skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. Started out of nowhere a few weeks/months ago by someone who has no experience in medical supplies whatsoever, who says "We found new supply chains".

And is heavily involved with Republican heavyweights.
I don't think you should be expecting people per square mile to scale 1:1 with mortality rate anyhow. I would guess putting twice as many people within a square would result in the virus spreading an order of magnitude faster. Similar to how increasing infection radius in an SIR model increases spread by much more.
High density neighbourhoods are too popular, nobody lives in those places anymore.
Because a repo is meant for source control. People are using the issue tracker to leave general comments. There's no reason to branch or fork a blog post. It pollutes the contributions metrics. That said, I don't really care how people use Github, but there are better blog solutions out there already that would make more sense to use. However, this aches of the old adage "when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail"
> In ordinary economics, things do not have negative prices: If nobody wants a thing, if you’d have to pay them to take the thing, you just don’t make it. Oil is a little weird—it is hard to shut in and then restart an oil well

They could always just burn the oil.
I also tried SSHFS, but there are hiccups. I did not really debug this. But sometimes PyCharm just freezes for 5-10 seconds. Which is extremely annoying, basically this makes it unusable. Maybe too much files are opened at the same time or so. Maybe I have to increase the cache size. I don't really know...

Also doing any Git action (git commit or so) over SSHFS is way too slow because it needs to go through the whole project directory. Maybe it's fine if the repo and project is smaller. But in this case, a Git commit can easily take a minute (while locally it takes a few milliseconds).

A Git push/pull workflow would also be quite annoying when you are prototyping and just want to try out things.
Saying this, I feel a bit like somebody in the 1800s saying they don't want to board a train because they don't want to suffocate, but here it is:

I don't want any lasers shone directly into my eyeballs because I don't want to go blind.
Currently fundraising. From what I have been hearing, VCs are mostly doubling down on their portfolio and reducing the number of new companies they invest in. Sentiment is strong for companies enabling remote work though.
Julia in the long term
Yes, it was predicted successfully (by everyone who is no longer holding a contract). It was also not predicted successfully (by everyone paying through the nose so they won't have to find a place to stash some barrels of a volatile compound).
Open Letter Regarding Privacy of Contact Tracing Apps [pdf]
People actually use Python 3, though. The Python developers succeeding in forking the language and community. No one really uses Perl 6, as far as I know. You're right that Perl6 is another great example of a bad language fork decision.
What's the difference in power for analog vs digital TV broadcast?? Is that mostly because ATSC broadcasts moved towards UHF, and NTSC broadcasters preferred VHF when available? Or is there some other property of ATSC broadcasts that require lower energy?
But what version does production have, and all the other servers and projects?
Eww, automated arguments. I toyed with a similar idea, it can be pretty easy to write a chat bot that automatically responds to common arguments. Anyone who's ever debated the religiously-indoctrinated will see a similar thing, a "script" of common talking points that you pretty quickly see or what they are, thought-terminating cliches. At least with real people you can sometimes find a path through those thought-terminating cliches, or they can find a path through yours, and you can actually think about things.

I'm not looking forward to the future where every time I try to discuss something I'm linked to an (out of date and poorly maintained) playbook that has obvious flaws in it's arguments but is considered an irrefutable source of truth by it's proponents. At least when you're dealing with people on an individual level you can point out when there are issues with an argument.

I know it's hard to have productive discussion about a lot of these things but I can't help but think it would be much better to try and teach people basic epistemology, how to assess what you should count as evidence, how much weight you should give different standards of evidence, rules of debating in good faith, etc.

All these tools for "taking control of the narrative" will be used by your enemies. If you're going to make a tool like that realize that everyone can use tools like that, even your ideological opponents. Try to think about the consequences of your actions, what happens if everyone adopts this technology for "controlling the narrative"? What happens if the "alt right" this post mentions starts using it?

I guess it's nice to make the script you're following explicit though.
That's generally true unless there's a scholarship involved. Those are take-it or leave-it. If you had 50% of your tuition paid for by a scholarship would you leave it?
There are two separate things here.

There's going to a company and saying "Are you SOC2? If not, we need you to be, and that requires a pentest - please go do that before we engage." There may also be, in this same vein, "We're strategic partners, we'll help you get that pentest". This is very common, I suspect the vast majority of pentests are compliance (and essentially sales) driven and would fall under this category.

That's different from "We have already engaged, you are already compliant with SOC2, you may do your own pentests, we will now separately pay for and manage a pentest of your company". This is not something I've seen too much of - perhaps that's just me not paying attention? But I'd be surprised if this were common at all.

Though I want to again restate that the article is focusing on VRP.
Oh that's nice! Thank you.
>The model just needs to be able to understand the important meaning of "no" in here, in the context of the whole sentence

It's easy to say, isn't it? Unfortunately, sticking the word "just" in there doesn't affect the difficulty. I do it all the time, too.

