skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To each their own. I love Vox. Their Weeds podcast has given me a whole new understanding of public policy and research papers in the social sciences.

They also do research on topics I didn't even know I wanted research on. For example, they did an entire article on Hallmark movies. Sounds super silly, but they turn out to be a huge money-maker. One of my friends works in the film industry and was working on pitching Hallmark movies. He was super excited about it, but I had no idea how big of a deal that was (or what it even meant exactly) until I read the Vox article.

Sure, they have a clear bias, but at least they're explicit about it and they do a fairly decent job of researching and presenting opposing points of view, not just setting up straw-mans. They've done some of the best journalism there is on things like US public health policies. Sarah Kliff's article https://www.vox.com/2019/1/24/18194709/emergency-room-fees-h... was impeccably researched and had a direct impact on health care legislation.
OpenBSD just released a portable version of their privsep rpki-client(8)* this week!

https://www.rpki-client.org/

rpki-client 6.6p1 was released Apr 13, 2020: https://www.rpki-client.org/txt/rpki-client-6.6p1.txt

* https://man.openbsd.org/rpki-client

Looks like there may be problems with the mirror sites, a generated tarball is on the official portable github, but it may be worth waiting for an official announcement as github can re-roll these (it's not an uploaded release asset): https://github.com/rpki-client/rpki-client-portable/releases
A simple mathematical guide to classification Tree using sklearn
I think Bitcoin was stopped, it was adopted by a secondary tier who were only using it to speculate, then it was brought into the tax systems of governments, now it's treated as principally something other than for daily transactions.

It's so volatile it's useless except for speculators.

Greed ruined it, I feel, like it does with everything else.
Machine learning could check if you’re social distancing properly at work
(Designer of the site) This is such a great point, and something I’d definitely like to tackle in a future iteration. Thanks for the push in that direction!
This goes to show why we can't take HN seriously: hyping up whatever is blessed by Google, regardless of actual value. What novel thing did exactly TensorFlow bring to the table? Also, has Jeff Dean invented CNNs?

You're a stupid lemming.
It's not just company resources that are being effectively stolen to push personal political agendas. It's also company time - not just the activists spending their own time that they have been compensated by the company for, but also the time of everyone they send these emails and invites to.
And you can set it all up with CloudFormation templates provided along with the posted image.

https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-refarch-wordpress

Good luck automating it that much on-premise.
Possible dinosaur DNA has been found
A study of patients in New York showed that obesity was the top chronic pre-existing condition risk factor.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.08.20057794v...
This is a PoC I worked on over the last week while I've had a little bit of free time.

In general I'd love to have an ecosystem of apps (calendars, notifications, etc) built on this type of platform, I've done a lot of the ground wrt. encrypting/decrypting/signing/verifying general operations.

Tech wise it's deployed on Netlify (the backend is just a Netlify function) with:

- Frontend: React, Grommet, web.crypto.subtle

- Backend: Node.js, Mongo, native crypto module
> The large number of empty apartments being rented 3-4 nights a month on AirBnb in most large cities seems to indicate otherwise.

High rent for shitty apartments has been part of SF and NYC life for 30 years before Airbnb. This is more of a NIMBY problem. It’s politically easier to blame Airbnb then to build high rises with affordable rent and change the “culture” of the neighborhood /barf
If he wants to run the company into the ground it is a cake job. If he wants to recover the company to the glory days of making things that capture the imagination of the world he has a hard job.

The salary of a CEO would be nice but I wouldn't want the jobs. CEOs tend to be workaholics with a poor family life. Even the bad ones spend a lot of time working.
Their workers are treated like robots, not slaves.

And the "good wages for low qualifications" argument is equally exhausting. Money shouldn't be some universal justification for overlooking poor workplace conditions and unethical treatment of human beings.
This is brilliant, thank you!
Author here! CTC models perform quite well and are easy to get started for beginners with an added benefit of real-time streaming capabilities. RNNT's and Encoder-Decoder like Listen-attend-spell are also very solid choices, and literature points to slightly higher accuracy with them on academic datasets. RNNT's being and extension of CTC are streamable as well.
Could virus crisis kill debt-laden US Postal Service?
I really feel sorry for Mr. Rinehart.
It sounds like you aren't open at all to a perspective that challenges the efficacy of advertising, or is skeptical of the benefits of capitalism in general.

It sounds like you'd prefer these people don't make their views known in your presence.

Your comment indicated that you wanted to punish them by making the mistake of doing so.
>>Smart people are loathe to trust for-profit corps with their health.

The sentence very clearly implies all, and nowhere in the post is an indication that you mean any restriction to part (vs all) of the med/pharm profession

In fact, you go out of your way to point out the malfeasance pushing opioids and imply that it also applies to vaccines, when it is entirely different industry segments, companies, etc.

