skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think most places are switching from testing known contact/at risk countries to testing people in hospital with the symptoms. The first strategy makes sense if you're trying to contain a small number of cases, it doesn't make sense once people are catching it from other people in the area.
Mobile version doesn’t seem to work on mobile Safari, or I don’t know what I’m doing.
Isn’t the performance claim a bit of a misconception?

Lua with JIT is very fast even compared to statically typed, compiled languages.

The bottleneck doesn’t seem to be dynamic types or dispatch but rather relying on garbage collection. Another example of this would be Julia.

Admittedly WASM is typically targeted by languages like C and Rust, but I wouldn’t put Lua in the same, general performance category as for example python or most other dynamically typed languages with dynamic dispatch.
Covid-19: Doctors report from Italy
I didn't say these partial treatments are not worth reading/watching. On the contrary - they're pretty nice. You just have the mentally prepare yourself of "expanding your consciousness" gradually, that's all.

Those things you mention - cross-platform differences, unit tests, debug builds etc. - require a bit of getting used to, but once you do, the syntax is not bad and I don't feel I'm suffering. Certainly not feeling the brittleness.

And - no, an old-fashioned Makefile can't even _begin_ to cut it. Not by a long-shot. (And that's not even mentioning the fact that it's mostly irrelevant on Windows.)
The catchy title part 'no one talks about' is a bit overstated I think, as I could use it in my piece from 2018 as well for example: https://lukaszkups.net/notes/truth-about-remote-work/ - imho I've managed to capture there some details that are often overlooked in recent trendy articles too (and also not mentioned in this thread's blog post as well) ;)
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https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/fashion/style/a10339153/why-...

This article claims it's abrasion due to pants and poor quality fabric
What do you feed cows with? Well most places other than America let them feed on grass which humans can’t consume...

Cows don’t commonly eat small mammals.
I’d argue the smart part :) Well read is a better scarlet letter.
Fairfield county, CT
Video interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EclnszfMdyQ
We do not know of there are any long term immunity yet.
Replacing floats with fixed point isn’t usually a meaningful optimization on modern CPUs. The FPU runs in parallel to the integer units, so you can easily end up idling the FPU while the integer units are too busy doing both the math and the necessary state management (counters, pointer arithmetic etc.)

This could make sense for SIMD however, but then the problem is getting the array data in the right format before the computation — if you’re converting from float to int and back within the loop, it destroys any performance gain.
The first paragraph (actually it's only one sentence) will tell you that Attenborough is echoing the results of a study (whose authors certainly have credibility) which focuses on biodiversity loss (not climate change).
Downvotes because of posing serious questions? I would enjoy a discussion about it rather than drive by downvotes.
> Offloading your logistical planning work to staff

But there was a schedule for everyone.
For full-fledged CMake project following best practices, see C++ Weeklys CMake tutorial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbgH7yat-Jo

For C++ starter project, see:
https://github.com/lefticus/cpp_starter_project

(I agree with nearly everything except generating the conanfile)
Why would I want to use Meson over CMake? Why would I regret using CMake?

I had a look at the Meson FAQ and it says:

> What is the correct way to use threads (such as pthreads)?
>
> thread_dep = dependency('threads')
>
> People coming from Autotools or CMake want to do this by looking for libpthread.so manually.

... which is false. We do:

> find_package(Threads REQUIRED)
> target_link_library(my_app Threads::Threads)

and Bob's your uncle.
I've used ORTools to schedule tasks to be done in parallel.

it's really simple.

https://github.com/samsquire/devops-schedule
> Matt Hancock insists 'herd immunity' not part of government's plan for tackling coronavirus

> Mr Hancock added: "Herd immunity is not a part of it. That is a scientific concept, not a goal or a strategy. Our goal is to protect life from this virus, our strategy is to protect the most vulnerable and protect the NHS through contain, delay, research and mitigate."

https://politicshome.com/news/uk/health-and-care/illnesstrea...

The amount of politicizing people are engaging is a bit sad. Especially when you take a wider view at how every country with the best doctors and scientists have dealt with it. Significant criticism has happened across party and ideological lines (Which you’d hope the healthcare bodies would be largely independent of and instead follows the best scientific advice). Even here in Canada where our prime minister’s wife got COVID-19 and are both in isolation, yet they’ve been even less aggressive than the policies the UK has already announced.

It’s obvious few countries and even WHO were well prepared for something of this scale and a ton of criticism today has the benefit of retrospect. Meanwhile aggressive policies, like the US closing borders and China locking up entire apartment buildings when one resident gets sick, also got immediate heavy push back, and globally has been far more the exception than the rule.

