skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not specifically eBay, I meant all sorts of second-hand selling methods, from Craigslist through eBay and similar sites. Nothing special, really, just the normal way of getting rid of stuff which just ends up taking up space otherwise.
How does that solve the problem? By showing 3rd party products next to their own, they make it seem like Amazon has given their approval of that product, when that is absolutely not the case. Walmart is responsible for every product sold in their store, the same is not case for Amazon. This is the problem with so many internet companies, they want all the upside without the responsibility.
Rereading your first comment, I think you might be thinking of infection dose. Viral load is the amount of virus present in a patient. Infection dose is the amount you're exposed to.
Hi ClintGA! I've never heard of Joplin. Will check it out!
Can't publish employee quality/motivation. By nature of the game, the Federal level generally has more quality expertise available to it,(larger talent pool, more prestige) more funding to explore different issues, and the ability to focus that funding on limited areas of focus.

These are levers generally unavailable at the lower levels of govt, especially not for the smaller states.
"More democracy is not always better" is an interesting statement. I'd agree that democracy can be inefficient, but in a relatively small community contradictory demands supported by roughly equal numbers of participants is a textbook case of democracy working - you don't change things if half doesn't want it.

That federal government shouldn't be involved is also not only ideological sentiment. Current opinion is that smaller problems are better visible closely, and can be solved locally - as they are smaller - and levels of bureaucracy add significant friction.

There is a position that good democracies are local ones. Some have to delegate for common problems to higher levels, but more remote levels become less democratic - as they are more detached from people. There are counterarguments, some of them are countered in a vague "good" prefix.
Does the CDC recognize Taiwan?
The link that showed the 90 employees making $300K or over is a link to a page about San Francisco city employees specifically, and says there's 40,951 total. (And it is 90 exactly according to that page.) So is 0.2% of workers earning that much a lot compared to tech companies, do you think?

How about employees making $200K or over? That's 1790, or just about 4%. $100K or over? 15997 employees, or around 39%. So over 60% of SF city employees make under $100K. The median salary, in fact, is just under $86K.

I could be wrong, but I suspect that's lower than Facebook's median salary.
This is a nice thought that does not grapple with the reality of modern-day politics.

The Republican Party is hellbent on holding onto power by any means necessary. They will oppose any structural reforms that could reduce their power. Would they allow a system such as you propose, that allows California greater independence? Of course not.

Look how they oppose vote by mail [1], in the middle of a pandemic. Madness, until you realize they believe vote-by-mail will advantage Democrats. This is not a party that is interested in pro-democracy experiments, only changing the rules to keep themselves in power.

> There is no part of the Republican Party — not its president in the White House, not its leadership in Congress, not its conservative allies on the Supreme Court, not its interest groups or its affiliated media — that has an interest in or commitment to a fair, equal and expansive democracy...

> Republican lawmakers nationwide have taken every opportunity to restrict voting and entrench themselves against voters who might want an alternative. They’ve passed strict photo ID requirements, implemented mass voter purges, put new restrictions on registering voters, closed polling sites and ended extended voting periods. With few exceptions — Utah introduced vote by mail in 2013 — a state with a Republican executive and a Republican Legislature is a state that will restrict voting long before it tries to make it easier and more accessible. [2]

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/us/politics/republicans-v...

[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/opinion/sunday/wisconsin-...
>It would also have meant that the curve would be flattened for good.

I have yet to see any evidence that covid antibodies provide long-term immunity. We can't say with any certainty that the curve would be permanently flattened. It may just be flattened for a few weeks, a few months, or a few years.
e: this is wrong

Dependencies can set lints to deny. When lints change, they might not compile anymore.

(I think denying lints is a bad idea, just like -Werror)
omg yes - tons of people switched to grocery delivery esp since NYC has so many terrific options and virtually every grocery, market & specialty store already delivered, even before COVID.
Do you send it to them via email, facebook or something like that?
Could. If the agitating factor to severe cases is car exhaust, as an example. There are usually tipping points to that kind of thing.

