skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh wow. Currently in Bosnia & Hercegovina, did not expect to see this on the front page of HN. There are so many here. They are impressive to see in person. The one in Sarajevo is a monument to WWII soldiers: https://www.spomenikdatabase.org/sarajevo

Also, Stećak, the medieval version: https://bazerdzan.ba/blogs/blog/stecak-the-true-bosnian-trea...
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I like the results of this study but I noticed n=14 so I'm not going to put too much weight on all the findings. Would be nice to see this replicated with other, equivalent fasting schedules.

Still, reading this makes me want to continue eating early dinner, drinking coffee black, and skipping breakfast experiment (which has a n=1 sample size). Even if there were not health benefits (which I'm sure there are), I like the mental clarity++ it brings.
I suspect it stops being so nice when you want to do something equivalent to go's `select` statement. Though that's purely speculation, and if I'm wrong it should definitely go in the examples!
Rust and Go are even less popular than Ruby but glad to hear about Java and Python. Either one of them has at least 5x the market penetration of all currently supported languages combined, and at least 10x of all of them but Ruby combined.
Science and proof is not based on consensus. It’s not a vote. A best bet. Until then we should of course act towards the most probable act and cause but remain healthy in our skepticism of the effect of global warming and our faith in computer modeling of inherently chaotic systems.
A bit of a tangent, but I notice a bit of a problem with the definition of a good program: Having a long lifespan is the hallmark of a bad program, not a good one.

Compare a good program and a bad program: The good one is easy to adapt, and to decouple. The bad one is an incomprehensible mess with tentacles sprawling in all kinds of weird directions.

This means over time it is very easy to change and decouple the good one, causing it to morph to a worse state or shrink. The bad one will resist these tendencies and stay unmodified in its place. Hence, the only way for a good program to survive is becoming worse.

This happens especially in enterprise environments: Every few years, someone enters and decides to change everything. This tends to happen irrespective of the value of the software.

It always turns out replacing horrible software will cost way to much, cause huge downtime, and the only person who stil dares touching it has no reason to change the situation and every reason to defend the fiefdom. Meanwhile, good software almost nevers survives the new manager syndrome or the hordes of fresh externals descending on it every few years to rearchitect and refactor it.

As a bonus, good software is by its nature a good training grounds for newbies, which rarely ends up making it better.

The end result is an evolutionary process where survival of the fittest ends up selecting for the worst of the worst software.
> It sometimes feels like there is the perception that twitter is worthless and devoid of meaningful information

My feeling has been there are nuggets of really good and really up-to-date information there, and there are some threads that are extremely informative, but signal-to-noise ratio is in general extremely close to zero and the hostility of the surrounding environment is unbelievably terrible.
The flu kills 290,000 to 650,000 per year worldwide according to WHO. Today we're still <80k for Corona, and new cases are slowing.
That is Ikea's usual modus operandi. Their merchandise is well designed and engineered for the most part. The cheap furniture is good - but only for the price. Some of the less cheap stuff is pretty good quality, like kitchens.
If you actually read the NYT article, it's really hard to come out of it thinking "1.7 million people will die". This is because of a few reasons:

1. They have a good, responsible title.

2. They bury the 1.7 million number a bit so you're forced to at least understand some of it.

3. They talk about how and why the estimates will change over time:

>“When people change their behavior," said Lauren Gardner, an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering who models epidemics, “those model parameters are no longer applicable,” so short-term forecasts are likely to be more accurate. “There is a lot of room for improvement if we act appropriately.”

I see no reason why this article shouldn't have been posted in its current form.

Of course, as you get further away from good sources of news, you're going to get less responsible reporting. NYT is an example of very high quality reporting.

CNN at the time probably had a breaking news line item on TV of "1.7 million could die". This would be irresponsible.

Fox News at the time probably had a breaking news line item on TV of "It's just the flu". This would be irresponsible.

And that's certainly a problem.
Adjusting the FOV and resolution is also worthwhile if you have a widescreen monitor.

Open the console with ~ and enter:

r_mode -1
r_customheight 1080
r_customwidth 1920
cg_fov 100

Simply replace the height/width and FOV with your desired values, and enjoy the game in native resolution and wider field of view.
> wait, if i read that rigth it will just show a notification. what's wrong with that?

The criticism is directed at the way it is designed, which many see as a deliberate way to harass the user through poor user experience:

- It will show the notifications for 4 days on the lockscreen.

- It will then show the notifications for 15 days on the Settings app.

- It will then show the notification forever in the Settings > General > About section.

Does anyone really like a notification that is persistent and does not go away even if you want it to?

