skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll be honest and say that I don't play games that much anymore so any game I tried ran smoothly. Is QA failing or are Sony and Microsoft allowing shoddy games on their plaforms?

Anyway, just graphics cards, CPU upgrades, noise and ventilation... It's expensive and it's a mess for anyone except hardcore gamers and people who need a desktop PC that costs $2000 anyway.

For most folks a one time cost of $600 settles their gaming needs for years.
This has been going on in earnest for almost ten years now (I configured zero rating for several services as far back as 2008, back when WAP was still a thing).

In Europe it’s a staple of many prepaid mobile data plans. The big difference now is that (some) telcos are actively doing it for OTT services (like streaming).
Thank you for being so candid.
Agreed. This is good journalism. It simply states the facts and let's the reader decide what the implications are.

Could use a lot more journalism like this.
The digital transformation you weren’t expecting
Google has canceled Google I/O 2020 due to Covid-19
The opposite: we moderate HN less when YC or YC startups are involved.
Obviously the trust of the community is critical and we would be dumb to risk that.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

It doesn't mean that we don't moderate such threads at all, though. We penalized this one the same way we've been penalizing almost every coronavirus story, because if we didn't, HN would have consisted of nothing but coronavirus for the past week. I don't see this story as significant or interesting enough to rise above the threshold. "$Company is losing money" is a dog-bites-man story right now, especially in that industry. No?
The Chinese have an app for this? Why aren't we using that?

I'd happily be tracked 24/7, and I'm sure so would many many others, if it meant reducing the spread and getting back to some sense of normalcy a bit quicker.
California has 1,044 patients, Oregon 114, Nevada 109, Arizona 63.

Are you saying CA should close its borders to stop the virus spreading to neighboring states?
Yeah, I just wish we were doing it it a more precise way. Ramp up the more aggressive measures only in the areas seeing acceleration.

My girlfriend’s brother in-law owns a large, successful restaurant in the city next door. They city has only 1 confirmed case, and that guy got it from traveling to Italy. Still the governor threw a blanket ban on restaurant dining rooms, and they are forced to lay off most of their workforce.

I doubt his business will fail, but he told me he already knew of two other restaurants in the city that already went out of business because of such low traffic even before the lockdown. Seems like we should implement these bans in a more targeted way.
40 years at least, according to a core team member: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3AdN7U24iU
Have a decent society whose government provides adequate funds for health care.
Maybe while the world is on fire we could have a moratorium on downvotes for attempts at levity?
$200 bounty for open-source C/C++ fuzzy string search library
What's the definition for engineer? Anything that isn't software; ie electrical, mechanical, nuclear? Or does it just mean you passed the FE exam?
It would be interesting to see how they categorize their systems as safety critical (or not).

In my line of work, if it displays real time information to make safety critical decisions, it’s safety critical software
What context is that? You have a post describing a tragedy and a reply saying that humans have done it before. I was asking whether the same reply to a description of one of the tragedies during the Holocaust would have received the same non-chalant reaction.
Panic buying also usually implies long lines of people waiting in close proximity to each other leading to additional vectors of potential infection. So yeah, no.
It's tough to know where to draw the line. There are roundabout ways like loans, grants, tax breaks and a variety of other tools the government has without nationalization.

Buying the company seems a little too much to me but it is an emergency. I don't know enough about the details to know the right decision.
They have public libraries with both computers and books. Access has never been the issue if there is the will.
Or have a car who's physical gauges are not crashing, so you always know what speed you're in. I'm pretty sure cars in Europe always need to be able to show what speed you're going in, otherwise you won't be able to control your speed.

"the approximate speed" is not good enough. I challenge you to go on the highway without looking at the speedometer for 30 minutes and guess what speed you're driving in. I don't think a lot of people know what the speed would be, unless they regularly train it.
Maybe. It seems likely that the optimal economic and societal systems are going to be different during these unusual and temporary circumstances. Thus, to not make temporary changes would be sub-optimal.
Since this 13th of February, the Koreans recommend the use of hydrochloroquine for patients infected by the covid-19 [1]. The Covid-19 fatality ratio in Korea is one of the lowest in the world, around 1%.

The study in France showing a spectacular drop in covid-19 viral load after only 6 days of hydrochloroquine treatment has been directed by Pr Didier Raoult who is the most cited researcher on infectious disease in the world. [2]

Anecdotally, I personally know a patient who took hydrochloroquine, and indeed the viral load dropped quickly, even though the lung damage is still there.

According to Pr Didier Raoult, the hydrochloroquine has been routinely prescribed for decades to prevent Malaria, with well known and limited side-effects.

