skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the third time I've watched this video (admittedly with a bit of distraction today). After the first time I went off and learned about modular implicits, which appear to be a huge ergonomic improvement, especially the way the JaneStreet library APIs are designed. The second and third times I got increasingly sad that so much brain power is being sucked up by algebraic effects, to the detriment of other advancements. Oh well, that's their decision to make; JaneStreet continues to do huge service to OCaml in myriad ways, and I really value these tech talk videos as part of that.
That’s what surprised me as well.
> In each of these six countries, more men than women die of new coronavirus pneumonia, and in some countries more men than women.

Say what?
There is a article about that here:

https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2020/03/23/how-to-think...
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Yup - this exactly. The JTAG fuses should be blown on all devices that need to secure their flash (or secrets).

Working on these specific processors around 5 years ago, we implemented a serial port based "unlock" that would generate a challenge/response from the device that if correctly acknowledged, would unlock the JTAG whilst the chip has power (it locks again when it looses power). This worked great - we spent a lot of time on the UART driver to make sure it was super simple and robust during the period when it could listen to incoming bytes (no interrupts etc...).
As an end user, I love it. I regret that it's making some things harder for legitimate developers, but love that it's making it harder for the assholes who keep trying to ruin the web.
I wonder if archeologists actually do believe everything was either utilitarian or religious, or if that’s just the way it gets reported?

I find it difficult to believe archaeologists, who are themselves students of the liberal arts and sciences, can’t see what we’re talking about here.

Having said that, it’s possible archeology suffers from some sort of view-narrowing where you either tow the line or get laughed out of the room?
Singapore government to open source contact-tracing protocol
You realize that custom, new, cutting-edge APIs (can you imagine the web without xhr?) was what made IE into the IE we talk about. Some they got right, some they got wrong, some were way too tied into IE’s parent’s ecosystem (sound familiar, AMP?). It’s once it stopped getting updated that it became a problem, as no one else had or planned to have some of its stuff, resulting in it being an oddball. Chrome fits the first half of that profile far more than any other browser these days, it’s just that WHATWG being a “living standard” has enabled it to “standardize” any new idea that comes along (other browsers do this too, but not nearly as much as Chrome).

The point is that slowness to adopt new standards wasn’t exactly what made IE into the the IE we all hated; it was going off on tangents without consulting anybody too often that left it out on an island with custom versions of so many things. Fortunately it doesn’t seem like Google is going to lose interest on Chrome anytime soon.
I wonder what will be the point of these captchas if most people started avoiding them by installing extensions. If the end goal is to put significant resource constraint on the scrapper or bots, you can do it quite easily by running something to short the usage up for a few seconds if you think someone is suspicious.
I'm sure WFH is allowed. However in companies I've worked for, it's usually expected that you're in the office most of the time, and that if you want to WFH it's either ad-hoc (package being delivered, home repairs, doctors appointment) or it's some scheduled day (eg. our team works from home every Wednesday, or Sally works from home on Thursdays).

The optional here is probably just allowing for individual freedom. My company also had 'optional' WFH, then 'recommended' WFH, followed by total office shutdown on Tuesday.

I'm not sure you could attract top tier tech talent if you forbade working from home. It's a perk that I really enjoy because it's very convenient, and if I don't feel like going in to the office for whatever reason I don't have to. If I interviewed at a company that forbade working from home (or had very strict rules around it) I'd have to really think twice about whether I would work there. To me, it speaks to a culture of valuing employees based on whether they're merely seen to be working, rather than their actual work output.
If you don't allocate, you won't garbage collect. GC pauses would be really bad, but you can avoid them, or at least avoid them happening at bad times, if you're careful. It does requires knowing in some detail how Ocaml manages memory.
Automatic Image Captions with Microsoft Azure Computer Vision API
I've never encountered this at all! Honestly I've never in my life had any problems with HDCP, guess I'm just lucky, I constantly hear about it being problematic.
How does one get better at noticing that something is "off" like this sword not matching its claimed origin? To me, it took more than student being an expert here. Experts often miss things like this in my experience if they're not paying attention for it. I'm assuming that the student was the a tour not in her capacity as a Bronze age weapons specialist, so if that's true then this wasn't necessarily something she would be paying attention for.

