skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you provide a source on this?
Yeah, but so is Russia’s GDP. For reference, Canada has a higher GDP.
We are feeding parasites, and they've been evolving.

Is there real value to the article? I mean, really, more than the "oh well value is relative" thing... Wonder how it would be if Newton would have preferred to watch a movie (or an equivalent at the time) instead of taking a stroll thinking of his theories and finding inspiration in a falling apple (the equivalent at the time).
Interesting pitch for Janet. Here [1] is a quick rewrite in Red language, which lives up to the author's requirements: 10 LOC, native support for all 3 major platforms, can be shipped as a single binary, and all that's required is a 1MB toolchain.

[1] https://gist.github.com/9214/dfa15d37342065dbf368eae35abcdc3...
It means that either your firmware has more complete HID driver (doubtful) or, or likely, it properly sends "switch to boot proto" command.
fuckedcompany.com - I would check this site daily as a young 'un who just started working right at the beginning dotcom bubble burst
rotten.com - If you ya know, ya know
We could have done dedicated housing for them for cheaper than what we have currently done. So, maybe?
Liero was one of Soldat's inspirations.
It is the Science of Computing. Memory Management is a great example of this. You learn the theory behind memory management, physical vs virtual memory, pages, swapping, with the goal of being able to understand how modern computing handles memory. And down at that level, it's all theory and math. You don't actually need to use a computer to understand it. Something like sorting lists at an algorithmic level can be applied without a computer. Part of CS is understanding the most efficient way to sort or traverse a data structure- a computer isn't needed to apply it.

It's like Medicine. You can know how the human body works down to a cellular level without ever touching another human. It's not very useful without another human to apply it to, but the science and application of that science can be two distinct topics.
You don't miss the websites, you miss being young.
Not every death is the same - a 80 year old with weak immune system could have lived 5 years longer without corona, but a healthy 20 year-old dying from cytokine storm caused by influenza has lost potentially 60 years of healthy life - the loss is much worse.

In a triage situation, where you have to decide between different people dying, such choices are unavoidable or necessary. But I want highlight that you are talking about this stuff to say that it's OK to plan for the death of "a 80 year old with weak immune system could have lived 5 years longer" versus no death at all. And that's not OK.
Oof. Though I have fond memories of playing HoverRace over dial-up links as well as Liero on local co-op...
Well,we can put a man on the moon with less computing power than we carry in our pocket, and that's far from the most impressive thing we've accomplished in a long long list.

> hn is probably not where we solve epistemic dilemmas.

The repulsion to things like logic and epistemology on a programming website isn't the type of thing I believe we should strive for or celebrate, but I certainly can't disagree with your assessment.
But that doesn’t really matter. It’s like if you have a net worth of $50 and an income of $100, but your buddies have an income of $100,000 and a debt of $70,000
The major reason for suspecting long-term consequences were initially extrapolations from SARS and other related diseases. This was speculation. This was confirmed with chest x-rays in China: long-term lung scarring. People wrote this off, since it came from China. This was recently re-confirmed in Europe. Young people come off of COVID19 with reduced lung capacity.

What we should be doing is mitigating damage to those hundreds of millions of people. That's a lot easier to do than just about anything else in this equation.
>higher fatality rate helps show what was avoided

Isn't the opposite of flattening the curve, to absorb the hit all at once. You would expect a much higher death rate for a shorter amount of time.
I previously tried an approach which uses DRL for feedback but I couldn't quite get it to work: https://www.gwern.net/GPT-2-preference-learning

At the moment, it probably would be more practical to train a model to predict ratings and use that to screen generated samples or possible completions and throw out too-low-scoring ones (the 'ranker' approach worked out very well for the Meena chatbot recently: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.09977 )
>is only about 5% slower in actual usage and often is actually faster

Think about that for a second. The 6s has a slower cpu, gpu, disk, wifi than the xs, yet it often performs faster? Maybe this means there's something wrong with the benchmark. Does 6s some sort of secret sauce that they forgot to add in the xs? Maybe there's something that they're not accounting for? Maybe the 6s running with a hot cache and not the xs? Maybe the xs was recently used and was hot?

