skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite a drop, actually. I'm away from all my equipment, my jury-rigged home office is suboptimal, and having family around that doesn't understand work boundaries is distracting.

Maybe with practice and investment, things would be better but having to do so suddenly like this, nope.
"The initial exponential growth rate"

Key word, initial. Later on, not so much. Which is the whole point, pandemics aren't exponential over the complete run time. So, why not using these formulas at least in the models instead of using exponential equation limited by world population?

Edit:

"It will have an exponentially growing phase, and then an exponentially shrinking phase"

Confirming the point above. Math is a precise science, it's a while since I did stuff like that, but getting equations right or not used to be a big deal back than. And now we talking more serious things than just a grade in an exam.
1.5T is a big number, there must be significant liquidity issues
Certainly. It does compute and without computation property it will be not possible to store and retrieve information.
NDP no longer the official opposition, so it's not quite accurate to refer to Jagmeet Singh as the Opposition leader anymore.
> When everyone you know lives in a really small area, a lot of stuff is apparent by inference and can't really be hidden. This ends up de facto reining in behavior without anyone necessarily telling you to stop.

That’s a terrible way to live, IMO. Humans grow and evolve (not in the strict biological sense) by experimenting and doing things that others may frown upon (for reasons good or destructive). That people in the past had very little agency of their own for a species like ours is a blemish on social structures. All the freedoms we take for granted today have been enabled by or have come in conjunction with having better privacy.

We need a balance, but going back to how it used to be would be counterproductive.
> TPDNE only creates a single image of a person

That doesn't state that it can't, only that it doesn't. Also, I am wondering about other GANs/image generation systems and not just TPDNE specifically.
I totally get the concept of spending countless hours on something that "sane" people would never attempt. I have plenty of electronic projects in my workspace at various levels of completion. They were all started from my looking at off-the-shelf options that were either too expensive for my budget or only providing ~80% of the features I needed. The most dangerous thing for me is someone else to tell me I "can't" anything. I'll run my fingers to the bone just to prove I "could" (to various degrees of success).

TLDR: it's the learning along the way that matters more than the result in and of itself.
I’m not sure dynamic dispatch is that much of a killer feature. Take C# it default to static dispatch of method and you tend to get very far without explicitly making things virtual.

Event when using interfaces many times it’s seems possible to arrange things such that parametric polymorphism would be able to use a static type.
There are some boiling proposals for future versions that will help with exactly this, and indeed some of the latest changes to the languages have included allowing more static dispatching in polymorphic constructs like disposal and enumeration.

I’m beginning to suspect that dynamic dispatch could be entirely dropped without losing to much expressiveness.

Have no experience with Rust but isn’t that kind of the conclusion from that community?
> The reason this stuff is acceptable is we just shrug it off as "normal politics"

Not really. They understand what they're doing, this happens because it is a contemporary political strategy in the U.S, it doesn't matter what individual constituents feel about the practice.
Commits should be atomic.
Fed to inject $1.5T to prevent ‘unusual disruptions’ in markets
These are basic measures to effectively fight coronavirus...

The goal of not overwhelming our healthcare system and minimizing deaths is best served by getting a full set of measures out fast.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51857856

Does appear that the transition from containment into delay has just started.
CadQuery (python lib that wraps freecad's CAD kernel) is a bit more similar to a traditional CAD system in terms of how it constructs parts (workplane, etc).

Also, onshape.com (commercial with hobby free tier) has a scripting interface that i believe is js-like (i have not yet had to use it, but i use onshape quite a bit for hobby projects). Their versioning and importing of community parametric parts is pretty tight imo.
Coronavirus started in a country with universal healthcare.

The only way to actually prevent the spread of this type of disease is independent of government - changing personal behavior.
yes, could have rather been a GIST or Blog. Love to play with the code / model if anyone can point to it. Nice work btw, some of the generated so good that is was funny!
TPM, no. I'm fairly sure that PlayReady's HWDRM implementation does integrate somewhat with ME though.
Other coverage of this bill suggests McConnell is OK with passing something he sees as imperfect, given cover from Trump.

> Should the White House and House Democrats come to terms, Mr. McConnell has indicated privately that he would quickly bring up the measure and pass it to allow Mr. Trump to sign it into law.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/us/politics/trump-house-c...

It’s hard to imagine he would incentivize Pelosi to pass an aid bill just so he can block it, what is the political upside for him if he does that?

