skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’m talking about beautiful animations, native-feeling navigation, and an overall immersive, cohesive experience?

A lot of people don't consider the economics of UI animation.

Smooth animation only makes sense in powerful devices. For the past 10 years we've seen an increase in UI animations which required users to buy newer and more powerful devices to achieve smoother and more complex animations.

Look at any phone/tablet review and you will see the reviewer try to open the app drawer or something similar to showcase performance. "Look how fluid it moves!"

Perfectly fine devices are constantly being replaced and thrown away because they can't keep up with more and more demanding UI animations.

Another aspect is energy consumption, battery production, etc, which I don't think is negligible when considering billions of devices being used for hours every day.

And the sad truth is, very often UI animation is overused.
For once not just paying lip service to lean startup
Either way, he should know better to not speak about something that he is not an expert in. His job right now is to keep society calm and rational, and I feel he is doing the exact opposite.

I imagine most of us have been in technical meetings where people who have no idea about the real problem are speaking as if they are the expert. Its incredibly unproductive, and only slows down making real progress and and getting to a real resolution.

Even if he was right, which he is not, he should let his experts speak about these matters and get out of the way.
> He is one of those people who assumes that he knows more than the experts in those areas

Would you say the same thing about NNT or Socrates?
in Myanmar, there have been reports where landlords evict the medical workers(doctors/nurses) because they fear the virus.
Real state prices will explode. That’s what happened after 2009 due to QE.
Can you provide evidence to your claim? Not to mention that even if it were true, it would prevent or delay them from making $200k to $1m / year after residency. Hardly seems like a worthwhile trade-off.
Seems like Sweden is on track to hit herd immunity long before everyone else, with minimal economic damage. Their daily new case count has been mostly plateaued for weeks, like many other places in full lockdown.
I'm sorry to report that this analysis is completely wrong, and demonstrates a lack of understanding of the R object model. The class that is provided by tibble does not implement all of data.frame, and the OP is correct.
Both Unity and Unreal are still using older versions of PhysX.

Unity has an ECS physics module they made in collaboration with Havok called Unity Physics which is in development.
> it'll be supported as well as anything.

But how well is that exactly? Don't answer that, it's a rhetorical question.
This is awesome news with Fedora 32 right around the corner. I'm also in the market for a new laptop pretty soon.
Yes, many:

Godot has a 2D renderer and physics option, Defold is 2D by default, Game Maker Studio, Cocos2d, Corona, Construct, Phaser.io, Buildbox, Gamesalad, Stencyl, Clickteam Fusion

Unity is very capable of 2d games too and provides a lot of game structure and so do many other engines (I want to mention Heaps.io because it’s awesome).
It's just people playing "get Trump." Nothing wrong with lateral thinking. UV and disinfecting agents kill the virus on surfaces - OK, is there some way we can use that to kill the virus inside the body? I bet chemotherapy sounded crazy the first time someone suggested it.
It's not debt, it's only a number that reflect the accumulate of past government deficits.

A government is the issuer of the currency, so, nothing to do with the debt of a household or a business.
Why one team can create a project during a 2-day hackathon, while it takes a year to finish professionally?

(Game, chat app, anything.)

Well, large organizations have overhead for communication, management, etc (see v). But also there is a statistical effect - if we get many, many shots - sometimes we get lucky (in most cases - not; think of a typical hackathon project - usually it never gets properly started). So, in short, we see a huge survival bias.

