skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is purely anecdotal but I'm buying as little as I can to not overwork mail carriers. I just moved into a new place and I have no art and while it's not critical to me it's something I'd typically start buying right now but I've literally only bought necessities (plunger, detergent, soap) and haven't even looked at actual house stuff.

Not sure how common my quarantine shopping style is but I doubt I'm a rarity.

The art is super cool. Hopefully it gets more attention once this is all over.
Has the SBA disclosed the extent of the data breach that they had?
The brick works as a thermal battery - if it's cold, you're heating your house, and the intermittent exhaust is keeping the brick warm. If you're not heating, well it's not cold so the brick temperature doesn't matter much.
All those side projects you never had time for. I setup my turntables and ordered a new DJ equipment. Workout gear demand has gone through the roof. Anything related to cooking, such as baking ingredients are sold out.
Sample-Efficient RL from Pixels: Curl
Awesome!

I'll note that these "cache guarantees" in the Vulkan world are the Vulkan 1.2 memory model, and are supported by the latest drivers for AMD, Intel, and NVidia [1]. This recent change is one big reason I'm saying Vulkan + SPIR-V is getting ready for real compute workloads, and this wasn't the case even months ago.

[1]: https://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/listdevicescoverage.php?extension...
On https://reddit.com/r/googlecloud someone noted that the latency between Europe and Asia doesn't look good.

The answer was

> There's not a lot of connectivity between Europe and SE Asia the "short" way. This is not Google-specific, compare cables across Atlantic and Pacific vs. across the Indian Ocean at https://www.submarinecablemap.com/
Maryland restaurant owner: 'Delete all the delivery apps'
No we got approved through the small bank. Wells Fargo has been uninvolved.
I was wondering why it took so long for a simple random sample study to be done, but finally it has been done, and the result is pretty much as I expected - millions are carrying the virus, making the true mortality rate tiny.

This looks like a reliable study since its testing for antibodies, rather than the more common swab tests.
Airplanes are very strong, but very delicate. Really amazing works of engineering.
I still keep my YMCA membership at the moment. YMCA and Boys and Girls Club had a huge impact on my childhood.
There are very few downsides. You just have to make sure you follow the program guidelines. For example 75% has to go to payroll, only 25% can go to other expenditures such as rent or debt interest.

People are understandably worried about the money having already been exhausted for the program. This isn't going to be the last round they do, for either individuals or small businesses.
About those mask recommendations...

Edit: Surgical masks vs respirators. Any advice omitting the distinction is suboptimal.

Surgical masks are still useless. Best case is they serve as sneeze guards and visual reinforcement.

N95 rated respirators are useful. And in short supply.
Since healthcare workers desperately need them and most people don't, their use is currently weakly recommended.

Face shields plus respirators are good. I'm not sure about shields and surgical mask combo.

IMHO, Vox has been superior. Especially in comparison. They have explainers and podcasts dedicated to just coronavirus and COVID-19. Updated frequently. When the truth & reconciliation process starts, Vox is pretty far down the list of belligerents.
That has most the issues that this article complains about. It gets rid of both the minimise and maximise button, leaving only close because that's how the iPhone does it.
I prefer to workout with other people around vs being at home all day. Crossfit gyms have a community feeling but I don't want to do those type of workouts. :P
Sure they were!

Some titles to Google:

National Security Council: National Biodefense Strategy 2018

H.R. 269 (116th): Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness and Advancing Innovation Act of 2019

H.R. 6378 (115th): Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness and Advancing Innovation Act of 2018

United States Government Accountability Office — Report on national bio defence strategy

Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense Report 2019
>Targeted ads, even imperfectly-targeted ones, are "less wasted" than other kinds of ads.

