skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is Magic Leap assigned them, meaning they are pledged by Magic Leap as collateral on a loan[1]. This means that JPM only actually get them if Magic Leap default. (ie JPM can't just decide to sell those patents right now just like when you take a mortgage the bank can't just sell your house from under you if you remain current on your loan).

If I'm JP Morgan I'm sweating this sale process right now because if Magic Leap do default (eg say the sale process tanks and they burn through their remaining cash and default), the recovery on these patents is going to be difficult so JPM will take a writedown on the loan.

[1] https://regmedia.co.uk/2019/11/13/ml.pdf is the patent assignment if you want to see what got assigned
Medical officers (and Italy) tell us that screening arrivals doesn't help.
I have a $1200 Garmin smartwatch on my wrist, which will likely need to be replaced in 3 years time.

With that same money, I could have purchased an entry-level ETA Swiss-made automatic watch, that would last me a lifetime.

I’m lucky enough to own both. On the weekend I wear my Swiss watch, and during the week I wear my smart watch. As someone who’s worn smart watches since the Pebble, the utility of a digital device can’t be replaced by nostalgia.

Maybe there’s a place for both.
They don't have a serological test yet. The test uses RNA extraction. So, the testing all over the world is time consuming and testing kits are expensive. I don't think this is just a US problem.
Any restriction in travel will help to slow the spread of the virus. If you look at Europe, a sizeable number of cases outside of Italy are still travel related. Stopping all travel is one of the key measures to keep infections local.

I'm not saying the measure suffices. Obviously domestic travel is also a big issue, as is travel from outside the Schengen area. But being one of the people affected (currently in Schengen), I still believe this is a right step. It might not slow infections down enough but it will certainly prevent many cases. Also, it will remind people how serious the situation is.
> I think long solitary confinement might work if you teach people how to meditate.

Work to achieve what? To whom? At what economic cost?

You can do away with solitary confinement and still provide access to skills and space to learn and practice meditation.

The solitary confinement component is quite disagreeable.
Hard to say when the US doesn't test.
Current mortality rates are around 3-4%. A mortality rate of 1% already assumes a large number of unreported cases. I saw estimates of 0.7% but they seem wildly optimistic in how many people having reported.
Agreed. Yet another entrenched, old way of doing things that has been completely debunked using both evidence and common sense among the educated but will require monumental political will to change.

How to “disrupt” the American prison system?
It isn’t about color, it’s about resolution. My LG ultra fine 5k monitor is amazing. Will never go back to cheap monitors again. It pairs perfectly with the 5k iMac Pro.
Google has a lot of money in this already...

My comment wasn't really about Magic Leap, but just valuing companies in general, but to address this particular point the fact Magic Leap is looking for a sale could be seen as Google's reluctance to invest more money, or even that Google is looking for a way out. Neither is particularly good for Magic Leap.

The fact someone invested in a company in the past doesn't mean they still believe the company has value or is worthwhile investing in now. The sunk cost fallacy applies here.
Europe to US travel halted over coronavirus
I've considered buying a Thelio a couple of times, sadly they only ship them to North America right now.
For me it was f:cc$ f:contentads some keyword I wanted to learn more about. Then a bunch of cross refs.
He discusses this both in his very detailed Russian post as well as on GitHub: https://github.com/iliasam/OpenTOFLidar/wiki/Laser-Safety
Only happens if the importance of privacy becomes as obvious as the style change.
Completely disagree. If you die, it's hard on those you leave behind, but for you it's either oblivion, the afterlife, or reincarnation. Perhaps that sounds flippant to you, but I've been in multiple traumatic life and death situations as well as several medical ones that were also pretty bad.

