be okay with failure. Shit breaks, you try again.
You're confusing two different measures.

The UK government has increased spending by £30B, £12B to be spent on tackling COVID 19.

The Bank of England has suggested lending £190B to businesses in need.

The roughly equivalent numbers appear to be 12B and 600B (Euros) for Germany.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/mar/11/budget-2020-...

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/news/2020/march/boe-measures...

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/coronavirus-germa...

https://www.pionline.com/markets/germany-lines-600-billion-v...
Of course, but this kind of behavior in terms of utilizing private enterprises for public good like how you describe is pretty much anathema in US and hasn’t been done since WWII. It’s a fantastic idea, but not something the US public seems able to readily accept.

If you could sell it in a way that convinced the CEO’s of these companies that they would get even richer over it, however, it would happen tomorrow.
It's very rare that someone needs to be around to oversee the process. Tooling guides the vast majority of users in to a workflow that works while still being flexible should they need it.

Lack of organizational backup, do you mean cultural from the studio or infrastructure? Both are a problem no matter what solution you pick.

If a team goes AWOL, that's on them. The tooling usually allows for some amount of arbitrary workflow but they can't go completely off the rails. But that's true of p4 too. So I think that scenario would have to be more specific.

And yes people make mistakes, and you need tooling to guide them. Locking is a tool, but it's not the only tool. I feel very much that many workflows use it to hide deeper issues. That's not to say it's not valid, it is, but it's not a panacea either.

Unreal heavily favors perforce and SVN because that's what it was designed around. There's no absolute reason it could not work with other versioning systems and their paradigms if it came to being necessary.

Unity on the other hand is quite happy to work with any version control system, and works quite well with git or perforce.

You again seem to be trying to approach this from the angle of only the system you're familiar with working. But maybe try stepping outside the box and seeing if your workflow isn't a byproduct of your tools.

After all, you were asking git users to look at perforce as the solution. I don't think it's fair to then go ahead and assume that p4 is the only workable solution.
> We don’t know if it’s actually under control without more systematic testing and therefore data on infection rates.

Death and Active cases are a good measure. Both of these are under control in SK vs. still growing in Italy/Spain.
Mr. arcticbull has replied elsewhere that then it's the responsibility of that person (whom he might deal with, and would deal with the vulnerable as well) to quarantine themselves.

To extrapolate, presumably he wouldn't feel any guilt if that vulnerable person died and he was a vector that got the virus to said person.

I wonder what a valid response to this logic is. Maybe: "not all people will be responsible, so it's your duty to be responsible". I guess he'd respond with, "But why should those people be free to enjoy themselves while I'm stuck at home?".

In any case, it's interesting how the sense of community has died.