skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remember, this virus has circulated weeks before the confinement, so don't you think a doubling R0 have completely changed the number of cases that have been modeled so far, and therefore the CFR?

Of course we have much to learn and this new R0 number is part of that learning process, but imo, we can't think like 2 days ago when we thought the R0 was between 2 and 3.
They might suck right now, but this is a relatively nascent application of the technology.

Wait until resolution improves and we break out of the "desktop" paradigm. We could have a collection of unlimited windows and tabs that exist in a continuum around us, and we could use gestures to organize and surface the contextually relevant ones.

We won't need a bulky multi-monitor setup, and we could work remotely nearly anywhere. Imagine carrying your workspace with you.

> The big win, as far as I can tell, would be to engage the user's spacial memory.

Absolutely! Physical workspaces and work benches are incredibly functional because we are spatial animals. Breaking out of the limitations of using a screen could unlock more of our senses for use in problem solving.

I'm extremely excited about this technology. It will be great for software engineers, creatives (2d and 3d artists), mechanical engineering, CAD, ... you name it.

I really hope this keeps getting pushed forward. While I'm using all of my spare cycles on a tangentially-related problem domain, I'd be more than happy to donate money and ideas. This technology will be a dream come true if it continues to mature.
The G1 really was a great device. I would love to see a reboot with modern hardware.
most of the courses on coursera are for uninitiated and have very shallow content (there are some rare exception). So if you like you can search for a good book or some video lecture from good university. like this is for statistical learning "https://online.stanford.edu/courses/sohs-ystatslearning-stat...
The Finder Locations picker is currently really only used to grant a Sandbox bookmark to those paths. Any child path/file you right-click will then have permission to actually be opened by Service Station.

I was under the impression that external volumes would not work with the Finder Extension API that Service Station uses, but looking again there may be a way. I'll add that in one of the next updates. Thanks for trying it out!
I keep reading from here, "Gosh I'm working so hard all the time because I'm so bored and locked in all day." Folks, I think I'm crazy, or very different from you. I'm much more, "Gosh, I can't even BEGIN my work for the day. I'm drowsy, spending two hours daily chasing delivery, talking to family overseas because I'm 6 hours behind and they're around during my work day, and WORK IS MEANINGLESS." And I like my job!
It seems to me like VR could get some great usage of vector assets. Having icons and especially text render perfectly regardless of how close you get seems ideal.
Agreed, but that is their job. The Fed frequently plays the role of buyer/lender of last resort. They are trying to prevent a collapse and will worry about unwinding later.
>The only real advantage I can see is concentration of skill - e.g. people say that you basically have to develop electronics in Shenzhen, there's simply not enough talent in the US and EU - but I wonder if the efficiency gains are offset by innovation losses.

This is why a factory in Spain or the USA is not as efficient as one in China (or vice-versa). Institutional knowledge has to be built up over time. You can't just start a factory in a place with no skilled labor for it. It's going to be way too expensive.

Just look at the US and compare to the EU. The EU has very few influential (or large) tech companies. The US has many of them. There's clearly some kind of concentration going on there and some of it probably is due to skill and thus efficiency. It's not that individual European developers are necessarily worse, but rather that as a collective (for some reason) they don't produce the same results as Americans do. I imagine that the same applies to factories.
Pretty funny considering it's an old product trying to be relevant again.

"Why test the website on phones? Who uses messaging apps on their phone anyway?"
Tin is a fascinating material with all kinds of interesting properties. My personal favorite: the crying of tin. Bend a piece of tin close to your ear and you can hear the crystal lattice beg for mercy against impending metal fatigue. When it stops crying the piece has torn.
You might want to take a look at adium. It was the bees knees, I used it on mac years ago to manage multiple chats.

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Guns kill children!!
Politicians - we need to defend ourselves and our rights. Keep the guns.

Encryption is dangerous to children
Politicians - yup...take it away guys.
Hmm, I found this theme and it wasn't bad: https://github.com/FriendlyUser/vuepress-theme-cool

Do you know of any other Vuepress documentation themes, or where I could find them? I like Hugo because they have a curated open-source showcase of different themes @ themes.gohugo.io, so you don't have to search around the web to find stuff.
> It seems you think the market is underestimating the damage; how much money have you bet on further drops?

Given that the fed is printing money hand-over-fist, and throwing it at the market, it's quite possible for the market to become completely disjointed from the main street economy.

