skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can also do this manually (and on older browsers) by creating a FileReader and only loading new chunks after old ones have been transferred. With async APIs like WebSockets and WebRTC this typically requires implementing your own backpressure to avoid blowing up browser memory. See for example how omnistreams does it[0].

[0]: https://github.com/omnistreams/omnistreams-filereader-js/blo...
Facebook AI Research: A state-of-the-art open-source chatbot
Yeah. That's kind of the point. Don't expect to buy or write alternatives for the established, trusted apps. Just consume product and get excited for next product.
Exactly, that was my point and I thought that would be understood by someone in the domain. Same for HFT vs "electronic" in general, again someone in the domain would get that distinction immediately.
What risk is an accountant sitting in SF City Hall taking? High risk positions - sure give them more security. Otherwise, treat them like everyone else. Also, people goto govt jobs because of job security as well - which is also a factor in lower income.
Apple //C scene from ’80s Bond film “A View to a Kill” recreated in Apple BASIC
Tesla pushes Tesla Semi deliveries to 2021
Nicotine is not harmless! Look at all the adverse effects (they all have citations): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine
Get rid of that damn chat button that appears. Then shakes. Then pops up a fake conversation covering half my screen while I'm trying to read. Seriously, I was interested and that thing just pissed me off.

It's like designers open the startup starter pack and think they have to use all the pieces.
Separate! I like to say that designer is more when you're building and creating, and core is when you're trying out other apis or just scratch padding some requests.
Collaboration increases productivity and building new offices continuously is not the only way to increase collaboration, specially for the kind of work that SV companies does. I think from that perspective the OPs post bears merit. However it is also a matter of job security and if you don’t have to go to an office physically you may feel insecure inside ....
That is a weird one, yes. I think it comes from 'flesh out', which, if similar, is at least old enough that it doesn't sound strange to me.

Wiktionary sort of suggests it should sound similarly odd - it doesn't discuss it on the flesh out page [0], but for flesh vb. [1] it does give '5. To put flesh on; to fatten'.

[0] - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flesh_out#Verb

[1] - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flesh#Verb
Anything that requires a manual step will be at a huge disadvantage compared to something that doesn't. People have better things to do with their life than read router manuals.
You wrote an amazing piece of inspiration for me....TY
Characterizing, modeling, and benchmarking RocksDB key-value work at Facebook
Why is mean reversion difficult to trade?
https://youtu.be/zBmIoUO7_Gc?t=198

> There's not gonna be a 50 year old man who's like, "man, I should start smoking! That goddamn Camel!"

That joke always kills me :P
Hey, the libsodium guy! Thanks a million for your work on that; I've really enjoyed using it. I actually ran across this the day after the CFRG meeting and was happy to see a respected implementer had already written a C version. Would you say it's mature enough to use yet?
CDC data suggests COVID-19 deaths much higher than reported
I was responding to this part

> None of those other companies specifically target kids with advertising and subversive grassroots efforts to try to get them hooked on [their product]

I didn't intend to equate it to drugs; and, admittedly, I didn't fully read that last sentence.
I suspect 5 isn't fuzzy in practice. My guess is that they delegate the details to each hospital, which will have very detailed notions of what they need. Especially given that their supply people will have been sweating this question for the last six weeks.
I started my career in 2002 (been programming since '93), and back then there was no client side rendering. So my guess is, he's talking about server side rendering that spits out html.

Since those things really miss the 'react' part of React, it is still quite different.
JSON support is a little bit lacking at the moment, something we plan to address soon. If the JSON isn't private we'd definitely love to take a look, do you mind opening an issue?
That's great! Inconsistent large file support has also been what has prevented me from using the various predecessors to this so far.
Yes, you're right that a pension often involves a reduced salary for the promise of a pension at retirement age. That's a huge part of the appeal of a public sector job that pays significantly less than its counter parts in the private sector. And that's why public sector employees get extremely angry and litigious when governments try to reduce their obligations, even as agencies face dire financial straits.

