skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about focussing on communication methods for people who are (almost) blind and deaf, leaving all communication to touch. I don't know if you can make a living from that, but given your intelligence, your programming and tech knowledge, your determination, you may have what it takes to make this work.

Thinking about it, this type communication might work in dark and soundless environments like when you dive in muddy water. Another target group is people in a coma. Just a suggestion. There are probably more use cases than people with Usher.
It is better to have laws about this stuff and stop acting like naive marks.
Offline and Online B2B Lead Generation Channels Under Social Distancing
Secrecy - and its many forms, such as (but not limited to) ignorance, subterfuge, deceit, etc. - is the root of all corruption. Societies and institutions, groups of people which keep secrets, are fundamentally corrupt. You cannot deceive and be dishonest when the truth is available for all and sundry.

You can freely be dishonest, and weaponise that dishonesty, and thus profit from it, in conditions where secrecy is elevated as a norm. The nations with the greatest secrets are also the most corrupt.
Anyone have a link to the actual study? The analogy with the streets makes it sound like subjects are following correct bandit-algorithm strategy because they don't know (and have no way of knowing) the variability in outcomes is truly random
> tendency for C programs to be faster

I was involved in a massive rewrite of a website from C to Java a while back. One coworker observed that, when they were coding in C, it took a lot longer to get anything working, but once you did, it was pretty solid: C had a tendency to just crash if anything was wrong, so you'd work for quite a while before you got something that didn't crash consistently. Java, on the other hand, allowed you to get something working (that is, running without crashing) much quicker: but the things that were out of place were still there, they just caused harder-to-find problems that were much more likely to become customer-facing before they were caught.
Wonderful! The demo site hijacks my back button, and the animations are incredibly slow.

Edit: Rereading made me sound very salty. Nice project and I'm sure I'll use it in the future.
I've found this sentiment common in posts like these, but most of them seem to conveniently ignore how complex software (especially video games) and hardware has become. Compare the screenshots of a game released in the PS1 era, to even a low budget indie title released today (eg. Hellblade), that's just the graphics, you have other aspects like multiplayer and AI. Games aren't written from scratch on bare metal machines now because it's not feasible to do so.

This applies to general software too, things that weren't big deal/non-existent in 90's are important now, security, networking, OS native UI frameworks. The OS itself doesn't give you FFA access to the machine anyway.

Also if you really wanted, instead of using Ruby you could bang out a backend/REST API using assembly[1]/C[2] even today, just that nobody wants to do that because it's a fucking pain in the ass.

[1] https://asm32.info/index.cgi?page=content/0_MiniMagAsm/index...

[2] https://kore.io/
https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/reference/ is the closest thing we have. It is not yet complete.
Testing Docker CVE Scanners. How good is package detection?
"only rational"?

Based on what? It seems like there is always an intrinsic value judgement here because reopening for young people means more old people will die, even with isolation. That's maybe a necessary cost to pay, but don't elevate your moral judgements to the "rational" when they are anything but.
Factorio is probably one of the best $$/hr values outside of Dwarf Fortress, which is free.

It’s also basically engineering catnip, consider yourself warned.

For those who are interested, it’s the stated goal of the devs to never put the game on sale. They think it’s worth $30, and they intend to sell it for $30. So if you’re interested, don’t wait for a sale, buy it now!
> When you have a higher level language with more accurately defined semantics, running it all through C would risk introducing undefined behaviour.

No, it wouldn't. When you target C you need to write a proper backend for its abstract machine, rather than naively rewriting code, of course.

The C abstract machine is a fine IR, specially the later editions of the standard.
I mean, if you're going to upgrade your python version, you should check your logs to see if you have had any DWs recently. If you have, upgrade your deps before upgrading python. If theres no new version available, you can't upgrade python yet.
Yes, and the evidence isn't suggestive of anything close to 0.1%. If it's less than 1%, it is still quite high.
Thanks for the explanation. As a layperson, the headline was very confusing to me, it gave me the impression that another pathogen was causing the pneumonia.
I agree. But if that's the case, trolling really isn't a joke, and recommendations to ignore it or not take it too seriously are misguided or disingenuous.
Infrastructure software, by its nature, is designed to power hundreds or thousands or millions of different needs. That suits an open source model.

We tend to inflate problems that touch us directly and deflate problems that we don't see very often. Consider if I am the government official responsible for making sure roads are paved. The roads that I use every day (to commute, to go to the grocery, etc.) are likely to be pristine. I will make sure of it. The roads I rarely see will be dealt with on their regular schedule, and maybe not at all if time runs out.

