skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "both sides bad" mantra is really just lazy. The false equivalence between the validity of whatever DJT says and what critics say have let even basic decency be thrown out the window, let alone facts.
Why SpaceX desperately needs a government bailout
SARS-Cov-2 Test Kits, Cures and Vaccines
> especially when China was hiding so much information

Or the media rarely report any information because it's Chinese? Search for covid-19 papers published in Jan, Feb most of them were from China. Some of the data directly contradicts with Chinese CDC numbers.
Yeah, ok... but not much of an exaggeration.

To use HIV as an example, every infected T cell releases ~50,000 virions when it bursts. So that's ~10^4 times the number of infected cells. So during an infection only 10^9 of your 10^13 cells would need to be infected to get up into the 10^13 range. That's obviously a TINY fraction at 10^9/10^13 = 10^-4. So saying there's trillions of viruses in your body during a major infection like COVID is hardly an exaggeration. 10^15 may or may not be though, in fairness.

Compare that to the amount of virus you'd be exposed to in the air though in a COVID ward and its just totally negligible. Unless you're getting injected with virions, it's just not relevant to the progression of your infection when you're already a week into it. I'd be shocked if you could daily environmental viral loads above 10^6.

So fine I'll revise it to 6-9 orders of magnitude. The point stands though, it's just not relevant to your immune system compared to the virus it has to deal with from your own cells.
Eric Weinstein is a delight to listen to: a polymath, a contrarian, a great interviewer, really gifted verbally. I'm a Portal subscriber and I've listened to his Rogan interviews all the way through. That said...

I have the sinking feeling that you're right about the breadth-first thing, and it's about to become a bigger issue. Back in the 80s Weinstein was working on an alternative Grand Unified Theory. When his work was marginalized, he never really got over it, and he's now using his platform (an important platform for many other reasons!) to try and right that wrong. To that end, he just published a 2013 talk he gave at Oxford on this theory. [0]

What he has not published in all these years, afaik, is an actual math paper describing his theory. This is the mark of a charlatan. I fear for Eric, and for all the other positive things springing up around The Portal, if it's discovered he lacks the depth and rigor we've all been assuming he has.

In other words, he could turn out to be not just a "breadth-first associative thinker," but someone who lacks the self-awareness to know when he's out of his depth; a dangerous know-it-all. Eric if you're reading this: publish the paper the damn paper -- with the help of a mathematician or physicist if needed -- or drop it.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7rd04KzLcg
yes. two things: on QUBES efficiency matters, you have to complete the levels making the least amount of moves.

Since I wrote a solver / level generator for my game, I'm able to tell how many moves you need to make to finish the level as efficient as possible.
I liked Reflex Arena the most out of the post-Quake Live arena FPS'. It's a huge pity that it didn't really take off. I feel like they made a terrible mistake hedging their bets with catering to the CPM community. From what I saw it alienated the VQL players by using CPM mechanics, and the CPM players shunned it in the end because it wasn't an exact clone of CPM. This was a poor decision, in my opinion. One that ended up dooming what could have been an amazing game.
Thanks for the links. It seems that the response went along the following timeline according to my understanding:

1. Dec. 30 - Doctors from the first few cases have analyzed the samples and discover how similar the new virus is to SARS. Officials tell them not to spread information to the public about the virus.

2. Dec. 31 - China tells WHO about new virus (not that they know much at this point)

3. Jan. 1 - Provincial health committee orders provincial labs to destroy samples, samples are transported to larger state facility to do testing there. The reason for this is due to the samples being considered "highly pathogenic microorganisms", and that only approved facilities should test it. (I'm guessing due to the risk of acting on the sample and contracting it?)

4. Jan. 2nd - State approved facilities map the genetic sequence but an official national statement doesn't get made until a week later, Jan. 9th.

