skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I mean is like, if your cat kills a house finch that means something different depending on where you live. In you're in Western NA your cat killed a native bird, but if you're in Eastern NA or Hawaii, it killed an introduced bird which competes with native birds.

In the worst cases (ie. NZ) your cat may be killing literally endangered birds.
If you use your lockdown time to set up solid testing and tracing, it can work out pretty well.
Is Dlang affected?
I’m not just talking about industry standards. The system slowly changes away from them every time the people doing the work disagree, and sometimes even when they don’t. Eventually their model of the system and what it will do with new inputs or requirements becomes fiction.
> I do like the cleverness of it.

But that's the problem! I don't want clever, witty, whimsical. I want clear, simple, precise.

This is what went seriously wrong with Perl. In the 90s when Perl was doing well it was fashionable to be wacky like this. Then around 2000 the fashion suddenly changed and the industry grew up and people started to take things more seriously. Now Perl looks terribly out of date and silly.
Which conventions would that be?
Interesting study. I skimmed through it -- it is quite long. The oddest takeaway for me was that couples with children are significantly happier than those without children -- except if they have just one child, in which case they are no happier than couples without children.

The more religious you are, the happier you tend to be.

The word "envy" never appears in the article, which I think is emblematic of the year 2020.
I highly recommend "The Dream Machine" by Mitchell Waldrop (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/722412.The_Dream_Mach...), without a doubt the best non-fiction book I've ever read and a fascinating insight into the history of computing and most of all the visionary people involved in this endeavor.
Isn't that the entire idea behind the "software defined networking" craze?
This is the kind of thing that leaves me with little confidence that decentralised currency will mainstream as decentralised.

I've only seen three actual mainstream uses for crypto:

- laundering or indirect laundering of money

- Send or receive money without government oversight

- Piggy back on as a ledger to not have to develop your own decentralised ledger
Use a US VPN.
The only pin numbering I ever perceived as unintuitive is on PLCC packages where pin 1 is in the middle of one of the 4 sides. Especially since there's still a marker dot in one of the corners generally.

Luckily, PLCCs are rare these days.

Example: https://www.zilog.com/manage_directlink.php?filepath=docs/z8...
(Note that the orientation on the PLCC package is indicated by one of the corners being different, yet that's not where pin 1 is.)
This Week in DevOps
> "At least 50% of the population of both the UK and Sweden will be shown to have already had the disease when mass antibody testing becomes available"

They're already doing antibody testing in other countries and the numbers are much lower than 50%.

In Santa Clara county, California, the estimate is only 2.49% to 4.16%

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/04/17/heal...
It really depends on lots of factors. Lighting, angle, face type, the celebrity you choose and your facial hair. If you're squinting your eyes for example, you won't get decent results. DM me your ID from under settings so I can give you credits to play with.
If you can find an SSD with unlimited SLC cache for around 10c/GB and overprovision it by a factor of N then you'd have SLC for 30-40c/GB.
As someone else mentioned, dogs can harm a human quite easily while cats couldn't care less about us.
FTA: ”I don’t like using storyboards myself, so the app in this tutorial is built programmatically, which means no buttons or switches to toggle — just pure code“

Most of the boilerplate parts of the code can be done in a GUI, instead.

Also, I think this program requires hardware that’s new enough to support the iOS version that supports SwiftUI. If so, SwiftUI would be the better choice for building this UI.
A Beloved Bar Owner Was Skeptical About the Virus. Then He Took a Cruise
Thanks for comment. I think this can be useful to music producers (in some way), but the market for plugins is so tough, basically hard to survive even for one developer on revenue from one plugin. I’ll be thinking about this.
It's great to see people experimenting with different tradeoffs. One thing I wanted to mention is that I don't believe the author's claim that React sees purity as an end goal is accurate. I wrote my thoughts here, hope they're of some use: https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/g1zj87/crankjs_...
I guess you average the values at a given point and then smooth the surface, and call that "as good as possible".)

In the video he mentioned doing a least squares fit to get the final surface, so that sounds about right.
I wasn't sure where that quote came from, but Google helped out. It appears you're trying to misrepresent text from an exchange's website as somehow being representative of the Handshake community.

The vast majority of the handshake community has no affiliation with Namebase, but I definitely recommend Namebase for people who are not comfortable managing their private keys.

Your comment is analagous with taking a comment from the Microsoft website about GNU/Linux.

On another note, Thomas, I would like to point out that you have chosen to be outspoken in the community, so I would like to strongly suggest you do so in a more constructive manner.
This is awesome! Twitter has been my goto for posting TILs for about as long. Now I regret not collecting them in a more coherent format like this.

Sara Soueidan has a similar log oriented toward UI work:

https://www.sarasoueidan.com/today-i-learned/
> I bet most interesting stuff on personal computers is easily accessible with normal user privileges that every game client has.

