skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I now believe that no one really knows much about the spread of this virus. Hence I find it naive to predict that the peak was on one day or another, plus it is very unlikely that Sweden would not get even more cases. They are most certainly not at their peak.

Look at Spain, locked down hard on March 14th, yet the number of cases on April 4th were the same as on April 24th (!) (and among of the largest observed over 6K). No one would have ever predicted that back in March 14th, that after more than a month of keeping the population like prisoners the number of cases would be still so high with no chance of going to zero any time soon. Eventually, within weeks now, they have to relax the rules, and with that they will be right where Sweden is.

When it is all said and done who did better, which society is better off overall. My bet is on Sweden, but the answer will not be determined tomorrow, next week or even next month. Perhaps by this time next year.
The theory and math may account for some of it but The dropout rate is high on the Intro classes though, which are usually just ‘java 101’

I think a lot of people start CS without having coded before, find it more difficult than expected, look around and see half the class have been coding a few years and are way ahead and decide it’s not for them
Those sellers never left eBay. It just got harder to find them among the noise. I still frequently have that great "old eBay" experience today when buying from sub-100-feedback sellers.
lowbrow.org, started by one of the editors of suck.com, collected anonymous stories about the lowest points in people's lives.

it helped me get through some low points of my own in high school.

i helped fund it by mailing in cash when i was 16. i received a few branded match boxes in return.

within a year, it went down for good. there are still some archives online, but nothing quite compares. i tried to revive it by building storylog.com.

that 2 year endeavor managed to jumpstart my passion for web development, got me to learn HTML, CSS, and eventually Python, and landed me my first job at a startup.
Doesn't the KRACK vulnerability undermine the idea that formally verified equals perfectly secure?
No, this is a surface phenomenon. No amount of rain is going to determine weather a seafloor volcano forms or is active.
It does seem like something that a cautious and prudent person might let other people try out first...
There are versions that even allow paying with cash. It is basically the same experience as usual, you just tag all the stuff yourself.
Totally possible, yes. But, in my experience the Mac's OS updates break things fairly often, and running macOS on non-Mac hardware isn't supported or well-tested by VMWare.

But it might be worth it, depending what you need to do.. I tend to do my actual work writing code and on the Mac side, even if the code is running on Linux, so for me it makes sense to keep the Mac experience the native one.
Thanks for developing OpenLieroX. That was peak Liero for me, with smooth network play, tons of mods, and an active competitive community.
Look at China's GDP over the last 2 decades. It has grown exponentially. At this rate they'll surpass the US this decade or next. You cant just move manufacturing elsewhere. China have perfected low cost mass manufacturing. It's not just beacuse labour is cheaper. That used to be the case but now they are innovating at a huge scale.
I have empathy for your nostalgia. I played Wolfenstein Enemy Territory and was part of a pretty cool community.
A more representative comparison:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/new-covid-deaths-per-mill...

It's great that Norway and Finland are doing well, but Sweden isn't doing that bad.
All programming is visual, think about it. Text is visual. I'm not just pointing out a semantic discrepancy here. Text is a specific method of encoding meaning and processes in a visual way.

In short, textual programming is just a subset of visual. People think of the dichotomy as a duality of text vs. visual, it is not.

Text just has features people tend to like: A Fixed line based structure. Isomorphism with the english vocabulary... Who says other visual programs can't have this either?

The issue with a lot of these "visual programs" is that they also represent a subset of Visual Programming similar to how text is just a tiny subset of visual programming. What you are in fact seeing with most "visual programs" is mostly programs represented as graphs.

The real dichotomy people are discussing is not text vs. visual but text vs. graph. Whenever I see something like labView or something labeled as a "visual program" it's always a program represented with a series of nodes and lines, aka a graph.

Hopefully by illustrating the reality of what's going on, people can see beyond representing programs as just text or just graphs.

There are other ways to represent modules and processes.
Generally speaking? it's probably a good idea to delay opening things back up until we know the full extent of the virus, yes. If the antibodies only confer short-term protection and people could get reinfected again (as some indications have shown), it MIGHT be a bad idea to reopen the economy and pave the way for a second wave of the virus, you know? Just throwing that out there.

If you think things are bad now, do you honestly think things would get better if we had to go through this again because we decided to stop early? Though given you seem to be peddling the idea that this is all a conspiracy by activists to keep us at home forever, I'm willing to bet you're not going to engage this point with any sort of good faith.
Yeh it's should put of lot of eggs on faces but I doubt it. if this ends up being the right decision no one will hear about it cause it makes to many people look incompetent
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2661478/
Note, Japan's ascension to the largest economy in the world was also "guaranteed" near the end of the Cold War. We can all see plainly how such claims have played out.

