skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is another point too, which also to some extend goes against your point—that we model epidemiology in standard ways, and that in order to use those standard ways we need the parameters in the set of differential equations. And these do make predictions based on the equilibria. I am not saying they solve everything, but they are routinely used to for example calculate how many people need to be vaccinated to stop outbreaks of measles.

The article does mention most of the parameters; but we don't know what values to assign to those parameters. The last scientific writing that I was reading speculated about the R_0, but I believe we are still not sure about that. In any case, the point of the parameters is to find R_0, so we cannot expect to have an accurate R_0 without them.

We also don't know mortality rates in a general population (look at Italy vs. China, when specifying to age groups). But anyway, all I wanted to say is that our models are simplistic, but surprisingly useful.
How well is this ventilated and insulated?
Are the e2e-encrypted chats enabled by default?
The article is an absurdly over the top straw-man and its target audience falls for it because they don't know that.

I could make an equally broad claim that Mormons believe absurd things. And when someone says I misunderstand Mormonism, I could claim that's just an appeal to ignorance.

People who don't believe in religious or cultural tolerance frequently float this conspicuously straw-man representation of those who believe in wider cultural tolerance. Typically using the ill-defined term "post modern". It's usually the same group that distrusts higher education and social criticism so a chance to attack them in an obfuscated way like this is doubly attractive.
Well, politically things are moving quickly too. Bottom line, all the “science” failed to engage The Cautionary Principle when they should have known that what they did know was likely outweighed by what they didn’t.
> When the ability to debate is removed, the only thing remaining is force.

You seem to be conflating the ability to debate with the existance of objective ethical facts. That sounds like a bit of a false choice to me. What kind of ethical experiment would reveal an ethical truth in the same way in which jumping of a cliff reveals a physical truth?

It also strikes me that our belief that slavery is wrong is not really hostage to experiment in the same way in which my belief that gravity exists is. What kind of fact would you have to be confronted with to recognise that your belief ('slavery is wrong') is false?
Influenza: Exposing the True Killer
I really enjoyed making combinations on the filters to see what (I thought) unlikely combinations existed, and I was happy with what I found (e.g. minimal organic, architecture face). Does the artist apply the labels? Or is classification part of your curation? In any case, nice work. I hope your market finds you!
there is some truth to this but some areas of math do really benefit from just raw memorization. At a certain point, remembering the definitions and the statements of theorems may not be so trivial, and having them in your head makes it much easier to solve problems.
Thanks man! Right, unfortunately it was not trained on r/SiberianCats. It was trained on what Reddit said are the most popular 4k subreddits.

To make it more useful, I need to collect more data from less popular subreddits :)
Maybe not a top 4k subreddit?
Short enough to copy and paste. Here it is, from http://paulgraham.com/bronze.html

# The Artix Phase

We should have expected this. It's very common for a group of founders to go through one lame idea before realizing that a startup has to make something people will pay for. In fact, we ourselves did.

Viaweb wasn't the first startup Robert Morris and I started. In January 1995, we and a couple friends started a company called Artix. The plan was to put art galleries on the Web. In retrospect, I wonder how we could have wasted our time on anything so stupid. Galleries are not especially excited about being on the Web even now, ten years later. They don't want to have their stock visible to any random visitor, like an antique store. [2]

Besides which, art dealers are the most technophobic people on earth. They didn't become art dealers after a difficult choice between that and a career in the hard sciences. Most of them had never seen the Web before we came to tell them why they should be on it. Some didn't even have computers. It doesn't do justice to the situation to describe it as a hard sell; we soon sank to building sites for free, and it was hard to convince galleries even to do that.

Gradually it dawned on us that instead of trying to make Web sites for people who didn't want them, we could make sites for people who did. In fact, software that would let people who wanted sites make their own. So we ditched Artix and started a new company, Viaweb, to make software for building online stores. That one succeeded.

We're in good company here. Microsoft was not the first company Paul Allen and Bill Gates started either. The first was called Traf-o-data. It does not seem to have done as well as Micro-soft.

In Robert's defense, he was skeptical about Artix. I dragged him into it. [3] But there were moments when he was optimistic. And if we, who were 29 and 30 at the time, could get excited about such a thoroughly boneheaded idea, we should not be surprised that hackers aged 21 or 22 are pitching us ideas with little hope of making money.
Mostly the same for me, but a "mere" 4 years ago. Absurd.
> when china shutdown domestic movement into/out of Wuhan they kept open international movement into/out of Wuhan

The first result I found on Google says the airport was shut down to all departures, along with all public transit. They didn't immediately shut down international driving in private cars, I suppose.
https://www.ifn.news/posts/china-shuts-down-wuhan-airport-am...

