skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The people who are currently sick will either recover or die. Lock down can make the effective R0 below 1. When it is below 1 the disease will die on its own. Of course we would have to be locked for a very long time, but even if we won't wait that long the active infection curve will go down and buy us some time.
Buzzy work app Notion hits $2B valuation in new raise
Exactly. I know I'm waiting until they have herd immunity available for everyone.
"what you are really saying is that you want for-profit enterprises to behave in the manner expected of non-profit enterprises"

I mean, I do want them to behave differently that they have been previously, I don't know how you could interpret my comments otherwise.

I feel like you are arguing by definition - you have some definition of "for profit entities" that excludes morality. A definition can be anything you like, but I don't think that particular one has a referent in the real world - and it's obvious to me that it shouldn't.

So, for profit businesses operate under constraints already, and the only debate I can imagine is under what sort of constraints.
The Air Force has the basic doctrine of "Centralized Control, Decentralized Execution". In essence, thousands of aircraft can be controlled by a single commander but only to a certain point. In practice this means that the commander tells his planners what to do and they make a plan for all of the aircraft and how they will coordinate. It is then up to the commanders of those aircraft squadrons to make sure that their aircraft are in the right place at the right time and have the desired effect.
I recommend taking a look at this: https://github.com/fffaraz/awesome-cpp

It's a very well curated list containing both older and more recent projects realized in C++, neatly separated into categories.
Given that possible moves for each level are discrete, does your solver work with an algorithm or by trying all possible inputs?
> But honestly, you shouldn't run a tech company, if you cannot burn through a quarter.

Everyone knows this pandemic is going to last WAY longer than a quarter. Probably a year+
Well, that depends. Like most large companies, there's a "Criticism" section for it on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allstate#Criticism
I think it remains to be seen if the courts will allow arbitration agreements that are completely one-sided. I mean, a big part of the original Supreme Court rulings was that the arbitration proceedings would be impartial. Having an arbitration agreement with no timeline seems like it would be more likely to be overturned.
Wishing the death of other people is deeply inappropriate.
That seems unfairly stacked in favor of the defense. If they refuse to pay for the arbitration, that should be the same as if they just refuse to show up to court, i.e. default judgement in favor of the plaintiff.
You must have a reasonably short memory, because people said exactly the same sort of sensational things about Obama, and Bush Jr, and Clinton, and Bush Sr, and Reagan... There’s not really any truth or insight in what you just said. It’s simply an impassioned judgement about a politician you don’t like/disagree with/don’t trust/whatever...

The truth is that most politicians are corrupt on some level, most politicians are unduly influenced by lobbyists, few politicians truly care about their constituents, mass media doesn’t care about the truth, even though some of their employees might, they just care about revenue, for any political perspective you can think of, you’ll find a media outlet willing to pander to it.

I don’t think any of that is particularly controversial (or even insightful for that matter). I’d wager that most people would agree with that sentiment on some level. But they’ll tend to lose sight of reason when you suggest that “yes, that includes the politicians you like, and the media outlets that share your opinions”.

Any public figure of any significance is going to attract a tribe of impassioned haters. They tend to have no greater connection with the truth than that same persons tribe of fervent fans will.
I've looked at a little too much news in the last few weeks, it has not been good at all for my mental health. So starting today I've stopped looking at the news, it will only matter if there is mass civil unrest/riots.
I avoid them because of their known racist and sexist employee segregation.
Yep, that's really awesome. Quick question: If one implemented the whole thing again, using three.js or even raw webgl, would it be more performant that the compiled javascript version?
Joys of Supermarket Shopping in the Soviet Union (2017)
Rosetta home above 1 Petaflops
People should check out the Plan 9 libthread if they are interested http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/2/thread
That's a neat statue, but I'm not qualified to answer otherwise, sorry.
The models in OA seem unintentionally hilarious, alternating between stiff and low poly for some, and meticulously sculpted breasts for the others.
Johns Hopkins University is using the same map to convey global data as well: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594...
Car insurance is more than just insurance, though. For one thing, it's mandatory. A person with zero assets buying insurance is also missing the point of liability insurance, but they have to buy it anyway.
As long as they don't save the equity holders or bondholders in the process, I'm fine with that. The company is a financial disaster, but is currently contracted for some essential work.
I just realised last weekend was the fourth weekend without toilet paper on the shelves in my local supermarket. I'm sure they're getting it in, it's just never there when I go to (quickly, furtively) shop on weekends.
I used to work in Ad Operations (literally buying ad space and running campaigns) and can attest to the accuracy of this.

