skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Epidemics are something for which the mechanism of action is fairly well understood. The exact response of R to various measures is not known beforehand, but we can make decent guesses about what will reduce transmission.
Most people don't know this, but Nokia had hit upon a lot of these ideas before the iPhone, but didn't act on it : https://venturebeat.com/2010/09/27/nokia-had-iphone-like-pro...

They were an innovative company, till internal culture or complacency killed it (conjecture).
Am I the only one who thinks of Moloch aka Edgar Jacobi, the old villain in Watchmen dying of cancer?
Does this apply to all Samsung phones or just flagships?
A Change in Central Banking?
And the ICU load has hovered around 80% the last couple of weeks. Which was the goal of the chosen strategy. Current goal is to keep things below that while things develop
Tell them to try using in airplane mode
Most countries are seeing excess mortality compared to previous years, much larger than could be explained by a bad flu year, which means that covid-19 is absolutely a real threat, we haven't seen anything like this in a hundred years, and countries should absolutely take measures to protect the population.
I'm watching the coronavirus task force press release right now and the Surgeon General just doubled down and said masks don't protect you from getting the virus, and that medical professionals need them because it protects medical professionals. So he's still lying to you.

My belief is they are deliberately lying because they are managing you rather than informing you. The lie is to encourage compliance on turning over masks to the medical professionals. But even if I'm as generous as possible about their intent, it still has destroyed their credibility.
ZecOps reports Apple Mail zero day vulnerability since iOS 6
The Nintendo Switch - which Nintendo has already shipped millions of units of, giving them a ready market for any software they release, even if they never ship another Switch.
> Unless things can be scientifically proved, the individual rights of citizens should not be restricted.

Sorry, but this doesn't make, err, common sense. If you have a huge fire, would you put off evacuation order until it is scientifically proven that an area will burn down? By the time you are sure, it's usually too late.
I do like the reliance on the high trust society in Sweden, but I also feel like a wider circle of experts could be consulted for such a decision.

Even if it may not be a good model of human behavior, it's sometimes useful to consider "rational behavior" - if only to judge the resilience of certain mechanisms.

In this case, "social" behavior is in a sense very altruistic. If I am young and healthy, recent media reports (accurate or not) would suggest that limiting myself to staying inside, practicing more hygiene and such, is costly but doesn't significantly reduce my own risk. At the same time, isolating risk-groups may not be sufficient, and younger people may genuinely be at risk. So, it would be desirable if everyone practices social isolation.

If that is true, social behavior is a collective good: The more people stay inside, the easier it is for myself to go outside and, say, enjoy the sun in a park or have fun in a club. Thus, my incentives are not aligned with the goals of these recommendations. And if everyone thinks that way, social distancing will not be achieved in a "decentralized" fashion. Indeed if everyone is that rational, such a decentralized but workable "recommendation" does not exist.

Now, I stress that people do not fit this model, especially in Sweden. But in situations of anonymity, e.g. with many people involved, it has sometimes proven useful to check the robustness of one's decisions against the case where people act rationally.
In that case, laws and regulation do make sense.
Thalmic Labs too.
Well technically yes. It effectively died in the 1930s when England stopped using it and the US forced citizens to hand over all gold. Its peak in usage was ~1870 to ~1910.

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/09/gold-standard.as...
Unless a bunch of people deleted their comments, at the time you posted, the comments actually criticizing the name had about as many words as the first half of your comment, with replies mostly pushing back instead of agreeing.

None of the critical comments were particularly strident ('bent out of shape').

Your comment might as well be about itself.
One possible mechanism by which strong leadership could be more effective is that inaction and uncoordinated action can be less effective than any coordinated decision, regardless of whether that decision happened to be optimal.

I don't know how often this happens in a pandemic or in a political setting, but as an example from software engineering bikeshedding seems somewhat common -- it probably doesn't matter whether curly braces get a new line, but there's probably a benefit to only doing it one way in a codebase. Not that strong leadership is the only path to resolution either, even accepting that some cohesive decision needs to be made, but it does solve that class of problems.
If you can drive 400 miles on a single five-minute break, you must have very fast car or a hell of a bladder :)
Time-series compression algorithms, explained
It only increases the relative probability of a fatal crash by 6-20 times (as of the 1970’s, according to DOT, .10-.15 BAC). So it’s basically the same as taking multiple trips. If you take some care in route selection, or drive at 2:00 am when nobody is on the road, or drive from the pub around the corner, it’s less risky than that.
2months is nothing. dark times ahead unfortunately.
netlify is the de facto build/host for gatsby
The case against billionaire philanthropy
> Thiel and Musk have a track record of success though. Yes, they're lucky, but they also seem to be smart and capable.

Thinking someone has expertise in X therefore they are good source for analysis on Y is the logical fallacy I linked to above.

