skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same thing happened in a Greek “hot spot”, a prison for refugees. These places were build to host X number of inmates but in reality they host close to 50X. The population were infected at nearly 100% without symptoms.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/30/media/game-of-thrones-season-...

> Sunday's episode of "Game of Thrones" notched a series record of 17.8 million viewers, according to HBO. "The Long Night" broke the record set by the season premiere just two weeks ago when 17.4 million viewers tuned in.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/02/2...

> 106 million people watched ‘M.A.S.H.’ finale 35 years ago. No scripted show since has come close.

Note that these are raw numbers, not percentage of population. There are more people now than there were when "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen" aired, but the broadcast TV episode still got more human beings to watch it.

Maybe almost 100 million watched Game of Thrones illegally.
Elon Musk reveals SpaceX will launch its Starlink internet service
What is the best book or program for speed reading?
I grew up in a city where chlorine is not used. In Canada, and almost every other country I've lived in, I can clearly taste the chlorine in the water, while locals always insisted it was tasteless.
Nice layout. A fundamental reengagement with the concept of "formatted hypertext".
Catering to the customers least interested in keeping the service isn't a great business strategy. Those who do only want to pay for one month to watch the whole show still have the option of subscribing during the last month of airing. Or any time after that.
Great run down. Australia just released their version of a COVID-19 tracking app with a very similar approach.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-26/coronavirus-tracing-a...

The privacy policy:
https://www.health.gov.au/using-our-websites/privacy/privacy...

So apparently when you sign up you provide:
When you register for COVIDSafe
We will ask you to consent to the collection of your:
mobile phone number – so that you can be contacted if needed for contact tracing
name – so the relevant health officials can confirm they are speaking to the right person when performing contact tracing. This will be easiest if you provide your full name, but you can use a pseudonym or fake name if you prefer
age range– so health officials can prioritise cases for contact tracing, if needed
postcode –to make sure health officials from the right State or Territory who work in your area can contact you, and to prioritise cases for contact tracing, e.g. hotspot areas

When you use COVIDSafe
Your app will only record the following contact data: (1) the encrypted user ID, (2) date and time of contact and (3) Bluetooth signal strength of other COVIDSafe users with which you come into contact. This information will also be recorded on the other users’ devices.
An encrypted user ID will be created every 2 hours. This will be logged in the National COVIDSafe data store (data store), operated by the Digital Transformation Agency, in case you need to be identified for contact tracing.
No location data (data that could be used to track your movements) will be collected at any time. No user will be able to see the contact data stored on their device as it will be encrypted. Any attempt to decrypt contact data is an offence. Contact data stored on a device will be automatically deleted after 21 days.
We cannot access any contact data stored on a device, or share this with health officials, unless and until a COVIDSafe user consents to upload the data to the data store.

I’ll be very intrigued to see how it goes.
Oddly, that behavior looks very human. If the loopholes found by AI are related to energy conservation, that's a healthy result.

Human students and workers need a fair amount of "work specifications" (years of teaching, decades of workplace laws and safety measure, etc) to actually complete the requested work that allows them to have revenue/salary. I don't see the specification game as an AI specific issue.
This is from ARCPoint Labs, where I took my antibody test:

The Antibody test is a serology test which measures the amount of antibodies or proteins present in the blood when the body is responding to a specific infection. This test hasn’t been reviewed by the FDA. Negative results don’t rule out SARS-CoV-2 infection, particularly in those who have been in contact with the virus. Follow-up testing with a molecular diagnostic lab should be considered to rule out infection in these individuals. Results from antibody testing shouldn’t be used as the sole basis to diagnose or exclude SARS-CoV-2 infection. Positive results may be due to past or present infection with non-SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus strains, such as coronavirus HKU1, NL63, OC43, or 229E.
"git" and "beautiful" should not be in the same sentence.
Newgrounds, Homestar Runner, Kongregate.

Way back I used to watch a web series called Pure Pwnage, it was the coolest thing in the world to a young me. I miss C&C
I'm not going to bother with the Android and iOS comparisons here, but if you're curious try a flagship Samsung phone (Galaxy Note or Galaxy S series are widely available). For the past few generations the displays have felt like they're genuinely ahead of the curve based on what I was used to.
I’d be interested in hearing more about what you mean by market distortion here.

A lot of the silliness in things like how much stars are paid seems applicable to software development — tiny incremental value adds become very substantial with a large enough audience.
In my school we always used a middle dot (· U+00B7) for multiplication since 6th grade.
> Does anyone really have the time and motivation?

I don't know if anyone has tried. It's definitely possible, though.

I used to play some of those predatory mobile games. At some point I got sick of their addictive "daily tasks" game design and decided to automate all of it. I intercepted the game's network traffic: it was just JSON. Didn't take long to write software to talk to the server and do the tasks for me.