You have to admit that the possibility of a global hegemony is more likely today than ever in modern history. An unlikely event, however, is still unlikely, no matter the rate at which it increases in likelihood. Our prerogative now is to carefully monitor this increasing rate, lest it somehow escape our attention while becoming unavoidable.
It’s also the same pricing strategy Apple did with the iPod, whereby they find a point of entry by price they’re comfortable offering, then they go up from there, presenting loads of increments. The latest iPhones—to say nothing of old models still available nor refurbs—present these prices:

iPhone SE: $399/$449/$549

iPhone 11: $699/$749/$849

iPhone 11 Pro: $999/$1149/$1349

iPhone 11 Pro Max: $1099/$1249/$1449

That’s four models from $399–$1449 with 8 price points within that $1050 range. If a customer is set on some feature that’s at an undesirable price with current models, prior generations of phones are there to offer alternative compromises.
Whether a conspiracy or a fuck-up, the more weaknesses of democracy exposed by this virus, the more benefits the survivals will have in the long run. DT be like:"Kill all those intouchables, so I'll have another 4 years sitting on the bloody throne!"
Likewise as it fails, their higher fatality rate helps show what was avoided. Although most countries under lock down could not handle the peak hospitalizations that Sweden can which would mean far more deaths. And one would need to compare Sweden's results to similar countries like others in Scandinavia. And at the moment Sweden's death rate is 6 to 10 times its neighbors[1]. So a success or failure in Sweden is extremely informative but not completely transferable.

Swedes are pretty generous conducting this experiment on their population for the edification of the survivors.

[1]https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/new-covid-deaths-per-mill...
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Also, the hat store was started by a small group of local investors, one of whom was the general manager at the food supply company.

Now he has to go through bankruptcy because he was accustomed to the income the hat store generated, so he's decided take a job in a different town where cost of living is lower and the position is lower stress.
Without a doubt. He has no rights to forfeit as a billionaire. So eager to jump ship, at least they are making their "principles" clear.
How up-to-date is clojurescript+react-native workflow?

I checked Re-natal as tool to manage build/debug workflow with clojurescript+react-native

https://github.com/drapanjanas/re-natal

But re-natal supports up to React native 0.59, which is quite far back, in the RN-release-years time units.

Now React-native is 0.62.
it's not that it's unclear per se, it's just an untenable position to take.

lazy example : a hardware-level side-channel attack is not rendered impossible simply because the software was made with formal verification methods.
On Camus's 'The Plague'
She is not the first scientist to fess to a mistake. Heck, one of my colleagues went through the same thing last year, and he also did the right thing, and other scientists also appreciated his open honesty about the matter, even though his mistake meant the retraction of a high impact article.
It depends. If you're not going to develop symptoms for another 14 days then yeah, you're not infectious. But for a few days before symptom onset you become just as infectious as you will be after symptom onset - which is one of the things that makes this virus hard to stop.

A low initial dose doesn't seem to affect the course of the infection much, though. For a sufficiently low dose either none of the viruses find an ACE2 receptor or your innate immune system wipes up the virus without you noticing (as it does for you with other viruses every day).

There's some evidence that particularly high doses can cause particularly bad prognoses. We have pretty good evidence that this is the case with measles. There's very anecdotal evidence suggesting that maybe this is the case with SARS-CoV-2. But it looks like low doses lead to a chance of no infection, not a chance of an asymptomatic one.
Just a few other recent Sweden coronavirus discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22919074

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22944891

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22908103
Our response to Covid-19 – la luz vendrá pronto
I have done the opposite direction. I moved from a big city where I just would not even think about getting a car -- it would be just a huge expense that would sit there gathering dust and depreciating faster than I can sneeze. I would spent more time walking to whether I parked it (and finding a place to park it) than I would ever save by driving instead of walking.

Then I moved to a smaller city with a larger suburb area. Within 6 months I had bought the car. The last straw was having had to wait an hour for the bus, carrying grocery bags. At the same time, you find parking spots almost everywhere, and walking was not that easy, with longer distances and in many places not even sidewalks.

It's just two different worlds, really.
I'm not still 14, sadly, so he isn't really that funny to me now. I'd rather not spoil my good memories :)
Society tends to aggrandize kids these days as the “technology generation” and so on, but those kids don’t have an understanding of all the devices they’re using. It’s just rote learning of applications and interfaces.

If you ask them how they think the underlying systems work, you’ll get a simplistic estimate or something that amounts to “magic.”

That’s why entry level courses are designed to weed out candidates who don’t know what they’re getting into.