Contrary to what silicon valley believes, there is no such thing as being "smart" in a general sense. You can be capable in certain things, maybe you are faster to learn in others.

That doesn't mean any founder with a billion $ exit should be asked about public policy.
https://golang.org/src/sync/map.go is not completely lock-free but yeah, I think it's trying to batch structural changes to the map (and atomic compare-and-set on existing entries) which isn't something I would rewrite casually.

There's just no good reason that you can't reuse it without rewriting all call sites. []T and map[K]V and chan T should implement interfaces, everyone should always use those interfaces, and monomorphization should skip the runtime dispatch.
MIPS is typically seen in computer architecture class because it is simple and regular (at least the original version seen in class). However, for Assembly programming, MIPS, like (almost?) all RISC instructions sets, is tedious. Give me any CISC with a generous range of addressing modes, and I take any day over MIPS/RISC.

We can make a parallel between those low-level ISA and high-level languages: a language like Lisp is lean and simple so it is taught and presented as good design (and people who went through that education keep that in memory), but when it comes to produce real program almost everybody chooses a much less regular language, which is way more practical. (Same could be said for stack-based languages like Forth, which present an extremely simple model to apprehend, but that doesn't mean at all that it is simple to program in.)

Or postfix vs infix for mathematical expressions/calculations. Same principle: the one which is based on a very simple model is praised by aesthetes, but almost everybody prefers the other one, which is simpler to use because it is more natural, despite being based on a more complex model.

In fact, the simplicity of the model is not of much interest for the user, it just makes the life of the implementer easier. But for 1 implementer, there are thousands or millions of users, who want ease of use, not ease of implementation.
The details of the epidemic matter, though. For example, closing schools is a fairly obvious intervention in flu epidemics - kids are really likely to get it and bring it home to their families, especially since they don't have the immunity that some adults might. It may actually be completely useless in this epidemic. Whilst kids can be infected, they generally seem to have very mild cases and there's some evidence they're no good at passing the infection on to others.
Peak Oil, a Specimen Case of Apocalypic Thinking
Some additives in cigarettes have been shown to dilate lung airways, suppress coughing, and disguise symptoms of illness:

https://www.verywellmind.com/cigarette-additives-2824737

Perhaps the additives are keeping COVID-19 patients alive by supporting breathing in difficult circumstances? There are hundreds of additives so figuring out if any of them help would be difficult:

https://ec.europa.eu/health/scientific_committees/emerging/d...
Literally anything that increases the friction between you and the virus protects you. Even a snorkel, with no filter at all, which forces the water droplets carrying virus to travel farther and around a few corners will likely provide you with some tiny bit of protection. It will do so because the extra turns increases the odds that the droplet will hit a surface or something and get stuck before entering your airway.

It's very reasonable to suggest that a trained professional with years of experience in dealing with contamination will have better results from PPE than an average person. But that's a wildly different claim than masks do not offer the general public any protection.
China is the most prominent example of how dramatic an effect quarantines and social distancing can have. There was a massive outbreak in Wuhan, with tens of thousands sick. Two months later, there were almost no new cases.

Extensive testing and contact tracing currently seems to be keeping case numbers under control. We'll see if they eventually have to go back into lockdown mode, but for the moment, it looks like the measures taken turned things around.
> Sweden is "peace-damaged". The last sort of national crisis we had besides the spanish flu was the Swedish–Norwegian War of 1814.

The second World War was definitely a national crisis. Huge military mobilisation, disruption to the iron and shipping industries including thousands of sailors dead, rationing, accidental bombings...even though Sweden was neutral that was a far bigger deal for her than the coronavirus has been.
I've read Wolfram's Wikipedia page. It doesn't contain a single word about the controversy that surrounds him and that is in evidence in this discussion thread. On the page for his book, A New Kind of Science, all the allegations of academic dishonesty, which to working scientists is probably more important than the contents of his work -- assigning credit for discoveries is how they get paid, after all -- has been compressed down to a single paragraph at the very end. And that paragraph contradicts itself on a sentence-by-sentence basis, first blaming Wolfram, then excusing him, then blaming him again and so on. So it seems that someone has been pretty successful -- more successful than not -- at erasing criticism of Wolfram from his Wikipedia presence. Therefore, I think Wikipedia's claim that he invented rule 110 in 1985 is highly suspect.

That doesn't matter much, though. Academics have a lot of ways to deal with priority disputes. Sometimes they author a paper together. Sometimes they each publish separately in the same issue of one journal. That's what happened when Darwin and Wallis simultaneously developed the theory of evolution. Sometimes, if the first discoverer was much earlier than the second, the second author might publish the work, and make a public statement in the paper saying the first author was first. This is what happened when Claude Shannon invented information theory only to learn that Norbert Wiener had done the same thing twenty years before. If Wolfram had documentation of his claim, some compromise could probably have been worked out.

