skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I get how it works but I can’t see how using a IgG probe to look for antigen would be very accurate. This is particularly true when talking about the amount of blood you get from a finger stick. The data coming out of Theranos should have made this clear.

Unless they are somehow using a glucose meter to monitor more blood than a finger stick?

I’m not doubting that you could have a test that worked by scanning for Coronavirus antigen in blood. But not with the device described here. But even assuming it worked, I don’t see how it would be better than an RNA amplification test.
... or it should be cheap and regulated on pricing. it is crime what western nations charge for it. suppose areas of differing income levels should have different pricing schemes. coming from russia to canada, it is insane that you have to pay 1500% more for same packages for wireless and wired internet.
Which Youtuber or podcast had anything about that cause that's the 3rd time I see this link today
Heatmap Analysis with Anon Mobile Data of Spring Break Travel from FL Beaches
Right now, people went WFH without preparation and the first thing people (with no experience working remotely) is to replicate their office style. Almost everyone I talked to, talked about meeting/video calls throughout the day.

So, my question to them, "So, when do you work?"

Video Calls / Meetings should be the last resort. Working remotely (WFH) is not bringing the office work at home, it is an entirely different experience and should be approached thus.

Besides the many other advice floating around, some cores ones that works are;

- Communicate, communicate, over-communicate, mostly via email or other long-form writing).

- If you do the above (writing), it helps in the key element of working remotely - asynchronous. The day you can work asynchronous with your team, is the day you won in working remotely. If you write, then you can also share it anytime, to anyone.
With the world of developers becoming "senior" at faster and faster rates, we're asymptomatically approaching the demise of these questions, no?
How much of that is just generally disliking change, though?

People’s homes aren’t organized around work now, but prior to the industrial era, they were, and people complained about working in factories and offices.
These types of tools go a really long way in improving the reliability and safety of C code.

Hats off to the redhat team for putting in the effort on this. Their blog posts have been really interesting. It’s definitely changing my perception of what redhat really does.
I talked with the mayor of Los Altos Hills, CA yesterday where I advocated for a municipal fiber ISP. It seems crazy to me that in Silicon Valley, and specifically in one of its richest towns, that broadband is not available to every residence.

She makes a good point: the residents don't care. Her argument is that ~20 mbps DSL is good enough for the elderly population. And further - that for those who find that inadequate - Comcast is often (but by no means universally) available.

I write this tethered to the cell network because I can't get a decent wired internet solution here, with direct line-of-sight to Google's headquarters and the mega-offices of many of tech's largest players. As I am stuck at home, constantly turning off others' video streams while I try to engage with my coworkers remotely, I deeply wish that we had either a more competitive marketplace or a more belligerently pro-consumer regulator.

And, by the way, the FCC thinks I have a dozen options for broadband. That is false.
DynaList might complement your approach, for the earlier unstructured collection and task brainstorming
I think the idea that that apartment was cheap-to-rent is likely a stretch. It was likely a middling apartment that got upclassed. Low income housing in the bad part of town doesn't really show up on Airbnb.
Putting it another way, knowledge with the bare minimum experience required to be effective is very sharp, and that sharpness is sometimes what’s required to cut through old, retrospectively “wrong” ways of doing things. I don’t disagree with what you’ve said, I think we all have met plenty of people fitting your description, I just mean to say there’s another side of the coin. As food for thought, much (not all) of the open source software we herald as brilliant today was initially written by people still in or just barely out of grad school.
Your black-and-white answer to this also has a pretty low probability. We may not find a vaccine, however we may find ways of treating the illness making the ICU less needed.
Starlink is planning on adding laser links to the satellites so that when one satellite is out of range of a ground station it can beam packets to other satellites that are in range of a ground station.
From security perspective, Companies do not like the fact that Zoom was developed in China and the vast majority of its R&D is still in China. China has different rules on security than many other countries. Particularly surrounding intellectual property. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1585521/000119312519...

"Top of page 21- In addition, we have a high concentration of research and development personnel in China, which could expose us to market scrutiny regarding the integrity of our solution or data security features. Any security compromise in our industry, whether actual or perceived, could harm our reputation, erode confidence in the effectiveness of our security measures, negatively affect our ability to attract new customers and hosts, cause existing customers to elect not to renew their subscriptions or subject us to third-party lawsuits, regulatory fines or other action or liability, which could harm our business."
Even if it doesn't cut down emissions so much (and electric cars are very good at that too), it does make a lot of difference for the daily traffic jams. If we could reduce those, it would be of great benefit.
Bootstrap 5 dropping IE 10 and 11 browser support
We had an au pair from Colombia this year and she was really excited to see snow and build a snow man and we just had a couple of dustings.
Welp, I hope you use your understanding of the situation to start fixing it like you propose. Otherwise they're just words in the wind. Peace, friend
If 7500 people land in Sydney tomorrow (I think that’s the real number about to enter mandatory quarantine) even in the best case scenario using one machine without considering preparation time it will take around 1875 hours to process everyone. Around 18 hours for ten machines running, even then, that’s without prep time.

