skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe you're a bit negative because you've seen it more than once or since you were going. For me the stones were a lot bigger than I had pictured them. Can only recommend it.
Yes, that’s true. I didn’t think I had to clarify it there but if you aren’t familiar with the idea it is an important factor.
I hadn't heard about that. Googling it suggests most of this is due to supply chain problems preventing farmers who normally sell to restaurants being unable to sell to grocery stores; and labor not being available to pick food

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=farmers+throwing+away+produ...
"forget it Jake, it's Chinatown"
I'm not sure that it is. While I agree with the final outcome (seriously, why would the states be able to copyright annotations?), it sounds like the court ignored precedent and effectively made up a new law out of whole cloth to reach this outcome.

We may be okay with this particular outcome, but would we feel the same way if they did it for say Roe v. Wade (or some other more established opinion that you like, depending on your political leanings)? I can't tell how serious this is, but it sounds like another attempt to weaken stare decisis to me (again, with the disclaimer that I am not a lawyer or legal expert of any kind and maybe it's not nearly as bad as it sounds to me?)
"World's first" Open-Source storage engine for SSDs? I believe Aerospike has advertised itself as that for years, and certainly most MongoDB instances are backed by SSD these days. Heck, conceptually etcd is a key-value storage engine built for SSDs.

> HSE optimizes performance and endurance by orchestrating data placement across DRAM and multiple classes of SSDs or other solid-state storage.

Orchestrating data placement? Isn't that what all storage engines do?

What am I missing here? Is this a block level rather than file-system level driver?
I tried shopping Newegg recently (BC). Newegg's online customer service made Amazon's look positively erudite, and in addition Newegg's return policy is terrible by comparison. I still haven't received an item that I ordered 7 weeks ago (shipping was not advertised as being particularly slow), and I still haven't been refunded for another item that I returned 2 weeks ago. Amazon gets that if you can't touch the item in store, there should be a no-fault return policy (and yes, I know that returns are environmentally unfriendly, etc).

I tried to shop Jet (before they were acquired) and I found the search / shop experience had too much friction. Amazon's UI has plenty of annoyances, but they've made it _real_ easy to get something into your cart and check out.

On the other hand, all of my music studio purchases I make at Sweetwater. Great customer service, free shipping, will price match if you ask, and frictionless returns.

IMO Amazon is vulnerable to good competitors, but the emphasis is on good. I can tolerate a small shipping fee, and I don't need next day or two day shipping (although it's nice). On the other hand if you make it hard for me to shop, customer service sucks, or I have to jump through hoops to return something, I'll go back to Amazon.
If you can't be snarky to people making wildly incorrect claims with utter confidence, what is the point of the internet?
> shut down nearly all commerce

That doesn't seem right. I got tacos from down the street last night. I got paid a week ago. I bought some home office related junk from Amazon yesterday. I need to go shopping tonight.

That's the problem with not being specific, you find yourself spouting silly hyperbole instead of argument. No, "almost all commerce" isn't shutdown, that's not remotely true. We're looking, depending on how pessimistic you want to be, at like a 20-30% drop in GDP. And that's big, but it's simply not almost all.

So I ask again: who do you want to go back to work before the virus case load drops? Be specific.
It will be a very sad day (for me, at least) when that happens.
It's GPT2 fine tuned on news to my knowledge, then doing an image search to pair the news with an image.
Perhaps fair use exemption?
> The same number of people will get sick but over a longer period of time.

Fewer people get sick for two reasons.

Flattening the curve reduces the amount of epidemic overshoot. People assume you reach herd immunity levels and the epidemic then dies out. Reality you overshoot herd immunity.

At some point you can reestablish contact tracing and isolation. That by itself reduces the required level of immunity and containment needed to keep the infection in check. Except for a few countries we don't have that now.

My bet at this point is within a few months. Rapid RNA tests will start being produced in large numbers. Synthetic anti-bodies for covid19 will become available. Contact tracing and isolation containment will be reestablished. Rapid RNA tests make contact tracing possible at scale. Antibody therapy increases the effectiveness of contact tracing. Basically you test everyone with symptoms. You then dose all their contacts with anti-SARS-COV2 antibodies.

Not the end of the world.
I'm not a front-end developer. Often times I end up developing quick front-ends for internal tools, but I've also built them for customer facing products. I've become pretty competent with VueJs and I've been able to build features very quickly, sometimes in a matter of hours. If development is taking a very long time, I feel like that's more likely an organizational problem.
Agreed, especially where most of these clicks can be carefully audited and reconciled by the advertiser, it would make no sense for Google to threaten its reputation and primary money maker.

Edit: that being said, this does not seem to hold for Facebook, and I don't have a good reason why.
> but would I be right in thinking they would be able to see their leakage on the earth wire too?

