skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you really want to use headphones you can use a pigtail on the Lightening connector or plug them into a bluetooth adapter.

How fast will this wear out the Lightning socket?

Since Apple put the springs in the socket and not the plug (like USB-C) when that socket wears out the phone is a right off.
Alvar Freude (Employee at a DPO in Germany) talked about it in "Auslegungssache"[0] Episode 9. The whole talk is in German, though.

[0]https://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/Auslegungssache-Der-Datensch...
Is this related to Halide the language that Google also uses to implement computation photography?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halide_(programming_language)
Analog headphone ports aren't a serious weak point for water resistance. Older Samsung phones with such ports had good water resistance ratings.
All of my headphones are still wired. I hate those pigtail on lightning connectors. Even official Apple ones fall out so easily. Please give me my headphone jack back.
This seems like a cool feature. Is there something comparable on flagship Android phones?
I disagree that we missed the boat on OPTION 1. Option 1 may be the only path currently available to us by removing restrictions in a controlled way.

OPTION 2 is even still a possibility IF we massively ramped up testing and contact tracing. This is possible in theory, but we just not hearing ANYTHING about the real status of mass testing and/or contact tracing procedures (including things like the apple-google app).
Researching LKML contributors is a really good idea. Thanks!

Yeah Linux kernel positions seem to require extensive experience. Do you have any suggestion on what would be a good way to bootstrap such experience? Would making contribution to Linux kernel OSS be the best way?
You could pretty much replace the word coffee/caffeine with similar words for beer, alcohol, crack, heroin, ....

Addiction does not feel like an addiction. That's the problem with addiction.

Said that, some addiction is be life-enriching, from the impact on mind, body and social. (I love my coffee, I am so addicted to it that I stop drinking it for 2 months a year.)
I created a toy raft implementation in typescript, mostly to learn typescript. my interface for the datastore is actually pretty small:

https://github.com/matthewaveryusa/raft.ts/blob/master/src/i...

What kind of metadata do you need exactly from the datastore?
I suspect that a big part of the design of this api (and why it take time) was exactly to be as performant as possible.

The compiler desugar the async/await to state machines and that is melted away by regular means. Also, the quality of the runtime elected must take some credit.
Yes there is the F0-F5 system. If you download ncovi or the smart city Hanoi app, you can see on a map where F0 have visited, and where F0 and F1 are (F1 are in clusters because they're at quarantine camps). Originally they used to publish data on F2 but a few weeks ago they started only updating F0-F1. Additionally you can view https://ncov.moh.gov.vn to see the status of all patients, see how many F1 and F2 there are, and see how many people are being quarantined. You can also enable notifications to get a notification whenever there's an announcement (which is usually for when they are announcing nee cases or have news related to lockdowns)
Antibiotics are commonly prescribed for severe viral respiratory infections to ward off bacterial secondary infections.
Also China was the epicentre. Other governments and scientists had an extra two months to think about the problem.
FT journalist suspended over claims of Zoom eavesdropping
+1 for Mailgun.
Haha, his web directory layout cracked me up.

After reading, I thought to myself, "Hmm... I wonder what else he has written. I'll navigate upwards a level to https://shachaf.net/w "...

It returns a blank page with the letter "w". That actually made me laugh out loud.

"Ah, shucks. Let's go up again."

Returns a non-styled page that reads "Success!".
China has 100m active VPN users and magnitude more expats on the ground and foreign press present. Also millions of Chinese diaspora abroad getting news in the mainland. At least among my social circles, no one knows anyone whose been infected in China either among family or coworkers. There's more information flowing out of China in a relative sense. Vietnam also has Article 117 to arrest journalists for an anti-state reporting. They jail the second highest amount of reporters in Asia after China, 3X more per capita. That said covid19 isn't secret politburo proceedings, China and Vietnam are effectively transparent when it comes to massively public events.
On a more serious note, this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design
Why would the headphone jack be harder for water resistance than the other (USB/Lightning) ports?

