skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One word: inflation. The government is turning on the printing presses and while investors expect real returns to take a hit, they expect nominal returns to do fine. In an inflationary environment, assets like equities will outperform.
I had a similar experience and I really would love to know if I had COVID-19 or not.

I did some work traveling in the US Minnesota <-> North Carolina late January into February and came down with a flu-like thing.

I say flu-like because I had some symptoms you'd just say was seasonal flu except I had a few other things going on that were unusual. Shortness of breath and dry cough with low fever.

The condition was persistent but mild, it lasted about two weeks except I _STILL_ suffer shortness of breath.

After I came home I'm pretty sure I passed this along to several people despite usual "I'm sick, stay away" considerations (pre social distancing days), several coworkers and my wife got sick.

Antibody tests can't come fast enough. I'm sure this thing is/was far wider spread than thought.
I've had to disassemble client applications several times to investigate issues with server compatibility when generic error codes and crashes don't give me any hints. Network debuggers don't help when the issue is caused by incorrect client processing and you only wrote the server.

In all of those cases modifying the disassembled executables is not an option (both legal and must work with original installs), but was invaluable in creating workarounds on the server side. It would be simpler to submit patches to the original vendors but enterprise companies generally ignore them or put them on the back-burner for some unspecified future release.
Time Is Meaningless Now
> But should I really throw away on year of my life?

You don't have to throw it away. There are plenty of productive ways to spend your time.

Yes, social isolation is burdensome. But it's damn sight better than being dead.
>"What if people told me to put my 401k in index funds then half the companies on the index get wiped out due to a sudden policy 180?"

Maybe it is time people paying into pensions and 401k's begin to understand they are scams enshrined in law to prop up the financial industry.

Maybe if mainstreet stopped giving their money to wallstreet to mismanage in the first place there would be no need for future bailouts to begin with as wallstreet runs a muck with pension and 401k funds. These are the very same bankers who continued to buy toxic mortgages in 2008 with Client funds as the banks were selling off any positions they had in the very same assets.
The same is true for nations. Any argument for forcing the states to be subordinate to the federal government is also an argument for forcing the federal government, and all other national governments, to be subordinate to a single supra-national entity.
A lot of the wrappers are largely legacy at this point. BLAS1 and BLAS2 operations are handled in pure Julia through the broadcast system, there's no performance degradation there and the fusion of operations actually makes for a lot of performance advantages over simple BLAS calls. For BLAS3, tools like LoopVectorization let you write a pure BLAS3 in Julia and get good performance, Gaius.jl is a good example of this by matching OpenBLAS with pure Julia code. Of course you still have to write out how to do blocking, but that's about it. At this point it's mostly needing more coverage before deprecating BLAS bindings in a Julia 2.0 down the line.

https://github.com/MasonProtter/Gaius.jl
beautiful! I love it.
I would prefer not to be homeless and starving.
Ah ha, that's fair. But that is just as well a problem with the original assertion. So I suppose I'm happy to listen to the prediction as to which upsides are about to be destroyed and then perhaps pick a position opposite it that's verifiable.
> extremely synchronous

X11, the protocol, is actually mostly asynchronous, it's the libraries and the applications that were built around it in synchronous ways. If you run older applications (like 90s to early 2000s) over X11, it's a lot less bad than modern apps.
performance.now resolution in Chrome is between 1 and 2 ms, I believe, with jitter. If they have a working POC for Chrome why not demonstrate the full exploit and force the Chromium team to rethink their mitigations? Lots of people talking possibilities but zero working exploits in the open. That's not a good ground for rational debate.
I can’t address MongoDB, but nosql vs relational generally, there are two reasons:

(1) what’s faster than a fast join? No join. With nosql you have more flexibility to store the data organized in the same way it is accessed. You don’t need to join to another table if the data your app needs is already directly part of the main data the app requests. You do need to understand your access patterns well, and develop migration plans when they change.

(2) scalability. nosql databases generally let you scale horizontally more easily/gracefully than relational databases, though there are trade offs.

Put it together and you get performance at scale, though you generally need to understand your data access patterns and usually need to be more resilient to inconsistencies.
The argument here is about what should happen when things do get better. Many people are arguing that you shouldn't be allowed to go to a bar even then, because if you're allowed to have fun things might get worse again.
Companies should just plan on failing, and everyone moves on to the next thing. Not everything has to last for ever.
As a self-taught marketer, I would say it is a better investment to use this money to build your own website and learn the basics from experience. From this experience, you can learn:

- How to setup a CMS (e.g. Wordpress)

- Keyword Research

- Content Marketing

- On/off-page SEO

- Optimizing for conversion rate

- Building and managing a mailing list

- Email Marketing

Also, being able to tell this story is much more interesting than simply saying: "I have this certificate from Udacity".
Calling it Junk science is a bit harsh. I would say that the sponsoring entity (one of the German states) did force an intermediate result. This might turn out to be a bad idea, but is needed to steer the political decision process (the German states and federal government want to convene to make decisions about the lock down on April 14th).

