skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I still don't understand why Wolfram Mathematica doesn't have wider adoption.

High prices for hobbyists who are not students.

The Wolfram store does not even give you the option to pay with anything else than credit card (in Germany, other methods of payment are strongly preferred), so you have to use a reseller if you don't have or don't want to use a credit card for payment.

Side story concerning the previous paragraph: I got a voucher from Wolfram Research to update my Mathematica license via the Wolfram store for a price that seemed fair to me at that time. So I wrote to the support that I would love to accept their offer/voucher, but have no credit card. Wolfram Research support told me, this is not possible; I have to use a reseller in this case (for which the voucher does not apply). OK, I get it: Wolfram Research does not want me as a customer.
Having an analytical formula is nice, but in practice this has been solved numerically for many decades.
Using Machine Learning to diagnose Covid-19
And yet half the people here proudly avoid social media, sports, music, movies or any other parts of modern popular culture for being "too mainstream." Or won't touch certain programming languages because they're uncool. Or hate the modern web because the normies have ruined it and it's no longer quirky and niche.
> What if coffee shops/bus stations/shopping centers broadcast beacons and essentially became fixed known users -- doesn't that defeat this?

No, because the list of beacons you received is only stored in your phone, so that would only allow you to determine that you went to a coffee shop often, and no one would be able to get a list of anyone who was close to the coffee shop.

This of course assumes that the app/OS vendor does not include hidden functionality that uploads your received beacons, but in that case they could just activate the GPS and upload the location regardless of the contact tracing system chosen.

The coffee shop would be able to determine how many smartphones are present near its location at any time (although this could be mitigated in principle by having smartphones send many beacons if they are receiving few, so the number is approximately constant), but would not know anything about them, including whether they are the same smartphones that it detected at a different time.
Ahh, yes, the HMS Rururu set alight in Boston harbor while unloading a bunch of printed Us and loading up a cargo of spoken Rs. To this day, Americans are almost as stingy with their written Us as the Brits are with their spoken Rs.
If you have a Python script create your tables

AND 1=1
AND this script has the table information stored in dicts in the {column name: column type} form
AND this script is run by a python version where the dict order is undefined

you will get funny outputs from your queries that break production deployments in subtle and unique ways.

So yeah, just use column names (and name your computed columns!).
I'd rather go the Star Trek route.
Paxos vs. Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed consensus?
The problem with your theoretical argument is that we already know there is no standard treatment that works, and ventilators have a mortality rate of 66% to 90%.

So ... the control group is "left alone to die."
I know you're trying to sound wise, but you're just following the ignorant HN herd.

Here is a link that analyzes the papers published by the Wuhan Corona Lab. It's a long read, but the conclusion is that likely Covid-19 was man-made, and US NIH partly paid for it. Nobody disputes either, but for some reason HNers are not paying attention to anything but "IFR vs. CFR."

https://medium.com/@yurideigin/lab-made-cov2-genealogy-throu...

I didn't add the link originally because I wanted to see how ignorant HN was to the reported events in Wuhan.
This is so true. Most VCs these days are a mix of jaded doctor with a housewife impression of wolf of Wall Street.

This crisis will serve to take the prom queens to the dumpster and allow reality to show the other ones with slightly crooked teeth are the real winners.
As shared elsewhere on the site, I am very pro IndieWeb (https://indieweb.org) and therefore try to do everything via my own site.

I use https://brid.gy/ to syndicate posts from my own website (https://www.jvt.me/mf2/2020/04/svn4c/) to Twitter (https://twitter.com/JamieTanna/status/1254670009420431360) so I'm still owning my content, but I can still interact with folks on other platforms.
How did you calculate the "between 1/1000 and 1/25" death rate for young and healthy people? Are you talking about infection fatality rate or death rate of people being treated in hospital?

According to the UK ONS [1] for the week ending April 10, there had been 74 COVID deaths of people aged 44 and younger and 6,139 deaths of people aged 45 and older in the UK. So for that period, people under 45 account for ~1.1% of all COVID deaths despite making up 56% of the total population.

If you assume an overall infection fatality rate of about 0.5% (which seems like a pretty good guess from the recent antibody tests in NYC and other studies), 1% of half a percent is a pretty small number. And that's not even factoring in that a lot of the under 44 deaths probably involve co-morbidities and aren't otherwise healthy people.

This is back-of-the-napkin math and the IFR is inter-related with the population demographics, so I could be wrong. But it seemed to me like the death rate for people under 45 is quite low.

[1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...
Neat idea. Some libraries I hadn't heard of too. Running unhardened binary-parsing code on arbitrary user input seems pretty risky though!
I'm not the best to answer, but leet means "elite". There used to be a thing called leetspeak.

Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet
Actually, I am. Are you planning on lockdown until 2022?
> Metallica ... nothing else matters

I see what you did there.
You're right, in that there is "no clear answer because of how varied people's expectations and reactions are."

