skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love the giraffe image. Although I wonder if your algorithm handles faces well.

There is a huge demand in Instagram for auto touchups. Like improved lighting, smoother skin, vibrant colors, convert to anime etc. Make amateur photos look like they’re taken by pros.
Thanks for putting some more meat on your appeal to authority. Seems a little bit more reasonable, but I have little faith in UK institutions in 2020.
Scientifically, yes? First do we have conclusion that people are immune to coronavirus once infected? Isn't the disease too new to know that? Secondly have we done any experiments and have any evidence that this will work in a smaller scale? Any scale? I thought science is about evidence and repeatability. If anything this will be a large scale human experiment at best without any informed consent given.
Yes, this law would make more sense as a norm to shame people from hoarding than as a strictly enforced market restriction.
The problem with this reasoning is that your measure is not a direct measure of infection rates. For South Korea, they tested a large number initially, and now fewer. We don’t know if it’s actually under control without more systematic testing and therefore data on infection rates.

The other issue is that of getting the leak at the wrong time. If the UK manages to partly control it, but then realises containment will fail in say November, the peak will occur at the worst possible time in winter.

By controlling the spread and aiming for summer, best medical care can be achieved given limited resources.

This logic is not true for equatorial countries such as Singapore due a lessened seasonal effect, so they should continue with their current Methodology. I suspect others will move to the UK approach once initial social distancing process inadequate (assuming they are that is).
I think I'll dig in first. Cheers.
I thought there was a federal program to provide phones to people on low incomes - the so-called Obamaphone (although it was actually Reagan).
Microparticles show promise for transplant rejection
It is true, the produce department has some of the cheapest food in the store. How much is a bundle of bananas? That's a week's breakfast.

Unless you only buy organic, then you might go broke while hungry.
You can say ignorance is no excuse, but you’re a hacker news user. Have you talked to regular people about computer security? They very much are ignorant of what you and I would consider basic knowledge. This app took advantage of people and promised to keep their data secret while failing to do so. Regular people have other things going on in their life and can’t follow everything you and I follow. Don’t be so quick to shame the victims here.
> These kids type their entire papers on their phones

Um... what? This would blow my mind to observe.
Artisanal, Locally-Produced Hand Sanitizer
Solution Selling, M Bosworth.

Lead Customer Development, C Alvarez
Bill Gates was quite rich and ordinary people used to talk about him a lot. He was never seen as cool in that time.

He's had a bit of a reputation increase since then, part of it is probably his philanthropy, but also nerdy people are much more accepted and celebrated these days.
Long term they are working on a vaccine and anti-virals.
You really trying to promote your product?

Corporate promotions really ruin the atmosphere... Take your corporate shilling elsewhere. I'm sure OP doesn't appreciate it.
The problem is that while you may not deal with old people, the same is not true of all of the people that you deal with.

Remember that it takes an average of no more than 6 steps in your social network to get from any person in the USA to any other person in the USA.
Taming Gmail like a pro, label it!
This point of view strikes me as incredibly selfish. Some people who have exposure to vulnerable people might need to go out (to get groceries, medication, etc.) and you could still act as a vector to infect them. Surely your social life will survive two weekends away from the pub.
They don’t use google docs?
FWIW, I submitted this earlier today:

When an epidemic outbreak such H1N1, Zika or SARS viruses occurs, containment measures may seem to be the most reasonable solution. However, an EPFL study casts doubt on that idea, showing that such measures make a society less resilient and less able to return to pre-epidemic economic and social conditions. The study, published in Nature Scientific Reports, coincides with another publication on the same subject but based on other mathematical models, published in Nature Physics in December. That study also compared the advantages of containment measures with those of non-intervention, and reached the same conclusion: Preventing travel and social interactions is not always the best way to deal with an epidemic outbreak.

https://phys.org/news/2018-01-epidemics.html
I don't think I've ever heard the term drugging, but I love it.
How much TP do people really need for themselves? Why are the shelves cleared out of TP and not, I don't know, dish detergent? Why is its future supply more in danger than any other good? If everyone coordinated buying a month's supply of TP one weekend, would all the stores really run out? I'm not so sure... At Costco it's hard to buy less than one month's supply at a time already, unless you have a big family
Smartphones offer a much more user friendly, accessible way of doing common tasks, but there is a much higher barrier of entry to go from "software user" to a hobbyist "software creator".

Compare to microcomputers that might be sitting in primary school classrooms 25-30 years ago, where you turn the machine on and seconds later you're staring at a command line that directly interprets BASIC.
And for those not in the know, a F1 race is ~305km, and they have do two days of practice plus qualifying in a race weekend using the engines they have (same engine for qualifying as for racing). There's some more detail in this[1] article, where they point out the Mercedes F1 engine did over 3000 miles (~4900km) during pre-season testing without issues (most in race-like conditions).