...and it takes time to polish rough edges. For example, game Superhot started as a hackathon demo (with a single scene). It took Kickstarted crowdfunding, and a year of work to turn in into a fully-fledged commercially-viable game. (Personally, I think it is one of the most creative game ideas in the last years, especially for VR. I am happy that I crowdfunded it. :))
I agree. Maybe I've just gotten jaded from the usual responses I get when trying to talk about biology with tech people (where they just assume it's over their head and want painful analogies to "simplify" it for them) that it's a bit of a breath of fresh air to see people try to engage with it. Even if they're wrong, well, so was I about basically everything when I took bio 101. It's a way to have those assumptions challenged and learn more. If they arent open to it and are operating in bad faith, c'est la vie, peoplle gonna be like that, but if people are approaching fields they dont know in good faith, then it's a first step.
Those numbers are impossible to compare because countries are one different points one the infections-per-capita scale which is not know to us because we can't test all the population all the time.
Doing Python Configuration Right (2019)
The Zoom alternative tool Remote Teams have waited for had its biggest update
AI is helping triage coronavirus patients
Ask HN: Opinions on Talky.io
I've been reading about WebRTC lately and found https://talky.io. (I'm in no way affiliated with them.) The service seems solid, and it's free for up to 6 members. (The company providing the service sells access to a network of TURN servers along with a React frontend that simplifies client dev.) With all the talk here of Zoom/Jitsi/etc, I'm surprised I haven't seen it mentioned here, and I'm wondering what Hacker News knows that I don't. (As an aside, I'm also sutprised by the relative lack of mention of https://whereby.com, another WebRTC service that I'm also not affiliated with, but for my money, has good UX and does all the right things in terms of engineering WebRTC infrastructure.)
It also puts assets with positive rates of return out of the hands of the common person. Kind of like how an overheated housing market makes it so you'll never own a home and are stuck paying rent forever. If you ever wanted to own a piece of America's economy and get dividends in the future, now it's priced out of reach. This inflation in investment assets further cements the division between those that have to work 9-5 for a living, and those that have enough investments to live off their returns and not worry about becoming destitute. Jumping that gap between renter and owner is harder than ever.
This is not bad luck. This is the normal state of life. It may be depressing (non-clinical), it might be disappointing, it might be discouraging, but it is 100% bog-standard ordinary.

The feeling that you are suffering more than other people is the true harm caused.

Your points:

* Graduated at the wrong time: How many thousands of people graduated between 2008 and 2010? That is by definition ordinary.
* Never met that magical person to makes your life magical: You said it yourself. Do you think most people meet magical people?
* Resilient financial safety net: You've read the statistics, right? Most people don't have a month's income saved for difficult times.
* Mental safety net/health issues: OK, there's some randomness here. But many people struggle with some form of this.
* Having dependents: Well, blended choice and randomness, to some extent. But controllable usually, if you mean offspring. Adult dependents (parents) are harder, but far less common.
* Large company rips off/Some exec derails your project: Normal and ordinary. This is how things work. Disappointing, but don't let it be discouraging. That part is your choice.

I think you're conflating "lack of unusual good luck" with "bad luck". They are not the same. Don't imagine that the lucky individuals for whom the stars aligned are in any way normal. They just get all the press.
It's not. It's just that these companies shouldn't get handouts.

Buy back stocks in the good times, issue new stock when the going gets rough.

Right now it's "buy back stocks in the good times, get bailouts then the bad times come".
Bingo. Would you rather have a poorly managed company hold on to their cash and spend it internally, or return it to shareholders?
Just wanted to chime in and say, 6 months is actually not a big deal at all. Listening to people who say it is will only serve to add stress to your job search. I took a year and a half off to travel when I was 26 and nobody cared. You can explain it in any way you want to but I certainly wouldn't mention getting fired or specifics about your personal medical history. Good luck.
I'd be happy to believe that Sweden has found a better way to deal with things, but at the moment they have 5x the number of deaths per population of California (2150/10.1 million vs. 1500/40.0 million). That's not great.

I also think there's unacknowledged element of luck in a lot of these outcomes. A few infected individuals a month or so back in the wrong time/place makes a huge difference in the progression of the disease. Likewise when testing is relatively sparse, it's easy to get a mistaken view on where things stand.
To hack or not to hack: The blackhat hacker’s ethical dilemma during a contagion
I don't want to say that the Tidyverse is inferior, because it's not and it works for a lot of people. Hadley will also know much more about R and always be a better programmer than me.

