skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except that's a fixed threshold you have to set manually. This tracks the thermal and charging profile of the battery, learns it's characteristics and adjusts the threshold dynamically.
Have the same problem in FireFox, site is still functional but layout is broken as opposed to chrome.
Digital disease surveillance: Tracking a pandemic
I'm actually glad it costs so much to train these models. Great incentive to find more efficient algorithms. That's how biological brains evolved.
Glad to know your experience.
Agree, though still a long way from herd immunity, which I understand starts at 50%-ish.
Creating a key is easy; storing it securely and giving access to only the parts of your system that need it takes a bit more work.

Of course, if you trust your network and the parties involved well enough that you'd be fine with unencrypted and unauthenticated data, I guess it doesn't matter if you just check the key into a git repo somewhere... but then you're potentially normalizing bad practices, even if in that particular instance it might be ok.
the optimal charge state for long-term storage of a lipo cell is about 33%. 50% is a nice buffer on top of that if you use it unplugged for an hour or so, then put it away.
I think the one (and only?) neat trick that COBOL has is supporting decimal datatypes as first-class citizens, which makes it very convenient for monetary stuff and other business related things where you don't want to have 0.1+0.2=0.30000000000000004

Of course (IBM) mainframes and CICS have some other tricks in their sleeves, but those are bit higher level things and probably not relevant for number crunching as such.

On commodity hardware I wouldn't expect COBOL code to perform particularly well compared to e.g. C (or indeed, FORTRAN).
Millions of People Are Using Expo (YC S16) Apps for Covid-19 Symptom Tracking
But note that that as far as I'm aware, Fortran compilers will happily miscompile code that breaks the aliasing assumptions as well. No matter which language you use, it's the responsibility of the programmer to not break these invariants, the main difference being that Fortran doesn't force you to type out `restrict` first.
IRC is still used massively. It is a relic of the days before corporations took the internet. When it was was still fun. TBH Discord is the closest modern equivalent and the only thing that discord really does better is the embeds and voice.

IRC has a ton of advantages:

1) IRC will run on ancient computers, I was chatting to people on IRC using an Amiga which is 25 years old and will run with virtually no bandwidth. I used to use a 33K modem to speak to my friends after school.

2) Anyone can setup an IRC channel pretty much instantly on a server and you and your friends can start chatting.

3) The message protocol is quite easy to deal with and parse. It also really, really, really fast. Messages are instant, there is zero friction. Slack and Discord are very slow in comparison

4) Building a bots for IRC was super simple. You can be building a bot in minutes in any programming language.

https://pythonspot.com/building-an-irc-bot/

5) IIRC clients allowed you to write scripts to script the client itself.

e.g. MIRC had a scripting language that was just plain text

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIRC_scripting_language

6) You could request files from server and bots IIRC. This was used quite a lot for warez back in the day and much faster than bit-torrent at the time.

7) It is pretty much anonymous. Make a nickname and connect to the server.

8) You can run your own IRC server pretty easily. You download the server software, config some XML/INI files and point your domain at the box. You have your own IRC server.
Note though that the study, its methods and especially its politically charged presentation by repeat social media offenders are still disputed [1]

[1] https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/offene-fragen-heinsberg-stud...
WorldOfWarcraft Fan Server Unleashes Virtual Plague to Teach Covid19 Prevention
Sorry. Looks like I misunderstood that, I thought it means that they put it in front of your house.
Then you might want to clarify things...
Were they testing for the virus or for antibodies? If it was testing for the virus tests only show positive for a few days then testing everyone on board will miss those who already had it, correct?
I'd love to hear the details of how you set this up with Firefox? How does the bot work?

(Also is there even a way to setup a notification when Whole Foods delivery slots are available?)
Perhaps my choice of words was unwise.

My experience in the early 2000's supporting enterprises with network attached storage was they started moving away from Citrix to the VM/VNC solutions often from VMWare. At the same time Citrix started buying a bunch of different companies to expand into other markets.

