skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rational deals with knowns.

Innovation deal with unknowns.

The unknown may be known, thus become rational!

Embrace the incompetence to expell it.
Sharks

[1] https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/sharks-are-cho...
Necessary Rules that every deep learning team should follow
I'd say that having a (buggy) in house integration with Salesforce is a way bigger tech debt than using AppFlow here.

If one day you want to move off Salesforce to another service, you will just switch off the configuration in AppFlow for the new service. Sure you're locked in AWS, but it takes tech debt away from other things, plus might save you migration costs.
With the current state of scientific journalism, the likelihood among all channels is a resounding: very low.
I feel that it is a gross representation to interpret the WHO's ''NEXT QUESTION PLEASE'' dodge to be an implicit endorsement of... A state of the world that doesn't exist?

Why do you think I feel that way? Why do you not feel that way about the example I outlined? Is it because one topic (Trump's criminality) is controversial in the Western world, while the other one (Taiwan's independence) is not?
As a kid my dad would water down his orange juice because it was "too sweet" and I thought he was insane.

These days I water down my cola with sodastream carbonated water because it's too sweet...
It's not as if seller commissions are purely an invented cost. They charge them because it's not a free service they provide, even for themselves.
I dare to ask the question how wearing a mask carries critical risk vs wearing no mask.
Not so long ago, I got a legitimate phone call from my bank's fraud department (HSBC HK) regarding a dispute I had made (someone had used my credit card to book on booking.com).

The bank employee asked me to give him my passport number and acted annoyed when I refused. He couldn't understand why I would not give this kind of private information on a phone call and why it was a breach of security. I then called the bank's customer service hotline and they had no record of the call from the fraud department being made because it's a separate department and they didn't have access to that data. It took 3 days before I got a confirmation from my bank that that call had indeed been legitimate (and that's only because I have a relationship manager)...

So I think Banks are part of the problem, they need to massively step up their training in security so as not to make this kind of demands on phone calls they have themselves initiated.
It’s not the case, but it’s apparently still not worth engaging with the Bros.
My understanding is a valid warrant (which as someone else mentioned does not have to be a physical piece of paper) grants them immediate access and they don't have to wait to verify. If you don't open the door, it will be opened for you by battering ram - demanding you open it is more of a courtesy.

Think about it: say someone has a bunch of drugs, you wouldn't want to give them time to start flushing it down the toilet while they call up and verify the warrant is valid. You kick the door in, arrest them, and secure the scene for forensics and evidence collection.
I’m starting to believe that the difference in opinions on whether these studies are legitimate or not hinges heavily on personal behavior.

For my wife and I and kid, we live in SF and order food when we can from grocery. When we can’t, I put on an N99 mask and gloves and buy 2 weeks worth of groceries. Then go through a ritual to be as safe as possible entering the home and bringing groceries in.

If someone asks me at the grocery store to take the covid test, no way. How would I even do that safely???

I live in San Francisco though and am worried about the fact that the grocery is 70% instacart workers.

Everyone I know in the city (nyc, sf, Boston, Chicago etc.) is trying to use 3rd parties to get their groceries.

Everyone I know in the suburbs is going to the store.

I believe the reason people read this study differently is that their experience is different. The whole foods in downtown sf would be scary to be in without a mask. And I view it as the riskiest place I have to go.

It’s full of gig workers who are taking way more risk than the average person.

We will know more when we see the results of the study, but I think we need a more random sample before thinking this NYC study is even remotely close to showing that 20% of NYCers previously had it
> I find it very suspicious that young people who don't go to the hospital with severe disease would require oxygen or end up with life-long lung injuries.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/09/my-near-d...

Or I don't know, Google ventilator effects. Lung scarring. Young people get this, and it hurts them, maybe forever. It's not common, but it's absolutely not never, and you can still spread the virus if you're asymptomatic. Seems like people should try and avoid getting it!

> Sweden has demonstrated at national scale that's not the case.

Sweden is so unlike the US in so many ways, this is a worthless anecdote. Imagine the differences in demographics, density, culture, literally everything.

> The reality is about 60% of us are going to get it one way or the other, so let's control which 60%, and in what order, and on what timeline before everyone stops listening and just walks out.

