skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> KGOY

Really? I looked at the "Identity" section and sure, they just wrote out "lesbian transgender life" from Born This Way, but they also turned "find a man" into "find the one" and do similar things for "woman"... You can say many things about these replacements, but the one I'm not sure about is that the replacement is in the service of making kids get older, younger.

It seems to me just like they just want to make all that into something anodyne, which if anything is the anti-KGOY... unless the alternative is neither Kidz Bop nor the original music, but instead, something more like Raffi? I'm not sure how realistic that is, though.
Not to be dismissal - but that sound anecdotal.

I think it's best startups are provided with the most tools/options based on their priorities -- including the underlying lessons this book attempts to deliver - is the right path. Then it's up to their values and priorities.

Ignoring my startup experience (as they are all security-related and therefore took it serious), I believe startups that are handling any amount of customer data should be looking at security very seriously.

Now whether or not they do take it seriously is another problem, that doesn't mean the opportunities and advice shouldn't exist.
Conversely, my jurisdiction (Alberta) has been testing a lot of symptomatic people, and ~98% of people with COVID-19 symptoms have tested negative.
Garbage Collector?
Pence and Fauci have some rare positive news about the coronavirus
Why so? They just haven't jumped on the meme-tech train, at least wrt to this setup.

Running an actual process on an actual server has been around since time immemorial, as has doing the "atomic" deploy thing (which I'm guessing is just updating a symlink from cold to hot).

The approach is refreshingly sane.
It’s not used widely (yet?) but Kotlin does also compile for browsers and full stack kotlin react apps are a thing.

https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/js-overview.html
Compare the bluebook value of a typical car that might be used for this kind of work at ten years old with 120k miles (12k/year) vs. ten years old with a million miles (100k/year). The difference will end up being like $2500, because after ten years the car will be worth hardly any more than that no matter how many miles it has on it, and it can't lose more than 100% of its value due to higher mileage.

~$2500 amortized over 880k additional miles is <0.003/mile, and even less in net present cost because you don't lose it until you sell the car.
A few days or more ago I saw a post here pointing to a Medium blog. The blog was by some random guy who was saying the same thing that AP is saying today. No one or even I could verify who the author was so his post was flagged here and even Medium took the following post down....

http://web.archive.org/web/20200405061401/https://medium.com...

Now as you can see ...today the AP is saying ventilators are causing more harm and the good majority who are put on ventilators die.

Love to know who the author was! Was he just some random guy making things up or what he was saying is on point or close to it?
I feel this way about Swift.
> Most were doing chores or actual work throughout history.

I have to disagree, the young of other social animals like dogs and lions all spend most of their time "playing". This, combined with the fact that a human child is comparatively underdeveloped compared to the young of every other animal makes it hard to conceive of any useful task a child could do in a neolithic society. It's not like toys are some recent invention, they're one of the oldest types of artefact we dig up. I believe "chores" are a modern invention that exists mostly to act as busywork. Washing dishes doesn't teach you anything important but many types of play exist as a sort of simulation of adult life.
> When a big tech company claims a regulation it dislikes would hurt newer players from competing with it, you have to ask... why are they so opposed then?

First off, I haven't seen big companies making this argument. Can you point us to a high quality source where one does?

Secondly, suppose the size of a market is X and BigCo has a 0.9X slice of it. Suppose the cost of complying with new regulation is 0.5X. Now it is impossible for anyone else to compete with BigCo, since there is no way for second place to be profitable in the market. However, BigCo is still worse off. Their revenues are now X, but their profits are now -0.4X compared to what they were before, since they gained 0.1X revenue and lost 0.5X in compliance costs.

So, if a BigCo were to make such an argument, that's at least one case where they could deploy it honestly while at the same time having their own best interests at heart.
Sigh. I wonder if this looks like a good solution to use for private on-site infrastructure deployment, but its so reassuring that the author is giving a testimonial of their own product! /s No thanks.

Going on-site is the way forward from the AWS, GCP, Azure cloud hype-cycle but this one is definitely not ready for this.
Thanks. Didn't know about the raw identifier syntax. That's kinda ugly, so I'd probably still go with copying it to all of my projects and giving it a new name if I were to update to Rust 2018.
That would be http://www.arrl.org/arrl-antenna-book
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That article is comparing NY to CA with the expectation that they should be more similar.

