skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But if I'm the kind of programmer who's going to write terrible software, why would you expect me to be able to choose a good paradigm? For that matter, why would you expect me to be able to be good enough to avoid nulls?
It isn't likely. An NBA caliber player that is a senior will likely have played 100+ NCAA basketball games. A few good/bad games in the tournament isn't going to change their overall chance of getting picked in the NBA draft. And the NBA draft is very shallow to begin with, only 60 picks total and still some of those players don't make the teams. In the NFL and MLB it is very common for undrafted/late round picks to become stars, but not common at all in the NBA where your physical ability (which is easily measurable) is so important for excelling.

There also is the G-League which is essentially the NBA minor league. Anybody on the bubble of making the NBA who wants a job will get a chance in the G-League, and if they were truly NBA caliber then they'd prove themself and get the opportunity.
Buying your oil from a billion-dollar company is pretty safe. Buying it from a licensed and legal smoke shop, less safe. Buying from a sketchy dude out of his car or apartment very unsafe.
Much like this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kas0tIxDvrg
Overheating in Credit Markets: Origins, Measurement, and Policy Responses
What is the true/false negative/positive rate for these tests? I can't find that online and I have tried.

If FPR is 10% and we test 100,000,000 people in the US but only 100,000 have the disease right now, then assuming a TPR of 100% (and a FNR of 0%) we will have 10,100,000 positive results = 101 x the number of people with COVID? How is that useful?

Disclaimer: I am maybe an idiot.
My hypothesis is that Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore had to contend with earlier SARS outbreak and responded more quickly and comprehensively with contact tracing, social distancing.
European Coronavirus Travel Ban Leads to Chaos in Paris Airport
The decision is not about the players, it's much bigger than that.

It was also the players' choice to make their life about something that was always going to lose in priority to public health, if it ever came to that.
Umm... so you like the exploitation of young people? Universities make millions while “student athletes” get paid peanuts, and you don’t like someone pointing it out? Why?
Oren Eini from RavenDB talks NoSQL [audio]
The end of human industrialized civilization is only a reasonable outcome as a secondary effect (e.g nuclear war destroying most of society). And even then I'm dubious if we'd reach human extinction rather than just the end of industrial society.

Even with 5 or 7 degrees celsius warming there's still a lot of habitable land. The main concern is that agricultural capacity will be lower overall. This will disproportionately impact poorer countries that have less resources to do things like improve irrigation infrastructure, or set up large thermonuclear desalination plants to cope with lower water supply.
The part where the article tries to "prove" that the photo was not of a real person feels like phrenology more than anything. Real people can have asynmetric ears and teeth, and most photographers deliberately try to frame photos in a specific way so some random headshot having the same composition of generated photos isn't much proof. Honestly it looks like this type of psychotic paranoia over "bots" does more harm than actual bots themselves.
I believe it also contains more nicotine than tobacco products. To me, that's a bad way to start using nicotine; where do you go when you start out at peak dosage?
Rogan and Fridman both ask very shallow questions. I want to see him get grilled by someone familiar with the subject matter. Anything less gets questions about the lowest common denominator.
I did, and almost everyone I know who quit smoking from Juul did as well.

Where did your confidence come from on this topic? Adults love fruity things. Margaritas, mimosas, juice, etc..
S.Korea is also effectively an island - water 3 sides + sealed N.Korea border. I don't think it's useful comparing large interconnected EU countries response capabilities against Asian Tigers islands (Korea, Singapore, Taiwan) with deep collectivist cultural roots and large demographics that still remember living under centralized authoritarian rule. In the case of Singapore and China, still are.

