skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No the very obvious conclusion is that covid-19 isn't very deadly. Thats what every test has concluded. Its that the death rate is closer to .3% than the 3% that the WHO quoted and much closer to the flu's death rate of .1%
Its an investment but there are no nasty surprises to it or security issues, just a lotta gotchas. Things get better by the day in terms of editor support and tooling integration so keep watch c:
Aren't these results consistent with Netherland's findings (3% of blood donors had COVID-19 antibodies) ?
A question out of curiosity, how much did the wind-down of the company cost in comparison to its acquisition cost?
Bitcoing tumblers are obfuscation method and are definitely not preventing you from tracing money. Its a way of making it harder to trace all the money.

Also its public which tumbler was used for laundering so it can become target for law enforcement too.

It sounds like you feel really strongly about the subject and don't like crypto at all but I think you are being unfair here.
You're also creating a shadow market. A good friend of my grandmother lived in East Germany during the cold war and explained the German term "Bückware" (literally bend-down wares) to me: the sought-after goods in stores that you'd only get by trading favors, stored out of sight under the counter so they'd have to bend down to get it.
Seems so obvious that this was the flu but far more contagious from the beginning because of the lack of herd immunity and vaccines. We are just getting verification.
Is "page-flipping" basically double buffering or am I missing something?
"For one, no labor could be hired to perform many farm duties, and certainly not for the amount that farms pay foreign temp workers."

The opportunity is definitely there to roboticize the backbreaking work those faceless poorly dressed "peasants" are subject to under the watchful gaze of new bossman from investor capitalized Communist Party China. Isreali robotics firms have demo proofs of concepts years ago. Even Elon Musk has posted YouTube clips of potato size sorting machine.
Shipping Web Components in 2020
Seriously? Russia again? And the first article is 2 years old? I honestly thought people such as yourself would go in hiding by now.
There are about 4 in the Bay Area I know of. Look for office supply warehouse in the suburbs. They also will frequently post to craigslist. Expect 70% of list though. It’s hard to find lower.
So like the fact that most of NYC, like most of Italy, and Spain is infected because they are a more dense city than LA is lying about the data because this is backed up by data in other countries like Korea, Germany and everywhere else with similar data.
Air pollution? Well no. L.A. smog. But, there are signs higher NO and diesel particulate are a problem.
Dutch government encourages public services to share their software source code
For what it's worth, Sweden's goal is to get 70% of the country infected to achieve herd immunity. They likely quite rightly believe that's the only way to stop the disease once and for all. While it's absolutely not okay to be anywhere near a seniors residence, the rest is likely tolerated because it's kind of the unstated goal to the extent healthcare facilities remain un-saturated.

It's by no means a "hope and pray it goes away" or a "lets wait it out until a vaccine" -- it's a "let's get everyone not in a risk category infected as fast as possible so long as the healthcare system retains some excess capacity."
It is polluting the info-sphere - because people expect it to mean much more than it actually does. If the newspaper articles mentioned that the result has like 90% chance of being just a random fluke [1] - then nobody would care to read them.

1. It is of course much more complex it has 90% probability in the high end of the Confidence Interval. After some more thinking - I have made here a similar manipulation to the authors - they take the low end of CI - I take the high end. The study does have some information value - but it is way overstated in the media - and that requires a correction.
This only tells if you are sick not if you were sick
Note that the test NYC is using only tells you whether the person has Covid-19 at that point in time, so it's entirely possible to test even 100% of the population and still substantially underestimate disease prevalence if you tested most of them at the wrong time (which you probably would!)
Firefox 75 on Mac works fine for me.
How many fractional-people are willing to kill or injure for that payment, which should (but isn't, because this is America) be bailed out by the government responsible for the quarantine?

