skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The real reason was that everybody was ashamed of the terrible messes their codebases had inevitably become.

Haha true, especially for code written at the partyplace in a rush.

I agree with you as well, the scene is definitely opening up and sharing more than in the past. There's some pretty good talks that occur at parties these days, not quite an academic conference, but getting there in some ways.
Thanks for saying that! I really appreciate it. It's not so common in the context of an interaction like this.
> 1. airpods you peasant

Why would anyone accept the worst sound quality the market has to offer?

For the price of the AirPods you can get wired ear-buds or over-ears which literally provides you with 10x the sound fidelity and listening experience.

And they all require that good ole’ standards-compliant jack.

When it comes to audio, I’ll only take the best. And the AirPods aren’t even in that competition. Peasant indeed, eh?
Airpods. Best purchase I've made in a decade.
It would be the test using QPCR to amplify the virus genomic material from samples collection. That test is a lot more specific though there can be issues with how the samples were obtained.
Maybe we could give them to people who aren’t at-risk though, so they are more likely to fight off covid -19 and less likely to transmit it around.
Here's some clarification I googled because I was a little confused by your comment:

TL;DR - The FDA only approved it for emergency investigation, not treatment. (as of 2020-03-31):

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2020/03/30/fda-ap...
For those that didn't know what this is (like me):

> Demoskene is an international community focused on demos, programming, graphics and sound creatively real-time audiovisual performances.
You know what else doesn't work with face masks? Human face recognition. There is a reason why robbers use masks.

Setting high standards, aren't we? :)
Review: TurboGrafx-16 Mini
I think it's ok if people want a red phone.
why a separate project for keydb? couldn't all this just be merged into the main project?

are there significant architectural changes/tradeoffs in keydb that made it not-ideal to merge into redis?
Does anyone else get severe graphical corruption on Windows 10 using google chrome while scrolling that page?
Does that really make that big of a difference? You can still tell the difference...
Apple shows the comparison on their site: https://www.apple.com/iphone-se/why-upgrade/
> Lack of headphone jack is still unacceptable

Don't forget you can still use the lighting to 3.5mm adapter. It's no longer included free but at least it's available. Cost around $9.
Still you're off. There is no gaming on real contemporary demoparties.
That lens is a 16 year old lens, hardly indicative of anything. Try a Canon RF 50mm f/1.2.
Likely died form heart attacks. Both HCQ and azythro lengthen QT's.
Exactly. Screw around and try to game/skirt the law IRL and the risk is way too high that you'll goto jail anyway. There are usually no consequences for doing this online.
Covid-19: 'Cough chamber' shows six feet not far enough
Here is a reference for the R0 = 5.7 estimate:
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/7/20-0282_article
It’s a random study so very significant evidence points to because.
Likewise, South Korea reports a fatality rate of about 2%

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/south-kore...

Since they have coronavirus relatively under control and have been doing extensive testing and contact tracing for months, it's plausible that they've caught most cases. It's wishful thinking to believe the infection fatality rate is an order of magnitude lower.
Why in the world would you quote "experts" and clearly you know nothing about statistics if you look at 181 patients and immediately think "oh well that's just too small!"

You can have significant results with as little as 10 random samples. People are mad because this is getting pushed as a treatment for COVID-19. The only correct response is: "We do not have evidence that this a treatment for COVID-19."

As more research is done we can update our knowledge on this, but instead you talk about the "experts" like they you know more than they do. Typical anti-academic rhetoric.
There’s firings everyday, it only looks coordinate because you look at one day.
Just FYI, the guidelines for this form mention:

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."
Would a lightning dongle still work in these situations?
Innovations we owe to open source
How is this about regulation? Factories and supply chains can't just suddenly ramp up their production by an order of magnitude or more. You need to build new machines, hire new workers, source new supplies, and figure out how to distribute it all. That can't just happen from one day or another, no matter how little regulation there is on the product.
So much is unknown about the pandemic because the government keeps a lid on it
If you're carrying headphones on the go, how much less convenient is it to carry those same headphones with the adapter on them? I would argue it's exactly the same level of convenience.
> I think creative nerds are the life-blood of the industry, but they tend to be shy and not assertive, so they have their life controlled by the "business types". I honestly believe that if the nerds told them to fuck off and started spending their time working on things they think are relevant, the world would become much better quickly. This won't happen, I know.

This is how I felt about myself, I spent my early twenty working a job living frugally saving and then quitting to work on my own projects. Failed entrepreneurship was a great lesson in how hard it is build things people want and how easy it is to build things you think people want. The difference is often very subtle small details, but asking the right questions to unearth those details in incredibly challenging.

The amount of things that someone will give their time or attention to our suprisingly small
> But why would gloves cause trouble with FaceID?

