skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also use reMarkable as a (pretty good) EPUB reader, but it is really slow when opening the book for the first time or changing the rendering settings (font size, margins, etc.).

It can sometimes take a minute or two and sometimes it just hangs completely and you have to close the book and re-open it. I assume it's because it has to somehow render the whole book, to support the handwritten annotations and put them in correct places.
we’ve used it with 30 users in gallery mode, works fine. Another group has used it with 500 people, and it seems to have worked as well.

A major issue is still Firefox, as Firefox does not support simultaneously sending two WebRTC streams, so Firefox users heavily reduce performance for all other users as well, but the rest seems to work just fine.
Does 2 inches really make that much difference?
Or it's priced in the Federal Reserve buying up trillions of dollars in junk debt: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-09/fed-unlea....
> The CBM 8032 AV project is an exploration of the beauty of simple graphics and sound, using computers from the early 1980’s.
We need several fixes:

Force most countries to adopt freemarket, remove trade barriers, remove import and export duties (except for extreme situations like pandemic)

Right now lots of market imposes duties on import of American goods, this reduces American exports.

Some countries like India, Brazil play extremely unfair - this only helps few industrialists in these countries but overall public suffers usually as they are forced to buy substandard goods from local providers, instead of someone internationally competitive. But yes, it helps the politicians who usually get their money from those handful of those industrialists monopoly setup through import taxes.

In hyper competitive market, local producers will usually figure out the niches worth exploiting and they'll build long term advantage there rather than aiming for some generic niche where they've no competitive advantage.

This prevents countries like India or Brazil from becoming Taiwan
> Domestic demand for cash eclipses foreign demand. The Fed and Congress have printed trillions, yet we’re still on the precipice of deflation.

And this is where the long expected boogyman of "a run on the Dollar" can happen after all.

Private players will be dumping capital assets by gigatons in the foreseeable 2-3 years.
Anbox is for desktop, aind is for cloud (and edge).

The biggest advantage of running Android on cloud/edge I think is anti-theft.

Also, it will be soon able to run multiple aind pods on Kubernetes with distinct UID mappings. (I need to submit patches to Anbox upstream)
I really like the neher lab prediction tool.

https://neherlab.org/covid19

You can choose different scenarios and compare it with real data. So you can match the parameters of your model to the actual measured data (number of deaths) and it also has data about the population and the state of ICUs and hospitals that you can use in your prediction.

In the end it is just a tool which can give completely wrong predictions, but you get a felling for what could and could not happen.
Aah, you've confused ycomb for Google/stackoverflow/actually reading the documentation and/or source code.
Yes, it's incredibly dishonest and encourages reviews which are likely to lead other people to make the same mistake. Any application which does so is against apples guidelines and ought to be banned
That's covered by the post: because the person who received the small viral load will infect others and give them a large viral load.
While this is true, it seems to me that most companies don't actually have both choices. Instead it's "training + market rate compensation" or "you will forever struggle to have enough senior devs to accomplish your goals". If you can't attract talent, you have to grow it and pay to retain it. Simple as that, no?
Herd immunity doesn't happen until you have a vaccine.
Buggy on Safari (SVG doesn't always show / updates correctly).

Otherwise great work.
Viruses don’t really care about thing like death rate, they just care about how effectively they are spread from person to person (viruses don’t really care about anything, but I am describing how they appear to act if they had a mind).

In general the less deadly viruses spread better as dead people are not able to spread the virus around as well as living people. The general trend is for viruses to become less deadly over time, but it can take a long time for this to happen.
Why doesn't a mobile phone work with the battery removed, but charger connected?
I'd say that the 2-week 20% stock market rise in the middle of a global pandemic is at least partially due to the expectation of asset inflation, and not just due to childlike optimism that the economic consequences of the pandemic will be gone in 6 months.

This is just the first thought that makes sense though, would love to see some discussion of it.
Is this serious? It is exactly what led to the current situation.
I'm part of the crowd that dislikes the trend to use electron for everything. I have 8gb of soldered Ram on my laptop, and will be forced to buy a new machine because I'm swapping like crazy now. My workflow hasn't changed. My activity hasn't. But 2 years ago, Firefox and Virtualbox were the only hogs, for reasons I could accept. Now, dynalist, stremio, discord, signal, pulsesms and vscode are added to the mix.

However, I understand that said apps may have not existed without Electron at all.

And especially, for jitsi, I think it makes perfect sense. If you are going to create an app that does video, audio and web rtc, it would be silly not to use a battle tested browser engine that does all this already.

Besides, having contemplated the state of UI in a world were you have a bazillions of combination of hardware type + screen format + OS kernel + OS version, I have to say Electron doesn't have much competition.

What are you going to do? QT? Phone support is abysmal and it's a pain to package. Kivy? Super slow, almost no widgets. Flutter ? Uses a niche language with a very small ecosystem and an unknown life expectancy.