> at the same time neighbor countries with china tried to block cross boarder movement yet china forced those trade routes to stay open well after Wuhan had entered lockdown

Are you referring to trade of goods? That has been the general approach in most countries even after restricting human travel, as the prevalent thought is that non-living goods don't replicate and shed the virus.
You could be right! But if AiR is right they might be able to prove that there is actually demand for financing in this context.
Location: Croatia
Remote: Yes (remote only)
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Swift, Objective-C for iOS development; C++; Go; some Ruby, Python
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/druzman/
Email: drago_at_ruzman_dot_net

I'm an experienced iOS developer (10 years), worked mostly on multimedia and VoIP/Chat apps. Looking primarily for contract work.
Show HN: covid19 charts - compare country, state, US county timeseries
File Explorer Integration in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
You want complex conversations? Try listening to Ezra Klein's podcasts, Kara Swisher's podcasts, Lawfare's podcasts, PopeHat's podcasts, and there are many more.
Except Telegram also lacks the most important feature, ubiquitous E2EE. Russian state employs a lot of hackers and you're really fooling yourself if you think Pavel Durov can harden his infrastructure to protect from an entire state sponsored cyber army with its zero days. When they hack Telegram's servers, all messages are bound to leak.
Oh, I was knee jerked into replying this thread and didn't realised the same comment was made!
Whoa. You can't do this here, regardless of how wrong other commenters are or you feel they are. Ditto for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22820276.

Of course strong feelings arise with this subject matter, and doubly so during a crisis. But if you're commenting here, you need not to let that propel you into personal attack or verbal violence. Maybe you don't owe corporate apologists or Disney executives better, but you owe this community better if you're posting here (much better).

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It's also not in your interest to post like this. It will appeal only to a subset of the readers who already agree with you, but alienate everyone else. In other words, the price you pay for the momentary relief of venting is that your comment discredits your own position, making the truth in it harder for others to perceive and actually driving them further away from you. That harms your cause.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
“‎A change of work is the best rest.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle
Thanks man! Looking forward to working on V2 :)
Is it possible to have a giant curved "screen"?

I feel we are just scratching the surface of what's possible. Yes, multiple (arbitrarily sized) windows are neat. But we can probably do more.

Even without any changes though, I just wish my VR headset was lighter. I can go more than 8h straight in VR... playing games. Not sure about working.

Will try this :)
... i wish i could remember my ICQ number. And the password. And what my username was. ;-)
That's what a notary does; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notary
I note the small power station listed in their accessories ...

Anyone interested in such a device should really consider the Dewalt Flexvolt power station (DCB1800B) because it lets you use your tool batteries as the modular, replaceable source of the power:

https://toolguyd.com/dewalt-portable-power-station-review-dc...

... which is a nice intersection of utility. Output is a very strong 15 amps (although non-perfect-sine-wav) which I have used to start and power air compressors and other motors.

... and then you can use the batteries in your tools.

If you get the 9ah batteries you can run a fridge for a few hours. I find this setup to be much more utilitarian than a dedicated battery station
But he says "viral particles" which is a term of art and means an assembled shell (envelope for enveloped viruses like corona). If there is viral RNA in the viral particle, its an assembled shell and thus a virus. Sure some people make viral particles in the lab to package other things, but that's certainly not what OP is referring to.
The article mentions how the children died of kidney failure. One thing I remember reading was that their bodies had adapted to the lack of salt, so it was the salted food they ate after contact that killed them.
Well looking at the video, I mean, I can have dozens workspaces with hundreds of windows (if I need to) and navigate them with moving just my fingers, whereas you are apparently breaking your neck to navigate more than 3 windows. I think what you're doing is cool and has to be done for the sake of exploration, but I would really, really focus on navigation. Also, how are you supposed to focus on text, when reading or reading or writing when it's wiggling all the time. It seems to me that VR really is for games, but for working with text I think humans are better off with stationary screens.

On a second thought: if you would make it easier to "fix" window, such that one can focus on it and work. As when you are "placing" a new window in your video, that could make it a workable solution.
Part of the issue is that we tend to see things that are far away more clearly. It is that much harder to see things clearly up close. Outsider sees most of the game kind of deal. For the record, I am not defending Guantanamo Bay, but even simple things like discussing prison system in US is complicated with anyone, who was born here, because, and it is probably the worst human trait, it has always been this way.
Yea, but that was a time when most people worked on desktops. Had no mobile phone or laptop.
But the purpose is not to predict individual behaviour. I find it really frustrating that people are completely happy to discount 100 years of epidemiology so casually.
Airbnb now offers virtual ‘travel’ experiences to keep you entertained at home
The anti-correlated behaviour of these two networks, and even their default mode vs. attention functions, reminds of the attention schema theory of consciousness [1].

