skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Isn't the point of getting inside the opponents OODA loop to force them to make decisions faster than they are able to sensibly and ergo force wrong decisions. If you get inside your own loop by hurrying your decision making forcing wrong decisions how is that sensible?

Nope. The point is if I am inside their OODA loop, I can make decisions and react quicker than the adversary. Now they are reacting to my decisions and I have the advantage.

> It also seems obviously untrue that acting on a wrong decision is better than doing nothing. The results of a wrong decision could of course be worse than the results of not making a decision in haste.

The keyword there is "could be". That's what makes leadership hard. You have to know when is enough information to make a decision, and when you need to wait. Or if you made the wrong decision, what can you do now?

EDIT: For an example, there's a small brewery down the street that cannot can all of their beer. Making beer takes 3 weeks at least. So there's predictions of COVID-19 ending in May to Sept. So what is the right choice? Do I hope that it ends early and brew beer in a couple of weeks, or do I wait until Sept? What about all of the perishable supplies I have now?

It does me a lot more harm to wait until the "all clear" and then order supplies. Why? Everybody else will do the same thing, and now I am out of beer for three weeks (and longer for other beer). That is a lot of revenue left on the table lost.

What about making it now? Well if I am too hasty, now I have beer that will skunk because I cannot sell it fast enough.

So the brewery owner needs to see what info they have now (obverse, orient), and decide and act. What will cost me more money?
AFAIK yes, but then, they are just as equally Halal compliant and felt the need to specially cater for that group of dietary needs over another - would love to know the logic going on there upon this.
New Pathogen, Old Politics: What we can learn from the response to Cholera
> Dr. Birx is worried that people will see masks as a substitute for other measures like social distancing, hand washing, and avoiding touching your face.

Just one point, but I have an interesting observation here:

Earlier this week I finally found some masks, and last night wore one to the grocery store for the first time. It's about a 10-minute walk each way, and I encounter 5-6 dog-walkers in that distance.

Usually the dog-walkers don't bother with social distancing, but while I was wearing the mask about half of them went out of their way to go around me.
The vehicle didn't even have any engines on it when it failed. SpaceX was planning to perform cryogenic pressure tests with simulated engine thrust, then if that was successful, mount three Raptor engines and perform static fire tests and flight tests.
Look at this article: https://www.marketplace.org/2020/03/30/countries-race-to-lim...

Pretty much 30+ countries (including EU) has setup export restrictions. Why are we surprised that US is doing it?
My guess is the DoE had a bunch of people without much to do, and a bunch of facilities not being used.
Perhaps it would make more sense to offer kosher rather than halal, since Muslims accept kosher, whereas Jews don't accept halal (because not blessed by a rabbi, I believe).
i'm sure it means many things to many people :) obv i only speak myself here

ignoring framework stuff (bc everyone seems to agree there) i'd say if your js qualifies as "vanilla" if it can run in a relatively recent browser without a build step or other transformations. you might further ES5-ify, uglify and minify it for practical reasons, but that must be an optional thing

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since we're splitting hairs, we could also distinguish "theoretically vanilla js" - js that's standard ECMAScript so it'll run fine when browser catch up, but it's not supported just yet and thus needs transforming. this would exclude non-standard extensions like JSX

and note that i don't mean "vanilla" as any sort of value judgement! it's a practical description of how it works, not some kind of platonic ideal to aspire to – frameworks, webpack, Babel etc provide useful solutions for the shortcomings of the browser platform and ecosystem. the thing i was talking about is a single-file internal tool, and compat isn't a problem; if it was user-facing, i'd probably use some ES5-ifying tool myself. and i'd probably use JSX if i was doing a React thing, because it's great - inline HTML is an underappreciated convenience in PHP!
Hmm... I agree that looks sketchy.
I think what happened in the OP is crazy and insensitive, but 45 days is ridiculous.
It's not so strange that Reiki works; it's a form of placebo effect. Placebos work, despite there provably being no active ingredient at work, and there being no reason at all for them to work except for the belief of the recipient. There's a good reason why new medicine needs to be proven to be better than a placebo in a double-blind study, and not merely better than no treatment at all with patients who know what they're getting. It is because a placebo does have effect.

Of course this belief is not going to cure cancer or broken bones, but it can reduce pain, nausea or affect other feelings. And feelings do matter. Our mind is not detached from our body, it is part of it. What we believe influences what we do, how our bodies react. How our bodies heal.

As a parent, I cure a lot of my kid's injuries with a kiss. It's surprisingly effective. No idea why. It's pure placebo, but it helps.

Placebos are still a poorly understood field. I've read that the placebo effect has been getting measurably stronger of the past few decades. How is that possible? And the size and colour of placebo pills matters. Believing that the placebo is the real thing rather than a placebo also helps, but even if you do know it's just a placebo, it can still have some effect.

