skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> China’s response appears to be driven by political considerations more than epidemiological ones.

I was referring to this.

Author isn't interpreting it as "we don't know".
It's possible. I don't sign into Zoom though, just paste the link from the organizer in my browser.
The mixed code/template capability seems to have led to JSX.
What’s the evidence for widespread transmission already?
So should we treat corona with the opposite of an ace inhibitor?
I'm sure there's more efficient ways to send text messages lol
Different strokes for different folks, I guess. Life is short enough, I might as well refresh the wardrobe every now and then. Plus I'm helping the economy! A winning strategy all around.
I use Zotero in combination with the Google Scholar browser plugin which let's you download citation files on most pages far more easily than those pages themselves allow you to. I can highly recommend this setup
That time in history when the production capacity of the entire world was crushed, millions were killed, and a free trade regime dominated. It's insane to call this normal, but that's a routine comparison.
I agree with what you are saying, but to be fair it's the exact sentiment Elon Musk had to deal with in the early days of SpaceX. Thankfully he didn't listen.
The competence of private companies in the U.S. shouldn't enrage you, that's one of the U.S.'s strengths.
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Tileset_repository#Sq...
New York is close to getting there, too.
the new model reads like a bunch of politically motivated bullshit. The model is saying whatever the current Tory government needs it to say and seems divorced from what we can actually see on the ground.
No in fact the modern left doesn't care absolute realties but all about relative power.
McDonald's and other brands are making 'social distancing' logos
I've been playing for some time using dfhack's "autolabor" feature, and it streamlines things immensely.

Granted, it ends up essentially just turning on every profession for every dwarf, but it's still possible to restrict workshops to certain dwarves. For example, you might have a carpentry workshop set to produce endless amounts of wooden shields, but only allow skilled carpenters access to it.
Somewhat tangential but with method swizzling Facebook SDK can figure out the location of your device if the host app has location permission. You don't need the Facebook app installed, as long as the host app has location permission (say you give location permission to reddit app which has FacebookSDK), Facebook can piggy back on that to get your location.

PS: Replace redidt with any app that uses Facebook login. IDK if reddit uses FacebookSDK.
God that's impressive. takeaway: make products for people that use computers but don't know how to use suites of tools.
A better solution would be to improve MathML support in browsers.
Writing new code in IBM assembly could be made faster by simply reshuffling an old deck!
Free call with Remote Work tips from Auth0, a 650 employees, remote first comp
There is another, more sinister reason for low base: typically if you have a non compete and are forced into a one year garden leave, they can get way with paying you just the low base.
We must respond to the Covid-19 pandemic – Bill Gates
>>But by living in a country, you consent to the laws of the country applying to you

Then all laws are consensual, and thus it's impossible for a law to be unjust.

That goes for anti-gay, anti-abortion and racist laws.

Another way to look at it is that you have an inherent right to live in your own country, without having to meet any conditions others impose on you. Thus you can choose to live in your own country and not consent to all laws.
Facebook, Nvidia
note the reason hippa exists has nothing to do with protecting individuals; it was drafted to protect the insurance companies. it is absolutely not that health data is somehow "private" enough to warrant some special protection for the persons themselves
Wikipedia claims MTr/mm^2s of:

Intel 14: 37.5
Intel 10: 100.8
TSMC 16/14/12: 28.88
TSMC 10: 52.51
TSMC 7: 96.5 to 113.9, depending on iteration.
TSMC 5: 173
"He said that expected increases in National Health Service capacity and ongoing restrictions to people’s movements make him “reasonably confident” the health service can cope when the predicted peak of the epidemic arrives in two or three weeks. UK deaths from the disease are now unlikely to exceed 20,000, he said, and could be much lower."[1]

So basically "Scientist revises model based on new conditions". Isn't that supposed to happen?

A successful prevention is going to feel like failure. It's going to prompt questions like "was this worth all the panic, and tanking the economy?" Bodies are easy to count, deaths prevented are invisible.

1. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2238578-uk-has-enough-i...
Another model that fits the UK data, even when assuming that half of the population has already been infected, which would mean that the disease is not nearly as dangerous as commonly thought: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/oxford-study-coronav...

By adjusting those two parameters (R0 and IFR) in opposite directions, you can come up with a whole gamut of scenarios that match the evidence pretty well.
Anyone know the best way to get started with suing them? Or should I assume that's already being done?
Moved from central Texas to Dallas about a year ago. Wife drives an hour out of her way just to shop at HEB because fuck Kroger.

P.S. Dallas is a shithole.
This is the BBC, football refers to what you might call Soccer and it really wasn't in the "off-season", it was approaching the interesting part of the year.
Not just that, but both Democrats and Republicans are complicit in the abuse of the working class through massive - both expanded legal and willfully ignored illegal - immigration.

