skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22879752

There are plenty of reasons to dislike the new iPhone SE, but I don't think lack of 5G should be one.
>The current online experience is not remotely possible without ads

The current online experience is horrendous because of the ad industry.
Reminds me of how Kepler made his infamous discovery of elliptic orbits by staring at the data collected by his mentor Tycho Brahe. Without 20 years of detailed observations and calculations, Kepler probably would have either never come up with his theory or never have it taken seriously.

And of course Newton’s principia devotes large portions to proving Kepler’s laws using Newton’s laws.
I remember when starting Netscape took over 1 minute
Metadata belongs in persistent storage (PMEM or flash), file contents can striped onto a magnetic disk. Flash suffers from the same problem. Rewriting a file should be appending binary diffs to a log and reapply the writes against the first version into a new location on the cluster.

SMR is extremely painful for anyone except those that can handle distributed storage systems. I think the only place where SMR makes sense for home users is in a DVR, or game assets where a virtual disk is streamed down from a cloud provider in a single pass, and no interior mutations.
Good deal! I think this will require people to block off times on their calendar when they don't want to do a meeting. Not all available slots in my calendar are up for grab.
In the developing countries without universal health care, there are government health workers, who are into vaccination, prevention, etc. In situations like this, these workers are mobilized for random testing. However, in the states, I don't see such a workforce. It is mostly done by volunteers, such as that Stanford drive in testing.
Dashboard must have updated, because it now says that Argo Tunnels is offline.
I enjoyed building websites and working with computers, and realised that the tech industry was the most likely place I could make enough money to live on.

Given the other likely choices were academia, media/journalism and game development, and given the wages and working conditions those fields entail, I think I probably made the right choice.
Thanks for sharing this feedback, we're doing a #GitChallenge right now (I'm a community advocate at GitLab) asking community members to send us reviews of GitLab vs GitHub (whether positive/negative/neutral) https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2020/04/14/github-free-for-tea...
Tendon rupture on and after flouroquinolone use is now a known thing. If you are prescribed them and you feel tendon tenderness then you are supposed to tell your doctor and they will prescribe something else. It doesn't happen to everyone though and some flouroquinolones are better than others (in terms of less side effects).

Tamiflu seems to work but reduces symptoms by 1-2 days basically. It may also blunt the overall disease impact in your body as well.

There will probably be meta studies on whether fast tracking vs the regular process are equivalent, worse or better than each other.
IBM had one batch of bad drives and a second batch of somewhat iffy drives after many years with an excellent record and suddenly nobody ever trusts them again. Meanwhile Maxtor put out crap drives year after year and nobody seemed to mind. It was a very weird situation.

FWIW however I bought some HGSTs a couple of years ago that are by far the loudest drives I've ever used. They've been reliable thus far, but the noise level is so bad that I had to move them away from where the people are working.
A typical ship is going to be out at sea for a long longer than an hour. A drone-net that only lasts for an hour isn't exactly a persistent detection zone. If you want something with range + speed, you're going to need size for the power plant and fuel. Maybe you could hack together something with drones coming back to a mothership to recharge.
Is your argument that, say, Google, expected fines reaching into billions of dollars, but understood that they would end up with cash in their pocket by heavily avoiding taxes and just paying the fine?

That seems like a risky game to play, because you don't know if the fines are going to be $1B or something more important like $100B or something.
How Histograms changed the game for monitoring time series with Prometheus
11 has night mode.
In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights there's a bunch of stuff which is possible, but hard, to provide if people don't have ID.

Giving people ID makes providing a lot of those human rights much easier.

