skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
" These are complex and expensive, "

It's infinitely cheaper than shutting down the economy and the massive ensuing bailouts.

"on the street observations in the article are: masks, masks, masks. "

There is no evidence that masks are a solution.

Just the opposite: contact tracing is definitely a primary driver of success.

We should have enacted aggressive contact tracing and widespread testing a long time ago, and recommended 'surgical/cloth' masks for public but strongly discouraged N95's as there are limited quantities and those need to go to the front lines.
While Gelman does point out to issues that may invalidate this paper (test specificity, mostly, and noisy weights, potentially) there does not seem to be any "cherry picking" involved.
That example suggests a significant amount is funded out of fuel taxes and toll fees, and seems to be kind of a mouthpiece for the energy industry to try to get rid of taxes on fuel.
RedHat has a maven plugin for this. Let me see if I can ask someone to share more details.
In that case I wouldn't trust any country not to fudge the numbers. As far as Japan goes, I believe the numbers are close enough. They have a very high population of elderly and smokers. People would be dropping like flies and making a lot of noise about it if the numbers were far worse.

Social distancing, wearing masks, staying home when sick, cleaning all fomites frequently are things the Japanese were doing before this pandemic culturally, I imagine those actions are in over drive now.

I'm reminded of when the subway tunnels in Japan flooded and the water was so clear you'd have thought it was a swimming pool. Even Chinese netziens commented on how absurdly clean Japan is when the pictures emerged.
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> This is similar to the AI question. Are you willing to put your full trust into a system with dynamics not fully understood, or do you put your trust into humans running centralized systems?

Tangent, but this is poor phrasing. If posed this way, an astute response would be that we don't fully know how human brains or emergent group behaviour in humans works either (which is why the social sciences are so hard!), so how is the second option meaningfully different from the first beyond tradition?

The key thing that separates AI systems and human systems is lack of intuition for AI behaviour. So the question should really be phrased: is it safe to trust a system you don't have an intuitive model for?

There are some cases where the answer is yes e.g. we trust airplanes built and ratified by experts even if we don't know how airplanes work on the presumption that, at least in the conditions we care about, airplanes have been tested and behave correctly.
Occam's razor, mostly.

https://fossbytes.com/tor-honeypot-how-to-hack-the-true-iden...
> There has never been a serious discussion in Germany about its failed post-WW2 denazification programme, history got in the way.

I am quite skeptical as to „never“. The example you give is an infuriating one and there are too many of those. But that there has been no discussion about de-nazification is simply not true.
In academia the topic definitely has been dealt with. See for example this article by the Centre for political education [0] which I consider an example of making this available to the public.

Also these efforts didn’t happen in a vacuum, Europe and Germany was in ruins, the allies wanted to wrap them up as well. Ironically the Sowjets were more drastic than the Western allies with their efforts, and we’ve ended up with a second totalitarian regime in Eastern Germany. They’ve even re-used the concentration camps.

Anyhow. I remember talking about this in school and critically discussing the History of Germany in the last century. We must not forget, we must not repeat.

[0]: https://m.bpb.de/geschichte/nationalsozialismus/dossier-nati...
Profit is the least of their concern. Tik Tok is backed by the Chinese govt. The more downloads the more spying.
It's interesting how two different news organizations report two different views about Renaissance on the same day (17 April).

* CNBC chose to only report on the Medallion fund, which is up 24% YTD.

* Bloomberg chose to primarily report on Renaissance's largest fund, REIF -- which is actually down 14% through March 31.

Link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-17/renaissan...

Neither news outlet reported the weighted aggregated return of Renaissance, the firm--which manages several funds by different portfolio managers.

Seems disingenuous at best.

My sense is Renaissance might not be doing nearly as well as it wants the market and public to believe...
I like that idea. I've changed to using shift for deletion. I've also enabled deleting on both mouse clicks and movement, so you can hold down shift and wiggle the mouse around like an eraser. This makes it much easier to delete lines.
I believe it generates a pub/priv key pair and stores it in localstorage.
That's fair. I was more commenting on her Internet Trends Report.
Zalando has probably surpassed Twitter as the biggest Scala shop for a few years now. If you look at Twitter's ecosystem you'll see that while it's mature, the style is very good overall and not so different from modern and opinionated FP libraries. Twitter used to employ people like Travis Brown for instance.

Spark (and Kafka too maybe) are outliers here.
Because an A380 costs $432 million and you need a bunch of them to run an airline, where as a restaurant fit out is ~$1M.

You also need to maintain those planes, employ staff across multiple countries and timezones, and comply with insane amounts of legislation for every country you fly into.

Are you seriously comparing that to ... serving food?
Breastfeeding does reduce odds of conception but it doesn't really last more than a year. Plenty of people get pregnant while breastfeeding.

