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Unity3D Full-Stack Framework， Including ExcelEngine/LuaEngine/ResourceEngine
[url]
https://github.com/mr-kelly/KSFramework

[introduction]

A framework that include full-stack development library, including:

- TableML: A game config settings compile tool, which help you do Excel better;
- Lua: A Lua Engine support Hot-reload and Interface export;
- ResourceEngine: A reference counting library which support you manage your memory easy.
> as is the case with China, an enormous country with miraculously no infections or deaths since the day they coincidentally kicked all western journalists out

Where are you getting your information? There has not been a single day since the outbreak where China has reported no new cases or deaths. They just added ~1000 deaths today in a move similar to TFA.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/china/

They also did not "kick all western journalists out". Here's a report from the BBC with interviews of people in Wuhan that was published a week ago:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-52197054
> big offices or call centers, with VPNs or private connections to western infrastructure

I used to work on a product with a web console. One of the things we designed and planned for was a login storm around 9-10 AM on Monday in pick-a-timezone where 200 users log in from the same IP. If you ignore the seasonality, it looks a bit like an attack.
I love Tanya Khovanova! She saved my ass when I was taking and failing linear Algebra in my freshman year. Amazing TA with a kind heart, great sense of humor, and lovely Eastern European accent.
I appreciate this. I'm going to give it a whirl tomorrow based on what I've seen. These are actual good sources compared to what I normally use.
In the US it's called "holistic admissions process".
How many correct answer did you need to pass? What was the passing rate?
A few weeks ago I tried to subscribe to their machine learning product but their payment processor only accepts US credit cards and I’m Europe based.

While support says it will work with non-US credit cards as well, I could not get it to work. Tried about 20 suggestions made by their support over the course of 1 week what to put into the payment form; nothing worked.

I gave up and chose Google Colab.
Unity3D Full-Stack Framework， Including ExcelEngine/LuaEngine/ResourceEngine
I hit a similar issue with an iPad today - there is no easy way to tell if it is charging slowly.

It was showing the charging icon, although only charging at 1W. Horrific UI. I changed cables, it was charging at 5W. Shit, the charger was a 5W charger for an iPod (charger looks the same, need to read tiny low contrast writing to tell difference). Changed to a 10W charger, now charging at 7.5W. Change to another cable, finally 10W.

Fortunately I had an in-line USB diagnosis tool (about $10, google for USB power meter) otherwise you are screwed trying to diagnose why your iPad seems to be charging slow...
Landing AI Social Distancing Detector Demo
I am avid movie buff. For training, I would highly recommend reading Story by Robert McKee and look up information on how to do script coverage. There are plenty of information on that. I am happy to answer in more detail through email. saby83 at gmail
I think you're taking that specific opening question a bit too literally (though to be fair, I'm also at fault for not being as direct as I could have been with my point). It's fairly clear from the rest of my post and from the linked posts that I'm fully aware that Github/MSFT-funded Atom development has mostly grounded to a halt.

These are the actual questions I'm trying to get at:

What made Github/MSFT stop funding Atom development when their CEO went on record to say they won't?

And why haven't they announced that was the case officially?

If the very same CEO then goes on an AMA on Hacker News, surely it's fair game hold him accountable to previous public statements and ask him to clear the air. If this was just some random scrub posting their thoughts on the acquisition I definitely wouldn't have wasted my time to bring this up.
This is the view advanced by Benjamin Wittes, made popular in a recent NPR piece which you may have heard or read. I am not convinced it is right. Have you read the rebuttal by David Brick, currently the first comment on https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/14/how-the-world-butchered-be... ?

The entire rebuttal is a bit long to repost, but essentially, Brick says Wittes is taking that statement of Franklin's as applying to the entirety of his letter when in fact "[t]he real context of the quote is actually a very small portion of that letter in which the authors are discussing the defensive needs of certain 'freemen' living on the frontiers, or 'backwoods' areas of the colony." Furthermore, Brick states that Franklin made very similar statements elsewhere where the meaning is very clear--and in line with the conventional pro-liberty understanding, not Wittes' pro-government-power understanding.

