skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>To be clear, it's not airborne.

I understand the distinction, but the terminology should be renamed imho, to something like "epidemiologist airborne". Because to the layperson it definitely is transmitted "through the air", implying again in everyday terms "airborne transmission".

e.g. read this : https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/7/20-0764_article

and look at the associated diagram:

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/7/20-0764-f1

Those people were NOT all within six feet of each other.

The German auto part plant paper also details transmission where nobody sneezed or coughed at a short business meeting.
"It is theoretically possible that socioeconomically privileged individuals really do lack some immune-response mechanism that protects individuals who have been exposed to a wider array of infectious pathogens. (A recent report on COVID-19 surveillance testing at a Boston homeless shelter contained the stunning disclosure that 36 percent of 408 screened individuals tested positive for COVID-19. Yet the vast majority were asymptomatic, and even the few who were symptomatic did not diverge statistically from the 64 percent of tested individuals who were COVID-19-negative.)"

Interesting. Having spent some time in SF, can attest that the homeless - on occasion - appear to have super human immune systems.
Fingerprinting is one security concern.
The only thing stopping states from deficit spending (selling bonds to pay for general obligations) are the states’ own rules. As we have seen, constitutional requirements are not an impediment in a pandemic.
* We don't have infinity, or sufficiently large numbers of companies to do this

* We don't have the resources to test sufficiently large numbers of companies like this

* The dependent variable in question is going to be entirely dependent on the number of people infected at a company at the beginning of the study, which is unknowable unless you can test everyone... which we can't.
Yes, really. Every one of the dozen languages I've worked in professionally has support for fixed precision numbers. Processing structured records of data is a thoroughly solved problem.
By that metric, my car is free.
Show HN: Fun Energy Saving Platform (like fitbit challenges)
Were you in charge of the models? If so, any resources you could share? Conferences, books, whatever.
Oh wow, I got nothing. In my high school days I had a cranky old PC. I fiddled with Qbasic on it and this was well before the climaxed internet we have today. Good for you, that's amazing, you're well ahead of the curve.
Yes, fully agree that economic instability from hyperinflation hurts far more than reducing the wealth gap could help.

In recent times, the fed has been below its 2% inflation target.If it missed on the other side, and inflation went to 3-4%, I think that would be totally reasonable economic policy. Double digit inflation, however, would end up making everyone poorer.
I loved the BBS era. Commo by Fred Brucker was my modem progam of choice. Hook in Zmodem for downloads and you had a hot setup.
Writing Performance Reviews 101
A Company Promised Cheap Ventilators to the Government
Isn't that exactly what MichaelApproved said?
In the example given the macro is almost useless. The benefit comes if you want the expanded code to have more things, like methods defined that otherwise you would have your consumer write or sister methods and types.

The macros are only about convenience on usage and reduction of boilerplate. A good example is the vec![1,2] macro call that expands to

{
let mut x = Vec::new();
x.push(1);
x.push(2);
x
}

The reason the blog post is using that example is because it's showing a new type of macro argument which accepts items (functions, structs, enums, traits and impls) and expands them correctly without any extra needs by the macro writer.
Similar experience for me, tried to enjoy Ubuntu but Mint comes up more polished and, especially when using the dedicated XFCE release, much faster than default Ubuntu. Still worth doing the basics in terms of stopping services not needed for desktop/laptop use. I ended up removing 8 (!) resident services that were all of no use to me - tadaa, more RAM and responsiveness gained.

Note, I used:
"systemctl list-unit-files --type=service | grep enabled"
to find all enabled services easily and then:
"systemd-analyze"
for basic timing analysis
That's what India basically regulated with Amazon. i.e. a company can't sell proudts on their open-market platform from companies you have a stake in (or your own generics presumably?).

https://www.digitalcommerce360.com/2019/02/01/new-ecommerce-...
Isn't that collusion?
Dentistry at ‘virtual standstill’
I think the problem is that a lot of those amish children become non-amish very quickly. Leave the community.
Palm makes a phone that might fit what you're looking for

https://palm.com/
This is totally false - the number of retailers who have testified before congress that they don't use seller data to compete against sellers - and then who go ahead and do just that is basically zero.