Even with better preparedness, which no doubt will be adopted after this event, there is still a difficult balance between scaling up restrictions on daily life without being accused of being “draconian” (which is how I remember the same UK press characterized Italy’s early moves). Especially politically, let alone scientifically.

We should be spending more effort on finding the right balance, which is still not obvious nor scientifically well established for countries with lower rates, even today. Those are the hard questions, political opportunism is easy and low effort.
Why does it feel important to you that the speaker be standing?
Roman concrete threads may not be made of Roman concrete, but they do ok:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20482050

2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14690329

2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5883443

2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1852000
Diplomatic row as US government tries to swipe exclusive rights for vaccine
Spain has a _constitutional monarch_ the same approach as the United Kingdom. This is actually a more stable choice than America's.

In constitutional monarchy the monarch is Head of State, a figurehead role with no real personal power. Because monarchs are born not elected this figurehead has no semblance of democratic legitimacy, it's obvious to everyone that they shouldn't get any power, yet as a symbol they are long-lived and emphasise continuity even as political change happens around them.

Elected Politicians on the other hand actually run the legislature and executive government.

That is, the laws you obey are made by people you elected to make them, but at times of crisis the living symbol of your country isn't some politician roughly half the country doesn't like.

This works so much better than the US system that Americans charged with trying to make new countries or fix broken ones (after "regime change" for example) do not follow the US model for many decades. If you're an optimist, the US model worked once and maybe they got lucky. If you're a pessimist we're just waiting for the cracks to get bad enough that it falls apart.
In regards to "gackers", "crackers" and "mackers" devising ways to access the data, these kinds of people will always be a hazard to deal with. There are all sorts of ways to deal with this, including not actually collecting all such data in the first place, but that's a discussion for another time and place.

As far as having proprietary model and the use of patents, these already dictate how you will move forward from here and as such, you now have to have the do the hard yards to bring everything to fruition. You have to ask yourself this question: do you have the necessary nouse to follow the business model through to completion? Just remember that when you bring in business "partners", they will have their own priorities that will concern them and yours will be secondary or even tertiary to them. You have to stay ahead of the games that you are involved with (there will be many of these) and it is very easy to lose sight of this and drop the ball.

Finally, just remember that there are no guarantees that even if you have the best technology and all the patents that surround this new technology that there will be anyone who will be interested in what you have to offer at the price you want to sell it at.

From a personal perspective, I no longer have any interest in making anything proprietary or ever getting in the ugly world of patents. So take my comments above in that light. I have run my own business and it is a lot of hard work to keep it going and growing. I no longer have any such interest as I find myself now in a place of having far more important things to interested in and devote my time to.
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I think this insight is exactly why the UK health experts are not advocating extreme measures yet. They know they will only delay the takeoff and they need to use those measures when it does, not beforehand, and these measures are meant to protect the most at risk from dying from the disease (I think the most contentious thing is how long these measures can work for. The UK experts are of the opinion they have a finite life).

Keep in mind, the UK advisors think the peak is maybe two months away, and that at-risk groups may need to self-isolate for a month either side of that peak. This is a far bigger response than any country has achieved so far (and it's extra difficult because the at-risk groups are probably the most dependent on external aid, as well as already lacking social contact). I don't think they're wrong to think that this will be difficult to achieve, and increasing the difficulty by starting earlier will make things worse.

There is no SCRAM button on this pandemic, not any more at least.
Hahahaha, it has been the plot of Brexit since the beginning to make Britain more like USA , after all.
>only about 20% of hotel stays are international.

Over 60% here in London.

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:xnYJiW...

>its far, far beyond schools.

I was only using that as an example of one of the things that will cause a big change in people's seriousness in viewing the epidemic the government hasn't done yet.

>they're all getting clobbered, without 'total shut down' and it's going to hurt.

And a complete lockdown is going to hurt even worse, which would happen when the health service gets overrun.

The issue is that this can happen at any time and without much warning. Our visibility is lagging behind the spread of the virus by at least the incubation period. By the time the latest batch of people symptoms end up in hospital, our response is already behind the curve.

The UK has been testing more than a lot of European countries but it is trailing places like South Korea and Taiwan by a wide margin.
Most countries would not intentionally cover up serious outbreaks like this, much less do it twice (as previously with SARS).

They wouldn't threaten and silence numerous doctors that tried to warn everyone.

They wouldn't blockade access to one of the world's largest cities, to prevent outside health inspectors from assessing what was really going on. It wasn't until the first week of February that they were willing to let a major contingent of outside experts in, including from the US. That was two months into the outbreak and a point where things had already gotten very bad.

