skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I would be so much more excited about an airplane that was large enough that economy class seating was as comfortable as business class seating is today.

there is really no point where it becomes worth it to make seats bigger without charging more. If there is more space on the plane, it makes more since to put more seats there, not keep the number of seats the same
Be careful, you may want to invest in a more expensive burst-resistant exercise ball that will not pop like a balloon.

https://fitter1.com/products/classic-exercise-ball-chair
Windows distinguishes default and focused, it's just a bit subtle. A button in focus has a dotted rectangle around the contents (immediately adjacent to the actual border, which is why it's kinda hard to see). A button that's the default has a thick blue outer border in Win10, and used to have a black border in the classic Win9x theme.

What is different in Win32, however, is that if any button is focused, it is also made the default for as long as focus is on it (or, alternatively - Enter always activates the focused button). Thus, there's no visual state for "focused, not default", because there's no such thing.

The distinction still matters, though, because if you tab away from a button to some other widget that's not a button, the "default" button marker returns back to where it originally was - focus only overrides it temporarily.

This can be conveniently explored in the standard Win32 print dialog (opened e.g. from Notepad), since it has plenty of buttons and other things on it. Just tab through the whole thing once.
I enjoy working from home, I also enjoy working from the office

I can definitely see myself going back to the office for 1-2 days a week, on so called meeting days and wfh on busy days
The US didn't "literally" nuke their islands out of existence. It did, however, render most all of it unsafe for inhabitation.
Although market reaction is fundamentally hard to predict. It caughy many by surprise that markets reacted positively when Trump was elected. Or when there’s 150k people dead from coronavirus.
It's a demonstrator, not a model - It has space for 2 test pilots.
Yes to all three, when I was exposed to Friston's work I found many parallels in my own research and I would like to reach out to him when I've reached a more complete formalization of my ideas.

What do you think of his free energy principle and related concepts?
Because it's currently still safer than software trying to fly an experimental aircraft
The trouble with stockpiling PPE is that it's bulky, it expires in storage, and you need an awful lot of it to handle a crisis of this size. For anything beyond a short-lived, localized crisis, building out the production capacity to actually be able to make PPE in sufficient quantities seems a lot more feasible than a massive billion-item stockpile. The strategic oil reserve has the advantage that it can just pumping oil into well-selected holes in the ground.
I suspect that user interfaces that feel like sugary garbage to us are totally fine with them. To them it's all the same.
In fact it was a founding member of the non-aligned movement which came to be called third world.
This is nice but the logo is too big.
>I spent the last 2 weeks doing nothing but reading reports, stats etc about the program to ensure I was able to get it for my team. Lots of people submitted with a big bank and just waited accepting no updates, now are complaining after it is over.

Hi. Joe citizen here. Congratulations on your ability to work the system. I'm in the category you deprecate, just a loser needing my big bank to run interference for me and get us our $52k. Our business did not halt and allow me to devote full time to the endeavor. The future will be run by you.
Scientist who won Nobel Prize for discovering HIV says SARS COV2 created in lab
"brute-force" is what you call monte carlo if you don't know what monte carlo is
When I heard the definition SIMT, it helped me understand the if / do_a / do_b concept. But your subsequent explanation helped understand what went beyond that. Thank you for the talk.
Stack: elm + elm-ui
That's not how it works, since most startup run python / ruby / nodes code, the cost of your app is definitely not a big concern, especially since you can have performat code in any language, you don't need rust speed in 99.9% of the cases.
This is only true if you can’t make more. If you can high prices are a powerful incentive for entrepreneurs to make more. When something is needed really badly for public health reasons the government should either be paying top dollar for delivery as close as possible to right now or paying up front for later delivery at a premium to normal prices. That way the manufacturers of what you want don’t pass on the extra sales for fear of going bankrupt.
Yeah, there is probably nothing that the US could have done unilaterally which would have contained this. Italy was still reporting something like three total cases in mid-February. There was no more reason to quarantine or monitor travellers from there than there was anyone else in the country.
On the GNOME login screen you can press [Enter] or [Space], or click (on the latest GNOME, 3.34) or swipe up (on the previous versions) to get to the password entry box, or you can just start typing your password. It's extremely easy and discoverable (because there are so many options, nearly anything you do will take you to the password box). I really don't think there's an issue with it.