I dunno, original poster mentioned scant nutrition being a condition for an extended effect so mayyyybe, seems like it would not be very hard to study today.
I was in a similar position at work. I was continually pointing out from mid-January onwards, that this was a serious issue that might spread world-wide. That we should at least conduct some tests/drills to insure that our business could function remotely. I was treated like a third head had grown atop my shoulders.

Jump to mid-March, when the pandemic was obvious to anyone with the least amount of curiosity, and the same group was saying "It's just a flu." The only thing that was socially acceptable to discuss was how many guns you might need in an apocalypse.

Denial is a powerful opiate.
Did any of the demos work for anyone? HN hug of death?
They didn't even have a lock down like in other countries and still managed this.
Do you know of a way to enable this by default with new sessions? I've been digging through the preferences and have fallen short.
Crab pot metaphor.
It seems like this level of organization would be beneficial to the sighted community as well. Is this a value that you use to market to customers?
What are cores?
You might try something like:

* write down the smallest next possible step towards this goal. It should be something you're very close to knowing how to do already. It doesn't matter if it leaves you still a long away from the ultimate goal.

* set a short timer (e.g. 20 minutes) and work on it until the timer goes off.

* reward yourself with something fun.

* repeat.
> since the times of general Stilicho

Slightly off-topic, but you want to write "General" with a capital G in this case because you're referring to a concrete general. I had trouble parsing your sentence because I took "general" to be an adjective.
Hello HN, Lot of educators are now teaching remotely but the most favourite tool of a teacher, whiteboard/blackboard is missing from their teaching arsenal

To project their physics experiments, chemistry labs, even good old pen & paper live

We built a p2p way to stream any smartphone camera to a browser while they are streaming their screeen live to students on zoom, google meet etc

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Forecasting solutions to a differential equation is hard, especially when there are infinitely many solutions. It is a matter of keeping constants up to date in light of new information. If those constants are wrong, the whole model is essentially useless.
For navigation in the real world, make sure to check out echolocation. Some blind people have been navigating the world using sound reflections like bats. I was recently watching [1] and it blew-out my mind. You could start training now. Apparently after much practice people could be independent to the point of riding bikes.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08smCjKWNL0
I expected the article to mention airflow & sun shade.
I think you are diminishing the amount of traffic between Europe and US on any given day. Closing the borders to Europe may very well have saved us from catastrophe. Numbers exploded everywhere in March.
Only do something for 1 minute, focusing as hard as you can.

Then take a break.

Then try for 2 minutes.

Then take a break.

Repeat until you can focus for a long time :)
"private companies" as opposed to "government-run", not as opposed to "publicly traded".

And no, "most" enterprises aren't averse to GPL code for usage. They certainly will have policies about making their own software depend on it, but that's different from simply using it, which was the original topic here.
LiveProject – Manning Publications
If we could afford to live in a world where everyone was given $5000/mth, would we want such a world? (where work was optional) I think yes.

...can we afford that? At this point, probably not. But is it something to strive for?

I think it is eventually possible to get the costs of providing basic needs to everyone (say, through automation) to the point where they can be easily covered by taxes on those who choose to work.

I fear though, that housing is an obstacle to this vision, because in many countries, people rely on housing to be an investment (ex. my parents house is the majority of their retirement), and so the politicians protect it as such, and developers have weird incentives... and so the prices don't go down.
This is amazing - it is sort-of the OneNote notetaking metaphor but simple. This will be excellent as a simple shared note taking tool for meetings.....Im going to use this today (I only have 7 zoom session on my calendar - gotta love Mondays!) to take notes instead of writing pen and paper. What i like the most is it doesnt required 13,000 files and a front-end framework that makes the Titanic look like a sailing dinghy.
Consider taking a look at this Opencore setup specifically configured for KVM and GPU passthrough.

https://github.com/Leoyzen/KVM-Opencore
As GP said in another reply, the incumbent party won a landslide victory in recent congressional election (180 out of 300 seats), so it seems South Koreans generally approve how the government handled it. (Of course the timing was fortuitous for Moon: had the election happened ~45 days ago things would have been very different.)

Even for the opponents, it seems the majority criticism was that the government didn't do enough - somehow they're very angry about not blocking visitors from China. (Many conservatives have a strong pro-America, anti-China sentiment, and frequently accuse the president of being the opposite.)
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I just boot up my IDE, open a Python console and just use pytz.
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What an itchy favicon.
Stories like Ready Player One fall into a Yu-gi-oh kind of trap. They're just playing a game in a world where their game is somehow the center of attention.

It's more like a filter bubble, where the whole world looks like it conforms to your dreams, and is paying attention to you.
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It's more that any hackintosh isn't perfect, and you'll notice some glaring flaws.

