skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a cool start. There is quite a lot you can express with boxes and arrows that doesn't really lend itself nearly as well to any other format.

That said, in real-world video calls I've found that having the whiteboard be collaborative is essential. Being able to see a colleague's mouse cursor as they're asking a question out loud, or someone else being able to draw a little alternate part of the diagram right there -- this stuff can make technical planning discussions way more productive.

We started with https://miro.com, and then moved to https://beta.plectica.com for our diagrams / whiteboarding. Both are pretty great...
Pardon my ignorance, but how does a human do contact tracing? Start calling people to find out if they shopped somewhere recently with a known exposure?
"Starting April 17, we began using mobile phone data to better assess the impact of social distancing across states and countries. These data revealed that social distancing was happening to a larger degree than previously understood, and even before social distancing mandates went into effect."

This suggests that social distancing happened 1-2 weeks sooner than their model anticipated. This will give you a much smaller number.

What is the policy you believe should have been followed instead? Are you saying that social distancing should have been abandoned? Why do you believe that this would result in fewer deaths?
Casting integers to pointers is very common in embedded development. You can call these tutorials "wrong" but that is the opposite of what I have experienced in over 30 years of C programming.

You can find 100's of these tutorials online. One example: https://developer.arm.com/tools-and-software/embedded/legacy...

Section 6.3.2.3 of the C standard indicates it is implementation defined: "An integer may be converted to any pointer type. Except as previously specified, the result is implementation-defined, might not be correctly aligned, might not point to an entity of the referenced type, and might be a trap representation." (See http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1570.pdf )
No, I'm implying they are very obvious when considered at an individual level.
Do you think the current system is just fine? If yes, what are your thoughts on the recent ICANN controversies? If not, what are the better alternatives?
>not replacing NVMe ssds with some random SATA part etc) and come anywhere near 50% or even 70% of the price.

this has been done over and over again. i'm not going to go through the tedious process just to have you ultimately declare victory anyway when i can't source their superduper proprietary butterfly/centipede/tarantula keyboard or their retina/cornea/myopia display.
I'll chime in with my own ray tracer! https://gitlab.com/JoJoZ/futhark-tracer

It's a spectral path tracer written together with my friend as part of our master's thesis. It's implemented in Futhark, which is a new language for GPU programming. It's a purely functional array language, and it's very ML-like. It makes GPGPU programming quite easy, and as far as we can tell, the optimizations are really good!
Surprised to see researchers from big name universities. I was under the impression that those universities took good care of their researchers.
Looks pretty great but IMHO whiteboarding without arrows is not super ideal. While I'd still prefer Excalidraw for screencasts, its nice to see how much can be done in a few lines of JS[1]

[0] https://excalidraw.com

[1] https://github.com/jncraton/box-line-text/blob/master/src/in...
government land ownership records

this is being tried already in parts of the world

here: the ledger is public, the government is a body made of many independent small entities with not necessarily aligned incentives

would help to avoid corruption and maintain a legitimate source of truth
This paper?

"I think the authors of the above-linked paper owe us all an apology. We wasted time and effort discussing this paper whose main selling point was some numbers that were essentially the product of a statistical error."

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/04/19/fatal-flaw...
That might be one reason for going for these low alloy steels: machine the surface after printing for finish and any dimensional issues.
Follow the money. This will not be good.
Aside from the readability of the buttons (which didn't seem particularly bad to me) it was actually an excellent prompt compared to what we usually get - I could choose only necessary cookies with a single button and no delay!
In addition to the other reasons already mentioned, this would likely reveal a lot of small details about the underlying microarchitecture of the FPGA fabric which is a (highly valuable) trade secret.
Nice to see Dr.Netea there. I had the opportunity to work with him and his team in a collaboration ten years ago, when studying the pathways leading to antigen presenting cells activation.

On the topic of the immune system he certainly knows his quarters.
Relative stagnation?

Certainly everybody co opted him so heavily in the 70s and 80s he no longer stood out as a lone giant - there is literally almost no work of art from the era that doesn't bear his influence - but he was an enterprising auteur up to his dying breath, and continued to revolutionize rock, fashion, computer art, 'zines, television, advertising, and of course "the arts scene."

He was truly the hardest working man in show business and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
How would this be possible? Do you believe that less than 50% of the population will get it outside of sweden? The lockdown cannot continue for a long time. The lockdown is just pushing the time frame by a few weeks. In the end the same percentage of the population will get it everywhere. Locking down is a short term solution to stall the contagion while the health system gears up to deal with it.
The History of OS/2 (2001)
https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/2554/
The smallest large display would be projected straight onto your retina
something interesting for the wearables sector.

I thought this would go along with it for safety sake:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22634890
Sure! I have the table of contents for "Scala for the Impatient" open in front of me:

- S4tI goes into a lot more detail into language features: custom extractors, abstract overrides, annotations, higher kinded types, custom operators. Hands-on Scala skips all of that. Most developers do not need to know this stuff to get stuff done professionally.