That said, "meaning" is not statistical.
Is hackernews still accessible from China?
That's why I was suggesting the opposite:

(Short-) sell last Friday, buy today at about 0 to close the position.
Domestic inferiors: There’s no equality in the Zoom home office
Yeah, this is a good speculation.

If Tankers are $150K+ vs. usual $20-40K for any prolonged period of time...
Upgrading a programming language with breaking changes is hard.

Ask the PERL and PHP communities how hard it is. PHP 6 ended up getting dumpstered and the “next” version of PERL was so different they had to change the name and the community never really recovered. Python has at least grown/ survived through the upgrade.
Just to point out a distinction, this more similar to the EU as an entity seizing shipments headed to Germany or France rather than another country within Europe taking them.
The NPR headline is catchy but the underlying study is dogged by questions.

The cited study (https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12563; sci-hub.tw has a copy) has some methodological flaws:

* The cat studied were were not randomly selected; they were chosen by "local volunteers". There may be confounding variables that explain part of the effect and so turn the observed effects from being statistically significant to not being statistically significant.
* The data on kills was self-reported, allowing bias to creep in.
* All the cats were English-speaking.
* Only 10 un-neutered pet cats were studied. I don't know if being neutered would increase, decrease, or have no effect on the kill rate, but the subject is not discussed.

I also question the conclusion that cats have a significant impact on local fauna.

* The average kill rate for a pet cat was (roughly) less than two animals per week, which doesn't seem very high. I'm left with the feeling that the authors had to resort to killings/area to make the results impressive.
* The authors did not report on the total size of the home ranges of cats compared to total area. So, for example, if the ratio was 1:1000, then so what? If the ratio was 1:20, then house cat might have a significant affect on local fauna.

Finally, I have a question about the presentation of the data: Figure 2b does not indicate that "75% of cats spent 90% of their time in disturbed habitats". The graph indicates that 500+ (out of 875 cats) spent between 95% and 100% of their time in developed habitats. Perhaps the y-axis is mislabeled, but even if it is, the graph does not match what the authors say.
non-amp link to story:

https://www.wcvb.com/article/3-million-masks-ordered-by-mass...
This sounds like uncertainty avoidance. Normally that term is applied to social groups opposed to individuals, but I am going to use it here because it describes the psychology behind the kind of fear you speak to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_avoidance

I suspect for some persons perfectionism is a problem, but the frequency with which mental laziness occurs and the rarity with which perfectionism occurs suggests there are different or multiple motivating factors. Perhaps a common answer is that many people are unknowingly willing to sacrifice flexibility and freedom for familiarity and predictability. This is even evidenced by how people write software.
Suppression of Expression Obscures the Truth About the Virus
Certainly messed up the Yahoo finance graph:

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/CL=F?p=CL=F

Look at the red block below the graph, where it should have gone negative.
That would be great imo. Then the rest of us who are happy with Python 3 can just get on with life.

I'm willing to bet that the demand is not really there and most of this is just kvetching. Should have happened a long time ago.

I'm not aware of any good technical reason to still be using Python 2. There is the "I don't have time to upgrade" argument, and I recognize the cost is real. But now we'll see at last if people are willing to stick up for Python 2 more than just figuratively.
I expect many forks.
Probably the title means "It is illegal both to wear and not to wear a face mask in New York". What it says is of course impossible.
That wouldn't matter if you're using docker, unless I'm missing something here.
As stated in my replies elsewhere it was a poorly worded comment. I think it’s not outrageous to suggest that if you care about something e.g. how well companies you do business with treat their employees then it makes sense to do cursory research about that. I don’t think that’s smug or outrageous. Mentioning the word ethics was a mistake.
It was mostly a success. People could continue to use the old version for over a decade after release of the new one if they wanted to, and the end result is that Python is now one of the most popular programming languages.
Mireo SpaceTime – an absurdly fast spatiotemporal database
Good! I would hate to have 300 different flavors of Python with no clear way to know which is which.
SoftBank, Legend Invest $150M in Didi Chuxing’s Bike-Sharing Unit
> From my experience, using the web in lynx or with emacspeak isn't an option in 2020.

Even 20 years ago the limitations of those options were clear to anyone who was willing to face reality. I was in denial for a while. (Note: I have limited vision, but I spent a lot of time helping blind people use Linux back then.)

Of course, Lynx and Emacs/W3 aren't the only alternatives. I think an interesting option would be a specialized browser UI based on headless Chromium.

In any case, I'm guessing Drew won't give up his free-software ideals easily, if at all. And he's a capable enough hacker that I'm sure he'll come up with a solution that works well for him.
Rightfully so - it would be incredibly confusing to have a third-party python with the same name but maintained by a different group of people. There's no "right" to the python name.