While I have a strong will to live (without which I wouldn't be here) the mere fact of dying is not that big of a deal. You're going to die, just as surely as a piece of string has two ends. The notion of life going on indefinitely is not much different from the infantile or drug-induced difficulty in distinguishing between oneself and one's environment. Indeed, being conscious of this fact is the easiest way to appreciate the social-temporal context within which you exist and to some extent see your life from the outside, rather than just down the barrel of your personal future.
They’ll be lucky to get $500M
Show HN: WeHatePasswords – Ditch passwords for easy to remember pixel art
And median age of death >80. Which exactly proves the point, younger people (as in not seniors) also need hospital treatment but recover much more likely.
Code search, critique, Piper/citc/cider are amazing for developing

Power drill is fantastic for drilling down data. So much money was made thanks to this one.
Today I'm introducing you all to a new project of mine called WeHatePasswords. The project's goal is to make your password inputs more intuitive by allowing your members to use a memorable picture for their password as opposed to some complicated text. While this approach to security looks simple on the surface there is 28,430,288,000,000,000,000 possible password combinations so it's definitely not an easy task for somebody to brute force a pixel art password. I have a working demo available on the homepage and instructions on how to add WeHatePasswords to your own site; it's a quick and easy process! Thanks for checking out WeHatePasswords I hope you found it useful or entertaining ️
The original XFL had some different rules around certain types of hits, and it also emphasized the players' personas more by letting them choose the names on their jerseys, trash talk, take their helmet off for celebrations, etc. It was and is still run by the same people behind WWE.

Now I take it they're moving in a different direction. Is there generally more or less concern for player safety in the XFL now, compared to the NFL?
Gobert wasn't in.

1) the game never happened, it was cancelled before tipoff

2) he was listed as questionable and didn't dress. He wasn't even there, he was at the team hotel.
Didn't they release a headset using their proposed technology? Or were they using something else for that?
Having plans in place is great, but we're already running out of masks, gloves etc. here in Germany and it's only about to start. We didn't even try to stock up on this, since "lol China flu, won't concern us". Germany actually just intercepted a shipment of gloves from China to Switzerland and kept them. That's how desperate they are over here.

But in fact I doubt there really is a plan in place at all. It seems most countries ignored this, hoping they'll be spared of this, then stumbled along with adhoc measures, and only now slowly start to listen to experts.

Saying there is nothing we could have done better from just looking at what unfolds in China is very questionable.

> The news in any country is only going to be interested in the most salacious stories in countries 12 time zones away. This is just how the market operates.

... for about a month, and still bringing it up to this date.

Compare [1] to [2]. Notice anything? Western, especially US media is becoming more and more of an echo chamber trying to strengthen that simplistic world view that we are the good guys and they are the bad guys. But it's not overly surprising really, considering the financial struggles of traditional media over the last decade. As you said, the focus shifts more and more towards stories and headlines that sell, even for once renowned outlets like the NYTimes.

[1] https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1236484352965521408

[2] https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1236479276586807296
I would simply move to the next state over and enjoy vastly lower taxes, less traffic, and more disposable income.
From the WHO: https://www.who.int/health-topics/coronavirus

"Coronaviruses (CoV) are a large family of viruses that cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV). A novel coronavirus (nCoV) is a new strain that has not been previously identified in humans."

The naming is actually a bit confusing to me, as the CDC has this to say[1]:

"On February 11, 2020 the World Health Organization announced an official name for the disease that is causing the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak, first identified in Wuhan China. The new name of this disease is coronavirus disease 2019, abbreviated as COVID-19. In COVID-19, ‘CO’ stands for ‘corona,’ ‘VI’ for ‘virus,’ and ‘D’ for disease. Formerly, this disease was referred to as “2019 novel coronavirus” or “2019-nCoV”."

I'm not sure where the separation between virus and disease is or was, of if that even matters in the end.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/faq.html
Does anyone actually go to BI, Forbes, TechCrunch, whatever, directly anymore? The most they get is a headline in someone’s social media feed that generates a click and maybe 10 seconds of eyeball on ad. Proof reading isn’t worth it.
This is something I have been thinking about a lot lately, the way stuff gets to me. This might actually be what I was thinking about.