How do you know that your 'targeting' is working? If you target females how do you measure how many females saw the ad? Targeted ads should go to the targeted audience or they likely went to waste - at least the advertiser didn't get what they paid for. The quality of your targeted audiences matters to your advertising customers.
You might also try to get your QA process to require removal of debug print messages or at the very least an "off" flag as an environmental variable or config file element
What should be relevant is not programmer "intent", but rather whether the behavior would likely match the that of an implementation which give that describe behavior of actions priority over parts of the Standard that would characterize them as "Undefined Behavior".
> It's not at all anymore about presenting consistent mental models, it's solely about the ease or difficulty with which particular isolated tasks can be performed.

IOW following metrics optimising for local maxima instead of looking at the big picture in a non-zero sum game. Each task is made easier by itself but in doing so creates a model in conflict with everything else, making everyone miserable. Nash would be sad.
Covid-19 data collection poses post 9/11 privacy abuse risks: CNAS, DataGovHub
I've definitely seen the opposite stated, that doctors/nurses are not actually more likely to die. I forget if it was Italy or NYC, but the fatality rate for doctors & nurses had been something like 0.5%. They are much more likely to be infected than anyone else, and there has (rightly) been lots written about the doctors and nurses who have died, which gives people this perception.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandem_Computers

This proceeded Erlang by 24 years or so. I know it's not the language, and a combination of hardware and software, but they did change the instruction set of the HP 3000 to have paged virtual memory and "share-nothing" messaging system.

Also see the Pony language: https://www.ponylang.io/
Rust Survey 2019 Results
This is what facebook wanted to do when they launched their APIa long time ago, never came to pass. WeChat did it. Its a whole operating system in itself.
"I don't care about what sides did what when."
This is the opposite of accountability. And when politicians know that you won't keep them accountable and that they can keep doing whatever shit they want because "you don't care about which side does what", well, don't be surprised if things don't end up the way you want them to be.
I'm having a real hard time squaring a rant about usability that expressly states that everyone should be held accountable to good design, and a website design that went out its way to be unreadable on mobile.
Reading multiple sources is always a good idea, assuming you have the time.

But, can you really blame Vox for not enabling comments? There's a reason Hacker News attempts to minimize political discussions. Vox doesn't have that luxury given the focus of the site.

Less politics-focused Vox Media properties, like The Verge, do have a comments section that's quite active.
.yu ccTLD shows what else can happen, i.e. domains of ex-countries can be killed off.
What the "gouger" is doing is correcting a market inefficiency by performing arbitrage through time. In order to turn any sort of profit, they must have more accurate information than the rest of the market. The guy who chooses to buy $10,000 bucks of masks on day 1 of a crisis is sending a message to the market - "I believe that masks are currently undervalued." If they are right, it might indeed hasten the day you can no longer buy the masks at their original, undervalued price. It might also spike demand earlier than it would have spiked, which sends a signal to ramp up production. That is a market correction they are helping to realize. And the result is it prolongs the time you can buy any masks at all, at any price. 1 person snapping up 10,000 masks with intent to sell is better than 100 people snapping up 100 masks each that they intend to stick in their closet "just in case", while people that really need them find empty shelves.

Nothing is exempt from market forces. Masks are more valuable now than they used to be, that's just a fact. If you try and hide that fact, you will prolong the shortage and cause more harm than good. If you don't like the idea of the government having to pay more to procure this essential commodity in this time of sudden shortage, the people you should be annoyed with are the ones who depleted the national PPE stockpile in time of plenty, when it existed for this very reason. Don't shoot the messenger.
>>> sensitive data<<<

Why didn't you highlight that?

Also, not all IP is for profit.

A lot of non-profits also have IP.
Agreed, and that's where it seems having lots of experience working with speech data helps more than trying to brute-force it with just larger CTC models and "more" data of dubious quality.
Is the SF Bay Area Flattening the Curve?
Show HN: My brother's 10-minute cold brew maker launched on Kickstarter
This should be solvable without differential equations, since it is basically a parabolic antenna with an off-axis feed.
My younger brother (who isn't on HN) is a mechanical engineer who quit his job to pursue a passion in product design. His first product is a cool“ten minute cold brew” coffee maker that just launched on Kickstarter

I'm proud of him- please check it out!
Tah.
I am not being judgemental, rather trying to understand how you get fish of that size with your far-from-well-designed website (from your profile), and far-from-rich marketing contents. Is that luck? Or, your lack of time to work on your own presentation?

