skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With mortgages people are generally paying a ton of interest up front, and it takes a long time to build up equity. People are limited by the equity in how much they can borrow against the loan, and for a very long time the bank has a million dollar asset, not the borrower.
If you drop an email to the HN mods using the Contact footer link, they can definitely fix that.
On par w/ Meditations I'd also add Self-Reliance, an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
> there’s no advantage in depicting the officials responding as incompetent, , because that minimizes the threat

In this case it's not typical incompetence of officials, it's an official with huge influence derived from their office endangering people by recommending injection of disinfectants into their bodies. That itself a huge threat.
China faces fight to hang onto foreign manufacturers
Liberal democracy "freedom" does not mean personal freedom, it means economic freedom. They have always been about preserving that, and it is only because technology was not effective enough before that the personal freedom tradeoff happened.
> we are building monstrosities based around the theory of micro-services in the cloud. Kubernetes

This isn't something I'm doing and none of the people I personally know are doing this (disclaimer: im not in SV or the "startup scene")

> And query tuning isn't that difficult. Spend a few hours on this site and you will be better than 90% of devs out there: https://use-the-index-luke.com/

It used to be that companies had DBAs and could call out their developers\vendors on their sloppy queries. They have been replaced by 64gb of ram
And yet the cold and flu thrive in winter, so there's more to it than that.
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lung, Estimates of the total surface area of lungs vary from 50 to 75 square metres (540 to 810 sq ft);[28][29] roughly the same area as one side of a tennis court. They then offer two references for this.

So you're off by a factor of 2 but are basically correct.
A friend and I made a game a few weeks ago and it's also just simply synchronizes the board using a server to store the game state.

It's a Codenames clone you can find here
http://those.codes
Alternative one can see it as they first tried the carrot, and now when there is sign that some people did not get the message they are using the stick.

It should be noted that this is just the capital, which currently has something like 10x infection compared to most other areas of Sweden, and almost 20x the number of dead. To give some number, Stockholm has in the latest report 7k infected and 1200 dead. Malmö (or rather the region around it), which is Sweden third largest city, has 600 infected and 60 dead. Population wise, Stockholm has about 2x compared to Malmö.

People are not sure why stockholm has the number it has compared to other regions.
I'm sure it was wonderful, but the reality is that automation is rapidly changing this business. Check out the restaurant Spyce up in Boston. The orders are taken by iPads and then robots mix the food. There's only one person who takes it from the robot and hands it to you. They give the person a fancy title (garde manger) to make the job seem important, but I'm guessing they could easily replace the human with an extra bit of robotics. The person's real job is to call the police or the owners if something goes wrong.
>> He beat a Clinton in a race for president - that's no mean feat.

>> But then he does things like this that reveal he's actually a bit on the dumb side.

> The second thing is part of the reason he achieved the first thing. His smarts is knowing what sells to his base, and what consolidates them.

> Part of that is saying "dumb" or offensive stuff, with a lining of rhetoric that echoes with their anxieties.

I agree and disagree. I think you're right that his "dumbness" helped, but I don't think it was just about saying offensive stuff. It also meant that he was very willing to push polices that were against the status quo consensus (e.g. tariffs [1]), without hemming and hawing. That can appeal strongly to people who feel that the status quo hurts them.

It's usually smart to play it safe, which means not straying too far from the status quo and only risk the minimum you think is required for victory. To stray, you either have to be really smart (come up with a brilliant bet no one else sees), or really dumb (not realizing there are safer bets to achieve your goal). Trump was the latter.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/01/07/dona...
not to split hairs here, but according to the Wikipedia article, Therac-25 only killed 3 people.
This research says otherwise:
https://content.gmu.edu/news/584496

> “Prolonged nicotine exposure systemically—through various kinds of smoking habits—may thus provide a cellular mechanism for susceptibility to the virus and impact illness severity,” she said. “The activation of nicotinic receptors by smoking is coupled to how the host receptor for the virus, ACE2, is distributed on lung epithelial cells.”
You got rejected twice - so keep applying. Getting into a big company is mostly a matter of perseverance from what I've seen.
> and in most cases the test specificity is on par with the incidence rate itself,

????? We can't exclude that specificity may be 97% (it's unlikely, based on our data, but it's at the edge of the confidence interval), which is unfortunately on par with the studies returning 2-4% positives... but can't exactly explain a return of 21%. Subtract off 4% worst-case false positives from 21%, and where are you?

Since you want to appeal to authority with Gelman, this is what he said about this on his blog: "– Those California studies estimating 2% or 4% infection rate were hard to assess because of the false-positive problem: if a test has a false positive rate of 1% and you observe 1.5% positive tests, your estimate’s gonna be super noisy. But if 20% of the tests you observe are positive, then the false-positive rate is less of a big deal." ... "– In any case, the 20% number seems reasonable. It’s hard for me to imagine it’s a lot higher, and, given the number of deaths we’ve seen already, I guess it can’t be much lower either."

