skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds like a nightmare, to be honest. What do you do?
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Yes, unless your govt is hyper-nationalist and labels the pandemic as a "foreign virus". (Of course dirty foreigners are going to get sick—They're dirty.) We have no fear of pandemics here. We're superior. God protects us. Except for our non-conforming neighbors. They're rat-infested slums, so of course they will get the foreign virus too. God will protect us in our region though because we're clean and white, and we support the hyper-nationalist worldview of Dear Leader.

So it's a complicated problem, with many dynamics at play.
The plot lines cover the entire year and YoY there is more ice than in the past couple of years.
Taking this thread way off the original topic now, but yeah. Would love to visit for the music scene—SWSX probably would crowd out what I actually want to get out of the place when I think about it longer than 30 seconds.
You're assuming that the USA isn't.

Just because nobody's being tested in the US, doesn't mean nobody's infected; there are unquestionably tens of thousands of undiagnosed cases.
Companies can't survive on high-end products only, unless there is a monopoly or external cash. (I do want new platform of course, like everyone else)
Ah yes, because the pandemic is over and the disease has stopped spreading.
Do you have websockets testing support?
In the same vein I worked off a folding table for a long time. It was cheap, large, and surprisingly sturdy. If I needed the room it took up back I just folded it away.
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A feature available to 13.4% of mobile phone population across the world.
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Of course we should consider the downsides when we make public policy decisions. In fact, if we weren't, we wouldn't be making decisions at all but merely reacting.

But we can consider the downsides and decide that we want to restrict travel.

I don't actually need to go visit my rellies. I want to, but I don't have to. On the other hand, if I go on a voluntary trip, I probably have to return home because I can't really afford a hotel indefinitely into the future.

So it's obvious to me that there is some distinction between necessary and nice to have.

I genuinely have been underwhelmed by the reaction to this disease through much of the world. It is necessary in a constitutional democracy to react sometimes to maintain the trust of the voters - or they might say "A democracy is fine when things are going well, but when the chips are down we need a strong leader who can make the decisions we need". Saying "those entertainment business can't open during this outbreak", "keep your tables at least a metre apart" and "don't travel" are reasonable reactions in this circumstance. And we need democratic leaders so that they can know when it's gone on for too long and they have to accept we can't stop it - something a "strong leader" can't tell.
Well, the wiki page is good, but I think xkcd is the canonical authority on the particular subject of JWST delays:

https://xkcd.com/2014/
There is no force comparable to lunar tidal forces affecting the period of revolution. The Earth's slower rotation is coupled to the Moon's recession. The closest thing we've got with our orbit is resonance with Jupiter, and that's an awfully long way away.
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The Oxford English Dictionary disagrees with you: https://public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-singular-they...
> So, politicians choose (1), no action, as the most likely winning scenario.

I'm from Belgium myself, so I can chime in.

Our minister of health is a docter herself, and is advised by a panel of experts including a professor of virology. They know very well what they are doing with the current 400 known infections.

Closing schools makes no sense currently because of following factors:

- kids are not the main factor in spreading the virus, as seen in other countries.

- Putting kids with their grandparents is probaly worse for death toll compared to keeping them in schools.

Look at the exponential growth curve of for example Denmark https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in...

And compare that to the pretty linear growth curve of Belgium
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in...

So please stop treating this as game theory. Our country is doing the best thing in this situation.

Edit: denmark link and rude language
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Joe Barnard is a very entertaining and incredibly smart dude making some seriously cool things. His YouTube is absolutely worth a follow. He’s entirely self taught and is pushing model rocketry to a whole new level.
Selfish?

To travel after the trouble with the virus has subsided on tickets purchased during a period of discounted rates?

Or do you mean not traveling because the virus hasn't subsided and tossing the hundreds of dollars down the drain in a gamble?

If neither of these were your conclusions, then respectfully—I think you misunderstood my comments.
Took me half a second to realize it's not a *nix shell...
Yes, almost everyone does this. It's just opaque in most cases. I will say that, assuming they follow their adjustments literally, you do have some odd situations. Your ideal strategy to maximize comp vs. cost of living is to live in a state where the comp for the whole state is set by a relatively high CoL city but to live in a lower cost area in that state. (At least that was the case last time I looked.)

[ADDED: Although it looks as if they've made their calculator more granular so that high CoL city doesn't carry over to other areas as much.]
Most dinosaurs were herbivores, so I don't think that works.
Not sure about closed source part: https://github.com/kaiostech
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Yes, I guess there are two main scenarios here.