Again, I am seriously not being judgmental, I am curious.
This is genius. Farm animal sanctuaries educate consumers about the cruelty of animal agriculture while providing a compassionate home for rescued farm animals to live out their lives. People tour the sanctuaries and meet animals that they would never otherwise meet, and learn that they're at least as interesting and lovable as the dogs and cats we would never consider eating.

These nonprofit organizations are expert in caring for animals, so it's surprising to see such a tech savvy response to the pandemic. The pandemic has shut public access to sanctuaries, but this idea means potentially more people can now meet these animals. Another great story about human creativity and adaptability in the face of crisis.
Have you tried calling the Federal Reserve directly? Oh wait, that only works for Hedge Fund managers.
This company is comma ai of aviation.
Another way to put this is:

Monte Carlo Algorithm: Always fast, probably correct.

Las Vegas Algorithm: Probably fast, always correct.

Atlantic City Algorithm: Probably fast, probably correct.
Do you mean `x = slow_function_no_side_effects( x );`?
Because if slow_function_no_side_effects really doesn't have side effects, then your version is equivalent to:

x = slow_function_no_side_effects(); /* only once */
if(x > 1) for(;;) { /* infinite loop */ }
return mode ? 1 : x;

That said, I suppose it might be reasonable to explicitly note that a optimiser is allowed to make a program or subroutine complete in less time than it otherwise would, even that reduces the execution time from infinite to finite. That doesn't imply inferring any new facts about the program - either loop termination or otherwise - though. On the other hand it might be better to not allow that; you could make a case that the optimisation you describe is a algorithmic change, and if the programmer wants better performance, they need to write:

unsigned long long test(unsigned long long x, int mode)
{
if(mode) return 1; /* early exit */
do x = slow_function_no_side_effects(x);
while(x > 1);
return x;
}

, just the same as if they wanted their sorting algorithm to complete in linear time on already-sorted inputs.
This world, were many media outlets,and most specially Vox, make their money by rabidly pandering to ideological fanatics, truth or anything close to truth be damned. Vox is nothing but InfoWars for smug hipsters.
> What's that mean?

"Concurrent applications" as in the C10M problem (http://c10m.robertgraham.com/p/manifesto.html): servers serving a lot of clients at once; usually with the added assumption of a diverse request workload (i.e. some requests are IO-bound, some are CPU-bound, some are long, some are short, etc.)

• WhatsApp used Erlang (on FreeBSD) to scale 50 engineers and ~1000 boxes to handling billions of chat-message transactions per second. (https://www.infoq.com/presentations/whatsapp-scalability/)

• A lot of modern financial infrastructure (banks, exchanges, etc.) is built on Erlang. If there's a financial system that can get away with not being hard-real-time, chances are someone's considered writing it in Erlang.

• Many massively-multiplayer games have Erlang in their backends or their networking middleware.

• And, of course, the original point of Erlang was to route (millions of concurrent) calls in Ericsson backbone telecom routers. It can be deduced from Ericsson's continued work on Erlang's "megaco" H.248 application, that they're using Erlang in their LTE IPMS gateway appliances, to route cell-subscribers' VoLTE audio- and video-call frames.

> Is it like nodejs but more performant?

Node.js is decidedly bad at this type of concurrency (although its libuv is used successfully in software like Nginx—it is rather Javascript's thread-isolation semantics that bottlenecks Node.js code, not V8 as a runtime.) A better comparison is with Golang. If you put Node and Golang on a spectrum of "ability to handle highly-concurrent heterogenous workloads", then Erlang is a point much further along that spectrum than either of them.

