skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or that pollution from tires is a serious problem and SUV-level weight moving at high speeds is not something we need more of.
Sketchy Science Journal Publishes Article Titled 'What's the Deal with Birds?'
Sure, you can report any arbitrary key as positive. I can even do it right here on HN; my positive key that I just made up is "0d d8 cb 25 8a 88 aa df 6a 33 17 5f 59 ad fd bf"!

... now what? Someone has to aggregate that key (along with all the other flagged ones) somewhere, and then end users have to voluntarily choose to download the keys from that source and check for themselves if they came into contact with it. So you would have to get someone to accept your self reported positive key, and then convince a bunch of end users to trust that (apparently untrustworthy) data source.

I expect that most databases will require some sort of authentication from a healthcare provider or known laboratory before they will accept a key from an end user.
This is one of those things that seems to me, on a very superficial level, to be "fair" -- online advertising companies have DECIMATED traditional media -- but I can't help but feel there are some really strange second- or third- order effects coming down the line.

This is just such an unnatural? forced? solution, and in my very limited experience, that leads to weird incentives later down the line.

It sort of feels like Google and Facebook are being incentivized to NOT display the content of traditional media institutions. That... doesn't seem like the intent.
Its going to be the new norm and megacorporations have to share some of there wealth. Slowly countries and laws are catching up.
Science is about making new stuff?

I'd say it is more about discovering what's already there :)

Anyway, the thread related to this dichotomy is great: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1250840771751809024
Are these what the book is based off of? Or are these just the credentials of the author? In the former case I would find that more compelling to be worth looking into than just the link to the amazon book. In any case, I wasn’t trying to specifically dismiss the book (which I have not read) but just pointing out that linking to book of that sort doesn’t give me (personally) the feeling that there is much weight behind the citation. The other links you provided do the opposite!
Early Flickr was really good at troll containment: https://mastersofscale.com/caterina-fake-build-a-more-human-...
Full Twitter thread:
https://twitter.com/evornithology/status/1224775369783435264
This is so unsatisfying, they are basically concluding that it's unknowable. Not even estimatable. That means there is no expertise. Then what's the point, of you existing? Give us our money back and go work at Walmart, experts. It boils my blood to see so much tax payer money spent on so little. We spent billions to be told its unknowable, and that we don't have enough masks. I wish my job had such little accontability and oversight. And zero consequence for naked unpreparedness. I understand that laypeople couldn't see this coming, but we paid a ton of money for experts, so surely the experts could see it coming. If not then we deserve a refund.
LibRaptorQ: Fountain Codes for C/C++
"democracy", broadly defined, does not "depend" on journalism. This narrative seems to have been invented recently as traditional outlets lost the trust of their viewers after getting things continually and fantastically wrong for at least 2 decades while a new medium (the internet) exposed how little they actually know.
The old media companies business model collapsed (newspapers). So they are essentially turning the old media companies into public companies, but instead of using tax dollars they are arbitrarily punishing Google and Facebook because they have a lot of money.
People interested in trying out this kind of thing should also check out vcvrack. Its a free fully featured modular synthesizer system, also very easy to set up. It should be possible to run it on a pi, though i havent tried that personally. It also has excelent midi integration, so one could try to reproduce some of the hands free control with a program that does voice recognition and supports a virtual midi interface.
The situation to fear is already possible and is not made worse by GACT.
> and obviously it needs to be mandatory to be useful

That's not only not-obvious, I don't even believe it's true. Contact tracing is useful even if only 50% of the population uses such a system. (Remember, not everyone even has a smartphone.)

