skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Trump and his supporters have focused on a 14 January WHO tweet reporting the findings of preliminary Chinese studies suggesting “no clear evidence” of human-to-human transmission.

> While the WHO was obliged to report on the latest findings of a member state at the source of the outbreak, its officials told their counterparts in technical briefings on 10 and 11 January, and briefed the press on 14 January, that human-to-human transmission was still a strong possibility given the experience of past coronavirus epidemics and urged suitable precautions.

> [Gavin Yamey, the director of Duke University’s center for policy impact in global health] said it was ridiculous to point to a single tweet early in the pandemic as the fixed position of the WHO. “The whole point of science is that we have initial hypotheses and initial ideas, and we update those ideas as more and more data emerges,” he said.

(From https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/15/trump-turns-...)

If orgs/people are punishable due to single tweets, how do you rate Trump's performance? He has several tweets that contributed to 25K deaths..
> we (the US) still don't have adequate testing or tracing capabilities, and no cure in sight.

this is what is crazy. the u.s. has quite literally made the decision to make the effects of this virus the worst possible ones and to let them linger in both space and time. the whole response is to lie and divert and half ass everything such that infections and deaths keep rising, unemployment skyrockets, the economy tanks, etc. it is really despicable, and i am seriously beginning to worry about being in the u.s. through the next six months.

i mean, did the u.s. even consider trying to learn from even a single other country? it is really showcasing the vast systemic problems we have in this country that everyone talks about but then dismisses and then ignores. our government and support structure is wholly fragmented, and we have corporations rushing in thinking they can save the day. meanwhile, countries with universal healthcare, welfare, and support structures are breezing through this.
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It seems fairly obvious this is not, nor was it intended to be, a “plan”.

This “Roadmap” was likely rushed out as part of a coordinated political response to threats made by the POTUS to override state decisions.

It was framed in the local press even before it was announced that the governor would be discussing which metrics the state would be looking at to determine when and how to start opening things back up.

It was shocking/hilarious/predictable to see the headlines streaming out even before Newsoms press conference was over that “California releases plan to reopen economy”.

If I was expecting a plan, and then opened this PDF, I would want to rip it to shreds as well.
What do you mean "reassign"?

You can't reassign the length variable since it's marked `const`. You should see something like "warning: assignment discards `const` qualifier from pointer target type" if you pass it to `realloc`, which tells you that you're breaking consistency (I guess this might be UB). You could write `vrealloc` to allow resizing such structs, which would probably be called like:

my_obj *tmp = vrealloc(obj, sizeof(obj), sizeof(obj->text), obj->n, newsize);
Except business cycles are a real thing
Stipulating most of your comment, gender can still easily be a top predictor of memory / intelligence / etc., because "top" is an ordinal concept. That just says it has more of an effect than other predictors.

But see also https://sci-hub.tw/https://amstat.tandfonline.com/doi/full/1... , finding that the top predictor (among those investigated) of a police officer shooting a civilian is "the officer is black", narrowly beating out "the officer is rapidly accumulating negative marks in his file". Are there a large number of pairings in which a white officer shoots someone and a black officer doesn't? Sure, but the effect of race is still enormous in this case. ("Black officers were 3.3 times more likely to shoot than other officers.")

I would expect the effect of sex to dwarf the effect of race, but the study is limited to police officers that exist, of which more than 92% in the sample are male. So probably there's some restriction of range.
Actually it does.

BSF (Bit Scan Forward) is the most famous which returns an undefined result if your operand is 0.

Many instructions leave the state of bits in the FLAGs register undefined. E.g. AAA will leave SF,ZF, and PF undefined.

Then of course there is the “reserved bits” but those are easier to avoid.
The IHME model is proving to be wildly inaccurate on the downslope due to bad data coming out China. Their projections will continue to creep up in terms of deaths over the next few weeks because the predicted drop offs won’t be happening, sad to say.

If you want to see examples, check out their predictions on Italy. Their figures have been underestimating by over 50%, and the gaps will widen each day over the upcoming week. Heck, the ranges for the last few days have been outside their confidence interval.
The community is a lot more divided about those two, making things more complicated.
Wet markets existed when it was a communist economy

Then as now, the only thing that is forbidden is criticism of The Party. Want to exploit your workers and ignore all environmental and hygienic concerns? That was and is OK there. That’s how they undercut the West in manufacturing, no other reason. Concepts of protecting the environment or workers rights ironically only exist in the capitalist West.
I doubt it, because the attack lacks seriousness when it's led by Trump.

