skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
RE Startpage, sounds good, seems to work... how are they making money to pay Google?
MutationObserver should do the trick if you can pick elements which consistently change at times you'd want to re-run. Watching for <title> changes tends to be good for single page apps.
But how fast they jumped on all these -CIA term used to discredit people with valid concerns- when they said that. Now ever the MSM writes about it. I won't read WSJ anyway.
…but does not manufacture public opinion?

E-readers are definitely more like dead tree pulp whereas an IPS panel screen on a device like iPad would be closer analogy. :-)
And yet, most blind mathematicians are geometers, which suggests your theory is incorrect.
The thing is that it's simply not exactly stated what kind of population they tested. Whether they were representative of that town or the German population. Of their sample was actually representative of the German population (which I heavily assume since they talked a lot about that) then the results will be quite robust.
Microsoft.trust?
In the US, perhaps. There may be another payment, though, if this goes on.

Take a look in the UK. They are subsidising employer payments to employees, for 80% of the employee's salary. Also upping state welfare, reducing the approval time to a week, and don't require check-ins: effectively a UBI.

I've heard Spain is implementing UBI in the regular sense.
Less pollution. Happier pets.
Is that true of modern e-readers? My original Kindle was a gray background on gray text dark mess, but Kindle White uses LEDs at the screen edge directed through a light guide to come from behind the text. Not that most people don't just use the Kindle app on an OLED or LCD screen smartphone nowadays anyway. Considering e-readers unlighted at this point would be like considering handheld games unlighted because the original Gameboy wasn't.
Asks browser for location permission without an option for entering a zip code or street address #FAIL
Not setting up a global id system? I do not see why do we need one in the first place?

The world is full of deadly deseases anyway, so endangered people allways have to look out and vaccines allmost never guarantee 100% immunity.
Could you post a working version of that link? Most R0 estimates I have seen are between 2.5 and 3.5. 5.6 seems really high to me.

It is worth considering that even if the % immune is lower than the herd immunity level, it still slows the outbreak and reduces Re. That gives us a much slower ramp up and gives other measures like less restrictive social distancing, contact tracing, etc. a chance to work. Even if all those together only get Re down to between 1 and 2, we still benefit since it means we might only need another 1 or 2 lockdown periods before we get an effective vaccine.
IMO it's not about "going back to" anywhere. It's not as if we couldn't use different search engines for different queries.

This all-or-nothing mentality of migrating away from Google (the search engine) seems flawed to me. It's still better for your privacy doing half of your queries using Google, instead of doing all of them.

By the way, no offense intended! We're all free to pick our tools.
I've taken a look at the terms, and it seems to me like they are more for when Paddle acts as your ecommerce store rather than just your payment gateway. This is where the right to demo and sell the product shows up, because without that, you wouldn't be able to use Paddle to sell your product. Again, this is not the same as what Stripe is offering, it's more akin to Gumroad, Podia, and the like. Also, while I understand appeal to authority to not be the most trusting of options, it seems like many other well-known companies use Paddle, and I assume their legal teams have scoured through Paddle's terms of use, so it looks good enough for me.
This monograph points to an IgG antibody assay with >99% specificity which means the false positive rate is tiny. Can anybody tell me if there is a commercial antibody test for Covid19 that advertises anything close to this?

My thought is that they have done this with an ELISA. Using a commercially available (or custom made) antibody instead of using one of those terribly inaccurate chromatography strips.
>Should we be really watching closely economic data to see what happens with these payments?

I don't think this is a good data metric.

There's a difference between how people will spend money in a crisis where they have bills and an unexpected loss of income, verses how people will spend regular excess income in normal times when they are able to predict their inflows and outflows of cash.

Spending will be quite different I'd imagine. It's well established that in times of economic difficulty spending on luxury items tends to decrease. Not to mention, many means of luxury spending are currently shut down.
As far as I've seen it, that response from him was in cases where people tried to simply use the rate of infection measured in Gangelt and apply that to the entirety of Germany. That is obviously invalid as Gangelt had a much larger outbreak than most places.

That doesn't mean that you can't learn anything from this study for the rest of the country, just that you can't extrapolate it naively.
And yet the adoption rate is through the roof.

Seems that to succeed you don’t focus on security till you get caught.

None of this will change unless there is a shift of liability back onto companies for securing data.
Children of Ruin, by Adrian Tchaikovsky, explores the concept of squid communication. I'm about half way through, and enjoying it!

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40376072-children-of-rui...
I think it's this link: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.07.20021154v...
Can’t remember right now where I heard, it was in a podcast. Will return with the information if/when I find it.