If it weren't for the printing presses working overtime, there wouldn't be any talk of any v-shaped recovery. Instead, we'd all be panicking over the unemployment numbers.
Every time the Fed does something outrageous and indefensible, you ALWAYS see a bunch of comments and articles like this trying to rationalize it. All the facts are clear as crystal and speak for themselves:

- Corporations have kept getting bigger and reinforcing their monopolies far beyond the point of optimum efficiency and have been manipulating elections and policy-making to benefit their own interests.

- House prices in big cities have kept going up due to a combination of factors including centralization of capital due to corporate monopoly power.

- Many corporations took free 0% loans from the government to buy back their own shares; often for the purpose of tax evasion. This conduct is unethical in at least 3 different ways when you consider the fact that the Fed is now shamelessly bailing out these corporations to clear that same debt which they used for tax evasion.

- Freedom of speech in the work environment has declined significantly.

- Trust between people has declined to an all time low due to the adverse, coercive work environments in which we operate.

- We are facing huge environmental threats which are not addressed due in a large part to lobbyists backed by corporate interests.

- The financial system is over-complicated and opaque; few people understand how fiat money enters the system but it's clear from empirical evidence that it benefits corporations while harming both small businesses and consumers. Even the Fed itself has admitted that their cash injections do not reach small businesses or the workers.

- Our governments will screw over its citizens in the most blatant way imaginable; they will even exploit a health disaster as an opportunity to fast-track the agendas of their corporate masters.

It's bad enough that most people just stand back idly and nod their heads... But it's deeply disturbing to witness some people go further than that and actually manufacture excuses for what are obviously deeply unethical activities...

Also, it seems that these people who spread misinformation for the sole benefit of corporations are not even getting paid for it! This behavior is not even aligned with the capitalistic self-interest ideals which their corporate thought leaders keep preaching, it's like some weird type of selective masochistic altruism whereby some individuals feel compelled to only help evil people who they know will hurt them along with the rest of society.

If you're a real capitalist, do as you preach and stop defending other richer peoples' interests! That's not how it's supposed to work.

If you're not a billionaire yourself and you oppose the idea of the government making laws which will reduce the wealth of billionaires, you're a socialist for the top 0.0001 percent. A maso-socialist.
I agree that criminals will use secure communications regardless of the law. I don't understand what you mean when you say it will increase crime though.

Regardless, I feel like there's a deeper motive from governments/law enforcement. It would allow them to claim that anyone using secure comms must have something to hide and is thus a criminal. Combine that with mass surveillance and anyone you see sending encrypted traffic can automatically be assumed to be a criminal. I'm not saying this is right, it's certainly not right. But I'm sure that's the argument that will be used by those trying to push it.

The only way to fix this is secure-by-default comms, such that all traffic looks the same and you cannot make any claims of criminality based on that alone.
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> We could give money to people/government directly

The Fed doesn’t have the legal authority to give individuals money. That’s why the Congress is passing stimulus bills.

Moreover, buying assets is different from handing out money. When Congress gives every American $1,200 money, the money is spent. There is no balancing entry on the government's balance sheet. When the Fed lends a dollar or buys securities, it spends cash and gains assets.

The Fed could lose money on those assets. But that risk profile is night and day to the federal government's. (This difference also makes a dollar of fiscal stimulus more powerful than one of monetary spending.)

There are other differences between fiscal and monetary policy, a topic with lots of literature behind it. Congress controls fiscal policy. It has outsourced monetary policy to an independent Fed.
Signal recommends downloading through the play store. They don't endorse downloaded apks
Not because it is too complex, but because I suspect that there may be something to consciousness that is outside of knowable physics. There is no reason to assume that scientific investigation is in principle capable of getting a grip on all of reality. That does not mean that consciousness is some mystic woo-woo, it just means that scientific investigation may in principle be limited. Consciousness might well turn out to be impossible in principle to tackle using mathematical modeling, reproducible experiment, theories of physical mechanisms, etc. - but that would not mean that consciousness is not real. It does not require scientific inquiry to show that consciousness is real. Subjective experience is immediately obviously real, as subjective experience.
> Many of the Engineering and Math PhDs I work with typically use MATLAB or Mathematica.

Yes, and the government still needs COBOL programmers.