Clients were clueless: they had their metrics and they looked at them often, but from my interactions, deep understanding of those metrics and the realities behind them was lacking. The chain of technologies was patchwork and would rarely support all the required features from ad-serve back up to agency: click and view attribution was especially flaky and inconsistent. The adserving environment we worked in (in app) often had issues with view attribution, and we'd tell clients that, but we knew for a fact that some of our competitors didn't and clients would always ask us why our view attribution numbers were worse.

Combine that with more suspect behaviour from suppliers and competitors than you can poke a stick at (questionable traffic sources and campaigns that were probably outsourced from under you, suspect and plausibly forged numbers, etc) means that most of the metrics are plausibly poisoned with illegitimate data to a degree that is difficult if not impossible to nail down, which more or less makes lots of those metrics worthless.

> So my personal view on the industry is that it's mostly self-reinforcing bullshit. Doesn't change the fact that it generates stupid amounts of money, though.

Couldn't agree more.
Do you think that the price an insurance company sets for risk in advance is by definition correct?

I mean, something that comes to mind in terms of current events, people selling puts (stock options) just before the stuff hit the fan with COVID-19, were selling insurance. It seems really difficult in my mind to argue that that insurance was priced correctly just before the panic started.
No time spent creating new branches for new features.
No time spent switching between branches to address feedback.

I'm sorry but these are non-issues with git. The approach you've outlined makes collaboration on features impossible. Cherry-picking and rebasing does not scale for either teams, or lots of parallel workstreams.
In general, or just in physics? If the former, what is the evidence for that?
And here I thought China had the only culture in history that would torture women's feet... Sheesh, the image requirements society puts on women, especially on female performers, is insane.
If you're willing to compromise on material, I believe Organic thin-film transistors (OTFT) can be patterned using printers!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_field-effect_transisto...

Paper discussing characterizations and tradeoffs for designing processors for OTFTs:

http://parallel.princeton.edu/papers/micro17-chang.pdf
2-week Covid-19 forecast
Been evaluating Jitsi all day, pretty good! I'm actually kind of impressed. Anyone have more experience who can elaborate on limitations and weaknesses we should be aware of before expanding to a larger internal pilot?
The facts presented do not support the conclusion because COVID-19 is not the flu. This is the logic I see in the post:

1. COVID-19 has not killed more people than the flu in the US so far

2. Therefore COVID-19 is comparable to the flu

3. We have not responded so seriously to the flu in the past as we are to this new virus

4. Therefore... people are messed up, I'm shocked

I'm pointing out that [1] does not imply [2] for the very basic reason that the situation is still unfolding. I think you even recognize this ("This isn't to say COVID-19 isn't bad, or doesn't have the potential to become worse"), so I'm wondering why you would pin your conclusion on COVID-19 being comparable to the flu.

A pretty good video summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVIGhz3uwuQ
There would be no raw financial loss at the end of the day, but there sure is a lot of time loss involved for both parties. It gotta cost not a non-zero amount of money to deal with all those issues, while with a proper 2FA all those costs would be pretty much cut to zero.
Do your friends also flex in their profile pictures?

