skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first sentence of the paper cites a reference for a claim, but the reference doesn't support the claim at all. That's an immediate rejection of the paper from me.

Specifically, the paper says "Symptomatic Covid-19 disease (as caused by SARS-CoV-2 virus) is observed in 2.5 percent of infected individuals [2]". That's an interesting claim, so I checked the reference.

Reference 2 explicitly says "All estimates are based on persons who developed symptoms, and this work makes no inferences about asymptomatic infection with SARS-CoV-2." In other words, the reference does not describe what percentage of infected individuals show symptomatic disease. The 2.5% number apparently comes from the reference's estimate that "fewer than 2.5% of infected persons will display symptoms within 2.2 days of exposure." (Symptoms show up after a median of 5.5 days.)

Thus, the paper claims 2.5% of infected individuals have symptomatic disease, but the reference to support the claim says that 2.5% of infected individuals with symptoms show symptoms within 2.2 days!

My conclusion is that the paper is misusing references, either carelessly or maliciously. Reading a paper like that is a waste of time, since you can't trust anything it says without checking every reference.

[2]: https://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/2762808/incubation-period...
> What if we had the central bank give everyone an account that was interoperable with the rest of the banking system?

Because we don't trust the central bank enough (edit: to not arbitrarily give their friends money directly - still happens though). And they don't want to be politicized by giving up autonomy. So the current compromise is that by law they can't lend directly except by Congressional statute, such as the CARES Act stipulates.
Darwin Documentation Project and HeaderDoc (2001) [video]
Chinese OEMs constantly violating Android compliance
I understand it completely. That's why I think they should add more money to the program and do more of it.

The narrative in this article and most of the discussion is that it was a failure and we shouldn't have done it. I disagree.

Also follow up on your application now, the program was just funded again. Get the money, keep your payroll up and help your team keep their jobs. That's what it's for, and if you finished your application the program is likely to help you very shortly.
Is the rust book still the best place to start if you're a veteran c/c++ programmer? https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/
That's about a 2% fee which doesn't seem out of line with other transaction processing fees that are out there. That fee probably has built in insurance for fraud and other failures. And also the cost of the transaction. I bet that fee is the same fee as a year ago?
As people stay home, Earth turns wilder and cleaner
Sorry but your experience is vastly different from the experience of the vast majority of people. The program is out of money and about 75% of applicants are still waiting (& won't be getting their money). Almost all of those who haven't received funds are just... screwed. I personally know 3 small business owners who applied w/in a few days of the program being announced whose banks did not submit their app to the SBA before funding ran out. One of them already wasn't able to meet payroll, another one is giving her 2 employees her entire paycheck in order to keep the business alive. Basically, you got incredibly lucky.

I literally have no idea how you could be friends with other small biz owners and not realize that this program is an utter failure.

Editing to add source: https://vermontbiz.com/news/2020/april/20/nfib-80-percent-pp...
Check out bigbluebutton [0]. It is open source with tons of features. It however requires specific Ubuntu 16.04 version and can only be installed on that OS. It is not the best fit for very large audiences (say over 200) in one session BUT for that they are working on another load balancing solution recently [1]

I have been using this for our clients (edtech) for a while and with their 2.2 official version, they made it HTML5 only and removed flash. Works really well if you follow all the guidelines and installation instructions.

They also have a bash installer script [2] which literally does everything for you in one single script.

[0] https://docs.bigbluebutton.org

[1] https://github.com/blindsidenetworks/scalelite

[2] https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bbb-install
CloudBalkan: PUE = 1.00 on Earth Day
Will it? How do you know? Have we done that before to have an example?
Flowers are nature's billboards to promote pollination. I let a lot of trees and plants run wild around my home, partly because I enjoy looking at bees. Plants flower and then let the flowers die as soon as they've served their purpose; and the competition between plants for space and sunlight is also aggressive. If you let nature take its course, you have to get used to seeing lots of death as different plants kill each other off and run into the limits of their environment. Also, a lot of the real action is happening underground, where most of the nutrients are - sunlight and CO2 are only part of the equation, and for some plants being trimmed back is no more of a big deal than getting a haircut.

I get your point, but it's also a reflection of your own psychological state. People mostly like flowers to bring some nature into their home; they could also cultivate houseplants, but that's a lot more work and if you try cultivating multiple plants together they are likely to either kill each other or attract bugs. The transience of flowers isn't inherently morbid, for the same reason you can be vegetarian but still wear woolen clothes.
Looks interesting. Better than some of the static detection algorithms out there
in modern games matchmaking = game servers

which can be confusing

in a lot of games you cannot see a server list anymore, you can only use matchmaking (usually casual / ranked) and the matchmaking handles spinning up servers depending on the load.
Consider that the Information Age has made actual financial work vastly less expensive (computers, spreadsheets, digital communication, etc.) while at the same time the finance sector has grown to be a much higher portion of the economy (in GDP). There could be a plausible explanation, but it certainly seems fishy.
The energy should probably go towards voting and trying to get others to vote as well
I disagree. There's more to relationships that typing. I'm very pro-dynamic languages and still chafe at static typing but the wonder of the relational model fits nicely with my liking for declarative and functional approaches.