According to him, the in-vitro effectiveness of hydrochloroquine on covid-19 has been confirmed by several labs independently, including his own lab and the lab of Mr Zong the most cited researcher on infectious disease in China. (Sorry, I am not sure about the spelling)

[1] http://m.koreabiomed.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=7428
[2] https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=n8EF_6kAAAAJ&hl=fr
This is journalism. Far too much opinion is mislabeled as journalism.
I’m getting a hard paywall.

Edit: if the referer is google it’s open. Just search for the title. Also, after reading the article, the “night vision goggles” are probably actually thermal cameras (Zenmuse XT). Which, if properly calibrated, might be able to pick up people in the crowd with fevers.
This is the kind of shit I come here for. Awesome post! Thanks for sharing!
Fwiw, Plaquenil is hydroxychloroquine, a less toxic derivative of chloroquine. It has a different safety profile than chloroquine

The French study of HCQ had several limitations. Including that it was very small and some patients who got HCQ and progressed to go to the ICU were excluded from the study. Thus making the drug look better than it is

HCQ is not likely to be a miracle cure. It may be useful in combo with other drugs

It's easy to make not great data look like great data to untrained eyes. And it's tempting to cut scientific corners to bring forward a drug for covid-19. But if the drug doesn't work, we should be honest about that and look for better drugs

Should at risk people take HCQ as a precaution until something better comes along? Definitely. but we need to be careful in talking about its potential
> I think Google published that crypto and compression in their internal RPC stack cost them less than 1% of their global CPU resources.

Not sure if this makes your point compelling. At Google's scale, if you were able to reduce global CPU usage by 0.1%, that would probably be a massive win.
30 minutes? You're off by two orders of magnitude. It's a few seconds, at most maybe 10.
DjVu isn’t a vector format, so it’s not quite a replacement.
I strongly suspect that the epidemic spread will be very different between large and small cities, suburbs, and country side. Plus Santa Clara county has very different demographic than Italy.

BTW, with the amount of people going back and forth between Bay Area and China, I have hard time believing that we had no cases in Jan/Feb. I personally know two people (and I met with both within a few days after their return) who came back from Wuhan in Dec and early Jan. A lot of people were sick in late Dec and early Jan with very similar symptoms.
> It does not follow that because all people are flawed that she was a monster

It does not follow because you just built up a straw man. I didn't say she is a monster, I just said nobody is a saint.

"Ultimately, we find out that they were all too human and the sainthood bestowed on them by the media is bullshit."

> If the mainstream press reports 2 + 2 = 4 saying it's 17 isn't brave its a failure of analysis.

In this case, it's the media who is saying it's 17. As I pointed out, every "saint" created by the media propaganda has been shown to be far from it. From gandhi to mlk to even lincoln, hitler, mao, you get the idea.
https://twitter.com/CarolYujiaYin/status/1239583581325778944 (deffo not propaganda /s)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/01/business/china-coronaviru...

The other thing is that other countries like Iran and Israel are just pulling the data directly from Google Location Services or from telcom location data. I assume the US will probably follow at some point, since that data can be accessed without a warrant since it's third-party-controlled data.
HN bubble effect? I would have said "of unemployment".
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I think the long term outcome is that Tesla mostly gets away with this, other car manufacturers attempt to copy their system with extremely poor results, dangerous failures result, and regulations are created.

I am not generally in favour of regulating software development, for the simple reason that I don't think as an industry we really understand how to do that effectively yet and consequently I think we'd get regulations written by high profile fools rather than careful engineers.

However, I am getting deeply concerned about casual programming standards and the inevitable bugs that follow now applying not just to random games and other stuff that doesn't really matter but also to real physical devices with real physical implications when things go wrong.

Creating the regulations after the fact won't help much if the next remote hack, instead of just stranding one aware volunteer in a still dangerous situation in the middle of a fast-moving road, is instead something like accelerating all cars of a certain model that are within range to their maximum speed by deceiving the cruise control.

We need more grumpy engineers, and we need very public warnings from credible groups of them about the dangers here, so the people buying these vehicles know what they're really getting, and so the politicians and corporate executives and investors know that if they don't act then there will be nowhere to hide if the big disaster happens on their watch.
dang, this just went from front page to #347 in the last 10 minutes.

I agree that this thread has a lot of "bad experience / good experience" posts that aren't informative or productive (I'm actually amazed at how much worse this thread is compared to the previous one), but if HN Mods are behind this latest downweighting, then I don't think you've given it enough time to have substantive comments (ex: the fate of longtime employees' options which are going to hit the 10 year expiration) be posted given that it's only been on the front page for a brief amount of time. If Mods aren't responsible for this precipitous drop (which would be my instinct), then that's another problem all together.

Anyways, as a fellow mod on a different site, thanks for your team's work. I know it's not easy.
I wonder how many people that have vague issues with "germs" are really allergic to mold. Which is everywhere and especially stimulated by anything damp.

