skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fwiw, for anyone who’s dabbled with Haskell this is SOP. Any result that could be undefined is returned as a Maybe (Haskell’s version of Option).

It would be nice if that were true but that ain't exactly the case is it?

AFAIK exhaustive pattern matching still isn't enabled by default, and the prelude is full of partial functions, especially on lists (to such an extent that GHC has a utility function just for blowing up on empty lists: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.12.0.0/docs/GHC-L...)
Only after the wake word has triggered the "start interpreting audio" code. These things are NOT constantly streaming everything they hear to the cloud (and this can be easily confirmed by monitoring traffic from the device's IP address on your network). That is a big distinction.
"Is everything you disagree with an "angry screed"?"

No. But my threshold may be lower than it used to be, because I'm worrying lately about how other people react to stress under current circumstances.

"As a society we have accepted that a safe and responsible motorcycle operator should be allowed to do their thing"

I'm not sure if you can really prove that "as a society we have accepted..." something, but assuming we have, my point was how arbitrary it is. We draw a little box around different things, and motorcycles only have to be safe relative to motorcycle norms, while cars have to be safe relative to car norms. And norms differ from country to country.

That doesn't mean I'm necessarily on a crusade to break down that sort of compartmentalization, I just alternately read people questioning it and people taking it for granted, so I tend to think of the other side either way.
Maybe you should read a bit further than the first paragraph for your future citations?

"R0 is not a biological constant for a pathogen as it is also affected by other factors such as environmental conditions and the behaviour of the infected population."
> There is in http://nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mjh/covid19/#w which I said matches what I've found rather well

There may be data there, but if I understand you correctly you did not have it when you made your first post.

It is therefore inadmissible evidence as to whether your first post was a reasonable thing to write.

> Yes he does,

If you have decided you want to be an epidemiologist, or at least to learn their skillset, whose responsibility is it to fulfill that desire?

I don't think there is a reasonable answer to that other than "mine."
That's cool. Fedora is doing it for some tim now and I really like it.

If you have ThinkPad you can customize that boot logo with whatever you want via bios update. Not sure about IdeaPads though.
I'm quite surprised that big grocery companies are not doing this kind of services: If you get this working, one could argue that the "commitment" to "automatically" keep ordering from same shop and brand would be quite high - because it would be so easy. This, with home delivery would bring quite many new hours to a normal week/month.

(Personally working with "out of home" logistic solutions.)

Edit: mistypes.
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If I try to do voice commands while driving my field of vision narrows to a pinprick.
You're right, we should have done both.
I don't need to be an aeronautic engineer to know that a person with no such background should not throw hunches about designing planes.
Well then. Carry on :)
That depends on what you consider steady. My heart's load can vary by a factor of 4. But the load variance on skeletal muscles is even higher.
I skimmed the article so tell me if I'm missing something here but in my experience computer science isn't the major of choice to become a "programmer" anymore.

Having gone through the hiring process at three different companies focused on both desktop and web based software, computer science majors were an extreme minority. Most people had a business degree with a programming component attached like Management & Information Systems.

Maybe it its worth looking into how many would be CS majors choose to do the less math intensive but more industry relevant business school option.
Excuse a bit of hyperbole, but what sort of medieval nightmare-world are we living in when the citizens of the world's most revered democracy are waiting with bated breath for the pronouncements of the wealthy on fighting a viral pandemic?

Gates Foundation, research, etc etc. I get it. He's been involved with health stuff for a while. In theory, too, I'm open to a good idea regardless of its source. But this remains a guy who dollars to doughnuts I'd bet does not know how much milk costs at his supermarket. And he's telling us about chipping and digital tattoos?

It'd be legit pretty hilarious if it weren't so insane.
Each country has it's own date for when "testing came online", and it seems like starting from then might make things more comparable, despite differences in testing capacity and strategy. Another approach might be to on start looking at the data after the number of cases is > 100.
Brought to you by the same people that told you that you don’t need masks or ppe
Are you aware of any viruses not killed by high heat?
I don't get why this is good for the average worker in developed countries, to be honest. Doesn't this just open every job up to insane amounts of competition with the lowest price of living areas in the country, not to mention other countries? I feel like I must be missing something
Any runner or cyclist knows your heart gets tired.