An epidemiologist said that there is correlation between the viral load and the severity of the resulting illness in studies on mice. He also said something that surprised me, namely that the mechanism involved is unknown. It seems fairly obvious that it has to do with the exponential growth of the pathogen inside the body.
Sure, as does the study. ;-)

Takeaway: death rate is lower than many initially feared. But it is not like we have already 15 % immunity. In reality it is probably around ~1-2% based on the number of deaths.
I doubt it without reading that click bait article forking it legally = acknowledgement. Guess the did not put in some big announcement headline.
From the paper:

"The mask's aerodynamic features may explain this finding. A turbulent jet due to air leakage around the mask edge could contaminate the outer surface."

Agreed that calling it an n95 equivalent without any evidence might be a stretch though. And yes other papers looked at it with a seal. Still would be interesting to see a surgical vs. sealed surgical comparison.
I partly agree. I don't want it to be all or nothing. But the way browsers are set up with the "default search", it somwhat is.

Ooooh I would love to be able to custom route searches depending on rules.
Mercury would like to have a word with you.
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I think not the whole of logic, but this particular distinction -- what changes in the world if one is true versus the other? Is there even a difference that is manifest?

It's like the question of what underlies quantum mechanics -- is the Copenhagen interpretation correct? Everett? Some flavor of deBroglie-Bohm? If there's no way to tell the difference, does it matter?

It matters as far as the philosophy of it matters to you, but the concrete consequences of one way being true versus the other could very well be nil.
most phones and tablets i've worked on recently certainly do not have any plastic shell on non-removable batteries; unless you consider shrink tubing a shell.

They are usually constructed of layers of battery material, wrapped in kapton tape or an equivalent, with the entire package shrink-tubed and a pigtail coming out the side for the device interface.

One could easily crush the unit by hand, the construction offers little to no protection from physical forces.
Healthcare workers are also overworked nearly everywhere, due to the pandemic, which means their immunity is possibly weakened too.
Yeah... if you can make Deutsche Glasfaser and Gries Deco Company pay me 30k EUR each, I'm also more than happy to help you as a friend.
As an investor, if YC contacts me with a "great investment opportunity" and does not invest themselves even tho I know they could have, the investment better be successful. Because otherwise, I will feel cheated on. "Do as I say, not as I do" type of relationship is not exactly what I am looking for.

In the previous system, they had skin in the game, they literally were putting money where their mouth was: same companies, same valuation. If I make money they make money, if I lose money, so do they. You can't beat that.
The thinking goes that the more total storage available the more unrecoverable bit errors occur
Not really. Morphemes are considered (defined even) as the smallest unit that has meaning by itself.
HN only lets you delete comments that are less than something like 2 hours old, I think.
1. You don't see this from a layman's perspective: a person who hardly understands Bitcoin never mind blockchain. You may realise the privacy improvements in such a solution. The average laymen will not. How can you expect trust, as far as privacy goes, when people can't even understand how that privacy is guaranteed? The media, who could simplify and spread, have very low trust ratings according to recent surveys on the coronavirus crisis. Trust in almost all organisations, including central governments, has went up - the largest exception was the media.

On a sidenote: Governments haven't played around with blockchain enough to be able to rapidly develop and deploy such a feature using blockchain technology. Then they'd probably run into lots of bugs and hurdles on release.

Not good when you need to increase public trust, adoption, and deploy effective solutions rapidly.
>That's a thought that has crossed my mind before: if it's better the farther up in the respiratory system the initial infection happens, then all that hand washing might be a bad idea, at least for the personal outcome.

Huh? How does that figure? Hand washing will means less (or no) virii in your nose/mouth.

So, isn't it (a) good in itself, and (b) totally orthogonal to the infection happening "farther up in the respiratory system" (aside the positive, that if it happens and is further up, it will also be less viral content)
Genuine question: Isn’t global warming supposed to cause more rainfall?
They really needa handle this
What I don't understand about Bill Gates is why is he prioritising African Health Systems over his own home country's? He made his billions from corporate America and the rest of the Western World and yet he doesn't feel the imperative to pay forward to the very society that gave him so much.

This has nothing to do with with politics. It is a basic moral engagement with his own society. Of course, he can still support Africa all he wishes. But first help get your own backyard sorted.
ioquatix (Samuel Williams, the author) is doing tons of great work for Ruby at the moment. You'll want to check out, for instance:

- https://github.com/socketry/async "An awesome asynchronous event-driven reactor for Ruby"

- https://github.com/socketry/falcon "A high-performance web server for Ruby, supporting HTTP/1, HTTP/2 and TLS"

