skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The much fewer cases thing was because doctors were being told to lie about the numbers or attribute it to viral pneumonia, they were carrying off bodies and quarantining sections of cities elsewhere too, you just had to look at WeChat to see it.
One place to improve this would be to use a better set of word-embeddings. FastText is, well, fast, but it's no longer close to SOTA.

You're most likely using simple average pooling, which is why many users are getting results that don't look right to them. Try a chunking approach, where you get a vector for each chunk of the document and horizontally concatenate those together (if your vectors are 50d, and do 5 chunks per doc, than you get a 250d fixed vector for each document regardless of length). This partially solves the issue of highly diluted vectors which is responsible for the poor results that some users are reporting. You can also do "attentive pooling" where you pool the way a transformer head would pool - though that's an O(N^2) operation so YMMV

If you have the GPU compute, try something like BERT, or GPT-2 which is fine-tuned on all of reddit. Better yet, try vertically concatenating all of the word-embeddings models you can together (just stack the embeddings from each model) if you have the compute

To respond to your comment (since HN isn't letting me post cus I'm 'posting too fast')

You can use cheaper and more effective approaches for getting the subword functionality you want.

Look up "Byte Pair Embeddings". That will also handle the OOV problem but for far less CPU/RAM overhead. BERT also does this for you with its unique form of tokenization.

A home CPU can fine-tune FastText in a day on 4 million documents if you're able to walk away from your computer for awhile. Shouldn't cost you anything except electricity. If you set the number of epochs higher, you'll get better performance but correspondingly longer times to train.

For BERT/GPT-2, you'll maybe want to fine-tune a small version of the model (say, the 117m parameter version of GPT-2) and then vertically concatenate that with the regular un-fine-tuned GPT-2 model. That should be very fast and hopefully not expensive (and also possible on your home GPU)
Good luck trying to predict how much of a population is going to refuse to isolate and interact anyway.

Also relies on governments and politicians to not fudge testing and death counts, which is never going to be accurate.

btw the financial times has maybe the best graph on the stats however flawed:

http://com.ft.imagepublish.upp-prod-us.s3.amazonaws.com/2251...
Discord (or simply voice channels) to the rescue. You can make quick p2p alignments and prevent a lot of meetings. Assuming that using sync communication is necessary :)
Facebook's 'Campus' test hints at a return to its college roots
Keep in mind it's owned by Russia too.
Don't sweat it. Derrida doesn't even understand Derrida.
I actually didn't.
Even with China lying at the beginning of the pandemic, there were then whole two months when the rest of the world watched it spread and didn't do anything to protect themselves. The severity of the pandemic is not China's fault.
>it remains widely popular in Central Europe, Russia, and Israel.

They have like 200k users now, lol
Not necessarily. The way that new features fit together with existing features has a big impact on how useful and beneficial adding those features are.

In C++, using modern style is .a nicer experience, but at the cost of having to stay away from any code pre-C++11. This is not because C++ designers are bad, but rather because they have more cruft due to existing for longer. Time will tell if Rust will go down that same road, but right now new features fit with the rest of the language and are usually extensions to things that already exist but that weren't allowed in places.
Yea, I took a peak. I can't sit through that (even though I did say "all accepted", My bad. ). It's a pile of pandering palp for a pretty rarefied cheer leading group. If there's valid points they should be available elsewhere in a more palatable and coherent form, no? Nobody's got a proprietary hold on truth.

So, taking this moment to do my own searching all I find are character assassinations, and misunderstandings of his background and goals. That's from discussions on /r/askphilosophy to that New York times article to the one on thebaffler and video interviews too, from Cathy Newman to Vice all seem driven to the same goal as those sad and incoherent student protests in 2016.

Shrug.
Many many factors not relating to quantative easing
I've had some discussions with folks on projects who are very... focused on linting and formatting rules. They've reformatted my code in the past, and have insisted on blocking code that doesn't pass all their listing rules.