That said, from my impression it is usually the turbo or the hybrid systems that break down, it's rare for the actual engine block to be the issue barring specific production issues.

[1]: https://autoweek.com/article/formula-one/mercedes-f1-engine-...
I'm saying, when the ship is sinking, it is probably the absolute worst time to go and try to collect all of the life vests on the ship and preach the virtues of the Free Market while trying to fleece people right and left out of whatever you can.

If you happen to be in a fleet of sinking ships, it's an even worse idea to go to other ships, hoard their life vests, and try to sell them back at a markup.

The message here should not be difficult to understand. Those that use the Market to bite the hand that makes the Market possible would be wise to note what happens to the dog that bites the hand that feeds it.

Hell, maybe you're more of a visual person. Obligatory XKCD.

https://xkcd.com/1499/

If you can't understand these basic, generally universal tenets of human existence, I really don't know what else to tell you than to tread cautiously, and don't complain when you end up suffering the consequences for your actions.

If you still don't get it, then I can only assume Mr. Sinclair's nugget is in play.

"It is difficult to get a person to understand something when their salary depends upon them not understanding it."
Being able to sufficiently handle technology can be a matter of learning a trick and sticking with it. A difference in mentality or 'skills' is the ability and curiosity to learn new tricks when a situation calls for it. So it's not really a generational issue (now that I think about it, generational issues are not really related to the 'quality' of the people in it, but the environment that shaped them - heh), it's a mentality/skill issue. The will to actually solve the problem in front of you is a skill that can be learned, but if everything around you 'just works' you never have the need to develop that skill.

You've been happily using your Generic XPad your entire life dealing with minor UI changes that are explained to you via small tutorials or w/e. You learn your job on the job, specific things in school etc. The furthest you'll go is the search bar on Facebook or a marketplace.

If you encounter something that doesn't just work, how do you know how to figure it out if you've never developed that skill. To me and you it's not that hard, it's pretty obvious.

People just learn the trick, but not how to be curious. Or maybe they just don't care, that's fine too I guess.
As of yesterday, South Korea was up to 0.9% .
I was mainly thinking about road and rail traffic into and out of the city, including daily commuters.
(warning: conspiracy theory, but at least an original one)

I'm thinking this only makes sense in the context of Brexit. Brexit will be a massive hit to the competitiveness of British businesses... somebody in government is hoping to counteract this by taking an approach different to the rest of Europe. If the UK's approach works, it will end up economically ahead of all the other European countries, something like the US post-WWII (but to a lesser extent).
Bananas by themselves are not healthy food, they're very high in sugar and have little else to offer.

Produce may look cheap, but if you add up the macros (and also some of the micros), it doesn't look cheap at all.
Drive and docs are tied together.
>because having a high top speed is a silly reason to restrict a vehicle from driving on public roads

My argument is wrong because it is silly. Gotcha.

>do you also want to ban usain bolt from the sidewalk

When Usain Bolt can delete a family from existence with one wrong flick of the wrist, I'll support banning Usain Bolt from running in the sidewalk.

Alternatively, when Usain Bolts running in sidewalks are one of the leading worldwide causes of death.

And I'm pretty sure that if Usain Bolt were running at 30kph on a crowded sidewalk somebody would stop him, which is actually a pretty nice analogy to the obviously beneficial measure of placing a speed limiter on cars.
I thought services like this ran in a legal limbo because the end user can't select the content, much like radio.
SMS Reminder – Business Idea Validation | I need your opinion
Hi, my name is Bobo!

I have a business idea and I need your opinion.

This is a web application that allows you to schedule the date and time when an SMS will be sent to your customers. The purpose is to remind them about you, the next revision (car, ITP, gas, electricity, heating central), insurance or other services that expire. You will have the possibility to personalize the messages, to be closer to them. The customers are yours, you come with them, and you keep them by your side.

I am waiting for your honest answer to the following questions:

https://forms.gle/N6cL1RYfjEZhnQMJ8
That seems quite useful, though Git LFS mostly does the job.

One of my biggest remaining pain points is resumable clone/fetch. I find it near impossible to clone large repos (or fetch if there were lots of new commits) over a slow, unstable link, so almost always I end up cloning a copy to a machine closer to the repo, and rsyncing it over to my machine.
Source on the RCS of the F-35?
I'm far from experienced with keyboards but I do that sometimes. I use shift for starting words or sentences with capitals but every now and then will use caps lock for upper case acronyms. The two extra key strokes to toggle caps lock are easier than keeping the shift key(s) down when typing, especially when typing acronyms I'm unfamiliar with. It's just a force of habit.