1) Simple translations that google translate or similar can do sufficiently well. This exists, is useful in many scenarios, such as reading signage or posters and other stuff, but I never use it IRL because I don't want to walk around looking through my phone all the time. And for traffic signs, I obviously can't go throuh all of that while driving. AR can solve this when the tech is small enough.
It's not so much a case of that I'm too embarrassed to pick up my phone, it's more that the expected value of any single translation is very low, but taken all together I'm missing a lot of information, some of which could be useful.

2) Complex translations of documents and such. I have tried google translate for this but the text is typically both too complex and also can't fit on the screenspace so it never manages to get the whole paragraph to translate.
Some of this could theoretically be solved with a super high res AR device with a great translation AI, but obviously then a similar tech on my phone would also do the trick.
Have you looked at the response to the virus?

Same deal really - we are so comfy deluding ourselves, have so very much forgotten that we are subject to the laws of nature, we have become unable to reject the delusions of infinite growth, infinite resources, perpetually funded pension systems - all pyramid schemes of lies perpetuated for generations now.

Covid19 is running for president by sending a reminder that reality still exists, outside of our carefully constructed fantasy of an economy and society.
Youtuber 'TechAltar' made a video[1] on March 11 giving his perspective on this.

While I wouldn't normally link to a YouTube video in this context, KaiOS Technologies specifically reached out to TechAltar to provide him with details so he could cover the story.

It's likely that one of the reasons KaiOS decided to reach out was because of his July 2018 video[2] covering KaiOS, which has over a million views.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UPk3mpcDP4
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA_g2bQgOXY
Gaming will be big in VR once the price / quality ratio reaches a reasonable level. I kind already did.

In 11 days Valve will release Half Life: Alyx which is the most awaited VR game ever. I suggest you to tune in, it might shed some light on why it's so cool.
zoekt is absolutely awesome, I was reading it’s code yesterday to figure out how it does ngram indexing and search.
That one works with SLS also...
Another interesting penalty of delayed action is that any exponential increase that happened while you were delaying needs to be balanced by a period of exponential decrease once you have measures in place. Exactly how much depends on assumptions, but e.g. delaying applying measures by 2 weeks could mean they need to be kept for 4 additional weeks.

So the overall cost picture is strongly in favor of early action.
Other interesting reading matter:

* Ethical and Legal Considerations in Mitigating Pandemic Disease: Workshop Summary. National Academies Press. 2007. ISBN 9780309107693. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK54167/

* National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza: Implementation Plan. Homeland Security Council. 2006. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/pdf/pandemic-infl...

* Managing epidemics Key facts about major deadly diseases. World Health Organization. 2018. https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/managing-epidemics/...
After the first half of the sentence I thought that somebody had found an old shell connection that hadn't been closed in 40 years.
For a country the size of the US? Yes, there is a MASSIVE difference between the two. The volume of movement by air between California and, say, Colorado is massively larger than that between California and China, and one of those places currently has a COVID-19 outbreak and one does not.

The distinction between the two for the sake of definitions is also very clear - whether the restrictions apply to travel that does not cross the borders of the United States. The currently-announced restrictions do not.

The question isn't of restricting external traffic in addition to internal traffic; we're only limiting external traffic. We probably need to be doing a bit of both, though with less draconian limitations on internal traffic to accommodate economic realities.
All we need now are aliens arriving.
I got an IKEA desk years ago, forgot the name, and it's pretty good; modular design, height adjustable, really sturdy metal frame and wooden top. I think the wood has warped a bit over the years though, very subtly.

The downside is that it's no longer in production, so I can't buy another module to add to it. The ones they have now are a lot flimsier; thinner metal, thinner table tops, etc.

If I ever move I'll see to orienting myself on the desk market. And get a used chair, I spent nearly 500 on a new chair from an office shop but it's not as good as the ones I've had at work before. I googled and there's big webshops that sell refurbished office furniture, including the best chairs ever, for under 300.
This is because quality science is not correlated with good marketing, virality of media (bad word choice), or how people feel about scientific content. Most people are woefully uneducated in science and it's showing on the internet especially.
Apple Watch is a joy to use. Helps you be more active, tracks your cardio, remote controls the TV, timers alarms flashlight messages EKG, I use it a ton and love it. Made under Tim Cook
i'm not saying they do it intentionally. i am saying that they should deal with the consequences and not let taxpayers take the downside while they take the upside
I'm not quite sure if this is supposed to be sarcastic, but this comment is actually very typical for people that either fail to grasp how the climate crisis is changing our climatic and atmospheric weather patterns or are willfully blind to the implications that the climate crisis have on the even near future.