It’s working as intended.
IRC is still alive and well
blackcode.com I remember it fondly and I found it after looking for hacking resources after seeing the movie Hacker but never had the proper motivation to actually dig in and learn. There are other sites for hacking/cyber security now but it was the first one I had found back in the day
A pretty normal C idiom. Maybe some old C programmers wanted it? (One of which I am but I like my python pythonic so it wasn't me).
Sweden new cases by day are still growing
What limitations are you looking to remove? 2d to multi-dimensional? Tables that float instead of living on sheets?
Vendoring causes more problems than it solves. There are plenty of things that could be improved about the node ecosystem, but a lot of the criticism isn't based on logic; there seems to be a large population on HN who just inherently hate large numbers of dependencies and will grasp for any excuse to justify that hate.
>Even if you took out China and India and only look at Android, $400 is still considered as mainstream / premium.

But there are plenty of other developing countries other than china/india, which means the number is still being dragged down. You'd need to get ASP for android phones in US or western europe only.
And there's no evidence to date that people who test for antibodies are immune to future infections.
For me, I especially avoid companies which take and create multiple projects for clients, or outsourcing companies.

If you love quality, look for companies that have / makes product(s), or companies that use their own product (such as SAAS).
You say it's a conspiracy theory, but you agree we should stay at home until the "full extent of the virus" is known, and long-term effects by definition aren't going to be visible any time soon. Do you have a plan for how we could discover such things faster than a year or two?
Code can’t confer immunity to attacks outside the scope of verification methods as implemented. As another poster mentioned above, side channel attacks or hardware vulnerabilities are outside the scope and capabilities of formal verification methods’ ability to mitigate or mediate directly. Which is not to say be verification could be improved to account for this. But if you knew there were no bugs already due to formal verification I guess at least these unknown bugs are likewise much more limited in scope and offset by entire classes of bugs determined to not be present.
Do you really think that giving the same amount of money directly to consumers has any chance of providing a solution that will outlive the hand out period?

The rationale of the PPP is to help out businesses forced to close during lockdown so that they’re (hopefully) around to employ people when the lockdown ends.

Direct cash might seem more effective in the short run, but it falls apart once the payout period ends. If anything it’d lead to people being less likely to find sustainable work as the null option would be higher valued.
I think at the end of the day if a country's strongest asset is its "demand", that is, its ability to consume goods and services instead of produce them, then i think that country is in for a world of hurt.
It's almost like you need to do your random sample based on a list of all residents, and not just go out and try to find people at various locations.
In terms of being concise, Scheme wins by a mile, honorable mention for Clojure (one-liner)
Ask HN: What does it mean/take to be a good engineering manager?
I recently got rejected by a FAANG company for the role of an engineering manager. My hunch is that my lack of people management experience comes through (but who knows).

My current title is “Director” in a traditional retail company (not a tech or engineering-first company). Despite the seniority I have had zero direct reports in my career. I have “managed” consultants throughout my career which has mostly meant assigning tasks, talking through designs with them, conducting occasional 1:1s, providing feedback and conveying appreciation on a job well done, providing business context around a project or in general, with little to no control over their career growth and development.

The feedback I have received is positive - “feel supported”, “has a calming effect on the team during high-pressure/stress situations”, “always willing to provide detailed technical and business info”, “great communicator”, etc. I also don’t see consultants as “not-employees” and treat them the same as an employee.

All this combined with a general liking towards people and slightly extroverted nature made me assume that I have the necessary qualities for an engineering manager at a big tech company too. But I have no idea what it actually means to build a team, have direct reports and manage their careers and development.

Any and all thoughts are appreciated but these questions come to mind:

* In what ways are managing consultants and managing employees different especially in FAANG/big tech companies?
* Should I be honest about my (lack of) people management experience during interviews or should I answer using my consultant-management experience?
* What are some day to day examples of the type of tasks/decisions as an engineering manager?
* How is being a manager different than being a Tech Lead in a tech company?
I think this is relevant to the discussion: Fructure: A Structured Editing Engine in Racket
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CnbVCNIh1NA
If a virus is spreading in a community exponentially and the latency from exposure/infection to symptoms is greater in length than the doubling time then half of everyone who tests positive is going to be pre-symptomatic.
Yes, a formal proof shows that a system does not have a specified class of bugs, subject to specific assumptions. This is very valuable, but it is better to think of it as another (very powerful) bug finding technology than a complete assurance that nothing can go wrong.
Can we really compare conscientious Swedes with bold Brits or brash Americans? I live in a state in the USA where our Governor has instated a full lockdown. Yet, our citizens are out and about intentionally going against guidelines.
How many under 65? (I know the answer, I'm obviously asking very intentionally/rhetorically)
> that needs to be weighed against destroying all of our economic institutions.