I can recommend following him on twitter too: http://twitter.com/ioquatix
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Specificity and cascading become redundant once we talk css modules. I work with CSS modules so I can't remember the last time I had to_ cascade_ style sheets, or _think_ about specificity.
When you look at countries where front was, it looks different. It is quite cherry picking to pick the best off countties. One of then had no war on its soil (and earned finacially overall).
Right, so we just added another required predictive ability to the more precise theory that will likely eventually supplant Einstein's. I don't see why that is at odds with what I wrote - no matter the outcome of the experiment, a new theory will need to also predict its outcome. But since Einstein's theory also did, we don't currently need to replace it for that reason (we do for other reasons, such as unifying quantum mechanics and relativity).
So assuming , you will be using a single domain with 400 sub-domains, you could use an ansible role/playbook. that will
- check-out code
- build your docker image, start the container on some port
- register your docker with nginx and create a virtual host
- or register them with ALB and create a listener
- make a subdomain for you app/branch

you can have branch-name, docker port and sub-domain as variable and define them at run time
PS : Not the best solution, but could work for your use case
Don’t forget to take into account that religious liberty is a real thing in the US... literally the first thing spelled out in the Bill of Rights. That’s why the court considered the state commission’s bias against the religious person’s exercise of their sincerely held belief. Plus, you know, the whole “state can’t compel speech” thing (also part of the Bill of Rights) kind of makes the resulting decision pretty unsurprising.
this kind of behavior would warrant a return from me.

do you consider that to be a faulty behavior, or just par-for-the-course of heavy workloads on mobile platforms?

i'd hate for that to be the new norm, I use the hell out of my mobile computers, I don't need them draining before I even unplug.
I am sure it was not your intention but dismissing (what appears to be) factual information with references, as a conspiracy, is a common strategy of autocratic states when dealing with information that generates a lot of difficult questions. Is there a particular part of the text that you found innacurate?

The key is probably to allow for people to share encrypted data with the author/contributor? Although to me it feels that github is not exactly the best medium for anonymous info leaks.
Constructor theory is a our best bet for moving foundational physics forward
>The viruses are replicating inside your cells. You can't just "disinfect" living tissue without killing it.

Err, you can wash your hands, and it will "disinfect them".

And if the viral content is still in your nose/mouth/neck, you can dissinfect that too to some degree.

So, there's that...
The YouTube channel oxtoolco has a video showing lapping of surface plates. Not the same as hand scraping, but the principle of using a reference surface is similar, and the master plate looks like the illustrations in this 100-year old document. Plus I think with modern synthetic diamond abrasives, you can directly lap the plates against each other.

Lapping starts at 17:40 (they do surface measurements first): https://youtu.be/EWqThb9Z1jk

I am no machinist, but I like the glimpse into the hobby/profession shown on channels like this and others that comments have mentioned. In the video, the channel owner hires a company to service his stone regency plates, so there is an expert who comes and uses specialized tools to measure and then flatten the plates (and certify them too). You can see and experience the expertise that the guy has with these physical systems, yet it’s just one niche job in a huge engineering tool chain. It really made me think a lot about metal machining and fabrication, and how those rely on fundamental measurements and properties such as flatness.
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I have one, it's nice, wish it didn't have a bixby key though. It could be a bit smaller for my taste.
> To know more about the product, all you have to do is register [...]

Or just go to their website https://hablocompany.com/
It’s expected to change the distribution of precipitation.
This is so true. I've done GPU heavy High performance rendering on remote VNC-like connections, something which requires lot's of preparation time -- and evventually you will be frustrated by working remotely.
Regardless of calculus, it becomes constant at one point. Latest when everyone is infected.
It's a loaded term really.
Global warming is umbrella term for 'Extreme Weather Conditions'.

You get mega droughts followed by mega flooding (depending on region).

Those are tied to global increase in mean temperature.
Somebody put a lot of effort to prove coronavirus came from the Wuhan lab
Credit due to hearing about it on the rather good podcast Imaginary Worlds:

https://www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org/solarpunk-the-future....

This ticks quite a few boxes for me, so I was surprised I hadn't heard about it until now.
Drought is a variety of weather. Climate change makes drought more common in some areas.
These protests we are seeing would be significantly more powerful if they didn't mention politics. Instead people are quick to say "it's just the other political party and those people are stupid".
Trade Republic, a German Robinhood, Raises $67M Led by Accel and Founders Fund
A Bit of Zoomhumour for a Friday
Arthur C Clarke's also got an interesting short story on giant squid, "The Shining Ones" in a story collection. One of my favorites.
I understand your sense of grievance, and often share it at an emotional level.

But what makes you think it would ever have been different? Any creature which evolved the behavioural flexibility to outrun curbs on its pullulation would eventually overtax its environment. It just so happens that human spread has been so extensive that our environment is the whole globe. It is only natural, in the strictest sense, that we will damage it, probably to the point of making it inhospitable to us (at least in current numbers & consumption levels). To think that we (merely a bright hominid, evolved for small-group social interactions) might transcend our biology to manage an entire planet is, well, wishful thinking at best.