Additionally, most other retailers actually BUY the third parties products and take the risk of promoting and selling it. On Amazon third parties take the inventory and many other risks and may have to pay amazon to promote their product.

The story here is that amazon has testified it does not do something, has supposedly the "highest ethical principals" - yet goes ahead and does exactly that which it said it doesn't do.

Do that not matter to you from a trust / credibility perspective?
I am believing more and more that these big companies are really bad for the economy and size should be discouraged. In the short run they can be very efficient and create cheap products for consumers but this comes at the cost of killing innovation that may come from smaller players.
WikiLeaks: Data dump 22-04-2020
Is Assange dead now? His kill switch is a data dump in case of death. Is he dead or is this part of a larger plan? Thoughts!

https://file.wikileaks.org/file/
> I think with a lot of things there's a J shaped value curve. Over long periods of time, things of small value (including literal garbage) become historical and archeological treasure.

Isn't that mostly because of it becoming a rare insight into a time that is long gone? With perfect preservation, would literal scraps of garbage from 10k years ago be individually interesting?
> Consumers are best served when you have a bunch of relatively equal players competing for their business, and where success is rewarded financially.

That depends on the significance of economies of scale and barriers to entry in a particular market. The term “natural monopoly” (as it’s used in economics) refers to a particular market where, because of barriers to entry, the optimal number of firms is one. Two firms would not be able to produce their good for cheaper than one firm.
The Jetstream benchmark is made by the WebKit team. Its scores will vary per browser, so you have to compare browser to browser. I compared an iPhone 11 running Safari to a MacBook Pro running Safari. Apples to apples.

Moreover, while the Threadripper 2990WX is a really awesome processor, single core benchmarks (I think Jetstream is mostly limited to a single thread) aren't particularly its strength. Over multiple runs it should beat your Macbook Pro, but not by a huge amount. If not, take a look at how you're cooling that beast :)
Redrafting Marc Andreessen’s “It’s Time To Build” – what I wish it said
Ask HN: What skills should a new grad be learning?
I’ve recently graduated with a degree in Cyber Security. What skills should I learn (tech, lifestyle, or otherwise) before I begin my full-time job in a month?
Misinformation During a Pandemic
Why a codeless implementation will let you down
Meh, as long as all dependencies are built on standards and I can quickly switch to other services I don't mind centralization.
From the article they linked to:

> But over the same period, the Consumer Price Index for new vehicles – so this is one of the many subcategories of CPI – has risen only 22%. In fact, it rose 22% from 1990 to 1997, and today is flat with where it had been in 1997.

So inflation only accounts for log(1.22)/log(1.77) = 37% of the price rise.
Where it gets grey is when stakeholders privately invest or start companies that sell on the platform. Amazon chose to do it upfront with Amazon Basics but there’s nothing stopping them from creating house brands/labels even at arms length to give the impression that it’s not Amazon.
How come we don't see this kind of angst with other store brand items. I can't imagine these comments being lobbed at Wal-Mart's Great Value, Costco's Kirkland Signature, or Bi-Lo's SE Grocers items.

And private label doesn't mean you have to manufacture anything at all. Sometimes, you will go to the company whose marketshare you are trying to take and they will manufacture the product for you.
> But “Wi-Fi 6” means your device is still operating on the same old spectrum, so starting later this year, you’ll want to start looking for the label “Wi-Fi 6E.” That stands for “Wi-Fi 6 extended into the 6GHz band.”

Why do we keep doing this?? It’s as if we’re trying as hard as we can to confuse consumers... “WiFi 6”? Yeah that’s not WiFi 6ghz, that’s 2.4 and 5. But “WiFi 6E” now that’s 6ghz.
Does anyone really think that any retailer launches a competing product in a category without looking at all their supplier data?

