skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An echo chamber sure feels good.

This is what I know - SARS-COV2 is novel and not even highly trained, world renowned infectious diseases experts know how it behaves and how to treat it.

I don't, for a second, believe Youtube has figured that one out.

Now whether you have decided to reject all competing hypothesis to something you have already decided to be the truth so you can move on with your life and be productive in areas you find valuable - that's your call but if I see you foisting your opinions on what kind of content I get to see, that's you infringing on my freedom and we have a problem.
I didn't say the Fed calculated it. I did say they reference it to say their policies (or whoever's policies) aren't causing inflation.

When a majority of leading economists subscribe to economic views that don't reflect the lived reality of an average person, it may not be a conspiracy, but the effect (groupthink) is similar.
Heh, interesting, didn't know that.

I was just trying to pick a random example.
I thought this was common knowledge. Don’t the chains like Walmart do the exact same things?
When they were released in the 1990s they were pretty capable machines. The OS had its issues, but I don’t think it faired badly against DOS/Windows 3.11. They were however largely limited to the UK marketed, and had a more limited selection of software.

I’m not sure it’s really fair to characterize them as “crappy”.
Diesel: A Utopian Reformer and His Engine
Public transit certainly didn't cause NYC-like levels of transmission in Japan, though it has a similarly dense public transit system.
High-Resolution Daytime Translation Without Domain Labels
A Taste of WebGPU in Firefox
> Database, security, accessibility, performance, infrastructure, tooling and productivity, business concerns, workflow processes (agile), language concerns, new things

Hammers, nails, tape measures, saws, levels, reading blueprints, adhesives... If you want to be a professional, you need to learn the tools of your trade. Being able to work directly with a SQL database is a foundational capability in the software development trade. ORMs are a mental crutch that are overused to the detriment of many systems.
A related question I was recently asking myself: would it make sense to put two (or more) A13 SoC in a Macbook (context: Apple must see enormous economies of scale now that the A13 is also in the iPhone SE)?

Ask HN: Would it make sense to put two A13 into a MacBook or iPad?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22955301
> That's not necessarily true

The Fed is driving up the price of junk bonds, so it clearly is true.
Research on Acoustic Activity Recognition – Make Dumb Devices Smart
You need to migrate to JAMstack in 2020
The point of pretty much all exploits is to find ways to bypass that very feature.
You don't even have to force people to behave one way or another.

You can skirt around the ethical issues by giving Sample A an unlimited supply of free masks, and keeping Sample B as the control sample. Even with free masks, not everyone in A will wear a mask. And some in B might still bring their own masks. But A will have higher mask use on average, and with large randomly selected populations you can tease out the impact using IV regression[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_variables_estimat...
I've used DigitalOcean (ref link -> https://m.do.co/c/a2a2c0826ff3) to host my Django sites, both with postgresql and sqlite. It will take you some time to figure out how to host it.

Once you a succeed each subsequent time becomes much easier. Plus you get to learn a ton about server management.

There are fantastic posts that will help you.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-...
AWS is offering ARM servers at a discount right now.
I seldom see issues porting C and C++ to ARM unless people do weird things with casts that are undefined in the language spec but that work on X86 or use X86-specific vector intrinsics. Most well-written C and C++ compiles out of the box to ARM and just works.
I think the watchers are more trust worthy than uhhh random devices in proximity.

I would like to see a request for data be logged along with a description of an offense. An international government committee with at least 1 randomly rotated member from each foreign country each of which has the key. (there is no key inside the country) If just one deems it necessary the footage is made available to either local law enforcement, a judge or a citizen who has legitimate reason to review it. If no offense is found nothing is released. If the choice is sufficiently dubious the reviewer is reviewed and replaced. (plenty of people with eyes)

That way we can have tons of cameras without all the paranoia.
Can device drivers be written in EBPF?
Folks are getting owly in lockdown...

Many startup concepts are simple, and have catchphrases. Pivot. Lean. Standup. And on and on.
Agree with you about Amazon experience becoming less ideal.

Since the beginning of 2020, I submitted a couple of product reviews with detailed and factual explanation about why products in question aren't good enough. One of them was Amazon basic chair [https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-Low-Back-Computer-Chair-...], which makes squeaky noises after 6 months of use (I'm a 135 lbs male), and another was Secura milk frother, which also make screechy noises after 1 month of light use (once or twice everyday). Turns out my review for their chair didn't get posted, so I tried again and finally wrote a question on the product page as to why my review isn't showing up. Then the review somehow showed up a week after. For Secura, they don't have a way to upload a video in product review (I see some people uploaded videos/images, but in my Amazon account UI for product review, there's no such feature), so I took a video and uploaded it to YouTube and shared the link as an example in my review. They wrote me a week later saying my review was not posted because of third-party links, so I went ahead and removed the YouTube link and only described the title of my YouTube video if anyone wants to search for it. No words from Amazon after two weeks of submitting that revised review. So I just checked the product review button (as seen in My Orders section) and the message I wrote there is still there. So I just clicked submit again. We'll see what happens.

