skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate what you're saying and I agree that it's very hard, but I think it may be too quick to chalk it up as being impossible.

In fact, things like making the room easier to read despite using a camera is exactly what I was talking about. It is definitely the case with today's systems where you simply have a camera on the lid of the laptop and display many individual images of people on the screen. This does look very unnatural.

For instance, one very distracting aspect of this is that it is impossible for two people to be looking into each other's eyes as they are communicating, since the image and the camera are not aligned. Solving this would at least make addressing a single person over a video call much more natural. Perhaps we could somehow place a camera behind the screen? Will volumetric display technology make it easier once it is more widespread?

And this is just one problem that we can identify. I'm sure there are many other subtle cues missing from a video call which could be identified and then hopefully fixed.
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I believe their thesis is that people will get tired of not socialising in groups. At this time of year people aren't missing outdoors so much as the pub, cafe, restaurant, office etc.
This conjured in my mind a car-less street where the driving lanes have been converted to lines of trees.

Looks great in my head!
There you go. So unclear communication I got it wrong.
Thanks for immediately providing an example of the kind of person mentioned by the commenter you're addressing.
I'm confident you did a lot of reading of Reddit, the correct blogs, and are member of sympathetic Facebook pages. And yet the ignorance is striking and so is how righteous you feel.
I'll be having a steak and eggs in your honor this morning. With a cup of milk to wash it down.
Check out the Buy It For Life subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyItForLife/
It’s possible, but given the calibre of the UK CMO and Chief Scientist, it seems unlikely.
If your government gave no official guidance at all, then you would do nothing.

If other companies did nothing, then you would do nothing.

Interesting. Entrepreneurs are usually way more forward thinking.
In a previous gig I worked on an identity system for a large media company. Using the forgot password link on every login is actually a very common pattern - though I think the reasons most people do it (they log in and are rarely logged out therefore they just forget the password) are different than your reasons.
Gmail shows my photo after I enter my emaill address (but before my password)
> It totally ignores the blow to the economy of people dying

People who are over 70 dying in large numbers is a humanitarian crisis, not an economic one.
It’s beyond belief that any strategy could even be considered that does not have its primary goal to save as many lives as possible.

Containment attempts that.

“Herd immunity” is an experiment that the UK government is going to carry out on its citizens causing massive loss of life for no good reason at all.
Now and later make a HUGE difference economically. Time value of money. Business cash flow. Not to mention, if it turns out to be unnecessary later, later becomes never.
> I’m not the only one on my race team that would eat rims every year or two.

This really says it all. When I am cycling to work, I am not trying out for the tour de france or trying to beat someone else's strava record.

> Fact is, rim brakes are inferior in every way to just about every alternative, save two: they’re inexpensive and lightweight.

It doesn't matter if they are inferior. My regular disc brakes on my Ford Focus is inferior in every way compared to whatever they put on a Ferrari. However they are perfectly is sufficient and safe for driving to work and back.

The best argument you can make for discs vs traditional rim brakes would be that the modulation is slightly better.

It really annoys me that a lot of cyclists seem to push very expensive kit that for the commuter is completely unnecessary.
There is a difference between being intimidated by technology and at least being able to operatre them on a basic level. Digital natives are overall just people who are not intimidated by technology, like their parents and grandparents were.
Does someone know, if MathJax can be utilized as renderer for a static web site? I do this with KaTeX for my Pelican-based blog successfully, after I found no way to integrate MathJax easily into the workflow.
Perhaps he’s using his skill of manufacturing viral content for good. My wife has masters in epidemiology and has been pushing social distancing for a couple weeks now. It’s unfortunate that we have to rely on this random guy to get the word out and not our govt with their massive platform.
As someone who looked seriously at a scheme like this before reluctantly using a password manager instead, part of the appeal comes from vault anxiety. If I don't have the vault and a tool to use it, I can't access my accounts.

