skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Other things can cause loss of sense of smell too, long before covid19, so it would have to be way more prevalent in covid than any other cause for that 80% to make sense. If so, that's interesting.
Mac OS X was first released as Mac OS X Server 1.0, the commercial release of Rhapsody, and then released as Mac OS X Server for Cheetah, Puma, Panther, Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard, before being released as a standalone update to Lion, and then hitting the App Store for $19.99 for all future releases.
Interesting, it's magnet based. I've learned something today!
What's a non-myopic view of slavery?

If dependence on a government for basic necessities is slavery, isn't any form of dependence slavery? Are trust fund recipients slaves? Are workers who depend on an employer slaves? Are people in debt slaves to their creditors?
U.S. dairy farmers dump milk as pandemic upends food markets
I never understood why some shops/restaurants do not take cash. It's only a minor inconvenience having to deposit the cash in-person and you don't lose money on any transaction fee. Maybe to protect against theft? But still, using cash saves the seller 1-3% on that transaction.
Ad freebies usually create net positive impacts
http://www.reddit.com/r/iwantout
I think the team that was working on this has been disbanded.
I don't think anybody's claiming it's the primary source of transmission, but the way you keep phrasing it, it's like we have to choose between droplets or aerosol transmission. There's at least limited evidence it can be transmitted both ways, and maybe it's better to err on the side of caution?
What form of energy? Electrical activity? If we apply just the term "Energy", we're now in undefined territory.
If we were somehow able to liquidate the net worth of every billionaire in the US without any losses it might just about cover UBI, $1000/month for every adult, for one year. How are you planning to fund it for every year after the first.
In the Netherlands with my bank at least, yes there is a fee. There is also a fee for having a bank account with its included debit card, but you can't do without. Credit cards are of very limited use.
How would they spoof the 2FA from an existing device?
That main impact would be on the PERM process but if you are past that or going a different route, then I really don't see much change beyond delays because of the closure of local USCIS offices.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22763057
> If we remove the fear of starvation (we can afford to feed everyone twice and barely put a dent in our military budget)

327,000,000 people * 365 days * $5/person/day = $596,775,000,000 yearly
Or $596 billion

$693 billion is the Wikipedia number for DoD budget, so that actually checks out.

Of course, that's more than "put a dent in the budget," but I'm sure you meant those in need, and not every American (which is the calculation I did).
Fair point, then they should be mandating hand washing. Still doesn't stop someone from coughing on your grandma's shipment of cat food...
"milk can’t be frozen, like meat, or stuck in a silo, like grain"

...but it can be dried. I bought some powdered milk during my preparation and have been using it to cook with, for which it's been great. In a pinch you can drink it, or use it to extend fresh milk, if you have any. It can be stored for a long time, too.

I know it's not ideal, but it's better than throwing milk away.
The illustration looks lovely, however, the realisation would probably have been more like Docklands Light Railway, which is elevated but not following the existing streets as per the illustration. There is a certain amount of wasteland that goes in the immediate vicinity of the DLR, which is a 'light' railway with the electric propulsion that was what they were looking for with the pneumatic system.
Do we have some numbers on how long the novel coronavirus stays infectous on surfaces?
This depends on how well those 10 images are representing the disribution of data for your actual task. With only 10 samples thats highly unlikely.

What you are talking about is data augmentation, a strategy we can use to expand our training dataset synthetically, mostly in a bid to prevent over-fitting.
Doctors are being empathetic when they restrain from pushing the nonsense quacks do, just to satisfy a patient's anxiety, no?
At present, it doesn't appear that these would qualify as impermissible "public benefits" from an immigration perspective. The same also applies to unemployment insurance benefits.
How companies and employees are managed in a time of crisis shows the quality of the leadership and the personal courage and characters of the leaders. It also brings out the cowards and people of low character. Every schmuck can manage and lead when things go well.

Well, there's nowhere to hide. These things will be remembered. They will have a very hard time hiring people back. And as this make its rounds people will be less likely to use their service.

I'm fortunate enough to work for a company that is handling this all exceptionally well with a great deal of compassion for the employees, their families, the customers, and the community around the offices - even when that hurts the short-term bottom line. We will also use some of this time for trainings.

That is both compassionate and smart!

When all of this is over we will have happy customers and motivated employees and will hit the ground running.

Bird will not. Short term thinking and unprofessional behavior like this story never pays off in the long term.

Now. Maybe there's a backstory we do not know. Perhaps this was the only way to keep the company going for the rest of the employees. Still, the way it was handled was just terrible.