(EDIT - and as another data point I dislike SQL's syntax. The semantics are bearable but the syntax just makes my brain melt)
Thank you for raising this!
> It's an amazing channel for businesses to reach their customers.

Do you have any insight on how consumers find this? I can imagine it's nice to hear (rarely) from a few places that you care about, but taken too far I think I'd find the mixing of messages from friends and companies pretty annoying.
Most importantly, once a shark gnaws at the cable, various waterproofing and weatherproofing layers get broken, and seawater goes deep inside the cable, then corrosion happens, breaking things further...
Are you reading your source correctly?

“The vast majority of these loans — 74 percent of them — were for under $150,000, demonstrating the accessibility of this program to even the smallest of small businesses,” Mnuchin said. He told CNN on Sunday that an additional $300 billion “should be sufficient to reach almost everybody.”
Asdf: A version manager to rule them all
> Oh my. If you cannot read your own comments, then we aren't going to be able to have a conversation. You clearly implied in your earlier comment that education isn't free and that Lambda earns their keep.

I said this education product isn't free. That's just a fact. I didn't say it was not possible to get other education for free. I got my CS education for free, for example.

> is that of a feudal lord who installs a chain across a river that flows through his land

I think you're confused about what rent seeking is. The feudal lord in this example installs a chain across a river. He stops people using the river who could have done free otherwise. That's the essential bit that makes it rent seeking.

But Lambda School don't damage anyone's access to education. They add their own product on top and take nothing away. They don't stop anyone from using using any other resource. It's a net benefit to society. Even if you think it's a useless course, it's a net zero to society in that case, which isn't something to get annoyed about as long as they're minding their own business.

> I am not interested in paying money, or promising away future money, or getting less than a $15/hr wage, for the privilege of regurgitating material to my fellow students.

Well... then don't! Nobody's making you, or even suggesting you do.

> Why do you defend these practices so ardently?

Always good to step in to defend someone who's being subjected to an unjust attack!
Session, chat with signal protocol but no need to dox yourself
"a free Gigabyte" doesn't catch anyone in the US since 1999. Try "10 Terabytes" :). Few people will use all of it at once, anyway.
SQL is very much like CSS to me.

It's declarative, the primitives seem entirely non-intuitive, it often takes a lot of fiddling to get what you want, the behind-the-scenes execution is mostly a black box, and while it's supposed to work the same on different implementations (of browsers/databases), there are tons of little gotcha quirks.

All in all, they're both entirely different skill sets from traditional programming, and also where experience counts for a ton more than just normal logical thinking.
Two phase commit makes a promise it can't keep. CAP theorem is not amused.

It's slow, complex, a leaky abstraction, and ahould be avoided for better consistency models.
> But they're not as good as ripgrep ;-)

I would naturally agree, but my users make that argument far better than I can. :-)
You're thinking of the Bolshevik revolution.
SQL feels to me like bash or regular expressions. You can do amazing things if you do it full time. But if you do it only a few times per month or year you quickly forget all the subtleties and it gets hard to understand even the stuff you wrote half a year ago. I guess in the end things have become so complex that as a dev you can’t be good at everything. I often wish there were dedicated database guys but if you have one usually that person is sysadmin and won’t help much with coding against the database.
The headline misses the point. The total means nothing out of context.

What's the fee per loan?

>Loans worth less than $350,000 brought in 5% in fees while loans worth anywhere from $2 million to $10 million brought in 1% in fees.

I've read that the average loan is $50K, so that's $2500 per loan, which seems high,
And 1% of a $1millio loan is ridiculous, as it's not subsidizing the smaller loans, AND these loans are scaled to #employees, so the size of the loan is proportional to
the #people benefited and so the fees should be per loan (cost based), not per $ lent.
A more functional mindset can definitely help here. Think of your "sales per day" model in terms of starting with a sequence of days--startingDay up to startingDay + n--as the input to a function that maps to an aggregate of that day's activity.

