skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"This concerns almost half of a batch of 1.3 million so-called FFP2 masks, 600,000 pieces. "

That's a quote by the newspaper, not the government agency. Also like I mentioned earlier, it's understandable to call them "FFP2" masks since the average european reader might not have a point of reference for what (K)N95 is.
Again - if that argument holds up, why is it reasonable to sell paper books for significantly more than the cost of reproduction? What's magical about the $0 price point? If it costs $5 to print a physical copy and you're okay with stores selling copies for $25, why is it a problem for stores to sell e-books for $20?

In the pre-e-book world, libraries could always copy books on their own. They could say, we're buying one copy of this book at $25, and then we'll print another thousand copies ourselves at $5 each and sell them to other libraries. Quality might have been lower, but it would have gotten books into the hands of more people, right? Why didn't they?

> People have to eat, but having to sell books just to put food on the table is also obscene. Food is a basic human right and should never be staked on whether or not you can successfully sue your audience.

I don't disagree. But that's not the world we live in. Food shouldn't be staked on that, but it is. Let's solve that first, and then we can start taking people's livelihoods away.

This is kind of like saying "Tipping is an unjust and evil and stupid system, so I'm not going to tip." Yes, it is an unjust and evil and stupid system - but the practical effect of not tipping is nothing more than underpaying people who, for better or worse, rely on that unjust and evil and stupid system. Fix the system first (e.g., petition your favorite restaurant to raise prices and have a no-tipping policy, and patronize those that have already done that), then you can stop tipping without hurting people
"Airbnb for food" to address global food scarcity and waste?
Clearly these guys have never heard of Sigur Ros. Go listen to Svefn-g-englar and tell me you aren’t chill as a cucumber.
Depends on the state of course, but some (Washington at least in 2017) have totally free healthcare if you have no income.

It was extremely easy to sign up on the healthcare exchange. The coverage wasn't great, but it was free and better than nothing.
to many customers, there’s a handful of different software choices that more or less do the same thing. so interface and design plays a big role in experience
Oh dear, you really do think Amazon might care.
Hello, we're considering designing whonu.com to become "airbnb for food". This could enable people globally to make and sell food (as cook entrepreneurs). They could feed themselves with their food-sales profits. It could address food scarcity, food waste, and potentially disrupt the fast food industry also. This in turn could address one of the leading causes of mortality in the US - the standard American diet.

Any advice about how to hone whonu.com (and any other thoughts) would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
If I may ask, how did you find this engineer's technical level, and how did they react to these questions? Have they treated that as normal, or were as concerned with the bloat as you were?
I don't think it's that hard to buy discretion if you're willing to pay a hefty fee. Besides how could anyone prove that you actually own the painting? I hire you, I fly you half the way around the world to a remote place where you're to examine the painting for a couple of weeks, you're paid and bye-bye.

I'm not saying that I know for a fact that this is how it's happening, but it doesn't seem far-fetched. What I do know is that a lot of what's happening in the art world is shrouded by a veil of secrecy.
More than 99% of positive results are accurate, the team says, but it will be crucial to check it does not miss cases and provide false assurance.

...

Trial data suggests it is better at detecting more advanced disease rather than the beginnings of cancer, which may limit how useful it becomes.
It's competing well on CPU benchmarks. The moment it benches a game https://images.idgesg.net/images/article/2020/03/asus_rog_ze... the picture becomes more nuanced.
Hope it goes better than Eldred v. Ashcroft.
Workers can demand whatever they want. Can the market bear no workers....
Indeed, I grew up in a neighborhood that was built during the 50s, and I first developed this sense that I could find my way around anybody's house. Then I realized that all of the houses had identical floor plans but different exterior finishing and were oriented differently. It took me years to figure this out, even though I lived in the middle of it.
They offer an opt-out process that suspends lending completely. If we're going to talk about the alleged illegality of a controlled process for sharing data, I'd like to start with ad-tracking, since that clearly affects a larger group of people and because its legality seems to rest on a similar premise (at least, to this layman).
Mind-reading AI turns thoughts into words using a brain implant
So you decided on not just merely passing the time with reading but reading a specific book and because you can't afford to pay for it, now you think you are entitled to it for free because why? If I want to buy a Vuis Luitton suitcase but can only afford American Tourister then I can just help myself to it? How is that right?
The hero we need, but don't deserve
Are you implying that if they do recognize the original, they would report it as stolen?

It's an interesting question, and there are rewards for recovery so it's probably under the same trust calculus of any other criminal venture: pay enough that they don't.
If this current situation has taught me anything it is that the internet is a mush of armchair garbage and it’s overwhelming to decipher- yes even what I’m typing now.