So, if cars are inevitably becoming computers with wheels, what's going to happen to insurance companies? The major weapon of underwriting is data, and a company like Tesla is going to have a huge advantage in data over external insurance companies.

Is it really a societal good for big companies to control all of this data, or should the data belong to the consumer/owner/user? I suspect it's the latter which gives people the most choice and freedom by fostering the most competition.
Please, this isn’t Soviet Russia, economists disagree about practically everything, so the whole argument that the profession has a serious groupthink problem is unconvincing to me. The reason why economists mostly agree on this particular topic-the way the Fed operates-is because it’s exceedingly transparent, theoretically (not to mention mathematically) simple, and empirically verifiable.
Everyone is arguing as if Amazon is the only retailer here. Yes, they are a platform, but they are one of many.

In fact, many people here contradict their own argument by saying that they are forced to go to other websites or direct to the supplier. Stating as much is tantamount to admitting that the market is functioning correctly.

Amazon is great for some things and bad for other things. If it doesn’t meet your needs, go elsewhere instead of rewarding it with your business and then complaining that it’s too big and powerful because people like yourself keep rewarding it with your business.
Niche stores tend to be better, at least the feedback from clients means something, unlike amazon where sellers just open up with another account. And some of them test what they buy.
I wish someone would spill the secrets of how New Coke came to be from inside CocaCola's offices. From the boardroom to the marketing dept, to the "chefs" who made the new recipe. Now that would be an interesting read. To see the decisions that were made and office politics that shaped what almost caused CocaCola to go under.
But the tests aren't perfect, so how to get actionable data from them isn't clear. We saw this with the flawed west coast studies. If a test has false positive or false negative rates even as high as 1%, and we run hundreds of thousands to millions of tests per day...that's thousands or tens of thousands wrongly quarantined for 14 days, and the same number who are contagious but told it's okay to go out.
Yes, they are private and can do what they want... and we can judge them harshly for it.

What’s legal and what’s moral aren’t the same thing.
It's been more focused on being lightweight than targeting "old hardware" directly for a while now: "The project’s goal is to provide a lightweight yet functional Linux distribution based on a rock-solid Ubuntu base.". Snap has been included by default since 18.10 which was also when they dropped 32 bit x86 builds.
This experiment has kind of been done: some countries had everyone wear masks. Other countries said "whoever told you to wear a mask is dangerously wrong, and even if you have a mask you can't wear it for fear of public shaming because we've told everyone that you're cheating healthcare staff out of their protection by doing so".

And then look at the infection spread in each country.
In this specific case the macro isn’t very useful since you can easily write `trait T { ... }` yourself. They tend to be more useful when there is a lot of similar boilerplate code that only differ in a few ways. A macro can cut down most of that repetition. They can also be used to provide pseudo “literals” like the vec! macro does for the Vec data type.
This macro system is very powerful, if kludgy, but it's not the final version of the system. Macros 2.0 has been in the works for a while now and will eventually have a much nicer syntax for macro definitions. When Rust 1.0 was gearing up for release the team (rightly imo) decided that launching then with known-imperfect-but-usable macros was a worthwhile trade-off.
They're humans. This beats any animal model study for worst case infection scenario. The data would be invaluable.
Metadata is as telling as data.
GitHub Protips: Tips, tricks, hacks, and secrets from Alyson La
I imagine most academics never see the impact of their work.
What covenants? All kidding aside, it’ll still take time for financial reporting to report a full period impact of this.
Great explanation. This is an example of the curse of dimensionality. An intuitive way to think about this is that each dimension you add is another “chance” for one of them to fall outside of the range.

Another way to think about it is the often-cited unit n-dimensional sphere. If you were to uniformly sample points from within this n-dimensional sphere, as n increased, the proportion of points lying near the surface of the sphere would increase.
>The only way this ends is either a depression the scales of which we've never seen in history before (which would liquidate and clear out bad businesses), or a hyperinflationary collapse of the U.S. dollar whereby more and more money is injected to prop everything up. I'm betting on the latter as the former is too politically inconvenient.

