skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For flu deaths, perhaps people are so cautious/being sanitary that they are dropping, I know Japan has seen record drops in Flu diagnosis due to extreme caution from the populace due to covid.
So it is even more frustrating, that mothers were encuraged for a long time, to not breast feed at all and rather use the artifical, sterile milk, because it is healthier. Fortunately the world moved largely beyond that.
I'm still awfully skeptical that you can get even close to understanding all the template, lookup, lifetime, lambda, exception and initialization rules in a semester (I assume that CS students are almost never this deep into C++ at that point). Not to speak of actually implementing all of it.

I'd be curious where these classes draw the line. Do you happen to have a syllabus or so? I don't doubt you can implement a meaningful portion of C++ in a semester, but converting 500 pages of standardese into code within as many hours seems like an impossible goal for a class to me.
Do you have a source for this? Anecdotally, most family I know that has lost their jobs haven't had their income replaced.
Forbes - 30+ Examples of Blockchain in Practice
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2018/05/14/30-real-...

The biggest use "in the wild" right now is in multi-party smart contracts where no one party is an authority of trust.
There are a number of options:

* lockdown until there is a vaccine or treatment

* slow down the spread

* do nothing

A vaccine or treatment is at least half a year away so unless your country is exceptionally rich the first option is not feasible.

Slowing down the spread can help making sure the demands to healthcare are met. This is not an issue in Sweden. It can help because treatment right now is better than treatment a month ago. And in theory at a certain moment there might be herd immunity. Or there may not be. Ultimately either a large amount of people or everyone will get ill anyway and then they will get better and immune or die.

Doing nothing means a lot of people get ill and then get better and immune or die and the country keeps running.

Sweden chose the last option because the first option is not realistic and the advantages of the second option are, in their opinion, not worth it.

In my opinion this is at least a defensible position to take. If a country does not have enough healthcare capacity the second option has to be chosen for as long as necessary. The first option, barring exceptional circumstances (your country is a self sustaining island that can handle losing all tourism and trade) is not viable.

I’m not sure what you mean by a downwards public health situation whose economic effects will dwarf the direct benefits. It’s terrible if a lot of old people die but realistically the economy will get over it rather quickly.
Viotop: Generate top-like statistics for Linux VFS I/O using bpftrace
The Ballad of RSTS/E
A new licensing model where it's prohibitive to make a profit off of this work.
Why are there no iconic Pandemic signs?
Believe it or not, if you have a lot of money you can purchase nicer things than most people can afford
Very useful list! Related to this, I’ve recently discovered https://databass.dev, a database internals book, which also covers a few things that were mentioned in this list, and some more.
Look at the crap ambient lighting conditions in this pepsi challenge.
Remix – A React framework from the creators of React Router
Freedom from ancient bigotry, magical thinking, and cults is worth an increase in amoral behavior IMO.

Truth is the Amish self select as the young ones can leave if they find the rules too constricting.
Our data centers now run slower when it's cloudy and there's no wind.
> a huge source of unnecessary risk through nonsense like this

What is the risk illustrated here? A trading firm losing a few million dollars isn't a big deal in terms of the overall global economy.
It's not just software though, the viewing hardware they eventually shipped is extremely similar to the hololens, but 2 years later and with a slightly larger viewport. And worse hand tracking, from my experience. Cheaper though.

What you and other early-people seem to describe appears to be something else entirely, in which case yea - original plan fell through completely and they pivoted to their current thing. But was it actually different?
Use an enterprise cert.
Fragile business models under threat
If it was open-source from the beginning, there wouldn’t have been this problem.
I understood, that the false positive antibodie tests, come from different antibodies against different corona virus or just the flu, because they are too similar.
I'm surely hopelessly naive and ill-informed for even asking, but is there a reason a hospital or clinic couldn't operate 100% without dealing with insurance? Do such places exist in the US? We always hear how the hospital sends a bill for $40,000, then the insurance company argues that down to $2000, but woe unto you if you DON'T have insurance because you'll have a hard time getting that same deal yourself. Couldn't a hospital just... send you a bill for $2000, and if you can't pay it you either ask about their low-income waivers, get into a payment plan, or I guess get blackballed as a deadbeat?
> I wonder if this is the reason my MBP would get sluggish while kernel_task uses a surprising amount of CPU?