It is right that WHO should have waited more verification of scientific data before publishing easily misinterpreted too-short statements, on Twitter or elsewhere. But look who is denouncing that.
Can't you use Windows build of PyTorch?
I used to work at Wolfram Research and directly interacted with SW on a project he took personal interest in, so I feel a bit more qualified than most to answer this. Stephen is without doubt a brilliant mind, and the way he thinks, his attention to detail, and his broad vision of computing are unique in their depth and philosophical impact.

However, his seminal work titled A New Kind Of Science is frequently critiqued as unscientific in its exposition of its core theories. Other scientific works of SW are similarly criticized for bypassing scientific peer-review and offering little substantive theory. I won't comment further on this so you can form your own opinion.

Here are a collection of reviews of NKS: http://shell.cas.usf.edu/~wclark/ANKOS_reviews.html

Here is my favorite review for its balance and lack of cynicism: https://www.kurzweilai.net/reflections-on-stephen-wolfram-s-...

At the end of the day, say what you want about his theories - he is a wonderful, nurturing man who set me on the course to what I am doing today. He gave me my first programming job and allocated valuable time of the brilliant minds at Wolfram Research toward making even the interns productive and excited to work there. His son Christopher is a mirror of his brilliance and will certainly be making significant contributions to science in his own time.

5 years after I left WR, I received his latest book in the mail with a simple handwritten note - "Is this relevant to what you're working on?". It was. I cherish the man and his mind, despite any criticism directed at his work.
A reasonably well-known blogging site handed my account to a would-be porn star while I wasn't looking. That link is now way more interesting. And while it was linked to my LinkedIn. Yikes.

The Internet gives, and the Internet takes away.
Can't you just run two oses alongside each other?
Well I've never downvoted a single post no matter how much I disliked it. Personally I consider this a kind of weakness and the whole system as promoting herd mentality. But whatever floats their boat.
I am from Ulaanbaatar, this is not a good idea!
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Carbon Health seemed to be one of the few entities actually testing in California. Really doesn't inspire confidence in Google if they can't distinguish between random crap and an established health company who is actively providing services.
Would you classify mods as cheating?

In every open world RPG I will always give myself unlimited inventory and durability, I can't stand those mechanics.
Thanks for replying! I agree I would like to see better numbers. However, I don't think that things like mask compliance would change the criteria marked in green, rather it would change the actual tracked metrics and require another lockdown.

While I am highly confident I didn't get everything right, I did account for the testing angle because I think that while tests are coming in on average (something like 7 days) very high positive, it is a very good sign that test quantity is wildly off. That is why I personally look at that metric. If 95% of tests are coming back negative (assuming good tests), that is a sign testing is going well. If 40% are positive, we aren't testing enough and should be conservative.

If our testing goes up which dramatically shoots up cases, even though its is a good thing I think its prudent to potentially escalate measures to be sure.

It should only be when everything is at least as good as a certain level should things decline. So for example if there are 1000 new cases in a week in california, with 2% growth rate, but 25% positive tests for some reason, then lock it down again (this is a very made up example).
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I don't like that Medium now has a paywall. I want to offer free blog hosting for software engineers.

Let me know if you want to help build an open source blogging platform based on Gatsby?

Do you have a popular blog on Medium or Wordpress that you want to convert to Gatsby?
I am from Ulaanbaatar, this is not a good idea! Do not support this move!
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I am just curious for what reasons can above happen.

The most obvious one seems that someone decided to make first name the primary key and now they are stuck with the problem but still that doesn't feel right to me.
There is a big difference in that WSL1 only needed to implement Linux syscalls, they could use glibc and all other libraries from the Linux distribution that you are running, whereas Wine needs to reimplement all Windows APIs to work with most applications.

Also, Wine is really a program on top of Linux, while personalities are a core feature Windows. At a low level, the Windows kernel is agnostic wrt. the system ABI. Win32 is just one personality of the Windows kernel, just as NT used to have an OS/2 personality to run 16-bit OS/2 programs.
Clickhouse has had native Kafka ingest support for over a year.
it is coming from an administration that lies with nearly every word, and they aren't even constructed lies. they are lies equivalent to what you make up on the spot when you forget your proverbial homework. it really isn't surprising. this administration commits treason on a daily basis, as they repeatedly throw the entire country under the bus for their own gain. it is truly sickening.
Programs don't have to be particularly large complex to become relatively unweildy and difficult to understand in assembly. I find it takes me much more time to comprehend large portions of written assembly than higher-level languages. Your mileage may vary. Other engineers might be more talented than I am in this regard, however I think this is more or less everyone's experience.