This is the statistical morality question that we're very bad at dealing with. Here, move this trolley switch lever. There's a 1/100 chance that doing so kills somebody. No, you can't tell whether it will, or even whether it did afterwards. Here's your cheque.
There will always be a question of backward compatibility due to the nature of the Mac ecosystem that you don't have in iOS. Then you have the issue of getting developers to migrate any existing arch specific optimisations. This can be mitigated somewhat and Apple has done this a few times before, but it's still a massive undertaking.

It may be easier for them to play the CPU vendors against each other if there is real competition in the AMD64 space. There are rumours of Apple going ARM on Macs, so it may be that that path is set, but if it isn't, there is sense in holding out the transition to ARM at this time.
I'm in the military. I have found that the habit of saying "over", learned as crowded circuit management for open radio circuits, is quite useful in teleconferences and VTCs, and for similar reason. It makes it clear that you're handing over the circuit. "Out" means you're leaving the circuit.
Does this mean Mac OS doesn't have it at all?
How to tackle burnouts/disappointments due to working from home for engineers
Oh I definitely agree there! I don't know if any implement that at the moment though :(
How is that hard to believe that incredibly obvious with the dropping hospitalization rates
For what it's worth, in England today, you can convict with the agreement of 10 out of 12 jurors. In Scotland, you need 8 out of 15!
Galaxy Fold 2 120Hz Refresh Rate with S Pen Support
This content was seen as nefarious:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MassMove/comments/fzunwk/caught_a_d...

They were running ads by LGIS on Facebook for that specific Corona story: https://www.facebook.com/ChicagoCityWire/posts/8442905359819...

Rush Limbaugh's quotes the article ChicagoCityWire.com:

https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2020/04/10/two-stories-in...

And the ads got people to post the article to reddit repeatedly:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MassMove/comments/g0icy3/rmassmove_...
I'm with you. Benchmarks should always be looked at with extra-care. The environment of a tablet is quite different, and there's not much things that are benchmarked. Not saying that those cpus aren't great, but benchmarking those in the exact same conditions than an AMD or Intel CPU on a laptop, desktop or server might give some results that are more contrasted.
> I am afraid this is going to accomplish precisely the opposite of what he set out to do.

this is not meant to accomplish anything other than to garner him votes for his re-election and to further the republican assault on immigration. it has nothing to do with actual jobs.
I don't think Dropbox does merge at all does it?

The file object model wouldn't work for merging Word documents and such
Looks beautiful. I wish I could use an app like this to order a pizza now.
You keep making assumption. You have to concluded the lock-down did nothing, has done nothing, and hasn't prevented any infections. You can make assumption because the numbers don't align to what you assumed they'd be.
1. Body language- it's important to be able to see people's facial expressions etc to gauge their reactions to things you're saying

2. Avoiding interrupting one another- being able to see other people's faces means you can see when they're about to start speaking. That means you're less likely to talk over each other

3. Keeping focused- for me at least. If i'm on an audio only call i'm tempted to zone out or do some other work when other people are speaking and I miss stuff.
Collectively support maintenance of Python is much less work (and less risk) than to port all existing production Python 2 applications though.
Practice?

Seriously though, isn't this like everything? Stop trying to shortcut it and actually put in the work. The people that grew massively overnight are outliers. The other 99.9999% put in time and effort to cultivate the following they wanted.

What sort of audience do you want? What do they want to see? Put your ego aside, answer those questions, then create genuinely engaging content that ticks that box and isn't a rehash of every other account in the same niche. If you can't offer something different, why would I follow you instead of them?
Thanks for the followup!

I last seriously used perl in the 1990s and wasn't really able to follow the code shown in the link. Do you know if they are the same algorithm?

It might be that the performance difference is more due to my coming up with a more efficient implementation.

EDIT: Just tried with PyPy 7.3.1 implementation of Python 3.6.9. It's about 8x faster than CPython - 0.091 seconds. (0.20s if I include startup costs.)
Wages in Europe are shockingly low from the perspective of an American.