Exciting times when something you thought you would have to build falls in your lap.

I might contribute to this, thanks for making it :)
Unfortunately the US (no doubt others too) prison is the business of punishment. If you are poor you will get a harsher punishment. If nobody is looking you will get a harsher cheaper punishment. Working at a prison requires a certain mindset. Empathy is soon weeded out. What's left is brutality. That's the deal society has made, to hide away the hard problem of solving crime at root cause.
The red tape thing is nonsense. What was lacking was/is political will. CDC/FDA/States could increase testing 100-fold overnight if they really wanted to. A decision has been made to proceed differently. Hopefully this decision is reconsidered over the next few days or things are going to get much worse. Currently, as far as I can tell, we are doing about 1000 tests a day nationwide. I can order the necessary reagents and a few water baths and a cheap microtiter plate fluorometer for overnight delivery and do a 1000 of these tests a day by hand.
EU=/=Europe, but i doubt NBC knows the distinction, amongst their moronic audience
"Being consistent with incorrect studies is nothing to brag about.”

So ALL(!) the studies referenced in WHO situation reports are "incorrect"? The WHO couldn't/didn't find any other studies that were "correct"? Don't you think it is a little improbable that 4 entities (WHO + 3 teams behind the 3 studies) are all wrong?

You say the CFR is nowhere in the range but that's because you, like all media, look at the so-called naïve CFR (deaths/cases) which is known to severely underestimate the true CFR in the initial rapid growth phase of an epidemic, because deaths lag cases. The naïve CFR gives accurate results only when calculated across a cohort of patients who all either recovered or died, with none left hospitalized.
Epidemiologists are very aware of this bias; my post at https://blog.zorinaq.com/case-fatality-ratio-ncov/ covers this topic and presents various links including 4-5 peer-reviewed papers documenting it. This bias is why none of the proper CFR estimates employ the naïve CFR calculation.

Also you need to be aware that CFR evolves over time. Initially the most severe cases are the ones that are detected first, so CFR among these initial cohorts is higher.

In fact the high CFR is confirmed by observations of these cohorts. For example 11 of the first 99 patients died[1]. That's a CFR of 11% right there. And some of these patients were still hospitalized at the time of publication, some additional ones may have died since then.

My CFR estimate and the 3 studies referenced by the WHO were all based on such early data when the detected cases were more severe. If we were to redo the estimate today with current data from China, we would find a lower CFR because today they can run many more lab tests on larger swath of population so they detect a larger proportion of mild cases.

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
Oh we certainly can. "We" have decided not to, for now. One day we might find out the who/why/how of this decision. That will be an interesting day.
Imposing longer prison sentences won't help support the victims family. If anything it's taking tax dollars away from the welfare system and channelling those funds to the prison system.

When a person goes to prison they may also be leaving a family who are now unable to meet their needs. Harsher penalties might mean that person is unable to provide for their family for longer.
Ah, the problem is that I don't have that option — must be a regional thing:

https://imgur.com/a/BR1ILDe
I'll give you my Casio A168WA-1YES when you pry it from my cold, dead left wrist.
> An MIT grad will always have more gates open than an NCSU grad.

In the immortal words of Amy Klobuchar “are you calling me dumb?”

> You need to do other things
in your career to lessen the gap.

Such as what exactly?
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He talks about how to begin a daunting task: linear order, easiest/most straightforward first, or a top-down "skeleton" first.

If it's daunting enough to be discouraging, consider doing tasks that quickly give you some sense of progress towards what like about it. To sustain your interest - your most precious resource.

This mightn't be most efficient, or give the best structure, but if it motivates you to do it, it will be far more efficient and better strucured than nothing!
I'm not sure about the lower infection rate, even rural communities are quite interconnected. But obviously death rates are likely proportional to the number of older people. So the US should fare better.

