skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've noticed that a lot of the students at the community college I went to were more mature as well. They all had stronger convictions for going to school as most of them were older and had spouses and children they were trying to build a better life for. Other types I found were people who were switching careers due to a life-changing event (pregnancy, work accident, rent increases) and even a good amount of immigrants who were fervently trying to pursue the American dream. All of them had a lot to lose if they didn't succeed, and I believed they worked so hard because all of them knew what it was to fail, unlike many of us high school grads. Needless to say the mentality at my community college helped build strong study habits within me, and inspired me to hang in there when times got tough (just like the classmates I used to work with did).
E2E Encryption in Jitsi Meet
please read this report by dr sherif sultan based on consultations with frontline doctors and postmortem examinations. it forms a coherent picture of symptoms and medication trials that we keep hearing about.

https://www.facebook.com/ProfSherifSultan/posts/319343963736...

Here is a treatment protocol that is being regularly kept up to date with latest information

https://www.evms.edu/covid-19/medical_information_resources/

i fear that well meaning doctors are killing their patients because they don't have updated treatment protocols: even though so much of this information has been released in chinese treatment protocols many weeks ago, i still keep seeing "news" articles with these "new discoveries".

i fear a tragedy of the commons situation where everybody assumes the next guy already knows. who is responsible for keeping treatment protocols updated and propogating this information to doctors? much of this information is readily testable, why are we not hearing either positive or negative feedback to this data?

please help me get this information out to doctors. even if it is not all accurate, they can make a better informed judgement. please help me understand if my understanding of this reality is correct, or how to get more information about this. thank you for your attention.
Was I the only one wondering who Brian was?
While it's not wrong to refer to the Super key as "Meta", I don't like calling it that, because in some contexts (like emacs), "Meta" means the Alt key.
Big Tech’s Resilience to Coronavirus Downturn Faces First Test
having a low employment % doesn't meant everyone is adequately employed. i.e employed in productive sectors. say you shift 20% of the people who work in restaurants to manufacturing or road work. that's already a 50% improvement in quality of roads and ifra
This has the assumption that Bing/DDG won't be forced out due to the same law. Would you mind clarifying why that would be true?
Below is an article arguing that New Zealand has been testing a UBI for decades with its pension scheme which is available to everyone aged over 65.
Be warned - Gareth Morgan has some interesting politics.
http://morganfoundation.org.nz/already-ubi-nz-super/
We've built something similar to hashrockets TIL, https://til.cybertec-postgresql.com
Maybe this is relevant to someone but I can’t imagine a large scale need for this.

This is not ‘substantial’
They just started the study and will last at least a year. But here is the press release of the munich university. https://www.lmu-klinikum.de/aktuelles/pressemitteilungen/mun...
This looks impressive, but I'm most curious about the Alexa integration. How do you do that without having to say "ask <app name> to <x>" every time?
Somehow the Americans outdid themselves. Six figure debt is now the norm? Despite being completely over funded colleges still cut their important staff?
This might be too simplistic of an answer, but despite having the capability of setting up a fancy home network, I prefer to keep the network simple, and transfer files between devices with USB drives.
> it is not a loss to the developer or content creator because i was never going to purchase it in the first place.

How do you know that you were "never going to purchase it in the first place"? There are lots of products where I initially looked at the price tag, thought "that's ridiculous", and walked away—but eventually came back and bought it, sometimes kicking and screaming.

Again, I don't think I can make a fair judgement about what I "would buy" when I have a financial stake in convincing myself one way. And I don't think anyone else can actually do it either.
Haoyi makes libraries that are very easy to use, modelling them after popular Python libraries. If you're interested he recently wrote a long blog about the future of Scala being exactly this approach; make easy to use libraries for people like yourself interested in being productive in Scala quickly.
https://www.lihaoyi.com/post/TheDeathofHypeWhatsNextforScala...
Right, and there’s no possible abuses this could be used for, of course — no way this data can ever be deanonymized, right? What I object to is putting this all into an automated system for everyone, infected or not. If there’s a way to generate a diagnosis key, there’s a way to spoof it, and that can be used to infer contacts for the non infected.

