skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an excellent analogy and a great point. To take your analogy one step further, when startups raise money that results in a less than clean term sheet stacked to the sky with liquidation preferences, it's a result of investors understanding that the firm doesn't really have a choice, and a statement that the terms of their investment are actually that risky. This situation seems like it ought to be remarkably similar.
Right now people wearing masks are considered selfish people who are depriving medical staff of them.

medical staff in usa are wearing trashbags for protection( even hilary clinton tweeted this picture).
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lenovo_ThinkPad_X1_Carb...

If this is yours (Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 7), there's a very recent fix that you can find there. It's a bit of a hassle, but should work across more than just Arch based distros
I like IRC and use it. I have zero understanding why anyone on HN thinks IRC is a viable chat option outside uber-nerds.

Show me a training plan (outline is fine), case study or blog or anything outlining how to train my 50 non-technical coworkers in the use of IRC. They need image support and audio chat and all the other modern chat features users demand. Keep in mind there are a lot of chat options and users will walk if what you want to use is rejected by them.

IRC is not and has not been a even remotely viable option for anyone but nerds and hobbyists for many years now. i would be very happy to see any evidence to the contrary.
+1, tried a few things and just get '0 screenshots imported' all the time, looked in Console and couldn't see anything obvious.

Also please add some kind of support contact method as the only link to you in the app is a Twitter account with direct messages locked.
You should also keep in mind, that we've more than doubled the testing since, so the amount of cases raised with that as well.
My dad used to solder a lot as a kid and I always loved the smell of it. My dads advice to me was "you probably shouldnt do that. It will slowly poison you." I dont know that it really stopped me though.. He also (still) has a mason jar full of mercury that he let my brother and I play with...
Just be careful when setting up Algo VPN.

Its secure defaults will probably block all other services you're running on your server and render them inaccessible.

You might even end up not being able to ssh to your server if you choose not to let Algo set up ssh configurations (because you have your own).

I would say install Algo on a dedicated droplet or backup your VPS before setting it up.
Seems to me we all need to assume we're asymptotic carriers, and then follow WHO's (or CDC's) advice for sick people, which is to wear some sort of mask or bandana.
I don't think he's saying that you should blindly deploy this stuff. But you don't have to create a solution from scratch. There are existing templates out there that you can leverage to build your own solution
Looks cool. There's a lot of double entries. Is that in the data or is it a glitch?
I don't read German, do you have another reference in English?

Personally I find this website quite good, I would recommend it to anyone whose genuinely interested in the covid-19 phenomenon (among other sites).

The site is a collection of links mostly.

It doesn't pretend to give you an objective view of the covid-19, quite the opposite, in fact it collects every possible information that suggests that covid-19 is much less dangerous than the mainstream media pretends it is.

The site seems to be just a curated list of links and a short summary that supports this point of view. It's updated daily.

There's a lot of interesting information, it's definitely welcome for those who are curious about the covid-19 phenomenon.

Also, I don't think you can call it FUD. If you want FUD on covid-19, there's plenty in the mainstream news, no need to search further.
They're intelligent, but I've never heard that suggestion. It's not as though they use tools.

Years ago I thought the reason we didn't kill certain animals is they're cuter than others. Maybe, but there's a perceived scale of demonstrated consciousness. If an animal appears more intelligent and compassionate (e.g. chimps), we're more put off on slaying them.
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This is good to hear. There is a lot of trendy junk that people seem to want in the linux kernel. I've been waiting for WireGuard to prove itself before I give it a shot.
GIMP was installed on every single computer in my entire k12 education in francophone Canada.
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From my experience, and this is compared with AVR and most ARM parts I've worked with.

1) Generally poor documentation. Non-existent at the register level - you are entirely at the mercy of the SDK and what other people have reverse engineered.

2) Crashes on unaligned pointer access. This is something that ARM generally handles with ease (though there are exceptions). Porting code from ARM or 8 bit machines to the ESP8266 can take a fair amount of effort in tracking down all of the unaligned access exceptions that come up. It's extremely frustrating.

3) To that point, the SPI flash access is also beholden to 32 bit alignment. That really complicates things if you port code that relied on a typical SPI flash's ability to access at a 1 byte granularity.