If you actually look at the issue discussing this, you can see that Guido is being more than amenable and the responses are honestly verging on childish.
Well, I don't want to presume what your bet is, if it was literally buying this contract and hoping to re-sell it than sorry for your loss I guess.

But yeah it seems like a short-term storage problem and it should bounce back, if your bet was something else it may yet pay off.
Does anyone know what the main reason is for not updating from python 2? I'm genuinely curious as I don't really know any modules that won't work under Python 3 and I can't really come up with any other blocking changes that would make upgrading that hard.
> For instance most spray cleaners come in bottles made of high-density polyethylene, which can be readily recycled. But first consumers must remove the spraytops, as they are made from different plastics and are not recyclable. Then consumers must find a way to pry off the brightly-colored, printed plastic wraps that packagers are increasingly wrapping around bottles to make the labeling more attractive.

> “Who does all that? Nobody,” said Sanborn.

I do! It's a little fiddly, but any sharp knife with a point you can slip under the label does a good enough job of slicing those off.

Good to know that helps, actually - I've often wondered whether I was wasting my time bothering with it.
I guess PyPy is another 2.x language implementation outside of CPython that might continue to support 2.x. However, there's a reason it isn't universally used to run CPython code, so that may not be appealing as an upgrade path from CPython 2.7.
How is the comment more or less readable if you know that Ninotchka is a movie and Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher?

The difference between coffee without cream and coffee without milk is the same whether Ninotchka and Zizek are the things described above, or if they are a city and a taxi driver.
Languages that receive wide adoption never die.

Anyone who thinks they do should go sign up for some COBOL training so they can grab those sweet New Jersey contracts. ;)
I haven't heard of anyone starting a new project in 2 in several years.
Paper bags do not have a worse environmental impact than plastic bags.

Paper bags have a worse impact in a very few, small, narrow metrics such as "ocean de-nutrification".

Everyone blurts this out because of a study done in Europe that looked only at a very limited range of environmental factors specifically suited to the country that commissioned the study.

Also, the vast majority of "savings" plastic bags realized over other forms of bag is the energy density of the petroleum used to produce them and the fact that that energy could be recovered by the massive network of refuse-to-power incineration stations in (the country that did the study, I can't remember).

But most plastic bags don't end up mindfully collected, sorted, and incinerated.

When taken as a whole, paper bags are much, much better for the environment than plastic bags.

In 100 years, the paper bag I (HYPOTHETICALLY) threw out my car window is long gone, worm food, turned into soil.

The plastic bag I (HYPOTHETICALLY) threw out my car window is now several billion flakes of microplastics and the world is struggling with the health ramifications of a century of build-up in the environment.

For that matter, the glass bottle is now harmless beach glass or sand (or a valuable collectible on ebay-next), and the aluminum beer can is now its 10,000th reincarnation-- having been picked up by a bum and traded in for cash.

My favorite "HOT TAKE" from that study is that "yOu HaVe To ReUsE a ClOtH bAg 500 tImEs" for it to be more efficient (in a very narrow spectrum of categories, remember) like that's an insurmountable hurdle.

My made-in-USA cotton totes I got on Amazon for $13.99 in 2010 have been used once a week since I got them.

You do the math.
Thank you so much for sharing this. A lot of people will knee-jerk react with "push, push, you're worthless, push" and I have deep appreciation for this wiser attitude.
His style is not for everyone but the BBC recently repeated Clive James in Shanghai, from 1989. You can see the protests going on and he comments on how the police and army are completely absent (which I guess was around April/early May). It's also interesting to see China in 1989, so massively different from when I visited last year.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000gx15
The coalition arranged a purchase of the masks in China, which were flown back to Massachusetts Thursday aboard a New England Patriots private plane.
We have chosen as a species to destroy the planet. We know we're doing it. We could stop. We won't. So why keep making a fuss? Enjoy it! You're the last people to see a real sea turtle or a rainforest or a glacier.

It's not nice but it's true.
How to Raise Startup Capital for Your Business
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/CL=F?p=CL=F

Prices didn't crash until this morning. Nobody was taking much of a loss before then.
power tends to corruption
Of course this opinion will not be popular here, but I think that there are legitimate historical assessments to be made on whether the Chinese leadership did this (and not to excuse them by the way), because they saw they were in danger of falling down the USSR route.

I.e. allowing the form (but not substance) of democracy to come in before people were ready for it, just as they making some progress on the constructive path of controlled economic liberalization, and derailing it to produce a oligarchic kleptocracy that would plunge the country into long-feared poverty and chaos. Which we can now see what happened to the USSR.

If you think of that as the choice that was facing those leaders at the time, their actions are more understandable. Just like how we look back now at the Soviet scare era of our history and wonder how we ever got caught up in that ridiculous hysteria.