CA is a very car-centric state, the public transportation situation is a joke. I'd expect this alone to tamp down the spread relative to NY, considering the density of NYC and how ubiquitous public transportation is there.
Go Bayesian. With every passing month/year, multiply your expectation that the story is true by a fixed decay factor between 0 and 1; this simulates the exponential distribution. But also be sure to update how surprised you will be, if the story does ever corroborate!
Decently, I'd say. It is a single executable that you have to build yourself. If you want a recent build, there are a few extra steps, but they're nbd. There are build instructions in the README ("Installing Scryer Prolog") at:

http://github.com/mthom/scryer-prolog
Java didn't have generics before version 5, I think. It was a hell of casting back and forth Object, much like Go and interface{} today.
Right, but Bloomberg doesn't make (meaningful) money from showing news to a wide audience. Bloomberg is somewhat unique among news providers in that _news is the advert_ for the company.

They sell a software terminal at about $20k/yr subscription, and there are > 325,000 paying subscribers. It's nearly an essential tool in finance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_Terminal.

It's pretty neat, there's some really interesting tech and history involved but it's all hidden away in a very insulated industry.
And yet...it just works. And scales!
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So true. Even a total stranger, I don't want to let them down or lie to them. Automated systems are completely unhelpful.
If you don't test a patient that's positive and put them with other patients and unprotected health personnel you'll infect others and significantly weaken the hospital's ability to treat patients. If you don't test a patient that's negative and put them with covid patients they risk getting infected, taking up an extra ICU spot, and might die. Would you want one of your loved ones in that position?

What would change in public policy with more randomized tests?
Yes, thank you for the Power of Prolog! Scryer was and is being written under its influence.
Thanks for this -- I tried downloading Zappy a bunch of times and it would never open, and I had to endure a byzantine registration process for Zapier (??). Deleted.
Does anybody change/update their C++ code to keep it “idiomatic”?

Not sure I really get the concept here.
Nice one. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
>He does not advocate lifting social distancing rules

I believe the "idiots" referred to above are the people who blindly assumed without evidence the experimental hypothesis of this study simply as an excuse to avoid social distancing and self isolation.
At this point do we even need to test most of the serious cases. if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, coughs like a duck, it's a duck. Didn't China start counting cases based on CT scans at one point too?
> Tests > Types > no types at all

You conveniently neglected to include (Types + Tests) at the beginning of your little food-chain there.
This makes sense - talking with fingers and leaving records of our dialogue to be eventually read at the leisure of recipient(s) is does not require the instantaneous turn-taking auditory announcement devices we are referencing.

I wonder if people will gradually become less quick and witty over time with this increasingly standard mode of communication.

But there are benefits to be reaped from our ebb & flow of commenting and pondering throughout our day.
The problem is that no one should have thought about or signed off on doing so in this situation.

Perhaps a broader problem is that a culture was created that facilitated that.
I have put it here https://github.com/kishansagathiya/pomodoro

It is written in Go.
Or someone that cuts his nails on his desk.

... that is not normal right? He was so casual about it ans no one seemed to be bithered which made me wonder if i am the weird one
Why can’t I use this on an iPhone?

Would be perfect if I didn’t have to download the app.
Amazon’s Shifting Definition of What Is “Essential”
Which Lisp are you referring to? There are types all over CL.
The question is not "have you considered giving up?", but rather "have you considered when this will be finished?"
The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
If you're into sci-fi short stories, Isaac Asimov's "The Last Question" [1] is more or less the story about this, although it's heavier on the twist ending aspect and lighter on the solving-the-problem-in-reality aspect.

[1] https://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
It’s better than Swift actually. The Swift compiler isn’t even backwards compatible.
They have 2,000 engineers, not 2,000 employees. Employees are like 13,000.
Paper, cotton masks appear ineffective stopping Covid-19
Just use C99. No need to keep up with anything.
Hmm, that seems like a good idea. They definitely help inside the company (those `standup calls`). YC Startup School does accountability calls. And since they are really pushing people to join those calls, I am guessing they must work.
TL;DR

Discussion: Neither surgical nor cotton masks effectively filtered SARS–CoV-2 during coughs by infected patients. Prior evidence that surgical masks effectively filtered influenza virus (1) informed recommendations that patients with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 should wear face masks to prevent transmission (2). However, the size and concentrations of SARS–CoV-2 in aerosols generated during coughing are unknown. Oberg and Brousseau (3) demonstrated that surgical masks did not exhibit adequate filter performance against aerosols measuring 0.9, 2.0, and 3.1 μm in diameter. Lee and colleagues (4) showed that particles 0.04 to 0.2 μm can penetrate surgical masks. The size of the SARS–CoV particle from the 2002–2004 outbreak was estimated as 0.08 to 0.14 μm (5); assuming that SARS-CoV-2 has a similar size, surgical masks are unlikely to effectively filter this virus.
Show HN: Flexible Covid-19 Charts
A full nationwide shut down without waiting for individual states to shockingly have the same issues as every other state was one possibility.

