skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a sad situation because of a death taking place. That said, I do not personally believe there is anything wrong with the email other than the wording. Automation exists in all parts of our lives and sometimes an outcome like this will occur.
Saying “8 to ten years ago” in 2018 seems to be suggesting that this is an historic issue ending in 2008-2010 that has been fixed. The latest public story is of items of dubiously origin from
Oxford over some years up to 2015, and the saga has been playing out publicly for some time. This isn’t something that happened in the distant past as that last quote makes out. What about the Oxford story is ‘open’? The story mentions investigations from Indian, US, UK, Egyptian and Iraqi authorities. That’s quite a list.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/10/16/mystery-deepens-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/world/europe/oxford-profe...
> Retroviruses include HIV and are the most beautiful viruses of all.

I honestly do not know what you mean by this. Can you please elaborate?
'list.sort()' is one of those leftovers from "Python before it was really Python" and is not one that's particularly worth it to change because it's useful sometimes.

In general Python prefers builtins that operate on protocols. You use "len(x)" because it's consistent, otherwise you might call "x.len()", "x.length", "x.size()" or any other number of possibilities. And if an object doesn't define it? You're out of luck. With this any object that supports the protocol (__len__) can be passed to length.

The same applies to "sorted()". list.sort() is useful in some specific circumstances where "sorted()" is not adequate, but in general the answer to "how do I sort something" is to use sorted.
I guess you could call trying to offer a helpful suggestion bike shedding ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is exactly the sort of message that should be packaged up in a PSA and disseminated through TV / YouTube / Facebook / Twitch / etc. I don't think the general population makes it over to Stallman's blog all that often.

I know that no news channel could be reasonably incentivized to criticize their own sensationalism, but I wonder how the narrative would change if the reports were often proceeded or followed by a government sponsored and mandated warning against overconsumption of "news".
Maybe they're just returning to the roots of the word villain from Old French for a villager/peasant.
They’re not technically toxic debt, but the market definitely prefers cash now, so they’re unwanted just the same.
As Covid-19 response, Linden Lab discounts Second Life for schools/non-profits
Also Tokbox is horrible. Twilio is modern and pretty good.
His footage from Duga is really amazing, he managed to shoot it with incredible lighting from the sunrise. I'd strongly recommend checking this out even if urbex isn't normally your thing.
Maybe not, but this disease is not named "Wuhan", it's named COVID-19. Insisting that we call a virus by a different name to try to blame a specific region when the rest of the world has decided to call it something else... I dunno, that smells off to me.
What does Britain know about coronavirus that the rest of Europe doesn't?
That means the population overall may build immunity to it?
I totally agree with you when it impacts people’s security, privacy, goods or money.

I am less intransigent when it comes to potentially hurt feelings.
Most rechargeables seem to have standard cells, but they are welded together in a weird proprietary package. Technically though they have standard rechargeables.

Another issue is I don't want batteries in my keyboard, mouse, or electric razor. All these things I use next to another thing with a power source. It's pointless to have them be rechargeable. Yet it's becoming harder and harder to find keyboards, mice, and razors that are wired. Cordless mice in particular are a blight on society because the extra weight of the batteries aggravates carpal-tunnel and is a health hazard.
> So it's hard to criticize the government based on personal experience

No it's not. You had every expert in the world talking about the potential dangers for months, while Trump kept talking about how it was just a flu that would magically go away on its own, and that there wasn't anything to be concerned with. The US's preparation has been incredibly bad and late in comparison to certain other countries. On top of Trump firing the Pandemic Response Team in 2018.

The optics are going to start looking increasingly bad for him as the US death rate starts to climb.