However, if paving decisions were made by a large group of citizens, each of whom had the ability to just go out and pave the road themselves if they felt like it, the city would be much more paved.

The same allegory works for closed versus open source. Consider if LinkedIn had left Kafka as closed source. If we looked at the code base, we would likely still find a pretty good message bus, but it would be optimized for the nuances of LinkedIn's system architecture and proclivities in passing messages. Once it became open source, developers from Facebook and Google and Startup #1 and Manufacturing Firm #2 and so on all jumped in to solve problems. They achieved consensus on how those problems should be solved and pushed forward.

Two points on this allegory that are relevant to Andreessen's argument: everyone in the infrastructure committee had skin in the game (they wanted problems solved) and they had the capacity to go deal with the problems themselves. Andreessen argues we have a lot of the first already but we don't have nearly as much of the second as we need.
Why are balance of powers necessary in politics? Why not just elect a president or PM that we can trust not to abuse their power?
Thank you! I look forward to the day when there is a spec, but I was surprised to see it mentioned and was wondering if I missed something big.
In most ebikes (but I think pretty much all of them), the battery can be removed. Even in the ebike I own, whose battery is integrated in the frame, one can easily open the frame and take the battery out.

Ebike batteries' range is around 20 to 100 km (account something like 50% less when the battery starts to wear out). I guess that people using it frequently need to charge it at least every other day.
Which ThinkPad model and chip?
So, where do you host? What data store do you use?
This is true to varying degrees, you could say that LLVM-IR and Java bytecode are two examples of this in action.
What is the expectation people will actually get the swab far enough back to collect a meaningful sample? Having been on the receiving end of a nasal collected flu test, it was a pretty deep probing. I’m kind of doubtful most people can do it to themself properly without some prompting to ‘go deeper’.
By many measures the USA is one of the most corrupt countries ever to have existed. It has a long and sordid history of normalising its corruption, even.
Patio11 on Coronavirus in Japan
Exactly! So there's no point in accepting companies registered in foreign countries.
Indeed, for mobile there is a good case!
There was a post on the front page a few days ago suggesting than a naturally attenuated form of SARS-CoV-2 should be found.

This preprint linking mutations to pathogenicity may be of interest.
I tried it in the 90's, at a company that would have been a potential customer. It didn't work on the Linux boxes or the Windows boxes that had a commercial X server. We dropped it almost immediately, because Sun's solution was "buy SparcStations". Which was crazy expensive at the time. So the network was NOT the computer. McNealy was a smart, but confused duck.
We get it, you're more fit than your cubical neighbour
LOL - isn't that the very nature of quantum computing itself?

"A quantum computer works with particles that can be in superposition. Rather than representing bits — such particles would represent qubits, which can take on the value 0, or 1, or both simultaneously" (https://plus.maths.org/content/how-does-quantum-commuting-wo...)

"The principle of quantum superposition states that if a physical system may be in one of many configurations—arrangements of particles or fields—then the most general state is a combination of all of these possibilities, where the amount in each configuration is specified by a complex number." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_superposition)
"Yes, it's handing out free money to some and not others based on basically nothing."

It's not based on "basically nothing" - at least from the banks perspective as originators in this case - it's based on which corporate accounts are deemed to be of greatest financial value to them. They can, will, did pick and choose loan beneficiaries in their portfolio based on how it will benefit them - nothing less. This means that business customers with big debts to the bank were a priority. It's absolutely a bailout of the banks in a difference scheme, albeit a bit more blatantly nepotistic than we're used to seeing so far.

And yes, they get a point in services for treating themselves too...

All that said, your gist is correct in that it's basically free money benefiting some at the expense of others which is why personally, morally, I am not in favor of corporate welfare under any circumstances - impossible to do so "fairly".
The reviewer also listed this as biggest downside to these bikes, so I assume the reviewer did contact VanMoof to ask about it, and did not get a satisfactory answer.

Most e-bikes have a removable battery pack which you can then lug upstairs; a lot more convenient than dragging the entire bike up there.

VanMoof is a dutch company, where bikes are popular even out in the sticks (where garages are common). There are also bike charging stations, but they certainly aren't standard in the bigger cities, which does make it a bizarre choice to make the pack non-removable.

Note that a battery pack, if it is removable, needs a locking system and a bunch of extra material in order to allow the battery pack to not be (easily) stolen and for the system to survive the wear and tear of having it removed so often. Presumably by making the pack non-removable except for servicing, it saves weight and volume.

That makes it impractical for many places, unfortunately :(
Love it!