It would be business suicide to force such a choice on users. I'd throw my iPhone into the nearest river if a system update forced it upon me, even if I trust the system and would have opted in.
Coronavirus is becoming America's leading cause of death
this sounds cool from the title, but this website is just an unfinished template - none of the links lead anywhere, and even on the landing page the placeholder text from the template is still present. why bother submitting something this low-value to HN?
We are not home builders and our site seems like it makes it pretty clear what our consumer offering is. I'm not advocating for home builders to take VC money although there are plenty of construction tech companies with unique ideas that have taken VC.
It's not gonna be 100% Germany, that was hyperbole of course. But it's going to be the overwhelming majority, as it all too often is.
I use Timeshift (https://github.com/teejee2008/timeshift), and find it to be worry/hassle free.
For comparison, here's what the current very best in this field looks like: https://www.fractalaudio.com/iii/

$2K (and an absolute steal at this price), high end DSPs, high end multichannel ADCs/DACs. Thankfully, lots of knobs and buttons, and no Alexa of any kind. Sounds amazing. I have one.
The main utility for ammonia is to transport energy long distances at industrial scale, not for individual vehicles.

So, for example, you'd build a huge solar farm where it's very sunny, or a huge wind farm where it's windy. And instead of running power lines, you'd ship ammonia.
No, Imperial gave an estimation of what would happen without measures, but there were measures taken. So in their case, it's natural that the actual number (with measures) would be much less.

Ioannidis' already 4x surpassed prediction was 10K deaths without measures.

Given that we have 4x WITH measures, this means we would be many times more wrong if we followed his advice and didn't take any...
Thank you for this. I will watch this scene whenever I act as if I "own" my kids.
> Company A was indeed notified of my intent to interview at Company B, leading to the cancellation

This seems like a petty move. Probably a red-flag.
> think having min() return Either(int,error) is the way to go for most languages

What about languages that want to be efficient? It's much more efficient to use a int return value then to unwrap it. Efficiently is one of the main goals of this language (Efficiently, safety, syntax/readability)
Couldn't Google just remove sites demanding special treatment from their search results? It would be right in line with their current behavior, ethically and mechanically; a media company whining to the Australian government for protectionism is just a high-overhead way of disallowing all crawler traffic in robots.txt.

Less pithily: Google crawls the web, offering a standard set of terms on which it does so. No website is compelled to accept these terms and have their links displayed on google.com, even if they're public-facing. The mechanism by which you can opt out, fully or partially, is a robots.txt file specifying to the crawler what it can and can't crawl and display. Australian media companies are saying that they don't accept Google's linking terms; they proposed counter-terms of licensing fees for linking, and Google can refuse them. As the two sides have failed to agree to terms on which the media sites can be linked to by Google, they fall neatly into the category of a website blocking robots.txt
The problem with that analogy is that everyone jumped on email in the 80s and 90s because the immediacy was compelling: it was one of the first services which businesses adopted since it quickly saved money and improved performance, even if you were just using dialup.

In contrast, we’re a decade in with much lower barriers to entry, huge media presence, and massive VC cash infusions but nobody has managed to make something which anyone outside that world needs. The closest I’ve seen are the companies successfully using FOMO to sell centralized databases with digital signatures to large companies.
Redox-Flow Cell Stores Renewable Energy as Hydrogen
History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes: The Anti-Mask League of 1919
Have you tried Chicken? I'm playing with Scheme again and trying to decide between Chicken and Chez.
> entire Australian market

Australia has 25 million people.

That's about half the size of Spain. The GDP of Australia is roughly equal to the GDP of Spain.
Not months. Years.
Unified debt was explicitly forbidden in the EU contracts. It was one, of not the major selling point for the euro.
+ If they don't want to pay the tax, they would have to leave ... I didn't mean to imply that's what you implied although I see how one could read it that way.

+ " They shut down Google News in Spain, removed French news links under very-similar demands, etc etc. None of this has had the ripple effect you're describing"

The 'ripple effect' is happening right now in Australia.
I wonder if everyone who works on stuff like this is pro-DRM/anti-freedom, because while I've seen plenty of DRM-breaking papers which paint a very negative view of their findings (this one included), I can't recall seeing a single one which takes the opposite view that this is another step forward for freedom and right-to-repair. Are the researchers really believing that this is a bad thing, or is it because they're afraid of taking that position since others could disapprove and reject their paper?
"focus on your healthcare"

Very true. No UBI without health care for all.
>There's a lot of painful voodoo, competing control systems and legions of mostly out-dated forum threads of dead-ends, anecdotal advice, misinformation. I'm hoping that the next Ubuntu Studio will Just Work on the laptop that I have put aside for it and that I won't have to waste more time in the Pulse/Alsa/Jack soup.