I don't claim to predict the outcome of the election, but you can't claim that it's "hard to criticize the government" based off of this, or that any future "decisive action" is going to be enough once the death rate hits tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands.
Cardiac arrest was also reported for SARS (SARS-CoV-1): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14633442

So much is still unknown about SARS and MERS that I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for credible answers regarding SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19. And MERS is still circulating (see https://www.who.int/emergencies/mers-cov/en/), so it's not like nobody is interested.
Well, how is that any worse than the current situation? If you are 100% sure that the pin is based on the birthday, you probably already won
But if management has no incentive to fix itself, what pressure is there to force them to? Negative press and bad reputation of industry conditions doesn't seem to be helping. The investors don't care. Customers don't care. So the workers themselves need to push back.
What? Apple's been live-streaming stuff for decades.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aardvark_(search_engine)
Please stop saying "you have much bigger problems", this cliché is dangerous and unproductive.
What did he do that will bring back manufacturing? Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania are in a manufacturing recession. It turns out that tariffs don't work to protect our manufacturing jobs when we look at the aggregate.

Also, the US manufactures more stuff than any other time in its history, it just does it with less labor than it needed in the 80's. Even if manufacturing came back, it would not be some job boon. Products would become more expensive for the same quality that we get from China. The people employed would be higher skilled and likely need to come in on visa's because we already have a skilled labor shortage in America. Hell, our U3 unemployment rate is like 3.8% the last time I checked*.

America's problem is our intransigence to help one another move to where jobs are, and to get educated in the skills needed to fill those jobs. And I'm not talking about programming jobs here.
"Hire non-union workers" is a phrase that's only meaningful in world states where the employer can be forced to only hire union members. It requires a great deal of organizational/political power to force workplaces to do that unless they are union-owned to begin with. It is therefore a rarity, which occurs mostly where there is some arrangement between large corrupt unions, the government and enough large corporations, which includes:

* Unions putting a lid on actual rank-and-file demands and initiatives.

* No or rare collective action.

* No solidarity action with non-unionized workers, workers from oppressed social groups etc.

* Political support by unions for the regime in general and for dominant factions within government in particular.

* Employers acting in concert with union by dues checkoff and requiring new hires to join (or go through the union to be employed).

* Legislation enshrining this arrangement, or preventing legal action against it.

... which explains why I didn't mention this consideration.
I think the new one is OK for a quick overview, but I still prefer email. Sieve + this rule[1] files emails from each repo in a folder (following org structure), and I can flag things I need to come back to, mark things I don't care about as read, and have thunderbird pop a notification in the top of my screen for repos I really care about.

(I know I am definitely not the target audience for the page)

1 -

# GitHub
if allof(exists "X-github-recipient",
header :regex "List-Id" "<([a-z_0-9-]+)\.([a-z_0-9-]+)[.@]") {
set :lower "organisation" "${2}";
set :lower "repo" "${1}";
fileinto :create "INBOX.GitHub Code Review.${organisation}.${repo}";
stop;
}
Fixed! Thanks for catching that Brian.
Your scheme sounds suspiciously similar to... a data cap.
This is striking:
"A nation of 51 million, South Korea has tested about 250,000 people since its outbreak began on Jan. 20, with a daily capacity of 15,000. It has conducted 3,600 tests per million people compared to five per million in the U.S."
If you want to see how the gameplay looks, check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjMf_bEfqIc

This is the PC port so I'm not sure if it looks exactly the same as the original...
Singer taps and targets can do this:

pip install tap-postgresql target-google-sheets
tap-postgresql | target-google-sheets

https://www.singer.io/

disclaimer: I used to work at Stitch Data
How do you know if something is positive without being able to quantify it?
It was a cloud of obfuscation where you never admitted your statement was wrong and violates conservation of angular momentum.
>And I agree, the word socialism is losing meaning because right wing media has been trying to equate democratic socialism with Stalin

The fact that you agree with what you read does not mean that it isn't propaganda. The man had his homeymoon in the USSR and is on video talking fondly of bread lines. I'm not saying he's Stalin 2.0 but right wing media isn't entirely stretching when they point out how far removed his policies are from American politics.