You may have a point when it comes to the infected, but even then, giving Apple or Google this type of information is putting far too much trust and power into too few hands.
Not fluent. But I try
Good point. Is it a four-year scholarship, or a one-year scholarship, or a one-year-with-option-to-renew scholarship? If it's the last, how common is renewal? And, do you feel lucky?
Pathophysiology of Covid-19 Coronavirus
Thanks for pointing this out, I'll remove the above comment.
No, I’m describing $2k/month for everyone, but I’d be satisfied if the unemployed automatically qualified. I don’t care if a few who don’t really need it get it as long as everyone who does does.
We never hear about the downsides of other countries models either. It's always a cherry-picking of the best policies and pretending there's never any trade offs. That kind of disingenuous promotion doesn't do any favors when it comes to convincing people.
If the Rolling Proximity Key is not recorded by other users (e.g. the abuser haven't put their device in a high human traffic location and intentionally broadcast your RPK), attacker uploading Diagnosis Keys will not cause any effect.

If the abuser took the effort to place a device and broadcast RPK for a while, then upload the Diagnosis Keys, I'm hoping Apple or Google have a way to validate the requests is from a legit device and thus abuser would have to have a lot of devices to game the system.
In New Zealand, at least, I have no trouble conducting daily life using Web sites. I do have a smartphone but I don't use it for banking or shopping or government interactions. If my trust in Google and Apple declined I could downgrade to a dumbphone without much trouble (except for the trouble of actually finding one to buy).

I agree that this situation needs to be preserved. FWIW I worked at Mozilla for a long time because I was (and still am) enthusiastic about their mission, which is partly about making sure the Web remains a) a strong platform for such applications and b) not wholly controlled by Apple and Google. Part of that was doing FirefoxOS which mostly failed but curiously, via KaiOS in India, is also kind of succeeding.
Some of the points you mention are not unlike the ones that ASR faces:

Lip reading is so dependant on context of the conversation. -> So is speech recognition. And actually, it's the same context.

There are so many possible combination of words that could look the same from a lip reading perspective. -> That's the same in speech recognition, and it's the reason you don't just model the acoustics but also have a language model.

everyone's lips are different -> Everyone's voice is different.

but then what if they have an accent? -> That is possibly a bigger problem for ASR than for lip reading, but that's just my guess.

However:

facing the wrong direction -> This for me is the real trouble. In the video clips you see in the paper (as stills), you have nice full frontal view of the lips. But when do people actually hold that still outside a lab situation?

In ASR, if people turn their head, your signal quality drops (and hence your recognition rate does too) but when you move the head > 80-90 degrees away from the camera, you have pretty much no signal left to work with.
OrbitDB: Peer-to-peer databases for the decentralized web
Well, the original question I was trying to explore the question was one of what power one gives up with a generic GUI SQL client. My take is one does give up a number of database-specific features and I attempted to discuss them.

Your response lists what other clients do better than SSMS, which to me is a different question, so my reply was more in response to this question. I agree that those clients have features that SSMS does not or is weak at. I also think a handful of those features are nice to have but not really something I would expect from a SQL client so I'm neutral about them. That's all.

I believe the two questions lead to separate discussions (both of which I'm happy to engage in), and are non mutually exclusive. Other clients can have all these other nice features which SSMS doesn't, but that does not imply that that there's not still a tradeoff when it comes to their lack of native support for a database's deep features.
https://archive.md/L6abQ
3brown1blue’s video is a very simplistic introduction to the subject. It’s illustrative not predictive.

Contact tracing is clearly useful, but on it’s one does not change the basic reproduction numbers much. Look at South Korea which still has active infections despite active contact tracing and very successful social distancing.