So from lab work, until international statement, that's two weeks. During that time, wouldn't it make sense for the doctors and researchers to keep their results hidden until it can be verified lest they risk causing unwarranted panic? Considering how carriers of COVID19 can be asymptomatic [1], it does take time for verification to be done on whatever discovery a nation makes on the world stage. In hindsight, it's easy to say that they should have jumped the gun and done exactly that on whatever communications platform were available to them. However, had COVID-19 turn out to be a minor disease, that'd mark the end of all their careers.

[1]: https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/14/health/coronavirus-asymptomat...
Ah, encryption, thanks.

Thought there was a sctp+tls RFC https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3436

don't know whether any userland lib supports this with sctp-over-UDP.
We plan to put it on AWS. We are still unsure if the BW costs will be overwhelming, but we will give it a try.
How is the screen-space less bloated? I thought pretty much all IDEs are the same: navigation tree panel, code panel, and optional extra side/bottom panel for log/test/debug/docs/etc. Also they're all super configurable.
I'll get that fixed right away. Thanks for the feedback
Australia and New Zealand don’t require photo ID to cast votes either.
Also some of these companies are mutual companies meaning they are owned by their policy holders.
Wow, thank you so much. We've gotten quite a few offers.
Letter #4 – Covid-19
> so I tried it.

It doesn't appear that you did. The search term in question is "lord of war director's commentary," and you say you're trying "lord of war." And even if the problem didn't exist for you, but did for them, that does not mean it doesn't exist "objectively."
This only really applies to the commercially-focused part of the Internet, though. Many Internet sites are still hosting academically-focused, non-commercial or broadly pro-social efforts, and those seem to be among the quickest adopters of Linked Open Data standards which are precisely meant to make content machine-readable, sometimes with standardized and freely available API-like endpoints for querying the underlying datastore.
Exactly right, thanks for putting it better than I could.
They will find alternatives, e.g., one doctor is using doxycycline instead of azithromycin for the ARDS component of Covid-19.
Even on my Thinkpad W510 from 2010(!) it runs very smoothly – incredible. If only it were as good security-wise… (no TLS?!)
Microsoft already got VS Code running in the browser. It's called Visual Studio Online, and it's closed source.
This is a very interesting article, and it contains something that seems true at face value but that I feel compelled to disprove:

> The work capacity of an organization scales, at most, linearly as new members are added.

Let's go back to separating cotton fibers from its seeds, a laborious process. If you had a factory of 100 workers doing this and added another one, then you can expect the work capacity to increase 1%. But what happens if you add a worker that is called Eli Whitney, who makes a machine that automatically separates those elements? You definitely don't get a 1% increase in capacity since the new combination of everyone's capacity is more than 101%.

So the author goes on explaining that capacity is not the same as productivity, that the important task is to change the work itself. But is capacity measured only as the hours worked? An extra CPU processor does not do the same as an extra GPU or TPU processor. I've been playing with Coral.ai and I'm totally mindblown at how my raspberry pi can do ML!

Going back to the company, if your bottleneck in the company is e.g. devops and you hire a devops person, then productivity will increase super-lineally; because with this being the bottleneck it means that other resources were underused. So the new person will not add +1/n of capacity. Sure they might add 1/n of the _working hours_, but the capacity itself (and in all likehood the productivity) will increase more than 1/n.
Yep, the builds service is nothing short of amazing. It's super useful to me because it lets you easily target a huge number of systems, including BSD systems that couldn't be supported through Docker or the like.
This reminds me of my port of Quake 1 to Rockbox (for MP3 players): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22162834
A faster, cheaper, open source Firebase
Money On Chain – March 13th crypto downfall analysis
It’s a discount offer, I don’t think it actually elides tax payment. According to the URL you cited:

“B&H will collect and remit state sales tax in accordance with state sales tax laws and regulations. So, customers do pay required sales tax and do not need to keep track or file anything separately.“
I think that shows exactly that China didn't realize how bad this was. For example, from the NPR link:

Jan 18: Wuhan hosts a holiday banquet for 40,000 attendees, despite reports of a contagious viral pneumonia.

