skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whoever wrote that article apparently has no idea what “rate” means, as they were comparing total case and death counts:

> India is among the four Asian countries with at least 25,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 800 related deaths as of April 26. China, Turkey and Iran are the other three.

India and China each has one fifth of world’s population ffs. The infection rate in each is tiny.
Did those people criticise other epidemiologists for doing the same? Immediately holding press conferences appears to be standard behaviour during this outbreak; for example, Imperial and Oxford both did the same. In fact in the Oxford case the press published stories about the paper before it was even available anywhere, let alone in a journal.

I understand why at the moment peer review is being short circuited by everyone, regardless of political or epidemiological position. The world is hungry for news and journalists will interpret papers with or without the help of the authors. Might as well have their assistance, in these circumstances.

Your remark about "conservative news outlets" shows what's really going on here, I suspect - just another day in politically biased academia-land. If you talk to anything other than CNN then you're bad and wrong. The same has been seen with Alex Berenson, a former NYT journalist turned novelist who has never really taken part in politics nor even really discussed it much in public. Once he started tweeting skeptically about the actions of governments and academics, all based on public data, he discovered only the conservative news outlets were willing to interview him. And then that mere fact alone was used by the left to attack him, although his points were all based on actual verifiable facts and had no pre-existing political bias.

Ioannidis made a lot of enemies by kickstarting the replication crisis. Now it looks like some see a chance to get back at him.
I like Aliexpress because most of the times I can even chat with the manufacturer/distributor themselves and clarify doubts/discuss specific requirements. Also, most of the times, the senders (based on their address) seem to be local distributors/traders and sometimes manufacturers - feels more direct (even though I guess that the websites have their cut / the guy working hard on it maybe gets only a small percentage).
Doesn't really matter. The progression of the seasons is slow enough that I can get used to the apparent movement of the morning sun and always know more of less if it's about 6am, 7am, 8am, or 9am. Don't really use alarms. It's great, until the time changes (DST) and throws my sleep schedule completely off the window ugh.
I have added docs generator for GraphQL Editor.
https://twitter.com/ACzemiel/status/1255094687184171009
Here is the link to the video on how it works. Basically you provide the schema and docs are generated. They also can be exported as a static website HTML.
I haven;t seen any non sensationalized evidence regarding long term effects of this virus (health, economically this will permanently cripple many nations). Can you link some health articles?
> Amazon is the only company that reliably shows when they'll deliver, even before you order.

Except when it's not reliable and it arrives 2 days later. Or, in the case of the used book I ordered a while ago, there's no indication of when or how it'll be delivered and only at the start of delivery it suddenly tells you that it'll take at least a month to ship because the product is on the other side of the planet.

Amazon is usually pretty good, but even with Prime it rarely takes less than 3-4 days to deliver, most local shops are at least a day faster. And with those I can be sure they won't sell me fake products mixed with genuine ones.
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Learning to Scale APIs with Django
Isn't this just a normal water heater?

Apart from the very simplest models that you might install in a small cabin or separate building (direct-electric or maybe gas powered) isn't this is what you'd normally install in a new house for the last 30 years or so?
Yes, that's a textbook scenario that makes sense when the economy is functioning as it should. To truly understand how it applies in these current times you would need to take a systems-thinking approach.

Sure, someone getting in wants to buy at half price, but the existing people want to sell as soon as they hear about a potential issue diluting their ownership/price/dividend. Then the company might get a reputation for a tendency to issue shares and investors will see it as less attractive (buybacks are attractive).

Now, let's say a bunch of companies need this money, maybe like the $1T in US bailout money (Not including the other $1T+ in stimulus). Where does that money come from? Some of the largest financial companies have about $5T AUM, but it's already invested. A stock issue will only erode the value they have to work with. Billionaires and millionaires are typically listed as that based on ownership of assets (stock in their company), not what's in the bank, so they don't have enough cash to make an impact. We are close to 20% unemployment, so this tends to rule out the masses from investing new money on a large enough scale to make that sort of systemic impact (not to mention that the masses generally shy away from investing in individual stocks).

We are a consumption based economy and when consumption rapidly declines, and even goes to near zero for some industries, then the system will not produce the textbook outcomes. Talk to professionals, they will tell you they have seen some odd things in the past few months.

Bonds would typically be a better way for the company to adjust their capital short-term for a number of reasons like not constantly buying back and issuing stock. Of course that market has been screwed up since the last recession, so this textbook approach isn't likely to be effective either.
There’s something about JavaScript and the length of files, grouping of related lines, and usage of functions that can make it immediately obvious that the quality is either atrocious or decent.

I suppose that that extends in part to any C-style language, but the relative looseness of JavaScript really makes it stand out to me, for some reason.
What would they be researching?