I like the idea of a scheme that I can use with a preferred utility, but which I could assemble from commonly available tools if necessary. It's not too hard to find PBKDF2 in a Python or JavaScript library, or reimplement it yourself using even more commonly available primitives.

To be clear, I was never under the illusion that a password generator is as secure as a vault full of random passwords. The point is to improve on password reuse, or trivial transformations on a core password. If you generate random passwords for every single account, this is not for you, but it's probably better than storing weak passwords in a vault.

The problem, even if you ignore the straw men that usually get pummeled on threads like this, is that as you address the practical and security limitations of a naive scheme, you tend to lose the simplicity of the initial idea. You end up adding counters and password rules, so you have state to maintain/sync. Even if you don't treat it as secret, it chips away at the essential appeal of the concept. One comment on this post even mentions using a key file.
Flu vaccine has to be taken every year.
What about "comm" - compare two sorted files line by line.
You can easily get occurrences only in file 1, in both files, only in file 2.

Super powerful and saved me hours of work.
WHO? Italy lockdown its cities on Mar 9, and WHO declares wuhan virus pandemic on Mar 11. Before that, WHO discourages country to take effective measures and cut out traffic with China. Luckily, not all countries are fooled by this idiotic org and take its own measures. Taiwan, who is not even a member of WHO, took good measures and protected itself. Unfortunately Italy and other European countries are fooled and cut out traffic too late. That is the result of they trusted CCP and WHO too much.

Chinese Economy? Is the gain worth all the environmental damage and pollution everywhere?

If CCP gov is like the other political entity, would it when having a SARS outbreak in 2003, make an even bigger one like wuhan virus outbreak and do even worse cover up to spread it around the world?
In my case, it doesn't need to be a rigid schedule. I might get up at 6. I might get up at 9. I may do a little work in the evening. I may not. I may run some errands scheduled around whatever meetings I have. But, for the most part, I do something that approximates a typical work day.
Whether or not the Romans meant for any of their structures to last 2000 years, it was clearly overkill for their purposes.
Are you in the US? There is no requirement to join a club to take the test or study for one. There’s an excellent iOS training app (written by Patrick J Maloney), and after using that for two weeks (e.g., during commute) you’d likely pass with no issue.
If SuperMemo/Anki Is the Best Learning Tool, Why Isn't Every Student Using It?
> While drafting this post, there was a text-post to /r/cpp on Reddit entitled Writing c++ is wonderful, compiling and linking it is horrible and glib. While the original author has deleted the body of their post, I can summarize that it was more-or-less a rehashing of the title itself, with some explanatory examples. The post received 400pts, with a 97% positive vote: That’s incredible, and places it as one of the most popular posts in /r/cpp for the entire year!

Here is the archived body of the reddit post if anybody was curious: http://removeddit.com/r/cpp/comments/egrzd0/writing_c_is_won...
https://nypost.com/2020/03/13/new-york-public-library-system...
We've got this slightly weird "soon but not yet" thing going on at the moment, strangely reminiscent of Mark Carney Governor of the Bank of England's infamous and ill fated 'forward guidance' policy.

We're being told that some time in the next two weeks all over 70s will be told to self isolate for up to four months. Well if it's going to be four months I think my parents can jolly well start now, thank you very much. Similarly with "not quite but nearly" school closures.