(Golang gets pretty far if the workload is homogenous, though. And you can get even further still on that spectrum with custom C or JVM code; but in the process, you'll likely sacrifice either 99th-percentile latency, or lock yourself into coding in terms of state machines. Erlang sits an an optimum where you can just write blocking code in actors and it does the right thing, predictably, even when you have millions of actors.)
As someone familiar with Rust who has been interested in Erlang/Elixir, but hasn't taken the plunge, this could offer an really nice compromise for helping to learn without necessarily needing to start from scratch. It definitely seems worth keeping an eye on!

Also, as an aside, I have to say that I'm a big fan of the proliferation of educational documentation written using the mdbook format. Since the compiler is written in Rust, I'd imagine that's where the author drew some inspiration from (much of Rust's documentation is written using that same format). It's easy to navigate, the code blocks render nicely, and I generally just find it pleasant to read.
The universities have access to it.
Your post needs a trigger warning. My heart is racing.
Hah, what a delightful version of Evince the authors makes fun of. Newer versions removed the “Open...” option entirely AFAICT.
Coronavirus crisis: Take advantage of your available time
See also the Titius–Bode law [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titius%E2%80%93Bode_law
If that mortaility rate is common, it would mean there are ~10x (or more) infected in the world...

This sort-of coincides with the large asymptomatic reports. So what do we do from here on? Such numbers would surely raise the famous r0 infection rate, and it means this is far more contagious than reported/believed.
Would a coalition of nations be capable of enforcing that? Seems like text-only, high latency internet could be easily smuggled via satellite or terrestrial radio.
It is well suited to running concurrently as in, many cores, and in a distributed fashion, across many computers. It was built to run telephone switches and similar highly available, high performance gear in a way that is resilient to failures.

Node is mostly single-threaded still, right? The Erlang VM, Beam, runs truly concurrently. Also, a few large pieces of CPU work cannot block the scheduler indefinitely. I'm not aware of a runtime that works quite like it. Suits me well. I use it throigh Elixir.

It is not the fastest in any given metric from what I know but I think it delivers enormously well in real life scenarios.
I think a lot of companies have too many designers with not much to do. Google has a team of people responsible for changing up the art or making whimsical games on the home page every day.

I also read 10 years ago that Amazon hired a big name to take over design for the shopping portal and Bezos wouldn't let this person do much of anything.
Also include businesses provisioning virtual desktop computers using AWS
The article claims to refute your statement by pointing out that "The CDC has been singing the same tune for the past ten years. Swine flu, don’t wear masks. SARS, don’t wear masks. They’ve been really consistent on this point. But why?" This text in the article has several links.
They are targeting $5K for round trip tickets between NY and London. It is really just making it faster for the rich to travel for fun or work.

Supposedly it is inherently 3X as expensive as subsonic planes from a cost per seat mile point of view. It is basically a cheaper replacement for the Concorde.

Also it seems that their biggest difficulty is coming up with suitable engines. The engines that they need don't exist and there doesn't seem to be an affordable way to create them.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boom_Overture

It is definitely cool from a tech point of view.
If people choose not to read Vox, then Vox will certainly have to sack people.
Data driven ux seems to put all users in a single bucket.

I will readily admit in collective number of clicks and screentime, 37 year old men with advanced degrees in computer science are a super small minority.

But who is the majority then? Who spends the most time on say Reddit and YouTube? Children! Yes, people who we know are dramatically cognitively different than adults.

Why does YouTube keep recommending videos I've watched? That's what a child wants! Why does reddits redesign look like Nickelodeon?

There isn't one user and one interface that's right for everyone when we're talking about 5 year olds, 50 year olds, and 95 year olds.

We can make them adaptable to the screen, we should also do work to make them adaptable, at fundamental interaction levels, to the person using the screen.

And not in a clever way, but in a dumb one.

For instance, here's how you could ask YouTube:
"We have a few interfaces. Please tell us what you like to watch:

* Cartoons and video games

* Lectures and tutorials

* Other
"

And that's it. No more "learning", that's all you need to set the interface and algorithms.

