skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> COVID19 was not a surprise; that is, it was known to exist in China some time before the first cases appeared in the US. It is not unreasonable for a government to assemble a team to respond to something like a pandemic as needed, as opposed to having people dedicated solely to the purpose and nothing else.

The USA have alerted NATO allies and Israel in mid-November (!) about coronavirus: https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-alerted-israel-nato-to-dise...

The ban on China travel came two months later. Two months of inaction that have cost a lot of lives. If it's any solace, us other NATO countries haven't been better, but at least our leaders were not as stubborn as to claim "corona was under control" until Feb. 24 or "[the Democrat's] new hoax" (Feb. 28) as Trump did.

The ones who did not waste any time and who actually do have a standing pandemic response team are Asian countries like Taiwan - Taiwan is directly adjacent to China, has a shitload of travel to China under normal circumstances, got sidelined from the WHO thanks to Chinese pressure, yet only 422 cases with 6 deaths IN TOTAL.

That's what happens when a competent government is in action: they locked down travels on end of december and put actual experts in charge.

What does Trump do, in contrast? Infection rates are nowhere near "under control", and he appoints his daughter and son-in-law on a "council to re-open America": https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/4/14/21220755/t...
Okay:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia-n...

Looks like the open source Nvidia driver is horrible trash.

And seems like the most supported cards are the 600/700 series which are very old.

Also you're talking about installing a different OS what does bloatware have to do with it?

They may as well reinstall their OS fresh.

And don't be intentionally misleading. You're not going to get a computer that doesn't have support for networking out the box today on windows.

I clearly do remember having that issue on Linux where my WiFi card would require the download of a firmware binary to be able to run.

Linux desktop environments have a lot of rough edges. That's because the majority of people that use Linux use it headless.

Also in terms of functionality. I would only say KDE has near parity of features to windows as a DE.
As a Norwegian I can tell you that your friend is pulling your leg. You are free to drink on private property. I have never heard about anyone being arrested for responsible drinking in public parks, beaches and places like that.

It's not allowed to serve people that is "visibly intoxicated" but almost no one cares. At a normal Friday and Saturday night, Oslo is a battlefield of shitfaced people.
Doesn't need to. Veganaise tastes pretty good - I genuinely can't tell the difference.
Risk compensation, as in the idea that people are more conservative when they feel more at risk, is pretty well founded. It's risk homeostasis, namely the idea that people will voluntarily increase their risk until a target level is reached, that's controversial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation#Risk_homeost...

I recall reading some interesting research on this when it comes to playgrounds: these days unforgiving concrete is being replaced with bouncy rubber, and the compensation/homeostasis theory is that kids are playing in riskier ways because small tumbles don't hurt them any more.
If we're going to talk about the quality of river water then we should let Mark Twain have his say (from Life on the Mississippi):

"...and then they got to talking about differences betwixt ...clear-water rivers and muddy-water ones. The man they called Ed said the muddy Mississippi water was wholesomer to drink than the clear water of the Ohio; he said if you let a pint of this yaller Mississippi water settle, you would have about a half to three- quarters of an inch of mud in the bottom, according to the stage of the river, and then it warn't no better than Ohio water - what you wanted to do was to keep it stirred up - and when the river was low, keep mud on hand to put in and thicken the water up the way it ought to be.

The Child of Calamity said that was so; he said there was nutritiousness in the mud, and a man that drunk Mississippi water could grow corn in his stomach if he wanted to. He says:

"You look at the graveyards; that tells the tale. Trees won't grow worth shucks in a Cincinnati graveyard, but in a Sent Louis graveyard they grow upwards of eight hundred foot high. It's all on account of the water the people drunk before they laid up. A Cincinnati corpse don't richen a soil any."

And they talked about how Ohio water didn't like to mix with Mississippi water. Ed said if you take the Mississippi on a rise when the Ohio is low, you'll find a wide band of clear water all the way down the east side of the Mississippi for a hundred mile or more, and the minute you get out a quarter of a mile from shore and pass the line, it is all thick and yaller the rest of the way across."
At 48KHz the setup can sustain 128-entries buffers, or <3ms. Sound travels at about 1ft per sec, so this is the equivalent of hearing an amp that is <3 feet afar. I cannot perceive the latency. The AmPlug I/O has a 3.5mm headphones port.
Cats have been in Europe for thousands of years by now[1]. My guess is that birds have adapted. As others mention, I've only very rarely seen cats catching birds around here.

[1]not to mention the wild cats native to Europe, although of course in far smaller numbers.
> Study after study has shown that income and wealth inequality stifles innovation (again among some other pretty bad things).

