skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think they're the leader by either smallsat mass launched or money. They have a niche that's fairly unique, but it's a niche.
My paternal grandfather's parents died from the 1918 influenza, in Lithuania.
Actually you bring up a good point - the reactions are perhaps more bimodal than anything. If you're on one of the teams it was designed for, it is indeed near perfect. If not, it's far from it.
There are some short documentary on the Auxiliary Units on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgCamfiEqkc , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jedeTE-MUXo
I guess it is a matter of perception. That is what many Americans companies would do, stock price is everything.

In the UK and EU people doesn't get fired/ layoffs/ or even switching jobs as often.
Sorry about that -- I can change the post to remove them if that would make it more credible.

I'll be very surprised if I make any money from them anyway since the target audience (teachers and students) would get krisp for free, for example.
this is what the users generally want

It is not the case that people entirely autonomously 'want' things. Humans have culture, which amongst other things, inculcates desires. Further, it manifestly doesn't follow that anyone is right to provide anything that people happen to have been acculturated into wanting. That brand of absurd corporate nihilism would have been literally unthinkable to any human prior to (roughly) the European Enlightenment, and is what has led our planet to the brink of oblivion.
I used Typing club's Typing Jungle[1] for several months every morning for 15-30 minutes to go from slow hunt and peck to touch-typing at 60-70 WPM. They have almost 700 lessons of increasing difficulty.

Keep in mind that those lessons are for typing normal texts, not code (not enough lessons incorporating special symbols). It worked well for me since I don't care about speed that much when typing code. Being able to type prose much faster is more important to me.

I have typing.io[2] bookmarked for practicing typing code. I never really got into it since I feel like I get enough practice when writing my own code.

[1] https://www.typingclub.com

[2] https://typing.io
Your snarky remark carries much more mathematical depth than it appears on the surface.

There exists a 3-manifold that is homologous to a 3-sphere but not homeomomorphic to it; the so-called Poincaré homology sphere:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Homology_sphere&o...

Among the homology 3-spheres (besides the 3-sphere itself), the Poincaré homology sphere is the only one with a finite fundamental group.

Now for the plot twists:

1. A possible construction of the Poincaré homology sphere starts with a dodecahedron.

2. The fundamental group of the Poincaré homology sphere is the binary icosahedral group (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Binary_icosahedra...), which is an extension of the symmetry group of the dodecahedron/icosahedron.

3. The huge plot twist: What does this all have to do with the question "What Is the Geometry of the Universe?"? Let me quote the Wikipedia article:

"In 2003, lack of structure on the largest scales (above 60 degrees) in the cosmic microwave background as observed for one year by the WMAP spacecraft led to the suggestion, by Jean-Pierre Luminet of the Observatoire de Paris and colleagues, that the shape of the universe is a Poincaré sphere. In 2008, astronomers found the best orientation on the sky for the model and confirmed some of the predictions of the model, using three years of observations by the WMAP spacecraft. As of 2016, the publication of data analysis from the Planck spacecraft suggests that there is no observable non-trivial topology to the universe."
Quanta is a project launched and funded by the Simons Foundation, a nonprofit that does absolutely incredible work to support ongoing international scientific collaboration in a wide array of disciplines. Quanta is independently edited and not a direct organ of the Foundation (at least, afaik), but I've always felt like Quanta's stellar quality is a direct reflection of how seriously they take their mission.
jesus while I realize that's a generalization that makes me feel a bit better. Also I had no clue other countries hoarded US dollars like that.
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Are we sure that the economic damage of the shutdown of the world economy out weighs the heath risks of the virus. Are we in group think here? A major recession/depression means a lot of people go hungry, lose access to medical care etc. Does anyone know of studies or research that looks at the health impacts of a shutdown vs. the health risk of the virus ? Just asking questions.

Is the real question here being hidden ? I am asking a legitimate question that never gets an answer.. that tells me something.
I've been wondering... what if it's a regular post or article without affiliate links? I've noticed a lot of similar articles talking about people using Microsoft Teams or Google Meet to hold classes remotely (without affiliate links), would that count as advertising?
To be fair to the employees, it’s nice to be able to stay safe
It's not happening at that other, reputable search engine.

Of course if you take pride in cynic nihilism, nothing bad will surprise you. But lowering your standards very quickly becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

You'll get your entirely corrupt politicians, for example. Because the honest ones leave after a few years of being constantly called "corrupt" or "stupid" with zero connection between what they are actually doing and the feedback they get.
> For commuting, passenger-mile is important.