The study has been widely critiqued, but dismissal is too harsh. I don't think anybody really has said that the main finding is wrong. It just might not be as strong. Instead of 15% immune in the area, it might be just 12% or 10%. Fatality rate might be 0.5% rather than 0.37%.

The study goal itself is correct and it is a shame that not every epidemiologist is doing exactly the same study right now all over the world. That the German CDC did not think to run such a study themselves since Covid-19 turned bad is a scandal.
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I meant nobody alive today. I guess now we could argue about smallpox, measles, and the like, but I am working from the general definition of the last pandemic being the Spanish Flu.

I have added the two missing words to my original post for clarification. Thank you.
> it does tend to put them in the hospital,

Well no. It does sometimes, but it tends to not.
This is an important point, and we need to realize that it's not just the rich guys (e.g., most of you) that will be hurt--most holders of retirement savings accounts are not rich.

I've personally had my net worth zeroed (in a bad divorce). The effects are quite life-changing, and I think many would not survive it. If nothing else, you begin to wonder why--if it can all be so easily lost--you should bother to work at all.

I do think the government "stay alive" payments are critical, and it looks like a lot more will be needed. But this is a very complex problem, and I distrust anyone who waves it away with a "simple" solution.
The big news today is stay home. The rest is infotainment. Same as yesterday. Same as tomorrow for a while. There’s probably something more satisfying than going ever deeper down the black hole...something you are glad you did instead of surfing the internet ten years on. When what you are doing is not working, doing something else is an alternative to doubling down. Or not. Good luck.
The whole point of this is to not enable these abuses, see https://covid19-static.cdn-apple.com/applications/covid19/cu...

The nefarious ad actor can do far more with the existing stack.
> "Were virtually all businesses shut down for weeks or months... If not, I don't think you can say it's comparable."

that's the (over-)reaction. the precedent is the more-virulent-than-usual infectious disease. the precedent is the need to break the infection chain to slow/stop the pandemic.

you wouldn't expect the reaction to be 'comparable' after 100 years. you'd hope that we'd have developed methods to better assuage fear and panic though.
He made the same mistake on the "Pomp" podcast the other day too. He was saying we send 50k to every person in the USA for the stimulus.

Well, no. 2 trillion divided by by 327 million is $6,116 dollars. So yeah maybe we should divide the 2 trillion up between the people but he got a decimal point wrong.

Personally it seems more effective to send most of the money to hospitals and medical organizations because people wouldn't necessarily be able to use stimulus money for anything now anyway.

Seems like it makes sense to prop up businesses since you can't build a business overnight and most people would not be able to start one easily.

I like some of his arguments but basically give them any real thought and this guy is just trying to get attention by saying shocking things.
Doc reveals significant fall from grace for Boeing’s space program
> and radios

According to wikipedia first news on radio came in 1920.

"The first radio news program was broadcast August 31, 1920 by station 8MK in Detroit, Michigan."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_radio#20th_century
I'm not sure it's a function of money, probably more likely capacity and time to create capacity.
Sweden uses much lighter restrictions with industry still running, most shops still open, and schools for younger children open. One of the keys in this lighter strategy was to protect the elderly, with bans on visits to homes for the elderly and so on. Unfortunately that wasn’t enough, the spread has hit many such facilities with a high number of deaths as a result.

It’s hard to isolate the elderly if they are so old that they need care by the young.

Isolating the not-quite-so-old that can self-isolate is easy.
'I don't think we'll ever, ever get back to "normal"'

People keep saying this, but it's a meaningless sentiment. The "normal" of today was never going to be the "normal" of two years from now, with or without this pandemic. It's not like the world was going to be frozen in time until this coronavirus came along.

Before 9/11 we didn't have to take off our shoes to fly. Now we usually do. Im sure there will be plenty of similar changes due to the pandemic, and most of them will be similarly easy to adapt to, just as we adapt to so many other changes year after year.

But this threat that we may never "get back to normal" rings hollow to me.
Is that only in Nightly? My Firefox 75 shows the https and the full URL, and I havent changed any about:config settings.
But don't they already have to spend more to prepare in the form of taxes?
Ask HN: How to Deal with Trademark Infringement
My company's website is tryplainjane.com. A competitor purchased the same name under the .co version with the same spelling.

We have a federally registered trademark. I'd prefer not to spend my money on lawyers but after messaging the owners of the competitors, it's clear legal recourse may be necessary.

Are there other ways of dealing with this quickly?