Site could use some help though. Consider making a repo for the actual website please! Would love to help clean it up a bit.
Perhaps the internet is best understood as a reasonable shorthand for general consensus.
A Side Effect of the Covid-19 Pandemic? Reading Got a Lot Harder
New Zealand relied on science and empathy
D3D10 and D3D11 are very similar (I remember DXVK claiming that, which is why the supported both at once).

I don't think we had usable D3D10 support before DXVK, but I may be wrong.
I'm curious how all of these people claiming that Covid is at 0.1% or something close reconcile the fact that it has been the leading cause of death in the United States for multiple days ... and that's without most parts of the country having reached their peak.
Easy solution.

Verified works get signed by their content maker.

Tony LaRussa is verified. Twitter issues him a cert. All of Tony LaRussa's works are signed with that cert.

Revoke the cert if there's ever a problem. Not really Tony LaRussa. Someone hacks his accounts. He passes away. Etc.

Unsigned works still permitted. But everyone knows no one claims the work as their own.
but this is quantum. you take both approaches.
I understand the problem with some of the claims people make about things being really bad being unfalsifiable.

At the same time, the expected outcome of social distancing is for the outcome to be not as bad... so people will always be able to make this complaint. What exactly do you expect from people who are advocating social distancing?
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Lots of full-stack SaaS product experience. I've got a lot of depth on the front-end, but I have a good bit of breadth across the stack. Currently working fully remote (pandemic or not) on a product team. Love building products and having a hand in shaping their future for the good of users.
If there are any rust people here, you've probably considered that you can speed up your debug llvm builds by enabling some optimizations. SimplifyCFG comes to mind, but, like, you can experiment. I presume the reason you haven't is because you want to preserve debug info, and llvm isn't great at that when optimizations are on.
The developers that use XCode with Objective-C probably won't feel any difference as XCode will likely just silently compile the code into ARM (or both a la universal package from PPC days). It's too early to tell though.
I believe difficulty can be adjusted right? If you're not much for unforeseen attacks.
Why can't we use quantum computing itself to determine the best way to build a quantum computer?
Another Zapier? Yeah Right
I'm unable to view the article but is this NY clinician saying the same thing? https://youtu.be/k9GYTc53r2o

The gist is: 'Covid appears not to be an ARDS but a disease most resembling the symptoms of high altitude sickness'.

There's been a suggestion that the virus is able to dissociate the Fe in haemoglobin and thus cripple its O2-carrying function. Higher levels of free iron would likely be one result but have seen no data on this.
A few factors are at play.

- Cross-platformness; if you have a decent webapp, you cover all major platforms and operating systems, plus mobile if you make it responsive. If you go native you may need to create separate apps for windows, macos, linux, android and iOS. Cross-platform toolkits that aren't browser based just aren't good enough. I mean you mention WPF / Cocoa already which aren't cross-platform so you need two teams to build two apps that do the same thing.

- Customizability; it's harder to make an app look and feel the same across platforms. Granted, for best UX you don't actually want that, but at the same time the branding department says you should, people don't want to have to maintain documentation and screenshots for multiple platforms, etc.

I mean I hear you and personally I much prefer the responsiveness and efficiency of native apps, but we don't live in an ideal world.
As a childhood sufferer of semi-regular strep throat infections, I have a hard time believing people are going to willingly jam the swab back to where it needs to go. To me, it seems like this will just generate false negatives.
I'm baffled by the hub motor - are there any cases of hub motors superior to mid-drives?
> Apple doesn’t let employees contribute to unapproved OSS projects (even in their personal time).

Wow, that seems petty. And it enrages me enough that if I worked for Apple I'd immediately start looking elsewhere for a job. I can do whatever I darn well please in my personal time and any employer that says otherwise is being overbearing.
Asymptomatic shedding of viruses is the norm
Those comments have now been downvoted compared to an hour ago. I want to give good faith those comments aren't trolling, & so I personally don't think they should be downvoted

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22933774

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22934040

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22934379

Maybe these comments appear first because they're less likely to've read through the article. Otherwise it'd have to be something to do with the demographic of people watching /newest. But it was posted 4 hours before I made my initial post, so I don't know
The way I see frameworks is as tools in themselves, but I do see your point, you're probably technically right. But the example doesn't diminish the idea. The ever changing software landscape makes it hard to master things that come and go.

Plus, Angular comes with a bunch of tools in itself. If you take a break for a while you'll have to re-learn the new ways of doing things a few versions later. This is not only taxing, but makes one reluctant whether to invest the time in it or not, and the learning process is a bit encumbered by the idea that it all may go to waste soon-ish. The reality was that even older tools proved to be useful to me as I had to pick up and maintain older projects and having learned that it made it easier. But this may vary from case to case.

