skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was rather curious about strictly non-power-user use cases. Someone who develops software and uses distributed version control systems isn't exactly the average user.

Especially on Windows.
Some items like toilet paper have and extremely flat demand pattern it turns out, so plants are already running basically at capacity 24/7 so there's not much actual slack in the supply chain to increase.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-03-14/coronaviru...
The headline promises it, but the story doesn't tell.

I don't know what the correct historical explanation is. "s" like in super user, system program or statically linked or is there yet another theory?
Are we more of a "X is shit" crowd then?
You cannot evaluate the health system based on the information management system itself.
I would argue that you cannot evaluate HS on anything more than your anecdotal evidence.
If you have a reliable model for HS then you pretty much have a model for the whole economy, since it's just so much intertwined.
Last time I checked physics envy was still a thing.
Deriving a functional model of HS from statistical data is a pipe dream since so much is based here on behaviour.
I know that we have gone far with predicting behavours, but I would say that we are still not far enough.
Also, I don't have any data to support it and I don't care.
While data is limited, the basic premise of viral spread and quarantine is nothing new or ineffective. There is no doubt there is exponential growth, and limiting that would be effective sooner than later health and economy wise.
> It is also why I personally feel we are better off with removing all wage taxes on the poor than trying to push minimum wage higher and higher.

Confused, are you under the impression the entirety of everyone's wages is taxed in the United States?

P.S. On your larger point: I'm not sure in what world you think 0% tax is a substitute for minimum wage. It certainly does not prevent you from earning atrociously low wages (and having correspondingly abysmal purchasing power). It only means the government won't take any of your measly earnings. Whereas minimum wage is designed to solve exactly that problem.
Apple cost more yes. I get that.
They also provide a lot more than other companies. Despite its flaws iPhone os is very stable with minimal issues.
The first lines of 10 classic novels, rewritten for social distancing.
I thought it meant "secure", as in the programme what you can use when your system crashes into a "secure" mode or something like that.
Publicly curated list of event streaming platforms during Corona times
China says Japan-developed drug Avigan works against coronavirus
Grocery stores don’t need to close for me to not want to visit them. I’m safe and sound at home with supplies so I don’t need to go to the store for awhile. I feel calm and prepared. The only person spinning out of control here is you.
Why on earth would they?

My BIL married into our all iPhone family. We regularly harass him about getting one, and I suspect he eventually will.

It's one of their best marketing tactics.
Tariffs. The US has already started!
Tangentially, I was thinking of using an iPad as an ergonomic keyboard (free tap layout) because the magic keyboard has a layout which is very bad for RSI.
I put this together for event organisers wishing to swap to online/virtual events during the COVID-19 madness
Take a look at AltStore.io. A workaround for sure, but definitely simplifies the process of signing and sideloading apps without jailbreaking.
What security implications are there for a LIDAR sensor that aren't there for a camera?
I wonder what adopting the idea of subspecies to evolutionary algorithms would look like, and if any benefits would be encountered.
>Though really, you couldn't, it was a weird theoretically reality.

This is not how other countries saw it.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exorbitant_privilege : "In February 1965 President Charles de Gaulle announced his intention to exchange its U.S. dollar reserves for gold at the official exchange rate. He sent the French Navy across the Atlantic to pick up the French reserve of gold and was followed by several countries. As it resulted in considerably reducing U.S. gold stock and U.S. economic influence, it led U.S. President Richard Nixon to end unilaterally the convertibility of the dollar to gold on August 15, 1971 (the "Nixon Shock"). This was meant to be a temporary measure but the dollar became permanently a floating fiat money and in October 1976, the U.S. government officially changed the definition of the dollar; references to gold were removed from statutes."
Still puttering along with my 2012 Air, only replaced the battery once. I've definitely been waiting to upgrade and this looks promising, but I also have a company laptop again, so the pressure is lower to get my old Air replaced.
Does that include Go? The speed of the compiler and some of the syntax suggest that it should be possible.
Here you go! This explains it well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-packing_of_equal_spheres

Imagine stacking marbles. They'll naturally fall into a hexagonal pattern as the most likely way of naturally stacking.
Is anyone going to buy Apple in a major downturn?

It was one of the first stocks I attempted to buy puts for. It seems to be a high end luxury good, even for many professionals. Of course I'm not just talking about MacBooks, it's the whole (imo overpriced) product line, phone to earbuds.
They're admitting they were wrong about the last keyboard design, but do you expect a product announcement to come out and say "Our last four years of computers have had pretty shit keyboards, but we finally unfucked it!"
Most parks are just outdoor resources and people want to be outdoors.