Look, I agree that I don't know. Just trying to get that uncertainty in the counter claims, as well.
> During a pandemic, it's more likely than not that any negative test on a symptomatic person is false.

There are places with single-digit positive test rates, that would require a 90%+ false negative rate, which, as far as we know, is not the case.
Congress and the corrupt system of political lobbying deserve a lot of blame.

Practices that are outlawed in other industries such as opaque rebates and kickbacks are explicitly allowed by law. Hell, there's even a law on the books that prevents medicare from negotiating drug prices. The bill's architect in congress went on to make $2 million a year as the head of a pharma lobbying firm.
Could Cats Accidentally Control Spacecraft? An Investigation
To echo the other response:

When did YouTube become a government? The context is different. No matter what YouTube does, I can still host my own video.
I don't think necessarily aids++, but speculating about long term effects is not pointless, or unreasonable.

https://www.thestar.com/life/health_wellness/2010/09/02/sars...
This is not surprising. Parallel GC will almost always be faster than refcounting. If you wrote a C or C++ program to accomplish this task after carefully planning out exactly when stuff needs to get manually malloced/freed, you could outperform any of their approaches

And like another commenter mentioned, if you're writing a program which streams a lot of data sequentially from disk, and where throughput is important (such as in sequencing), you should always be using mmap
Doesn't cargo's behavior of capping lints prevent this?
I'm reminded of John Baez writing recently (https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/124647011232195379...) about commutative semigroups. Even simpler, but still lots to say!
Here's hoping some enterprising TB3 hub maker adds a decent, low-powered GPU into one of their hubs.

This might help balance the load of driving a 4k/5k screen, or at the very least, keep the MacBook's motherboard cool, and also keep the whole setup fairly portable.
Oh, wait. You don't understand that the CFR and IFR are not the same thing? That explains a lot. I thought you were just being disingenous when comparing the early CFR statistics to the current IFR estimates.

The CFR is, by definition, computed from known cases. It's thus trivial to determine exactly: just divide the confirmed deaths by confirmed cases. So we definitely know the CFR of flu. The problem is, of coures, that it's highly likely to be an over-estimate.

On the other hand, the IFR is hard to determine, since we don't know which cases we missed, nor whether the unresolved cases will end up living or dying. Which is why all we have is estimates.
Strawman arguments.
Good idea. Plus, they could trivially implement this, no? The main phone number's first prompt could be, "If you were told to call this number, please enter the 8-digit code you were given at the prompt."
In the other direction, people who are sick or have recently been sick may well isolate and avoid going to the grocery store, dragging the detection rate back down.
Stop propagating misinformation. Personally, I wish WebGPU had gone a slightly different way (thanks Apple :/) but it's definitely no way 1:1 identical with Vulkan.

Also your last point makes no sense. That's been the state of desktop graphics programming for years and years. You really don't control much as IHVs are always free to intercept calls and control things at the driver level.
I would be very sceptical about any models produced in the US, since the issue is so partisan, and one can tweak variables to prove whatever outcome one wants from a model.

I think the lost life-years of economic hardship could easily outweigh the lost life-years of Covid deaths. That is because economic hardship affects younger people, while Covid deaths primarily affect people with not many years left to live. But there are many other external costs (social costs if your grandma dies) and economic benefits to deaths (lower pension payments, home availability?).

However, given current information, a lockdown for weeks to months seems to make sense, since the consensus is that economic collapse is not yet immanent, and that steps can be taken to help keep the economy spinning when lockdown restrictions start to be relaxed.
Let's say Apple comes out with a phone with a perfect folding screen, a battery that holds a charge for a month, perfect offline speech recognition, and it costs $100. I still wouldn't buy it if it didn't have a headphone jack, because I'd consider it a bad design. Does that make me stupid? Perhaps. But as an engineer I'd find such a phone insulting: There's no valid engineering reason not to include a headphone jack. The only reason is for Apple to thumb its nose at people who actually care about good design by saying "We're Apple. See what we can get away with?"

