skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have built a couple different versions of a rotary dial cell phone over the years but the one that is the most popular that friends and family want is the one that does not have an actual phone in it but instead is a Bluetooth device that pairs with your regular phone. The main reason is it is more of a gag type gift so on one wants to maintain an account or phone number for something you just pull out once in a while for a hoot. I make them for friends and family members if they provide the phone. Everyone loves them !

The first one I ever did was way back in 1997 or around there when I was working for a Wireless company back then. I made it for an April Fools day gag and it just had an old Nokia stuck inside it. We made up a phony marketing flyer for it that had a bunch of funny stuff like; Made by Rotomola, has 10 minute battery life. Goofy stuff. Everyone thought it was great and for a while the marketing people actually thought about making it a product !!! hahaha.

One other fun fact about rotary dials... have you ever noticed how most downtown business districts have low digit prefixes, like 221, 223 etc. That is because it saved time dialing. If you have to dial a bunch of 8's and 9's it takes forever ! hahaha. Probably why most people I make them for play with it for a few days but then it goes on a shelf, they are actually pretty annoying to actually use. But still a fun gag gift.
Is there any technical/security benefit at all to private blockchains? Or even more generously, lightly-mined public blockchains? It seems that in either of those scenarios, you lose the decentralized validation and consensus brought about by a bunch of people incentivized to compete with one another to burn electricity.
You can take lunch from home and eat that. I know enough people who do that. People who bought yearly or other long term tickets (majority of frequent travellers) dont save.
Please add a language selector so I can read the website in English. Or maybe lose the German localization altogether.

As a German native speaker, I find the German translation quite difficult to read.
Many Covid-19 cases are mild even without any medication. That is an interesting anecdote though.
Got it, thanks. Is there any way of transforming old data? Lets say, I want to add a new platform to just store data about clicks, but some of these events stored thru Rudder doesn't have the element id, is there any way I can give these events a default element id before sending them off to the new platform?
I like "I don't know, maybe the option to add the touchbar?"
Non paywalled source

"A drug maker recently doubled the price of chloroquine — but in response to the coronavirus pandemic, it’s cutting it in half" https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/19/a-drug-maker-recently-do...
Apple and Berkshire Hathaway has America Inc’s oldest board
Well to be fair, those are the subset of high IQ people who have the time/desire to join a club about having a high IQ. Kind of an adverse selection bias
> 99% of world's headphones have cables coming out of the left ear

Is this number intended as a factual statement or hyperbole? I’ve only ever used headphones with cables going to both ears, to neither ear, or ones where you can plug it in on either side.
In my experience with family members who have 8G laptops, they are not fine. Even my mother who just uses a web browser, mail.app and occasinally Photos is not fine with 8G. Her MacBook Pro regularly ground to a halt. I replaced it with a used model that was almost exactly the same except that it has 16G and now she is fine.
Have U.S. courts become political prizes?
I think these are references to Apple's change in software design once Jony Ive became in charge of human interface design in late 2012 as well as the 2013 Mac Pro and the 2016 MacBook Pro. From a software standpoint, I've noticed a change in the quality and feel of Apple products since OS X Yosemite, and it hasn't been for the better. I found (and still find) Photos.app to be a downgrade from iPhoto, and I'm also finding less fit-and-finish in Apple's software overall, though it still remains more polished to me than Windows 10 or Linux desktops. It's a far cry from the days where Apple was obsessed with UI design, both in terms of form and faction, from the days of the early Macintosh all the way through the Snow Leopard era.

The keyboard fiasco regarding the 2016 MacBook Pro is well-known. Regarding the 2013 Mac Pro, I'm actually typing this on a 2013 Mac Pro; it's not a bad computer at all by any means, but Apple severely miscalculated this machine's capability of getting regular refreshes due to thermal issues that they admitted to in 2017. Had it been a one-off model similar to the 20th Anniversary Macintosh, then its reputation would have been better. But this miscalculation, as well as Apple's unwillingness to correct course until their announcement in 2017, meant that the Mac Pro went for six years without upgrades, an eternity in the computer industry.

All of these issues, combined with other problems that may or may not have anything to do with Jony Ive (e.g., the lack of upgrades in the Mac Mini, the lack of user-serviceability in many Mac models, the price gouging for RAM and storage upgrades at purchase time) have eroded the reputation of the Mac brand and has caused some Mac users to switch to either Hackintoshes, Windows, or Linux.