Most countries are actually passing larger fiscal stimulus measures than the USA so far, at least relative to their existing currency base, so wouldn't this mean every currency hyperinflates all at once?
I know some people coded up raytracers with glsl texture shaders, but rayracers are massive parrallel with no shared state needed algorithms (the entire scene is tiny in those examples). Would this new API enable shared state (to some extent)? For example, someone may want to solve numerically the diff equation of the liquid flow. This usually involves dealing with big lattices where parts of the lattices can be updated in parallel, but on the edges, there need to be some data sharing involved. Same question, but for multiplying big matrices, as many of those numerical methods allow to reduce the task to multiplying huge matrices.
> Out of 4,063 pilots, not a single airman fit within the average range on all 10 dimensions.

> Less than 40 of the 3,864 contestants were average size on just five of the nine dimensions and none of the contestants — not even Martha Skidmore — came close on all nine dimensions.

This seems more an issue of the "curse of dimensionality"[0] more than the "flaw of averages". Be very wary when you are trying to draw conclusions from a dataset with many dimensions.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_dimensionality
Hmm...I swear I've read a paper talking about monkeys infected, having mild symptoms and then recovering. Perhaps it was a SARS-1 paper.
Frank, the Platform for Worker Voice
> VSCode is the fastest Electron app

I no longer consider vscode to be an electron app. You would need a ton of expertise and lots of c++ to have your electron apps perform anywhere close to vscode (and you would still be slower than native)
Honestly the only Linux distros worth trying are Gentoo, Arch, Fedora and RHEL/Oracle/CentOS. With anything else you are just wasting your time with amateur hour attempts to cobble together a Windows/Mac OS competitor without a good understanding of how all the components fit together.
Alibaba vs. IBM: Fighting for Third Place in Cloud
> him hearing about a DARPA grant last-minute from a surfing buddy

I was very disappointed to go the article and find that Hu does not in fact surf:

> Hu had heard about the DARPA funding from a fellow Berkeley faculty member, Jeffrey Bokor, who, in turn, had heard about it while windsurfing with a DARPA program director
It makes sense when you think that this removes the individual variation per hospital/doctor writing a death certificate, you don't rely on professional opinion, you count all of them as it is easier to later clean this statistic with models based on historical data than the opposite (to figure out the missing data for deaths from CoViD-19 after the fact).

You need to be aware that Sweden has a long history of keeping demographical statistics [0] so there is a method to the apparent madness of counting.

[0] https://www.scb.se/en/About-us/main-activity/history-of-stat...
They couldn't do it without causing deflation which they didn't want. But if they were combatting hyperinflation then they would want to cause deflation, so it would be fine.
What if we got rid of processor interrupts? (2016)
Don't worry, the future is wearables and more efficient mobile phones. Electron just won't run on your Apple Watch.
I dislike Amazon as much as the next guy but let's not kid ourselves here. Consumers aren't looking for innovation in the paper towel market. They just want cheap stuff. If Amazon can make these products cheaper then the consumers win.
My Thoughts on the Nature of Everything
My thoughts on a computational universe:
If time dilates with the amount of entropy then perhaps the universe can indeed fit an infinite amount of it without collapsing. However infinite precision seems like it requires exponentially more entropy than a single infinity. I term that as infinite and unbounded entropy. Perhaps Hilbert space is another term for that configuration. In that space Boltzmann brains are probable, so it is not very interesting to study. A more interesting configuration is infinite and bounded entropy where the universe needs to make do with finite precision, perhaps rational and transcendental numbers but not the Real numbers.

I'd like to coin a term; anti-inertial entropy. Perhaps it would explain how pilot wave theory works. This would be the quantity by which an unfamiliar form of entropy is measured. This entropy is a form of matter which does not obtain mass from the Higgs mechanism, and its salient property is that there is a bounded amount of it causing its state to converge when there exists two states which are very close to one another. The closeness metric changes depending on how much how much the universe has available for choosing future and past histories.