If this had started in France and the US asked to send experts in to help, France would not deny that request, they wouldn't blockade Paris off from all foreign access to hide what was really happening (how bad it was, and what they were doing to people).
> * There are a half-dozen different ways to have your project depend on on other code...
And this "tutorial" skips mentioning this and bluntly suggests the dummiest - git submodules.
My gripe was that OC made an appeal solely on the OBE rather than his body of work. Such awards should be viewed with suspicion as they can be awarded on the basis of saying the convenient thing as much as the right thing.
The amount and frequency and price at which we consume meat necessitates very high intensity production. Most people, myself included, prefer not to think about it.
I don't think anyone is conflicted by this? Like you say: kill them and don't replace them. They're going to be slaughtered anyways. This year we slaughter 39 million, next year 25 million, the year after that 10 million, ... I don't think anyone [serious] (of those two groups) is going to complain too hard.
I've utilized OR-Tools in conjunction with the CBC (Coin Branch and Cut) solver to solve a mold distribution optimization problem of plastic mold injectors for a client of ours. It was free and it got the job done very well. We used it in C# and it's pretty well documented. We tried LPSolve (55) and it was a pain to use and super slow. Also, commercial options like Gurobi and IBM's CPLEX are super expensive for smaller projects.
Between business getting more casual in general, no longer regularly going into an office, and doing a lot of (lightweight) travel, I have piles of dressier clothing and what at least used to be stereotypical business casual (cotton chinos, button down shirt) that I wear on a pretty occasional basis. I have a good stack of "daily wear" clothing, often picked up at holiday sales, that are still in their original packaging from literally years ago.

Stuff doesn't really wear out/get ratty very quickly when you hardly ever wear it.
One of these CEOs is not like the other
> Changing passwords on many servieces is always as pain. But why should you change the masterpassword?

Because when a seed password is compromised it could mean all future accounts are compromised. So then you have to increment or supplement with some state, and change all past account passwords.

If a traditional master password is exposed its database/file may not have been. In that case only the master secret needs to change.

Edit: correction: seed not derived.
Hmm, I guess it depends on individual taste. I've tried several nut milks, oat milk and soy milk.

The nut and oat milks tasted good, with the oat milk in particular bring surprisingly close to dairy milk. But the soy milk I found absolutely disgusting - it didn't taste anything like dairy milk.

I do wish nut milks weren't so "thin" tho - if you look at the ingredients, there aren't actually very much nuts in them; they are mostly water. I'd gladly pay a bit more for a higher nut (and, ergo, fat and protein) content.
Who do you mean by saying 'the US', when it comes to have exclusivity in profiting?
Of course the US as a country has an interest in pushing development of vaccine in any possible way.
Maybe the best solution would be to get rid of the patch of ice instead of finding someone to blame, while people keep slipping over it.
I reccomend https://kernelnewbies.org/ as a first stop for the curious (although I might also reccomend Emacs, contrary to their tutorial ;).
How much CPU time and number theory do problems in that range generally require?

Brute force search of 10^10 (with some automatic monitoring of how wide a range of 'm' to scan at each candidate) is a lot but not a lot of a lot, if you code in a CPU efficient language and maybe use parallel computation and are willing to wait a while.
I wonder what percent of jobs are reasonably safe to do (e.g. no forced close proximity to others). Office jobs are particularly bad and often easy to do from home, and many warehouse jobs don't have as close of proximity to other workers (many machines are operated by individuals), while jobs like trucking require almost none.
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> In an online survey by the Innovation Center of U.S. Dairy, seven percent of respondents said they believed that chocolate milk comes from … brown cows.

Unless they asked 4-year olds, this surely, can't possibly be true?!
Audio report from two doctors in Italy is truly sad. It exposes the reality of a virus with a high R0. When the medical system is overwhelmed deaths extend beyond COVID-19 patients, as doctors are left to decide who to let die.

Anyone who does not believe or understand the seriousness of this pandemic need to listen to this report.
Italy was one of the first countries to cut down traffic from China months ago. Didn't do any good.
A guest on my podcast -- Lorna Davis, the key leader behind the largest B Corp to date, Danone USA, and a c-suite executive from Danone and other multinationals -- committed not to buy clothes for a year. Within a few weeks she started getting rid of clothes she didn't wear and even relationships that were distracting her from more meaningful ones.

Within months she was sending me contacts of other high-powered executives from big corporations who were following her lead. She sent me pictures of clothing she repaired that she would have thrown out before.

When she was invited to give a TED talk that year, she told me she felt liberated from wondering what to buy to wear, instead getting to feel like herself and focusing on her message.

Hear for yourself. Our conversations, before and after: https://joshuaspodek.com/guests/lorna-davis (also a great primer on B corps, given her significant role)

Her TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/lorna_davis_a_guide_to_collaborati...
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How do you do it? Some seeds sprawn the next year.