I'm reminded of this example with the same message delivered with compassion: https://twitter.com/marriottintl/status/1240639160148529160

(I do not work for Marriott)
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My $50/month T-mobile plan comes with free unlimited international data in most of the world, so I just don't bother with getting a local plan while traveling any more.
Ask HN: Who has been laid off?
There is a monthly “Who is hiring” post, but I thought it might be helpful to have a laid off post with unemployment rates rising.

Share your experience and what you’re looking for.
one of my greatest confusions of "life" is why there is this need to consume or feed off of or battle against other life. what is the purpose of this drive? why is it like this? i suspect the answer lies in thermodybamics and/or information theory, but it would be amazing to understand the reason behind life's battles for survival.
> I'd love it if someone found a solution for putting a tiny magnet in exactly the right spot to force-disable the microphone while the lid is open. :)

It's the same sensor that's used to detect if the lid is open in general. Triggering it will prevent the display from turning on, and will make the computer go to sleep if it isn't running in "clamshell mode" (running on AC power with an external display attached).
Title is (slightly) wrong.

As the first paragraph says:
"In this post, we will understand the concept of FixMatch and also see it got 78% accuracy on CIFAR-10 with just 10 images."

Reporting the best performance on a method that deliberately uses just a small subset of the data is shady as heck.
Everyone should stop writing webpages which require javascript.

Javascript is a security nightmare responsible for the overhelming majority of web-based CVEs .

Javscript's contributes mostly fluff to the vast majority of webpages.

What's worse, some pages check for it and deliver a totally blank page if it's not enabled, just to punish the non-compliant.

Even worse than all of the above is the fact that Javscript is the vehicle through which users are IDed and tracked. It's the reason why telling your browser to dump-cookie at the end of a session is ineffective.

Javascript is popular because people who own websites demand it be enabled. They demand that so they can fingerprint you- no other REAL reason for Javascript's popularity.

Every single person on this particular forum eithers knows or can clearly see what I am saying is true, but their jobs depend on them selling their Javascript skills and that's the reason this post, as you read it, is fading to gray as its downvoted.

Javscript is the instrumentality of the surveillence state. That's 98% of its utility.

All webpages should have a non-Javascript, "here's the info" version available and the fact they don't is a scandal and we are the culprits.
>next several days

Really needs to be same day, and really should be possible to be same day.

Also, at least in the UK, there's a process to go through and once you realise you're going to have to make redundancies, you _have_ to tell everyone affected that their jobs are at risk. I know such things are anathema to much of the US.
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More exactly turing was suffering due chemical castration mandated by the government, I don't want to imagine what such procedure does to one's mental health.
How GOV.UK Notify reliably sends text messages to users
I've always been really troubled by io's `clone` not not actually cloning the object but creating a sub-object / subtype instead. As well as the prototypes being an array (so manipulating prototypes is not really a thing).

Oh and it uses the same lingo as javascript, which is a net negative, I think the Self lingo makes much more sense: a Self prototype is the object you copy in order to get more instances, once the copy is done there is no relationship between the prototype and the object just as there is no strict relationship beyond kinship between your car and its original prototype. I guess "template" might have been an even better term there.

The shared behaviour (and potentially data) lives in traits and mixins.
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Of course I've heard of that term, and that's a different job position. In more standard HN jargon, that's like saying a senior tech lead is the same as a tech contractor. One of them runs the floor, the other follows their instructions.

Just because it has the word "chef" in it, does not make the sous-chef "chef". Sure, in layman's terms they are "a kind of chef" but in professional terms, they are not. There's only one chef, they're the CEO of kitchen, they rarely prep.
We are far away from offline mode. May be 2-3 years later thing, if we survive till that time.

Btw, did you check OpenCV morph line detection? It will help to auto detect the evident cell/row boundaries - thus reducing human effort
>You feel the need to take out a short-term loan for your soda purchase?

Yeah why not? It's interest free for at least 3 weeks
The way the credit card system is setup is what it is. If you know what you are doing you can take advantage of it.

One should almost never use a debit card, as if it gets compromised the money comes directly out of your account and the banks don’t have much incentive to help too much.

With a credit card, that stolen money belongs to the bank, and therefore they have a big incentive to get it back, so using this kind of card allows you to wield the power of a large company for your benefit. As long as you pay off the full bill every month, you are getting this protection for free.
> If you're already at the point of being forced to make decisions then you've already screwed up? You're being reactive.

In the case of a global pandemic never seen before in any of our lifetimes, everyone has to be reactive.

And we have already seen a lot of failures from failing to act during this crisis, more so than leaders taking actions that turned out to not be necessary.
I dusted it off this semester to help with some complicated reports I needed to make. I needed to include lots of graphs from simulation runs with various parameters. I encoded the parameter values in the graphs’ filenames, and used m4 to write the corresponding gnuplot control file.