It was a pleasant fantasy, with religious origins. That's all.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22897708
How do you find an interesting career to pursue outside of the tech industry?

I have no standout passion or interest, like many in this thread I am tired of the industry in general and the job itself.

I am considering doing a part-time horticulture degree to dome something different. How did you find your passion?
Pre-market startups are just about

1. building things

2. that users want

3. faster than everyone else

The larger a company gets, the more it's about other things, like not breaking things, maintenance, documentation, speed and optimization, scalability, and so on.

But for the most part, you look at the above 3 points and judge on that.

First, startups have to build a lot. Most of the things will be something that nobody wants, so you'll need to throw it away and build something new. Avoid teams where they are inexperienced in building - CTOs whose career was mostly maintenance or scaling.

Second, you need the marketing/product team to understand what people want. The startup is screwed if they can't modify the product around user feedback. Also be careful of those who have marketed in big corporations where they are completely distanced from users or "data-oriented".

Third, you want something with a good pipeline. Maybe a team that can play in their own lanes instead of having a few "full stack". There's a balance between hacky and maintanable. Lean towards hacky when possible, but be careful where the existing product was built by mercenaries. Most code can be refactored easily and safely even without test coverage, but it depends how confident you are with this. Be wary of overengineered code - overfunded or intern reliant startups tend to do this and get stuck.

Also ask about runway and make sure you're comfortable with it. If someone says they have 18 months runway, assume that it's 12.

For more senior level startups, it's

a. Scalability

b. Refactoring & documentation

c. Improving pipeline

The code is there. They're expanding to more countries. You'll be scaling code from 100k users to 1M users. There's going to be spaghetti code from freelancers, former founders who ragequit, underpaid and overworked foreigners who used the company as a stepping stone.

Much of the code will have to be entirely rewritten. It could be a monolithic website split into a mobile API. Creating test coverage. Rewriting the hybrid app into native.

Next, pipeline. A company starts to go from 5 engineers to 80. Processes appear. Recruiting is now someone's full time job. Firing, resignation, and handovers are now a process. Code reviews happen. Scrum appears.

So really, there's two types of startups and you choose according to your personality.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22875094
Scientists try 'cloud brightening' to protect Great Barrier Reef
Let me put it another way: companies don’t exist, they can’t act or think.

Why should human beings, when at work, not have all of their human rights?
Yes, there's also the topic of unrecoverable read errors (URE) and their effect on successful RAID rebuilds. [1][2]

Most consumer drives are still sold rated as <10^14 bits read per error. That's 12.5 terabytes, so in the worst case you could end up in situations where — on average — you are unable read a full 16TB drive without an error. Needless to say this is less than optimal for rebuilding a failed RAID array.

Anecdotal evidence (i.e. very low error rates during ZFS scrubs) suggests that manufacturers underrate their drives and they are much more reliable than that, but it is something to keep in mind.

Fortunately drive capacity completely outpaced my needs for personal data storage in the recent years, so I am happy with JBOD or RAID1, with backups of course.

[1]http://www.raidtips.com/raid5-ure.aspx
[2]https://magj.github.io/raid-failure/
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> Hospitals being overwhelmed is an exaggerated problem. It's not happening in many places.

...because people are introducing restrictions to keep the number of cases down.

> Your mental model is mostly meaningless. ...Social distancing has been pretty darn effective, and it's probably a good idea to cautiously continue. But we also need to be pragmatic.

Ok, but at least mine I told you what the exact numbers are and where they came from. What are your numbers, and where did they come from?

You can't not have a model: you can either have an explicit one that you can reason about and question, or you'll have an implicit one you can't reason about or question.

You've waved your hand about why 5% death rate for a "fast burn" scenario is probably not exactly the precise number. I never said it was; but I think there's a pretty good chance it's in that ballpark.

You, on the other hand, haven't said what you think the death rate for a "fast burn" will be.

It is IRRESPONSIBLE to recommend a course of action without thinking through the consequences. Just wishing that 5% of people won't die isn't going to prevent those people from dying.

I'd like a 0.001% fatality rate in a "fast burn" scenario as much as anybody. If you can convince me that's a good number, I'll go around and try to convince others. Until that time, I'm going to continue going with the best guess I have, and a guess which lots of experts seem to be making as well.
Is ZGC production ready? Specially with JVM11?
A quarter of the senior ministers of state are rabid objectivists who actively hate the poor and want them to die

It’s ironic that so many authors who hate Ayn Rand fall into exactly the same trap as her: start with their own politics then attempt to construct a story around it in which it saves the day/country/entire universe.
No matter what is done or not done there is risk. This is the nature of this problem. I am of the belief that the more options you have the better. If there is an attenuated strain out that has infected a large number of people we should look for it. What we do with it if we find it is a political question, not a scientific one.