skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> > Stack rankings and curves aren’t anywhere close to the same.

> Sure they are. The best get a raise/A, the worst get fired/F.

That's actually not at all how stack ranking works. The best might get an A, or a B or a C, and the worst might get a B or a C or a D or an F.

An example: You give a test that is out of 120 points. Here are the scores:

P1 = 100

P2 = 99

P3 = 98

P4 = 97

P5 = 96

Under a curve grading, they all get A's. Under objective grading, they all get B's. With stack ranking:

P1 = A

P2 = B

P3 = C

P4 = D

P5 = F

Should P5 be given an F or get fired? That's what happens in stack ranking.

> Let's put it another way. Do you want the pilot flying you across the Atlantic 747 to be graded on a curve where he happened to be better than some of the other students, or graded against "met the standard / did not meet the standard"?

A pilot is not the same as your undergrad physics class. The pilot was taught by instructor who has to teach in a specific way, often using specific words, developed over many years by a committee of pilots. They then take a test that 100s have taken over many years, written by a committee of pilots.

The pilot instructor has very little leeway on how they teach the class and has no leeway in the test.

Same with medical boards, or any other standardized test.

But your physics professor probably wrote the curriculum themselves, teach it a different way every semester, and use a slightly different test every time.

And as much as you wish it were true, none of your undergrad classes are life or death scenarios.

So yeah, it makes sense to grade on a curve for an undergrad class.
> Hexagonal, Domain-driven, Onion, Clean architecture are all synonyms at this point.

There are important differences between, say, hexagonal architecture and clean architecture. For instance, in clean architecture, what the Netflix guys described as repositories would actually be the data source itself and represent yet another interface on the system's outer layer.

Additionally, what the Netflix guys described as interactors would actually be the application layer, and it would be the only layer above the entity layer (i.e., activities don't depend on data source components)
The article says that the $1k is for all 5000 of their employees. I doubt all of them have a laptop that they take home and most laptops already include a decent microphone and camera. The budget definitely does not target buying a laptop or desktop computer. It has to be for accessories like a chair, desk, scanner+printer.
>plenty of desktop space (minimum 4k)

Are you running your 4K monitor in 1:1 mode?
That is obviously also gonna be a reason. But I could imagine that his staff feels more comfortable with Schengen as a zone with (usually) open borders and high infection rates rather than specifying single countries. The latter would probably be harder to keep up in courts.

FWIW, without making this political, I don't even think it's the golf resorts. US and UK have very close economical links, there's a lot of business traffic. Esp by wealthy people flying NYC-London regularly. I would rather think he didn't want to affect those. I can imagine a lot of his friends would've been angry if NYC-London gets shut down. Most visitors to his resorts in Europe will be from the continent anyway. But that's obviously pure speculation.
That is not an adequate number for the PNW. Full stop. You have no idea what you are talking about.
I don't know - at some point the age and history of the device itself become the dominant factor, not the fanciness. E.g. as I'm writing this, I'm wearing a relatively low-end watch (a Seiko Kinetic) that was a gift about 20 years ago, and even that tiny bit of history provides me with a fair bit of nostalgia and joy. I get the advantages of smart watches, but it _is_ a shame that they can't really be timeless in the same way.
I am interested learn machine learning or AI course because both are top trending concepts in 2020.
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I can buy two 27-inch 2560x1440 Lenovo monitors for 580-680 euro. So you can definitely get resolution (not necessarily pixel density) for pretty cheap.
Your describing 19th century practices. It’s not as if time has been standing still. These days (europe) mental health services are institutions. Often a group of buildings, ranging from very open assisted living to closed for the truly insane.
While there are instances of abuse on rare occasion, it seems to be miles of from the barbarism of the 19th century.

So there is a whole spectrum of classification these days so only who are truly harmful get locked up when necessary.
You don't need a 1k chair you just need a good ergonomic chair, that won't cause long term damage.

For me good monitor and good chair are above good PC. My PC being slow affects my employers bottom line, my chair or monitor being bad affects my health.

Monitor I guess is still habit from CRT days, when there was significant quality (measured in not damaging your eyesight) between good and average.

Which is why employer bought me 2 really good desktops, one for home and one for office.
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U-238 is natural and non-fissile.
Alot of people already have a laptop, or computer at home.
"the upper bound on CFR"

I think you mean that this should be considered the goal upper bound on CFR. It's really the lower bound on CFR if you do everything right. If you do everything wrong, like the US is heading towards, you get overloaded health systems, critical shortages, and a 12% CFR or higher.
I am not sure how this prevents the 2 problems with passwords. Mainly password reuse them or people choose something to guessable.