Many years ago, I had a reaction to penicillin, but only recently someone said to me (not a doctor) hey, if you're allergic to penicillin, you're most likely allergic to mold.

So, a lot of what you say reminds me of my own experiences, but it may be a point of view of someone who has a sensitivity that isn't actually universal.

I definitely empathize with the sense that moisture and carpeting and stuff are toxic, and that all trash must be sealed off from living areas. But I also have lived with people who didn't follow the same rules, and they didn't have the same problems, which points to the issue not being living style alone.
>Palestinians are physically suffering most from this - but whether they acknowledge it or not, it's destroying the Israelis involved

The difference of course is that one is being attacked by others, and the other is doing it to themselves.
> having related engineering hobbies

Like an engineering blog and open source projects? I would be surprised if a company can restrict employee's hobbies outside of working time.
Snipers go through quite extensive “desensitization” training as they are guaranteed to see the immediate outcome of their actions and they also tend to operate in a conditions when its not a clear “them or me” scenario.

Shooting someone who’s shooting at you or your friends is easy, taking a shot form 100’s of meters at an unsuspecting target isn’t.

Their entire training is based around you are the weapon and you must do your job, Jarhead was quite a good movie about just how much emotional toll this mindset takes even or even especially in cases when they are actually denied fulfilling their role.

From day one when snipers appeared on the battlefield things like kill counts and leader boards amongst snipers appeared as a coping mechanism.
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Breaks are legally required. I'm guessing tech companies get away with saying employees have "unlimited" breaks. My company runs a manufacturing & order fulfillment facility. Our employees get breaks on a schedule.
I believe you need to get a Professional Engineer license in the province where you practice.
I can see many tech ppl switching over to a chromium browser because they might possibly use ftp in the future and just want to install one browser. It's those ppl that install (or even know about) FF, generally.

Other than a part time dev and some testing, it's hard to see the costs of supporting ftp.

It's a string of decision-making like this that has made FF drop off the list of "supported" browsers in many organizations and may lead to a 2 engine Internet. This is bad for everyone, IMO.

Mozilla board: Look at your browser share: you need to replace the management team immediately - we need FF.
Thinking the entire world will quarantine for 12-18 months is a pipe dream. That will never happen.
Exactly. Default browser settings ≠ user preference.

Default browser settings = what the browser developer believes will best server the browser developer's interests.
yeah, since all they wouls show were rather cruddy voxel shapes and didn't start the text with "It actually includes the physics from the start" I didn't bother read the whole thing.

But it very much looks like a very advanced way to produce something slightly less useful than a sketch on a napkin, since the latter was made with an actual understanding of what the description is supposed to mean.
The vocalist's voice is unusual, that helps. A lot of singers might try that up an octave.

I hear this as the first line: "Like the wind you came here runnin"...
If you're after a neutral tasting vodka, that vodka was probably pretty good. Vodka for most people is just ethanol with enough water to bring it to around 40% ABV. You don't want something from 3-5 potstill runs that contains the flavors from the source material.

After doing a bit of brewing and distilling, I came to the conclusion that most quality alcohol brands are nothing but clever marketing. The problem in the case you mentioned is that we got to see the man behind the curtain.
Why drop into a thread in order to change the subject? Do your own research.
Claiming that exclusivity is they key value is ludicrous.

The key value of autonomous vehicle IP is the ability to autonomously drive vehicles. Unless you're a patent troll.

In this case, the IP was never utilized in the marketplace against them, so they suffered no significant amount of damage.

It's reasonable that they sued to stop the use of their illegally copied IP. It's reasonable that he's punished. But it should be proportionate to the damage, which was minimal.
I would be happy if they have just reuse the Mac Pro design, with less expandable ports. May be only two PCI-E Slot, and a Consumer Grade CPU. Would buy one even if it was $2999.
Not everyone can afford to sink time into learning SAT tricks.
Professional licensing along the lines of architects amd doctors - i.e. board exams and long multiyear supervised internship by a senior licensed engineer. At least that's how it looked last time I checked.
Paul Graham just donated $1M to Flexport.org
CS148 [1] varies from year to year (most people complained that I made the final assignment on subdivision surfaces too hard, but I had at least a few "Thank you, this was awesome") and is the pre-cursor to 248. I'd recommend it if you're getting started.

If you like ray tracing, Cem Yuksel currently teaches most of the related courses at Utah [2].

[1] http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs148/assignments.html

[2] http://www.cemyuksel.com/courses/
I agree. Very poorly written and difficult to follow
South Korea is reporting intimate details of Covid-19 cases: has it helped?
California lifts restrictions allowing restaurants to sell alcohol to-go
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200318005814/en/

No expert but if it was a scam wouldn't they want to sell directly to end users?
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200318005814/en/
But that doesn't change the current situation.

