skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interesting proxy for CPU evolution is seeing the recommendations shift in communities like reddit.com/r/buildapc. Last year many medium to high end builds were choosing intel CPUs, but now most are recommending AMD. The last bastion will be professional gamers and streamers when they upgrade their 9900KS level CPUs - likely when the new 3080 gpus come out.

Good on AMD for pushing the competition forward by significant amounts.
I think the point of "additional water" is key! Modernist Bread claims that tangzhong doesn't increase softness/volume. But, as I read their experiment, it sounds like they made breads with/without tangzhong but keeping the total water content constant.
You would have to do this every day, too. Getting tested doesn't mean you are not exposed on the way home that day, or the way back to work. Also, what if you wanted to go to multiple places in the same day? You would have to be tested n-times, as you could have been infected going from one business to the other.

What I do not hear people talking about is this: Getting tested once is not enough. If you do not have COVID-19 today, it doesn't mean you are not going to have it tomorrow. The only test that can tell you that is an antibody test. Also, we don't even know yet (for sure, anyway) if people can be re-infected.
It says additional $5 per order. I don't know how many orders per hour is typical, but this could easily be $20-50/hour if the deliveries can be batched by location?

For the record, I'd be perfectly happy with the price of these delivery services increasing by $5 if it went to the gig worker fulfilling it. That's already a lot less than I tip food delivery drivers.
"Your IP Address has been blocked - Please contact dl-support@acm.org" :(

After just 100 DLs. Does anyone know whether I really have to write a mail or will the block get lifted after x hours?
This is an excellent quote. I'd like to attribute it properly -- would you mind naming this professor?
These days short term rental desks are a much smaller part of WeWork's business. Between enterprise business (about 1/3 of the Fortune 500 lease entire floors or buildings from WeWork) and SMBs on yearly contracts, they will be fine. If everyone just stops paying rent to landlords, WeWork can do that too. The ones left holding the bag are the property owners - so being on long term leases is probably the best position for them.

After the IPO fiasco they did a pretty good job of bringing in actual adults to run the business.
This is so cool! Questions for engineers:

How much work would it take to go from this process to producing a working chip in his garage, like a 6502 or something? Would it be at all feasible? He did point out a ton of defects in the final product, probably due to dust or scratches in his equipment/materials. Would it be possible to clean this up enough to get 1-2 usable chips from a single sheet of 4x5 film? Without turning his garage into a clean room?
Of course cancer is not one thing. But the truth is research with the little money we spend on it, is very advanced if you take almost any cancer into account. What is missing is money to push these efforts into final results.
This matches what I saw in academia.

Many non-academics seem to have this view that science is full of senior researchers with political motivations stifling good ideas and gaming the grant system for personal gain. I can't say that people don't game the system, but in my experience it was very much a symptom of an already broken system.

As I see it, there certainly isn't enough funding (in the US) but that's not actually the primary problem. The issue is the processes used to allocate the funding (IMO). The funding cutoffs are _extremely_ competitive (because there isn't enough to go around) and renewals are typically every 4 to 5 years, but the system doesn't seem to be designed with funding stability in mind. It creates an incredibly stressful and uncertain climate, so of course people group up and game the system to varying degrees.

(I almost want to describe the climate as feast and famine, but that's not right because there doesn't seem to be much in the way of feasts - just slightly less famine.)
well.. there is CONFIG_PREEMPT and the even broader CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT in linux [1].

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
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Although, be careful with your Vitamin K intake if you're highly sedentary. Increases the risk of blood clotting problems.

It's not a problem if you're active though.
First thing I checked, sadly missing considering the amount of medical field data on it coming out of China/East.
That is a falicy. Because we got something you notice it, but you have no idea what we missed because we were focused on what we got instead of something else. Maybe we would get smart phones sooner in some other alternative universe, we don't know.

If the money spent on space and military was spent on genetic engineering we might not have smart phones, but we would have fire breathing dragons!
But we're talking about a painting that was sitting in a museum, stored and cared for in ideal conditions and available to the general public. Sounds like it already fulfilled its purpose, without needing to be stolen and traded around by thieves.
It was added in 2016 (with maybe a bit of permissions refinement since then): https://www.cultofmac.com/446151/apple-adds-real-time-collab...
My father fought in Vietnam and that is how he began. By the time he left he wanted to kill as many VC as possible or leave or whatever but that is one man's experience.

Are you so sure that if you had been able to ask your father immediately after his return what he thought of the Germans or the Japanese he'd tell the same story?
I know what that word means, but only because it appeared in Asimov's "The Stars, Like Dust", which I finished two days ago. I didn't know what it meant, and had to look it up.
I lived in a similar place and I somewhat miss it.