Also, I don't get the popularity of this style of benchmarks. They're not representative of actual usage. Cold app launches account for maybe 1% of my smartphone time.
> TSC could respect the compiler version and flags of each package's tsconfig.json

That’s the problem - there is no tsconfig.json. You’re only importing a single URI.
The floor is low. Absolute isolation is impossible. The nuance is that we lack so much knowledge to make a less restrictive choice. We basically are not advanced enough to act with clarity beyond broad moves. These are just pent up ramblings. Too much isolation. It’s the right thing. But with better knowledge and systems this would not be needed. We have the tech. Maybe we should not.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/04/warns-coronavirus-imm...
I agree. Find me ONE, just ONE commentator, sage, whatever you want to call them - find me one whose grand predictions actually came true.

Sure, there are instances of people being right, but I'm talking about "sage" characters that are going around doing interviews and such.
The correct fruit metaphor is apples to apples.
Because people with the worst symptoms go to the hospital.
Nobody, including Sweden advocates doing nothing.

What they and other people that use a bit more foresight say is that there is no need to panic and overreact - and that you can get the same results with measures that do not make your population jobless.

The strict lockdown was and is a massive overreaction that gave in to alarmism.
You're partly right, formal methods don't catch problems that you assume does not happen in your assumptions (herein, the "operational semantics").

If this plan to formally verify internet algorithms included the Wi-Fi standard and implementations, the KRACK vulnerability wouldn't be an issue because it wouldn't verify (with respect to certain specifications, if they realized that those specifications were important to begin with).

But in the first place, most operational semantics on this level still stay at layers of abstraction high enough that they don't guard against Spectre and Meltdown.

Nevertheless, note that formal verification is also widely used at the microchip level.
There is definitely a lot of evidence that people who test positive will eventually die. It might take 50-100 years, and they might die of something else, but yes they will definitely die. Plenty of evidence of that.

But seriously, what is this evidence you speak of?
fray.com - still around, but the old site is archived, not active

theschwacorporation.com - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwa_(art)

kuro5hin.org

scottland (can't remember if it actually had a .com) - website of Scott Thompson, of Kids In The Hall
Digital's search engine. I miss Veronica very much too (to early I guess to count). Also, do you recall something like paranoia.net or similar?
I wasn’t suggesting the grant be taken back, but that she voluntarily hand it back.
In essence, the papers argue that DNA is microcode ROM, and for any particular cell the actual "user code" is contained in "the molecules that regulate the cell's DNA and other functioning systems."

>For example, the gene for eye color exists in every cell of the body, but the process that produces the protein for eye color only occurs during a specific stage of development and only in the cells that constitute the colored portion of the eyes. That information is not stored in the DNA.
Write me if you find something we'll paid outside of tech. I'd love to get out, but nothing (I could do without years of training beforehand) would pay the same.
All the Ezboard and Proboards communities I used to post in.

Would love to browse the posts I made in that ten year period of my most formative years on the internet.
Lol. Dalio is too big to bother with insider trading. With $160bill under management, that leaves like what, ~50 companies he can't just buy outright in the entire world?

Please stop watching Billions and thinking it represents anything close to reality.
Zeihan and George Friedman are really good. After getting perspective from reading them, prepared to be annoyed by geopolitical commentary on HN.
How much of the economy is truly essential to living? Tourism is great but I can live without the old way of doing it. Widget production and selling has diminishing returns, even for pleasure.

Perhaps a social-distancing-world is incompatible with consumerist capitalism. Yet I hope for all the suffering from the virus and lockdowns we'll at least gain a new perspective on life and work.