Which is why the current tendency is towards more sandboxing, not less; things like flatpak on Linux, the app stores on Windows and Mac, the heavy sandboxing on phones, and so on. Running an in-kernel component for an application goes against that.
Not really - at the moment all businesses are having to readjust efforts and work with less resources available.

They don’t want to jump into rash decisions with minimal staff or staff dispersed across home locations and not able to work as effectively as normal - which could lead to broken BGP routes.
Good that Sweden is using the same rational inside that they applied to other countries during WWII, cruelly neutral wrt w/death toll. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_neutrality
A lot of information can be transmitted through non-verbal communication (e.g. facial expressions). Do you look at the faces of other people on the call with you who do have their cameras turned on? If so, why?
1. It's about as made up as the WHO's 3.4% figure.

2. Most thinkers I know and follow widely believe this to be the case as well, it also passes the common sense test.

(OK, 3.4% of reported cases, my point is they have thrown out death rates as well, all of them can be considered fantasy because we have zero clue what the denominator is)
This is an odd hill to die on. I'd bet 90%+ of engineers have a single computer they code from at home (even if you have multiple computers) and another at work. It's perfectly fair to pay for a separate license for each of those use cases. I'd prefer this to some $10/month SAAS model.
“The correct policy is to protect the old and the frail only.”

How is it working out with that. Last I heard old people in Sweden don’t go to the ICU but is left to die and they have a large spread in care homes for elderly. And as if their economy is in a vacuum they think they won’t be struggling with the same recession as the rest of us
The Open Source Deep Learning Glossary
I'm having issues seeing the whole post, when I scroll down i just see white, and when I click the subject headers from the menu it jumps down half the page and the mouse wheel scroll gets locked. I'm using Chrome on MacOS.
The complaint isn't about alignment at all, it's that the optimizer assumes that two pointers to the same basic type cannot overlap in memory. The generated code is correct except for the fact that the two arguments are distinct pointers to the same three bytes in memory.

I believe this behavior is actually specified in the standard, actually, in the same section that defines the aliasing rules.
You ask how much wildlife there is in urban and suburban areas to begin with. The wildlife that lives there is all generalist, if a cat takes a mouse, squirrel, starling or blackbird it's a bit bloody but not really important in the great scheme of things.
> Downside could be some uncanny valley if the models are not very high quality.

That can be controlled, since these compression algorithms usually work by making a prediction and sending the difference between the prediction and the actual value.

That works both for lossless compression - where the difference is sent in full - and lossy as well - where only the most important part of the difference is sent.
Zero mentions of the licensing terms on the main page, which makes me very suspicious.
Interesting reframe, thank you.
I think the Internet makes it worse, but it's not as if it was hard to find someone who was too confident in their layman's opinion in the real world. Witness any sports event. How often do your friends say "favorite will definitely win" when it's been known that they lose now and again?

Same with the stock market, predictions about the house market, the weather, political events, and so on.

Overconfidence is the rule, not the exception.

I'm certain of it.
It's unknown how long symptoms typically last. I am pushing 4+ weeks with mild symptoms I have never experienced with the flu. My doctor indicates 4+ weeks until ~mostly recovered based on her patients. How does this deplete nutrients necessary for continued immune function relative to the flu? We need more data and that Swede doesn't have it.
I suspect in terms of actual performance, it's cheaper to get a MLC drive (eg. 970 pro) instead.
Bypass Paywalls for Expo
Reasonable candidates, per the article:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_to_right

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clockwise
Ask HN: Recommend an IDL for HTTP/JSON APIs
What do you recommend as a Interface Description Language for HTTP/JSON services?

I use Node.js for server side code, but the lack of types for requests and responses means I re-write the same general code:

- Validating incoming/outgoing JSON

- Writing the web JS based client (mapping HTTP to specific JS functions and objects).

Id like to use something that acts as a proxy between my client and server that defines the set of requests and responses that are valid, which would enable auto generating the client and server stubs, leaving me to write the function bodies on the client and server.

Protocol Buffers and Flat Buffers seem to be for binary and systems programs, browser based clients seem bolted on. I care less about encode/decode efficiency, and more about runtime validation of inputs and outputs, and the ability to replace the client/server by having a machine checkable spec for what my service is.

The Open API also seems complicated, I want something more lightweight that keeps my time cost per iteration cycle low during development, and has minimal dependencies and maximum long term viability.

Any recommendations?
I do not find that model outdated at all. Actually a good bunch of apps I use have that model (e.g. Alfred App, Ableton Live...).