Let's take Wikipedia, it could be broken up into children, public, and scholar. Some articles I'm sure are correct but are way too wonky and academic for me to understand and that's ok. There's nothing to fix, I'm sure it's a great tool for professionals. However, there should be a general public version.
You are being judgemental, even if you claim not to be. GP, I think your website is well designed, fwiw.
My parents who still live in the same house do have a small fig tree they don't bury, and my mother's parents a hundred miles south had a larger one in their backyard. I don't know if burying fig trees in that climate is necessary to be honest, maybe it was just a practice my neighbor brought with him (he was Italian as well).
It turns out that all those people who write software and run startups do know better than the so-called experts. In tech everyone sounded the alarm way before. The last day I wasn't SiP was the day Google announced Google Next cancellation. And then for the month that followed, all this crap about masks being worthless and now suddenly they aren't.

Turns out a valid epistemological basis becomes more valuable rather than less valuable in a crisis.
Thanks for a great anecdote. While I feel I'm pretty good at recognising that "done is better than perfect", I'm not as good at realising when "near enough is good enough". For some reason approximations usually don't sit well with me... something I can work on for sure.
Existing BEAM languages such as Elixir and Erlang do an incredible job when it comes to scaling and fault tolerance, however I believe that other languages do a better job at providing the programmer with a fast feedback loop for rapid development and refactoring.

When refactoring in an ML language I like to think the compiler as being like a pair programming partner with excellent knowledge of the codebases. You indicate what change you wish to make, and the compiler shows you how to update the code to make that change quickly and safely with minimal testing.

I think ML's static analysis (potential error detection) and the BEAM's fault tolerance (implicit error handling) can compliment each other well, and I want to explore that space in Gleam.

I'm hoping to create a langauge that brings a new set of advantages to the BEAM ecosystem, to sit alongside Elixir and Erlang.

I've more detail in my conference talk from Code Mesh last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaKR2kt-DXI
This sounds like the lipstick effect [0] - consumers buy inexpensive luxuries when they're feeling cash-strapped. Tends to be a leading indicator of recessions (though I don't suggest that's the exact phenomenon that's happening here)

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/lipstick-effect.asp
Yeah but most small banks don't have any understanding of what it all requires. It's not like an inhouse loan where if the borrower misses a payment they just show up on a report. You gotta jump though hoops and notify tons of stuff to the SBA about it. Not to mention everything needing to be perfect.
Critical feedback is hard to come by and appreciated. Thanks!
Hold on! 'The west' is a broad collection of democratic systems. Maybe you mean the US, but the US isn't the US it was say 4 years ago.

And what, precisely, are the "essential social institutes" to which you refer?
This test plane has a range of 1k nautical miles but a cruising speed of Mach 2.2, which works out to like 40 minutes of flight time at max speed? That seems like a really tight window for takeoff + test + land + any kind of safety buffer. I'd be curious to know how they handle those logistics.
Kit: Yes, in my case it's an RV-8 by https://www.vansaircraft.com/ they're probably the biggest name in town by volume and they make mid-cost kits. There are some more and less expensive options however.

Hard: I took a class from a licensed A&P mechanic and while not mandatory, gave me a pretty good idea of what I'd be up against. It is extremely challenging even with a kit however. Lots of learning, lots of redoing stuff because of mistakes, many many hours.

Cost: whatever you want it to be really. You can do safe builds probably from around 40-50k for something like a Sonex or Kitfox to several hundred thousand for a Velocity twin or even something turbine powered.

Transport: most people build in their garage and leave the wings off then stick it in a trailer or U-Haul to complete final assembly at a hangar. It's mostly a non-issue.
My girlfriend hasn't put on makeup since the quarantine started even though she has multiple video meetings a day.
Yes, we heard you the first time. The code snippet kn0where posted has the same effect. :)

I looked into this some more, and I think the actual difference between `document.documentElement.contentEditable` and `document.designMode` is subtle and probably mostly just in principle: since contentEditable is set on elements, someone with only access DOM access could potentially toggle it. But someone with only DOM access cannot turn `document.designMode` off.
Thank you for the kind words! I hope in future we will fit that niche nicely :)