skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experience with crony capitalism was frustrating, confusing and unfair

There, I fixed the title for you.
First off, R may be annoying to learn (for instance, just concatenating two strings takes much more typing than Python, say) but once you get to data analysis it’s a dream. (And certainly more Pythonic than Python’s alternatives, which result in code cluttered with lots of periods and references to packages and sub-packages everywhere). Also, the packages work really well with each other—-with Python it seemed like every time I’d upgrade packages with pip, I’d end up with a new conflict I’d have to sort out. And, frankly, having to rely on Anaconda to keep everything from breaking is not exactly ideal. So props to CRAN!

Gotta say, though, one of the most annoying things about R is the name. Entering “R” as a search term on job boards tends to lead to a lot of not-very-helpful results.

Also, it’d help if the version release names had more order to them. So you’d read some ridiculous phrase like “parachute trombone” and know that it must’ve been released after “mouse parade”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensegrity

This has been a "thing" on reddit for a couple of weeks now and with lots of people being bored right now the results were quite diverse and interesting:

https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/g2230l/lego_tensegrit...

https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringPorn/comments/g05lld/i_b...

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/g44sz8/my_first_attem...

https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/fcnum5/finally_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/fh5cvo/thought_...

etc.
This is a deliciously ironic place for a paywall.
Agree on the pay side. Something like seems like it would be good to give a 30 day trial or something at least.
My dellbuntu works quite well.
Thread parent referenced a distiller. Distillation is the process that turns fermented products into sanitizer and other wonderful fluids.
They have huge false positive rates though.
It’s always high on these antibody tests, low on tests approved by the FDA.
It's just a matter of a lot of research. I've been thinking for a long time that now that we have tonnes of memory and cpu power, its time to add hardware that keeps track of stuff and make things easier to understand.

For instance when you look at hex in a file, you see a bunch of numbers, but it would be nice if there was some inference and cloud database of commonly used tropes/functions and could infer concepts, ideas of what the programmer was thinking.

Currently with code, you get someones thoughts that are then translated into a language, then are then translated into machine code.

It would be nice not to lose information regarding what does what in human readable language, I understand for performance reasons why programming languages as they currently are do what they do.

But c and c++ were really designed when hardware and memory was expensive. So they are "too the metal" in terms of their model.

I think reimplementing a basic machine, aka actual hardware design has to be done at the same time as a compiler is made, and work out the theory concepts behind it.

The fragility of von neuman machines and their code has always bugged me, the machine can only blindly do what the hardware is designed to do, since hardware is all about speed, you want to minimize information, but for coding, it would make sense to have machines developed just for development and have "light code" for when you release it out into the wild.

Either way I think there is plenty of innovation left, it's just a lot of research at the hardware and compiler level so that you have base foundations and abstractions to make real innovations in understanding how programs behave.

One of the massive issues is not being able to understand cause and effect in programming which leads to bugs, because the brain can't make easy models of how code or algorithms will behave.
"Not dead yet"
This is a great feature I did not know about, thanks

I don't understand how it applies to the OP problem. Even without "zero installs", yarn all by itself with a yarn.lock already ensures the same versions as in the yarn.lock will be installed -- which will still be a reproducible build as long as a given version hasn't changed in the npm repo.

(It looks to me like "yarn zero" is primarily intended to let you install without a reliable network and/or faster and/or reduce the size of your deployment artifacts; but, true, it also gives you defense against a package-version being removed or maliciously changed in the npm repo true. But this wasn't something that happened in OP case was it? A particular version of a particular package being removed or changed in repo?)

In this case, it was a new version that introduced the breakage, not changed artifact for an existing version. AND the problem occurs on trying to create a new project template (if I understand right), so I thin it's unlikely you'd already have a yarn.lock or a .yarn/cache?

Am i missing something? Dont' think it's related to OP. But it's a cool feature!
There’s both support for chromium devtools (including devtools extensions) and I just launched a new custom Element inspector that’s even more convenient. What would you miss?
Not sure where you're getting 1h12 from. First issue was reported at 12:18pm (my time) final update that fixed it was published at 3:08pm.

Not that long, but my issue with this release snafu is that:

- the build didn't pass CI in the first place

- the CI config wasn't updated to reflect the most recent LTS release of node

- the update happened directly to master (although that's to how the maintainer wants to run their repo. it's been my experience that it's much easier to revert a squashed PR than most other options)

- it took two patch versions to revert (where it may have only taken one if the author could have pressed "undo" in the PR)
What numbers are you using for sensitivity and specificity?
People not attending hospital with serious conditions is a very real issue but you've buried it under an anecdote that you can't control your drinking, exercise independently or brush your teeth adequately.