4) Poor compiler support. I think the latest GCC they support is 5.something. It requires a custom backend so it is vendor maintained. Contrast with ARM support in GCC which is generally outstanding.

5) No hardware debug support. You can run GDB over a serial port, but that's no where near as powerful as having an actual JTAG/SWD port.

6) The program memory architecture is complex and difficult to use (poor documentation is part of the issue here). There's no on-chip flash - code streams from a SPI flash into a RAM cache. Some code has to run out of RAM and must be placed by the linker as such.

All that being said - the chip works. The Wifi is excellent (I run dozens of these at a time, they are more reliable than my Unifi routers they connect to). For a $2 FCC certified module it's unbeatable. I have really come around to like this part in spite of its many flaws - it was built to do one thing very well at a price point no one else could touch - and by and large it succeeded.
There's some useful paper discussion on https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/
I disagree, PAC bounds are usually way too loose to be useful in practice when it comes to NNs. I think part of the reason is that the way we measure model complexity for NNs does not correspond very well with their ability to generalize, as we've seen with recent papers like deep double descent [1].

Anecdotally, I was of the main authors of the AdaNet framework [2] where we used (approximate) Rademacher complexity (closely related to PAC) to bound the complexity of our learned ensemble models. We never got good results using the complexity measure and would basically turn it off for any practical problem we solved.

[1]: https://openai.com/blog/deep-double-descent

[2]: https://github.com/tensorflow/adanet
Thinkpads are amazing. I also currently run a T420 from 2011, and it just works rock solid. Thanks to it's great connectivity, I use it right now with two monitors (under Linux) where my much newer 2019 Thinkpad X1 yoga is powered off somewhere in the shelf. I bought it only to have a more lightweight and mobile notebook.
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Yep, that's what I'm asking for... right now wireguard can only look at configuration text files AFAIK. If it had a way to invoke a command/script to lookup a key/ip, any number of external management systems could be created!
Interestingly, italic type was invented in 1500 in order to make smaller, more space-efficient books - so the first books in italics were in all-italics. It wasn't until decades later that italics started being used sparingly for emphasis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italic_type#History
Yes there is: https://www.consumer.org.hk/ws_en/news/specials/2020/mask-di...
Thank you very much! That’s a good idea... I will think about the best way to incorporate that information on this dashboard, but for now you can find it at https://www.nccn.org/patients/resources/clinical_trials/phas...
Because an inexpensive auto-darkening welding helmet will provide full protection against IR and UV.
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Doesn't want his wife to upstage his ability to humblebrag on internet forums about his salary.. gotta keep her tied up with umbilical cords
don't citations already function like a voting system (albeit with no downvotes)? a paper with zero citations will be ignored just as surely as a comment in a large thread with zero votes.
Potentially a 2020 vs previous years approach would even slightly underestimate the death toll.

I have to assume being in lockdown suppresses other 'normal' causes of death (fewer car accidents, or conventional disease spread). Depending on how long these lockdowns really last, it could actually dent the real impact of those causes of death, making the covid peak look slightly smaller vs the average.
Simple DIY masks could help flatten the curve. We should all wear them in public
I remember getting off a plane in Florida and smelling the air... and it brought back SO vividly the last time I had visited florida over 10 year before.

It was almost like playing an old video taken on a bright sunny day, in smell-o-vision.
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Safari is a modern browser, but this doesn't work on it. Perhaps changing the description to the specific browsers supported(Chrome, Firefox, etc.) would be best?

ADDENDUM: Thought that maybe just detecting the browser is best, showing a notice that the tool doesn't work with it.
Seems to me we should assume we're asymptotic carriers, and then follow WHO's (or CDC's) advice for sick people, which is to wear some sort of mask or bandana.
For some Android kernels official WireGuard application supports in-kernel module. Fox example for pixel 3.
That isn’t WHO or CDC advice. If you are sick, you should just not go out.
Experts devise do-it-yourself face masks to help people battle coronavirus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNjpH5lBZ8w
There's a brand (French, I think) of Jam [0] that's widely available in stores here in America; I've found that their jars make fine rocks glasses once the jam is all used up.