We've seen similar things in so many countries - people don't understand how bad it is until lots of people start dying. China put 21 million people on lock-down when there were only 619 confirmed cases - compare that to elsewhere.
This is the kind of thing that will separate companies in the future. If you're a good corporate citizen consumers will notice in ways current generations don't. We don't notice in the numbers necessary for companies to change their behavior.
A billion dollars? About $3 per US citizen for the single most powerful position in the world, with saturation media coverage of the campaign for one to two years. Doesn’t seem like a lot. Trump spent under $400m, Hillary under $600m[1]. Bloomberg spent more on his primary campaign than Trump did from start to finish[2]. Steyer spent ~$200m and didn’t break 4% in Iowa[3]. Sure looks like money likes a winner rather than buying elections.

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/09/trump-and-cl...

[2] https://www.thedailybeast.com/wheres-mike-bloomberg-billiona...

[3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2020/02/01/billi...
If I do the right thing and protect myself, I reduce strain on hospitals, allowing the careless to receive better care. But enough people being careless will overload the healthcare system all the same, reducing its ability to serve me.
Holy crap, this is awesome. I could find the EXACT pipe fitting I needed. How did I not know about this?
Anecdote: The few times I've driven in the last couple weeks I've noticed at least one person driving like they forgot how to drive. I don't know if everyone is just amazed that the streets are empty, or if people really have forgotten how to drive or what, but it's very eerie.
Ah totally! I agree with your conclusion. I guess with the measures in place right now to fight COVID, the areas where Amazon might not have a vast advantage like niche selection, deep knowledge in a certain product area, being able to buy something in store immediatley etc. didn't occur to me.
CNN'S pro-corporate bias barely scratches the surface of CNN's hostility to journalistic integrity.
Its soo hard to comprehend that our economy is soo fragile. I understand, cashflows are tight in restaurant and tourism industry. But honestly, you shouldn't run a tech company, if you cannot burn through a quarter.
Generally, but it can happen by accident. Have you never accidentally stolen a borrowed pen?
That's the way to go!

[alias]
rb = for-each-ref --sort=-committerdate --format='%(refname:short)' refs/heads/ --count=10

To switch branches, I invoke this from a shell script and type a couple characters from a branch name

git checkout (git rb|fzf)
There is a typo in some screens where it says "comign soon" (about video calls)
I don't think what you're saying contradicts the article.

Especially the example of the devops bottleneck -> hire a devops team. That's more or less explicitly covered: "Prioritize the development of force multipliers".

The idea is that adding a new person to a team increases the work capacity of that team linearly to do the work that the team has been doing, in the same way they've been doing it. Finding new, more efficient ways to do the work is how you increase productivity, not work capacity. Hiring an Eli Whitney means that your work capacity is now devoted to doing something else (operating a gin rather than separating by hand), something that has higher productivity per time unit.
> What would be even better is allowing the meeting chair to simply unmute a single person and mute everyone else to ensure some order.

On jitsi you can do precisely that, click on the menu of the person's screen and click "mute everyone but this user".
SARS-CoV-2 and the Future of Work
Discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22789523
I said they weren't at fault legally or morally. That doesn't mean it wasn't stolen.
https://docs.rs/rio/ is a pretty credible attempt at providing a misuse-resistant API for io_uring, both synchronous and async.

There's still some nonzero complexity in using it instead of read/write, but it doesn't seem particularly burdensome to me.

I've got a lot of hope for higher-level misuse-resistant libraries on top of io_uring.
Walmart has been spot on with both their delivery as well pickup-in-store items. I wish they installed FREEZER SILOS at all of their locations for their pickup-in-store FROZEN foods that can be ordered online. Right now only select places have them. You cant order frozen foods online at the rest of the locations. But otherwise they have been great with all of my orders.