This is with stock GNOME (on Arch); I think Ubuntu may ship a skinned / modified / older version of it (which can create UI problems).
Zoom is spy shit.
I dislike it too, but doesn’t Windows 10 do the same thing?
The industry chart need some love, the number of lines is twice the labels, making it quite misleading
r0 can stay the same, it can just means that the epidemic "took off" earlier than what our tests show.
You switched? I’d love to hear more. How why?
Update: It looks like the title of the Nature article now has "suggest" instead of "reveal". So the title of this thread should be changed to correspond.
Personally, I really miss going to the gym. I like the routine of going somewhere else, and having lots of other people around. My gym has lots of equipment and classes I want to try, and also has saunas and pools that I really miss. I am working out in my living room or basement now, and it's really not the same.
I find conflict of interest a much better indicator of truthfulness than common sense.

In this case: doctors wearing masks conflicts with doctors recommend people don’t wear masks.
TL:DR

He is an expert in the HIV genome.

Agrees with Indian scientists that the very specific sequences from HIV that are newly present in SARS Cov2 could only be inserted in a lab and would not occur naturally.

He points out that the Wuhan lab was studying SARS Corona viruses as a potential vector for an AIDS vaccine.
the rust plugin for intellij is pretty damn good. sometimes it doesn't catch downstream errors when you mess something up but it's on point probably 80% of the time.
They can't - and that's simply because there's not enough of them and nothing can circumvent that fact quickly. Let's not pretend you can solve a public health crisis with monetary policy.
dang, there was a comment here by someone else which was linking to their comment on another HN post and how it got downvoted (even though now they are proven right). I was replying to that comment until HN told me that comment has been flagged and now it's not even visible on this post. This is quite sad from a community which is supposed to be of scientists (who are usually supposed to be a bit skeptic).

This was my reply to that comment:

Similar to how Twitter, FB and IG banned several accounts (I won't name them as I don't want to get in political wars on HN) which had been questioning the origins of the virus since January. Some people who were saying back in January that China was lying and this could end up becoming a pandemic were called names and fringe conspiracy theorists and banned. Now even Taiwan is showing emails from December that they had been warning about China's lies to WHO but were ignored.

I really dislike how being skeptic now a days gets you labelled with bad names and removed.
I'm not sure how one could form an LLC and get the loan. One of the requirements is that your business had to exist before they started writing the law. I think February 25th was the cutoff but I'm not sure.
As I understand it, this is extremely early and shouldn't be used in production, so there are no benchmarks.

What's interesting are the ideas of using native JS constructs where React opted for implementing things like hooks, refs, suspense, etc.
New bioinspired material can 'shapeshift' to external forces
I was more or less convinced by the discussion in mid-February at https://virologydownunder.com/past-time-to-tell-the-public-i... and https://virologydownunder.com/so-you-think-youve-about-to-be... that there was a reasonable chance of needing to take some modest steps to prepare for a pandemic.

The predictions in these blog posts about pandemic best practices were in retrospect fairly accurate (see e.g. discussion under "Social distancing will be important but unpleasant") and have been a pretty good guide for the first month of major international response.

We're kind of into uncharted waters now though, and I'm wondering who else will have accurate predictions of how the next year or two will go.
Is there a list of good ones?
rust has an awful readability issue.

its syntax is too irregular and permissive. (too much ruby?) people tend to disagree, but syntax is very important. that is, in fact, why python has won the scientific community. we don't wanna be spending brain cycles deciphering syntax.

as a side note, we blamed java for being verbose for years. in retrospective, java was right. i have never seen a piece of java that i couldn't understand. i may not know why the code is doing what it's doing, but i always know what the code is doing.

java has stellar readability!

with rust, only time will tell. my gut feeling is that the readability will not help the language when programs get old.
You mean 3 total confirmed cases?

Note that even South Korea was apparently monitoring everyone and suddenly 1 person slipped through and infected like a thousand people (read this recently, don't have the link handy).
I agree that you have to make an age adjustment for IFR, and your numbers seem reasonable. However, in the U.S. you also have a lot more diabetes, obesity, and high blood pressure, which are major risk factors. I wouldn't be surprised if that required a bigger adjustment than the age difference.
I have to guess at what you're referring to, since you're not specific, but let's say for example, you're asking why a company should be regulated in hiring and firing, since freedom of association is a human right.

The obvious answer, to me, is that the hiring and firing involves the abstraction of the company, and is not predominantly a product of a human, but a system. When a manager fires someone, they're not acting as an individual human being, just as when a police officer coerces or shoots someone they aren't doing it based on universal rules for people.