When I notice that something is off, it's usually a fleeting thought that quickly passes. Sometimes when I notice that something is off a second time, I'll realize that I didn't "catch" the thought the first time. I think I've been getting better at catching those thoughts and writing them down. I'm also confident that there are methods to increase the frequency by which one catches these things, though I'm not certain how.
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Benefits of Setting Targeted Goals in Open Source with Diana Chen
https://thekrjaan.com/exercising-how-to-save-yourself-health...
Firefox gets a HTTPS only mode
I used to read about how ISPs were overselling and would be in trouble if everyone was using their connection to the fullest. It was always talked of as a hypothetical because it used to be pretty unlikely that every person would be home and needing to use the internet so much at the same time. Now that so many people are home and needing to use the internet, it’s not hypothetical and we get to see how ISPs are actually able to handle the load: and as many predicted it would not be able to keep up. I think this isn’t news in the sense that everyone thought it would be fine; I think this is news because this was a known but not addressed situation. It will be interesting if this leads to capacity upgrades or if we’ll see more pleas for major content producers and consumers to constrain their resources to keep the infrastructure running. I think people would like to see upgrades so that we can get the previous speeds and quality but we’ll see.
Even if they go and get tested, and it comes back negative, that doesn't prevent them from being infected (possibly even at the testing site, as they mentioned) and then being an asymptomatic spreader.
They're all cortex cores these days, you mean the Cortex-M series.
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This site is the mouthpiece of billionaire VCs who owe their wealth to lots of people buying into their system.
I think the signal to look for is an increase in flu mortality rate in February-May compared to October-January if that kind of data exists. Confirmed flu cases are almost never also tested for COVID-19 due to the sheer number of flu cases, but even a small percentage of those being doubled up might change the mortality rate. They would also cause community spread because people don't take the same precautions for "just the flu".
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Health Care Provider Suspends Chloroquine Prescription for Woman With Lupus
I’ve been telling my sales staff at every meeting that now is the time to push when others are panicked. Demonstrate your reliability and professionalism. It’s working..
"so will new york, a week or so from now"

Again, that is completely contrary to any reasonable interpretation of the data we have. In other words nonsense.

I'll check back in a week and see if you are capable of having a rational, fact-based, conversation.
True. And there are probably many more of them.

So altogether, inadequate testing underestimates incidence of infection, and overestimates risk of death from infection.
I used to work with a global streaming service in 2006/2007. They had exclusive streaming rights for major sporting events, way before ESPN and others.

Their tech stack was custom built and primarily designed by a single developer. The company grew rapidly, but he kept all the institutional knowledge.

They were winning more streaming content, but couldn't promote it it launch it on time because their developer held the keys to the castle and all changes were funneled through him.

Unfortunately, the company couldn't grow at such a slow pace of development and the parent company shut them down with about a hundred people losing their jobs.
Time for the rural broadband administration to shine:

https://www.ntca.org/ruraliscool/who-we-are

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_Utilities_Service
Price Gouging and Speculative Costs
Statistics are unforgiving!
Even for other browsers. Chrome, Edge, Opera etc. on iOS all use webkit under the hood.
I'll try this instead of running an OpenVPN server. :)
He's wrong. No one has, or ever will be prosecuted for renting a movie and watching it with their friends in their living room.
Emails went out stating opt-out is going away April 15. Speak now at https://discuss.circleci.com/ or forever..
>The test proposed on the website is NOT currently approved for use in Australia

I can see it right there in the table. So it's definitely approved. On the self-test bit, of course not, even the manufacturer stresses this is for professionals to use. Not lay people.
There are many companies coming out with antibody test kits. They're useful, but not for diagnosis. They're for telling who's had the disease and is probably now immune. Virus negative and antibody positive should indicate that someone is no longer infected, now protected, and need no longer isolate. Hopefully.
They should rebrand the real news wing.
> how would it be different from me renting a movie at home and having friends over?

It would be different because Netflix has a contract to pay money for that licensed content, and sooner or later, that contract will need to be renewed. At that point, a Hollywood exec and a Netflix exec will sit across a boardroom table, and the Hollywood exec will say, "Your offer sounds OK, but we need to stop this watch party thing."

Whether that demand makes sense to your or I or the Netflix exec is moot. The Hollywood exec wants it, and it doesn't matter why, because they get to decide whether Netflix can keep licensing that content.
Start by brushing up on your math, there’s not much you can really get into without first getting into the calculus of variations, which you probably haven’t covered. From that you can get into Hamiltonian mechanics and from there you can start to really grapple with quantum mechanics.

After dealing with the more technical side, you should read Paul Dirac’s book “the principles of quantum mechanics”
Dr Katz wrote in the NYT;

“I am deeply concerned that the social, economic and public health consequences of this near total meltdown of normal life — schools and businesses closed, gatherings banned — will be long lasting and calamitous, possibly graver than the direct toll of the virus itself. The stock market will bounce back in time, but many businesses never will. The unemployment, impoverishment and despair likely to result will be public health scourges of the first order.”