I looked into the ICANN dispute rules and it seems like a court action is necessary or I have to begin a long arbitration process while a competitor is damaging our brand. We've already had more than a few confused customers reach out to us.

I'm not completely sure what to do. Any advice is helpful. My current thinking is I just have to go through with a lawsuit. I'd more rather spend my personal time improving my business.
Fedora even enabled it by default: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/EnableEarlyoom
From my email in 2015,

> Thank you for your interest in Hopper.
Yes, I usually offer a 20% discount to students. If you are still interested, please let me know, and I’ll prepare an invoice for you.
I wish I had more than one upvote for this.

> I sure want to keep it small, simple, easy to maintain… but the method to achieve this still eludes me.

It eludes all of us. At best, we know some methods that have worked moderately well for some people in some circumstances.
Airline assets are only worth putting into service when there is demand. If there is demand from travelers, then -- bankruptcy or not -- aircraft, crew, and support staff will find jobs as assets change hands. If there is no demand from travelers, then -- again, bankruptcy or not -- those employees will be out of a job.

Remember during the Financial Crisis when Lehman Bros went under and Barclay's swooped in to buy a large chunk of their real estate and trading operations.

Makes way more sense to pay employees directly than to give money to their corporate overlords.

Btw-- Don't focus on the arithmetic. His main point is correct.

"The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover was an engineer. He knew that water trickled down. Put it uphill and let it go and it will reach the dryest little spot. But he dident know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellow’s hands."

Will Rogers
What is inefficient about the for loop? It does the same amount of comparisons, the same amount of list accesses, and the same amount of assignments to temporaries.
> Again, what I am saying is that younger people are hit by the lockdown much more than the elders while being the less concerned about the virus itself.

The problem with saying this is that it's incorrect. Many elders suffer during lockdown in the exact same ways and in some cases to the exact same extent that younger people do, including in the ways you imagine: socially, sexually, economically.

Additionally, there are many young people (many of them here on HN) who do just fine during lockdown because WFH and online interaction actually promote their senses of well being. [0]

The insistence with which you have been asserting that young people are being "punished" reveals adherence to an agenda more than an evenhanded analysis of the facts.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22821256
Except that it's easier to temporarily close national borders or institute things like temperature checks or quaranting arrivals than it is state borders in the US, as far as I can tell.
Actually SIPC doesn’t provide the cash value for equities. They provide you with the original shares which will be worthless if the company goes bankrupt. Its in the third paragraph of your link.

Maybe it would be better to require retirement accounts to be invested in broad indexes to be eligible for a insure for a certain amount of money value. I don’t see how it could be done fairly on single stock base without having big discussions about what kind of events will be covered.
>The incentive for politicians to prop themselves up with the unemployment rate is clear.

One of the funny things is when Trump ran in 2016 a big part of his campaign was acknowledging the fact that the unemployment numbers were a lie and being fudged. He made major promises, which I am sure appealed to a lot of people, he would shine a light on the unemployed workers who were not counted in the workforce...of course, then he got elected and began taking credit for the best unemployment numbers ever using the same accounting methods.
The even bigger obstacle was apps not being able to broadcast beacon signals while they are in background. You could devise workarounds for the scanning problems, but this particular problem of having to be able to continuously advertise your beacon signals did not have a workaround AFAIK. The "workaround" was requiring people to have the tracing app active in foreground all the time, which obviously sucks from a UX perspective and means nobody will do it.

That's why this involvement is really huge and welcome! And besides clearing out existing arbitrary API limitations, Apple's involvement in potential protocol design for such tracing technology is a welcome addition in my view as well, because in contrast to Google, Apple at least earned a modicum of trust when it comes to putting the privacy interests of their customers first.
Kinda ironic that his name literally means dead in French
We’re also likely to see convalescent sera available shortly, and neutralizing antibodies available in several months. Those, along with more widely available testing, will help us tread water until we develop a good drug or vaccine.
^ Leaves phone at home.
the minimum essential behavior to implement a feature is one that takes into consideration keeping the user safe from attacks... you could call that bloat, but I wouldn't be sarcastic about it: if you can make the mitigations more concise, you can contribute your ideas, no one stopping you.
I don't know enough about them to say for sure, but I haven't heard of any sort of virus being transmitted by mosquitoes. Malaria is caused by a parasite, not a virus.
Yes to all the points below about bonds at stuff, but let's get to the deeper point.

When push comes to shove in a crazy post Covid-19 world, we can care for them without financial gimmicks.