No, it's not, that's what I'm saying here. The length of a commute is determined by the cost it imposes on the commuter. That cost is measured in time and money, but not in distance. Nobody cares about distance. Commutes are the length they are because that's what people can tolerate. If you slowed everybody down, they wouldn't spend more time commuting; they'd commute for the same time over less distance.
The day a relative or a family member died because Covid-19 and Chinese incompetence, you can come to tell me to self-isolate. How they let a Chinese moderate Hacker News.
i agree with @marvindanig here. the container is super important. people buy a finished product and container and packaging are an integral part of that experience.

there’s a reason why books are no longer distributed on bamboo stripes or in shape of baked clay.
A lot of high effort responses here (practice, training, new keyboards, etc).

Everyone I know learned to type very fast by pc gaming MMOs. WoW or other games force you to ‘practice’ a few hours a day, get extremely in tune with your keyboard, type the same few sentences thousands of times, and type short sentences extremely quickly. Short term a wow addiction is bad for your life, but you do gain exceptional keyboard skills.
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I think you have a point here, but it was not well articulated in your post. Much of the industry doesn't focus on software engineering only programming which leads to massive unmaintainable garbage codebases. These are the same people that want to save a few dollars by outsourcing the work to low cost places like India and are too ignorant to realize that the development takes 10x as long for a product that is unusable. My best advice would be to avoid these organizations as they will never value the engineering and only seem to focus on the lines of code output as a metric of productivity. Unfortunately this is a lot of the "industry," however I believe the 99.9% is a bit of an exaggeration. As software engineers, we should find value this sort of information regardless of our current employers opinion and hope that we can land at an institution that values engineering.
Are we sure that the economic damage of the shutdown of the world economy out weighs the heath risks of the virus. Are we in group think here? A major recession/depression means a lot of people go hungry, lose access to medical care etc. Does anyone know of studies or research that looks at the health impacts of a shutdown vs. the health risk of the virus ? Just asking questions.

I keep asking this question and I get no response from anyone. This smells like group think. Are we not able to discuss such questions ?
Two important points. 1. US debt is denominated in its own currency not the currency of a foreign government. 2. The US economy is not dependent on one volatile commodity. Worse for Venezuela is the price of oil is set for a large part by OPEC so they have little control of the price.

In fact, the crisis in Venezuela was driven by OPEC dropping the price of oil to keep market share and prevent US oil production from fracking and the like from being viable.

Every time you think of Venezuela, think of these issues because any model of economics without this complete picture will yield inaccurate conclusions and fear of inflation being right around the corner when that is not the case.
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Well, this was a one in a million thing. Nobody could have predicted the world to just shut down for six months, and it's not productive to plan for it.

It's far more reasonable to do business as usual and then take loans if things go south.

As Matt Levine put it: the dividends they gave since the GFC come to $15 billion, and their equity comes to $12 billion. So it's not even given it would have been the appropriate thing.

> How about all the employees who just had all the blood sucked out of their job security and future livelihood?

Right. It's like banks. How do we handle it?

Insurance: if you want to be a FDIC-insured bank, you must pay the FDIC insurance, and in return they will backstop your creditors up to a certain limit if they go bankrupt.

Why couldn't we do the same for employees? If you're an employer of systemic importance, you must have employee bankruptcy insurance: if you go tits-up, your employees get their salary paid up to a maximum limit of $X/yr until they find a new job. The insurance premiums are set by the free market, purely capitalist.
Does music help us work better? It depends
How is this different from nightclubs having a high bar to entry?

Most people going to nightclubs are there for fun. In contrast, it's possible to make money on Tiktok and a lot of handicapped people are desperately looking for ways to make money online.

A lot of those people will not be beautiful people. Their disability makes sure of that in many cases.

So the difference is that nightclubs are not telling people "You can make money from the comfort of home" and then shafting people who have few other viable means to make money.

There may be a few sex workers and drug dealers making bank at the nightclub, but they already know they have to fly under the radar and can be thrown out if caught, etc. The nightclub isn't actively telling them they are welcome to hang there and establish an income, then secretly saying "only the sexy people."
Nevada orders 30-day closure of nonessential businesses
However, oftentimes those morons aren't the puppet masters. Someone else is. But I know it's not a perfect system, nor is it "truly" better than elected officials. I just feel that a system of long term rule with at least a check on the executive similar to an elective monarchy.

Or we could do what the celts did and have a Tanistry system of inheritance. The heir is deigned by an election of the eldest/siblings of the current ruler (or if there are none, their parents eldest or cousins, etc, etc).
I've gone through multiple RPi on my boat. Maybe if I epoxied the board it would have a chance.
> The entitlement is too real here.

A platform is not entitled to be free from criticism. And neither are you.

The platform can do what it wants, and the rest of society is free to attack them for it, and cause them to get bad publicity.