> so that pooling the studies does nothing to overcome the huge uncertainty they suffer in incidence rates.

The case count multiple from the serological study for New York state (and indeed, the California counties) is right in line with what's expected with a variety of statistical measures that were made without relying upon the serological data. So if you even peeked at my source you'd not be making this argument.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.18.20070821v...
haha that accent! The recipes seem legit. This type of cuisine is quite healthy
Ok, so it's even better than a dividend. That would explain why it's used.
My wife has never played a video game in her life, but I showed her this one and she absolutely adores it. Although at times she still struggles with the joystick (hitting rocks, catching bugs, etc) her house already looks better than mine and she's tending a giant flower field, breeding hybrids, etc. We also have visited her cousins' islands a few times and they get to socialize virtually. I'm glad this game came out now; it's so relaxing and comforting.
On a per capita basis, some days this week where sweden had 172 and 180 deaths in a day would be the equivalent of the US having 5600 and 6100 deaths a day.
Their approach is absolutely not working.
Is the core issue with RAID rebuilds that the RAID rebuild timeouts are too low for what happens when an SMR drive's buffer overflows during a rebuild?

Are these "5 seconds", or "60 seconds", or "300+ seconds" timeouts that are triggering the rebuild failure?
Doh, of course no programmer intentionally writes buggy code, yet there isn't a single programmer in the world who doesn't write buggy code (and everybody who claims to write 'bug-free code' is either very inexperienced or a goddam liar).

The point is to not have a "shame culture" for writing bugs, because they are normal part of the workflow. Instead focus on efficiently identifying and fixing bugs (efficient debugging is an important skill that's unfortunately often neglected).

Otherwise you end up with people writing overly defensive code, and get into a situation like the Stalin-era airplane designers who each made their own parts just a bit stronger then necessary because they feared ending up in Gulag or against the wall if it was "their part" that broke. End result was planes that were so much more heavier than planned that they were essentially useless for the tasks they were designed for.
Which this proposed therapy _doesn't do_ (it works by taking blood out, irradiating, putting back in).
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>rabid anti-Trump media

50,000+ dead Americans, but let's remember who the real victim is here.
> It reinforces the idea that any one person or piece of code can be blamed for a given failure. Short of malice, this is never the case.

If I make an off-by-one error, where, other than me, did it come from?

> It gives the impression that, when you wrote the code, you should have written it better. This is a counterfactual that rarely holds up to examination.

If I make an off-by-one error, I could have done better.

> It positions shame as the correct emotion to feel about bugs in your code: if you were a better engineer – a better teammate – the bug wouldn’t exist.

It is not about shame, it is about responsibility.

> If you’re a more senior engineer on your team, the effects of these anti-patterns are magnified: people see you apologizing for bugs, so they think that they should be striving to write bug-free code...

We should all aspire to do better.

> ...They may feel ashamed if their code has bugs.

See my previous comment on shame.

About the only thing that annoys me at work is people trying to deny responsibility for their actions (or lack of them.)
One of the things that has kept me from trying Linux in earnest (and yes, I'm very lazy) is concerns about which hardware is supported by which flavors, and how much.
Interesting. I'm using firefox with noscript. So it's not that Instagram has intentionally disabled the back button, it's (apparently) that they're trying to intercept it somehow and when they fail it ends up disabled. Still kinda hinky if you ask me.
Is the song that plays on this website commonly known? The only other time I've heard it is in the video that the New Zealand mass shooter recorded, and it makes me uncomfortable that it's the same song if it is indeed not common.
I do agree with that. If its out of your control, its out of your control. I see that as the difference between "want" (I dont want to leave) and "can't" (I cant leave). Living in a community of immigrant families and a city of immigrants here by NYC has colored that perspective for me since I'm surrounded by people that went through hell for a better life, including my own family. I personally am of course incredibly privileged that I get to just be born here and have the opportunities that come with being an American. But my own family has been uprooted 3 times within my own lifetime so far moving around the country to pursue better opportunities before winding up here, and that pales in comparison to what others have gone through. If you can't you can't, but if you don't want to, well, selection bias, but I'm surrounded by the people that did anyway.
Every once in a while a barrista is going to forget to you wanted soy in your triple venti no-foam soy latte instead of whole milk. They're serving a thousand drinks a day and the impact of getting the order wrong is tiny.