This happens to me as well while charging if the battery is below ~50%. Start recharging above 50 and it doesn't happen. At some point I took it to an Apple store for an unrelated issue and they told me that their diagnostics flagged a faulty sensor in the internal charging circuitry. I haven't sent it back yet for repair because of the turnaround time involved, but consider that it could be related.
USGS releases first-ever comprehensive geologic map of the Moon
Great stuff: how often is the underlying data refreshed?
Isn't that the reason why so many students are confused?

All of my basic CS courses we're on a whiteboard
This is just clickbait.
The cheapest iPhone is also as expensive as some mid-range Android devices and completely inaccessible to a large chunk of the world's population.

When a device that most will spend $449 on is "cheap" you have to admire Apple's price anchoring[0], they release a $1249 flagship and suddenly what the largest iPhone 5S flagshp cost ($442.09 inflation adjusted to 2020) at launch is considered "cheap."

It is undeniably a nice phone, but we've all lost sight of how much any of us should be spending on smartphones when $449 is celebrated for being a bargain. We've lost perspective.

PS - This isn't exclusively an Apple thing. Google's "bargain" Pixel 3a is essentially the same price.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring_(cognitive_bias)

[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2013/09/16iPhone-5s-iPhone-5c...
Serious question, has anyone installed Android on their iPhone?

I love the idea of budget iPhone, but I hated iOS.

Does it work as smooth as Pixel?
What would you have people do instead?
Yeah...just no. The Amish are not a group you should be modeling yourself after. I grew up surrounded by the Amish and the clean living salt of the earth myth is simply that—a myth.
IMO the actually hard part is getting the tech to work the same as it did in the lab when you put it through volume manufacturing. A lot of things seem to go wrong in this phase even when the battery chemistry works well enough to create a hand-crafted battery pack that would actually show long range.
I really hope they are successful, but until they can show manufacturing working I will keep my enthusiasm in check.
Maybe the community can help recompile the Source engine for 64 bit on macOS now.
I'm looking forward to laptops that can stay up one week on a charge.
I had a ROKR. I also had several windows mobile phones. I'd find it hard to believe that Jobs thought the ROKR was what he had to compete with; from a usability perspective, the iPhone didn't come close to windows mobile; it lacked even basic MMS functionality for quite a while.
> Beginning at 1:22 a.m. (UTC+1) on 30 June 2009, while still blacked-out, Perkins traded 7 million bbl (1.1 million m3), worth $500 million (£340 million); at times this represented 69% of the volume of oil then being traded[1][2] and ten times the average trade volume. He made his last trade at 3:41 a.m., approximately two and a half hours later.[3]

My intuition is that a disproportionate amount of stupid decisions in the world take place between Midnight and 6 AM local time.
Just growing the infection denominator alone should not change policy very much though without also considering how infectious COVID-19 appears to be. NYC, Italy, etc... have clearly had a lot of deaths from the virus regardless of the final death rate ends up being when this all over.

Where antibody testing does come into play (and assuming antibodies at levels those are tested for do give some immunity) is when things can start to go back to normal.
It’s an unfairly inflated statement even limited to the scope of SV biotech, which is only a part of the entire industry.
>But how could we know it would play out this way?

For anybody who hadn't seen the demo, the company always looked like typical SV smoke selling pitch. "This is the best thing ever", "It will change the world", "We have great stuff but we can't show them in public because reasons".