Especially with this being a database of private data.
Are you sure about India?
No. Preventative mass global quarantine has never been tried anywhere. Even quarantines in classical times were used for the already infected and known to be infectious, not everyone at once. What's being done now has no precedent.
> it's not trivial to support it correctly

Back button works every time if you create pages, and navigate between them using links.

There are some garbage web forms out there, but if we're comparing building SPA in 2020 or webforms in 2020, webforms is unlikely to screw up your back button.
Pretending to be an ant in this FB group could help you survive self-isolation
Ecitytalk
On the Oberon linage that place belongs to Active Oberon.

http://cas.inf.ethz.ch/news/2

Only Active Oberon exposes non traced references, RAAI and a couple of other low level features that made it more complex to do systems programming in Oberon and Oberon-2, let alone Oberon-07.
The website seems to want to be an Apple website. But this one just murders my phone. Does anyone know of any blogs that do an in depth look at how popular pages are implemented or is that impossible with modern minification?

I'd kill to learn why two very similar sites are just so different in performance.
Oh no doubt - it still takes experience and technique to achieve a good effect with those tools, and of course they can't be used in all situations so other techniques are required; but it still seems to me that "out of the box" the software is applying HDR like techniques when it isn't needed, or it would look a bit better if every part of the exposure wasn't normalised so much.

It seems that the software is doing a negative film photographer's trick of "expose for the shadows and the highlights will take care of themself" but rather it's "expose for the shadows and the HDR will take care of the highlights" - ending up in this overprocessed looking fake sky effect.

It's like there can't be any ambiguity anymore in a photo due to the exposure, the shadows and the highlights can't clip, we have to see everything. That seems a big change in mindset to me.
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I posted this link to MSN as a mirror. Not sure how long this one will stay up. Elon Musk has 33m+ followers and tweeted this out https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1254495050228260865 which may be related to many of the views.
From my limited perspective, Google struggles with top-down commandments from leadership, of which the biggest one was Google+. Look how that turned out..
‘They are starving us’
Designing an Intelligent IoT Ventilator from Home, Pt. 1
Of course not. But it still has a type.

Functor f => (a -> b) -> f a -> f b
Had a Google hangouts meeting with a US and an AU participant, and I'm from Sweden, and amazingly enough Hangouts (or is it Meet now?) can provide close to real-time closed captions (subtitles), with a very high degree of accuracy. It also shows who is saying something, so subs may be,

PartA: Who's going?
PartB: I'm going.
PartC: When is it?

What boggles my mind is why it doesn't immediately after the meeting end, Hangout would send you a transcript of the meeting. This would be a crazy USP.
My own personal experience : A close relative passed away in a large city early April (of pneumonia caused by COVID-19) complications. His entire family was interviewed for 2 hours and all contacts were screened - the family and some of the contacts were also put in quarantine and tested. The names of my relative and others who tested positive were put in the papers the next day (name, address etc) after the test, to help identify people who may be may have come in contact. This is obviously anecdotal - but i have so far seen the opposite of hiding data - some places are revealing too much rather than too little information.

But India has a federal structure, different states may have different policies. It is pointless to make one statement about the whole country, especially when the numbers are coming from states, not the center.
This got me thinking. Are there _common_ standard consumer rechargable batteries of the tinier sizes? I know of the little watch batteries but never perceive those as having high quality rechargable options.
So? They still have a type, it doesn't have to be "screw you figure it out yourself".

Functor f => (a -> b) -> f a -> f b
I thought I'd read that medical errors happen more often when doctors switch over than when (even very tired) doctors work longer.
Is Microsoft Windows a crime against humanity?
Actually, for me it's the other way round.
Sometimes I write german words like "BratwurstBratGerät" (UpperCamelCase)
Not in D, it isn't, for performance reasons. It takes an input range and returns a type that iterates through that range applying the callable (doesn't have to be a function!) to each element as requested.
We code in english, but it does make UpperCamelCase more natural for us.
No Amazon in South Africa... That makes it easier to avoid them :P
We mostly use (bad) English in programming contexts.
First two paragraphs I have no issue with.

Third no. I am not arguing this at all.

Fourth is pure opinion.

Fifth the same, but as a counter argument sequencing 10,000 strains has found 69 candidate attenuation strains and that was without even trying.

Sixth no. It is actually quite easy to distinguish a harmless strain from a normal pathogenic strain as we can use the high morbidity rate as a proxy for danger.
Read the transcript. He did not. And a reporter specifically asked for clarification, and got it. There was absolutely no confusion, this is deliberate misrepresentation by "journalists" who value clickbait over truth.
Or just a public database where you can enter license plate and get all trips. I don't think many people would be happy with this. That's illegal though so nothing for white hats..
Safari's list of supported video formats is pitiful.

