skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're presenting slides, you want your audience to see which slide you are on - you don't want to hope that they manage to navigate to the right place in their copy of your slides.

Secondly, skeumorphism isn't a dirty word. Sure, the flat-ui crowd have tried to make it dirty, but it has value. Even though it is by design an artificial representation of a real world thing, that doesn't mean there is no value in helping the viewer auto-associate it with the real world thing. Although it is out of style, I daresay it is more effective than the current UI situation we are in these days.

Minimalist (and but not necessarily flat) UIs often give the viewer almost nothing to go on. The skeumorphic designs of the 2000s at least helped the user have a clue what the thing was about.
So you don't think travel from China should have been shutdown until later?
Indeed. Had my eyes on this for a long time until release, then just around those days had too much to do and missed out on it completely. All sold out. :(
FDA-approved drug Ivermectin shown to inhibit SARS-CoV-2 replication in vitro
These papers are older and in regards to malaria, but the mechanism in regards to hemozoin is theoretically the same:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-51604-z

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00207...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4928194/

https://www.pnas.org/content/114/29/7483
I would say don't even worry about finishing. Document what you've got and move on. Eventually you might come back to it, or steal parts of it for something else.
You're completely correct. What I was trying to communicate, and what I should have emphasized, is that it's not just a send and forget kind of process. After the items have been set aside you get an email/text to confirm that things are ready to pickup and in my experience everything that I've ordered is there when I go to pick it up. So I'm saying that the things that were listed as in stock on the website are actually in stock at the store, and I get a confirmation once everything has been "secured" for me.
I think one of the issues here is incentive. Politicians' incentives don't always align with those of the population. In this case they can put out a strong warning and start acting with lockdowns etc or say everything is fine.

If they say everything is fine, then either 1) things are, in which case they look good after the fact for remaining calm or 2) things go south and they can deflect and point to other countries that are in the same boat.

If on the other hand they warn of incoming disaster and lock things down, still one of two things happen. 1) everything is indeed fine and they get destroyed for crashing the economy. or 2) the economy gets locked down and the pandemic isn't so severe. But the damage to the economy is still there and there will be no higher death count that could've happened to compare against. In this case they probably won't get much credit either.

So it seems to them then start acting early brings no benefits and only downsides.
There will be a lot of people who already had coronavirus, for whom the risks may be significantly lower. Of course, that depends entirely on whether immunity accompanies their return to negative status. If so, I can easily imagine them rapidly returning to irl socializing.
The linked Wikipedia article[1] on CSP says

> communicating sequential processes (CSP) is a formal language for describing patterns of interaction in concurrent systems

The Libcsp project says it’s influenced by CSP. Does libcsp stick to this formal language?

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicating_sequential_proce...
> It's easy to dismiss fandom as just for the sake of it. I've heard it about Apple and Nintendo and in both cases it just seems like a lazy way to dismiss other people valuing things differently. Mostly, anyways.

i find the "people value things differently" a lazy way to dismiss objective issues people have with the products.

> Do you really think that I and so many others are spending hours playing a game with so many flaws just because it's Nintendo?

in a way yes. i'm playing the game too btw. i'll stop soon because the stuff i feel they were lazy and/or stubborn on is starting to really wear on me. if they would have just applied even a modicum of effort to the multiplayer aspect and upgrades to the game, then animal crossing: new horizons would be an amazing game. instead, families are out buying entire new switch consoles just to be able to enjoy a game, among other things. so please tell me what other gaming company could get away with that? just the one-to-one relationship between island and console alone is enough to go insane, not to mention how confusing it is to understand before purchasing a switch and game in the first place. what other modern game do you know of that's like that, where a game instance / save file is forever tied to a single console? that's just one issue. i honestly do not know of a single company that could get away with it besides nintendo because (1) people have to come to expect inanity from them in these aspects and (2) since it's nintendo.

other companies, that people don't like, like activision, EA, ubisoft, etc., will get raked over the coals if they do something gamers don't like. of course, a lot of that is with microtransactions these days, which are horrible, but they will also get called out on other aspects. usually, those companies will at least attempt to address it because they're forced to. nintendo only addresses what they want, and they absolutely refuse to address online play in a sensible way. and their fanbase just roles with it and will downplay issues. they have online issues in every single game they release, and it nearly ruins the games. it's why i don't play splatoon, mario kart, or super smash online much or at all anymore. they make it way too difficult to do so, so much so that i stop playing the wonderful games.
This is great. Does anyone remember quakelive? Around 2010 it was playable in the browser via a browser plugin. Loved playing it on my macbook. I don't recall if the plugin was flash or a java applet but when support stopped for those quakelive moved to steam as a desktop app.

