skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Site is broken for me. The url https://covidactnow.org/data/wa.7.json is returning an HTML document with the text "You need to enable JavaScript to run this app." and there's a JSON.parse error in the console.
The most important thing to me about the new MacBook Pro and MacBook Air 2020 is ( hopefully ) the confirmation of price trend.

$999 Retina Mac with 256GB Baseline Storage?

Somewhere along the line in 2016, Apple's product value proposition went off. Everything from Mac to iPhone, they either had the same price but not as much improvement or a price hike with new feature.

At first it was thought Apple is moving into higher margin luxury style business, but now it seems it was a cover up for Service Revenue with huge margin. Despite Apple doubled its Service Revenue from 2016, its Gross and Net Margin has been stable over the past 5 years at ~38% and ~19%.

iPhone 11, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iPad in 2020 have all priced like they were in ~2015. Roughly 30% premium to their competitors, So in a way, you can think of Services ( and likely wearables ) is Subsidising ( Edit: Offsetting should be the better word ) these price reduction.
Forbes has just reported the same leak, insane if you think about the scale of it, but on the other hand, our data has been leaked 100x times already
Sea otters, opossums and the surprising ways pathogens move from land to sea
“The ventilators are
to this war what
missiles were to
World War II,”
[Andrew Cuomo] said.

By which he means, not nearly as important as the infantry?
How many recurrent seasons would it take for countries/society to adapt and cope (whether that's hugely more full-time remote workers, or blanket acceptability of it part-time/during such occasions, or something else) I wonder?
Agree. This will ultimately be horrible for the environment. Environmental regulations will fall by the wayside and look at the price of oil.
A 15" MBA would be nice.
I don't know if it's true or not, but believing it and ramping up to drastic measures isn't negligence and certainly doesn't warrant criminal prosecution, as the commenter suggested.

I think an abrupt enforced order for people to stay home would be a disaster. Aside from all the people who distrust authority for the sake of distrusting authority, and all the resistance and denial it would breed, what happens when law enforcement starts getting sick and infecting all the people they have to forcibly keep home or detain?
I would say the same thing regardless of the man on the podium. You're the one bringing partisanship into this.

It's hype because nothing has been demonstrated yet using practices that have been worked out through a hundred years of painful trial and error. It's hype because he's saying he thinks it will work when he has no data to support that conclusion. It's hype because as the president must surely be aware, Americans are scared right now, and with good reason. To continue to double down on a "feel" in the current environment is hype.

The study from France, with its many flaws, is the only one that has been published. The "guidance" from the Chinese authorities is suspect to say the least.
What is a "CDI"? What is "Segment"?

Yes, I could look these things up, but if you are making an announcement, it might be nice if you were clear.
Mostly it is a tiny tiny little fraction of the economic cost of a prolonged lockdown.
Slightly unrelated but could be useful to any HS seniors here: My n=1 study method got me a 1520. I would study for the SAT in a dark room, with horror movie music or war sound effects playing in earbuds, while planking. For every incorrect answer, I'd do 10 pushups or 3 pull-ups (can adapt to your own level). Rationale was that if I could do well in the worst conditions possible, then I'd do better sitting in a quiet room.

I'm a pretty bad student also, I had like a 3 GPA.
Neural oscillations in the fronto-striatal network predict vocal output in bats
you forgot marketing costs. Airbnb is a household name for a reason.
For good and for ill, it is Constitutionally problematic to "lock down" an entire state, as it is essentially placing millions of people under arrest, which in the general case is a stupefyingly terrible power for any government to wield.

On the other hand, the state can totally shut down businesses. In circumstances like this, it is not suspect in the least.

