skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The sibling comments all have great shows listed. I'd say It's Always Sunny/Arrested Development get closest to the format of "a sitcom about terrible people".

Seinfeld also contains a stand up comedian playing himself. In that respect shows like Louis and Master of None are also quite similar.

Louis in particular is a fantastic show if you can ignore Louis CK's recent scandal.
Someone would be infected and contagious for awhile before developing antibodies though.
Compare ArXiv Revisions with Comparxiv
> another event that demonstrably doesn't

I would like to see a demonstration that ecological collapse cannot happen exponentially in response to a linear change in the environment. I am no ecologist, but I don't believe it.
When you see a product that is labeled as 'Beta', what goes through your mind?
Amen.

We should make "estimate" a banned word and replace it with a word like "guess".

Too often what starts out with an off-the-cuff chat about implementing some feature while people are getting coffee with a statement like "Oh I don't think it will be too hard to do this - will take a week tops <filddles with coffee machine />" etc ends up growing its own legs and becomming a gold-plated and irreversible commitment made to a director/VP/CxO somehow. What was a casual guess made without all the information required is now a rod for.our own back. Again.

Perhaps as engineers we should give ourselves a sort of mental style-guide to never ever say the words hours/days/weeks/months/quarters/etc without alarm bells going off in our head and requiring extensive peer review in the same way we do when we're writing "dangerous" code (e.g. user-provided values going in to SQL queries etc) Only half joking really :)
I was curious about the company that's being touted in this post so I did a little searching. The website doesn't seem to have much on it.

I guess it's a YC17 company. The founders are Caroline Landau, Tim Cornell, Walker McHugh. From 2016: Landau was an MBA candidate, the other two founders have biomedical research/medical backgrounds:
Walker McHugh, Co-Founder, PreDxion Bio / Biomedical engineering candidate, University of Michigan
Dr. Tim Cornell, Co-Founder, PreDxion Bio / Pediatric Critical Care Physician, University of Michigan
(https://www.hbs.edu/openforum/openforum.hbs.org/goto/challen...)

At least until recently, the company focused on making diagnostics for immune disorders (microkine) for CAR-T patients which I can't find much detail on. I don't know if it's related to the SPR-based tests mentioned in the pb post.

They received a government business grant (SBIR) in 2018 and have some VC funding.

It looks like this post demonstrates their pivot to a specific infectious disease, and from a hospital provider setting to a public setting.

As an ex-advisor to a successful (in bio) VC fund, this is not something I would really spend a lot of time considering. There are too many non-technical hurdles that would need to be jumped before this was widespread, popular, effective, and profitable.
While I love both Steins;Gate and FLCL, I'm having a hard time understanding how they relate to Seinfeld in any way.
I'm sympathetic to raising speed limits like any good Californian. But there's an asymmetry in the positions, in that more reaction time is universally better than less reaction time.
Given the number of execution loops. The profiler applied an optimization. Don't expect this optimization during initial executions or seldom used code or cases where properties of the method do not allow it to be optimized; be it on Android VMs or JVMs.
This is essentially what South Korea did. Granted it was done in a different way but everyone was “tested.” I was there just as covid-19 was on the rise and every shop, every station, and every high traffic area had people set up with thermal guns. Shop staff were having their temps checked before their shifts started. Everyone was gloved and masked. And once they had a proper test in place it was made easily accessible — even set up drive through testing.

And now they are pretty much back to normal while much of the world is still at a standstill.
> I was making the point that this disease is an issue for the young...

[citation needed]

> ... and it causes damage to the lungs even in the absence of symptoms.

The data you provided did not back up your assertion. I have not seen any data the backs up your assertion. If you have some, please do share it.

The data you provided suggested 73% of those folks were asymptomatic when in fact only 18% of them were upon further investigation. That brings into question all of their conclusions. Its interim conclusions suggest that there is a correlation between symptomaticity and severity (I mean, duh) and the articles I provided showed children exhibited milder symptoms.

> This is a serious disease that needs to be taken seriously.

Yes, it is, and it's not equally serious to everyone. It is less serious than the flu for children. This is substantiated fact. We can use this information to our advantage as we determine our next steps.
But wait for the user to have a week-long job running for three days before you do it. That way they have to explain to their boss why there is now a 3 day delay.
Sure. John Wilkes Booth, Timothy McVeigh, and the 9/11 hijackers were all, in some sense, pivotal.
Naota: Nothing amazing happens here. Everything is ordinary. We crossed the bridge as usual, and before we knew it the seasons had changed. Mamimi left town. She said she wanted to be a photographer. I don't know what happened to her after that.