Contact tracing COVID-19 is suplimental not a solution.

PS: As to my point, if you’re a grocery store employee in NYC you are likely to have been in contact with someone with COVID-19 in the last week. We can’t simply send all of them home, that’s the issue with contact tracing when a meaningful percentage of the population is infected. You need looser restrictions which reduces effectiveness.
They have had other nineties than most of us.
The death rate is certainly lower than 3%.
It depends on your needs. Scala has some advantages over Python when you want high performance, or if you want to build large programs, or if you're interested in building principled or robust programs using functional programming. Netflix machine learning seem to be leaning towards using both Python and Scala together to take advantage of both. See this project: https://netflixtechblog.com/open-sourcing-polynote-an-ide-in...
No, it doesn't. You're being hypersensitive.
Stores run out of toilet paper because we're no longer popping at work: https://marker.medium.com/what-everyones-getting-wrong-about...

The lockdowns have precipitated a huge shift in how we eat and what/where we purchase things. The supply chain is responding, but pivoting is expensive and groceries are a low margin business... the shortages could have been a lot worse. Going forward we may see shortages in imported foods/produce due to pandemic impacts in other countries and/or regulatory/logistics problems getting that food to market.

I'm not saying that the media has been responsible, just don't discount the bigger picture of changes in consumer behaviour.
Just do what Ben Pridmore[1] did and study efficient ways to encode information in memory other memory techniques. It breaks some IQ tests so you can walk into Mensa and such (its not that meaningful but neither is using IQ as a metric for getting rejected at google).

unrelated but by your long history of posting about having a low IQ yet working for amazon, what is a low IQ to you?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Pridmore
Thank you, your remarks about trust seem to hit the core issue at hand to me.
I used to do employee-side employment law, once I had a non-Amazon picker client, he was getting jacked around for exercising his FMLA (Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993) rights, ultimately getting fired under the cover of a riff.

I did a lot of research about the 'picker industry' for that case. What a nightmare job. I can't imagine having to work somewhere like that with all the rules, quotas, bully leadership, favoritism, etc., worse than the Army.
But wouldn't an open specification be a much better value proposition for engineers?
I had one as a kid. It was surprisingly fun, but every time I played it, all I could think of was the red LED eye of the Cylons. The original BSG was airing when this toy came out.
There are the 'have's' and the 'have not's'.

I don't think that it is easy for the 'have's' to see how the situation affects the 'have not's'.

For those in the first world that are in managerial positions, healthy and on a pension or with inherited wealth the situation is very different to that facing those living paycheck to paycheck or without a paycheck.

Essentially this means there is some class struggle going on, between the 'have's' and 'have not's'. If you are a 'have not' then this is centre stage, if you are a 'have' this is curiously absent. I found this report was written by a 'have'.
Constructing a spacecraft capable of sustaining a human being for multiple years, landing them with all necessary support equipment, building an ISRU plant for which solid designs do not currently exist, and for which even the principles are still very much the subject of research, launching and returning is much, much more complicated than sending an unmanned spacecraft or two to recover a sample. This is really not too far off from what JAXA is already doing with Hayabusa 2.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa2
This doesn't seem implausible to me, based on the different competitive positions that Google and Bing hold. I can imagine a scenario in which Google doesn't want to pay this tax to avoid a ripple effect across their business in other countries, while Bing opportunistically decides that paying protection money is worth establishing a foothold as the primary search engine in a developed, Anglophone country.
I understand why total number of deaths decreased a little bit due to quarantine.

But sudden drop in total number of deaths from 52,992 down to 35,863 in the last week - looks suspicious.
Yeah, KVM.