A beat is not guaranteed volume, a rested heart can move more blood at the same heartrate than a tired one.
It will be federally funded and state organized (over simplified but that the General idea)
We seem to have all of the downsides of total surveillance, none of the upsides...
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> Java doesn't

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/LinkedLi...
What was your problem with the volvo specifically? I just collected a 2020 XC60 T8 and I have zero issues with it. Much much better than the infotainment system I had in my 2016 Mercedes, far more intuitive and very responsive. My only gripe so far is that if I navigate away from Android Auto I need to scroll left to bring it back up again.
You literally cannot imagine an alternative to capitalism.
Sure. I won't disagree with that. But the university is offering a computer science degree, which is creating skill in computer science. If people want expertise in business, they should supplement with a business degree or on the job business training.

Or convince some university to create a "software business" major so they can streamline themselves into a management role at a software company.
IAM RoadSmart page (and link to actual study): https://www.iamroadsmart.com/campaign-pages/end-customer-cam...
Not sure if you are being snarky. Do you have anything to add ?
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Ideally, yes. But given the limited testing capability that is a politically hard thing to do. Even if 50-75% of cases are asymptomatic (and that is a very big if), that would mean that on average you have a number of asymptomatic people that is a factor of 1 to 3 of confirmed cases. While it would be great to isolate those people, at this point that is still not a huge number that means anything for the response.
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Ive been a controversial member of this community for a loong time, here daily...

I fn love all of you.

I hope we can collectively build something that actually “make the world a better place”

((And I really want to encourage all the yipper-snappers))
Does anyone excercise any critical thinking skills with these headlines.

Driving drunk is far far far more distracting and deadly than using carplay. Every Uber and lyft driver out there are running mapping apps. Every recent car is shipping with these (my wife's sister listens to her playlist on drive to work with it and uses the map).

I've seen drunk drivers. Carplay has nothing on booze. In an overseas country an ex-pat wanted to drive me drunk back to where we were going to be working. Within 2 minutes I'd taken the keys and started driving myself because he was all over the road - we had to stop so he could throw up.
Who in this entire thread is saying anything about Obamacare?

Look at what other countries are doing, do you hear them having "obamacare?"

Stop comparing your current medical system to worse systems. Start comparing it to other, better systems. Look at Canada and the UK.

You would pay EVEN LESS than you do now.
Yes, third-party navigation has been supported for two years now.
Interesting.

Any ideas on how to achieve a pen or pencil like effect when applied to images of text, emulating ink properties? Kind of neural style for text.
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The hypothesis that face masks have a net negative effect is a very strong claim, before considering it we'd need some evidence that points in that direction.

I guess if you believe that's actually true, you should be advocating for doctors to stop wearing masks...

But that's not something we do, because we have enough priors that masks help that we will continue to use them.
I wrote something more automatic for myself. I ask the Google Calendar API how many hours I spend in meetings that week. From that I calculate how many working hours I have for other things. I then use the WakaTime API to get how many hours I spent working already (making sure to not double count during meetings). WakaTime can track my editor usage, terminal usage and work in Chrome (e.g. PR reviews). I use a separate Chrome profile to make sure I only track work-related browsing time, and Choosy to open links to our company GitHub automatically in the work profile.
I show a summary of the time spent and left in my terminal prompt.
Overall really happy with it!
Tons of libs wouldn't work this way I guess, probably including stuff in the standard library. So you could really just use a subset of the Python ecosystem. I'm not sure it's worth the effort.
Any layman's explanation of health implications?
You bought a product from a company known to lock people into their services then complain about this.

Was it the constant commercials that sold you? The fruit logo?
Downvoted for having manners. Lol. Dont ever change, HN.
"Never loose any of your entries"

Lose.
It was invented once in the 50s, but they didn't get the message, so they invented it again in the 60s.
The performance of such a system would be bad compared to an internet connected one (frequent speech model updates and more compute) and the reviews would pillory the device for a nebulous to most privacy (unseen) vs. performance (seen) trade off. Try using a slightly older (early 00s) car with voice commands to get a sense.
In fact that is why the audio buttons on the steering wheel are the only way I can listen to music off my phone. If I gotta unlock my phone and look down to find the "button" on screen its too distracting for my comfort level.

I dont know how people can text and drive. I usually see cars swerving and driving way too slow into a high way and it always turns out they are texting up a storm when you look.
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Anecdotal! And your bias is obvious.
>Extensive breakfasting should therefore be preferred over large dinner meals to prevent obesity and high blood glucose peaks even under conditions of a hypocaloric diet.
Likely a rules engine bundled with some form of business process management/modeling tool.