People toggling caps for every capital letter will make me shudder though. I've seen them even in (introductory) programming classes. I suppose in an age where most typing is done on smart phones, it makes sense that people use the software-keyboard-style toggle instead of the "old-fashioned" shift keys.

Then again, every day programmers learn about stuff like control+delete/backspace, shift+arrow keys and other keyboard navigation tricks common in almost any program these days. It's a set of tricks and tips that you need to happen to stumble across to learn about, and if the teacher doesn't know how to type properly an entire class of school children will suffer the same faith. You can easily spend your entire high school time using caps lock for capitalization without anyone even noticing or correcting you.
Not the ones that start wars.
From web scraping to ETL
0.6% is way out of date, as it was measured when many of the active cases were very early. At that time, I think I saw that deaths/cases was 0.6% and deaths/(deaths+recoveries) was 28.5%. As of today, deaths/cases is 0.9% and deaths/(deaths+recoveries) is about 9% . (Going by the numbers at worldometers.info)
Chinese Tycoon Who Criticized Xi’s Response to Coronavirus Has Vanished
The two most important things for me so far have been:

- Keep a morning routine and a regular schedule

- Regularly check in with my colleagues, and post progress updates.

For my own personal anxiety, I'll not allow myself to feel guilty if I'm being slow or unproductive, (even in the office, sometimes the energy's just not there today) but I will allow myself to feel guilty if I'm failing to keep regular contact with my teammates. Without doing this, it's far too easy to slip into a rabbit hole researching something interesting, but ultimately not work related. Or, y'know, refresh the HN homepage for an hour and get nothing done.
I had the same problem. I really wanted to like this project, but I found it hard to get a handle on what their goal is. Performant, c++17, open source, IR tools sounds great to me. But.. how does someone use this? Are they a parallel to Lucene? ElasticSearch? Grep?

Talking about scale would help a lot here. What's the largest dataset they've indexed? Do they shard across multiple nodes? etc.

I found they had a research paper about PISA at OSIRRC (a replicability challenge for ir?) last year with some details. You can get the paper and slides off the conference site:

https://osirrc.github.io/osirrc2019/

They have run the dataset on things like ClueWeb12 (1.5TB web), but the paper was about replicable search and lacked performance comparisons to other systems. It's hard to call yourself performant unless you show you're at least as good as other implementations.
I find it... interesting.. that when cis women take steroids, that's birth control or a treatment for menopause, when trans people of both genders take it, it's a necessary part of gender affirmation treatment, but when cis men take them, it's abuse and illegal.

It's not surprising that there are bad outcomes without medical guidance and best practices. I, for one, fully intend to start supplementing male hormones the day I turn 50.

I don't think the stigma surrounding this is helping anyone.
Reminds me of The Sierra Network.
> If BoJo really tries to execute that plan, he has to be stopped.

But that's the beauty of the plan, it functions as its own dead man's switch.
I don't understand how Europe+US governments (and epidemiologists!) say things like "It's basically inevitable that 40-70% of our population gets infected overtime". It feels like the Western countries gave up without even trying.

But yet, there's at least temporary evidence among several Asian countries (South Korea, China, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong) that it's possible to get the R0 < 1, the infection rates to shrink, and seemingly be well contained well before any herd immunity effects happen.

In the US we spent only $7B to fight the virus but yet hundreds of billions to manage the economic impact. And yet, our companies/people will still suffer economically and humanitarily.

In an ideal situation, in ~8 weeks, Italy/US/Europe will only have dozens of new cases per day and will try extremely hard to contain these limited new cases and their spread. The only difference between Early Feb and Early May in these places will be that we had 3 months of potentially avoidable economic and humanitarian destruction- just to teach us the problem was serious and give us time to prepare systems to contain.

If the successful Asian countries (specifically Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, but also South Korea) show that this was possible to keep small, the voters in the Western countries should demand accountability from their scientists and government leaders.
Disagree with this. As a 26 year software developer, it's been fascinating to see just how many of my peers in non-software industries are now interested in learning to code because it's useful for their jobs. Coding allows you to talk to machines, and machines are everywhere in modern society.

Here in the UK, basic coding is now taught in schools (from primary school!). And I think this makes sense. Not everybody's going to be an expert. But the basics are incredibly useful, just as with math, science, history, etc.

Note: most of the other things you list as things that people don't care about knowing are also taught to a basic level in schools.
If we had rough numbers of "percentage of tests that are positive" over time, then that would help judge if non-tested cases are growing faster.
Indeed. Back in the days they used to weld the cylinder heads to the engine block before qualifying, so they could run it that bit harder to get that extra bit of performance. Obviously not something that increases the lifespan of the engine...

Similarly in current F1, they know quite well how much life they have of the engine, and how much life a quali lap takes from the engine compared to a calm outlap.