Going forward, I believe Python has far more momentum than either MATLAB or Mathematica. I think far more MATLAB and Mathematica users will learn Python than the other way around in the future, and far more new scientific programmers will learn Python than either of those.
Yes. The military is rounding up all the santanic child sexual assault criminals and rescuing the children. All the power to them.

p.s. don't tell anyone
Good idea! You could do that with a spare controller or a Vive tracker too.
If all you want to do is deviate from standards on purpose, just change

<html>

to

<apple_ml>

and base64 encode the .html file (for no reason) and call the resulting file .iapp. Done. Standards broken. Proprietary status achieved with minimal effort. Change ".css" to ".bss" if you want to go the extra mile.

and leave everything else as-is? Sounds like a win-win for both developers and biz dev.
Was gonna try it, but it failed to install the forth.jl package. Then I went and looked at the forth.jl github page and it says:

> Be aware that forth.jl requires Julia 1.0

Whereas on the scheme.forth.jl page it said:

> (forth.jl requires version >=1.0)

At any rate it doesn't install in Julia 1.4.0:

> ERROR: could not find project file in package at https://github.com/tgvaughan/forth.jl
> If you're a cruise line or a convention service, there's no market

Cruise lines are in a rough place. Same as airlines.

Lots of convention and vacation related businesses might face a more interesting dynamic. I briefly worked for one in college. Their fixed costs were probably less than $500/year and they kept low six figures in the bank (very high variable costs, mostly enterprise clients, and a fairly old-school owner).

Lots of small travel-related business can “survive” basically in perpetuity. But they will probably face a lot of new friction when events held at the convention center start running again. They can burn capital to stay alive and feed the owner in the mean time, but as that capital burns away, so does the business's feasibility (because of cash flow issues). Bankruptcy and business closure rates are going to vastly under-estimate the number of small business that de facto die out.
this kind of "journalism" makes me sad.

In my view it's plainly an attempt to scratch an itch to validate our disappointment with the lack of empathy we see in GOP politics; but instead of expressing that, the author stokes hate and "other-ness" and encourages people to interpret words people say as evidence for their visions of extreme separatist versions of the future... which further breads more lack of empathy in others, and the spiral continues.

Fear mongering and visions of separatism exist on both sides of the party lines.
The Avenger (2015)
Larry Ellison said that.
> again, i hate apple. but you are being disingenious.

> if I replaced your screen with a malicious one that stores images and touches to later steal your pins,

Wow, what an example - and you say I am being disingenuous? /s

How many times has your phone or laptop been hacked by a hardware, when software malware or cracks are so much easier? Are you even aware that all iDevices so far already have a hardware bug which can be more easily exploited to hack those devices?

The simple fact is that I am criticising Apple's "dark design" pattern that leads to a poor user experience (and which is also meant to scare ignorant users to get repairs / replacements done only by Apple at an exorbitant price).

A simple alternative to it is to create a new section in Settings app and display all parts info there. And publicise it. If Apple and Microsoft can spend money publicising "dark mode" as some great feature, they can also spend a little to publicise this new section and educate their users on verifying whether the parts are compatible.
I've watched Elm since its inception when Evan was posting about his experimental FRP project on r/haskell. (Yep, Elm actually started as a functional reactive programming language. That was before The Elm Architecture was developed and all that terminology was thrown out.)

As the project has developed, I have certainly wished Evan had taken a different and more open approach to leadership. I think Elm could be 10x as big as it is right now if he had aggressively encouraged community involvement instead of trying to lock the language down so much.

That said, it's completely mystifying to me how Elm is surrounded in so much drama, and it seems implausible and unreasonable to attribute it all to Evan. In the early days, it started getting hate from some hardcore Haskellers who felt that it needed more sophisticated language constructs. They would have converted it into PureScript, which clearly has never gained any widespread traction either -- perhaps less so than Elm despite all the drama. This is probably one of the earliest sources of conflict where Evan went against what a vocal minority wanted. Since then, it seems to have just snowballed, with the Elm team getting more locked down and vocal users becoming more and more upset about not being involved.

At the end of the day I don't really know what to make of it. Elm would not be Elm if Evan had listened to all the aggressive requests to make Elm more like Haskell. It would still be stuck in FRP-land and 99% of web developers wouldn't be able to make heads or tails of it.

What I will say is this. I have written some internal tools in Elm, and it's one of the best languages I've ever used for web development. It's a revelation of what the web ecosystem could look and feel like in a parallel world. Years later, I would still pick Elm for such projects because nothing else comes close from certain perspectives. I can always go get the normal experience with TypeScript and React. Elm is what I choose for self-contained applications where I don't need and don't care to deal with all the general chaos of the web world. And, personally, I doubt Elm would be this way if the early naysayers had gotten what they wanted.
With all the press around EARN IT, this would be a great opportunity for companies with even a mild focus on combating criminal activity on their platforms (Facebook, Mailchimp, etc.) to collaborate with bureaucrats and/or testify in congress.