That’s a pretty long customs line.

To add to that, at a accuracy rate of 99% there will be about 75 people who will go through with the wrong diagnosis unless retests are done, which will add extra time. I really don’t see this working out at that scale.

You’d really need a sub 60 second test for this to scale.
it would not. I think lens weigh comes entirely from the design and speed of the lens. The designs don't vary that much so I would t consider it. Take the full frame canon 70-200 f4, it weighs 760g, vs the 1.5 crop fuji 50-140 f2.8 which weighs 995g. They are nearly identical in aperture size and focal length, and will produce similar looking images for comparisons sake. All that to say, the amount of glass used is what will determine the size and weight of a lens, not the sensor size. There are many other factors but in general for crop bs full frame there is little difference.
Also rivers will dry up because there isn’t the annual snow melt.
Search Covid-19 Open Research Dataset (Cord-19) Using Vespa (Open Source)
In this particular case, it's still within the lifetime of the people involved. Seems reasonable at first glance, without thinking about it too deeply.
> The real analysis section has [1] by Lafferriere, Lafferriere and Mau Nam. It's short, sweet and very pretty. No bloat. Logically organized. For example, the section "Applications Of The Completeness Axiom" contains everything you need to know as pertains to the topic

I guess this is a matter of taste. I went to look at this and it really bothers me that, true to the name they give, the "completeness axiom" is presented as an axiom. My analysis class used Strichartz' The Way of Analysis, which is certainly not "short and sweet" -- the professor described it to us as "chatty" -- but it goes ahead and actually proves the "completeness axiom".

Compare the completeness axiom

> Every nonempty subset A of ℝ that is bounded above has a least upper bound. That is, sup A exists and is a real number.

with Strichartz' theorem 3.1.1

> For every non-empty set E of real numbers that is bounded above, there exists a unique real number sup E such that

> 1. sup E is an upper bound for E

> 2. if y is any upper bound for E, then y ≥ sup E

Maybe Laferriere, Lafferiere and Mau Nam could use a little more "bloat". :/
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Ghost Food Trucks Are Guinea Pigs in CloudKitchens’ Experiment
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And you really shouldn't expect otherwise.

One of these is gratis and libre, and the other isn't. If you want to stand on that side with Windows and expect other people to help you out, then what you're asking for is for them to shell out money and a lot of effort for you. Whereas the reverse is not true; in comparison, the picture of a Windows user having to get access to a FOSS toolchain for themselves looks trivial—and with the abundance of ready-made system images that you can spin up without even having to reboot your computer, it is.

"Windows user" is not an ADA-protected class.
I have had dedicated cameras before but in effect this was brand new.

Personally I love it. It's small and light but has a great feel in the hand and although the photos I take are bad I am sure it's me and not the camera.

If you have older F mount glass you can get the adapter and use the lenses no problem, but check the compatibility for AF.

I'd recommend it easily to anyone looking into mirrorless.
> NO! YOU CAN’T JUST USE BRUTE FORCE HERE! WE NEED TO USE SEGMENT TREES TO GET UPDATE TIME COMPLEXITY DOWN TO O(LOG N)! BREAK THE DATA INTO CHUNKS AT LEAST! OH THE INEFFICIENCY!!!

I'm the opposite of this stereotype, and I think there are more like me. Two reasons as to why:

(1) Psychological:

I never had this. As a junior dev, I don't like to optimize because I feel a bit of pain when I need to moderately focus. I can do it, and I've done it quite a lot. In that sense, I've experienced quite a bit of pain in my life. It's something I've learned to live with. And when I have to focus, I prefer to focus all the way, because whether I focus on 50% or 100%, the pain is roughly similar. This leaves me in a state of either being lazy(ish) and wanting to program in a simple and understandable way versus being willing to go as deep into a topic as I would need to and focus on all the details step by step.

When I'm intense, I also am still sympathetic towards simple code because I know that I understand that in both states. I only understand complicated code when I'm focused.

(2) There are enough CS grads that know better:

Also, on another note. Efficiency analysis is simply not taught at university. Parts of it are taught, but they're never connected to real world cases.

For efficiency analysis (note I haven't done any but I've read a thing or two and talk with a friend who is a performance engineer quite regurlarly about it) I think there need to be a few perspectives in check:

1. What is the user's actual behavior.

2. What is the behavior for malicious attackers (if applicable, Intel should do this more, to my knowledge they are doing it more now).

3. How does the compiler translate it to assembly?

4. How does it theoretically look? Specifically: worst-case, best-case, average-case in both theoretical and empirical sense.