I would like to see some historians argue it out.
You had a culture all along. You are American.
Politicians are incentivized to lie and dissemble in the other direction. Pick your poison.
If that were true, then we'll have herd immunity in a month.
> I thought there had been cases of people getting reinfected, and that how long the immunity lasts seemed to correlate to how sick you'd been.

What they found so far is that some people had lower levels of antibodies than others, but that it did not correlate to how sick they were. It's also not clear at this point that anyone's been re-infected (although it is possible) because it's much more likely they hadn't recovered but had received a false negative test followed by a positive test.
Carta’s CEO Covid-19 Layoff Message
The price of things is not always related to the cost of it's components.
"ICU admissions [...] have very little lag."

Sweden's ICU admissions number for a particular day usually takes a week or two to settle down.

For instance, here's how the numbers were updated each following day for the number of ICU admissions on the second of April: 42, 42, 43, 46, 47, 49, 48, 49, 49, 49, 49, 52. So it took until the 14. of April for the reporting of the second of April to settle down---and we still don't know if it's going to change again or not.

Source: I copied the numbers from the official site https://www.icuregswe.org/data--resultat/covid-19-i-svensk-i...

As far as I can tell, the official site doesn't record a history of what they reported, so the history is just what I manually copied to a file once a day when I happened to look.

Do I think the lag is crucial? No. But it's unexpected to me.
Wait, are you the Louis Rossmann? https://www.youtube.com/user/rossmanngroup
Few more

0. Detecting social distancing with AxxonSoft AI:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lddlsQtfFCM

1. Social Distancing detection for COVID-19:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaMbB5Ly8-E

2. COVID19 social distancing on construction site by INDUS.AI:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPXHmS3nD3E

3.Tracking social distancing through live camera feeds and computer vision:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuS-ybvyTT4
Among other things, it appears that Paddle

1. reserves the right to unilaterally vary the contract in any way, with immediate effect and without actively notifying the merchant

2. ensures that if anything goes wrong, any legal action against it by its merchants would have to be taken in another country and under another legal system, even if Paddle operates in the merchant's own country

3. takes extensive control of the product or service they are selling on their merchant's behalf, to the extent that they can sell it to whoever they want, sell it at whatever price they want, give demos to whoever they want, etc.

4. requires that any software it is selling on behalf of its merchants be bug-free, and that the merchants accept liability for anything bad that happens if it isn't.

It's hard to take any service seriously when it has terms like that in its standard agreement. Unless these kinds of terms are unenforceable where you are (or where Paddle is, given the above?) and you have a legal opinion telling you so that you trust enough to bet your entire business on it, it seems like you'd have to be crazy to accept them.

I've seen some very one-sided terms from other payment services before, but I take them at their word that those terms are typically required by the giants behind the systems like the card networks and banking groups. I think some of those should be also be unenforceable by law, but right now that seems to be the price of admission. I've never seen anyone else seriously suggesting the kinds of terms that Paddle is, though.

Edit: Changed to present tense, after checking Paddle's legal terms of use at the time of writing at https://paddle.com/legal/ to confirm that these criticisms are still current. The first two points above are in the preamble at the start of the document. The third is under 4.2 and 6.1. The fourth is under 13.1(ii) and 13.2(ii).
Programmatic advertising in the age of Covid-19
Here, I have one. Let's see...

Given five numbers, prove that there are always two, x and y, such that |(x-y)/(1+xy)| < 1.

Hint: rot13(sbhaq va n gevt obbx)
Thanks for asking.

We bounced around on really bad names like Radical (as in transparency/candor), Arthur (everyone has a seat at the roundtable), Zebra (literally just a placeholder)...