I think it makes sense for the parks to stay open, but close the visitor centers and any other place people congregate.
The suffix Pro by itself makes any Apple product price more expensive.
Yes, but it's an Apple product ... think of all the folks you'll be able to impress at your local Starbucks /s
"Studio Quality Mics" are kinda useless if you can only monitor the sound through Bluetooth :) too much latency. You'll need a low latency ADC running through that single usb-c port. Or you know, just do what the rest of the world does and use an analog headphone jack for monitoring!
Yes, will edit. Thanks.
One lesson I learned since I started my business a couple of months ago, is how important interfaces are. In practical terms, you can provide any kind of service together with partners as long as the interfaces between these partners are working. Doesn't matter if it is an API or just the way collaborate with, e.g., a photographer.

This gives cloud based software companies are huge advantage, and opens all kinds of opportunities for companies developing or working with the interfaces between these cloud solutions and involved parties.

My impression is that all the platform start-ups, unless they have competencies in integration of different tools and managing the corresponding processes, are basically dead in the water once VC money is drying up. When we talk about B2B solutions, I don't see any FB-like monopoly. So if start-ups are pushing for that, they gona loose against the big incumbents on the software side and against more operations oriented companies on the integration and process side.

I might be completely wrong with that, so.
>Please share a pattern or document how you did this, I'd be very interested in making some for people around me.

The Hong Kong kind is simple enough (and it also suggests a transparent shield):

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/artic...

Video on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNjpH5lBZ8w
Udoo bolt v3 (3 GPU CU and 2 cores) is around $330 and the v8 (8 GPU CU and 4 cores) is around $420.

https://www.udoo.org/udoo-bolt/

Alternately, you could buy the Asrock 5x5 barebones kit.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/asrock-am4-motherboard-ryz...
ctrl+scroll on Windows.
In short: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver#Applications
That’s offensive and unnecessary.

It will only be $800.
Apple got some custom chips from Intel again.

https://www.apple.com/macbook-air/specs/

====

1.1GHz dual-core Intel Core i3, Turbo Boost up to 3.2GHz, with 4MB L3 cache

Configurable to 1.1GHz quad-core Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 3.5GHz, with 6MB L3 cache; or 1.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.8GHz, with 8MB L3 cache

8GB of 3733MHz LPDDR4X onboard memory

Intel Iris Plus Graphics

====

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/codenam... this matches the frequency cadence but it's LPDDR3 and Intel GT graphics.

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/codenam... the fourth digit is the power tier and the fastest https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/197120/... is only 1GHz. So if this theory were true, Intel would need to take the cream of the by and large broken 10nm process Ice Lake Y CPUs on the i5 Y and i7 Y tiers and give them to Apple.

The previous one ran an i5-8210Y which was also Apple specific 23% higher clocked version vs the more common i5-8200Y but that was only one, this time it would need two, both the i5 and i7 CPUs are special but the i3 seems to be the run-of-the-mill version. Note how weird the cadence is because usually the frequency drops with the number of cores. However, the Turbo Boost is the same 3.8 GHz which is way too low for the 10th gen Amber Lake Y CPUs.

Also, at first I thought the video resolutions weird but what's going on here is that there is a single USB C output and even with Thunderbolt, that's only a 40Gbps bus. So the ICL-Y DP 1.4 support is somewhat less useful here. If there would be two USB C outputs, two 5K monitors could be driven easily, for example. Which the previous generation Intel CPUs couldn't because to drive an 5K from DP 1.2 the monitor eats up two display outputs even if physically that's delivered on a single Thunderbolt cable.
> It's pretty obvious from any standpoint.

If it was obvious from any standpoint, we obviously wouldn't be having this blog post or this discussion thread.

Natural language - the natural way to think about things - does not always intuitively translate over to predicate logic. If you disagree with that, you should try teaching it to a class of high schoolers.
Who took on more debt just for stock buyback that is now asking for a bailout?
It really isn't. The story explains why some directories in / have an analogous version under /usr. If reading this article informed you about the difference between bin and sbin then ... I'm really not sure what to tell you because the article doesn't contain anything about this.
Not unusual for Apple, but I still think it takes a lot of gall to go back to the way the keyboard used to work, instead of their shitty butterfly mechanism keyboard, and call it "Magic".
I understand there may be flaws in my logic, but what flaws were there? You basically said I was wrong and the market believes otherwise, but you didn't explain how my beliefs on the varying velocity of money wouldn't or couldn't create inflation in the next year or so.
Yeah, working copy is so good I want it on my Mac.

ShellFish, the sftp client by the same developer is also excellent. Genuinely game-changing for working with sftp sites.
> I do believe these masks are also made in the US, but this situation highlights exactly why a country having its own major manufacturing base is not just an economic need but rather also a national security need. The US needs to invest in itself immediately to rebuild its lost manufacturing base.