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As opposed to public outcry from them saying masks don't work while countries with mask usage fare better?
The real reason Snowmobile exists: to knock out potential opposition to large-scale migration from on-prem data centers into AWS.

Most of the intro decisions around moving to the cloud happen before Amazon is ever involved in the sales cycle. There are some managerial accountants and IT people getting involved to evaluate options in a process called "Evaluation of Alternatives." At some point, Amazon probably started hearing that the IT people were saying "we can't possibly move all of that data to the cloud, it would swamp our network or take five years just to finish the network transfer."

Enter Snowmobile, which cuts that conversation thread off at the knees. Amazon can go to a Fortune 100 company that is evaluating a move and honestly claim that they are prepared to move exabytes of data, physically, into the cloud. And it's not some premium feature that they're going to get charged bajillions for, it's a stock feature of AWS. (Even if it costs a lot of money)

Snowmobile isn't targeted at the average customer, it's targeted specifically at the accountants, IT architects, and management consultants evaluating the decision to move all of Fortune 100 Company X from on-prem data centers into 100% AWS. One extra hug from Amazon to let the most risk-averse person know that they have it covered, and would they please go ahead and write their 9-figure check to AWS.
It's interesting to me that someone made a website this complete and an instagram page for a total of... 4 coloring book pages?
The messaging here around the improvised masks was not about filtering (protecting yourself), it was about protecting the other people from bigger droplets. By proxy that also protects yourself somewhat if pretty much everyone is wearing something on their face.

This is of course only meaningful if almost everyone wears something. This is true at the moment.

Anyway, even improvised masks have some filtering capability. It just varies a lot based on many factors, and would not be something to depend on when you want predictability from PPE in a hospital. It's just that regular people should not have an excuse to spread their sputum everywhere just because they can't buy medical grade PPE.
That's a bad answer. Double standards are a problem and deserve to be called out. Twitter punches when it thinks someone can't punch back.
It’s not about being “un-American”, which is ridiculous just for the mere fact that not wearing masks in public is a western country thing, not just an American thing. The reason it’s not culturally acceptable is because, in western countries, wearing a mask in public is like wearing a big “warning: I’m toxic” sign, precisely because we haven’t had to deal with these fucked up super viruses that Asian countries are used to.
ISPs or countries?
I tried to give away cloth masks (not medical masks) to people in my area and nobody wanted one, and I live in a very liberal, highly educated part of the country. I'm hoping this attitude can be changed, I'm just pointing out that there seem to be some uniquely American psychological issues associated with mask wearing that need to be taken into account.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/if-you-are-sick/st...

CDC says if you "think you might have COVID-19", you should "wear a facemask" "to help protect other people in your home and community." "You may need to improvise a facemask using a scarf or bandana."

Seems to me we should assume we "might have COVID-19" and then follow CDC's advice to wear a scarf or bandana to protect other people.
That's great news for space in general.

SpaceX has proven to be far more efficient than the usual suspects for making stuff happen in space.

Finger crossed, let's hope the Gateway program don't get downsized to oblivious by the impending crisis.
Yes, I think you're right. In that case, it certainly wasn't the case back when Linux started. Intel and Redhat are the biggest contributors according to the Linux Kernel Development Report from 2017:

Intel 10,833 13.1%
none 6,819 8.2%
Red Hat 5,965 7.2%

So, "none", although it's the second biggest category, only accounts for 8.2% of contributions.
Yes, but I don't see how that contradicts what GP suggests. Shareholders are on the hook for their own investments. Artificially bailing them out takes them off that hook by preventing bankruptcy.

It disincentivizes responsible financial management. Why not spend 95% of profits on buybacks if the government is ready to catch you?

The only thing that makes it a question at all in my view are the potential social consequences of a bunch of huge companies failing at the same time. If it wasn't for that, I'd say let them fail and let the investors pay for it in negative ROI.
I suppose because of DNS servers. Shops give you own "correct" dns for showing you adds on any first request.
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> I think you will find that human manufacture and consumption of alcohol predates the idea of companies.

I know it does. However, we know better now, and there is no logical reason to consume it. In fact, the risks to consumption are much higher now. People operate heavy machinery, drive cars, own guns, have "college parties", etc. And we routinely see the disasters that happen because of it.