They cause trouble with TouchID. That's the comparison.
This is interesting, but why not add in a benchmark for regular redis as a 'baseline'. Is it really worth upgrading to me?
I looked a little further.

hello.c: 4 loc, 84 bytes

hello.s: 30 loc, 517 bytes

hello: 8.3k

so it must be data structures for linking.

oh, and if I use -static, hello becomes 844704 bytes. :)
The post I was responding to had the strong implication of a Mafiosi stopping by a store and saying "Nice store you have here - it would be a shame if something happened to it". "You might want to consider our needs and sell us stuff at what we consider a good price".
> Those technologies were already not as heavily used when they were dropped.

I'll give you it's not an apples-to-apples comparison, but having lived through all there events professionally, I can tell you that's not how it was perceived at the time. At least, not around my offices :-)
Zerzar - this looks awesome! Right now we're a small team in the same timezone, but can definitely see value as we expand our team!
We would like to be relatively target-agnostic. OpenGL could be one of targets, but not only one. We also would like to work on regular and/or GPU-equipped cluster machines, etc.

On the suggestion in your second part: why use Halide then? Should it be responsibility of Halide to work out the best loop nesting and best use of threads?

Again, Halide was put aside and we used CUDA for final version, exactly because of inability of Halide to do good work in our case.
KeyDB has some hacker news posts in the past where it was shared but these modifications were not accepted into redis. At the time Redis was not considering multi-threading.
Random testing was performed in Johnson County(KS) over the weekend.

https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article242010356.html
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Due to the planned obsolescence (via stoppage of security updates) of Android phones within 2 years I had been seriously been considering buying an iPhone SE2.

But I can't really justify myself buying it at the hefty price tag of $555 in India. (The extra $155 being added due to the high custom duties on imports in India.)

Salaries (at least for software developers) here being 1/4th of that of US developer salaries or lesser makes even the $400 price in US not quite easy to digest.

It seems I will be stuck with buying an Android One phone instead.
That's really not that much, I would expect the infection rate in NYC to be anywhere between 10-20%, that makes sense given the numbers we're seeing in hospitals.
I'd be happy to look at specific links that anyone is worried about. That's part of the contract we have with users: the guidelines ask people not to post insinuations about astroturfing but they also ask people to send the concerns they do have to hn@ycombinator.com.

Based on everything I've seen, though, the null hypothesis is that what you're describing is explained not by a difference in the audience, but by the topic. China was already probably the single most divisive topic on HN in the last year. Obviously the covid crisis has accentuated that. This isn't an HN thing—it's all through Western media and no doubt a symmetrical version is running through Chinese media as well. HN can't possibly be immune from macro social trends (
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
).

You can see that I've been making this point, including about China, for a long time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19219091

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18758864

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18227719

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18413084

Also, note how those commenters have the perception of exactly the opposite bias on HN? That's how this goes.

This has been happening for a long time, and when we moderate both sides, each side takes it as proof that we're biased against them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18214378
What If Covid-19 Returns Every Year, Like the Common Cold?
You might be interested in this letter from the BMA: https://www.bma.org.uk/media/2283/bma-ethics-guidance-and-ag...

> This note addresses in more detail the relationship between our guidance and those patients who are elderly or who have disabilities. It emphasises that neither age nor disability are in themselves relevant criteria for making decisions about treatment.

This follows on from widespread (and perhaps misleading) reporting about a tool. This tool has NHS branding, but it doesn't appear to have come from NHS_England+Improvement. http://prod-upp-image-read.ft.com/765d3430-7a57-11ea-af44-da...
Is this the type of data you are looking for?

https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/9655/data-source-f...
"Covid+" was a tweet, not the research article.

As always, the distinction between two tightly bound things is not important when you talking about features common to both, such as which people have them.

Humans tend to migrate toward shorter more pronouncable, easier to type terms. Language evolves like a virus ;-)

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/synecdoche-met...
Thank you!

Each session is private and can be accessed only through its unique URL which contains a non-guessable random string. Would you still be interested in locking with a password? Can you please describe a use-case?
This is not the bar that's typically applied for drug trials. The goal of a drug trial is not to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that it DOESN'T work. The goal is to prove to a high level of confidence that it DOES work.

For example, it's highly unlikely (roughly less than 2.5%) that HCQ reduces the onset of ARDS by half.

If it ultimately turns out that HCQ reduces the rate of death by 5%, we'd have to do a tremendously large trial to distinguish that effect from the control with any confidence that it's not actually killing 2% more people. Additionally, you'd have to consider that vs. the fact that it will kill some fraction of people who take it from its cardiac side effects, even if doctors are vigilant about discontinuing therapy when arhythmias are detected.
A small hydroxychloroquine Study was just published. Equivical results found with some patients discontinued for ECG irregularities.

Source: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.10.20060699v...

Discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22879361
>We already have lots of data that says this is not true... Longer term follow-up found ~25% of infections were asymptomatic.

Based on other available data the severity of the Covid symptoms are dependent on both the length of exposure and total exposure to the virus. A cruise ship with recirculated air likely means prolonged exposure to high concentrations of the virus that won't fit most other patients exposure.
I have been sedated a few times for minor procedures, propofol, I think, with no issues, and I’ve had a general once, for a laparoscopic cholecystectomy - about as trivial as abdominal surgery comes, only a few hours under.

It had side effects.

For the better part of a year afterwards, I kept finding myself unconsciously substituting completely incorrect words into written correspondence, I was irritable almost constantly, my short term memory was shot, and I had hallucinations and attacks of aphasia - I’d be walking down the street, or in the shower, or in a damn meeting, and I’d not only forget where I was but I’d lose object permanence and recognition - couldn’t tell taps from cats, cars from shoes.

It got better, over time, but there was very definitely a long mental hangover from it. I do have medical quirks, like I can’t tolerate opioids (they worsen pain and make me vomit), and I’m a carrier of a whole bunch of degenerative diseases (thanks, inbred aristo dad), and when I had surgery I was weakened from years of still mysterious illness - they thought my GB was the root cause, but no - stress - leaving tech fixed me.

Anyway. I can readily see how, with someone with a poised avalanche of genetic mental disorder, it can be enough to completely push them into the abyss.
> It's already been politicized, it's too late. The minute that politicians started advocating for a treatment before there was any scientific backing, that ship sailed.

In general, that doesn't mean we should simply abandon all attempts to de-politicize it. In fact, it means just the opposite - we should put aside any political aspects and focus on objective data.
and for over 3 hours? What could they do accidentally that would cause an outage for this long?

The tweet says they're failing over to their backup facility. I would've expected that fail over to happen much faster.

Seems like they have two issues going on. First, the remote hands could take down the datacenter. Second, their fail over is taking this long to come online.

I also wonder how much Covid impacted the process, if at all.

I'm looking forward to the details after they get things back online.

Good luck CF engineers!
Not true, it wouldn't inconvenience anybody if this worked out as a treatment, because nobody has claimed that it couldn't be proven to work.
Covid-19 is killing healthy young people with no known pre-existing conditions at very high rates. It just happens to be killing the elderly and those with comorbidites (which includes normal ailments like diabetes and obesity) at even higher rates.

It isn’t just some new common cold that we don’t have herd immunity for. Different viruses have different lethality; common cold corona viruses are far milder than SARS-Ncov-2 which is in turn far milder than MERS.
I had the same thought. Here's the clip from Contagion where Jude Law's character, an internet crank, promotes it on national television:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHZ8wx6J36Q
Amazon suspends all deliveries in France
> I own a 6s, I'm wondering what the advantage is to buying this phone rather than replacing the battery on my current phone.

Your phone model has already gotten OS updates for about five years since launch. It’s possible that iOS 14 may not support iPhone 6S. If that happens to be the case, then getting a new phone makes sense just to have software support for the next five (or more) years.
Banks brace for big loan defaults by US, global customers
That's such a false dichotomy. You can want a red iPhone, want to support charity, and not be a brow beater. C'mon.
I wear a layer for absorbing sweat, and don't wash my raingear.
It samples cases that are detected after the fact, from which they are able to reconstruct the phylogeny with impressive clarity. If you are not familiar with the work of nextstrain.org, I highly recommend it, they are brilliant.
The article mentions,

> The $1.1 trillion company was given 24 hours on Tuesday to comply with the ruling to sell only essential items such as food and hygiene products, and to upgrade its health-security procedures.
Taking care of 2M Essential Ears with Glowforge
XABY: Functional Machine Learning
You've got infections, he's got answers.
The weirdest thing was when in one of Oliver Sacks' book (maybe The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat), after countless stories of people losing their personality, their mind, almost their humanity in some cases, he talked about his continued belief of the existence of an immortal soul, when I precisely myself find his stories vivid evidences that such a thing as a "soul" is a complete absurdity and an illusion.
> airline seats, sedans and furniture haven't been trending towards one end of the spectrum over a number of years.

I beg to differ! Airlines have slowly crammed in more and more seats for years.

"Less legroom is now the industry norm. In the early-2000s, rows in economy used to be 34 inches (86 centimeters) to 35 inches apart; now 30 to 31 inches is typical, though 28 inches can be found on short flights, according to Washington D.C.-based advocacy group Flyers Rights. Seats have narrowed, too, from about 18.5 inches to 17 inches on average."

https://time.com/5636154/airplane-legroom-shrinking-asia/
True, but wasn't there a project for a phone based on upgradeable parts? I forgot who was doing that.
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I don't agree, I've had a phone with Face ID for years now and I still often encounter situations where Touch ID would work better. It is easier/less awkward to unlock your phone with Touch ID in a wider variety of situations, because it does not require the phone to be both aimed at your face and close enough to your face.