I will further note that for Cuomo to be criminally prosecuted, he would need to commit some crime. Now, this happens sometimes in NY government (quite often, really) but it usually involves corruption; I am not aware of any particular law he has violated in acquitting his duties in this matter. Anger may indeed be quite justified, but when politicians are prosecuted for their policies after the fact, this is usually more effective at turning a place into a banana republic than it is at improving the quality of the policies.
Flavored vodka is a big business. Just wander down any liquor aisle.
That's right. You would have to specify at a per-event level (by specifying a flat to Rudder JSON) where to forward that event.

We have something called Transformations (user defined functions) by which you can modify the event structure from the Rudder BE. You write the transformation function (currently javascript) on our UI and that gets executed in the backend on your event stream. Using the transformation, you can also control where the event goes to. This is helpful when say you want to change the destination without pushing an update to mobile app
Interesting, particularly useful for power users and high frequency usage products.

Have you researched which applications have the highest penetration of keyboard usage and why? Afaik most users even on desktop apps (e.g MS office suite) can only retain a handful of shortcuts. What's your strategy to train users to have a fully keyboard based navigation?

Btw did you use any open source library to manage keyboard shortcuts?
Removing useful ports to shave off a tenth of a millimeter.
I was reading about the brain's reward system mainly stimulus, response, reward and how it was used for training US soldiers. I was curious how it related to slot machines since at the time I was in that field.

In that same article it mentioned how going from rotary dial phones to touch tone was an easy transition it's intuitive. But having to go back to a rotary phone after using a touch tone feels terrible. Your brain is expecting you to push the button for the next number not wait. It's interesting to see how you can never really go back and expect to feel the same way.
> whats the point of the blockchain?

My bet would be: marketing. Blockchain is hot, blockchain is sexy -- at least among people who aren't really technically inclined. (The technically inclined passed over the blockchain hype curve several years ago.)

There are tons of blockchain projects out there whose only real use for the blockchain is to be able to slap "now with blockchain!" on the sales materials.
>Yes. They do. It's maybe not the answer you were looking for, but if you are better prepared, you'll do better at the task at hand. Seems fairly straightforward.

I think you missed the point of the two questions, which is a question of what scholastic potential issue. What you are measuring is something that I might call scholastic actuality. It is how good they are with the tools they have. Potential is how good they are if we normalize the tools.

Granted, we don't have to go with that definition. If you want to call what I'm calling actuality potential, then that is fine. Just redefining a variable. But then we need a name for what I'm calling potential. Potential potential sounds a bit weird, but naming variables is hard so I'll use it as a placeholder for now.

So now that we have academic potential and academic potential potential, which should a person be ranked based off of when going to college? Given that academic potential is more dependent upon environmental factors that will change and be normalized between all freshmen (to some degree, there is still some differences), then should academic potential potential be a better predictor for success at college?

That isn't the complete answer, and real life is much more complicated than these simple equations. Just like emotional support can lead to a more mature individual that even once the emotional support is gone they have a life long benefit from.
Yes, that number is negligently incorrect.

It's like saying 90% of basketball players require casts because, from the set who end up in ambulance, 90% of them have a broken arm. That doesn't mean 90% of basketball players require casts, and it certainly doesn't mean they need them all at once.

There was a study posted here recently that said as many at 86% of people were asymptomatic, then only some sliver of those with symptoms end up needing to go to hospital in the first place -- and 20% of that group that tests positive for the virus ends up needing a ventilator and 5% of them end up dead.

Net-net close to a 0% fatality rate under 29, 0.1% under 49.

Still gonna feel like crap tho.
Thank you! I've been thinking about this problem for years, and had several ideas in that time. But the complexity always grew out of proportion as I started adding "features" to the notation and the tool. In the end, I'm happy with how it looks like now, even if it isn't perfect by any means.
I'm glad I didn't study at all or have any coaching for the 1600 pt SAT I in the mid 90's because it would've been entirely unnecessary. I missed one question on the math section and it was a dumb mistake on my part. Our school's graduating class alone had over a dozen perfect SATs, multiple full rides to Harvard/MIT/Stanford and around 70 over 1500. ~97% had test prep.