Large alcohol companies, however, are pushing for consumption purely for monetary aspects. Who cares about the negative effects on society as long as they're pocketing all the profit?

It's logical to ban it precisely because of all the negative things that come out of it, and almost no positives. The negatives strictly outweigh the positives, and hence the logical thing to do is do ban it. Don't we make the same argument about vaccines? Their positives far outweigh their negatives, so we require them. It's just the other way around here.
Ah, I will consider this as a drop in replacement on EasyALPR.

I use fuzzy text searching to compare LPR license plates with those on lists for parking enforcement.

I wrote a blog entry about Vladimir Losifovich Levenshtein and practical description of string comparison here:

https://blog.easyalpr.com/2019/09/16/calculating-license-pla...

Also, here's a UI on top of fuzzy string matching if you just want to play with levenshtein distance for a few minutes: https://easyalpr.com/tools/string-compare/
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Cannibalism in humans is not as unhealthy as not eating the rich. Nothing universal heath care can't mitigate.
I simply love it how every single Haskell framework I've seen that has "ease of development" and "it's easy" and similar immediately devolves from this (from Concur's docs [1]):

hello = do
button [onClick] [text "Say Hello"]
text "Hello Sailor!"

into this:

inputWidget = input [(Changed <<< unsafeTargetValue) <$> onChange, Focused <$ onFocus]

or this:

inputWidget st = input [st {focusCount = st.focusCount+1} <$ onFocus
, ((\s -> st {currentText = s}) <<< unsafeTargetValue) <$> onChange]

for even the slightest modifications (which are not even complex in this case)

These instances, allow a natural handling of
return values using <$>, <*>, <$, monadic
do-notation, etc

Right...

[1] https://github.com/ajnsit/concur-documentation/blob/master/R...
Wow... I had no idea it was so low.

Since you seem to be knowledgeable, if ventilating isn't a big-impact intervention, what's the point of flattening the curve? Is there some other intervention that hospital is doing that actually makes a more meaningful difference that can't be done at home?

Or is it maybe just psychological?
Would that significantly increase cost?
I thought about using scuba gear for welding, but I was worried about explosion from oxygen in case of leak?

FWIW, it's way overkill, but you'd want SCBA (Self Contained Breathing Apparatus)[1] not SCUBA (Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus) unless you are, indeed, underwater. Of course the technologies are similar (and can be swapped to a limited degree in a pinch) but SCBA is used when you're not underwater. Those are what firefighters use while attacking fires, or performing trench rescue / confined space rescue / etc. and handling hazardous materials calls.

Note that SCBA do not used bottled oxygen... it's just plain air, but under pressure. I'm not a diver, so I don't know as much about SCUBA, but I know they aren't using pure oxygen either, but I think there may be times when they use a mix that is slightly different from plain old atmospheric air.

An additional note: SCBA are expensive, require maintenance and need to be refilled with air. All of these things would be a challenge to using one outside of an industrial setting. The "refill with air" part is especially tricky, because you might think "I can use a regular air compressor", but you actually can't, for at least two reasons. One, the pressures needed to fully refill an SCBA tank are higher than a standard shop air compressor. Two, the air also needs to be filtered to remove any contaminants - including, for example, oil used to lubricate the pump on the compressor. As you might guess, fire departments and other SCBA users buy special compressors that are very expensive.

And unlike SCUBA, I don't know that there are many, or any, commercial shops where you can walk in and get a bottle filled. If you had a buddy on a local fire department, they might be able to get a bottle filled for you, but no guarantees. Oh, and the bottles also need hydrostatic pressure testing every few years to make sure they are safe to use.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-contained_breathing_appar...
Because putting entire nations under forced house arrest based on the output of computer simulations isn't even slightly sociopathic? It's literally got "social" in the word.

Argue that it's the right choice by all means. To argue that politicians caring about the economy - that thing that also keeps us alive - is "sociopathic", just shows a complete loss of perspective.
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Cool application of Haskell's purity-by-default. I'm slightly surprised this takes the approach of enumerating the whole input space to get all states, though - given that termination for big spaces isn't a priority, why not just explore all paths instead? Then you could return `Int` as much as you wanted, if the actual code only goes through finitely many different values.