Concluding:

I only have one year of experience in software development, where no one cared about performance yet I know better than to look only at the theoretical speed. So I guess I'm a counter example to the stereotype. I'm not alone. Any CS student who reads HN has a high chance of stumbling upon articles like this and will know that performance analysis is not only about calculating the space-time complexity.
What's even more boring is a race of hundreds of laps that is decided in the first 10 minutes.
WFH doesn't have to be all or nothing. One can WFH 2-3 days/week and for the other days be in the office. So there is still plenty of opportunity for interaction, but on the other days, one can enjoy the benefits of WFH. I have a lot of colleagues, who do have long commutes, so for them, every single day of WFH has quite a benefit.
> My understanding is that from day one they were under pressure from Softbank and other backers to spend the initial capital aggressively

Totally agree. This isn’t a Covid-19 story. It’s another SoftBank story.

The SoftBank-fuelled impatience led to strategic blunders including premature spectrum accumulation, vendor lock-in with Airbus, launch services lock-in with legacy providers and over hiring.
You need to be more civil here and not presume offense, nor that you're better or smarter than others.
The original author of the comment did not understand your English, perhaps seek a native speaker's help to clarify in the future instead of escalating.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What are your goals? Investors will put major pressure on you to grow enormous, which may or may not be healthy for your business.

If your income is increasing steadily but you need a cash infusion to handle the growth, you may want to consider a small business loan instead.
Observation of Dynamical Fermionization
Java and C++ have done several breaking changes, although not as bad as Python 3.0.

The minor version for Java has stopped being used by Java 9.
Sure, I agree that photography doesn't require a fancy camera. I'm just saying that plenty of people _do_ still buy dedicated cameras. It's not dead yet.
This is what scares most security analysts is the fact that the product was developed and stores data in a place that has incredibly sketchy laws when it comes to intellectual property.

I can't see why Zoom can't come out with a statement regarding why they are collecting all of this sensitive data.

Big corporations might be sharing stuff unwittingly with people that they don't want to share it with.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1585521/000119312519...

Top of page 21 in their SEC filing:

"In addition, we have a high concentration of research and development personnel in China, which could expose us to market scrutiny regarding the integrity of our solution or data security features. Any security compromise in our industry, whether actual or perceived, could harm our reputation, erode confidence in the effectiveness of our security measures, negatively affect our ability to attract new customers and hosts, cause existing customers to elect not to renew their subscriptions or subject us to third-party lawsuits, regulatory fines or other action or liability, which could harm our business."
Great time to practice macro!
How do we decide who gets to sit on the "reasonable" court? And how will its decisions be enforced against those who prefer not to recognise its authority?

What does it mean to be "somehow connected to" historical actions? (Is today's Spain responsible for the fate of the Incas? Is Italy "connected to" abuses committed by the Roman empire?)

I don't know where/how to draw a line. (Fortunately, I'm not in a position to be asked to do so.)
A few predictions early in the pandemic about life,work and the world
Speaking as someone who did physics in college:

Science, whatever that means, has become sclerotic and harmful to the public. It's held up as a paradigm of reason and hope but if anything it's full of politics and lies and has been for a long while. Let's talk evidence:

* It's looking like the last 40 years of string theory has been a boondoggle.

* Pretty clear that most of medicine is based on fraud and regulatory capture - we know that most chronic treatments and even public health advice is just plain wrong. If this is new to you, any book by Gary Taubes is a reasonable introduction.

* Even within climate science, the models aren't as clear cut as we tell the public. If however we do believe the models (which is reasonable to do!) then things are going to be so dire that we can't tell the public or they'll freak out. Buying an electric car or not flying isn't going to do anything - we need to be massively carbon negative to have any impact at all. You should assume the absolute worst climate predictions are a reasonable picture of the future.

* The reproducability crisis. We know most science journals are now full of BS.

My proposed solution is that we have the death penalty for anyone who conducts experiments that aren't triple-blind. It's the only way to get any real evidence.

So, you know, science is wonderful. But science-as-done-by-humans is a morass of sewage and it's not entirely surprising the public don't believe in it any more, there are plenty of "hard" scientists that don't either.
It really isn't. Full stop.
https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/fpo4y5/brot...
There is another study from Harvard released this week saying the same thing about multiple surges of containment:

[1] https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/927586
I would call them “good” or “competitive”. There is no such thing as a “best” lens. It’s all about what you are looking for. My “best” lens for portraits is an old manual Pentax lens which is quite flawed but the images just look great.
Quite an inflammatory title too. Don’t tell me what to do.
the quality and value of both Designer & Photo is exceptional. I got a personal license for both and a 5-pack for work. Not being bound to a SaaS/subscription model was key.

one thing that's odd is that you cannot export to bmp. it's been requested on their forums but continues to be strangely absent.
Right, I was thinking the same thing, that you can easily just upload the file. The reason I thought of it is I showed this to my wife (who absolutely loves this btw!) and she immediately seemed confused when I explained the need to export the file. I've since convinced her but I wonder if this will not be obvious to those without a techie showing them?