It isn't just parking spaces, the neighborhood was designed with walking in mind.
Many streets had shops at the bottom floor, and I could do all my errands on foot.

My elderly grandparents still live there. In a small radius around their building is a grocery store, medical clinic and a bus stop. They could live independently for a long time after they lost the ability to drive.
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It's almost obscene to conflate "masks don't work" and "please don't use masks because there's a critical shortage".

If you want to be believed, you have to be honest.
Done to this awful extent, it's not just a stylistic choice but a UX error. Human brains optimized for reading initially recognize words and phrases based in part on their shape, and orthographic conventions like initial majuscules and bullet lists evolved to facilitate that recognition in support of legibility.

Abusing semicolons in this way is, in the most strictly pedantic sense, not syntactically incorrect inasmuch as a semicolon joins independent clauses. But that's like saying you can use a flathead screwdriver in place of a cold chisel. Sure, if you hammer on it hard enough for long enough, you can eventually muddle through, as long as you don't mind making an unserviceable mess of the work. But it's still the wrong tool - just as are thirty-five semicolons here.

Syntactically permissible or not, this usage is nonetheless an error, not because it is stylistically grotesque - although it is also that - but because it actively impairs legibility rather than promoting it.
Second that, and also parent poster thinks you can fix people problems with "build moreee hoouses".

There is no technology that fixes people problems. I would say Skynet from Terminator was onto something but still failed :)
A source on recent press expulsions in China.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/business/media/china-expe...
Looks like there are ~40 bachelors degree programs including in tech, business, family something, and professional something.

The WGU (wgu.edu) mentioned elsewhere here is also probably very good.
> This Japanese technique

No Japanese anything is called "tangzhong".

The technique is called "yudane" in Japanese: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B9%AF%E7%A8%AE

That's written 湯種, where "yu" and "tane" are the Japanese native words corresponding to these character. "Tangzhong" may a romanization of a Chinese re-reading of this spelling. (For comparison, the Sino-Japanese reading ("onyomi"), if there were one, would likely be "tanshu".)

By the way, we know this is of Japanese origin because the word "tane" has meanings like "material" and "leaven dough". It's written 種, but that 種 character only has that meaning when it denotes "tane" in Japanese.
Edge cases are the difference between good job and perfect job. It makes no sense to use edge cases to say it qualifies as neither.

> If it's not a hard budget but a complex set of rules to disable services... then you already have that today. Use the alarms and APIs to turn off what you don't need.

I have been describing a simple set of rules, not a complex one.

It used to be extremely difficult to get accurate usage data on all their services. Has that been fixed? If not, then the alarms aren't good enough. If the alarms can automate enough right now, in a non-buggy way, then that should be the answer to people "hey, the alarms do more than alarm, use them to trigger shutdowns". Don't say "it can't be done, sorry". If the alarms aren't good enough for that automation, then the argument stands.

And using the APIs means that each company that wants safety is duplicating effort in an almost untested way, a recipe for so many bugs it makes the problem worse. No, this needs to be a feature of AWS itself.
Only thing notable here is the date-picker redesign... Nice.

I'm still waiting on a combined date + time picker.. Individually using both to accomplish one thing is such pain to use.
Good point. But also currently research requires expensive equipment, interdisciplinary cooperation. It all takes money. So its true. Throwing money at a problem does not solve it. But its not possible even for a brightest people do the research if they dont have money for research tools and financial safety.
The US has been politically antiscience for this entire administration. It's not a matter of funding more science. It's about voting out politicians that seek to benefit themselves instead of thinking about what science can do, and what science has already done for humanity.

I also would like to counter - science doesn't need any more money. Money distorts the progress of science (for example, look at the grants system - what a dumpster fire). What science needs is proper primary and secondary education and a healthy population. Start with fixing schools and healthcare, and you'll have so much science you wouldn't be able to stop it.
"mask is designed to filter out at least 95% of particles that are 0.3 microns or larger in size"

Isnt the coronavirus much smaller than .3 microns?
In those troubled times, a lot of people are just critisizing instead of doing something useful. There is a bibliography studying the effects of chloroquine and derivates to fight viruses. As scientists, the base of our work is to read papers and search for bibliography. Targeting people with ad hominem attacks is plain lame. Do some science FFS, and act swiftly in times of war.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092485792...

https://aac.asm.org/content/53/8/3416

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006291X0...

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1743-422X-2-69

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016635420...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S147330990...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016635421...

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00535-009-0132-9

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1743-422X-3-39
It really is remarkable how far ahead of it's time Watercolor really was, and then they just killed it.
Technical fixes or market-driven fixes cannot help when the underlying philosophy used to set objectives for research and economic activity is wrong.