I suspect people here will choose only simple shapes and won't use all the colours. It also is not currently compatible with password managers. I suspect there is even users of a password manager might reuse what ever they drew here. Secondly, it has the problem that this input method can't be easily obscured from an over the shoulder snooping.
They just needed to be rich enough to be bailed out. It's their fault.
Sorry if I wasn't clear. It's not the sponsorship relationship that leaves a bad impression, it's the actual search experience that is bad and makes Algolia's product look bad.
The blog post reads like an attempt to finally distance themselves from the the old reputation of being the Clevo rebranders they were.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17039414

Edit there is an article from Linux magazine published a few months ago that states that system76 is still primarily a Clevo rebranded, and that they build just a single product from their whole product line: the thelio.

https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/System76-To-Desig...
Well for one thing they seem to have have quite a comprehensive tax system which they keep updated. Something I realised could be valuable when dealing with a Californian client on a different Ecom platform.

Another one is a reasonably powerful but client friendly interface, which sounds easy but almost all other platforms fail in some way.

Lastly it isn't totally bad for headless ecommerce, at least if you dont look at the accounts system too hard.
The first part, Query parameters adaptation, is perhaps problematic. Postgres allows only 32K parameters (they use a signed short? really?), which is relatively few. This limits the numbers of rows you can INSERT in a batch. Expanding client-side neatly side-steps this.

Also: with copy, is there a way to ignore, or replace, duplicates?
Yeah, they don't seem to battle it too hard when you can just search your local amazon for a relevant keyword, sort by price descending and find the offers. Amazon has every incentive not to battle this, the higher the price, the higher their percentage.
I live in Japan and I can't tell you about the asylums. What I can tell you is that mental health is a huge stigma, there are plenty of people you'll see in the street or in shops/cafes etc who appear in need of mental help, and there are violent attacks every so often that you probably wouldn't hear about abroad but are again, obviously the work of people who are mentally disturbed.

As I say, I don't know anything about the asylums here but the idea that they could be any good seems incredibly unlikely to me, based on my general experience (and what I've heard from other foreigners here).

Edit: typo
"Does this mean we need a more robust domestic response to contain coronavirus, instead of or in addition to restricting travel to the US?"

YES! Restricting US<=>EU travel is just about the least useful thing we need to be doing right now.
I have both a System76 Oryx Pro (laptop, for the past 3 years) and a Thelio Major (desktop, for the past 6 months). Both have run Arch most of the time and both are the best laptop/desktop I've owned, for development and for gaming. Excellent Linux support and powerful hardware, unlike the Purism machines.

I can certainly recommend System76 to anyone needing a powerful setup running Linux. I have no affiliation.
You can also take a softer approach and tell the manager your concern and say you would work from home for safety reasons unless they absolutely require you to be there. That way you didn't give an order to your boss and can still go home.
Now that you mention it, Ben Thompson uses this hand drawn art style at Stratechery[1] - it seems like something that is easy and fast enough to do with one of the countless iPad drawing apps and an Apple Pencil.

[1]: https://stratechery.com/
It likely will. If all people washed their hands properly and avoid touching their face that would probably slow infection rates down enough. Measures are needed because realistically, no one follows these orders enough.
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I came here to say the same (but undoubtedly not nearly as well as yourself).

It was the religious stuff that put me off completely. Being in a group of people all there with a common cause I felt was quite powerful. Hearing shared experiences from the community was helpful. I just couldn't pretend I was OK with peddling any form of faith.
It is not the exact opposite in any way. Your quote does not support your assertion. The truth is that it cannot be contained. It can be slowed down though.
I occasionally check trending repositories of chinse language in github https://github.com/trending?spoken_language_code=zh and github repositories of Alibaba, tencent etc. From the look of it they are very focused on tooling/tutorials on highly salable distributed systems architecture. Java is very popular and spring cloud is their preferred choice. One thing I found interesting is that hibernate ORM is not used anywhere, instead they prefer MyBatis data mapper framework. Some of those projects are moved to apache foundation.

On top of my head I found these projects interesting,

* Dolphin Scheduler https://github.com/apache/incubator-dolphinscheduler

* Echarts https://github.com/apache/incubator-echarts

* Ant Design https://ant.design/

* Sky walking APM https://github.com/apache/skywalking

* Seata distributed transaction system https://github.com/seata/seata

* EasyTransaction distributed transaction system https://github.com/QNJR-GROUP/EasyTransaction

* EShop-SOA https://github.com/songxinjianqwe/EShop-SOA

* RocketMQ https://github.com/apache/rocketmq

* Sharding Sphere https://github.com/apache/incubator-shardingsphere

* Jeecg-Boot https://github.com/zhangdaiscott/jeecg-boot

* SOFA Stack https://github.com/sofastack

* Dubbo RPC framework https://dubbo.apache.org/en-us/ . Also it seems that every big companies in China have their own RPC framework.
Are these the Apple headphones to finally beat the Sony WH-1000XM3?
Austria isn't as badly hit as Italy, despite the short distance to the most affected regions in Italy. They took quite drastic measures early which hopefully slows down the spread. It also helps that much of the traffic from Italy continues on northwards towards Germany and therefore bypasses the main population centers in Austria.

