skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thread-safe just means it won't result in data corruption, race conditions or other similar issues when used from multiple threads. That's still quite different from being able to execute concurrently.
Have you heard of platform as a service, like Heroku or gigalixr? That's exactly what that is, pretty much.
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So, if there was an epidemic of pneumonia going around, would you count that as a death due to pneumonia, and then use that statistic to help justify lock downs and enforced social distancing?

Because that is what is happening when you take an extremely sick person who finally died and slap a "death by covid-19" label on them.
The "US continent". Sounds almost like propaganda for the failed state.
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Front companies are a well established method of operation certainly in spycraft (see the latest Crypto AG revelations), but also in internet hosting.

For example, Google requires their employees at certain data centers to only wear the badges of / pretend to be COPT employees [1].

Additionally, the Wikileaks AWS Atlas [2] showed show how yet another major company does this. I realize these are cloud data centers, but the similarity between them and hosting registrars, in terms of "internet power", is very complementary.

[1] - https://www.copt.com/
[2] - https://wikileaks.org/amazon-atlas/
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Well, she's not proposed a bill, and not supported Sanders' Medicare for All bill which is the current leading proposal for universal health care in the US. And - she gaslights about it, see:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbq6t7bg2ro

To explain why I claim she's gaslighting, note that universal health care in Capitalist societies has basically two options:

1. Government insurance, non-governmental provision
2. No insurance, government provision

US Medicare is option (1.), US veterans' healthcare as well as UK national health service is option (2.) and is quite viable. Option (3.) is only for non-Capitalist economies. In the clip, Feinstein gaslights by pretending Medicare for All is (2.) rather than (1.) and declaring opposition to (2.)

Finally, several days later, health insurance industry lobbyists organized a fundraiser for Feinstein, as mentioned here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFZxVixSjDc
There's a blockchain project for everything these days, so there's also a blockchain project for TLDs: https://handshake.org/

If we had DNSSEC and DANE support in browsers, it would solve the security problems stemming from certificate authorities being able to issue certificates for any domain they like. Handshake would enable people to actually own their domains and bypass the CAs altogether.
> The false negative rate is around 10% and the false positive rate is also around 10%. So in 100,000 tests, you would expect to miss about 1,000 true positives.
> you would also mistakenly get 1,000 false positives

I think you mean missing 10,000 true positives and getting 10,000 false positives.
On a fundamental level music is math.
Pi can be a unit of one in an alternate numbering system.
I've stuck with Greasemonkey myself too.
My reason is a bit more esoteric -- I use a user script which adds a dicebear.io/adorable.io avatars based on usernames on HN (I find it easier to remember commenters by the avatar/username combo rather than just username), and Greasemonkey seems to have been the only one out of the three to successfully bypass HN's CSP rules and show the actual hotlinked images.
Practice? My university lecturer was completely blind and it didnt stop him teaching us very valuable principles. His seeing dog was cool as well.
A laser can deliver messages directly to your ear from across the room
So they are trying to automatise a system so people don't have to think about it, but a bulk of reactions are about finding ways to make it behave better in their specific use case.

Doesn't it mean Apple basically half-assed it ?
They would need to collect data again now to get a better result. Otherwise the data is the same as on the day the test was made.
Nice, looks valuable
We store our sessions in Redis and don't do hot code swapping but deploys do still mostly just work and live channels normally reconnect without any noticeable downtime. We run everything on GKE so a deploy is just rolling container swaps.

Liveview is built on top of channels, so worth reading up about them: https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/channels.html
They also needed to put the option to disable it. Now anyone who was pissed off by this behavior can disable it, which makes it a way better situation.
> This is because they're testing the entire population

Not really, they are testing a population of only young, healthy and fit individuals with an obesity rate and other conditions absolutely not in line with the general population.
I think it's stale info -- ViolentMonkey used to be unavailable on Firefox.
Please recalibrate your sarcasm-o-meter. Should read at least 9/10 on this one.
Big opportunity for other nations to step in and exploit the continent further, just like China with its "influence, military bases and resources in return for jobs and infrastructure" projects.

Maybe some European projects? But I guess we will keep sending Tshirts and cheaper milk instead to further undermine African local economies.
Don't forget that Scots is generally spoken in the south. There is a rich selection of dialects around the country, notably in the the north where Norse is the strongest influence.

http://www.caithness.org/dialect/
From what I have seen it appears to be mostly 2 with perhaps a bit of 1.

There may be no evidence of wearing masks causing harm to the wearer, but there is ample evidence of excessive demand for masks leading to health workers not having adequate protection. That, along with "no evidence of masks preventing infection in the general public" is enough, I think, to justify the current expert opinion.