For me, it restarted on wake about 15% of the time. But every time that happened, it was always jarring. In addition, I would occasionally get some crazy graphic glitches which required a force restart (I was using the internal graphics on an i9 chip, so it should have been perfectly stable - but wasn't).

However, iCloud worked perfectly (along with handoff, copy/paste between devices, etc.). But in the back of my mind I knew that I was running a machine that had code not from apple on it, and that would always be a small but real risk.

I bought a Mac mini i7 1tb and dropped 64gb of ram in it. I get practically the same performance for the same price in parts, plus a T2 security chip. The only price I've paid is slightly more noise under load, which happens infrequently.

If I had it to do again, I would have gone with the Mac mini instead, but it was a good learning experience and taught me a lot about the lower levels of the system.
Every HN thread mentioning EVs has at least one person concerned because they personally can't charge a car at home. It rarely leads to good discussion.
An outright cure at a year strikes me as unlikely, given the record with anti-virals.

But improvements in supportive care (anticoagulants?) and lucky repurposing might win meaningful reductions in morbidity (some permanent) and mortality within months.

I'm not sure how to weight that possibility. (Metaculus has settled on a likely ~5% relative risk reduction for chloroquine, which is no game changer.) But it seems underweighted in general in discussions about different paths to herd immunity.
> It doesn't provide touch or pen support. There are much better tools available for that type of interface.

Anyone have any suggestions?
Only tangentially related to your question perhaps, but it's good time to become a musician, and to learn all the various software and digital elements involved in making modern music.
The reason I asked was to learn more about UBI and other people's perspectives on it. Not to be chastized and offended. None of this comment was helpful. I'd explain why sentence by sentence but I doubt that would be a fruitful exercise.
Is HR Tech a big industry in the US? Over here in the UK, it feels very much like it’s still emerging. There’s a few key players but no household names.

The companies I know who use some kind of HR software are typically paying ££££+ in expensive enterprise contracts for poor quality, old-fashioned software.

I guess I was just a little surprised at the tone of this article, which seemed to assume the market was totally saturated.
Seriously: exercise. You will have more energy, feel better, and be mentally shaprer. Exabrial said it better, I just wanted to reiterate it. It's had an excellent impact on my life.
I have a theory about why this is. There’s this economic concept called signaling - it’s the ways the economic choices we make also communicate information to other agents in the economy.

If you apply for a part time position, what do you communicate to your potential employer? Namely, that work is not your #1 priority. I think that employers want employees who are as obsessed with work as possible. It’s not that they don’t want part time employee, it’s that they don’t want the sort of person who would apply for a part time job.
link is 404? forgot to set the repo to public?
They tested in hospital/ICU areas. I think the odds are much higher in such an environment. Obviously medical workers should keep from transferring viral material to their homes, but to imply that this is being transferred by non-medical personnel is inaccurate.
Not to mention that on top of everything else, airlines also serve food.
Get off the computer and enjoy the sensory world while you can. You will have adequate time to hone your comprehension of process, formalism and other manner of abstract erudition thereafter, which will have its own beauty. Travel is a bitch if you can't see. Get out there now. I can recommend from first hand experience cycle touring with a tent and sleeping bag as a good way to see much of the world at a leisurely pace and very cheaply which does not require you to waste time saving money. Having that geographical reference to hang subsequently acquired knowledge on is golden. Get out there. http://www.artoftravel.net/
Any tips on how to start then? I used to know all the letters in Morse code but it was basically just learning the chart as you mentioned. I've since forgotten most of the alphabet.
What’s an example of a hard problem you recently gave up on?
I don't have a magic fix, but a few things that have worked for me, in different contexts:

- Remove your options. If possible, turn off your WiFi, router and phone. If I don't have an easy way to distract myself, it's easier for me to get "into the zone", and for my brain to really engage.

- Convince yourself to spend 5 minutes taking a stab at the problem. If you need to, set a timer. You can do anything for 5 minutes. And once you're 5 minutes in, the problem won't feel so massive

- Start writing down what needs to be done. Make a list, and then start making the list more granular by breaking the "big tasks" into "small tasks". Big tasks are frightening. Small tasks are easy to do one at a time.

- Put yourself in a new environment. If you procrastinate at home, take yourself out to a coffeeshop, or library where you can work. If you have a big enough house, have a "work room" and a "play room", and don't mix the two. Commit to not getting distracted in the work room.

- Surround yourself people you want to emulate -- here, productive people. If you're in uni, this is easy. If you're not, try to find discord channels, IRC channels, or whatever. It's always easier to be motivated when you're surrounded by other motivated people.