Some of the world's most severe and urgent problems are caused by (western?) society's emphasis on individualism -- or maybe that's a bit unfair, arguably it is fairly human for humans to be short-sighted and selfish much of the time. E.g. global warming is a huge problem, but global warming is just a symptom of the underlying problems of overpopulation and overconsumption. I don't really believe we can fix those two underlying problems by continuing to operate within the same individualist market-driven philosophy.

E.g. most people want a comfortable place to live, children, opportunities for their children, a way to make a living, cheap food, cheap luxuries, cheap travel, medical care when they are sick. Governments, researchers and business strive to provide these -- but arguably most of these activities are harmful where they encourage consumption or discourage population reduction.

With a market-driven individualist approach we (as the collective human endeavour) just keep doing what we are already doing a bit more efficiently or a bit faster, which doesn't address the problem of what we individually demand -- which the market & research moves to supply -- is bad for the collective in the long run.

I think there's a clearer version of an argument along these lines in one of Yuval Noah Harari's books (although he may not have the same outlook or conclusion that I do).
Maybe. It sounds like the routes in demand are long haul flights, which I don't think a lot of narrow-body jets are capable of doing. Most jet airliners are narrow-bodies.
You're probably looking for "selection bias" in some sense, where the photos exist but they aren't being looked for so they aren't found.
December 1914 was a very different world upon the front lines of WWI from Movember 1918. People still thought that war would looks something like the Franco-Prussian War.

> You don’t do it on the front lines, you do it before they get to the battle field.

I think you do it by exposing people to years of misery and loss. But a boatload of propaganda doesn't hurt.
You can just enjoy it for yourself, in a private room. I'm not that much of an art fan, but I'd love to have an authentic Van Gogh in front of my bed. I guess a rich art fan who doesn't care about ethics would be thrilled as well.
I hadn't come across biolayer interferometry before. According to this manufacturer of surface plasmon resonance equipment, it's like a less good version of surface plasmon resonance:

https://www.reichertspr.com/resources/white-paper/
Science Based Covid-19 home treatments
Do yall know if how many deaths were from critical cases, I'm assuming some deaths were determined post mortem from people who did not receive critical care. The UK published numbers showing 50% survival rate for people who had to get admitted to the ICU so a surface reading of the stats on the page might indicated a 5 % survival rate in Japan or no relationship at all depending upon interpretation.
No, $2.5Bi is not a lot of money to save thousands of lives. The US wastes untold billions of dollars with war equipment that will probably NEVER be used, on a yearly basis.
> Investors and donors—this is where we can help. Please consider shifting some of your focus and capital to scientific efforts addressing the pandemic. (And future pandemics too—I think this will be a before-and-after moment in the world, and until we can defend against new viruses quickly, things are going to be different.)

Although the sentiment resonates, the business logic does not.

Consider antibiotic drugs. Big Pharma and biotechs alike have been jettisoning programs. Why? It has nothing to do with science. These drugs simply aren't as profitable as others:

> Several major pharmaceutical companies recently shut down their antibiotic and antiviral research projects, backing away from the growing threat of superbugs, which may kill more than 10 million people a year by 2050.

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/pharmacy/big-pharma-ba...

How much do you think a cure for COVID-19 will make its creator? Be careful when you answer, because you'll need to include all of the R&D effort in the calculation, and also consider the opportunity cost of not pursuing something more profitable.

The next pandemic (or even this one) won't be cut short by science moonshots. It will take a fundamental shift in how the highly-unprofitable activity of developing drugs taken for a very short period of time and only once gets funded.
Pokémon Go adjusts to the quarantine era
Gitlab features that are moving to open source
Order that Bidet toilet seat asap direct from the manufacturer and with next day shipping.

And, of course, all the other financially intelligent things to transmit.
> Free stuff for everyone enables a level of governmental abuse that makes domestic violence seem tame in comparison. The sad

Please enlighten me. Given for instance the enormeous amount, 6.4 trillion, is spend by the US on wars the last 20 year. That's about 888 million per day, everyday over the last 20 year. And who benefitted? You tell me.

Now lets divide that by the number of americans, it comes down to 80,000 dollars per month per american. That could have been awarded as a social program to increase the happiness of peolpe, or that needs to be paid by those same people in either taxes or inflation (or printing money, aka quantative easing, as bankers refer to it).

Now you compare that --in my view rather utopian view-- to domestica violence, and conclude that DV is worse! Dude, you may have some hatred to anything socialist, but this is next level.

I know a good one. I take the 80k/month, you the abuse. Pfff...
> I have read a lot of history books which delve into diaries and correspondence of individuals fighting in front line situations. The respectful weighing of the other side's reasons for fighting is overwhelmed by a desire to kill them in graphic and brutal ways.