Aggregate functions in SQL are IMHO quite awesome once you develop a comfort level to stop worrying about them per se. I wouldn't like to try to get Excel to tell me--or write the code to do manually--something like "show me the standard deviation in units sold by day of week over the last ten summers."
I could not imagine the amount of financial, operational, technological and regulatory infrastructure that would need to be ported over, however.
Everyone wants to not forget genetics. No one wants to admit the inadequacy of their models of heritability of cognitive function in explaining disparities in educational outcome. Should we continue to judge the entire country solely on studies that claim 60-70% genetic influence (on cohorts of exceedingly similar European-descended subjects)? Twin studies that fail to consider epigenetic influence, widespread psychological effects, etc.? Studies that cannot take into account disparities in environmental effects, because they were unknown or exceedingly difficult to quantify?

If we find that there are significant, genetically-controlled disparities, how do you suppose we go about treatment? We can't even treat SNP-based disorders yet. Cognitive function is controlled by the complex interaction of multiple genes.

I'm sorry for the cynical response. I'm just annoyed that this approach seems to come up constantly, despite the problem being unproven and the solution not efficacious. As a society, provide people with safe, stable homes and communities, their children with equal education and development-centered nutrition and activity, and keep going for a generation or two while we increase our sophistication with genetic and heritability science. Then we can talk about where differences may lie and how, if at all, to treat them.
> I hope your friend realizes that this is clear-cut racial/ethnicity-based discrimination.

That is absolutely orthogonal to business requirements to be honest.

Especially when you need to establish production of anything as primitive as N95s.

Of course you can send airplanes all around the world for them (https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-at-least-tw...) but when they will return empty, that thin reasoning layer will vaporize almost immediately.
> Is JP Morgan to blame that the guy you voted for gave it some money to spend on its biggest customers? You fail to see that JP Morgan is just the middle man.

Yeah. We blame people and organizations all the time for things that they were legally permitted to do but were selfish, short-sighted, or stupid.

Frankly, JP Morgan should try to be more like Shake Shack (not that Shake Shack was perfect, but at least they recognized and corrected their error: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/business/shake-shack-retu...)
I disagree, it's a question of authoring freedom. We have a fairly recent "prefers-color-scheme: dark" media query for this which further proves my point, that it's either black or white by default.

If you, the author of the page decide to respect it then it's fine, but I'd be a bit mad if the browser decided to override my page design to an arbitrary grey shade if I don't declare a background color for the body.
The program is not re-funded yet. The bill has not been signed into law. (see "lapsed appropriations" on this page: https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans/coronavirus-relie...

I am reading the narrative very differently. You think people are saying there shouldn't have been any bill like this? People are saying that the bill has failed to help small businesses. Which is just a fact.
TALOS2 and Blackbird have better offering at this price point...
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Show HN: I made a JavaScript microframework in under 700 sloc
Positive sinking into negatives...

Yes that is what I often observe. As for predictability - it seems to me like anything that deviates from the "party line" (whatever that is for any particular area) gets downvoted. Looks like a usual herd mentality to me.
We have the US Digital Service [1] and 18F [2]. We (US citizens) should demand Congress to provide them the authority to deliver the modernization required to implement such infrastructure. Use Login.gov [3] to provide for digital identity management of these accounts. Perform in person KYC using USPS and DHS/CBP branches, and identity proofing online using traditional service providers (IRS already does this for your IRS account, SSA might, I haven't checked recently).

The path to success is straightforward.

EDIT: So I did some digging, and it appears that the US Treasury has partnered with Comerica Bank in Texas to provide this sort of service to Social Security benefit recipients [4] (because the Treasury requires electronic payment of social security benefits, and you can't leave seniors unbanked). The challenge is going to be to find Congressional reps supportive of bringing this functionality in house, which isn't unreasonable IMHO, to provide this as a utility to all US citizens. I have already fired off a FOIA request to get details on the contract between Treasury and Comerica.

[1] https://www.usds.gov/ | [2] https://18f.gsa.gov/ | [3] https://login.gov/ [4] https://www.usdirectexpress.com/
Can anyone confirm exactly what needs to be done to temporarily disable the Apple Mail app on the latest production version of iOS (13.4.1) until this is resolved?

I've never been entirely confident in my understanding of the background processing model for iOS apps, and this attack potentially affects people I know.
What I find interesting about this article is that the poster was apparently permitted by the NSA to share his experience publicly...

Compare and contrast this with National Security Letters, which apparently (based on the ones that I have seen, that have been publicly posted on the Internet by other people) request or require absolute secrecy...
Economic efficiency and waste are not the same thing, unless you really are pricing in all the externalities. Also, while the concept of comparative advantage is elegant and powerful, excess fealty to it creates monocultures, much as too much sugar brings on diabetes.
It is very common, in downtown Lisbon, when doing some escavations to renovate some building foundations to find traces/layers of older civilizations. A famous case was in the 90's when renovating the headquarters of Millenium Bank. The remains were preserved (under the building) and you can actually visit them nowadays[1].