It all seems to be predicated on the theory that if we start too early well get bored of it by the time the real pandemonium starts, which sounds like pretty strange thinking to me.
Thanks, I gave it a try. It's different from Gist, however, this too doesn't have theme options. I actually wanted to customize the look of the code snippet to match my blog's theme (something in dark). https://blog.rampatra.com/how-to-add-search-in-jekyll
Something which uses a DSL to describe the business domain, like Viaweb by PG in the late 90s
Most of this is being done in the West, and Westerners aren't as inclined to comply with government instructions as a typical Asian country even before we get to the specifics of Myanmar's situation (decades of authoritarian government requiring people to comply with bans as arbitrary as 'no bicycles in the former capital, because reasons' and parts of the country already with travel restrictions for other reasons)
But flattening the curve involves things like cancelling events and closing bars/pubs/clubs/restaurants and telling businesses to have employees work from home if possible. And the government is doing none of that.
Does anybody know if there is a C/C++ (MIT oder equal) library that has few dependencies and can generate images from equations, similar to MathJax? (I.e. not LaTeX due to not a library and a lot of dependencies)
They VFXed that into Allegiant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYyeROGcsIA from the Divergent Series as "The Wall that Encircles Chicago". I mean the thing itself, not the footage the youtuber did. Btw. when he is hoboing on some trains, his head is sometimes very near to the overhead wires.
I wonder if he ever heard of "Arcing"?
I'm not so convinced of the findings of this - value wise. Yes they are great but been many failed initiatives that lacked common sense:

https://www.surreycomet.co.uk/news/11855411.greener-pastures...

They spent a huge amount to install a non-native tree that is effectifly a stick and they died, replaced them again and they also died, finally replaced them with something that would last and they are just saplings. The greenway was effectively getting the middle of a busy road and putting in some concrete pathing which they painted green, few flower boxes that are mostly showing off soil and that cost millions.

So call me a cynical about some initiatives, but I've seen, experienced as thanks to my local council - paid for so many failed ones that to teh common lay person - lacked common sense, that when I see such reports, I just know they are not seeing the whole picture and are only used to push more expensive, ill-thought vanity projects by certain types of councils.

Same council who ignores flooding in some area's and would be best solved by planting some trees, yet they refuse as they are worried about additional leaf little that may clog up the roads. For those wondering - Kingston-Upon-Thames is the area's I'm referring about.

But if a council can cut down a large tree for dubious reasons and replace it with a couple of saplings that take decades to reach the same potential and in many cases, poorly chosen tree's that will die, they can trumpet their ego and say they have more trees than they cut down, yet reality shows that is far from the truth in results.
Wish I had read this before – To the point – Cryptography
Thanks for the reply. I actually wanted something already hosted so that I could host my code on their service and share it on my blog.
> Yes. Sounds like the system is working as intended.

Sure. Remember the topic though. It’s working in spite of his inability to transmit information. And it’s a lot less efficient/effective to correct information after-the-fact.

> the media says it’s bad

True, but so what? The media isn’t one guy, it’s a huge number of people and many of them pay attention to what he does. So, yes someone somewhere criticizes everything he does whether it’s deserved or not, just like Obama and every other president. BTW, you might not bring up his early handling of this. Not “a hoax” anymore, is it. We didn’t get to zero cases soon. Unfortunately, we can’t go back and correct these incorrect statements.

> Your priors mean nothing?

Ok, now I think you’re just trolling. Jesus.
Isn't it too late? We seem to have cases spread thoroughly across all states.
There is.

Yesterday I biked over to a friend and back, different routes except the first/last 200m, both routes as green-ish as possible in the city. Say 10km along tree-lined streets, through parks, etc, and a few km elsewhere. I don't think I passed even a single of those annoying root bumps, and from this I infer that whatever city department is responsible for planting the trees knows how to do it well.

It can be done, some cities succeed almost perfectly, "everywhere" isn't.
Another fallacy? Look at historical fruits and vegetables - these plants were trying to kill those that ate their seeds and fruit - so the progeny plant could thrive in their rotting corpse. No gratitude from me.

An exaggeration of course. But fruits and vegetables are only the lovely things they are, because of 10,000 years of selection for what are essentially grotesque bloated versions of the 'natural' seeds and fruits they came from. Outrageous genetic experiments as unnatural as modern chicken breasts and goldfish. No reasonable 'intent' of the plant may be inferred, anthropomorphizing aside.
Paywall prevents me from reading the article, but from what the title implies I'd like to posit that there is precedent for the scale of this shift.
The point is to decouple the master password from the generated passwords. The file can contain as much key material as you want, so it's stronger than any password you can remember.
wow! You just saved the future me thousands of hours.
I said in my comment clearly it is a hypothesis. While it is important and useful to think logically the Euclidean way, it is also important to find clues and make hypothesis, that is how people discover things in the real world.