Someone setup a repo here with a starter config: https://github.com/Leoyzen/KVM-Opencore

You'll need to build a bootable disk image with the EFI folder there, but that should mostly work out of the box. Only thing I changed was the serial numbers so iMessage, iCloud etc work properly. I think it would be easier to set up a working Windows install with passthrough first just so you know you have that portion setup properly, and then do macOS.
Avoid Pie Charts and Bubble Graphs: Humans Are Bad at Estimating Area
correct, It was France. Last week
I don't work for jetbrains, I just thought other people on HN might be interested in this sort of thing.
This isn't a worry over device security. It's a worry about cloning. Most of the serious FPGA market is low-volume speciality devices that cost upwards 10-100k per unit, with yearly support contracts of that magnitude on top. Seismology, medical research, telecommunications... many of those products will be a raving success if they sell 1000 units. R&D is almost all of the cost and the hardware design is nothing special. You could clone these things with basically no investment if you have access to the bitstream. "Decompiled" bistream is also much more readable than assembly. That's why they're worried.
I wonder if OpenCore would enable me to (a) passthrough an i915 GPU but not an AMD GPU; (b) run Catalina on a Mac that doesn't support it?

I have an ancient macbookpro 8,2 with the defect that eventually leads to AMD GPU failure (it failed, was replaced under warranty extension, failed again same number of years later). I use GRUB iowr.mod and outb commands to disable the AMD GPU on boot so it's not even seen by Linux. But when I boot macOS, at some point during the session something enables discrete graphics and I get a kernel panic. I also get a kernel panic when doing any kind of software update (it's now stuck on 10.13.6).
Could Australian ISPs be instructed to just blacklist Google's and Facebook's Ad servers nationally?
There would be no political suicide there. It's so easy to make Google/Facebook look evil in this case if they don't comply. Just say they are not paying taxes and getting our money abroad etc.

But there is 0% chance of Google/Facebook not complying.

> I think Google and Facebook have more power in this relationship

Not even close.
I did the covid19 week1 and week2 kaggle competitions (I think they had 4 of them) below. If you are interested, this is a fun way to play around with the data, and it shows how hard it is.

This I tried:
- Weibull Gamma distributions, but it was impossible to find good parameters for the distributions without exploding. It would only work if I put in an additional parameter saying 99% of the population wouldnt get it. It would come up with good shapes of growth but the predictions were far too below actual values in the future.

- Logistic curves. usually great for countries that already ran up the curve but terrible for ones still in the exponential phase (as the article states). Also kind of useless for countries that didnt even begin their journey up the curve.

- light gbm: good for predicting the next day but terrible many days out. It seems other counties curves do not help that much

- SARIMAX: really good but later predictions would explode, like showing 4 million deaths in france, etc.

I tried to get around these by ensembling them together, but overall I did very poorly at predicting coronvavirus. I still want to get better at this, so if anyone has any good suggestions, please share. Also you can check out what other kagglers have done as well

https://www.kaggle.com/c/covid19-global-forecasting-week-1
https://www.kaggle.com/c/covid19-global-forecasting-week-2
I find your examples / analogies not convincing.

Email and digital photography have very clear benefits and those where totally transparent from the beginning . I can see none for bt.
In the video at the end of the page that is exactly how it works: 'Alexa, ask Nexus to open Back in Black by AC/DC'.
"Results show that the doubling time early in the epidemic in Wuhan was 2.3–3.3 days. Assuming a serial interval of 6–9 days, we calculated a median R0 value of 5.7"

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/7/20-0282_article

A herd immunity strategy involving fast immunization by continuing business as usual would then involve an R0 > 5.
The parent argument has been made for going on 3 decades now and is the source of the austerity and institutional divestment that has proven unworkable at best, and disastrous at worst.

It's telling that a single f-bomb is interpreted as more rude than calling the American public - which is by far the most overworked workforce in the West and among such as far as the developed world as a whole is concerned - "lazy."

Reply to him next. See what he says.
Ubuntu 19.10, using KVM+QEMU
Why Using HTTP Get for Deletions Is a Security Risk
> What they all have in common is that decisions are made by leadership which can act with the necessary degree of autonomy.

