skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They dont even mention other options such as previous vaccinations, cross effects from other drugs, antibodies from other coronaviruses , humidity/sunlight etc. "They must be hiding something" means they either believe it's a conspiracy, or is a borderline racist attitude
It would be amazing if JS could have object equality in a performant way. I'm not sure if Python does anything interesting under-the-hood, but identical Python dicts have deep equality just fine. That would make hooks great in my opinion, where as right now they are just good. Dealing with object non-equality is like 90% of the friction I experience with hooks. Any pattern that requires me to reorganize my code (e.g. passing in individual parts of an object rather than just the whole object to the dep array) is an inelegant pattern, imo.
Lvs is mostly wrong. I am not claiming any of these mutant strains are attenuated, I am saying that deletion mutants exists and we should investigate them to see if they are attenuated.

I am not providing evidence that an attenuated strain exists, just evidence that it could exist because the right type of mutations are found in SARS-CoV-2. The only way we are going to find out if there are attenuated strains is to look for them which as far as I know nobody is trying.
I work for a fortune 500 financial institution. After what happened during the last crash we had a policy of 365 days of liquidity. So far this time we haven't used the Fed firehose of $, but according to our CEO the Fed has asked us to start using it. I don't understand why the Fed would ask us to use something we don't need.
Yes, and there are a number of other configurations doing the same. This is another recent one https://github.com/jabirali/tmux-tilish that works as a tmux plugin.
> Further, there's a great amount of scrutiny into whether anyone's sick (see the reports of doctors getting beaten up even by the cops).

What? Why are doctors being beaten up? I don't understand.
That's the reasons I like skype. It's for talking one to one. When I get a message, it's because somebody needs help now. Otherwise they'd send an email or use the group chat software.

The auto reformatting is annoying though. Outlook does even worse, always replacing dash with long unicode dash.
I've seen Newton's notebooks online before.
>IMO the only way GDPR would have worked the way its advocates hoped is if the enacting statutes created a private right of action.

Article 79

Right to an effective judicial remedy against a controller or processor

1. Without prejudice to any available administrative or non-judicial remedy, including the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority pursuant to Article 77, each data subject shall have the right to an effective judicial remedy where he or she considers that his or her rights under this Regulation have been infringed as a result of the processing of his or her personal data in non-compliance with this Regulation.

2. Proceedings against a controller or a processor shall be brought before the courts of the Member State where the controller or processor has an establishment. Alternatively, such proceedings may be brought before the courts of the Member State where the data subject has his or her habitual residence, unless the controller or processor is a public authority of a Member State acting in the exercise of its public powers.
Based on how many people of Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi descent are dying in the UK there is no indication that people form the Indian subcontinent have some genetic resiliency or immunity to the virus.
For all those bemoaning the lack of a headphone jack, if you like music do yourself a favour and get yourself an older iPod and do all your podcast and music listening on your iPod. The sound is much better and it's nice to have a device where I can listen to music and not be distracted or tempted to do other things.
It does. Users need to be over a certain age and/or have themselves enough karma to downvote.
About relative low death counts in some Asian countries by comparison with Europe or America, we must take in mind that Asian people could had been exposed in the past to a virus of Asian origin (or to a relatively similar virus strain), so they could have developed some immunity previously.

I would want to include in the discussion (and this is just my opinion and wild speculation by my part, not more, not less) the spring wildfires around Chernobyl area also in 2020. I wonder if ashes in the atmosphere are being also a hidden source of respiratory problems for Europe than nobody is taking in mind. Could explain the strange pattern of people that has recovered from the disease but somehow falls ill again and starts coughing again and again in waves, malaria style.

I remember similar massive coughs in all Europe in 2015 (if I'm not wrong) exactly at the same time that Russian and Ukrainian armies were burning forests in the North of Ukranie. I can be wrong, but there is not much to lose by researching that except time, and we have a lot currently. If we seen that spikes in hospital admissions match the burning periods and the wind direction plus a reasonable delay to reach the areas we could do further research.
"strip mine" is in the zdnet article linked above, have a look. (Resells without contributing back in any meaningful way, instead hurting the oss company financially).

"Destroyed" was an exaggeration, at least as of today.

However I like and use some of the oss projects Amazon strip mines -- if Amazon instead paid the oss companies a part of want Amazon makes, that'd let those oss projects hire more people, improve the software even more -- and that I would appreciate, and could be made in a mutually beneficial way I think.
Comparing cases is pretty meaningless if you don't also compare test rates.
Thank you for explaining why you think Scheme is a better langauge for SICP than Python.

As a fan of Python, my reaction to seeing this course was: "oh cool, a course on interesting things in a language I'm comfortable with".