You mean studies like this one? https://academic.oup.com/restud/article/86/1/1/5026613

> This makes sense if you think about it: the next Archimedes can't innovate because she's preoccupied with how to pay for her sister's insulin.

Your example is poverty, not inequality. This is a trick people play all the time. They say 'inequality', and then they describe poverty. Poverty certainly reduces innovation. Poverty causes all sorts of issues that reduce intellectual and social achievement. However, inequality and poverty are not the same thing.

Inequality is an inevitable consequence of innovation, in a capitalist society. But inequality does not have to mean poverty for the bottom decile. What we want is a society where those who are able to, work extremely hard to make the world better, and in return are rewarded with a luxurious high-status lifestyle. But those who are not so gifted, or those who choose not to work so hard, are still provided for adequately. IMO the focus on inequality per se is a red herring. It doesn't matter if Jeff Bezos has 100 trillion dollars, as long as his warehouse workers have a decent life.

I think you might respond by saying something about how large concentrations of wealth inevitably influence politics, and inevitably corrupt everything they touch. I can't speak to the latter, but to the former, I found this enlightening:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/09/18/too-much-dark-money-in...

> In fact all my policy prescriptions are focused on innovation, because that's the topic of this thread. Antitrust laws are specifically set up to encourage innovation.

> I know you really want to focus on regulation as the big bad, but it's just a symptom of a much larger bad: corruption.

'Corruption' is sufficiently non-specific to be meaningless. Saying the problem is 'corruption' prescribes nothing at all. Corruption literally just means "bad things happening to stuff", so of course, it is always to blame when things aren't going well.

The question at hand is: how do you fix it? Saying "fix corruption" certainly isn't the answer. My guess is you'll respond by saying "fix inequality", but you'll forget to add exactly how that would go on to fix "corruption".
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I worked as a software developer for a subprime prop trading desk at a big bank from 2006 to 2009. Our two main RMBS traders were short from about 2005. They would get beat up every week in capital committee meetings, and were told “what is wrong with you guys, the guys on the dealer side are crushing it with this stuff”.

Finally in 2008, these guys booked like $100 million in profits. But it didn’t matter at all cause the dealer side lost $50 billion.
Got some .epub by any chance?
Consider that you may be in the wrong career.
Ask yourself: what is the thing you're ready to charge at? What is top of mind for you?
Hate to tell you this but ray tracing gets just as complicated. You’re just shifting the realism bar much higher, but certain effects are always just out of reach in a given time budget and require specialised solutions and hacks to achieve.
You’re both right
We need double blind studies to see if it is. My prediction: nobody will be able to tell if it's $50 or $5 a pound, same as most people can't tell if they're drinking red wine or white wine with red food coloring, or tell apart an audiophile speaker cable and a wire coat hanger.
This is 100% true for later stage companies with established products/stakeholders and 100% false for early stage startups.

I have found product market fit 3 times in my life. Each time was with an extraordinarily shitty, unmaintainable, low quality codebase. But those shitty codebases iterate the end product faster and the speed of iteration is all that matters when you are trying to make your worthless startup become a useful company. Once you find what your users want, 100% it will be rewritten from scratch in a scalable, robust, thoughtfully designed way anyway.

With you on the equity bit.
Still the most useful article on UX I’ve ever read, 26 years later: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/goal-composition/
I work on a team that functions this way. We're pretty productive for a team of 4 doing 100 story points a week. We usually deploy a day or two after our 1 week sprint ends.

The down side is that I'm exhausted all the time. We don't interact much outside of reviewing PRs, questions and help regarding our domains on the project. This can be a lonely experience during the COVID WFH days. Its a difficult pace to sustain week after a week with no real days to work on personal projects. At the end of the day I'm disgusted by screens, terminals and editors. That is not a good sign.

The upside, I'm outputting the most code in my career (I came from enterprise/IGO work). I'm learning how to perform at a high-pace. There is a lot of focus on preparation: eating right, sleeping/resting correctly and spending time off-computer time breaking down problems I need to solve during my next 'shift' into sizeable, ordered chunks. All done so I can make my 8 hours productive the next day.

Committing, merging and deploying at a rapid rate feels good but I become more and more like a factory worker each week.
This is what people do exactly.
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Oh wow. Plugin to translate chinese to english?
Every cloud service should be replaced with free software like this running on a raspberry pi in your basement.
I'm Indian, and I can confirm that I do not like the smell of ghee, and neither do my siblings.

In fact, if food has too much ghee in it, it can make us want to throw up! We seem to have no problem with butter itself, but the smell of ghee is just too difficult to stomach for us.
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0.5 log-load reduction is a 66% decrease. A 1.5 reduction is 96%, which is N95 standard. Starting from 2.56, a log reduction of 3-4 is impossible.