With that being said, I've been more impressed with Apple's Mac upgrades lately. While I'm still bummed that Apple didn't make a $2,999 or $3,499 entry-level 2019 Mac Pro, the $5,999 Mac Pro appears to be a solid Mac desktop, and I'm glad that Apple listened to its customers in the creative professional market who need machines like that to do their work. I'm also glad that Apple has corrected course regarding its laptop keyboards, and the 2020 MacBook Air looks like a compelling buy. I might end up buying one later this year to replace my aging 2013 MacBook Air.
Yea, my wife takes plaquenil to treat arthritis and I asked her to double check her supply when these rumors started floating around. It's always scary to imagine a bunch of folks going out and hording the stuff to scalp it off later.
That's been a trend across all laptops for awhile now. You're lucky to get a mini display port or mini hdmi these days.
And how much thicker is that thing? The edge around that machine is the worst as well.
Well, consider how many people just aren't going to be bothered to ever register and vote which is the majority of my friends. The amount of effort plays directly into the "meh, not like my vote matters anyways" mindset.

"Oh well, they don't deserve to vote then" might sound good to you, but only if you tend to agree with what people currently vote for.
So the EE/CS undergrad program I did was heavily-analytical:

- It included the entire advanced level chem, physics and stats series for scientists and engineers.

- It was two elective courses shy of a math degree, including abstract math, concrete math, and tensor math.

- Only a few courses shy of a physics degree as well.

- The entire EE track and entire CS track of course.

- Writing lots of code for multiplatform portable code including Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, SGI, and some MINIX 2.

I think they should make it a mandatory combined undergrad /Masters' or /PhD program to be of sufficient depth into research achievement and breadth of knowledge to be useful in industry that cannot be achieved in the absence of an advanced degree. I think most of the undergrad CS knowledge can be acquired by osmosis in industry or self-study without a degree.
How was it tested?
FWIW, I think mostly your impression of Ritchie is a result of the format he writes in (high-traffic tech site). When he's on Gruber's podcast, he has pretty nuanced and thoughtful opinions on things. So much so that I'd say that he's easily one of the best regular guests.
> Look at the curves for every where else on the planet, the US will be the same, take it seriously

Except this is extrapolating ahead to assume no changes to treatment available. As time progresses, we find better, more effective ways to prevent death from COVID-19.
As far as I can tell he's been way too slow and this is still not a lock down, so I'm unsure why I see so much praise for him.

I suspect it's because he did a cutesy interview.
It was my bad calling it "PC gaming." You're misinformed on this. Check out protondb.com - by opting into the Steam beta in Linux you can play Windows games, oftentimes with the same or better driver performance than in Windows. And sometimes not. But to liken it to the "Special Olympics" is a bit cruel and ignorant.
In MacBooks it used to always be on the left. And then they switched to the right when they introduced USB-C models.
Wasn't Apple Park a passion project of Steve Jobs as much as Ive?
They make a reliable + great keyboard

Lots of keyboards are reliable, few of them are 'good'. Lenovo is probably the only other one.
Ignoring the penalization of work is being naive? Ignoring the "not having to work" in calculating how well off someone is, because you can make a snarky remark about how mixed a blessing it is to stay home, is naive? I would say the opposite.

I could just as well ask if you're just trying to be clever devil's advocate here.
You can change that on the account settings page. https://emvi.com/account
None of those intangibles are lost either though. The visionary chef is still going to be a visionary chef once the pandemic is over and things return to normal, it's not like knowledge workers or artisans all turn into permanent forklift drivers or something.

There is going to be some degree of disruption as organisational capacity needs to be restored but this is no different than any other natural disaster, from which economies usually rebounce very quickly.

And as to customers still being able to afford things, that's where the government can and will step in to stabilize demand.
In the past, he was usually right.
What is the company?
would like to be able to look at a whole country projection, if possible
What scientists learned after firing a cannonball into a near-Earth asteroid
I feel like stereotyping Mac users isn't adding much to the discussion. Lots of tech companies and developers use Apple products.
seems to be a DJ rather than live music
The US has averaged over 30% daily increases in infections for the last 20 days. 1.3 x 1.3 x 1.3 = 2.2x growth every 3 days making that 4 day doubling optimistic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_t...

New infections are modeled to noticeably slow down once ~1/5 of the total population is infected, but at that point things have already fallen apart.
Interstate 19
This thing fucks.
Hard to beat that model imo, I would go to the trouble of replacing the battery. Or as apple would do the entire upper assembly.
Vaccine estimate is 18 months according to the Imperial College:

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s...

Vaccines in human trials in the US now need to go through a 14 month observation period to understand effectiveness and side effects.

Influenza vaccines, if they are any guide, are only 50-70% effective and need to be renewed annually.

Ask people if they are willing to sacrifice 18 months of their life so that someone with an average age of 79 and existing health complications can live another couple of years and you will start to deal with the problem honestly.