Also, TablePlus seems to be selling well (at least from what I see around me), so I am not personally of the opinion that they should change their model!
> start spreading again when the masses break and go back to work

I don't see why this must be true. R before the lockdown in northern CA and WA (heavy voluntary measures but people "working") was ~1.45. [source: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.12.20062943v...]. SoCal was higher at R=2.1, possibly due to less voluntary restrictions.

Add on a functional testing and contact tracing (built up during the lockdown) and you should be at r < 1.
I love TablePlus. Definitely worth it's money for me.
I have been looking for a native app alternative to pgAdmin ever since they changed it over to a browser based application. I will have to check this out. Actually, if people have suggestions, I'll listen!
it's kind of weird to talk about the "natural habitat" of an animal that has been domesticated over thousands of years. it doesn't seem obvious that the modern cat (or especially dog) would be better off in the "wild" than living with humans.
I live in a city that has a large wild rabbit population. It surprised me when I first moved here. They are very cute and pose no threat to anything besides weeds/grass.

The city also has a large variety of songbirds, which people generally like.

On a low level, I don't mind when I see cats patrolling the block. They're little human friends. They sometimes sit with me on the porch. However, I do think it's a bad practice to have an outdoor cat. I adopted a cat very recently and I will be keeping it indoors (against its wishes). It will have to be content killing virtual prey.
It's not proportional to number of users, either. Zero marginal costs mean pricing is always at least a little arbitrary.
I've always considered Debian to be the sane, vanilla Ubuntu :-)
In Python, it's even worse, since there's no braces and not returning anything implicitly returns None.
> So? You run a blocking thread to performing a long-running task in Flask? With Python? Try, then report what you find.

I did it for years. It works just fine. The GIL is essentially like running an app on a single core, which works just fine for many use cases. CPU cores are quite powerful.

> More processes usually imply more complexity.

Right, but I'm only saying you can have more processes without requiring Redis.

> And still, since you don't have a central application with a state, you NEED an extra piece to manage the result from the queue.

A regular thread can do that.
That's some next level paranoia.
The entire economy is based on the idea of never ending growth, infinite leverage, and assets that always inflate without increasing utility (homes for example). It works, until it doesn't.

I don't know how long it will keep going, but I do think we need a real correction in order to redistribute some of the wealth.
ONLYOFFICE is free and open source.
I think you're being too dismissive of my plan. It's at least theoretically possible to use the Internet without the DNS. But just try using it without ARP!

Nobody is reading this thread besides us at this point, so maybe should just tie it off here, or with your reply. All the best!
Steve Blank's Secret History of Silicon Valley talk is very interesting - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo
right or wrong, he'll be proven so relatively shortly, after all the rate will either rise exponentially as the alarmist say, or stays the same and slowly drops as he claims
I agree that it could be more transparent. I haven't faced a single suspicious player in quite some time (and similar with my friends that I talked to about this since this came up). Sorry that your experience is worse. Player "toxicity" should not be involved in this since it might be used as a proxy.
Refuel, drive fast, walk slow, repeat ;)
That’s a theory, but nothing more. Nobody has successfully done that yet. The testing and tracing success stories started before they needed to lock anything down.
I really enjoyed the length and depth of this video. Though I wonder if a good hybrid strategy for YT popularity is to have a viral-edited video on a main channel, and more depth linked on a second channel.
The first one is trivially wrong. In NYC more than 0.1% of the _population_ (not the infected) has died already.

The second is less trivially wrong, but there's a lot of evidence against it: tests from Wuhan[0], Denmark[1], the Netherlands[2] all show very low infection rates, around 3-4%.

[0]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/wuhan-starts-testing-to-determi...

[1]: https://nyheder.tv2.dk/samfund/2020-04-17-stor-screening-vis...

[2]: https://nltimes.nl/2020/04/16/3-dutch-blood-donors-covid-19-...
It's early in this marathon race.

It's not uninteresting who's in the lead now. But it's the goal line standings that matter.
> You don't take life or death decision based on such optimistic speculation. This is just irresponsible.

Not more or less irresponsible than large-scale lockdowns. Don't kid yourself and think the lockdowns were evidence-driven and accounted for knock-on effects. They were desperation moves.
What Is a “Development Pattern”?
Bad UI design has nothing to do with your coding framework of choice, it has everything to do with the design. Most programmers are not good designers. I cringed a bit at the background color of the OP's blog.

There's a reason that most people are unimaginative, because just like coding, design is hard. Design for multiple platforms (the whole point of using UI frameworks is easier multiplatform development) and multiple screen sizes is hard and takes a long time to both design and implement.
This is about politicking and very questionable behaviour related to a proposed standard for contact tracing. It's short, relevant to current circumstances, and rather interesting.
Consider how ill informed and criminally stupid the US administration is and I would suggest that people discussing things and coming to their own conclusions, while a messy process, is at least one that might reach the correct conclusion in the face of being lied to by authority figures.