The rules engine is used to constrain/model the edges (transitions) of the overall graph of states within your overall business workflow finite state machine. This is generally implemented by throwing said rules engine at reams of data in the form of data validation, and inferring information from the various contexts that make up a system.

It's usually quite boring. Once you've seen a few, you've basically seen them all. The only differences boil down to the specifics of the industry, data model, and implementation of your basic frameworks.

In actual businesses there's basically maybe 4 actual software buckets that just about everything seems to end up degenerating to.

BPMA(Business Process Management/Automation, I.e. case/customer relation management, stuff related to doing business as a whole), OLTP (On-Line Transaction Processing; how you get data in), AADPETLR (Accounting, Auditing, Data Processing, Extraction, Transformation, Loading, and Reporting; what you do with all that juicy data you've collected).

All of those as I understand it may tend to end up getting combined into something called an ERP, (Enterprise Resource... Platform, I think?)

Having worked on most individual parts at one point, it's a bloody drag reimplementing the same thing over and over again in different wrappers this time. It is, however, the glue that makes basically any modern business work. The funny bit is how pretty much everyone does the same bloody thing, but bends over backwards to protect info with regards to who they are doing/sharing it with; even from their own employees.
You’re subtly altering the meaning of “in general public use”. As used in the court’s opinion, they’re drawing a distinction between whether the average person could perform this activity against another person. If the average person carried around thermal imaging tech that would have been capable of performing the same actions as the police, it would have not constituted an unlawful search. Extrapolating that to say that if the average person chooses to use always-on microphones to record themselves inside their homes, the police can record people inside their homes, is not an equivalent argument. It is totally viable to say that because so many people have the ability to record conversations in public places, the police can record conversations in public places. But that’s not the same thing at all.
I still don’t get your point? All I am saying companies shouldn’t debt finance buy backs. It doesn’t matter the source or target.
Estimating the Global Prevalence of Zinc Deficiency
This argument keeps recurring and I find it quite annoying. How is CarPlay or AA anymore distracting than having a tiny phone screen on your dashboard? Also, I think its more likely that the notifications for certain apps are distracting as opposed to the software in general which is incredibly useful (Maps, Spotify etc).

I don't understand the motivation behind these studies. Is there some financial gain to be made from this. Or perhaps I'm being too cynical.
A lot of 8 bit designs used designed ASICs that weren't a generally available part, like the Atari 2600 with the TIA, the Commodore 64 with the PLA, etc. Using microcontrollers for these seems fair.
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Youve made me smarter more curious more ambitious and a better human.

Its the most healthy nerd community that i am aware of [citations needed]

But as @dang can attest - this forum is digital mental health.
"spreading in the US since November", and "there's a new, highly infectious respiratory disease since November" are two very different things.

I don't know anyone that credibly believes it was in the US in November. We did, however, that something was amiss that early, and if the US had a pandemic response team who's job was to see something like this coming, we could have been getting testing ready since then.
Whatever it is, it wouldn't shock me if he were being too hard on himself. I have seen him comment here for instance, and I do not follow the scene at all, but many of those were interesting comments.

I am only skimming the linked article elsewhere in the thread and it seems too hard on him too.
> The only things in my pocket are my wallet and keys. My phone[1] could probably be used for remote surveillance, but without a warrant, that's a crime.

Sure, a bit naive, but I digress. Even if it's illegal, it would be better if it was simply not possible in the first place. It's optionally having that functionality, rather than building solutions considering privacy in the first place.

> without any type of "voice assistant" app

I don't think you can uninstall Siri or Google Assistant on neither iPhone or Android, so that point is kind of null. Only with root or custom roms you'll be able to do that.
Couple of possibilities I've been thinking about:

The virus has been in Italy for a lot longer than they think, and they get close to each other/have actual contact a lot (I don't know if that's actually true, I've never been to Italy)

Maybe they mostly have a particular mutation that is more deadly/infectious
The argument is usually that it has limited effect when it comes to protecting the wearer.
Simpler masks or home made masks can probably prevent transmission somewhat from the wearer by reducing the reach of droplets.

The argument against masks is based on 1) that people want them to protect themselves 2) that there aren’t nearly enough masks to do so.

So as I understand it, the authorities that say “don’t wear a mask” isn’t answering the question “would transmission be reduced if everyone wore a mask?”, but rather the question “Should I get a mask to protect myself”. Those are two very different questions.
This is going to make people who are concerned that there is a global oligarch overlord driven secret plan to dose up the world with vax disguised drugs and chip them for compliance extremely concerned.
I'm surprised Gates who 'can't give his money away fast enough for it to not keep growing' has not injected a significant amount of his massive wealth into the wold economy at this critical time.
Any of the measures he discusses will need very strong accountability, transparency and data access political control by the people to assuage concerns about fascism.
Just echoing what's been said here. The iPad is an iPhone with a bigger screen -- except that trivial physical difference results in use-cases that aren't so trivially different. Part of it has to do with frictionlessness.