Similarly, the fact that Pelosi is even trying to work with Trump, Mnuchin, etc suggests she believes passage is possible. If she’s just doing this to make the senate republicans look bad when they reject it, then it’d be much easier to pass something with little to no input from Republicans.
They do. It's called the Seiko 4R35 ;)
edit: this is a stupid watch joke
If you undo all the social support afterwards, that just means it becomes a problem again with the next SARS/MERS/COVID strain.
Engineer at Sourcegraph here. Adding boolean operators is a priority on our roadmap, and expected to go live between May and July this year. On separate inputs: definitely something we've also identified and are actively working on. One recent experimental addition is "Interactive mode" that lets you enter patterns separately for repos, files, and patterns, and so on. There's a dropdown next to the query bar to try it out--there are some kinks, and we're currently working on making this a polished feature. Thanks for the feedback, and stay tuned!
If you compile without debug symbols you don't get a trace after a seg fault.

If you're taking first year programming and they give you a compiler incantation that doesn't include -g that will be your experience.
That looks like an automated transcription that's almost entirely unreadable nonsense. Maybe not the best thing to be recommending to people who are looking for easily-digestable information.
Because anything that blames government policy for specific failures beyond a generic bemoaning of "regulations" is seen as "too political" and "uncivil" by HN.
It'll shut up the "its just a cold/flu" people if you have proof you're contagious. People are still going to work and doing errands.
Odd, I am not signed in or subscribed to it.
Politics doesn't work that way. Bills are batched political transactions
given that COVID-19 is untreatable and people who are at-risk or symptomatic should go ahead and hunker down as if they have it whether it's lab-confirmed or not, I don't think testing millions is more critical than ensuring affected people remain housed and fed while they are out of work.

testing is important for public health data and understanding how the virus is spreading and how to respond, but economic security is absolutely an "immediate issue" for anybody laid off or unemployed because of the pandemic.
Something I really want is the ability to write code to produce exact curves exportable via STEP, so I can get them into Fusion 360, which is what most CNC (e.g. the Shopbot PRS Alpha) prefers to consume. Imprecise polyhedra approximations are fine if you're 3D printing, but subtractive methods like CNC routers can do orders of magnitude smaller features. Bumping up the precision is just kicking the can down the road, also, most CAM software will just roll over and die if you give it shapes with massive polycounts, while it'll trivially handle the BRep version of the underlying shape (which might be a simple set of splines for example).

So far OpenCASCADE is the most promising library I've found. And it's been around for a long while: I don't remember the last time I had to tell bindgen about the "DECOSF1" macro!

And of course AutoCAD, but this is a hobby and I don't feel like spending thousands :-)
Everything is so easy to see from there.

Yahoo has thousands of categories of links, so you're really only seeing a tiny portion. Finding something niche required drilling down three or four levels (and exploring if you couldn't find the right one.) Google's search box is much more efficient, but you lose the fun of discovery.
Apparently, it includes patent 7,072,849, which they also sued Groupon for.

"Method for presenting advertising in an interactive service"

https://patents.google.com/patent/US7072849B1/en
I wonder how much it costs to build a factory for face mask machines? Could we spin up 10 startups to try?
I know this is redundant, but I have to add to the signal:

YES. It was real.

I was finishing an engineering degree (CSE) in 1992 and several of my peers took consulting jobs to work on Y2K issues. For nearly a decade a huge amount of work was done to review and repair code.

Y2K is the butt of many jokes, but the truth is: it didn't happen because the work was done to fix it. Sort of ironic.
I agree with the downmodded comment, but it's important to remember that downmodding can be used to express disagreement:

Paul Graham:

I think it's ok to use the up and down arrows to express agreement. Obviously the uparrows aren't only for applauding politeness, so it seems reasonable that the downarrows aren't only for booing rudeness.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171

Also, try not to comment on the voting on comments, it doesn't help much, and breaks the site's guidelines:

Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
thanks for sharing! did not know about this!

this could be the foundation of what my request was implying. it's the data pipe, but would need the frontend the OP is building
It is a bit freigthening to follow US politics on this. Everything seems to be politicized.

I compare it to Denmark where the opposition fully supported the government's decision to shut down schools and send home public sector employees.

I am pretty sure no politician here would dare to politicize a situation like this because of the fear of being punished by their voters.
So it's a child of a useless curiosity language (Forth) and an extremely niche arcane one (APL). Seems very promising indeed /s
You're all over this thread with the same point: what makes you think that not letting new cases in (in this case, travel from hotspots) is somehow not improving the situation?

>the math is very simple

Yes it is. There are infected people in Europe. Stopping travel from Europe = less infected people in the US. Yes, there are already infected people in the US, but a travel ban will neither increase or reduce that number; it's irrelevant.
Competent, predictable leadership in the executive branch would be a start.
Actually it was on Xbox 360, one of the few in Japan in 2009.

PS3 and Vita was years later (2012)
If you believe the social assistance is necessary, this kind of brinksmanship is the only way to get it through the senate at all.
Instead of dictating an arbitrary and likely unrealistic featureset via government force, we can all vote with our wallets and not buy phones that aren't repairable.

