skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you choose your moves randomly in equal proportion, then you will always win 50% of the time no matter what the other player does (not counting ties).

But humans are bad at making truly random choices. If your opponent isn't random, you can exploit what they're actually doing.

And if you're exploiting what the opponent is doing, then you're not random anymore and your opponent can exploit what you're doing.
Why these things don’t (always) happen is more related to the top sibling comment: there is a trade off in space or energy with each of the things you described, and the value in time saved must be less than the space and energy cost of the alternatives, or else they would happen.
The difference is that the UK is a unitary State[1], and as such its COVID strategy is dictated at the UK-level. The sub-national units are not sovereign.

The US and the EU are federations[2][3], and their sub-national units are sovereign. Like the EU, the US’s COVID strategy has been left to the States[4].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_state

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation#Federations

[3] https://gizmodo.com/why-is-the-united-states-considered-a-co...

[4] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-stay...
Number of Startup Layoffs Surpasses 20K
I'm a half asian who went to northeastern (a while ago, it wasn't that hard to get in at the time and was more of a backup for me). Similar academic profile. My essay was pretty dumb in other ways and I think that hurt me in getting into other places. But I would have been very very apprehensive about writing something about watching anime and not having an intrinsic enthusiasm for things.

That sounds like it triples down on the stereotypes you're frustrated with being perceived as, but more broadly I think they're basically looking for people who demonstrate self confidence and strong enthusiasm for something productive (the team player aesthetic). This trend is going to continue beyond undergrad admissions in both the formal and informal introductions.

I wouldn't sweat undergrad as much as you've probably been trained to all your life. You have plenty of additional opportunities ahead.
And the media is there to tell you about every single case, which in itself should tell you something.
> You could also memorise a recently generate sequence of random numbers!

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I don't know why or how, but I can confirm that remote connections have a significantly higher cognitive load than in-person interactions. Perhaps it's the same reason as why talking on the phone while driving is much more dangerous than talking to the passenger in the seat next to you.
He asked a question of experts. That's not the same as "lending credence" to a particular response to the question.
Uvw v2.5.0 is out: a libuv written in modern C++
Related:

"The respiratory distress appears to include an important vascular insult that potentially mandates a different treatment approach than customarily applied for ARDS." https://twitter.com/jama_current/status/1253722428053823492
> replaced with more pedestrian overpasses,

vegas has pedestrian overpasses and they are a tremendous waste of time - much worse than crosswalks. A better approach would be to keep the pedestrians at grade-level and have car under-passes
This is why I can't understand the appeal of a MacBook. You have the Apple burden, the Apple costs, what benefits? The touchpad? The showoff luxury of a lighted logo?
I'm using a variant of this: https://spin.atomicobject.com/2016/05/28/log-bash-history/

Logging the entire bash history in files sorted by day: export PROMPT_COMMAND='if [ "$(id -u)" -ne 0 ]; then echo "$(date "+%Y-%m-%d.%H:%M:%S") $(pwd) $(history 1)" >> ~/.logs/bash-history-$(date "+%Y-%m-%d").log; fi'

I haven't overloaded ctrl-r yet to search in these files but that would be a possibility.
Sorry, you are quite correct about both. I jumped to a conclusion about GNOME because I did do a quick check and saw the “G” stood for GNU, but I didn’t check more deeply. I have no excuse for confusing Debian with GNU/FSF, and the comments will stand to remind me of my shame.

GNOME history: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/141114/what-is-the-...

To return to topic: “How to install Flatpak apps on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS”: https://jatan.blog/2020/04/25/how-to-install-flatpak-apps-on...
> Gotta give them some credit though for pretty rapidly releasing their "experiences" [i]. Odd that this article doesn't even mention it.

This is discussed in the text of the very first question in the article
personal responsibility for every outcome becomes a natural consequence

I don't see how this works. The biggest reason is that if everyone is personally responsible then noone is responsible; this is pretty well established in psychology, with diffusion of responsibility.
Ha ha ha! Sorry for the confusion. My mind kept saying "don't endorse a particular brand". So I was "carefully" optimizing my response for that!
uncovered bridges and people being lazy... compared to saving lives and time, these sound like bad excuses.
Agree, so useful! A port is also available for PowerShell: https://github.com/vincpa/z
Well then I guess that's another reason I won't use Word (sure you can turn it off, and it's a minor annoyance at most, but still).

You one-spacers will have to pry my double-spaced sentences from my cold dead fingers. It's been scientifically proven to be at least marginally superior¹ (no matter how badly The Verge wants to try to convince anyone otherwise), it's substantially less ugly than using a single space, and it's easier for machines to parse (a period followed by two spaces or a line break is unambiguously the end of a sentence, whereas a period followed by a single space is - unless the two-space rule is in effect - ambiguous).