That people still have to use it is a testament to this architecture pattern's resiliency in face of systemic challenges :-)
I also ran a public IRC logger (mostly in and around the perl/raku communities, but also other channels).

Simplify figuring out if IRC logs fall under GDPR was nearly impossible to me, so I shut down some time ago. (It might have violated earlier privacy regulations as well, hard to tell).

Lots of people offered their opinion on that topic, but when it goes to court, none of those opinions matter. Hiring my own lawyer seemed too expensive, and nobody who asked me to continue running it offered to pay for a lawyer either. Tough luck.
I keep my MacBook Pro 16" plugged in 80% of the time, but when I want to go work at a coffee shop on battery having 50% would be a big inconvenience. How much longer in terms of battery life are we talking doing 50% charge vs 100%?
MWP was about +1 C more, while the PETM was about +15 C more than global average temperature as of now.
The thing is, the value as a baseline doesn't actually change that much for being 20% garbage. A bit counter-intuitive, but basically accepted as true in several fields.

The comparisons are all relative accuracy, not absolute accuracy. And the comparison is fair. The new technique is receiving the same part-garbage input that the old-techniques were trained on. For the most part, the better technique will still tend to do better unless there's specifically something about it that makes it more sensitive to labeling errors.

And frankly, a percentage of junk has some advantages. Real-word data is a pile of ass, so it's useful for academic models to require robustness.
you can mostly fix this issue by hiding the option in "developer settings". on android, there's a lot of weird stuff buried in here but you never hear people complaining about it.
Hi, my wife is on an immunosuppressant and so we have been trying to avoid going to the store at all, except curbside, because it could be extremely bad if she were to get COVID-19. Save for a single emergency, no one in our household has left home in about a month.

This service makes it harder for us to get curbside slots, until our local store is able to respond to peaking demand, because people with normal immune systems will use these slots out of fear, when they have a much better chance of either not contracting COVID-19 in the first place, or of lesser symptoms if they get it, and in the meantime should be the ones going into the store, so that those with immuno-compromised households do not have to.

Your service makes no acknowledgement of this ethical dilemma.

I do not disagree that our local grocery store should do its best to expand its curbside service. They do seem to be trying, but this product makes it harder for households like ours in the meantime.
French certainly does take it to extremes. I get the feeling (I don't live where French is spoken often, so I mostly interact with it online, so I could be mistaken) that most people ignore what the Académie Française has to say on the matter, though.
Very common in the car industry, where engine power is often limited by the ECU chip only. I know the BMW Minis did this when they were first launched (the One and the Cooper had the same engine mechanically, just with a different ECU flash). It ends up being cheaper for the manufacturer as they only have to produce castings and parts for one engine which they can product en masse, lowering unit production costs.
> Customers can arbitrarily chargeback even after several days.

You are aware that this is possible with credit cards as well, right?
this is a really good point. AFAIK, 100% of the canonical pre-existing conditions which are highly dangerous with COVID are disqualifiers for joining the military.

this cohort will give us a much better picture of how the virus impacts a totally healthy and young population. as with countless other pieces of evidence, it should also help to put the "it's just a flu bro" falsehood to bed.
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This reminds me of that Rick and I'm already seeing where Dr Sanchez shows Morty what absolute level is.
Massive saiga mortality loading?...
Its worth looking into it.
I am currently sitting in an Aeron chair from one of the dot com bust furniture auctions...
I had a friend who rescued servers just abandoned in their racks when one company just folded mid-day, the last remaining guy just walked out of the office.
Crazy times.
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For what it’s worth - there’s definitely no speed up, for me at least, to ship a pure handwritten HTML + CSS page vs the same page using create-next-app. The latter makes it trivially easy to add new functionality, etc; the former guarantees I have to start over. I also get a bunch of stuff - TypeScript, code splitting, minification, etc - for free, literally no work. It’s nice.