I'm sure you don't need a recap of the pigtail problems, but for the record, (1) they break (2) they get lost (3) they're not around when you need them (4) they risk breaking the usb/lightning port when in pocket, falling asleep on your phone, dropping the phone, etc. (5) they're expensive (6) they disable charging, docking, external displays, usb gamepad use etc (7) cognitive load to manage/carry around yet another accessory
Can't say I'm surprised though. When and where do governments ever treat migrant workers as humans?
> I honestly find it hard to believe that people are still bemoaning

It's a fact that people are, what's there to "believe"? And "absolutely obsolete" also doesn't say anything. Come to think of it, I don't drop things, and I don't get them wet, so your concerns are absolutely obsolete for me: having the sufficient motor skills I don't need to waste additional energy and pollute the world some more, both physically and the radio spectrum, just for a tiny bit of convenience.
Worth taking look at http://tailscale.com - Their tag line: Private networks made easy. No affiliation -- just like their product.
"Faster than C", by effective use of C? Maybe I'm missing something, but that seems to immediately be a contradiction.
Which I'd be fine with if governments were explicit about that timeline .
As someone who has made an effort to build a connection with my landlords, being a landlord is not in any way an easy job.
Good landlords spend an immense amount of time on maintaining their properties and making sure that their renters have all their needs tended to.

This is doubly so in a rural university town where the seasonally renting(2/3rds of the year) population is anywhere from 10 to 30 times the size of the permanent residents in the surrounding area.

Also more generally, the lack of university students in these rural university towns could potentially cripple the local economy for a long time. Many of the local businesses are only able to sustain themselves with the income they receive during the Fall and Spring semesters.
To Microservices and Back Again – Why Segment Went Back to a Monolith
No, it's a reference to silver halide in analog photography. Halide is a camera app on iPhone.
> I think you actually meant https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=85227 instead.

For reference, the original was https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=78044 which appears to be a 64-byte demo showing off just the raytracer from 85227.
Thats a very virtuous and noble stance. According to the BLS, among the top 10 most dangerous jobs in America (warehouse worker didn't make the list) are loggers, pilots, fishermen, farmers, construction workers, roofers, trash collector and extraction workers.

Can I assume that out of concern for these workers you also don't buy food, don't fly commercially, you dispose of your own refuse, never use anything made out of wood and never enter a man made structure?
It's very condescending to say "I am doing this because I am pro-labor", as if, we the other users of Amazon are not pro-labor and don't care about their labour practices, and assumes that we can't read and comprehend. We all have worked at companies where you will have a set of disgruntled employees, and more so in places with more than half a million employees. The whole anti-Amazon narrative is trying to hold Amazon to higher standards using Guardian which itself doesn't have high standards for it's core journalism.
There are lots of food pantries in the US and in many of the cities the schools are using the school lunch program money to package food that parents can pick up from the school. There are many avenues for honest people before they have to resort to stealing from a grocery store.
Natural gas is available to a large fraction of the US population, but not a large fraction of the landmass. Something to keep in mind.
I doubt it, they don’t teach you much actual science while you are working on a poli-sci major.
“call them and ask” not going to happen
It's at a government facility unless you pay for a private hotel (which I believe Samsung did for its 300 staff that flew in last week).

I really don't see the borders opening up to non-citizens next month because it's expensive to quarantine all incoming travelers (and the people working at the facilities don't see their families for months). I really hope it can happen this summer, even if we have to pay for it, but first we have to determine if there's going to be a third wave or not from easing away from Directive 16's restrictions.
The grace period to start paying for a plan under the ACA is 60 days, not "forever." It's true that you don't need to wait for open enrollment, a special enrollment period opens for you when you lose your job.

edit: I'm not sure there's any grace period at all with the ACA. You have 60 days to sign up, but unlike COBRA, I don't see any evidence you can start using the insurance without paying for it first, which is the nice thing about the COBRA grace period.

https://www.healthcare.gov/coverage-outside-open-enrollment/...
Space Debris Elimination (SpaDE) Phase I Final Report (2012) [pdf]
You could have a written consent from Walt. All that actually matters is your appetite to deal with an exhausting legal battle.
Yikes, this breaks the rules and posts like this will get you banned here. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site to heart, we'd be grateful.
Qt isn't behind a paywall, but they do their best to hide the open-source installers.

https://www.qt.io/offline-installers
From a westerner living in Vietnam:

There are many things that haven't been mentioned here yet.

Vietnamese schools haven't reopened since Tet, end of January.

The population distribution is skewed towards the young end.