Moreover, when something new comes out, everybody is hyping it and when we start using it in my work place, my gut feeling tells me to wait for v2 or v3 or so, such that I don't have to deal with the many confusing changes that take place in the few iterations. But I do that just because I had some bad experience in the past. Others break their teeth with the same frustration that I had. They too may build their reluctance as I did.
I suppose "mathcraft" was taken? :p
Fitbit has sp02 sensor in it's watches. Could they detect Covid patients earlier?
You are describing tax avoidance, not evasion.
> For wasting the time and resources of every one who uses the application?

I don't believe this argument for a second, with the ubiquitousness of successful Electron apps.
Totally... no one is saying that we get off scot-free if we stop quarantine. The quarantine can't last forever, and the virus at some point will spread... so even if you are at-risk if you don't get it now you might get it 6 months from now -- unless of course, younger folks get out there and build herd immunity.
I suspect you're actually misidentifying the culprit.

Lag is generally not noticeable on cellphones, and lag has always been a problem with landlines on long-distance (especially far-international) calls.

What you're describing "like a walkie-talkie" is actually the difference between half-duplex and full-duplex.

Landlines are full-duplex, and cell phones were notoriously bad half-duplex... until 4G which is considered full-duplex. There's also the issue of carriers muting audio completely when it's under a certain threshold, which makes them less responsive, because you have to ask "are you there?" every so often.

Videoconferencing latency is a separate issue, because there's one central server for each meeting, so if it's between the NY and SF office, the server may be in SF, so two separate NY participants get double the latency talking to each other than they do talking to SF. But, everybody hears the same audio.

You might say, well why don't they select a server in the middle of the country for that call then? But selecting an optimal server location for a videoconferencing call is difficult, even if you have access to cloud locations all over the country/world, because you usually don't know in advance who's going to join the call. So whoever hosts the call or whoever's the first participant, the server is often chosen to simply be whichever one is closest to them, which can sometimes be quite suboptimal once everyone's joined. (And I sure wouldn't want to be the one to write code for switching servers mid-call.)

Also, videoconferencing is much closer to "half-duplex" because if you were always mixing everyone's audio together, it would be a noisy mess.

But in conclusion -- latency/delay isn't a significant new problem that digital networks have introduced. It's always been there, but duplex, silence thresholds, and conference calls are the more important factors to pay attention to.
Journal of Glenn T. Seaborg (1946-1958)
Can VCs co invest in trillion dollar government infrastructure projects? Roads bridges hospitals online education healthcare etc. ?
Yes, you have it exactly. Facebook is used as if it was a the utility for information dissemination but it is run as a publisher with editorial license to suppress and boost whatever it wants. This is a new and unholy combination that should be explicitly considered in the law.
I don't expect that because the Python 2 die-hards are, shall we say, not a maintainer-friendly crowd. You'd have to pay me FAANG bucks to even consider it.
You may have the money, but not the talent. I can't imagine there are that many cutting edge quantum computing researchers out there. Talk about a niche field.
Yes, but note that at some point Freetype was only 1000 lines of code, too.
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Blame Flat UI. Thanks to Flat UI, native apps don't have a special look & feel. To the user this means native apps don't look any different from Web/Electron apps. So users don't know to demand native apps.

If users can't tell, why as a developer would you invest in a native app and only get a slice of the market, when you could use web technologies and have your app work on all platforms?
WTF Apple..?! Is this due to some fear of IP leaking via employees contributing to OSS?
> Many people report Netflix's 4k is very heavily compressed compared to 4k blu-ray, making it high quality in name only.

This is quite true, and it is to be expected from a streaming service that wants to deliver 4K video over most Internet connections. They stream 4K at around 15mbps to my LG TV, meanwhile a blu-ray's video stream would go above 50mbps typically.

There is definitely also a cost component to take into account when you have over 160M paying accounts to deliver content to.
That attitude reminds me of certain type of software engineers: We are engineers, our time is too valuable to write tests, hire someone else to do so. When I hear that, I run away. Fast. The world needs results, and there are little. How about we stop the excuses and roll our sleeves instead?
Data science is not about learning everything
Doesn't matter.

What matters is transparent process for issuing, revoking, adjudicating authentication.

Every authenticator can have their own process.
It looks like programming but in a more cumbersome fashion. I enjoy and understand the appeal of puzzles (Recurse is a good game), but this is too much like work.
Google Shopping opens up to free product listings
To give an indication of how low that testing is, on that site Japan is ranked #119th country in the world in terms of testing.
Any change can and should be questioned as to if it actually improves things.