The whole thing has me desperate to ignore everyone and read a book. What a joke; to think we are all somehow experts.
Awesome! Getting your support emails converted into issues so you can work on them as a team tends to make it much clearer who is handling what.
I like it. We use Trello though. Video on homepage continues playing after closed.
There isn't a country in the world with enough ventilators right now, that's an awful lot of systems and not all of them are run for profit.
I think data (as in raw, collected / measured / surveyed data) doesn't really change, but you get more of it. Some data may occasionally supersede old data. Maybe the schema of the data changes, so your first set of data is in one form, and subsequent data might have more information, or recorded in a different way.
Which Chinese "tangzhong" word means "soup"? 湯汁 is "tāng zhī", for instance.

The first Chinese-English dictionary I found with DuckDuckGo results tends to confirm my hypothesis:

https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?page=worddict&wdrst=...

"(loanword from Japanese 湯種 yudane)"
This is amazing! I used to do academic research, and I had _no idea_ that community biotech labs existed!

https://crosscut.com/2019/03/seattles-only-community-lab-put...

That article mentions the cost of equipment. In academia, we used to semi-seriously discuss building our own stuff. We generally didn't because even basic engineering, fabrication, and firmware require a lot of time and effort. (We were occasionally forced to when we needed something extremely specialized that simply wasn't available off the shelf.)

It seems like open source equipment designs don't exist largely because they don't usually make sense for academia or industry to fund. I wonder if that approach might be viable for this type of endeavor, since it would allow designs to be shared between groups and would lower the cash barrier to that of the raw materials? I'm not sure how you'd navigate the patent minefield, but if successful I think it would benefit society at large.
It's been awhile since I've used it, but Snagit does a lot of what you want. Not free though.
Looking back at my thinking at the same time I am also ashamed at how slow I was to realize it.

I also trusted in our institutions. I knew what lengths that they went to in SARS. I understood how much thought has gone into public health. I found articles explaining why one would rationally ration available tests. Even when it was clear to me that we were in for a pandemic and millions would die, I completely failed to predict that we'd be willing to put Western countries in lockdown - or that lockdown would be as effective as it has been.

I probably came to the right conclusion before Scott did. But still the only thing that I did right with my knowledge was to tell my wife to buy a put on the DOW back when it was still rising.
Let's talk first about the domain experts, professors in prestigious universities, that were reassuring the public that COVID-19 is no way more fatal than the seasonal flu [1]. The same moment that the ICUs in Italy and Spain were already overwhelmed and the physicians could not find the necessary protective equipment to keep saving lives.

Are there gonna be any legal repercussions to these?

[1]https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-the-coronavirus-as-deadly-as...
Who should we believe, then, the WHO? They told us China had it under control, and not to wear masks
Unclear if you read the article and are voicing disagreement with it, but Scott Aaronson is in fact defending armchair epidemiology.
If it’s like Germany they have highly regulated insurance companies. There are public and private insurers. Private insurance is only available for higher incomes. The main thing in Germany is that your premium is based on a percentage of your salary so the less you make the less you pay. There is also a cutoff from a certain salary on so the premiums don’t keep going up when you make above that cutoff amount. If you are unemployed the employment agency keeps paying. If you are on welfare then that department will pay. So you can never fall out of insurance.

Another big aspect is that the amount doctors and hospitals can charge and what insurance reimburses is regulated. So you don’t have the situation where hospitals charge whatever they feel like and the insurance reimburses whatever they feel like and the patient sits in the middle and has to figure it out somehow or potentially go bankrupt.

There is much more detail but I hope I got the basics right. You hear a lot of bad stories too but overall the system is way more predictable and just than the US system. I have experienced both and I can see the US system only making sense for millionaires or healthy people. Otherwise it’s an insanely bureaucratic, expensive and merciless system where every hospital visit is a big gamble. And definitely don’t get any chronic disease or they will bleed yoU dry.
Can you provide a link? I did a search for "medically recommended air clearance methods" and nothing stood out.
Thanks for the detailed answer! I'm glad to hear that some thought has gone into this. For a direct comaprison of SourceHut's financial model with GitLab, see:

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2019-10-23-srht-puts-users-first/

Though it's definitely easier to go with the GitLab approach to monetization, I pointed out a lot of problems that these incentives set up. I'm not sure how you're going to avoid some of these problems. That being said, I imagine that it would be extremely difficult GitLab to change course so sharply at this point in its life.

To be clear, I recognize that GitLab EE, as a source-available distribution, is a measurable improvement over GitLab's closed-source offerings. I think GitLab is a valuable tool and an ecosystem without it is poorer than an ecosystem with (though, an ecosystem without SourceForge would be nice...). I hope that you guys are able to balance your incentives and stick around to provide a good service to the community, and I hope you keep it up with merging EE features into CE.
Covtest.io – An AI based Covid-19 predictor
Over the weekend I build http://covtest.io. It uses an X-ray image to predict COVID-19, pneumonia or normal.