Which 401(k) plans are you thinking of require paying out to a retired employee if that employee has contributed 0%?
Being around a positive person continually for several days at home would mean a lot more exposure than many people would get when encountering others in public.
I suspect that is an idiosyncratic definition.
SSH hacks – a little sanity for remote workers
Romney is already positioning himself to run in 2024 with the vote to convict over abuse of power.
> Remember, flattening the curve does not reduce deaths in the long-run, except insofar as it avoids overrunning hospitals, which we have already achieved. Flattening the curve is not beneficial for its own sake; indeed, it worsens the economic damage, and thus it should only be practiced unti we know that we won’t overwhelm hospitals. The area under the curve remains the same. We strongly belief that a rational examination of the evidence will show that practicing containment “until the vaccine” (which will take years and is not guaranteed to be possible, although we personally believe that we eventually will have an effective vaccine) is a foolish policy that will lead to far more mortality than simply “biting the bullet”.

The problem with the analysis and exhortation to end the lockdown is contained in the above.

Flattening the curve is a way of maintaining hospital capacity and is an ongoing effort. Saying "we have already achieved" it is nonsensical.

What does make sense is maintaining hospital capacity and following a reopening protocol along the lines of:

1. Reopen sections of economy, relaxing stay-at-home for some workers.

2. Monitor for outbreaks.

3. Test and contact tracing.

4. In case of new outbreaks: quarantine and strengthen stay-at-home.

5. Repeat 1-4.

And continuing this until

- Advent of treatments for COVID-19

- Advent of vaccine for SARS-CoV-2

- Herd immunity has been achieved.

The essay linked in the OP refutes the simple argument that lockdown must be maintained by presenting an overwhelming number of details about COVID-19, its lethality, elective vaccination, secular superstition, and all other manner of irrelevant topics.

The reason for the lockdown is to maintain healthcare capacity in the face of a virus that is highly contagious.

A workable and moral framework for ending lockdown looks something like what I've outlined above.

The OP provides no suggestions on how lockdown might end, other than gathering an enormous amount of tangential evidence to prove "The Case for Ending Lockdown".
Instantiating it does nothing useful, though. `React.Component` is basically an empty shell with a marker flag on it so that the React renderer recognizes it, and the `setState` method just delegates to the actual renderer implementation. There's no reason to ever instantiate it yourself.
Well the article oversimplifies the linked source quite a bit in my opinion:

The article says

>Volunteers experimentally inoculated with HCoV-229E showed a steep decline in antibody response over time, and the majority could be successfully reinfected a year later.

while the linked source for that 1990 study says that while the 10 study participants were reinfected, none of them developed colds a second time, and the virus shedding period was much shorter.
When people start a sentence with "I'll be honest with you" I'll often rudely interrupt saying "you mean you weren't honest before?"

Yes, I know it is a meaningless filler phrase. I got tired of watching "American Chopper" partly because the son started every sentence with that phrase.

A colleague basically of mine basically interjected "basically" between basically every couple basically of words, basically. So I basically started basically writing basically a lot of "basically" interjections basically in my basically emails basically to basically him. Fortunately, he basically had basically a great basically sense of basically humor. Like, totally.
Snap / Flatpack are probably the most promising attempts in this area.

Personally I think it will be incredibly hard and tedious to morph the Linux desktop into a properly sandboxed environment, exactly because you are fighting long established conventions and norms in just about every aspect of development and application usage.