Without information about how this letter was prepared and signed among these people in detail, my hypothesis stands.
"Even if our hotels are open, who will come?"

>>> only about 20% of hotel stays are international. [1]

"just because we didn't close our schools"

>> its far, far beyond schools.

"No-one is asking for a complete shutdown right now."

>> Well, public events, Football, and almost all Entertainment are shut down. Restaurants are down 50%. Taxis, trains, public transport. Tanning parlors. Yoga. Fitness clubs. Swimming pools. Theaters. Shopping malls, high-street - they're all getting clobbered, without 'total shut down' and it's going to hurt.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/564673/accommodation-dom...
Are there any good projects that implement this in a user-friendly system that allows schedulers to choose from multiple options and make adjustments based day-to-day conditions?

Algorithms like this look cool but can end up being too rigid for many real-world scenarios. You can’t just take the output and force everyone to follow that schedule.
You can get weather images from NOAA satellites with common SDR receivers: https://www.rtl-sdr.com/rtl-sdr-tutorial-receiving-noaa-weat...

The web ones probably can’t do it because they probably don’t have the right antenna, but SDR dongles are inexpensive so if the web ones intrigue you it’s cheap to get into your own to do more.
As European living in East-Asia, I'm also stunned by how lightly the various Western governments, and people living under them, have taken this virus issue. It's like everyone think it will not affect them (first not their country, then not them personally) so they don't need to do anything. At first I was angry at my government seeing they did absolutely nothing for two months, but when I hear how people still react to it ("it's just a flu!") I start to think they actually need to see the consequences to understand how bad the situation is. Then they will be ready for next time, but sadly at a high price in term of deaths.
The problem with these methods is that you exclude everybody that deviates from the norm. Yes, it might make your life (as a developer) a little bit easier, but it makes the lives of some of the applicants a lot harder.
Yes, but hopefully they'll identify the flare-up much more quickly and be able to contain it with more targeted measures, before things get to the level they reached in Wuhan in late January.
Cow's milk is designed to get a calf to full size in a year. Its composition is very different from human milk, is loaded with bovine growth hormones, and there's a lot of evidence it's not very well suited for us.

Rat milk is closer to human milk and would actually be a much better substitute. Maybe we should set up big rat dairies?
Once you've used a compiler like Rust or Elm that actually provides suggestions for common solutions to these errors (effectively building the tribal knowledge of what the error "really means" into the compiler itself), it's hard to tolerate these cryptic errors that only really make sense to machines.
No. Smaller groups contain and slow down the spread. It extends our response time.
> There's a very real risk of economic cataclysm, which will roil through the economy and hit many people very hard, causing all sorts of disruptions, negative health outcomes across the board.

Boost spending through government stimulus programs, loosened unemployment benefits, or simply writing cheques to people directly. Ten-year bond rates for most major industrialized countries are ridiculously low, and even negative in some cases:

* https://tradingeconomics.com/bonds

There's no sense in being cheap at this point in time.
If you lock down too soon the spread will simply restart post lockdown. If you wait a hit, there will be some percentage of the population already exposed and immune post-lockdown which will slow the spread. That's my thought on timing.
> Calling something 'problematic' doesn't in any way prevent you from providing a justification for that view.

Nor does any libelous or slandering statement or outright lying, but that doesn't remove your responsibility of supporting and substantiating your claims.

The "problematic" label is just a trick to poison the well.
It could do that because it could afford to take the economical hit and because it is an authoritarian state, which means you can get almost everyone to obey, in one way or another. Also, the Chinese Party is what caused this mess to begin with, by allowing this virus to spread all around the world.