All they need to do is show it once. And if they wanted to, create a new section in Setting called "Hardware" that would then display the hardware details of replaceable parts (ofcourse, it is a different debate that Apple claims there are no user replaceable parts).
if the intent is to bypass monitoring someone can use their phone

Not if phones are checked in at the security desk when you arrive, there is a phone jammer operating in the building, and compliance staff are patrolling to make sure no one has smuggled a phone in. These measures are normal on most trading floors.
There's a vaccine for the flu. There isn't one for Covid-19. Even if it's "only as bad" as the flu, the lack of vaccines makes a huge difference.
Same for CV-driven work: the adoption of modern "devops" tools is an endless bad surprise.
A BIG advantage of Twitter is that get to hear from the persons themselves totally without filtering by the media. Maybe you do or don't like what some public figure who posts on Twitter says, but at least DO get just what THEY said.
I want to do this, but instead of it being games, more like listening circles oriented around human needs, envisioning the future, getting empathy and support, etc. as a means of some sort of eventual consensus building. i also have limited time to develop this because I'm a full-time parent. Anyone able to help or point me in a direction to keep the idea moving?
I simply do not believe those figures at all.

How can you even claim an "average death rate" when you don't even know how many people were infected, had mild symptoms, and recovered without reporting it to anyone?

Of course the numbers will look scary when you only count hospitalized people as infected.
This is wrong, Half Life was released in 1998, quake 3 arena in 1999.
Thanks!

> If something seems fake to me, but I am not sure if _you_ believe it is fake or not (and vice versa), we both might pretend something is real for the sake of not offending one another.

Yeah, I guess this is why I was referring to slightly cleaner game-theoretic formulations, but perhaps missed the main point because I didn't quite find it clear. In some sense, though, the piece calls for "active collusion" with rehearsed point and counterpoints (as in, e.g., wrestling) which seems distinct than preference falsification, which is the part I'm having a hard time squaring with the article?
You might try looking at
https://theia-ide.org/#features
There is one in Excel VBA (I assume the Behavior is still the same) where IIRC “Sort” called from code leaves its criteria in the dialog box and if those parameters are omitted on a second sort, the previous ones are used unless cleared. This can make previously working code stop working when someone works on an unrelated part of the app.
We have much bigger illusions than wrestling. Ironically, a piece of fiction made the point much clearer to me:

“All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

MY POINT EXACTLY.”

― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

Likewise, paper money: https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Paper_Money
Tool built by a few ex-Uber folks to help Uber/Lyft drivers decide between Unemployment / PPP / EIDC. After answering a few questions it calculates the $ amounts available to you. Looks like there's a ton of variance in terms of $ amounts depending on one's specific situation.
Thanks, I hate it
Nobody seems to be talking about the actual reason Chinese doctors found chloroquine (and HCQ) interesting and it has nothing to do with it's immunosuppressing effect:

1) Chloroquine (and HCQ) is a zinc ionophore: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4182877/

2) Zinc seems to inhibit RNA polymerase of Coronaviruses in vitro https://www.researchgate.net/publication/47794995_Zn_Inhibit...

Their conclusion was that chloroquine could indeed allow zinc to enter the cell and then inhibit replication (and therefore that the treatment needed to be administered early).

Nobody seems to be talking about a very easy way to verify chloroquine (and HCQ) efficiency by just using the same method used in China:

Cross-check the list of patients infected with Lupus (lupus erythematosus) and with chronic HCQ treatment (they take it for years) with the list of known infected COVID19 patients.

In China (and specifically in Wuhan), this is how they (team of Dr Zhang Zhan) found out about the efficiency of HCQ. They noticed that there were no patients with chronic HCQ treatment for lupus (lupus erythematosus) infected with covid19. This was in peoples Hospital of Wuhan University (source: https://www.jqknews.com/news/388543-The_novel_coronavirus_pn...)

This alone would be enough to prove some efficiency even as prophyalxis (as they are advocating officially in India). This should be quite trivial to check with the current amount of confirmed infection.

These details were all explained in this medcram vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eeh054-Hx1U
I remember that! Perfect LAN game
> one day I plan on thinking deeply about what these people have in common because on the surface they seem rather random -- some are technologists, some aren't

I've had the same thought. I'm a software engineer in my 30s and I still use it religiously. I have a few friends who still use it, too. They are a high school teacher in his 30s, a project manager in her 30s, an attorney in her 40s, and an audio engineer in his 30s.
I know what you mean, and I can say that most of the categorization, which may seem arbitrary, reasonably comes from how those items are manufactured and used historically. An example is pipe versus tube; they are measured differently and have differences in ranges of wall thickness, precision and so on, because different needs and processes developed between pipes that carry fluids vs structural tubing. Most but not all people are going to want one category or another based on intended use, and probably have a highly-available size/thickness in mind already, too.