Specifically, the attention schema theory posits that some constant back and forth signal switching between internal and external models of the world results in the illusion of subjective awareness, in an analogous manner to how task switching provides the illusion of parallelism on single-core CPUs.

[1] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.0050...
Yeah I also have similar problem, how did you solved it (
> To add, never rely on products that require you to trust the company respects your privacy.

> Always use apps that are E2EE by default (e.g. Signal)

You are contradicting yourself here. You are required to trust Signal the company to respect your privacy, to trust that it's actually doing end-to-end encryption, doing it properly and doesn't issue an update breaking it because of some secret US government order. Because Signal controls software distribution, it's pretty much just a binary blob that some guy from Signal can update any time.

A proper end-to-end encryption at minimum requires an open source implementations and distribution to avoid trusting the company to respect your privacy, since this is the primary reason for end-to-end encryption to exist. Otherwise incentives are misaligned and it will be broken by the same company it is supposed to protect from as soon as they need your messages for something.
I used Adium, but same. For years, I had chat that was clean, simple, and it didn't matter what service people used. Then I worked for a company that used HipChat, which originally worked on Adium but stopped working at some point. Then the company switched to Slack. Then friends dumped AIM and GChat for Facebook Messenger and Signal and iMessage.

Now not only do I have a million chat apps again, but they're almost all a godawful resource hungry non-native UX disaster. :(
> A frozen language means that either those modifications are harder

I don't agree that it's harder. What is definitely harder is not being able to ship bug-fixes or modifications without ripping everything up because the language has moved on since your last release. And that is very common when developing for, as an example, iOS, since Swift is a fast-moving language that doesn't maintain backwards compatibility. The benefits of having some new language feature in Swift are far outweighed by the downside of existing codebases being invalidated. The various languages in the Javascript family suffer from this as well. The Python 2 -> Python 3 debacle was another example of this.

I have dusted off 20 year old Java code which compiled and ran just fine just fine. That is extraordinarily valuable to me, and requires a lot of discipline by the language maintainers. In fact, the new faster pace of Java iteration could be its downfall, time will tell.

A last note: how many language features from the past 20 years really matter? How many really speed up development, improve maintainability, etc. I would say that there are very few. In fact, perhaps the only one that passes that bar might be async/await type threading advancements.
Community and libraries.

If I'm a person who wants to do some data science or whatever and I have very little software background I want there to be libraries that do basically everything I ever want to do and those libraries need to be very easy to support. I want to be able to Google every single error message I ever see, no matter how trivial or language specific, and find a reasonable explanation. I also want the environment to work more or less out of the box (admittedly, python has botched this one since so many machines now have a python2 and a python3 install).
> I find it difficult to imagine unless you corner the animal and have enough manpower to not be run over.

It would be easy to imagine, if you had experience of collapsing from fatigue. Try to get on the roof of a skyscraper by stairs, you'll get all the needed experience. For more realism, you could run for a several floors, then rest for a few minutes, and to repeat it as needed. For even more realism find a person who is better than you at marathons, give him/her a stick and tell him/her to move slowly up by the stairs (1-2 steps per second, I believe, will do) and to beat you with the stick when he catches up with you. At some point you will prefer stick to moving further. It could be done without stairs on the plains, but it would take more time, up to a few hours.

I couldn't give you experience, but I could give you some theory. Moving animal needs to absorb oxygen, to oxidize glucose into ATP. If animal tries to move faster than some limit based on the ability to absorb and utilize oxygen, then some of glucose metabolizes only halfway to H2O+CO2 and lactic acid. Muscles start to accumulate lactic acid. If concentration of lactic acid in muscles is high enough, animal feels it painful to strain muscles. The more concentration is the less strain is needed to feel pain, the higher level of pain at the same strain level. At some point even the slightest straining feels painful. Cells in muscles could die from too much acidity, but it hard to do because of pain. (Though a heart could be damaged this way, for this one needs to force his heart to work at ~180+ beats per minute for a ~10+ minutes, it doesn't feels like pain in the heart, so be careful when pushing your body to its limits).

