skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh not really, these aren’t measurements these are for the most part binary tests the current assays seem to trigger on AB’s for multiple coronavirus strains and even worse other common viruses.

Without knowing the specificity and sensitivity of this specific test you can’t say any “inaccurate guesses” based on it is an upgrade.

Say the test has really poor sensitivity but 100% specificity then sure it might not identify a lot of past infections but it won’t produce false positives so which ever figures come out you can extrapolate of them fairly easily.

If it has terrible specificity then it’s a whole other problem unless you have additional tests that have high specificity that you can use to exclude false positives.
There is no evidentiary basis for the extreme lock-down Spain is using.

While this disease is pretty contagious, you are pretty unlikely to get it walking around outside or going for a run. Especially if everyone is wearing a mask.

It's possible you could catch it by running through a cloud of an infected persons breath, but the risk is low enough that we shouldn't ban outside activities.

The vast, vast majority of infections occur from sustained contact (>15min) within a few feet of someone.
case rate, not infection rate. They are one of the few nations in the world that are credibly even close to catching half their infections. The US is probably missing 90% (https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.06.20055582v...)

To that point, their death rate is lower than the Bay Area.

To a second point, Iceland is under a very weak lockdown, if you can even call it that. Their elementary schools remain open.
> It's also better in that one can avoid polluting /L/E /S/L/E

I haven't used OpenCore[1], but just to be clear, Clover can do this too!

When Clover first came onto the scene (replacing the even older Chameleon/Chimera), bootloader kext injection was my favorite feature. It's great to have Hackintosh kexts separate, particularly in a place where updates can't touch them.

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[1] Partly because Clover works and I'm used to it, and party because I want to run Mavericks, and I'm not clear how compatible OpenCore is with old OS's.
In praise of mandatory indentation for novice programmers (2008)
Not disagreeing, what you say seems right to me, but it ("All smooth curves ...") also seems like the sort of result that there might be a counterexample to, like a smooth curve that at no scale has a linear approximation. Maybe a fractal with a smoothly varying generator??

For curves of infection rates I don't doubt your verity.
I think this gives the real answer to my question, which is that other people don’t plan for the worst case in the way I do. I wouldn’t have children unless I was absolutely sure I could deal with them, because the worst case is so awful (you can’t really get rid of them once you have them). I did factor in things like “is this house big enough if I need to avoid my partner for long periods of time?” into my buying decision. And so on. It didn’t really occur to me that people would make very large life decisions like where to live or whether to have children based on things continuing to be ‘normal’.
Do you have any sort of science or statistics to back that up are you making fatalistic statements based on emotion?
A little off topic: Are there similar hands on books for high performance systems programming in C, C++ or Rust?
I agree, that's always the biggest problem is how much time you have to spend researching what tweaks you have to make for a specific piece of hardware. It seems like there's not that much effort in making the process automatic and more in making the process flexible. I'd rather it either work without any configuration on my end, or fail in predictable ways so I could contribute fixes. For example, for each specific iteration of hardware, there'd be a github issue and everyone with that hardware could swarm it and build an automated fix. There's too much one-off patching that goes on in the hackintosh process these days.

Having said that, I do really appreciate all the work and I think it's great that hackintoshes exist. I just feel like a lot of good research and work is thrown away because it's hidden away within forum threads instead of inlined into the solution.

I was planning on building a hackintosh today (my mac mini just isn't fast enough these days). I'll give Open Core a try. It's been a couple of years since I last built one.
Agreed, I expect that is what they meant. "Massive debt" implies credit cards, gambling, or at least student loans. A mortgage isn't a massive debt like that because it is against the value of the house that you own. If you want you can just sell your house and be debt-free. You can't do that with credit cards.

I looked into moving to silicon valley for the enormous salaries, and even when you take into account the insane rent you're still taking home more than you would anywhere else in the world. I suspect it is the prospect of a pay cut keeping him there rather than actual massive debts.
I am sure he is just referring to Worldometer. Is there much beyond that?
I didn't watch it, but a couple of the bullet points look pretty untrustworthy.

Covid-19 is a “mild disease” and similar to the flu, and it was the novelty of the disease that scared people.

It's a fair bit nastier, certainly in some cases, or the hospitals wouldn't be full.

The actual fatality rate of Covid-19 is the region of 0.1%

How can we be sure until we have widespread testing?