It would be like Mercedes suddenly deciding cars didn't need air conditioners any more and refusing to build cars with that option. "We're Mercedes. We know best. You don't need an A/C. Open the window if you're too warm."

The whole premise just sounds insulting, and if it happened you'd never buy a Mercedes again.
Here's a real-world example from the code I was working on yesterday: I have several database tables where the records have numeric IDs, and instead of having the ID type be just an int everywhere, I want them to be proper types to avoid mixups. Instead of

fn set_document_owner(document_id: i64, user_id: i64)

where I could easily provide the arguments in the wrong order, I want

fn set_document_owner(document_id: DocumentID, user_id: UserID)

where this cannot happen. Each ID type is just a one-element tuple containing an i64, which would just be

pub struct DocumentID(pub i64);
pub struct UserID(pub i64);
//... and so on ...

and so on. But in order for them to behave as expected (e.g. with the == operator or when reading/writing IDs in the database), I need to write a bunch of boilerplate. This is the macro that I have now:

use rusqlite::types::{FromSql, FromSqlResult, ToSql, ToSqlOutput, ValueRef};

macro_rules! make_id_type {
( $name:ident ) => {
///A type-safe primary key.
#[derive(Default, Clone, Copy, Hash, PartialEq, Eq, Deserialize, Serialize)]
pub struct $name(pub i64);

impl fmt::Display for $name {
fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
self.0.fmt(f)
}
}

impl ToSql for $name {
fn to_sql(&self) -> rusqlite::Result<ToSqlOutput> {
self.0.to_sql()
}
}

impl FromSql for $name {
fn column_result(value: ValueRef) -> FromSqlResult<Self> {
Ok($name(i64::column_result(value)?))
}
}
};
}

make_id_type!(DocumentID);
make_id_type!(UserID);
//... and so on ...

This is pretty much the most basic usecase for macros. You can do some more interesting stuff than just take a name and insert it into some template, because macros can actually pattern-match the phrases given to them in the macro invocation. A good example, also from the RDBMS domain, would be https://docs.diesel.rs/diesel/macro.table.html (link goes to the documentation of the macro).
Might invest in a bushel basket.
The best experience from IG's POV.
> if any country has a system that reflects the ideas outlined by the writer

The article points out that Lasik eye surgery is not covered by government programs or private insurance, and the price of it has declined dramatically over the years while the quality of it has improved.
Yep, this is a great example of an echo-chamber that's developed in the HN community. Some of it is deserved, but not all.
Have you contacted their customer support? I wonder if the data is still there, or can be recovered out somehow.
It's mentioned in the article too, but also big: zfs support.

I've been _loving_ zfs since I switched a few months back. The big wins: easy and fast to backup (don't have to wait for rsync to check every file, and atomic snapshots mean less worry about backing up an inconsistent set of files) and even bigger are just snapshots themselves. Makes it _so_ easy to back out a failed upgrade or anything else that breaks.
It happened in 1798, this isn't something that we've been waiting for.

https://history.house.gov/Historical-Highlights/1700s/The-Se...
It shows how widely it spread in the UK before they went into lockdown, which underlies my point that the efficacy of a lockdown is strongly tied to the timing thereof.
I guess I would assume they would have corrected for any time-lag in the result, but I have not read the study in detail
The political will should be fewer American lives lost. Politicians are framing this about the economy and states rights and other BS as a way to distract the public from the fact that people have died because we didn't act soon enough and decisively enough.

I also don't think we need to get the word out about how testing is important. People are cooped up in their homes precisely because we don't know who has it and who doesn't. Testing could resolve that.