For example, access to democracy is important, and ID is part of that.
The $5 Raspberry Pi Zero Can Power Ventilators to Fight Covid-19
I'm actually happy that is has no 5G, and may buy it just for that.
Does anyone know where Alex Jones gets his ideas? Part of me thinks his team just makes shit up, but sometimes he seems to be part of a coordinated effort.
A Diamond Princess ex-passenger died as late as March 24. The first patient was tested positive on February 1, and the ship was quarantined on Feb 4, and everyone left the ship on March 1. It doesn't seem unlikely you can die from this virus a month (or even two months?) after testing positive. Or maybe I'm missing something?
The big conclusion to be drawn from this paper is that IP address tracking can be combined with client-side tracking techniques to perform reidentification.
Yeah this is a known thing. That's why we don't vaccinate against polio but try to keep it out of the country.
Face masks have been shown to be effective at controlling pandemics, and apparently no one (in many western countries) thought to stockpile those.
We let you set what times in the week you want to have meetings - no need to block off your calendar!
The Palm Phone[1] looks pretty cool and certainly ticks the compact box. It's almost enough to make me consider Android but I'll probably just keep using old SE until it dies.

1: https://palm.com/products/palm-unlocked
It irks me to see chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine being used interchangeably in the media. This study used chloroquine. Trump touted hydroxychloroquine.

"Hydroxychloroquine, a less toxic derivative of chloroquine, is effective in inhibiting SARS-CoV-2 infection in vitro" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41421-020-0156-0
Let us know how your comparison goes - we're doing a challenge asking community members to compare both tools and share their responses for some swag. I'm a community advocate at GitLab. This blog post outlines more of the challenge if you'd like to participate: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2020/04/14/github-free-for-tea...
@rbanffy might know if they do.
They could of done so much more than slap an A13 into an iPhone 8. I guess it was about that the last time although, throwing a newer processor into an iPhone 5.

At the very least they could of done touch ID on the back and make it a hole punch display with a smaller form factor, but that would probably have battery issues from the smaller footprint.
My impression of India was that up could either easily afford the iphone or you were in the market for a budget phone. Not much middle market. Is that a correct assumption?
I am also glad to hear that. Yes, I totally agree that white is much more elegant.

Maybe this outcome is an effect of Johnathan Ive's departure?
Could someone summarise what is the advantage of NixOS compared to something like Ansible or Saltstack + any other Linux distribution?
I don't get it. It's over 520 USD in Germany (479 EUR). Is this supposed to be an SE edition?
Meh, I have aphantasia and an SE...
That is a question for the engineer's own conscience , there's a reason the profession is self-regulated. The only decision that's not acceptable is to ignore ethical dimensions entirely.

Well, that and bringing the profession into public disrepute, because we're still trying to turn a profit here, dagnabbit!
Here we see that part of SD's cleanliness is from police fining or enforcing on the unclean, whereas SF just throws money at the homeless. SD's cleanliness is very similar to Irvine's concept of cleanliness.
I worry that the vaccine won't be effective. To stop this coronavirus we basically have to quarantine and stop human activity for a few months. We are already down that rabbit hole so we just need to stay the course and really isolate as much as we can. The govt is going to have to help people to get through the next 6 months.
Could it be that Lee's productivity frenzy eventually led to this disease?

I tend to practice the same style of getting things done during crunch time. I have the same behavior afterwards. Sometimes I can sleep a few days in a row after making a software release. And yes, taking a vacation with my girlfriend sometimes took the same shape: she was running circles in a new city while I was chilling at the hotel room trying to enjoy a few rare moments of rest.

Reading the whole story rang a few bells to me.
> We need more studies to gather data on these asymptomatic cases if we want to reopen the economy soon.

I don't understand what's so hard about measuring population infection rate.

Assuming the population infection rate is between 1-10%, we would only need to do around ~500 randomized tests to achieve a 95% confidence interval of +/- 1%.

For example, let's say we tested 500 random NYC residents for COVID and found that 10 were positive -- a 2% infection rate. The standard error (binomial approximation) for this sample is 0.6%. So, by doing a mere 500 randomized tests, we have a 95% confidence interval of 0.8%-3.2%.

Given that overall population infection rate is so important in planning for re-opening, why are we not doing randomized testing in hotspots like NY on a regular basis? Am I missing something?
No.