The whole "demo in a closed, secret room and then you can't tell anybody about it" reminds me too much of the carnival fair fortuneteller experience. You get shoved in a mystery room, get shown a bunch of smoke and mirrors, and then you're out before you can't think too much about what happened.
Why Decentralization Isn't as Important as You Think
Or he just wanted to be flat on the couch, without being disturbed.
>Elixir is one of those languages where everything has been done perfectly as of the time of this comment.

Including GenServers? I find writing GenServers to be needlessly painful. Their syntax is one of my least favorite things about Elixir.
Let's be honest, not all Androids are alike, apparently the Pocophone is half the price of the iPhone in that case, and they both have LCDs screens, so they are both behind the curve in terms of screen tech.
Ignorant question for you: What does AOL do these days (I can't view the website for the same reason I don't read TechCrunch articles)?

Is it fully about online publications now?
Old Drawings Makes New Drawings
There are many calls for public banking by people such as Ellen Brown [1], as well organizations such as the MetaCurrency Project [2] and Positive Money [3].

[1] https://ellenbrown.com/what-are-public-banks-and-how-do-they...

[2] http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/05/14/id-53

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzCegQVljdY
one could imagine a company that gives fridges out for FREE and sells the aggregated “balancing energy” to recoup the cost of the fridge.
i don't care.

what i care about is that the cheapest iPhone has a longer support period than the most expensive Android. it's actually insane and infuriating because I don't even like Apple but there literally is no other choice if you don't want to switch your phone every two years.
closed source, cloud-based? no thanks.
WHO says ‘dangerous’ Covid-19 will be around ‘for a long time’
Thanks for sharing this, that got me reading:

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

and the article from 1961

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1359530/?page=1

which quotes "first noted by Ehrlich in 1892" and "examined in detail by Howe in 1921."
If it's so inefficient, it should be pretty trivial to make superior risk-adjusted returns, no? The reality is that most markets are brutally efficient, as any trader would attest to. The notable exception (at least in my view) is VC.

Also, I wouldn't consider the financial industry bloated, at least not any more than other industries.

How would you like the industry to be structured?
I think the Oculus Quest is mainstream. It's relatively cheap. Easy to use. Completely standalone. And most importantly it has at least one game that it's actually worth buying it for (Beatsabre). Nothing on the Hololens made me think "yeah I want to do that again".
Cross disciplinary conceptual mining is a great way to realize the "low hanging fruit" waiting for disruption in any industry. The silos of knowledge are high and thick, just like the skulls of the industry thought leaders who say things can't be done in some different manner.

I've worked as a developer a number of industries, and as an MBA consultant in 3 times as many more. I'm in a developer job at the moment, but when I was actively consulting I'd just learn how they run operations, and the glaring opportunities for substantial expense eliminating and productivity enhancing changes glow like the sun.
Great, I’ve got $100,000,000, how do I buy that phone of yours?
when people care whether you have

if(foo) {

or

if (foo) {

or

if (foo)
{

you end up in pointless arguments. I don't care about this sort of formatting very much (I have my own default style developed over years), but I do care when other people care about it, often to the exclusion of other factors.

"but we need these tools so that we don't argue about how to format code". Well... you could... just not argue about it in the first place.
I think the thing you missed from the 'all they had to do' list, was make a product that a large audience could afford.

I think Zuckerberg said at the last FB conference their aim with the Quest was to get 10,000,000 sold because that's the tipping point to a self sustaining app ecosystem.

Software is worth making, so hardware is worth buying, so software is worth making... etc

They had zero chance of achieving this at their price point.
Oh woah cool! I love the Verizon dashboard, looks very polished for an internal tool! I have a friend who did some network security work for Comcast, interesting stuff it is.
> Sweden as the outlier is not reporting accurately and others are?

Huh?

If a country is in lockdown, and still experiences excess mortality, but the official covid-19 deaths aren't enough to cover that excess, then.... what the hell did people die of?