But landed on Grain because it means something about our product. Grains are little pieces that can accumulate to become something meaningful. Thats what our video highlight clips are all about. Little nuggets that come from somewhere else but can stand on their own. We get most excited when thinking about what can be made when you combine the "grains" together.

Also easy to say, a real word, 5 letters and the .co was cheap and nobody else has claimed the mindshare around the word. Today we start working on our SEO game :)
I agree with you. It's still a good quote for the exact same reason both of you are quoting it. It is true for States and for individuals. You shouldn't give up your long term, established, and customary rights or privileges for a little bit of short term gain in security. This is true for X where X is an entity with rights and privileges. A state giving up it's rights to an individual, or another state; or an individual giving up their rights to another individual, or state.
I think sitting is more natural than standing. Hunter-gatheres sit around a lot but they don’t sit on chairs. On the other hand they don’t stand on one place for too long and usually are on the move.

https://www.sciencealert.com/hunter-gatherers-are-as-sedenta...
We could have had Kevin de Leon. It was actually closer than I expected.
We don’t really know that.

However, there are strong indications that PCR false negatives can happen quite a lot late during the illness.

Those aren’t re-infections, that's just PCR testing at and around the detection limit.

See these graphs from the Munich cluster in Germany: https://twitter.com/c_drosten/status/1249791222526468099
Hmm, New York Blood Center says, "Please be aware that we do NOT test for COVID-19. You should contact your health care provider if you want to be tested." [0] Where else should I be looking?

[0]: https://www.nybc.org/donate-blood/covid-19-and-blood-donatio...
It's been 12 days since they tested everyone. My understanding is that the results for serological tests are available right away, so I was expecting them to publish results within a few days. Any idea why they haven't yet?
The US instituted similar measures in the form of "literacy tests"[0] to disenfranchise non-white voters during the Jim Crow era. The questions are intentionally confusing and ambiguous, such that anyone taking them is likely to fail no matter what[1][2]. Whites were exempted from taking the test thanks to a grandfather clause (the origin of the term, incidentally, though now it usually applies to cellphone contracts) that meant you were exempt from the test if your grandfather could vote which of course was only true for well-off white citizens, or other workarounds with similar end results.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_test

[1] https://allthatsinteresting.com/voting-literacy-test

[2] https://www.crmvet.org/info/lithome.htm
That isn't what I saw when I looked up their demographics, it looked roughly in line, skewing older even. [1] They had 12.8% over 75 as compared to for instance, 9% in Frankfurt [2]. Also in a population of 10,000-ish the number of fatalities would have to be by definition closer to 40.

[1] https://www.citypopulation.de/en/germany/census/nordrhein_we...

[2] https://www.citypopulation.de/en/germany/hessen/frankfurt_am...
I've been using turbo boost switcher for a couple of months now with a base MPB16 and it's worked well. I pretty much keep turbo boost off all the time, barely ever notice any slowdown and it seems to help with noise & heat.

http://tbswitcher.rugarciap.com/

Happily sprang for the pro version, it's needed to not have to keep authorising it in on every switch.
Ask HN: Books on Personal Project Management?
How do you manage your personal projects? Are there any books or software that help?
> public schools remain open for example.

Universities and high schools have been closed for almost a month now, that's pretty much the same timeline as most other countries. Elementary schools are not closed, but they're very empty, most kids are staying home.

The reasoning behind this is that elementary schools function as babysitters, and this frees up adults in essential occupations so that they can go to work normally, instead of having to stay at home with their kids. There's also starting to appear evidence that kids might not be a serious disease vector, contrary to pretty much everyone's gut feeling.

And this is what I mean by the reporting being bananas. It's very easy to look at the fact that "schools are open" and assume it's business as usual in Sweden. It absolutely isn't.