By comparison many ill people are currently being told to stay home until they have difficulty breathing, making tests have minimal clinical value. Especially as the risk of false negatives are significant.
Hi HN, I spent the last few weeks aggregating and playing with covid data. This is a compilation of my favorite data visualizations, along with multiple customization options for each chart. Happy to hear any feedback, suggestions for existing charts, as well as ideas for new charts!
No idea, but you do see a lot of "no, that's ancient deprecated crap; this is how you do it" every time a new C++ standard release comes out.
> - https://github.com/zgoat/goatcounter (Golang) (Commercial Licensed)

Small correction: it's not really "commercial licensed", it's completely Open Source/Free Software according to the OSI definition and "four freedoms", and can be used for any purpose including commercial (EUPL license, roughly similar to the AGPL).

Only the hosted goatcounter.com SaaS operates on a "free for personal use, pay for commercial use" basis, but there is nothing stopping you from running your own instance for commercial purposes.

I think I need to clarify the README on this a little bit, as I had someone else ask the same question yesterday as well :-)
Don't expect any Windows 10X devices this calendar year
Yandex and Duckduckgo are good.
The guidelines say politics are generally considered off-topic and, "If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it." I can see why it was flagged, that's all.
Apple devices Bluetooth traffic sniffing
90% of people will comply. Let's say it's only 50% though. Those people are no more or less likely to be infected. So it's 100% perfectly fine not to test everyone if the goal is to determine the number infected overall.

If looking to go beyond, hey let's get testing capacity to the point where those who are sick and desperately want to be tested can be tested, then we can attack the 1984 fantasy.

"But but what if I can't force those to be tested who don't want it" is an absurd and insane concern given that only a tiny minority of people can be tested who desperately want to.

Once we have testing capacity then those who want to force testing should go out and try to force people to be tested and happily accept whatever happens to them.
This looks cool, but unfortunately the text doesn’t all fit on one screen on my iPhone SE and there is no way to scroll.
I do often add fat, though typically in the form of butter or cream product (sour cream, creme fraiche, etc.) Half and half probably works in a pinch.
Basler has very well-made equipment and lovely software (Pylon) compared to most of what is available in the imaging world. If you want to see what things would actually cost at open market price, look at Edmund Optics listings for the cameras (eg. https://www.edmundoptics.com/f/basler-ace-usb-3.0-cameras/14... ), they are expensive by consumer standards but quite reasonable by industrial standards. Basler also tends to be pretty friendly with academics or other potential partners who might increase the value of their line, so it may be worth asking, depending on what sort of thing you're considering doing.

Their area-scan features turned out to be unsuitable for what I'd hoped to use it for, but having looked at Pylon in determining that, I really wish I'd been able to, because the alternative I ended up with has been closer to "magnetized needle and steady hand" than "lovely API."
https://blog.exxactcorp.com/nvidia-quadro-rtx-8000-deep-lear...

Almost double speedup for FP16 Resnet-50.
I was a fan of Wave, and then Apache Wave. I liked Apache Wave’s simpler UI, but I found the code base difficult to understand. At least for my skills, it was not hackable. It has been several years since I have spun up Apache Wave, not since Apache Foundation put the project on ice.
From using Rust, it’s clear there is still a lot of work to be done. Someday Rust will be stable and mature, but it isn’t now, and it doesn’t look like it will be a year from now either. The plasticity of the language honestly is what allows it to continue to innovate where others do not. Let’s let Rust find its niche and then lock it down, and not rush it or we’ll be regretting it in a few years.
Stability is THE most important feature. Rust needs to mature a little more and then mostly just stop. I seriously hope that it doesnt follow the C++ path.
What do you think the impact of waiting on a vaccine is?

Global financial collapse -- not recession, collapse, will kill millions as well.

Pure eradication is a pipe dream and potentially the most ascientific strategy.
Isn’t all of this because of the Historical webRTC issues in safari?
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Why is legislation like this being presented.. Its simple.. Less people are looking. Of course this bill is intended to do what we all want. The writing is on the walls.

To many people sit around in their passive lifestyle and pass the care to someone else... Doesnt matter who just as long as they dont need to get off the couch and stop scrolling fakebook.

This passes... Youll see 1984 realllll soon... I wish more people would start taking shit seriously. The gov. Has been hijacked .. We all screwed.. Period.. Stop kidding yourself.
As someone who has been incredibly excited for the Surface Neo, I'm really bummed to hear that it won't be coming this year. I'm intrigued at the idea of Windows 10X on single-screen devices, but I think the dual-screen aspect is the "carrot" so to speak to get developers to build modern Windows apps. I feel like 10X on single-screen devices is nothing more than an evolution of Windows 10 in S Mode, which didn't provide enough of an incentive for developers to modernize their applications.

Hopefully Microsoft releases a small batch of developer-focused Neo's for developers that want to get a head start building for dual-screen devices.
Basic math, knowing population density, and then that paper was my "oh shit" moment. Got some half respirators and 300 rolls of toilet paper over the next week.