The expectation is that because of lockdown, the excess mortality from non-covid-19 causes should be lower than previous years, and therefore all the actual excess, and probably more, is attributable to covid-19. Which means that countries where the official covid-19 number is lower than excess mortality, like the UK, are underreporting, while countries where the excess mortality matches the official covid-19 number, like Sweden, are not underreporting.
The specificity of a test is a property of the test itself, not of the circumstances in which it is applied.

If a test has a 100% specificity, and you give it a sample that has been contaminated with the virus, the fact that it registers a positive result is not an error.
wat. particularly today with logical replication this is pretty much unnecessary.
This is one of the things I wondered when I saw the "flatten the curve" charts and simulations a few weeks ago.

Is there a valid statistical model for letting COVID-19 spread quickly, and "getting it over with", compared to flattening the curve and letting it create fewer mortalities over a longer time?

I suppose even if the total number of mortalities is projected over time, there's real hope that we could find more effective treatments over time.
Scientists: No Proof Covid-19 Escaped from a Wuhan Lab. Rumor Spread Anyway
Glad it's been a great experience!
Providers are starting to pop up in Australia that support this, and people have been quick to start hacking: https://twitter.com/_______kim/status/1226606021558194176
I would say the extraordinary evidence is right in front of you. The global economy is an interconnected system and it has been shut down to a large degree, abandoning multiple balls in the air.

The oil glut crisis is an early result, our depression level unemployment rate is another. But balls are going to continue to drop: loan defaults, bankrupt businesses, hyperinflation in some countries, trade agreements blowing up.
And all of this is just the trajectory we are on right now - it may well get worse with a more severe COVID outbreak.

I think given the situation, the onus on you to explain why in the world these bad outcomes WON'T happen, since they seem l to be causally inevitable without strong intervention.

It is like the world has been juggling 5 balls at once and someone just turned out the lights. Maybe we get the lights back on in time, maybe we catch a couple of balls, but gravity is pulling everything to the ground whether we like it or not.
I would add that if you are going to do this, then for sure have at least 2 NAS for each set of data. Scrubbing drives will for sure prematurely wear them out regardless if spinning rust or SSD's.

Consider instead encrypting the NAS if feasible. Either way, have at least 2 NAS devices, as one will for sure fail. If it's a true NAS, then S.M.A.R.T. data won't be useful unless it is sending syslog to something you monitor. Even DAS will not be visible if the only place getting logs is your event logs.
1. We thought about this at one point, IIRC, and various parts of Dropbox sync have been formally modeled. But CanopyCheck and Trinity are useful in part because they test the real, production code -- the hash-indexing bug that Sujay mentioned elsewhere on this page is an implementation error, not a design error.

2. Kind of. There are tests for interactions between instances (in particular, between different Dropbox folders on the same machine), but running Dropbox twice on the same folder is explicitly not supported.

3. Yes, this happens. There's logic to handle these changes, since some applications expect to use in-place edits and others swap in a new file -- you don't actually need grace to have an interesting situation. You can experiment with this yourself in a Dropbox folder :)
There’s nothing efficient about the equities market right now.
The trader went long 7,000 contracts, there were market participants on the other side that sold the contracts.

It’s a bit more than just some bits changing, trades with real money happened on an exchange.
Tangentially related but in Australia we run a household utility company that operates of that same assumption: https://www.amberelectric.com.au/

Our hypothesis is that market signals combined with the right tools (friendly app and home automation) can help households shift demand into less carbon intensive periods.

So far it's working pretty well.
Its already an issue in some areas where the Medicaid patients dominate over private insurance patients. Often times hospitals balance things by overcharging those they think they can.
Amen. It's pretty striking when with say the Samsung A30 you get a 6.4" OLED display, and 4000MAh battery, which costs the same as say an old iPhone 7 here in South Africa (which is still for sale!)
This just keeps getting better and better. Thank you for your effort.

