skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean it's not completely senseless to compare unknown psd to known psd of sick people. It just seems that as a diagnostic metric it doesn't seem to give you much new information and would be too error prone.

My thoughts were about fluid dynamics and what causes a particle with a mass greater than air to become airborne in the first place - force of updraft jet on surface area overcomes the force of weight, right? So that'd be determined by the velocity of the air flow and the properties of the fluids interacting. So you'd have to first either measure velocity of the ejection or make an estimate and you'd pick a sensor to measure the different particle sizes. Those sensors typically only give a range of particles as output such as <2.5u, <10u, etc in ppm. You'd be forced to group the distribution into discreet intervals and accept more inherent sensor error. Then you have a non-homogeneous fluid with insoluble solids in it launched at variable velocities each time so you probably would need multiple samples (how many to overcome this variance? Can you do it with out over powering your analysis?). Whether the data was useful would depend on some really good designs that minimize the variance of the samples.

It would be an interesting experiment, but I doubt you would find statistically significant results between the different illnesses based on runny noses vs blocked noses viscosity change. I don't think you really need to though because runny or blocked nose is already a diagnostic symptom that doesn't require particle size distribution to determine.
I don't follow.

Why would there be a mention of Microsoft? That many modules in npm are ES5 is completely irrelevant for npm's purpose.

And Microsoft changed, how exactly?

And why are you advertising for them?
Win32, Visual Basic, MFC, ActiveX, WinForms, WPF, Silverlight, UWP, WinUI. (I know these aren’t either/or alternatives, bear with me.)

I think Microsoft knows it needs (1) a way for developers to build apps that look like they belong in 2020 (2) where the frameworks won’t find themselves in the garbage within a few years. This “toolkit approach” seems to recognize that the runtime is a separate problem, so e.g. you can use Win32 + C++ + WinUI, or you can use C# + UWP + WinUI and get something reasonably consistent.

Maybe this is the time Microsoft gets it right. Who knows?
This is a point I see a lot of people miss about Bitcoin's power consumption. It doesn't have to use as much electricity as it does, as the difficulty is adjusted to mining capacity.

The reason why so much electricity is being used on BTC is a result of an arms race between miners, not a necessity of the technical specification. Bitcoin would still operate correctly with less mining capacity. What is sacrificed is that the threshold for mounting a 51% attack becomes lower with less miners. But again, the network itself does not need a nation-state's worth of electricity to operate.
In my opinion Microsoft has done a great job as long as you can completely ignore everything about Windows 10.

https://hothardware.com/news/microsoft-changes-offline-accou...

https://www.howtogeek.com/519572/microsoft-is-testing-ads-in...

And that is all recent, on top of all the other stuff they won’t fix, like issues where file extensions magically reset to Windows defaults, nagging you to just please try Edge because its better for real this time, and the unavoidable mandatory Candy Crush - seriously, if you install with no internet connection, it will keep a placeholder there for you that will install as soon as you’re online.

The telemetry issues are annoying too, not because they exist but because you have to read a books worth of literature to understand what they chose to document. Seriously:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/configure-w...

Windows 10, I wanted to like it but I can hardly tolerate it. Has Microsoft changed? Maybe, but apparently the Windows team didn’t get the memo.
> Sleez'n their way into our hearts.

Just like a cancer! Oh wait...
Of course I am being flippant, so thanks for your thoughtful response despite that.

I don't know what you mean about wealthy getting first dibs on money (if I am lending to someone why would I care if they are wealthy or not [aside from risk considerations]?).

My argument is simply that we cannot afford it. Any Ubi is either too low to live on or unaffordable. Want to give everyone 20k per year? In America that would cost about 5 trillion per year.
You might also be surprised to find out that he was a co-author of shader toy, and he was previously at Pixar where he did much of the procedural work behind The Good Dinosaur.
You can exercise in your own home.

There are tons of videos on youtube that you can just put on your television and follow along with.
Yes, that is what I mean.

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but 20 years is a very short amount of time if you look back on the history of the advancement of engineering and our understanding of the world. It's very exciting, especially when you look at how little the basic operating concept of computers has changed in the same timeframe.
I was caught thinking about set builder notation yesterday, and I can't help but draw parallels between active/passive voice, and my arguments in: https://nixpulvis.com/ramblings/2020-03-16-set-builder-notat...

Im quite sure this post needed editing however ;)
How much, oil, electricity, and blood does it take to prop up the US dollar???
People come by plane. How do you travel by plane without risking infection?

Since it is not avoidable that at least one person on a flight is infected, you have to quarantine each passenger.
I concede that people have a tendency to overuse the passive voice, perhaps to appear less assertive, but... I find this injunction against the passive voice simplistic. The active and passive versions of a sentence _mean_ different things, and one cannot blindly substitute one for the other. Compare:

1. There was a cat in the house. She had not been fed by her owner that morning. She meowed loudly at the passing postman.