I probably would go with the later, but I can't blame people for taking the easy road.
I guess you can use phoronix test suite:
https://www.phoronix-test-suite.com

Those migrations are benchmarked quite frequently on phoronix.com, for example:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=3900x-99...
That's on your teammates not the technology. Like any code if you want it to be readable and robust you have to spend the time cleaning up and refactoring the it. Lots of notebooks are easy to read and run reliably.
I was just wondering why I was seeing mentions of this app everywhere all of a sudden.

> Hollywood’s $1.75 billion-funded

That explains it.
> What we're seeing is less a pandemic (although of course it is one) and more a bug in human psychology on a massive never-before-seen scale.

That's debatable. Great Britain and Netherlands in the beginning wanted to simply let it go and use a "herd immunity" strategy, but changed track quickly after seeing how ICUs were overloaded in Italy and Spain. I've never heard ICUs being overloaded and medical resources being stretched to their limits during the flu season... Could you explain why? Isn't a great difference that we have flu vaccines but no known cure for COVID-19 yet?
I never understood why companies don't take a slower, ramp up approach for interviewing.

ROUND 1 THE INTERVIEW

Step 1: Interview candidates for 'culture fit'. Chat on the phone, get to know the person a bit, ask questions about what they did before. See if they have a sense of humor, get them to relax. Don't try to trick them, just have a chat.

Step 2: Ask a few 'how do you think questions'. Why are manhole covers round? How many school busses are in New York City, etc. These are questions with no clear answer and missing input data (like real life). Listen to how they work out problems in their head. Then ask fuzzy questions with no clear answer, and relatively high consequences for rightness or wrongness. See how they deal with that. Ask workplace conflict questions and irate coworker questions, see how they respond. Give them all the time they need.

Step 3: At the end of the interview, send them some take home code projects without a time limit. Give them some toy software program and ask them to fix a few reported bugs in it. Then give them a small greenfield project and see how they structure and document their code.

ROUND 2: THE DATING PERIOD

If all of the above goes well; hire them on a 1 month trial basis and see how everyone works together. Maybe they don't like your company? Maybe they smell funny? Maybe you force everyone to do yoga? Maybe they MUST travel with their service chimpanzee? Who knows? Spend a month working together and find out. If either of you see a red flag; shake hands and go your separate ways.

- - -

My point is this; putting someone through a gauntlet of stressful, random interview questions and whiteboard coding issues makes people stressed and nervous so they do not act like themselves. If the job is a high stress job and it's important to handle a lot of stress; you'll see that during the dating period.

Imagine having to decide if you were going to marry someone based on a few hours of conversation and 'whiteboard coding problems'. It's too much of a commitment with too little information.

Hire people, not machines.
I would argue that the last battle was what the US saw occur in China and Italy. We knew the virus would reach us within weeks of those countries being hit, knew the risk potential of it, but did little to adequately prepare.
That’s awesome, I always read my newspaper like that, hanging it in a wall.
You really want to find every single person who has been infected with the mutant strain and find out how sick they got. If you find a mutant that infected 10,000 people and didn’t cause any serious illness then you have a pretty good idea it safe.
Do you trust the sites you visit not to be compromised by shady ad networks, shady individuals, etc.?
My understanding is that the original company died and mix is the spiritual successor.
It will be fully supported probably forever since Apple wrote a ton of their own systems in it and it has perfect integration with C and C++. The language is basically done at this point, any new features will probably be aimed at language interop.
We just don't know. Either case (short immunity like the common cold, or permanent immunity) is possible.
> The nanosecond wire alone should be a compelling argument.

For those that haven't seen it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eyFDBPk4Yw

(Of course, I expect that most here have, but xkcd 10,000 and all that.)
Where is the virtual background option in Jitsi? I couldn't find it.
Org-mode has an exporter for the Freemind mindmapping tool.
Freeplane is a fork of Freemind https://www.freeplane.org/wiki/index.php/Home
Underrepresented groups get more attempts and are actively recruited more.
"fewer total deaths"
Yes, but not fewer total infections. You save lives by spreading out the infections over time, reducing strain on the healthcare system.
Ah, so you first check for a candidate and then check a (somewhat random) group of people infected with that candidate for severity. That sounds sensible. Thanks for updating a stranger from the internet!
>..., conscription, ...

What?
>Or a whole bunch of scared people were trying to do something to help their family back home.

These people bought pallet-loads of masks, gloves, thermometers, and other supplies:

>https://old.reddit.com/r/SeattleWA/comments/euijsd/man_at_a_...

This wasn't people buying supplies for their family and friends back home.