Edit: Per wikipedia it used NAPI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake_Live
There are DBs that can get you that info. Some even tell you when the number was ported which is useful to catch mobile number takeovers. Things have moved beyond NPA/NXX lookups.
Kayfabe is also apparently a convenient method for sidestepping an entire discipline for ideological purposes.

>Perhaps confusing battles between "quantum" and "classical" physicists could be best understood as happening within a single "orthodox promotion" given that both groups suffered no injury from failing (equally) to develop a unified theory of gravity.
USAA fits that bill for me.
GDP correlates with life expectancy, so you can't separate deaths and economy as if they were behaving in isolation from each other like you seem to assume in your tantrum.
> They are likely not considering that even the younger are taking as much as a 1% risk of their life, which is incredibly high. Depending on factors like the load on the medical community at the time and others, it can get as high as 5% or more quite easily as we have seen around the world. Currently using only napkin math from the numbers here[1], the death rate is currently at just under 4% over all age groups in the US.

Those are pretty high numbers. Using a Lancet study (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...), IFR is just under 0.1% for a 30 something year old. Hospitalization rates are at 3.5% (2-7% confidence), so a death rate (for 30 year olds) even under a collapsing medical systems for younger people is highly unlikely to get close to 5%.

All said, a 0.1% death rate is still pretty dangerous and catching the disease is something like raising your risk of death by 50% in a given year. Lockdowns are still justified under those numbers.

> Finally, flu deaths almost exclusively happen in the immunocompromised and elderly, while COVID-19 affects younger people a LOT more.

Well, and old people even more. Are the relative risk ratios actually different for covid vs. flu - or are we just seeing the effect of a disease that is 7xish a really bad flu season?

(For young children actually, I believe covid outcomes are better than flu.)
LibreOffice can embed the source document when exporting to PDF. They call this feature Hybrid PDF.
It seems like it would be ideal to synchronize with tech. Have an official "slide we're on" that the presenter advances, but also allowing people to navigate independently of that when they care to.

"Could you go back three slides?" also breaks the flow.
I am not a native english speaker and it was really difficult for me to read this essay and understand its purpose.
Is this writing style considered "good"?
This was discussed a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22738607, although the submission was a corporate press release.

A bit from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19466001

A thread from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14687858
There is some really interesting interplay here between forecasting and decisionmaking. (Taleb would have a lot to say here, along the lines of "forecasters are poor.") Maybe it makes sense that forecasts should be measured, but decisions should be, well, decisive.

A good Bayesian should be able to make confident decisions based on information available at the moment, while acknowledging that lack of information is leading to suboptimal decisions.

For example, a leader can be absolutely confident that shelter-in-place is the best decision based on the available information, while acknowledging that there is missing information that would drastically change this assessment.
Didn't build it - used it to play Werewolf with some friends yesterday

Pretty neat word game! Will have to try
> The one that thought they would obtain some "herd immunity" by doing nothing, and then realizing cases were skyrocketing mimicked what other countries were doing?

Yes, that one. This was the study that convinced the UK government to change course from the original unrestrained herd immunity strategy.
This whole thread is about Apple & Google holding an unfair monopoly position and controlling distribution. Besides that being a lot more relevant for B2C, none of what you said goes against that (yes, Android still allows side-loading, riddled with warnings, only viable for business customers).

No point being successful in marketing if Apple decides to summarily remove your app from the store for no good reason at all.
Since everyone who are into pcap analyses are looking, I cannot help but drop references to two other open source DPI products that are worth considering for some use cases.

The first one I authored myself many years ago and has been dormant for a long time although I'd certainly enjoy working on it again if an opportunity arises:
https://github.com/rixed/junkie

The other one seems to stand in the same niche of highly specific, optimised programmable DPI, but I'm obviously much less familiar with it:
https://github.com/DanieleDeSensi/peafowl
Thank you! I didn't know this existed, it puts my mind at ease for now.
I found my way out.

The thing I had to do is to find some themes that I am idealistic about and stick to those. The project is just a mode of exploring the theme, which means that each project and my skillset grows as needed to accommodate. The projects you are describing are completely non-thematic and are just bundles of features, so of course there's no structure to them, no reason to keep going and seeing what's next. And you are probably not money-and-sales-motivated, which is the thing that drives a lot of obvious business ventures.

The first step in finding the theme is in "knowing thyself", of course - strengths, weaknesses, inclinations. Write and rewrite the set of things about yourself that is maximally coherent and self-reinforcing. Then drive down that road as far as you can go: What types of projects does that support? Gradually you'll hit on a common theme, and then you can really start building.