This is just one quote, but it captures the vibe of the show IMO. Events happen and reactions to those events happen, but the sameness itself is the source of conflict in the plot, without getting into spoilers or character motivations or backstory.

I need to watch the sequels too, as my thoughts are based on the original 6 episodes comprising S01.
> Just look at Goanna / Pale Moon struggling to maintain quality and feature parity now. (Ofcourse they are also struggling because of the design decisions they made

What design choices? If they would ride on Firefox release cycle, Pale Moon would lose its advantages.
Thanks for sharing! I'm glad it's useful :) I originally made it because I wasn't feeling confident in a direction I was about to take in life. I wrote it all down in a spreadsheet and actually changed my mind after doing a similar process!
Live music industry is also bigger than it's ever been. Obviously not so much this year but booking fees for big artists run into the millions. They also get paid to feature in other peoples' music/content, and then again for access to their built-in promotional/marketing networks. They're selling hype. Anyone focused on milking profit out of the actual recordings themselves is stuck in the past, for the most part.

The modern model is to share the music freely as it serves primarily as a sales pitch for the artists brand. Young people want something of "value" for their money and they don't see a recording itself as having even $0.99 of value (even though they've mostly forgotten how to actually pirate media), like shitty overpriced merch and miserable "live music experiences" and "meet and greets".

Really what they're selling is hype. Which explains why an extreme manic depressive like Kanye has been so successful in this context. It's a system that directly rewards con men and effectively punishes any kind of caution or prudence. It also rewards drug addiction as many of these con men rely on drugs to maintain the illusions of their existence.

It's particularly sad because this system exploits the earnest passions of both the artists and the fans to manipulate them into participating.
Vast majority of "sneaker culture" participants are not even close to millionaire/billionaire wealth.
It's a shame that Void only seems to get attention when there's some sort of social drama angle. So let me plug my daily driver of the past several years:

Void is an excellent, excellent distro. It's quite similar to Arch in many ways, but its binary software repositories are much larger, and include some quite tricky customers (like FreeCAD). Its package management system is very advanced. Unlike Arch, shared libraries are tracked, so partial updates are supported. The "templates" (a BSD-ports-like system, like Arch's PKGBUILDs) are all kept in a single github repository, which means you can basically fork the entire distro, make as many changes to as many packages as you need to get a complex feature working, and - if you like - submit the entire lot back as a pull request. Distro-on-git - a powerful concept. Package building is stateless - a clean system is created in a chroot and build dependencies are automatically installed there. It's not nix, but it's highly practical.

One gets the sense that the whole system was designed with a slightly wistful eye on the BSDs. systemd is eschewed in favor of the lightweight runit. ZFS support is first class. The repositories, in addition to all the standard Linux stuff, contain lots of little BSD hints - yes, you can install pulseaudio, but you can also install sndiod. You can install sudo, but also doas. Heck, you can even run the entire system off musl, instead of glibc. The system feels like a small voice of rebellion against the tide of bloat in Linux-land. "It doesn't have to be this way, you know...", it seems to want to say.

And yet, if you want all that bloaty Linuxy stuff, it's there and it works brilliantly. I run Plasma 5 on my laptop and it's computing nirvana. I won't say it's rock-solid - rolling distros never are - but the simplicity and elegance of the system clearly yields stability dividends. And the core developers are, quite honestly, shit-hot - and friendly too, if you stop by the #voidlinux IRC channel on Freenode.

What's not to love?
He should also disclose any personal interest in it more clearly at the top of the article.
People are learning to build new businesses in lockdown
It's also where Six Sigma (3 sigma on each side) comes from. It implies "Total Control".
Stock Market for Beginners (Step by Step)
Our ‘Greatest Generation’ Men Weaponized Viruses, Too
“It is my belief that the best cure for any disease is to avoid the disease.”

https://m.imgur.com/dL807yM
I am pretty much experience nothing, that's the problem. ^^

Android mobile with Firefox. There is a small one centimeter tall picture at the bottom that's the diagram failing to render I suppose?
This has me puzzled:

>>> Confirmation will occur at ~0445 UTC this evening when the satellite should pass through eclipse.

Shouldn't it be stationary, if it's in geostationary orbit? Or is it just that the satellite has drifted out of that orbit over time?
There is, as far as I know little to no scientific evidence that cloth masks are effective at reducing the spread of covid-19
This would make the who's statement factual.

There's conjecture, and maybe some empirical evidence about cloth masks, but it's weak.
I don't particularly disagree with any of this, but as a society, we have a bad habit of assuming that people with an impressive record of innovation and expertise in one field should be treated as authoritative in others. At the very least, they should take their idea to people with sufficient expertise to evaluate it before using their notoriety to take it to the public. I think Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Linus Pauling and any number of failed unicorn startups should have taught us some caution. I don't want to know what a famed early architect of social media thinks about this topic, at least not before a famed virologist, immunologist or public health practitioner comments on it first.
>Is Flatpak faster than Snap?

