skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course they are.

But the downfall is the Kung Flu, everybody's home.

google, apple, facebook, etc are collectively shitting their pants, way less data collection!
Yes, and even if it did work to reduce severity of the illness (agreed that there is no evidence of this), it seems like for low-risk people, the risks of heart damage outweigh the benefits of taking it. After all, what's an extra week or two of illness vs a 7-28% chance of heart damage.
Update from CEO https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1250479501726760960
Here is more about atomic gardening.

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2013/03/atomic-gardening-breed...
This is exactly it. The terseness of mathematics, the cognitive efficiency of these notations aren't to be debated, I feel.

I'd rather ignore ad hominem above ;)
A useful compilation of information on HCQ and COVID-19:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O6Cls-Oz2ZAgJuyDbnICEGjM...
I know Assembly now has the reputation of primarily being a gaming party, but the only games I've ever seen at other demoparties have been compo entries for oldschool hardware.
The answer is, by and large, doctors. Within the hospitals they really do have the power of life and death, deciding who gets treatment when supplies are thin. Generally the decisions are made using the heuristic of "With this limited stock of X, who should we give it to to save the maximum possible number and quality of lives?"

It's not playing god, it's just making rational decisions in times of scarcity. That's something humans do constantly, no god necessary.
Argo Tunnels are most useful for security: you can serve HTTP from a server that allows no inbound connections. Or, you can use it to reliably serve a public site from behind NAT.

Argo routing’s ability to improve page load times depends on how international your user base is, and how poor your origin’s transit quality is. It’s great at improving the latency and reliability of a cheap host.
“I Want to Be Learned From”: NYC ER Docs Explain What’s Coming
(Replying to myself.) For what it's worth, I somewhat regret the wording of the parent post. I was hoping for a thread on lessons from Emacs generally applicable to the topic of malleable systems — maybe things like: (1) periodically integrate the community's best "packages" into the "core" else you'll have a mess (also consider: LaTeX), (2) figure out how you can continue to change defaults without fear of breaking old users' workflows — whatever, I was hoping for more lessons — but instead it (I should have known this!) became a thread mostly about Emacs in particular.
Interstitial journaling: combining notes, to-do and time tracking
They've added the cause on their status page now:
> [...] a disruption that occurred during a maintenance.

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/g7nd3k80rxdb
This is fair feedback on the headline, as the linked article does NOT make that claim. Instead, it makes the same point as @zadkey that "illustrate the rapidity with which COVID-19 can be widely transmitted in a homeless shelter setting and suggest that universal PCR testing, rather than a symptom triggered approach, may be a better strategy for identifying and mitigating COVID-19 among people experiencing homelessness."
Compared to iPhone 8:
+ New processor
+ WiFi 6
+ Dual SIM
+ possibly upgraded RAM
I guess you are really comparing screen sizes ?

The physical size of the 8 and this new SE is pretty much the same as the X/11 Pro (it's only smaller 5~6mm in height, 4mm in width, 0.4~8 mm in depth). If you were holding up on your 8 because of that, I'd say you can fork the 1000+ bucks for the X or 11 Pro, it will be an upgrade in every dimension except Touch ID disappearing.
this recognition gives me lots of warm feels. The number of aspects that the demoscene brought together: programming, art, music, an online world of connection, and community - was incredible and had a huge impact on me when I discovered and learned more about it as a young kid in the early 90s.

All I can think of to commend this occasion is Future Crew 'Second Reality' :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw17c70uJes
Good to know, I'll keep my eyes out on those studies as well.
It's not a desired state, it's a natural state.