To get rid of lactic acid animal needs oxygen. Muscles could metabolize lactic acid to get energy, or the liver could do it. But in any case it needs oxygen, animal need to stop and to rest, or at least to run at lesser power, to have enough spare oxygen in a bloodstream.

If animal have no time to stop and rest for long enough time, then lactic acid concentration continue to grow. It feels like overwhelming fatigue, pain in muscles, and all you want is to take a break. If you try to work your muscles through it, at some point they just stop working. But it is hard to get to this point, because of a pain and a loss of motivation to continue.
Ironically, Nietzsche is considered (by some) to be one of the fathers of postmodern thought. His criticism of the objectivity of science in "On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense", his deconstruction of the Western concept of self in "The Anti-Christ", and to some extents his criticism of 19th-century historiography in “On the Uses and Disadvantage of History for Life” and other books are touchstones which presage a lot of postmodern discussion of these topics.

Check out https://muse.jhu.edu/article/27340 for the argument against though!
I like the look of it.
It looks like all the ones in the $1-3k range are unfinished to some degree. You'd need to get electrical wiring, insulation, drywall and flooring. It gives you a few different options for exteriors and space to buy one and more customization options, you're going to need to put in some manual labor somewhere along the lines so the question becomes: is it better to spend ~$10k for a fully finished product, $1-3k + parts & labor for a prefab or hire someone to build the whole thing from scratch? I don't know what it would cost to hire a contractor to make something like this, but these pre-made options give you a good idea of where you might want to draw the line on pricing.
This is misleading propaganda that ignores proper cryptographic design. It relies strongly on whataboutism and dismisses properly designed protocols as niche without really arguing from any other viewpoint as appeal to popularity. Furthermore, Durov employs backwards logic, circular reasoning, and double standards. There's no room for good faith when Durov intentionally ignores concerns of the entire infosec community. When Bruce Schneier and Matt Green tell people to avoid your product, that's when you look in the mirror and ask "what am I doing with my life".
Jamulus is excellent for playing music together. It has low latency and high audio quality. You can host your own server or use a public one.

http://llcon.sourceforge.net/
A company like Yelp needs a lot of boots on the ground type staff to work with restaurants on the sales side. Their infra may scale but that function doesn't.
DST remains the notable VC investor.
Very cool. I'd love to see this extended to photography. good luck!
How hot and/or humid is your summer?
But we know really quite accurately how people en-mass move and associate prior to intervention. The proper models are using this information.
I think using Elm, PureScript, or any technology that has a community orders of magnitude smaller than well established safer alternatives would be a dubious decision. I never advocated bringing either into a professional environment. I simply stated that there is a viable alternative if someone is looking to play in the space.
AI can’t predict how a child’s life will turn out even with a ton of data
Grid is awesome, and I highly recommend learning what it can do for you. That said, they serve different purposes. However, between the two of them they address 97% of my needs on the frontend. This[1] is a good rundown of what the two do/dont do.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs3piaN4b5I
This is part of the reason we are / were paid so much recently. Hardly any young people went into technology from dot-com until around 12 or so (unless they were passionate about it), precisely because everyone was telling kids that programming was so easily outsourced that you'll never make money at it.

There's a distinct dips in the number of 30-40 year olds in technology. There are plenty of older people, and there are now tons of younger people, but few in between. From age 20 to about 30, I was always the youngest person on my team. Now this is no longer the case, but those who are younger are 10+ years younger.

People today are amazed when I tell them I only made $10/hr in my first programming gig. People who graduated in the 90s were making $40-50k out of school and today it's not uncommon to get 70k+ in the mid-west. The early 00s were a different time.
How to Learn New Things
I didn't mean that a static site doesn't use JS at all, just that it can still work when JS is disabled. It's not that we necessarily expect people to turn off JS, but that the site can still be fully represented using only static files.
For a publicly traded company it might be required, otherwise it's effectively material insider information that you've just shared with the whole company.
In the light of the material you link to, "Why I'm Leaving Elm" does seem to expose a wee bit of hypocrisy there.
that was a long post but amazing
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That’s weird, wasn’t Simula 2 the first OO language? This Simula doesn’t seem to be related at all. I get name reuse, but this Simula is one of those huge milestones in computer science.
That number ~150 engineers seems way too small, at most tech companies I worked at, engineering comprises 40-50% of the staff, if it doesn't something would seem very off. Engineering in this case is product, platform, IT, hardware etc.
In addition to Snooze and Hover Actions, there's Undo Send, Smart Reply, and Nudges which were all built and tested on Inbox before being added to Gmail.
And that distinction seems to be very, very clear.