I'll not only not apolgize, I'll point out that you are specifically arguing in bad faith, disingenuously arguing by implication, and when called out on it, histrionically backtracking and accusing others of falsehoods.

Grow up. learn science, stop trying to disingenuously undermine the good work of generations of researchers and physicians that keeps you healthy.

Sheesh
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Congratulations! I would love to discover something like that. So your father knew but didn't tell you? Do you know why?
European Energy Mix and Emissions in the Face of National Lockdowns
Take a look at this defcon talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JokZUjwGj4M

If message history goes into that database and is not sanitised properly there's a good chance this gives other conference participants RCE.
It's not directed at you :)
Haha good spot. Thank you
Dope product!!!
How will laws help against the same thing, but made by unlawful people? I think it's better to accept that privacy in the classic sense is dead and adjust.
It's basically animating SVG with CSS, which is very neat. Not using js at all except to toggle some class names when you click the button.
love it! been using it recently as we've been developing our example node.js functions https://github.com/devscoreinc/samples
Wednesday was April 15 and we submitted our application on April 6. I'm especially curious whether others who submitted an application as early as we did got a similar runaround from their bank.
Focus on the results and not the technical details. I don't even know if a screencast of the code changes or refactor would be of any use. I would rather create a powerpoint with may be some code samples and focus only on results. For example, instead of saying "We took this monolithic function and broke it down into separate modular components which made it easier for devs" may not be enough. You should say something like "Doing xyz resulted in less bugs, faster developer turnaround times which resulted in more benefits being shipped to the end user. What we could do in 10 days before can now be done in 1 day due to this change". Stuff like that.

I would probably create a PPT with the following:

- Problems before the refactor

- results achieved due to refactor (e.g. more sales)

- How the refactor helped achieve those results

That's it. Simple and concise.
You did good, kid.
I'm using storage spaces on a home machine. It's very flexible, my machine is using 5 disks arranged in 2 separate logical volumes (one parity, one mirror). The write speeds are terrible, around 25MB/s. Read speeds are >100 MB/s.
Would love to be able to export videos using this, is that possible in the future? I have a bunch of original music that I'd like to upload with visuals like this. Nice work
Correct. For some things you could use baseline data, but there is zero baseline data to use here.
I know. 50-85x is hard to believe. How could we be that far off?
Someone is creating a free app in their spare time and that's how you are going to thank them for it?

If it doesn't work for your setup then just move on instead of telling people to spend more of their time to make it work for your edge case.
Delete your Facebook account.
I know, thanks :) Just wanted to post something constructive for angry people :)
Thank you for the link. I was not aware of any such suspected connection, now I know better.

The abstract concludes that " randomized controlled trials and large population studies should be conducted to evaluate these recommendations". This seems to indicate that the finding is still quite preliminary (the study is rather new), so in that light it doesn't surprise me that it isn't a general recommendation yet.
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This is not a comparable example. It only relates to the possibility of conference content being intercepted. The linked article's concern is over every client machine which has the software installed being exploited.

This is not something possible (or at least anywhere near as likely) with browser-based conferencing. And zoom really only seems to offer this as a last-ditch option, the vast majority of users I'm certain ending up installing the software.

It's something which I think has received far too little attention amongst the recent security focus over zoom. How traffic is routed is a bit of a red herring if you ask me. The galling thing is how the web community put a lot of effort into figuring out a sensible security model for apps' access to webcams and microphones, and the first thing popular services do is lead people to completely circumvent that and grant permanent high level privileges with seemingly little thought.
The graph and text clearly state it refers to pneumonia and influenza, if you refer to the legend where it says Percent P&I. The P&I for the first 8 weeks of the year is clearly within normal ranges. It spikes from baseline in the first week of March continuing on to the present day.

If you look at the first set of graphs, you'll see a spike around the same time for influenza tests. I don't know how fast pneumonia occurs in people weakened by influenza, but I would expect some delay.

I think the spike in both influenza and in death due to influenza and pneumonia is probably due to testing. If you presented with influenza like symptoms in March, you were definitely given a flu test to rule out influenza.
We've never made a successful coronavirus vaccine. This is why it's so difficult
That's a good analogy IMO, they put short time finance above the altruistic aims they're supposed to engender. At least the school do it for the students, and not to enrich private individuals.
Imagine if we improved our vaccine capability to generate a new vaccine in less than a year?