However, there are other tools which predate Tidyverse, which I think so a stellar job at their core competency.

ggplot2 is great, but it was also around long before the Tidyverse concept. But at the same time base R plot() can also be pretty powerful[1] and look great.[2] As an alternative to ggplot2 I would also propose that Vega Lite[3] could be a contender, with an excellent cross language ecosystem.

There are also libraries available for applying SQL on dataframes from directly within R if that's what you want to do. sqldf[4] has been around for a long time, and now there is also the new duckdf[5], which is a bit quicker. Or one can use the DBI[6] library, which requires a bit more coding. Learning SQL is also a great skill which has a lot of value outside R.

Tidyverse may be useful, helpful and convenient for a lot of people, but I think we shouldn't lose sight of the wide R ecosystem which has provided a lot of alternative packages for a long time, perhaps without the marketing and profile of RStudio and the Tidyverse.

[1] http://karolis.koncevicius.lt/posts/r_base_plotting_without_...

[2] https://github.com/KKPMW/basetheme

[3] https://vegawidget.github.io/vlbuildr/

[4] https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/sqldf/index.html

[5] https://github.com/phillc73/duckdf

[6] https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/DBI/index.html
For anyone interested in more information:

I recently discovered Vito Iacopelli's excellent YouTube channel on (predominantly Neapolitan) pizza making. He runs a Neapolitan pizzaria in Los Angeles and covers things like stretching techniques, tests with different ingredients and fermentation processes, and methods specifically designed to be used at home.

https://www.youtube.com/user/maestrovitoiacopelli
I would encourage you to say what specific things you feel are wrong with news sources, rather than call them "globalist" as a swear word.
Yes, even minimal differences bother people.
> In my case, 30 days after we closed on a conventional loan, the bank sent us a letter stating the loan was transferred to Fannie Mae

I don't think that happened to me, the bank kept taking my money so I assumed the owned the house that I was paying them back for.

> The old days when you would closed the loan the bank would immediately package it and shop it around

This is probably mortgages 101, but why was that the case? Is it, in general, more favorable to sell off mortgage liabilities or where there conditions that made that true?
I think he mis-spoke by typing the Treasury.
SQL is incredibly verbose compared to dplyr. Modern non-SQL query languages coming out tend to be more more similar to dplyr, based on method chaining or piping data table objects through function calls, like UNIX pipes. It's much more composable than SQL and it just makes intuitive sense as a sequence of data transformation steps in a pipeline.

My favorite feature of dplyr that makes it stand out compared to SQL is that a window function is just a group_by() without a summarize(). There's no separate syntax for "PARTITION BY".

For data analysis, whenever possible, I don't even write SQL anymore, I use the dbplyr package, which is a dplyr-to-SQL compiler.
Former pizza cook (US based) here...

This recipe is worthy of your attention:
https://www.wpr.org/recipe-overnight-straight-pizza-dough
I'm saying that the interview linked to is an interview of a person who is the main writer for a site [1] that doesn't pass the fake news smell test. Therefore, if you want us to believe the material she presents in the interview, find a better source for said material.

[1] https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/last-american-vagabo...
The word "antibodies" was found nowhere in this piece. Isn't that a factor? Why would a vaccine be the only way a population could develop herd immunity?
Well, anyone can support the EFF
Works in Chrome, cool! Making a sharp U-turn is a bit of a challenge :D
Get the G3 Ferrari electric pizza oven. you can cook a pizza in 2-3 minutes in that. There is even (of course!) an online community of pizza oven hackers who install additional electric heating elements in the oven to get the temperature even higher :)
It's a feature story focused on an obscure and mostly unknown thread spinning out of the war, not a history of the Spanish Civil War.

That conflict was an incredibly complex and tragic series of events... beyond the scope of what an article like this can cover. It wasn't a commies vs. nazis event, and this wasn't an article doing a survey view of the conflict.
Objectively better? In what way?