Clearly, the demand for repairable phones is not sufficiently high to sway people from buying ones that are not repairable, and, more importantly, it may not be possible to make a phone meaningfully repairable with how small delicate technology in phones is nowadays.

Not to mention, how do we determine what level of repairability is sufficient, and by what metric? What parts should be interchangeable? Battery and camera? Should we merely make the phone's case easy to open? Why is any one or a combination of these things something that consumers are entitled to and need to have protected by law?
I think tomp is talking about a time limit on the validity of the legislation itself, not the provisions in it.
Ask HN: Building YouTube Alternative
If you would be tasked with creating youtube alternative(not at that scale, of course), how would you approach it from technical point off view? Which technologies, patterns, designs.. would you go with and why?

As a side note - would you consider a sort of distributed pattern, like bitchute is doing with bit torrent?
Hmm, interesting, and 0mq is a bit heavy. Unfortunately I can't shut down the connection, as the server needs to provide real-time updates to the clients (its pub/sub), but I'll look into STCP, thanks.
In times of crisis we need to hear from Ja Rule.
Sign up for GE/PreCheck and that can be a reality.
The easiest thing i can think of is:

Touch a file on login.

Cron checks if file is X days/months/years old.
Also I would add two offset. First triggers earlier with reminder to self (taking extra long holidays while forgetting about cronjob), second is actual dead-man-switch when you are probably incapacitated or dead.
Wait: whenever I've used OpenSCAD I get polyhedral approximations, not actual spheres/cylinders/etc. You can pump up the resolution but that quickly kills performance and obviously doesn't solve the underlying issue. How can I get OpenSCAD to do e.g. actual BRep? (Ideally in a way I can export to other CAD/CAM software?)
Re: students, a nontrivial fraction of students get meals from the schools they attend, so if schools close this would help cover that demographic.
Enough XML can kill anything.
Sounds like he's being too honest. Expect him to be replaced imminently.

Seriously, how are we so bad at this? We knew it was coming and South Korea has been testing 10k/day since Feb, so it's clearly doable. We've done <10k total! What in the world is going on with the tests?
The crisis doesn't have a well-defined time limit. They could add some automatic vote mechanism but thinking about the ins and outs of the timing seems a lot more politically charged then not having a limit.
This has a name! It’s called “metonymy.” It’s incredibly common in casual speech and poses unique challenges for natural language processing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy
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> Bottom line, personal responsibility goes a long, long way in terms of dealing with job loss and economic downturns.

We personally and responsibly elected officials to provide government assistance for various things rather than just hoping charity covers the gap. So that's fine, right?
My favorite bit of WAM trivia: The Warren Abstract Machine is named after David H. D. Warren. The XSB Prolog engine, built using the Warren Abstract Machine, was run by David S. Warren, who was totally unrelated. Understanding the two at once was made more difficult by the name confusion.
By packing so much social assistance into the bill, the House is going to create serious problems with getting it through the Senate.

It could be seen as a political gamble that even Mitch McConnell doesn't want to be seen as that much of a monster, as one who turns away furloughed and quarantined workers from assistance.

Or it could be seen simply as "being a human being with some compassion".

Or it could be seen as, "doesn't make much sense for free testing if people are going to lose their homes if they test positive". I'm going with the last one. Free tests to see if I'm still employable or not? Yeah, that's a hard pass from me, I've got kids to feed.
No man is an island. 'Changing personal behavior' means nothing when someone's only option is to go into work sick because they literally can't afford to stay home without being evicted.
The virus will probably spread to the Senate though.. it's already infected many foreign health officials and they are supposed to be the ones who are cautious..
It looks like a person has to speak to an airline employee to opt out, that is, when they’re at the facial scanning system. This article may be useful for your questions: https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/13/americans-opt-out-facial-r...
That doesn't solve the PUBLIC health problem where other people being subjected to this can effect you later.
I'm a native Android developer who is almost always interested in the new and shiny tool and my bet is on Flutter instead of PWA. The issue with PWAs is that it's tied up to the mobile browser. Things will never get reasonably standardized, your PWA will have random strange issues that you can't fix and your users will have a sub par experience. As a developer, you just don't want that.
What is to prevent the Senate taking it up, amending it, and then negotiating the differences over a day or two? This persistent refusal to even consider or debate legislation that isn't already tailored to the (implicit) wishes of the Senate is just a procedural veto. The Senate's behavior is like one person hitting another and then saying 'now look what you made me do.'

Why do you hold the House responsible for the political choices of the Senate?
> There is a lot of FUD currently going on. This podcast by Joe Rogan is great. Listen to an expert and then make your decisions.

Joe Rogan podcasts are approximately forty hours long, on average. You need to summarize it, with text.
Ive read all the blog posts coming out on this and most of them only emphasize problems that their own product solves. Except one or two. Thinking this might help - https://jamm.app/en/how-to-guide-to-owning-remote-work/
Inheritance is a debate that already ended long ago with OOP practitioners vehemently against it.