Edit: forgot 'world'
On the Diamond Princess it was about around 14. I would expect prisons to be much the same.
That may have been a mod, or a clone (e.g. OpenLieroX, Gusanos). WebLiero is a faithful port of the original Liero, so the amount of gore is identical.
Not only has no one said that, it doesn't even make sense in the first place.
From about 30 seconds of clicking on links, it seems to be the same author.
A sorted list needs to not only be sorted, but to be a permutation of the original list.
The web comic Leisure Town (1996~2003), particularly the comic "Q.A. Confidential", was one of my first major exposures to Bay Area software industry humor when I was still a young bedroom programmer. It's certainly from an earlier time with regard to its language and many unfortunate -isms to the point that I almost hesitate to post it on HN at all, but it's still a gem that some times feels like it hasn't aged a day in two decades: http://leisuretown.com/library/qac/index.html

"Well, they grow up. And they spend that time implementing every possible hideous idea in some form or another for someone:" "What's up this time? Another tired 3-D maze game? Maybe a new way to help people share and care and collaborate? A JAVA MCDOODLE? GREAT! HOW MUCH $$$."

"i'll spell it MICRO$LOTH WINBLOWS in a DELICIOUS TWIST"
This is a very good explanation of the how and why of the Swedish strategy https://bppblog.com/2020/04/23/the-swedish-exception/
Quarantines have a very long history.

For relent history 1918: https://history.com/news/spanish-flu-pandemic-response-citie...

- Citizens caught in public without a mask or wearing it improperly were arrested, charged with “disturbing the peace” and fined $5.

- In his book, Jacobs says that the gauze masks city officials claimed were “99 percent proof against influenza” were in reality hardly effective at all. San Francisco’s relatively low infection rates in October were probably due to well-organized campaigns to quarantine all naval installations before the flu arrived, plus early efforts to close schools, ban social gatherings and close all places of “public amusement.”

- On November 21, a whistle blast signaled that San Franciscans could finally take off their masks and the San Francisco Chronicle described “sidewalks and runnels… strewn with the relics of a tortuous month.”

... Believing masks were what saved them the first time, businesses and theater owners fought back against public gathering orders. As a result, San Francisco ended up suffering some of the highest death rates from Spanish flu nationwide. The 2007 analysis found that if San Francisco had kept all of its anti-flu protections in place through the spring of 1919, it could have reduced deaths by 90 percent.

As to discrimination based on heath issues: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mallon
US is the "buyer" who has the money. China is the biggest supplier of goods. A statement like the above is overly simplistic. The US will exert power and influence in a buyer's market, and will lose influence in a seller's market. Which market we're in is an be interesting discussion, and it predicates any prediction of the future.
These patients still need the care and monitoring you'd get in an ICU, and there's zero indication the "medical establishment" is opposed to it - high-flow oxygen is used regularly in hospitals in a variety of scenarios.
Didn't relate, but thanks for sharing anyway! :)
You know that joke about the two hikers who stumble upon a hungry bear and one of them goes about fastening his laces ... oddly fitting.
It's a sign of the times that this, one of the most level-headed and factually-accurate comments on this post, is being downvoted so heavily.
suck.com
Effects of Covid-19 on Consumer Spending Using Card Transaction Data [pdf]
Totally. Sort of surprised it is so blatant and that HN is eating this up.
Lake Ontario (Canada) water definitely has some chlorine taste/smell, but you get used to it and it is perfectly safe.
If you can get the infection rate down enough so it doesn't overwhelm your ability to do testing and contact tracing you can relax restrictions.
"$10 trillion dollars can also be destroyed for practically no benefit at all."

$10 trillion is probably over twice the (financial) cost of WWII adjusted for inflation. Having numbers of that size written down, deleted, moved around, doesn't mean we are suffering that level of loss.

As far as comparing covid to flu, I was talking about annualized daily deaths from covid, compared to a normal year of flu. That was deliberate. I'm saying, if it neither increases nor decreases from this point on, it's nearly ten times the rate in the long run.