One example: The UK is a reasonably wealthy country. Median household income in the UK is 29,400 GBP (36,000 USD). The poorest state in the US (Mississippi) has a median household income around 43,000 USD

This applies doubly for high-paying jobs (devs in wealthy parts of the US make 2-4x+ what they would in wealthy parts of Europe).

I switched to working remotely for a US company a couple years ago, and while I used to have a "sure why not chat" policy with local headhunters I don't even bother anymore because the offers they can come up with are astonishingly low compared to my already-below-market-for-the-US wage.

That being said, at the low end of the job market (minimum wage or close to it) people can make more here than in the US, and with paid vacation and healthcare to boot, and there's less inequality as a whole, but the fact remains if you're trying to sell something there's less money to chase.

Sure, healthcare is no-cost, you get a month or more of vacation a year even if you're in low-paid work (if it's full time), and quality of life is better in many respects, but once you get away from the nordics, really, there's just a lot less money about.

Also, lack of a common language is still an issue (How many versions of komplett.no needed to be translated?), and not just for sites, but for support, logistics, etc.

If you send physical products Europe is expensive to ship in. I can send stuff to the US cheaper than some of Europe (though customs applies, of course)

I'm in Europe, and would like to start a company, and even I would be using my local market primarily for testing and then focus on the US. On the bright side, devs are a hell of a lot cheaper here.
Would not believe I'd ever say that but, kudos to you, Facebook.
I remember playing with this in the early 1990s - although I was pretty confident that the "Send Fax" button wouldn't do anything (the machines weren't connected to the Internet let alone being able to fax) I didn't want to run the risk of having to pay the delivery fees to get a pizza to Edinburgh. :-)
That seems weird since all data points to that being whats happening.
Google search doesn’t work that way, it’s still based on how we link to things.

Nobody would describe a plain shirt as a shirt without stripes unless it’s within that context.
And that's why government action to shut down businesses, should absolutely be coupled with action to protect workers salaries. In the UK, government is paying 80% of furloughed workers pay up to a certain amount, and there is relief on property taxes etc for businesses.

In my opinion the two (shutdown and relief) go hand in hand.
> No, one group of people cannot represent a grassroots, self-organized group in two different states. Once so represented, it is no longer grassroots.

If the funding, support, and organization comes from the people directly effected - yes - that’s still grassroots.

Do you have a citation or source that this is not the case here?
A refactoring to understand, in native window support for Pharo
Did you mean $1050 a month? $1050 a week seems like a lot.
Oh please get over yourself with the absurdly dramatic hyperbole. The deadliest thing most of us will ever have a chance of coming into contact with? you can't even get your numbers right with the drama. At 0.5% mortality and the unlikely case of 100% infection of the whole U.S population, it certainly wouldn't amount to millions and millions of dead.

Sure, it can in exceptionally rare, outlier cases kill anyone, just as do many infectious diseases whose presence we live with daily without shutting down economies and possibly causing hundreds of thousands of indirect deaths.. Gigantic, overly broad population-affecting policies of a particular and known destructive nature should not be based off such highly uncommon outliers. These things are more than a bit too important to just be figured out later as you casually say.

By far and away, it kills the elderly and even among them (again, these are the actual numbers from the vast majority of major infection sites and countries) the vast majorities of those elderly deaths are among people over the age of 70-75.

Check the numbers for yourself from any country you care to name that has published them and has enough fatalities for a more complete picture of their demographic profile. These people must be protected, of course but given the literal cross-demographic human costs of the most extreme economic measures and shelter in place rules that many still propose, a serious acceptance of discussing alternative measures for protecting the elderly while still saving the economy should absolutely be welcomed.

This kind of panicked terrified posting that disregards a wealth of contradictory and differing evidence is not at all helpful to any reasonable discussion. Furthermore, what are you yourself engaging in if not your own armchair epidemiology?

It's as if a certain large subset masturbatory hypochondriac hive mind of commentators at Hacker news is so emotionally attached to its own panicky speculation from a month or two ago when much less evidence of lower mortality rates and high asymptomatic infection was available, that some of you simply can't abide mor optimistic divergent points of view even now despite steadily growing evidence to the contrary of previously higher expected mortality rates.