By my calculations for every 1 year of saved life (average age 79) we are paying for it with 10 years of lockdown life (average age 35-40).
My brother once told me he liked a certain music blog because even when he disagreed with the review conclusion and score, the writing was informative and insightful enough to let him make up his own mind.

That's how I feel about Gruber. I probably agree with him 2/3 of the time, and 1/3 of the time I wonder if he's living on a different planet.

But even in those 1/3 of cases, he does a good job of laying out the facts and the process by which he arrived at his conclusion. So for me, he's well worth reading even in those times.
You don't need these models to tell you that. It's self evident that if you keep people from contacting each other you can stop things.

It's just not so clear it's possible to do such a lockdown in non-Authoritarian, free, countries.
Yes, because they absolutely cannot be trusted to be in the position that they've put themselves in.

They're bad stewards. They're made themselves into censors.
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IMO, the subject tests are kind of a niche environment. You can't prep for them with the $20 official book and there are like 20 of them. (Also Amazon lists it for 30 but we get the point). You basically need to go to a school where they offer AP coursework, and pay something close to $100 bucks to the College Board to take subject tests.

When I was doing college search, the only college I recall that requested these subject tests was MIT.
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So despite their blog post explaining why it took so long to cancel, you believe something nefarious or incompetent was going on?
Yes, and I'm looking at the aggregate data in the last two graphs, and also the big table.

HCQ + AZ was the only group with clearance for all after six days. It was also the smaller of the two groups, which makes it hard to give any weight to the finding. But there are many other features of this study that make the result hard to interpret.
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I don't in any way believe you, sorry.

There's absolutely no way anyone with that workload is hitting RAM limits.

Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnuNs_Nu46Q
Can't edit this, but to be completely correct, it's looking for viral RNA present in samples, not necessarily blood. More commonly sputum or respiratory samples when it comes to coronavirus.
That link only refers to the MacBook Pro. The 2015 MacBook had a butterfly keyboard.
> Baseline Storage

Macs don't have baseline storage! They have soldered-down sealed-in storage. Before that, it was fine to get minimal RAM and disk and upgrade it later, like every other OEM did to soak the whales without driving away cost-conscious consumers. Then the soldering-money-gun came and used artificially constrained RAM and SSD to enforce value-based pricing and profitably planned obsolescence.
>let's allow them to do their jobs

Do hobbyists rigging together servo motors to prepare for a worst-case scenario really interfere with the soon-to-be overwhelmed professional medical industry workers attempts to do their jobs? The only reason I can think of to be against this would be kind of like doing a trust fall, voicing against independent work to signal personal trust in the capacity of the medical system. Of course, that would be a purely social reason, not really helpful for saving lives or improving the system.
Hah, how high and mighty. I try to discuss facts and evidence and you just deflect and consider it spin... Of course, you get to leave feeling like the person you're arguing is was just "spinning" stuff, and with your perceptions intact, because, hey "I can't be a chump, right, I'm too clever to be one!", right?
Just one I think. People are already coping, and it's barely started. If people knew a 3 month shelter-in-place was a yearly rule, we could plan for it.
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I have a non-touchbar MBP with just two USB-C ports and nothing else. Two, on the same side, and one is always used for charging. So one free port on a pro laptop. I still can’t understand how they ever thought it was acceptable. Why bother moving to USB-C if you’re going to cripple their usefulness?
> It's all bottles and labeling.

Mostly, but there is a difference of taste between low and mid quality vodka. But the difference between mid and high quality vodka is questionable. At least for most people, this happens to also be the case for many other alcoholica.

Be aware that it's about taste not fancy production methods. And yes while not strong vodka has taste to it ;=) it's not "just" pure alcohol.
Related from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22615719

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22615803
The US has also been ramping up testing, assuming number of infections is a linear function of known cases is a mistake.
The one that bothers me is 9-11, how many trillions of dollars did the US spend after that on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and the war against terror? We are likely to see several 9-11s worth of deaths in the US due to Covid-19, will we spend even a fraction of what we spent after 9-11 to be more prepared for the next pandemic?
If you're not actively following Mac stuff you probably wouldn't know, but there's been aggressive rumors for the last few years that Apple's going to switch to ARM for its laptops/desktops.

Here's a recent rumor summary: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/02/24/mck-arm-mac-202...

With the key motivator being:

> The reason for Apple to move Macs to its own in-house ARM chips is much simpler than that. (1) Apple’s laptop chips are better than Intel’s — they’re faster and more power efficient. (2) Using their own chips puts Apple in control of its own timeline for product updates. Why did it take so long for Apple to get the retina MacBook Air out the door? The one-word answer I was told by a high-perched little birdie: Intel.
Google I/O 2020 canceled completely: Online event scrapped
legacy preference just gives you a +1, not guaranteed.
Microsoft Teased a Revamped UI for Windows 10
"funny" might be not the right word for this kind of mix
I liked the 12 inch MB models. Not a lot of good choices in the ultraportables category and 12 is where it's at for me.
I have really enjoyed GOG lately for the lack of DRM
So, this projects 3-months out. But what about after that? The graph for my state (MN) showed 3 months of sheltering in place would keep infections down, but then start to rise immediately afterwards. Then the graph ends. I think super-extended voluntary isolation is going to be a tough sell.
Well I still have a fundamental question, what happens when China, or anyplace else, un-Wuhan's?