However, hospital admissions in Italy are now at a median age of 65, so a younger population doesn't help hospitals, it just lowers mortality.
Help https://github.com/TreeTide/underhood reach feature parity ;)
While a regular emoji could take years to get approved, vendors are free to implement ZWJ sequences. We've had some tentative interest from Facebook, Twitter and Whatsapp already.
Truck Driver Stuck on Highway Since China’s Coronavirus Lockdown
I think the chance of you wearing the latter for more than three years before it's lost or you're bored of it or it's forgotten in a drawer somewhere is pretty low.

Longevity is overrated. People don't want to wear the same watch for a lifetime, no matter how fancy.
Thanks for the story, and the perspective. I appreciate it.

Obviously it means nothing over the internet but I'm sitting here hoping the best for you. Good luck, man.
Thank you. Enjoyed immensely
They're not that bad. I rinse them out after use and then put them in the dishwasher. Preparation is like making a cup of tea, just pouring some hot water in. I would say prep takes <2min for a pot of coffee (including filling up the kettle), cleaning <1 min.
What categories of speech outside of the categories I've listed would be valuable for private entities to restrict?
>"_____ so their suffering is their own fault!"

Well, that is the core insight, no matter the external circumstance. (Though, of course, it’s not about blame, and more like “here is the door.”)

Get deep enough, and yes, being in a shitty version of solitary is the same as being in a positive fantasy of your choosing.
Why nobody is eating the market by making affordable (sub $50) hackable watches? The most widespread MT626x devices are so paranoidly closed that even changing clock face involves mucking with ROM image using third-party tools. Installing apps? Forget about that.
My company is doing the same thing. We’re doing a trial day tomorrow with everyone working remote to make sure everyone is situated.
Why no comments discussing the root cause has the writer reported it: men who should be receiving non-voluntary mental treatment being forced into the prison system due to non-existence of mental facilities.

Historically said mental facilities (mental asylums) were themselves inhuman and barbaric. The out cry against them lead to their closure. Yet if that just drove the prison system to new levels of inhuman and barbarism then that itself a regression.

Do other countries have more successful mental services? I know Japan did not close down their asylums during the same era America did. Are those facilities acceptable?
> What do you mean “he doesn’t take responsibility”?

It's probably an issue of poorly chosen words, but compare

> fourteen months later I shot a man and unfortunately caused his death.

with

> fourteen months later, I shot and killed a man.

The way that it's currently written sounds like an accident: "I, a victim of PTSD, shot a man and, in a bizarre twist of events, he died from it". The passive voice there paints a disconnection between the cause and the effect.

Of course, judging a man's life from two sentences is nonsense. It just so happens that those two sentences are very unfortunate. But that's on the editor.
> Excluding the UK and Ireland surely had political reasons

Or maybe it's because Trump owns golf resorts in both countries?
I agree we are maybe 1.5 weeks behind Italy. Though hopefully it never explodes quite as fast in most of the US due to lower population density and other cultural differences. But as for travel bans, the complaint is that they only slow the spread, in return for economic and other downsides. But I'll take that. The flatter the curve is the better.
>some evidence

Well, don't be afraid to share it with the world, if such evidence does exist.

I highly doubt it though.
The details are unclear anyway. What about Schengen citizens living in the UK? I can imagine they'll generally let people in from UK and Ireland but question them about travel history and maybe proof of residence. Lying to a border agent gets you banned for life, that should be a decent deterrent.

In the end, it's not like a terrorism threat where the ones trying hardest are the ones you need to catch. Here, keeping 99% out can suffice easily, esp if the others are also questioned and are getting temperature checks.
The longevity is exactly the same, therefore it is likely that the greater transmissibility is due to a different factor. I think that's the only reasoning that's going on.
Oh right, I suppose I should have installed it first. I like that it's stand-alone.