This is one substantial reason why, to me, no website will ever be quite as readable as a PDF (let alone print). At least a PDF-outputting typesetter (e.g. LaTeX) can intelligently account for this and add the additional spacing, and it looks fantastic and is delightfully readable when combined with properly-justified text (also a rarity in websites - and Word documents, for that matter). But with HTML, I can't even emulate it with double-spaces; browsers boneheadedly replace even the double-spaces with single spaces.

I certainly don't buy the "saving time" aspect, either: Ifwereallycaredaboutsavingtime,thenwhybotherwithspacesatall?Imaginehowmanykeyswecouldfitintoakeyboardifwegotridofthespacebarentirely!Nottomentionhowmanybyteswe'dsaveineverytextfile. (More seriously, unless you really really suck at typing, one v. two spaces should be entirely insignificant in terms of time spent) (EDIT: and I'm only half-joking about that suggestion; there are plenty of examples of people who don't use any spaces at all after sentence-terminating punctuation, so the aforementioned example is just taking things to their logical conclusion)

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¹: https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13414-018-1527-6 (The Verge mentioned this in the article, irrationally downplaying its significance)
I can't even imagine buying a computer for a trackpad.

All my years of StarCraft have me a wiz at mouse and keyboard. Plus I doc to 3 screens.

Onthego, I have touch screen which I use surprisingly often.
> the game also involves a large part of chance

I can't find the source right now, but I remember reading about a court case centered around whether Bridge (the card game) is gambling or not due to the influence of chance on its outcome. It was settled by holding a string of games that pitched players with varying experience against each other and the outcome was that better skilled ones _always_ prevailed. And so the Bridge was ruled to be a game of skill.
He's saying you're misunderstanding your rights regarding free speech, which sounds accurate as you seem to think you have rights on YouTube's platform. (You don't.)

Free speech only protects you from the government, there are many places that saying dumb or offensive things will get you kicked out or censored.

So yes I agree with OP, the fact that you don't understand these rights but sit at your desk and yell "but my free speech!" or "un-American!" when YouTube is trying to combat disinformation during a global health crisis could likely be a precursor to a collapse of your society. While it won't be a direct cause of the collapse, if an educated programmer on HN doesn't get it, I don't favor the prospects for the rest of the society.
It's a lot more than just 'looking silly'. The lockdown kills many jobs leading to people losing hope and triggering a recession worse than 2007's. That will have its death toll too.
+1. You're bringing me around.

My wife goes to an Asian hairdresser for all important hair work because they better understand her hair. Nothing wrong with that. So why not the same for doctors?
Ask HN: How to Learn Japanese?
I want to learn written and spoken Japanese, what recommendations do you have? Techniques and strategies, software, online resources, classes, and communities or clubs?
Yes, I have a 2015 MacBook Air that runs great apart from the bluetooth using headphones is not usable, super choppy. But it took ages to get here and I've still got weird scripts I don't really understand to allow me to close the lid and open reliably. As an aside, I'm finding battery and performance much better on Ubuntu 20.04 and kernel 5.4+
What Will Happen Next in the Corona Crisis?
With treatment so simple, we have effectively removed the healthcare system as a bottleneck on the rest of society.

I think we can safely reopen fully now and treat any serious cases using our existing healthcare systems in combination with this kind of new knowledge.

The longer we 'suppress the curve', when we are already far below hospital system capacity, the more economic and social damage we cause unnecessarily.
This was in 2009, I think when I stayed was horrendous. A flying bug had got between the ceiling tiles and was buzzing around for about 2-3 minutes before banging into something just as I was about to fall asleep. Add on the blood on the stairs between the 11th and 12th floors and the crazy amount of prostitution (and I guess stolen electronics) and yes it wasn’t great.
One counterpoint - Trust in quality.

I'm looking at buying a laptop right now and I can either buy an apple MBP ... OR a MONSTER laptop with much better specs for the same-or-less price. I'm hand-wringing over it.

With past laptops I've only been disappointed by the non-Apple laptops I've had. Bad ram, bad battery, bad battery again, bad battery AGAIN, slow-for-hardware-misfiring issues... or the Apple that has been a truly reliable machine for going on nine years.

Trust in Quality.

That's my "denial".
The Spanish flu killed working age people.

When it returned the following year. It mutated to become much more dangerous to younger people.
I don’t want to stay in a hotel because I usually travel with my family and I want to have a home-like experience with a real kitchen where we can cook and eat meals together. I alternate between AirBnB and VRBO when looking for accommodations.

Also, this article is not about whether AirBnB can work in general... it’s a billion-dollar company over a decade old. Whether you like it or not, it’s silly to act like the idea has yet to be proven.