By this I mean we don't know how to make such a system practical without ambiguity. Not that people haven't tried.
> it's basically an admission that Gilead is going to have us over a barrel

That's absolutely not what would happen. I was chatting with a family member who used to work in biotech/pharma and posed the question what would happen if Remdesivir is found to have efficacy against covid-19. What they said is basically there would be licensing done immediately to other pharma companies which would run manufacturing in parallel with what Gilead is doing. Gilead will be getting profits from each pharma company that gets a license. I am unsure why the lead time is so long, however it may be that the company does not want to create a huge supply of a drug that may not be effective. But this is very interesting, the pentagon is getting lots of remdesivir for troops so there must be some info that leadership has about its success rate:
https://qz.com/1834939/how-the-military-secured-experimental...
“Slightly more expressive” as you can create longer filenames with most Linux filesystems and more entries too.

I like that phrase as it sounds like “better” when we’re talking about, as you say, something wonderfully useless.
iPhone SE: Apple announces cheaper $399 iPhone with smaller screen
Extreme individualism has a price. If Americans are willing to pay it, and they seem to when we look at issues other than the pandemic, then be it. It's up to them.
Well, my son also has a car without Bluetooth and he had an aux cord that he left in his car with a lightning adapter attached. He even found it much more convenient to just turn on his car and it paired to the Bluetooth adapter above. A $10 adapter that just stays attached to the cord you would need for your car anyway if you don’t have Bluetooth doesn’t seem that inconvenient.

However, a wireless cigarette lighter adapter that supports Bluetooth is much more convenient either way.

For me personally, Bluetooth headphones in general and AirPods Pro in particular are much more convenient - especially going back and forth between my cellular watch when I am jogging or in the gym (pre-Covid),my phone, my iPad, my laptop, and my AppleTV. Besides cords get tangled, yanked out, caught on things, etc.
I always thought of Ylönen as being pronounced something like /jʌ'loʊnɛn/, but then when I went to Finland I learned that it's something like /'ylønen/. (The stress is on the first syllable and the y is purely a vowel, not a consonant.)
Thanks for lots of valuable information, finally someone who has some data not just a story. Could you please share more? Any source on Toshiba ACA being made using HGST tech? What do you think about reliability of helium drives? On paper they should fare much better than air drives.
Yup, screen sizes. The 11 pro form factor has a lot more screen dimensions to cover when using one handed.

It’s also a lot heavier.
A good Monero wallet gives you more privacy than any bank...
>Airlines already offer seats with extra legroom, as well as business class depending on your needs.

I don't like having to pay more money because I was born a different size. Not to mention you are usually paying more than other customers for the added responsibility of accepting to help in case of an emergency.
weight: 148g
> 20? More like > 30...

For comparison, it’s as “heritage” now as WWII-related items were in 1980 - i.e. quite a bit for sure.
I see this supports Quicktake video[0] when in Photo mode. Kinda useful, but how do you take bursts now?

0. https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/iphone/iph61f49e4bb/io...
Woah, I just looked it up....I have never heard of this. According to a study 490,000 cases of paralysis were caused by the oral polio vaccine from 2000-2017. Wow.
Well, relatively simple. If you added up the number of pages in the specs for http, html, css, ecmascript, and all the various apis that web developers use every day it would likely be hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of pages. That doesn't seem like a particularly useful metric, because you don't have to read and understand the entire spec to use a technology.
The sample was 185 patients. There are anecdotal evidences that support the medicine which claim to have more, the letter came from a French doctor too. The study is discouraging for sure though.
Render Garden: Free Hyper-Threaded Network Rendering During COVID19 Pandemic
> [In Nuclear Power School,] I was below the line enough to earn the distinguished dishonor of 25 additional study hours each week