It's by no means certain 60% of us will get it. Especially if we do what we should do and build a competent testing and tracing system. The attitude that this is inevitable is lazy and puts thousands of lives in jeopardy.
Same woman with the same shovel has been spotted around Bloombergs undersea cables
They may not have ignored it. Maybe it was just Bruce Aylward's poor hearing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wePJF3MaPM
In Spain, several years ago, a group of robbers stole a truck loaded with wire just of its copper. It turned out it was all fiber optics cable...
the WHO is... corrupt? this is the first I have heard of such an idea. What would someone gain by I guess bribing the WHO?
If you’re strictly asking about scale and not features, the breakpoint is just a question of whether the data fits comfortably in RAM and whether the front-end fits on the same machine. Once the dataset is too big for RAM or once you need multiple front-ends, you’re reimplementing ordinary database features in whatever home-grown system you have.
This seems like something that would only work on a landline.
How so? Clearly I view rationality as an adverbial matter. 1 through 6 remain true even if you add the word "rationally" to the what-matters-most statement. The list would get longer than six.
> Pioneer-era apple types thought extinct found in US West

Oh God, how I totally and bizarrely misunderstood that headline:
Pioneer = space probe

Apple = computer

types = tapes

US West = baby bell telephone company
Yeah, but I think the point is, whatever meaning of "rational" do you pick, then you seemingly always encounter a similar problem, i.e. some clearly innovative behavior will not fit the bill of being rational.

Money and free market (and economic rationality) is our current best shot at defining rationality (what makes sense to do) through a mechanism (algorithm).

We can talk about utilons instead of money. But then any theory of decision making is worthless, because we cannot apply it to groups of people, they have different units! It pushes the problem one level away.
I'd like to plug Responsive Communication.

It's available entirely online here http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/curriculum/AxeHandleAcademy/rc/50pat...

It was written in 1986 by the linguist Ron Scollon and his wife Suzie.

I found a paper copy on a free-book shelf outside a thrift store, and consider myself blessed to have stumbled upon it.
Also shelf life, and that might mean shelf life in farm's cellar over the winter, not large-scale cold storage.
Yeah, I just don't understand how in a thread of such important stuff, this comment that's so low-hanging, so based on a non-issue is the top, with dozens of responses to it. It's really bordering on the conspiratorial, it's a bummer to see HN embracing that.

It doesn't really make sense. You've got generic advice and then laws, WHO's statement was not in any way a contradiction of the law and it's grade school logic to see that. What's up HN?
It will take a series of high profile hacking incidents to finally wake the public up to the need to develop mitigations. We won't see the problem until it's widespread.
Awesome collection! One thing I am always curious about, the right click and open in new tab does not work on the list items. I have seen this on many recent JS heavy web applications. Is this normal for PWAs to not support traditional browser interaction points?

I can understand PWA wants to be more than just a web page and have their own UX. I have more experience in Backend software development and right now leading a small web/mobile/devops team, and always stress to not override browser controls unless absolutely necessary. Somewhat similar thing happens with scrolling. I feel most of the JS overridden scrolling is not needed.
No, this is a very fake dichotomy.

The array of options available to society is not "starve" vs. "waiting in a bread line for hours" vs. "feeding your family" as can be seen by countries that have approached this problem differently.

And lemon zest isn't spicy.
As a German, I certainly don't want the governments of the world to generalize this. As the country who (arguably) started two world wars that killed probably low three-digit millions of people, we are in a special position to assure the world that we're not gonna launch a third. Part of that is being honest about the consequences of fascist governments. The relevant ban has decades of history as being specific and limited. Frankly, at this point I trust our government to not try and balloon it into a general suppression of free speech. I don't have the same trust for Youtube.
0.1 death rate we aren't testing shit.
Stripe Issuing is now open to all US businesses
Nicomachean Ethics
wonder if they might create a market for it, like they have with Sagemaker
[citation neeeded]

People die all the time. Pretending that the jury is out on the long term impacts of Covid 19 is ascientific.
Nothing comes to mind, but I'll ping you if I come across any.
That $31k figure includes part time workers, who dream drag down the number, and who won't be getting full unemployment anyway. So it's a bad comparison.

The median full time worker in the USA make over $50k a year according to data collected by the BLS
For a language whose purpose is high-performance, the std:: containers are an embarrassment. `deque` is slow, `map` is slow - so the language added `unordered_map` which is also slow...

Are any of the containers (other than `vector`) worth using in high-performance code?

I’m sympathetic to the game developers who I’ve heard say “we use C++, but nothing from std::”.
>similar to the IFR arrived at by other studies using very different methods

With the wild range of IFR from so many studies, you could trivially cherry pick supporting studies for a bunch of different numbers, especially if you throw in am error range.
urr... that sounds like a very simple reduction from someone who does not play video games.

There are MANY types of games and they provide different types of pleasure.

For example multiplayer games usually bring pleasure through cooperation, socializing, and becoming better.

sandbox games like minecraft can provide pleasure through creation.

other video games like the last of us are just deeply emotional and touching through story telling

etc.
I assumed something along those lines, but I think they have to knock unless there's a no-knock warrant? I just don't expect they'll be amused if you tell them to hang on for a few minutes while you "verify" the warrant.
hN is heavily moderatded.

You'll never see my comment.

Essentially free and open discussion is impossible here.
A Spotlight like feature is coming in the next update to Windows 10 I believe. Totally agree on PDFs though, Windows doesn’t even have a solution as decent as Preview on MacOS. The default for PDFs is internet explorer for gods sake.