Edit: I'm sorry again. This article was about things you can do to present yourself well and all I'm saying is that I wouldn't hire him based his profile picture.
Secret Battle: a World War I novel that put the firing squad on trial (2019)
it would be great to see it end up more like PCB fabrication, where anyone can pick up open source tools and then send files off for fabrication in a few days/weeks at moderate cost... I'd pay a few hundred just for the novelty of getting a chip of my own design.

I do think the trends in the industry may allow this to happen in the next decade or so.
It is my understanding that Lean can formalize essentially all of mathematics, whether it's an epsilon-delta proof or otherwise. Not all proofs are computations, which is why some constructs must be labeled `noncomputable` but nonetheless the typer checker can verify the proof is valid.
Or that the article author is Managing Director of Thiel Capital.

I'll grant this is getting into Ad hominem territory, but I point it out because an 'it's all just a performance' viewpoint seems kind of worrying when you wield signifiant influence.
I wrote the thing with mobile and desktop on mind (touch and keyboard controls, render to several types of screen). Then this line does the magic:

const isMobile = /iPhone|iPad|iPod|Android/i.test(navigator.userAgent);

if isMobile = true, I show you the touch controls

I'm holding the source code on this one for now, cause I'm trying to make a bucket out of it. But I'll release it soon enough. Check out my github for some other fun projects as well
Isn't Nvidia's DGX-2 2 petaflops for $400k?
Not that I know of. And NJ is still full serve only as well.
For many of my searches, I simply type "search term xyz Reddit" to find more relevant results than what Google would throw at me.
In wartime it does, usually.
This isn't an accurate statement. I work on behalf of a federal government agency, and no one has write access in development, let alone production. Everything is required to run thru our ci/cd pipeline. Times are changing.
Wow this really runs like crap on Android!

Is there no way to control it without a mouse? After dropping in, I could hear sounds in the level room, with occasional odd crackle distortion.

Pretty cool.

https://i.imgur.com/1LvPTWh.jpg
I built an on-demand captioning and subtitling service
Yeah, I know, I was still being snarky. It was a non-apology. I'm bipolar and get that way sometimes.
> DoorDash got the bill for the 6,000 claims — more than $9 million.

> DoorDash balked, arguing in court that it couldn’t be sure that all of the claimants were legitimate dashers. The American Arbitration Association said the company had to pay anyway. It refused, and the claims were essentially dead.

How is that legal for binding arbitration? Didn't both sides agree that disputes will be resolved by arbitration?
by the way, the app version is a hybrid. I'm using java and javascript. I use a javascript interface to talk between the two. Java handles the ads and the data storage, the rest is javascript.
I never get why there is not a department in charge of checking orders that are obviously stuck before they become a support issue.
Which for some reason competes with another BBC website, https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/
There’s a mix there, AFAIK there’s no reason to believe the virus is a bioweapon.

On the other hand the fact that they were researching bat coronaviruses in the lab in the city where the outbreak began certainly is suggestive of a possible lab accident. I doubt we’ll ever find certainty of this though just like the 1977 outbreak of H1N1. Not impossible it’s just a coincidence either (after all SARS and MERS jumped to humans without any help).
If it was just PR, companies will spend $10 on ads talking about it for every $1 they give away. Give credit to the regulation when it works - next time someone says regulation is bad.. remember this.
I'm not so sure the author's thesis holds water.

During SpaceX's funding round last month, they raised $500M [1], $250M more than they were seeking (raise when you can!). Also, while the author disagrees with StarLink's expectation of access to the FCC’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund auction funds, I would hazard a guess that the FCC's business friendly modus operandi under the current administration would not require such a strict interpretation that only a terrestrial network would be eligible for access to those funds (even if StarLink can reallocate capacity across the globe on the fly). NASA and the DOD also seem fond of the work SpaceX is doing (ISS CRS [2], recent Lunar Gateway contract win [3], and the DoD funding a StarLink proof of concept [4] for high bandwidth low latency comms for fighter aircraft); the government dollars are likely to continue to flow.