The vast majority of new immigrants are low skill low wage workers and these workers drive down working class wages.

Now immigrants are on the whole very hard working and persistent people. They are a self selected population of such people.

That said, the economic reality is clear: for every small business owning immigrant, there are many more competing with existing citizens for low wage jobs and absorbing government benefits.

Both the Democrats (ideological and political interests) and the Republicans (business interests) have ignored this and opened the floodgates of immigration precisely at the same time that the lower and middle classes are deteriorating.

We are all human beings, but the leaders of a nation must prioritize the needs of the citizens of that nation above others, regardless of grand humanitarian interests or self serving business interests.
South Korea, Germany and Taiwan have done well. Most other countries really mishandled it. Denial until the last minute with no preparedness even when neighbour countries were already in dire situations.
This is something else I've been thinking about lately as I read more about Smalltalk and Lisp. The people who have used the commercial Smalltalk and Lisp offerings from the 1980s and 1990s, including Lisp machines, seem to have had great experiences with these environments. They felt very productive in these environments, and they also lament the state of today's development tools for more popular commercially-used languages.

However, it takes a large amount of money in order to develop something like a modern-day Symbolics Genera. Where is the money going to come from? There seems to be little room in today's marketplace for modern-day equivalents of ParcPlace or Symbolics, or even Borland for that matter, since free tools are good enough for many developers. Inexpensive Unix workstations from Sun and DEC helped kill the Lisp machine, and Linux on ever-faster and ever-cheaper x86 PCs helped kill the Unix workstation market; good-enough-and-affordable seems to do better in the marketplace than polished-and-expensive. It seems to me that development tools and operating systems seem to be either the product of research organizations or are "subsidized" by companies where developer tools and operating systems are not their main businesses unless the operating system is a monopoly.

I don't see an easy way around this, though. Maybe if someone like Alan Kay or Richard Gabriel visited a FAANG campus and convinced its engineers to build their infrastructure on top of a new object-based operating system, we'd finally get a modern, full-featured Smalltalk or Lisp operating system that's at par with the commercial Smalltalks and Lisps from the 1980s and 1990s....
>To me that’s just a subjective list the author likes.

but the prompt isn't "list some books you like" but "how should I learn" so there's obviously intent in picking those books.
The same. The concept of a system of record is fairly universal in the Enterprise IT world.
The runtime optimisations are remarkable but it does look like runtime performance can change unpredictably. Has this been your experience?
The world is facing such a massive crisis, people are getting laid off, and here on HN/Vice, they are discussing why a VC app is sending an anonymized link to Facebook.
I'm lazy so it's not specific to dlclose and unloading, here's one for dlerror I submitted in 2015 and which is still open: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18192

I also point in that report to three other similar races which I didn't have the time to properly document (because, seriously, they're so numerous and the backlog so long, it's hard not to be cynical).[1]

Look, I like glibc. I applaud their focus on ABI compatibility. glibc is burdened by tremendous technical debt, much of it blameless. And the project doesn't see the investment and attention it should. musl by contrast is a breath of fresh air in terms of correctness and simplicity, but they achieve that in part by taking a different approach than glibc. And that approach isn't necessarily better, it's just different, and they each have their costs.

Pick your poison.

[1] And I don't like drive-by complaints. If I submit a ticket for a project I try to back it with substantial evidence and suggested remedies, such as this Python2 + FIPS OpenSSL bug analysis I submitted last year: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python2.7/+bug/183... This is especially important for projects like glibc which are drowning in open bug reports.
Zotero is simply a wonderful tool and I'm very grateful to the developers for it. As an academic, it is the only GUI program besides Firefox that I consider essential on one of my computers. Some of the features I enjoy:

* free software

* Linux and multi-platform support

* browser extension "that just works" for ingesting items and magic lookup tool for DOIs and arXiv IDs (and I hardly ever have problems with the metadata)

* shared group libraries for collaboration with students

* offline only as well as sync

* the ability to add notes, tags, and relational links between items.

After reading about Luhmann's Zettelkasten[1] system, I've also had a great productivity boost by implementing a similar scheme in Zotero. After reading an article, I write up a summary of my ideas and thoughts and attach it to the article as a literature note. I then keep a primary repository of notes in a flat folder with links between them and the literature notes as my makeshift Zettelkasten. While not as stream-lined as some special purpose note taking tools, Zotero can do a pretty decent job at this while also having all the advantages of it's bibliographic system, file syncing, etc.