Yes, I think it should work. As you said, the main difference appears to be just the ADC. The PS/2 research only used a 1 Msps ADC on a microcontroller, it's a laughingly simple setup, but already productive (it's literally a 10-dollar instrument today, ideal spy gadget if your victim is still using PS/2 I guess).

> But I'm wondering if using a high sample rate ADC would pick up other emissions like Genkin et. al are doing?

Someone should try again using the latest USRP SDR receiver [0] and see what they are able to get. RTL-SDR can be used but the sampling depth (8-bit) is not ideal for hunting weak signals near a strong signal.

Probing the power earth wiring instead of the chassis or data cable will be noisier, there are a lot of appliances connected. And at higher frequencies, the SNR will be worse due to attenuation, but I think nothing stops one from performing a successful attack.

To my knowledge, using a power line filter is mandatory in many high-security facilitates.

[0] https://www.ettus.com/
1 - Proper refactoring of dynamic languages due to the image nature. IntelliJ gets it most of the time.

2 - No continuous indexing of source code, stuff is just there.

3 - During execution of REPL statements or debug sessions, an errors jump into the debugger, fix the issue and continue as if nothing had happened

4 - a REPL that integrates the code being written, with inline images and graphical representation of data structures

5 - The complete developer experience is available to the developer and can be customised at any time without rebooting it.

6 - Code components can be integrated into other documents as live objects (this is where OLE and Taligent got their ideas from)
I am very disappointed that another human being would pitch SEO spam, and automated SEO spam to boot, as something positive when we've seen for years how it rapidly and unequivocally destroys everything it touches. It is spam. It is pollution.

> Bribery and misinformation is harming the world.

Spam is harming the world, factful or otherwise.

> but we generate meaningful articles

It sure sounds like you generate SEO spam. You even advertise that you generate SEO spam. Your Show HN title is even "AI Generated SEO Spam".

> Otherwise people would write whatever comes to their mind: clickbait

SEO articles are literally scammy clickbait. Therefore, you generate scammy clickbait. "Fact checking" is orthogonal when your product is SEO spam.
I'd truly love to hear a good counterargument to this. I've argued much the same thing only to have the same opposing talking points restated verbatim.
>deliver groceries to your store, harvest plants, build houses

As I saw somewhere on Twitter: I didn't realize workplace deaths were contagious? I mean they are now but not how you meant it.

>Do we shut down all activity that will lead to somebody somewhere losing their life?

I think it's so funny that people don't know any history. In the early 20th century workers had almost no rights and labor activists had to argue for workplace safety that was controversial for the same reasons: economic inefficiency. So in a very real and exact sense yes we as a society have stopped certain activities because people were dying every day doing them.
The unibomber has nothing to do with anarchy...
Is this an automatically generated comment?
Nearly uniform testing levels among the states sufficient to indicate that we're getting a real sample of the population, and not the biased sick sample we're getting with PCR testing, would be a start. If you want to be angry about something, be angry that we can't get our act together to get this data collected.

It's going to be a lot easier to win arguments about lockdown when we're confident in our testing data. Right now, nobody is.
The one-size-fit-all lockdown was a reasonable first knee-jerk reaction given the situation. It isn't a tool to fight pandemic, it is just a breather to prepare the long-term sustainable tools and system - like production of tests, certified masks, etc., identifying/quarantining vulnerable population, putting contact tracing in place, adjusting various social distancing rules to be tighter/looser where it possible and makes sense, etc. - to actually fight pandemic. Yet it seems that the lockdown time has so far been almost wasted in that regard and the lockdown itself seems to be taken as the main tool to fight the pandemic (probably also coupled with the naive idea that this virus can be made to go away completely). That doesn't look good. We may get temporarily lucky - the hot and dry weather will slow down the spread until of course October/November when with such an approach we would be back to square 1.5 at best, and that if the virus doesn't mutate to become more virulent and/or deadly (the 2nd wave of the Spanish flu for example was more deadly than the first)

For example - the construction was stopped at near by site. It is a huge 3 acre site where you can easily set social distance of say 10-20ft and have the clad in PPE crew working without any risk of virus spreading.
I mean, his argument has very little logic. He's just using numbers to tell the story that he wants to hear. "Correlation doesn't imply causation"
> I even still get emails from people who add footers that they own the information and if you receive it wrongfully, you're "required" to delete it

I occasionally get cold emails from recruiters that come with length NDAs at the bottom (often longer than the actual content of the email). I find it utterly silly, but at least it's a strong signal that I won't be missing anything good by ignoring it.
I just got some new air conditioners for the shelter-in-place summer, and I'd like to control them from a central thermostat, but it's annoying that the remote sends "next mode" or "toggle power", with no way to jump to a known state.