None of this is magic, and I don't want to pretend to be a paragon of efficiency (I'm on HN right now, after all). But the key is really to try SOMETHING new, if you aren't happy with your mental stamina -- and keep changing variables until you are.
I totally agree that power lines have improved recently. That fiddles with the details, and doesn't change the fact that even if these advances pan out, there will be (very long) distances that you'll want to ship energy that will be more efficient with ships than power lines.
One of the most infuriating realizations is that we end up giving the advice that we ourselves need.
Because programming without sight is hard. It's definitely doable and could very well lead to a fulfilling life. Or it might not. Maybe there are other careers that he might be better suited for and where his disability won't be as much of a hindrance. If so, he still has time while he can see to prepare for a career change.

Basically, the GP is telling the OP to consider all of his options and not to box himself into software engineering just because that's what he does now.
I wasted a bunch of time attempting to start making a mobile single page app accessible. Much of that was due to Safari 12 on an iPad, because I had believed that Apple VoiceOver was good. I found VoiceOver to be incredibly buggy. With iOS system apps, I was able to see where the voice feature was totally misleading or just wrong. And trying to use the ARIA markup to get Safari to voice the UI correctly felt like a dark art, and I gave up after weeks of effort.

If Apple VoiceOver is the best, god help the blind, because our software is failing them (and that includes the software I was responsible for).
Also an employer.

Add health insurance and office space as costs which don't scale down.

Lack of availability / presence creating difficulties for the rest of the org for meetings / getting questions answered / answering questions / etc.
I know a few people on disability. Since it's their lifeline they are generally stressed to terrified of losing it. So you have both an disincentive to look for work and risk losing benefits. And the stress also negatively effects their mental health as well. Which also makes it difficult to find productive work.

It's also cruel way to make people live.
We could do that with git.
> It is a matter of keeping constants up to date in light of new information.

I'd argue it's a matter of calculating confidence intervals for all of your fitted parameters and displaying joint confidence intervals if they display a large degree of interdependence/nonlinearity, as well as showing the fitted residuals beneath the main plot so it's easily apparent what issues the fitted function might have, such as high leverage, or overfitting. The prediction made will be from the best-fit parameters, but the contributions of other possible models can be used to infer a distribution of potential outcomes. A parameter sensitivity analysis wouldn't hurt either.

Then you'll immediately know if you're looking at (or about to publish) junk.
Modern examples (like Warren Buffett) are probably better, since most of those men lived during times when there were almost zero expectations placed on fathers, apart from making an income. Men could almost completely ignore their children without their spouse, the children, or anyone else seeing it as a problem.
Maybe to keep horses from wandering in.
This is a bit off-topic, but may I ask: how did you get introduced to programming?

Feel free to not answer :D
I didn’t know you could make that much on up work. Do you monitor his screen though? I heard up work makes you install something like that?
Otoh, if someone is stuck in the water, a life preserver being thrown at them isn’t going to make them dependent on life preservers. But they must address the reason why they were in the water in the first place.
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Please correct me if I'm wrong, but rt-PCR can only detect active SARS-Cov-2 shedding - meaning active disease, whereas immuno-assays check for the existence of antibodies.

A SARS-Cov-2 naive person will be negative to both; early on, rt-PCR will be positive[0] and immunoassay will be negative; then (if and when the immune system manages to synthesize the right antibodies) they will both be positive; then the virus is eradicated so rt-PCR will go negative, but the immunoassay will stay positive (for a while; unknown yet if for life)

[0] Assuming perfect accuracy and specificity.
I found the requirement for shopt -s histverify unbearable. I use !! extensively and don't want to hit enter twice.
Where did you read "warehousing?" The comment said "taking care of." Are you arguing that education institutions should not take care of kids?
> Optimizing UDP transmission over internet is an interesting topic.

Can someone summarize the problem in abstract terms? What are the parameters that the algorithm can play with? Packet size and rate of transmission, anything else?
What sort of questions do you find your self wishing the part timers were around to answer?
The link from this article should probably be this one instead.

https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Desktop-Guide/

This is the actual website with links, sidebars, etc and will give you the step by step instructions your are looking for. Just be very careful to read every word carefully. It is very easy to breeze past a very important point.
Instagram founders launch Covid-19 dashboard tracking how fast virus is growing
Coronavirus: How to work from home, the right way
The simplest explanation would be that the student was infected after quarantine.
It's just like a language. If you want to read morse code look at that chart, but if you want to hear it quickly you'll need to do audio flashcards. I n Anki it's pretty easy to add cards that have no text but sound which should be all you need.
I find that part time seekers want the part time to be their schedule,not the schedule I need them

Me: 20 hours a week is perfect

Candidate: Cool, I'll do Monday 8 to 3, tuesday noon to 5, and thursday and friday 1 to 5.

Me: well, really I need help 11-3 five days a week.

Candidate: that's not the schedule I'm after.
John Gardner is actually pretty good. But by the time it gets to Raymond Benson novel Bond has become to much like movie bond and it just comes across as a caricature.