Them: "We have to use these tools to avoid disagreements about spacing and formatting choices".

Me: "But... I wasn't having any in the first place. It's only the 3 of you that were having these disagreements. And now you're spending ridiculous time planning reformat of entire codebase, instead of actually... moving the project forward.

Please don't bitch about me using $x = new Temp(); in a test file. I'm the only person on the project even making test files, and you're blocking my TEST file because you don't like variable name style..."

They got in to a quandary when trying to inline some JS in to a PHP view file. The PHP standard is 4 spaces, and the person doing some of the JS had defined 2 spaces for JS ("so we can all agree on it") and ... all hell broke loose trying to determine what the style/formatting should be for JS-inside-PHP files. 4 spaces? 2 spaces?
Sometimes They Come Back
It’d be a lot harder to implement Python in Elixir!
Exactly: LOL.

Though it looks like exact copy of Telegram minus the core and most important feature. :D
There is no vilification about China. China is by far the biggest non-existential threat to individual liberty in the world today.

Great firewall of China.
No Freedom of Speech or Religion.
Ethnic Cleansing Camps.
Militarizing the South China Sea.
Massive corporate espionage operations.
Claiming Taiwan is a breakaway island.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength
IE11 doesn't have full support, so unless you're lucky enough to be able to ignore IE, you have to resort to jacks and workarounds to use grid. At which point it's generally easier just to use flexbox.

Grid will be awesome very soon.
If it's merely about access to Swift as a language, not for Apple platform development, you can run swift docker images for pretty much any Swift version you want (and you can, of course, run them on Mac as well).
Cool. Last year I created something like this as a Chrome extension so that you could type in your post and it would show up on reddit where to post. You could then just select it by clicking a link. Project is here https://github.com/wesbarnett/insight
Lots of writing in international relations circles right now about how the slapshod global response to this crisis, in contrast to previous pandemics like ebola and H1N1, is evidence that the era of US hegemony is over. Without a hegemonic entity putting its imprimatur on what the "right way" to do things is, everything ends up being kind of a mess.
Consumers, in my opinion, have a much more vested interest in privacy and security today. If we look at Apple [0][1] - they've invested significantly in wrapping their brand around it. To say that "99% of consumers are not HN tech gurus and really don't care" seems, to me, an unfounded perspective. Again, in my opinion - but factually we have a lot of evidence to support the contrary.

[0] https://www.apple.com/privacy/
[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-tied-to-new-privacy-website-...
The first popular chat app (that wasn't IRC), in the early 2000s. Was steamrolled by AOL Instant Messenger and MSN Messenger.

Looks like they've resurrected the brand to make a new chat app.
1990's IM - was (or could be) anonymous and it gave you unique number which was your ID.

It was wildly popular at the time alongside Yahoo and AIM (AOL Instant Messenger).
The subsidies are used by foreign companies, by purchasing products subsidized by Made in China programs.
True, "Emergency departments"

https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/369/bmj.m1406.full.pdf

People are ignoring stroke symptoms and failing to ring 999 because they fear being a burden on the NHS in England duringthe covid-19 pandemic, the national clinical director for stroke has warned. Deb Lowe, consultant stroke physician at Wirral University Teaching Hospital, said that doctors across the country were seeing “quite striking reductions” in the number of people coming into hospital with symptoms of stroke. She said, “It appears that people aren’t seeking emergency help or going to hospital when they suspect a stroke, possibly due to fear of the virus or not wanting to be a burden on the NHS.”
ICQ was the most popular chat client in Israel, Russia, Central Europe etc back during AOL IM and such
Yeah, that's weird. If you're going to announce a new instant messaging system, you will of course provide some reason why people should go through the effort to switch. The front page should be brimming with the pitch. "Unlike WhatsApp, with New ICQ, you can _____." What goes in the blank? Why haven't you told me?
Telegram offers to send photo "as a file", unaltered.
Also updated: go with modification to support emitting warnings instead of errors when it encounters unused labels, variables, and imports (warnings do not stop compilation or production of the final binary):

https://github.com/kstenerud/go
Lol Jesus Christ dude stop trying to make excuses for China trying to cover up the whole thing.