HomeDepot and Lowes are a joke. HomeDepot.com even tried to sneak in a 'handling fee' at the checkout ( paraphrasing I forget what they called it ) for a small kitchen appliance though it said 'free shipping' at first glance next to the item description.
Something like a 3D printer that could produce integrated circuit dies from blank wafers; "VLSI" means "Very Large-Scale Integration". But we're still a long way from that being feasible.

Even if you had a magic box that could turn wafers into dies, you'd still need to be able to source the wafers, ensure an extremely clean environment, screen for imperfections/failures, and package the dies into chips which are robust enough to be handled, soldered, etc.

Some people like Jeri Ellsworth have managed to fabricate individual transistors in the garage, which is extremely impressive, but it's still a long way from there to a packaged integrated circuit.

One step at a time though, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Large_Scale_Integration

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_bonding
- Error messages
- Error codes
- IC part numbers

Those are the top 3 things that routinely yield absolutely no useful results for me. The first two seem to produce pages upon pages of spammy SEO sites (with titles like "fix errors now") which don't even contain the relevant error message or code, and the latter alternates between no results or, once again, pages of SEO spam.

When I was still in an office with coworkers a while back, we had developed the habit of yelling "fuck you Google!" and showing a middle finger at the monitor whenever a search yielded absolutely WTF or useless results, which was a cue to everyone else around to jump in and help. A stronger tirade of profanity was reserved for when someone managed to trip the bot-detector CAPTCHA hellban. At first only the former happened once or twice a week, but shortly before working from home, we were getting Google-screwed multiple times a day, and tripping the hellban so often that most of us switched to a combination of Bing and Yahoo; while still not ideal, and the results weren't much better, at least we weren't routinely getting banned from them for trying harder to find what we were looking for.
Of course it could be both, at different points in time.

Edit: as well as different people within the organization.
Awesome thanks. Trevor Bedford‘s key comments:

“There have been only 11 mutations to proteins that are widely distributed. These are potentially functionally distinct variants that deserve attention and experimental and clinical follow up. But my expectation would be most have ‘little effect’ without further data“.

“in terms of immunity, there is a single widely circulating mutation in spike protein (D614G). Spike is present on the surface of the virus and is what the immune system sees“

“If you follow a transmission chain in which one person with flu infects another person and they infect another person and so on, you'll find that the virus mutates about once every 10 days across its genome. Almost all of these mutations will have little to no effect on virus function. Evolution weeds out the mutations that ‘break’ the virus and mutations that make a virus replicate better are extremely rare.”

The effects of the OP drug increasing the mutation rate would need to be modelled to understand risks.
Union membership is usually job-specific. If you leave the job, you generally also leave the union unless your new job is also a union job. And even if the new job is a union job, if it's a different union then your position in the old union doesn't transfer over.

Talent guilds are generally the only unions that restrict their members from doing non-union work, and even the talent guilds have exceptions for lower-earning members.
It's likely because people pay less attention when the roads are empty.
Chain Reaction Cycles for bike gear is unmatched, and outdoes Amazon by a mile.

Search, sorting and faceting features are unmatched:
Looking for a pair of handlebars: you can filter by material, colour, width, diameter, rise, sweep, brand, stock level, price.
Need some wheels, specifically a wheel set that has a 25mm internal rim diameter, for road biking, disc brake compatible, with 6 bolt disc mounts, 28 spokes, made of carbon fibre, in stock, and then arranged by discount level? Then want to buy it for an actual reasonable price, and receive it within a calendar week (pretty great considering I'm on the opposite side of the world), then CRC is literally unmatched.

Components etc are sensibly, correctly and consistently arranged by type and feature in a way that makes me wish every other online retailer would take several pages out of their book.

I've hunted for bike components on Amazon, it was a painful experience that resulted in a lot of manual searching, going between several pages trying to compare between half a dozen differently formatted and arranged spec sheets just to figure out which components were compatible, and even then the prices were not worth it.
I know from personal finance that having a buffer in the bank is good... But this seems to be a rather large buffer.