Anyways if you are interested in adding this feel free to give me a ping I'd be happy to help! daniels.bytes at the google (daniel-bytes on Github). Again amazing job on this! <3
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Most home owners hate airbnb in their area, so I disagree.
Habitable exoplanets could be found orbiting binary stars
I'm really liking Affinity Designer whenever I've tried it; it does pretty much everything that I use Illustrator for.

I just wish it could properly injest .AI files. It opens them, but only does things with the PDF header part, resulting in a loss of all groupings. Things like long vectors (think trail routes on a hike/bike trail map) become split into LOTS of little pieces.

Affinity Designer is great if you're starting and sticking in it, but moving complex Illustrator docs into it kinda falls apart. :(
Come to London and walk from its one side to another.Half of the city is built using the money stolen or simply taken away from other countries. And eventually, even though it takes a while, all these shady actions start haunting the country and its current citizens end up paying for it one way or another.
Probably a combination of observation records, which aren't that old, and computed valued from analysis of sources such as ice cores. Obviously this is not the highest temperature winter in the northern hemisphere over the existence of the planet but may indeed be the warmest out of those periods from which we have records, observed or imputed.
No, they don't? There are very few companies that record your phone calls/video calls, then transcribe them into text. Then store the data for themselves. This includes any data that we shared in the session. Why can't Zoom just come out and explain why they do this? Seems pretty simple. If you asked me?
Try to compile a library that uses gets() or K&R syntax in a C17 compiler.
Every GTK app I've ever used that didn't come with the OS (granted, I've never actually paid for one) is, compared to most electron apps, a) ugly/buggy, and b) feature-anemic, because it's so much less easy to add features to it. And as a user, I've never noticed a performance difference. I know Electron uses more memory and such, but it just doesn't impact actual usage in my experience. Whereas things not getting implemented because of developer friction absolutely does.
Competition accomplishes the same thing. Look at any area where Comcast or AT&T have competition, they shape up very quickly. DOCSIS 3.0 and 3.1 are actually very fast. Cable companies know however that if the better the internet they sell, the more they canabalize their ability to sell cable TV. They want to sell you data twice and one of their giant sources of revenue is something people would rather leave behind.
Well Fuiji seems to be doing great too but I didnt mention them because they arent one of the top manufacturers for professional cameras at the time. I personally have both an a7ii and xt2, and I much prefer the fuji.
I, at one time, worked on a tool, commercial and external to the compiler, that did this (among other things). Probably the most intellectually challenging job I have ever had. I am happy static analysis makes inroads into mainstream!

Few takeaways from that time: inter procedural matters: if your function reallocated a pointer passed as an argument, you want to treat it as ‘free’ regarding this argument, and conversely, if your function returns a newly allocated memory, you want to mark it as such, and so on. There is also a trade off between the breadth of the analysis and the human ability to comprehend it, author mentions 110 node path in the article.

The subject of my unfinished PhD thesis and something I hope also picks up is the combination of static and dynamic analysis, used iteratively. If your static analysis flags a suspicious path but does not have the means to figure out if it is true or not, instrument it and leave it to the dynamic analysis to run through it (the idea here that total instrumentation a la valgrind is detrimental to performance so you will get some gain from selective instrumentation). Conversely, dynamic analysis may provide some hints as to where static analysis should be applied at a greater depth and provide automatic annotation of functions with regard to their behaviour and - possibly - invariants, that help with the state explosion.
Nope, their main money drain is people and people that they don't really need at that.

Does it take the thousands of people they have to support a couple of apps and a website + user support? No.
The "fallacy" breaks down pretty quickly when we consider its implications. If we were to follow the suggestions given, we shouldn't be using:

- Email services such as SES or Sendgrid

- Password auth services such as Firebase

- Chat services such as Twilio

You might say those are extreme examples, and that's the whole point. Clearly there are a ton of use-cases where it makes sense to build reusable services once, and using it across many clients. Not just for "enhancements", but as an integral part of your service's functionality. So how and where do we draw the line between reusable services and avoiding service-dependencies? That's the real question we should be asking, and one I don't see being answered in the article.
I tried in Chrome as well and the same thing happens. I actually created 2 page spanning resume and it does not print properly.
I think it's a mistake to confuse parental leave and other forms of extended leave with paid sick days. Any small business should be able to handle a worker out sick for a few days. I agree that when we reach the scale of months, that's a cost better addressed collectively.
I haven’t checked these links for a couple of years, but here’s a collection of distributed systems reading lists I compiled.

https://gist.github.com/macintux/6227368