We know from genomic analysis [1] that "The common ancestor of circulating viruses appears to have emerged in Wuhan, China, in late Nov or early Dec 2019."

It's fun to speculate about other possibilities, but I personally like to stick to what the science tells us.

[1]: https://twitter.com/nextstrain/status/1248707010750640128
"It's listening to me!"

and your spouse's typed in search queries

and your playstation

and your smart coffee machine

and alexa actually is

thats all without getting me started on the analytics networks in other apps sharing with the same data brokers between apps
It's apparently the format of the 6~8 (which incidentally is likely why the 8/8+ was discontinued at the same time).

So it's quite a bit bigger than the original SE, though the biggest issue I had with the design (on a 6S anyway) was that the metal back and rounded edge made it much slippier than the old 4/5/SE design, much harder to hold securely.

Anyway the SE/2016 was 123.8mm x 58.6mm x 7.6mm and 114g with a 4" display, the 8 was 138.4mm x 67.3mm x 7.3mm and 148g with a 4.7" display.

Significantly heavier (+30%), noticeably wider (+12%) and taller (+15%) and about the same depth (-4%).
Thank you for this, I always struggle with what to ask when given the opportunity.
> using IP is not good enough

Define "not good enough"(for who is it not good enough? for advertisers?).

I used to work on a project linking cookies together in anonymous profiles (for advertising), initially the plan was to separate household/individual profiles using different heuristics, but I think eventually it turned out that nobody cares that much - the advertisers just wanted a rough cross-device profile, not perfect accuracy. I mean sure, for marketing purposes (as well as engineering/ "performance" reasons) you needed figures to brag about accuracy and whatnot. But it's really really hard to get those figures right, and ultimately the thing that will convince advertisers is "using cross-device profile improved conversion rate by 10%"; everything else is a detail in comparison.
You overlooked the major finding of the study:

> Hydroxychloroquine administration was associated with a need for escalation of respiratory support level compared to those that did not receive hydroxychloroquine at 5 days (p=0.013).

> p = 0.013
I had an iPhone 8 and Pixel 2 for a while. Both fit well for average-sized hands and I can barely type on my wife's iPhone SE. I'd consider this one for her but the lack of headphone jack is a problem.
I remember reading it in something semi academic many, many years ago, so you'll have to google it.

I think it was linked to dyslexia and languages with spelling and maybe japanese, and how china simplified it's characters led to higher literacy, although that might have a few confounding variables.
I disagree. I'm unable to find any source with numbers. At best I've seen the statement "it's rarely fatal except in very rare circumstances".

Like the flu, you don't die from the flu, but really it's the last straw on top of other issues that pushes people over the edge.

But the flu is far more deadly than the common cold, it's misleading to talk about them together like that.
I am apparently in the minority here who prefers faceID, mostly because how transparent it is UX-wise. I don't have to do an additional 'Authenticate' press when opening protected apps, instead I pass through the security while the app loading animation completes.

Though, it has been hell now with using face masks for the past few weeks, where I have to spend 5 seconds on every auth-screen, where it tries faceID twice and then gives the option of PIN authentication.
If Amazon was actually worried about worker safety, they would already be in compliance.
Lots of schemes do let you change running programs and elisp doesn’t support the various crazy CLOS things for dealing with instances of classes since redefined.

If scheme where so different from elisp, no one would have bothered trying to make guilemacs yet here we are.
+1! As someone who works with Zynq devices, I was thinking the exact same thing. Also, your name is the same as the product of a really large company, so it's probably easier just to change it now and not have any conflict with them later on.
Heads up: Netlify migration may have broken your app
I agree with you, they need a much simpler explanation of what they actually want to do.