So what's the point in trying to gauge this? Either you'll find people who accept it or they won't. Seems like you'd be adding further stress to an already stressful situation by agonizing over this.
Also known as the "Tortoise and Hare Algorithm!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_detection#Floyd's_Tortoi...
Thanks for sharing my site! As you say, I'm quite big with IndieWeb, and for readers there are quite a few other folks you'll want to see - https://snarfed.org/ https://tantek.com/ https://aaronparecki.com/ and https://www.barryfrost.com/ to name just a few.

If anyone is interested learning more about the IndieWeb, https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/10/20/indieweb-talk/ is a transcript of a conference talk I gave on what the IndieWeb is
Hitler was a vegetarian and loved animals - therefore ... Clearly not!

You try to associate an obviously outrageous claim to a topic you want to smear. A rather basic trick. You seem unaware that the evidence relating personality (of which political persuasions will form a part) to brain structure is overwhelming if you bother to look in the literature which you don't appear to have done.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3092984/
Curr Biol. 2011 Apr 26; 21(8): 677–680.
doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2011.03.017

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/study-predicts...

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(11)...
> Reliance on US tech

This is Germany. They are a US satellite state since 1945 and have only limited independence on strategic issues.
GP literally explained that "contact tracing" and "digital contact tracing" are two different things...

He said "contact tracing" is necessary.
Just thank god they don't decide to prefix it with a hash to make it more trendy twitter-like youngster hipsters whatever like what the French government is doing (#stayhome / #restezchezvous). Now get off my lawn...
- Even though I have become mostly vegetarian, it is quite tempting to buy meat for the convenience and the fact that sometimes it is much cheaper than fresh vegetables (at least in the west).

That's what I hear a lot, but I'm not sure it's true. Since being 'plant-based' I've not really noticed much change in how much I spend on shopping. I tend to buy seasonal and what's on offer, plus I pretty much eat anything.

Meat substitues tend to be the most expensive, but I try and avoid these products.
No, I don’t think it means that at all. It’s a percentage of all food that gets wasted, not every food.
I feel your pain. But ideally, once the PR code is merged, the end result should be solid code. Anything you write at a hackathon is fake/barely-functional throwaway code that only exists for the demo at the end. There's no architecture, no error checking, and just no time for anything elegant or any real insight into your problem space.
You're absolutely right; I've expanded the copy on the license page. Any licenses purchased during the beta will last for the duration of beta and all of v1 updates.
Bad example.

Empty shelves in USSR only occurred at later years and were not a (direct) result of having a planned economy. It was a bad side offect of introducing parts of self-regulation a la market economy.

It doesn't take much planning to not waste 40% food.
so by extension everything is just great, right? What if a person perishes from torture and war crimes? it at least lived part of its life happily before that. Who knows what would happen if the person was born in the sucks-to-be-there (TM) "dimension" (!?). what is consciousness? is the person who is reading this now conscious? who knows. let's all eat each other while we ponder these great questions. could be totally worse, yeah. ;)
I'd contend it's fair to adjust for the country's typical expectations. Just like you couldn't simply expect the same size of house in Hong Kong as you might in Europe.
Khalil Stemmler has loads of articles about DDD in Typescript on his site: https://khalilstemmler.com/

He was writing a book about it too, which seems to be done: https://solidbook.io/

Not affiliated.
> I do have an issue being treated like a character in a badly organized DnD game. And I have had no qualms in the past making it clear that I don't tolerate being blamed for bad planning or shoddy requirements gathering.

I have found myself in this situation for the past two years, I've voiced my opinion more than once. But at the end of the day, in a non-tech financial company, developers just aren't important enough to be listened too. The business side holds all the powers, managers on the tech side know this, and thus let them treat us like code monkeys. There have been numerous reshuffles in our team to "try and fix the problem", however without accountability, it will be difficult to fix a problem without understanding the root cause.

I've lost all respect for people who operate as the middleman between the development team and the business side, mostly because when it comes down to choosing a side, they'll side with the business, and play their politics game. After all, developers can't get them fired / moved away from a project.

I know I should just walk away, and I've told myself this for over a year. Yet this job is oddly comfortable (in terms of benefits), so I just let it happen. I still have moments where I care enough to speak up, but they're quickly shut down my managers.
What are those?

There are tens of such approaches, many of them practiced at large corps, and in my experience almost none of them deliver the supposed benefits, with few exceptions (NASA, MISRA) that are cost prohibitive except for very narrow fields.

And what does that have to do with “copying large corps” and/or monorepo vs multirepo?
History of Freezing Bitcoin
By molecular structure alone Insulin is one of the simplest proteins, even (though it's complex in ways you don't see by looking at a static picture of it, lifecycle, oligomeric interactions)
Not normal for who? Because in Tokyo, the house in the pic is quite normal. If I look just from my rooftop, I can probably count 20 houses of a similar design.