No it doesn't. Like the statement alone doesn't even have any credence, let alone following through with it.

Incredibly daft.
Pro tip - When “every single one of the 96 participants show[s] the effect“ u have a technical artifact. This is scientific common sense.
"There is nothing in the article to suggest they're reducing service"

"Accordingly, says Milan Mayor Beppe Sala, the city plans to maintain its metro system’s capacity at less than two-thirds of its pre-pandemic activity. Instead of the 1.4 million average trips it saw daily before the pandemic, it will accommodate a maximum daily ridership of 400,000.""

Is literally from the article and the comment I was responding to.

Please read the article before complaining to others that they may not have read the article.
Libra still needs more baking
Yes it is like following a soccer match and we are 10 minutes into the first half. One team might play significantly better than the other but much time is remaining and it is much too early to draw conclusions.
The wikipedia article says:

> The term Great Grain Robbery is a pun referring to the "Great Train Robbery" novel

The novel in question being a 1975 one by Michael Crichton! Being British, to me, the term refers to an infamous train robbery in 1963. I don't know if that incident is well known in the US.

Presumably, though, both those uses are references to the film.
Who said anything about seafloor?
Claims like these are made Every 6 months. From personal experience I can say it’s very easy to Overfit a huge CNN on a data set, and then observe it performs well on the test set drawn from the same distribution. This is Despite attempts to make the test set differ from training. Typically these models fail outright in the wild.

I have also spoken to autopilot engineers at TESLA Who confirm this suspicion. And this is a highly select team that work with Elon musk on a weekly basis.

The fact of the matter is robust depth estimation is not possible with just cameras. Especially ones mounted inside the windshield. Remember when it rains the distribution shifts completely. Tesla solves this issue by training two nets, so now you’re just overfitting to two distributions.
Why not have both!?

Surely you can have city centres (especially old towns) without cars and people living in suburbs, with special needs or whatever to own a car.

I'd love to drive to a city centre and then have a walk without the traffic noise! I'd hate taking 90 minutes of bus instead of 20 minute drive.
Sweden has 10x as many deaths as its neighbours Finland and Norway each, or 5x as many scaled to population. It's third neighbour, Denmark, also has about half the population and only 1/5th as many deaths. All these countries are somewhat similar in wealth, rural vs. urban population, etc.

It has 4x as many deaths as Germany adjusted for population, and 4x as many deaths as Austria (not adjusted for population, because they are similar).

And so on... Take the worst European countries: Spain and Italy. These two have about twice as many deaths as Sweden relative to population. But then again, their numbers are declining, while Sweden's is still growing.
What part of "punished for working too many hours" is mutually beneficial?

How about not scheduling anyone full-time, but stopping just short to avoid supporting them?

How about not paying anyone outside of management above minimum wage?

How about not establishing regular schedules published in a timely manner?
On the other hand, trying to setup a typescript monorepo with shared/dependent projects is a huge pain since everything needs to be transposed to intermediary JS that severely limits or breaks tooling.

Even TS project references make assumptions about the contents of package.json (such as the entry file), or how the compiler service for VsCode preloads types from @types/ better than for your own referenced projects, which sadly ties TS to that particular ecosystem.

Language version compatibility is a good point, but perhaps TSC could respect the compiler version and flags of each package's tsconfig.json, and ensure compatibility for minor versions of the language?

Since I enjoy working in TS I'm willing to wait it out as well, the pros far outweigh the cons. Now that GitHub/MS acquired NPM, I have hopes that it will pave the way to make TS a first-class citizen, though I don't know if Deno will be part of the solution or not.
You say "almost like", but scientific studies rarely sample the population this way because researchers generally don't have access to a list of all residents.
Everything Ray Dalio writes he presents like the prophet come down from high to give us the Sacred Truths.

Dalio is a successful trader and is beyond wealthy. He’s a smart guy who has a true interest in history. But he is just one opinion of many and he is absolutely not saying things that are uniquely known to him.

I read the whole thing and it’s like, “Powerful countries decline! Declining power leads to social strife!” No shit dude.
A prison is very much like a cruise ship from a viral perspective. We know from the cruise ship data like the Diamond Princess that most people had no symptoms initially, but overtime most people became symptomatic [1].

Of course if we are really lucky and the prison was infected with a naturally attenuated strain we should make use of it [2].

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7078829/

2. https://www.tillett.info/2020/04/12/how-would-a-search-for-a...
Well... with sea level rise, and changing pressure due to ice sheets melting (crust rebound), I would expect seismic and volcanic activity. Probably more of a polar thing, though?
Yeah I know it's common in C, but that sure as heck doesn't imply it should be done in Python!