I would not normally be wearing a mask outside at the moment because there is no compelling medical reason, as far as I can see. As long as you maintain distance and wash hands, etc. However, I do wear a mask outside because I live in a country where an unmasked foreigner causes "concern" to some. So I mask up for social reasons.
> not "every dominant giant company ever" has been found by U.S. federal court

That's only because as times changed so did the US mostly lost interest in punishing or even investigating its own companies (that's subjectively understandable, nobody wants to hit their own). Voices say they're trying to change this, we'll just have to wait and see.

On the other hand I'm sure you agree that "U.S. federal court" is not the global standard in justice. And since the EU has no "home player" bias their courts did not shy away from investigating and fining big-tech monopolies like Google or Facebook.

"Playing dumb" and conflating Microsoft with exclusivity in the abuse of market position doesn't do this discussion any service. Your comment is strongly undermined by this clear bias.
Future feature request! Map the name of co-workers to the teams they're in so we can keep in track of how much we interact with different parts of our company. Mostly just curious but I have a feeling it'd actually show us that we don't spend our time/comms how we think we do...
weirdest one I came across is 'oxster' ... means armpit

'piece' means sandwich, and a 'ginger' is a soft drink

I like 'glaikit' (no idea how you spell that) ... it's basically a verb to be a daydreamy, dozy f*ck
The summary is that without art, humans are cosmically uninteresting.
I've used Gleam back in the 0.1 or 0.2 days, back when you posted about it on the Elixir forum, glad to see it's still moving along nicely!
Yes - part of the strategy of flattening the curve is to buy time to scale capacity. Dedicated covid19 hospitals also have the advantage of isolating covid19 patients from high risk non-covid19 patients (e.g immunocompromised cancer patients)

As the disease is so easily transmitted hospitals are partly buckling due to contamination within hospitals. A regular 50 year old probably has a good chance of surviving coronavirus. A 50 year old who is midway through chemo, probably less so...

All of this nuance is hard to express through topline death tolls and mortality rates.
> I'll never understand how someone otherwise so apparently intelligent can be so religious.

Why not? Religious people believe that God is the Most Wise. Mathematics in nature attest to that attribute of God (as well as to other attributes of Him). An intelligent and religious person would recognize that, knowing it is God who came up with all the rules that keep the universe in balance.

I'll never understand why some people believe science and creationism can't go hand in hand.
"oxter". It's a common word in Shetland (island to the north of Scotland), less so on the mainland.
The Economist has some pretty good articles that it made free, in relation to Covid. One of them is this:

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/04/11/...
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It's folk in the west who lack airs and graces who say it all the time.

No true Scotsman would use such language so casually. ;-)
Agreed, and obviously the WHO is highly motivated to say something dire will happen at the withdrawal of large amounts of money.

AID to Africa has largely has been an unintended yet sad disaster. The best example of this is when the British were leaving East Africa in the 1960's they, reasonably, decided to administer the polio vaccine widely. Likely this massively furthered the spread of AIDS, which is thought to have crossed from monkeys to humans sometime in the early 1950s.

[1] - https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v25/n07/edward-hooper/aids-a...
It depends on the type of mask and the goal.

(1) Using mask to protect oneself from covid-19 in public spaces. Experts don't see this working effectively. Doctors and nurses don't use masks outside the infectious zones in hospital either. Using mask properly and donning and undonnign it is hard. Men have to trim their beards and the mask must have clip that goes around nose etc. You want N95 mask if possible, and it's hard to breath trough it so people leave gaps so that breathing is easier. Old people just can't breathe trough N95 outside. It's too tiring.

(2) Using mask to protect others from covid-19. This is where mask can be helpful in widespread use. It slows down or catches most droplets. Just cheap surgical mask or just a scarf can be enough (remember: surgical masks protect the patient in surgery from those wearing it, not other way around). Additional benefit is that covering your face prevents you from touching it.
While art is certainly very important, I believe it doesn't have the same impact upon our lives as math has.

And if you believe art is about creativity, you can find beauty and art in in mathematics and other sciences.

Many great mathematicians were also art lovers, they appreciated music, they appreciated paintings and other forms of art.

I don't think there's a dichotomy between art and sciences.
I've always thought math as we know it is a result of both deep underlying relationships between natural constructs and how we perceive them. For example, a species who has no sense of vision will not develop geometry the same way we would. A species that has a sense of vision that also includes a direct distance perception (as opposed to our stereoscopic vision) will probably come up with a very different form of geometry.

Though I'd like to think that most species would come up with some version of calculus, even though the notation will be obviously different. Afterall, two of our own species did so independently.
Because pricing people out of necessities like food is really bad idea.
This is a general problem of antibody tests and precisely the reason why people should not buy those from any retailer (you can in fact do so online or in pharmacies). Unreliable and non-specific.

