skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it's problematic to me. I can ace any test on written paper, but my social anxiety is configured in such a way that I become a blubbering idiot if someone is looking at the back of my head.

My ability to do really well on written tests actually got me into Stanford, despite coming from a pretty normal middle class background -- my dad worked for suburban city government. If I had majored in CS instead of science, I would be a shoe in, but alas I didn't.

If they could just do the tests slightly differently I could ace them. Instead, I'm mainly just avoiding the FAANG world. If I spent another 80 hours practicing them I might have a shot, but eh...
I think BugsEverywhere might have failed because of suboptimal design and lack of features? I have not use BE nor git-bug before, but from looking at the doc pages, git-bug looks way superior.

In particular, it looks that by default, BE stores bugs in main repo. Which probably means every comment is a commit, which puts lots of useless entries into the main commit log.
(They do mention workflows that store bugs in separate branches.. but this seems undocumented, non-default option)

Ironically, I am also not sure how well BE works in the distributed fashion. git-bug has this nice section on how they implemented CRDTs using git, so everyone can comment at once at there are no conflicts.

BE, on the other hand, seem to have no mention of such thing? In fact, I think they assume single central bug repository per project, on some server which handles email submission (how else can one implement debian bugtracker-style email interface?)
By your own calculation there that's a really tall order for restaurants to afford, and the damages are also hard to tabulate. For flood or fire you can mitigate your risk and clearly value the damages - how exactly do you tabulate for shutting down a restaurant? Who decides what revenues would have been for a new restaurant?
> "We know for sure that the bulk of people who have ever had this disease are still sick"

Most people who contract Covid-19 fully recover by around 7 days after showing symptoms. Severe cases that go to hospital? Yes, recovery may take a long time.
Take that with a pinch of salt, things aren't clear yet, but:

Well, I read today we have a problem like that in Belgium: it seems small bio labs aren't allowed to test even though they adapted their equipment and workflow. Only big pharma are lined up.
Looks cool! Where can I get it?
This. It's pretty clear some aspects of the economy could suffer permanently. For example restaurants may reopen and decide they no longer need service staff. Or maybe warehouses accelerate the shift to automation to prevent closures due to illness. Perhaps commercial real estate will suffer, too.

But other areas of the economy could take off just as quickly and in unexpected ways.
From everything I've read, I'm amazed the average American has enough spare money to consume non-essentials.
The problem is that there are like 4 or 5 efforts going on in Linux right now to make things more secure. But they're all kind of targeted, and we need all of them to coordinate with each other, so individually each of them gets dismissed because "what's the point of plugging one hole?"

People mention $HOME access. This is something that we're trying to solve with Flatpack: filesystem access should be sandboxed by default. But that requires coordination with desktop environments like Gnome, otherwise everyone just grants programs anything they want because the UX is bad.

And then on top of that we have X11, which is its own mess, and we're trying to address that with Wayland. But Wayland isn't perfect yet for desktop recording, and there's not a ton of effort from software like Emacs to get off of X and onto Wayland because of "what's the point?" arguments. So Flatpack becomes a lot less valuable because X11 keylogging is so easy.

Then we have just flat-out bad user security, where people are setting up sudo without a password. So process isolation becomes a lot less valuable because programs can just manipulate the raw filesystem.

And then we have Spectre/Meltdown leaking passwords, but who cares because "people don't set passwords anyway."?

And whenever a group of people get together and propose any fixes in isolation, there is inevitably someone in the Linux community who will stand up and say, "Look, Wayland is pointless because someone wrote a keylogger[0]. Why are we spending any time fixing this stuff?"

Imagine you are on a boat with 10 holes in the bottom, all of them leaking water. If you want to fix that problem, there is inevitably going to be a period where 5 of the holes are patched and 5 of them aren't. And if you get to that point and start re-opening the holes that did get patched, it's going to be very hard to make any more progress.

[0]: https://github.com/Aishou/wayland-keylogger
Predictions are hard. Especially about the future.
>I have an admission to make. I’ve not yet seen an explanation of what a monad is that I could understand.

Thanks for the honesty. However, that lack of understanding is perhaps preventing you from seeing how monads subsume/generalise many common patterns.
FF was never particularly configurable. Actually it started its life as bare-bones, stream lined variant of larger Mozilla Suite.

But perhaps you meant FF was heavily extensible which is true, but it was also very costly.
You can. That is certainly a possible axiom as evidenced by fossil and some others, but as evidenced by git and common usage it is not necessarily "axiom 0" for all possible VCS's.

Unless you want to get really semantic in which case, sure "history" can't be changed, but "recorded history" certainly can.
> This entire article is a waste of time from the beginning.