I have little faith in the legislation from Washington for many reasons. The primary one being that before the crisis, during it, and at this very moment there is a lack of acknowledgment of the actual scale of this pandemic. Even worse a large part of the legislature fails to take this seriously, thus making the scale of the issue a secondary problem. What's been passed so far has already missed the mark as far as funding testing and properly ensuring that those who need the money get it. Instead, big business gets "relief" with little oversight, which given the past actions of this administration clearly isn't just by accident.

The reality is that testing is still significantly behind and efforts to increase testing won't make the news cycles. I strongly doubt that we'd be able to scale up quickly enough to make a meaningful dent in this anymore than strictly following stay at home orders. Unfortunately even that is too much to ask us to do as a society it seems.
Honestly this seems a damn sight safer than most forms of female birth control. Maybe I should register "cookyourballs".
Okay, but as far as I know, nobody wants to prevent people from getting life extension treatment if they want it. So I'm not sure why you felt you had to make that point.

And again, you said:

> So, if that was your grandmother and you had a choice of giving her a 10% chance, you wouldn't?

That's a pretty odd way of "wording it wrong", if what you intended to say was "Families should make the choice, not governments."
I think he saying that Canada followed WHO advice to their detriment whereas Taiwan strayed from WHO advice with success. I don't know about any specific examples but the efficacy of masks is one I've heard about -- essentially the WHO discouraged use of masks whereas now the common wisdom seems to be that even makeshift masks when widely used are a lot better than none.
Well a loss of control of your own data on someone else's service isn't a feature and should be something you should be expecting (create backups of your own data more often), yet as soon as everyone takes the 'free' upgrade bait on a third-party service, then 'all bets are off' including Github.

Seriously for organizations, you're better of in self-hosting your own projects on-premise with open-source alternatives like GitLab (recommended), cgit or even Gerrit to avoid nonsense like 'centralising everything to GitHub' in the long term. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22868406
Do you think a phone call is high enough bitrate for these attacks, or are you implying parabolic microphones could be used to make this happen?

The mentioned paper contains a remark:

> While recording from the third keyboard, we get several seconds of unexpected noise from a cellphone nearby.

But that's the only mention of a phone in the paper ...
If a bank were to seize your money, you'd notice, because you wouldn't have that money anymore. And it would be very well documented, leaving a clear paper trail to a criminal conviction and a civil suit. If your bodyguard did you physical harm, you'd notice, because your knees would hurt. And there would be ample evidence for a criminal case. If amazon copied all your proprietary data, you would almost certainly never notice, no criminal law would apply, and you'd have a hell of a time proving it in a civil suit.

It's the difference between breaking into a Walmart with a ski mask and assault rifle and stealing a bunch of blu rays vs recording the HDMI out from whatever device you stream Netflix from. They're not the same thing at all, either in terms of harm done, applicable criminal law, or ability to build a compelling civil lawsuit.
That is what Chinese claim. I think what Taiwan says matters too.
If the final result is 500k of HTML, a dynamic website is doing a LOT more work to return that 500k than a static website. Assuming you get more traffic than you have pages/generated.
So, I was indeed mixing those up. I think most of the following points stand?
Perhaps I am being trolled here, but the opposite of neophobe is neophile, not neophyte.
A lot of other web APIs and features had rce vulnerable implementations in stable browser releases when they were new, some worse than others. Eg webaudio, SVG, etc. Not an excuse of course but tells of the cross cutting systemic problems.
> Between 1952 and 1966, PG&E used hexavalent chromium in a cooling tower system to fight corrosion. The waste water was discharged to unlined ponds at the site, and some percolated into the groundwater, affecting an area near the plant approximately 2 by 1 mile (3.2 by 1.6 km).

~https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin_Brockovich

Are you trolling?

Erin Brockovich isn't the problem. Dumping waste is the problem.