Most cases were imported, by youngish people, and the average age of these is even younger, mostly students, or for business or for holidays. Mostly relatively rich and young, not many travelling pensioneers in this country.

Mentioned measures contained community spread from said travellers to the rest.

The very old in Vietnam are not in care houses, they are at home, cared for by their extended family, who is much more likely to give a damn.

Information from the government news agency has been rather transparent, or so it seems to me. Every case has a number, and case numbers of contacts of new cases are reported. If unknown this is also reported.

This appearance of transparency and the fact that everyone infected is receiving prompt free treatment encouraged people to report suspect cases rather than hiding.

The government carries as a badge of honor that there haven't been any fatalities yet. The few critical cases are getting extreme medical treatment, no resources are being spared, there are so few that they can afford to do this. Multiple nurses, doctors and equipment per ICU patient. It seems to me that they will do whatever it takes to prevent fatalities. One of the critical cases is an european pilot. If he died it would be impossible for the government to hide.

Facemasks are plentiful, I have shipped many to friends and relatives in my country, where they are scarce and expensive. Hand sanitizer is everywhere.

It seems that heat doesn't stop the spread after all, but if it slows it down, that might also have helped, this is a tropical country, though in the north, and in the mountains, it can get quite chilly in winter.

I feel lucky being here now, but, of course, it's too early to call, I won't know for sure until this is over.
India, 'the *Stans', Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, the Balkans, Africa. Malaysia. Indonesia. Maybe Russia.
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I wonder how you would be perceived in that cafe in vienna if you looked neither austrian nor hungarian? The proportion of who even got their hands on literature in the first place was tiny. The majority of Vienna's brightest minds over the course of history likely died forgotten and illiterate, never having an opportunity to turn their intelligence into action and progress.

The 1800s and first half of the 1900s were extremely toxic environments for sharing ideas, driven by massively inflated egos of a few people cornering their fields who wanted to hoard their theories and ideas for themselves, while also being at the ready to shoot down any dissenting opinion from someone in the same field who could have been a collaborator in saner times. Even Darwin suffered so much toxic abuse from his peers that he walked back a lot of his master work by his death.

We harp that people use the internet to waste their time, but that is such a privileged and myopic stance to blame societies shortcomings on the rising internet. Misinformation and propaganda weren't invented by mark zuckerberg.

We fixate on the bad and ignore the benefits to people in different situations than ours. So many more people around the world have access to knowledge that would have otherwise been impossible to ever receive, simply because they came out of the wrong womb on top of the wrong speck of dirt.
Maybe we’re splitting hairs. I agree that it wasn’t “sound science”, but one could argue it was evidence based - the evidence being reports/video coming out of China (I believe there was an article in The Atlantic stating this is what made London Breed issue the first shutdown in the nation). Your use of “faith” based implies to me there was zero evidence taken into account which seems unfair. Again, maybe we’re splitting hairs and trying to agree on the same thing.
> Whereas Singapore is fucked and they have western approaches to hygiene, a bit odd that wouldn't you say.

Singapore was doing fine until their blind spot for itinerant cheap laborers meant this group was never properly tested. Now they've realised that these people are in fact people.
That is a terrible metric. We have little reason to believe deaths per infection can be significantly improved with therapeutic intervention.
What CUNY teaches us about the coronavirus, and vice versa
trolling is victimless. if you are a victim of trolling you deserve it.
The crazy thing is that most people, on both sides of the aisle, are unhappy with the current system. Unfortunately, nobody seems to agree on how to fix it.
Would you please stop posting like this to HN? You've been violating the site guidelines a ton.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Authoritarian governments can really shine

See how they shine in Hong Kong, see how the slave camps shine. How fondly the world remembers the shining of Germany and Russia.

What light was shining there? How quickly fear has turned men into worms.
Violating the site guidelines like this will get your main account banned as well. No more of this, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
LLVM is capable of eliminating calls to malloc if it can prove that they don't escape the function.
I think getting your source file into Github and having it go through peer-review is the best way to avoid these types of issues. Also changing the diff format from 'diff-by-line' to 'diff-by-word' improves readability a lot.
Right off the bat, I think you mean write-off. ;)
Length of Stay in Nursing Homes at the End of Life
Broccoli. But I know what you meant. Roses are edible.
This conversation is rather prescient as the death toll in the US due to covid will most likely surpass the total US combat deaths of the Vietnam War tomorrow.
https://github.com/facebookexperimental/rome
I was quite convinced VictoriaMetrics is superior than competitors after reading the author's several comprehensive technical details and benchmarks since a while back.

https://medium.com/@valyala/high-cardinality-tsdb-benchmarks...