2. There was a cat in the house. Her owner hadn't fed her that morning. She meowed loudly at the passing postman.

Also, who is the intended audience of style guides such as this? One's style in a romantic letter is necessarily different from the tone used in a scientific paper, both of which are different from how one would tell a story to a friend. Without nuance, a one-size-fits-all approach to linguistic style will destroy much that is beautiful about the world.
Dr. King was talking about this shortly before he was shot.
Break up, and cease to exist.
I am going to echo other people's sentiments with this. I am very hesitant to even bother looking at this because it yet another UI platform for Windows.

WPF, UWP, SilverLight, Metro. Am I forgetting any?
Les Autres Sport Classification
"Absolutely and those people should receive assistance through the regular channels we have available. Unemployment, charities, welfare, churches, synagogues, etc. and frankly, good old fashioned neighborly assistance."

This probably works well in upper class neighborhoods, but a good portion of the US don't live in communities with much to spare. People unable to afford a $400 emergency or who rely on schools to ensure their children have at least one good meal a day generally dont have much to share with their neighbor. Most of the community organizations that serve those communities are in the same boat. Your suggestion also removes a good portion of people who don't attend religious services. Charities are limited in what they can provide.

Unemployment is difficult. For example to be eligible, Florida requires "You must be able to work, available to work, and actively seeking work. This includes being able to get to a job and have child care if necessary." Not many people hiring in the middle of a pandemic and further complicated by the closing of schools.

"Not by throwing money at everybody, most of whom do not need it."
~75% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and 40% of US citizens cant afford a $400 emergency meaning that most of them do indeed need it.

"Don't shove your political agenda down people's throats in the middle of a pandemic." - You seem upset which I can completely understand in this stressful time but please note; looking to ensure that people, especially children have food to eat and can afford their most basic of bill should not be seen as a political agenda, its simply trying to be a good human.
PMs told that (masks are useless) to people so that doctors can have the masks. In reality masks are insanely effective if everyone wear them.
I'm genuinely curious as to the legality of any kind of lockdown order (presumably that's the next step). I don't doubt that people really need to stay home, away from others in order to stop the spread. But can the governor or a mayor actually order you to stay home under penalty of law?

We've heard that in Italy there are fines and jail time ... but does that even pass constitutional muster here in terms of freedom of movement?
I'm an hourly employee for a staffing company in a specific industry, that I'd rather not name drop here. I make between 20-30k a year. My work site is liable to shut down soon because it is irresponsible to keep their doors open with this virus. When it does I'm on unemployment. There's rumblings of new contracts specifically due to covid but nothing concrete yet. Let alone anything for me. I am not in stem, though that is where my interests and hobbies are. I'm here because there are good discussions with actionable information.
“Gif is the modern universal video format.gif” would have been very ironic.
Sortof. Urban China, yes. Rural China no (but probably yes in 10-15 years). Nonetheless, I don't see Google (or Facebook for that matter) pulling out of Europe if they are forced to comply with (the entirely reasonable restrictions of) GDPR.
Yeah, it's difficult to shelter in place when you don't have any shelter.
I do some mixing for live events on occasion, and I had a guy tell me once that no mix is ever done, but every mix is eventually abandoned.

Honestly, it's true. You can sink an incredible amount of time into mixing and still not be happy with it.
Zoom conquered video chat – now it has even bigger plans
How about medical cannabis? Will people still be able to get it?
Alternatives to Npmjs
Yes, the difficulty rebalances periodically (every two weeks, roughly?), it would take a catastrophic decrease in hashing power to affect that by too much.

The mining reward stays the same, though it drops by half every few years (one such drop is approaching in May).

The network actually becomes non-functional for low transfers the other way - when there's too much interest, and too many transactions, the fees to get a transaction through start to rocket. At the peak of the 2017 hype the y hit around $50-70, IIRC.
If it were the opposite, there wouldn’t be such pay disparities between management and programmers
Here is a decentralized and distributed backend for git called Mango. Basically takes advantage of Ethereum and P2P content addressable networks.
https://github.com/axic/mango

[Edit]: Here is another using the BitTorrent protocol - https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent
Considering the context that I replied to is "we should also be aware of the danger of false positives", I think given the FDA source I posted (and what I've read elsewhere) I can say that there is absolutely no need to be aware of a danger of false positives in terms of disrupting people's lives.

If you want to argue on the fact of life that nothing in life is absolute. Fine. you win. If administered properly, and the test kit detects a presence of COHVID-19 RNA in your body, and the person telling you the results is not drunk, then the results is as close as 0% as practical.
> Google and Amazon have the EEE under lock right now

what is EEE?
Comparing getting your user account suspended to a war crime is histrionic.
Thanks. That clears it up
>I've seen 4 or 5 reports of different companies developing far better tests.