Touch ID also doesn't have to use heuristics to "guess" if your face might be in front of the phone so that it should look for your face to unlock. The presence of the thumb/finger is the signal.

I also prefer the phone to have a home button than not to have one. Missing the home button made other buttons' functions overloaded, so now I often inadvertently trigger Apple Pay by double-clicking the side button when I didn't mean to.

Basically, I think there are a number of subtle UX regressions that they introduced when they made this change, and it wasn't really worth it. It's not a disaster, just a series of minor annoyances that I'd prefer to do without.
> in vitro

Lots of things work in vitro. Many things don't work when pumped into bodies.
I often end up watching TV on a phone when I'm on a bus/train. Though I'm not too bothered about the size.
Also from bk. I'll anecdotally second this sentiment. I even got sick with a terrible cough for 2 weeks in the end of February and lost my sense of smell for 2-3 days. My roommate didn't get sick, but I just spoke to my neighbors and they mentioned similar symptoms the week after me.
"I'm sure in 1985 Plutonium is available at every corner drugstore!"
Only way I know to get any COVID19 antibody test is through this study https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04334954?term=serosur... and the result may be inconclusive or take months.
Honestly, if this were not linked so tightly at this point to a certain U.S. politician, then I doubt that it would receive much media attention at all. And it would probably be the sort of thing that HN and Reddit would view favorably.
> Imagine if 10+% of the population already had COVID and where immune

By some estimates we need over 80% of the population to get it in order to achieve herd immunity, so if only 10% of the population has it we're not very close at all to this being over.
While my grandfather was in the hospital years ago, the patient in the room next door was recovering from a quadruple heart bypass. He didn't like the hospital food so his family brought him cheeseburgers from the fast food restaurant down the street.
>because of additional language that applies the policy retroactively “so losses in 2018 and 2019 can be ‘carried back’ against the past five years.”

Damn, must be nice.
> I guess, but seems weird to me to watch video on public transport instead of listening to music or a podcast, or reading something

... Why?
A group I'm working with quickly decided against Raspberry Pis for running ventilators. Our main concern was not having an RTOS. Are they planning to use raspian?
Experiences like this are one of the major reasons I decided to keep my focus on iOS development rather than pivoting to full-stack as I was considering doing.

The iOS dev experience is far from perfect, and while YMMV, I definitely found I spent _much_ less time fixing my hammer when I'm building for a single platform using a single language in a (largely) excellent IDE.

Sometimes I think there must be engineers out there who enjoy the hammer fixing and glue-drying that comes with the rapidly changing full-stack development landscape.
Regarding the price point being fantastic - that may be true for an iPhone but not for smartphones in general. For 480€ i can get a pretty high end Xiaomi phone for example. Or three very decent Xiaomi A3 phones with multiple cameras and an OLED screen.
The problem with the Xperias is that there are counterfeits out there.
Which handful are you thinking of? We do make them here in the US... https://www.wired.com/story/surreal-frenzy-inside-us-biggest...
But isn't that why we all love HN?

/s (kinda)
My dad was a computer programmer. My mom was before I was born.

In high school I took a Fortran class. It was... all right, I guess. Then the computer science lab got five TRS-80s. I borrowed the Basic manual and read it one day when I was supposed to be paying attention in calculus class. I started using them (I wasn't in any of the CS classes, but they were tolerant of such shenanigans), and it was magic. Turns out the difference between one week of turnaround time and one minute makes a big difference.

Then I didn't do anything much with computers in college. I graduated with a math and physics degree. I felt really smart, because those are hard majors. Then I graduated and found out I was unemployable. So, not so smart after all.

At my dad's suggestion, I interviewed for a computer programming job. The boss said "I don't see a lot of computer classes on your transcript." I said "No, I've got a math degree. I'm mostly self-taught with respect to computers." I figured that was the end of my chances there. Turns out she had a masters in math and was self-taught on computers. I got the job.

The pay's good, the working conditions are a lot better than digging ditches, and I like the work at least some of the time, so I've stayed.
I guess they are same design as Toshiba DT01ACA series. My 10-years old Barracuda was barely audible drowning in fan noises, but this new Toshiba seeking is obnoxiously loud.
Holy crap, I used to volunteer in this exact ER for years! I'm pretty sure I've seen him around, I had no idea he was the former CEO of RadioShack!
Laid off != Fired
It has to do with polarization of the lenses and the "Require attention" feature of FaceID. The notch cameras can't determine if your eyes are looking at the camera if you're wearing polarized sunglasses (depending on the type of polarization) so having that setting on will give you a 100% failure rate with something that's covering your eyes.
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