But as in all countries by now, older folks should stay home and self quarantine whenever possible.
Level of testing / surveillance is not clear.
See https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/covid-19-testing/ They have run about 2400 test which is 24 per million in population (on a par with US which is wretched). Italy is 1,000 per million, Hong Kong is 2,000 per million, South Korea is 4,000 per million. Vietnam may be going a good job but they are not testing enough by a factor of 10 to 100 to be sure.
Torture. It should be abolished.
Meh, I tend to wear the same things -- clothes, glasses, shoes, backpacks, until they're unusable. I don't wear them for fashion.

I'd love a carefully crafted mechanical watch, maybe with a compass (if such things exist).

These days I don't carry a watch but I'm kinda starting to want one because I hate using the phone.
Yeah his choice of language there could just as easily be applied to a hunting accident. Super minimising of his activities.
I love the product. I am sure most people don't want to allow direct connections to their databases. I haven't used the software so it might put a lot of load on my database that the server is not able to handle. It will be best if I can import a SQL dump and then use the software on a copy of my data. The alternative right now is to run a separate server just so I can try out the software.
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"Purpose" is also the wrong word, isn't it?

A more correct way would be the changes that improve the chances of survival and procreation, and changes that don't but persist because they at least don't decrease those chances.
The infection in Germany happened mid-January, when the Chinese had not even fully admitted to the problem. Chances are it had already reached all continents by the time any travel ban was even considered.

Unless you can read minds, these things happen very quickly now that the world is a global village.
Glad I'm not the only one, looks pretty much the same as the [1] "repository pattern". Basically a simple data collection interface which abstracts the datasource's type/implementation.

One of the simplest patterns...

[1] https://deviq.com/repository-pattern/
AFAIK, that's how the US got in this mess to begin with: because people thought that solitary confinement would lead to reflection, prayer, and self-improvement. Suffice to say, this approach has not been very successful.

I think that arguing for meditation to make your stay in jail tolerable is similar to throwing people into the sea and arguing they should learn how to swim - it's focusing on the wrong part of the problem. Extended isolation is torture. Arguing in favor of "making the torture less awful" (the "when life gives you lemons" approach) diverts resources from the actual problem, namely, let's stop torturing people.
Personally, I'm just not a fan of having to keep charging those smart watches every other night.

Especially when taking them off to charge at night means losing access to sleep tracking, which for me is the only killer feature smart watches have going for them over the smartphones that I already have.
Thank you to all three of you for these.
Yes, they are happy with it just like they are happy with social security income. The radical part (in the US) is suggesting that it should be available to everyone regardless of age (or veteran/military status) without any concrete plans to pay for it.

> This leads me to believe that the only cohort who believes it to be radical is that which is to be disrupted by such a policy.

Then you are being willfully myopic if you can’t possibly envision people who don’t have faith in the government to not cause a meaningful regression in care by destroying the private market. You can both be unhappy with the current opaque healthcare market and not support Medicare for all.
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14% of cases result in severe pneumonia. R0 is about 4. Average incubation time 6 days. Average time to death/severe illness from onset of symptoms 16 days. If your folks and you got COVID before the Wuhan quarantine you would know someone, likely several people, personally who is/are in the hospital right now with severe respiratory distress.
Until recently, system76 simply rebranded hardware produced by Clevo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clevo

Link to an old HN thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17039414

Link to an article from Linux magazine stating that System76 are still mainly Clevo (Sager) rebranders.

https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/System76-To-Desig...
I was thinking more for data gathering purposes and so on before the healthcare system collapses under the weight of exponential growth. But I take your point.
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At the same time, people are the product of our environment, so ignoring that context would also be foolish. Of course, it's easier to blame a child and sentence him to two decades of prison instead of actually fixing the urban hellholes they grew up in, so we end up with years of solitary confinement and these kind of comments on HN :-/
The more bad news like this is coming out, makes me wonder what did they show to the initial investors - it MUST have been something incredible, that was probably too bulky to wear and that they didn't manage to miniaturise.

I really hope someone talks about that after they either go broke or get acquired.
> As if he was freestyling rather than reading.

Or as if he had problems reading, which we know he likely has.
Scarcity and anisotropic distribution of resources? Dynamism of your lifetime requirements? Also, some age old sentiment that is encoded in the "keep your friends close and your enemies closer" adage? That would be my 3 guesses for most signifigant contributors.
German native speaker here, you just got two letters wrong:

Selig sind die, die nichts zu sagen haben und trotzdem schweigen
Do you know any of the details of the case? I can't find it with a quick search. Genuine question.