The cool/fan/dehumidify/heat mode is indicated with a vertical column of LEDs (EdgeStar AP14001HS), so I can probably stick a photocell at the top, and have a program repeatedly send "mode" while watching the brightness level, to deduce the state and stop on the correct one. The fan speed uses a different column of LEDs, but stopping on "dehumidify" forces the fan to low. The temperature can be set blindly because it stops at the minimum/maximum value.

I haven't actually tried to build anything yet, but it at least seems possible using a Raspberry Pi with 1 analog photocell and 1 IR transmitter.
Exponential growth also means that 10% utilization isn't a ridiculous amount of headroom: it's <4 doublings, each of a few days, from overwhelming the system with new patients.

An R0 of 2 is towards the low end of estimates without social distancing. Zhang et al. estimate it as [2.06, 2.52] from the Diamond Princess data; Sanche et al. reported [3.8, 8.9] from data from Wuhan.
I will be happy to clarify any of your questions guys! Feel free to let me know if you have questions.
Seems like a strange way to achieve this. Why not just have it send you an email? Or update a DNS record through an API?
Imperial College Covid-19 simulation code open sourced
Isn't a more apt analogy if you receive mail addressed to you, you open it, and you find a letter meant for someone else?
Everyone in here is arguing about data and forgetting the context -- we entered this whole mess in a country that has never been so divided. Of course that's relevant. Of course that doesn't go away. The only question that you have to ask is whether you're on Team Fauci or Team Trump.

Why the hell would anyone ever expect the SF local government to ever find themselves on Team Trump, if given the option?
Your definition of voluntary is entirely different from mine.
> Is there a 4th option I did not think of? Because I can't figure out how they are going to end this.

Pharmacological treatments, I'd say.
I dunno if that was, but this is. :P
Is that Pulp Fiction? I've been thinking today about the places I most want to be around at the end of this. They made the list, I don't really need a book right now but I think I'll get one anyway.
First, it's not a Vancouver lockdown (it's a BC thing), nor is it really a lockdown at all. Nobody is legally required to stay at home except for people who are under a specified health order. Here are the restrictions on life that are most commonly noticed:

1. Restaurants are closed except for take-out and delivery.
2. Personal services businesses are closed.
3. Large gatherings of all kinds are banned.
4. Schools are closed.

You can still go to your office if you wish to, so long as social distancing rules can be respected (staying 2m apart). This being said, the vast majority of businesses that can have their employees work remotely are doing so, simply out of a concern for their health and wellbeing. If you have to have employees in your workplace, then there are guidelines for making it as safe as possible.

There is also extensive testing. Anyone with symptoms can be tested promptly.
the problem of finding problems kinda leaps out at me from your plaint.
Also, you might get a job.
> It's a serious problem, because in the real world programmers are not willing to double the length of their code for the sake of catching bugs that happen maybe 1 in 100 times.

No, the problem is that programmers don't like to understand the problem before writing the solution. The problem is worshiping code brevity instead of understanding what their code does. No, that's not a new problem, but it doesn't mean that it becomes the language's problem that you have to actually understand what you're telling something to do. Platitudes like "worst practices should be hard" are all well and good, but they're just that. It should be really difficult to include a buffer overflow, or a dereference a null pointer. In practice, languages that do that have a cost overhead. You still had to write that extra code, the compiler or library just did it for you.

I get it. Developers have a lot to know these days, and stacks and frameworks change rapidly. But the relational model has been largely unchanged for 50 years, and SQL has been basically the same for 30 years. The relational model is very old, and it hasn't changed for very good reasons. There's like 5 to 10 basic patterns for queries that you have to know, and that will cover you in 95% of cases if your system is well designed and you actually understand the data.

Either you understand what your application is doing and you understand what your query is doing, or you don't understand either of those things. I'm sorry, there isn't a middle ground, and there never will be regardless of what data store you choose, what language you use, etc. The guy at the keyboard still has to know what he's doing.

> At least 80% of the time, probably more, having no value for a given field is just an error

Then set the column to have a NOT NULL constraint and now it's impossible to store a null value. You'll get an error just like trying to store a character value into an integer field.

> But in SQL there's no type system that can distinguish nullable things from non-nullable

That's not true. Every column in a table can have a NOT NULL constraint. If your data is actually required and guaranteed to have a value, you just specify that the table's column can't be NULL. You will have to literally break the database engine to get a null value stored in that column.