The argument now is different. There is another flaw with classes and that is mutation of internal variables with getters and setters. Classes typically allow you to do this and promote this behavior, structs do not typically allow you to do this and are not used this way, typically.

It makes it so that a class is more than just a data type, it is a mini program with it's own internal state and api that you are passing around in your program. It ups the complexity of your program by 10 fold.
ACA is far better than Obamacare.
I guess I have a different perception. If you were trying to produce code in the 90s using two digit years, the weird looks had less to do with Y2K than "why would you save incomplete data to save a couple of bytes"?

For context, most of the devs I worked with at that time finished their CS degrees within the previous 10 years, and were not legacy systems programmers. Doing 2 digit years was inconceivable to them.
Does anyone know what happened to the live demo on https://github.com/harvardnlp/NeuralSteganography ?

It basically does what memespeech is doing, except much better. Both parties would need to agree on a cover text (let's say, a chapter from the NIV Bible). It then generates some text via GPT-2 trained on this cover text, with your hidden message encoded in it.

You'd then send this generated text to the recipient (which actually looks like a normal message written in the style of your cover text). They'd enter the same chapter of the NIV Bible along with your generated text, which then lets it recover your hidden message.

Basically, memespeech looks like you're hiding something, both to the human eye and to machine learning models. NeuralSteganography solves both of these issues, as it looks like regular human-readable texts to both humans _and_ ML models (Harvard's paper goes into more detail on this https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.01496 ).
The key, I think, is to figure out which kinds of Rust patterns are ambitious and efficient if they work, versus patterns that are easy to write and unlikely to fail. It's tempting to use references everywhere possible for efficiency, but Rc, Arc, Cell, RefCell, Mutex, and other smart pointer types can get you out of a jam. Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and clone things until you've figured out a better way.

Looking back at the very first Rust module I wrote, it's actually not half bad. I thought it was bad at the time because I was continuously fighting the borrow checker, but now I see that the borrow checker led me toward fairly idiomatic Rust patterns.

BTW, if you're coming from Javascript or Python, the closest thing to a JS/Python string in Rust is Rc<String> or Arc<String> (depending on whether your code is multithreaded.) I don't want to admit how long it took me to figure that out and I think that little bit of wisdom ought to be featured prominently in the Rust book. :-)
It ended up not being a big deal. But, there are still stories in the news about bugs in software that assume years only have 2 digits that matter (see e.g., https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/feb/12/home-office-...).
This seems like a really smart move to me.

It's a win-win for Democrats -- either the bill passes, along with all this reform that was stuck into it, which dems can brag about to voters in the campaign.

Or it doesn't pass, because of all the stuffing, and dems get yet another example of republicans moving slowly on the issue and blocking much-needed reform.
Hourly people (including those working food services) would not get tested as they would then be forced to quarantine. They cant afford to lose 2 weeks of pay and potentially their jobs so they would avoid the test all together. Given a choice of going to work and potentially infecting others or losing their jobs and their kids going without food most are going to skip the test and go to work.

Additional safety nets are required to incentive those people to get tested. The only way to do that is to ensure they receive their pay, their jobs are secure and the test and treatment is free.
send the bill to china
am gonna go with a big fat NO!
Thanks, wasn't 100% sure off the top of my head. Fixed.
It’s so hard to trust the media to report on anything without trying to inflame the “orange man bad” narrative.

In Australia almost no one with some or most of the symptoms is being tested. General Practitioners are basically telling people to fuck off, self isolate and call the hospital if symptoms worsen.

https://apple.news/ASvoRONOWS9ijWX4RrGmiTQ

“Currently we are not testing everyone, and whilst this may change in the future, at the moment this isn’t feasible. The pressure on labs would be mammoth and the yield is likely low,”

Similar stories from colleagues in Europe.
Also paywalled for me (maybe because I'm in the EU?)
I meant the exact opposite.

Recycling is inefficient. Repair requires skill, but is possible, energy-conserving as well as reduces pollution generally. See Louis Rossmann.
Oh yeah, of course! Thanks for pointing that out!
Realistically there is no "US" any more. Fauci is speaking for the NIAID, and arguably for the scientific community within the CDC/NIH/HHS. The white house certainly wouldn't be on board with this message, but as we saw last night even the white house is inconsistent with its own policies in important ways.

But yes: we messed up. We weren't prepared to begin with, we rolled back a bunch of existing preparedness work, when the disease arrived we turtled instead of testing, and then we refused to scale the testing capability for critical weeks. At this point it's too late. Better testing is still needed to inform the hard public health decisions that will have to be made, but it's no longer able to contain outbreaks that have grown orders of magnitude too large.