3M and Prestige Ameritech are the only companies with the ability to manufacturing N95 masks in the US from US sourced materials.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/shortages-confusion-an...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/02/15/coronavir...

Totally agree with you on manufacturing. It's super important to have this kind of domestic manufacturing capability, because trade links break down in a crisis like this. The US is short on supply and can't import more (other countries are banning exports to conserve supply for domestic needs). If all the manufacturing capability had been outsourced, US healthcare workers would be in even worse shape.
"pack" might have been a more appropriate term than "stack". Tightly packed circles (in 2d) form a hex grid.

More relevant, though, might be the shapes you get when packing spheres: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhombic_dodecahedral_honeyco...
Dna could be falsified. It's incredibly low chance but it could. Just like the discovery of the bacteria that causes influenza was falsified once it became clear it's a virus. Just like the so called central dogma of DNA->RNA->protein turned out to be not so central or not so dogmatic.

And Einstein definitely falsified Newton with the famous experiment with the eclipse and with more correctly showing Mercury's orbit, both of which contradicted fundamentally with Newton. Newton is an extraordinary breakthrough, and still useful as a model, but our understanding is no longer Newtonian. And, finding a way to enrich our understanding of physics even further means finding ways to falsify parts of einstein and quantum mechanics to provide the foundation for an even deeper understanding.
I've seen a system like this used for price tags already at one of my previous jobs. The tags were e-ink displays that were updated wirelessly using a special tool.
My problem is the Apple track pad and physical form is just so hard to beat. I could take my Macbook with me wherever I went because of how light and slim/small it is.

If anyone has some decent alternatives which I could load up Ubuntu on I'm all ears.

On a Desktop I would pick some flavor of Debian in an instance.
This explains a lot about what I'm seeing right now.

It's probably the most terrifying thing I've read since this whole thing started.
I agree, a global solution is ideal. But please keep in mind these initiatives, if they speed up treatment or help stockpile resources, will allow others to use those cures and/or the other supplies that would be freed up.

Also, it may be more effective to concentrate everyone in one project that starts with the US since it has the most resources (technology, medical, science, etc) and then send out the results rather than having sparse groups trying to do the same thing for all different areas of the globe.

Best to build a prototype for a focused set of problems and users, then expand out once you have success there. Difference between needing 750k ventilators and 200m ventilators and also simultaneously having to solve all the global regulations, shipping, distribution, customs, etc.
Angel Teeth?
> the central bank has unlimited ability to create that, if it wishes to.

This is not true as the recent decade shows. Japan has tried to increase inflation almost two decades.

Just increasing the money stock does not create inflation if the velocity of money decreases at the same rate.
Strange to make a distinction between the two. Saving us from the effects of climate change is only a technology problem at this point, but it's hard and tedious and disincentivized because it's easier to make money right now in the consumer world or, even worse, in the world of quantitative finance and many good minds have drifted to those fields.
I love the one on the 16”. It’s like the old 15” retina but a bit less spongy/mooshy.
Catmull reminds me of Fritz Haber [1] in that he both invented amazingly useful tech. while being an absolutely horrible human being.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Haber
I didn't say I never use a shell - I even explicitly excluded WSL.

When developing software in Windows, however, there's simply no need.

> How do you compile

I press F6 in my IDE.

> install dependencies

I click "Add nu-get package"

> etc. [I assume version control operations and the like]

Again, I simply use the built-in tools of my IDE of choice which are usually bound to hotkeys.

This is hard to fathom, especially for modern web development, but I don't do web development and the embedded systems I work with don't have a shell while the GUI programs have, well, graphical interfaces :)
Anyone know more about the new Trackpad APIs the mention in they mentioned in the article?
Doctor here. You didn't have a false positive-- of course you feel better off. But, you're not physically better off because nothing came back as positive or treatable. Some will start in your shoes, but be unlucky and have a false positive. They would be mentally and physically worse off as potentially inconclusive tests followed by potentially unnecessary procedures resulted in, say, removing one of your kidneys. Yes, that will only happen very rarely and yes I've seen it happen.

There can be kind of a two prong "test" to determine if screening is harmful. Physically, is it a good idea? Answer is probably no. We're not in a scarcity situation really where the "prestige" demographic isn't getting recommended to get appropriate tests based on their risk factors (on the other hand, some of our poorest aren't getting them but that's not an issue solved here). The other side is mentally. Again, I'd argue that people with a clean unnecessary screening got out lucky. They'd be mentally much worse off had something come back positive.