Again, I say understandable, not excusable. Of course there likely were aspects of preserving power for its own sake, but looking at Deng's intentions and actions (other than Tiananmen Square) throughout his career, one has a hard time saying that he was motivated mostly for maintenance of power and not some public good.

It is a complicated story, and worthy of more than just a knee-jerk reaction. And yes, the important democracy movement and its terrible tragedy ought to be commemorated.
>Nice to imagine, but the speed of light is too slow for a lot of low latency applications.

Is it? Looking around, it seems average visual reaction times (VRTs) are on the order of 250 ms, and even the fastest VRTs are well over 100 ms. A study looking specifically at medical students for auditory and visual reaction times ("A comparative study of visual and auditory reaction times on the basis of gender and physical activity levels of medical first year students" [1]) also seems to support those numbers in the medical context, and while experienced surgeons could be expected to be somewhat faster that paper also links to research indicating hard biological minimums:

>"Researches by Kemp show that an auditory stimulus takes only 8–10 ms to reach the brain, but on the other hand, a visual stimulus takes 20-40 ms."

If we want to be quite conservative and aim to keep latency to single digit ms, so sub-10ms, then the speed of light in standard fiber gives us an RTT limit of around 1300 miles. Going more conservative and assuming actual route having to essentially follow the legs of a right triangle, that still gives a radius of around 460 miles, with a set of reasonably conservative assumptions. That seems plenty good enough to cover an enormous amount of work-from-home (or at least work-from-different-location) when it comes to actual existing medical practices, where I doubt most doctors at hospitals live >460 miles away.

I would agree that there are real issues with the idea, but more in terms of the risks events like network disruptions than the speed of light.

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1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4456887/
You want to live-it up reading /r/Frugal by the lake while leaving literally tens-of-thousands on the table, fine. Selling yourself short takes zero effort. There's always someone in line to undercut.

But don't kid yourself - your ability to be thrifty isn't a virtue in this context. You steal experiences from yourself, your family, and you jeopardize your health and safety by not demanding appropriate compensation for the value you bring.

I don't know you, but you're probably a great engineer. And if they can pay some guy on the coast a fantastic salary, then they can find a way to pay you the same fantastic salary.
Add to what you have said, Proton also has out-of-the-box SteamVR integration, which is very handy if you play VR games.
Is it that odd though? I'm not a native english speaker, but I would say "shirt without patterns", not solid. Or for example "without visible logo"
It is said that absolute power corrupts absolutely.

At the foundation of the U.S., in the Federalist Papers #51 (1788) it says:

> If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary

To your point:

> I wonder if advances in technology will one day create a coalition of super powerful people who will control the world and will make the rest of humanity salves at best and completely worthless at worst.

It's hard to say we haven't come dangerously close to achieving this approximation already. Regardless of your political affiliation, there was a headline today saying that Facebook is categorizing protests formed on its platform as "dangerous misinformation". This is a dangerously powerful stance that we shouldn't take lightly.
Switch developers on the impact of Covid-19
The title is somewhat clickbait-ish. The FBI and DHS have raided a shipment, which they thought was not meant for a hospital. Once they understood it was meant for a hospital, they let it flow.
Just with a cursory "oil tanker for sale" search, they appear to be for sale in the $10-20MM range.
Hope it can follow Col Regs.
I don't think we disagree? Just disagreeing that there are two types of public companies, "those that do or will pay dividends" and "those that don't" since the latter group doesn't actually exist.
> This problem is known as "attribution" - you have a "no" or "without" in the sentence, but you don't know where it belongs. One could (and one does) argue that the problem cannot be solved with statistical methods (ML), especially not in any domain where accuracy is required, such as medical recored analysis: "no evidence of cancer" and "evidence of no cancer" are very different things.

Couldn't you just parse the sentence into a dependency tree and look at the relationships to figure that out? CoreNLP got both of your examples right (try it at http://nlp.stanford.edu:8080/corenlp/process, can't link the result directly).
Avegant just has you looking at a DLP "screen". There's nothing special or magic about it. Each mirror/pixel you look at is either reflecting laser light or not reflecting laser light.
It wasn't predicted successfully on average. Otherwise Friday would have already anticipated today's price.
One of the best things I did now that I work on a Mac was use the force touch trackpad to ctrl-click whenever I push harder and a custom gesture for forwards and backwards.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/02/opinion/tiananmen-square-...

It's interesting to see that after all that a new generation is out there, some willing to simply dismiss the value of knowing that such an event even happend.
I think now it would be comparable to having good clue which workload should be server side vs which workload should be client side in web dev. Back end devs want to do all on back end and front end guys want to do all in front end. Then you get issues like API returning too much data that someone can abuse or hundreds of calls with ajax to setup something....