In the past, when you write review, you get an email from Amazon telling you either that they are reviewing it or that it has been posted. Now, the experience is super confusing and subpar. In the worst interpretation, you even start to suspect if they post every review or they censor some based on their bias toward the seller (e.g., Amazon Basics products get less negative reviews)

Also, since COVID-19 made the shipping times are significantly slower on Amazon, I opened an account on AliExpress last week and started ordering some items. Unfortunately though, the effort it takes to sift through products on AliExpress is still much more challenging/tiring than that is on Amazon now. So some of the comments here are correct that although Amazon is not living up to our ideal vision of how an online retailer should be like, they are still ahead of their competition... I hope it changes some day and we see a decent competitor so that it is better for consumers (although I'm not sure if it'd be better for warehouse workers though...)
I definitely get the point about static typing. I've seen the same need in legacy codebases myself. :-)

That said, I'm head-over-heels for Elixir. As for autocomplete and such, there's a pretty good project for vscode called something like "Elixir LSP (fork)". Be sure to use the fork version, it's a continuation of the old stale original extension.

In more general terms, the `elixir-lsp` project is pretty solid (and lies underneath the VSCode extension, FWIW), and I've had good luck with it so far in neovim with CoC + coc-elixir.
Your UI is slow because of IO and RAM and O(n^2) code, not CPU. Look at your activity monitor.
> Banning advertising doesn’t make this problem go away unless you can also enforce it worldwide.

It makes the problem go away to a certain degree in areas were ads are banned. If we banned ads in Europe and US, Russians using Yandex and Chinese people using Baidu would still see ads but we would not.

However we wouldn't see much at all for a while I guess since a number of big internet companies seem to be almost clueless when it comes to ordinary decent business models like "I pay you money, you provide me service without telling every shady tracker in the process.

So I'm not arguing for a ban on advertising as that is completely unrealistic, would hurt tje economy badly, woild be next to impossible to enforce and also counterproductive: I've seen ads that improved my day or even my life.

But I certainly wouldn't cried if someone had stopped WhatsApp from selling out to Facebook. And I certainly wouldn't have cried if online ads became more like ads in newspapers and magazines: static, doesn't move, doesn't make noise, doesn't send requests, embedded into the page server side instead of running giant multi-kilobyte applications in my browser.

Maybe I'd even stop blocking ads of they were less dumb, more relevant and didn't make my computer crawl.
The articles elaborate. In Japan and Singapore contract tracing is much easier,

Japan

> Less than two weeks later, she tested positive for the virus, and the authorities swiftly alerted others who had been at the club. As more infections soon emerged from three other music venues in the city, officials tested concertgoers and their close contacts, and urged others to stay home. All told, 106 cases were linked to the clubs, and nine people are still hospitalized.

Singapore

> Singapore's biggest cluster of Covid-19 patients, traced to a restaurant in Jurong, had more than just a dinner in common, said Ministry of Health director of medical services Kenneth Mak yesterday.

> "We've recognised that many of the individuals linked to this particular group of people getting infected had many common social activities," said Associate Professor Mak, pointing to other gatherings such as singing classes that infected individuals had taken part in together.

> "So, in fact, their social interactions went well beyond the dinner in that particular location, and as a result of those close activities... that's where the spread is actually occurring," he said.

Washington was at a choir, where everyone would have known each other

> Health officials said all 28 choir members who were tested for COVID-19 were found to be infected. The other 17 with symptoms never got tested, either because tests were not available or — like Comstock and Owen — the singers were under the impression that only people in dire condition were eligible.
Why Sex? Biologists Find New Explanations
I want people claiming vitamin C and turmeric will cure COVID-19 to have a voice.

Whether that voice has value is an individual decision you and I get to make, on our own.

What data do you have, that proves diferuloylmethane is ineffective in treating COVID-19?

Are you 100% sure that diferuloylmethane cannot be an ingredient in a battery of medicine to help recover from COVID-19?

This is what I know - SARS-COV2 is novel and not even highly trained, world renowned infectious diseases experts know how it behaves and how to treat it.