At least 50% of the population of both the UK and Sweden will be shown to have already had the disease when mass antibody testing becomes available

Again how can we be sure of this?
It all seems very speculative.
Linus Tech Tips does one every few years, the last one was pretty recent I think. As far as I remember, almost everything worked really well. Notably, Facetime was really hit-and-miss.
Thunderbird (an email desktop client) has a similar issue: some keystroke (I don't know what, but I've accidentally hit it a few times) collapses the folder view on the left. The only way I've found to restore it, is to mouse-drag the dividing line back right. But it's not clear there is a dividing line, you have to guess that it's there, and be excruciatingly careful about positioning the mouse cursor.
It's too bad those tickets aren't created automatically. That probably raises the bar for people wanting to add these sorts of comments.
Perhaps people like his parenting advice because it's insightful on its own merits? I wouldn't expect an expert on startups to be particularly wise when it comes to parenting. If anything, I'd expect the opposite. But the proof is in the pudding.
I think this is a difficult question to answer because MacOS is built for specific hardware configurations, and Hackintosh has to build unofficial support for all sorts of non-standard configurations. Your experience with a hackintosh really depends what hardware you're trying to install it on.
It is very rough though. Like “with 60% probability we think these two people are on the same block”.

Totally oversold technology.
No. This is pretty much useless for that.

Project X-Ray [1] has been working on reverse engineering the Series 7 bitstream format for a while now, and Dave Shah has an experimental fork [2] of nextpnr that targets some devices using the X-Ray database.

[1] - https://github.com/SymbiFlow/prjxray

[2] - https://github.com/daveshah1/nextpnr-xilinx
They are more stable than ever right now - probably because the development community has grown in numbers.

I've been using a hackintosh as my main productivity desktop since about 2014. Details on my latest build here: http://stephenvescio.com/blog/building-a-2019-mac-pro-hackin...
Proposed: $2k Monthly Stimulus Checks and No Rent Mortgage Payments for 1 Year
I believe what you call pmarca's view is also the view of researchers in the field. The term "regulatory capture" comes out of the Public Choice branch of Economics.

> We need good regulation, not less

The result of the research is that that is, in general impossible. Sure, some regulators do good work for some period. But the general forces and incentives in play push quite strongly towards the regulator being captured.

The better working alternatives are laws, where disputes or guilt are decided by courts. Since there is no regulator to capture in this scenario, things work pretty well. Of course, lawmakers can also be captured, but that's harder.

One fascinating* thing with the field of economics is that so m any thinks their opinion is worth as much as the expertise of professional in the field.

You routinely hear people confidently claim the economics field is wrong about things they've studied for decades or centuries, because of simple arguments that are all thoroughly accounted for in the beginner literature.

* or "infuriating", if you are an economist :)
People caring only a limited amount about technical debt is rational, arguably. Opportunity cost is high.

And lots of organizations would be willing to borrow money at a usurious interest rate-- why not borrow technology for the same? ;)
If people are having less social interactions per day, on average, it will still slow down the spread compared to everyone behaving as before. There's a continuum between no measures taken and complete lockdown... I'm personally very much looking forward to being able to see friends.
Thanks - will read.
It'll take me a while to get through all this, but right off the bat:

"I used to think that carbon dioxide caused global warming. Carbon dioxide is a molecule, it has no volition of its own. It can't make choices. We can. It reacts to us, to our behavior."

Such a simple idea, so simple that the significance is easily overlooked. I've had my eye open for people who have this perspective (and take it seriously) for quite some time, but it's rare to encounter such people, at least in my experience.

I'm going to go through the rest of your material today, but I'll throw out some questions in the meantime, if for the sake of conversation if nothing else:

- it seems you've kind of identified beliefs as kind of the root cause problem - have you tried going a bit deeper?

- do you think some improvements may be possible in your strategy/approach (setting aside pragmatism for the time being)? For example, I sense some imperfections (unnecessary restrictiveness) in the MART in SMART[1], although if we add back in pragmatism, it's probably a good place to settle. (EDIT: the same, to a much larger degree, applies to "301: Does it scale" - I think there are significant improvements that could be made, and also some risks that should be taken into consideration.)

- have you played around with the idea of pointing this strategy at other problems? If so, do you find that you'd want to make some alterations depending on specific domains?

You have a rare combination of skills: good/novel ideas, the ability to articulate them persuasively, the gumption to go out and make it happen.