Getting things custom made is expensive, so customers are pressured to use what's widely available. Stocking lots of things not widely purchased is also expensive. These forces have been working for a long time to give us a pretty wide selection that covers most uses.
There are lots of books and such that can teach you, if you want it all at once.

I hope that by having short, daily lessons, it won't take up too much time and you'll actually learn better. Let me know when you're done!
Flash on Android existed, and I actually used it, and I can pretty much guarantee you it was never going to be competitive with the way it ran on contemporary smart phones. I don’t get how Flash applets on a website were ever at risk of competing with the app store. HTML and PWA is a more compelling option today than I think Flash ever was, and Apple contributed greatly to that fact with Webkit...
No, it's more like 5-10% lethal in certain demographic groups. It is 10x as lethal (1% as opposed to 0.1%) in the general population. And there has been enough testing in some regions to know pretty well. The pandemic is stressing hospitals wherever there is a large enough concentration of people. The flu just does not do that. Mainly because we have vaccines to keep R0 1.2 to 1.3. When we get vaccines it may be even less contagious than the flu. But right now it is significantly more contagious and significantly more deadly.
So is espresso, that doesn't mean a new café taking on Starbucks is going to succeed.
I'd rather design it so it's something anyone can play without having access to money for it. I love the idea of getting people to give up land, though I'd probably make it voluntary. Are you familiar with nomics?
Let's face it Home Depot is garbage. From my experience they fail completely when at the store (employees running away from you, ignoring you, trying to avoid being asked for help, etc). The store, the way it's setup, tries to agressively cut corners. (The default for checking out is self checkout)

I went to menards and I found the experience really rewarding. It's great. They're not a great company ecologically, labor rights, etc. However, 95% of the time I have a good experience when asking for help and with the prices.
Its mobile UI is broken all over on my system. But I am all in for getting inspired by exact Github UX/UI. They're the main reason I don't want to switch to alternatives even if I hate Github after MS-merger and following "improvements of the service".
I always press the "Seller: Newegg" button. This way I never get counterfeit stuff. On the other hand, specifying the seller to be Amazon on Amazon.com sometimes yields third party products in disguise.
Use your personal email accounts. Problem solved.
Yeah, entire departments are just setting up their own Zoom, Slack etc with no oversight, it’s crazy. Mostly in a way that anyone can just join too.
It's not just intubation but varying other protocols for treating sepsis, ARDS, etc depending on the exact set of symptoms. Even the ventilator itself is far from "hook it up and leave it" - there has to be a careful and up-to-date balance between getting enough oxygen into the bloodstream and not damaging the lungs more than absolutely necessary.

The people on a nasal cannula of oxygen probably only need limited skilled intervention and supervision, but once they're intubated it's pretty intensive.
> Lockdowns are still justified under those numbers.

And what if the effects of an extended lockdown is a tanked ecomony with a 3x increase in suicides for the next decade? Is it still justified? Lockdowns are only justified if the only variable you are optimizing for is "number of covid-19 deaths". Yet there are hundreds of other variables that we are ignoring in our quest to minimize that one variable. Impossible to tell now, but tanking the economy to flatten the curve may end up indirectly killing even more people in the long run.
I guess it kind of depends on how much you believe in the conspiracy of elites.

But even in the weak form of that conspiracy, it seems to me the exchange of people and ideas between think tanks, journalism, lobbyists, campaigns, consultancies and financial imstitutions does operate a lot according to this concept.

I guess regardless I think the idea is not to try to find exact examples of this but to understand that wrestling is a just a dramatic example of systems that operate more on fake information than real. I think the difference between this and economic models that incorporate misinformation is that those models tend to see misinformation as something distortionary and unwelcome in the system where this is considering systems that are basically predicated on false information.

But I guess that's still a bit banal and wouldn't be my first answer to the question what scientific concept should people internalize to be better thinkers.
The United States military could best be used to fight this by destroying (with warning) global fossil fuel infrastructure that wasn't voluntarily closed, bit by bit with a decade long schedule. The announcement alone would prompt a massive shift in energy production, use, investment etc. Our own legacy infrastructure would also have to be on the list. Call it a Paris accord with teeth.

It will never happen, because collectively we don't believe the cost of climate change is greater than the cost of leveling the landscape of incentives to reduce emissions + reducing emissions. The US could unilaterally leverage its remaining military lead to enact global change.
> Unlike in professional wrestling politicians, corporations, etc have real conflicts over zero sum games.