> Safari on iOS supports low-complexity AAC audio, MP3 audio, AIF audio, WAVE audio, and baseline profile MPEG-4 video. Safari on the desktop (Mac OS X and Windows) supports all media supported by the installed version of QuickTime, including any installed third-party codecs. [0]

Despite that probably being written many, many years ago, it's pretty accurate from what I can tell.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Au...
Or there is an oversupply of humanities graduates and that is what is causing monetization problems. Just think about how many poorly paid artists there are.
So who gets the 4% of turnover GDPR fine here? Or is it under the law enforcement exemption?
First I looked at your pictures and appreciating these are tests I thought they were nice. I liked the composition in pretty much all of them, thought they were generally pretty good pictures and couldn't see what was wrong with them.

Then I read your description and if you hadn't mentioned the skies look added in I wouldn't think twice about it – now I can't stop seeing it. It really does touch on this feeling I've had towards my own photos for some time, thinking something is off but I don't have the expertise to understand what. I think you may have just nailed it for me – thanks!
NYC is currently at 1462 deaths per million.
Rather difficult to publish their results without admitting to a criminal offence..
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There are plenty of freely-available works that are crowdfunded though. It's true however that the costs of making a game like Obduction and Firmament dwarf even those crowdfunding revenues. The same applies to high-budget feature films. A 100% crowdfunding approach strongly selects for lower production costs, which also means improved efficiency and a larger variety of works overall.
When I read your comment, I realized I intuitively view open access to surveillance systems like this as more desirable than limited access, and I don't know how to articulate that feeling.

I'd consider myself privacy-conscious, however it is clear that this sort of open access further limits my "privacy." I wonder if privacy advocacy is more about aversion to certain power imbalances rather than privacy as an end itself for many folks.
- what is the status of the language now?

- what is the status of the ecosystem now?

- what are the big issues that make d less appealing?

- ms alexandrescu is still involved in the project?

- where do you see the language in 2 years for now?
Well, now I know I can use Brobdingnagian as a replacement for Gargantuan[1].

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0378194/quotes/qt0335291

"The amount of venom that can be delivered from a single bite can be gargantuan." You know, I've always liked that word... 'gargantuan'... so rarely have an opportunity to use it in a sentence.
That still means "it returns something".
Is this true? Can we say that the extra parts needed for the user replaceable mechanisms and user being responsible for the disposal of the replaced battery is definitely more environmentally friendly than replacing the whole device by the manufacturer?
I keep reading people saying you should use tsc + regular Node instead which is enough to make me worried but haven't really evaluated it myself.
Another weird product from Google. I have an impression (I might be wrong) that decisions there are made by a) hardcore geeks, b) “politicians”/ideologues. It manifests in company’s complete inability to connect with real-world everyday people, to understand what consumers want, what they prefer or dream about.

Another possibility is “self-organization”, of course, or decisions made by committees where everyone us afraid to hurt others’ feelings and the responsibilities are blurred so much that the resulting products always turn out awkward and full of compromises.

Products that are totally devoid of fun, desire and in some cases common sense.
Huh, I noticed this effect sometimes, and other times not, but I never figured it had to do with the quality of the coffee.
no way, emacs only ;)
It is odd you bring up MDC in the context of EFAIL as the EFAIL researchers were unable to come up with an exploit that MDC did not detect. Even if you feel that GPG should of anticipated EFAIL that means that OpenPGP as a protocol was secure against EFAIL.

It is entirely accurate to say that EFAIL in not applicable to OpenPGP. You might not like MDC but you have to admit that EFAIL is not an example of any sort of a weakness in MDC.
This is something you can configure in outlook, go to settings, mail, autocorrect or something like that. You will see a table with all the substition and you can edit it, or completely disable
https://www.odoo.com/page/editions

Quite a few actually. If you're a software shop or digital agency, I think the Odoo Studio and marketing automation features are the big gaps.

For the latter, there's Mautic.

However, good CRUD builders are difficult to find. Seatable is promising, haven't evaluated it yet.
>Next time it will be a button that says we retain access to your mind while you are using this service and all the consumers will just agree like they did before.

This is not true for all users, some users will always click on the big blue button and the problem is not GRPR but shit designers, like PayPal is pushing me into some new thing with a page with a giant blue button and a super small "No now" link, shit companies will always be shit , they will always screw you but this time GRPR forces them to be transparent on how bad are they screwing you.

