skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there any way to "fix" cheaper vodkas by holding it at the proper temp for sufficiently long enough? Or are they beyond salvageable by that point in the process?
Face Doodling
Preorders are a huge part of that initial sales rush. Clearly those are independent of if the game happens to be cracked on opening day.
Pandemic dispatcher: https://images.app.goo.gl/8WgvskJ5SHRSfpUf7
I'm an underrepresented minority and I increased my SAT score by 200-300 from the PSAT to SAT, depending on how you want to measure the change. This was just by doing self-study with off the shelf test prep material. The classes aren't what increases your score, its the consistent structured study and ones innate potential. For some people, no amount of study is going to get them into the 90+th percentile. While others who have the capacity to do well but haven't had the best instruction over the years can cover a lot of ground with the right prep. But this is exactly what SAT is intended to measure, scholastic potential. That some people can increase scores dramatically through preparation does not indicate a failure of the test, but rather its success.
My impression as a former SAT instructor is a lot of students don’t spend that much time prepping. And if they have no good reading/math background it can take some effort to master things.

That said, typically saw increases well above that in my classes. Even with zero instruction I’d expect a self studying student to improve more than that from familiarization.

It did say upper class people improve more.
I'm not angry at the people who want to help their kids, but at the system that we're making. Our "meritocracy" has become a caste system in which a small group of people are doing very well and everyone else is scrambling to make it. It's a big social problem. Look at how suicide rates in middle America has skyrocketed, look at how much more divisive our politics have become.

I have no idea what the solution is, and can't say for sure where we should place the blame, but I have an innate distaste for the passing along of inherited advantages.
once the game is cracked, the scene tends to be pretty efficient at posting patches. unless something nontrivial is happening over the connection, they can just emulate it locally.
The "mysterious song" has a more of a generic "alternative guitar band" sound to me, which Laibach never were.

Something about the riffs makes me want to say "Foreigner" (or that school of 80s US hard rock) which again, is a genre that Laibach never imitated (although they might just have parodied).
"Two drugs, chloroquine and remdesivir, are being designated for Expanded Access, or “compassionate use,” by the FDA."

It's already available. Hopefully soon to the general public (it's prescription only btw).
Seems so piecemeal. We have models that work in parts of the world like Korea, Taiwan and Singapore. Is there any reason why the US and Europe can’t follow their model?
It's a fun engineering-art project. Don't depend on it for survival.
Why is U.S. media repeating Chinese propaganda Wuhan citizens don't believe?
Security Breach Disrupts Fintech Firm Finastra
Also, “bad things come in threes”
Plans A-Z call for us avoiding all nuclear winters and impacts from large asteroids. We don’t and won’t ever have a way to quickly rebuild after extinction level events. It will affect multiple generations in the best case.
Senna came from a super rich family. A regular person will have trouble affording karting even at the lowest level. I used to have a race kart and even with a job the tires, engines and other parts are barely affordable.
@mods can you please add https:// to the URL?

Update: Why the down-vote?
Looks like California pushed it to July 15 as well: https://www.ftb.ca.gov/about-ftb/newsroom/news-releases/2020...
While that's definitely true, this is also inherently running up agains the Bill of Rights. Police powers are not unbounded so as this continues (and especially as it subsides), I expect legitimate unanswered questions of Constitutionality could come into play.
Plot Twist: only Sean Bean survives
as they say, "Locks don’t keep robbers from stealing. Locks keep honest men from making mistakes."
>Students were able to indicate if they had prepared through the use of school courses, commercial courses, tutoring, or a variety of preparatory materials. In what follows, a coached student is defined as one that reported participating in a commercial preparatory course.

Is there any indication that they actually broke down any further, or is this just limited to the impact of average coaching and thus not a good representation of those who receive the top tier coaching?
Yes this contradicts GP claim that it's possible for HN users to tell whether comments have been edited.
Build me Reddit clone (if you do please make it scale to 100M users - that will keep you busy) or modify public source to be deployable with 1 click.

EDIT: more ideas

Try to build better Firebase.

Try to build OS that's truly secure and convinient and hackable that allows me to write integration scipts based on app events and allows me to rewrite any app UI.

Design App UI building toolkit that puts current solutions to shame.

Build MMO game that will make Blizzard sad.

Build simple and configurable personal assistant.

Build relevant adds solution.

Design better search engine than Google.

Design publishing system that will get rid od ads and will allow to fairly compensate content creators and make it sustainable.

Design simpler HTML, so anyone can write browser.