Let’s not do social distancing, or even “social distancing lite” at all please. It’s disastrously damaging to public health.
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Just going to second this: PlayCanvas is the only top quality JS game engine I've come across that comes with a GUI editor for placing objects, lights, etc.

I'm a big three.js fan, but if I was building something where I could get a lot of benefit from placing/configuring objects through a visual editor I'd definitely use PlayCanvas for it.
Masks really work to reduce the spread of Covid-19
We now have several rapid diagnostic options including disposables. There is much less cloudiness on the scientific front. I’m not sure why else.
Some countries have that norm, but in the United States, PE licensing is fairly unusual, due to rules allowing corporations to have one PE sign off on the work of a lot of engineers. As a result, even in the case of critical medical equipment, most of the real engineers who scoped, designed, and tested the product are not PEs.

Often the PE is more of a lawyer than an engineer. They typically do have an engineering degree, but are years out from any hands-on engineering work. They do final legal sign-off, and are knowledgeable about statutes and insurance policies, but rely on people with more recent technical experience to do any technical work.
Doesn't that require Istio and a few other things as well? I wouldn't wish Istio configuration and maintenance on anyone but the larger shops/teams. You might not be technically locked in, but not everyone can afford to dedicate the attention to tuning and maintaining Istio.

Source: at mid-sized company who has Istio in the stack.
Try office hours (i.e. video calls) over satellite internet! It's the only thing that's on offer in the boonies.
My limited understanding of this is that IgM antibodies appear against viral infections quite early in the infection. So this could still be useful for identifying people with active infections. Correct me if I am wrong!
I don't know how true that is, considering the link used as a citation for the claim is dead: https://www.thenation.com/doc/20051107/slavery_in_new_york

My biggest question is how a "household" is defined. Does it only count landowners? Landowners are significantly wealthier than the average citizen, so of course they would be able to afford more than most.

Also, are you aware that the population of NYC was under 10,000 until 1710? So even according to that stat, 4,000 people in one of the wealthiest cities in the country owned slaves. It doesn't seem like evidence that conclusively proves your point.

Got any other sources?
I expect the browsers to expand to an OS level. I hope so in fact. I don't find you rude I just find your thinking to be in the minority, maybe not on this site, but certainly in the broader market. The web is one of the best distribution platforms for applications we've seen as far as widespread adoption is concerned and in terms of resource expenditure to develop and maintain it's much better than native applications. And no offense but I'm not going to spend the resources to cater to a tiny percentage of the market who care about using native apps vs going to a site / adding to the homescreen if I can iterate, build, release and maintain features much quicker without the general costs of native applications and the arduous publication process current walled gardens have. I also simply don't support what Apple and Google stand for with respect to their app marketplaces.

Beyond that the distinctions you make usually come from no true scotsman developers. I've built everything from OS emulator extensions to 3d graphics engines to web apps and as far as building things people actually use and benefit from outside of my own interests the web takes the cake. The low-level or native vs web issue seems overly self masturbatory to me. I build things to get used by people quickly and effectively, not show off my mastery of software development. I take pride in my craft but the only value in shipped software is the utility it provides to other people as evidenced by the number of horribly designed pieces of software that are pretty much ubiquitous in our daily lives now. I pride myself on pragmatism, good fundementals, and getting things done expidiently and native applications seem no where close to being the pragmatic choice from any of those standpoints.

Some of my favorite projects however are from people who have tried to merge the performance and memory characteristics + respect for end user systems of native applications with the speed of development and ability to quickly iterate of web applications. If they reach the threshold I believe won't unnecessarily delay the work I want to do from native development minutae, then I'll make your native apps.

But I think you should get used to web apps being here to stay.
Doesn't really explain how it's accounted for
It doesn't as the two have no connections whatsoever. The point was that Safari is the most battery efficient browser overall on MacOS, so they're willing to put up with sub-standard support for web standards if their battery lasts longer.
I’m using Apple Watch + AutoSleep. I only trust the hours it registers though.

Whoop seems promising, but it’s too expensive for me.
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How did you make HN use that font? :)
Can someone more experienced with clinical work give their thoughts on the sensitivity and accuracy of this test? The group's paper reports:

>sensitivity was 88.66% and specificity was 90.63%

My understanding is that this test will miss 12 in every 100 covid-19 infected individuals, and it will return a false positive for 10 in every 100 patients.