In early December China thought it was SARS. They found out later it was Wu Flu. Doesn’t change the fact they knew sooner than you claim.
LibreOffice Macro Team: progress report
Hiring processes have really changed since then. What do you think of them now?
Can you imagine the echo in one of those things? Plus, for the price of one of those, I'd be tempted to pick up a used storage container and renovate that.
Source? All I hear is about how buggy and insecure the platform is.

Edit: source, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/google-bans...
Well that's strangs.. now it works..
Last time I used gimp to draw an arrow, if I remember correctly I had to find, download and install some plugin. Definitely empathize with you, it was unnecessarily complicated.
That's a good example of how a "SafeCurve" caused a vulnerability that wouldn't exist in Weierstrass curve.

But many smart people made many such mistakes in the past. If we gatekeep it to much then we won't have anyone left to implement crypto.
Similar story here, but for me and my (now ex-)wife, it was AIM.
Maybe this extreme limitation is necessary in the Elm's author vision.

It's open source. You can always fork and implement your own vision. In fact, you're encouraged to do so.
Covid-19 Cases over Time with Kepler.gl
There are many, wonderful kinds of logics which no mind like Gödel's has yet starved to death. Gödel true to his philosophy starved to death rather than be poisoned. If this was a poem I would call it fiction, for its impossible perfection.
344838

But Mail.ru deleted old accounts. So...
Sounds good. Do you use any platform to setup this monitor?
“Affordable” housing can cost $1M per apartment in CA
No, if your company furloughs you, you legally can't do work for them - the approach is if you work you get full pay.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICQ

It's one of the earliest fairly widely used instant messaging apps.
Man, I love seeing more research like this. My personal experience, as someone who has dealt with a variety of issues in psychiatrists' offices and rehabilitation rooms, is that a clear scientific understanding of what is actually going on under my skull provides a much firmer basis for any therapeutic approach. I'm really hoping that in my lifetime we will see connections made between the physiological elements of consciousness and the modern psychiatric plagues of depression, anxiety, and addiction that finally produce the targeted, universally effective therapies that are desperately needed.
Ironic response.

I'm in my late 20s. Not a boomer, just on the spectrum.
What playing field? Everyone's using the same dollars.
It might have been difficult for Columbus to contact Elizabeth, given that their lifetimes did not overlap ;-)
It's owned by Alisher Usmanov (Putin's oligarch friend), all their other products (VK, Odnoklassniki) send all the data straight to the russian secret services, of course there isn't and won't ever be any encryption
The global response is pretty uniform (almost every country following the same strategy). But it was too slow, and too uncoordinated in the sense that different countries enacted their protective measures at different times, with little to no warning to others, resulting in unnecessarily severe disruptions of the supply chain.
I wouldn’t want to give up the morning scrum IMO, especially when isolated like this.
I also always pressed "Skip" on the Qt Creator standalone installer for Linux. But the Skip button doesn't exist any more.
For better or worse, it's really easy to get both small and large (i.e., very large -- hundreds of people) video calls going, and it possibly has the best cross-platform support out of every option available right now.
Luck and skill aren't mutually exclusive. They work together.
Didn't it take close to 30 years to recover from the 20s?
You kids get off my lawn!
RDaaS – The open source you love, at the scale you need
The ones for vaporizers (and flashlights) may be overkill. They tend to cost extra because they're "high drain" batteries meant to be safely discharged at a rate higher than most electronics. Depending on the use, you can get much less expensive 18650s than the ones used for vapes.

Often you can get them with leads/connector pre-soldered (which is good for hobby electronics since you don't really want to be soldering straight to a lithium battery and not all electronics already have a cradle)
Cautious optimism in San Francisco over coronavirus, mayor calls for sacrifice
mine was 522826 but has probably been lost to the sands of time
Just like in the past
Regression testing isn’t only about repetition
Seems a rush job on copy.