Also, keep in mind the height of the house. People tend to build up here rather than wide -- at least in family areas in central Tokyo. My current house, while slender is almost obscenely tall. It's four floors including the rooftop deck. In comparison, my childhood house back in midwestern America, seems much less spacious.
28 Million Mail-In Ballots Went Missing in Last Four Elections

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/04/24/28_mil...

https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/docs/p...

Also people keep claiming that over iD is somehow suppressing voting for low income and minority voters are delusional. US is one of the only countries which doesn’t have voted id. India which has very strict voter iD laws and yet out of the 900 million eligible population, over 600 million votes were counted with voter iD few months ago which was also the largest turnout ever for any democratic election in the world. So no, voter iD and efforts to combat voter fraud are not suppressing votes. That’s just a talking point with zero backing.
that... is a really fucking cool idea. i mean, it's of limited utility in the sense that builds really should generally work most of the time & be reproducible, so even though there is a bit of wasted effort, bandwidth, etc. in running the same build in multiple places at once, it's not like the worst thing in the world... but it just feels like there have to be cool / "useful" scenarios where you want to distribute a thing, but not the environment, etc. required to build the thing. oh wait, that already exists: it's called "a binary"... lol. iono.

i mean i guess if you have a process byte-for-byte frozen in time, you're a bit more certain (provably so? maybe?) maybe that when it is resurrected on some remote host that remote process and local process (as of t_freeze) are in ~"exactly" the same state?

or if you continuously snapshotted a process while it was running, and then when it crashes you (hopefully) have a snapshot from right before when it crashed that can be replayed, modified, etc. at will? but that's a bit of a stretch, and there are simpler ways of accomplishing that for the most part...

the only other thing i could think of is that this could allow you to run completely diskless servers, because you can just beam all the processes in, without ever having to "install" anything, beyond copying all the shared libs, etc. which i guess could get the "1 have one of these and i want 100 of them, in the cloud" latency down by an order of magnitude or two maybe.
Since we don't want the advertising industry to just evaporate over-night when we regulate it out of existence we can fund it collectively to solve this problem.

Wall to wall advertising to help everyone live a better life as cheaply & with as little environmental damage as possible.
Note that this project is unrelated to Sequoia Capital.
Releasing them would be dooming them to a horrible death. They'd end up ripped apart by wild animals or otherwise injured and live in pain until they die.
If you set them free they are going to cause a mess and potentially destabilize the local ecosystem.
My comment here has links to actual data of people who were caught and prosecuted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22992159
Distributed Agile Methodology
There are models using higher-dimenions (and lower dimensions, and factional dimensions) to model physical phenomena, but the problem with a lot of them is that you end up with the "fitting n points to an n degree polynomial" problem. It's trivial to create a model that agrees with all observed data, it's a lot harder to make a model that accurately predicts unseen data.
Spain: An algorithm to forecast gender violence
Note well: in AmE, "Asian" almost exclusively refers to East Asian or Southeast Asian origin.

I can picture some of my friends back home wondering what some Japanese-Brit kids are watching that gets them in so much trouble.
Huh, very interesting. Seems to be created by Basecamp, so will certainly be reliable.
IMO, encrypted e-mail is a dead end. Latacora has a good blog post about it that I highly recommend: https://latacora.micro.blog/2020/02/19/stop-using-encrypted....
If the files you are fuzzing are small, then you could just create a couple of gigs of tmpfs ramdisk with something like "mount -t tmpfs -o size=2G none /mnt/somewhere" and put your fuzz directory on there.

Then the impressive number of writes are all to memory, which should pose no problem.
This is a very good argument and many people (myself included) have independently come to the same conclusion that advertising adds very little value for the customer but takes away a lot of value by distracting them away from better alternatives.

Then there is the problem that big companies get bulk discounts for advertising and show up higher in the listings (in spite of paying less per-ad); this gives them unfair competitive advantage.

Most small projects these days understand how difficult it is to compete for attention and convey information. This is mostly because big corporations and startups backed by big VC funds have monopolized the media.

Technology has progressed greatly in the past few years but most people don't know it yet. Technological progress has been hidden away, drowned out in noise.

For example, there are some very interesting and radical things happening in the blockchain space but these projects are not visible because they cannot get any attention. Instead, what all people know about blockchain are the scammy mainstream projects - These mainstream projects are in fact discrediting the entire industry and hiding real progress. But it's the same thing with startups; that's why there hasn't been any major new unicorn since WhatsApp.
It tells you the exact time anyway, just have to click on it (or otherwise get to the contact's profile). The options for disabling it are to make it visible to everybody/contacts/nobody.
I think there's no way to understand quantum computing without first understanding some linear algebra, specifically tensor products. How ten 2-dimensional spaces give rise to a 1024-dimensional space, how the Kronecker product of three 2x2 matrices is an 8x8 matrix, and so on. If you're comfortable with that, here's a simple and precise explanation of quantum computing:

1) The state of an n-qubit system is a 2^n dimensional vector of length 1. You can assume that all coordinates are real numbers, because going to complex numbers doesn't give more computational power.