I've had a lot of success using kxstudio

https://kx.studio/

Along with cadence to manage Jack and alsa and Catia/Claudia for managing studios and ladish sessions.

It can be installed on top of an existing Ubuntu based system without much trouble and after setting it up it works flawlessly for me. I've been using this setup for a few years now.

>legions of mostly out-dated forum threads of dead-ends, anecdotal advice, misinformation

I completely agree with this. Any guide that still recommends qjackctl or manually fucking around with alsa and midi bridges should be completely disregarded. There's zero reason to need to do this any more and there hasn't been for at least half a decade now.

It's really too bad, honestly the flexibility offered by Jack and the huge range of audio software on linux allows for workflows I'd never been able to do on windows. It's pretty much the entire modular linux philosophy applied to making music and it's closest i've come to the same kind of workflow you get with hardware equipment.

Just fiddling around with different plugin routings can give you some pretty cool sounds that can be patched into any Jack aware software you have.
at what multiplier would you consider being skeptical about what he says.

your comparison of the 2 mil which was the worst case scenario months ago, and now irrelevant, with 40k which was his prediction from 10 days ago is wrong.
Yikes.

There's no need to try to convince other people that this shouldn't impress them. That's usually a sign that you should just put the keyboard down and continue scrolling.
I wonder how much of that, though, is tithing or other support of religious institutions. I'm not sure how to tease these apart, but Creflo Dollar and Opus Dei seem like they should be in a different category from Oxfam and street beggars.
> some states opening up again because they think it's all over

This is unequivocally not why some states are preparing to relax the so-called "safer at home" orders. Waiting until "it's all over" was not the goal of safer-at-home. Flattening the curve in order to prevent an immediately overwhelmed healthcare system was the goal. In multiple US states, the curve is acceptably flattened (or is expected to be in the next few weeks), and hospitals have plenty of available capacity. Those states are going to continue encouraging physical distancing, good hygiene, etc. while allowing closed non-essential businesses to resume limited operations.
The general case require some work and conditions. But to give a hint, the case of only one parameter is an application of the mean value theorem (1).
Suppose a model (y = f(p,x) ) with only one parameter p0 and an exact point (x0,y0) (that is y0=f(p0,x)) and a data point (x0,y1) such that
y1-y0=error in the data. And that there is a value p1 of the parameter such that f(p1,x0) = y1, then y1 - y0 = f(p1,x0) - f(p0,x0) = f'(sigma) . (p1-p0), so that
p1-p0 = (y1-y0)/f'(sigma) that is (error in the parameter) = (error in the data)/(derivative with respect to the parameter) where sigma is between p0 and p1. The general case is a generalization of this idea using the mean value inequality.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_value_theorem
Some Landlords Are Illegally Spying on Tenants’ Stimulus Check Status
That might explain the origin of why so many fictional Nazis in movies have facial scars.
Not currently. Which I agree makes it 10 times more difficult to verify if this is secure.

I'm currently working on adding a kanban/trello board type page to this using the same backend. Maybe after that and cleaning up the code I can consider open sourcing it
It's a fact of life.

Bill Gates kept politicians at arms length.

If Microsoft had given Washington a little attention, the antitrust lawsuit would never ever have happened.

Google has squelched antitrust investigations in US every single time through lobbying.

Even Apple would been in hot regulatory soup if they didn't buddy up to politicians.
Lasting lungs damage is expected in ~5% of hospitalized cases (not counting ICU/reanimation protocol cases) in eastern France. I'd says it is a significant percentage. We will need to wait a couple month to be sure it is irreversible (pulmonary fibrosis are irreversible for the moment, as we can't chirurgically extract damaged lung tissue yet) and also the extent of this damage.