Now go to India, take the JEE and find out how fun testing can be because the SAT is not much harder than a driving test. :) (Emphasis on the JEE being a much better measure because it's more difficult and more voluminous so that it would make Einstein feel insecure and inadequate.)
Really want to give this a go but having some troubles figuring how to start it! I've installed it via melpa and then i'm trying to M-x vui[tab] but nothing's coming up?

I know it's often the most boring bit but an installation and quickstart guide on the readme would be super appreciated!

Thanks for all the work
On the 26th February, in an interview, one of the researchers behind the French study said that he wasn't worried about Covid-19 and that it was just a flu...
How utterly and inconceivably selfish. How would that work out if everyone thought like that?
8GB is absolutely fine for most people, but it is an expensive upgrade.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/children-less-sic...

https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-children-serious-ill...

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/03/childrens...

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/most-coronavirus-...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/11/health/coronavirus-children-s...
I doubt they'd have much trouble. Apple's ported from 68K to PowerPC then to x86. The original NextStep OS ran on 68K, x86, Sparc, and HP PA-RISC. And I'd argue that the "hard parts" of the ARM port were already done with iOS.
Such a shame that Valve isn't pushing SteamOS harder (unless I'm missing something?) because they are in the best position to loosen Microsoft's stranglehold, not only in terms of the Windows platform but also controller support. Even when games do run on other platforms, they often only natively support Xbox-style controllers. I don't think this is an accident.
It's just as easy to prepare coffee. Greek or Turkish coffee is the easiest to brew, one just needs a pot.
When you sell a share of stock, someone else bought it. How is it okay to sell a security to an unsuspecting buyer when you have nonpublic information that you know affects its value?
You have to symlink from libOpenCL.so.1 to libOpenCL.so, then restart and it should find your GPU.
Ritchie often just reiterates what's on the press release, and then praises said products with little to no contextual input on how or why a product is great.
You only need to mitigate the peak of infections from this virus. And I don’t think anyone is suggesting it to be used as a preventive tool. It is to reduce the contagiousness of people tested positive (and hopefully also help them with the virus).
If it actually went that far, the military would splinter and pick sides.
That guy is absolutely disgusting in his worshiping of Apple.
Locust crisis poses a danger to millions, forecasters warn
That's just a duopoly. Gotta have at least 3 - maybe 4.
"Pro Tip: The MacBook Air line of today has taken over for the MacBook line ..."

OK, I think that is correct.

But then what is the MacBook Air now ?

I am typing on a 2015 11" MBA that is, in my opinion, the high point of laptop design and execution ever. With this laptop, Apple solved the laptop - the same way that they solved the tower form factor with the original Mac Pro.
The point is precisely that views differ on whether the money is worth spending ;)
Yes & no. While you could redistill it and be extra generous with the amount of head (& tail?) thrown away. Or you could build a activated carbon filter; if you search around there is a lengthy PDF describing the proper dimensions & volume of carbon filtration needed. The cost of the activated carbon is probably going to exceed just buying slightly more expensive such as Costco/Kirkland vodka. It's not as cheap as the plastic bottle brands like Taaka but save for really high consumption levels it's probably cheap enough.
This doesn't fix the problem, since ocl-icd* and nvidia-libopencl* provide libOpenCL.so.1 and FAHClient looks for libOpenCL.so, so you need to add a symlink, in the same directory.
Well, I am white and think that there is a difference in the way people socialize depending on their socioeconomic status, the area they grew up in, and the culture/language they are exposed to at home. And in the US it’s basically all white people who are most advantaged in these aspects. It will likely change over time as more Hispanic/Asian people become second+ generation immigrants rather than first, though