Try to build/design language that is both expressive and minimal, with performance close to C or better, has great errors, no quirks and predictable memory use. Write it so it's easy for beginners to contribute ;p
It's more than the rumour-mill. There was a scientific study with a small number of patients that showed clear results, and several countries have now launched larger studies to confirm those findings.
Intel already does this with their "True View" setup. They also had a tech demo CES where they synthesized camera positions for movie sets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qd276AJg-o
Predicting Coronavirus Cases
Those studies were mostly funded and influenced by the college board, and they needed that to be true, so that’s what they found. But there is prep and there is prep!, they are different with different influences. Studying the former (say a few weekend long prep course) to make conclusions about the latter (intensive cram school for a couple of years) is criminal.

I’ve seen an SAT cram school in China, and yes...it will influence your scores significantly because they pull out all of the stops.
At this point it's hard to imagine doing much more damage to the economy than what is already being done, at least not in any way that would be useful for stopping the spread of the virus. We should take any further actions that seem likely to curtail the spread (massive testing, massively expanded surveillance and data publishing about the virus, centralized quarantines if needed to engender compliance). And then I guess we can see. If China has not managed to stamp it out in the next month or so, that will be a pretty bad sign for our ability to do.

> Boy would I love to be proven wrong.

I would love you to be proven wrong. And I'd accept being proven wrong, with deep regret. But it's definitely possible to get within striking distance. I hope we can see China jump the gap from few to no new cases soon. That would give me hope for the rest of us.
The report from Imperial College [0] indicates that it may be impossible to flatten it enough for it not to overwhelm medical care capacity.

It wasn't (and still isn't) wrong to try to flatten it - it's what gives time to investigate the appropriate course of action. But unfortunately it seems like flattening won't be enough and more extreme measures (called "suppression" in the report, whereas flattening strategy is called "mitigation") need to be taken.

The report also notes that such extreme measures have never been taken on the timescale they anticipate to be required to successfully suppress the disease (basically until the cure or vaccine is found and widely distributed - at least 18 month and possibly years), so we have no idea how that will turn out.

[0] - https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s...
It has fallen into disuse in Seattle.
Show HN: Corvus – the first declarative back end framework for Swift
“All your base are belong to us”
Is that really true though? having precise definitions for symbols is important for proofs
The heuristic used for Java source looks like this:

0 regex \^import.*;$ Java source
Well that would likely eliminate SARS-CVD-2 so there'd be a silver lining...
If instead of trying to be snarky you would read the article you would understand why node is being used
Look, faking a disability is deplorable but this stance is bonkers. I wish my parents had the money when I was growing up to get me checked and diagnose my ADHD.

And of course you wouldn't want to report to the college if a person has a disability, are you trying to scarlet letter everyone who needs a little more time to read from dyslexia?
Good news.

A civilization ending asteroid is going to miss us! https://www.space.com/asteroid-1998-or2-earth-flyby-april-20...
That can't happen twice.
>own the libs in the high-cost-of-living blue states.
Wasn't it originally planned to go to everyone until Speaker Pelosi blocked it and said it must be means tested?
Canadian doctor who works in Gaza makes 3D-printed face shields for Covid-19
I am absolutely sick to death of outrage culture, and I thoroughly agree - in fact I think the outrage probably encourages the bravado of people who are engaging in risky behaviour atm
The SAT IIs are not extra/optional if you're applying to most selective colleges/universities. They aren't the main SAT, but they are far from optional for students who would be considering MIT.
I think the difference is that, better schools and private tutors, are at least in theory, teaching useful skills and ultimately creating a better person at the end. Being good at the SATs doesn't have the same excuse, so its much more obvious when you're basically just paying to get a better score.
I certainly don't believe this, but I doubt that the "I only pirate games to try them before buying" crowd is terribly large either. even fewer people are going to actually buy the game first and then download a pirated .exe to replace the original.
HPC Server Clusters Now Available with 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
This reads more like a humblebrag to me than a thoughtful criticism against standardized testing.
"Covid-19 projects looking for volunteers" https://helpwithcovid.com/ (yesterday's HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22615453)
It was the first science fiction story I ever read, and I was 11. I still remember the opening line. "At first Potiphar Breen did not notice the girl who was undressing."
A lawsuit will merely increase costs to government without solving anything. Maybe this officer will be fired (and probably rehired in a different precinct), but they won't learn anything other than to be more careful about the body cam.

Ideally, we should legalize victimless "crimes" like drug possession. If there isn't a clear victim, it shouldn't be illegal. That alone might be enough to refocus police departments on their proper role in society. But in the meantime, we should aggressively prosecute crimes like these.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J60fQr0GWo
a top hospital in Italy's richest area overwhelmed by the virus.
If you slam really hard it may work
I've done double blind vodka tastings and some of the cheaper vodkas come out on top. e.g. Barton's is as good as top-shelf (that were in the tasting)
> But we are already inundated by outrage journalism, cancel culture, and public shaming. The last thing we need is more of that.