A young lady got asthma for the first time in her life last sunday, asthma that did not left her at least until wednesday (when my cousin told me about it, no news since). As nurses and doctors there now can afford to take vacation now (two-day vacations are vacations when you're working everyday since early march), they will probably have some time to start evaluating the non-deadly damages sometime soon.
cos(0) being 1, sin (0) begin 0; that series is 0 + 10e-3 + 0 + 10e-9 + 0 + 10e-15 + ... when x=0 (excuse my sloppy notation, I'm on a phone). Looks convergent to me, somewhere between 0.001000001000001 and 0.001000001000002 ?

Have you studied fractal dimensions formally, might I know the background you're speaking from?

Yes, I'm imagining, as a first example, something akin to a Weierstrass function but without the discontinuities.

https://www.desmos.com/calculator/c6tbl4zr9j
I'm not trying to "guilt" anybody. Please don't spin my words.

My two points are related. I recall hearing comments like that when my spouse and I had one infant child, and I remember taking them more personally, because it's easy as a new parent to feel like you should be doing more. Now if I hear someone comment on something I'm doing as a parent, it's just conversation, and I think the primary difference was my confidence in my own parenting ability.
One of the main difference is it is based on IPFS
If you're not into Haskell, you might want to give my Python project a try:

https://github.com/jwilk/urlycue
The Multiple Inert Gas Elimination Technique 50 Years Later: Lessons Learned
Why would someone evil do something in a comically complicated way instead of a simpler easier way.
I wonder if it would be possible to build a six-item menu selector that worked by picking up when you tap a string. This would get in the way of alternating between selecting an amp and trying that amp, but maybe there's some way to detect when a string has been tapped from behind the bridge?
Has anybody tried getting this to work under Proxmox (specifically) or KVM?

I previously used to use this guide for Proxmox - which uses Clover:

https://www.nicksherlock.com/2019/10/installing-macos-catali...

However, it seems like OC might be easier.

Somebody there suggested this (apparently non-open-source) EFI making script:

https://www.macos86.it/files/file/20-opencore-efi-maker/

but I can't even seem to get that working.

Another poster on this thread suggested

https://github.com/Leoyzen/KVM-Opencore

which seems like it could work - curious if other people have tried it and what their experiences are?
Part of basic infrastructure that would be different no matter which cloud provider you choose or if you did it on your own.
I'm not an expert in non-Tesla L3 chargers, but this thing I found with a little Googling appears to give locations: http://www.westcoastgreenhighway.com/electrichighway.htm
It's worth putting his actual statement here, so people can decide whether you're misrepresenting him.

From his article [1]:

> If we assume that case fatality rate among individuals infected by SARS-CoV-2 is 0.3% in the general population — a mid-range guess from my Diamond Princess analysis — and that 1% of the U.S. population gets infected (about 3.3 million people), this would translate to about 10,000 deaths.

[1]: https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-a...

He ventured a prediction of the CFR. And then just calculates the amount of deaths from a pretty arbitrary infected percentage of the population (there's no mention of the time scale either). Never does he predict that 1% will be infected. He's arbitrarily picking a number to illustrate the amount of deaths we'd see, but that all depends on how the disease spreads. Oddly enough his serology study ends up being somewhat close - instead of 1%, they saw 1.80-3.17% (in Santa Clara).
Ebola has an average case fatality rate of 50%. This is not Ebola.
Here's my take: if you get into a top engineering/CS program, you should still go.
I live in an area rich with history of a family that grew apples and pear trees (there is also a direct connection to Laura Secord and how the company trafficked wartime information into/out of the country via chocolate treat deliveries). It must have been a super wealthy family because the neighbourhood is huge, and you can still find apple trees literally everywhere.