It's also pretty funny that you linked an article from The Guardian, which breathlessly exclaims that Sweden has a death rate that's twice that of Denmark. Yeah, ok, but the death rate in the UK is twice that of Sweden. Pot meet kettle. If Sweden is doing twice as good as the UK, who the fuck are people in the UK to criticize Sweden's actions? It's as if a Swedish newspaper would criticize Denmark for having twice the death rate of Finland. It's absurd.

The reporting is bananas. It's agenda-driven, not fact-driven.
still hearing 2-4% infected rate between east coast and the Stanford testing, random tests. I think this article is suggesting it's possible a lot more people have/had it (and are hopefully immune for some unknown time) but we're just not seeing that in the general population yet.

It still feels like the general population is very underexposed to the virus :-/
Yes and no. He was relieved because he went around the chain of command, which is a universal career-ending move in the military even if you do it for all the right reasons—which he did.

Also, although he was relieved of command, he wasn’t “fired” or “canned” or discharged from the Navy. He will undoubtedly go into an early retirement with a full pension at his current rank of Captain. That doesn’t change the fundamental unfairness of how he’s been treated, but he’s going to be fine. And I think he knew and accepted the consequences of his actions.
Any one know why the Turbo Boyer-Moore algorithm is not more popular. Any case when Boyer Moore would be better?
According to the paper, they would just keep asking questions until you failed, there was no passing if they didn't want you to enroll.
Someone remind me why the batteries are no longer removable? Macbooks aren't water tight.

Oh right, the laptop looks pretty and the battery can't be fitted in one area without adding some thickness.

Im so sick over this form over function crap that everyone copies.
Are you unaware of the degree of censorship in China?

Taiwan's/other externals' reporting on happenings there are as close as you get to real journalism in China.
and it would work fine.

Though in practice, the magsafe connector wasn't cat- or human proof meaning when one of those gets as much as near the cable it's byebye unsaved work and in worst case byebye boot because of a messed up system. I ended up taping the connector to the laptop to avoid that. As to why I'd run without a battery: it was swollen.
nice. thanks. (also nice that no autoplaying videos or ads to dismiss popped up - so retro :-)
We've reduced a tedious elementary problem to a slightly harder problem!

(We can observe that 125 = 1000/8, so 100log10(125) = 300 - 300log10(2) = 300 - 30log(1024). From here we merely need the bound 90 = 30log(1000) < 30log(1024) < 91, or equivalently 1 < 1.024^30 < 10. There are probably better approaches but I'm partial to 1.024^30 = (1.024^15)^2 < (1.024^16)^2 < 3^2 < 10, since 1.024^16 is easy to upper bound by repeated squaring and rounding up: 1.024^16 < 1.03^16 < 1.1^8 < 1.3^4 < 1.7^2 < 2.9.)
For sure, a "extra battery" mode could make sense as the opposite of "low power" mode. Still, that smells like the sort of feature the average user would be superstitious of, like the obsessive app force-quitting I see folks do on the bus all the time.
Imagine all 65M people in the UK caught the virus then a 10,000 case fatality number would give a rate of 0.015%.

The rate itself has no time element so it tells you nothing about the number of people in hospital right now and hence isn't very illustrative of how hospitals can be swamped by this disease.

More interestingly (for me at least) is that the mortality rate is dependent on a patient's access to a ventilator. This means if you caught the virus early in the spread of the pandemic your odds of surviving are substantially higher than if you caught it right at the peak of infection.

This is impossible to reflect in a simple global mortality rate and so really paints a different picture of the virus - the death rate in South Korea vs other places really highlights this.

I guess to your point, hospitals are more in this way because the virus is so infectious, rather than it being a universally dangerous disease as may be seen from a higher mortality rate. Remember, a high number of people experience little to no symptoms from catching this.