[1] Rough summary of your strategy:

1. What does the environment mean to you?

2. Is there something you can do to act on that?

3. Make a SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, time-bound) goal

4. Accountability

EDIT: if anyone's having trouble figuring out how to listen to the podcasts, there is a player embedded at the bottom of the page.
How fast does the poison act? I bet I could make a lot of noise if I felt a dart hit my neck
That'd be ideal, but you only control yourself. Empathisizing with someone doesn't mean you have to agree with them. It just means you don't need to call them out on it months later on a random HN thread when they've come around with a nice result. Maybe it'd be relevant if this article was about another argument with event moderators
"Most programmers are not good designers." Unfortunately, most designers are not good designers, at least these days. I say that because from what I've heard, the UI abominations that are being rightly bemoaned on this thread are not things that the programmers decided to do--at least not at companies of any size--rather they're things the company's designers told the programmers to do.
> There's too much one-off patching that goes on in the hackintosh process these days.

I've been a Hackintosh user for more than a decade, and it has always been this way. On the whole, it's much easier now than it used to be.

I don't know why the bootloaders aren't better at detecting your system and automatically configuring themselves, but I assume it's a legitimately difficult problem, or someone would have done it.
I will take your first branch: Mental states are not observable, certainly not in a way which gives rise to some measure which we can call "orderedness". Study psychopathy and you'll see extremely "ordered" behaviors from people who are "suffering" from "mental disorders". At some point, the analogy becomes incoherent; human behaviors are too rich.

You may be interested in Aumann's Agreement: If two reasoners disagree, then either their reasoning differs, or their prior observations differ. It seems to me that typically it is the priors that differ. So why stigmatize folks for differing reasoning? Perhaps there is no good reason.
Show HN: Strainer, Rust CLI for finding duplicate code in a project
On Arch Pandoc “only” requires a few dozen or so Haskell packages. Installing it does kind of mess up pacman’s output when updating etc, but that’s a very minor annoyance for a pretty useful tool to me.
Handy tool, Can it store the video? So that one can extend this for a surveillance app as well using old phones. Similar to guardian project's Haven.
The cat doesn't have to actually catch the mice and rats, as they are instinctively afraid of the smell of cat urine, even in small amounts.
Learn to code by creating working applications
They already are innate, latent capabilities in proprietary, closed smartphones.

Full open-source everything isn’t air-tight, but potentially a lot better than what we’ve got.
What is the model for sustainability?

I mean how does the project keep going. I love the idea enough to use it. Probably not enough to work on it because I have other things I love to do more. That's going to be typical of people visiting the site.

So basically, it's up to you and your friends to keep it going and my question is how do you plan to make that happen? If that's what you want to do of course. You're not obligated to continue making the site better. That makes sustainability harder because the work will be mostly thankless and by design, unpaid.

Good luck.
Wow long one but part 3 and the conclusion are worth the read
Gojek-Grab battle opens way for US mapping startup
I'm not disagreeing, but I have noticed that in the current version of Outlook, when I tell it I want to attach a file, it suggests the last few files I've edited in some program (I'm guessing it has to be an Office program), which are often exactly what I want--e.g. I'm sending some report I just finished in Word.

That said, the File Open process in Word has gotten considerably more cumbersome, with more decisions that have to be made before you can see a list of files to open.
Good points. I’ve always been curious. Why not just plug in A hydrogen car and run the fuel cell in reverse to get a tank of hydrogen?
Meanwhile, the US still has very little testing capacity, with no signs of if and when that will change.

One problem with the death of journalism is that no one is even reporting on this.
A quick scan of the linked project suggests no such healthcare provider code is required. The source[1] suggests the flow is literally: "I Have COVID-19" -> "Are You Sure?" -> "Click OK", and that's that.

Anyways, I take this project to be a proof of concept. One would hope that governments will have healthcare professionals replacing the self-diagnosis step. * hope *

[1] https://github.com/CrunchyBagel/TracePrivately/blob/master/T...
Could this have other uses? Spacecraft?
How long have you been doing business with first Republic Bank?
Yup, and if you are already in college don’t enroll in new classes until at least 2021 if you can freeze tuition. It is such a ripoff to be paying for world class education and end up with some basic online courses tossed together in a hurry due to a pandemic. Not to mention missing out on the social networking aspects that college life brings.
The "recovered" numbers in other countries aren't even close to accurate.

Countries with large outbreaks are only testing people with severe symptoms. Korea is testing anyone who comes near someone with the virus. So are catching close to everyone who has it.
Interesting, when I saw the headline, I immediately thought it was something else that I want: I keep all of my notes as plain-text Markdown files, and I use Wiki-style links between them, like `[Another File](another-file.md)`. One of the pitfalls of this approach is that if you change a filename, then all the links referencing that file will then be broken. So I'd love a tool like this that can be used to clean up a directory full of these documents.
AirPods as a Platform
How to Query Your Time Series Data More Efficiently Using Arctic
How long have you been a customer?
A 425-Pound Tiger Living in a Harlem Apartment? Yes, It Happened
Thanks Aaron!