Your argument makes more sense when applied to a sole proprietor. And I think that the legal system recognizes this sort of thing because it makes sense. For instance, if you are renting out a room in your home, you aren't held to the same non-discrimination requirements (in the US) as otherwise.
> Others... did not.

While there is no disputing Windows copy heavily from the Mac UI, the actual feel of that interface was also strongly influenced by the IBM Common User Access (CUA).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access

Not only did Windows try to follow those CUA rules, Microsoft encouraged Windows applications to also follow those rules.

That meant that from a user perspective, the Windows experience was fairly consistent irrespective of which application was being used.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22083935
Sometimes folks do. There even was a limited one, long ago. It’s just not simple.
Hey Cj!

28 is still very young - you'll be fine! I am also a founder, and do wonder sometimes if I'm not working hard enough - ie: stripping away everything in my life. I'm a bit older than you, and worked myself to the bone in my 20s without much equity to show for it - and now I pace myself a bit. That said, I often notice times where my 20 year old self would have simply not slept, and instead I sleep for 6 hours and call it a necessary compromise.

Sometimes I feel good about this, responsible. Other times I feel guilty, a slacker or worse: old.

Looking back, do you think you would have accomplished as much as you did had you balanced your life - for example, "spent" those 4 years going on the occasional date? I often hear the "yes, I burnt myself hard for my startup", from successful founders, and I don't often hear the conclusion to the thought: "would you have done it differently?"
I'm using this userstyles that hide the sidebar when the window width is less than 1500px.

[0] https://gist.github.com/squaresmile/47ed504ba2838f51be451518...
Not sure about IDE integration but the language looks nice. Having a typed language makes me reconsider using the beam in my next project !
We used them a lot when hanging up art work.
I'm aware of them. None of them let you bet (for money) on the number of COVID-19 cases with a % likelihood like OP describes.
Nothing like smug HN downvotes to reinforce the Darwinian message.
Do it yourself? When the researcher becomes the subject (2016)
> Technically yes, NASA predates Hawaii by 13 months, but it was well on it's way to statehood by then. The statehood act passed congress in the early 1950s, before the discussions about NASA began.

Cape Canaveral was chosen as a launch site before the discussions about NASA began, too; the first planned launch was planned before those discussions (it was postponed) under the auspices of the early space program coordinated by NACA Special Committee on Space Technology prior to the proposal to build NASA to incorporate and replace NACA.
Not really, LED’s work by directly emitting light or not. LCD’s work by sitting between the light source and you and blocking that light.

Squid’s have significant internal reflection so this really is much closer to e-ink displays with a light on the edge.
They are not different distributions but more like a different edition or "spin" of Ubuntu. They just install a different set of packages.
Chase has been horrible all around for the past weeks for even basic business banking. Many links that don’t work, customer service numbers that are incorrect, policies & procedures stated that are incorrect, and escalation processes that add further delays to getting time sensitive decisions like PPP.

I’ve had to spend countless hours for things that took me minutes to do with AmEx + local credit union.
I'm really happy the Erlang and BEAM are finally getting the attention / traction they deserve!

the language was kind of underappreciated or considered very niche for a long time
Sometimes you need to answer the question, what would you pay for that lottery ticket? Sometimes you need to answer, would you pay Russian roulette with that gun? In this case if you had a 90% confidence that Coronavirus wouldn’t escape China or wouldn’t cause catastrophe if it did, then you still have to point that 10-chambered revolver at your head if you choose “don’t prepare”. But buying your way out of the game has a cost, too.
It’s not always about performance. Memory usage matters too. And reliability. We’ve heard all of these things from folks switching.
> The statehood act passed congress in the early 1950s, before the discussions about NASA began.

The statehood act was passed in March 1959.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_Admission_Act

And I wouldn't say it was well on its way to statehood. There were lots of racial, political, historical, etc issues at play. Were it not for the desire to grant alaska statehood, it's likely that hawaii would still not be a state given their demographic.
I have used the package coming from Chocolatey and haven't had any issues at all

choco install youtube-dl
Ask HN: Why is Bluetooth so unreliable?
After all these years and consecutive versions, Bluetooth in my experience is still a hugely unreliable experience.

I constantly have to forget devices, turn them off and on again etc. I have regular drop outs and I’m forever trying to re-pair.

This is across connection types (keyboard, music etc), brands and devices.

Why is Bluetooth in general so flakey?
I think I could have told you that before reading the article (which I didn't read), but thanks for taking the time to actually vet it and comment.
My summary is when betting on any test with a low positive rate take under not the over.