Covid-19 might be the wake-up call you needed to get your personal maintenance in check. This will drag on and may happen again in the future. No time like today.
C is close to the interface the hardware presents you – that is, the instruction set – but far from what the hardware actually does.

Caching, out-of-order execution, branch prediction, speculation... all of those things are just as opaque to assembly as they are to C.
I'm confused your takeaway here. It definitely does have very "pop-science" data, throwing together whatever data is available in order to create an appealing product that seems to tell you something. The agenda is definitely more pro-environmental and anti-water bottle though. If they were trying to show a more neutral comparison of bottled cost to tap for a region, it wouldn't be phrased in terms of a savings.
The goal is still to get back to containment, from yesterday's press conference: "Koch: Das ist genau unser Ziel. Nämlich eine Situation mit einem so geringen Infektionsrisiko, dass man alle Kontaktketten zurückverfolgen kann. Dann wäre es auch möglich, ein etwas normaleres Leben zu führen. Es ist extrem schwierig eine zeitliche Voraussage zu treffen. Der Trend ist im Moment positiv und wenn wir unter 100 Fällen am Tag sind, ist das Contact-Tracing wieder möglich. Das kann in ein paar Wochen aber auch in ein paar Monaten sein."

Re-opening some things is not a contradiction, as long as you keep the reproduction number <1 you are on a path so that you can contain things. Stricter measures mean you hit them earlier, laxer measures means later but you might not damage the economy as much ... but in any case they said if it flares up again the strict measures come back.
> A certain strain of Reagan/Bush conservative intellectuals of that era.

This is a very vague description. Maybe you can provide some specific names and ideally some citations people directly making this argument? For instance, saying that less employment security would lead to more stable marriages?

I was a young child during the Bush I presidency, so I wasn’t really aware of philosophical debates among conservative “intellectuals” at the time, but my impression from afterward is that the (disingenuous) claim was always that getting rid of unions, privatizing infrastructure and institutions, halting antitrust enforcement, gutting labor laws, forcing welfare recipients to get jobs ASAP, etc. would spur innovation, help small businesses, grow the economy, and ultimately increase wages and wealth for average residents.
Can you explain what you mean by "struggle"? If you click on the page, it brings up what amounts to several character maps; there's a 'g' in the upper right-hand quad. Then you can move the cursor around as before to observe the changes. But I'm not sure what's wrong with the 'g'; is it on the X- or Y-axis that you see problems? what kind of problems?
The test seems so freaking flawed to me, if you test isolated ISS astronauts, you would get half of them infected. Or probably aliens are infected too. Maybe some people who are dead for million years are infected as well. No one freaking talks about the test being flawed (rtpcr).
For those with the capability: the paywall does not apply pre-HTML.
Glad you liked it. It was fun to figure out all the ways you could mod the game too.
/Author of LieroKit
It didn't break because of the source, it broke because of all the packaging/module bullshit around it. It seems the Javascript ec(h)osystem has firmly come down on the philosophy of "make modules very easy to use, but very difficult to make (correctly)".

The predictable explosion in dependency trees has caused the predictable problems like this one. I feel I much prefer the C/C++ way of "modules are easy to make, but difficult to use".
There is a free 14 day trial that I’ll happily extend for anyone that asks. Give it a try!
I'll venture a guess that by Wednesday the news cycle will be deep in the implications of very high asymptomatic case count... Assuming we don't start seeing contradicting evidence.
What if Karma is real and that’s the only currency we need?
I host a service too.

https://exchange-rate.bai.uno/

- free

- based on Eu Bank, update daily

- host on a EC2 instance
> instead of just listening to what people tell you is happening

Can you elaborate on what you’re referring to with this phrase? As far as I can tell, everyone here is reasoning from their personal experiences rather than adopting the opinions of others.
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"Just their usual whining because that's what prisoners do. These are not the symptoms you are looking for. Move along."
I don't see how this is "capitalism" in any sense of the word, crony or otherwise... but yes, your point stands.

Any one who expects a square deal from the present administration is either naive, or in on the grift.
Whereas the car signal is time set aside to check one's texts and notifications.
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Not entirely true. The process is not automagic, because you manually have to search bits from the device tree and put them into the one from mainline kernel. Furthermore fiddling with uboot is often needed. But it's absolutely possible to have rock solid operation with mainline linux. It just lacks the (right) vendor defaults in all sorts of places for now. This is my experience with Allwinner. But since i'm watching that SBC ghetto closely i'm aware of that being the case for the other vendors too, more or less.
And when everything is perfect the device is obsolete, EOL.