The article is about how they pivoted their homepage to add value to their product during a crisis. I would think that topic would be very interesting to the HN audience. They are certainly acting more agile than a hotel chain; I don’t see Marriott offering online “host experiences” to their guests.
There are all kinds of response to this insanity but ignoring distracting details and not trying to comprehend the worst of society, something I've noticed over the decades is whatever hoax, whatever conspiracy theory that pops up, the common denominator to the most destructive responders is poor education and poor critical thinking skills.

Once a society has lost those fundamentals, it's over. It's also why the movie "Idiocracy" seems to slowly become reality.
Portainer for Beginners
True. Having worked at many startups as well as big corporations, I definitely think that the environment inside big companies feels more like some twisted form of socialism than capitalism. The idea of internal markets sounds good. Having small teams which have a strong sense of ownership over different projects is a good strategy in my experience as a developer.
Is management of an HFNC patient simple enough that it could be done outside a hospital? I’m imagining a converted stadium or similar area in which patients use HFNC and everyone who isn’t a patient puts on serious PPE before entering and takes it off only when they’re quite far away.
50M people died worldwide from "Spanish" Flu, in a world much different than today, yet within a couple years the world had mostly recovered. So far we are still a long way from that number. The problem is you won't know if you are to be in the dead or gravely ill category, or the mild or perfectly fine category, irrespective of age, until it happens.

What we could have had today is the ability to identify, isolate, and thus properly quarantine those who are ill or spreading, but we did not as a society deem it valuable to invest in (outside of places like S Korea). It's a classic pay me now or pay me later situation; now we are reaping the lack of investment in the past (even before the current ineptitude).

I always thought the lack of a comprehensive nation healthcare system or at least a plan that covered everyone in some way in the US would bite us if there ever was a pandemic. We as a society decided that long term planning was not economically viable or even desirable. But we did not even do a minimum. Now we have to hope for the best.

As a nation having everyone (not just some people) healthy and when not have access to affordable healthcare is a benefit to the nation as a whole and the economy, something that the new German nation back in the late 1800's figured out. How we get there in the US in the future I don't know, I just hope we come to the same realization and do something.
Point a) need to be elaborated a bit: the reason they can't release it at a very low price point is that, while sure, it might "destroy" the chromebook and low-end windows laptop market, it would also destroy much of the MacBook and iPad market for the same reason.

Who's going to buy the $1k macbook when a $300 one works just as well? This isn't going to happen. Apple is a company built on high margin products, they aren't going to change that.
If they are going to lock down macOS totally they might as well kill it and exit the pro market entirely. If I can't run whatever I want on it, it is not a real computer.

I personally doubt they will do that. If anything I could see them making iPadOS more capable, moving more of the consumer market there, and making the Mac line even more suited to pro users with more compute power and more OS capability.

BTW the ARM move could fit into this. I wonder how a 32 or 64 core A series ARM64 chip in a laptop form factor would perform? Our company runs some infrastructure stuff on Cavium ThunderX chips with 96 ARM cores and the performance is comparable to high end Xeons for very parallelizable load. The Apple A series core is far superior. I'd take 64 of those in a laptop.

It would be so fast I'm sure it would have no issue running transpiled X64 code at perfectly adequate speeds. Could probably even run X64 VMs in emulation at speeds that were at least quite usable for testing and dev.
That was a bug. It was fixed with this release, and swannodette added a test to ensure the size stays under 10k bytes: https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript/commit/5d64c2a142e5...
this has been fixed :D thanks!
Are you willing to pay 2-3x for your drinks at the local bar? If not, there's your reason why they don't have 2-3 months’s cash stockpiled.

I own minority shares of several restaurants. I have zero management control, roughly 1% equity in each restaurant. But I get full insight into their books, revenues, costs. All three are profitable, each returned my capital investment in under two years, each pays me roughly 20% return every year on my investment.

Each has (well, had) about 6 weeks' cash on hand at the start of the shutdown here in mid–March. Each had a line of credit good for roughly another month (in theory). But in practice the LOC is used to balance out month–to–month expenses and revenues. Some months the liquor has increased 5% over last month for no apparent reason and no, you don't have much leeway to renegotiate as there's only two distributors in the area. So the LOC has already been tapped, not necessarily maxed out.

Oh, and funny thing, banks have been trimming LOC limits to whatever you've drawn already. If you had a $15000 LOC limit in February which you'd drawn $5000 on for expenses, your bank trimmed the limit to $5000 in March.

Each restaurant in a typical month breaks even the third week of the month and is profitable the last week of the month. In reality they lose money for a couple of months of the year but that's balanced by higher profits other months of the year.

In normal business times it all balances out.

Right now isn't normal. Employees are demanding to continue getting paid, vendors demand to get paid, the landlord wants his damn rent, and all of the cities which are demanding that you pay your employees and not lay anyone off? Yeah, they're demanding that you pay your various taxes.