The moment I read that I lost my interest in his comment. Anything he is going to write afterward would not matter. He didn't gave sufficient reasons either why he thinks the article is a waste of time. We can safely ignore his opinion. Anyone who is directly reading GP's comment please read the article and decide for yourself.
Heck even a crowded bar or restaurant is going to give people pause.
A typo correction: In two places you have "overtime" instead of "over time".
> Gov is insurance and I want them to be building resilience into the system.

This is kind of one of those ‘Hindsight is 20-20’ things. During the good times, building resilience means buying extra capacity that you do not need, and answering awkward questions about empty wards and hospital beds.

In good times, the demand from the people is that every dollar is spent well, which is usually defined as meeting demand in the here and now. Real life doesn’t have auto-scalability.
That's insane. If you actually care about Linux performance so much, instead of poking security holes in your system, you might consider switching to Intel's Clear Linux (on AMD too) or (better yet) a performance-tuned kernel like XanMod:

https://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=28805
Indeed - there is nothing here to indicate a sudden jump (faster than the already high rate of propagation), while there is good reason to believe that the incidence has been systematically undercounted, on account of the shortage of testing kits. The fatality rate is less likely to be under-counted, if we assume most fatalities are preceded by hospitalization (and often testing.)
> The remaining memory is probably sitting there in memory allocations of JS or so

I'm not so sure about that. 5 Electron apps takes up far more memory than 5 tabs open in your browser because there are 5 copies of all the other browser resources. I don't know exactly what they are but anecdotal observation of using Slack and similar apps as browser tabs shows much less memory use. It makes sense: the browser rendering engine and JavaScript engine are going to occupy memory themselves.
There is still a major difference between not trusting the government to take care of you in the worst case, and expecting them to let public health emergencies grow out of control as the standard course of action.
Funnily enough, I find it to go both ways and while working on bugs sometimes changing browsers gives me a more useful error given the context. It would be nice if that aspect of browser functionality could be carved out and made into a plugin so that we could pick and choose.

A more modular browser experience a la foobar2000 sounds just amazing.
I think I would also hate J, APL, Prolog, Haskell, Forth, or Lisp in University.

The problem is that those languages require a completely different shift in software from the common imperative/OO style to something more declarative or in Lisp's case, just a bit different.

In a typical university course, there isn't enough time to focus on learning those things and you stay so shallow with the material that the language seems useless. It seems like 1/2 of the Prolog subreddit is about homework assignments on things like list reversal. If you can already do that in Python/Java with a single method call, Prolog just seems like a really bizarre and inefficient method. Now once you take another step and see how it can figure out how to solve Sudoku without explicit instructions...that is cool.

It's really the same thing with electrical engineering when the professor is trying to teach us microprocessors and assembly at the same time and it all seems like a waste when C is much easier. The assembly method probably teaches better, but I need more than just a few weeks to synthesize that information. Especially when you're getting slammed by other hard classes like differential equations at the same time. So perhaps you do hate J, then again, maybe you just need to learn it on your own schedule and not to answer arbitrary test questions about something you can already do in Java.
I haven't been following all the numbers but one ironic thing about this is that it might be that a city like New York that ordinarily does pretty well in terms of public health has fallen down, but California's cities, which are a medieval nightmare of public health in a lot of ways, seem to have locked things down fairly well.

(I have some suspicions about that, like cases in the homeless population being underrepresented in the data at this stage, but we'll see)
Profile information is only available to your contacts. Not everyone who has your phone number.
FairMOT: A simple baseline for one-shot multi-object tracking
OfCom licenses sound similar, but with the bottom rung license (“Foundation License”) requiring low power operation (max 1W to 10W) while you learn the ropes.

Page 9 of IR2028 if you’re interested:

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0028/53965/i...
Bite-size growth lessons from founders
50% At the time of testing. Not 50% never showing symptoms at all. Most of them eventually developed symptoms
Whether pandemic insurance exists or not doesn't change the average cost (except for the insurance company's profit margin). The average cost to society will still be 0.5% even if no one carries insurance for it.
I would argue Nixon seems honorable in comparison. He at least resigned, Trump is blatant in his corruption and would never step down. Potentially even if he loses the election.
The human-capital costs of the crisis
I’ve been using Nightly for a long time and I have no idea what this is about.
This has some serious "I disabled my password to make logging in easier, but I'm still safe because the hacker would have to guess my username" vibes to it.
Why use expensive server side processing when you can do it for free on the client? Doing it on the client could theoretically save bandwidth, if the background was a changing scene.

Obviously Zoom isn't end to end encrypted, it's client-server encrypted.
A lot of folks are going to take the traditional advice of having 6 months of living expenses in emergency savings seriously this time.
> The premise that there is an "asymptomatic strain" is still theoretically possible but unsubstantiated, despite ongoing investigation.

He doesn’t seem to be arguing that a previously unidentified “asymptomatic strain” - or the effects of such - is currently known. If I understand his reasoning, he’s saying that it’s theoretically possible that a milder strain might exist, and that in order to find and isolate that strain (if it exists) we would need to be blanket testing people in outbreak areas, partitioning those samples by outcome, then sequencing the positive tests.