Another way to force this along is this art advice: "Draw the same thing every day." This is a rather crushing challenge to take on, for no matter the subject matter, you'll tire of it, but it quickly brings out your inclinations and therefore the themes you want to work with.
and comparing "estimated contamination cases vs associated death" to "a known-positive cases vs. associated death" is mistake number 3.

CDC data shows 220k known-tested-positive case and 22k associated death. The 36 millions case is pulled out of a hat. As per these number, seasonal flu kills 10% of the known-positive cases.
Monoprice is a good place to go for adapters and cables and such.
Having to raise another round before their planned IPO? I'm assuming this is a down round?
If that hypothesis correct then we should be able to test it with blood transfusions, or possibly hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT). HBOT can be used to treat patients with severe carbon monoxide poisoning. Even though their hemoglobin is unavailable, enough oxygen dissolves into the blood to prevent ischemia.
> So many people seem to think that providing low quality translations is improving accessibility. It isn't. It's doing the opposite, pure english websites provide much better UX to international users.

Good to know
"Outer space", Jebediah approved!
The first part of this isn't quite correct if I am remembering correctly. Flash (or at least the engine behind it) is still on both Android and iPhone platforms through its app equivelant called Air. There's a lot of things that use Air... to give you an idea, Angry Birds was first written and deployed to Air. So though Apple complained about performance issues, they were not the biggest deal. If I was to take a guess, it was mainly to prevent the web from competing with the app store. So I think his comment is at least somewhat right. Apple didn't want an app store competitor (think Kongregate or Newgrounds competing with the games part of the app store)
China suppressed the outbreak, but is still seeing double digit new cases per day. It could easily see a huge outbreak in a few weeks and based on past behavior should not be trusted to continue exporting medical supplies.
I try to answer recruiters even when I'm not interested. A simple: "Hi [so and so], thank you for reaching out to me. Unfortunately, I am not interested in this opportunity. Best of luck in your research".

Simple, to the point, takes 3 seconds to copy/paste and help recruiters to move on to the next person.

If I was a recruiter I think I'd rather receive a rejection email than no answer.
It's quite common in my experience to require enrollment to be able to get access. And it's not always the company's device, employees can choose to enroll their own devices if they want mobile access.
White House Covid-19 Mortality Estimates Fall by 90%
De-paywalled: https://archive.is/53b25
Yes! It was essentially Quake3 but in the browser. Not sure when they transitioned away from the free browser-based version, but it's still available on Steam.
Boris Johnson Moved to Intensive Care
Your comparison doesn’t make sense, the same measures we are using to save lives from coronavirus also stop the spread of the flu. For instance in Hong Kong the flu season ended 3 months early because they began social distancing in January to protect themselves from coronavirus.

The difference is the flu is much less deadly than coronavirus when you catch it. The only reason flu deaths are higher for the year at the moment is because the flu is already spread worldwide starting every year in flu season, which begins around September/October in the northern hemisphere, whereas Coronavirus didn’t even emerge in humans till late November/December, was highly localized to one region of China and transmission out of china was slowed by a dramatic lockdown of 750 million chinese citizens and travel restrictions placed by external countries in January.

The video Paul Graham references includes many examples of people saying they aren’t worried about the disease and that even if they catch it there’s no reason to be worried, in reality we are seeing plenty of relatively healthy people who would not have been killed by flu dying from the disease.
> this is librejs complaint

What does this mean/imply exactly?
> he famously called it a hoax

He did not. If you read it in some news article, please do yourself a favor and do not use this news source anymore. If somebody of your friends told you that, please keep loving them as friends but accept anything they say with a grain of salt as they may be more gullible than you thought.

What Trump actually said is that his opponents suggestion that he doesn't do enough to counter the epidemic is the next hoax (previous one obviously being, in his opinion, the impeachment proceedings). This is somewhat unusual application of word "hoax", as "hoax" usually refers to false statement of fact, and whether Trump is doing a good job is not a fact but an opinion, which you can disagree with but it can't be "hoax". What he obviously meant is that his opponents unjustifiedly accuse him of doing poor job, and he expressed it in the usual Trumpian manner, sacrificing precision for expressiveness. What he didn't ever say is that the epidemic itself is a "hoax" and everybody that told you he did, unfortunately, lied to you, either knowingly (because they hate Trump and think it's ok to sacrifice the truth for the noble goal of getting rid of Trump, somehow thinking when they do it, as opposed to Trump doing it, it's ok) or unknowingly (being deceived by the former kind).

This is one of the examples of how tribal things are. All Trump says is available in transcripts. Not many - especially from the opposing tribe - bother to read them and actually know what he says before forming (or, rather, confirming the pre-existing) opinion on the matter.