Using Next with Preact instead of React makes the total gzipped JS bundle around 20kb. Takes no time to set up.

If you’ll only ever build one website, sure, use basic tools. If you can amortize the cost of learning the toolchain across many projects, use better tools! (I’m not saying that’s only React by any means.)
I tried but can't connect to any of my databases.

Why not just support odbc/jdbc configurations?

Guys, this should be a solved problem.
I'm not so sure that's clear yet. Just going on blunt metrics, the virus has already killed 0.1% of NYC's entire population, probably on pace to hit 0.2% if the down-curve even only roughly matches the up-curve. So it would have had to have spread to 50% of the population for the fatality rate there to be only 0.4%, which seems unlikely (there's only a smattering of antibody data around the world so far but nothing has found spread even close to 50%, especially at the level of a metropolis)
The worst thing is neglect, rust, and accidental damage. In low volume use, e.g. proto shop or home shop, the ways should be virtually eternal. Keep them covered, clean and oiled.
The laptop from LTT and this article is the same.
IRC is still, in my experience, the best place to get technical help and discussion for most projects.
How long do you manage to work standing up? do you switch positions throughout the day?
This is a great comment if you switch out GoPro for Apple. Every market has it's people.
Remember that Knuth is/was a professor in mathematics and computer science, so he didn't spend his day coding, so for him it was beneficial to do something that complement the teaching and keep him grounded. What would complement yours? Maybe more of mathematics instead? Or design? Or economics?
What are the key differences between Covid-19 blood test (antibody) vs. PCR test
I think PGP has played an important part in propagating encrypted communication, and I think it's still quite useful as a tool for teaching/learning about asymmetric encryption, but there's just way too much friction for practical use for most people.

I wonder if there's some sort of educational tool/walkthrough that uses PGP under the hood but explains each step as you go...
My strategy is to have less than $100 available in the account connected with my debit card. If I need more for some reason I can just transfer on the spot.

This also makes me more aware of my spending, since I need to manually keep topping up the account.
I think what's more harmful is the fact that something is case-insensitive.

Case insensitive may have some benefits for human-facing stuff, but otherwise the byte-exact comparison you get with case-sensitive semantics is superior.
To some extent a lot of these ideas are still "new", comparatively, to type systems.

It's also easy to argue that Typescript (and Flow, not to ignore its contributions to the space) happened upon exactly the right sort of evolutionary conditions to both need a lot of the complicated features and present them in such a way that they appealed to a "mainstream" audience: a very dynamic base language with a giant corpus of highly varied real world usage, and a growing need for practical "taming" for large real world applications by large corporations (with vested programming language interests).

It's a credit to Typescript (and to Flow as well) that a lot of the complexity in its type system, often designed as best as it could to handle describing the complexity of real world Javascript usage, seems after the fact as "perfectly natural" enough that now in retrospect people start to wonder why more languages don't adopt the same ideas. Sometimes the simple answer is "because they weren't forced to in order to scratch a present need". As people have access to the tools it becomes easier to see "oh, this complex thing that solves this need over here becomes a useful thing to better these nice-to-haves over there".
Do we know if these cases are truly asymptomatic or just presymptomatic as was observed on the Diamond Princess?

48% asymptomatic initially: https://www.niid.go.jp/niid/en/2019-ncov-e/9407-covid-dp-fe-...

18% asymptomatic retrospectively: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7078829/

Also, 58% of asymptomatic COVID-19 infections still show damage to the lungs on CT: https://appliedradiology.com/articles/study-investigates-dia...
https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/ perhaps? Seems like that is the existing AWS option similar to this offering. Would neat to see a comparison between the two.
"This is where the industry is going anyway."

Just because a company offers a product that does something new and different does not equate to where the industry is truly going (as much as founders/CEOs may wish otherwise).

It's more about where the customer/consumers are going...yes you can lead them to an extent, but on that note are products like Tonal actually selling and if so, what clip and density?