The toilet paper wasn't to prepare for a post-apocalyptic world. It was because I knew that was the first thing other idiots would buy when news of this thing hit your average Joe :)
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I remember reading this story in NYT also. Are you thinking about the town of Vò?

If so, here is a related article about how they tested everyone there: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/18/scientists-say...
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> based on a rough calculation from a couple years ago, a gig driver needs to make about $18/hour (including downtime between rides) to break even against a minimum wage job.

Is this counting the similar uncompensated costs for ordinary wage labor? Most minimum wage workers can't afford to live in the city center even though that's where jobs are concentrated. If you live 60 miles from work, that's not just 120 miles a day of uncompensated driving expense, it's two hours of uncompensated time.

If you use .55/mile as the transportation cost with that long of a commute for a job that pays $7.25/hour for eight hours, that worker makes... uh, negative $8/day. Which I guess makes the two extra uncompensated hours they spend commuting a benefit because they get to amortize their losses over ten hours instead of eight and lose $.80/hour instead of $1/hour?

This might explain why a lot of people prefer making "less money" working for Uber.
That's fair, many languages will only have Vecs, and will call them arrays, so it can cause confusion coming to Rust :)
Yes, because a giant social experiment where we try to enforce global isolation is not something we should be taking lightly. The approach we should be taking will not be even close to clear until serological testing, and even then it's not going to be obvious. Stop pretending it is.
I don’t get it. If they have your number, this person can already message you.
Grate about 1 tsp. Romano, or Parmigiano Reggiano...curd the eggs only, leaving a wet sheen. Heaven.
In addition, there will also be no medical care for patients who get heart attacks, car crashes, etc. So the mortality of those things will skyrocket.
Sure, let's just keep the economy closed, who cares if the death rate is 10%, 1% or 0.1% (seasonal flu), what difference does it make right?
One of the main features I look for in a language is stability. I just don't want it to change that much other than adding functionality to the standard library.

I know that's not the fashion currently, but it's probably one of the most valuable things to me.
Agreed, but there are a couple of edge cases that drakma handles taht dexador doesn't.
That's not the yield, but the long-term growth rate, accounting for defaults. But yes, for a while 5% was a typical junk bond yield. As of last month, though, it shot up to ~8 percent, or 10 for B-grade.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22817962
The only thing Google Docs has over MS is the collaboration.

Word in the browser is a billion times better for formatting than Google Docs. I loath using google docs. But when it comes to Collab, Google docs wins hands down.
23andMe's Covid19 Study
In a way, it is. I've occasionally encountered it on county and state government websites in the US.
Random testing here in Iceland over the last week showed 0.6% infected.

https://grapevine.is/news/2020/04/06/random-sampling-reveals...

This is a useful albeit very small data point, because Iceland received its cases from both Europe (alpine ski cluster) and the US. So it puts a very loose upper bound on the incidence in the US up to the point travel to Iceland was effectively halted.
As a side note, Java also didn't ship with generics. Java was released in the mid 90s and didn't have generics until about 10 years later with version 5. This timing should feel familiar - Go first appeared ~10 years ago in 2009.

You may remember that in Java 1.4, `get`ting from collections (e.g. ArrayList) always returned Object, which you were expected to cast to their runtime type (or a class that their runtime type inherits from). I was young at the time, correct me if I'm wrong. Contrast this with Go's solution, which seems to be user-inaccessible compiler magic. I much prefer Go's solution to Java's, but I also like generics.
> "With denormalizing, data integrity is more of an application concern. You'll need to consider when this duplicated data can change and how to update it if needed. But this denormalization will give you a greater scale than is possible with other databases."

There's the big catch. As another poster pointed out, normalisation is not about efficiency. It's about correctness. People have been quick to make the comparison between storage and compute cost. The high cost of development and bug-fixing time trumps both of them by an order of magnitude. The guarantee of referential-integrity alone that SQL offers helps eradicate an entire class of bugs for your application with no added effort. This article glosses so blithely over this critical caveat. Whenever this discussion comes up I'm quick to refer back to the yardstick of "Does your application have users? If so, then its data is relational". I can't wait for the day when we look back at NoSQL as the 'dancing sickness' of the IT world.

It's also worth questioning: 'At what scale does this tradeoff become worthwhile?' Another poster here correctly pointed out that modern versions of Postgres scale remarkably well. The tipping point where this kind of NoSQL implementation becomes the most efficient option is likely to be far beyond the scale of most products. It's true that completely denormalising your data will make reads much faster, this is undeniable. This does not mean you need to throw the baby out with the bathwater and store your master data in NoSQL.
We may have spotted a parallel-universe going backwards in time
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I used to run simulations on this big guy :)