Once you have a set of sequences from positive tests from people who were and remained asymptomatic, then you can isolate the variants that lead to that and begin testing to see if any of those variants consistently present no (or very limited) symptoms AND confer immunity to the pathogenic strains of 2019-nCoV.
We know when Coronavirus entered the US and the serial interval, and can estimate via phylogeny how big the population of the virus is. The phylogenics+excess deaths are ruling out a mass infection that no one died from.
They're working pretty well, the funds have been made available for relief efforts. They were maybe not as hedged as people wanted.
Realistically if you're poor with credit card debt, $1200 adds two months runway from default dead state of losing your housing, (so at least you're not instantly wiped out as of April's eviction notice date)
Researchers are finding that COVID-19 testing has roughly 33% false negatives: https://www.wsj.com/articles/questions-about-accuracy-of-cor...

The LabCorp test is not FDA cleared or approved and is being used under an emergency act.

"Testing was performed using the cobas(R) SARS-CoV-2 test. This test was developed and its performance characteristics determined by LabCorp Laboratories. This test has not been FDA cleared or approved. This test has been authorized by FDA under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). This test is only authorized for the duration of time the declaration that circumstances exist justifying the authorization of the emergency use of in vitro diagnostic tests for detection of SARS-CoV-2 virus and/or diagnosis of COVID-19 infection under section 564(b)(1) of the Act, 21 U.S.C. 360bbb-3(b)(1), unless the authorization is terminated or revoked sooner."

The Quest test is not FDA approved either: https://www.questdiagnostics.com/dms/Documents/covid-19/SARS...

"It is possible for this test to give a negative result that is incorrect (false negative) in some people with COVID-19. This means that you could possibly still have COVID-19 even though the test is negative."

"This test is not yet approved or cleared or authorized by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA)."

Due to this, it's hard to trust test results. It's a best effort and not perfect.
CuPy is not developed by NVIDIA, but by Preferred Networks, the company behind Chainer.
The only time pre-e10s Firefox performed well was anecdotally, in threads relating to pre-e10s Firefox not performing well.
...which is a huge windfall.

Has anyone on here ever actually been poor before? Genuinely curious.
> I can tell you my interactions with FF's URL bar are now always: click once, type, realize I just deleted everything, furiously ESC ESC ESC, curse, click once, twice, wrong double click, wait to be able to single click, deep breath, curse, click again.

This doesn't add up. After "furiously ESC ESC ESC, curse, click once" you would already have put the cursor.
I think you've hit the nail on the head here. An e-ink tablet needs the same SoC, battery, metal case, and software engineering that an LCD tablet needs. So if an e-ink display cost the same as an LCD, the tablet would cost the same. But because of the limitations of the display technology, the device would do less than the equivalent tablet. You can't play games on it. You can't watch Netflix on it. Browsing the web would be a chore that nobody would do except in an emergency.

For that reason, the devices don't exist.
The CDC had a pandemic team, they were let go. California had a reserve of ventilators, which were liquidated due to “budget reasons”.

The problem isn’t risk experts; the problem is that government representatives elected have no domain expertise nor leadership fortitude to put domain experts into the driver’s seat when the situation dictates.

China, for all its failings, gets this right. Their leadership is more STEM and less lawyers and politicians.
You're thinking about this wrong: consider it terms of how much floating cash you have available. If you are paid $2000/mo but pay out $1800/mo in living expenses (rent, bills and food), then you have $200/mo to spend on fun. Then you receive a check for $1200, that's 6 months of fun in one go.

If you are paid weekly, the amount of cash you have in your pocket might only be $50, and then only on a Friday night, so $1200 looks like an extraordinary windfall.
That quote about shopping being safe doesn't seem to have much support, and frankly sounds very dangerous if taken too literally.

In fact existing outbreaks COVID-19 are notably NOT solely due to "people being closer together over a longer period of time". Cases of completely untraced community infection are everywhere with this disease.

> “To actually 'get' the virus it would be necessary that someone coughs into their hand, immediately touches a door knob and then straight after that another person grasps the handle and goes on to touches their face.”

This is just simply not true. Fomite transmissibility was demonstrated back in January. I think what he's trying to say is that the chances of static infectious surfaces seem low and that close proximity to an infected person is still the most common vector. But the way you quoted it makes it sounds like you can't get it from a surface, and we know that's not true.

Seriously, wash your hands, folks. And beware of selectively quoted articles telling you not to take obvious mitigation steps.
It's just chrome skin so not really advancing the free web thing ...
Here is the link to actual publication (in german):

https://www.land.nrw/sites/default/files/asset/document/zwis...
How is it very literally unprecedented? Spanish flu had much deadlier properties, "work from home" wasn't even possible, there were no antibiotics and almost none of the modern med tech, yet there is no mention of a "1919 economic collapse". Death toll in the US was <700k, which is not great, but actually less than some of the insane apocalyptic predictions you hear about this time around, especially considering that in 100+ years we probably improved just a bit.