G

(edit: reminds me of fiddling with custom ACPI tables because of crappy BIOS on PCs)
oooh yea!
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You're probably right that they shouldn't be, but case statistics are regularly treated as an official census. I've seen many news articles in the vein that suchandsuch country is handling it better or worse because of their case numbers, or statistics like CFR that are computed from official case numbers.
I can write programs in LabVIEW in a few hours that would take me weeks in another language. Not all of that is due to the graphical nature, most probably due to the domain specificity and IDE integration. LabVIEW makes it super easy to create GUIs, visualise data and debug whilst running.
Nurseries are partially opening as well, they have limited capacity (something around 50% at the one our kids are going to). In reality it's not bad because a lot of parents don't want to send kids, so parents who want to, likely can (we can).
WHO says we can't assume previous infection means future immunity.

https://www.who.int/news-room/commentaries/detail/immunity-p...
Did anyone else here apply for EDIL from SBA? I did on March 30. I've heard nothing. Anyone wanna compare application numbers? I'm 3600058### (masked last three)
The jump in rhel from 6 to 7 basically made it incredibly hard to tune Linux for very low latency performance requirements. Fairly simple on 6 but 7 made it very difficult. There are lots of tools available, nohz etc, but it doesn't help much. Primary core on each numa node is also loaded with kernel threads causing huge amounts of jitter.

Basically everything is tuned for running web apps with loads of procs for people who don't really care about latency of 100s of millis.
You can almost see the pain in 50% of comments here - it's almost like their pet disease might not last until November elections!
I mean it in the sense that they are copy cats.
Visual programming is great for some application areas.

I recently wrote software that allows you to transform data step-by-step visually (https://www.easydatatransform.com). I think the visual, flow-based approach here is a real win, especially for non-programmers.

However I wrote the software in a primarily text-based programming environment (C++ and QtCreator). I think it would have been a nightmare to do in a purely visual programming environment.

Horses for courses.
Any good optimizing compiler is able to achieve this, there is nothing special about C in it.
> by throwaway888abc

Pretty funny, good enough for reuters but not for HN it seems...
I'd call it following the Unix philosophy instead of a workaround.

> Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new "features".

Both AppImage and Firejail do one thing and do it well, you can easily combine both and get what you want.
I did similar calculations, and found the institutions in charge give us very unreliable data. The term "corona case" is very, very, ambiguous and cannot the understood as such without a detailed explanation on how the counting was done.

Thanks for sharing.

I found the peek in all-case mortality also very interesting, because that way counting is much more unambiguous: dead is dead.

They showed a clear diversion from the "average" in recent weeks, but... they did not show the stdev for the averages. Finally I found a chart that shows that "outliers" are not uncommon.

https://imgur.com/IPNiXRe
We use https://openexchangerates.org/ and they also have a free plan. I’d love to know how you compare. They do commodities (silver, gold, etc) and some crypto. What is your USP?
Do we know the rates already?
> But no clear way to confine it to the harmless crowd.

That won't be what the public policy decisions will be based around if the asymptomatic and already exposed rate is so high.

We don't know enough to make that decision yet, but testing more broadly was the first step.

Remaining steps:

- Do they get sick in two weeks?

- Skip testing for current sickness, and test for antibodies instead.

- Get a better antibody test that is more accurate

- Understand how well antibodies work, and for how long

and then we can make decisions, even if they are as simple as "this is a systemwide over the air update, some people will get bricked"

it's becoming clear that we might end up with a society where the average BMI is under 24.9 simply due to the lower oxygen and resource requirements to support those body systems.
Well, it isn't proof. It is evidence, though. And in two weeks, we will have a lot more evidence.

A lot of this is like Russian Roulette -- there's a huge amount about this virus which we don't know, and it could be super-bad or not-that-bad. It could also be there are bad and not-so-bad strains. Or it could be bad down-the-line.

Until we do have proof, I'm advocating being conservative. In 2 weeks, we'll know if people are turning up in ERs or in morgues. In a few months, we'll know about lung damage, immune system damage, strokes, or a lot of the other potential consequences. In a year, we'll know about vaccine and long-term immunity.

I think the key problem here is failure to understand risk management. I can believe one think, but act another way just in case I'm wrong. Or I can be unsure. And so on. That nuance is lost in the right/wrong discussions.
That's quite interesting, although back in the day we did that for C dependencies that weren't packaged well, and it quickly ballooned the size of our repo since git has to treat tar balls as binaries. Even if you only update a few lines of the dependency for a patch version, you re-commit the entire 43 MB tarball (obviously that depends on the size of your tarball).
Which doesn't really say anything about the effect on transmission of the virus/effect on infection rates especially between people are not in especially close quarters.