No, what they have in common is that they've been through this experience before with SARS, learned from it and setup procedures so they could act faster next time.
Jitsi Meet Gains Firefox Support
It’s a common misconception, but the S curve generated by disease, for example, with exponential growth at the beginning, corresponds not to the normal distribution, but the logistic distribution, which has fatter tails than the normal.

The bell curve drops to zero with exp(-x^2), that is extremely fast.

The logistic distribution (derivative of the S-curve described here) drops to zero with exp(-|x|), that is exponentially, but not as fast as the normal distribution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_distribution
It's made worse when you're trying to do that while also trying to keep a steady aim, as well.
Haoyi's libraries (e.g. ujson) are great - and perfect for beginners to learn Scala with, very idiomatic scala without the Haskell-style overhead.
There have been a lot of unreliable tests, here in Spain at least.
you don't realize lots of things!
It'll help with encrypted bitstreams, not much else.

Besides, the lack of public RE efforts is AFAIK a political issue more than anything; the FPGA companies have been known to send lawyers at anyone who tries. The bitstream format itself is, following the layout of the FPGA itself, naturally going to be extremely regular and definitely not hard to figure out. They're really like a "worst kept secret" in the industry --- there are probably a lot of people who have already figured it out, but just don't want to attract legal attention.
Honorable mention: Anthony Fauci but he won't be remembered in 100 years. But, who will? J.k.Rowling, Donald Trump, Barack Obama. Then I am out of ideas, through I can think of both childless and non childless people.

Not slowed down by children: Albert Einstein, Joseph Stalin, Goering, Speer. (I happened to read about that period a lot).

Bill Gates, Musk also have children, but I don't think business owners are remembered that long. Plus, Elon Musk is not active father. More if sponsor from what I heard. The "remembered after 100 years" basically limits me to politicians making massive changes. But if you check those who won Nobel prize, they have plenty children too. And writers have them too.

Seriously, career of males are not much harmed by children. It used to be an advantage even
>interesting to see what happens if they start pushing back.

Nothing. Google isn't going to forego the entire Australian market or even an economy as large as the Eurozone. They'd just pay their x% tax and suck it up and consider it cost of doing business.

Google is a company, not a nation state and governments ought to stop kowtowing in front of companies. Reminds me of the story about the elephants and the rope
I haven't looked into this for Catalina, but for most past releases, there are community tools for installing the OS on unsupported Macs (to whatever level of success is possible on your hardware).

That's going to be a lot easier then OpenCore.
> Again, I don't think I can make a fair judgement about what I "would buy" when I have a financial stake

i'm at a loss for to how parse this let alone how to respond to it. who else but you "can make a fair judgement" about whether you'll buy something?

i don't have shifting perspectives on whether i'll buy something - i either decide to buy something or i decide not to buy it. if i decide to buy something but i don't have money for it i save money and buy it eventually.

to drive home the point: i pirate movies instead of going to theaters. if some movie that i was interested in seeing never gets released on some torrent site i do not buy that movie i simply do not watch it. on the other hand i do buy books even though i could pirate them easily.
Face ID in the Era of Wearing Masks
That rabbit hole leads you to have separate types for collections with 0, 1, 2, etc. elements.

You need collections with two elements, for example to ensure that

items.dropFirst().min()

or

items.sort().take(2)

are safe to call.

Because of that, I think having min() return Either(int,error) is the way to go for most languages (‘researchy’ languages can be an exception)

Enforcing abs to work for all integers would be higher on my list. Are there any languages that have INT_MAX == -INT_MIN and interpret 0x80…0 as ‘Not a Number? That could be used as return value for min() on empty sequence, too.
It isn’t impressive at all. It’s a toy completely unsuited to performance. The fact that he brags about “no knobs, no switch’s” shows how he completely fails to understand the market.

This is top class /r/shittykickstarters (and do t be fooled, this entire post exists just to shill a kickstarter)

There are plenty of mature, established modeling solutions on the market.
Safer: A safer file writer for Python