Something I wish it had for this purpose was an "auto-complete" for other entries and a graphical tree viewer of relations. However, these aren't so bad not to have, part of the genius of Luhmann's original paper card notes system seems to have been the critical thinking required to determine which handful (1 to 3) of notes are most related and the serendipitous discovery process from having to manually walk the note files when you need to find something.
This. When a scientist claims Venice is going under water we shouldn't blindly trust their words, especially if Venice is still above water.
So we are normalizing rightwing propaganda sites on HN now? Seeing an article from a Ben Shapiro fronted site on the HN front page is frightening. I need a new place to get my information.
Right now you can buy a 13" MacBook Pro, customized with 16GB memory, 2TB SSD.

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro/13-inch-space...
I wish there was some. Again, it's based on the change in R0. From another article[0]:

"New data from the rest of Europe suggests that the outbreak is running faster than expected, said Ferguson. As a result, epidemiologists have revised their estimate of the reproduction number (R0) of the virus. This measure of how many other people a carrier usually infects is now believed to be just over three, he said, up from 2.5."

[0]: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2238578-uk-has-enough-i...
This is misinformation. This is not a major revision in any sense. Read the Imperial College paper. The estimates were different between the 'mitigation' and 'supression' strategy. The UK have now changed strategy to 'supression'. Hence the different prediction.
Well, that is certainly Taleb's approach. His books do contain some good ideas, but they are wildly unfocused and borderline unreadable.
It's the creation of pseudo-scientific explanations for coincidental advantages Europeans had, that created extreme intellectual complacency and bias that is holding back progress.
SendBird (YC W16) Calls Voice and Video API
enumerate all bitstrings of length 10.

run them for N steps.

if none terminate on the target bitstring of length 100, then we've eliminated the computation hypothesis for 10 bits and N runtime

if we continue this approach and eliminate all the available storage and time available, then we eliminate the computation hypothesis altogether for our scenario
You can export to BiBTeX (.bib).
Consider adding a link to getpolarized.io on your youtube video descriptions. I opened your video, tabbed away, came back, watched it, got excited, and struggled to find your URL (which I happened to open in another tab from this comment :P)

I'll be giving polarized a look this weekend and compare with zotero!
> citizens of the USA often make similar remarks about their own country, and that these remarks are seen in good light on HN

I think this perception is likely affected by cognitive bias, i.e. you noticed some cases of this that stood out for whatever reason, and it formed your perception of HN in general (in this respect). From my perspective, similar remarks about the US are just as much flamebait—even more so, because there are more people who react to comments about the US than about Spain—and we moderate them just as strongly.

I imagine I made the point already, but just to be clear: we need you not to post like the GP comment, not because you owe nationalists better, but because you owe this community better. The container is fragile and we all need to take care of it, so we can keep having a community where interesting things appear. The alternative is scorched earth, which is not interesting.
It does indeed, or what we are seeing in New York. I'm very skeptical of this, though it would of course be great news if it was true. I can't help but have whiplash from the fact that the UK seems to have gone from an attitude of we're going to be fine, to we're all going to die, to now it's going to be fine again.

Edit: I think it is important to keep in mind that Italy's deaths per day are still going up. The growth has slowed and hopefully we are about to see the peak but it still hasn't come. Most western countries are on the same growth rate as Italy, there is no reason right now to think we won't see something similar happen all over the world.
> seems so odd to my "modern" ears.

isn't that pretty much the case in Japan ? https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/nov/16/japan-reusabl...
He didn't write any of the song. He just made something that contributed to it.

Saying he wrote part of it is like the person who mixed Davinci's paint claiming to have painted part of the Mona Lisa.
Rural phone and electric service exist largely by government based efforts.

Market solutions don't work for disadvantaged communities, we've learnt that lesson repeatedly.

Answering your presumption: no, that's not what I mean at all.
Richard Cheng
Is this automatically part of any app using react/react native?
AFAIU main point of WebAssembly is to provide a performant way to use existing C/C++ libraries for some functionality that's won't work fast enough with JavaScript. Current JavaScript engines are very tricky when it comes to optimize JavaScript while WebAssembly is expected to execute in a more obvious way in regards to performance.

So if you want to implement cryptography or codec, WebAssembly is a good tool. If you just want to write some browser code, JavaScript is enough.

Another use of WebAssembly probably is to serve a better compilation target. While you can compile anything to JavaScript, it makes more sense to compile to WebAssembly if you don't need GC. So with enough time there will be more languages available for web application development. That said, without GC support in WebAssembly, for most interesting languages it's still not usable.
I think you understood that I wasn't describing my opinion, nor my perception of reality, but a hypothetical opinion combined with a hypothetical perception of reality, so thanks for that. Biden does have wide support in the working class, and there are also some who think he is worse than either Trump or Bernie. The people that I know who consider themselves pro-worker are anti-Biden, which I present not as anectdata but just to explain why my original example came to mind.
I think that's an overly generous characterization of social democracy - it only dodges the critique from right-libertarians concerning property, taxes and the role of government, and it dodges the critique from left-libertarians on capital, alienation and social domination.