I would ask for evidence of adoption of something (beyond just the mere fact it exists) to support the "where the market is going" type of thinking...
> And not all of them show full immunity.

Where did you get that number? This seems more like propaganda than scientific claim.
If you think of the DB like a service, then yes, people sometimes mock it. IMO, the danger comes when you start trying to mock things and act like a DB, i.e. you create some in-memory store to act like a DB. That's dangerous because then you're potentially introducing issues that are completely unrelated to the DB operations, and therefor not testing anything of value.

But it can be far cheaper to generate data through a mocked interface, than say fill a DB with data, and test against that data-set. Obviously there are ways to structure your code such that the DB isn't part of the data flow at all, but sometimes existing code structure isn't perfect.
Mounted or raised screen and a yoga/exercise ball.
Also, do squat exercises.
The use case here is plugged in and, presumably, using the laptop, not storing. Is 50% still the ideal charge state, in that case?
That study has been widely critized as there a many false positives with this kind of test and the counting method seems flawed.
Hope you are doing better, if you don't mind me asking, how were the worst of the symptoms and did you recover completely? any breathing complications? any tips you felt helped you fight it off, assuming you didn't get hit with with the full force of the virus.

Wishing you a speedy recovery fellow HN reader friend.
The Dell XPS 13 also offers an interface in the BIOS that lets you set a charge limit, hours not to charge the laptop, and a bunch of other great controls.

The only big issue is that they don't expose it through a friendly UI within Windows 10. It's nonsense that I need to go to the BIOS to tweak these settings.
This will be seen by most people as another trump distraction, to make people look someplace else while his latest disaster is going on!
> How much do you think the instant gratification society that we're living in plays a role in this behavior?

Yea, my theory is that for some people (like myself), the instant-gratification society has been terrible for mental health. I have effectively retrained my brain to be stimulated by only exciting + novel things. Things that illicit huge dopamine releases due to their nature being inherently novel/new.

Take YouTube as an example. Pull down on the page, and it's like a slot machine. Page loads a whole new grid of fresh - potentially click worthy - videos!

The eyes/brain scan the page looking for a hit. BINGO you see a video that catches your interest. Click. Ahh, satisfying transition instantly to the video. Boring? Click back at the home page, and start the slot machine again. Rinse, repeat.

That cycle of chance (load the grid) --> seek (search the grid visually) --> instant reward (click the video) is what's so dangerous. Takes almost no mental, or physical effort, to carry out this cycle.

IMO, it's exploiting a very primitive system:

chance (randomness) --> stimulates effort --> get reward.

You will naturally tend toward systems that minimize effort, and maximize reward. Everything else will feel like a giant burden, or will lack a stimulating effect entirely.

You can see this same cycle in things like Facebook, Instagram, Google News, or any video game. Minimal effort required, to capture your attention (effectively blasting dopamine).
How does curbside pickup reduce the number of people in the stores?

Does it involve something other than swapping out customers picking their groceries off the shelves for employees doing the same?
They only work for subscriptions though - one-off payments (e.g. e-commerce sites) can't use them.

(There are hacky workarounds - but likely not worth the effort)
Solution: put everyone through basic training. Corequisite Solution: make everyone be 18-34 years old.
Aren't they going to end up over-burdened soon, at least in some departments, due to all of the deferred surgeries and the like?
What's the name of his YouTube channel (assuming that's what you meant by supplies advice)?
My previous comment feels snarky, did not mean it to be so. I apologize.
I get that stripe is easy and convenient, but once your business is running, I don’t get how many people doesn’t switch to bank provided payment gateways, at least in Europe the savings are huge (like 0.40% instead of 1.4%)
I just want to throw a +1 on "today's Netflix binge" which is Ozark. What a fantastic show. Has a great Breaking Bad feel to it; and if you liked Arrested Development, Jason Bateman is basically playing the same character… a family-first business guy who did break bad :)
We desperately need better energy storage tech.