Let's wait for the development of specific viral antigen tests.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siphonophorae
Siphonophores belong to the Cnidaria, a group of animals that includes the corals, hydroids, and true jellyfish. There are about 175 described species. Some siphonophores are the longest animals in the world, and specimens as long as 40 meters have been found. The majority of siphonophores are long and thin, consisting mostly of a clear gelatinous material.

http://www.siphonophores.org/index.php

Up-Close With a Siphonophore, a Colonial Organism | Nautilus Live

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OeflgYWxyVI
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Even an exponentially spreading virus is only in its exponential stage when the number of infected is significantly lower than the total population.
Personally I find that subreddit is a cringeworthy series of posts wherein people go overboard with Glaswegian patterns of speech and then label it "Scots". I wouldn't regard it as a reference for how people actually talk.
I have avoided RAID for the past 20 years and will avoid it in future. The whole technology and its benefits is about picking pennies before the steamroller, with explosive complexity of failures.
I prefer much more simple and understandable replication and backup solutions - there are dozens of them.
Doesn't everything start out like that?
How would you define a feature vs. a product? Could an app like Zoom be considered a feature of an OS because of its dependency of the host system to act?
Sad thing is it seems likely that, at least from some vantage point in the universe, we're the aliens that discovered category theory.
While negatively charged particles are real, the 'negative' charge is a way to distinguish them from a 'positive' charge. It's a naming convention more than it is an actual negative value.

We could easily call them 'black' and 'white' particles and the system itself would stay the same
Perhaps voice coding? https://dusty.phillips.codes/2020/02/15/on-voice-coding/ and https://caster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
I haven't spent much time in the world of JVM tuning, but if latency is your main concern the relatively new ZGC should be your jam: https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/zgc/Main
A recession can increase mortality rates more than the numbers published by the ONS.
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The '49 California Gold Rush was hardly organized or promoted by the US government. Later, something like 20,000 died on the Oregon Trail. Doesn't sound very organized to me.
I tried Googling but I'd really appreciate some advice.

I have my own server for some hobby projects and I'd really want a plug and play solution for checking git-repos with docker-files and starting them with their own URL for different branches.

Right now, if I have 20 projects with 20 branches, that's 400 endpoints that needs to be configured.

And what's best practice with canary deployments via git.

So my question is, does it exist a solution and what should I search for besides CI/CD?
Last week I came across another fascinating podcast by Penrose that you folks might also like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orMtwOz6Db0
Ah, yes. I remember now.
Even presuming it does improve seal on surgical masks. But problem with this masks isn't just seal, it's the material that can't filter out small particles.

Does it help by creating better seal? It sounds that it should but nobody can confirm it without proper lab test.
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Coronavirus outbreak may have started in September, say British scientists
For some people any statement which is not their preferred taste of doom, disaster and panic is considered misinformation. The post they are complaining about doesn’t even supply a concrete statement:

> These are people who could potentially go back into society

Nobody knows if they could go back or not but the statement that they might is somehow the most dangerous form of misinformation.
I find it unacceptable of accusing people of things they didn't do.
Buffalo buffalo buffalo.
Weren't other major vendors doing this since middle of 2000s at least?
Probably a more relevant point - war, famine, plague and chaos are still things that happen in 2020. It would be helpful if the population at large accepted that bad things happen in prosperous places and prepare for them.

The climate-driven thing is topical, but you don't need climate change to have a 1 in 1,000 year drought. JIT production would have doomed any society up until around 1800AD and it really hasn't been tested all that well in the last 70 years in wealthy and peaceful nations.
The Spanish Conquistadors covered quite a lot of ground. They had no idea where they were going or what they would find.
> Can't we come up with a simple, good technical solution to identify hosts?

We can, but every single solution is a set of trade-offs and even geeks will never agree on what's the right set of trade-offs. If the people who could give the tech widespread support don't agree, how is there ever any hope of rolling it out?

The only way I see to shatter the status quo is if big companies decide to push ahead with whatever they came up with and the rest of the world just has to follow. QUIC is a bit like that, I think.

Only problem is I don't there being big incentive for big companies to overthrow the system. It works well enough?

Of course, I would love to throw away DNS and start using a system where I can be John Smith and you can be John Smith and I can pass your fingerprint to my friend John Smith so that they won't accidentally connect to John Smith the rich prince from Nigeria.

I think one global namespace is a dumb idea.
I was wrong. It was hundreds of thousands.
It's better to do the right thing than the correct thing and this man will be able to live with himself throughout his pension instead of having a heavy conscience weigh him down.