The human mind is weird and still poorly understood. I don't want to get mystical about it; the mumbo jumbo behind reiki with its ki energy and all is most likely total nonsense. But our mind is part of our body, and what we think and believe influences what we do and how our body behaves. So believing in it may still help, which creates an ethical conundrum: is it okay to lie to someone when that lie has been proven to be good for their health? I honestly don't know. I often think I'm too skeptical to receive much benefit from these 'alternative treatments', just like a kiss is unlikely to make an adult's pain go away. I like believing the truth. But in this case believing the lie might be better for you. I'm still not sure how I feel about that.
We’ve seen this before.

The guide to modern front-end isn’t hard. Learn html, with css for styling and raw vanilla JS for a bit of interactivity.

Learn git so you don’t lose your work. May be deploy with GitHub pages.

That’s it, everything else will come later when you experience the pain for it.
Do you get food banks in the US?
well I have been considering buying my parents the Apple Watch, however this requires an iPhone to pair with even if you just have watch without cellular connectivity. An iPad will not work.

So a low entry priced phone pair up would make it more palatable to me if not others.
Considering firmware as part of the hardware from a higher-level view is not necessarily that weird in itself. It really depends on the details. I.e. a simple microcontroller with a program in ROM is also "firmware", but not all that different from a pure electronic ciruit. For more complex systems it becomes a more difficult question.

Also, why would detecting a closed iPad sleeve require "electro-magnet based communication"? Seems like detecting presence of a magnet would be enough.
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/781/373/b1e...
Regarding your first paragraph: At least in a lot of european countries, income tax isn't even the most lucrative tax for the government.

Additionally quite a few working people aren't paying income tax. When you can deduct 13k from your income each year, not many people working for a supermarket are paying income taxes for example. Example, Amazon and VW are creating high revenue in Austria and Germany yet their taxation is laughable. Maybe we shouldn't look that hard at income tax to support UBI
A somewhat related concurrent news item: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22767843 "Hardware Microphone Disconnect in Mac and iPad"
I use http://valentina-db.com, it also have a free version and support others dbs, like sqlite and sql server.
They were already doing that for NYC students, so I guess they are simply scaling the operation with the infrastructure and logistics already in place.

Should this program continue after the pandemic, then it would be weird to keep running under DoE.
Article is here: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/14/eaay9095

Earlier work is described in the U of I press release: https://mechanical.illinois.edu/news/force-triggers-gene-exp... and available to read here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5121013/

Glad that none of the work was behind paywall!
Geoquery. That's a very difficult query to efficiently index: requires learning about WGS84 to get the right answer even for computing the radius.
So, without tax income where does the UBI come from? Printing money will just lead to inflation, which could defeat the purpose of the UBI.
Vegan and gluten-free really starts to balloon the already immense challenge they are facing trying to implement here. I feel bad for the three people that actually need gluten-free, but everyone else will have to eat “that deadly gluten!”
Yes, and also one of the few avenues of legal suicide in the UK and many countries that do not easily or legally allow assisted suicide for those wanting it to avoid further suffering.
"Vegetarian and halal options available at all sites"

Doesn't solve every dietary restriction, but that's honestly more than I expected to be available. It seems well thought out.
This is a lifeline for workers who have been laid-off with no prospects of getting back to work anytime soon. Unfortunately, this may be the new normal...
> No. I was describing what NVC is. The book, this thread, the culture of people like you pushing it in the workplace is what I wrote. The book encourages a language form, the proponents of the book push a language form, you are pushing a 'communication style'.

I'm sorry, but:

1. You haven't read the book.

2. You are falsely accusing me of pushing it in the workplace. Do you work at my workplace and know me?

3. I am not pushing a 'communication style'. Nowhere in this thread or anywhere else have I suggested that one should follow it. I've expressed my like for it - that's all.

If you have concluded all this about me, then I must say I do not trust at all what you say about the people "pushing" NVC at your work place. And frankly, your comments remind me of people who make all kinds of claims about, say, Muslims/Islam without understanding anything about them.

> you are hired for your individual skills at a particular task.

Rarely. This is true for contract jobs, but not employment. People are usually hired with a project in mind, and then anything else we give them.

> at the end of the day everybody does the work by themselves

Also rare. If you're committing code to a shared codebase, you are not working by yourself.

> I would look forward to working with people that want to talk about mission critical issues more than they want (apparently) to spend talking about feelings and structuring sentences.

As I said - I don't talk about communications issues at work unless it is clearly affecting people (e.g. someone complains). And when that happens, your communication style has become something that affects mission critical issues.

I may practice NVC on occasion[1], but NVC doesn't require or request others to do so, and insisting others do so pretty much violates the NVC approach.

> We have been working together as groups for thousands of years, it's unlikely a new fad book is going to have a solution to 'communication', one of the most fundamental things we do as humans.