Italy has too much travel, old demographics and interconnected borders to respond the way Korea did. And we don't even know if Korea is out of the woods yet, they got more clusters recently.
I'm able to do some of these things. Someone else said that perhaps the nightly build is different?

```
module thing(x) {
cylinder(r=x,h=10);
}

translate([10,0,0]) thing(5);
x = min(4,2) + 1;
translate([-10,0,0]) thing(x);
```

works for me.
I don't have experience with game engines, but I worked with Qt, WinForms, Flex4, Swing GUI libraries, and it made sense. All components inherit from a base widget, This base widget has everything you need, layout, positioning, mouse and keyboard events, painting. If you want to make a custom button that say is rotating when you click it you extend the Button and not start from scratch like you do in html. In html you see many custom components created from nested DIVs, this custom widgets are missing many basic features like accessibility and keyboard shortcuts and are broken for edge cases. As an example PayPal has a money amount text input but the Delete key does not work on it.

Could there be some insane case where the OOP of the GUIO widget is problematic, maybe , like when you want your app to have a window in the shape of a circle ... but I think is fair you get easy to use library for 99% of the cases and for 1% of the cases you might have to get your hands dirty and go outside the standard ways and maybe look under the hood.
So, bragging rights? Not exactly worth staying in school for an entire year for that. And what's the guarantee they actually get to play in the tournament next year?
Benzoic acid (as sodium benzoate) is a preservative, so for all we know, Juul juice is protective against lung infections.

To be clear, I don’t believe this. Just thought one data-deficient argument deserved another.
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They may seem to beef up your resume, but whenever I saw resumes with IBM patents I would ignore the pstents or give them much less weight than any other patents.
The Pixel 4a is a budget pixel. Of course it's not going to get Solo as for the Pixel 5...that remains to be seen since this is Google
I guess this is appropriately sceptical about audit at least.

I think people both over and under-estimate audit (in different ways), but certainly if I have to pick it's the over-estimation of the value of audit which hurts and so the scepticism in this piece is warranted.
When you say parent comment are you referring to my comment or the one I replied to?
This doesn’t account for it because South Korea didn’t even have the number of serious cases that Italy has.

The real answer is simply that the number of tests is not equal to the number of cases.

The number of positive tests is a factor of the number of tests done, and how selective the testing was allowed to be. It is only loosely related to the number of infected people (technically it is the lower bound).
"Action is minimized" and "F = ma" are the same in the sense that x+5=0 and x+6=1 are the same. In both cases you can go from one to the other with a sequence of deductions. There's no way to tell which one is the "natural law" because you can take either one as a fact and derive the other as a consequence.
Interesting detail in the article: in Korea testing is free if referred by a doctor, or it is up to 140$ if you just want to be tested.
But, these measures need to hold on for long enough, until all reservoirs are depleted. Relaxing the measures after the transmission rates decrease will only stop it temporarily, so it will flare right back up if it has a source that was missed.

Also, the lower the R factor, the faster measures can be relaxed. With an R0, if you want to guarantee putting out everything, you need to hold the measures for the longest possible lifetime of the disease. ( what's that? A month?)
I was referring to yours. I edited the original in the hopes of improving clarity.
Is it a good idea for gun manufacturers to go around busting criminal gangs that use guns? By your logic, its the gun manufacturers own mess.
I think that is a noble stance to take and for a long time I was in that pack - but politicians lie a lot so now, whenever it sounds like a politician is leaving themselves an out I will assume they are doing so if they have a past track record of such (even if it is relatively rare).

Additionally, I don't take the words I hear from politicians on my side (if that's really an accurate term) charitably either. I err on reading both interpretations cynically, and one needs look no further than the "hyperbole" of trump's primary rallies to see where a charitable reading fell far short of the truth.
| If regulatory hurdles can be cleared, he said in a Thursday interview, the vaccine could start to become available in November.

So, possibly faster than some estimates, but it's not exactly tomorrow. The headline heavily implies it's ready to go.

Also, super hilarious that instead of the headline saying "Canadian Company" it says "Pentagon-Funded Company" - USA! USA! USA!
If the ship is on fire, you need the urgency that comes with the wartime CEO. But it kills the people during peace.
Rob Pike designed Go with the philosophy for people not to use structs like classes. This is intentional and deliberate.