In any case, the large number of NDs (not detected) everywhere in the table, but especially inside the masks after the patient just coughed in them (which the authors struggle to explain), makes this entire experiment very suspect. (Just look at the reported results for patient 4, which make no sense at all!)
I've been blind since birth, and much of my life and work is possible through the use of technology. I've used screenreaders on Windows, Mac, iOS and Android (both speech and Braille output). Many blind people are employed in various technical professions. I'm happy to answer whatever I can, and direct you to smarter people who may be able to answer what I can't. My Twitter and gmail username is the username on here.
Some Researchers propose 7 types of ADD, which are quite different on the surface symptoms. Check out this talk by Dr. Amen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWnJ4wjVu9k
At the company I work for UI accessibility issues are automatic high priority bugs. You'll be an asset (as a frontend developer) to any company that values accessibility (and I'm certain that many do).

Contrary to your concerns, I think that being visually impaired and being a frontend developer will most likely open up opportunities rather than close them down.
If you're hooking up interested parties, I'm volunteering :)
Hey. I literally have struggled with this and found a way to help turn the corner. I wrote about it only yesterday here: https://davidthorpe.dev/kick-the-shit-out-of-procrastination...

I hope it helps. Feel free to reach out if you want to chat since this is a topic very close to home.
How does one go about improving this in a big corporate company? Our development team is focussed on shipping, but most of our delays come from the business changing their mind and changing requirements constantly.

The people who act as the bridge between development and business just side with the business. Anything that goes wrong is blamed on our development team.

It’s probably just a hopeless situation and time to move on.
In Europe, the danger for (song)birds are not cats, but rather glass front buildings, soil sealing (by roads and buildings), and in rural areas a drastic lack of biodiversity as farmland is ever more and more streamlined with no bushes or other patches of wild soil to provide space for wildlife.
Quanta article:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/where-we-see-shapes-ai-sees-t...
I hate to recommend drugs to anyone but they worked for me
What happen if someone posts illegal content?
It works very well and is easy to set up. The example image is also very helpful. I'm sure many teachers will find this useful.
Seems strange to me that you've named it as a rip-off of atlasobscura when both articles clearly credit the book "Swiss Cat Ladders" [1] as the source of both the information and the images.

[1] https://brigitteschuster.com/swiss-cat-ladders
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I see you got a lot of great technical suggestions here.
I am in no way able to comprehend what you must be going through mentally, but to tackle your anxiety, please consider meditation. If you have never done that before, there is an excellent 10 day course that can be followed, onsite, on a donation basis. If you're broke you don't have to pay.
It's a 10 day silent retreat, which means you don't have to talk to anyone and can just focus on "showing up to do the work".
https://www.dhamma.org/
This seems certainly possible. But I don't know how would you display all of the frequencies that are present in music at the same time. Usually, they only play one or two frequencies and look at the result. Mash them all together? Maybe can be tried in the future. I was thinking to do something "inspired by" this cymatics instead (when I get around to it). Thanks for all the interesting thoughts!!
Can OP give us a summary? It looks interesting but I dont understand.
I'm not sure about the technical parts, but I was a member of an organization which aims blind people to ride bicycle by using tandem bicycles. So the concept is, non-blind person riding the bicycle and blind person pedals while sitting on the back. I did a lot of rides like that and we became very close friends with some of them.

They are (blind people) is very good in reading (listening) and also in speaking. I believe being a person who's easy to communicate is very importent in our industry and you will be a very good asset for your team.

You can email me if you'd like to hear more about that organization and maybe you can find something like that in your city as well.

fatiherikli@gmail.com
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It is, but it makes it a fresh flavor, very low-calorie. I mean yoghurt is sour too, it's not necessarily a bad thing. I drink it straight, my girlfriend uses it to bake muffins, and you can let chicken soak in it for a couple hours; if you cook it afterwards the chicken ends up deliciously tender (the enzymes in buttermilk break the chicken down a bit).
What would be a better dataset to train CNNs?
Why is that? Do you think they are less sensical than non-users? Or are you implying that the author was under the influence at the time of writing?
> VC funding is very small

The money does and can make a huge difference even if it only helps with building out a proof-of-concept? Uber took on the entrenched Taxi industry world-wide with VC money. Zenefits did the same to the insurance industry.

The problem is, one cannot compete with the incumbents head-on, for which one might need a gazillion dollars from the get-go, but I think one can definitely take on them with a humble investment to the tune of a few million dollars... Isn't that anyway the promise of nimble, innovative startups [0] -- out-manouver large corporations? I don't see VCs balking at startups competing squarely with a FAANG, say, for instance. Somehow, this rationale that the government has deeper pockets seems like a dishonest excuse.