Thorn seems especially poised as mitigating child abuse is the essence of their organization. Whatever their stance, they appear to be an authority in the private sector spearheading technical efforts to combat child abuse. If any Thorn engineers/representatives - or any platform engineers focused on abuse prevention - are reading, I'd love to hear your take on the proposed legislation. It's imperative that we grant resources necessary to challenge such a horrific human issue without sacrificing our privacy and subsequent civil liberties

For context...
https://www.thorn.org/
Try to work out the actual numbers for strict lockdown vs not strict and model it over two years being practical. No hand waving.

Include the second and third waves for instance.

You won't see the difference you think.

Vaccines may never happen ( but post a second winter is a best case ) and treatments don't make things much better.

Once you get 1000000 dead vs 1050000 two years later we can talk about the additional dead from being unable to do things like cancer surgery.
True, but that's only true because of Apple wants it to be like that, not because there is some physical impossibility to integrate native platform APIs in the browsers.
Too true, I hardly hear about trending media, I try to avoid it, but my housemate told me about tiger king yesterday.
> And all of this is urgently necessary to prevent economic collapse in the US. Urgently necessary.

The fed buying crap bonds isn't even doing anything to prevent economic collapse. The economy has already collapsed, due to to the shutdowns. This is nothing but a transfer of wealth from people who own US dollars, to people who own US equities.

All it does, is prop up the stock market. The real economy could go to zero, but as long as the Fed is buying assets, the stock market will keep looking green.
> But the thought is self-referential. The thought is about itself thinking, and so the thought instantiates the sufficient case for a subject.

You just assumed the existence of a subject again. Where is the proof that a thought requires a subject? One that isn't vacuous or doesn't just assume its own conclusion?

> Whether these first-person facts are ultimately grounded in third-person descriptions or phenomena doesn't make them illusions.

It does for the technical purposes of the consciousness debate. The terminology we're using, like "illusion", has a technical meaning for the debate between materialists and antimaterialists, wherein antimaterialists argue that a first-person fact cannot be reduced to third person facts, even in principle.

Obviously even materialists speaking informally would still use first person language and speak normally about their experiences.
Sure, but you can restart levels as many times as you want, so what's the difference? You're notified at the end on how many moves you made, and how many is optimal. So why bother with the non moves?
Okay, yours is the first answer that made any sense. It's also the first time I've ever seen anyone claim that postmodernism is specifically speaking to anthropologists about how to approach anthropology. In that context it's at least not absurd, especially if counting cutlery was what it was addressing. All the statements I listed make quite a lot more sense if given that context.

The reason I'm a bit peeved in these replies is that I do have a powerful sense that the humanities in academia have lost their relevance by going down a path that is increasingly insular, alienating, and unproductive, and that this has had a role in ceding the cultural ground to reactionaries, fascists, and other kinds of actively destructive irrationalists. That's why elsewhere I make the analogy to string theory, a fad that seems as if it's been fruitless and has derailed physics.

In short I've blamed pomo for why there is a resurgence of racism, reactionary ideology, and stuff like the anti-vaxx movement. Not only does this stuff result in an intellectual class that speaks gibberish that nobody but them understands, it also at least superficially sounds as if it's legitimizing the idea that "all opinions are of equal merit." That means if I don't want to vaccinate my kids because Alex Jones said so, my opinion is equal to that of an epidemiologist because cultural relativism.

Edit: I realized there's a more pointed way of saying what I said above: I am not sure you can try to argue that all cultures are equivalent and equal without implicitly asserting the same about all ideas within one's own culture. This is because cultures and boundaries between them are fluid. So if it isn't possible to criticize cultures, it's also not possible to say that Richard Spencer's ideas are worse than Martin Luther King's or that Alex Jones' opinion on vaccination should not be equal to that of an epidemiologist. Nothing is true and everything is permitted.

My observation has been that the left prototypes nonsense and then the right deploys it at scale. So the left first pioneered relativism and critiques of reason and evidence, but it's the right that has run with these ideas and used them to re-legitimize racism and lead a renaissance of interest in traditionalist monarchy. Maybe the left should stop prototyping nonsense to begin with if for no other reason than to stop giving weapons to those who ought not have them. It's the same reason you don't give plutonium to ISIS. I truly do not believe that dullards like Richard Spencer or Pat Buchanan have the capacity to originate a cultural zeitgeist any more than ISIS can build an enrichment centrifuge, but they sure can use the final product if it's handed to them.