I was then somewhat discombobulated to see the Python bashing in the comments.
These are confirmed cases, i.e. people who have tested positive. Actual cases, either in India or the UK, are unknown.
This. I have no problem with the Apple enthusiasts diving into the details, but really, 98% of the people taking pictures with their smartphones are happy with iPhone 5 quality photos.

I maintain that the 6S remains all that the majority of users need. Anything added after that was just to sell phones. And I’m a big Apple fan.
> we can hope there’s a less infectious strain out there

But how? We are able to surveil only a tiny fraction of genomes, relative to strains circulating. How would a "less infectious strain" ever emerge to the extent we'd have a high probability of sampling it? Darwin argues against this version of the idea.

Nevertheless, the OP is also wrong that it's faster to produce a live attenuated vaccine by finding one in the wild than it is to use tried-and-true viral vectors that are easy to reengineer, have previously received regulatory approval, and indeed are already in active trials (e.g. Oxford's adenoviral trial). It's also easier to trial heat-killed virus -- and indeed, that too is being trialed.
How is the sound better?
French scientists will test nicotine against Covid-19
Not an expert but I don't agree. You're talking about bump allocators I assume, a nursery area. Do much of that and the TLB gets used more, which can get expensive.

If it's not bump-allocating then you have to traverse data structures to find a suitable block of free mem. At the other end, each alloc() must get a free() and reclaiming and unifying memory to prevent fragmentation isn't cheap I guess.
That's not true, We want the same products just with a work/home divide.

I can't use a google home mini in the office because I can't add other gsuite accounts like a family can. That's so arbitrary.
It has it's advantages and disadvantages, same goes for text-programming though: Sometimes in text you store results in badly named variables because it is hard to make up a meaningful term for each step of a computation. In those cases visual code shines because instead of forcing you to come up with a name it allows you to directly connect things with the added benefit of visualizing dataflow, thus structuring your code. If you have an algorithm though where each interim result can be clearly named, then text code shines.
So roughly we argue that the more high-level your code is, the better it works visually, the more low-level it is, the better it is expressed in text. And it is therefore about a combination of both worlds.
We don't have this yet in vvvv gamma (but have it in vvvv beta) that you can at any point write text-code if you prefer and wrap this in a node for further use in your visual graph.
As a Python programmer, it would be interesting to hear why you thing Python in unprincipled? I haven't felt that myself so curious to see what your thoughts are.
Currently all that is certain is the Swedish gov has gambled with their citizens lives and in doing so they've done horribly in contrast with comparable countries. And the number of fatalities continues to grow.

How is Sweden in any better position to minimise total (lifetime) C19 deaths? Or all-cause deaths this year?
Parent means compared to Bluetooth compression codecs...
Oh no! You have to respect your customer's fundamental human rights! What a burden!
Ask HN: What is the real difference between Terraform and Ansible?
I am beginning to learn these tools and I noticed that Ansible is used to configure servers and Terraform does something similar but I can't figure what makes Ansible poor choice when doing provisioning?
NB: I am still learning please bear with my poor use of technical terms.
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I am not claiming any of this. I am saying that the right type of mutations exist in the SARS-CoV-2 genomes that attenuated strains COULD exist.

If they do I am arguing we should look for them rather than sitting in our armchairs coming up with possible reasons they don’t and so not even bothering.
One thing I have felt is that python doesn't embrace the functional way of thinking, even to the extent that JavaScript does. I personally find that once I have been exposed to a modern functional approach like in Clojure, etc, I find python lacking. Not just syntactically, but conceptually. For example, IIRC, many list methods in python modify the list they are working on, instead of returning a new list.
Also, how quickly the cases have been spreading through Singaporean's Foreign Worker Dormitories. I believe at some point, there were more Bangladeshis confirmed infected in Singapore than in Bangladesh.
Print's reporting has been a mixed bag.

For eg, the last video compares deaths vs testing in a poor country like Bolivia — situated many miles away from global hotspots to that of Belgium's — one of Europe's headquarters. It seems to suggest that increase in testing and quick isolation is somewhat of a "subjective" factor and doesn't help India.

This, completely disregarding factors like geography, demographics, Bolivia's first case landing a month after Belgium's, and Belgium being one of the few countries in Europe to actually count non-hospital deaths and more.

There's some confirmation bias here.
The virus is still spreading in every location in spite of the lockdowns. Don't believe R is below 1 even with the lockdown.

The virus is extremely infectious. Random sampling in NYC was hinting there were 1-2 millions of people infected and that's not the only city like that.
Resistance doesn't have to be genetic, it could be acquired through exposure to pathogens.
I took this to be part of the joke, since the new iPhone SE has exactly the same form factor as the iPhone 8.
Possible? Sure. Widespread? Unlikely.

