skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope it's just not gonna be another VP9 where Google flips the switch to save some bucks on bandwidth but there not being any dedicated decode hardware in the wild yet, meaning everyone's battery gets nuked.
You couldn't read a website, so you'd go down to the cult's headquarters to learn about it in person. It was a huge social problem in the 70s!
Instead of trying to prevent daughters from having sex, parents need to educate their daughters on fertility cycles.

Women are only fertile for a limited amount of time during each cycle. Sympto-thermal fertility tracking methods, as described in the book "Taking Charge of Your Fertility" by Toni Weschler, empower women to understand exactly when in their cycles they are fertile.

Understanding your personal cycle of fertility means you can accurately predict your period, understand precisely when you have ovulated, know when you are fertile and infertile in your cycle, and avoid the side effects of hormonal birth control.

I have personally used sympto-thermal fertility tracking as my exclusive method of birth control within a relationship for 2 years.
These are really two independent issues. The justification for current lockdowns is nominally 'flattening the curve' because we were ill-prepared to handle a flood of serious cases. We can hope that, in another nine months, many of the specific shortages will have been addressed.

One issue that I would like to have seen mentioned here is whether Sweden's resources for treating the very sick have the capacity to handle an increasing rate of infection, if claims that it is over the hump turn out to be premature.
What is general gas equation?
Many interests are pulling developers' attention in several different areas all the time.

Database, security, accessibility, performance, infrastructure, tooling and productivity, business concerns, workflow processes (agile), language concerns, new things

All of these like to say "if only the developer could do $MY_AREA better, they'd be better developers and we'd have better software". Each of them wants to pile on more requirements for what devs ought to know.

Let's say we agree that devs should know all of these things. After you tally up every area's demand, you're probably looking at a 10 year timeline before someone's decent in all of these areas by spending approx. 1 year on each of these areas doing meaningful work (as opposed to contrived tutorials).

Even then, things change constantly, so you'd have to continually practice all of these things. Who knows if we'll add a new category next year? Then it becomes an 11 year timeline.

At some point, developer responsibility has to stop.
> The controversial approach is relying on individual citizen responsibility.

Practically speaking this approach is what we are relying on in the US, too.
LAPD will end controversial program that aimed to predict where crimes occur
I hope this is genius level trolling.

In case it's not:
great UI != any of those
Using HDMI-CEC on a Raspberry Pi
As an example, Flatpak has "portals" for e.g. file access, which mirror how this works on mobile OSes. The app asks the environment to let the user pick a file, then the file gets mapped into its sandbox.
Many would argue that the pamphlet is in itself untrustworthy state propaganda, so I can't even begin to guess at a good solution.
Maybe the NSA can decrypt RSA or Diffie-Hellman. We don’t know. Maybe they save it for when they’ll get the keys. Another way is to saturate so much the network with spy equipment that it’s futile to search and remove it.
It is no just one paper. There are plenty of peer reviewed papers out there, published in reputable outlets, that analyzes the origin of the virus and none of them indicate that it is artificially made.
Main problem I have is that it keeps using 100% CPU on my Mac most of the times which doesn't make it easy to run Docker/K3s alongside
Learning about topics that are professionally useful, but in which I have absolutely no interest.

In my case, web development.
That's like counting lines of code to create the valuation for software.
It might be Internet and the issue of communicating emotions across but you sound quite taken by this issue.

Anyway, I stand by what I say and I'm backed by my high performance code:

- Writing matrix multiplication that is as fast as Assembly, complete with analysis and control on register allocations, L1 and L2 cache tiling and avoiding TLB cache miss:

- https://github.com/numforge/laser/blob/master/laser/primitiv...

- Code, including caveat about hyperthreading: https://github.com/numforge/laser/blob/master/laser/primitiv...

- The code is all pure Nim and is as fast/faster than OpenBLAS when multithreaded, caveat, the single-threaded kernel are slightly slower but it scales better on multiple cores.

- I've also written my own multithreading runtime. It's scale better and has lower overhead than Intel TBB. There is no constexpr, you need type-erasure to handle everything people can use a multithreading runtime for, same comparison on GEMM: https://github.com/mratsim/weave/tree/v0.4.0/benchmarks/matm...

- More resources on the importance of memory bandwidth: optimization convolutions https://github.com/numforge/laser/wiki/Convolution-optimisat...

- Optimizing matrix multiplication on GPUs: https://github.com/NervanaSystems/maxas/wiki/SGEMM, again it's all about memory and caches optimization

- Let's switch to another domain with critical perf need, cryptography. Even when knowing the bounds of iterating on a bigint at compile-time, compiler are very bad at producing optimized code, see GCC vs Clang https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/2h768y

- And crypto is the one thing where integer templates are very useful since you know the bounds.