You might have saved up abstract papers and computer database entries your entire career, but what you consume is physical goods made recent to your consuming them. We can ration out those goods to retirees (or bump up social security).
It would have made a good B-plot on Silicon Valley. :)
Is it common in the USA to have an obituary without including the cause of death?
Ask HN: Could we restructure society so that people don't hate their jobs?
As it is we seem to have a lot of people doing jobs that are preventing them from living up to their full potential. Is it really true that if you gave people a universal basic income that they would devolve into couch potatoes? When you think of it how much free time do you really have in the day? After getting ready in the morning, your commute, work plus a lunch hour, a trip to the store, some time to decompress, dinner, and spending time with your kids how much time is left for yourself? Even if you had the will power left over at the end of the day to give 100% you're so overburdened that it's no wonder you can't get anywhere. And we have the gual to suggest that these same people would do nothing but sit on the couch all day if they were let off their leash. That's cognitive dissonance right there.

I have worked in a few industries that I had zero interest in at all. Yet every time I made contributions to those industries out of a sense of satisfaction that I never could have got sitting at home. Perhaps you might say people will get satisfaction from playing video games but I think that’s a hollow argument. It's hollow in the same way that winning at video games makes you feel. Like you just wasted a bunch of time when you could have gotten something done. People will use video games to escape, for sure. But few will find real meaning in them.

We are forcing people to spend all of their waking hours drudging through a routine that leaves them exhausted before they are free to make any choices for themselves. But if we gave people time to live up to their potential we would see a net positive in both the health and financial security of our nation.
I saw a good graph a while ago that matched growth in new workers with disability terminations, but this is pretty apparent when you look at the disability statistics themselves:

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/dibStat.html

Number of people drawing disability benefits was rapidly growing at around 5% YoY up till 2011, then its growth slowed significantly, and around 2014 it started to slowly fall.
Timers aren't necessarily even a requirement to exploit Spectre: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22831067. It's pretty hard to protect against this in general unless you generate retpolines.
biggest thing for me, this release was hardware acceleration support on Linux. and with that I won't need to use mpv and smplayer to play youtube videos anymore
"Would have." "May have."
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I'd be 100% fine with difficult technical interviews if they actually reflected the job I was going to do. I wouldn't resent spending time outside work studying things that will help me in my day-to-day anyway. What sucks is having to bust your ass studying things that you'll never use.
Eink cost comes mostly from lockin by Eink, Epson and few other parties.

The technology is ridiculously low tech by the industry standards in comparison to any tft screen
This functionality is already live in Find My iPhone. iPhones are performing these associations already. The bigger change is Android joining and sharing the data with researchers.
I'm personally a fan of the conspiracy theory that because multiple ANC products have had their abilities reduced in firmware updates over the past couple years, research teams have been independently finding out that user's hearing are being damaged by highly effective ANC and have had to turn them down without admitting fault.

Although I'm not even sure if that's how sound waves work, and recently there was Bose's investigation into their firmware update that didn't actually reduce their ANC despite user perspective. It's a fun theory up there with the fake existence of Finland.
Look at the address bar. now click inside of it and notice how it gets bigger.
I kinda hate it, but at the same time I barely notice it so whatever.
A modern laptop will run Bodypix at about 30 fps. There could be additional bottlenecks but the deep (and wide) NNs are usually not super fast, they're just fast for the wondrous things they do.

You can usually alter performance (with Bodypix that's an accuracy/speed tradeoff) or do something silly like downscale, run, and upscale the mask. I'd like to try this.
Check out the Indian version of the technology out there since a couple of week.

http://jan-sampark.nic.in/campaigns/2020/04-Apr/Arogya/index...
Are you saying that the people with least risk of dying are suffering most?

If not, can you explain again what you are saying?
> In my opinion, this is a decision that allows for a far wider range of character development.

This may be the core disagreement, I (and I'm guessing GP) don't like this decision. Star Trek was an unique word in sci-fi (at least on-screen sci-fi) because of that bright idealism, that utopia. "An imperfect Starfleet can employ a monstrous starship captain that murders to keep its secrets"[0], and done regularly, this makes the show just another run-of-the-mill sci-fi.

(I do like how Klingons were fleshed out as a species in DIS, though; it's my favorite aspect of the show.)

There's plenty of sci-fi shows and movies. Star Trek, in its TNG to ENT era, was unique in terms of positivity and optimism. I miss that, because (with the possible exception of the Orville) there's nothing like that anymore.

--

[0] - To the extent that Sisko once facilitated murder to keep a secret hidden, this infamous DS9 episode works precisely because it's a one-off situation that's in a stark contrast with the overall behavior of the character and setting of the show.
If a civil-rights activist can threaten a racist sheriff, what's stopping a criminal from threatening a good one?
The streets are empty, but Home Depot isn't
Not in USD it doesn't. You got your loan in USD, spent it to buy whatever you needed, you have assets, not USD. You need USD to repay the loan, where do you get them from?
Open source IPTV/M3U player