2) You can initialize the vector by taking an n-bit string, interpreting it as a number k, and setting the k'th coordinate of the vector to 1 and the rest to 0.

3) You cannot read from the vector, but exactly once (destroying the vector in the process) you can use it to obtain an n-bit string. For all k, the probability of getting a string that encodes k is the square of the k'th coordinate of the vector. Since the vector has length 1, all probabilities sum to 1.

4) Between the write and the read, you can apply certain orthogonal matrices to the vector. Namely, if we interpret the 2^n dimensional space as a tensor product of n 2-dimensional spaces, then we'll count as an O(1) operation any orthogonal matrix that acts nontrivially on only O(1) of those spaces, and identity on the rest. (This is analogous to classical operations that act nontrivially on only a few bits, and identity on the rest.)

The computational power comes from the huge size of matrices described in (4). For example, if a matrix acts nontrivially on one space in the tensor product and as identity on nine others, then mathematically it's a 1024x1024 matrix consisting of 512 identical 2x2 blocks - but physically it's a simple device acting on one qubit in constant time and not even touching the other nine.
Open-sourcing postcss-px-to-viewport: a tool to create scalable interfaces
Reddit faked users and content at the beginning, as the founders have stated. If you were building Reddit today, it's something that directly benefits from network effects, as does any social app or site. Search engines are difficult, but DuckDuckGo isn't a massive operation, and it doesn't take a ton of manpower to spider the web, nor was machine learning even really an option 10 years ago (not as easy as it is today). Sure, Uber is less appealing, but it's a very physical product. There are some businesses that require capital and scale, but to get a basic minimum viable app up is not something that takes a large crew.

You've got to make something that enables you to make a living, and then you scale up. If you have the option to get funding first and then build, yeah, it's probably a better way to do it because you'll be able to build in a lot more comfort and you'll be able to do more, but that's the whole point of bootstrapping, you bootstrap, then you grow.

It's that I can think of probably half a dozen pretty sizeable websites in sizeable markets that have had next to no competition for years, and they're not exactly technical marvels nor in some cases user friendly. Why have we not seen competition as the price of tech dropped and dropped and dropped over the last two decades? The things you can do on a cheap, cheap droplet are pretty wild.

The very notion that in an industry where you can literally build things anywhere that the expected approach is that you move to the most expensive locale in the US says that we've really taken a very narrow and kind of unimaginative approach. We're supposed to be an industry all about innovation. Where is it?
"human psychology can't handle how good we've become at manipulating it."

I'm curious if you think there's any way we can fix this.
Because many of them were built cheaply to begin with and develop problems over the decades. They weren't built for long-term living, and in a sense it was the right move since Japan was developing rapidly up till the end of the '80s. (Well-built exceptions probably exist, of course.) And then there's increased earthquake/disaster risk with poorer construction.

It's something I wondered about too until I looked at descriptions and photos of >30-year-old houses on real estate sites.
Smashwords prefers .doc files, but does allow upload of .epub files - though that route is still in beta (and has restrictions). https://www.smashwords.com/about/supportfaq#prep

Amazon's KDP allow uploads in .doc, .docx and .pdf formats - https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G200735480

Google Play Books take .epub and .pdf files - https://support.google.com/books/partner/answer/3424254?hl=e...
There isn't extensive documentation on the welfare of animals in large farms in history, but if you knew what goes on today, you wouldn't even dare write that. Chicks sent to the shredder, cramped living conditions for the entirety of their lives, untreated medical conditions, anal rape-assisted insemination, halal and Kosher slaughters. Watch Dominion (2018) or just the trailer and see for yourself.
I feel like the ability for this method to work well depends on the methodology of taking the enrollment and the subsequent key-generation images. If you take them using the same poses, with the same camera and lighting within a few hours of each other then this method will work extremely well [1]. I really doubt it generalizes to the case of using it with a laptop webcam in any location with different lighting.

But maybe I am wrong, maybe there are enough bits of information in a randomly lit image of a face.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2898524/
Cloud Tech
I guess it's a reference to Sequoyah https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoyah
Hi anh, be calm. Don't get triggered by their comments, it's a trap. Ignore the trolls. Keep your report succinct and professional. Stay safe and strong!
No, the scale is much smaller, the idea is exactly same. Most victims in Sweden are minorities and senior people; people are "not worthy" of preservation.
Germany flips to Apple-Google approach on smartphone contact tracing: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-europe...