Do I need a permit?

In most municipalities, you do not need a permit for under 100 square feet. That said, it varies city-by-city so the best (....?????)
Same in China with numbers:
https://newrepublic.com/article/117608/chinese-number-websit...
You were mostly okay up until you made it blatantly political. It was both a superficial dismissal of a complex set of political ideas at the same time that it conflates "political left" with "post modernist".
<TAB><TAB>function name(
<TAB><TAB><TAB>arg1,
<TAB><TAB><TAB>arg2,
<TAB><TAB><TAB>arg3,
<TAB><TAB>)

That means this never comes up, and you don't need to change adjacent lines because you've renamed a function.
Wait for the sales pitch ....
From the interface (mostly yes, that, is apart from the impure extensions added later, and that chars are used and not codes) it is the same. But from the implementation behind it´s different. In particular from the space requirements. A text of n characters requires 3 * 8 * n bytes in SWI, but n + 2 * 8 bytes in Scryer. So there is a factor 24 in space requirements (on 64bit).

Also, there is now ample room for input that SWI once almost offered.
They are also required by the government to link phone numbers to accounts and log and store messages for a long time and make them directly accessible by FSB.
> FWIW, she said "almost perfectly"

Has anyone seriously suggested that the US’s measures are being carried out anywhere near “almost perfectly”? Quite the opposite, there’s been lots of concerns voiced that people aren’t taking this seriously.

> The revised model predicts up to ~127k deaths, which is certainly less, but not egregiously so

It’s a nearly 40% reduction!
Its pretty simple: there isn't any decent data.

The data we have is strongly biased to older and sicker people.

There is no systematic surveillance of a geographic area, only panic testing of those who are showing symptoms.

Until there is sampling of a a borough, city or town, from start to finish, we will have wildly wrong models.

The only thing that we can plot reasonably accurately is the exponent of the fatalities, but even then its because its based on mostly hard data (unless its china...)
The meeting I find the biggest time waster is the "what I did yesterday, what am I doing today" meetings. Nothing better than sitting on a 45 minutes call while 15 people try to justify their existence to the pm on the fly.

I find a slack channel called #status-updates works wonders. It persists, it's much faster to consume, it's searchable, and you don't have to read it if you don't need to.
Do you have a greater need for fire protection while travelling than when living at home? Is there some epidemic of people burning up in their Airbnb that I don't know about.
That is an amazing link, thanks!
Cloudflare dumps reCAPTCHA as Google intends to charge for its use
I'm very nostalgic too. It was the beginnings of the Internet in France and this is the first app my brother installed on my computer, he told me "with this you can make a lot of new friends around the world" I was so glad everytime I heard this sound.
content marketing at its best.
>If you can figure out how to turn off the part of people’s brains that wants to avoid them being part of the 5 to be sacrificed, you will have created world peace.

Most cultures have very strong social mores that sanction against hoarding or even general unwillingness to share. It's not THAT beyond the pale. What makes it hard is when society becomes disconnected enough, and community bonds get weak enough that social mores no longer bind behavior.
The last time Canada had a military backstop against the US was when the British empire was still around, back in the 1920s when stuff like War Plan Red and Defence Scheme No. 1 was floating around about how a US-Canada/British war would play out. After WW2 and the collapse of the British empire, Canada had no military last resort against the US. 100 years is a hell of a long time to develop Stockholm syndrome.

To be fair, before WW2 Canada was a protectorate of Britain as well. Such is the fate of smaller players on the world stage.
Okay, so how would you design it differently and achieve better results? Or point to examples that do it better? If not, the criticism is highly unwarranted.
Also, does it start with 0 or 1 (or -3023 for that matter)? As a programmer you would assume of course it starts at 0, but since this thread talks about "non-programmer" academic types I think it's worth mentioning. What if I want a range of 1-15, or 20-50, can I still use range()? I can't tell from the Python example but I can tell exactly what I would need to change with the Swift one to make it work exactly how I'd want.
> My vulgarity is built on frustration with the modern state of the world and the headstrong ignorance of the young adult population in the US.