And it is silly for you to attack people for giving their opinion on the matter.
I think the Material UI is new, it used to look a lot different when I used it externally (back in 2017).
That's definitely true. I'm sure this calms a lot of anxiety on their part. And if there had been an outbreak, this could end up being life-saving.
They are not downloadable. They are available for online viewing. Check the "Only show content I have access to" box.
That is very cool. Does it apply to reMarkable 2 as well?
A few failures is a lot less deadly than what is happening in Italy right now
When looking at e-paper tablets in the past I found that the ReMarkable does not support using an external SD-card. If you google around you'll find many e-ink tablets using the same screen and stylus technology (as in they literally use the same parts from Wacom) that run slightly modified Android and do have an sd-card slot. If anyone else is interested in buying an e-ink tablet you should look into those.
Why can't I navigate the world without running across hideous, overly sexualized imagery of women at irrelevant, random times?
Probably I'm just out of the loop, but I don't see how this is relevant. My understanding is that the point of the linked feed is that rules do apply to Tesla: it should stop operations, because it is not essential business (which is quite fair). So, yeah, I'm surprised that people are surprised as well, but in the exactly opposite way: it's weird they assume Tesla should be special somehow.

Or am I missing something and Tesla did not stop operations for some reason? I'm just not seeing it mentioned anywhere.
Instagram does this too, just algorithmically based on likes and engagement.

You can’t prioritize posts in an algorithmic feed without deprioritizing others.

Reverse chronological is the only non-editorializing choice, and it’s not an option on most major platforms.

I encourage people not to donate content to these censorship platforms and to disintermediate their connections with their audience.
It's not as much of a forcing factor as it used to be, a lot of the MMOs now have systems that mean you barely have to talk at all. I think you would probably have to join a guild which has active chatter on Discord to find the communication from a few years ago.
"Japan is considering using Avigan, an anti-influenza medication developed by a unit of Fujifilm Holdings Corp., to treat patients of the novel coronavirus, health minister Katsunobu Kato said Saturday.

“We will do everything we can,” Kato said on a TV program, noting that there is no established treatment for COVID-19 yet. The drug is also known as Favipiravir."

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/22/national/scienc...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favipiravir
This crisis is really showing many ridiculous and completely unnecessary conditions in our systems and these will break down.
This article is terrible. Somewhere in the middle they claim the actual claim is about patent infringement, not loss of income due to changing consumer preferences.

(Yes, Patent trolling needs to be stopped)
Plus lets be honest (not sure if civil law still has jury trials), NO jury, not even if they imported a single person from several random countries would convict them. Not a single one.
Nay. This is possibly the most economically damaging, socially isolating, fear-inducing, death-causing event in generations, and will be for generations to come. It will be the most discussed topic around the world for all of 2020, and will continue to shape our lives, policies, regulations, laws, and social norms for decades. Ignore it if you want, but asking everyone else to join in your self-induced blindness is unnecessary.
You're quite right. Simply turn off after a timeout, and leave whatever is on the screen on the screen.

It's like in a modern car when you stop for a stop light - the engine turns off. Step on the gas, and the engine turns back on.
1. Early evidence of UBI reducing employment actually shows the opposite.

2. Increased demand for consumer staples, if met with increased supply won't lead to inflation, if suppliers and entrepreneurs see the increase in demand as stable, they will make investments to increase supply. As long as we allow the price seeking mechanism of the market reach equilibrium, inflation will be at most momentary.

3. Velocity of money doesn't, by itself create inflation. Said another way, it's not a sufficient condition to bring about inflation. Sometimes a massive increase in money is just hoarded and doesn't enter the economy in any real sense.

4. Taxes don't necessarily have to rise in a regressive way such as sales tax and instead could be redistribution. I suspect what we would see is less inflation in the luxury art and real estate market if taxes were increased and the proceeds redistributed.
> Personally, I've read a lot of GNU/FSF doctrine, and to me it feels very one-sided and dogmatic.

Of course it's dogmatic, you either have freedom or you don't.

Try to decline a click-wrap agreement and see how one-sided that is.

Apparently your reading did not lead to understanding.

> I know that the FSF has been one of the loudest voices in the fight for free software, but maybe it wasn't the best one.

It's the only one that I know of.

> Especially given the founder.

His results speak for themselves.

Having said that, expecting somebody who is mainstream to promote radical ideas doesn't make any sense, since that's contradictory.
Ah, so it's pretty much useless unless you need access to them right now and have the time to spend. Useful to know, if annoying.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-e...

>CDC estimates* that, from October 1, 2019, through March 7, 2020, there have been: 22,000-55,000

That's 4,400 deaths per month in the United States on the low estimate. 11,000 on the high.

https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situati...

Total worldwide deaths according to the CDC so far for covid-19 is equal to 7426 since the beginning in let's say December to give it the worst rates.
That equals 1865 deaths per month.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/flu-bigger-concern-wuhan-virus...

