skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are tossing out a bunch of weakly connected arguments that don't make a lot of sense. Everyone can agree that using political connections to produce economic advantages are bad, but what does that have to do with PE firms in general?

Most PE firms are just investment funds run by people trying to make the best decisions they can. They provide very important liquidity to entrepreneurs and early stage investors so they can actually be rich. Few are great operators, but the successful ones understand value and capital structures very well.

To quote Tommy Boy, "Sometimes you have to take a few companies behind the shed and bash them on the head with a shovel". Warren Buffett took control of Berkshire Hathaway through a hostile takeover, threw out the management and drained it of all it's operating capital and profits until the original business died. He did that because the original business was dying, and management was destroying investment capital trying to keep it alive. Warren didn't know how to run a successful US based textile firm, but he was smart enough to know at the time it was almost impossible and that the management couldn't do it and would kill the company trying. Today Berkshire Hathaway employs hundreds of times more employees at far higher income levels than it did then.

Successful PE firms are good at separating productive assets from failing businesses, and funding good businesses that need scale, and those are things that create a lot of value.
The residents of Kentucky, as a voting bloc, have voted for the republican presidential candidate for at least a generation (and probably longer than that). I understand the governor is a democrat, but it seems like a more simple explanation exists rather than Trump's administration intentionally harming a solidly-red electorate out of spite for their governor.

A more simple explanation may be that Trump's administration, and therefore the federal government, has been flat-footed almost every step of the way (if you need a source on that, check the "front page" of every major, left or right-leaning news service in the US) and is now doing everything in their power to address their shortcomings which includes getting their hands on as much PPE, medical devices, etc. as possible.

It does further speak to their inability to rise to the moment by not better-coordinating their purchases with the needs of the states. The administration deserves massive blame here for their initial and likely ongoing response to this and should be held accountable, but let's hold them accountable where the facts are nearly-indisputable (there are plenty of those facts to go around).
There is no answer to that because the followers know exactly what's actually going on and are just trying to suppress the information using the same techniques as their leader.

It's why screams of censorship don't apply to suppressing this topic and why, when a news paper prints even a tiny a retraction, it's called evidence of fake news. But a stealth edit on a government site is perfectly acceptable.

Instead I would ask a meta-question: why would a leader's followers behave any differently than him?
There's a bizarre resistance to these drugs with the only possible explanation being Trump Derangement Syndrome.
It's interesting that your takeaway is that my totally made up hypothetical alternative headline might not be factually correct.
I think they test the passengers there several times over a period of time. Need to check to be sure.

Viral load is a key issue but will be applicable to many countries too. See my answer to a sibling comment by hellofunk on this.
As missedthecue and I have both already pointed out to you, the payments come out of your pocket, in the (incoherent) sense you're using here, whether you get an itemized bill or an unitemized bill, because 100% of revenue comes out of your pocket. So what?
I bought mine after demoing at Best Buy. I was comparing them to the Sennheiser Momentum (forget which number) and one other headphone that I forget. The QC35 were the last ones I put on. They were immediately head and shoulders above the others just in terms of comfort. They were so light they virtually disappeared on my head and ears. Amazingly, the sound quality was almost irrelevant, although they were my favorite in that regard as well. (I've heard the Sonys might have slightly better ANC, but most of the competitive models are fairly similar which each having one area they're slightly better than the others).

The only thing I felt I was giving up in the Bose is in power. When I demo'd them, I ran them up as loud as I wanted to go. Then I tried to go one notch higher, and found I was already at the top.

Over the years, I've found the exact same thing. They go exactly as loud as I want and no louder. Every once in awhile, I try to push it a bit more, and find I'm already at the top.

Impressively, they never clip, and the bass is always "just enough". But I'm sure for some folks that won't be quite enough.
csound is trash

edit: whoever flagged me is being paid off by csound
Generally, I think Type<Param, Param> is like a function call, you are applying two parameters to a generic type to get a concrete type.

But, you could curry generic parameter application, and then have a simple operator, so it'd be Type ! Param ! Param. Thus:

Map ! Str ! Int a = 5

Not sure I like that.
It's because Apple have either intentionally turned a blind eye to these companies or they have managed to sneak it past the app store review team. https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/ Section 3.1.1 In-App Purchase:
If you want to unlock features or functionality within your app, (by way of example: subscriptions, in-game currencies, game levels, access to premium content, or unlocking a full version), you must use in-app purchase. Apps may not use their own mechanisms to unlock content or functionality, such as license keys, augmented reality markers, QR codes, etc. Apps and their metadata may not include buttons, external links, or other calls to action that direct customers to purchasing mechanisms other than in-app purchase.