Note, that's not a value judgement. I'm just saying you're wrong to blame the shift in meaning on the particular media that you don't agree with.
Here's an example of a case where I don't think good meeting discipline can help. If I'm in a meeting and I ask everyone on the engineering team what they think the number 1 highest value tech debt item is at the moment, then only the first person to answer is giving me an uninfluenced opinion, because every other person has now heard someone else's perspective and possibly altered their own before their turn. Instead, I prefer to ask every engineer to come to the meeting with their answer written down (or aggregated in my inbox with Keyory already) so that I can see what everyone's unfiltered opinion is and then direct the meeting from there.
This war is different, in that it will assuredly be declared at an end, as soon as the fatality rate declines below the rate typical for seasonal influenza. Whether it will have been "won" will be a subjective judgement informed by the body count, and the judger's political biases.
How would this field work with Bell's inequality (the no-local-hidden-variables theorem)?
> So you can improve it with either more empathy or more automated-form design.

I work on a CI system that supports an app with more than 150000 tests. At that size we have to remove tests to manage intermittent test failures. In the beginning we were removing those tests manually and developers would argue with us a lot. Especially about the methodology that we used to determine that a test is intermittently failing. Since we switched to a bot the arguments stopped. I guess it seems less arbitrary if an automated system disables tests rather than an human.
Heres my problems:

* Only those with symptoms (which?) are going to be "allowed" to be tested. This means you can't stop the spread.

* Testing is going to "come online" within weeks, but cases are already accelerating. We have tripled cases in the last 4 days. Its an exponential curve

* I fully expect them to fudge the numbers on deaths at this point. We will start to see a large uptick within the next week.
People have flown FPV quadcopters around it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhJpdCZNSDc
In Italy, the numbers are closer to 7%
A plasmid does not 'integrate into the host genome'. The entire genome for human cells is stored inside the nucleus packaged as chromosomes. The plasmid exists outside of this, and just hijacks our replication machinery.
Well, not exactly, it means that "immunity" may actually be dangerous or fatal. Because immunity implies release of antibodies on re-exposure, except in this case the antibodies bind to the virus, as normal, but then the virus infects much more readily, prompting the body to produce more antibodies and mount an ever greater immune response in a dangerous cycle.
>If games industry is harsh, jump ship.

If the industry you work in sucks, jump ship? That's not exactly great advice when you've spent decades honing your craft in a certain industry. Even if someone did genuinely want to switch, game development skills aren't necessarily easily transferable to other kinds of development, even if it helps.

That advice makes sense if a company you works for sucks, but if an entire industry is broken, you can't just tell people to suck it up and find a new industry.
The difference in the ability of a developer to modify an open source software product (think: Gimp or Jitsi Meet) to suit their needs versus using a platform SDK that is designed to provide flexibility and to be used by devs is massive.

I spent some time looking at the Jitsi Meet source to confirm this assertion:

https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/

It was quite clear that trying to use that code to execute my use case above would have been a very large waste of time, and quite possibly (given the lack of docs) a futile exercise.
Now that isn't right. Meeting the same people over and over spreads the disease - we don't all get it at the same moment, and each contact even with the same person is a new opportunity to get infected (because they got it from somewhere else since your last contact).

Social distancing, reduce frequency of contact, stop meeting in large groups. That's the whole ballgame now.
Could these unemployed employees start their own cooperatives that do not take advantage of employees? I want to focus on making this possible. I am, personally, concerned that trying to create some two sided balance of power will not end up representing me as both sides will have their own interest.
Exit 57 (Sketch comedy TV series, 1995-96)
I use a mac mini with 16gb ram, i7 - connected to two monitors.

I don't like working with laptops because it gets hot and uncomfortable. With my current setup I can use my logitech mx3 master keyboard and mouse comfortably.
But its hard to believe they report infection rate properly. It may be 7% of those with symptoms (arriving at hospital)? Which is expected to be a 'cherry picked' subset and have a higher rate.
They're not reporting explosive numbers...
> I'm sick of "renting" batteries that are permanently installed in devices that would otherwise work for tens of years, but their batteries wear out after only a few years.