The problem with "outrage culture" isn't the outrage; it's the target of the outrage. This is real stuff, consequential, non-trivial. It's good to be outraged when people behave outrageously. It's not so good when what you're trying to do is get a stranger fired for a tweet you could easily have ignored. This isn't that.
northern italy is extremely humid, this is a factor for the flue too.
To piggy back.. this gets really bad because you have the question: "How many people need critical care per year, or in a given month". Now, how many of these people die if there IS no critical care to give? No room in the inn so to speak?

I'm sure they're working on jerryrigged work arounds like using schools and hotels, but still it's not the same as a real ICU... plus it's highly possible a lot of these people could come in with a heart attack or a car crash and get COVID19, and die from the virus when their other injuries they would've survived, or they might've even survived COVID19 by itself without the extra ailments.

Not to mention, it's possible all other patients in hospital could end up w/ it if it's not contained well, and again same thing as above.

What about immune compromised patients, like Cancer patients who need chemo... they could have to postpone treatment (not enough staff to administer) which could cause them to die..or they could show up, get infected and die within 2 weeks from COVID19 + already weakened immune system....

How many people feel safe breaking quarantine to go give blood? We're having a major blood shortage right now. They say it's safe to give, but pretty sure if someone else was there or if the blood drawers are infected you'll come home with it... There's no way they can guarantee you won't... So if the blood shortage continues to worsen, how many lives will that kill as a result...

I mean you could go further and say some might starve, but I don't think we're at that yet... but it's a possibility esp. w/ panic buying and supply chain woes... but I think not till summer. There's going to be a major issue with migratory workers who work on farms..so we might be short on crops and farm goods this year.

Also according to scientists we need to social distance for an entire year at the least... This could cause a lot of depression, anxiety, and suicide too.
You might be right, but it's not as simple at it sounds.

By using something like `@attachment/UUID` you don't have to refactor anything if the attachment gets renamed or modified. The somewhat unsolved issue there though is reliably keeping track of which UUID maps to which file.

If you're using regular links and rename an attachment, worst case scenario, you have to parse all notes, find all links pointing to the renamed attachment and update those, which can get expensive. Also regular path-based links can be a problem when you move the _note_ somewhere else too.

Plus how do you know something got renamed instead of the old attachment got deleted and a new one got created? This is partially a problem for the UUID-based approach too however.

Lastly what kind of link should you use to link to a note stored in another data directory? Relying on the absolute paths is too brittle, and it won't work at all when the app will also be able to run in the browser.
> I wish there was an modern tutorial which compares K to something like numpy or matlab.

That's a very reasonable request. In my opinion, one of the problems with array languages is the lack of introductory material.

If you know a good tutorial that includes numpy and Matlab, I may try to add k and/or j. Any suggestion?
“Typhoon” – Joseph Conrad (1902)
I actually have my own personal Mystery Tune which I'm been trying to find the owner of for years.

I'm offering a cash reward for help identifying the song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK8l0pkyiy0

Its posted SoundCloud too:

https://soundcloud.com/davidpfarrell/cool-unknown-techno
Also, Bayer thinks there's enough merit to this to issue their own press release and donate 3M pills.

"New data from initial preclinical and evolving clinical research conducted in China, while limited, shows potential for the use of Resochin in treating patients with COVID-19 infection.

Bayer in recent days has been in talks with the White House, HHS, CDC, and the FDA, offering any assistance we can provide with a focus on donating Resochin to help in the government’s efforts to combat the virus.

Currently not approved for use in the United States, Bayer is working with appropriate agencies on an Emergency Use Authorization for the drug’s use in the U.S.

Bayer thanks the Trump administration for moving quickly to enable this donation and will continue to work closely with the administration to support its efforts in the fight against COVID-19."

https://bayer2019tf.q4web.com/news/news-details/2020/Bayer-P...
Ideal Sleep Position: Train Your Body to Use It
I admit it's not intuitive. Tell me more?

I'm assuming there's high false positive rate. If the test has even moderate false negative, then yes it's worse than useless.
You'll like my version, then:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/irotary-saga/

A side-effect I didn't initially realize: Sound quality is amazing because the microphone runs your voice to your speaker, so you hear yourself talk and it's a much more comfortable experience. I wish modern phones would implement some sort of loopback too, as you hear yourself and end up speaking more quietly as a result.
Excuse me I meant 5MB. It takes 12 hours to train.

>All compared single scene methods take at least 12 hours to train per scene

But it seems to only need sparse images.