And curious, do you dual boot Ubuntu, or do you use WSL? My biggest gripe with Windows is the insufferable terminal. But WSL fixes that, and WSL 2.0 is going to have full platform Docker support as well.

Now that Apple insists on proprietary chips, has horrible thermal throttling, got rid of the MagSafe charger, and regressed on keyboard experience, I can’t say I’ll buy another MacBook if my current one dies.
Yeah that's a great point. I thought about it initially, but I got a little nervous (perhaps unjustifiably) about the Hackintosh universe being a little slapdash and then about Apple maybe issuing some under the radar OS update that bricks my machine. I'm catastrophizing, maybe, but I never pulled the trigger. That said, I never actually put in the 3-4hrs of reading I'd need to do, so I definitely wouldn't rule it out.

Do you have experience with doing the Hackintosh thing at all?
We really need decentralized, censorship resistant communication and data storage platforms.
It doesn’t have to be Turing complete to be useful
The whole idea of debating PWA and native apps is really old. I wish Google would just come out and say "we tried this idea, it wasn't the right one, we're sorry, PWAs are dead." Until this happens this idea will never die. Google is happy to kill good products but won't kill terrible ideas!
This approach is something I never quite figured out. What is the point of documenting your project in another repository? Based on what OP just explained this is one of the only explanations I can come up with (GitHub treats this as an extra that you must pay for).
> Going back to python, what was broken in Python 2 is that str type could represent both text and bytes...

You know, it’s astounding to me that you managed to quote my entire point and still didn’t even bother to acknowledge it, let alone respond to it.

If they had to break backwards compatibility to fix string encoding, that’s fine and I get it. That doesn’t explain or justify breaking backwards compatibility in a dozen additional ways that have nothing to do with string encoding.

Are you going to address that point or just go on another irrelevant tangent?
The author is Jason who is the founder and CTO of WP-Engine which started in 2010. He sold two companies before that.

From the Author bio: https://blog.asmartbear.com/jason-cohen
You'd better write to the US government too.

Here's the TAIWAN ALLIES INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION AND ENHANCEMENT INITIATIVE (TAIPEI) ACT OF 2019. It starts: To express United States support for Taiwan's diplomatic alliances around the world.

The name "Republic of China" (as opposed to "People's Republic of China") isn't used. However there are sentences like this:

Since the election of President Tsai Ing-wen as President of Taiwan in 2016, the Government of the People's Republic of China has intensified its efforts to pressure Taiwan.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/167...
That was a fantastic read. It doesn't prove that it was lab-made, but I think it soundly rejects current arguments that it is a natural recombination. It also is a wonderful explanation of the furin cleavage site and why that is such a key mutation for amplifying the virus' infectiousness.
I company I worked at had 20 or so sites on a headless API based CMS. Basically you’d enter structured data in their proprietary backend, and the site would request that data as JSON via the API. The marketing department hated it with a passion, because there was no way to do “one-off” things without involving IT, and IT hated it because marketing needed permanent handholding for the simplest of things.

After about a year of paying €8000 a month for hosting they replaced it with one really good 100% custom WordPress theme.
Another shell that has a similar philosophy is Nu[1]. I think the idea of structured shells (and typed shells?) is a very interesting path to improve UX and prevent certain kinds of common error.

[1]: https://github.com/nushell/nushell
Also x86 mov instruction is Turing complete! [1]

There is a guy who run Doom with only mov instructions, but it is of course incredibly slow, one frame every 7 hours :) [2]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9751312

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16218872
Currently almost 100% of Americans have not caught and recovered from covid-19. Herd immunity is a long ways off.
It's pretty easy to find official answers to that question. This is from the bccdc.ca website:

> Masks may give a person a false sense of security and are likely to increase the number of times a person will touch their own face (e.g., to adjust the mask).

http://www.bccdc.ca/health-info/diseases-conditions/covid-19...
> I am suggesting that you are preferring a rate based on an even more biased method, because the method yields a bigger number.

What method? I merely stated that PCR has limitations, I never said I was using it to calculate IFR.

For the record, my assumptions are that IFR is around 1%. That is largely based on the Diamond Princess data. The original paper suggested it was 0.5%[1], but at the time there were only 7 fatalities. The current number is 13. The raw IFR is now up to 1.8%. Crudely adjusting for demographics based on the ratio in the paper puts the IFR around 1%. This is the only population that was both comprehensively tested and occurred long enough ago for most of the cases to resolve (although some cases are still active/critical[2]). And I fully acknowledge that this approach has limitations. It is a small population, it happened earlier in the crisis when we knew less about treatment, etc... But I sill think it is the best data point we have.

> If a handful of internet denizens can quickly point out "methodological flaws", it usually means that the "methodological flaws" they have discovered are well-known and accounted for.