- Another domain? VM interpretation. The slowness there is due to function call overhead and/or switch dispatching and not properly using hardware prefetchers. Same thing, C++ constexpr doesn't help it's lower-level, see resources: https://github.com/status-im/nimbus/wiki/Interpreter-optimiz...

Also all the polyhedral research, and deep learning compiler research including the Halide compiler, Taichi, Tiramisu, Legion, DaCE confirm that memory is the big bottleneck.

Now since you want to stop on the theory and you mentioned HPC, pick your algorithm, it could be matrix multiplication, QR decomposition, Cholesky, ... Any fast C++ code (or C, or Fortran or Assembly) that you find will be fast because of careful memory layout and all level of caches, not constexpr.

If you have your own library in one of those domains I would be also very happy to have a look.

As a simple example, let's pick an out-of-place transposition kernel to transpose a matrix. Show me how you use constexpr and template metaprogramming to speed it up.
Here is a detailed analysis on the impact of 1D-tiling and 2D tiling: https://github.com/numforge/laser/blob/master/benchmarks/tra..., throughput can be increased 4x with proper usage of memory caches.
CDC’s failed coronavirus tests were tainted with coronavirus, feds confirm
I hate that HN allows downvotes for disagreement rather than off-topic or non-sensical commenting. You make a good point. I'm reminded of the movie Avatar, "there’s one thing that shareholders hate more than bad press, and that’s a bad quarterly statement."
Ughh, that looks nauseating. We will definitely fix that and replace it with auto-playing videos. We shouldn't have used gifs there, its a compression artifact I think.
Ask HN: Is anyone else's GitHub actions 500 errored?
My team's GitHub actions tab for every project I've checked so far is a 500 error and has been like this for a few hours. I know yesterday they had issues but the status says it is fine.

Just wondering if it's just me.
> It's also a really convenient place to get news, because since all news sources are government approved then there's no fake news to worry about.

Comments like this remind me that totalitarianism doesn't need to be forceful or hostile, implemented by a shadowy government from above. People themselves will often happily serve as salesmen for the regime - with a 0% commission, to boot.
Look, I'm just a random Joe who wants to buy a handmade mug on a marketplace with handmade mugs. I don't even know at any point that this is powered by Stripe. When I buy the mug, lots and lots of PII flies, via the webhook, not only to the marketplace through which I bought the mug, but also to that other place to which my particular seller is connected, maybe they sell handmade Bilbos. And that place which is an aggregator of spaces-to-let. You name it. It's not Stripe per se, it's the unknown number of unknown third parties.

And at this point, a wild commenter appears and tells me, the random Joe, that Gotcha!, you should read all that legalese for Stripe! Dammit, should I also fire up the web inspector on each site I visit, just in case they use something I should be privy to the legal terms of?

Listen, bub, at no point I (the buyer) and Stripe even enter a contract. I want to buy a fricking mug and I'd just be happy if that information stayed between me and whoever sold that to me.
I think the reason for that is that British people are less trusting of the government and will generally ignore rules if it doesn’t make sense to them unless they’re mandatory. Even the prime ministers dad said he’d still go to the pub just before the lockdown.
> things like the ELB hosted zone identifier

If you file a ticket on the proper page, I am sure that my colleagues will fix it ASAP. Go to the page and click "Provide feedback."
I doubt most shareholders care about that at all. Feeling good vs making money?
The Swedish population might be an interesting demographic for studies about this since we have the lowest rate of smoking in the EU [1], mostly due to our high use of snus (tobacco under the lip).

Some quick glancing at the graphs: ≈ 10% smokes everyday and something like 20-30% uses snus every day.

Hence we have a large part of the population using strong nicotine products, without smoking.

[1]: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

https://www.scb.se/hitta-statistik/artiklar/2018/farre-roker...
It was 11 out of 100 people, using an antibody test that's known to have some false positives. So the error bars are huge. (The fact that this result has metastasized into obvious nonsense is exactly why people should be careful publishing incomplete scientific results.)
Hey I wrote this about 6 months ago, nice to see it here! AMA, but please note that this is SoTA territory and things have changed significantly since then. Notably, folks are now seeing good preliminary results with SBERT (sentence level encodings instead of token-level): https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D19-1410.pdf
yeah. they know shareholders will start punishing share price once they set precedent of not backing down under pressure of gov't in larger markets. They've rationalized it by thinking it's not their fight to fight, and that in longer term, freer speech will prevail.
Understanding Bayesian Inference
It's the opposite for me! I hate listening old music. E.g. The Strokes (one of my favorite bands) released a new album last week. It was a pain to listen to it a few times, but I forced myself to do it since I knew after listening to >3 times I'll get hooked. Then, I listened to it every day this week!
Where are you getting that from? FHM's Covid-19 tracker [1] shows the most deaths occurring on 8/4. Of course, because there's a lag in the reporting that is likely to change over time. Either way, the data for yesterday is too incomplete to make any statements about yet.