Elon is no stranger to cutting fast and deep when necessary (see: Tesla, multiple times). If SpaceX was in peril, I very much doubt Musk would be unable to raise (again from CNBC: “It’s one of the most valuable private companies in the world and, with consistently oversubscribed capital raises, SpaceX shares rank among the most in demand of any pre-IPO companies.”), even accounting for the market's recent high volatility and turmoil. I also don't see the OneWeb bankruptcy as reducing SpaceX's $36B valuation; it leaves one less global comms competitor in the race.

Sidenote: The FCC should require ground station telemetry reporting to the FCC on a frequent cadence to ensure end users are receiving the throughput and capacity StarLink is committing to by obtaining FCC RDOF funds, but that's a discussion for another thread.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/09/spacex-raising-500-million-i...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Resupply_Services

[3] https://www.engadget.com/2020-03-28-nasa-spacex-lunar-gatewa...

[4] https://spacenews.com/air-force-enthusiastic-about-commercia...
If you think about it, this doesn’t really make sense as a criticism of layoffs. You shouldn’t run a company with less than three months of salaries in the bank? Well okay, in that case if there’s a downturn and you only have four months of salaries in the bank, you need to lay people off to stay above that line. The result is the same, in a big downturn you may need to make layoffs.

The goal of a company is not to minimize the chances of a layoff. If layoffs can increase the company’s chance of survival, they might be a good strategy.
I just tested it. They use built-in Microsoft Sam as TTS (at least in Windows), old and awfull.

TTS in the Edge is pretty close to the bleeding edge. It's good. Both English and Russian. And Edge is still a gorgeus Chromium without recent time UI degradations and without ad- and privacy- blocker intolerant management.

Personally i have a prejudice against Firefox for subjectively poor and ugly UI and old scars from their rendering issues.
not very constructive. they do have a /covid page for donations which is nice.
> - Also in other areas it is becoming ridiculous. For example: what is the idea behind aggressively showing me captcas while I'm logged in with two different google controlled accounts, one gmail and one gsuite, both paid?

To intentionally discourage you from using Firefox so you give in and switch to their stalker browser.
here is a phenomenal twitter thread that outlines the implications of this study:

https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1244717172871409666
The number of mobile phone users and content consumers are very large (way above 50% ) of the country.
I once read a critique of Twitter that went something like, "The more followers an account gets, the closer their tweets resemble fortune cookies."

Seems apt with Naval.
I apologize to John A De Goes. I don't think his profile picture is appropriate, anymore than a female developer having half her bosom showing, but that's just my opinion and no reflection on the character of anyone choosing however they choose to present themselves.
I hope so. Because otherwise you are not learning real mathematics, just rote memorization. It is not good because that is the mathematical equivalent of a code monkey.
got an initial black screen until I pressed 'r'

figured out what to do, then it froze. Pressing space bar did nothing.
Call Your Separated Loved Ones Every Day, Even If They Are Estranged
Interactive visualization of all the satellites orbiting Earth
This is a good opportunity to remind folks that an ACM subscription is very affordable ($99/year; 25% off on first year [1]), and the benefits are more than worth it:

- Print and online "Communications of the ACM" magazine

- Safari Books subscription included - all 40,000 books (!)

- Online courses, webinars, special interest group conferences

- Full ACM Digital Library (only with the all-access membership option - $198)

[1] https://services.acm.org/public/qj/keep_inventing/qjprofm_co...

note: the promo code in the URL came on a Google search, and seems to give a 25% discount for first year (which is higher than on the site directly). I have no affiliation with ACM other than being a happy subscriber
He also oversaw Waymo v. Uber, and PG&E's probation (IIRC), and there were some great moments from both.
Is this current news? In trying to find non-pay-walled coverage (FU,NYT), I quickly found previous stories on this from February and in November.

The November 25 article[1] mentions the "squirming out" remark by the judge.