Wow young people who lack experience are often headstrong and ignorant. Brilliant, groundbreaking observation there. This surely has not been a thing since civilization began.

> Here's a case in point - ignorant young people would be less uppity if they were taught to show amount some respect to elders.

And what "respect" should that be. I'll extend a base level of respect and courtesy to everyone, until I have a reason not to. Not all ideas have merit just because they are traditional, just like new ideas are not inherently better than old ones
When I would reserve a book at the public library, I'd get an automated phone call when the book arrived. The phone call always began by listing off my library card number.

So I know my first library card number was 1000102772901. I had to replace the card a few times, getting new numbers, but I only ever remembered the first one.
> I continued reading and found bunch of more passages where the authors understanding of open source seems to be incorrect.

The author is one of the "core team" members of Django[0]. So, it is safe to say that whatever assumptions he has about open source is not a fantasy and cannot be compared line-by-line to a text book definition of open source.

[0] - https://lukeplant.me.uk/personal.html
It looks like you need to provide a phone number to use this new service, so I guess it's just another WhatsApp clone, with nostalgic branding.

It would be awesome to be able to use your old icq number and hear the "uh oh" notification sound - nostalgia is about the whole experience not just brands.
Typically when I was the Team Lead, my boss had a business view and not a tech understanding. As such I became the voice of tech to business. Likewise I was the business voice to the techies.

You will/should have a good understanding of each persons project. Your people will come to you when they have trouble. When they do, usually the best method is to just talk through the problem. eg "so you say your routine blows up just once a week, and you did not change a thing ... lets discuss what environment it is running in .... "

You MUST watch for when an engineer gets stuck. You are the voice of reason for when they argue tabs vs spaces. (FYI tabs). It is key on you to recognize when it occurs because engineers will suck up a lot of time on things that just do not matter. Unlike tabs which are critical ;-)

You must be prepared to defend your people when they make a mistake, which is a when not an if situation. My worst was one of mine getting arrested for dealing. I had not defense. Fortunately it only happened once.

Congratulations, now get back to work.
You're kind of proving you've never used Swift before. The real problem with Swift has nothing to do with the Syntax or API. It has to do with the segmentation in documentation, training materials, best practices, and design patterns. The journey from 0 to "best way to do x" is awful with Swift compared to other languages. It's pretty damn telling that the best way to learn iOS dev is still piecing together random Ray Wenderlich blogs (written across different versions of Swift!).
A much less invasive solution to the problem: https://github.com/woboq/verdigris
I think the ML community really needs a better language than Python but not because of the ML part, that works really good, its because of the Data Engineering part (which is 80-90% of most projects) where python really struggles for being slow and not having true parallelism (multiprocessing is suboptimal).

That said I love Python as a language, but if it doesn't fix its issues, on the (very) long run its inevitable the data science community will move to a better solution. Python 4 should focus 100% of JIT compilation.
I had a 6-digit account number. I can't remember the whole thing, but it started 153... good memories.
Sure, and anybody who wants a covid-19 test can get one.
Same for me. I don't remember virtually any other numbers.
In local news, Eddie the Extortionist lays off his henchmen due to the downturn in the protection business.
Someone in YC made Artix! (I kid)
The 777 was a clean sheet design that incorporated fly-by-wire as it was designed in the late 1980s/early 1990s. Thusly it cannot be operated without the computers running, whereas the 737 can and has.

Its also 4 times larger than the 737, meaning that the more direct way control surfaces are moved by the controls in the 737 is not possible on the 777.
> Google’s team had more expertise in Swift, given that Swift’s creator Chris Lattner started the project

Way to bury the lead there, haha.
> Personally I will take the position that there does exist an objective standard

if such a thing even exists, how do you learn about it? I can't think of any way to prove or test it.