[1] https://fohm.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/6...
What does the color of people's skin in search results have to do with morality? I was raised not to see color, now we have this "progressive" movement hell bent on manipulating search results to disproportionately represent minorities. If you want to filter your search results based on the color of skin you can do that easily.
Well, there is one way. It's called abortion. But most people still agree that prevention is a better option.
A type of restoring from backup, well the short-term pattern buffer memory, has been a feature of several "transporter" episodes I think?

Like "no, we lost them; maybe they're 'in' the pattern buffers".
Eh, not really. Reported deaths typically lag up to 5 days so this is mostly just that a lot of backlog was reported the same 24 hours (yesterday afternoon and this morning). Number of deaths per day have been relatively stable since the beginning of April.
CYNi shares his musical journey
Why doesn't it improve the security of devices where you decide to lock yourself out to protect against faulty applications?

Don't you want your hosting provider to lock you and your neighbors out from the kernel running your processes, even if one of you manages to attack a privileged process?
Photos: Smog levels before Pandemic and now
From the thread's link:

> propose nicotine and nicotinic orthosteric and/or allosteric agents as a possible therapy for SARS-CoV-2 infection.

So nicotine's safety is absolutely relevant to the topic at hand.

> Whether this is safe to do or not should be left to the professionals.

Professionals have to consider the ethics and available data when proposing a study. Considering this paper doesn't reference the available data (nor propose gathering) it is reasonable to question that. There's a long history of immoral science occurring during periods of national and international strife, so I believe oversight, harm reduction, and due diligence remain important considerations.
They already use software. I called a pecan orchard in the southern part of my state. When I asked when they would be ready to harvest they gave me a specific date. When questioned she said they take measurements of the nuts, a few other inputs, and their software gives them an ideal harvest date. They roasted the nuts themselves so they could give you a very accurate ship date early in the season.
It’s not slow, but it is not responsiveness. Electron has terrible input latency compared to native.
Additional benefit of headsets using the native protocol is there are headsets you can have connected to your Xbox One (via the native protocol) and a phone of PC (via bluetooth) at the same time, playing audio from both. This is really nice for doing discord voice chat while playing cross-platform games. The SteelSeries Arctis 9X is a great example of this.
More tenants would forgo owning a car and walk, bike, use public transportation, or call an Uber.
Well, surely it's not working at the present time. A politician interviewed who went out to get the virus and then attended meetings was completely unconcerned about spreading it to his peers.

Interviewer: "But can you understand his concern [about his risk due to his health conditions]?"

Persson: "No, I do not. He's 50 years old. There is no risk to him. He doesn't get sick of this."

Interviewer: "But do you know that even younger people get sick and die of corona?"

Persson: "There is no reason to be worried. It's a hysteria. It is the same as with the climate. It is not possible to change. We cannot influence it politically."

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/varmland/storforspolitiker...

And yet, somewhat bizarrely, Sweden has been latched onto as the model for a sane response to the virus amongst many conservative circles. I will hold my breath as they fail to take action against a disease with 10 times the IFR of the flu and many fold the transmissibility, with the CDC now reporting an r0 of 3.8–8.9 in a 95% CI.
Also, shameless plug, but if you are interested in learning more about this, we're giving a training course in June which covers this and other NLP search techniques extensively: https://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2020/06/16/nlp-remote...
So I'm posting on mobile and can't find the link, but there was a literature review posted on reddit a month or two ago. It was a collection of some 1-2 dozen papers regarding smoking and risk of infection for COVID19 as well as SARS and MERS.

What was clear from multiple papers was that smokers were significantly less likely than the general population to test positive for these viruses, though their infections may be more severe. There is published evidence that nicotine may downregulate ACE2 receptors - which means fewer binding sites for potential infection.

I have a related pet theory that vaping may be doubly protective, considering that some 60 years ago, propylene glycol was used as a surface disinfectant. Since vape juice is some 30-70% PG, and because the virus infects lung cells at the interface between air and blood, I'd bet good money that PG may have an effect in reducing viral load, at least prophylactically. That's in addition to the ACE downregulation, though we don't really know how long and how much vaping one needs to do to see any benefit, if there is one...
Can anyone see the content of the article? What does it say?
Transflow: A new, open-source take on all the ancient FTP clients
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/07/th...

I've never heard that they break the cables, but rather "bend" them so that light leaks out of the fibre.
Update: we removed it, and are replacing it with feedback people tweeted at us (not friends), and feedback we got from here and Reddit :)
I really think this is a case of It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his not feeling responsible for the deaths of thousands of his country people depends on him refusing to understand it.
Researchers Say They Caught an iPhone Zero-Day Hack in the Wild
Link to fork, for those that were confused like me:

https://github.com/gustavo-iniguez-goya/opensnitch
Thanks for sharing. So no library for styling forms? Is all that styled by hand?