So you're actually proving the point that their review system is neither fair nor consistent with your crusade in here. Also don't forget about survivorship bias. For every app you see that does this thousands of others got forced to use IAP during the review process.
Did you ever find some sort of reasonable 'live streaming' type profile for encoding? I noticed ffmpeg's default seems to be putting more work into this than you'd expect from a realtime encoder which, in theory at least, might lead to fewer collisions than in a 'realistic' situation. I think tialaramex made a similar point somewhere upthread.

I don't think it would make a huge difference but the numbers might be higher/more representative. Another way might be to just capture zoom traffic of someone's Quarterly Synergies presentation or whatnot.

Edit: also thought of a silly upper-bound test for Team Penguin - you get plaintext of every colliding block in the stream. How much penguin can you get out of that?
Start open sourcing government software
Anyone know of some software to spot interesting things? Or do I have to train my own neutral network on what is normal/uninteresting with hours of "boring" sky?
Going through the Western cannon. Specifically the Syntopicon and a rejiggering of it.

I've always thought the work was an absolute masterpiece, but utterly inaccessible and the holotype for the word jargon. So, I'm trying to write vignettes of the work, with characters that personify the 'great ideas' in the Syntopicon. Something like Godel, Escher, Bach. Hopefully, this personification will be more accessible and readable than a gigantic listing of page numbers and linking information.

Thus far, yeah, just wrapping my head about the linking documents is tough, but there is a lot of 'meat' on the bones and turning ideas into people is surprisingly fun.

I doubt I'll ever finish the project, but it's a great deep dive into the Western Cannon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Books_of_the_Western_Wor...
Do you have links to data for excess mortality? I’m struggling to find any localised data.

Here is country wide mortality data: https://www.euromomo.eu/index.html
Bazel is convenient but also a full-time pain in my ass.
If any of the scenarios from the famous Imperial College model turn out to have been based on just-as-bad assumptions, would you be willing to write a follow up about that?
This is a good time for schools to go back to teaching about Ignorance:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/24/opinion/the-case-for-teac...
It also doesn't count for confounding factors. Were all the patients of the same health? Did they all have the same supportive equipment? Did they all begin treatment at the same time after symptom onset? These are all questions that need to be addressed, the sooner the better.
Each of the 3005 had proper full care and were closely watched. We don't know about the 79160. The difference in mortality could be a number of factors.
It's not begging the question at all! The entire point is that you can have compelling evidence without a randomized controlled trial.
Not sure if this counts but https://www.home-assistant.io/ for stitching together all my home technology and create automations. Have to get comfortable with yaml but their support forum is pretty good. End result is I get an LG TV, Dyson Fan, Hive Heating, Google Home, Sonos and Ring Camera all talking to each other if I want.
Gradle should be cited:
It allow to configure build/automation rules with either groovy or Kotlin script
Nice to see another project from you! I remember you from the ludum dare a few times, but you kind of dropped off the map. Glad that you're still around and hacking on things :)
I actually really enjoy using it, why do you not like it? It has its quirks but for me they almost make me enjoy the creative process more.
While conceptually sound, CSound offers an unintuitive interface and program flow in my opinion. Also the lack of ability to do more "human-readable" actions like use music notes out of the box is a point of frustration (although it is possible with some extra steps.)
Let's read some real news:

- https://meduza.io/en/news/2020/04/02/russian-public-health-a...

- https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/03/18/at-the-peak-we-could...

- https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/04/03/russian-doctors-unio...
No company of any size can do well when the government orders it to stop doing business. It doesn't tell us much about small versus big.

Most Starbucks stores were ordered to close by the government, and the government has advised against (and in some cases banned) air travel. Of course those companies are suffering.

Furthermore, I'd argue that Starbucks is more likely to survive this than local cafe chains, and United is more likely to survive than regional discount airlines.

Smaller tech companies are already seeing the impact from the pandemic, and they will soon see more impact. Tech employees can work from home, so the companies are still producing things. However, most tech companies will have dramatic drops in revenue for the next few quarters and larger ones are more likely to be able to stick it out until the economy recovers.
Care to explain why, for someone who hasn't used this tool?
I have built many billion+ row databases on a laptop with 16 GB RAM, using the 32-bit version. kdb+ uses memory mapping and can support databases much larger than available RAM.

PostgreSQL is a fine choice and I use it for many projects. However, kdb+ is a much better choice when time-series analysis is required.

I'm happy to provide more details if you're interested.
Surprising this is not linked to from the homepage. They should, to get more people trying it out. I have been waiting for Kernel 5.4 based LTS release.
They wanted to play spy.