That kind of "building" just isn't helpful.
VoIP has not been worth the billions in thefts that it has enabled via easy call id spoofing. I would happily give up VoIP to have restored trust in the telephone network. But unfortunately that is not where our captured regulators are heading.
The effort is really not that much - it's like 20 minutes per server, and each one can service a lot of users. And since the application is broken up into several independent components, they can be scaled separately according to their particular demands. The needs change depending on where the bottlenecks are, so it's not as simple as X users = Y capacity, but this is more helpful than not - because it lets me use more fine-grained scale planning.
Yeah, but what would be rationale? They want to avoid x86 as a main CPU, so either you'd get an "x86 coprocessor to run Photoshop" (let's go with the PS example here).

Or you'd have to have fat binaries to have x86/ARM execution, assuming the T3 chip would get the chance to run programs. Now either program would have to be pinned to an x86 or ARM core at their start (maybe some applications can set preference, like having PS be always pinned to x86 cores) or have the magical ability to migrate threads/processes from one arch to another, on the fly, while keeping the state consistent... I don't think such a thing has ever even been dreamed of.

I don't think there's a chance to have ARM/x86 coexist as "main CPUs" in the same computer without it being extremely expensive, and even defeating the purpose of having a custom-made CPU to begin with.
Please don't twist the situation.

The Head of the WHO was attacked by racist trolls who were outwardly Taiwanese; for excluding Taiwan from membership (like _all_ U.N. projects do), And he commented about the abuse.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/04/taiwan-who-tedro...
https://ccforum.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s13054-0...

'a new clinical trial to investigate vitamin
C infusion for the treatment of severe 2019-nCoV infected pneumonia has begun in Wuhan, China'
I'm more thinking of the hospitality industry workers (high proportion of residents) as a vector for local outbreak.
What I find incredible is just how similar everything tastes.

Either my qualia are objectively different from everyone else's, or it's 90% marketing fluff and psychological tribalism.

It's not so much that there can't be a difference between the various cokes, Pepsis, and other brands--I just find it hard to believe that the difference is so great that people can find one repulsive and the other divine.

It's all just sweet, fizzy drink. Side by side I might be able to tell coke and new coke apart. I don't find it difficult to believe that people have a preference. I find it difficult to believe that one could be so swayed by the difference to revolt.

So I cannot shake that it's more tribal identity than taste... Sort of like rock vs hip-hop.

Yea, I know telling people it's mostly mental is going to be controversial, so sorry.
That's uselocale().
See my other comment below, I don't actually think this applies to Germany. It seems to have its act together somewhat better. At least not from what I've seen when visiting.
Well, it doesn't line the pockets of doctors either.

I'd take a close look at every entity that sells something to a hospital. This is a problem I've seen in publicly-funded healthcare. Private companies will absolutely fleece the government on any kind of good or service that's being sold to healthcare. Drugs, scalpels, tissue paper, everything.
Superspreaders aren't connected to each other.
Not saying I like the situation, nor that that's how things should be. Just that without seeing a string of quits, generally organizations (private or public) won't fix their salary problems.

(The one other related signal is hires, or lack thereof, but it's far weaker.)

If I'm wrong about that, I'd be curious to hear the theory.
Don’t let anyone chastise you for this. Most desk locks are easy to pick. Also, there are like 3 keys to have on your keychain to open like 80% of all manufactured locks like the ones in furniture. Deviant Ulam, a pen tester, gives a lot of talks on this topic.
Amazon ships many things 14-30 days now anyway.
Would need to know how the sample was chosen for that test. If you sample women of reproductive age at random, there's decidedly not a 50/50 chance that she's actually pregnant: by rough estimation it should be about (1.75 [fertility rate] * 9 months [duration of pregnancy] / 30 years [reproductive lifespan] = 4-5%). If you give all of those woman a wheat/barley test and 70% of the positive tests were truly pregnant (implying about 6.25% test positives) that's actually pretty good, roughly 8x better than a coin flip. If you take a sample that's known to be half pregnant and half not pregnant and only 70% of the pregnant women are identified, it's decidedly less good.
No crypto, so why the need for a blockchain? The real problem is siloed data behind diverse APIs
Where? I did see anything like that.