It's amazing what we were able to squeeze out of lithium ion, but it's fundamentally a stop-gap.
It should also be strongly noted that only people admitted to hospitals are tested.

The number of people died from C19 way more than stated, as tests are not performed on those died in their homes or in nursing homes for the elderly.

Also in Sweden most people understand the risks, stay home if they can or take precautions with distance and careful hygiene.
Clojure / ClojureScript -- one of my favorite things to do is prototype new features in a fresh clojurescript template based on Figwheel
Being asymptomatic is not the same as being immune. It means that more people will feel fine and spread the virus more because they don't know they have it.
It probably means this is your best possible case outside of an Olympic village.
If you don't set it it's set to a reasonable list of algorithms [0], which doesn't include "none"

https://github.com/auth0/node-jsonwebtoken/blob/master/verif...
If you're interested in metal working/machining and like "Dad jokes", check out This Old Tony on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5NO8MgTQKHAWXp6z8Xl7yQ

Here's his surface grinder rebuild which includes milling and hand-scraping various surfaces to get them dead flat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjwKQCiDgBQ

He's super talented and the videos are fun!
How much are unemployment benefits worth in the UK? Like if you are a programmer, what percent of monthly salary would be the unemployment benefits?
That's most Saturday nights in VRChat, even before COVID-19.
The US military is not a representative sample of people; it's a bunch of people with better health and fitness than the general population. And the military is an institution that will reject people from joining based on a lot of the health conditions that make COVID-19 more dangerous to them.

It's useful data, to be sure, but it also highlights that the disease can be really dangerous for people outside certain groups.

> The best way to reach herd immunity is to have lots of immune people around you.

It's not at all clear yet that recovering from COVID-19 confers any lasting immunity.
IIRC this is how nwjs works too.
A lot more information about the search and find along with pictures at: https://secretsoftheice.com/news/2020/04/16/mountain-pass/
I went to a park last year with my (pretty large) camera bag, and one of the rangers there asked me to open it to prove it wasn't housing a drone.
Lol, yeah, I had the same issue. Followed their advertising for ‘gaming in the cloud’, only to find out that the VM’s with GPU’s were disabled. Not going to do any gaming without a GPU guys.

Eventually they enabled them, but it was such a pointless experience that I was completely turned off using it.
That's a wonderful excuse, but it still is mismanagement, shitty product design, and disrespectful to your customers.

EDIT to all the downvoters: if your customers, like the poster above, feel cheated, you suck at product design and management. That's it. If you don't see the problem with that, please don't design products.
AWS Appstream has been around for many years and its pretty good. This presentation is from 2013.

https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1021482/Amazon-AppStream-New-G...
The same for people who want to be taller: get them into the NBA as data shows basketball players tend to be tall.
This figure does not surprise me. It is in line with Iceland finding that 50% of people they tested were asymptomatic.

However as https://www.propublica.org/article/what-we-need-to-understan... notes, in other samples about 75% of people who were asymptomatic at the time of the test went on to develop symptoms. So the fact that these sailors are currently asymptomatic does not mean that they will remain so.

See https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/covid-19-what-proportion-are-a... for more on how different data points are all over the place.
What if you live slightly outside of Phoenix? Can you still use the dashboard?
In JS, my preferred way of handling json is heavily inspired by the elm json decoding way.

I want my decoders to essentially do 2 things:

1. Transform received data into a data structure that is best suited for my app. This might involve converting lists to objects, objects to sets, parse dates etc.

2. Only succeed on valid data

This way, my application never has to deal with bad data. Also, I get to design the data structures I use, not the APIs I use. By only validating and not transforming, you are pushing more advanced validation further away from where the data was received (since you'll need to transform the data at some point anyway).

As for libraries, I want composable parsers. For TS I'd probably use: https://github.com/paperhive/fefe/