Also alarming is all the Apple crap where the hard drive, that lasts at most 2 years, is impossible to replace without great risk to the device, special replacement gaskets, etc, and when you do it turns out the original had a proprietary temperature sensor that means your replacement dies in 6 months.

RAM welded to the motherboard on general purpose computers is another design horror that harms the environment and should be banned. All RAM should be upgradable on devices that cost more than $1000.

Also the era of cell phones without SD slots must end.
I don't fully understand how these loans are going to help. If I'm a business owner and all the sudden my revenue drops to 0 or close to it, getting a loan to keep my employees around is still not a great option because I'm going to have to pay it back later. Like the other poster said they were having their employees do maintenance, deep cleaning, etc, but how long can you do that before you have to send people home? And how long can you afford to keep paying them without bringing in revenue?

I guess if we're hoping this crisis only lasts a couple of weeks, loans should bridge the gap. And options are never a bad thing!
Ask HN: Any biomolecular/bio-lab hackers working on DIY RT-PCR tests?
From a layperson's perspective, it looks like purchasing Covid-19 primers, setting up my own thermocycler and gel electrophoresis chamber would let me test my community myself. If I could run 16 tests per person (8 nasal, 8 pharyngeal) to manage false negatives in this time of high viral activity, as long as the equipment was calibrated and validated, then I'd rather do that than wait for a bumbling administration to trickle down tests to my locality (despite the flowery words in the Rose Garden just now), if they even show up in time at all to flatten the R0 curve.

But I'm just a layperson. Where are bimolecular hackers gathering to talk about the concrete steps it takes to not only set this up, but calibrate it (for example, where do I source the calibration dyes and buffers I need to use), and validate its accuracy and precision, etc.? I've found there are a number of primer suppliers, but I'm also interested in whether or not hackers are assembling their own primers, or even those looking into CRISPR-based detection [1].

[1] https://www.broadinstitute.org/files/publications/special/COVID-19%20detection%20(updated).pdf
Interestingly, Chatroulette's founder is trying to reboot his platform. He built a small team over here in Switzerland and named a new CEO.
Depth of field for a normal camera is a function of the relative aperture size (f-number), focal length and distance to the subject. This camera is able to create a huge depth of field with a far smaller aperture than would be expected with a conventional camera.

So how does it break the laws of physics? Well it doesn't; it cheats by not preserving the phase of the light. In a normal lens, the phase of the light is preserved. Light that must travel further to reach the point of focus travels faster as it passes through less lens material (where it travels slower than the speed of light).

The lens is also made on a flat disc a little bit like a Fresnel lens. The difference with this lens is that it doesn't have a single point of focus, instead light is focused onto many planes, simultaneously with equal power of light focused onto each plane. In this paper the planes were chosen to be between 5 and 1200mm. A clever computer algorithm calculates the exact shape of the lens to get this distribution given a specific wavelength of light.

The end result is a lens which has amazing depth of field but the trade off of only operating well at a single frequency and poor efficiency. Most of the incoming light is being focused on a plane that the sensor isn't on. Indeed at 1200mm it has an equivalent f-number of 555 requiring some insanely bright lighting and long exposure time to get a good image.

I can't see many real world applications of this camera given the downsides but in a world of more computational photography this could be one part of a better imaging system.
not when it was turned on though...
Six months from now we will likely be wishing we had union jobs.
I was an Amiga user, and I certainly can see why you prefer it, but the Jaguar ones look great as well (something I'd never have admitted to back in my Amiga days when Atari was "the enemy") - it feels like pixel art made for the resolution.