- Hands-on Scala spends its pages working on fun use cases instead! As far as I can tell, S4tI doesn't cover use cases at all. Sure it's great you know about structural/compound/existential types, but it's setting up webserver, mangling a database, or scraping someone's website that gets you paid a salary.

- S4tI is a bit out of date (at least the preview copy I have) and covers things like Delimited Continuations, XML processing, and the scala-parser-combinators and scala-actors libraries which you shouldn't really be using any more

- S4tI doesn't really use third party libraries AFAIK; that means things like working with files uses the `java.io` or `scala.io` APIs, which are strictly worse than the modern alternatives. In fact, it is only due to the modern collection of libraries such as Requests-Scala, OS-Lib, Cask, Quill, etc. that allows Hands-on Scala to cover as much ground as it does in a tiny amount of code. Hands-on Scala leverages this ability to the fullest!
Paying bribes to government officials.

Large transactions for illegal goods such as drugs.

Transferring money out of controlled currencies.

This isn’t meant to be a joke. I’m illustrating that the price of cryptocurrency is indeed backed by some of its utility and not 100% a money making scheme.
Decision log using Jira and Automation –the Holy Grail of documenting decisions?
Rust's “Weird-Exprs” Test
I know someone who worked on cheat detection in chess using ML. The solution turned out to be rather amusing, but I won’t disclose it here for obvious reasons. If you figure it out, it’ll probably amuse you too.
In science, when errors are made, we are supposed to acknowledge and correct them, which is what the CDC did.

Why base your opinion on a second order result rather than first hand outcomes? If we had not tested at all, and still had this _drastically better than predicted_ result, might you still be unhappy about it?

And the NYT... They are not just a news orginization. Still run by the BBC's Mark Thompson I see.

https://imgur.com/VUdcIou

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CIMxvS-WEAER49I.png

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CINJUoqUwAEkSip.jpg
Oh, that Apple!
This is really interesting — thank you for building it. It seems some of the comments here are living up to HN's reputation. May that prove to be a good omen, as it has been in the past.

The main thing I'm wondering is whether there's a way to record with this (so here's my wishlist). Often I'll be practicing along to another song, or just noodling around, and I'll really wish I had recorded what I just played. Would be amazing if I could say, "Alexa, record that", or "Alexa, record the last 90 seconds".

Similarly: "Alexa, record this." (and then after X minutes if I forget to stop the recording / no input is detected Alexa asks if I still want to be recording).

"Alexa play a metronome at 80 bpm and record this". "Alexa, play the last track and record a new track" (gotta make this very clear so as not to confuse overwriting the original vs recording additional layers). Sync the recording folder w/ Dropbox so it's ready for my DAW. Save two streams: one clean of the raw guitar (so I can tweak to my heart's delight later), one with the applied effects.

I'm curious to dig into the tones more; a lot of apps are goodish but don't quite get it right. S-Gear is the best plugin I've found. Also, I'm a huge fan of the amPlug 2 line from Vox. $40 for really impressive tones via a battery powered gadget as big as a few matchboxes. Sounds great hooked up to speakers and good enough to use in recording. But they don't give you a lot of options in terms of effects.

Great project! Hope the above is useful — I'll be following along!
Tbh, I'm also a product of the "screwed-up system". First I think we need to recognize that no system is perfect and there's really no point in trying to blame it, there is however greater value in trying to help fix it or do good. This mindset helps you setup yourself to view obstacles as growth opportunities, however bad things are. Do whatever you need to change your mindset, and quickly.

To your point, nobody owes you a job, you need to get good. Part of that comes from being immersed in an environment that helps. 50 years ago this might have been the biggest hurdle. Not so much anymore. It's easier, but still an obstacle, I agree, but if you try harder you can easily get really good. Let me know if you have questions I can help you with. Here are some resources,

On personal development: https://sivers.org/book/SoGood
On building a hacker mindset: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#attitude
On programming: https://dev.to/, https://hackernoon.com/
On competitive programming for interviews: https://www.topcoder.com/community/competitive-programming/t..., https://www.codechef.com/
> they don't seem to be breaking any regulations, they just have a lot of money and the local media companies want some of it.

That's a great way to get a law passed ;)

I'm not saying that I believe the Australian government has a legitimate case or anything, just that between "Google can do whatever it likes" and "all of Google's websites are blocked at ISP levels", there are a few levels of escalation that they can pick.
There are a lot of people on HN (and the internet at large) who view any statement adjusting-downward death rates as "COVID denialism", and will reflexively downvote attempts to correct in that direction.