So I'd say it looks very much "precedented", and during the last precedent the situation was much much worse, and the world moved on just fine for another decade after that.
> to things like who lives closest

Yikes! You may want to review laws about hiring... immediately.
I'm not necessarily saying people got infected a long time ago. If anything I think we're just missing way more cases than people assume at this point.
Found the source https://www.icelandreview.com/sci-tech/is-icelands-coronavir...
My stupid country just went back to pre-2008 levels, and now this. My entire adult life is basically one long period of stagnation.
There's a big difference between virii and viral RNA being found after 17 days. One will kill you. The other is just viral wreckage.
And they manage to get away with it?! That's just pathetic
Also see: Simple Defects

https://syncwith.us/sd/

https://github.com/bestpractical/sd

https://www.slideshare.net/obrajesse/prophet-a-peer-to-peer-...
Final Fantasy VII Remake Now Finally Available for Purchase on Playstation 4
Analysis of more than 80M citations to 800k scientific articles in Wikipedia
This seems increasingly likely.
Do we have any data on South Korea's tests and their false positive/negative rates? Even a couple percent would lead to several cohorts of "tested positive but weren't" and "tested negative but still were actually positive", I'd think.
Not yet but it's in the works.
It may be a figure of speech but it is a ridiculous overreaction to call it an abomination. You may not like it but it’s nowhere near enough to describe that way. What term will you use when something truly bad comes up?
There's a difference between trying to make the community inclusive, and trying to make the core development group inclusive. Asking people not to say "guys" in community fora is an attempt to make more people comfortable using those fora in the first place. It has nothing to do with actually developing the language itself, just with using the language.

That's like saying it's ironic that a taxi driver will let you sit in the back but won't let you drive the taxi.
Would you rather be advertised to and spied on (pretty sure they track you regardless of whether you're a paying customer though)?

Personally I'd rather pay for quality content than this devolution into everything is clickbait.
I don't think that HN is a good venue for discussion of specialized preprints that have highly surprising results, in topics that are moving extremely quickly.

Too few people in this community are able to evaluate the information contained, which leads to lots of pointless speculation, and lots of misinformation. Despite working in biology for 20 years, I would not trust any of my own interpretations of this pre-print.

The only people who I would trust are named specialists in this field, that are willing to stake bits of their reputation on what they say.

The only venue where that is happening in the public is on Twitter.
Is it a valid description of people's feelings, or is it hyperbole? I struggle to see how it can be both at once.
Key passage from the text:

Kim also said patients had likely “relapsed” rather than been re-infected.

False test results could also be at fault, other experts said, or remnants of the virus could still be in patients’ systems but not be infectious or of danger to the host or others.

“There are different interpretations and many variables,” ...
I let Firefox upgrade itself when .75 was and after a restart, I didn't notice a single ux change. What on earth are you people talking about?
"According to the Heinsberg Study in Germany"

This study and its conclusions have seen close to universal dismissal. It can't even demonstrate that it is actually detecting SARS-CoV-2 immunity (it was claiming results before anyone had even demonstrated effective tests for relevant antibodies), and not any of the many variations of coronavirus that spread during the colder months (yet which offer no immunity to SARS-CoV-2).

The claims about shopping are...unsupported and go contrary to an enormous volume of evidence (namely the high R0).

It isn't a good example of anything except that junk science has a moment to shine in a crisis.

EDIT: LOL, -2. This is the moment I delete my account and find slightly less stupid venues to participate in. Cheers.
A house?! Come on.
USA is a prosperous country. You should check the content of a typical suburban houses.
In Germany, the lead virologist in Berlin said that in the beginning they went after cases like yours, testing people who had weird symptoms in February, or even late January, because the hypothesis that the virus had been circulating in Europe for quite some time seemed plausible at the time. None of these cases tested positive.

I'm not saying you didn't have COVID-19, just that it's very unreliable to draw any conclusions from anecdotal evidence like this.
I believe in those "recovered patient tested positive again" cases, they are talking about PCR testing (which detects virus RNA), not blood antibody tests.
This is a difficult topic to research these days due to the anti-vax/anti-anti-vax noise. :(

It doesn’t appear that horizontal transfer is absurd, and while I’m not immediately seeing a large body of evidence that it happens all the time, it does seem to be generally accepted that it occurs.

Here’s what I believe to be an informative article on the topic: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3667938/
It’s really not bad. It is a change. You might consider keeping it enabled for a couple of weeks and see if you still hate it so much after the new wears off.
I have friends who received it, Massachusetts.