A WaPo article from February 16 [2] mentions that each of the 5000 Dashers who filed for arbitration had to put up $300.

[1] https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-accuses-doordash-of-try...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/16/doordashs...
Has anybody spoken directly to Covid-19 researchers/practitioners?
I'm building a site to help COVID-19 researchers/healthcare practitioners share/find the information they need.

I'm having difficulty connecting with researchers and so I'm hoping someone has got some information about what researchers need to accelerate treatment /vaccine discovery.

Although there are already clinical trials underway, I want to learn how I can help immediately.

What are your thoughts?
There are lot of types of insurance that exclude pandemics, but health insurers are unlikely to be one of them.
Wasn't quake ported to JS via the Java version like 10 years ago?

https://code.google.com/archive/p/quake2-gwt-port/

Still, it's cool to see it ported via other means.
I've been paid to write Java for multiple companies, and I'd like everyone to know that I don't know Java.
I mean, imagine this.

I walk up to a cashier, and he by accident drops $10 in my shopping cart (without me noticing). Then he proceeds to inconspicuously take those $10, look at it, and silently put it back in the bag (again, without me noticing). I discover those $10 only when I get home. I had no idea it was even there, and the store employee definitely looked through every single item in my bag and saw those $10, but just decided to put it back there. Did I steal those $10?

I struggle to even call it something like "theft by accident", which would be if the cashier forgets to scan an item because they didn't notice it. In my hypothetical scenario, the cashier noticed and picked up the item.
Neat! This was a feature I requested in Fork[0], but wasn't sure such a thing was even possible.

[0] https://git-fork.com
I really dislike posts like this on HN. It’s essentially whining. The author does not suggest any alternative, does not offer any ideas of their own, and just laments the state of the world.

Instead let’s upvote articles on how to build search engines, how search indexing could be improved, how Google’s search works, etc.
The site is called http://sciugo.com
For me, it's the worst on the next day.

Once in a while, I'll look at some work I did the day before and think "Man, is that stupid. What was I thinking yesterday?"
The English books seemed to teach the correct thing, however, using the correct IPA and giving the correct hints. Just like with "I've got [something]".

It's also definitely not the case that the "a" in American English "cat" is pronounced like "a" usually is in German. In that case, the "a" sounds much closer to a German "e" then a German "a". The IPA for AE "cat" is kæt, not kat (where in some parts of Britain it actually is kat).
space bar works only when you finish the level, to go to the next one. for the rest, I'm afraid you'll have to click the buttons
Arbitration isn't a court, it's a mutually agreed upon deal that might help parties stay out of court.
There's a difference between "you didn't need it" and "an unusually small portion of the (large) risk pool needed it".
> A union may protect your rights, but they do ask for some in return - often the ability to work at non-union jobs. The point is, you're still "signing away your rights". You're agreeing that you won't do certain things that are within your right to do, as a condition to employment.

You’re right but that’s not a great example of the rights you give up on joining a union. The right to work non union jobs isn’t particularly valuable except to non members and non members and people just starting their career are not the union’s concern. They protect the interests of the average member, so people for whom it’s a career, who have some years of experience. Those don’t generally work crappy jobs unless there’s discrimination against them.

Giving up the right to negotiate your own compensation would be a huge deal for any professions or jobs with obvious large differences in productivity and many employers. So you only see that at the bottom end. No limits on top end compensation. The Screen Actors Guild doesn’t say with this many years experience you must get paid this much, they say no one can get paid less than this.

With a single employer compressing pay differentials is a lot easier so you get what the average member wants, security of tenure, seniority based pay and promotions. If you want to negotiate something different go find another employer.
Io seems to be abandoned. Is anyone using it?
Yes! Most developers don't want to do operations work. It's not their specialty, and often uninteresting to them. A good team will let developers actually develop.
It's entirely not obvious how to best solve the coronavirus situation either, though.