In the most charitable reading, you could view them akin to the CDC and masks, trying to keep the public slightly misinformed for the greater good (preserve mask supplies for hospitals). In the least charitable reading, there are a lot of depressed and angry people on the internet, who want to believe that this disease is truly civilization-ending, and attack any opposing narrative.

Either way, I would not take it personally, or as a judgement on your actual quoted facts.
Depends on the cause and root question. For instance in the most common scenario of congestion routers do intelligent random drops with increasing probability as the buffer gets more full https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_early_detection. The internet actually relies on this random low drop chance to make things work smoothly rather than waiting til things are failing apart to signal to streams to slow down all at once while it catches up. Same randomness with transmission bit errors which will cause drops but the randomness is not by design as much as by the way noise is what is causing those.

On the other hand if the root question is if there is an outage style issue then yeah if the path to the destination is having a hard down style issue no number of packets are going to help because they are all going to drop. Likewise if the question is "on a short enough time scale is reliability of delivering a single packet somewhere on the internet ever less than 99%" then yeah somewhere there is a failure scenario and if you look at a short enough time scale any failure scenario can be made to say there is 0% reliability.
To add more flavors on differential privacy efforts inside Google; yes, when someone tries to launch something non-trivial then privacy reviewers will very likely ask them to apply differential privacy techniques where it's possible. This is causing lots of frictions on engineers who's not familiar with privacy issues, but in a good way.
I know we're not supposed to editorialize headlines, but surely leaving clickbait titles as-is is worse.

Anyway, saved you a click as to what's still not protected against:

>Surprise billing happens when patients, often in cases of emergency, are treated by hospitals or doctors outside their insurance network—and end up on the hook for the difference between what their care providers charge and what their insurer can cover. A bipartisan coalition in Congress had finally emerged last year to fix what had become a widely-recognized flaw in the U.S. health-care system.
OK, I guess it's a problem with no known solution, even though EV sales are climbing nicely.

Me, I've owned an EV for 6 years, and live in an apartment. 6 years ago the pessimistic estimate was that what has actually happened today is impossible.
I didn't perceive it to be an argument for anything specific. I did not get the sense the author is suggesting either lifting restrictions or not. I saw it as more of a piece trying to get us all to think harder and better and expose the difficult trade-offs and the conundrum we face as humans of the morality vs utility argument of saving someone hurting in front of us at any cost versus saving more people at a lower cost potentially at the risk of not saving the person in front of us. I appreciated the author's parable of the river.

My own thoughts go in the direction of maybe the right thing to do is different at different "scales". The right thing to do in my family is different than the right thing to do in my job which is probably different than the right thing to do at the city level, the county level, the state level, the nation level, and the world level (to use labels appropriate for the USA). Leaders at each level have a different decision to make and things work better the more people we have making "good" decisions at each level. The process of figuring out what "good" decisions at each level is the really hard part that is not easily wrapped up with platitudes, memes, or other projections into a single one-dimensional axis (i.e. left vs. right) of a high-dimensional, multi-attribute space.
> Ph.D. in quantum physics

False, it's a diplom in chemistry.
I was under the impression that those universities took good care of their researchers.

I'm under the impression that most university researchers's reputation, labs, and tenure cases rely heavily on grants, and that most university "scientists" today are really grant writers and grant managers.

That might be a little too cynical a take, but I've heard variations of it enough times to take the view pretty seriously.
I have been a hackintosh user for the last 3-4 years. I was shocked when I had problems with the GTX1060 I bought. I am using High Sierra because of this.

IIRC AMD hardware was the one without support for a long time. It is weird how it changed all of a sudden.
The 2001 date in the title is a guess based on the fact that it describes OS/2 1.3 in 1991 as "ten years ago", but I felt it important to include the date because a lot has happened to OS/2 since then!

eComStation came and went: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EComStation

And today you can get a brand new and frequently-updated OS/2 in the form of Arca Noae's ArcaOS! https://www.arcanoae.com/arcaos/
I'll put money on this never getting shipped.
Um, the better the university the more money you have to bring in, not less. Stanford and the like have minimums for faculty to bring in money.

They do take good care of them, though, by giving them good lab space, great grad students, modern cores etc.
The fact that UBI should not be about giving an amount of money, but rather about giving essentials like housing and food or the equivalent in money, and "doubling" essentials doesn't make as much sense, since you don't have much use for two beds or twice the food.
No, I am saying they factored it into their models and also undershot their priors that were readily available. If they looked at OpenTable data, they would have realized people were voluntarily socially distancing before state authorities told them they should. In fact, OpenTable data showed that even on the day that the Mayor of NYC told people to go to sit-down restaurants and see movies in person (in early March), y/o/y data showed a net 30% reduction in reservations for restaurants in NYC.