Abstractions like functions are still present, just not in the way that you might think of them in a higher-level language. You use 'branching' instructions to jump from one part of the code to another. Either by referencing labeled sections of the code to perform 'absolute' jumps, or by jumping 'relative' to the current instruction. This forms the building blocks that can be used to implement more abstract constructs such as loops, functions and conditionals. This is a gross simplification, I hope it helps answer your question though.
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You pretty much just described the US.
Docker runs in a VM on macOS, with significant penalties to filesystem speed. I haven't used it for a few years, but booting the large Rails app I work on was several times slower under Docker.
In our case clickhouse was significantly faster at insertions and querying compared to druid. Which metrics did you test?
> We also basically have no treatment

Not so:

https://www.cancernetwork.com/news/clinical-trial-explores-a...

Edit: Besides, what if the cure already exists, and Big Pharma wants to make more money selling long-term treatment drugs and equipment?
No it's a good advice. Because then that would have raised soon an acute awareness about asymptomatic bearers (e.g. through testing a representative sample of the general population), and thus awareness of the necessity of early lockdown.

Also, being able to test anybody who asks it would have dismissed arbitrary criteria that are pushed by governments around the world to minimize the illness. For example in the country where I am, it was until recently difficult to get tested unlike there was an established contact with a tested positive person.
It won't follow a 'bell curve' but the curve will 'look like a bell curve'.
I will try to set some context here. I created my personal account long before Trello was acquired by Atlassian. It did not have any SSO at that point and the login was with username and password. At some point, while working on a side project and to share it with a teammate, I attached a secondary email to my account and created few boards under it. This email was my companies email @company.com

The multiple account login used to work the same way it works for github now. The boards were very clearly labeled under the email/username they were created and clearly had the ownership well defined. As soon as I left the company and my email was disabled, all the boards under that email disappeared from my account. This was expected and kept using my primary email (i always used to login with my username) and completely forgot about an attached secondary email (which anyways is now deactivated). Fast forward 5 years with tons of personal boards under this account, one morning it stopped working without any notification (yes i revised my spam to be sure about it) with all my data gone.
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Let’s change the title to replace “Wuhan Coronavirus” with one of the official names of the virus. The city has been stigmatized enough. Thanks!
Would be nice if it had GPU support so I could use it for deep learning prototyping. I might use Windows instead of Ubuntu then. I can't use macos now that they dropped Nvidia.
I’m using hyper-v and virtualbox together, seems to be fine performance-wise. Only reason we’re using vbox is that we already have vagrant scripts set up for it and hyper-v didn’t seem to work as well as a target for vagrant.
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Which is exactly why we need to aim for herd immunity as fast as possible, but not too fast to overwhelm the healthcare system.
Presumably the draw is UNIX, not the Terminal app itself.
To be fair, 10k rows per second is extremely slow. Clickhouse can do millions per second on a single server in our tests.
Carmack tweeted about the extent of his involvement:

"People are going to get the wrong idea about this from some of the headlines. I have been helping out for the last week as a “generic strong C programmer”, mostly doing static analysis, code quality, and resource optimization work. The code has been in development for a decade+."

[1] https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1244302925855326209
This is correct. You can forego all aspects of your platform's calling conventions if you so desire. Omitting setting up stack frames is a really simple optimisation that can be done in hand-written assembly. You've already touched on what the stakes of doing such things are.
Where is that stat? The sources I have seen do not show that.
https://www.businessinsider.com/new-coronavirus-mutates-slow...

Thanks for sharing -- great link, I learned something, thank you.
That’s not what’s happening. Hyper-v is a type-1 hypervisor. When it’s running, even your Windows instance is running within hyper-v. Windows 10 has the hypervisor platform that lets other vm developers hook into the hyper-v host architecture, that’s how you can get android emulators and virtualbox running under hyper-v. It all works fine but is a little unintuitive to set up.
Although it's certainly annoying to lose an old account, for many services it's just a hassle.

I went through this with a Reddit account that got hacked. I was able to get the spammer shut down but had to create a new account, and really, it's okay. The people who know you will reconnect, and the others don't matter much.

It used to be that everyone got a new phone number when they moved, and we managed.
Should be the top comment. Accounting is everything. It is the physics of the economy.