Any code that's running on the client can be tampered with or replaced. It's probably not going to be easy but it's certainly possible.

> WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram

WhatsApp is already among the best messaging services. It doesn't really do anything that would motivate people to replace it with something better. Having custom software which lacks the remote message deletion feature would be interesting but it would be too much work for too little gain.

I don't use Facebook and Instagram enough to have an opinion.
That’s a good point, but I’m also starting to speculate whether, when the infection rates and (crucially) hospital occupation rates diminish, we will see some people deliberately seeking to get infected so as to gain immunity whilst the risks are low, specifically, when they can be reasonably certain that if they experience severe symptoms they’ll have a place in an ICU to receive intensive care. This might sound unsound (pardon the awkward phrasing) but it’s not necessarily irrational given the perceived advantages of immunity and the diminished perceived risks. It might not even be socially undesirable either, as a kind of “low burn” through the population, or at least it’s sturdier members, might be seen as building up that “herd immunity” which makes it difficult for the virus to reach the higher-risk individuals.
Perhaps Capstone might serve your fuzzing needs better, as it can represent instructions symbolically. For example: https://github.com/aquynh/capstone/blob/master/arch/X86/X86M...
Earliest evidence of death and injury by a meteorite 22 August 1888
Sketching (2D/3D) with pencil and paper for rough ideas.

As soon as any accuracy is needed, AutoCAD for 2D and/or Blender for 3D. Blender is usually enough, but I'm faster in AutoCAD.

If possible, I try to physically experience the new space or object, using my imagination and any props at hand. For example, I might put masking tape on the floor, following the layout of the drawing, and walk around them pretending they are obstacles.
(Disclaimer: we work on voice synthesis/style transfer and cloning)

Depends on how much fidelity you want and how much lag you are willing to accept. Our current voice style transfer state of the art is sufficiently capable though the results may still need anywhere from 6 months to two years of development to be considered "production ready" i.e think poor quality, noise, and artefacts in output audio with existing tech. Pasini. has a pretty good blog post and paper on this:

https://towardsdatascience.com/voice-translation-and-audio-s...
That's interesting, I'll look into that! Sparkling water might be indeed a reason why people buy bottled water, although there are household solutions for that as well.
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umm... but why can't you just create a new branch, cherry-pick all the relevant commit then diff the result with the "base"?
Not sure how you can compare the comfort of sitting in a car with your own space versus standing for an hour or more stuck in between everyone's armpits with no space to move beyond an inch.
How can your hatred for any corporate lingo term outrank that reserved for the bulwarks ‘leverage’ and ‘synergy’?

‘Granularity’ is a big up-and-comer too.
> Again: Contact tracing (with intervention) is not only a reasonable solution, it's basically the only current viable option to get going outside of a cure or vaccine.

Based on the rest of your comment, I am having trouble understanding how this statement is related. IMO the rest of your argument very clearly explains why the economy is interconnected; and could even be said to be an argument for the need to re-open the economy. However, it does not address how contact tracing would be a part of this. Is it your assumption that "if we implement contact tracing, then we can safely send people back to work, thus saving the economy"? If so, I think your argument would benefit from more explicitly contacting those dots.
Sorry, perhaps I have misunderstood. What I thought you meant was that it would be more efficient to create a UBI for everyone now, rather than pay people via the payrolls of shuttered companies. I’m assuming you meant financially efficient. I was disagreeing with that because it seems like a suboptimal time to attempt something like UBI (both in historic terms and in the midst of a major pandemic), and because we’re going to need a ready made workforce when the pandemic ends.

“The pool of available work will never completely disappear” - I would say there’s no evidence the pool of available work for humans will even _decrease_ in a highly automated economy. It’s possible to have a 99% automated economy with human labor many times its present level. Disappointingly–despite all of our best efforts–new work always seems to arise in this universe.

My contention about the long term prospects for UBI is that before we spend the proceeds of our massively automated economy, we should first try to create it. The challenge is awesome, and the economics uncertain.

Of course, I too would like free money when available :)
mouse aiming would remove most of the challenge. it'd be great, but it would not be liero.

however, the keyboard layout is something that could be made better, as in the last 15 years I got so much used to move with wasd and this feels completely unnatural.
You will see the numbers in Japan in a few months time where everyone in cities travels by train/rail every day. COVID19 is far from over yet.
Hmm, but then "apt install" would just fail because of an unresolved dependency right?
Hey, glad you like it!