They're still going to apologize to the customer who got the wrong drink. Because sometimes mistakes are acceptable, expected on occassion, and still worth apologizing for when they happen. I don't always say sorry when I do something wrong, I sometimes say sorry when what I've done has a bad impact on someone.
The fractal structure of the lung ends with relatively smooth tissue after a finite amount of branching. So the usual arguments about fractals notwithstanding, there actually is a finite area to discuss that makes sense.
The key question is what the penalty is. The penalty is different if the goal is profit-maximization than it is to promote pro-social behavior, for a few reasons:

* Very few people want to lose their homes or to go bankrupt.

* Investors try to act optimally from a game-theoretic point of view. This usually means maximizing their own income (which isn't always the same as maximizing returns on the many they manage).

* People aren't always rational.

Let's look at the two systems for how we handle bankruptcies and defaults:

1) Money is bits / a game: We attempt to structure penalties to minimize structural damage to the system, while slapping you hard enough on the wrist to make defaults an undesirable outcome.

2) Money is real: We attempt to extract enough money out of you to balance interest. If we have harder penalties, with rational investors, interest rates go down, so keeping high penalties promotes a strong economy.

And for how we decide to loan:

1) Money is bits / a game: I loan you if the loan is perceived to benefit society. E.g. if you are engaged in an activity with a lot of positive externalities (e.g. going to school, buying a home for your family, or making a new startup), I will give loans with lower interest. I discourage bad debt (e.g. credit card debt, or mortgages I know will fail.

2) Money is real: I expect returns. This might be due to good debt (e.g. business investment) or bad debt (e.g. you're buying a home you can't afford, but interest + sales price when you default results in net income for me when / if you do default, payday loans, etc.).

Both of these systems are rational. Both, in practice, have politics we need to manage. The problem happens when e.g. monetary policy sets interest rates, in conflict with what the market wants. The risk is astronomical right now, and system #2 says don't loan, which is where the private sector wants to go. But without cheap credit, the economy goes down, which is where the fed steps in. And, of course, private investors can try to arbitrage the two forces.
Sincere question. You’ve been careful to include the word “globalist” twice here, why?
I've met professional wine tasters. They are like human chromatographs. They don't just tell you how good a wine is. They can tell you which compounds are in excess, and which are lacking, they can guess what went wrong with the winemaking process and the growing conditions. They are an essential part of quality control and how wineries fine tune their process.

As for difference between cheap and expensive wines, the same wine tasters tell me that price does not always correlate with quality, it is mostly a marketing thing. In fact, the ones I know are more likely to serve you cheap (but good!) wine. They know enough not to rely on price as a proxy for quality.
I guess that's because of the design of the interface here. Generally speaking if I support or agree with something I upvote it. I typically only reply if I have something useful to add or I disagree. That also seems to be the general style of commenting here at least in my experience.
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> How long have you been in your job?

A long time: decades at my same org.

> How many times have you changed since you hit 40?

Zero.

> Do you look your age, or younger?

I look my age, but I am fit and normal weight.

Totally good points you made.

I guess I still preach that people our age fight their own internal "ageism":

- Try your best to maintain a curious, learning mind.

- Try to keep an open mind that the way you've been doing things for decades may not still be the right way. There may be a new right way and it might take a little time for you to grasp why. That's all ok.

- Provide great mentorship: Let the younger people make their own mistakes and stumble into their own findings. But be there for them when they want to bounce things off of you or talk about their experiences.
Nespresso. That's what Italians drink at home today. Easy peasy, always good. Even my relatives in Naples drink it. :)
The argument never seemed to match the figures either - currently 10th on the per-capita death rate :-( https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Ode To The White Apple MacBook
> Every time I’ve outsourced my thinking for a job change (n=2)

I love the n = 2 aside. I really like OP's sense of humor.
How are you guys managing the video? Is it peer to peer or is it being routed and encoded in a server first?
Codenames needs at least four players to start, if it's p2p, have you noticed any lag or bandwidth problems?
What? This relates to the interview and material linked to, and relevance to the topic and previous comment. Not what else is on some website. Its like you're making FUD about what is really informative.
Opening a restaurant is difficult even for professionals. I had a neighbor who was managing one of the more successful restaurants at the Mall of America, who decided he wanted to do his own thing. He bought a restaurant in the downtown of our small suburb and spent months renovating it. I don't think it was open more than 3 months before he threw in the towel and declared personal bankruptcy.
What was your comment?
My intuition as someone who has a UV light on their drinking water is also that the blood would also be too opaque for direct irradiation, anyway.

(You need to filter your water before it hits the UV light, because if it is eg cloudy or has too many minerals in it, the water treatment salesman tells me, the UV light won't actually do anything.)
Metcalfe’s Law: Why New Tech Doesn't Make Us More Productive
Show HN: Monte Carlo in Google Sheets
That's great news. It looks like Fedora will be available on the P series (powerful workstations) and X1 Carbon. I hope it will soon be expanded to other laptops. I am really interested in T series with AMD Ryzen 4000 line (should be released later this year) and would love to avoid paying the Windows tax.