If you are using GO like you use OO, you've missed the entire point.

https://twitter.com/rob_pike/status/942528032887029760
I love Rust, but it doesn't have a strong UI development story yet.
It produces faster binaries than clang, sometimes significantly so.

ICC produces faster binaries than GCC, but ICC is expensive and GCC is free.

MSVC is garbage.
You bring up a good point and I agree, the offering undue charity to persons arguing from a position of bad faith is why were are here.

Biden would veto the bill.
From the OP's story, it sounds like his wife posted shortly after the original encounter.
> Secondly, I’ve noticed that classes have a tendency to grow large. They will collect pieces of functionality that need to live in the context of the class, usually to access the internal state of that class. This dependency on the internal state makes it difficult to break the methods up into logical chunks.

Sounds like they need to pay more attention to the Open-Closed principle :)

It's not really clear to me how a random grab-bag of functions is better than a random grab-bag of methods. If the functions in the too-large module can be broken up into small units without damaging cohesion, why can't the same be done for the class with two many methods?
> People don't choose mango flavour to stop smoking.

Of course they do!

Fruit flavors help reduce the palatability of tobacco. I specifically chose them for that reason, and now my once cherished tobacco tastes disgusting, as intended. That one cheat cigarette while drinking is no longer desirable.

While I share the sentiment of the others responding to you, I won't echo it out of civility, but they're correct. People like you have just made it exponentially harder for people who want to quit, while doing nothing to keep vapes out of the hands of teens who want them.
Interesting camelCase, green user.
>> Personal finance and monetary policy are not similar even though they both involve money.

That's what central banks want you to believe: that what they are doing is something special, "God's work" - as some drunk Goldman Sachs executive put it. Truth is: law of economics are pretty much like laws of physics - they work the same in small and large scale. It is no coincidence that Great Depression happened in 1929, mere 16 years after FED was created - that was just a first of many consequences of central bank's irresponsible actions.
Interesting theory here is the difference in treatments using Chloroquine & Zinc Treatment Combo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7F1cnWup9M&fbclid=IwAR0GU2S...
That's totally fair and you're not alone there. Many people want a "single pane of glass" — one solution that supports both Windows and macOS equally well, but unfortunately it doesn't exist. You're better off going with separate "best of breed" solutions for each platform, or you're bound to be disappointed imo.
Ahh, zero sense of humor. Sorry to step on your -6 karma and bitcoin-lust with my pithy comments.
I'm curious about the cultural differences. Physical contact, kiss on the cheek, is much more common in Italy than in Korea. That can play a huge factor.
Indeed. Just 2 days ago I was talking to someone who was annoyed by people taking measures: "See, in China they're already seeing infections going down! No point in taking all these measures!" Without apparently realizing the reason why they're going down is extreme is precisely those extreme measures.
You're absolutely right. It's been an ongoing part of day-to-day life for Koreans. Fortunately, things are pretty transparent and there aren't big businesses trying to monetize on this information (but this may change in a flash).
Could you maybe whip up an example on https://play.rust-lang.org/ ? It's not 100% clear to me what you're doing here, but I'm interested!
That presents a big problem because athletes are also living a fantasy where they all imagine going pro. Less than 1% of college football players go pro! Same order of magnitude for college basketball players.
I wonder what - if anything - post offices / delivery services are doing about this stuff? A lot of people hunkered down at home are going to use those to order things.
I think it is fine to let the idiots win on this one and rub it in our face forever. I would be willing to boost the ego of anyone if we can contain this.
How would that help? A gloved hand can still pick up surface viral load and transfer it to the face. The nice thing about anti-viral surfaces like copper is that it reduces surface virus, a glove doesn't do that.
So, someone sick goes into an elevator/bus/small places, they cough, and get on.
The guy coming 5 mins later, having no clue, might get infected....