EDIT: As a recent example, consider the lies we were told by the administration about the effectiveness of surgical masks in preventing spread. While this lie was told in service of keeping the supply prioritized for health care workers, it caused vulnerable people to not wear them and discouraged people from wearing home made masks that might help prevent asymptomatic spread. We have only overcome this lie through public discussion and eventual acknowledgement by the CDC.
Yes?

It's a very common if not universal complaint among libertarian anarchist types that police and/or other government employees shouldn't be subject to different rules from the rest of us. It seems obvious that like it or not, they are in present society.

I'm not suggesting I'm in favor or against it, just acknowledging that the rules for what's acceptable depend on what collective entity you're part of. It doesn't seem peculiar to me if there are always non-individual responsibilities to go with non-individual powers.
This is very cool. As I watched the video, I began to think about a stupidly over-the-top version of the backstop that uses many real-time-deformable panels similar to the adaptive-optic mirrors used in advanced astronomical telescopes but informed to guide the ball by a machine vision view of the inbound ball in flight.
The only effective solution I have found so far to prevent my cat from hunting too many small animals is to have her wear a bell. Is seems that prey are scared away and manage to escape. Before we put it on we used to find dead mice, lizards and birds everyday in the garden or in front of the door...
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Look up what toxoplasmosis is.
Not unusual, really. We just never knew what it was like to dream. Now we have full sleep. And some sleep with full stomachs from all the snacking and eating. Dream on. Defragmentation time.
Back in the first-gen CDMA days, I copied the ESN from my phone to a second phone of an identical model (a friend was upgrading his). I tried calling them the number when they were both on and next to each other, and they both rang. Answering both allowed me to hear audio in both phones for a short time, until something got out of sync and the call would end.

Leaving one off, the other would work normally. It was a great way to have a backup phone when cell plans used to cost $70/mo and phones were locked to carrier accounts.
That sounds as if it would be a good worst case number, but that number will be all over the place. During the quarantine, we will see fewer deaths due to misadventure, especially I’m places where those numbers are high. After or toward the end, more deaths and health complications due to complications of a sedentary lifestyle, especially in places where those numbers are already high.
81 comments at the moment and not one single mention of Infinite Jest?! How disappointing...
https://xkcd.com/1775/

"How easy it is to grow up without learning [that cat bites are really serious and if bitten you need to wash the bite and call a doctor immediately]"
No, we've built cities whose residents can't afford to live in them because their taxation isn't used to provide services at optimal cost but instead funneled to private interests and various rackets under the auspices of urban development paradigm du jour.
neither - the two trees I have don’t produce more than a handful of fruit, so they are mainly ornamental. I don’t think the growing season is long enough for the olives to grow to a reasonable size
Polymorphic Identifiers: Uniform Resource Access in Objective-Smalltalk (2013)
Is there something particularly five-y about pin 5? Surely if you called it 8 nothing else would change. No one is suggesting redesigning the whole thing. Just move a few labels.
"Hiding infections in the future is not the same as avoiding them":

https://medium.com/@wpegden/a-call-to-honesty-in-pandemic-mo...
I wonder how much they'd need to absorb some of these losses.
The WHO never said the infection fatality rate is 3.4%. Here's the actual transcript the number is taken from:

https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-...

> Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died.

They said that 3.4% of REPORTED cases had died, which was true at that point.

> Most thinkers I know and follow widely believe this to be the case as well, it also passes the common sense test.

0.015% of the Swedish population has died so far from the coronavirus. On the other hand ~0.15% of NYC has already died from the coronavirus. If the majority of the Swedish population is already infected, why is the death rate only 1/10th that of NYC? How does that pass the "common sense test"?
Yeah Denmark is the closest to a baseline for comparison imo, Sweden has about 2-3x more deaths per capita at this point and new deaths every week is still growing.
All of these City Lab and Strong Towns articles boil down to complaining about how every city isn't exactly like San Francisco. Some people have lifestyle preferences that are not as common in the bay area. Some people want good infrastructure so that they can commute from affordable housing. This is an example of SV hubris.
Nope, look it up
GVT-g works on my mobile Intel GPU.
The problem is the wealth in concentrated in the few, who do not want to give it up, and needed by the many, who do not have (or know) the leverage needed. Of course this has always been the case since cities were first invented. All civilizations come to some kind of end, and new ones arise.
Linus Torvald’s biography, Just For Fun, is a great read. I liked that it’s both the history of Linux and also showcases his personality and how he thinks.
The recent study in Santa Clara County suggests it may be between 0.12 and 0.20 though it suggests only a couple percent have had it there: https://www.sfgate.com/news/editorspicks/article/Santa-Clara...
Cargo is not from Go
Whoa! It never occurred to me that `Pool` could be used with context manager. I've always typed out `.close()` manually like a sucker.