Even if we accept that this virus is indeed deadly for certain vulnerable populations (a thing virtually nobody denies) and that more drastic social distancing measures are still extremely important for a while yet, then at least allowing calm debate on real human consequences of economic destruction, and debate of different policies for dealing with these consequences should always be welcomed without emotional overload.
iPhone SE2 Would Carry Some iPhone 11 Features
Dolby Voice [1] provides this, and BlueJeans has support [2] for it. I've only been on one call with it, but as someone who (even before current circumstances) spends 4-6 hours/day on video calls.. I'm very intrigued by the idea.

If you want to google more, the term generically is 'positional audio'. Dolby calls theirs 'Voice Placement'.

1: https://www.dolby.com/us/en/professional/products/dolby-voic... (ctrl-f for 'voice placement')

2: https://www.bluejeans.com/products/rooms/dolby-voice-confere...
There are plenty of non-foreigners who:

1. Have nefarious motivations.

2. Stand to benefit directly from the terrible policies they wish to enact.

You're making the mistake of thinking that just because they wear your colours, mean that they care about your team's success. They don't.

They do, however, appreciate the foreign/not-foreign red herring get used as a point of distraction.
And have ground rules established.
I think LCDs look great at 2x scaling, assuming the content is actually rendered at a higher resolution.
That article is junk. Even the fact that it quotes Santa Claras deaths at 100 deaths is wrong because it was only 70 at the time. This entire blog is rife with mathematical and statistical errors.
It’s not nurses have too much work and are sad because they are overworked it’s that having no capacity means more people die because they can’t get the care they need whether they are Covid patients or a family who got in a car wreck.
I started doing TIL too. I made a quick and dirty bash script to generate a new article with read/vim/sed and automatically fill the README files: https://github.com/kinoute/til/blob/master/contribute.sh
Can I check what you think gloves will achieve?
This makes me wish I worked in software back in the 90s. Looks like they were having a blast!
Except for self employed people. Except for businesses that are supposedly just weeks away from running out of cash on a huge scale.

The idea you can simply shut down the economy at will and balance it with relief doesn't make economic sense.
Yeah I get it. Found something to remove toxicity from my feed.

And sorry I can't give you an upvote because that would ruin the number. :)

Edit: someone ruined the number :(
> the doubling of suicides resulting of lockdowns this year to 100k

There's no evidence that suicides are doubling.
You can't extrapolate from pregnant women who have been visiting medical facilities to the general population.
Of course. MSQL queries can be as simple as "select * from st.trips", but can also include geospatial functions that we implemented and that are not part of standard SQL:
"select vid, sum(sphere_length(x[0], y[0], x[1], y[1])) as mileage
from st.segments
where
ST_Intersects(
ST_GeomFromText('POLYGON ((11955008 38520960,11995328 38530624,11998976 38531456,11955008 38520960))'),
ST_Line(x[0], y[0], x[1], y[1])
)
and t[0] >= 1569888000 and t[1] < 1572566400 and vid >= 3200 and vid <= 3300
group by vid"

Actually, a query very similar to the one listed above generates the report mileage-in-area mentioned in the blog.
The king standard was ISDN, totally dedicated and stable connections.
> Are they really comparing the same things - just compiled for different architecture?

IIRC they were just Geekbench 4 and 5, which are standard benchmark suites for the MacOs and iOS ecosystems, and IIRC only the subsets of the benchmark suite that ran on both the Macbook Air and the iPad Pro where compared.

The only thing that I know about Geekbench is that it benchmarks application performance, e.g., by running an application and performing a task (e.g. Cinema, Adobe, etc.).

I don't know if they use the same applications and the same tasks on every OS/arch combination. If they don't, the scores cannot be compared, and being able to compare the scores is the only purpose of these tools... so I hope so (the article I read seemed ok, so I had no reason to suspect).