At best, it was profiteering (hoping to resell at a steep markup), and at worst, it was an organized effort by the CCP to weaken other countries, including the US.
I think adding the Facebook SDK added something like 40-120MB to my app if memory serves me correct. One more reason I always use the mobile web version in a WebView every time I can get away with it. It has all of these dependencies like Bolts and what not. All to display 2-3 screens worth of login.
Won't the M2 measure of the money supply increase by some 40% as a consequence of the current stimulus and bailout packages? Hard to see that this won't cause some inflation.
The problem with polio back mutating is limited to one of the three strain in the live vaccine and is due to the mutations not being deletion mutations. The live polio vaccine was developed before people knew this and for regulatory reasons the problem has never been fixed.

This problem is easy to avoid these days.
> you are very likely correct that it's a numbers game

On the surface it's numbers game. But 2/3rds of getting hired is a confidence game.

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

See also

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

Some programmers are really good at what they do but they just suck at playing the game. Or more likely they suck at it worse than the average hiring manager.
I make an app for macOS that makes it easy to make offline viewers for documents like this (https://repla.app/). Would anyone be interested in having an offline viewer for this? E.g., being able to drag a `mindmap.md` file to the app icon, and have it render the mindmap and automatically update when you make changes in your text editor.

(I'm aware there are other ways to do offline views like this, happy to explain the relative pros and cons of Repla's approach versus others as I see them, if anyone is curious, just ask!)
I imagine you're going to want coordination so that states are not competing with each other to purchase ventilators / PPE / whatever else they need. Otherwise you're going to drive up the price for everyone. There's certainly an argument to be had that the federal government preventing states from acting can be costly, but I do think you need some level of coordination in order to prevent waste on a massive scale.
You don't need to subsidise anything.

> On March 1, 2018, Trump announced his intention to impose a 25% tariff on steel and a 10% tariff on aluminum imports.
> Trade Act of 1974 allows the president to impose a 15% tariff for 150 days if there is "an adverse impact on national security from imports

>NAFTA originally required automakers to use 62.5% of North American-made parts in their cars to be imported duty free

You can just require that 25% of PPE purchased by the government has to be made domestically. That would give you 3-4 factories. You make a requirement so they are 1000 miles away from each other and be able to 4x capacity within 2 weeks.
A few years ago those Pixel Qi displays had quite acceptable refresh rates (the Notion Ink Adam had one of those displays):

https://youtu.be/193w4JLm5hE?t=286
I like white boarding for only one reason: so I can really ask questions that makes the interviewer uncomfortable. I don’t like jQuery. I don’t like your big stupid framework or your bullshit design patterns. I am a developer because I like writing code to solve real problems. I want to see, in the flesh, how scared and uncomfortable you are at seeing a candidate write original solutions to real problems. I want to see that arrogant look on your face when I violate your unmentioned code style rules. If that scares the shit out of you, as is so often the case, I know I don’t want to work there.

Unfortunately, I have also found that looks impressive during interviews only to not work out in practice once being hired. Not matter what, as a JavaScript developer, people are scared to death if you write original code.
I'm particularly interested in how this plays out with dotty. My understanding was that lightbend was at some going to take over that compiler from EPFL, but taking over a compiler (the second, besides the current/old one) at the same time they are laying people off?
Python is also compiled to bytecode in the mainstream implementation. But that is an implementation detail and has nothing to do with the (lack of a) type system.
What made yelp good was the reviews, not the listings. This is the part that yellowpages turned around and ripped off.
Are you Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Tim Cook or other high profile billionaire or head of state target or work for such a target? If yes, do not do what the site says.

If not, it doesn't affect you.

Such security measures take into account possibility, but usually ignore probability.
I never understood why most GPS receivers seem to only use 1 bit ADC's. Surely you're just making the already hard problem harder for yourself by adding a massive amount of quantization noise?
Natural language generation using BERT
>> 1. Force most countries to adopt freemarket, remove trade barriers, remove import and export duties (except for extreme situations like pandemic)

Who wants that? Just look at the US and the trade war. As soon it realizes it can't compete/lead in the said industry it declares it a national security issue, be it communications(5G) or raw materials. I don't even want to mention the millitary procurement or oil. It was never about a free market. It was always about a market ruled by the most powerful where everyone can make a buck but not too much.
1. Age is not the main factor at play here.
While the median age is lower than Italy's there are still a lot of elderly people in Nigeria. On an age and population adjusted basis, Nigeria has nowhere near the number of cases and deaths as Italy.

2. The demographic profile and phylogenetic makeup of Nigeria is similar to Cameroon which has experienced more cases and deaths than Nigeria in both absolute numbers and on a pro-rata basis. This makes some of us believe we are dealing with two different circulating strains in both countries.

