skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Australian here. This is probably not going to earn me any goodwill for posting, however I feel it needs to be said. I grew up in a very working class area, so I'm familiar with 'broad' Australian accents and culture. The accent in the videos strikes me as a lame affectation. In the last few years it's become trendy for washed-up alternative Australian youth to remodel themselves after the kids who bullied them in high-school once they hit their 30s. Straight-edge and crust-punk gigs are traded in for the cricket team and "sinking VB with the boys". This put-on accent invariably comes with it. 'Struthless' is another high-profile example of the newfound lame fascination with all things 'bogan'.
I suspect there will be multiple flavors of bootleggers and multiple flavors of baptists.
It seems strange to embed content in code in this way. You lose syntax formatting if it's structured content (HTML, JSON, etc) and also require recompiling if the content changes. I understand doing it if you're prototyping/hacking things together but it seems like a lot of effort was put into building this feature.
Technical trading is astrology — convince me otherwise.
This is a weak argument from Schneier.

Most of his concerns (false positives, false negatives) also apply to contact tracing done by humans, which he advocates at the end of his article.

If a medical professional interviews you about your contacts, you have to remember who they were. If you forget someone, or didn't know their name, that's a false negative. Someone you report you had coffee with, but who doesn't get the disease, is a false positive.

Apps have different limitations, and need adoption to be useful, and that's a problem societies will have to consider. There's also legit privacy concerns.

But the very broad argument made in that post is silly.

You just don't need to stop every transmission to stop the disease. Even stopping 70%, via a range of measures, is about enough. You can tolerate some errors.
Yes!

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for now
> Traditional ventilators, by contrast, can cost more than $20,000

Traditional ventilators (ventilator) are very different from
bag valve masks, resuscitators, PAP and CPAP, BiPAP machines.

This Nvidia design is not alternative to that $20,000 hospital ventilator. It's emergency-response ventilator alternative these other cheap designs you can already order from Amazon. You can't keep people long time in this kind of device without serious risk of damage to the lungs.
>Schneier raises the point of false positives, which is important with regards to this idea of conditioning. What do you do when you get a notification that someone “nearby” tested positive? Do you take time off work and isolate yourself in your house for two weeks,

Ideally we would have tests so in a community with no infection at the moment somebody is tested as infected you can inform and have all the other possible infected people tested.

I suggest you consider covid as a training exercise for the next one, that one could have a 10% chance to kill your children, then would you prefer to get an alert and take measures or prefer to stay ignorant.

In theory if you have few people infected , good testing and tracing you could lockdown only the infected and possibly infected people instead of locking everyone down.
How my Julia coding style changed
Those are both VMs in the same sense. A VM creates an abstract, indirect implementation of a computing system. Sometimes that's with a lot of hardware offload as in Xen or picojava. Sometimes that's with a JIT as in HotSpot, orginal VMWare, or Transmeta. Sometimes that's just with an interpreter like the original JVM or Dosbox.

They're all virtual machines whether they're running code originally meant for execution on hardware or not.
Singapore has ways to force people to be socially responsible.
At a previous job we started using Groovey files to store queries because of this.
yes, thanks for reading
> Rust is trying to be replacement of C++.

Citation needed.

Rust lacks so many fundamental C++ "features" (variadics, thin pointers, HKTs, const generics, specialization, overloading, inheritance, good FFI with C++, C++ exceptions, ...), that trying to sell it as a C++ replacement is quite hard.

OTOH, Rust is pretty much at feature parity with C, having excellent interoperability with it, and only lacking somewhat in inline assembly, allocas/VLAs, etc.

You can take any C project, and implement a new feature or refactor some part of it in Rust without issues.

You can't do the same for C++ code easily: integrating with C++ templates is hard (e.g. try to use a C++ Boost library, or the C++ standard library from Rust), integrating with C++ error handling is hard (try to write Rust code that can error using C++ exceptions, or that can be unwinded with one), calling C++ ABIs is hard from Rust, interfacing C++ types with Rust is also hard (inheritance, virtual functions, etc.).

Any successful C++ projects that uses Rust (e.g. Firefox), uses Rust as a better C to implement a C library, that can be called from C++. That's not "being a better C++" in any way of the word.
If contact tracing can be better than 50-50 it will be better than knowing nothing like we are now when ever we go out. If it is les than 50/50 it could have fatal consequences where people lower their guards because of too much trust into the data that is probably wrong
Two days ago I went through a wild goose chase stopping Skype from autostarting on windows 10; the app didn't have any "autostart" checkboxes inside of it (though it does on my partners laptop).