To be clear, I'm certainly not against people wearing face coverings but I'm skeptical it does much good.
I actually have a lot of pity for the auditors who are going to be going over the books for this years. Some of the direction to organizations has been vague and a bit odd (e.g. use existing money and we will send a check to refill those funds). This is another case of the government moving faster than proper rule making can handle.
They only need semi-plausible deniability. Just as they called a voice vote with straight faces, they'll be able to feign surprise at all the predictable results of that vote.
Well, you have to also consider that most of us write a lot of high level code and very little, if any, assembly code, so we shouldn't expect to be good at writing high performance assembly without practicing. I've seen some rather amazing high performance hand-written assembly code, by people who write it often, but I certainly wouldn't be able to do it, without a lot of study and practice.

Of course, for most people and most uses, its not worth the effort.
Unfortunately, that's not redundant, because `typeof null` returns "object":

https://2ality.com/2013/10/typeof-null.html
> Call me crazy, but... I don't add things to my projects without looking at the source.

This is manageable when you are using Packagist, this is manageable when you are using Maven, where all dependencies are flat. When compatibility issues arise they have to be dealt with upstream.

This is NOT manageable when you are using NPM that will go fetch 30 different versions of the same package because crazy dependency resolution.

This is not a JS issue like people claim here, this is 100% a NPM issue because whoever designed this was too busy being patronizing on Twitter rather than making sensible design decisions.
I don't doubt that this works well but there is a good reason that other hospitals are not using this approach. As the article mentions:

"This approach is not without risk, however. HFNCs blow air out, and convert the COVID-19 virus into a fine spray in the air. To protect themselves from the virus, staff must have proper personal protective equipment (PPE), negative pressure patient rooms, and anterooms, which are rooms in front of the patient rooms where staff can change in and out of their safety gear to avoid contaminating others."

"UChicago Medicine’s Emergency Department recently doubled its number of anterooms, thereby doubling its capacity to give ?high-flow nasal cannula to patients. The main hospital also added negative pressure rooms on two floors, making it safer and easier to take care of COVID-19 patients."

Not all hospitals have the ability to double the number of negative pressure rooms or even provide needed PPE to all caregivers.

A ventilator on the other hand allows for a HEPA filter in-line that prevents the spread of the disease within the hospital.
REP MOVS is still extremely fast --- and also small. It'll copy cacheline-sized chunks if the size is large enough.

LOOP is a bit of a weird case. I've seen it benchmark both slower and faster than dec/jnz depending on the surrounding instructions.
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Well, here the (original) maintainer is the one doing the forking, so there's a bit of a twist.
That doesn't mean it doesn't, it just means it isn't scientifically proven yet.
Yes they did [0], but the current administration is "bad" so we can't bring up any of the good things they've done.

[0] https://nypost.com/2020/04/03/us-government-will-cover-unins...
I also had that thing with the NOP happen to me once, with the program with the extra NOP running 2x as fast! Took a couple of days until I finally figured out what was going on.

After much investigation what I found out was that the original code without the NOP was actually running at only 1/2 the speed that it should. Due to very bad luck, the addresses of the jump targets in the inner loop where placed in a configuration where the branch predictor failed to predict the jumps (perhaps because of collisions in the internal "hash tables" used by the jump predictor). Any nudge to the executable would get the program out of the pathological configuration. Using a different compiler version, different OS , or different CPU model all did the trick. But the most fun of course was that adding or removing a NOP also made the difference :)
I know that the California studies used the same test kit. It had 2 false positives out of 371 samples of pre-covid19 cases, and has a 10-20% false negative rate. Because the case numbers are so small, the false positives can skew things quite a bit. I took the midpoints of their 95% confidence intervals in the spreadsheet.

I don't know what tests the other studies used.
Wife's email may have tainted Stanford coronavirus antibody study
> If you move your pointer left and right (or up and down) in sweeping motions and follow it with your eyes, you'll notice that the rectangle is trailing behind the pointer by quite a long distance

that's definitely not what I am observing (https://streamable.com/9u4cpx). Enabling the predictive tracking, however, is quite nauseating especially in circular motions. Please don't play with your users' cursors !
And false negatives.
Only until the point that they don't. Unfortunately that requires a lot more people to have had covid...
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I don't know a lot about the antibody tests. Is the novel coronavirus novel enough that they know exactly the kind they're testing? Is it a specific test for SARS-CoV-2?
While in this case, the soviets came out ahead, the deal was not inherently unfair.

It appears the price was set based on market rates on the day the deal was done. In effect, the USA just sold all the grain on that day, more than they actually had, not on the actual day of delivery. They just issued a futures contract.

Had the price of grain fallen on world markets, the soviets would have lost out.
No-one is assuming - we are weighing evidence and there is far more evidence that it does provide at least some immunity than none - it seems oddly disingenuous of WHO to make statements like this because they know how it will be interpreted.
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