That would be something amazing if that emerged from all of this.
`youtube-dl -f mp4 $url` will ensure the output is always mp4
Sounds like you basically got there yourself in your last paragraph, but I think a term that might lead you down some fruitful reading is "motivated reasoning." It's often about maintaining some other desirable property (e.g. being accepted by their community; keeping a particular friend group; holding a belief system), and rationality takes a backseat to maintaining that property.
Could we also have a list of all the crappy engineers laid off? :-)
You say

> mental processes are computational processes

as if this were obvious but... If you accept the possibility of random events (something deeply related to Quantum Mechanics)... There can be lots of non-computable things out there in our minds...
They mention it, but state it's hard to ascertain. I agree with that assessment. Given the magnitude of the delta between confirmed cases and projected cases based on this study tho, it seems intuitively obvious there's a pretty big gap. (And not surprising, given the lack of testing, the asymptomatic nature of the disease, etc.)
Fortunately, HN has a list of your other comments, many of which have yet to be proven wrong.
I built a bunch of tools with user scripts to help run a smallish ecommerce business. It was especially useful because they didn't have the ability to easily or inexpensively make changes to their platform (you could argue that this is a big issue, but a lot of merchants have to give up control as the alternative is prohibitively expensive).

- A internal "there's an issue with this product" feature that created a ticket for the content team

- Identifying products and creating a Google Charts sparkline with sales inline on product listing pages

- Showing sales stats inline in pages, allowing non-technical people to get useful insights by just browsing the site and not having to look at dashboards/reporting tools/etc
We’re Watching an Economy Die
If they keep scraping does that mean I have to keep opting out?
It’s not hard to believe when you consider testing criteria.
While possible I doupt they will. You sabotage your competitors in congress if you can. However operations like this should be allowed and even cheered.

The worst case now for Boeing is a series of disasters that leaves the public unwilling to fund anymore space thus killing not only SpaceX, but also Boeing. If Boeing sabotages SpaceX not only do they risk that they also risk getting caught by the investigation which would be bad for Boeing. Note that unsuccessful sabotage meaning you are caught is a real risk as well.
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Learning to Skate with DevOps
I implemented neural networks before the advent of the good python frameworks. It sucked. And CNNs existed for decades before AlexNet. Honestly, the software and hardware engineers are the real heroes of the deep learning revolution.

By way of analogy, David Heinemeier Hansson didn't invent the webapp or even the MVC design pattern. But Ruby on Rails did change the way webapps were built, and enabled a bunch of stuff that wouldn't have been possible otherwise (or, at least, would've taken longer and been more expensive). Lots of websites were built because of Ruby on Rails that probably wouldn't have been built otherwise, even if people would've kept on doing the web thing regardless. We can say the same thing about lisps, about linux, and about a lot of other software infrastructure.

Any high schooler who's capable of learning python and can afford a gaming desktop can build and train a neural network. That's pretty amazing, and definitely wouldn't be the case without computation graph frameworks.

I've never worked for Google or with Jeff, and I'm not a huge fan of the ad tech industry, although I don't understand why either of those things should matter.
Those are all massively expensive ideas, EARN it isnt. Just because these senators haven't been able to enact some of your other ideas doesn't mean they aren't serious about protecting children. At least some of the senators behind EARN it are in favor of expanding social welfare programs [0] - its just politically difficult to get traction on new laws with huge costs attached to them.

[0] https://democrats.org/where-we-stand/party-platform/
First statement too broad, bad advice. An example is bulletin boards that have non-work things on it.

On the second note, accurate but worth noting this will be overturned again when makeup of NLRB changes again (whenever that ends up happening).
But what does that 80% mean?

We know that New York's hospitals are overrun. We also know that in countries where the hospitals aren't at capacity the mortality rate is much lower. Look at Wuhan vs the rest of China. Or Singapore/HK/Taiwan/South Korea vs Italy, Paris, New York.

So if ventilator access is low and doctors are triaging ventilators to go to the most urgent cases, is the data skewed towards severe cases and late access to ventilation support?

This anecdotal account[1] seems to suggest ventilate as early as possible to maximise the chances of saving a patient. So again, a global stat could be masking a time element and context to the data

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-24/covid-19-...
The pay rate and benefits that Amazon is touting thru all these shills is not higher than most other large retail companies with warehouse positions.

Amazon: Avg $15/hr https://www.glassdoor.com/Hourly-Pay/Amazon-Warehouse-Associ...

Walmart: Avg $17/hr https://www.glassdoor.com/Hourly-Pay/Walmart-Warehouse-Assoc...

Target: Avg $21/hr https://www.glassdoor.com/Hourly-Pay/Target-Warehouse-Worker...
Oh no: the axioms come much much later. The order is exactly the reverse one.
Perhaps we could have a group of people whose job it is to investigate and prosecute unlawful behavior.
Thanks! I'm also planning to release the desktop app (currently for Apple only first), it would be quite easy to make actually, since I have decided not to charge for it anything :) I've actually made videos that are on the front page by doing screen capture on my laptop! I just need to figure out how to sign the desktop app properly, so it can be distributed for Apple... I might be even able to do a Windows app, since I am using JUCE framework. If you want, feel free to subscribe to my email list (link on the app website), so that I can send updates. Sorry, didn't make twitter account for this :)
Corruption, in USA? That's entirely legal for rich people and endorsed by congress I thought. smh
It's known that the vast majority infected do not experience symptoms, or have mild symptoms. I don't think you can draw the conclusion that they had prior immunity.
I think I used that term incorrectly.