I agree public spending does trump any amount of money private investors can conjure up, but I do not agree that they are blame-free
for not moving the needle forward, because they don't really lack ambition on-paper at least [1].

And, hey, software has been eating the world without significant public spend for a long time. There's been talk of private money building the future [2] for sometime, now...

/rant

[0] https://medium.com/s/story/jeff-bezos-jack-ma-and-the-quest-...

[1] https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12508356
Many (most?) people taking this substance report having some sort of mystical/spiritual experience. I doubt they are actually convening with the divine, but whether/how/why the substance causes that affect in people is certainly a part of "science".

I also don't think the spiritual journey aspect should be dismissed so lightly. Its being investigated to help depression. Perhaps inducing a "spiritual" state in people is part of the cause of action of the drug.
I was trying to work out who the author(s) were, and whether this was the kind of content-marketing blogspam that doesn't belong on HN. But it's pretty anonymous. Their twitter account retweets Scott Adams and seems to be on the "unlockdown young people to keep the economy moving" viewpoint. Some data points for your bayesian filter.
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It was a character assassination on the school's part
True, but it doesn't sound like it's going to happen any time soon. There was no vaccine for SARS.
The people responsible at the health department could be wrong, as they are just employees, and could be misinformed/ill-trained. It is a speculative theory, and the official statement empathize that the singular most important thing people should do is is to stay at home if they are sick. The medical benefits of mask for people without symptoms is not clear (but I would be interesting to read research if someone can link that), and there is a supply demand right now to get mask to those groups that really need them.

It is not a black and white issue of seat belt where there is ample proven evidence that in basically any car crash a seat belt is better than no seat belt. There is no shortage of seat belts, nor has there ever been one. The focus of car safety has also primarily focused on speed, where the survivable limit goes up if the driver has a seat belt, but even that higher limit is still much lower than the speed of many drivers. Thus the message there is to inform drivers the importance of both the benefit of seat belts, but also the critical message that speed more or less determine if a person is going to live or die. Even if people would risk compensate and go from the survivable speed without seat belt and increase their speed to survivable speed with seat belt, it would still be lower than what many people already drive their cars at. The worst case scenario of seat belts would thus be an improvement. We can not say the same thing about social distancing, where going out sick with a mask on is still a very bad idea.

Thus the recommendation from the health department is right now that masks should go to those in risk groups and people who are sick should stay home. If research later show that people without symptoms reduces risk of infecting others by wearing a medical mask, and the supply of masks increases, then they will likely change their recommendation based on the changed situation and facts.

(Small meta comment, but it is interesting how skeptical people are of the medical department that is responsible for handling the pandemic. It is true that critical questioning any government recommendation is useful, but maybe a bit more open minded discussion would be better).
It looks like this would be used for large scale synthesis of psilocybin.
I've had the same experience, but at home we usually had margarine or some other cheap butter replacement. My girlfriend insisted on getting real, salted butter and I have a newfound appreciation for it now.
Yours is an anecdote alright. I’m glad your cat was fine outdoors. If you don’t believe me, ask your vet what they think they probably are much more knowledgeable than you or me on the question.

See also https://www.americanhumane.org/fact-sheet/indoor-cats-vs-out..., http://www.thehumanesociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/i... (PDF warning)
Ojibwe is better described as a language continuum consisting of multiple languages. The larger the geographical distance between native speakers, the less likely their spoken form will be mutually intelligible. Like the Romance languages. Portuguese and Spanish are pretty close, and while they are much different from Romansh and Romanian speakers might be able to pick out words from each others' speech. So you probably learned moon from another variation of Ojibwe than the dictionary.
The author is saying that we had the tools and the plans, but the system de-incentivizes the ideal response, for a number of reasons the author claims throughout.

People in "power that the author approves of" seems like subtext that one would have to see on their own reading of the article. To me it seems like the author was arguing against some aspects of capitalism and how incentives for profit can misalign with benefits for society.
The US government has done a lot more than lockdowns.
> If the contract/law passes the test suite, you're good!

Not necessarily, you risk the same sort of problems suffered by naïve statisticians who over-fit their data with ever more complicated models. This leads to erratic behaviour in real life and severe lack of predictability outside the range already covered by the data.

You need to run some kind of sensitivity analysis as well because the components used in the implementation (policemen, lawyers, auditors, traffic wardens, etc.) are not all of perfect quality. Think of an audio amplifier design, it looks wonderful on paper and works perfectly in the simulator. But fails spectacularly when built of real world components because each component is not quite exactly as specified. A sensitivity analysis can discover this by, for example, running the simulation multiple times with each component varied according to its expected quality (say +/- 10% for resistors, +/- 30 percent for transistor gain, etc.)
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