If the regulations mandated a single engine per season they could do it, though they'd mostly just turn everything down.
... Only when you enact it at 400 cases (January 23rd) for a city of 15m or region of 55m (couple days later).

Germany and France are at 4000 cases, so even draconian lock-down of the entire country might end up with 32.000 deaths each.
We have those limits on sound where i live in the u.s., but the police feign ignorance on testing procedures and treat it as lowest priority.
I used to live on third Street in SF and quite regularly a huge swarm of insanely loud motorbikes would come by. We'd have to stop talking or rewind the movie we were watching, even with the window closed. With the window open it's literally painful. And that was likely not only impacting the entire building but hundreds of people who live on that street. All so that a bunch of man children can get attention. I can only some that it's a reflection of a general attitude in which they either don't care about the impact of their action on others or are completely oblivious. Either way, it's a poisonous attitude that we don't need in our society and should be punished accordingly.

Edit: why is it important to understand car enthusiasts? I don't understand people who are enthusiastic about fucking children either. I don't need to understand everyone's enthusiasm, especially if it's actively harmful.
They've been in the Caribbean the whole time, even if it is the mainland.
A Poll of Economists: Only 8% are in favor of an anti price gouging policy
akka typed is now a thing and it works reasonable well. Though, imo, the actor pattern will always be at odds with statically typed functional programming.
Faces often don't work well unless they're really tightly framed / close up. I think it's because if the eyes turn out a bit weird, it's very off-putting.

I've thought a bit about marketing to Instagrammers, I think neural style for short videos would be a good service to offer. Not sure where it fits on my roadmap yet though.
Well surely the advantage here would be for us to be able to observe and exploit the hard won knowledge of countries out ahead of us, but that doesn't appear to be what we're doing.
Agreed, it would have been nice for them to invite an actual epidemiologist who disagrees with the UK strategy - there are many of them, some have already publicly stated this - unfortunately this is par for the course in the UK media.

Hey, at least it isn't bringing Nigel Farage on to talk about Coronavirus. (As the BBC did last week.)
In terms of realpolitik, I guess it depends on the extent, the speed and the affected population.

If it's a lot of people over a long time, they'll be out. If it's a lot of people over a short time, it'll come down to who dies, and how much time until the next election. The young and middle-aged, and generally "the productive" people die: they're out. If it's the old and those close to retirement age, it will be, quite literally, a rejuvenation for the country, lots of wealth will be passed down, the pension and health system will be unburdened, the job market might open up for the young, that could lead to a strong economic improvement for plenty of people.

The personal economic situation is very important, but you'll need some time between the event and the election. If aunt Mary just died last week, you're maybe not going to vote for the guy in office that is responsible for the policies. If aunt Mary died three years ago, your finances have significantly improved, you've inherited a house and your future looks bright, why experiment with a new leadership?
Some will. Possibly more than would have if we spread the illness over time.

But that set of outcomes has risks and costs too.

But regardless, it isn't really clear that the curve-flattening efforts are even effective. Italy is clearly experiencing an utterly uncontrolled outbreak. Despite pretty much the maximum amount of lockdown possible to achieve.

Don't believe that they have only 20k cases, or only 3k new ones today -- even with their increase in testing, they are still strongly test limited; that's why the Italian mortality rate looks so absurdly high -- they still aren't detecting most of the mild cases. (Either that or somehow the Italian version of the virus is about 10x as deadly as the everywhere-else version)

It seems much more likely that the mortality rate everywhere is relatively similar and it is the detection rate that varies. (Notice how all of the places that have really thorough testing all have the lowest -- and similar -- mortality rates? And the places with really high mortality rates are those with known inadequate testing)
I used to have the v8 C63 - a great car which sounded lovely, but I have to admit, on the rare occasion I started it in the morning I used to do so through gritted teeth.
And ReasonML. Not a fork exactly, but still.
Can someone please weigh in and say if someone who takes Losartan should switch to something else at this time? I am currently on that med and I am panicking after reading several articles. Thank you.
The virus will associate working from home with a disease pandemic. It already is killing the work from home culture. It's okay if the majority go to an office, the problems arise when the indifferent demonize working from home.
Universities are forging ties with FBI as US cracks down on foreign influence
Again, could you please point me at notable advocates of immutable infrastructure proposing the approach you take such exception to? And note that I'm not proposing any exceptions.
Quarantined Italians are singing their hearts out
Those are good points. Because Italy was hit hardest first they had very little time to prepare. The UK has had about an extra month, which puts us in a different strategic position, so we might be able to afford an approach not viable for Italy.
Unless the old people homes have live-in staff and are careful with deliveries, then I don't see the difference between a visitor and a staff member. Scary.