This is obviously not to self diagnose, but I am hoping the it is useful in the front lines if test are not available.

Any healthcare workers who can test it? or have feedback please let me know
Comparison to Dat?

https://docs.dat.foundation/docs/intro
Abbott Laboratories 5 Minute Test to Detect Covid-19 Gets FDA Approval
> The last time that AMD was beating Intel was after 1995, when AMD acquired a chip maker named "NexGen":

Er...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athlon_64
The efficiency at load is great, the power usage at idle could use some improvement (I feel there's a missing update). My previous system (6700k boasting to 4.6ghz) used about 50 watts at idle (from the wall). After I switched motherboard and CPU (a 3950x, the rest is the same, plus new Windows install) the power usage at idle is ~90 watts. The power management is too eager to use all the cores, I'm pretty sure their would be zero decernable difference if they shutdown one of the CCDs (chiplets) when utilisation is low. I've played around with the power settings and ~90w is about the best it gets.

Under load the system is brilliant (it's 4x faster with the same power usage, makes using my laptop painfully slow in comparison). The power management on these CPUs is incredibly advanced (each core runs at different speeds & voltages), I'm just surprised that it doesn't do better at idle.
It would be easier and safer for them to trade a certificate that represents the theft of the painting.
the filled in slider seems a problem to me. It gets used for situations where it doesn't mean "everything up to this value" it might mean "everything down to this value" or "exactly this value"
As I'm sure you and she are aware, the gut-feel regression has a very poor historical track record at separating confounding variables, particularly outside of controlled studies. The decision to vent or not is being made by an expert physician, taking many variables into account, so it's very difficult to tease out a meaningful conclusion just by comparing the two survival rates.
In my area (not in the US) we are making homemade face shields. Simple hand made construction, no 3D printer required. Hospitals are happy to get them because they go through them like crazy.
Can I just say, this is the most beautiful homepage I've ever seen?
what are you talking about? that article is contemporary, they havent been proven wrong.
What's particularly impressive about this situation is that all the institutions on all sides got it wrong. Trump and his administration downplayed it, and Vox, Wapo, NYT et al downplayed it. You would think these two would act as a check on one another, but they completely failed to do so. The one time we needed them to disagree with each other, they agreed forcefully.
Yes, absolutely. I read it years ago and still think back to it frequently. It's really worth your time.
Landedcost.io Commerce Platform: Landed Cost Calculations for over 200 Countries
Yeah, I too am tired of projects named mean-ly. Git, dolt, LAME, Gimp... DWARF is borderline, even if it has historical reasons (being based on ELF) it's not nice to hear out of context.

Even if it's a joke on yourself, just like, why would you give anyone who hasn't heard of your project the idea that it might be mean?

You wouldn't name your pet Dumbass. Why your pet project.
April Fools’ Pranks: Brands, Please Pocket Them This Year
This is cool but, oh boy, a mute button that makes a sound when you click it is user hostile.
Agreed, it's much better than Travis. But the GP is right, it's more "hack blocks together", where each action does its own thing and acts on the files independently, and there isn't much control over the whole process. Heck, they don't even fully support the entire YAML spec (I'd give citations on that but I'm writing from my phone, and don't have the time to pull it up).

I haven't used GitLab for a while because most of the projects I'm working on are on GitHub, so I can't comment on GitLab CI.
This isn't relevant to the question asked, and you've already posted a link to it in the comments.
That brought in most of the revenue. 1:50 ratio of organizers to users with $15/mo revenue doesn’t add up to much.
this is borderline terrorism, imo. right from the into, "Dr. A..." which to a layman would reasonably interpet as meaning "M.D" rather than professor of computer science. the one thing i have noticed in all this is the utterly astonishing abandonment of science, reason, and rationality. that scares me much more than disease.
Could WireGuard be a good choice for server-to-server encryption instead of TLS? (for example between a TLS terminating load balancer to the application servers)
I see what you're saying about the synth, but what really makes me anxious is how the bass drum fades in and out.

It's at a steady ~60 beats/minute, but at about 1 minute 30 seconds, it starts to get quiet, at points becoming inaudible, and the song goes from "this has a definite rhythm" feel to a "this doesn't have a definite rhythm" (or "I'm not sure") feeling. Then it keeps going away and coming back again.
> In the end, I think I am making several large contributions, even if the "gestation" time was longer than people would like. To get tenure, you need to publish often and regularly, but a lot of valuable research takes longer than people would like to get results. The data compilation took a long time. I started this data compilation in roughly Jan. 2017. I had a conference presentation on it in Nov. 2017. I published a conference paper based in part on it in May 2018, and it wasn't until December 2019 that I submitted two journal papers using the data. (I prefer to take my time to perfect an article rather than rush it.) This sort of delay isn't acceptable in the current system, regardless of the value of the work at the end. In terms of total publications, I think I'm actually coming out ahead of most PhD students in my department, but by now I'm seen as unproductive by my advisor so that doesn't matter.