Yes, you might have situations where you need to use an outer join which will have null values. Yes, you will have to handle NULLs from an Nth normal form database in your application in this case. It's still not difficult. You're still going to have non-nullable fields in your output unless your design is incredibly poor.
Right that was the confusing part

Wow, great job of getting that shipped real fast,
It's really obvious now

Maybe other people already experienced this issue in the past but didn't really know who to report it to, or wasn't big enough of an issue
Also as soon as you provide something nice, the manager or business owner or whoever is going to ask for a dozen more features and then you realize "doh, it'd be nice to have some way of organizing all this spaghetti".
GTC 2020 had a bit more than 1%....
The problem is that the shelter-in-place rule is already limited in effectiveness due to a very lengthy list of exceptions plus many people not observing the spirit of the rule. Compliance will only drop over time as people see that 1) Their actions are having no obvious impact and 2) There is no clear end in sight.

If the primary goal of extending the order is to give local governments time to build out infrastructure, that's fine (though they would do well to communicate this progress to the public). But if the primary goal is to further reduce transmission, I can't see it being successful.
I suspect this would be easily gamed by careful experimenters.

For example, could you build a page that bots could navigate to, but would be really obscure for a person? Would that generate a substantial amount of clicks? Sure, the bots could adapt (i.e. not click on obscure pages), but that would take time to learn, and until then, they would screw up and fall into the honeypot.

If that has ever happened in the history of Google, you'd think someone would have publicized it.
> Blanket lockdown has to end.

What's different now vs before the lockdown started regarding flattening the curve? R0 is a little under 1 right now, but what will it be when most things reopen?

The goal of the lockdown is to keep R0 under 1 until we have measures in place to permanently mitigate the spread [1]. This means lots of testing and contact tracing, which is not even possible right now with case numbers being as big as they are.

Reopening right now would just get us back to #flattenthecurve in a matter of 4 weeks.

> There is no risk posed to the majority of the population from covid-19

There is risk to everybody, it's just lower for some. There's enough evidence of permanent damage inflicted on organs and other gnarly details that I (34M) will be absolutely careful not to get this disease. [2]

[1] https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/California...

[2] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/more-bad-news-on-the...
But were cafe patrons of old quietly conversing with their table mates? Or was overheard conversation and speech-making part of the environment that brought fear to the minds of rulers?
If it's a business in the US, it depends how many speakers you have. More than 6 (but no more than 4 in the same room), you're supposed to pay licensing fees. [1]

If it's a non-commercial space, I don't know, I'm sure there's some complicated piece of regulation you have to look at to figure it out.

[1]https://www.broadcastlawblog.com/2015/07/articles/does-a-loc...
> so much to learn

it's almost like software development is a highly skilled technical profession that takes years to master?
Note that my comment that pointed out that bedhead is grossly insincere above, if out outright intentionally lying, was flagged.
I'm not sure what you're trying to achieve with this metaphor. Are you suggesting that fast path itself is "niche" in terms of allocator performance?
>In New Zealand, South Korea and Australia coronaplague is on the way out thanks to testing and contact tracing. Why can't the US muster the political will to do the same?

When it comes to complete elimination, you leave out the most important ingredient: all three countries have fantastic border control, thanks to geography in two cases, and an extremist neighbor in the third.
rust-analyzer works well on Windows; I don't do a ton of debugging though. (I have been windows only for the past few years, but am not really an IDE person)
Remember death rates are an effect that's delayed several weeks. Positive tests are skewed by how many tests are done. Hospitalizations would be a better figure but those don't really seem to be available on a daily basis. This chart claims to show but it's 212 one day and zero the next, which just showing they're aggregate or something.

https://covid-19.direct/state/CA?tab=daily
The idea is not just to keep the curve low initially and then abandon all measures, but to figure out how to keep the curve consistently low over time until a vaccine or highly effective treatment is discovered.

Basically, when you're in free fall and the parachute slows you down comfortably, don't take that as the cue to cut your chute.

Also you may have overlooked adequate testing availability and contact tracing.

And even if contact-tracing is lagging, an abundant supply of testing can at least help to ensure that symptomless or incubating-but-not-showing-symptoms-yet infections can be identified early to prevent wildfire-type spread.

My guess would be that with more tests and resources available, start with a stuttered type approach, open for 2-3 weeks, then lockdown for 2-3 weeks while we wait for new infections to manifest symptoms and for infected to quarantine until they're not infectious.

That could serve as a baseline for what to watch for during reopening, to gauge risk as to whether to repeat with some alteration in timing.
When you take a 7 day course of antibiotics, you are reducing your bacterial load to a level at which it is highly unlikely to bounce back from zero and, critically, the chance that it bounces back and selects for resistant strains is comfortably low.

No one seriously expects any length of shutdown in the US to reduce the case count enough to eliminate COVID-19. Worse, even if we reduce the case count to an unnoticeably low number, we’ve made essentially no progress
toward a suppression strategy that will detect and control new cases to avoid another shutdown.
IBM has an amazing tool for this. Not only do they have a great simulator, but you can enter a queue to run your program on their real quantum computer:

https://quantum-computing.ibm.com/
If only Vulkan had an SDK half as good.
Sell the pick axes...