Not a central authority that removes that choice from both of us leaving us with no choice.
Of course they do. Like everybody else. Who doesn't do market research?
Yeah, but did they control for people with “Germanic foreheads”?
Uh, actually, the notion that the economy has the capacity to provide enough for everyone is a falsifiable statement supported by facts. You can analyze the total amount of resources and the amount of work required to produce them, and figure out how they could be distributed differently. We've known for a long time that, in the US at least, there is enough food, shelter, and healthcare for everyone.
Another detracting factor in the ventilator value calculus is the number of doctors and nurses infected while treating intubated patients. It is very difficult to contain the contamination when removing tubes as the patient always coughs. I'm not sure ventilators save net lives.
Yeah my former company would have benefit a ton from something like this. I guess it takes a culture to make this a thing. Instead we just built abstractions around the “other” team’s product so that we didn’t have to deal with their bugs or tech debt.
The size of the visible object is determined by it's real size and distance... That's to say, no it will never look big.

But it can look very bright, so it illuminates the sky. It would certainly be interesting to have an object so shiny that it creates a glowing halo around it, but I'm not sure it would be safe to look at that halo.
Harvard saw free money, and they grabbed it.

It went to "financial assistance to students," some of which I'm sure was what it was (e.g. they presumably helped students with housing or transportation or what-not), and some of which was surely circular (they billed students for a service, paid for that with public funds, converting public money to private money). I have no idea the split.

But yes, Harvard has plenty of funds to weather this crisis. But no, it didn't get there by turning free money down, or being particularly picky about where money comes from.

The only time Harvard will turn down money is if it is perceived to impact their brand. That's usually done be returning money if they get caught (as with Epstein), but they have been known to do it preemptively in select cases.
Is this any different than what other stores do with their own store brands?
Linux works fine on that little RAM, but if it's an older machine, you should check out the price to upgrade. Spending $30 on 8GB would be a huge quality of life improvement.

At 4gb, I'd also look at lubuntu. The UI uses less RAM than Gnome and at that amount of RAM, 1-200MB is significant (plus, LXDE uses less CPU power too). I actually run i3 on a lot of older systems to save even more (but you'll have to learn how to using tiling systems -- not hard, but something more to learn nonetheless).
This collection is an inspiration for illustrators. What an emotional range this guy https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/photo-ark/animal... has in his photos! I can see some Orc-inspiring features in him as well.
>>> Sweden's death counts are the most statistical precise ones so far, exactly because every death from someone tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 is counted as a death from CoViD-19.

So if the 95 years old who already withstood 3 heart attacks dies from the 4th one, and he tests positive for SARS-CoV-2 you then blame his death on CoVID-19, and not on his weak heart? Doesn't make much sense to me.
How important is SQLite to you? I run https://crushentropy.com/ (high-res scheduling) on Google App Engine (Standard) with data persisted on Firebase. It costs me $0 per month.
Ideally you have a highly functional public health system, testing and tracing, implement quarantine, reasonable isolation measures and border controls and don't need need these heroic medical interventions.

By the time you have hundreds or thousands of people on ventilators I think it is clear you have done something wrong.

Looking at the results in countries that were pro-active dealing with this pandemic and it is hard to see how it got so out of control in many other countries you would naively expect to have equivalent or better preparedness.

We are not out of this yet and perhaps even countries that have just about eliminated this virus will get overconfident and fall to later waves but at the moment it looks like there are some clear winners and losers.
Yes, this is an excellent example.

I was also thinking of all those little online tools that solve trivial problems like formatting JSON, decoding URL parameters etc.
The fed is buying junk corporate bonds that would otherwise plummet in value.
Absolutely agree, Amazon used to be my first stop for most online purchases. If I was shopping for something I wasn't super familiar with it was a fair bet I could quickly find most of the 'best' products in whatever category it is on Amazon. These days I have to wade through cheap clones of the exact same product rebranded, all with wildly different reviews and product descriptions in broken English.

Recently I find myself doing a 180 and returning more to in-store purchasing (Current pandemic situation aside) because I've been burned so many times by random Amazon orders in the last few years. To be fair their support has always made the situation right, but after a point the value from ordering from Amazon is gone if I'm rolling the dice on whether the product will match the description or be defective.
I made a free website to help you find in-stock necessities!
But current android phones support usb otg, right? If I need access to a lot of storage for media, I'll just put it into a usb stick and plug it on the phone when I need it. Sure it's not as convenient has having accessible 24/7 on the phone, but it's not like I'm going to watch movies often on the phone, only occasionally on long trip.
Your link doesn't say what you imply it does, only that promiscuity is not the ONLY cause. Which is true, anal sex (vs. vaginal) and role switching are also huge factors, as evidenced by the study they reference.
> I’ve yet to hear anyone say they wish the home button would come back

Easier, harder, better are all relative preferences. I have iphone 7 and my partner has the iphone 11 max. I use both mechanisms everyday and hate the gestures, the weight, the loss of one hand operation.
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Same in Germany. Started training archery in the woods as sport and needed arm protector. Amazon offered plenty of them, most the same as in AliExpress. Or the ones as in specialized archery stores with 20% higher prices. Sadly there were no archery store near by to walk in and I was limited to online shopping.
Thanks. I browsed through the job ads with keen interest, hoping to find something that could possibly pay more. Sadly for me, most of the list seems to be in the US. Ah well, hopefully the ecological software job market will expand so that competition for developers will also raise our salaries.