You can get the words e.g. here: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-coronavirus-rally-re... - I choose a source that is not in Trump's tribe so that there was no doubt their conclusion that Trump didn't say coronavirus is a hoax is not tribally motivated.
Do people appreciate that denial of the severity of this virus came from all political quarters?

Here's one showing the mistakes of left-leaning media I found in 2 seconds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=36&v=wVDPVBZF2Xg

It's just as easy to find supercuts of Pelosi, DeBlasio, and other prominent Democrats telling people that they didn't need to start social distancing or that the virus wasn't airborne contagious.

Bad judgement is a human failing that cuts across party lines. To think that this is a long-term credibility problem for only some people shows a lack of a healthy diversity of news sources. At the end of this, everyone will go back to their teams' dugouts and prepare for the next political battle. Nothing will have been learned about credibility.
Some of the best medical minds with best education rejected evidence that washing hands before surgery saves lives for like 50 years.

Anyway X doesn't work on severe cases when there is compelling anecdotal evidence that X helps on medium cases to not progress to severe is, so give them X earlier is what I read in the OP word.
I prefer Swarm for that. First I decide what I want to check in (restaurants: yes, my condo building, not so much). Also, I prefer manually checkin in than having google track every single place I've been to in my life (i'm on iOS).
"How does China not have mass deaths atm then? They have lied a lot in Wuhan, but they can't outright hide mass kill offs."

They have almost certainly hidden mass deaths:
"WUHAN COVID-19 DEATH TOLL MAY BE IN TENS OF THOUSANDS, DATA ON CREMATIONS AND SHIPMENTS OF URNS SUGGEST"

https://www.newsweek.com/wuhan-covid-19-death-toll-may-tens-...

As the old saying goes: "The truth will out."
Basically yes, a custom datachannel implementation. Haven't updated it lately, but it's up at https://github.com/seemk/WebUDP
Daringfireball holds people accountable all the time, in particular for wrong prognostications. It's semi hilarious, in that it's relieving.
This is so wrong I do not know where to start.

ADAM17 is responsible for shedding of ACE2 from the cell which creates soluble ACE2. If ACE2 is not ON the cell the virus cannot infect the cell.

ADAM17, like ACE2 is a zinc finger protein and uses zinc as a cofactor.

Also, zinc is widely understood to lower the immune response by affecting interferon levels.

It is not only about intracellular zinc. But in a deficiency intracellular zinc has even less chance of being brought into the cell, right?

To say that zinc does not matter because hydroxychloroquin is absurd.
Not sure the specifics, but I don’t think it was flash or java because you had to install a native extension.
Note this is from 2017. Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13982620
A Little Clojure
Does groupon have a meaningful amount of incoming data?
First, is the manager new to the group or new to the organization?

If the manager new to the group then you need to be careful, could be someone's buddy,relative, or has been tagged for "great things" by senior management. Do your homework on the new person first.

Even if the person is new to the organization, they still may be connected in your organization.

The fact that he doesn't want to talk to you means he either wants you gone or already has a plan in place to make you gone, he might have a friend he wants to hire.

I got whacked from a job that way. New CEO, hires his buddy. I report to the buddy, the buddy won't speak with me ever, for any reason. He holds 1-1's with everyone but me. He even has rules for how the 1-1's take place, no communication for me. I was working on something very important for the company, once I finished the work, it took 8 months. Two days later I got a meeting invite from him, entitled "catch up". I assumed I was getting fired. When I got on the call, the first thing out of my mouth was, "Hello Mr.s VP of HR" I shocked the hell out of her, then proceeded to tell her the my boss never speaks to me and since he sent me an invite after completing my project it must of have meant that I was getting fired.

I got fired on Friday, and my replacement started on Monday, he worked with the my boss and the CEO at their previous company. I found out later that being able to hire the friend was part of the agreement before my boss took his job. I got fired without my boss ever having spoken to me. Apparently he was incredibly impressed with me, but he wanted his buddy.
It depends on the jurisdiction. In many European countries for example, it's not that clear cut.
Facebook starts prompting US users to fill Covid-19 survey to help track virus
He's not on a ventilator yet as far as we know
subjectiveness aside, exceptions generally are relatively expensive..

In Java : http://java-performance.info/throwing-an-exception-in-java-i...

In C# : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/exceptions/...

In C++ : https://pspdfkit.com/blog/2020/performance-overhead-of-excep...
Perhaps a better comparison to the switch statement is

if (c == 4) return 30;
if (c == 5) return 70;
return 0;
This prompted me to take a look at quakelive again. It's been years since I last played but I was hooked for a while. This might get me back into it.