The site looks great.
I mean, 6 year olds get excited about all sorts of learning because their proper teachers are enthusiastic. But that enthusiasm helps them enjoy learning real things. And the concepts in the blog post aren't much more complicated than the other fundamentals children learn at that age. So like learning addition and reading, it's probably both the excitement of learning and the mirroring of their teacher.
I would come down to who has more experience in their resume. A lot of boot camp grads, unfortunately, cannot participate in internships because it's a continuation of classes (no breaks), but I don't think CS grads have a significant advantage assuming both prepared well and could get interviews.
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I don't believe your smog claim. Texas is massive and has wide open skies. You'll find smog in big cities before you find it anywhere in Texas.

All of those states you listed have really lax litter laws...
But music is art! Any reason for liking it is perfectly valid.

How weird would it be to tell someone who enjoys drinking chocolate milk that they don't actually like it because it reminds them of their school lunches.
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So, I've never worked in a startup, but I've done my time in a large conglomerate. While I was there, I noticed a pattern that I believe translates fairly well:

Business teams make decisions that are based at least as much on the resources that are available to them as on what makes business sense. A really well-funded software team will buy itself a bunch of expensive computers, and proceed to write a to-do list app that assumes it's running on high-end kit. A really well-funded marketing team will throw huge blowout after-hours parties at trade shows even though the target audience is people who go to bed at 8pm. All well-funded teams hire too many people too quickly, and then waste productivity on failing to do a good job of keeping everyone coordinated. The corollary to this is that the best-funded teams have a tendency to underperform. (Or at least that's the impression I get.)

My sense is that it's similar with individual companies: The best way to create a train wreck is to find a really promising up-and-coming startup, and help it become a well-capitalized up-and-coming startup.
Which, ironically, would have probably kept a large portion of the rural populace and the smaller urban centers without a HQ immune to it.
Sometimes you just have to accept that there is a reason why these "jokes" exist and, if you are interested in it, you should try to figure out why rather than fight against the accepted wisdom.
They might not even be changeable. For Germany for instance:

"Article 79 states the Basic Law may be amended by an absolute two-thirds majority of both the Bundestag and the Bundesrat. Such a vote may not remove any of the principles underlying articles 1 and 20 as defined by the eternity clause, or remove or otherwise affect the essence of, any of the fundamental rights originally specified in articles 1 to 19; [32] but may clarify, extend or refine those original principles and fundamental rights. " (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Law_for_the_Federal_Repu...)

So any coronavirus-fighting law that could be seen as "removing" one of those fundamental rights simply could not be made. Making these laws hard to change is deliberate, as allowing for changes in "emergencies" allows potential dictators to use emergencies as an excuse for broadening their own power, as Hitler did (and Hungary is doing now, under pretense of fighting the virus).
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That's why we have drivers' licenses and manslaughter charges for negligent homicide. We don't just shrug our shoulders at the risks.
309M Facebook users' phone numbers found online
Some people find it fun to clean and a chore to play video games.
All of those things are unproductive until after your project is successful which is usually not a guarantee when building the software.

You're not gonna need it.
Update: removed Hotjar
If the hypothesis is correct (unknown) then nicotine delivered through snus might also have a protective effect.
It looks like CUBIC was only just added today - https://github.com/cloudflare/quiche/commit/f8bfb919ec17ef32...
Actually, you know, I'm going to pull back on my original post a bit. I didn't realize they were using a $500+ Optane drive in here and not in some of the other systems they compared to... that does inflate the price quite a bit.

Still, it seems even the barebones being $1500 is a lot. Not sure where the majority of the cost is coming from otherwise without the Optane and GPU. Still seems like a decent premium, but not as exorbitant as I originally thought. Especially since there are some trade-offs (like the x8 PCI-e, etc).

If you don't feel like building one and money is not a concern- then this machine is likely perfect for you. No problem with that at all. In fact, if this machine was more affordable barebones, I'd be interested myself.
Not everyone at Amazon is in Seattle. Or even America. There's over 3000 of us in Canada right now, just on the tech side.

And honestly, given your political climate and attitudes towards immigrants, whew, no way, do not want to move to the USA.
Interesting. How do you identify yourself to government services?
That would be the product, right? Honestly, no idea. But IMHO an adult site that's secod purpose is not to spread malware and defraud people, while simultaniously making sure creators have a stable income should be a viable business.
Ive already heard personally about internships getting cancelled from multiple sources, so there might be second-order effects as well where the junior engineers coming right out of college are less prepared.