From all I could gather from Europe, I believe he acted as a human more than a robot and under the given circumstances it was the right call.
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Definitely. When I go back to Elixir from Go I feel the pain of not having static types.

AFAIK, the closest we have right now is

- typespecs

- guard clauses

- structs w/ required keys (cannot specify types)

- ecto embedded schemas (e.g. structs with "typed" fields)
Thanks! GreaseMonkey was so crucial back during my Ingress days!
>It’s not about making sense. It’s about making dollars.

Now it started making sense!
Many people praise Fabrice Bellard. Not sure if he's counted as a non-scientist, but his achievements are astounding.

Although I think that many heroes are hidden behind corporations. Those people who contributed most to Google Search or architectured Chrome. Those people who built systems everyone relies on. For example almost every Java project uses Spring Framework, but I'm sure that it was founded by one or few very talented people. And those examples are many, but not very public or exposed.
Preliminary result of the Gangelt, Germany Covid-19 case cluster study [pdf]
Wavefunctions are in fact generally complex-valued. I don't know if that supports your argument or not.
Have you tried out ZFS? It's quite good at resolving failures and data corruption and can be configured in all sorts of combinations, depending on your performance and disk failure tolerance requirements.
> Which are serious problems for walking across all the continents.

Yet people did it anyway.
185 days of continuous use.. for many 4000 hours is easily a decade worth of gaming
As generally used, the term "deep state" refers to career officials acting in opposition to the democratically-elected leadership of a country.

In this case, the elected officials are completely in accord with the desires of the security/intelligence agencies.
I agree 100% with everything you say. However, I don’t believe that the “impact on lives” of scientific advances, whilst certainly being of tremendous interest and importance to the humans, carries into much universal significance.
> You want N95 mask if possible

See the article I linked below - it seems N95 isn't that much better at stopping Covid and expecting your ordinary folk to properly secure it isn't that sensible.

> Experts don't see this working effectively

A source on this would be nice.
Sounds like tribal wars or travian ;)
How is Bezos buying a big house an investment in the city? Come on.
How do you know? Those deaths were not necessarily caused by the virus, in fact some of those dead never had a positive covid test.
Thanks, is interesting to read.

I fail to see alternative DNS as much better solution, as that still depends on having tlds.

For sure, identifying hosts in a "good for all purposes and all actors" manner it isn't a easy problem to solve, but it something that might makes lives of many easier.

And even if you come up with a great solution, how you convince most actors to use it?
It matters because what if you can't actually describe the underlying foundations of the universe and reality with absolute accuracy as a mathematical equation. We get very close, but if we're always off even by ten to the minus whatever, have we really 'solved' it.

Maybe there is some other conceptual framework that we've not or are not able to cognitively express that underpins things.
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I can't help but think you've found a more complicated and less efficient way to achieve the same thing as writing up an off-the cuff talk afterwards.

Personally I loathe the spoken word as a medium for efficient transmission of information. Reading and skim-reading is an order of magnitude faster.

And writing up something I've spoken is the perfect way to focus and clarify.
> charging more just because you can

You can try to charge more, but it's rarely obvious you will receive that extra money.

Currency risk is a cost of doing exports. Of course, sometimes it's also advantageous if your local currency is devaluing against the customer's currency.
Maybe, but in animated things (like rick and morty) they, occasionally, have aliens that are vaguely essentially anthropomorphic animals and give those expressions.

So it's not entirely.. human. My point being that we can have the expressions of a human face on a non-human face
> See the article I linked below - it seems N95 isn't that much better at stopping Covid and expecting your ordinary folk to properly secure it isn't that sensible.

It seems that you write the message I was trying to get across back to me.
You sound pretty hysterical dude to be honest.
That's why we need laws for facial recognition and biometric rights, much like how some states are starting.
On the contrary. I think that "real" and "imaginary" numbers are both discovered and neither concept has more reality than the other.

I think that even chess rules have a meaningful "existence" (in a Platonic sense) even if they are in some sense arbitrary. We can't discover "the one true rule system" but we can discover various possible systems and also theorems about them.
The idea that doctors need to make huge amounts of money compared to almost everyone else is very American. Here in Poland, doctors up until very recently were paid not much more than the country's average wage. Now it's more diversified, especially with short-term contract positions paying much more than that - but regular jobs at a hospital still don't pay more than 3x the national average.
The DS1054Z is currently the cheapest, but it is a few years old. If you have the money I would buy the MSO5072 it came out last year.
Look for tests. Dave's EEVBlog is a good point to start.
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Although it's still considered a fringe/conspiracy theory, I've heard some interesting claims on the use of digital ids and immunity certificates for verifying who has been vaccinated.

- https://id2020.org/

- https://youtu.be/-aR7cz30chE?t=145