Fuchsia (Googles new OS) might prove very interesting in this regard.
That's... naive. Facebook and Google are platforms for behavior modification. Their products are designed to be addictive so you spend more time on them than you really want, subjected to a barrage of tactics to get you to buy things or change your opinion on something.
Regarding #4, with the ubiquity of call blocking, I don't see how it is possible for them to reach 90% of the people that may have been exposed, especially once people find out that picking up that phone call means you will be in quarantine. To make matters worse, the authorities likely won't be able to tell you where/when you were exposed and to whom (medical privacy). This target is basically unreachable IMHO.
I read that there was visible lung tissue damage forming the characteristic broken glass pattern on CT scans of 58% of the infected but asymptomatic carriers on the Diamond Princess cruise. That to me adds a sobering footnote to the process of developing herd immunity. Most of us won't die, but do we walk away with long-term impairment of our lungs and possibly other organs?
The Bateson Building (2016)
Because the only update occurring is the changing of text in an input. Yet due to how React works it’s diffing a much larger tree.
Facebook Blender: A state-of-the-art open-source chatbot
My apologies. That was meant to be 2016 when touchbar was released.

I had the previous gen with removable SSD and did use a caddy for that when it’s logic board died.
I found a typo: "incredible stess" --> "incredible stress".

This is well written. Thank you. It's wrong that this post is currently flagged.
Not a scientist, I can only attempt to retell what virologist Prof. Christian Drosten from Charité Berlin told in in his podcast[1]:

It's not really clear at the moment but it could be due amount of dose (more virus particles, faster replication) and where the virus makes contact with the body (if you are unlucky you are breathing a high dose directly into your lungs i.e. coughing patients in a hospital) - your immune system does not know the virus and it takes a while until it's able to fight it off and if the virus is directly in the lungs or you've got a high dose it has less time to do so. If you have it only in the throat it takes a lot of time, like multiple days until it goes into the lungs (if at all, this is also not clear when and when not this happens) and he suspected that in this time period you already have a better immune response.

Besides that (not from the podcast) I've read that the virus can induce inflammation that can can cause blood clots and other nasty things - so you may die from stroke or heart problems and not pneunomia.

There was also a paper that hypothesized that the virus can either replicate in the throat and go the lungs but it's probably also possible for the virus to use the nervous system to reach the brain via the olfactory bulb.

China did isolate ill patients from their families and it was hypothesized that sharing a bed/room with a sick person is a bad idea because the virus is in high doses in the air. So you can read that you should keep fresh air flowing in and possible avoid too much direct contact.

1: https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/info/podcast4684.html (only in german)
Maybe? No one knows for sure. We can't directly measure the dose of virions each person receives. There is a huge variations in contagiousness between patients based on factors that are still unclear. Proper use of PPE by caregivers can also have a huge impact.
The equivalent of this for sending a text message through the telco I dribbled with is the 4500 line nested if-clause in the 65k COBOL source file.

Then for each check its a tour into another 60k beast with the main flow in a much handier 2k loc if-clause. And actions to be done are sent relatively straight forward from there, where needed.

But its OK, avoiding objects isn't too bad, its but after 30 years a lot of things in flows get added multiple times out of fear of breaking stuff, and it adds visual bloat.
what’s your stack look like? I’ve got D3, Zinc, and Magnesium. Occasionally a multivitamin, melatonin, or calcium (for arthritis)
Rust and Node.js: A match made in heaven
I certainly like how empty the roads are whenever I go out ... having said that I certainly can’t wait to go back to office but I just dread sitting in the morning and afternoon traffic. What we need is for managers to accept that workers have absolute right to decide when they want to work from home and when they don’t. As long as someone is accountable and is meeting their goals it should be fine to wfh.
Diane Havlir Professor of Medicine and Chief of the HIV/AIDS at Division at UCSF gave a presentation where she said they can't culture virus 8 days after symptoms. And that viral fragments can be detected for weeks.

Source: https://youtu.be/bt-BzEve46Y?t=435
Oh please. Once you have very high volume and strong market share you can gradually increase prices to improve profitability.
I mean that's easily explained. The Saudis just purchased 8% of them. Wouldn't want the Saudis to lose money would you? /s
I came here to say this - how is this news?
The typewriter that recorded dancers' body movements
New type of interstellar spaceship proposed
What makes this really interesting to me is that it uses a golang implementation of WebRTC on the server side. When I was playing with multiplayer networking in the browser ~1.5yr ago, there really didn't seem to be a lot of options for WebRTC servers. Great to see some progress here.