Yes I am using Awesomplete with some custom CSS and loading the autocomplete results on page load (I figured that's more performant in my case than loading it on each keystroke).
The updates just seem to matter less on Android, at least these days, with the exception of security issues. On iOS it feels like updates "unlock" new functionality, whereas on Android they've seemed to add random fluff or change up the UI in non-consequential ways. Apps are already much more flexible on Android, and the Play services largely get updated anyways, so it's just less of a concern for me to not have OS feature updates.
I'd have thought that more airflow would help to reduce transmission, given that like other coronaviruses it's transmitted by droplets and not aerosol. Droplets would have trouble staying suspended with more air movement, and would be unlikely to make it through centralised air conditioning systems without becoming deposited on some surface within them.

The eating together at communal tables, and any other close-quarters communal activities, seem far more relevant to increased R than the air conditioning system and the free airflow.
Let me circle back and touch base with you by EOD.
Not sure if its region dependent, but my Netflix shows a warning about product placement at the beginning of the show.

I have to say that it was a bit of an eye-opener- a lot of these ads are not obviously product-placement at all. The one that shocked me the most was an episode of "Friends from College" where the main characters went up the Napa valley for some wine tasting and then stopped into McDonalds on the way back- it was such a sharp, natural and realistic storyline that I would have never assumed that it was product placement. It dealt with "McDonalds-shame" in very sophisticated way that you wouldn't think McDonalds was capable of, and actually made me feel (as somebody who has been wine tasting in Napa and tries to avoid Mickey Ds) that a fast food burger is "allowed".
That's a very interesting fact, thanks for that!
> In my personal opinion, better that than trawling slowly through traffic jams.

I think the best way to describe it is that it sucks either way to commute in Tokyo no matter what means of transports you end up using, except if you can live very close to your office, which is not the experience of 99% of people.
We will also see if they are asymptomatic or presymptomatic.
Well, Taipei is the real secret. That's the one we need to see because if metros are a ticking time bomb for disease then they should be dying any second now.
Can't you just share the screen in zoom or Skype?
Hey, can you tell me why? Don't know specifics about Fiji.
I was so close to doing that before finding the correct term :D
TrustID
This looks really advanced. When I looked at the TOC, I thought "Oh that looks great, I can spend a weekend or two on this." Little did I know the book has 900 pages. Wow.

Anything you'd recommend as a practical introduction? Materials that are useful for an every-day software engineer?
This. Instead of obsessing on level 5 autonomous car that we probably will never achieve in our lifetime, why not optimized the AI for level 5 equivalent of traffic lights and control. Imagine having Waze like system integrated with city wide dynamic and intelligent traffic lights for seamless urban travel.
Urban Density Is Not an Enemy in the Coronavirus Fight
I don't know why you're using objdump instead of -S to have gcc generate assembly directly.

You get named constants and named labels that way, and you can even choose the sane Intel syntax with -masm=intel which you can also do with objdump.
Victory Is Assured
I doubt it. Netflix doesn't have a monopoly on infrastructure like the cable companies did.
May I suggest this as a coping method?

https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=AkE7Ju0cK5Y

Just imagine that the 100 people were Nazis.
Islands and countries such as Australia are having a completely different experience, as they can track incoming cases and with good quarantine practices genuinely create a safe bubble for all residents. Watch what happens with New Zealand, Iceland and other small islands like yours and the Canaries etc - you'll be out of lockdown while everyone agrees to be very strict on what enters the country, something continental countries can't do.
Do they go in to the office twice a week or do they fly on Monday and leave on Friday? The part about not letting them be remote is confusing me.

Where do they stay when they go in to the office?
Do note that rapid decline in the day-to-day increase of case numbers is not necessarily indicative of rapid decline in transmission rate. Transmission rate could have declined gradually over the course of a week or more, and the rapid decline in day-to-day increase of case numbers could have just been detection catching up with existing infections.
What does that even have to do with this thread? But w/e, the diet you're looking for is keto - zero carbs, which incidentally is mostly from grain, works. Meat and fat alone do not cause obesity, but together with carbs they fatten you up more effectively.
DDG have great privacy rules but not so great results on search :( I have always end up with more irrelevant results while I am using ddg
That's indeed interesting! Chlorine in the tap water seems to be one of the major factors why people buy bottled water, even though otherwise it might be perfectly healthy.
I need human contact. I'm fuelled off of the energy of others. What I love about my current job is my bosses drive, vision and enthusiasm. Don't get me wrong the hours are terrible. The work is closer to IT grunt work than the programming I love. But I get to solve real problems and be a key part of driving a business forward under a highly motivated boss. It's great. I don't know if that would be possible with only remote interaction.
In a region in Italy they tested [1] people twice, 2 weeks apart, and found that 43% were completely asymptomatic over the course of the infection.

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.17.20053157v...
What ahaha, do you mean they do sensorship?
Your code is indeed an example of a promise. A stupid one, since it never “resolves”, but it’s a promise.
Personally, I expect to walk straight to the sink and wash my hands, as soon as I get indoors, for the rest of my life.
Does anyone not think case count is an order of magnitude less than infected count?
J2ee was a hell, but Java EE was quite decent!