Except the Santa Clara study did not do that. They acknowledged potential bias, but did nothing to adjust for it. From the source:

"Other biases, such as bias favoring individuals in good health capable of attending
our testing sites, or bias favoring those with prior COVID-like illnesses seeking antibody confirmation are
also possible. The overall effect of such biases is hard to ascertain."

The LA and NY papers have not been published yet.

[1] https://cmmid.github.io/topics/covid19/diamond_cruise_cfr_es...
[2] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
> Grocery stores could provide safer working conditions by checking temps of employees before entering the store and providing masks and gloves for all workers

Checking temperatures is pretty much useless, when you can be totally asymptomatic, while spreading the virus for days.

That's the big difference (and difficulty) as compared to the first version of SARS, where symptoms appeared virtually instantly after infection.
Again, if you read the advice ...

"However, the following potential risks should be carefully taken into account in any decision-making process:

• self-contamination that can occur by touching and reusing contaminated mask
• depending on type of mask used, potential breathing difficulties
• false sense of security, leading to potentially less adherence to other preventive measures such as physical distancing and hand hygiene
• diversion of mask supplies and consequent shortage of mask for health care workers
• diversion of resources from effective public health measures, such as hand hygiene"
Don't Wear a Mask for Yourself
Lincos Language
Amid Signs the Virus Came Earlier, Americans Ask: Did I Already Have It?
Larry Summers Advising Biden Campaign on Economic Recovery
How is it terrible?
Like "wear masks in public to lower transmission probability"? Anything that will let us carry on in a way that's close to normal is fine.

"Flattening the curve" was, at least here, generally translated into "stay at home if possible, keep 2m distance in public, close non-essential stores and offices". And those aren't sustainable, and they come at a price.
From "AP Exclusive: Health agency spends more on travel than AIDS" [1]:

> Senior officials have complained internally that U.N. staffers break new rules that were introduced to try to curb its expansive travel spending, booking perks like business class airplane tickets and rooms in five-star hotels with few consequences.

> “We don’t trust people to do the right thing when it comes to travel,” Nick Jeffreys, WHO’s director of finance, said during a September 2015 in-house seminar on accountability — a video of which was obtained by the AP.

> the compliance rate for booking travel in advance was between 28 and 59 percent.

[1]: https://apnews.com/1cf4791dc5c14b9299e0f532c75f63b2/AP-Exclu...
Cider was huge, the main reason to plant an orchard. IIRC selling the idea of apples as a healthy thing to eat (and perhaps even apple pie as patriotic) was a clever marketing "pivot" under prohibition -- orchards were otherwise headed the way of the brewers & distilleries.
Singapore tycoon is US$1B richer every month as ventilators sell out
It is bizarre the study was out of China and was temporarily posted on the WHO’s website.
Isn't 70% accuracy too close to random (50) to say it works?
I'd like to see someone create a CMS that uses HTML files to store data and let's you query and copy data between the files using CSS selectors. This, to me, would be the simplest CMS.

You could just do:

<div data-copy-content-from="#about-page .profiles"></div>

And that would go into your about page, copy the content from there, and insert it into the current page.

If you built it out well enough, you could do everything using just static HTML and CSS files and just syncing the content whenever it changes.

I've been thinking about this idea for a while. I even started my own framework to try to make something like this work. I'd love to know what other people think.
How Cheap Can You Get a 6.52-inch Smartphone? DOOGEE’s X95 is only $60
Show HN: Turbo Boost Switcher – Keep your Mac cool and quiet
I originally wrote "billions", thought I was exaggerating, so I edited the post. Probably off on the other side of the interval.
Someone posted this in the Mac thread yesterday. I gave it a try and it has worked well for me so far. I spun up Divinity 2 and could play it on low settings without fan noise or excessive heat. That hadn't been possible before.
Communal Work
> What do you think their real motivation is?

How about political pressure?
Animal Crossing seemed like a game that my kids might really enjoy relaxing with and I was prepared to pop for it on the launch day. Reading about the one-island-per-Switch and primary vs. secondary users thing kind of killed our interest in it, however. None of them wants to (or should have to) settle for second fiddle. Seems like a really odd oversight for a company that tries so hard to be family-oriented.
Orbit, video reconstruction of time-lapse photography taken from the ISS [video]
Taiwan didn't even have a confirmed case until January 21. They couldn't possibly have reported anything but unconfirmed rumors from China. WHO warned about human-to-human transmission as soon as it was confirmed by Chinese scientists.

The US cutting funding is obviously a political move in order to shift blame away from the utterly incompetent government.
Powershell is kind of half baked. In Powershell you mostly interact with in a functional manner (chaining, filtering, etc) but Powershell for whatever reason provides nearly zero functional programming features which makes it painful to script in. IMO anyways