After tying everything together with make, I could include plots for any parameter as I was writing the report and have the relevant data generated as necessary. All without re-running simulations that had already produced results.
Holy crap, that was amazing. For anybody else that had an outdated toolchain as I did, make sure you run `rustup update`.
The pay gap is a myth.

The original pay gap came from a trash paper which compared average pay of women and men across disciplines. So you had doctors and engineers grouped with nurses and daycare workers. That was the origin of ".75¢ on the dollar". Within most industries there is no paygap that cannot be explained by lack of negotiation and shorter work hours, among other factors. We also take it as a given that average performance of men and women on any task is identical, and that's nonsense.

The paygap myth is pure propaganda.

Edit: imagine my surprise when even CBS is admitting as much!

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-gender-pay-gap-is-a-complet...
> What I mean about "subtle energy" is not the same as the "energy" of physicists.

There you go. This is why the idea is extraordinary. There is the energy of physicists which explains the motions of the planets, the vibrations of crystals ;), and the mechanics of your computer. In fact, it is the theory we have for everything in the universe except the phenomenon of someone touching someone else while thinking a special kind of happy thought.

> Subtle energy carries information

Regular energy carries information too. How do you think radio works? Or how cosmic background radiation yields knowledge about what happened just after the big bang?

> The problem is that, what we experience as consciousness, is in turn influenced and agitated by subtle energy.

How? What does the subtle mechanism look like? What are the corresponding subtle equations, subtle algorithms or subtle models?
What was XSan exactly?

The only thing I know is that it had a really nice icon and box art.
Oh man, this exactly. I'd happily add more heatsink and bump my APU TDP by 20-30 watts, rather than get similar performance by stuffing a whole mountain more hardware in a PCIe slot with its own TDP somewhere around 60-100 watts because of all the bus transceivers and other overhead.

As I understand it, they aim the high-TDP parts at the enthusiast/gamer/workstation market where a discrete GPU is just a given, so there'll probably never be a 3700G. Darn!
Nicky Case Explorable Explanation: Covid-19 Scenarios (Teaser)
Gainesville, Florida, put its internal emails online with few limits
It is possible but without premium processing, it's impossible to say how long that process will take. It could be weeks or months. But note that when premium processing returns, a pending petition could be "upgraded" to premium.
Going along with other comments on this thread, if it's the case that you have access to anything that domain has access to, and the webcam is just a flashy way of demonstrating this, I would certainly consider it broad access. I would assume this is the case since the problem appears to be in URI parsing, not webcam code.

Of course, if the bug was reported as a webcam issue then I suppose it could be maybe argued that it's fine that they paid for it as such.
This is a blog not a paper, it seems you wouldn't like the source material: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.07685.pdf

But you are correct! This way of showing off your work is much nicer than what ends up in the paper. The blog representation is a good opportunity to show off the results of the paper on a higher level. However, the "mathy" paper is still important so other experts in the field can understand the details of the technique
In the US, I haven't seen a debit card that wasn't also usable as a "credit card" (VISA/MasterCard numbers) in decades.
A short term loan that will be 0% interest if you pay the full balance every month? In exchange for greater security and in most cases points/miles?

Credit cards aren't for everyone, but if you can pay the full balance every month then there's no reason to not use one.
Having been working on open banking for the past 12 months, I can see a lot of similarity and potential here. If I'm correct, you're trying to be true layer for Latin America.

Now question time, maybe a bit harsh but you need to think about it.

1. simple one, where is the user authentication flow?

2. the harsh one: as the same problem in OB, just curious what's your thought about building the trust between a third party (TPP or your client in your case) and the end-users? You know in the UK, even OB is relatively mature, you don't see many people willing to login to their bank account via a third party app, even though we all know it's very safe in the technological point of view. But trust is not something you can simply build with technology.
Ford Wants a Cash for Clunkers-Like Government Stimulus to Boost Car Sales
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Boston-based startup donates software to facilities overwhelmed by Covid-19
It’s a free loan for a short period, and if you don’t settle timely due to your own impulses to over “borrow”, you incur high interest, and only then do these loans become a problem.

Otherwise there’s no reason not to use a CC instead of debit. It can even be life saving if you’re slim on the savings and are smart with your CC usage and settlement.
I think most day-to-day problems are easily solved by just getting a credit card, there are lots of no-fee cards that pretty much anyone can get. They work everywhere, and have fraud protection (edit: In North America at least).