Also, it sounds like it's using streaming rather than loading the entire file, which would give it an advantage over https://file.pizza, which is what I usually recommend for p2p transfers.

If you like these types of tools, but don't require p2p (or can't use it because of NAT), I'll also plug my own https://patchbay.pub, which will let you do streamed transfers with nothing but curl.
Single payer is a possibility but not the only possibly. DE/NL have private insurance + universal coverage and it works just fine. But the shenanigans insurance companies get up to are not allowed there.

I’d prefer single payer but either one works and but regulated insurance will be more politically palatable in the USA.
Hmm, maybe this is a classic "didn't bother testing on Firefox" situation. I wonder if anyone on a different OS can confirm.
Thanks for highlighting that link.

I also like that there are numerical targets for these indicators. It's also great that the entire Bay Area is coordinating a regional response. What I'd like to see is some alignment at the state level, as well, but it doesn't look like the state has actually published specific benchmarks yet.
The study mentions that Italy and Spain had high levels of deficiency before this hit.
Sonos needs a bigger moat around its business: radio
> Maybe not in the author's circles, but in this particular scenario, that point was in dispute.

Sure, but that's not a useful thing to know. I recall when Ken compared saying that to something akin to the following conversation, which I'm reconstructing from memory:

Help! I've been bitten by a snake and I want to know if it's poisonous!

Unless you're eating the snake, it only matters if the snake is venomous.

Okay, so can you tell me if the snake is venomous then?

Not all snakes are venomous.

So the important point is not to dispute over whether any speech can be banned, but whether the speech in question fits one of the categories of unprotected speech:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...
But he still has a point.

Pushing all manners of unreliable tests will makes matters worse for everyone.

Any test will need a very high degree of reliability or you’ll end up with large numbers of people being quarantined for nothing or, worse, large numbers of people with the virus allowed to roam free as they believe they are not carrying it.
How secure is this?
The most important question : Are Barbershops going to be Open or Not? :)
How do they target kids any more than bubblegum vodka in the gas station? I never understood these arguments, implying these flavors are for kids. I've never even seen a juul advertisement to begin with.

I love flavored juul and I'm an adult, the tobacco and menthol flavors are ass and I know a few people that have fallen back to smoking or chewing tobacco when they could no longer get their mango juul pods.
Yes the very first answer when searching Google for "Nicotine Effects"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4363846/
I think you're conflating different definitions of "profit". There's at least three important ones:

1) Accounting profit: revenue - expenses. This is colloquially what most people mean when they say "profit". To break even you just need to make enough money to cover your explicit expenses. In your example, you would need to make more in Filecoin income than you spent in disks/electricity/etc.

2) "Normal profit": this is a technical term in microeconomics. Basically this takes into account opportunity cost; the cost of not doing some other profitable thing with your time/money. By these standards, to break even you'd not only have to cover the cost of disks/electricity but also the "opportunity costs" of whatever else you could have been doing with those disks/electricity (like mining Bitcoin), or whatever you could have been doing if you never even purchased those disks to begin with (like investing in the S&P or whatever).

3) "Excess" or "economic" profits. These are extra profits on top of whatever you earn in #2. This is the part that goes to 0 for commodities like milk/gasoline/Filecoin but is non-zero for differentiated products like iphones.

For Filecoin specifically, I would expect that normal profits would probably be above the raw costs of disks and electricity, since it takes some effort to purchase and administer all that hardware, but probably below the cost of renting a VPS, since a VPS is typically used for more profitable things than just sitting around and holding stuff on disk.
My first thought was to suggest finding multiple English translations of a piece of Hebrew Literature you like and comparing them. Then I remembered the linked article, which is a comparison of four different English translations of the verse novel Eugene Onegin, by Alexander Pushkin. The article was written by Douglas Hofstadter, a professor of cognitive science and comparative literature at Indiana University who has an essay collection called Metamagical Themas (an anagram of Mathematical Games). The first few essays are about self-referential sentences and a subset of those, self-replicating sentences, which you really have to read to believe. Maybe check out his book Gödel, Escher, Bach. It won the Pulitzer, but if you pick it up, just remember that when you get confused, it’s his fault, not yours.