3. It definitely is the case that testing is not adequate but a highly susceptible affected population would soon be revealed by the number of symptomatic cases and, (more to the point), deaths. Both indices have remained relatively low
Not sure what that has to do with denial of the severity of the virus. Not to mention NYT just published a report confirming that the virus strain in the US mostly came from European sources, instead of Asian ones. Are you equating "avoiding Chinatown" with "preventing the spread of the virus"? That sounds extremely worrisome, to be polite.
The worst way to die is slow and with false hope
Or until something like 95% of population has been infected and we know for sure that those who already had the disease can not spread it anymore.
Herd immunity generally depends on having a vaccine. https://www.vaccines.gov/basics/work/protection

Are there any examples of humanity developing herd immunity without a vaccine?
Needs a domain http://make-linux-insecure-again.com
This is great. Is there anyway to have it set vertically?
"Interdependence" was a nice theory, but it seems to have it's limitations.
Brilliant && simple. Why nobody is acting on it?

Please correct spelling:

..I now work..

..a number of papers..

Thank you, please spread the word (url).
Covid-19 scenario esplorer (Biozentrum, University of Basel)
It’s part of the recruiter correspondence. They recommend books, practice sites, etc.
Two things:

1. Tested widely early on, like South Korea did.

2. Shut down public life weeks earlier, once it became clear there was community spread.

The Federal press conferences feature a few informative experts, but they also feature one very prominent source of disinformation: the guy in charge. He downplayed the virus for months, and gives rambling, poorly considered, sometimes damaging statements (e.g., causing a run on a drug needed by Lupus patients, because he likes the idea that this drug is a miracle cure that will allow America to go back to work). His latest performance was a dishonest attack on the WHO, meant to redirect blame for mismanagement of the crisis onto that organization.

Comparing the Federal press conferences to those in other countries is really eye-opening. If you want to see what good, factual, relatively unpolitical press conferences look like, take a look at the daily updates in Singapore or Germany.
Excellent, thanks! I have a box where literally the only thing I care about is CPU speed (build cluster) and nothing on that box is worth anything at all.
Both parties have been selling off and privatizing everything possible for decades now. Gut everything into the private market which has the ultimate short term aims for short term efficiency increases is the Liberal prime directive.
Google subsidiary agrees to block China access to U.S. market
Ok but do you need a course meant as a vocational, subject-specific training or something more liberal that helps you think better for the long run? I would go for the latter.
Isn't the hoop just right-click and choose open? Or is there something more nowadays?
alt.sysadmin.recovery

:-)
I don't think the point is about an apocalyptic image of people cogging up and dying in the corridors or whatnot. It's the lack of equipments like ventilators. Also it's confirmed from many sources that the medical workers are all stretched to their limits and some of them even died from overexertion. That's probably much more convincing than some random videos.
I'm guessing you can use something like [1] to create a virtual device on Windows

[1] https://webcamoid.github.io
Is the FDA regulating the spread of the dangerous version?

More seriously there is nothing for the FDA to regulate here. It is a natural virus spreading in a natural way.
It's a really interesting point you raise. Road not taken etc.
I wonder if google quantifies the impact of hires over the long term.
How productive are you? How much does your contribution make the company and if you weren't here would google notice?

If google could know when it was about to deny a speculative false negative it could hire them exclusively into a part of the company where everyone is a speculative false negative. Then you could just watch them compete with those who pass and try and measure something objective.
Firefox 75.0
You can run the Phoronix test suite before and after enabling them. There's not a lot of data on the various recent AMD platforms, presumably because of the smaller market share especially until recently. I imagine there's a large difference between mitigations=on and mitigations=off on the pre-Zen AMD platforms and a smaller difference between the two on the most recent AMD generation.
Probably because the president (still the leader of said government) telling the press that his people shouldn't talk to governors which haven't been nice enough to him doesn't inspire confidence that the second part is done in the best interest of all states. Now, if the federal government would show that they don't just do it for selfish purposes that narrative would die down pretty fast.
Why wouldn't they just say "no" and continue not social distancing?
This is awesome!

However as the discussion from earlier today shows (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22827833), it is still very expensive.

The display used in this article costs about $1500 (https://shopkits.eink.com/product/31-2%CB%9D-monochrome-epap...). Which is a bit too high for me to want to make something similar for myself.
You seem to confuse type checking with shape-driven optimization. Of course the latter can borrow a lot of terminology from the former and in a typed language you would be stupid not to use your types, but they are different topics. Any decent JavaScript or lisp compiler or interpreter will do the same.

Also what Julia does is not exactly type inference. It is rather a form of specialization. Type inference just gives you the type for an expression using just the syntactical representation. Nothing more.

As an example, if I was to invoke your function f with a floating point number, would Julia not happily specialize it for that too (assuming factorial was defined for floating points or taken out of the equation)? The thing here is, that a type checker needs to know about all the specializations a-priori.
The whole approach requires young people to not take the lockdown seriously. They will be the people who spread around the less dangerous strain of the virus.