My man, welcome to the club! Reminds me of the time I was punished for being just 30 mins shy of meeting my mandatory additional study hours because my friends dragged me out to go see Star Wars Ep 2. Nuclear Power School had a rule where if you were scanned in (everyone had to scan in and out of the building with a badge) for study hall less than 30 mins, all of the time was invalidated. I clocked out at 29 mins. It was not worth it!
What do you suppose would happen if you started bringing specialty coffee in to work and to technical events?
Also 15% of pregnant Moms in NYC had the virus. This could already be much more widely spread that people think.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nyc-hospital-finds-hig...
No 5G support seems a bummer (can't see any mention it on the page). DOA for me for that fact alone. Hoping the new iPhones in September have it.
This migth depend on location and local climate. The typical cold in my country has different symptoms and length then typical cold 8 hours of drive away south.
whatsapp and signal are also easily available as alternatives.
Even a small volume of an effective treatment could still be helpful. Usage could be restricted just to patients with cases serious enough to otherwise require ventilators, for instance, which would both ease the strain on limited ICU resources and save lots of people who would otherwise die (since only around 10-30% of ventilated patients survive even with that treatment).
Great idea. I'll look into this.
came here to totally mention Future Crew, so fitting for this recognition to come out of Finland. Legends.
It’s not so much that we enjoy more rights, it’s that the government is powerless to take away those rights which we prefer to keep. You can believe whatever you want, but that’s very true here, and not at all true in many other places.
Does this include the liability costs?
Yup. I'm in a relatively low risk factor group and got over COVID-19 at home, no hospitalization necessary and nothing stronger than acetaminophan needed. I don't think a decent change of permanent heart damage was what I needed through all this. Also, I would have had a higher chance of being hospitalized from the side effects of the HCQ than from the COVID-19, which is really not what the hospitals need right now.

The HCQ doesn't seem remotely merited based on its potential side effects unless you are in a higher risk factor for the disease, and of course even then, it's only merited it's actually efficacious (which it's seeming so far it isn't).
My dad and I toured the USS Pampanito in San Francisco. We're both over 6 foot tall and it was quite cramped (even with very few people moving around). We wondered at the time if they had a height/size limitation for crew members.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Pampanito_(SS-383)
I don't actually have much of an issue with glasses or sunglasses on. Google's implementation isn't bad, but I do miss my fingerprint scanner.
Meaning on station, performing a task, not just on patrol and free to take a break to come into port.
No, I don't think so. But it depends how you look at the article. If it is about what you can do in javascript then it doesn't make sense. But if you view it as a fun introduction to the algebraic structure of functions, where you use javascript as educational vehicle then yes it makes sense. Church encoding is a consequence of the algebraic structure of functions, which is really cool to realize.

It kinda lights up the bulb in your head, shows you that lambda calculus (which cannot be separated from the algebraic structure of functions) is a powerful concept.
It really bothers me how hard both citizens and officials seem to be wanting Chloroquine to fail all because somebody they didn't like endorsed it publicly. Can't let him have that win, right? Like children.

The original studies that showed promise used combinations of Chloroquine, Azithromycin, and or zinc, and there is a speculated pathway by which these drugs interact to interfere with COVID replication. This study only looked at HCQ.

This kind of partisan, childlike pettiness is dangerous to all of us - what if Chloroquine works but we overlooked it because a couple shitty papers told us what we wanted to hear?

Was it appropriate to tweet about? Debatable. It is a presidents job to keep his people hopeful when possible, and this drug cocktail was in multiple (admittedly not perfect) papers at the time of the tweet. People need to be more objective when evaluating statements made by the president. That doesn't mean you have to like him.
It’s not if the statistics are too small. It’s only evidence against a strong effect (which the parent acknowledges).

I think the parent post is making an important and accurate point.
Hydroxychloroquine is an immune suppressant and may help reduce the cytokine storm effect. How that interacts with the "you have to start it early" issue is unclear to me.

And it might keep you from getting malaria while you have COVID19.
Is there a way to boot it from systemd-boot?
I share your optimism about this, I'll see what people submit.

I just found https://developer.ibm.com/callforcode/getstarted/covid-19/ this morning, going to add it to my directory today.
I'm sympathetic to the viewpoint that social media has some negative consequences, but I still think this is a really valuable satirical measure.