Instead, it's a matter of public record that he sued Cook, alleging that the knowledge that Cook had done the work was a trade secret of Wolfram Research. I said before that scientists get paid by correctly being assigned credit for their discoveries. Suing to prevent a scientist from taking credit for their research is like armed robbery. There had been some grumbling before, but this was the moment when scientists recognized that Stephen Wolfram was Not A Real Scientist Anymore.
Mine was £5000. UEA in the UK.

It has paid for itself many, many times over since then.
Harels Algorithmics is a wonderful book in this same vein:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2378136.Algorithmics
Not to mention the OP participated in the debate about the name themselves. This being the top rated comment is a self-fulfilling prophecy, it’s getting in the way of a discussion about the tech!

Oh but now I’ve contributed to it as well. Uh oh...
I'm pretty sure it can (and might by default) use native controls on macOS, and I've heard of that possibility on other platforms as well, but I'm not sure how far that's gotten.
I find it shameful that a well funded company would do such a thing in a time of crisis. They're not in the tourism industry. It is sickening.
Generally it's not possible to compress well encrypted data with any meaningful scheme, but if your encryption is stream cipher based, you can subsample a stream of PCM audio on the server quite easily, by just removing, say every second byte (or every second pair of bytes). Then decrypting entities can insert dummy data at every second byte position, xor with the encryption stream and discard the data again, replacing it with interpolated data instead. Probably the same can be done for uncompressed image data, but any kind of serious compression wouldn't be possible and this simple compression can already be done on the clients without much overhead. So I guess it's mostly of theoretical use.

You would rather have each client send streams in multiple resolutions, say one in 1080p and one in 480p, and then make the central server decide which stream to send to which client. Taking one step further, the clients can be asked to adjust the quality of the stream they are sending depending on which streams they need. There are obvious latency concerns, but there are also bandwidth savings in having less data being uploaded by clients. Actually the bandwidth use is highest if the client uploads an uncompressed or barely compressed unencrypted stream for the server to compress. It's much better if the client's hardware did the compressing part.
I started when I was 29. I was a Product Manager with a marketing/business background and wanted to learn how to do it myself. Udemy courses on Go was where I first started and then progressed into building my own side projects with Go/Vue.

I decided if I was going to make the switch I needed to learn something new. Having 2 years of Go experience puts me on a better position in the market. I can't compete with the guy/girl who's been writing Java for 13 years but I have SOME unique skills as a Go developer. That was my strategy at least.

Even though I wished I had started earlier, being a late bloomer has helped because;

1. I have better processes for learning concepts than I did when I was young, and so I can progress quickly.

2. I have a broader perspective. Seeing things from the business/customer side for so long stops me from building elaborate complex solutions for inconsequential problems that won't make it to production.
Oh we're going to hear about lots of bad things due to Covid-19. It's the internet crash and Great Recession rolled into one.
I remember lurking around the oildrum.com back in the day. At least they folded up shop, which I can respect, but there was a lot of good discussions on there.
The Nick Parlante python videos. First time it ever made sense.
Replace "calendar blocking" with careful planning:

"Careful planning can boost productivity for most people".
So that would affect people who got the code, setup their build environment, built that code and then ran it??
r/wallstreetbets should revere him as their patron saint
That may (how shall we know?) have been the point they intended to make, but the statement we have to work with is: "Any field of knowledge that has been dissected into a taxonomy must be dead."

Is there some nuance of uncertainty in there I'm not picking up on?
Aren't electronics today more sturdy from am EM perspective than their counterparts in the 60s and 70s? Not that a strong solar flare couldn't cause problems regardless.
Mortality data and excess mortality data goes back decades, it's not like we suddenly started counting these things yesterday because of the coronavirus.

For Sweden's death count to be wrong now, they would also have to have been wrong going back decades, without anyone noticing. Or, the total all-cause death count would have to start being wrong about now because of unspecified reasons.

That doesn't make sense.
Me too. I'd be ok with lots of governments not developing nukes either. Or those that already have to significantly reduce their nukes.

Nukes suck.

Atomic energy though is pretty awesome. We could already have 100% stable, constant CO2-free energy if an entire generation of Americans didn't grow up watching the Simpsons
Make it not online. Make it completely usable offline without ANY form of data being sent to you or any registration.
There’s (sadly) not that much 68k left these days, is there? Do you know of any specific companies still using them? (maybe ones that are hiring? :)
The peak mortality in the UK from this might still beat the 1989 flu epidemic, and it'd probably have done so already if it wasn't for all the lockdowns, but it hasn't officially achieved even that much yet. And our lockdown was relatively late and lax compared to a lot of other countries, so much so that it's probably still a little early to see much effect on the total mortality figures.