Were any of the reports more detailed than "hey, we developed a better test. Give us money."
Lots of hassle for already-strained law enforcement.
Isn't macOS support being pushed via react-native on macOS? IIRC MS is the biggest contributor there.
Sad to see .NET core not supported (yet). I thought all new development was supposed to target .NET core and now this ? Come on Microsoft, you can do better (especially that NET 5 is coming in November)!

I wonder if WinUI is truly more performant than Winforms. Winforms hooks directly into WINAPI. How can you be faster than that ?
That's the case in most places though. Places like Sweden and Finland have stopped testing for people who don't have severe symptoms. Sort by the death rates to get a more accurate picture.
Small enough to drown in a bathtub.
Google tracks how many people connect with IPv6, which is a metric for how many people are staying at home:

https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

IPv6 connections peak in the weekend and over the Christmas break, when people are connecting from home.
That bit of wordplay gave me the chills :) Thanks.
More precise manipulation of atomic spin, potentially enabling less resource-intensive quantum computers (for the most boring application I can think of).
My city has taken none of these actions. We need federal responses to these issues.
> I think the Fed should still determine the amount of QE based on inflation and economic metrics, however that QE should be distributed via a UBI rather than used to purchase financial instruments.

But why go the roundabout way of going through QE to pay for UBI? Why not just increase taxes directly?

The answer is, clearly, because once you talk about increasing taxes to pay for something, you start thinking hard about numbers, and having them add up. When you talk about some vague ideas like the above, calculating the impact exactly becomes difficult, so instead one can just throw up their hands in the air and ignore the problem altogether. The impact however stays very real, as real as when you pay for it through taxation.
and Austria: https://fm4.orf.at/stories/3000031/
That's a path but NPM already being a company with signficant VC investment would a transition to such a model workout with the existing stakeholders? Also NPM is quite a bit bigger than both the Ruby and Python library spaces.
Sorry. I consulted the code and it turned out I used relu(Ax + b) - x as a modified residual layer.

I hope it clears things up.
Gopem 0.6 released: GUI for OPEM library
There's a lot of interesting questions here. Constitutionally speaking (at the Federal level), there is an express right given to the Executive branch: "The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it." This situation would certainly fall under the latter condition.
How much more does the dollar and all it's infrastructure do than bitcoin?

Many, many, many times more. Bitcoin could barely cope with the transaction rate of a mid sized town.
That would live for an instant less than the planck time.
But mentions nothing about shipping.

Edit: From the FAQ that was just posted, "Businesses that ship or deliver groceries, food, goods or services directly to residences" are an essential service and can continue operating.
I'm not a financial...well, anything, but it's my interpretation that most large stock market drops are due to massive selloffs. Basically, people who own the stock are trying to unload it before something bad happens to those stocks. The result is something bad happens to those stocks, and things start crashing.

Like in Sneakers:

People think a bank is financially shaky

Consequence: people start to withdraw their money

Result: Pretty soon it is financially shaky

In other words, stores running out of things and/or online sales being strong aren't, by themselves, the cause of major market movements right now; it's speculation about what'll happen tomorrow, and making sure you don't own any of the stocks if & when it tanks. Which incidentally causes the stocks to tank.
Maybe if you're in Germany.

But in the US, you'd be wasting your time, if not making a joke out of yourself.
There is a persistent assertion that "everyone" in SK is being tested. It's not true. There is a pretty high chance that a high % of the infected are almost asymptomatic. Fatigue might be the only thing some get. Others nothing. The problem is people asserting without statistical extrapolation a base fatality rate predicated on a division of [+ve tests/deaths]. It is exactly what WHO have done before in other epidemic like situations and it doesn't make sense.

Previous epidemics have seen these massive similar ratios promoted only to later be revised aggressively. I can offer examples if required
You missed one!

https://github.com/winjs/winjs
I get this in principal, but when I go to GitHub without being logged in it just feels... well, like Microsoft.
Show HN: Promote your business and find others that provide flat quotes
Better link: https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/blob/master/d...

This has actual technical details, the roadmap, the rationale, etc.

To those wondering: this does not offer cross-platform GUI. Microsoft’s (inadequate) answer to that is blazor in browsers or browser controls. When they say cross-platform support for WinUI they mean it can be targeted by libraries providing cross-platform UI abstractions, the example they give is react native.
Yes, in this very case, it means French customers don’t profit from the benefits of a free market (i.e. a competitive price) because the price was fixed. The problem here is that all customers that would buy a product for amount X, but don’t buy it at Y (the fixed price, which is greater than X), won’t buy it just because of the fixed price. Which effectively cuts those customers off from the product. The French obviously want to maximize their consumers‘ access to such products.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22596539
The person you are replying to is saying 'if sufficient masks can be supplied in the future'.