It's much easier (and more historically accurate) to see social democracy, socialism and capitalism on the same axis, and not to think that social democracy transcends all hitherto established political and economic thought by The Right Choice as if by default.
Yelp automatically created GoFundMe fundraisers for over 144k small businesses
Why do medical personnel seem to get hit harder with this?
Mores will change and change again. 'Sem sex' activity in Rome would have been even more normal than now for most citizens (the term 'same-sex' would have no analogy), but 'same-sex marriage' would have been nonsensical and/or scandalous.

We think we are now 'very moral' but I'm doubtful of that. If you want to play the devil's advocate it's not hard to point out obvious hypocrisies in much of our current social line of thinking. During any era of 'change in one direction' all arguments in the opposite direction or all arguments that have nuance and don't 100% back the current populist trend are utterly oppressed as 'vile'.

Alcohol is an interesting one that goes through phases: prohibition was hand and hand with women's suffrage because 66% of men were wasted every day or every few days and either not coming home, or beating their wives. Without that social context, we look at alcohol differently.

So there's comment here about 'how technology changes people' which is exactly right.

The big one is not how 'horse and buggy' affects dating, it's how contraception has affected us.

50 years ago - sex almost instantly led to children - period - no debate. If your daughter was sexually active, she would be pregnant almost immediately. Your son would technically be a father. This has vast, vast social consequences that affect every part of life. We now have a lot of 'sex positive' people who're ideology wouldn't really even be fathomable just a generation ago, let alone popular. Contraception is as big as the combustion engine.
>The reason is that the transmissibility estimate has gone up

citation please.

My understanding is that it's because of the policy intervention that his team advised.
If you would prefer to ignore the fact that the hugely influential epidemiologists responsible for the recommendations we are currently following have changed their recommendations, go for it.
I spent a day or two last week trying to get ffmpeg.js working and it was nothing but headaches. If you had more luck I'd love to learn some details.

My use case: trim and append multiple (4+) MP4s in the browser into one continuous video.
read what the report says:

[...] coronavirus will probably kill under 20,000 people in the U.K. — more than 1/2 of whom would have died by the end of the year in any case [because] they were so old and sick [...]
I'm obviously enraged by the incompetence of the federal response, not the strength of H-E-B's.
Static Analysis in GCC 10
Florence Italy was home to Hug A Chinese National Day during the Chinese New Year when many Chinese people are allowed to travel globally.

Hopefully fewer visited the UK and even fewer had close contact with the locals.
Lately I've been streaming a couple different classical stations (KUSC and KPBS Classical, which is a feed from Classical 24), and I get push notifications from several different local news apps when the city and county start their daily briefings on the local Covid situation. I turn the TV on for those briefings, then go back to classical afterwards. Most of the time, I can expect if any major news happens, the various push notifications will alert me. A bonus of all this is, zero ads.

And getting specifically the local news notifications makes sure the stuff I'm getting is actually applicable to where I am. If you're in a large enough market so that one or more local TV stations have their own local news apps, the push notifications can be useful even if you never look at the app otherwise (as long as the app can be tuned so it doesn't spend all day sending you random less important stuff - recipes and sports scores and human interest stuff - if so try a different station's app).

I've long listened to either classical or chillout / downtempo lounge in the office - mostly Soma.fm or di.fm - because I've found I want music, but don't want words - if there's lyrics, they distract from the programming project at hand.

I do have a small AM/FM radio in good working order, to prepare for the remote chance that the tubes break and the internet stops coming out of the tubes.
Escaping coronavirus anxiety in the Texas desert
Yes, it's precisely that. A recreation of Plague Inc.'s UI, but with real data.
This happened because, while the Republican Party represents the same old interests, the increase in inequality forced a change in the Democratic Party. The bills were being paid by progressive elites, with high salaries and linked to big corporations. Low-wage earners, increasingly losing their jobs to other countries, felt as having lost their influence in the party.
> ...3D isometric front end for Dwarf Fortress

There is more than one mod in this category, but you may be thinking of Stonesense: https://dfhack.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/stonesense/d...

DF is a bit rough as a casual gamer (me), but don’t many game designers consider it the greatest game ever made? The complexity of the underlying system of simulation is mind-boggling, especially for a two-person project.
Why does almost everyone I talk to report having a flu like illness in January that tested negative for flu?
But it is needed. Nobody builds a job board "just because". There is always a monetization angle of some sort.
> One of Belgium's leading biscuits manufacturers made a classic marketing mistake.

> They assumed consumers make rational decisions.

When I see "low fat" on a traditionally high-fat food, I make the rational decision to avoid the product, because it's not going to taste good and it's going to be less healthy.