>Here, we visualize the set of 100 input views of the
synthetic Drums scene randomly captured on a surrounding hemisphere, and we
show two novel views rendered from our optimized NeRF representation
This is true, but you don't need blanket testing to have adequate testing for estimation of community spread. There is a fantastic video here[1] that covers the specifics, but basically we know enough about how the virus spreads that if we just track who is in the hospital or dead from the virus, we can estimate its state of community spread, and thus know when to lock down.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCa0JXEwDEk
Yep, Stoli is definitely a bottom-tier vodka (not in price, though)
The supply chains are back. China has made big progress and are back to work.
Show HN: Docker Proxy Basic Auth Image
Right! I don't understand why people in this thread are apparently mad rich families for this? Like a family with means is doing all the things to raise a socialized, well rounded, experienced, well-read and tutored, worldly person. Like god damn I can't think of a better use for the money as a parent.

I get that college admissions is a contest and performative but hot damn this thread is full of people mad at other people's happiness.
It isn't exactly a surprise. Back then, in school, we toured the national synchrotron facility, and the same question came up: if didn't have much physics at school can you still study physics? The answer was: if you study physics they'll teach you physics just fine, where you'll run into trouble is the adjacent subjects, chemistry, biology, computing. You'll need to take care of that yourself.
AlphaGo – Full Documentary
The rumour-mill is that it _will_ prevent or cure.

As you've said, studies are still being conducted. I've read the original chinese study and it's promising, but there's still work to be done.
Did you look at the documentation? The matrices implemented have their elements in arbitrary commutative rings (well, not arbitrary, somebody has to implement them in Julia, of course, but they have a bunch). I think its fair to call that abstract algebra; I wouldn't it numeric. In my university, that's how we teach linear algebra to math majors but not to engineers, for example.
As yes, so you did! Hmm, partly I think I had this in my head before I even read the root comment, but I think I was looking at this point in it:

> no summary. Cpp summarizes the group of method before clicking b through to individual listings, while java summarizes each method at the top.

When they say "java summarizes each method at the top." I think they're talking about the fact that the Java page has one line for each method with the brief description next to it. The C++ one is a bit mixed up with the fact the methods are also grouped together (by overloaded name), but they already mentioned that in their first bullet point so I think they're just referring to the brief text descriptions here.
No, that's the rumor-mill, spreading the preliminary results as if they were a confirmed cure.
I was intrigued by the results from the recent quick french study: https://www.mediterranee-infection.com/wp-content/uploads/20...

I read through the paper, and it's not immediately obvious, but if you look at the two graphs at the bottom, the hydroxychloroquine is 75% effective in the first chart, but only 50% in the second one. That's because the actual test was:

Control: 16

hydroxychloroquine: 14

hydroxychloroquine + azithromycin: 6

The first chart includes all 20 people who got hydroxychloroquine - including the 6 who also got azithromycin.

My question: do we know how effective azithromycin would be on it's own? Maybe it's the wonder drug we should be focused on, which would be great since it's available everywhere.

It should go without saying these are VERY preliminary results from a small trial but it's something!
> She was only a child for much of that period, and arguably wasn't around for the worst of it.

She was also in East Germany and somewhat close to the ruling party, being an active member of their youth organization. She was, allegedly, working for them on spreading propaganda at the university she was studying at. She half-heartedly denies it and cites her failing memory, obviously.
Goodhart's law in action!
Writing Linux File Buffer Cache Top in C++ with BPF
To me, this is the scariest aspect of a fast&hot pandemic. If hospitals are already overloaded, supplies already exhausted, what happens in the event of a significant natural disaster? Typically, nations around the world rally to assist with hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunami, etc. What would that look like today?
Yeah, because a quick spike wouldn't have any outside effects at all.

You sound as if you're ok with millions of people dying miserably.

You think a long period of decreased economy is bad, the spike might cause outright panics and armed unrest.

We can print dollars, we can't resurrect the dead.
Please try to find other high-impact projects or community efforts which best utilize your time before considering this, but:

I've been working on https://www.reciperadar.com which is an open source recipe search engine and meal planner. The idea is that people can use it to find meals with the ingredients they have available at home and from their nearby shops - which may be highly variable at the moment.

I'd appreciate any input, whether it's your feedback about the user experience, reports of bugs / data quality issues, translation fixes, feature requests or code contributions.

Good luck finding impactful projects to work on!
So is someone sitting there, monitoring the results of this C19 folding operation as they come in and then when they see exactly the right result they shout eureka! and dance around the room? Then they shout "Get this to the lab, stat!" After which the lab starts churning out thousands of vials of antidote and everyone gets cured?
Why is the damage bad? Why not thin the population? Think about the looming stress due to the boomers living longer. If they die, housing becomes affordable. Assets move to the younger generation. Debts get canceled because their is no one left in the estate to pay. Think of this as a fire that thins the forest. New growth will come up.
How well does chloroquine mix with gin? Asking for a friend.
I'm reading "Combat Fighter Tactics and Maneuvering" by Shaw, along with the combat aviation and auto racing manuals at https://github.com/bencaddigan/esports-for-engineers