This variability in symptoms doesn't seem to be as true for other lethal diseases like say malaria or dengue fever
Ask HN: Would you sell your NPM packages/ Node.js projects?
Hi,
I'm currently working on building a platform for selling npm packages but I was unsure whether people really need it or not. Could you guys please drop your feedback?
Ok, apparently his commanders didn't want the responsibility. They wanted a "phone call" they can ignore, not a written record that will later bite them in the ass.

And in order to actually act they had to leak it because silently acting on it involves getting a refusal from their commanders and also writing an email. It's monkeys all the way up.
Is it US-only? I don't see it in my local App Store.
Because it's spreading so very fast, and nobody has any pre-existing immunity to this new disease. The flu kills 60,000 Americans every year and so far COVID has killed about 10,000 -- over roughly the same flu season time period. The difference is that the flu is spread out over time and is fighting some pre-existing immunity and flu shots. It also has a lot to do with excess capacity. If there suddenly appeared a new disease exactly as fatal as the flu, that would kill another 60,000 Americans per year and 650,000 people worldwide. There's not really capacity for that.
A harder environment to raise capital is COVID-19 impact, especially for an otherwise-viable startup.
Half the diamond princess people were staff - mainly under 40s.
Not affiliated and no issues. These are sweeping generalisations and wholly unhelpful.
It should probably belong better under the umbrella of the UN.
It’s quite accurate, somewhat hard to believe until you try it a few times. Good enough for many layout tasks if you’re drawing a reference line to cut to, for example.

Also works for cutting straight lines with an exacto knife.
TL;DR is the first guy got canned for "politicizing" (and, really, operating outside the chain of command by widely publicizing his fears and 'leaking' information about) the problem.

Basically, the military chain of command has ALWAYS really cared about how you handle these things. He violated it, and my military friends generally feel he did the "right" thing, but many also feel he knew what was coming and should take his punishment, because you just don't do it. While, at the same time, our government has shown an increasing desire to centralize authority and cover up for political reasons. So, I can see both sides, for sure. "You should never do that" meets "doing that is the right and moral thing in this environment". Fine.

The guy who called him out basically said a bunch of uncool and undisciplined shit about him, VERY publicly, and had to resign under pressure. He could have kept his job if he had toed the "outside of the chain of command" line and kept his cool. But he couldn't resist running his mouth in exactly the "uncool and outside of the military's expected behavior" manner. Again, the MO of the current administration.
I guess there are also multiple states of removable. 2012 macbooks had the battery in multiple packs in odd spaces like the new ones but they had a screw in bracket holding them in place which made it trivial to remove and put a new one in. The new ones have it glued down so heavily that the battery replacement process is "Take the screen off, put it on a new bottom case, throw out the old bottom half"
That depends, are you a collections agent or process server?
Now we can add the Netherlands to the mix.

29214 reported cases / 17280000 population = 0.17%. But apparently about 3% of blood donors in the Netherlands have antibodies. https://nltimes.nl/2020/04/16/3-dutch-blood-donors-covid-19-...

If blood donors are representative of the population as a whole, that means about 94% of cases have been missed. Again-- with better testing than the US.
Good catch, you are correct. I tried to justify creating something new on https://github.com/axellang/axel/wiki/Why-Axel%3F under "... Another Lisp?" (apologies for the "marketing" feel, and for quoting myself :-P ):

> Axel aims to be a spiritual successor to Liskell. At the time of writing, Liskell's last commit was in 2009, so Axel tries to take over where Liskell left off. Axel hopes to provide a production-ready Lisp on top of the Haskell ecosystem, while emphasizing developer experience along the way.

If nothing else, I'm also hoping to just give the idea of a Lisp-like Haskell another chance, 'cause I think it's cool :-)
What's so bad about having maths TLDs?
> Ethos Capital is clearly a front company. There is widespread agreement on this.

Can you please cite a few reputable sources for this claim?
My main use case for user scripts is to automatically authenticate on brain dead corporate sites. webex is one example where you cannot save name/password in the browser per default.
The Cyclorotor
WHO disagree with you, so citation needed.