Saying at least this many people have been infected, wrong.
Better. At most this many people have been infected.

Reminds me of a survey 15 years ago that said something like 2-3% of black people approved of the job the president was doing. That 2-3% was more likely 'rectified noise'.
I posted a comment saying "a common mistake is thinking 10% = No" and you've responded by with something that looks a lot like "you're making a mistake thinking 10% = yes".

My suggestion is you don't have enough information to claim I'm making any specific mistake.
> An analysis of the blood of some 3,300 people living in Santa Clara county found that, by early April, one in every 66 people had been infected with SARS-CoV-2

So it's 1.5% then, according to this study.

With effect size so small one has to look at the test's accuracy. This one lists 20% false negative and 0% false positive, however the sample size for the test's evaluation was in low dozens. According to the article evaluating a test properly requires a sample size of hundreds.

So we don't know with any certainty how good this test is because it was not sufficiently evaluated. If the false positive rate is over 1.5% the results would become invalid. For a sense of scale consider that the Bodysphere antibody test has 9% false positive rate, and some other tests are at 4.5%.
Would a physics engine actually make it any easier to solve this inverse problem? Simulating where the ball ends up relative to the hoop after bouncing off the board is the kind of forward problem that I tend to think of physics engines as designed for, but the problem here is to (repeatedly) determine what angle of board would yield the desired post-bounce trajectory. Does something like Bullet have a flexible enough inverse kinematics solver to handle this kind of problem?
Yea, I think Dell makes more than 100 PERC740s.

Plus, you’re talking about RAID as a backup, it is not. RAID is redundancy, not disaster recovery. If your backup solution is bas d on your RAID controller series, you’ve already lost.
First thing I saw is that the website didn’t work at all without JavaScript. Then after enabling JavaScript I realized why:
https://twitter.com/buzzert/status/1251314195976425473
Sort of like how Trump’s China travel ban announcement was accompanied by a statement saying he wanted to close the Mexican border right away too but they decided against it. Almost to bait the media into accusing him of using the situation for his own ends.
Not when figuring out how much had been distributed
that is not the same thing, and does not fix the peering problem.
Not necessarily. Doctors are exposed to a different set of risks while on the job than ordinary people going about their business. And common sense already tells you that it's a good idea to take precautions when working with sick people, so the fact that doctors wear masks while ordinary people going about their business don't have to should not come as a surprise.

That's not to say that doctors (and others) can't have reasons other than "masks don't work" for recommending that people (other than other doctors) don't wear masks. Just that doctors wearing masks themselves, by itself, is not enough to know that their recommendation for ordinary people not to wear masks is unreliable. You need more information.
How does ozone fare in eliminating the threat but not degrading the material?
Here’s another population test: Andover Subacute has beds for 700 patients. “The 17 [deaths] were among 68 recent deaths linked to the long-term care facility, Andover Subacute and Rehabilitation Center I and II, including two nurses, officials said. Of those who died, 26 people had tested positive for the virus. For the others, the cause of death is unknown.”.

2 nurses dead, what was the total staff numbers?

68 other deaths. What was normal rate?

Can you then project the death rates back to a country population (even given the deaths were obviously elderly unwell people).
Holy hell. I didn't realize this. This is nightmare fuel and the blog post you linked is leveling some really good criticism. My favorite part is where he linked to a Github issue where the React team instead of responding with a real answer just repeated their manta "Suspense will solve everything" and closed the issue. I know "open source devs don't owe you anything." But I've noticed that sentiment is now being used in a lot of open source projects, especially the well funded ones by big Corps, to just shutdown anything that derails whatever their underlying motivations are.

I mostly abandoned the effort and any sort of greenfield React development, when I
came to understand what Suspense was and how unwieldy it would have been to
incorporate Suspense into the hooks I had written. As of April 2020, the mechanism
behind Suspense is for components which make async calls to throw a promise while
rendering to indicate that the component is doing something asynchronously.
“Throw” as in the way you would “throw” an error in JavaScript with the throw
operator. In short, React will attempt to render your components, and if a
thenable is thrown in the course of rendering, React will catch it in a special
parent component called Suspense, render a fallback if sufficient time has
elapsed, and then when the promise has fulfilled, attempt to render the component
again. I say “as of April 2020,” because the React team has consistently said the
exact details of the Suspense API might change, and has used this declaration to
preempt any possible criticisms of this mechanism