Hearts are in the right place, but I advise them to leave the ops to the professionals.
Not necessarily. There are still a few variables like when it is offered, what drug combinations, comorbidities, dosage, etc.
The final point seems like a bunk attack. A lot of epidemiologists were upset at Silicon Valley data scientists and hedge fund quants who were putting together prediction models that disputed what the government was saying. Well, so far these models have been more accurate than the official ones.

As we should expect, because data scientists and quants are EXACTLY the people with the set of skills necessary to make such predictive models. At best, it's an ancillary skill for epidemiologist, and we've seen many cases in this pandemic where they have wielded these tools incorrectly.
Non-pharmaceutical Interventions Impact on the Outbreak of Covid-19 in Wuhan [pdf]
The law actually isn't that the arm can't be flexed/bent. It's that the arm can't straiten more than 15 degrees once it's above shoulder height. So you can have a bent arm as long as you keep the angle more or less the same.
'Dogfight' looms as landlords start suing restaurants over unpaid rent
Does Marseille test more than France? It is expected no one is hitting a 9.5% death rate unless they quit testing almost all but the severe or dead.
the syntax for the language is horrible and very difficult to understand, the gui is hard to use and unstable, its just generally worse than other sound programming langs like supercollider
Ok. I am not even going to try to get it running on Catalina.
FAQs about Orders and Deliveries and the Covid-19 virus
> if you would rather not restart your services unless absolutely necessary (ie. you're handling long-lived TCP connections that cannot be handed off gracefully).

If you have no way to hand off your TCP connections gracefully, that is probably not a great position to be in because computers are unreliable and sometimes you need security updates. One approach I tried experimentally for a TCP server (but unfortunately did not have the opportunity to try in production) was to have a small server acting as the frontend that handled sessions and called into the real implementation which was essentially stateless. This small server could theoretically support self updating without dropping connections, if need be. (The main reason I was doing this was so that the rest of the stack could be dynamically-scaling based on Kubernetes, while this part remained relatively static.) I think anytime you have forced statefulness, it’s worth isolating as much as possible so it doesn’t constrain the design of the whole system.

(Even better, of course, is to just have a protocol where clients can gracefully handle draining and reconnect without side effects.)

> ACL changes, quota changes, etc

At a certain level I think these are runtime data and not configs. Aforementioned service also dealt with ACLs and configs and we were serving it through another service that persisted to a database layer. One cool thing about doing it as a service is that you can manage and scale it like any other service.
I cannot disagree more. Configs are wonderful, as they follow the "rule of least power" with putting settings in a place without logic operations, variables, etc.

Yes, they are not general. Still, having one dedicated place for all constant switches is much better than constants being out in a dozen (or hundreds) of places all over code.
Clocks appear to tick because we are locked in a series of moments. The clock exists at all times it has or will show.
I only saw one bit of data on this and it was unclear if the data was reliable. Apparently the data from the CDC on this may take awhile to finalize.

Do you have any pointers?
It was a Twitter exchange that's been deleted so I can't remember the details. Suffices to say he was rude to me and that's colored my opinion of Svelte ever since.
> The bank isn't creating anything either, they're just moving money around and playing social engineering games with society

How would you react to a situation in which small companies discovered new drugs for ~$10 million, building on public research, and then were purchased by larger pharma companies for ~$300 million, and in which the large pharma companies aimed to earn ~$1-5 billion before the patents on the small company's invention expire?
Off-shoring has greatly increased the wealth of the United States by allowing us to focus on higher value work, while at the same time providing poorer countries higher value work themselves. It's the law of comparative advantage in action.

U.S. workers might be better at assembling iPhones than Chinese people, but if we let them assemble while we design iPhones, build it's software systems and apps, and accessories both countries come out far ahead. Chinese get paid far more while escaping brutal rural labor jobs, we develop far more software developers and designers, who get to work remotely during COVID-19 and are in higher demand than ever.
Agreed, also Hydroxychloroquine cost only few cents per pill, its probably too hard to swallow for big labs that want to sell $$$$$ treatment instead ... Poor them ...
So many of the models I've seen focus on the efficacy of lockdowns in controlling the spread of the disease. Most treat the length of the lockdown as a mathematical variable - X week lockdown leads to Y infection rate.

My point is that we can't reasonably predict how people will behave in lockdown past a certain point. We've never had similar lockdowns in a world that was as globalized, as hyper connected as ours. You could go from 2 to 8 weeks of lockdowns if everyone was living in isolated villages a la 1918 Spanish Flu, but that's not our present world.

How do you model a situation where after 4 weeks of lockdowns, a social media post about food shortages goes viral, causing mass panic and breaking of quarantine?

We can't because we've never had a situation like this, or the tools for spreading (mis) information as we currently do.
Sure, if you eliminate corporate income taxes you'd need to increase capital gains taxes as well. But I am having a hard time seeing the disadvantage of that (although I'm not an expert by any means).
Devoting developer resources to building/extending native iOS apps to integrate with iOS-specific dialer/phone history increases costs and extends lock-in. Web apps that can perform all the functionality of native apps, such as video chat and games, erode the value of the App Store.