>5 Million Cases Worldwide, 650,000 Deaths Annually (influenza)

That's 54,000 deaths per month for the whole world.

Covid-19 is currently at 3.5% of the worldwide deaths of influenza with 1/4th of the year over.

Hopefully this is not considered misinformation that will cause massive numbers of deaths.
Average life span of a restaurant is 5 years. The majority that go under will not have been long-term social hubs.
Such a great show. I wish more people knew about it.
There are many resources available today on how to create a nice looking HTML/CSS page. Looks like Mozilla has a complete guide:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn

This goes into JavaScript later as well but it seems to be the way I'd consider proper: only using JavaScript for things that can only be done in JavaScript.
They tried this with SOPA and PIPA like 8 years ago, and about 12 years before that. Although I'm glad to see Lamar Smith isn't anywhere here. He was the jackhole who tried forcing that...many times.
I'm not ignoring it, nor asking anyone to do so. I agree with your post.

I merely ask whether we need dozens of pretty much the exact same posts day-in, day-out. Nothing more. And I'm certainly NOT self-inducing blindness to this situation, sorry if it came across as such.
I was startled that they used the name RAID given the Berkeley RAID paper... but on checking the dates, they would have needed a time machine to realize that this term was about to become heavily overloaded.
Plus he's here in this thread and adding to the conversation. What does it hurt if you get the product for the same price and an affiliate makes some money?
Reminds me more of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtext_(programming_language) but in a loosely-typed sort of way.
I don't think that all companies will be able to get good productivity from their employees working from home. Success would require a combination of motivated, self-disciplined employees who are good at communicating efficiently, and managers who are able to manage such employees. This, unfortunately, is not universally available across all companies.

The companies that fail at their WFH experiments will not want to continue with remote work after it's no longer necessary.

> “now we’ll know which meetings could have been emails”

Unfortunately, that's not what's happening where I work. We're having as many meetings as before (maybe even more, in the name of promoting company cohesion), but they're now being done via teleconferencing software.
Wait to see what happens with the banks. Big swaths of the economy are shutting down and not paying bills, so it’s risky to be buying equities.

You this is bad - wait till NYC goes into a shelter in place situation.

I’d wait until summer and look for signs of deflation. Right now short term bonds and cash are king.
> Rays can end up anywhere, no matter where the camera is pointing, isn't that right?

Only indirect or secondary rays. Primary rays (the ones from the camera) can only hit things that are visible to the camera.

Also, ray-tracing trivially allows for breaking up the rendering in multiple steps.

You could for example have a pre-made acceleration structure for the static part of the world, a less efficient but fast-building one for dynamic objects in the world, cast against either and see which intersection has the shortest distance. This could be done in parallel, and you can be more clever about it too depending on circumstances.

Not saying that's what people do, I've been out of the game for too long, but at least it's an option.
Sometimes I think bug tracking doesn't get enough attention. It's gotten a lot better these days but compared to source control, bug tracking seems to remain the red-headed step-child.

Bugs can be just as important as source code - if a line of code is changed and all the comment says is "bug 1234", then hopefully bug 1234 has context about the scenario that was broken, a history of a conversation between QA and development, and signoff from QA with whatever was verified.

Sure, this might fall into "write a good commit message", but obviously that doesn't always happen, and having the historic knowledge of the bug tracking database at your fingertips is important.
> Unfortunately, the archive project renumbers the work items. Fortunately, the original work item is remembered in the title, so you can do a search for originalid:3141 to find the old work item known as number 3141.

I wonder what happened if a bug was carried over for 2 or more databases.
That user doesn't speak for me; my time is not so valuable today, which is why I thought to spend some of it casually chatting about a social media website I never had any intention of using. It was never my intention to shame you, nor to deny your right to shame others. If you feel as though I've tried to shame you, then I apologize for the miscommunication.
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> I totally agree with you... but in the case where there are no respirators available at all, I'd rather have a 10% chance of secondary infection or contamination than just die.

But what if that 10% requires much more and longer medical care, doctors attention etc, such that someone else dies because they didn’t get treatment? I’m not saying it definitely is, but presumably the tradeoffs from a medical perspective are about more than about one personal perspective (which of course is a rational perspective)
Pretty good summary but I think you were a little off on the Softbank side of things.

SB pioneered the practice, based on the concept of Blitzscaling, of pushing entrepreneurs to take an insane amount of money. WW's CEO likely convinced SB that it was a great idea, and then SB likely just ran it through their playbook of throwing money in. If you read up on SB, you'll hear several examples where they did this.

Their thesis is that if you pick a winner in a huge market and give it an insane amount of money, no one else can compete.

There might even be validity to the concept for some startups. But most definitely NOT in the case of WW.