(If you're wondering "what 1989 flu epidemic", it probably wasn't well known outside or even inside the UK except amongst people who lived through it.)
I'm taking this comment as evidence that I've succeeded in figuring it out.
> Why get bent out of shape over the name of a software project? It's virtually a meaningless factor in day-to-day life.

I don't think that it's worth giving much of a crap about it, but it is tasteless as fuck.

Molochism is the biblical name for the pagan practice of child sacrifice.

It's about the same tier as calling a software project 'Faggot Smasher' and then wondering why people would object to such a thing.
How can we say that banks are not taking any risk, but then imagine a class action law suit against them? Wouldn't the possibility of getting deluged with lawsuits count as a risk?
I fell asleep reading this article and had a sort of half dream about a post-apocalyptic game in which you the amnesiac protagonist (whose initials are “AZ”) gain consciousness aboard the MV Dirona, and to discover yourself must awake an ancient demon, a task that actually involves finding and activating long-lost AWS data centers, solving progressively harder puzzles using only in-game clues, a voice conferencing service over which a mysterious and cantankerous but also very tired-sounding voice feeds you tidbits of cryptic information in a mocking and self-righteous tone, and the gradually collected pieces of a 20,000 page wiki printout titled “Cold Start of AWS Region (confidential)” that is only about 80% accurate for each site.

Along the way you discover you are very good at playing yourself at board games, which is a key mechanic, and your rating improves with each region successfully started.

Final boss is us-east-1 of course, after which the identity of the “voice”, and the protagonist, are revealed.

Sort of like Myst, with an inverted Adam and Eve thing going on, and a lot more JSON.
Trying to suppress transmission until a vaccine is available is another option - one which potentially saves a lot of lives.
Health Intervention Tracking for Covid-19 (Hit-Covid)
Here you have to make a plausible argument that the expert who spent their life studying something has no idea what they're talking about and you somehow know better, or manage to one-up the parent who just did something like that with some exceptionally high-grade sophistry.
Ask HN: Gmail showing new ‘dev’ options at the bottom
My google apps / gmail account is showing two new links at the bottom left of my mobile web session.

1) In red is a link that says ‘Send internal feedback’.

2) Another link toggles between ‘Show consoles/Hide consoles’.

Neither link is operational. Is this a bug that is revealing internal developer links by accident?
That suggests there is demand for what they have to sell. Surely if they stood to profit, they would build it. They still have the Magic Leap listed for sale on their website. The real issue is likely consumers don't demand their product
You can only log in/sign up using a Google account? Thanks, but no thanks.
Learn something new. Learning new things is the only way to be happy. This is true on a neurophysiological level - the hippocampi of depressed people are shrunk. Happiness, positive emotions and learning and memory all take place in your hippocampus.

Learning and living are really the same thing. Both are just the formation of new synapses in your brain.

Practically speaking, change things up! Maybe find a new job, start a new personal project on something you've never worked on before. Take some time off if necessary and possible. But be sure to fill your time off with as many new experiences as possible.

Also, _passion is a skill_. Sometimes it comes naturally, but it can be cultivated, too. This is called the "growth mindset" (See Carol Dweck's book, "Mindset"). The growth mindset has been extensively studied over the past 3 decades, but only as it relates to intelligence. Now, psychologists are discovering that it applies to passion as well as intelligence[1].

So what does a growth mindset entail? You can only grow (in passion, intelligence, etc.) if you believe you can grow. So 1) believe that you can cultivate a passion in your career and 2) learn new things.

I had a pretty severe burnout 2 years ago. In my personal experience, the above is how I rediscovered a love for computers.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200306-the-surprising...
That's an example of bruteforce, but the blur itself can actually be reversed sometimes: http://yuzhikov.com/articles/BlurredImagesRestoration1.htm
Relevant: https://what-if.xkcd.com/60/
I got a degree in public relations and took a job doing tech sales at a Series A company. I was the 6th employee. The product was pretty unstable so I taught myself to code to improve their QA infra.(basically writing automated tests). I went on to build product for them.

Now I work as a SWE at FANG (not Amazon).

I definitely remember feeling like you did before I joined my first big company, but fortunately it's working out. Happy to answer any q's you might have along the way.
Better capacity (but most importantly density) is important also for electric aircraft.
For most forms of passive audio-visual entertainment, we strongly prefer new to old, for example:

* films

* jokes

* stories

* news

* documentaries

Music is unusual in how much we _don't_ seek out new items.
Intel’s unreleased 6 and 8 core 10nm Cannon Lake CPUs emerge
I don't think MIPS is going to completely disappear as long as Linux works on it. Someone somewhere in some country
will keep making them as long as the licensing situation is more favorable for whatever use than ARM or x86. If the owning company is going bankrupt that means making MIPS CPUs will be cheaper than ARM or x86.