There is a common fiction to money matters that everyone has to share- whether or not they know it- and the language in which that fiction is written is accounting.
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Which seems obvious. The WHO is just an intermediating body between nations. As so, it's not surprising politics is in play behind the core of the organization...
I think you read it backwards. It's cygwin that doesn't. WSL1 did.
From the comments, there is some confusion about why did i attach my personal email to a company account. That was not the case, let me clarify it.
I created my personal account long before Trello was acquired by Atlassian. It did not have any SSO at that point and the login was with username and password. At some point, while working on a side project and to share it with a teammate, I attached a secondary email to my account and created few boards under it. This email was my companies email @company.com

The multiple account login used to work the same way it works for github now. The boards were very clearly labeled under the email/username they were created and clearly had the ownership well defined. As soon as I left the company and my email was disabled, all the boards under that email disappeared from my account. This was expected and kept using my primary email (i always used to login with my username) and completely forgot about an attached secondary email (which anyways is now deactivated). Fast forward 5 years with tons of personal boards under this account, one morning it stopped working without any notification (yes i revised my spam to be sure about it) with all my data gone.
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"In our quest to improve our service for you, the user, we're making it worse"

http://chainsawsuit.com/comic/2017/12/07/improvements/
So their wrongdoing was to tweet their current status?

Yes easily misinterpreted short-phrased tweets are bad.
Thanks to US president, we learned that.
All data warehouses are designed for OLAP, that's their purpose. It doesn't require low latency though.

Redshift is an always running cluster of scale-out distributed postgres forked by AWS so it can and does return results in milliseconds, very similar to Clickhouse although still not as advanced in performance techniques.

Bigquery is a completely managed model that uses far greater scale-out architecture designed for througput (petabytes in seconds) rather than latency, although it has real-time streaming, BI Engine (memory cache) and materialized views so you can get pretty close today.

Snowflake is another option that runs on top of major clouds using instances to access object storage and also has low latency when your cluster is running.
It really depends on the mod. The one you describe here I would personally consider cheating if there was a reason for the limitation in the first place. If it saves you multiple dangerous trips for instance.
It works with Hasura out of the box, you just can't set the x-hasura-default-role jwt claim dynamically and thus it has to be hardcoded. I evaluated keycloak with Hasura for our company, but settled on writing my own SSO solution, since my experience wasn't as great as others are describing.
To be precise, some evidence points in the direction that some variation in cognitive traits is “heritable”.

Yes, this is more precise, but "heritability" is a technical term that I try to avoid, because when some people are not familiar with its technical meaning, it leads to all kinds of confusion when others do use it in the technical meaning. On the other hand, "heritability" very much implies genetic causation in every meaningful sense.

It is obvious to everyone that there are substantial effects on cognitive traits due to malnutrition, disease, exposure to toxins, physical violence, persistent emotional trauma

It is by no means obvious. It depends on what you count as "substantial", what degree of malnutrition, what diseases, what toxins, what kind of physical violence, etc.

It is at least plausible that large-scale differences in the treatment of boys vs. girls could have effects on cognitive traits.

It is plausible, alas I have not seen much evidence for that effect. There is scarce evidence for malnutrition having effect of cognitive ability, but there is some. However, I haven't seen any evidence on shared or non-shared environment causing any sex differences in cognitive ability.

but in some countries with more equal social/educational environments those differences in scores entirely disappear.

I think this is rather more of an artifact of their educational systems putting finger on a scale where it wants. Consider, for example, that in both Iceland and Sweden, mentioned in the article as places where girls matched or exceeded boys achievement, 5 out of last 6 contestants on IMO were boys, and similar disparity happened in previous years. Instead of focusing on outliers, I recommend looking at the whole picture.

It should be mentioned that Jensen’s work has been highly controversial and has kicked off a lively debate. Some of the biggest promoters of Jensen’s work have been quite unsavory characters. Like all scholarly work (and especially all work seized on more by activists than scholars) it should be read critically and taken in the context of a wider discourse.

This is an argument without an argument, and smear by association. Jensen is the most renowned scientist in the field of psychometry and intelligence research. You imply that there's something wrong with him, but do not actually give any concrete criticism.
Is this necessarily true though? I know that TCP acks and seqs contain info about the packets that have already been seen, so if only one packet is missing, the client will tell the server almost immediately, at which point the onus is on the server to resend quickly. This would be at the Linux network layer however.

Found an article explaining the concept, called selective acknowledgment:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol#...

Would reducing the retransmission delay be sufficient? Or simply letting the browser open two connections to a standard HTTP port?
I feel moved to strictly only use fake names online. Like..

I recently moaned and whined to my friend about how when i was growing up a person/entity (to my recollection) would feel.. like they received a magical gift just to send a message online.. having a web page was like.. winning the nerd superbowl.. Now it's like.. we are supposed to take a knee to any company that gets sufficient presence and significance (linkedin, etc trying to find a job).

What actions had you taken toward trying to remedy this
?