Integrating with the iOS dialer and phone history means not implementing something else that would provide value across platforms.
It is an interesting discussion topic, people are confined to their houses for many days now and naturally experience existential issues. And, because noone sees the world the same way, HN relies on a sophisticated algorithm that tries to minimize bias on what is a good and what is a bad submission. A more constructive approach would be to point out why you think it is an awful article and share some knowledge on the topic.
I have G6PD deficiency and there are mixed opinions on whether this form of chloroquine is safe for me to take. The deficiency affects about 400M people worldwide, surprised to see that this part of the discussion rarely gets brought up.
It doesn't. We have to make a decision with uncertainty unfortunately. However, I don't think any of those questions could explain an 8x difference apart from the time of treatment. In Marseille, they treat you immediately independently of the severity of symptoms.
I am the last person who thinks the government will choose the people over the lobbyists. But something as obvious as your local hospital closing can’t go ignored by politicians.

You notice that now Trump is talking about expanding Medicare, increasing unemployment benefits, and reopening ACA enrollment and you don’t hear a peep from conservatives talking about socialism.

It’s true, the definition of socialism is when the government is helping “them” - not you.
So you have a cancer that normally has a 90% fatality rate after a year. Someone gives you evidence that they gave this drug to everyone with this cancer in their hospital, and 70/73 survived for a year. Not properly randomized, not properly controlled. Would you really reject their data and find it unconvincing?
Clojure and Common Lisp (among other Lisps, I'm sure) are great at handling programmable configuration files.

I do not think I would use this author's suggestion though.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.22.20040758v...

Note that it is not peer reviewed
the question for _programming_ is not solely about readability, it's also about writability.

imagine being a beginner programmer and not even being able to find the character you need to make your program work without learning about Unicode...
Congrats! Just submitted a number of Canadian museums.
There are several.

Plus it does have proven effect against SARS in vitro.

And this French treatment center seems to be getting good results.

https://www.mediterranee-infection.com/covid-19/
Can you elaborate on your preferred strategy?
Have you tried other musical programming languages like supercollider and puredata? I find them to be quite a bit crazier.

Csound is ridiculously straight forward in comparison. Absurdly more comprehensible to me
Is it too much to ask that the subtitle not have a major misspelling?
But that's the point of this. You can have a single high-level config that emits the same high-level settings onto multiple config 'facades'. For instance, a single jsonnet/python program will let you tweak a list of domains, and that will in turn create a facade (or generate a file) for nginx (to configure vhosts) and for a letsencrypt tool (to acquire TLS certs). Less repeating across files, less chance of making a mistake, and since this is a programming language, you can have a single codebase that performs facade generation, without having to go through a CM system.
you're already buying a set of noise cancelling headphones with an integrated microphone from them. if you're afraid of Bose remotely activating the microphone, that risk exists without the Alexa functionality. Even if the headphones didn't have a usable microphone, they're noise cancelling, meaning they have a microphone for that purpose.
> how long would that moment have lasted for?

0 seconds.
I have long argued that teams should write configs in one of the languages they already know and are using in the system.

This has many obvious benefits, including testing!

A key aspect is for the owner of the "config system" (the stuff that takes the output of each config program and applies it) to standardize the API for config generators. Inputs, outputs, runtime env, etc. Then let teams integrate with that API however they want.
Look at the Figure 4. It shows that they could decrease reproduction number to under 1 only after implementing "centralized quarantine and treatment of all
confirmed and suspected cases, those with fever or respiratory symptoms, as well as
close contacts of confirmed cases in designated hospitals or facilities."
Immigration is a tough issue. The debate is now mostly focused on what to do with undocumented immigrants who are already here, perhaps with families, etc. That's one issue which has been debated to death.

But there are also perhaps hundreds of millions of potential immigrants worldwide who would love to come to the US permanently and have the means to do so, if it were legal. But they cannot get a green card or h1b because those are nearly impossible to get from people in some counties. So they never come.

It does seem hard to decide a fair system here but any decision is just that... A system of laws... They have no meaning unless followed. What's the point of rule of law anyways? It's the answer to arbitrary rule: by monarchs and dictators.
You literally said "[Whether you need Typescript or not] depends on your teams skill set and level of disciple".
supercollider is way better than csound
> At a certain level I think these are runtime data and not configs.

I think that's the gist of the issue - sometimes it's difficult to tell which one is which :).

And I agree with the 'TCP connection in thin server' approach. Thankfully, I only have to deal with two protocols where this is an issue: IRC and BGP.