That's where wrestling can be so brilliant though. Often much of that heat and intrigue was more than a little informed by what was actually going on back stage.
I ask because I was recently doing background checks on a substance to mitigate nitric oxide induced lung damage (produced by damaged cells) which would work by by converting it to urea ... so maybe more than just amusing.

and for you
https://monarchinitiative.org/disease/MONDO:0005571
> as the cells walls of the lungs are broken down by the patient's immune system

If there is actually a real statistical anomaly that Lupus and other immune comprised people are less susceptible to certain parts of the virus, perhaps it's not the medication they take at all. It could simply be that someone who is immune compromised would not have as strong as a reaction as a healthy person and then may actually survive as a result. Less fluid, etc.
Also, I am in no way qualified medically, it's just a quarantine showerthought.
This is much better as it’s portable and doesn’t cheat by assuming awk/grep/etc are available.
It's a big ask, to have a binary operator and ternary operator that use the same symbol.
I'm curious how then do you deal with non responsiveness and buck passing when it's a matter of life or death (and not the war kind either)?

I mean, I hear what you are saying, maybe the letter writer has to be sacked.

But how do we deal with ineffectiveness and failure to address the situation? There is a lot of that apparently and playing political games doesn't solve it.

To be frank, if the military can't become more effective, enforce real responsibility and outcome, put people in charge who make good decisions rather than pass the buck and look to get on with a defense contractor, we are done anyway and China knowing guys on a ship are sick that week is deck chairs on the Titanic so to speak.
I'm sorry, its not even in hindsight. All you needed to do is look at what China was doing. It became very apparent that there was a major viral outbreak on-going in china around Luna New Year
Start local, I have been reaching out to some people I admire / great thinkers for zoom discussions. Everyone is home and probably looking for something fun to do.

I have been encouraging non C19 discussions, as we are inundated with updates and news articles non stop.
I guess it depends upon what you mean by "unfamiliar". Erlang's syntax is unnecessarily divergent from a lot of mainstream languages. So much so that it makes it more difficult for mainstream developers to get into.

Elixir was modeled after Ruby for a reason. That reason was Ruby's very approachable and intuitive syntax.
Insufficient data for an answer.
Real-time stream of COVID19 data to build event-driven applications
> Zoom Video execs made millions of dollars by dumping company stock during its recent price rallies.

Indeed, this sounds like clueless click bait. Anyone paying attention would think that the price of Zoom stock is headed up, not down. It's far from clear that they made "millions", or even any money at all.

And in either case "dumping" isn't unethical unless the dumper is acting on inside information, etc.
I find that a lecture given on a blackboard, where the speaker writes symbols and draws pictures while telling a story, is often a better way of explaining maths and physics. There is something about the visual and audio being "in-sync" that really helps listener to understand.
Cheering on another privacy invasive parasitic company? We need more of these ad tech companies failing and legislation banning their existence.

It's nice that they gave you a job but I hope you've moved on to something that contributes to society.
The advice (CDC/WHO) usually did include a statement that someone who was sick should wear a mask.

Of course it doesn’t make sense to tell people not to buy a box of masks if they aren’t sick because then how do you get a mask when you wake up coughing without going into the pharmacy and spreading it? And all the while through February and March evidence was growing that people might be infectious for a week or more before they got a cough.
I had this same thought. Here's Pelosi encouraging people to come to Chinatown.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFCzoXhNM6c

Also, we should be careful about how much we eviscerate people on both sides politically during this time. If our leaders are too afraid of repercussions to make difficult decisions, they may make bad decisions instead.

I'm calling for moratorium on partisan finger-pointing. I think we're all in this together, and that's the only way we're getting out of it.
FWIW I just ordered a bunch of shit from home depot, it arrived faster than amazon could deliver it and everything I was looking for was in stock. I've also never had any major complaints in person with unhelpful staff—just the opposite. My only gripe with them is the self checkout you mentioned (why am I doing the store's work for them?), which certainly is not going to improve if Amazon moves into the retail space.

I have no clue where this impression of competence on Amazon's behalf is coming from—I must simply have radically different luck with the service they provide.
Hey let's design looking backwards and ignore all future needs. Everyone will be happy. Because they all are about saving face and give minimum effort, enough to keep things working as is. It doesn't matter if it sacrifices future opportunities nobody can test that. Then it will be just a matter of fact. We will all just pretend this was unavoidable inherent complexity.

Imagine playing competitive RTS game and decisions were made with this attitude, tomorrow-not-my-problem as others don't have domain expertise to tell otherwise or they don't simply care to put themselves as opposing force and do your work to find better solution. In game you'd be doing seemingly ok and then get destroyed all of the sudden.