[1] https://www.lisbonlux.com/lisbon/nucleo-arqueologico.html
again, aliasing it is fine for interactive use.

the point is that this breaks an unbelievable amount of already deployed scripts. The new functionality should be optional, and accessed via switches and aliases if you like it.

this was very much a change only a few people liked, that they decided to force down literally everyone else's throats. it's very poor stewardship.
See also an introductory article discussing why and how I made this: https://h3rald.com/articles/h3/
Post-Covid-19 Business Landscape: Manufacturing, Education, Construction
> It's easy to get nicotine via gum, pill, patch, or vaping.

.. or snuff! Which I think is one of the most elegant ways of delivering nicotine to your body
Yes, you have to do it manually.
Policy should have sent the money directly to companies from the SBA/IRS, customers then would choose the banks to service that guaranteed government grant/loan essentially. Much like the FAFSA system for student loans, you get your amount, then a servicer handles the actual loan but there is literally no risk to them as it is guaranteed.

Why we sent guaranteed money to be held up in banks and did information and credit checks, on already known information from the IRS, well we know why, to pilfer it.

Had they ran it a better way, using the actual market, directly to businesses/individuals, that is lots of money out there for banks to go get and the market knows it is out there as well. Markets like knowing hundreds of billions and trillions are out there to go get. Make them earn the fees if they must.

Instead, it was a direct transfer from the Fed and treasury to QE that was pilfered by the usual suspects: hedge funds, market makers, foreign funds, oligarchs, wealth/value extraction ops, naked short selling, short and distort and more. The SBA money was pilfered by banks and large companies. The 'stimulus' for the economy, routed around the entire actual economy, never reaching individuals or true small business.
The ultimate RISC OS machine...
These bailout bills have been passed with broad bipartisan support, of which you will never see who voted for or against the bill because it was only a voice vote.

So how is voting for either party going to help a problem that both parties equally passed?
I wouldn't worry. You can still set up a computer pretending to offer a DoD login, in fact as many as you want/can afford on AWS, and you still won't go to prison. IANAL, but go ahead and knock yourself out! It'll be fun/character building/a learning experience no matter what happens.
> populations that have had continuous populations

This misses the point because this isn't about continuity of population in terms of lineage, just perpetual inhabitation. A city such as Sicily over time has exchanged hands and transformed culture many, many times. Cities are cosmopolitan. Demographics change, and culture is not static. It was not for nomadic tribes either. What we can find for them, however, are relics tied to a certain point in time, to a certain place, describing a certain nomadic culture. They are certainly not the same as those persisting today, whether there is some lineage or otherwise.

It also reads funny; what makes them continuous, you mean they did not partake in interracial mingling? We don't know how continuous they really were. We only know that nomadic lifestyle existed a long time, and ultimately is the precursor of settlements; humanity was of course once entirely nomadic, therefore we all have nomadic ancestors. Fukuyama would suggest that centralized agriculture was developed to increase population in order to wage war, which eventually grew enough to necessitate bureaucracy.

> mere mention of nomads would create such a passionate backlash!

I don't see any. Maybe it's something you're feeling?
I firmly believe that every developer should spend 2-3 weeks early in their career working with nothing but SQL. It will pay huge dividends for the rest of it.

IMO a lot of the issue is that developers for many years using Java or PHP, were using SQL to handle everything. The application language was a pass through later between the client and the database.

Your goal was to accomplish as much as possible in a single query and then to simply return the results of that query to the interface. That meant formatting numbers or currency in your SQL. Optimizing inserts or updates to be handled in a single query. Grouping, counting, left/inner joins, having statements to filter on aggregate results. More than 1 or 2 queries for the primary area of the screen was both a rare and foreign experience.

And then ORMs started to slowly integrate themselves into the flow of various frameworks to automate the repetitive things around CRUD tasks. Then to address scaling & bloat problems we saw an uptick in REST APIs, microservices that further made those ORMs the norm...and then many developers started actively trying to stay within those API constraints to an almost religious degree which led to a nested payload becoming acceptable fueling the whole "NoSQL" situation, along with the idea that it was somehow better to repeat the same data thousands of times over.

A whole lot of people pushed back against this and eventually, it mostly ran its course. I've often seen resistance to SQL to be driven by fear of SQL more so than anything else. As soon as people get a basic comfort level with SQL, it become almost automatic.
The Yeast Supply Chain Can’t Just Activate Itself
Which GUI clients that you know of do support word diffing?
CME switches options model to accommodate negative prices in underlyings [pdf]
Fandango just purchased Vudu from Walmart to better compete with Amazon, iTunes
It most likely takes about as much time for bank to process a bailout for a larger company than a smaller company. At least 75% of the SBA money should be going to individuals through payroll anyways, so why wouldn't you want to serve larger companies first?