Again, as one who has not read the book, you cannot appreciate how your comment sounds to those who have. To give an extreme example: Imagine a popular book today talking about the need to be truthful, and imagine someone on the Internet coming in and saying "People have been dealing with each other for thousands of years. I don't want to read some new fad book." As I said earlier, Rosenberg didn't invent NVC. He merely identified its existence. Most people I've seen who successfully destress a situation are using NVC without having heard of it. I listen to a radio show where the host does a fantastic job of getting people to speak honestly (local issues and conflicts in my cities). He doesn't get people to say "I feel X because of my need for Y", but he is practicing NVC. I should email him and ask if he's even heard of NVC.

I don't practice NVC because I think it's a new thing that's cool and awesome (BTW, the book is older than many people here). I practice it because after reading it, I noticed it everywhere in the world. It's not at all new.

[1] And it really is on occasion. Anyone who knows NVC can see I'm not practicing it in these comments.
Placebo is known to be good!

It's reasonable that Reiki should be compared with no intervention, which is the realistic alternative.
If you're gonna go for the pulse method with a blade grinder, the recommendation is that you should also shake the grinder between pulses. See below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS8igZyhNFw
> How is hardware-controlled-by-software different from plain old software-controlled?

Perhaps it’s that the hardware interlock on the microphone can be enabled by software, but can only be disabled by a physical action (i.e. opening the lid.)
Agreed. Their utility was overstated. For roughly the same price I could get an uber to go a short distance, or just take a bus. Plus I live in Canada, so they're only a thing for a few months during the summer/fall.
Taxing only the wealthiest americans could easily fund a UBI for everyone else. The middle class will not have to make any sacrifices
Because the Department of Education has a ton of currently unused high capacity kitchens and access to supplies. In addition the DOE runs similar programs, such as a free summer lunch for kids, and so has the organizational know-how to run a program of this scope.
I personally this time around, I found no need to even use a framework for unit testing a single javascript function.

If I had to do something that feels too complex, I'd write some interfaces in TypeScript to represent the tuples, then implement the function in TS, and compile it into plain JS in order to deploy it to plv8.
https://brrr.money/
Nice, how have you been made aware of this? Is there a list of freely available material at Springer?
From my brief meeting with someone who did Reiki, it seemed to involve a lot of hovering, and zero touching. Maybe there are different styles.

I agree a touching studying would be worthwhile. But I'm not sure Reiki is evidence supporting one.

I googled a bit and found this:

> Will the Reiki Practitioner’s hands touch me in any way?

> At your option. Reiki may be done with a light gentle pressure static touch or the Practitioner’s hands may be a few inches/centimeters above your body at the hand positions with no actual touch. There are standard hand placements beginning at your head or feet, avoiding all sensitive body parts. Let your Practitioner know prior to the session which you prefer, light touch or no touch.

https://iarp.org/reiki-sessions-what-to-expect/
NYC had a pre-existing large scale school lunch program (more than lunches, they offered breakfast and after-school food too). It has been repurposed.
I think you're noticing the "soap opera effect" which is caused by increasing the frame rate with motion interpolation. You can normally find a way to turn it off.

https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/soap-opera-effect-m...
Ask HN: Rule/Condition Libraries?
Hello,

Does anyone know what https://niftyimages.com/imgs/rulesets/conditions2.jpg type libraries are typically called? I've been spending hours trying to find the name of them and I cannot find out what they are called.

Thanks!
I'm as nerdy as the next guy here but I enjoyed the opener.
The question is why it was ever discouraged, and why it's taken so long for authorities to admit they were wrong. (Supply shortage seems like a terrible excuse to me given the simplicity of masks and the DPA etc.) It is incredibly obvious that masks do something and that their use helps explain the successful response to the pandemic in Singapore and Korea.

It's also something that will need to be mandated to have an effect. Authorities are all too happy to order workers to stay home and create incredible hardship for themselves, but ignore common sense measures like mask usage.
That feeling when you're done with writing documentation but you just can't shake the impulse to document that fact.
Seems like an extremely obvious thing to do, and yet so few places are willing/able. The food kitchens in the bay area are being hammered right now and we're barely 3 weeks into the shutdown. This is not something that private charity can handle.
I had to resort to a VM (Parallels) because the external mic I bought does not get recognized by PyCharm - I think it's a permissions issue of some sort. Either way, it's very annoying.
I though slavery was having a job you couldn't quit and weren't paid for? Having no job and guaranteed income seems pretty far from being owned by another human.
The cold hard reality of machine learning is that most useful data isn't readily available to just be collected. Semi-supervised and weakly supervised learning, data augmentation, multi-task learning, these are the things that will enable machine learning for the majority of companies out there who need to build datasets and potentially leverage domain expertise somehow to bootstrap intelligent features in their apps. This is great work in that direction for computer vision.