What I've seen is that journalists often seem to think that if social scientists can measure something, it proves that it is real. A typical headline will be something like "Studies show that 29% of us are addicted to social media." What they miss is that these studies starts with researchers making value judgements, and those judgements aren't more legitimate because a researcher made them.

This kind of research doesn't answer the question "Is social media an addiction?" It tries to answer the question, "If you think social media is an addiction, how serious is the problem?" That's why you can create a satirical measure that answers the question "How serious is the problem of friend addiction?"

The addiction classification is especially difficult. Often we call something an addiction if someone routinely engages in behavior where the negatives outweigh the positives. But when there's no common standard of measurement between the pros and cons, another value judgement has to be made about how to weight the various consequences.
International TV series to binge-watch in lockdown
Android version updates for 2 years, Android/Samsung security updates for 4 years. As an Android user, I can live with that.

My S7 is on Android 8.1. I have a newer Nokia on Android 10. I don't see any meaningful differences. The Nokia has something called "Digital Wellbeing" which I don't use. Everything else, like Fingerprint unlock and stuff like that has been around a few years now.

The hardware makes most of the difference IMO. The Galaxy S7 camera handily beats the cheap lens of the Nokia.
I was wondering the same thing. I’m glad I’m not the only one.

Plus, the white front would have made it look much more elegant IMO.
Nobody’s saying Gilead can’t make a profit. Just that they can’t make an obscene (“have us over a barrel”) profit.
It’s the model most practise, except I do so knowingly. I’m Not against information sharing. It’s just that I do so in a parochially altruistic manner.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature04981

Besides we all know everyone will gladly partake in a negative sum game if it means they come out better. I just do that knowingly. That is, if other participants have x and I have y, I will gladly take actions that lead to long-term effects of me having y+delta and them having x-epsilon even if delta < n times epsilon. Everyone gladly does this. So I don’t have a zero sum view of the world but that’s irrelevant to this because the sum of human utility is less important than the utility to my parochial group.

A practical example is that I will often share stuff I know better than others but I won’t try too hard to convince them.
If that were the only reason then Apple wouldn't associate it with Product Red.

The Red iPhone is signaling and that's the whole premise of Product Red. The charity appeals to vane people who feel the need to show off and exploits them for good.
So the reward for spending millions on neglected tropical diseases is nothing. That's a great motivator for the company that cured HIV and Hep C to keep working.
These are great points. I'm reminded of a comedy TV show, The Good Place, where it turns out nobody has gone to "heaven - the good place" for a long time because there are too many unintended consequences of a person's actions. Buy an organic bamboo T-shirt? The company dumped waste into river. Vegan? You produced a bunch of single plastic plastic packaging.

It highlight the need to be diligent in daily decisions day-by-day. And when working somewhere that's doing something borderline, or totally unethical, working to move it in the right direction. I hope I can be aware enough to create a net benefit. The problem is knowing enough of the consequences of any action to evaluate if it's a net benefit. That's really hard, but I have to believe that toiling away _trying_ to make net positives happen will _actually_ result in net positives happening. Doubting I could ever make net positives happen leads to cynicism and ensures nothing good will come of my work.

(and thank you for bringing up point about benefit systems - that's the next gig for me, I will work to not be part of the problem)
Advertising that is relevant to my wife probably isn't relevant to me, using IP is not good enough. The title and focus here is on user tracking, which is the goal I'm commenting about. Its quite common to have multiple users behind the same IP, those users and their actions may or may not be related (I have no idea what my co-workers might be doing for example but we share a static IP).

I honestly didn't follow your Google search/wifi example.
Ask HN: Why do you stay in the tech industry?
I saw another thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22876241) that asked people why they left, after reading it I was feeling depressed, and starting to question if I should start changing careers now while I am still youngish.

But then I realized the only responses you would get to a question like that is people that don't/didn't like what they were doing.