After bouncing around Task Manager -> Startup, Startup Apps, various startup folders, and some more silly duplicate places, I ended up downloading Microsofts Sysinternals tools and using one of those to stop everything I didn't like the look of.

I think I've put an end to it, but I'm starting to think it might re-appear if I launch it once...
And if you have family at your house, you could self-quarantine away from them for 2 weeks.
Hey there again. I actually have another similar product for a one-pager here, https://oneprofile.info

Hope it helps!
Pandemics and Solar Activity [pdf]
Wait, wait, wait. Nothing is "meaningless" if it contains information. And "misleading" depends entirely on context.

It sounds as though you are suggesting I made an error that increases the apparent size of the shutdown, meaning it is actually smaller and my claim is stronger than I thought.

If the figures are annualized (I checked* and I think you're right) then it improves my original point - the 4.8% decline becomes 1.2% un-annualized, and the normal trend of +2% becomes +0.5%.

The equation should then be something like .167 * x + .833 * 1.005 = .988, "x" being the percentage of the economy active in the last half month, or about 90%.

I'm confident that there is information in the reported figure and that no reasonable calculation can show the economy was shut down completely.

*https://www.bea.gov/data/gdp/gross-domestic-product
> it's become very clear from the experiences of India and China in the 2000s that there's nothing much US can do (short of a MAD nuclear war) to hold any moderately powerful country back.

The US has not tried to hold China back in any way since 2000. More like it did everything possible to help them grow.
> I hope to use this percentage to cover some or all of the costs.

I don't think the commenter above was trying to make out that 6% is not fair, just that they'd like to see the breakdown of this percentage covering some or all of the costs.

iTunes, Bandcamp and co. might not offer that breakdown, so you're definitely not worse, but it would be a really nice differentiator.
Not the same class because it's a high-level language, but this J version is worth mentioning at 26 bytes, and is beautifully readable if you're familiar with J:

(]=3+4=*)[:+/(>,{;~i:1)&|.

Disclaimer: I am not the original author of this snippet.

Try it online:

https://tio.run/##y/qvpKeepmBrpaCuoKNgoGAFxLp6Cs5BPm7/NWJtjb...
I sent some emails and didn't hear anything back. I'm hoping this post'll get organic attention for it, and I intend on sending more emails and - now you've prompted me! - opening an issue on the tracker too.
The point of patents is to incentivize disclosure of knowledge in exchange for limited protection. I personally think that public institutions funding research that leads to patents should share benefits of said patents. I believe most operators of those public funds (ie. Universities) actually benefit from this most of the time. At least in major public European universities
In a way, engineers are a type of artist.
This was 3 years ago. I usually treat these issues a bit better these days.

However... I disagree with your suggestions about how to go about this better. You're still coming from a place where all paths lead to the implementation and inclusion of the feature. We will say "no" sometimes, and there's no amount of discussion which is going to change that. We're volunteers with a limited amount of time, why should we lead everyone on by entertaining a fruitless discussion in on a feature for which we have no interest in supporting?

There's a lot of discussion you don't see, too. Discussion on the IRC channel, private discussions between maintainers, snippets here and there on patch reviews and other issues... just because you didn't get your say, doesn't mean that the issue wasn't sufficiently discussed. At some point I just don't want to discuss it any more. I could redirect you to /dev/null and let you say your fill, but I don't think that's fair to you, either. You can't always get what you want, and if I don't always give you what you want, that doesn't make me a bad maintainer IMO.
>That loss of trust is even worse than having no app at all.

Suddenly, for the first time, I'm sold on contract tracking apps. Lets build them and push them far and wide. If the hype cycle and subsequent arguments regarding contract tracking have shown us anything, it's that everyone needs to stop trusting claims of "it's for your own good."
Thanks for making me curious... Cool new developments, didn't touch Java in a while!

> Records are the impl of dataclasses

This is ofc backwards/reverse of any sane logic that would start with value types and after invent references (eg. in this case probably would've mean introducing a new composed-primitive type)... but then again, it's Java, at least they got the strings being immutable part right from the start.
On a related note, I often find that I don't know what to do if I want to help enact change at a level that's too far removed or high above me.