ID2020 have a nice page that discusses what they do: https://id2020.org/manifesto

They also have a faq that talks about what a good digital ID is: https://id2020.org/faq

But both of these are full of jargon, and they're overly-complex.
Shouldn’t have an expectation of god making everything well. Otherwise there’s be no war. If that is your requirement to believe in god, you will never
For some value of expect, yes.
It's probably low prevalence in the population based on our understanding of when covid-19 first appeared.

The UK has some randomized seriological surveillance and it's about 13% prevalence. That matches with the pregnancy study of 15% prevalence (which may be enriched due to hospital visits).
No for several reasons. The Dimond Princess had over 100 crew of young healthy adults test positive and only 25% where asymptotic long term. Additionally South Korea has a massive effort into contact traction which demonstrated just how rapidly the disease spread. Their mortality numbers looked to be about 0.6% early on, but eventually hit 2% a month after the peak with people spending weeks in critical condition.

On top of that it’s spread rapidly across every country outside of China and there uncontrolled growth rate showed a similar doubling every few days.
I agree with you. In a perfect world you would be able to drop in Python code and only have to add a #lang Python at the top of it. But realistically I think it would be closer to what you were saying about creating a pythonic language.

So maybe the practical solution is to have a language that looks like Python, Java, Ocaml, etc. I'm not sure how many #langs you would need to make the majority of programmers feel comfortable but I think even implementing a few would be a huge step up in accessibility than what we currently have.
Why is it taking so long to do a big study on this?

There are so many sick people and it’s a cheap drug and only takes a week Or 2 to see if it works.

Can someone please just do a Really large trial, like, 2 weeks ago so we can put this to bed one way or the other.
Very possible that once a patient has deteriorated to needing hospitalization with O2, it may be too late for hydroxychloroquine to be of benefit - - the virus has already destroyed the lungs.
come on, that's just lazy, what would happen if they would make at least the top bezel smaller and expand the display together with higher resolution? so much wasted space

it's nice someone produce 4.7" phone, but it could be either smaller with such outdated low res display or display could be bigger in same body

this just seem like they have big stock of old displays and phone bodies they still need to dump
iPhone 12: 4 new models, 5G and a new design
Facemasks are only produced in a handful of countries. In fact we basically don’t even have the skill set or machinery here to convert factories to producing facemask even if we wanted to. Garment work was moved offshore decades ago.

Unlike off-patent prescription drugs.
Nice one. Just think about the user/consumer in any of these things. Does the thing I'm building help them, or only help the company I'm working for?

Be pragmatic. If the company provides a good service but doesn't survive, then that good service no longer exists! Some amount of optimisation for sales is likely necessary, but I think there's a line where things turn user-hostile, even in subtle ways.
but timing the market is not of investors interest so this seems conflicting
NYC population is 8.4 million. Their death rate is 6,589 (Apr 13). 0.1% of 8.4 million is 8400, that would mean almost everyone in NYC has been infected, I'm not sure that is feasible at the moment.

https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/imm/covid-19-d...
Ask HN: Whatever happened to the YC UBI program?
There were two blog posts about it in 2016.
What happened?
Show HN: CollabQA – Capture and prioritize questions for uninterrupted meetings
Because it's easy to make, there's tons of it lying around already, and it doesn't need human safety trials (we already know safe dosages). If it works, it'll be a near-miracle.
Ershad from CollabQA.com - I built a small web app to capture and prioritize questions during meetings/talks. Attendees have the option to vote questions. All data are sync-ed (in almost real-time) across active sessions.

A lot of people are switching to online meetings during these unprecedented days. I thought it would be useful to have a tool like this so that the speaker can speak uninterrupted and can answer/discuss all questions after finishing the talk.

It can also be used as a simple (and sharable) to-do app, a poll app or even as a shopping list.