I remember going to college not so long ago and meeting kids who had grown up in the US who still had an accent/manner of speaking that they got from their parents (like a Chinese or Spanish accent). And of course there are very smart kids who grow up with AAVE or strong regional accents, some of whom are probably white but who probably aren’t from a good socioeconomic class.
Customer Data Infrastructure
Yeah, I was semi-interested till I saw 8gb ram and then remembered if I want value I should stick with used apple laptops or new PCs. Such a bummer because I’ve always loved apple aesthetics and still have my old Air and MBP but use my 3 year old (still more powerful than the new Air) Asus laptop daily with zero complaints beyond relatively weak Nvidia GPU.
Not just auto completion but interactive auto completion coming from a list of options. This is what I did for one of my projects - you get a vertical list of all possible inputs (within reason of course) which is narrowed down as you type.
You could use the arrows to navigate if you're not inclined to type - arrows - tab - arrows - tab would build a complete command sequence.
Even worse is chrome on android now. You have to copy the url, re-paste it and then edit. You don't have immediate access to the url you are on.
Removing ports from MBPs for one.
There are certainly reasons to prefer whatever an "X1 Carbon" or "XPS 13" may be over a MacBook. But I wouldn't exactly call the latter "compromised".

In fact, would the addition of whatever ports people want and the ability to switch the GPU (or whatever soldering prevents you from doing) not be the exact definition of a "compromise", i. e. turning a product that works excellently for some and not at all for others into one that is "meh, I guess" for everyone?
That's a pretty good rate, ~10x GBS than you would expect deaths from regular flu.

GBS is listed as a side-effect of UK's Fluenztetra flu shot IIRC. Most people reportedly fully recover from GBS.
The $10,000 Gold first generation Apple Watch, the trash can Mac Pro, the 12” MacBook, and the dumpster fire last generation keyboards.
Legit! We’re also working on the same exact type of CRISPR (Cas13) to treat/prevent CoV (as an extension of the Bit Pharma Bio Firewall project we’ve been thinking about for ~7years) here:

https://github.com/bionicles/coronavirus

Goal is to use gene therapy to make the lung cells delete the virus. Just imagine a Bio Firewall, that’s what we’re working on. We don’t modify the cells’ DNA, we add a new chromosome, and it’s possible to make that self-destructing, which we’ll do. got the side effect prediction algorithm working and posted a video on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/bitpharma/status/1240986466437791744?s=2...

Right now we’re expanding the side effect prediction index from lung CDS to the whole transcriptome with LevelDB ( multiple orders of magnitude more data but we can reuse this algorithm and the prebuilt index across a number of different CRISPR projects) you could use the same exact process for a number of bugs, Flu would be a good one!

Please hit me up at bion@bitpharma.com if interested to assist on stuff like plasmid design, computational directed evolution of stealth CRISPR, in vitro/vivo testing, or business stuff (we’re hackers not MBAs!)

/yolo
- Touchbar

- Keyboard

- Shaving off more and more millimetres off notebooks when no one was asking for at the expense of functionality

- The disaster that is Apple's current approach to software design

- Mice that have to be charged from the bottom

- Apple pencil that can only be charged by sticking it into iPad's lightning port

- Moving audio jack the the right on the laptops when 99% of world's headphones have cables coming out of the left ear

Just off the top of my head, things I've been annoyed in the past year.
Sorry, Customer Data Infrastructure and segment.com. A platform which makes it simple to collect event data from your apps and send it to 3rd party destinations (including dumping into your warehouse).

We wanted to give out an update from our last HN post so we didn't get into the depth of what the product is. Kind of assumed everyone knows segment but yes a fair point.
I guess it could make lots of sense for them to support ARM and build ARM-based devices, that said I'm not an Apple dev in any capacity so I don't know what's going on internally. But right now there is now ARM-based Apple device running MacOS, is there?
Yep. It worked briefly in California but the Mulford Act [0] put a quick end to that.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act
Derek's column does not ever post my responses (censorship ?) so here it is:

The side effects of chloroquine are modest for most, especially on a 10 days or less regimen.
Approx. 5% or higher risk of NOT taking it when ill from coronavirus it is you could end up in ICU on a ventilator, on the other hand, the risk of taking it and getting serious side effects is minimal, like at about 1.5% in the study below.