Sad.
Exactly. In many countries it's down to the city or county to act and federal government can only take over as last resort. We're not there yet. Not all cities are equipped equally and it's frustrating that they don't have a common policy but they all seem to act. For them that's also the first time they are confronted with a pandemic and there's a lot at stake. Under these circumstances, I'm actually somewhat surprised how quickly certain policies are enacted around the globe. A week ago, banning large public events was a novelty, now they're basically banned in most of Europe and parts of the US.

The quarantine in Italy seemed extreme a week ago, now several countries are heading towards the same measures.

In democracies, curtailing peoples' rights is always tricky, it's the first time I've seen bureaucrats take away individual rights daily without backtracking on decisions.
It's a great project. I built a lidar scanner for my PhD (still have the bits and a £2.5k galvo in a box somewhere). Didn't make the actual lidar unit though.

This has basically become possible due to cheap and accessible TDCs. Both TI and Ams make them now, designed for gas ultrasound flow sensing. Most of the other components have been readily available for a while (not sure about the APDs, but certainly you could buy stuff from Hamamatsu or Thorlabs/Edmund). ROS makes SLAM quite easy if you have a hardware driver, though the utility that the author made for debugging is very neat.
In another 70M years my body clock will be just about right.
So, they want to hole up, then let the pandemic burn to completion as quickly as possible, so they can then emerge. They want everyone else to be exposed so they are no longer dangerous (either dead or immune).
"Toggle Accessibility" button forwarding to a clean page.
Again not even close, France for instance has a death rate 10x ours per capita, that's gonna take way more than 5-6 days.

The statement is inaccurate any way you slice it. Why use incomplete information when more is available?
Hi, I work in a highly related field and I'd like to ask a few questions if you wouldn't mind. I found the work very interesting. My understanding is that essentially, because of the way you have formulated the problem, you're able to add a loss to encourage the NN to learn the invarience rather than enforce it strictly. Is this correct?

I've tried implementing something somewhat related where I had a rotationally invariant learning target but was trying to use a feature vector which wasn't. I would randomly rotate my samples and add a loss function on the gradient of the rotation parameters to encourage the gradient w.r.t. rotation to be 0. Maybe in 2D this would have worked but in 3D it seemed to be too difficult for the NN to learn well enough for conservation of energy. It seems your examples use relatively simple model systems as examples. Do you have any insight into how this might work with more complex invariences?
Govts CAN do plenty: close schools, theaters, offices, events, parades, mandate WfH, quarantine affected areas, distribute supplies, educate... there's a ton governments can do.
The who is pretty much everyone in government, egged on by the business community with the tacit approval or at least disinterest of the public. The when is constant over the past half century. The how is outsourcing much of our productive capability around the globe. The why is the race to the bottom for the cheapest production cost.
In your all remote vision you are locking out all the companies in your country that won't be able to pay salaries like an American one.
I am in the market for new laptop and my 3 key desires are: AMD Ryzen 5 + pointer stick + USB power connection

The current only option for me is Thinkpad, but I truly wish others would jump into that space.
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That seems to be exactly the reason in Germany. The federal government has no say regarding public gatherings or schools. They have given out recommendations, some have followed, others have not. There's no repercussion for cities not following the government's decision.
I'm a subscriber to and weekly reader of the Economist and I am more than happy to pay for the quality of reporting that I receive. That said, I wish there was some way that HN could indicate (on the article link on site's feed) that content is paywalled.
My partner bought me a nice but not expensive Skagen watch as the first present she ever bought me.

I plan to keep that for the rest of my life
Linked it yesterday (2020-03-11) with very little interest

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22545721
Neither AirPods nor Apple Watch come off as impressive? That's pretty pessimistic. I'd say both were highly innovative and impressive -- further pushing miniaturization both of the physical hardware and the user interface.
Having tested both the Magic Leap and HoloLens, the biggest problem by a mile is field of view. Everything in this magical holographic world cuts off within a very narrow band of focus. The image is also not very sharp, bright or opaque. Trying to achieve both opaque images and a transparent screen is extremely difficult. As is the processing power to push enough pixels in battery-operated piece of eyeware. It's possible that microLED can bridge that gap, but it's just starting to creep into commercial production. Even with the current limited technology, I have yet to see any remotely plausible mainstream use cases for this kind of device.
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox solves these annoyances.
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> Earth turned faster at the end of the time of the dinosaurs than it does today, rotating 372 times a year, compared to the current 365, according to a new study of fossil mollusk shells from the late Cretaceous. This means a day lasted only 23 and a half hours, according to the new study in AGU’s journal Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology.