Given the distance the virus can travel, the length of time it can live outside the body, how long it can stay in the air after being aerosolized (transmitted via cough). It makes sense to get masks on as many people as possible.. because it's the healthy people who think they are fine, coughing in public places that are the most likely to spread it.

Again, this is assuming supply ramps up and is sufficient to make this a reality, obviously all healthcare worker needs should be met first, but going further to protect the general public should be something to strive for.
Advanced AWS Networking: Pitfalls That You Should Avoid
Three product companies (Enterprise, Consumer, and Media), an open source company (Research, Engineering, and Collaboration), and a foundation owning all of the patents and other licensed IP.
That explains why my terminal program, iTerm2, disappeared off my computer (zero use), and I was unable to find the repo (zero discovery) or file issues (zero contribution), since it's on Gitlab.

Oh wait.
The short answer is yes. Police powers[1] are not absolute, but extend pretty far. The more extreme applications have been few-and-far between, so they're not tested much.

[1] This is not about cops. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_power_(United_States_co...
Corona Virus in Austria – A brief guide
I guess they're not technically homeless, but there's rat tribes and ant tribes in china. I wouldn't want to be living in those conditions if covid came to beijing.
1) Since record labels generally haven't given an advance to a new artist for a decade, almost all albums and Youtubes are now done "in your room."

2) The Yamaha AG03 is a mixing console more intended for live gigs. If you're mainly doing home studio recoding, then most people get a Focusrite 2i2 or Yamaha/Steinberg UR22 and do mixing in the DAW (computer program.) The UR22 has MIDI-in and out.

Synths often have a built-in audio interface for microphones or guitars, though sometimes without phantom power.

Otherwise, the how-to is pretty typical of how it's done. Note that the author was already quite a musician, having been in a band. YMMV!
A penny saved is a penny earned.

Instead of focusing on making more money, focus on spending less. This reduces pressure, increases health and time to think and be creative. In my adult life I have spent years in low expense scenarios learning and creating. Forget the herd, do what you want to do. Move to a cheap place (avoid anywhere with a 'digital nomad' community) and go swimming, surfing, rock-climbing or cycling every day. Even if you have zero savings one remote gig or an occasional bout of local work will keep you going.
Maven Central has mirrors and alternatives and you can trivially host your own repository, all you'd need is a plain web server serving a bunch of static files.

Some libraries aren't hosted on Maven Central actually, so it's not uncommon to see instructions for adding extra resolvers to your build config.

The Java ecosystem isn't as dependent on Maven Central as the JavaScript ecosystem is on npmjs.com
I was talking to someone recently and they were wanting a way to find more businesses that provide flat quotes instead of hourly rates for predictable services. For example, if a lawyer reviews a lot of employment contracts they could probably provide a fixed price instead of an hourly rate for this type of work. It isn't always easy to find these types of businesses though.

I decided to create a simple proof of concept site where people can go post your businesses with contact information and list what type of services you provide. Then other small businesses can search and hire you for those services.

This is a pretty barebones implementation just to see if there is enough interest to make it better. There's no cost to use it, just trying to provide something useful right now.

Any feedback is appreciated.
Personally I like Algo because it also handles provisioning a dedicated VPS with some sane system defaults. It also sets up IKEv2 and Wireguard together, which makes it easier to have a multi-platform VPN out of the box without having to set up Wireguard & IPsec separately. It may not be what everyone wants though, Streissand is great in its own ways too.
A lot, that is why it is backed by the Country with the largest economy in the World...mean while Bitcoin isn't backed by anything except false marketing, it certainly isn't a P2P electronic system of cash.
It's been too long since I've been into a server room.

It was not uncommon to see half-depth switches in the era prior to 'hot aisles' and I definitely recall them pulling air in directions that you might not like. They were never deep enough to siphon air from the front of the rack.

If you have a switch fully populated rail-to-rail with ethernet jacks, it's not entirely clear to me where you should route air in a hot/cold aisle setup.
Wow. We've gone to full lockdown from no restrictions except on large events 48 hours ago.
> This won't help a recession one bit as it doesn't incentivize any economic activity

Please explain to me how, in a country where 76% of the population lives paycheck to paycheck, putting more cash in their pocket doesn't stimulate economic activity? When someone loses hours at their job due to no customers coming through, how does making sure that person can still eat not, at bare minimum, ensure they can still eat, not help with economic activity?

> With fed interest rates near-zero people with good credit should already be able to get pretty good short term loans and this will help those without a credit score or with a poor one to be able to meet their obligations.

Oh, cool, we put the fuckers in debt in times of highly uncertain economic horizons, but we'll say it's helping them.
Yeah https://microsoft.github.io/microsoft-ui-xaml/img/performanc...
Microsoft's stance lately is that it's great if you want to run Linux - they want to provide tools for you to use there as well.