The popups are annying but you know what, some users are deciding to click NO, and go to a different web page. So if news website A has annoying popups and shit design with tons of ads users will find eventually the website with less ads and popups or will install an extension that block all the tracking and ads. So if the GDPR popup will convince some people to install ad blocking to block the popup and the tracking then is great.

Power users like myself are running with JS off and white-listing good websites to allow JS. If some link shared here is not opening then I just read something else.
There are so many answers here that are incorrect about what ansible is/does.
Thank you for providing one that is correct.

If I could add to your answer:

Not only is ansible declarative and idempotent but it also includes countless cloud provisioning modules to bring idempotency to cloud environments.

Terraform may be easier for basic provisioning of cloud resources but I always switch back to ansible cloud modules when I need to do anything complex. Ansible also has the added benefit of easily context switching over to configuring the compute resources after they have launched.
>It takes an input range

Which should have a type.

>and returns a type that iterates through that range

Which should have a type. The entire point is that this is a solved problem, there is no excuse to simply throw up our hands and say "screw documentation we'll just say this function is a mystery".

Functor f => (a -> b) -> f a -> f b

And please don't miss the point and tell me D doesn't have Functor. The entire point is that D has something, and it doesn't tell us what that something is. It should. Documentation is good.
Some form of advanced drone or interceptor created by the US, combined with a disinformation campaign.
Also true, and there's a chance I'm wrong and most people have already had a mild version and everything will be fine. There's enough evidence suggesting that the rates of severe complications and death are far higher than we're comfortable with, though, that I, for one, would prefer to err on the side of caution rather than run with "well, it might not kill 10% or more of the population."
Nice :)

It's a principle of pattern recognition[1] regardless of language, I suppose.

It just takes time to learn and internalize the patterns to look for -- and perhaps some languages and syntax highlighters are better than others at exposing those patterns to the reader.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_recognition_%28psychol...
No, they care about profit. This goal creates products that only roughly align with what the customers want.
Probably because the first thing that would happen is a vlog from MKBHD saying that it doesn't work whilst mounted on his $17000 tripod and gimbal setup.

In all seriousness though, you can do a to imitate two cameras with one, but this is designed to be a differentiating feature, the iPhone SE is designed to have a worse camera. Why would you spend time focusing on features exclusive to the camera that you've already decided shouldn't be that good.
Good writing is a business advantage
You have to step outside to grab the paper.
256 bytes is in the "let's try every combination" range, I think. So, write a program that tries all of them and determines if any do something interesting enough to forward to a human for review.
Building block for quantum computers more common than previously believed
I think I'd live in a Tokyo flat if it cost $1200/month for a one-bedroom spot in the centre! [0] (with outstanding public transit, too)

For that price, you can get a bunk-bed in San Francisco [1]

[0] https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Tokyo

[1] https://sf.curbed.com/2019/7/18/20699340/podshare-san-franci...
There is only one thing I dislike about Python, not having JIT support of the box, or in another words PyPy doesn't seem to get the love it deserves.

However after watching several GTC 2020 talks, it seems that at least in what concerns GPGPU programming there are several efforts going on alongside CUDA integration.
> CArray ... everything CSomething depend on the heap

One can have only one allocation per CArray and when using MFC one doesn't have to keep everything in MFC CStrings at all. Specifically, I've used CSomething structures with pointers to the C-style strings which were part of the single allocated pool, for example. The MFC is carefully made to allow for many such use cases, which were, as I've said, actually fundamentally necessary to allow programming efficient applications under the older memory limitations and the older processor speeds.

Specifically, MFC allowed one to use MFC classes for things like CDocumentView, but to have the "work" part of the application conveniently NOT dependent on these, and to pass to the underlying Windows Win32 C-level interfaces everything as cleanly as assembly or C would allow.

I've used that and most performant applications used something similar.
True, what needs to be emphasized is that the visible spectrum lies above bluetooth / 5G and whatever when it comes to energy, whereas x-rays and the like lie above the visible spectrum itself.
A few people seem to be confused why K8s is needed when you can just run this on the OS itself. I think they miss the point that this is not a guide to setup Wireguard using K8s but setup Wireguard if you only have/want a K8s environment.

As the author notes: "you can run a road-warrior-style Wireguard server in K8s without making changes to the node."

Which makes this guide ideal for me. I run a lightweight K8s flavor (K3s, https://k3s.io/) as "configuration management" on my home server and home automation Raspberry Pi's because I don't want to mess with OS/userland configuration or the associated tools (Puppet, Ansible, hacked together scripts, etc) or want to maintain any OS state manually.

For my setup I just flash K3s to disk or SD card and let it join the cluster. Everything else is configured in Kubernetes and stored nicely as configuration files on my laptop so I have an overview of everthing and can modify/rebuild whenever I want.
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