GreaseMonkey is still pure open source, MIT licensed. For a while we had some general telemetry built in, but that was back in the 3.x days, so not for over two years now.
Would be intrigued to see what the story is like with priors on the parameters and a credible interval on the output.
That says they detected it on floors in hospitals. Does it talk about it being on shoes, entering homes and ultimately infecting people?
FYI you just called the majority of Italian media and politicians "trolls".
Thanks, that's interesting. I suppose they specifically choose contacts with a high resistance.
well if your code base was like mine you would have //BUG:1234 littered everywhere so no need to not use the tracker.
Extracellular pH-controlled metal-organic nanoparticle-induced pyroptosis
There is Rust by example [1]. Maybe it is close to what you look for?

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example
If you haven't read it already, "Moloch Hasn't Won" is an interesting series of essays expanding from "Meditations on Moloch": https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ham9i5wf4JCexXnkN/moloch-has...
asyncio will get confused as to why youre yielding random things and it won't work
I've often thought while eating avocados or dates or olives, how different it would be if they didn't exist. There are some fruits that are so uniquely distinct.

And then I wonder how much we're missing out on fruits lost long ago. Like, what if there could have been something else so wonderful as an avocado, in its completely own other way?
i wouldn't put it quite like the person above did, but i would say: there are ways to diplomatically address, deflect, or dismiss (as needed) these types of things from teammates. if what you did was good enough in your opinion, then a one-line response saying 'yeah, tried that, didn't work' is probably fine. start thinking about the politics of your workplace. e.g., think about: who do you need to keep happy in your team/dept? the answer won't be 'everybody', that's for sure. your time matters.
Try writing an interpreter! “Make a Lisp“[0] and Norvig’s “(How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (in Python))”[1] really helped me understand the basics.

[0] https://github.com/kanaka/mal

[1] https://norvig.com/lispy.html
Can't wait to see the same investors praising this essay announce investments in frivolous startups like TikTok lookalikes and Clubhouse in a few months from now
Yeah I don't buy that argument. These systems would have to be at least human level and also so pervasive that it would be almost like an inoculation.

At that point there are cheaper and easier ways to do that, which by the way are already happening. If you buy a modern car they have very impressive look ahead/smart cruise and lane keeping systems.
There are people who publish hardware ‘QVL’ lists for Hackintosh builds — stick to the list and it’s smooth sailing. Venture off the list and you end up on page 16 of some forum convinced you need to dump your DSDT tables to edit some voodoo magic.

I’ve been on developing on Hackintoshs for work full-time (both desktop and laptops) for many many years now with minimal hiccups. 4K HDR touchscreen laptop in 2018, yes please!
Eventually, but an immense amount of capital (not just in a cash sense) that allows those businesses to operate has been irreparably destroyed. Rebuilding and bootstrapping that again from almost nothing will take years in many cases. Businesses don't exist in isolation, some sectors are seeing destruction not just of the businesses but the entire institutional structure of their ecosystems, which is much harder to replace.

There will be second-order effects that people aren't considering. In Seattle, for example, all of the builders I know are saying multi-family residential construction projects have become indefinitely non-viable due to the systemic collapse of the business ecosystem they rely on. Even if things opened up tomorrow, most of their projects will stay dead for the foreseeable future. This will have a large impact for housing costs, construction worker employment, etc many years beyond the term of the lockdown.

I think many people are oblivious to the long-term second-order damage that is being inflicted in some industries that cannot be fixed on any kind of timeframe that matters to ordinary people.
I think this is a great article, however, I think a more tempered approach may be to take online courses from a community college or similar to begin working on at least some gen eds.

This frees you up to do some of these other things that article suggests, while still getting credits under your belt.
Just wondering, what is the appeal of doing a video chat with no audio? Thanks.
I think that's also Signal's elevator pitch.
started using it. Thanks.
I generally detest the large expense of universities given the difference between what they claim to offer and the actual value. That said, the options here seem to not be any better.

Get a job? Fresh out of high school kidd are going to have a hard time finding gainful employment for awhile, especially in the hardest hit areas.

Volunteer for a political campaign? Meh. That isn't much of a substitute, even if it has its own intrinsic value.

Why not encourage kids to instead look for schools that have been doing distance learning for years, or starting at a local community college instead? Its a heck of a lot less expensive (addressing the articles risk of investment point) and they are far less likely to take the money you ponied up for dormitory living while kicking you out.
Really cool! This could be implemented in wikipedia to detect and fix broken links easier.