And while 'wash your hand', helps some, it is mostly just a way to make people feel control, as that seems not to be the main vector of transmission. This explain how quickly many people get it.....

This is a crude analogy, but: if you are close enough to someone and you would probably noticed if they 'farted', then there is a good chance that you would get some potential covid-19 particles if their coughed it out.....
way to take advantage of a crisis, have rates been decreased to match the Fed's reduction?

seems risky if the economy falls apart, could see a lot of companies defaulting
Funny that. I used to never wear a watch. I had a phone after all.
One day I decided I might get myself a 'smartwatch' (primitive, it was about 5 years ago or so!) but not being sure I'd like 'wearing' a watch at all, I bought a cheap chinese automatic watch on Aliexpress for £9 shipped.

Guess what? I never bought a smartwatch, instead, I bought a whole collection of real watches, some vintage, some modern, some expensive, some cheapos and I love accessorising with them. Must have 20 of them by now.

The "crown" of my collection is a Bulova Spaceview in 18K gold. It's the nerd's nerd watch, it has A TRANSISTOR in it, a resonator, it 'humes' a 360hz faint hum, and was made in 1964 before Quartz was invented; that movement was onboard the Apollo missions. And that watch has no 'face' so all you see is the innards with the tuning fork in the middle, and a pair of tiny coils around it. </orgasm>
You are conveniently ignoring the past month he spent downplaying its seriousness.
everybody already understands that the dollar is subject to long term inflation which is why people put their money into stocks or pension funds and don't put cash under the mattress for 80 years. The predictable change in the value of the dollar is priced in and desirable for many macro-economic reasons and irrelevant to consumers.

As far as the dollar value is concerned you care if the milk and the orange juice cost roughly as much this month as they do next month, there is this weird crypto and gold obsession with long sterm steady value that's not relevant at all for fiat currency.
My suspicion is that it is because I wrote "I honestly don't understand why the Democrats are so consistently anti-business in so many things they do", which I will admit is a tad bit flamebait-y on a forum that leans heavily Democrat. Non-Democrat positions are heavily downvoted across Hacker News.
Interesting collection of mediums and such mentioned here. Surprised I didn't see William Gibson's book "Neuromancer" or Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash" mentioned.

Incidentally, years ago my sister gifted me the movie "Beasts of The Southern Wild" which is mentioned in the article as "Solarpunk." After watching the trailer I still don't feel like watching it.
The claim is not that if it dies down after social distancing, therefore social distancing was to blame, but that if it were to _really_ die down due to it, the measures would seem like an over-reaction to a certain segment of the populace. I think that, while a bit presumptuous, will hold true.
Clearly outside of community guidelines with the personal attack.
How about Occam’s razor? A much easier explanation be we err on the number of infected people. Tests are one way to approximate the number of infections.
I think a lot of places are probably using automated testing machines. Apparently, Public Health England has been operating theirs 24/7 after the staff go home to keep up with the incoming samples, and that's one reason why results take a lot more than 4 hours.
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How is it interesting? Also, why are you focused on my username rather than the point made in the comment?
good. this country spends too much of people's money and attention on this nonsense. maybe we can make this permanent.

it is insane that one can get into a college with zero brain power just for being tall (and ncaa and co enable that). what possible use does society have for that long term?
Thanks. Appreciate the feedback and the kind words! We will look into the use cases you mentioned.
Not to mention that of all industries to pressure their workers not to take time off, delivery and postal services will see record demand, and so it's more likely than the general population that a package handler might be infected...
That's my thought as well. With having a vaccine like 12-18 months away at best, is there another strategy than just trying to eradicate it in a _massive_ concentrated worldwide effort?
For those who don't know, rubber hose decryption is basically coercion or torture.