Bizarrely, there's new data suggesting that even fixing known problems, like coronary artery blockages doesn't improve mortality in a lot of situations you'd think it would. That suggests that we're doing too much screening in that case (I mean, if the treatment is worse than the disease... why screen?), not too little. As another example there is a well-known vascular surgery group going to churches under the pretense of "screening" for leg atherosclerosis, then performing high-margin, high-turnover, and unnecessary procedures on the very high "induced" false-positives.

I also find it utterly bizarre that screening would include lung capacity testing. In an otherwise healthy adult who can say, climb a flight of stairs or something of the sort without getting shortness-of-breath, that test is completely meaningless and expensive from a "disease" perspective. On the other hand, it does give you a number to compare to your peer group, kind of like resting heart rate. On the other hand, resting heart rate is free, can be done yourself, and literally takes 15 seconds to measure.

In the end, I'm not really against having these sort of "prestige" medical services available. Particularly because more choice is generally good-- and it's your body, you should do what you want with it (within reasonable bounds). But, everyone should educate themselves because on balance, I doubt people end up up feeling or being better off considering the ones who will have false positives.
Still no Esc key.
Still think the 12" MacBook they had was their best design ever. Hope it makes a spiritual comeback soon.
I'm less concerned about which device would be used (this is just one that came to mind that tries to translate breath into data), and more concerned about whether it was possible to translate breath into data at all.

A breathalyzer might be just as good a comparison and is more reusable: if we can detect & capture breath/spit from enough infected & uninfected, surely a pattern would begin to present itself that could be used to diagnose, no?

Current testing is very specific, yes -- so would this system. But where current tests look for something specific: RNA or specific antibodies, this would simply look for "is this sample sufficiently like an infected case or an uninfected one?" Presumably there's more to what's going on in an infected person's lungs than just the existence of the antibodies. Could not ML help find these patterns and identify them as markers of infection?
Well that was an anticlimactic announcement.

I understand they had to cancel the live show, but not even a promo video...?
At a stretch you can, although probably not as a primary/sole machine for web development. I bought an iPad Pro about a year ago with the intention of doing just that (and using it for other stuff).

Essentially you need to be able to work from a remote server to do anything that could be considered serious web development.

So prepare to spin yourself up an EC2 instance or a Digital Ocean droplet that you will be working from.

There are some good tools available now -

Working Copy (https://workingcopyapp.com/) is a very good Git client

Blink(https://blink.sh/) is the terminal app you'd need

And I've used a mixture of

Kodex(https://kodex.app/), Textastic(https://www.textasticapp.com/) and GoCoEdit(https://gocoedit.app/)

for my editor. None of these are as good as something like SublimeText or a proper IDE but they are good, basic text editors with FTP/SFTP/etc. integration, code highlighting/folding/auto indentation etc. GoCoEdit I found to be probably the better of those three but they all offer something the others don't.

There's a SQL Client you can use (if you're not that comfortable on the CLI with your chosen SQL server) called SQLPro which I believe is available for MySQL, Postgres, MS SQL Server or you can get one that covers all but it's not especially cheap - £55 a year or £150 one time payment.

I've downloaded and used Dash, which is a documentation app that gives you offline access to API documentation for all your favourite languages and tools.

So there are plenty of tools available - some of them integrate with each other more tightly but I've found you're still really limited in how much development you can do. There's nothing like Docker or Vagrant available, you couldn't run your favourite language locally in a terminal although I recall seeing a PHP parser and a Javascript environemtn available for iOS that gives you some ability to code locally. Nothing you could use for any serious work.

Until Apple gives us the ability to get to the guts of iOS and install our own tools, realistically you're always going to be limited to working off a remote server for any serious work. I think the tools that are currently available are great but are limited. You may find a workflow that gets around the limitations and if you do, please share!
> I'm afraid that on the long term, the social unrest and the economic consequences will far outweigh the damage done by the virus.

I'm french. I have italian friends. I don't care about the economy. It will be back up. As long as there are humans they will need goods.

> there will be no more projects even for IT people.

Sure. But let's put it in balance for France:

- less work for IT people

- 350K deaths

I vote for number one. I can't believe I'm reading that on this forum, where people are supposed to be educated. This is insane.
> So why is a valve $10k? Note that a replacement battery for the above ventilator costs < $1k.

I'm guessing the valves are single-use (due to contamination), so the cost is passed along to the customer. They can't charge every customer for a battery (I mean, they could prorate it, but that's not how medical billing works). The hospital doesn't care what a valve costs if they're passing-along 100% of the cost to you.
I've heard Lightroom on an iPad Pro works pretty nicely for pro photographers.
You can run Photoshop.
As soon as Zuckerberg, Sandberg, Brin, Page, Pichai, and anyone on the government end who supports this program start sharing their locations with us in real time, we can discuss the possibility of letting them do this.
I mean, they could be, theoretically, but generally authors try to make the number a good reflection of the project's status.