I also educated a guy with a textile factory that has large western windows to plant some native fast growing deciduous trees (ash is my favourite due to good wind resistance) in front of them in orderto block the summer sun and install a white PU panel roof instead of spending a large sum of money on A/C. He only installed mechanical ventilation as it was sufficient.

The local council plants plane trees now instead of tilia but I don't like them that much after I was in London because of the irritating fluff that they shed around in May. We used to have a lot of chestnut, tilia, acer and some ash.
US, Germany battle for virus vaccine surpremacy
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It is. The two main components is the CP-SAT solver and the routing library (CP + local search).

As with all discrete optimization problems, a large part of performance and scalability comes down to how well you model the problem. Using a framework gives you the flexibility to focus on modeling and the ability to easily extend your problem to satisfy new constraints without the burden of maintaining an optimization algorithm. Generally speaking, there's no point in reinventing what's more than likely a worse wheel.

OR-tools is a state of the art OR framework. The CP-SAT solver has consistently won the Minizinc challenge the last few years and the routing library is a great local search framework.

It's also worth mentioning the fantastic OscaR, a Scala CP/CBLS library which I've used extensively in my masters thesis on vehicle routing. Gecode is another solid CP solver. Minizinc is an interesting project that aims to create a unified language to interface with a lot of different solvers (CP, SAT, MIP)
I said he was awarded the OBE because of his work in this area, not that an OBE is solely a reason to trust his opinion. He is far more qualified than the growth hacker / marketing guy who has zero expertise in this area as far as I can tell.
I don't know much about Home Assistant, but that certainly should be possible to set up. The KaldiAG API is pretty low level, but basically: you define a set of rules, and send in audio data, along with a bit mask of which rules are active at the beginning of each utterance, and receive back the recognized rule and text. The easy solution is probably to go through Dragonfly, which makes it easy to define the rules, contexts, and actions. It might be a little hacky to do, but you should be able to wire it up with Home Assistant somehow.

Although I mainly use it for computer control as demonstrated in the video, I do have many commands akin to home automation, like adjusting the lights, HVAC, etc.
> "performance in demanding littoral environments"

This is a defence contractor 1337 sp33k for "Works well in the South China sea"
Lizardman's constant.
Join a Pademic bootcamp. Dude people goto medical school for like an almost 10 year career path. Not everything is gonna be solved with a web app. Wash your hands.
> What is the actual science that anybody on earth suffers from the consumption of beans?

"More than half of the world populations are affected by micronutrient malnutrition and one third of world’s population suffers from anemia and zinc deficiency, particularly in developing countries."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4325021/

> I only have to show you that beans are just as much part of human diets as are other foods.

Again, that literally means nothing. Humans can survive on very poor diets.

> For donuts we see a direct correlation between sugary processed foods and obesity, T2D and other diseases. For beans you can not show this.

Of course, I never said beans cause T2 diabetes or any other "disease of civilization". They cause nutrient deficiences in populations that are underdeveloped. As for what it does with those few people in developed nations who choose to adopt a plant-based diet, there's just no good data, yet. That's a recent phenomenon.

> The only thing you can show is some mechanistic data, where we can speculate.

Of course we have to speculate, because we don't know. You can always ask for more evidence that this-and-that is or isn't harmful in some dose. Somehow, people are very wary about synthetic toxins or pesticides, but when it comes to natural toxins that plants produce to defend themselves, we don't really pay the same kind of attention.

What's the evidence that heavy metals, or dioxin, or any of the other pollutants are harmful in the doses that we allow them in? There isn't any, that's why we allow them. Does that mean harmful effects don't exist? No. It means we don't know any better.

Legumes just happen to be the biggest offenders of natural toxins in our diet. They all have a rich history of requiring preparation to become digestible at all. We're not evolutionarily prepared to handle them, we haven't eaten them as a staple for more than a few thousand years. That's a red flag.

> In my personal opinion you are the victim of an industry that wants to sell stuff like Gundrys supplements like „Lectin buster“ and the like.

I don't care about Gundry opinions or his supplements, he's no better than your nutritionfacts guy. Also, it's not like there isn't a whole industry behind selling the plant-based diet. A much bigger industry in fact, also fueled by ideology, ethics and virtue signaling. Red flags.
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That's an interesting usecase. Is there a blog/article talking more about this?
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I was vegetarian for a stretch. Am a treehugger and child of farmers. Have no problem eating animals. Was mostly motivated by food safety and contempt for the misc industries.

My health suffered.

After watching Dr Terry Wahls TED talk about nutrition and mitochondria, I resumed eating animal protein. Like her, my health improved. Many, many people are successfully vegetarian (et al), so YMMV.

I'll resume being vegetarian once nutrition science figures how I can do so safely. I'm very bullish on engineered meat, as in grown in a vat.