You are comparing the total deaths from covid, assuming it declines and goes away in due time. That would be fine in a vacuum, but you're using the consequences of trying to stop it to argue the efforts to stop it are unnecessary. What is the point of this sophistry?
suck.com, kvetch.org, four11.com, Cool Site of the Day.
Used to lurk on slashdot since my employer barred me from posting anywhere publicly.

There were many fun, experimental, one–off sites in the early days that barely lasted a few months, let alone long enough to be archived by archive.org.
> In rare (1/10000) cases, incubation time can reach 14 days

What's the cite for that number? I'd be very suspicious of anything claiming a 5-significant-figure result in a disease that has only (heh) 3M known cases.

In fact there's significant supposition that the incubation time and asymptomatic contagious state can last much longer than originally guessed. This would go a long way to explaining the difficulty of detecting early outbreaks (basically nowhere in the world was able to contain before community spread was happening) and the anomalously low rate of new case decline post-peak. But there's no good science on this, and probably won't be in time for it to be useful.
yerf.org

and more recently, webcomicunderdogs.com, all the webcomics discussion has vanished into private discords or facebook groups or forums run by the comics-on-your-phone companies and I just do not vibe with any of those methods of communicating...
> It's as idiotic as it is well meaning. Just remember that life will always be unfair, and that anger isn't an ideal way to handle it. You're going to dominate no matter how much these elitist morons try to hold you down.

College admissions depend much more on things you can't control than most people realize. For example, preferences are often given to children of donors, children of alumni, applicants from different states, and even male applicants (many colleges seek a 50/50 ratio.) At the end of the day, it can be almost random that one person is admitted while another is rejected - perhaps that person was a concert violinist and there were too many violinists who applied that year!

Fortunately it is possible to get an outstanding education nearly anywhere you attend. One data point is that faculty jobs are so competitive that nearly any professor who is hired needs to be some kind of superstar, regardless of the institution. Moreover, most colleges have very useful and often excellent facilities in terms of libraries, computing and online resources, laboratories, performance spaces, gyms, etc., and tend to be full of interesting people who you will learn a lot from. Community colleges in particular are the best bargain in education - affordable tuition, and faculty who are actually there primarily to teach students (rather than publish papers and raise money, which are higher priorities at research universities.)
Most Ontario Canada's water is from the great lakes
Reminds me of bars in NYC back when smoking bans were implemented. They all thought they would lose business. They gained it instead as new customers who had been avoiding bars because of the smell of smoke flocked there instead.
>Hydroxycloriquine and Remdesivir were the best hopes and in controlled studies, they aren't showing effectiveness. While an effective treatment is still possible, it will likely require a new drug to be developed and tested

They were the best hopes in the sense that stockpiles existed, not that they were the best at fighting it. For example, Camostat and Favipiravir are other candidates but not approved in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_drug_repurposing_rese...
Do not know if it is in the article or not but I guess the reasoning from GP goes like this: huge percentage of people are pre-symptomatic. The median time for symptoms to appear is 4-5 days from infection time, so they were probably infected in a very short period of time recently.
Thanks for the list. I'll keep these in mind for my next GUI project. I've used Qt a few times for hobby projects, but was thinking about trying something else for my next GUI project.
I'm reminded of the repeal in 2011's of the US military's "Don't Ask Don't Tell" (despite John McCain's filibuster), as well as President Truman's 1948 directive to integrate the armed services.

The US military has always been remarkably influential, as we see when important issues of public affairs can be moved by a purely military decision. Perhaps we shouldn't rely on a warrior elite so much? (ex-USAF enlisted here)
Space Jam

Oh wait, it's still there. And still the same as 1996.

https://spacejam.com/
>Western (US / EU) demand is what drives China's growth.

China's exports are not as much of an influence on it's GDP as you would think. The difference between China and the US is less than 10% of GDP.