I'd like you to explicitly list in which ways I'm "objectively inferior".
This is his shtick. Every speech is intended to shore up his base and tweak his opposition. And they eagerly let him do it.

Guy is a genius level troll in manipulating people and controlling the message. People didn’t get it in 2016, and they don’t get it now.

We’re in for another 4 years if people focus on whatever he twittered today and not their own message. That’s not an election strategy.
Ah, you might be able to get away with a &dyn Trait too, not sure.

You can box Copy types.
Why is apologizing (that is, accepting responsibility) for an error that you made--in either case, it's an error that you made--such a problem? This seems to come from a place of deep insecurity.

Stop tying your identity to your work.
This.

For every junior FAANG engineer, there are legions of senior or staff level equivalent engineers at companies outside of the Silicon Valley style tech/software sector who will retire with their TC topping out at maybe around what a lower-mid level engineer at a mid-top tech company would make.
The article isn’t talking about the volume of patients but the stigma on medical professionals. “Collapse” was probably a poor word choice since these days that almost exclusively means going over capacity due to a surge in Covid-19 patients.
The NY study is preliminary, not peer reviewed. The sampling strategy used over-represents people going out, and we have no information on which test was used or its accuracy.

Given antibody testing done in places like Vô, the NY results seem a bit of a stretch.

Hopefully Japan gets it together and starts testing properly, though.
And that seems to anger a lot of people, as if they are invested in the month they've spent inside. People are strange ...
Consumers are definitely better served by competitive markets than monopolies, natural or otherwise. I agree that's not always possible, and where it isn't, we generally get bad monopolist behavior, heavy regulation, or both.

I also suspect the notion of "natural monopoly" is oversold and too simple. Would it be more efficient if we had exactly one ISP for the country? In theory, yes, because then we only have to run one set of wires everywhere, and we'd get rid of a lot of duplicative equipment and staff. But in practice, monopoly and oligopoly ISPs are generally both expensive and bad. I just moved from a competitive area to a "natural monopoly" area; my internet now costs twice as much for 10% of the bandwidth, much lower quality, and much worse service.

I think that's because companies aren't static entities that reliably produce goods, even though that's what most people imagine. Instead they're temporary coalitions of individual actors hopefully prodded into optimal behavior by external forces like competition. Especially so given American business culture, which often refuses to recognize ways of thinking that might mitigate the problems.
Not super well-known, but it has been used in a few dozen Youtube videos (mostly based on Japanese manga or Pokemon).

I believe the song - artist is:
Gas Gas Gas - Manuel
He was speaking in the context of on-going research. Not a how-to guide for people dealing with it. He's not a scientist, but he very clearly deferred to the scientist on how it would be done.

Here's a better link: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/04/23/trump_sug...
I quit Cold Turkey cold turkey.

It is the opposite.

- Limits are strict (so even if I write a super-important event announcement on FB, and get kicked out, that's it).

- I don't see any timer. (It needs to be visible constantly, not whenever I check.)
when a side is superior to the other the conflict is solved in a few weeks/months at most. The national side didn't do the war alone, and the war almost stagnated during long periods of time because at times there was no easy conclusion on the horizon and no side wanted to give up. You cannot infinitely demonize one sided and picture the other as innocent/fighter of freedom when there was such a prolonged conflict and both sides committed selective mass murders against civilians (you can however argue that a side was even more evil than the other, but that's not the topic of today)

P.D. The Soviet Union sided with the republicans until they unfairly appropriate (aka stole) the spanish national treasure.
Well, take it with a grain of salt, but there has been at least one article about a nurse in a german village, which got thrown out of a supermarket after an acquaintance told 'em that this person works in a hospital where italian COVID-19-patients are treated:

https://www.merkur.de/leben/karriere/angst-coronavirus-krank...
> About the only thing that annoys me at work is people trying to deny responsibility for their actions (or lack of them.)