Snap suffers from the overhead of having to decompress a squashfs on program launch: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/squashfs-is-a-terrible-storage-...
> Second, I never left void voluntarily. My relationship had a
breakup and I had to be in the court for some time, fighting
for my daughters... and it ended up with me being alone. [1]

> ahesford: Anybody feel like a child whose parents are getting a divorce? [2]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/voidlinux/comments/g2l9ws/thoughts_...

[2] https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/commit/bbb8bc557...

Someone please should give Juan RP a hug or something.

> Now, unless Juan is violent to them, forcing the daughters not to contact or see him, especially if they suddenly become hostile to him, it would be a case of parental alienation, which he should fight against in court since it also hurts the kids.
Does he have a Patreon or something? I would love to support it.
If you are after a Board Game Sandbox, I recommend you take a look at Tabletop Playground as they are running a free beta on Steam right now ahead of the games launch next month: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1282050/Tabletop_Playgrou...

Full Disclosure: I am helping to publish the game, so feel free to AMA
Apparently his gf brought their daughters away from him, and he had to spend some time fighting in court. This struck on me because I have a friend in the same situation, and he is desperate to the point we fear for him to go suicidal. Using kids as a weapon against the ex partner is just evil.

Now, unless Juan is violent to them, forcing the daughters not to contact or see him, especially if they suddenly become hostile to him, it would be a case of parental alienation, which he should fight against in court since it also hurts the kids.
You would heat the metal to temp before putting the pizza in. Dark metals have higher radiant heat, so maybe cast iron above it would be even better than steel.
>I've often wondered what a forum would look like where you could make the equivalent of 'aside' comments. The way someone might, while you're speaking, say softly "hyPERbolee, not HYper-bowl" to correct you without interrupting.

That would either be PMs, or the forum equivalent of posting "sage" on an imageboard (which prevents the post from bumping,) neither of which HN supports.

Although given the forum's focus on quality over quantity, I think some kind of "whisper" mode might be worth looking at, to opt out of having such comments from appear on the new comments page.
Why are there so many armchair quarterbacks in this thread spouting dismissive criticism? Paul already acknowledges that "success is far from guaranteed." If this works, great! If it doesn't, I don't think any of us are worse off...

This seems like a heavy application of The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics
https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-eth...
> this is not how prices are set.

Right, CEO salaries skyrocket, not necessarily because of the value they create, but because they can get the board and stockholders to back them more than the people actually creating value in a company.

They can do this in the form of stock buybacks, dividends, etc.

The standard software engineer does not have the power to "bribe" the stockholders in that way.
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Euphemisms have a limited lifespan until they too become derogatory. The words "idiot", "moron", and "imbecile" were once medical terms to describe certain conditions. In the 1960's [0] they were seen to have developed a negative stigma, and the word "retarded" began to be used instead.

Of course readers will know that now "retarded" has the stigma, and phrases like "developmental disability" are used. But for a period of time, you might have heard someone saying, "don't call my child an idiot, they're just mentally retarded." It seems strange, but at the time it was a kinder thing to say.

The problem is that the words aren't really the issue: change the words all you want, they will tend to develop the same stigma. The problem is that lots of people think less of those facing developmental challenges, and when they want to be mean to an otherwise "normal" person, they will compare them to the challenged.

I don't think that's going to change any time soon. But until it does, I suppose coming up with a new euphemism every generation or so isn't too bad of a thing to help reduce some of the stigma, at least for a period of time.
I have advocated it. Allegedly everyone who comes close to Trump gets swabbed and rapid tested on the Abbott machine.

How does your device detect viruses? Is it based on a protein or the RNA or what?
What they’re describing is an antigen test, not an antibody test. It tests directly for part of the virus, not an immune response, so it’s more a replacement for the existing PCR testing.

That said, I have some serious doubts about the particular mechanism being used here being ready for $1/test within say the next year or two. It’s been studied for a few decades and while there has been some promising progress, this would be the first saliva viral antigen test using this technology. It seems a bit like trying to solve global warming by bringing fusion generators to market. I have doubts it will be deployable before a vaccine, let alone more conventional and boring antigen rapid diagnostic tests that we have developed for a wide array of viruses.
On the contrary, that’s the name of the grain, so that’s what I use. :-)
> Unlike Arch, shared libraries are tracked, so partial updates are supported.