So to try and prevent me from being angry bitter and cynical I was wondering:

What's your story? Why are you still doing tech now? Any moments that were worth the world? And how come you follow HN?
Ask HN: How did you recover from Covid-19 and how are you feeling now?
Given the large number of users on HN, it's statistically possible for some to have tested positive with COVID-19. My question is: how did it feel like and what steps did you take to recover? How are you feeling now?
My first mentor was about the same age I am now, and still one of the best I ever had.

Staying sharp and engaged is tricky. It's easy for a person to become apathetic upon realizing how much churn and mis-spent energy there is in the industry, and when you're old and apathetic they assume that means it's time for the glue factory.
The local business roundup is exactly what I have been wanting. Amazon makes searching for a product so easy, but almost always leads back to Chinese manufacture / business.

Any good sites for buying products made in country of choice? (such as USA)
UBsan is part of the compiler, so it inserts runtime checks before the optimization passes which rely on undefined behaviour run.
HCQ is an off-patent drug that is produced in every major country in the world. In fact, many countries have stockpiles of it because of its efficacy at preventing malaria.

If there’s a risk of a supply run, it would definitely not last very long. For many people there’s alternatives for treating arthritis and lupus.

If it’s shown even to improve the patient’s outcome by even just 10% or more (as this study suggests), every country should be ramping up production of it right now instead of letting it be politicized.
I'd be interested in new age fabrics and clothing that use materials that are known to have very low virus lifespan times. I don't know enough to make an knowledgeable comments, but I can envision "smart" clothing that is hygienic and fashinoable. I see demand for it given the circumstances, but I do not know how influential clothing would be in reducing transmission.
What help are you specifically needing?
Similar cherry-picking leads to: Last wednesday 96 deaths happened, which was around 15% of total deaths at the time. And this wednesday 170 is reported, which is around 15% of total deaths now. That's exponential growth

You are right though, given the numbers there's decent likelihood that it's stagnating. But there's also a decent risk that it's still exponential
FYI, preexisting conditions stopped being a major issue with heath insurance after the Affordable Care Act (Obama Care) got passed: https://www.policygenius.com/health-insurance/pre-existing-c...

Insurers cannot deny health coverage, cannot charge higher costs, or subject people with pre-existing conditions to a waiting period

You may be better off getting life/long term care insurance before getting tested, but other than that there is little reason to avoid being tested.
My 6S works surprisingly well with thin transparent gloves. They're white color, but it seems they're thin enough to expose the ridges.
There's tons of good tech work out there - go into the B2B and less B2C.
Yup. And for far longer.
Losing your mental faculties is a profound fear especially for smart people. After falling down stairs in the early stages of his ALS, Stephen Hawking went to his local Mensa center to take an IQ test to make sure he was still "all there" and smart enough to do physics.
From that particular post, this line stuck out to me:

Only 3 candidates were able to pass this code filter. The people that did pass either did well enough to pass or extremely excellent. The people that failed, maybe 19 of 22 people, all failed epically.

In practice I highly doubt that the population of candidates is actually this bimodal. It might lean heavily below the hiring bar, but I have trouble believing that it's bimodal.
My own personal experience has been that it looks a lot like a normal distribution where the hiring bar is just two standard deviations above the mean (which would imply that you give offers to about 1 out of 25 people who apply, which sounds approximately in the right ballpark).

As a consequence, if your question is producing bimodal results, I can't help but wonder whether it's a good interview question, because knowledge tests exhibit much of the same type of distribution of outcomes.

In my experience, if you give the candidate only one hour, access to documentation only helps with recalling past experience, because one hour is too much time pressure to actually calm down, pick through, and digest documentation on something you haven't seen before. If you knew the DOM functions existed and just needed their names, it'll work, but if you're unfamiliar with what the DOM already offers, even if you could learn it fine on the job, you won't learn it fine under time pressure. I recently adjusted one of my interview questions specifically to reduce the need for looking up documentation because I noticed exactly this phenomenon.