I am not looking forward to having bandwidth wasted on this crap.

To be clear I'm a big fan of use of the WebCrypto API in general.

As a small rant I can't stand Amp as a whole, and haven't been using Google services for a few years. YouTube being the begrudged exception; and there I use it 95% in incognito, with frequent cookie flushes outside of incognito. They're capable of tying the shadow profiles together but I'm expecting them not to.
A Worried Look at Economic Convergence
It gets much simpler when you realise that in the original PC there's no "driver" in the way but bits of hardware are wired directly to various processor buses.

This is sixteen-bit assembly, so you have the famous 640kb of RAM available to the user and a 64k bit of RAM beyond that (see "0xa000" in the program). The graphics hardware is continuously rendering frames out of there at 320x200, one pixel per byte, using the default system palette.

The rendering is rather like a pixel shader. There is a big for loop over all the pixels, and at each point it computes a pixel value. First it decides which frame number it is on (stored in BP register I think), then calls an "effect" for that pixel.

It then jumps three pixels. This gives that nice "dissolve" transition between effects.

Keyboard controller is wired directly to the bus, so you can read the keyboard with a single instruction.

A MIDI controller is wired directly to address 0x330 (not standard equipment, back in the day this required a Roland card or SoundBlaster 32?), so you can just write MIDI to that.

There is a system timer interrupt configured for the music. The graphics appear to run continously, I can't see a link to the timer or vertical sync in the graphics code, that appears to just run continuously.
Is it? Now at least Google can index it and it's faster. The solution most savvy publishers were using before was to not send the content at all to the client, which means that search engines were not able to index it at all.

As someone who is actually subbed to a few paywalled sites, this solution sounds great to me.

I mean, we're talking about paywalled content here – ideals of an Open Web don't really apply.
Works with LinkedIn posts too.
> The first couple hundred lines of code of your project will have a much larger impact than the last few thousand lines of code ever will.

With this explanation, the author explains the diminishing returns by the fact that their value decreases ("impact"). I disagree: returns diminish because their cost increases. Assuming a thing can generate 100% of some value, the range 0-20% generates as much value as the range 80%-100%, but the latter range is more costly than the first range.

The return of centering the buttons is significant, because if they're not centered then the product will look unprofessionnal, which is not good for business. It just happens than the cost of centering them is high, in this case as high as setting up the REST service in a first place.

The return of having your company survive is extremetely high. It just happens that this cannot be done with the first few dozens employees but with hundreds more, which is of course way more expensive.
How do we determine who's sophisticated? Sure, it might be one of those "I know it when I see it" things, but is there a legal process to determine that someone is enough of a moron that the law can cut them some slack?
Why 1000? Probably arbitrary but I can't help but wonder why 1000 instead of the faster 1111 or 1234, perhaps someone using NumPad?
No, that's not it. The reason is that Disney lobbied to have the copyright term extended to prevent Mickey Mouse entering the public domain. This is despite that Disney was essentially built on public domain works.

This isn't how copyright was meant to work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act#S...

CGP Grey on copyright: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk862BbjWx4
I generally have a very poor opinion of the govt officials in my country owing to some very bad past experiences in India. But this time I too was pleasantly surprised.

My friend lives in a very populated area in Delhi called Tilak nagar and he told me in feb end iirc that the house opposite his has a huge plaque on it that says *Quarantine, this house has a covid patient" put on by police. This was the time when nobody knew how serious this thing was. So yeah it does seem they got some things right too this time.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

Given the past record of our beloved governments, I'm certain that, as War on Terror, this will persist forever, to also protect children, you know.

It just amazes me how short sighted people are, more so because, I assume, it's mostly people from USA...
There’s no simple answer for everyone but my current take on phone cameras is simple:

Every current production iPhone has a good camera.

The rear-facing cameras (which you use for taking pictures) are within spitting distance of perfect, barring any revolutions in camera physics. The front-facing cameras are inferior but they get the job done and are very respectable.

If you want a noticeably better camera, it’s simply not available in this form factor. You can play with gimmicks like the 108MP Xiaomi Mi Note, but once you zoom in, you can see the dirty secret that there is heavy, heavy processing that makes the resolution possible at all, and from an image quality standpoint, you’re not any better off.
Indeed. And additionally Amazon is absolutely terrible when it comes to shopping for specific product categories where details matter. Bike components are a classic example. In Germany you'll find a much larger product selection (with unquestionable origins) and better prices at specialised shops like Rose Bikes or Bike Components.

Meanwhile Amazon's listings for the same products with specific attributes are a giant mess - it's basically wild west since any seller can contribute to the product listing resulting in inconsistent attributes, unknown product versions and often multiple listings for the same or slightly different article. This also applies to other categories like outdoor clothing or audio equipment. For most product categories there are better options available.