And there's no revenue. None. You try take out and lose money every night because not enough people are buying alcohol (which is where you get your profit on an average night). You don't want to go down the Grubhub/Seamless route because of the vig they demand.

So you close your doors "temporarily".

There's no "unemployment insurance" for businesses. There's business interruption insurance, but, surprise, insurance companies are slow walking responding to and validating claims (and AFAICT they've rejected all claims for these restaurants and anecdotally none of the other small businesses I know have been able to get any insurance payments).

So…everyone's demanding money, no one's paying. You can either try these gofundmes, or close.

In my case all of the restaurants are planning to fire employees, sell off inventory, and close. They ran numbers about recapitalizing but since there's no clarity on when restaurants can return to normal (and I mean truly normal, not 50% seating reduction, because that doesn't work unless you can increase prices by 50% or more) — without clarity on how long this continues, it's more pragmatic to conserve cash, close the business, and reopen if/when normalcy returns.
This is the book you're looking for: https://www.learn-clojurescript.com/

I've been keeping tabs on it and progress is being made all the time. Already tons of content.
great catch -- fixed now, thank you!
In https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/11/13/coffee-cardiova..., Gruber writes:

> I like that 5 cups of coffee per day qualified as “moderate”. That’s right around what I consume.

My immediate thought was "that's crazy, if anyone I know were to drink that much, he'd get mighty uncomfortable or even ill with shaky hands, a punishing heartbeat and heavy sweat". I told my colleagues. One replied and pointed out that the Americans dilute.

All the measurements in the comments so far are useless for drawing a conclusion. We should use milligrams of caffeine consumed and the body weight to have a sound basis for comparison.
On the other side, without a lockdown many people would have stayed home anyway. The hospitals would have been overwhelmed and there would be a general sense of panic.

It's not clear to me the economic result would be much different.
I can't recall ever seeing three hyphens used to signify an em dash in a document published on the net. (I added the word "published" to account for the possibility of the existence of a markup language I am unaware of that employs your three-hyphen convention.) I am fastidious enough about usage that I probably would've noticed and remembered.

In my experience, its always two hyphens (or space, hyphen, hyphen, space).
> additional testing and antibody testing are confirming that the virus is marginally more lethal than the common flu

15,411 people have died of covid in NYC, though excess death numbers suggest that this is an undercount and it's more like 19,200. [1] The population of NYC is 8.4M. If everyone in NYC had been exposed this would give a death rate of ~0.18%, or ~0.23% after adjusting for excess deaths. Antibody tests say ~21% [2] of the population has had it, so multiply by 5 and it looks like if everyone got it about 1% of people would die. That's about 10x more deadly than the flu.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronav...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/nyregion/coronavirus-anti...
The UI itself would have to make it clear what is happening. So clear that it can be used without training. Is this even possible to achieve? maybe yes. I've seen visual representations of branch and re-base that make it clear what is going on, but they were teaching tools, not the actual tool itself.

The developer of the UI may be biased as they already have the hard-won knowledge of branch, merge, multiple remotes, pull/push, etc. The biased developer will confuse good looks UI with intuitiveness. Or they will go down the wrong path and create a UI that is very practical for people who already have hard-won knowledge, but no so much for normal people.

The biased developer will think the answer to these problems is "training" instead of making the UI naturally visually intuitive.
Stronger pandemic response yields better economic recovery. http://news.mit.edu/2020/pandemic-health-response-economic-r...
Open Pyra console:

https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/pages/pyra/

Disclaimer: avid fan of the prior generation, Open Pandora console ..
Uhh, the dash "design" is even worse than Tesla's.
The order from the court of appeal (linked in the article, although it's in French) is much more specific. It lists specific product categories on Amazon's website, and says that only things that were in those categories as of April 21 can be shipped.
That's a nice explanation.

Tennis would also have some part of mind games right ? The more I think about it, obviously it definitely is a matter of body excellence, but if you can always predict where your opponent going to hit, wouldn't that be a sure win (considering the players equal in matter of body)?

I don't see any "reaction time" available in RPS (considering equal in matter of body), and no way to predict the choice of the other one (as you stated) so similar to coin toss (you can't influence the choice of the opponent).

Poker also gives you some amount of time to "react" to what others did. So I am still seeing RPS heavily biased towards luck.
Worth noting that white people are also underrepresented relative to share of population among elite colleges.
Somewhat unrelated but do we still need Docker Desktop for Mac to run Docker containers on macOS? Why is that, is it because Linux is needed? Couldn't Docker run containers natively using just macOS?
Companies and Individuals – Understand Your Counterparty Risk
thanks for the feedback! should be fixed now :)