Google this title:
Reported Side Effects to Chloroquine, Chloroquine
plus Proguanil, and Mefloquine as Chemoprophylaxis
against Malaria in Danish Travelers

Summary: 85% of Danish travelers reported no side effects

minor side effects are:

Diarrhea, stomach pain (take only with a full meal),
dizziness

the depression / anxiety incident was ONE person - - we don't base science on what happen to ONE person.

severe side effects in only 1.5% of cases

Only LONG TERM USE for many months or years can have retina involvement.

So all those who want to bash the multiple recent published research results showing good results with chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine for COVID19 - - - maybe I'll read about you in morgue statistics somewhere soon. I have already got my 'script for chloroquine (cost me 70 cents total), I am ready and prepared - - - instead of being a naysayer with my head in the sand.
Yeh, but I hope they start to shine a light to less techy users about these issues as they are getting hit the most I guess
I still feel there is compelling evidence that lung damage from things such as exposure to local pollution is a big driver in serious cases.

I say this as someone that thinks they had it a month ago. I was on steroids for a week, then a respirator, then steroids for another week. Worst asthma attack of my adult life. I live in Seattle... (And yes, i had fevers)

I did not get tested, but having a hard time shaking that I had it. And if I did, so has my family. With my kids all having fevers, but no shortness of breath.

Edit: I hasten to add that I am socializing this as a call for what am I missing? I am not encouraging inaction.
I would rather not get $1000 and not have to fight a large portion of the population for new jobs once this is over.
Only 2.8% of all hospitalizations that required an ICU were people under 45 years old, though, and we have no idea what underlying health problems they may have had.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6912e2.htm
It only needs to reduce the viral load significantly to become a better alternative to killing the economy with a lockdown.
A new RISC-V version of uLisp
This is exactly what we did.
> It will be impossible for us to permanently stop the spread with half measures.

You're not going to like this, but at this point, no one expects anyone to permanently stop the spread of the virus. It is very contagious, it has a very effective stealth mode, and it is widespread. You should probably expect that over half of the world population will contract this virus.

New York's restrictions are primarily to make people contract it more slowly, so that the state (and other states) can deal with it more slowly.
I think this gives us what we need at the moment the most: Hope
NY and NYC have a different relationship and needs and a lot falls on the mayor. This played out in Seattle and San Fransisco, too.
Coronavirus Outbreak: The Countries Affected So Far
You'd do better to post a comment giving your own perspective rather than flaming someone else for theirs, which you may not have evaluated accurately. (I think you misread the GP, and speaking generally, we're more likely to misread other people on topics we feel strongly about.) Since it sounds like you have experience with the topic, sharing your experience and stating the conclusions it's led you to would be a substantive contribution.

In addition, sharing experience is at lower risk of misunderstanding and less likely to descend into flamewar. There's no contradiction between experiences. A hiring manager in (let's say) one state has their experience, and a new college grad in (let's say) another state has theirs. Both are real because they happened. If we report from that level, we can't contradict each other.

It's when we turn our experience into abstractions (e.g. the abstraction "new CS grads") that trouble arises. Abstraction A appears to contradict abstraction B. Both are lossy conceptualizations of a more complicated reality, and it's the lossiness that makes it seem like we're at odds with each other.
You mean like in 2007 when he called the “sweet solution” of web apps for iOS a “shit sandwich”?
Neither of those are examples of psychosis. Overreactions to unusual instability in our society? Sure, but hyperbolic comparisons like this muddy the waters around what psychosis is.
I think there are three: the golden watch, the coffee table book and the Apple Park. Although the park seems to have worked out really well in the end.
I prefer the newer keyboard, but otherwise I agree. My 2014 11'' with 16GB RAM performs better than a 2018 MBP.