The problem with the 3DO one to me is that it looks like it was just downsampled from a high resolution image rather than was being drawn for the resolution it was rendered at.
Air Taxis; Coming Soon?
The five cast members included Steven Colbert, Any Sedaris, and Paul Dinello (Colbert's longtime writing partner). Four of the five later did "Strangers With Candy".

It looks like Comedy Central has put the entire series on YouTube for free now - good quarantine viewing. For years, it was only available in bootleg form.
Shea.red
Bitcoin derivatives exceeded $20B in trading volume
Can someone explain the rationale of how this works? I don't get it.

Does the small business take a loan (at 3.75%) to continue paying payroll, despite not having any income or any work for the employees to do? Or are all the laid-off hospitality/entertainment industry workers going to go get a loan to start their own businesses (not hospitality-related, obviously)?

What am I missing?
>What did he do that will bring back manufacturing? Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania are in a manufacturing recession.

Please remove your Orange Man Bad blinders for a minute and listen to what I'm saying. I'm not saying he's done anything for manufacturing to date. I'm saying that this coronavirus now has exposed the weakness of offshoring a substantial proportion of critical manufacturing and it's an excellent opportunity to bring back much of the capacity that is still disrupted in China.

That's also why I said under subsidy. Because manufacturing here is more expensive but it looks like a national security problem if during calamity or war we have to depend on a nation on the other side of the world for things like semiconductors, medical equipment, and medicine. Based on the way the word is being thrown around recently, think of it as "socialism."
They are predicting that the outbreak will not peak before 14 weeks because they are not taking many measures to contain it and say that they are not taking drastic measures now because the peak will be in 14 weeks...

This sounds like circular reasoning... Or bad faith.
https://github.com/jitsi/lib-jitsi-meet
> Refusing to acknowledge facts or listen to reason..

I think you missed the main point of my previous comment again. Seriously, facts rather than opinions right now. I'll repeat again:

I guess you're not aware of what's happening in Italy. Health services are overflowing with the ones requiring serious care. Not the ones testing out their sniffles.

https://www.euronews.com/2020/03/12/coronavirus-italy-doctor...

Not sniffles - all serious cases.
Very insightful comment, thank you. There's one other related thing I also find worthy of exploring further namely the population based training used by AutoML-Zero at the moment seems extremely simplistic, and there exist a lot of bleeding edge methods in that area which can tremendously improve outcomes of evolutionary algorithms, I've tweeted about them here (and at the AutoML-Zero people):

https://twitter.com/no_identd/status/1238565087675330560

And it doesn't seem unlikely that tweaking these would tremendously improve the outcomes. Combining that with what you've just described would… well, I'll leave that to the readers imagination. ;)
@Carter

Does Twilio still use Zoom for internal voice & video employee collaboration?

I worked there for a few years and left Twilio not long ago. I always thought it was super strange how Twilio doesn’t dog food any of its own service.

Some examples:
- Twilio Flex isn’t used for support desk
- Slack is massively used at Twilio vs Twilio Chat
- Zoom is massively used vs Twilio video
- employees don’t text yet SMS is your core business

And more
Making games is a lot of people's passion. This inflates the supply of labor for game development, which reduces cost (as well as lowering expectations for stability, work life balance, etc.) It's hard to negotiate for good work life balance and wages, when people are enamored with game development and willing to tolerate crunch time and cyclical labor demand.
bacteria != viruses
I agree asynchronous communication can be important also, but disagree with at least the way it was articulated.

"First comment" can have an anchoring effect, sure - but there is no reason that it has to dominate or really constrain the rest of the conversation.

Your example sounds like the primary focus of a meeting. I agree people should come prepped for discussion then in order for it to be effective.
Nothing like trying to get my kids to eat breakfast in the dark.
Because the union’s best interest is the union itself. The bigger they are, the more profit they make.
Right, I wasn't aware of that. Thanks!
But see this thread for some discussion of the risks of the strategy: https://twitter.com/iandonald_psych/status/12385183716516495...