For me, the biggest problem is trying to move large amounts of money around, especially across borders. It took me like 3 phone calls and a trip to the bank to figure out how to move my money from my US bank account to my Canadian bank account without having to pay an absurd $40 wire fee. And of course currency conversion is a pain as well - if you are converting a large amount of money you either pay a tonne of fees through the bank, pay a fairly large amount of fees (~1%) through something like Transferwise, or pay no fees by going through the hastle of Norberts Gambit.
It sounds like your contradicting yourself. You say placebos don't work and don't have an effect on anything, but in that example the kiss is the placebo. And then you say the kiss lowers their pain, which implies it does work.
FedNow: The Fed's plans to launch a real time payments service
Sorry I've only just noticed your comment now. This is all good advice.

Getting the conversation going is key. It's something I've failed to do - to the point where I don't bother about it much anymore.

For example: I didn't add a link to my library in my comment, so nobody knows what library I'm talking about. I've already spammed the link in other comments and "Show HN" posts with very little feedback, so I'm past the point of seeing HN as a venue for promoting it, instead visiting daily to check out other people's posts and comments.

I like to think that I'm a good example to others on how NOT to promote a project.
Again, unfortunately, my expertise and knowledge are limited to US immigration.
If this is a pure online pub, how/is this somehow related to covid-19? Not many details...
I'm not clear on the customer persona. Who do you envision as customers in the US market? If you are that far along.
I might be breaking the rules, but can you point me towards any information about how to integrate my existing self-hosted jitsi server into my self-hosted matrix install? Finding this seems elusive.
Is this a duplicate launch post? I seem to recall this posted previously within the last 72 hours, but that thread has disappeared (I had favorited it, but is no longer in my favorites).
I'm not arguing for touch screens - I don't like them, but to say a commercial pilot in cruise at 30K in controlled airspace with controlled separations and TCAS / ADS-B has margins as low as someone driving 85 MPH with traffic literally 50 feet in front of them is absolutely ridiculous. The spacing distances alone are 100x different (in terms of travel time).

Deaths and injuries per mile traveled supports the idea that flying is MUCH MUCH safer.
Shouldn't the virus be dead by the time the package gets delivered?
You're basically describing emotions as though they are somehow more than just emotions. We understand them, they effect things, but they are just emotions. We know that mood can effect someone's physical responses, but we don't assume that's in any way special, unless you can show evidence of those "subtle energy" experiences affecting the world in a different way than regular emotions or placebos.
Wow tough crowd!
Scientists develop ‘backpack’ computers to track wild animals
> 2. What about keyboard shortcuts?

That just would not work on smartphones.

> But how would Talkyard know which post, of many, you're reading, if the screen is large

One way is to implement arrow-key navigation and highlight current message in some way (border, bgcolor or whatever), but I'm not sure if that would work well outside of some special keyboard-centric navigation mode designed to cater to fans of software like mutt or vimperator.

Zulip comes to mind: in there selected message affects what topic people are going to reply into, and if people are not used to that feature (or to the idea of chats with topics in general), they can easily dismiss or fail to notice that very selection and treat the input box just like they would that in any other chat app, which would result in misdirected replies. Some teams are fine with spending some time babysitting the conversation (change topics of other people's replies after the fact, teach colleagues how to use that particular software etc.), but others would just switch to simpler software, with flatter conversations and/or less navigation features.

> 1. What if, at the top of the page, there were buttons like "Scroll to parent"?

Do you talk about the very top of the whole page (scroll position 0) or about sticky header at the top of the viewport? If it's the latter, then it's going to be as problematic as keyboard shortcuts (i.e. can't decide which message's parent we need to jump and where to return to).

> 3. A button "Show ansectors", for every post. Click it, and Talkyard would popup a dialog, with all ancestors (parent, grandparent, ...)

That implementations seems to be both the most robust and the easiest to implement.
> Do you really still need classical 'user' and 'group' membership things?

The move to the cloud has largely made identity management and directory services more widespread, not less.
One of the most surprising experiences of my most recent trip to the USA (18 months ago) was how few places seemed to cope with cards — and that those which did, mostly still used the magnetic stripe.

The experience showed me why Apple Pay and Google Pay were considered worth developing, or using. The only places which could do contactless payment with my card could also do it with my smartphone.
I believe this is still the most up to date https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200320192755.h...

3 days on plastic...
Agreed, also this model fully uses the other images, just not the way that traditional supervised learning would. With "just 10 labels" is more accurate. Impressive results, but this isn't some hyper-convergence technique that somehow trains on only ten images.
Would it be correct to assume the vending machine only accepts credit as it likely doesn't have a direct connection to a banking system to authorize the payments at time of purchase?

I seem to remember credit being a requirement for making purchases on planes for this same reason.

I'm curious because I live in the UK and pretty much all terminals here accept debit cards, although I think the UK in general has been a bit ahead in terms of payment standards (chip & pin, contactless etc.)
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