Even in the bad case, xbps just tells you that there are conflicts and it can't do what you want. Which is annoying when it happens as a result of official repos rebuilding, but still nice (EDIT: or rather, better than breaking your system!).
No, because they were right and the epidemiologists and medical people were wrong. Everyone kept telling us not to use masks except the tech people. There were all these lies:

* Doesn't work

* Too hard to train

* Shortages will happen

Literally all were wrong and they either knew it and misinformed everyone or didn't know it. So you can either drop the assumption of benevolence or competence.

The only guys who didn't listen to them, Taiwan, are doing fine despite every other risk factor being huge for them. It turns out some skills translate across domains. I'm not going to get a software engineer to perform a total knee replacement on me, but I think I'll listen to them on the crisis management: turns out they're better at it than the crisis managers.
> infection rates are a lot higher

in certain urban cores. herd immunity requires well mixed populations
Did a large numbers of people use those? Legitimate question—it always struck me as a cool initiative for a very small number of people, but only that.

I'd expect most people tech-savvy enough to install Ubuntu would also have a decent enough internet to download a ~700mb file.
What about coughing and sneezing? I still see people (yesterday) in public either sneezing into their hand (not elbow) or not covering their mouth at all.
In math and (especially) physics it is common to express "proportionality" laws usually with a symbol that looks like LaTeX \propto. So for instance the activity A of a radioactive sample is written A \propto e^(-t/T) where t is time and T is the mean lifetime of a single particle. For convenience \propto is often transliterated as ~ when typing. So that becomes

p_catch ~ n

p_spread ~ n

p_relay = p_spread * p_catch ~ n^2.
What tends to be absent in the simple analysis that leads to these kinds of hammer-to-all-nails solutions is a full enumeration of the classes of errors or intractable problems in the domain, and how the proposal does or does not address each.

This blogpost does not even attempt such an enumeration, but instead appeals to aesthetics.

FWIW I went through a period of using map and filter a little bit, went, "that's nice", and then resumed using for loops, sometimes with comprehension syntax to sugar it up. Both methods basically cover ways to specify simple iteration and selection. But I know which one is going to port better across the majority of environents: the plain for-next, and if a complex iteration is called for, the while loop. It puts the data allocation where I can see it, and it maps to the single-threaded computing model that is still the default today.

If I want a more complex query, I am going to start wanting a more expressive query language than either imperative or functional selection and iteration can provide by themselves. Left outer joins do not come easily to either method. Neither does constraint logic programming. You obviously can implement those things, but it isn't blindingly obvious, and when your problem grows to need a very broad expression of selection and iteration, it is those kinds of tools that you really need to aim for.
So... no, we don't.
Yeah I was trying to get systemd-networkd to handle hotplugging, and I spent about a day trying to figure out how to describe a computer with one Ethernet port to netplan before giving up and removing the whole package. At which point systemd-networkd started working beautifully as-expected. For a system administration tool netplan is wonderful at making the simple things needlessly complicated.
Nobody can control Kramer, not you, not me, not Jackie Chiles
The plumber example doesn't hold up here (https://www.contractormag.com/around-the-web/article/2112665...)

As someone who had a plumbing emergency I can attest it was essential also. I can also say I am sure we would have been able to get the repair done regardless, as humans want to help (and make money).

It is correct that those who are working remotely are no longer supporting the cooks, child care workers, etc ... while also having hardship due to the lack of these services. These hardships however are temporary. Our society can't really afford to live with these disparities. I spent a first career in the restaurant industry before learning to work with computers. I can say for certain in my case the first career was much harder and had much less rewards. However, I don't see eating out as essential, but a privilege. I am not sure how we walk back this system, but it seems the time has come that more people raise their own children and cook their own food regardless of their jobs.
According to my biochem-undergrad kid, surface plasmon resonance is a thing; it had come up in classes. "It's like doing an ELISA with no secondary antibody". Someone here will know what that means. I don't!
Yeah, I considered PMs but they're really not the same because the point is that everyone benefits with low attention contribution. The whisper mode is totally what I was thinking of.
White’s Law
Some of these exist:

> learn how to build Android from sources

https://source.android.com/setup/start has instructions.

> put some binary drivers from official image

https://source.android.com/setup/build/gsi is a set of builds you can flash on any sufficiently modern Android device alongside their binary drivers.

> May be even some guides how to reverse engineer proprietary drivers and rewrite them as open source.

You're on your own for this, but given the kernel and HAL APIs are both open source you could theoretically figure out how to build a viable implementation, but no matter how you go about it, building something like a GPU driver is a substantial task. You could probably build things like the lights HAL without too much difficulty though.
> If given the choice between dying of COVID-19 or shutting down society

Obviously shut down society, but that's not the choice that exists.

The choice in reality is an acceptable risk of death, or shut down society. Between those I pick the acceptable risk of death. We all make the same choice for many, many other situations.