This is where I am in my PhD. Things are culminating near the end. It can be psychologically difficult to go long stretches without publication, while your peers are firing off publications. I've seen this with other graduate students who take on large projects.
I think they were supposed to match the iMac colors that replaced Bondi Blue. (Many of the buildings are blue, though.)
>Again - if that argument holds up, why is it reasonable to sell paper books for significantly more than the cost of reproduction? What's magical about the $0 price point? If it costs $5 to print a physical copy and you're okay with stores selling copies for $25, why is it a problem for stores to sell e-books for $20?

You can sell them for whatever people will pay for them. You can sell the bandwidth for the eBook for whatever people will pay.

>In the pre-e-book world, libraries could always copy books on their own. They could say, we're buying one copy of this book at $25, and then we'll print another thousand copies ourselves at $5 each and sell them to other libraries. Quality might have been lower, but it would have gotten books into the hands of more people, right? Why didn't they?

Because of the same broken copyright system which is going to have lawyers burning down the doors of archive.org once they're allowed to leave their caves post-coronavirus. They should be copying these books and sending them to other libraries for a fraction of the cost.

>I don't disagree. But that's not the world we live in. Food shouldn't be staked on that, but it is. Let's solve that first, and then we can start taking people's livelihoods away.

I didn't suggest we immediately transition to a copyright free world. I said "screw copyright".

And, for the record, we are already in a world where this works. Thousands of content creators in all fields of media are making a living based on crowdsourced funding and free distribution of content to their audience. This model has been consistently growing and doesn't show any signs of slowing down. A lot of people are making more money with this model than they would be with traditional publishing and suing everyone who coughs on their book and lets someone else look at the tissue.

Hell - all businesses face the risk of needing to pivot. Same holds true for authors. If the current approach isn't working because people are sharing your books, then you need to change your approach.
You may have described the precise reason that kind of news is not reported.
There's nothing wrong with that - in a peculiar situation, wherein there is no 'standard web site' something ad-hoc is perfectly reasonable.

In the 'old days,' it would be a public number board or chalkboard, but it would be accurate. This is what a lot of ladies in the military or in operational centers would have done.

And definitely nothing wrong with hand-tweaked HTML. I wish sites were basic enough and HTML clear enough that it could be more pervasive.

You can dig up ledgers from 'old-timey' 100-year-old from little stores in the middle of nowhere that were handwritten and perfect. Perfect handwriting, perfectly updated, perfect math (i.e. adds up after corrections).

What matters is that the process is legit, that people are responsible for how the numbers are propagated, and they do it professionally.

It's almost weird to think that people expect that there is a 'robust and specific electronic process' for everything.

The level of organizational planning in WW2 was pretty shocking: all docs, notes, cue-cards, human process.
+1 is ok, but it's not the same as concrete approval bit.

GitHub was late to add it, but that doesn't mean it wasn't a glaringly missing feature from GitHub before then. Other open-source system like Gerrit and Phabricator have had approvals since their inception, I believe.

edit, just to say: I really don't get the manager tie in to approvals. I've never worked on a team where approvals were done by managers. It's always other team members, and especially required when you have code owners of different parts of the codebase.
honestly, maybe this reflects my americanness but I presumed it was derived from the (western film/culture) word, a corruption of 'get'. Today I learned that it means something else in british.
The worker was in close contact with someone who tested positive for the virus. He was told to self-quarantine at home with pay, and yet he instead still decided to lead the strike and directly put all of his colleagues at risk.

That kind of sounds like sensible corporate behavior to me. What is it exactly that you have against this decision?
I did read the article. I'm exhausted by both sides.
It’s the nature of the goals not the time it takes to reach them that I am talking about.

A COVID-19 vaccine is extremely valuable today, but it becomes useless even 5 years from now. On the other hand our experience with COVID-19 is likely to spawn a great deal of research into developing vaccines faster which while useless for this epidemic could be extremely valuable for the next several.

Clearly a COVID-19 vaccine could save millions of lives and is worth investing in, but it’s a specific finite number. So called basic research can save more people’s lives than are alive today.
In case it isn't obvious, this is a joke, Linus actually didn't name Linux after himself, the person who hosted the original source tree did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux#Naming
https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof

A Polyglot Code Generation Framework for Cuelang

https://cuelang.org
No, not like that. Why would it?