One particular school has a veritable grove with massive apple trees that the students surely must love in the autumn. One particular pear tree near my house has a surprise feature of growing both the expected pears AND inosculated branches that sprout mini-pears that appear to be from a completely different breed.

I imagine that the Lost Apple Project would be interested in the area and what grows around here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease_X
Ignoring bad actors: what are useful applications of this stuff? It’s not a provocative question, I’m asking for real
Blood plasma taken from Covid-19 survivors might help patients
That’s a negative even depressing way of looking at it.

Life is a beautiful miracle with a extraordinary low probability that any one person would be born let alone survive.

As parents we (in partnership with whatever natural or supernatural being coordinates nature) bring that gift to our children. The rest is spot on. We owe it to them to make this a better world.

... but indebted sounds so negative.
Hydrogen could be a win if we can get it into the tank in a couple minutes. Very few apartments or workplaces have EV chargers so far, and it's impractically slow to do anywhere you weren't planning to park for a long time. A Tesla Supercharger station would have to be 10x as big as a gas station to accommodate the general public stopping for a half hour each for a partial charge, assuming they would put up with the wait.
Wouldn't it be more accurate if the headline said "A Covid-19 outbreak..."

As it's written, it sort of sounds like it's implying the global pandemic was the fault of a restaurant air conditioner.
What resource(s) would you recommend for identifying compatible parts?
I'm slightly more bullish on journalism and its importance than you are, but I broadly agree. It's been embarrassing watching the death throes (or transition period) of journalism, seeing people used to being treated as high-status pathetically lash out at every possible entity involved in exposing their inadequacy.

I do think that journalism plays a role in a healthy democracy. I assume that at some point, journalism will settle into a new equilibrium and play the role that it's always played, without the messianic complex that journalism as a whole is currently afflicted with (and so dramatically fails to live up to).
Actually a lot of large tech companies acted earlier and had already implemented work from home orders by the time the city acted.
i feel bad for you
The sky was falling according to everyone. People and politics were scrambling and panicking. And we still gave away all these resources. Italy's north in particular isn't a third world country. We still helped with all this, and it's considered lackluster? Can you imagine a reversed situation - when Germany would ever beg for help for anything? I don't understand why these expectations exist so naturally.
Lol...hackernews commenters...
Measured by what? We achieved better results than every single pre-peak best case estimated outcome. If you know of a predicted outcome that we havent come in under, please link to it.
The main issue I have with increasingly complex firmware is that it's also a source of bugs; they might not show up in normal usage, but any unusual edge-cases that result in data loss are catastrophic.

I'm amazed you don't see a drive manufacturer offering an enterprise-client "firmware builder" tool, or at least as a build-to-order service if you're a big enough client.

If they do, you probably wouldn't hear about it --- and I suspect they do, given that there are things like this: https://superuser.com/questions/593303/hitachi-hard-drive-wi...
If that does not change, the Eurozone is a doomed project.

In a monetary union, the regions running a surplus enjoy a massive boost due the exchange rates being depressed by the regions running a deficit, while the industries of the deficit regions struggle to catch up, hampered by the lack of natural corrective forces of a floating exchange rate. If a monetary union has to work, the deficit regions have to be fiscally supported by the surpluses generated elsewhere, or they just spiral further and further into debt, unemployment and industrial collapse.
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A couple points that have probably already been made by someone else:

* I suspect Google and Apple probably did a lot of contact tracing/traffic analysis type stuff that they don't want public...

and

* Contact tracing in the US might have been useful on January 15th but right now it's probably pointless.
Yeah, came to mention that that looks more like a quince.
That's obviously the point of the progression from unsuppressed to maximum suppression; to convey the relative amplitude.
Laravel is even more popular now.

I'd checkout Laravel again, Laracasts.com might be a nice place to start.

If you liked Angular checkout Vue and Alpine js.

Good luck with your SaaS.
… and the millions of other computers containing our working copies, which is why you can still work during an outage and attempts at modification are immediately noticeable.