A somewhat sad thing is that ecological analysts (who are the principal users of my software) get paid a lot less than I do because our employers don't have to compete as much in order to hire them. For software developers, employers have to get their pick from the general pool of software developers who can generally get relatively high-paying jobs elsewhere, so that prevents my salary from going down too much. My salary, however, is about 60% more than a greenhouse gas analyst. This somehow seems unfair, but I don't know how to fix it.
Don’t riders almost universally wear masks on public transit in Japan?
If you want to see the shock front move on something like a second timescale, I'm pretty sure you need to be close enough to be in real trouble.

Typical expansion velocity is on the order of 10 000 km/s radially, so you get 20 kkm increase in diameter per second. For safety then, 20 kkm should correspond to a barely perceptual angular change, which wikipedia tells me is around 1 arc minute.

So if you are close enough to just see the shock front move, you have about an hour until it gets to you, and if you want to avoid being overtaken you need to be able to move at ~ 10 kkm/s.
Adding a disclaimer like this to the middle rather than all the places in the article where they might be implying that SSEs only occur in certain documented situations is disingenuous at best and deliberately misleading at worst, in my opinion.
First issue on the repository: [Asking for F-Droid support][1]

[1]: https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-mail-android/issues/1
Why sellers would use a market place that is obviously going to compete with them is beyond me.
I don't like touchscreens on laptops. I call them smudge screens because your screen ends up looking like the bottom third of your windows when you have a dog or a toddler.

Touch screens belong on small form factor devices.
Chrome Galvanizer – Harden Chrome via enterprise policy
We already have laws saying that advertising must be marked as such. And the advertising companies are trying to make the marks as invisible as possible.

How little font size can you use? Maybe a size that a person with perfect eyesight can read, but older people cannot, and even the person with perfect eyesight would easily miss it, that is technically legal, isn't it? What if the font color is hard to distinguish from the background color? How far from the advertisement can the warning be placed? If there is a warning, and a small advertisement next to it, and then a longer unrelated text written in different visual style, but still on the same page, it is obvious that the warning applies also to that other text, right? Or, if you are Google, just say that "everyone knows" that the first two or three search results are paid for, so there is no reason to mark them explicitly.

(EDIT: What words should you use for the warning. "Advertisement?" "Sponsored links?" Is it okay to use some words that 90% of your readers would not be sure what they mean, but technically they mean what they are supposed to?)

Then there is the question of what exactly counts as "paid speech". If I send the money directly to you, obviously. If I instead send them to a charity you own? If there is no cash, but I give you hundred bottles of wine? Does it make a difference if you write wine reviews, and you use samples from my gift? If I send you a computer with pre-installed software that you review, and I tell you that you don't have to send the computer back when you are done? If I invite you for an expensive vacation... sorry, I meant "conference", paid by my company? Or what if I never give you anything, just offer to write the articles for you, so you can give them to your boss and take your salary without having to do any work? What if you actually pay me for writing the content, but I give you a discount if I can choose the topic? What if I offer free food for members of the press when they provide coverage for my event? What if no transaction ever happens, but I will simply provide coverage for my friends and ignore the people I don't know.

I am not sure if a clear line can actually be made here. Taken to extreme, even private bloggers would not be allowed to write blogs about topics they are interested in, without providing some disclaimer like "the topic of this article was not chosen impartially". That would be silly, wouldn't it? But then, everyone with more obvious conflict of interest will claim that their case is analogical to this.
So its silicon -> OS driver -> Vulkan -> gfx-hal -> wgpu-core -> wgpu-rs

Anyone has an idea how much performance those layers of abstraction cost?
This plan is supported by the region (~ state) rather than the city of Paris. Next regional elections are in March 2021.
SN 1006 – “likely the brightest observed stellar event in recorded history”
I question if modern ethics are perhaps too focussed of the wellbeing of the individual, at the expense of the wellbeing of all of us...

Or, to put it more bluntly, a modern ethics committee would have rejected the idea of installing sewers in cities to prevent disease because one builder of the sewer might have died in the process. Without that, industrialisation probably would never have happened, and we'd all be subsistence farmers today.
When U.S. air force discovered the flaw of averages (2016)
I didn't renew my prime membership. Why am I paying for things that no longer get shipped in a timely manner, and a lot of things I want I can no longer get because they have determined it's "non essential." Most deliveries take 2 weeks to get here instead of 2 days. Yes, I'm aware what's going on, but that doesn't change the fact I'm paying $100 for a service that I am no longer receiving.