Does anybody know for sure?
The Elephant in the Architecture
Distance Learning Is Hard To Manage, the real problem is distraction and comfort level. McGregor's X-Y Theory applies here. Highly motivated learners would excel in distance learning while others would struggle.
They do, but this practice started in their 1898 constitution that was openly drafted with a goal of establishing white supremacy.
And even then, many are just doing bad stuff like using new in loops, iterators in hot loops, and most relevant not actually thinking about their data structures.
I think they're different enough things to both be enjoyed for what they are. I've rebuilt dozens of engines, was a shipyard welder for a few years to boot. Genuinely enjoyed the physical aspects of working on machinery, but Factorio scratches 80% of the itch with 10% of the effort. You get to fun-build while never breaking a tap, busting a knuckle, or wondering where in the ever-loving hell your 10mm socket teleported to when you looked away for just one damn second.

Ahem.

By analogy I'd say it's similar to games like Guitar Hero, where you get a reasonable fraction of the satisfaction of being able to play an instrument for only a small amount of the work.
I believe the velocity factor actually depends mostly on the dielectric insulator used.
>(a way to pass a ball around to select who's speaking, hand raising emoji, dynamic topic queues with votes)

I'm no Zoom apologist, but.. it has a 'raise hand' emoji/action, as well as a topic queue (in Q&A format). it also has "go faster" and "go slower" feedback attendees can display to the presenter in realtime.

I like the talking stick^W ball idea, though.

Lots of this stuff is in off-by-default preferences in Zoom, FYI.

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115001286183-Nonve...
It's a Star Trek reference: https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Ferengi_Rules_of_Acquisi...
Netflix now supports TLS 1.3
> which should (but isn't, because this is America) be bailed out by the government responsible for the quarantine

This makes me wonder if there might be some kind of eminent domain case to be made: If the government orders a business closed due to no fault of the owner/management, is that sufficiently similar to seizing the property that they owe some kind of remuneration for the action?
Right because the whole country is basically shutdown and you “plan for the worst, hope for the best”.

Also looking at the NHS as a whole doesn’t tell the correct story as the virus right now is concentrated in a few hotspots.
A lot of embedded code is written in C. A lot of safety critical code is embedded code. This is unlikely to change in the next decade or two.
A nice reading about OS/2 histoty https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/11/half-...
Yet?

Recall that the outbreak started in central Europe weeks before the USA locked down. Even in the harder hit countries, there are quiet hospitals almost everywhere. Look at Switzerland - it shares a huge land border with northern Italy and has large numbers of people who move across the borders, it volunteered to take Italian patients in. Swiss hospitals are receiving financial bailouts because they're so quiet, it's on the downcurve for a long time now yet it has never implemented house arrest (just closing shops and other gathering places). Even the Italians didn't need to send Ticino patients in the end.

There's a lot of experience with this right now. There are a few cities or local hotspots where for unclear reasons the disease hits harder than the vast majority of places. But even in those harder hit places field hospitals are hardly used.

It is incredibly bad news that Facebook is attempting to interfere with the social processes of figuring out when lockdown should end right now - and yes, that includes protests. There's no evidence lawmakers have any better insight into what's going on than anyone else, and quite a bit of evidence they may have worse insight. Silicon Valley needs to butt out or see its reputation sink the journalism-like lows.
There's been some testing. It generally shows that _way_ more people have (or had) COVID-19 than we thought, and that most of the cases are so mild that people never even knew they were sick.

NYC Hospitals find that 15% of pregnant women have COVID-19: https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamhaseltine/2020/04/20/new...
That particular article doesn't mention it, but other reports I've heard of said only about 1 in 8 of that 15% were symptomatic.

In Chelsea, MA, 30% of 200 random people tested positive, 1/2 reported no symptoms at all: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/17/business/nearly-third...

Here's a general article pointing out that this is very likely to not be as big of a deal as we thought it'd be: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/how-many-people-h...
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