While there is much I don't like about Feedly, the things I do like are it's ability to make suggestions, and that also you can add things like YouTube links - like fraidycat. This means if Primitive Technology release a video, I know about it, and it comes up along with developer blogs I follow. The suggestions have been useful in discovering new blogs, but you can't have that with a stand-alone app... unless you provide a server for this. I'd happily provide my anonymized feed list to a server, if I get in return a bunch of adjacent content creators.
Start small - daily standup on Zoom.

Then get everyone on Asana.

Maybe get a Slack channel going.

Experiment a bit instead of jumping into a pre-set flow and see what works best for your team. Maybe even start with just 2-3 people (early adopters).
It's a bit unfair to compare the speed of wildly inequivalent things. RocksDB would be more comparable, but even there it is offering much stronger resilience guarantees, multicore support, and gives you access to all your data at once.

Calling them expensive is ironic AF. Most of them are free and open source.
Small home, no garden, no room for an office.

Precocious kid, needs to be stimulated permanently.

No S.O. in the picture.
Tech vs. Covid-19
I was confused by the headline until I read the article. Here "accessible" means "affordable", and specifically <US$500, and not "usable by people with disabilities".
I was referring to the stats on this Wikipedia page[1]. But even the page you linked says that while life expectancy is lower and disease burden is higher, people admitted to hospital have an equal or even better chance of recovery compared to other countries, depending on the illness. So the US population is sicker but hospitals are probably not the problem.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_quality_o...
Viruses are the physical thing which makes you sick. The disease is the sickness the virus (in this case) gives you. The problem is that nobody in the media* knows the difference or pays attention to it when reporting it.

Wikipedia calls diseases "medical conditions that are associated with specific symptoms and signs".
Unless when they happen to be equal. Then it never halts.
Yes, let's all just stop getting adequate nutrition, that'll help with the diseases.

http://journals.lww.com/epidem/fulltext/2007/09001/The_Effec...

>Statistical analysis showed significant differences in hematological parameters between vegetarian and nonvegetarian population. People eating vegetarian diet had significantly lower white blood cell count and red blood cell count in both, older (P < 0.01; P < 0.001) and younger (P < 0.01, P < 0.001) populations in comparison with nonvegetarian subjects. Hematological parameters were decreased, but in normal reference range. Reduced white blood cell counts were discovered in individual cell populations. Younger vegetarians had significantly lower count of neutrophils (P < 0.001), monocytes (P < 0.05), and eosinophils (P < 0.01) compared with younger nonvegetarians. In older vegetarians, significantly lower lymphocyte (P < 0.001) and basophile (P < 0.01) counts were found.Immune function analysis displayed significantly lower phagocytosis of monocytes and granulocytes in an older vegetarian population (vs. older nonvegetarians (P < 0.05, P < 0.001). Similar effect of diet was observed as decreased phagocytic activity of granulocytes in younger vegetarians. Regardless of age, respiratory burst of phagocytic cells was also significantly decreased in women vegetarians versus nonvegetarians (P < 0.05, P < 0.001). Older vegetarians revealed significantly suppressed proliferative response of T-lymphocytes to mitogens (P < 0.001).
It isn't quite the thriftstore, but the last 3 batches of monitors I have gotten were all surplus or off lease.

Something like https://www.newegg.com/dell-u2412m-24/p/N82E16824260047?&qui...
They should know your location already, and can decide if you are coming back at all.

I agree, it smells human review. Models probably produce a list and human gives the greenlight.
I'm baffled at how bad github code search even for enterprise github deployments.
Is there some third party solutions that are popular or standard?
"His actions clearly indicate he doesn't believe it is a hoax."

Huh?

He called Fox News and said on air ""So if, you know, we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people [with COVID-19] that get better, just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work, some of them go to work, but they get better,""

His whole schtick until just about a few hours ago was that the risks were all hugely overblown.

I am also curious to know exactly which "previous unfounded criticisms" you are referring to.