Any judgement of this without knowing the details is misinformed.
Multiple vaccine candidates are already in clinical trials. It will take 12-18 months, but it seems like a certainty.
Got a phone that does way more. Don’t need a watch.

And if, for some reason, mechanical watches become necessary, I probably have way more immediate problems anyway.
Depends on if you have a partner and kids. I’ve had to retire my mechanical keyboard at home for just this reason.
Businessweek is still doing good work.
India has suspended all casual travel (based on type of visa) to India from all countries.

One of the latest positive cases was an individual who traveled from USA. He might now have spread it to a cab driver, his family and now their circles (school, offices) have possible exposure. :/

Given that he is one of the people who was not tested in the USA, and he has to be isolated here now, how many people like him might be spreading it far and wide in the USA? :(
Thank you for the insight. It's been an interesting night; never before had I thought of chicken pox or a cold as a disease, but that's what they're classified as.

In my worldview, up until tonight, my understanding of a disease was something that won't go away on it's own. Heart disease, Huntington's, etc.

I agree about the media. While I've seen COVID-19 everywhere; I didn't know anything about the nomenclature in this field and have only heard references to a virus, not a disease.
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Lots of people live in LA who haven't been to China in decades speak Chinese as a first language. The relevant question is whether there were many people on that cruise directly visiting directly from Wuhan/Hubei. LA-catalina-ensenada-LA? Doubt it. Not exactly the type of cruise someone flies thousands of miles for.
I think yes, literally, European machinery exported to China.

It's a massive export sector for the EU (€127bn), and a chunk of that is to China, but the easily-available statistics lump machinery and vehicles, so I don't have a source.
> At least 95% of the challenge in querying data doesn't come from the difficulty of writing SQL statements IMO, but from the complexity/brokenness of the data itself.

More and more of our consulting gigs are this - collating and cleaning crappy data, and then putting BI reporting on top of it.
This is known as “negative concord” and shows up often in colloquial English. While popularly associated with African American and Appalachian dialects, it actually occurs almost everywhere English is spoken. (E.g. Pink Floyd’s chorus, “We don’t need no education / We don’t need no thought control”.)

Even in formal writing, double negatives are common using “nor”. Consider the sentence, “He is not satisfied at all with the recommendations of Mr. Trump, nor with those of Mrs. Clinton.” If you change “nor” to “or”, the meaning remains identical. This shows the negative “nor” reiterates rather inverts the prior negation. Note the “nor” version is no less formal or professional in tone because of its double negative.

Negative concord even has precedent in Shakespeare: “I never was, nor never will be” from Richard III.

Most would suggest avoiding negative concord in a formal writing (excepting “nor”), but colloquially it’s been part of the language for hundreds of years. In a conversational context, the line you quoted is standard English with or without the “don’t”.
I believe it is vision tracking that does the monitoring.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jmv.25723

was on mobile yesterday, sorry for not providing sources
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re: Nial -still alive - QNIAL latest updates were in 2019
see https://github.com/danlm/qnial7
If you are in ICU with flu symptoms, they don't just shrug when the rapid influenza test comes back negative. There are reflex tests that can be run to confirm positive or negative.
State machine parsers are more difficult for most people to understand.
Or infect others who in turn will infect children or elderly.
What lead to their closure in US was Reagan's defunding: https://www.salon.com/2013/09/29/ronald_reagans_shameful_leg...
That's exactly the line of thinking that has made computers much less responsive than they were 20 years ago.
A couple of things I’m not sure are correct there though.

The 80-85% mild cases comes from confirmed cases that we know about. They’re included in the current 6.45% death rate from the JH data.

China may or may not be transparent, but if they have an incentive to hide anything, it would be a higher death rate rather than a lower one.

The data is the data. In any case it’s now global and the 6.45% is actually higher than it was before the virus started growing exponentially outside of China (it was 5.7% from this dataset then).
Yes that was it. ML were supposed to be about a dynamic light field display. I would have bought a motorcycle helmet with a backpack from them if it delivered on the original concept from their prototype phase.
Do you have a list of all major Google tools and why they're better than what's available elsewhere? (if so)
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Protectionism, trade war, patriotism, elections, nationalism... Pretty much everything except health
There have already been missed deaths that were later attributed to Covid-19 in the US. Since the fatality profile of Covid-19 closely matches the fatality profile you expect anyway (people are more likely to die when they are old or have preconditions), it is actually a problem to get reliable death counts. Fatalities must have been tested, or tested retroactively, for correct attribution, and since the US currently isn't even close to doing proper testing of living patients, you can probably add two and two together by yourself.
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Maybe not having $500+ to drop on a watch is considered a disability in that world