I don't own a personal laptop anymore. I use my iPad Air for video-editing, for Google Docs as well as for media consumption when I travel or when I'm at a coffee shop. It's so light that I can whip it out in 3 seconds, do stuff, and put it away. Because it's designed as a mobile device, battery usage is enhanced so I can use it all day without recharging -- else I can plug it into a small Anker battery pack.

You can do that with an MBA too, but that's a more expensive device plus there's just a little more fuss. Power consumption is higher so you are always hunting for an outlet and there's the added weight of an AC adapter (none with the iPad) -- though I suppose these days you can charge MBA's with a larger battery pack.

Caveat: programming doesn't work so well because the iPad (even with the keyboard/trackpad) has a "one-app at a time" interface, whereas with programming you need multiple windows open simultaneously. (iOS has a multi window interface but it isn't that great)
I use a home-made mask. It's made from two layers of fabric from a "fitness t-shirt" with a layer of filter paper from an air filter in between. I wash it in the washing machine and replace the filter between each use.

It completely covers my nose and mouth and chin and wraps around over my ears. I tie it in the back with 4 ties one on the top edge and one on the bottom edge.

I have friends tell me "that's dangerous! It may trap particles behind it and make you sicker!"

I'm willing to take my chances. I believe

- combined with my eyeglasses, it will keep me from touching my face and eyes when I'm out

- if someone a few feet away coughs, the large droplet that the virus is riding on will surely get trapped. The pores don't need to be virus-sized to do that.

I have a proper "Gas Mask" but I want to save that for a gas attack. That's why we all have one.

The NY Times ran an op-ed about this:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/opinion/coronavirus-face-...

I've also seen people mis-wearing N-95 masks. I was behind a couple in the supermarket yesterday who were wearing them and every few minutes they were reaching up to readjust their noseclips. I got this on video, it was so perversely amusing to me. I hope they don't get sick.
Really nice story about some of the personal history behind Dropbox. It's all news to me. I had never heard of Arash until today.

Anyone know what he's going off to do that he's leaving Dropbox?
So now intermittent fasting is stupid? or we should reverse the fasting period to evenings instead of mornings?
Ask HN: Can we repurpose Tinder to fight Covid-19?
After reading this news story of a Yale student and his friend delivering groceries to elderly folks[0], I wonder if we can repurpose Tinder to scale this up.

From what I remember, Tinder allows you to set a preferred age range. If young folks set their preferred age to 65-80 and older folks set their preferred age range to 20-40, we can match people in need of groceries with volunteers.

Recipients and volunteers will just need to put a blurb in their bio about what they need or what they can deliver/provide.

[0] https://apnews.com/bda9c1ed0f8e10742ad2feabb2d52aa2?utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow
With the phrase, "in the hope"? That does not inspire confidence.
Wearing masks is common in several asian countries even before c19 was a thing and I'm not aware of anyone showing that it's causing harm at the population level. I consider that reasonable evidence that wearing them has no significant negative physiological effects.
I could see negative behavioral effects such as making people more careless because they're feeling safer. But again, effective containment in above-mentioned countries would also serve as evidence against that actually being an issue.
There's actually a team at the University of Minnesota doing that study right now.

https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/fkb0wa/university...
I wish there was an SVG2 that was more like modern 3D graphics APIs. My druthers: vertex stores, index buffers, stroke & shapes paths, and then both "standard" (prebaked) and "user-defined" (shader) shaders for texturing the strokes & shapes.
Do you really want to deploy even more already-at-risk police forces, just to count people in a park...? Let’s be real here - people are now forbidden from walking in the city except to get food, let alone stroll in the park.
> If you are asking someone where they get numbers from them write some incorrect numbers in the pursuit of whatever agenda is not a good look.

> As of Monday

> - 81 deaths

> - 0.96% CFR

I should say the same of you. Why are you posting numbers from 5 days ago? As of yesterday when I made that comment, Korea has 102 deaths and 1.16% CFR.

>> so CFR is very close to IFR

> On what basis do you make that statement. It's clearly indefensible

On the basis of the beginning of that same sentence, which you inexplicably did not quote.