They seem to be opening stores, starting flights to SFO, but surely China is not clear of the virus. So, are we expecting a pick up in infections now. And, if not, please explain why not.. I'm really curious..
Sheltering in place would be less necessary if everyone would stay at least 2 meters apart, wear masks, wear gloves, not talk unnecessarily or cough/sneeze at anyone, and wash up with soap when they get home. Some people seem unable to stay away and feel compelled to get in your face and talk.
In short, macOS and hardware/software synergy.
8GB of memory is absolutely enough for probably 80% of people buying this computer. I bet you that around 80% are buying that base model.

Those folks are literally just writing Office documents and watching YouTube, doing school papers, etc. As long as you don't open dozens of Chrome tabs, there is no difference.

This was tested. It's on Windows, but Chrome is Chrome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnuNs_Nu46Q

You need 25 tabs to hit swap at all, and around 40 to bog yourself down. You can play AAA games on 8GB of RAM (until the PS5/Xbox Series X come out).

The truth is that RAM requirements for general purpose computing haven't changed in at least 5 years.
Mine is an "I wanna be adored" cover that I heard on a college radio station. Took me awhile to find it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhYUPgOnEFo
I miss Turntable.fm
Personal anecdote but doing over a decade of personal projects in game and web development, starting in middle school, did nearly jack shit for me as far as eventually getting a job was concerned. If I were to go back and do it all over again I would definitely spend my time doing literally anything else. I was so convinced that if I just followed my fancy, worked hard and made cool stuff, learning anything and everything I could along the way, then eventually I would find work doing things I liked, formal degree be damned. It did not work out that way, at all.

After years of searching for work in the Redmond area and failing to do so (because, no professional experience, no degree), I randomly happened to find work by randomly logging onto a forum I hadn't visited in years and randomly happened to find a thread where a guy was looking to hire for remote webdev contract work. After that contract was complete, I spent another couple years looking for further work, and had to eventually move back home away from Redmond because the cost of living was too high while I was unemployed. After plural years of searching again, I finally managed to get a second remote webdev job. I don't like modern webdev and would much rather do almost anything else but now I've had two jobs doing it and I feel despair—am I locked into this for the rest of my career? With no degree and only these two jobs' worth of "Professional Work Experience" under my belt, it sure seems that way. Recruiters and hiring departments seem to care about little else. They sure don't give a shit about any personal projects, in my experience. And this is even in spite of the fact that I more or less picked a new language and/or framework for each project, which, in my mind, shows an aptitude for learning new things, being adaptable, and having an above-average "general programming aptitude" than someone who's made fourteen React projects in the past couple of years or whatever.

But apparently companies don't see things this way, or maybe I'm just not good at finding the ones that do, or maybe there's something else to my approach that has been All Wrong. But as my twenties draw to a close and I find myself no closer to finding a career than I was a decade ago, at this point I'm kind of at a loss for what to do about it. And, almost more importantly, I'm extremely burned out on making stuff just for the fun and intrigue of doing so.
If you expect it to spread at the rate this thing spreads, after a couple of years nearly everyone will have been exposed to it and thus have developed an immunity (or died). From then on it mostly becomes a childhood disease, like measles. The goal thus becomes to spread out the exposures enough so that people who need medical help to survive their exposure can reliably get it.

Of course the above assumes that immunity really does develop after one exposure, and that the virus doesn't mutate into some sufficiently different form to reset the immunity counter to zero again. The evidence seems to indicate positive things on the immunity front, but it's still preliminary. And as for mutation, who can say?
Stupid question: why do all the curves go down way before reaching a large percentage of the population? For example, California's curve peaks at ~900,000, only 2% of its population (and only a bit more if you consider cumulative hospitalizations). I guess 2% is not enough for herd immunity to kick in so what is it?

Edit: Oops, brain fart. Those numbers don't include all cases, just hospitalized ones.
It's not about moving the market, it's about selling a security when you have nonpublic information that it's worth less than its price. That's a crime. And of course the buyer wouldn't have bought it if they had the same information.
Amazing! I do work in 3D computer vision and I've really wanted to get into 3D generative asset design as a side project at least. If the author or anyone else is interested in collaborating, I'd be down to talk and shop something.