Someone once said "There is a difference between 10 years of experience and 1 year of experience 10 times". The best developers I know always take responsibility and try to do better.
> Japan's testing has been extremely anemic

Anemic is definitely a nice way to put it.

Japan is testing at a per capita rate below that of Iraq, Ukraine, Vietnam, Mongolia, Moldova and South Africa.

Their testing rate is so extraordinarily low, the US is testing more people per day than Japan has tested in total across the past four months.
I saw a CNN story about medical professionals in Mexico being physically attacked: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/23/world/mexico-coronavirus-atta...
It's important to note that there are discrepancies between countries in how the deaths are reported. Interesting read regarding unexplained increases in the number of deaths in some countries here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronav...
I think it's a reasonably safe assumption that the CDC didn't suggest to him that injecting disinfectant would be a good idea. Or tell him that promoting chloroquine would be a good idea, for that matter.
Yeah, I think this company is very cautious in their claims. There's decades of research on this if you want to dig into it.
I'm slightly surprised by Patreon's pricing, given they're not a discovery platform - it's really just subscription payments and some simple CRM stuff...

It's pretty easy to make a simple facility for accepting subscription payments.

You can do this with any website, plus a tool like Trolley [1] - of which I'm the creator, btw - with no technical knowledge.
The fee structure (2% for Trolley, plus your Stripe fee of ~2%) comes out less than Patreon, and you're not inside a walled garden.

Use the webhooks to link to it a CRM of your choice - probably on a free plan - and you're golden (yeah ok, maybe this bit isn't entirely non technical)

I should probably write a blog post about this, tbh :)

[1] - https://trolley.link
> peroxide modulates lymphocytes

This is kinda like saying "sodium is important in the body so it's fine to eat a chunk of it".
> For in essence it is a crime story, and the miraculous happenings, though they grow more frequent towards the end, are not integral to it.

LOL! This person completely missed the point of the book.
It shouldn't be that I have to affirm that a drive has already given me trouble. I should just have to show that I'm using a drive in an application where I would have problems in the future.

Product safety recalls don't require you to get food poisoning or take shrapnel in your face from a bad airbag before fixing the issue. I don't want to wait until my RAID fails a rebuild and I lose data.
I think a lot of the movement will be to Taiwan, Vietnam, and other countries in SE Asia, rather than wholesale relocation back to the US, EU and Japan.

It's also an opportunity for India, if the country can address issues that have hindered certain kinds of manufacturing in the past.
Covid-19 is a coronavirus, the common cold is usually a rhinovirus. They're not 'almost the same virus' as you assert, they're completely different virus families [1].

For starters, coronaviruses are enveloped, and rhinoviruses are naked.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus_classification
Indeed, we should try to learn from them instead! https://twitter.com/garybasin/status/1252721673566117895?s=2...
> I don’t want to see any full open-air restaurants

What??? Isn't that precisely _the best_ option intuitively? I'd much rather be outdoors with a high rate of air flow than inside. No idea if this has been studied but it seems obvious.
> I think there's a difficulty in that you can't just do biology from your garage, even bioinformatics.

Yes. Studying biology is like reverse-engineering extremely complex, constantly changing microscopic systems which developed over thousands of years. Molecular biology in particular is prohibitively expensive. It's just not something people can play with the same way we play with computer programming. A fully equipped laboratory is required to perform even the most basic experiments. Even more resources are required in order to produce original work.

This also causes difficulty in reproducing published results. It's easy to verify that the laws of physics hold true. It's not so easy to reproduce an expensive 10 year long double blind clinical trial.
People keep pointing to Swedish death numbers as a sign that “the approach are not working”. But lockdown measures in so many countries are not designed to avoid every single fatality as much as to keep the health system from being overwhelmed.

If Sweden has had a fairly sizable amount of deaths – of mainly elderly people, as we see – but its health system has not been overwhelmed for the bulk of the population and the economy has not greatly suffered, then things are arguably working out better than in countries which have minimized fatalities but are dealing with greater economic (and psychological) fallout.