I just wonder if the fingerprint reader is finally supported on Linux. Also the LTE modem on my X1 Carbon (6th gen) has no support.
Buy a one- or two-year-old Thinkpad, and it'll be supported as well as anything.
Also the soviet union sent people and machinery to the republicans, and they were significantly more powerful at the time (ultimately Russia also defeated Germany, but that is now an unfair statement). I also read several books on the topic, my whole point it that this article is unfair and biased.
Your own website operated under a domain you control. It contains prose, images, and other useful information, created by yourself and available nowhere else.

Build your own platform, not someone else's.
I was going to comment that it doesn’t work well on mobile, but it looks like that’s on their todo list: https://github.com/ekzhang/setwithfriends I wasn’t aware of this implementation, thank you for sharing!
There is a slight difference between educating and outright banning competing ideas.
I understand that one is easier than the other
I think the argument was that Sweden doesn't have a legal avenue towards general lockdown - only quarantines of specific facilities - and since they assumed everyone was going to get it anyway, voluntary compliance would be good enough, so they didn't regard it as a particular priority to change their law or even constitution. There wasn't any Sweden exceptionalism in the official characterisations I've heard - maybe in the mouths of some redditors.
In some cases the insects themselves are the problem.

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-africa-locusts/
I never mentioned anything about decreasing diversity so I guess we’re agreeing?
To paraphrase you are asking what should people who are not achieving their goals do?

I have read that the meaning of life is love and freedom and doing what you enjoy. What that means is different for everyone, but you have to ask yourself what that means to you. If that means have millions of dollars in just a few years, great. Read "think and grow rich" to see who you need to become. Otherwise don't waste you time following what others think success looks like.
Yeah the blood irradiation approach avoids skin cancer risk by skipping straight to blood cancer!
That's true. Morgan does make some new vehicles with a classic look though.

https://i.imgur.com/5sc1Baz.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/FVlIX2V.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/eEalrSe.jpg
> To stray, you either have to be really smart (come up with a brilliant bet no one else sees), or really dumb (not realizing there are better bets to achieve your goal). Trump was the latter.

I guess I'm not convinced that it's easy to differentiate the two.

I'm no supporter of the current POTUS, but I think his reality-TV derived smarts are indeed a kind of "smarts", in the same way that con-artists, or even popular show-runners are very smart. For one thing, they know their audience.

Of course it's a disaster in our current situation, but I don't think he won the office through pure idiocy.
I think the comparison stands if the software in question is a video game, which have the same hit-or-miss factor, and no maintenance to speak of.
If they get it all over with in 30 days, when the USA takes 300 days to get it over with, they are still looking smart...

What matters is deaths overall, not deaths per day.
Why are the feds able to inject so much money into the system these days without much push back? While during the 2008 Crisis Hank Paulson had such difficulty with getting 700 billion injected?
Never heard of Brigador but it looks beautiful. Seems to be a pseudo-3D game. Lots of 2D assets, an isometric perspective, and modern graphics on top (I just saw in a Steam forum post that they light the sprites dynamically)
How is it we're talking about this and not the concrete steps towards the millions of daily tests needed safely end social isolation?

I've received UVA and UVB phototherapies. To treat GVHD. Works great. Last I checked, no one really knows how or why.

UV is totally worth investigating.

It's totally inappropriate (dangerous) for the POTUS to speculate on TV during a pandemic. Especially while actively thwarting or malignecting actual proven useful treatments and mitigations.

Shame on media (and us) for the ongoing attempts to divine a coherent narrative from the blather of a madman.
Yes.... they have a small market cap because they are returning cash to shareholders. That is literally the idea of a buyback - to shrink the market cap.
There were a lot of early clickbaity conclusions that frankly seemed like someone just logiced it out in their head got a lot of attention... but IMO didn't really have much data to support them in any way.

Lots of "Why in this country is?" "This place is doing well because."

And then a few weeks later the data shows that's simply not the case and you realize the concussions in those articles had little to zero data supporting it.

Personally I look forward to hearing about good data years from now about this pandemic.
Nooooooo!
I've eaten there, it was pretty good. If you're going for that kind of dedication to pizza however, breaking off the lock on the cleaning cycle of your oven is a wonky way to go about it. You'd be better suited building a wood fire oven or just buying a commercial oven instead. Eventually this is the conclusion they learned, they just took the way long way to get there.
> I don't think humans are made for vegan diets

I've been vegan for around 6 months now, and haven't dropped dead yet. If anything, I feel the same as I did before - on a vegetarian diet - and before that - on the standard Western diet.

As long as you eat a balanced diet with enough protein, fat, and carbs humans can thrive on a vegan diet just fine.