My intuition says this is more than acceptable for a rapid test. But I would love to see the opinion of someone with some clinical experience.
The hypothetical already exists, it's called the evening peak hours. I'm not familiar with every part of the US however in Europe most ISPs saw no need to throttle video as the current situation merely makes the usual peak last longer.
> Conferences are for networking and interacting with like minded people.

Granted.

But my ability to effectively network is severely ablated when I've been de-energised by being bored out of my skull by crappy content.

Great content energises and sparks conversation. Bad content does the absolute opposite: it's exhausting and mindnumbing. It puts me in a mindset where what I want to do is not talk to people, but get away and get some fresh air.
I was a physicist for a time and I learned physics via numerical simulation: I would find problems I could solve by hand and code them up---solving integrals, derivatives, systems of equations all numerically and comparing the results. Only a handful of physics problems have closed-form solutions, and being able to turn an interesting problem into code and "play around with it" was enormous fun for me and helped me build intuition as well. This advice strongly depends on your mathematics background, but with some basic calculus you can already start playing around.
I highly recommend Road to Reality by Roger Penrose. Takes you all the way from classical through modern physics, and introduces all the necessary math. Gives you a good overview of the territory, but you might want to supplement with some extra literature/lectures to go more in-depth certain places.
This isn't an argument. It's a bumper sticker.
The step counting seems to work reasonably well. At least, it's internally consistent. The same workout or same route done multiple times results in no more than 5% variation when counting steps.

But the sleep tracking has been awful. A lot of days I'll get up, sit in a chair, and will surf the web for several minutes, say 45 minutes, and the watch inevitably records this time as also sleep. It's quite ridiculous and the software doesn't allow you to edit the log with the correct time. You can only delete entries, not edit them.
Sleep mask, softer bed, hot water bottle to warm your feet or warm the bed before you get in, (or one of those electric blankets.
The powered respirators can be very comfortable. They don't need a tight seal against the skin, so they don't have that to cause injury. The forced air leaks out around a loose seal, preventing contamination. The most comfortable design is probably a full head covering, with a loose stretchy collar fitted around the person's neck. That could even be porous fabric.

An excellent design would use a semi-rigid clear plastic helmet (like the plastic of a 2-liter soda bottle) with a Spandex neck collar. Another design is just a clear plastic bag.
Also read this book last month and it gave me a nice overview. But when doing all the examples you notice, that even with the updated second edition from the end of 2019, many of them are outdated. Not a big problem to solve, just small differences, but then you realize that Kubernetes is a fast moving target. A book about technology will always have this problem, but the K8s space seems to move especially fast currently.

Now I’m also more leaning towards the official docs as a recommendation, because they should always be more up to date... nevertheless, “Kubernetes: Up and Running” took my fear off this (at first) complex architecture. In the end, K8s is not that difficult to understand and the involved building blocks make sense, after you get the hang of it.

By the way, Microsoft is giving away “Kubernetes: Up and Running” second edition for free currently: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/kubernetes-up-an...
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It seems more like a mix shift issue, than a real issue.

If most of the fastest internet speeds are in offices, and people start working from home where slower speeds are located than average speed will decline.
Banks use an ancient but powerful architecture called Source of Truth (SoT), or system of record. It's one of the first techniques developed to manage heterogeneous distributed databases.

One master is picked as the final authority, then changes flow to other databases, replicas, etc. either using database tools or applications.

Awareness of deadlines or how much latency (ie. when the updates are needed for each downstream pipeline) is helpful.

A practical example that solves a simple case is the recent release of a tool by Netflix.

Pro tip: when you interview people for a project like this, they should already know the above. :)

Source: DBA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_source_of_truth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_of_record
both flu and covid kill the same kind of people, very old and frail ones. So in a sense they should be competitors, and they'll both kill fewer than if either disease were the only one.
Antibody tests are not what we need now.

What we need are PCR tests...

There is literally NOTHING to be found about "rapidward" before 2 days ago.

I'm very skeptical to your added value, and not just a middle man with a marketing team, I don't care that it's non-profit.

You got 2 directors, a head of marketing, a head of Comms & PR, and a social media impact advocate...
"Straight man" makes just as much sense as "devil's advocate," neither of them apply to a workplace situation. The former applies to comedy performances, and the latter applies to biblical characters. Neither can be used in a day-to-day setting according to you. You're drawing a distinction where one can't be made, probably because your ego is preventing you from admitting you're wrong. Have a nice day, I guess.

Oh wait, it's night time, so I shouldn't use that metaphor -- goodbye.
> we really must appreciate that Kubernetes really is the future of infrastructure

No, it isn't. It's extra complexity most don't need.
Attribution of the Australian bushfire risk to anthropogenic climate change