What I meant was that there are PLENTY of people who are not outspoken on social media and yet still not only have opinions but are willing to take action in the physical world to back them up, like these Amazon employees here.
CDC flu surveillance data suffers from even more selection bias than this study. It's basically useless.

Iceland PCR data is reliable but it is suggestive of an IFR of more like 0.3%. Except Iceland also managed to successfully isolate their elderly so if you correct for that, we're back at 0.7% or so for the general population.
Ask HN: What payment processor can a private individual use to offer a service?
I'm finishing one hopefully ineresting service and want to offer it, but I have a problem finding payment processor that allows private individuals outside of the US.

And I would just like to avoid registering company in this testing phase.

Is there anything out there that HN can point me to?
Fairly unlikely that anything planned is fortuitous when we are talking about major product release by a trillion-plus-dollar company....

$399 is where the prior SE was unveiled, but handset MSRP has bloated since 2016. The iPhone 7 and 7 Plus base models came out at $649-$769 when new, compared to $699-$1099 for the base models of the iPhone 11. On the Samsung side, base model S20 Ultra is pushing $1400.

My personal view is that the next major battlefield for Apple vs Huawei vs Samsung is the developing world, and consumers there are fairly price sensitive (plus they often pay a premium due to import taxes, importer costs, and other add-ons to the retail price). There has to be a huge divergence in the slate of prices -- on the one hand, you have flagship handset expectations going skyward due to 5G, multi-camera, screen improvements, etc -- and on the other hand you have countries like Ecuador and Colombia where an entire month's minimum wage (before tax and living expenses) is insufficient to buy a new iPhone SE, even without accounting for the economic slowdown due to the virus.

Some of the market for the iPhone SE didn't even exist a couple of months ago. Apple only announced online sales and plans to open a store in India after Trump helped negotiate an entry point to that market during his visit a month ago.

Are you suggesting that Apple doesn't respond to its consumer sales environment when choosing pricing?
The # of cases reported that I believe they are comparing against is the number of confirmed positive tests, not the number of assumed cases in the county based on some other model that is trying to project # infected. I don't think anyone thought that we had 100% coverage where all cases were tested. So we're not "wrong" if such a study as this sees a gap between reported confirmed cases and expected infected, it just means we have a better understanding of the testing gap, which is self evident in existence but the magnitude of which we don't know.

Given all the other factors, an order of magnitude or more gap between tests and sick people doesn't seem completely out of the question. I would be curious if there are other models using a different methodology which could help us get a handle on the conditional probability chain leading to tests being done or not on an individual, to see if there is a similar set of conclusions.
If the vast majority of people contracting the virus never have symptoms, or have symptoms mild enough that they don't seek a doctor, or they DO seek a doctor but can't get a test because of testing criteria restrictions, I think the 50-85x number starts to make a lot of sense.
Does an email server processing n emails per second require more power to process n+1 emails per second? My suspicion is that unless that +1 hits some capacity limit, the number of emails we're talking about required to organize union activities would be undetectable.

That said, even if it is detectible, I think that employees should be allowed to drain some small amount of a company's resources to organize. I am allowed to use company resources for emails like "who wants to go for beers after work?" why should I not be allowed to send "who wants to go organize collective action after work?"
Great turnaround time!
Fully Concurrent Game Engine – Part 1
I love that whoever edited the blog post added “or [MS] Teams” to the zoom reference.
So on point 1 I agree with you. I think point 2 is pretty iffy though. Unless there has been some recent legal proceeding that I am unaware of, point 2 isn't true.
I am in deep sadness over what has happened to Lee, and I feel for his family, especially Kristin.

I can't help but draw parallels between this story and Flowers for Algernon. It's just sad to see such a young brilliant mind be broken down by this disease.

I wasn't expecting him to be diagnosed with FTD, I will admit that reading the first part of the article painted a very different picture of what might be causing his issues.

Also, since he had a heart condition, I wonder if for some reason that might have accelerated his condition?
Xerox used to replace numbers in documents while copying:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/06/xerox_copier_flaw_m...

License plates are an ideal breeding ground for false enhancement owing to standardisation of appearance; an ML algo trained on lots of examples might, without due care, learn to replace as a well-known texture.
True but I didn't say otherwise. Sweden is failing at the only thing that can begin to mount a successful response to COVID19 which is widespread testing.

Same as the US and Canada I suppose.
That's a much better worded version of what I was trying to say. The writing in Outbreak is lazy, which is a shame, because I hear the book it is based on is pretty good.

As you mention, Contagion is REALLY well done. Google a bit, and you'll find the people behind that. There's a reason it rings true with current events.