I'm curious, how do they decide that the earth spun faster on it's axis rather than the earth taking longer to orbit the sun?
> This sounds like a misplaced and ideological canned response, since I’ve never heard negative concord in this context.

You have a misplaced trust in your instincts. The following examples of this exact double-negative construction (“...wouldn’t be surprised if ... didn’t...”) are quoted from newspapers and BBC specials:

> But the seeds have been sown and I wouldn't be surprised if she didn't try, once she's feeling more confident herself, to persuade him into the deep end.

> "I wouldn't be surprised if we didn't see there are a couple of days with some good news and very, very positive market news," Houge said, noting potential days of 10 percent spikes.

> "I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't lose $157,000 in taxes," Van Tuinen said.

> It was late, and I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't leave some of his audience back down the road somewhere impaled on point number 10 or 11.

Here’s a quote of John F. Kennedy using this construction in a recorded interview:

> President Kennedy: That's what I think. I would have been impeached. I think they would have moved to impeach. I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't move to impeach right after this election, on the grounds that I said … and didn't do it … and let … I mean, I'd be …

I Googled these examples in five seconds. You could have too, but instead you chose to lob insults and embarrass yourself.
Yes! We don't want to flatted the curve so much that it extends into winter, because then we compound other seasonal illnesses like the flu, and the pressure on the health service is back above the red line.
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How was this made? Manually? Or somehow converted from a vector graphic? In any case, it's beautiful. I love the dots in the water.
Denmark's case number has increased far more than that of other countries in recent days. They probably had to act as they'd overtake Italy in less than a week with cases/capita if growth continues like that.
The Japanese response was not so bad when viewed in hindsight.

In comparison, Korea's response was disastrously wrong. Their "Let's test everyone" policy sent lots of people into medical limbo ("We can’t let you go because you're COVID-19 positive ... but meanwhile we have particularly nothing to do for you because you're not that ill") and got their hospitals flooded with mild cases.
That was the thing, if WinDev was serious, they would have contributed to the .NET runtime improvements, like the SIMD support, AOT compilation or value type improvements in C# 7.x that came from Midori experience.

Instead they made sure COM would save the day.
This the type of analysis that comes from people who spend most of their lives analyzing data. If you were to go into the offices of the elected and the offices of the government, you would generally find the same thing:

The actions they are taking are based on what they feel will serve them best.

This should be the first assumption in the analysis.
Nor does the Burger cost the same.
The Kinect was actually relaunched recently. It was a failure as a consumer product, but has a loyal following in some niches like experiential installations.
> Contrast that to the Earth/Moon's rotational period, which we expect to slow over time due to energy consumed by tides "sloshing around".

Not consumed, literally flung out into space via the moon. It’s speeding up, we’re slowing down. No violation of thermodynamics required.
If the internment of Japanese-American citizens during WW2 [1] was legally possible for the federal government, to me it would seem odd if cancelling Coachella wasn't.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_America...
Well at least Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Austria are closing down the borders, cancelling schools and kindergartens etc.
Not to be glib, the difference between $1k on the check and $1k expensed doesn't make a difference if you're well paid. If you're considering how it'd impact your tax bracket, it doesn't matter to you.

But for the customer support reps? It might make all the difference in the world. Most of those employees won't have an extra $1k laying around that they can forego until finance gets around to finally reimbursing them for their expenses. For the average customer service rep, the question will likely boil down to:

1.) Can I not pay a bill (or three) right now so I can take advantage of the program?; or
2.) Do I not participate in the program.

A couple years ago I had similar dilemma with expensing around ~$400 for something. At the time I made about $50k/year and was supporting two households in two separate cities. It took a lot of juggling household budget(s) to wait for the 4 weeks it took to get that money back. That was a lot of added stress when I was already working paycheck-to-paycheck.

Today? I make over double that. If I had to put out $1k, I could do so without blinking. But I live a VERY different life now than even 2 years ago.
> obligatory masks for all

States struggle to get enough masks for medical staff, diverting any for the general public doesn't seem smart. And self made masks will have so little effect that they could be detrimental if people decide to be less careful because they wear a masks.

To the other points, education about hand washing and behavior in public is the one thing governments have all done for weeks now. It just seems that this isn't nearly enough.
same issue for me :(
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Hopefully, however it is handed out, other companies start to think about doing something similar. I just hope this works out well for the employees of shopify!
Well the number of active cases in China is dropping every day, so it's not an assumption, it's just math.