Can someone please explain what's going on with these numbers?
Here you go: http://fte.triptohell.info/demo
Not sure if they support running games at those refresh rates, but either way there won't be many if any AAA games that would actually be running +60 FPS. If we can even get stable 60 FPS for most titles with 1440p or 4K, I'll be surprised.

In the end it's still the graphics what sells and not the FPS for most people and definitely for most people buying game consoles. In the current gen, lot of games are still running 1080p@30FPS:
https://www.ign.com/wikis/xbox-one/PS4_vs._Xbox_One_Native_R...
> alarming frequency, almost daily

We've only been able to get pretty small orders for a few weeks.

We incorrectly focused too heavily on building up the (not so tasty/suitable for 'normal' consumption) emergency supplies as the crisis was unfolding.
Autumn: Design your own tiling window manager for Mac
How is that any worse of a position for the companies than if they had never attempted these nonsensical arbitration clauses in the first place? A reasonable outcome would be summary judgements for the plaintiffs due to the defendants not appearing per their own process.
Learning to See Through Obstructions
Brand loyalty is a thing, too, though.

"Allstate did me a solid when they didn't have to" is a pretty good PR move, especially if they're suddenly awash in cash due to reduced claims.
Relevant to this: Quantized Inertia - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1itasiXNUPg
I am guessing you are talking about git, in which case, the closest you can do by itself is to tag the specific branch:

git tag -m '<name> is deprecated' deprecated/<name> <name>
git branch -D <name>

This removes the branch <name> from the branch list and would cause the specified message to appear. You may also revive the branch, if you ever felt inclined to do so.

If you rely on a service like Github to host your repo, you have a setting to archive the repo: https://github.blog/2017-11-08-archiving-repositories/
Allstate is known for being an ethical and fair company. I work for their subsidiary and this is normal behavior for them. I am proud they are doing this.
hi, thanks much. very fun.
any chance you could add keyboard shortcuts to the menu items after completing a level? (try again, next, menu) so that a user doesn't need to switch from keyboard to mouse.
So true. We're going to find out which ones were transferring revenue to executive salaries, stock buybacks and dividends.
After 13 days of quarantine, Colombia extends obligatory lockdown by 2 weeks
It doesn't matter if 90% of plaintiffs choose not to go to trial. The 10% that do are more than enough to overwhelm the company's ability to individually manage each case.

Also, in the US legal system, it costs very little to file a lawsuit. And for plaintiffs, it generally costs nothing at the early stages because most plaintiff lawyers work on contingency.
There's a couple of things in the article. The Xbox has a faster CPU, but the PS5 has a faster SSD. The Xbox has more GPU cores, but the GPU cores of the PS5 are faster. I would say number of cores versus speed equals how power and speed differ.
So I noticed a bunch of responses seemed to be missing something you said -

"at least don't find it to be intuitive"

I will 100% agree it's not intuitive.

That said, I think only languages that behave like other languages you already know seem intuitive; the first time you were exposed to (your first language) it wasn't intuitive either. You had to _learn_ it. Learn the concepts, learn the syntax.

And I think that's what hurts when coming to Erlang. Most people doing so aren't used to language flavors other than the Algol-C heritage. Certainly, they're not used to the Prolog heritage Erlang is coming from, nor, probably, functional languages, and certainly not actor based ones. It's not intuitive at all; that said, I also don't think it's 'hard'. The language and grammar is quite small and understandable, even if parts of it are things I and many others find faults in. It's just by the time most people encounter it, they aren't used to having to _learn_ a language, but instead are used to being able to just kinda intuit a lot by just looking at it.
I played one level around 80 and was able to figure out how it works without reading any instructions. You did good.
A down side is that people feel like they have to bundle an entire Linux rootfs because they think of a container as a lightweight vm: if they thought of it as a os process running inside various namespaces, they might be more inclined to only ship what they actually need.
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