Can we stop using mode of government as an explanation for success and failure?

Clearly your country have its head screwed on better than mine. Meanwhile, my president is complacency in chief, more worried about the stock market than lives being lost. The local governments know what they're doing moreso than the feds, when it should be the other way around.

South Korea certainly seemed to have its head screwed most on head. They learned from previous lessons and are very successfully in applying them.
In my area's they did just that and called it a cycle path, yet no cyclists use it and the pathment is so narrow that in places that you can't get a wheelchair past without encroaching upon this cycle lane, that now sits pedestrians between cars and cyclists jammed in the middle, kinda why many cyclists don't use them.

Had they just said, cyclists can use pavements period - but pedestrians have priority - it would of been far better for all and way safer and cheaper than what we actually got.
If you can trace the cases faster than they spread, then it’s not too late.
> too expensive to get a cert

What? Has he never heard of LetsEncrypt or CloudFlare?
Roger Fisher's idea for making the decision to use nuclear weapons less abstract
Third possibility thrown around some alt journos on Twitter is that the president was _persuading_ Google to help.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/us/politics/trump-google-...
This is where the government needs to step in and guarantee healthcare, paid sick leave, and improve unemployment. It's already starting to happen. We'd be in much better shape if we were already closer to European countries in this regard, though.
Interesting, but no, I'm in the UK. We can sit a theory test online I believe, but there's a practical test you have to pass first, which it seems can only be done through clubs.
Please avoid editorializing titles on Hacker News. Simpler is better here. Thanks.
Reminds me of rabb.it. Very disappointed to see a link to Discord and lack of link to source. I was hoping this was going to be free software, but now I'm thinking it's unlikely. Playing OpenArena in the browser is an interesting idea.
"...the NHS in the UK, doesn't recognize Vit D deficiency as a problem."

The NHS does recognise vitamin D deficiency as an issue.

In the UK, a science advisory body (Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition) published a 300 page report of the evidence on vitamin D and health in 2016. Their conclusion: adults and children over one in the UK should have at least 10 micrograms of vitamin D every day. For some people this may mean taking a vitamin D supplement. People who have a higher risk of vitamin D deficiency are advised to take a supplement all year round.

Here is an overview of the guidelines on the NHS website which includes a link to the 300 page scientific review.

https://www.nhs.uk/news/food-and-diet/the-new-guidelines-on-...
What kind of use cases do you have in mind?
It's even more complex then that.

Even if you do end up isolating the elderly, there will still be an increased influx of patients who will take up hospital beds.

At that point, the problem isn't just an elder person taking a fall, it literally affects anyone who contracts another illness, gets a stroke, a heart attack, organ failure, a traffic accident,...
Yes, we are in the process of deploying our ML solution! As more users start using it, we can improve our model and automate the recognition of more and more fields.

We think our UI/UX will be a real differentiator. We welcome any feedback in this regard.
I fear this good feeling may be misleading Lisp fans into liking the language more than it deserves.

Personally, I find that the more feverish I am, the more attractive I find Lisp. It’s one of the first signs that I am coming down with a cold.
I don't follow. We have a law setting a speed limit in public roads. We have fines/jail for people who break it. We spend billions on manual patrolling, screening, prevention, detection, etc.

Why is it such a bad idea to just fit in speed limiters and be done with it?

And that last part? It's pretty much an empty argument, as if we don't already regulate/restrict/ban many things with the potential to cause harm (cars included).
comm is a really useful tool, with one big caveat — you must make sure your input files are all sorted the exact same way. If not, you can get unexpected results, and worse, might not even realize it.

This may seem obvious, but there are many tiny ways that sorts can differ between locales, operating systems and programs (e.g. Excel), especially when dealing with Unicode. It may look the same 99% of the time, and you may not realize until later that you’ve accidentally filtered out values.