I'm a big fan, Elixir + Phoenix is excellent enough, and LiveView is what really sealed the deal for me as the perfect web development stack. It's simple, it's fast, it works.
Sure, it has a few rough spots that have to be worked around when you start to push its limits, but as this blog post showed it's perfect to quickly have a working web application by completely skipping having to write client-side code. I developed a couple of prototypes and single-use applications in hours that with any other stack would have taken me days. Hell, I'd argue that in some cases it took me less time to complete my app with LiveView than it would have taken me to setup Webpack with Frontend Framework.

I don't believe it to be a silver bullet for sure, and it has to prove its worth at scale, but it gives excellent results with little effort, and honestly the reduced tedium is worth it on its own.

Also, protip: try LiveView with Tailwind CSS.
If he would have pressed the other button, he would have made millions and become a trading legend.
I had one of these too. It was so _nearly_ good. So so close. That tiny track pad was just too sensitive, or was in insensitive, or both?
It does in Australia: https://www.amberelectric.com.au/ (disclaimer: I work there)
The great software and drivers (IOS) is why Iphones are so smooth. Not the hardware.
Have you seen pictures of The Beast? The ergonomics and range of motion you get are about the same as what you have when using a phoropter. IIRC, it even has some of the same "positioning your head in the right place" hardware as is used by some piece of optometrist's equipment or other.
> Imagine how many social problems would disappear if people had more integrity and stronger morals. Literally every aspect of life would improve.

Granted, everyone in the world is suddenly moral and of utmost integrity and everyone gets used to this new reality. The economic upside in lying/cheating is now so high that a few minutes later the world is back to exactly what it was, except for the first few persons to decide that lying wasn't such a bad idea, who are now a few billion dollars richer.

> Religions, for all their faults, and for all of their misguided morality, at least had morality frameworks that were more or less unified and teachable

This is your daily reminder that the Catholic Church is the organization with the most identified pedophiles in the world. (I'd have written "convicted", but they work really hard - and are really good - at preventing that outcome).
> The Swedish laws on communicable diseases are mostly based on voluntary measures — on individual responsibility.

I don't know much about Sweden, but this would have a hard time working in the US. There is a large percentage of the population that would do nothing because the government suggested it. I think it's pretty clear that many states are opening too fast too early, but instead there are protests about people wanting to be free.
There's something to be said for the new Java approach of releasing often, with a stable LTS release every now and then, even if Oracle is muddying the waters with their licensing. The only release after 8 that interests me right now is 11. Meanwhile, the features of Java 12, 13, and 14 are available for people who do want to experiment with them.

I think we'll see this implicitly with C++. C++11 and the mostly non-controversial updates in C++14 comprise "modern" C++, whereas adoption of C++17 seems to be a bit slower.
According to my sources, DARPA wasn't involved in any of the child sacrifices, but they might use Moloch to help secure their networks.
At least on on my system, ftruncate is annotated with __wur, so a simple -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would suffice to produce a warning in this case.
Yes, but the point is DD was done (last year or today). Effectively the government is paying the banks for the work they've done creating a relationship with the clients, which includes DD.
Using StackHawk in Gitlab – Know Before You Go (Live)
Let's be a bit careful here. That quote doesn't imply that anyone has heard of SA, only that he has been helping. Sometimes people help behind the scenes. Similarly, the claim about the industry is simply that it has pivoted. I have zero idea if either claim is true, but let's at least not replace them with claims that no one made.

This is in the HN guidelines btw: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Tell More Stories and Question the stories you hear
In practice what you describe in the tail end of your post is how it works. Except the hospital can’t blackball you for emergency care even if you have a history of failure to pay.

The hospital will work with you and put you on a payment plan if you don’t just disappear. If you stop communicating they’ll sell your debt to a debt collector which is a bad deal for both you and the hospital. They’d rather have you paying $20/month for ever then sell your debt.
Theory and practice. In practice, this is people, religious or not. However, what is in their place is the arguments you made. We all win, if we are all honest.