And don't get me wrong - I'm a happy Amazon prime subscriber and enjoy their almost flawless fulfilling process, but these days I seem to only use Amazon for inexpensive, general, everyday items.
If only I could persistently XSS Hacker News and this comment could be self-modifying as well…
Why not just use TLS?
Side note: depth of field blur is not a gaussian blur but a bokeh blur. Most software uses gaussian blur to fake depth of field but this always looks unnatural.

Bokeh blur looks more like a lot of circles.

If you compare the iPhone 11 blur with the SE blur it looks like the SE is using bokeh blur which looks much more natural.
I think an important distinction is that in those "old days", people were largely working in what we now know to be subsets of real numbers, and the same conclusion applies there.

If you want to go to supersets of real numbers, you may be interested in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surreal_number
But... that actually doesn't apply here? In fact, it's the exact opposite of what you are saying.

Google isn't encouraging anyone to deliver different results to Google. It is providing a solution that serves the same content to all users (and search engines). That is exactly the thing you said they were espousing previously.

Previously, the actually worthwhile solution to paywalling was to not load the content at all until after auth. This means that you were showing different content to a google spider vs. a subbed user. Now it's the same.
I wonder if for people with data caps can this be a case for a class action.

I think there can be a case made that if content is indexable to a search engine and presented to the user as a link if it’s then gated without distinction from links that are not a case be made against google or the content providers.
The earliest coffeehouses I was exposed to growing up in SV were in bookstores and became great gathering places, especially after dinner.

The Upstart Crow (bookstore and cafe) was in the Pruneyard shopping center in the 1980s. I had my first espresso drinks there. In 1990 or so, Coffee Society opened in Cupertino, just a few doors down from A Clean, Well Lighted Place for books.

This all was before Starbucks hit the area.
Open source firmware works great for several devices that I use daily.

My router- I'm using an Asus NT-16[1] with EasyTomato for several years, and it's working flawlessly. I know others are using Pfsense also, which seems to work great for geeks.

I have an old iPod 5.5 gen running rockbox, an open source firmware.

I also use OpenVix[2] firmware, flashed onto a set-top box capable of DVB-T2, DVB-S and more (this model[3]) which also works great. The interface is similar to Sky commercial STBs, and there are ways to reorder and group TV stations with external editors. Therefore, its UI is on a par with commercial providers, and it's extensibility and flexibility is way ahead.

My experience with open source firmware is great, it's stable, secure, you potentially avoid unnecessary e-waste, and you're not locked into a manufacturer that might discontinue support for the device, so it would be very exciting to see this extended to white-goods appliances also.

[1] https://www.asus.com/Networking/RTN16/

[2] https://www.openvix.co.uk/

[3] http://vuplus.com/sub/sub0113.php
Even if India’s number is off by 2 orders of magnitude so the number of cases were actually ~70000 (highly unlikely, since those numbers would show up in hospitalizations), that would 70,000/1.4Bn, so about 1 in 20,000.

NYC at 6000 cases meant it had approx 1 positive in 1000, and the UK at 6000 cases meant it had approx 1 positive in 10,000.

So even if we assume that the US and UK were not undercounting, and that India was undercounting by a factor of 100 (!), India was about half as infected as the UK and an order of magnitude less infected than NYC when it entered lockdown.
It's answered in a rather roundabout way on their FAQ page for for membership accounts [1]:

>Can I use cryptocurrency to pay for my membership?

>No, all memberships must be paid by credit card in US dollars.

[1]:https://help.coil.com/accounts/membership-accounts
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True, but same is applicable to India. India shouldn't have to test more just because US has to.
I am not really sure you understand how it works. There is no hosted/not hosted versions of it. You must connect your "opensource" client/agent through their coordination servers hosted by them to host and publish the public key to the other devices in your network and you can not skip their service. So Tailscale is effectively as opensource as any commercial opensource VPN client. It's entirely useless when not used with their commercial service and users have zero control over the software unless when used with their servers. The "open source" thing is great from a marketing and business perspective because you basically benefit from the open source marketing and the community thing from the unsuspecting users and enthusiasts pros without giving away literally anything.
The point is that diagonalization works whatever map you have come up with: no matter how you construct your list of the reals, you can come up with another real not on the list.
Replies are locked after one fortnight? I'm keeping this one alive because it is directly above the "Space Engineers" comment.
"People. They're the worst." -- George Costanza
> Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who yesterday said the virus was "currently" eliminated, told Morning Report it was not unreasonable to use the term elimination - but that meant "zero tolerance for cases".

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/415278/covid-19-new-zeal...
If you're looking to learn cool stuff, I highly recommending finding a copy of the original SICP in Scheme and working through it. It will expand your mind to new ideas.