Even you could change that, just cost would make this approach very useful.
Why is this downweighted?
This is propaganda.
All you naysayers:

The WHO Model List of Essential Medicines (EML), published by the World Health Organization (WHO), contains the medications considered to be most effective and safe to meet the most important needs in a health system.[1]

Cholorquine is on that list.

Case Closed.
>This is a method used to cash out stolen credit cards as well. Buy the item with a stolen card and ship to the unwitting purchaser. This is why they can afford to sell at a perceived loss.

Also a method used to make a few % margin on a discount code. Amazon and Walmart don't give out re-usable flat X% discount codes (AFAIK) though so that isn't the case for when something is drop shipped from those sellers.

But yes, this is a common method used to liquidate stolen CCs info.
Eh... you would expect more acetone and ethyl acetate I think. I'm guessing IPA and methanol might show up too, assuming you had any in the mash. The 'other alcohols' AFAIK, mostly show up in the tails. Those are the fun ones like butyl and pentyl alcohol, which have different subjective effects and may actually suppress a hangover.

Let's be honest, ethanol gives you a hangover. Your body breaks it down into acetylaldehyde. Ethanol is a pretty shitty alcohol to use as an intoxicant. People have played around with making hangover-free alcohol from the higher alcohols over the years but it never went anywhere.
If you continue to post flamebait and/or unsubstantive comments to HN, we are going to have to ban you. We've warned you about this multiple times already.
MIPS is the original RISC one. RISC V is the fifth iteration of the line.
While I've heard that said, I've never seen proof that grades are inflated at poor schools. I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't actually the opposite, as helicopter parents and their ambitious students are more able (more free time) to self-promote and argue their way into higher grades.
I suspect the answer depends on how you define “valid”.
Social pressure can be strong.

When I went out for groceries this week (weekday late evening to avoid crowding) I was the only one in the store wearing a mask. Rationally I knew it was reducing risk for others but I still felt deeply uncomfortable being the odd one out.

Contrast this with places like Taiwan where a mask isn’t considered abnormal, and becomes a matter of course during times like this.
I always wanted DLC for my vehicle!!!
I don’t think that gap is huge in terms of internet access - there’s certainly a gap but it’s mostly a function of parents limiting access in my experience.

84% of teens have smartphones in the US. A large percentage of that remaining 16% have access to internet at school, as 98% of schools have broadband internet.
The WHO Model List of Essential Medicines (EML), published by the World Health Organization (WHO), contains the medications considered to be most effective and safe to meet the most important needs in a health system.[1]

Chloroquine is on that list

Case Closed.
Reduce it how? By deploying expensive, unreliable, and hard-to-manage vendor crypto garbage? That is undoubtedly not a trade that a Google would make.
What? There was more than enough evidence. They are the ones anti-science.
Some of you may be familiar with the original version: http://homepageradio.blogspot.com/2009_05_01_archive.html
This is basically what I was trying to get at with my original comment - I think you did a better job of expressing it.

At some level you have to have to have something to show for your potential - otherwise there's no way to choose between candidates. Every single metric will advantage those who had the time, money, and resources to invest in developing academic aptitude. There are a small group of people who get by on developing musical or athletic aptitude but even those require time, money, energy, resources.
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Coronavirus has an incubation period of avg 5 days, and it gets contagious on the 2nd day. So, no, that will not work unless we have billions of tests and we test every citizen 3 times a week. Given that we don't have tests, and we cannot test every citizen with force; this is not gonna work.
This gave me a sense of deja vu. A couple of weeks ago, there was repl.it's "graphical command line": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22498665
Chrome is also deprecating FTP so I don’t think that’ll happen.

Plus Mozilla isn’t an organisation the size of Google. They have to prioritise what they’re going to support and it makes total sense to ditch FTP support. I’m a professional web developer and I’d never choose which browser I use based on whether it supports FTP. I barely ever use it, and when I do I just use FileZilla or something similar that makes much more sense for FTP.
If the heart is a muscle, why doesn't it ever get tired?
That's the spirit....
I assumed just dance was awful for the longest time (motion controls, dancing, yearly releases, tacky box art - no way this could be any good right?). But then I played it at a party and was blown away by how much goofy fun it is, especially when everyone's inebriated.
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Actually this link from another reply here shows 3.8k total beds in Santa Clara which confirms my estimate for critical care beds that can be made available (about 25% from total):

https://covid-19.direct/county/CA/Santa%20Clara
Hmmm I was there in 98, probably just a hole in my memory.
That is extremely common no? Ex: checking out as an anonymous git user?
> The SAT is the kind designed by psychometricians, experts with Ph.D.s building on millions of man hours of research to make tests that are both valid and reliable, that predict success in college and are as close to ungameable as possible.

This is what the CollegeBoard wants you think. You don’t have to be all that great to realize that the people writing the test are hardly better than you are at both the subject and writing test, and in many case significantly worse.