See this very relevant xkcd: https://www.xkcd.com/538/
Other sports, too. My favorite, Formula 1 racing, is in trouble. The MacLaren team withdrew from sunday's first-in-season Australian GP after a team member tested positive for coronavirus, and there are unconfirmed rumors that the whole race will be canceled. (F1.com isn't saying that yet, but one of the top drivers, Sebastian Vettel, said in a news conference that drivers would "pull the handbrake" on the race if they didn't feel safe.)

The upcoming Chinese GP is being rescheduled, and the first-ever Vietnam GP might also fall victim. Bahrain GP is scheduled for Mar 22, so if Australia gets canceled, Bahrain probably will too.

This is a huge and extremely expensive sport, one of the most popular and lucrative in the world, with teams shipping dozens of personnel and many tons of equipment all over the world. The logistics are a nightmare if it gets changed.
> and why such incredible measures are required to stop the spread.

Since we're learning that the fatality rate is much lower than SARS, as was feared early on, and that it's much more mild of an illness -- and also that it's highly contagious and already widespread -- it strikes me that the opposite is true.

We should do everything we can to protect the elderly and ill, but a disease that is so mild that 85% of people over 80 still survive it, it doesn't strike me as something worth tanking the global economy over. If you're middle-aged or younger and you drive to work, travel internationally, drink alcohol, etc., you've taken similar risks as COVID-19 poses to you.

This is incredibly unpopular on HN, and I'm ok with that. Holing everyone up in their apartments for the next year would put almost everyone reading this out of a job, many without housing, and without healthcare. This is a "keep calm, wash your hands, and carry on" moment, and we're failing.
Koreans rarely hold hands in friendship too. Shaking hands, etc. You bow instead. When you go on a date, you're lucky if you get to hold hands on the first date. Kissing in public? Unacceptable.
Yes, solarpunk is worth putting in your brain.
Long term large scale miners with massive reserves of BTC (you could literally get 50BTC for ten minutes of CPU mining on your laptop when BTC started) can crash the price on a whim with a small percentage of their reserves due to the lack of volume in the BTC market in combination with the liquidations from ridiculous amounts of leverage people are using in crypto (binance and bitmex are >100x to unqualified investors) which causes accelerated declines when the price drops even slightly. They can use this as a short term strategy to force miners with less profitable operations (higher electricity costs, worse equipment) to liquidate their coins at a lower price and cease mining temporarily allowing the more profitable miners to enjoy less competition and the ability to buy the coins at a reduced price. Even if the operation starts up again after the market pumps the superior miner has increased their proportion of coins allowing them to swing the market even greater, and sell coins to get better equipment (the newest bitmain miners), and the bagholders who bought the worse equipment or have more expensive electricity naively set themselves up for failure. The entire crypto space relies on long term pumping and dumping as well as short term "barting" to liquidate leveraged traders. I didn't even mention bitmain patent fuckery and the likely collusion of key players with the BTC devs to purposely not scale BTC to increase transaction fees which benefits miners. The whole thing is a disgusting mess and I don't touch it anymore. Do not fuck with cryptocurrency. It is entirely bought and paid for.
How bad does it have to be to fit in the "serious" vs. "not serious" bucket?

It's like a rather bad influenza. The mortality rate is fairly low and difficult to estimate unless you test the entire population on a regular basis. It isn't like one of the outbreaks that kills 10%, 20%, 50% of the infected.

It shouldn't be ignored, but it also shouldn't be treated like a new black death. It is difficult for uninformed people to say "people are overreacting to a real threat".
Not op.
There are also good reasons to donate money today instead of tomorrow. Positive change in the world can also accumulate interest of time, and problems can also get worse over time
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> Anybody who doesn't want their data copied will be shedding tears.

"Their" data? What a ludicrous concept. It's analogous to saying people own numbers.

> Just don't expect people to give you copies of data they don't want shared by you.

I fully expect people to distribute "their" data far and wide to anybody who asks for it. That's what copyright is all about: giving people the illusion they're in control of what happens to that data.

The truth is only one copy of the data is needed. Once it's out there, there are no limits to what can be done with it.