It's built using Elixir and Phoenix.LiveView. Thanks to them for creating a wonderful tech stack to build real-time applications.
While they might have some concept of what home NAS use is, these drives are literally marked as dead by common NAS filesystems/RAID drivers because the filesystem thinks they are malfunctioning due to them being so slow, when they are first put into an array

>keep[s] getting kicked out of RAID arrays due to errors during resilvering

This problem is independent of what type of workload you actually use the NAS for.
It's not that trump said he likes to breath air, so everyone became fixated on that. It's that this is one of many (dozens at least) of things he has said were solutions, cures, miracles that would deal with covid-19. These went through the fox news world and now my elderly relatives are fixated on getting it (they are otherwise healthy). Because fox news and all these other non-medical people keep harping on it, the elderly people, the same ones preyed upon by certain news sources get the wrong idea about this.
There's a whole tag to handle it in HTML. Don't have to reserve it for only the first instance.
My bet is that it's much more than 10%. In NYC I think it's at least 20%-30% by now. Obviously, I don't have any more data than what you can find online, but anecdotally, I think one of my sons had it; he most likely got it from his piano teacher who exhibited all the Covid symptoms (fever, dry cough, loss of smell), but was never tested. I think at least myself and my wife got this from him as well; likely his two siblings, but they were completely asymptomatic. Our kids' nanny has Covid now (tested at the hospital), and her son too (he's in ICU). I have other anecdotes, and no, I don't have systematic data, but I believe at least 20%-30% of NYC has had Covid by now.

Another point of reference is this: according to [1], a back-of-the-envelope estimate of the number of Covid-infected is 100 times the number of dead. It's about 8000 now in NYC, so about 800k infected. That's about 10% of NYC's population, exactly the number you mentioned.

[1] https://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/BackOfTheEnvelopeCOVID19.html...
People forget that the "rule of least power" is "the language with the least power suitable for the task". The question is whether YAML/HCL are suitable for the task to begin with. The following facts all testify that it is not, and that the principle of least power favors "real programming languages":

* CloudFormation hacks things like references, nested-stacks, macros, imports, etc onto YAML

* HCL becomes more powerful with each version

* Helm generates YAML with templates and recently added support for Lua

* AWS is building its CDK, which generates CloudFormation with programming languages

* Things like Terraform and Pulumi exist
Netlify announces move from .netlify.com to .netlify.app with the note that "it’s important to note all of your existing sites will continue to operate properly using their current URLs." Even says so here now: https://community.netlify.com/t/changes-coming-to-netlify-si....

What is their solution? Just fwd .netlify.com to .netlify.app. This breaks Chrome extensions that hotload code from a specific domain. The Fix? To publish a new version to Chrome webstore to unbreak this. The approval takes a few days.

Netlify obviously did not think of all corner cases or allow users to test this before hand!
The US still vaccinates against polio, but we don’t use the OPV anymore: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/polio/index.html

The OPV is still used in the few countries where there is polio in the wild because it does have advantages over the IPV.
This is the second time I've seen a comment from you complaining about Atom development when an unrelated Github article is posted. What's the purpose of these posts? Do you expect Github to start funding active development of Atom again?

If not, what's the goal of the complaints? I.e. why do you keep bringing this up if you know this is water under the bridge?

I'm a github user, though I wouldn't call myself a fan exactly, and I don't really know how "teams" works or why it's valuable. I came to this thread to learn more, and I find your comments grousing about Atom again. Hence my question.
You created a Side Project but used your company's email ID to share it with your teammate at work.

Does that side project belong to you or to your company? If it belonged to you, why would you use office email ID for collaborating on it? and if it belonged to the company, why would you manage it on a personal Trello account?

Sorry to sound harsh, but unless I am missing something, to begin with, looks bad judgement on your part.
This must have been mid 2000s. I graduated then as well and only a few kids even had flip phones in school. I also feel quite fortunate.
Thanks for sharing this, not sure why you're getting downvoted. TCM has its place, Artemisia Annua has been used as an anti-malarial treatment as well for hundreds of years, and again, is cheap, available, and side effects are known. I've had anecdotal experience that it's helpful for milder coronavirus symptoms.
This is this the more toxic variant though right? It’s meant to be hydroychloroquine