People were voluntarily taking precaution well before our government bureaucracies enforced it, and it was available in public datasets. IHME just didn't look hard enough, apparently. Despite what the media keeps pushing by finding pockets of idiots, people aren't stupid. The most at-risk populations realize this and tend to shelter in place on their own and take precautions.

de Blasio on March 11th telling people to go out: https://ny.eater.com/2020/3/11/21175497/coronavirus-nyc-rest...

OpenTable data showing a voluntary reduction of restaurant activity despite de Blasio's encouragements: https://ibb.co/r2R9xnT
Buildings have their own microbiomes
Given enough time, an unchecked virus with the attributes of this Coronavirus will saturate through semi-rural and even rural populations. It’s it might take more time, but that’s usually coupled with more spread out medical services.

Without significant efforts to lower the R value (Aka the actions I alluded to; facial covering, social distancing, track and trace) - it’s only a matter of when, not if.

Minus a wonderful medical breakthrough, come find me next winter and let’s see how sure you are with such a quip.

Oh, and by then, a great expense to life, the cities will likely have reached herd immunity, but I won’t quip back, as it would be in bad taste.
Interestingly enough, 5-10 years ago in Spain you could hear some proponents of private healthcare to compare it with the US. Now I think there's enough understanding that the US model doesn't work that the proponents instead talk about Singapore or other private models, no one compares them to the US anymore.

Some arguments against universal health care I have heard in Spain:
• Not enough choice, since you cannot e.g. pay more to get better treatment.
• It's more expensive, since there's no free market to move prices down.
• It's more efficient, since people are not paid to do nothing and impossible to fire (common complain about gvmt jobs here).

No beef here, just relaying what I've commonly heard
I'm part of one of these! Very exciting. Overall fastgrants is a great organization. 48 hour turnaround is incredible and could be paradigm shifting for getting science done. Thanks pc and everyone else for the chance to get some science done!
The Metaverse – Internet of 3D Virtual Worlds
It looks like they've always reserved patents for use in any wide-area wireless. So, 3G/4G/5G handsets and chipsets. I'm pretty sure wifi would not be included here, since wifi is not wide area.
Please watch this video on the i3 desktop environment. The windows are managed and can be controlled by keystrokes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_RL_Q8CR78

From 2015, a blind engineer uses emacspeak to write C++.

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-blind-google-engineer-wr...

I have read some HN comments in the past from blind engineers. Not sure if they are frontend.
My best theory so far is that when it comes to telling people what they themselves need to do (as opposed to inactionable general fear), mainstream media narratives are based around telling audiences the easy answer that they want to hear - eg you don't have to do anything to prepare, and those that do are wrong. Obviously this has always been an ongoing quality (eg no need to oppose the Iraq war since it's just), but with a public health emergency it's front and center.
spanner does support eventually consistent snapshot reads as well with improved latency benefits (as you're effectively foregoing a transaction).
Doing this is very difficult and exhausting.

Several years ago I signed up to follow 3 politicians I cared about using this site https://www.govtrack.us/. Give it a try, and I think you'll see the deluge of laws, bills, and opinions is too much for a mere mortal mind with a 9-5.

I think this is why we talk about congresspersons' army of staffers and interns. You would not want a single person trying to deal with the complexity of all this information they need to have an informed opinion on in order to vote for/against.
Oh, you're right. Google pulls up FIDE's blitz rankings when you search for bullet chess rankings.
Modern chores?
> no one really knows

Healthcare workers wear masks. I'm pretty sure they have a pretty good idea whether masks work.
Agreed, antibiotics was a terrible example.

“Minor, common health issues” is probably a better choice of words.
Most schools will allow you to defer for a year. Consider taking them up on it. And if they won’t let you, well, a school that admitted you once will probably admit you again (or a different one will

And:

There are other important, worthwhile things to do if you take a semester or even a full year off

And:

If you defer or postpone, what’s the worst that can happen
This appears to be theft by political power. I hope Google and Facebook unite here and with the help of American government thwart such nonsensical efforts to steal their revenue.
> (I have no idea what's happening in Windows 10 land. I have one remaining Windows machine, running Windows 7.)

I use a laptop with an external monitor. When the monitor is not connected, Adobe Reader windows have the title bar out of the screen. The only way to maximize: Alt + space + x.
But that's a criticism of government policy, not of Google, Apple, or the technology they created right?

If I'm forced by law to enable contract tracing, I hope it's created by Google and Apple and not a version created by some sketchy government contractor.
UBI works well in developed countries, whose currency others desire. Developing countries who spend more on imports, can't afford that.
Quick conceptual question from a noob in the subject: does the UBI entirely replace social security for elderly individuals or is it added on top of it?
Option does throw away the error. I like Try { expr } a lot, to the point that I retry, give up, and then serialize a Try[T <: Product] into a Row so flaky dependencies don't trash all the output from a big Spark job.
A Better Fundraising Future
60% asymptomatic at the time of testing

Most of them will eventually begin showing symptoms