China's middle class has grown very wealthy which has undoubtedly reduced China's reliance on exports and stabilized its economy against outside interference.
Kind of. But which one would you bet on in a startup position?
I agree with you, I'm just giving you feedback here: if your goal is to change minds, it is in your best interest to provide sources directly.

Nobody will care that you didn't want to jump through hoops if you've lost the ideological argument in the court of public opinion.
One thing I was hoping to see from GPT-2 is phrasing. Most of the folk music they're using as input has a structure of internal repetition that lets you know where you are in the tune. Most commonly: AABB structure, 64 beats total, with every 2^n beats clearly grouped. Some of the examples seemed to have this at the 8-beat level, but I couldn't find any with it at the 16, 32, or 64 level.

Here's a random snippet of a real tune where you can clearly hear the AABB structure: https://www.jefftk.com/contras/tunes/cast64__starabovethegar...
Unless she is independently wealthy there would be a strong incentive for her to not admit the error if there was an expectation to hand the money back. Where is it supposed to come from?
Great, a bunch of ancedotes, still absolute garbage.
Thank you for this link - this is the reason I come here :)

Seeing those numbers makes me more supportive of the isolation measures.
Nothing there is at all incompatible with what I had to say. In context, the WHO is saying that getting the disease once may not be a lifetime immunity to COVID guarantee and shouldn't be used as the basis for issuance of something along the lines of yellow fever prophylaxis certifications like these [1].

I agree. In fact, its highly unlikely, as with coronaviridae we've seen that the milder the disease the less likely you are to obtain long-term immunity. Even SARS, a much, much more serious disease, gives you 2-3 years as per my reference.

However, that's not what GP was arguing. GP argued broadly that "people who test for antibodies [may not be] immune to future infections." That's extremely unlikely. The question is how many people, and for how long, and then how do we utilize that information. Broadly speaking a positive test for antibodies means you're pretty likely immune at the time the test is taken. Of course the question is how that antibody response changes over time.

I was pretty clear about that: "Generally for as long as you show antibody response you won't be re-infected because that's what antibodies do."

The WHO is saying don't issue one-off certificates of immunity for life on the basis of testing positive for antibodies at one point in time before we know more. I agree.

I suspect a round of infection is likely to tide us over to a broad vaccination program, but we need a study.

[1] https://thegate.boardingarea.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/...
It's roughly the same but per capita, definitely worse.

IMO, Russia will bide her time. They have a lot of intelligent, entrepreneurial people. Just need the government to loosen up a bit.

Or perhaps, most of the economy doesn't need GDP.
When the checks clear.
Could compositors be optimised to eliminate the extra frame of lag in the case where every window on-screen is being displayed “directly” by invisibly switching to a mode that maps each scanline and pixel column to a window’s framebuffer - and non-client areas to the window-manager’s UI buffer which is directly read by the monitor signal generator. While this would mean transparency effects wouldn’t work, it could supported with some special-casing. Basically a framebuffer-less hardware compositor. I think rendering windows to 3D deformable meshes [makes for cool demos](https://youtu.be/USedxVrU2Ko) but in practice we just don’t use it for anything besides window open/close animations.

I had to use a monitor running at 30Hz for a while (4K over HDMI 1.4) and while that was bad enough, the compositor’s lag meant all window contents had an extra (unnecessary IMO) delay of 33ms. Add on to that normal monitor input lag.

We’ll probably all shift to 120Hz w/ variable-rate refreshing as a new baseline standard over the next 10 years as Apple seems to be heading in that direction - at 120Hz the lag of the compositor would be acceptable - but I’m worried lazy that graphics devs are going to use that as an excuse to add another frame of latency...
> If the system looks like it will exceed the passenger numbers that makes this level of distancing possible, station entrances will be temporarily closed until congestion eases.

Now you still have close crowding: it's just outside the gate and not getting anywhere. I guess it's more about metro companies being able to say "didn't happen on our trains".
I am very interested in an invite.
suck.com was great!