In this world a curious form of fate exists, and old people arguing about what happened in the past are both right, but their pasts have diverged so that the universe may save precision storing it. It is a strange universe, but it is mine and I like it. =)
I only read the beginning, but it seemed to be about transmission not being completely transitive.
Imagine one day we get a computer able to perform operations unimaginably faster than what we have now. It would process Snapchat's dog filters in femtoseconds, firing up and tearing down millions of kubernetes clusters every frame (because it would be easier to write it that way). Would is still make sense to try and optimize software? Wouldn't it be more constructive to solve real-world tasks instead?

Hardware is fast and cheap, and it's getting even faster and cheaper. It's perfectly fine to utilize this power, if it makes developing products faster, easier or cheaper.

Now, there are still cases when you need to send a machine to roam the mountains of another planet. This may justify doing some assembly.
> What do you use that's better designed, integrated and constructed?

That really depends on what you care about. I have a keyboard that doesn't suck, a nice selection of ports, a cooling solution that's quieter and more effective at load, expandable memory/storage (yes, I have actually used this), a power brick that can sustain full load for an indefinite amount of time, a high refresh display and a numpad. Considering repairability, I'd argue it's better constructed than a MacBook. Concerning design, it fits more of my requirements hardware wise. And for integration, all the hardware components I use have stable Linux drivers.
The EPA is unleashing the pollution that makes people vulnerable to Covid-19
My Lifelong Crusade Against the Useless Paper Towel
>Whether I run my Python or C# or Java on ARM or Intel doesn't matter too much to me

Me too. But if the apps I need don't come to ARM, I don't care too much about ARM on the desktop/laptop/workstation.
It says a lot about mindset between various classes when Silicon Valley billionaires are building huge self-sufficient retreats in New Zealand to hide out in when civilization collapses[0] and working class folks are willing to stay at the factory for a month in order to get essential goods out the door in order to prevent said collapse.

0: https://www.npr.org/2020/04/22/840906009/author-tours-the-en...
Coffee is a parable of global capitalism
I always check these announcements out wondering when Rocket will compile on stable.

https://github.com/SergioBenitez/Rocket/issues/19

Anyone have any background on what's holding back proc_macro_hygiene and why that's even a requirement of Rocket?
R0 is environment specific and this number should be taken with a grain of salt.

The CDC paper [1] estimated that the R0 value may have been 5-6 in Wuhan, during lunar new year, and before the public was ware of the virus.

Alternatively, the R0 value is now <1 in the US and the spread is decreasing,

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/7/20-0282_article
OP's definition is the same as yours, except instead of "user space" it's "a virtualized sandbox, but still running in ring 0".

What's the difference besides technicalities of the implementation? Everything else you are saying about using IPC interfaces and isolating the kernel code still applies in both cases.
TechCrunch: Marc Andreessen’s call to arms: Build something meaningful
Yes, compute shaders will enable slightly more ability to do computations that are less parallel than just fragment shaders can handle.
They own the platform which means they can see the data. This seems like a natural evolution. If you don’t own the platform the platform owns you.
I tried to look for a decent priced backpack on Amazon a few months ago but there are a gazillion listings for what appears to be the same backpack, only the names differ. I ended up just buying it straight from Aliexpress from where it undoubtedly has been sourced from one of the same (or single?) factories. There's basically cheap-as-chips level products, and then 'high-grade' which is still dubious at times whether the quality of materials is better or not. Middle of the pack product pricing seems to just be swallowed up in a race for the bottom or the top.
Same actually! Grew up in Juanita from ‘89-‘03 then went to UW and have stayed in Seattle proper mostly since.

I always thought it was funny, as a young kid, that my city’s name was on all sorts of products, not making the connection.
been a user for a couple years. open source everything, maybe the community can help fix their basic bugs like not being able to import their VCF exported contacts into thunderbird.
Here’s a paper from the Broad Institute:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.06.025635v1
Can you link to where AMZN has said this?