Even the giants are recognizing this fact and are leveraging it to great effect. Some keywords to search for good papers and projects: Overton, Snorkel, Snorkel Metal
That article indicates a schedule slip on SpaceX's earlier moon plans from 2018, though.
Polish government considers selective qurantine of exposed only
Thanks for the link.

In case you are interested, here is a larger study from in Wuhan that showed lower time to recovery on hydroxychloroquine: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.22.20040758v...
Just because they aren't able to serve your exact needs doesn't mean they shouldn't serve millions of others.

Maybe if you reached out you could encourage them to provide whatever your exact needs are? My guess is it's more than just you in your shoes.
You will find there are more than just `three` people given how many gluten-free restaurants there are in the area:

https://ny.eater.com/maps/nyc-best-gluten-free-restaurants

Maybe you have data that shows those `three` people eat a lot and able to sustain all those restaurants?
In this category, I strongly recommend Art of the Meta-Object Protocol. I've been through it 5 times now, and each time it bends my brain in a completely new way.
I use it as a simple static site generator and for generating C++. The thing I dislike most is that it uses ` and ' for quoting and there is no easy way of escaping quotes.
This is something that already existed I think.
Then you must not have been talking to people. I’ve had to argue with way too many people since January who believe masks don’t work. I don’t know if people here are living in a pro-mask bubble or what, because there are too many people who believe they don’t work.
Yes, but they usually rely on donations.

Also, a lot of needy children get their primary meals at school.
Standup Mathematician
https://covidstudy.zoo.ox.ac.uk/
Exactly. What I'd like to see is Reiki practitioners who do not believe in the mumbo-jumbo, perhaps don't even know about it, but simply perform the same actions that the Reiki practitioners do. Will that matter for the effectiveness? Do they need to talk to the patient about healing energy channels, or can they talk about something else?
Assuming you need this, your alternatives would be a food bank, church, or grocery store (for what you could afford, etc).

Given they aren't checking ID's, or taking payment, and that schools tend to have a decent amount of open space, it's probably one of the safer options.
This is why people need to learn to listen to their intuition and their common sense instead of losing out to the tyranny of the experts during critical situations.

I don't care if the experts don't want a run on masks. Anyone of modest intelligence knows that paper with little holes in it impedes the movement of air and droplets. Even if a mask is poorly sealed, surely it does something for both the infected and the uninfected, yet we've allowed the authorities, the experts, to gaslight us into accepting that the sky is blue so that they could augment their supply with masks intended to be sold to civilians. Under normal circumstances, individuals can afford to wait for evidence and listen to it. Now there are people who are going to die because they trusted the idea that they shouldn't wear a harmless piece of paper.

If they didn't want a run on masks, they should have chosen to say something other than an insult to our intelligence, and then backtrack. And if you don't believe that the CDC, WHO, journalism outlets, were begging people to not wear masks back in February, I have to wonder what rock you've been living under.
"Your revenue plans are no longer valid."

Probably my favorite line in the script :)
Overtime Sports lays off 30 workers without severance, healthcare
We have food banks in the US. Many are under heavy stress right now from what I understand. At least one food bank near me has already expressed needs for donations through local media sources.
It’s pickup only with no dining space on site. Which means people can just stand six feet apart and be reasonably safe.
> As early as 2001-2002... from mysql to postgres.

MySql was pretty bad in the first versions. I'm in the enterprise/erp development world, and when I look at mysql when it start to show in the radar, I can't believe the joke.

MySql get good around 5? Now I can say all major DBs are good enough not matter what you chosee, (still think PG is the best around) but MySql was always the more risky proposition, the PHP of the db engines...
I'm pretty sure this was directed at all exports. They were caught sending masks to China and other countries that were willing to pay a premium. This isn't a Canadian thing.

The USA sends billions in disaster relief around the world every year. At the moment they have an emergency situation where there is no spare capacity to supply PPE to other countries.

An unfortunate situation but completely understandable.
Yes we do, but they are charities, and generally related to religious organizations.

My experience with homelessness and lgbt issues taught me that relying on the charity of others, and not a formal social safety net, will only drive marginalized people further to the margins. Relying on someone else wanting to feel good about themselves to get what you need to survive isn't a good model.
Yes. https://ntfb.org/
You can read your result off the serology test if you like, it'll just look something like this: https://homehealth-uk.com/all-products/coronavirus-test-kit-...
Vacuum bag filter material can come very close to N95. Anything that reduces viral load has benefits. Viral load being how much of it you are blasted with at once. Less is more survivable.
I was sick in September/October with a cold, then left with anosmia for a few weeks. Saw a specialist who prescribed nasal steroids. No fever though. Never had amnosmia before in my life, and an pretty healthy. Anosmia is scary.
The flu was bad this year in early Feb. I had what I call covid symptoms but I tested positive for the flu.