Pragmatism - do programming to solve real life problems rather than create a broken ecosystems which requires constant changes (and learning just to be on top of them) to fix a bad design
> if we want to keep travelling then we must explore ways to travel that don't endanger others.

Last time I checked, traveling by car very often endagers others, and far more than flying, even when considering covid.

https://www.asirt.org/safe-travel/road-safety-facts/

> Approximately 1.35 million people die in road crashes each year, on average 3,700 people lose their lives every day on the roads.

> An additional 20-50 million suffer non-fatal injuries, often resulting in long-term disabilities.

> More than half of all road traffic deaths occur among vulnerable road users—pedestrians, cyclists, and motorcyclists.

> Road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death among young people aged 5-29. Young adults aged 15-44 account for more than half of all road deaths.

>Road crashes are the single greatest annual cause of death of healthy U.S. citizens traveling abroad
It would be extremely alarming if there were large numbers of deaths or hospital admissions occurring among the Singapore workers who are testing positive. Given that there are virtually none, the lack of testing in other ASEAN countries is hardly extremely alarming. A lack of data is less concerning if you wouldn't do anything differently if you had the data.
After decades of increasingly rebellious movements, it seems like the last few have been rebellion for the sake of rebellion - progress for the sake of progress. Perhaps this is the pendulum swinging back.
Capitalism had always been a mix of pure capitalism and government intervention. In the US we see this in many sectors over long periods of time.

It's confronting now because a small amount of it is going to people instead of corporations where it isn't as visible.
Japan Airlines Flight 1628 UFO incident (1986)
Do you mean because of the contradictory data sources? (WHO saying mostly safe, CDC no, Numbeo 50%)?
They fly on Sunday afternoon and leave on Friday after work, so they spent maybe 48h total with their family. They have an apartment rented next to the office. It’s still cheaper apparently because they bring their own food for the week to avoid spending money on it here, the kid goes to school in the other country, and the partner doesn’t work. Oh and the airport is 90 minutes away (by train thankfully) from the office.
Product placement is done since the beginnings of cinema and television.
It sucks less on a nice heated/cooled chair, with fresh air and nice music and no ------- one around - even in a 10 times less populated city
Infinite Patterns [video]
“Explore other Countries in Australia”.
Yes, I read that it was millions after the WW2, but it starts declining since then.
Same here. Is there any chance the viral load test is also testing positive for other coronaviruses that are not SARS-CoV-2? Because I can't find any information addressing that.
You actually want movies you're watching to have a distracting overlay taking you out of the moment? Before the start of the movie or something would be a lot better.
> C is close to the interface the hardware presents you – that is, the instruction set – but far from what the hardware actually does.

C isn't even close to that anymore, now that so many processors have SIMD ISAs which C can't usefully model.
That’s true, Play Services has proved a great way to get useful feature updates out without being beholden to the carriers and manufacturers, but it doesn’t really help much on the security side.
Would be great to see an educational discount. I can see this being very useful in a teaching environment.
Learn X in Y minutes: Emacs
I don’t know. It took me a few semesters to write mine and it was the main graduation requirement. This kind of situation would’ve set me back at least a year and cost me a ton of tuition money. It would’ve been economically and emotionally devastating for me.
Wasn't James Dean the "Rebel Without a Cause" in 1955?
Do we show agreement with these horrors by upvoting or downvoting?

These coded replies kill me and saying nothing would be more helpful.
> like contact tracing APIs, however well-intentioned they may be

I share many of the concerns you've expressed, but worrying about the contract tracing API that was recently put forward is (hopefully) unwarranted. A faithful implementation of the joint spec published by Apple and Google would preserve your anonymity until and unless you published your secret keys. Moreover, the overall design is cryptographically sound (unless I missed something recently?) and appears to be decentralized (at least in principle) so in theory you won't have to trust the behavior of any binary blobs unless you choose to do so.

For more insight into the design (and security) of such systems, you might take a look at the TCN protocol (https://github.com/TCNCoalition/TCN) or the DP-3T protocol (https://github.com/DP-3T/documents).
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>> Nix and NixOS ruined me. It’s hard to go back.

I don't know. Not much about all this setup feels appealing. The apparent learning curve for nix looks...steep. I've been using linux for a pretty long time (I think kernel 2.1 was fresh when I started). I've done the slackwares and debians and redhats and arches and gentoos etc. And I have zero desire to put such effort into having a working system.

I realize the post is prefaced with a warning that it's over-engineered. I guess my question is- can I use nix without going so hard down the rabbit hole? I don't think I have the time to invest like my gentoo (read: teenage) years.

I'm pretty satisfied with doing a minimal install of fedora, setting up i3 and firefox and calling it a day. Maybe I'm just older and more crotchety than I thought.