Good to see it getting more attention.
You’re always stuck building a model and testing it in any case. The point is you don’t need to adjust for many common causes of cancer like smoking, so it’s a simpler model.
Unless you have pre-existing conditions or very expensive and rare prescriptions, it's probably worth the gamble to go to something like a silver plan at this point. How many months of COBRA would you pay until you reach the max out of pocket payout for the silver plan is some math you should do. You can scale that based on your risk tolerance.
Google Credential Provider for Windows
I think the unit is just one of those weird dimensional equivalences that pop up from time to time. E.g. fuel efficiency in cars is measured as distance / volume (of fuel consumed), so it's dimensionally equivalent to area^-2. But we don't use this because "1 mile per gallon" makes a lot more sense than "42.5 cm^-2".
Fighting the invisible enemy (fantastic pictures of coronavirus)
are you serious? tapering liquid coffee is much easier than breaking 100mg pills into smaller sizes.

source: i've quit coffee numerous times, just drink less each day, it's super easy.
Its disappointing that you bemoan the partisan politics in a time like this and immediately assume/mock that San Francisco will take a partisan decision when so far they have done a good job and stuck to science.
> Imagine Osama Bin Laden, Dick Cheney,

I recall thinking exactly this at the time of the Bush administration. Those two were both all about ordering violence from afar. Get them in a room together and what are they gonna do? I thought maybe they'd not be such tough guys after all. Maybe a controversial opinion...
I’m sure you can find people who miss floppy drives and dot-matrix printers too.
I think that may be biased as well (comparing number of deaths to last year).
Again, not sure if this applies globally, but where I live at the moment they only treat emergency cases and covid. So if you have some heart affection (or whatever) then you may not get appointments, get regular checks and so on. So basically you can't do prevention.
This may cause an increase in deaths because people simply don't go to doctors to keep their health in check.
For l_c, which contains the probability of the origin of life from non-living precursors, the authors suggest an LU (orders of magnitude) of ~200, and say "though one could easily argue for much larger LU".

Indeed one could argue. For example, the simplest known self-contained organism has ~500,000bp of genome which is roughly equivalent to LU (which is log base 10) of 300,000.

Obviously simpler organisms _could_ exist, and could have existed in the distant past. But how much simpler they could actually be is pure speculation.

300,000 is much bigger than 200. It is so enormous that it completely dominates all the other LU values.

It is so enormous that it is difficult to make any informed estimate about the probability distribution of log f_c.

But it tells us not to be surprised that we are completely alone in the observable universe.
Peeked the modafinil wikipedia and found this interesting quote:

"Monkeys will self-administer modafinil if they have previously been trained to self-administer cocaine.[28] As such, modafinil is classified by the United States FDA as a schedule IV controlled substance, a category for drugs with valid medical uses and low but significant addiction potential.[1][29]"

Never new it was a monkey that determined US drug policy, but I guess I'm not surprised!
The recorded broadcast IDs can be linked together, but only if they are somehow gathered from all of the devices that have been near you. As far as I can tell, the spec doesn't include recorded broadcast IDs ever leaving the device.
Interestingly, all island nations.
Microsoft Word Now Flags Two Spaces After a Period as an Error
Not if you avoid the common names and invent a new name for it. Nowadays they are just doing some searches and patent granted.
I put in a Sanden heat pump to replace an old electric gravity water heater 1.5 years ago. Based on power meter data it uses 30% of the energy of the old system on average. This is probably understated as hot water consumption has gone up as the new system and new pipes increased pressure and flow. I say on average as there is seasonality to the energy consumption. I live in a temperate climate, no snow.

We run it at night to take advantage of cheaper separately metered electricity rates ('controlled load'), it could be run even more efficiently during the day, but at higher cost. This and replacing the old gas ducted heating with reverse cycle air conditioning has allowed us to stop using gas, saving the fixed $~30/month service charge. Eventually the additional of solar will further increase our use of renewables.
It is not an obsolete interface, if every PC and nearly all wired headphone/earphone uses it.