Odd. I've read a lot of war correspondence and history as well, being kind of addicted to that stuff on Youtube, and I haven't encountered the sort of overwhelming pathological hatred and programming you describe be mentioned often enough to assume that it applies as a near-universal constant.

Are you sure you're not just taking one or two instances from, say, World War 2 and the Vietnam War and assuming all war is like Full Metal Jacket or something? It certainly seems like you're projecting.
Machine translation of cortical activity to text with an encoder–decoder
Funny thing it would be right thing, right now. In 5 or 10 years that "right thing" could as easily become yet another problem.

Also most of the time right thing is not "right thing" for everyone because there will be always group of people who think totally opposite is the right thing to do.
>We have pretty much all the answers, the problem is to align our power with our values.

And the alignment has to be deeper in our society. A good example would be all the money spent trying to find a cure for baldness. Imagine if the funds were directed elsewhere if there weren't so many people willing to spend money curing baldness.

But does changing our values mean the people who are caring about not going bald turn their resources elsewhere. Or should we look into why these people care so much. Is it that hair, and especially natural hair, plays such a large role in attractiveness that we need to change? Maybe what we need to change is not the desire of people to be more attractive, but what society deems as attractive.

This gets even harder and more outlandish when you consider people with what even more deviant values. How much would it cost to end slavery?
Seychelles Creates a Marine Reserve Twice the Size of Great Britain
Money does get smart people interested. Of course they have their own ideas, but money directs things.

I'm a great C++ programmer (or so I like to think) because I have been paid to write C++. I could write any other language if I had been paid (and I have but the rest were unique to the client)
I think R&D is going to be a lot cheaper when you have the FDA authorizing emergency compassionate use for promising drugs.

>The next pandemic (or even this one) won't be cut short by science moonshots

Why not? We are basically in wartime conditions. Even if the government doesn't relax it's rules, there's a high likelihood that enough hospitals/doctors will to conduct high risk trials on critically ill patients. Now is the best time for moon shots.
“I am extremely pissed off that this happened,”
the museum’s director Jan Rudolph de Lorm said at a press conference on Monday.
Birds sing seconds after ear-blasting gun shots. Really?
The linked article finally helped me understand how Rust implements async. Give it a shot.
I've used a Bloomberg terminal and most of my social circle has as well. I guess maybe difficult isn't the right word to describe it,
but definitely uninviting on purpose. And a lot of my friends get a kick out of how uninviting it looks and how much they feel like a wizard using it. Theres definitely an aspect to the way it looks unrefined that make people love it, and I guess a better way of saying it might be that trying to emulate that by making something actually inaccessible and unrefined is not going to be successful
> Untold amounts of human effort are exhausted globally every day on rebuilding identical components for web apps. This should not be the case. The UI community should standardize namings and structures for common components.

It's so tempting to think of all the efficiency that could be gained if we'd stop replicating the same work and just all decide how to do things 'right', unfortunately though this isn't how the best results are achieved.

This is fundamentally a conversation about markets - in this case for ideas. Lots of parallel work is done in a distributed manner, much of it is wasted, but because of the competition between and combination of different ideas, you get emergent results that are really finely tuned to what people actually want in practice.

Top down planning won't get you this. You'll have less waste, to be sure, but you'll also have inferior results.
Cancer’s not one thing but there’s some things you can do to generally improve your odds.

A doctor and an oncologist won’t tell you these things because they’re not even thinking about them. They likely don’t even know how to answer the question “can vitamins help some cancers?” Instead, mine repeated word for word responses about how we get most of our vitamins from a healthy diet. Then said he’d have to look it up.

Ask them about IGF1 levels, fasting, ketogenic diets they mostly won’t know. They simply say there is NOTHING you can do to prevent getting cancer.

It’s the system’s fault, the doctors and surgeons are just human beings who have no incentive to be practical.
Masks do and can increase pressure in lungs, the reason intubation is used is to provide fluid drainage, prevent choking. So that the critical patient does not drown.
Other than that, they're equivalent. Cheeks can puff out only so far.
And war is full of atrocities because people just cannot being themselves to do bad things to eachother?

I am not making a basic argument for the goodness or lack thereof in people. Only that war changes the rationale and emotional stability of people. It makes the illogical or unthinkable into the next logical step.
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I'm excitedly awaiting for the Ryzen 4000 Thinkpad anouncements, hopefully I can get to upgrade my aging P51. First time I'm exited for a tech launch in a long time.
Found the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJif4i9NRdI

See him solder @ 3:08.
May I recommend Futurological Congress? Everything is in there, too.
I wonder whether UI component patterns have, in fact, stabilized, and whether an attempt to standardize them could result in stagnation.