But Winston Churchill said it best, and this is great advice: “short words are best, and old words, when short, are best of all”.

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/07/20/r...

https://www.powells.com/book/-9780465045662

https://www.powells.com/book/-9780465026562
To be completely objective, cigarettes are dangerous because the concoction of chemicals that generate the smoke lead to lung cancer.

Vaping mostly just gives you the Nicotine hit, which doesn’t have the same dangers as tobacco smoke. Of all the vices I ever picked up, vaping has the smallest footprint in terms of character change while consuming it, and long term health consequences.

We probably need more studies on standard Nicotine consumption, as it may be in the same class as caffeine dependency:

https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/Nicotine_I...

Now, about the kids. I think they will mostly get high on vape pens. Juul won’t even be there jam honestly.
Diet seems to be the issue.
Oof, good observation and I should definitely clarify here.

I have no affiliation with Gitlab whatsoever.

This is my personal blog that I made when I quit my previous job a couple months ago. I ended up repurposing the blog because I couldn't figure out how to get a table of contents working on a generic markdown file (i.e. I originally was just going to link to plain markdown in my git repo), but I was able to quickly figure out how to get it working with hugo.
I used Netlify / Hugo via Gitlab to do so, so the Gitlab logo just happened to be part of the default theme. I'll look into removing it for clarity later.
This was also confirmed by a physician from Innsbruck, Austria that looked after healthy young adults that were divers and got the virus - all of them had only mild symptoms but most lost the fitness to dive anymore and lack lung function.

https://www.sportschau.de/weitere/allgemein/corona-lungen-sc... (I did not found an english link)
In before video games and voracious reading.

Addiction is generally a result of some failure in a person's social life and social structure that negatively impacts them to the point of developing a coping mechanism.

Or at least so say the Rat Park experiments.
From the github repo (original caps):

THIS PROJECT IS STILL IN EARLY DEVELOPMENT, USES EXPERIMENTAL
CRYPTOGRAPHIC LIBRARIES, AND HAS NOT HAD ANY KIND OF SECURITY OR
CRYPTOGRAPHY REVIEWS. IT MIGHT BE BROKEN AND UNSAFE.
It's called private property. YouTube can do what it wants on its private platform. It's not a monopoly. There are other video platforms.
Where is the evidence that kids were explicitely targeted? Kids can't buy these unless some adult consumer or a shop clerk is breaking the law. Flavored vodkas aren't treated with similar scorn, but you know 14 year old kids are getting faced off of blueberry smirnoff and not rye whiskey.
if you are going to cherry-pick, then so be it.

what about the police, fire department?
> SILK that seemed to be the parent of OPUS

That's right - SILK was a codec tuned for voice chat, not music. CELT is the other parent of OPUS and is tuned for music. (Opus uses a hybrid strategy that switches between codecs as necessary.) Don't just look at the benchmarks, at the bottom of the page you can click on the links and listen to a bunch of 64 kbps Opus samples. They're very, very good.

And no, they aren't indistinguishable from a CD. As I said in the original comment, they're more than good enough for high quality music streaming for a video chat.

> I'd really love to find out that codecs have halved audio size in the past half decade.

This has happened, to my ears at least. A little over a decade ago, I could not-infrequently tell a V2 MP3 (~196 kbps) from the FLAC. Took 256 kbps (~V0) to be reliably transparent. (I think it's improved marginally since then, V2 might be transparent almost all the time now.) These days, it's quite infrequent I can tell a 128 kbps Opus file from the FLAC. And the best codecs are quite passable even at 64 kbps.

Actually, Opus is "okay" even down to like 48 kbps. Try the sample here: https://people.xiph.org/~jm/opus/opus-1.2/
It's pretty good that they even have this flowchart...