There are a number of factors at play here:

Sometimes, I'm not aware of the issue

I don't know if the offending party is amenable at any level to changing their mind

I don't know if something is possibly against the law (e.g. I didn't know the AG had a say until I say this post)

I don't know if the authorities or avenues of dissent that I have access to have any jurisdiction over or effect on the offending party

I often have very little insight into how others feel about the issue.

I don't know how much work needs to be done to shift proceedings (e.g. how many people need to contact the AG for them to change their priorities)

I don't know at what level I need to focus my efforts on (e.g. community, corporate, federal, ngo, etc.)

Everything is scattered all around the place.

For example, I saw this good idea in another HN post: "Would it be so hard to use less packaging on foods, especially snacks?". I have an opinion on this, but I don't know how to effectively voice it.

Is there an existing system, or can we make a better system to most effectively turn our opinions on the matter into action?
https://www.phacility.com/
Just use Qt binding for Rust and you can have it on Linux.
Ah, memories of the old mp3.com days.
Thanks for sharing. And for any readers in the Bay Area, his restaurant Wursthall is right next to the San Mateo Caltrain station and is super good. I believe they are offering takeout at the moment.
Thinkpad is also adequate for me for basic pointing and two-finger scrolling. But I still miss the pinch to zoom feature. Also, natural scroll is nice, but it turns on for everything and it shouldn't imho. For example with natural scrolling enabled the gnome speaker icon requires scrolling up to decrease volume and down to increase, which doesn't really make sense to me.
Lots of products, including ours, running on Go. It's not a fad, it's a useful tool. Not the best programming language in the world, but still allows you to produce great results in a short time. Kind of like Delphi what used to be for the Windows desktop.
Purism is working on it. I think they're selling them now.

No idea if it is good just that it's happening.
Right! I'm not an expert in colors so your feedback is really valuable to me. So, thank you. I just had it in random colors, lol. Figured it needed some fixing. Cheers!
A crazy amount of statistical reasoning would have to be put into such an app to not trigger a false positive after a long shopping tour for instance and still have a reasonable true positive rate. The current numbers publicly available aren't even exploited to their fullest. IMHO assuming that the lethality is a constant (or a polynomial) would already be a treasure trove of knowledge, in order to approximate the number of untested cases. Also looking at the WHO dashboard, I have serious doubts anyone cares if there is actionable value for the population available.

Maybe it would be more useful to start centralizing the numbers available already (PPE supplies, hospital usage, ...), throwing them into more realistic simulations and testing models. IMHO it's still not really clear why China has less cases than the US and why Taiwan and Sweden are doing just fine with only conservative lockdown measures. FWIW, it would also be helpful if Chinese institutions would publish if their tracking efforts have brought actually a provable difference.
I personally don't, and I suspect a lot of others do not either.
Yes resubmit to google search console. Google will index them anyway at some point but better to resubmit yourself. Also make sure robots.txt is setup correctly as needed.

Note: I noticed you still have an old sitemap.xml that shows the .html urls. I am not sure how that affects things but you may want to do a new sitemap as well ?
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-30885-7_...
- Once you add a feature, you have to support from now until forever

- Almost every feature added makes every feature that comes after it more expensive to add
> Asset inflation is precisely the point.

No it's not. The mandate of the FED is (among others) to maximize employment. The FED hopes to achieve this by stabilizing asset prices, therefore stabilizing pensions and housing prices, which creates consumer confidence and incentivizes spending. However as we can see there are diminishing returns - consumers are not nearly spending as much as the FED balance sheet would make you believe.

The real problem I see with FED interventionism is that it lets fiscal policy off the hook. If you want to actually stimulate the economy you need a strong effort by the politicians, increase government debt and let the government massively invest in infrastructure, health, education or even create a universal basic income. However because deficits are already high, lots of politicians (and a sizeable part of the voters for that matter) are not willing to do that. Central banks around the world keep calling for more fiscal measures - but in reality politicians are mostly kicking the can down the road.
My understanding is that the plastic breaks down, is then ingested by small fish, then is concentrated up the food chain. Chemicals that are present or collect in the plastic then accumulate in the fish that we or other wildlife eat. Additionally there are chemicals which affect reproduction in some species (negatively). So. Yeah it could be worse. It still sucks.
That completely depends on your definition of useful, how people react to a "hit" in the application, and a bunch of other factors honestly.

Figure 3 from the paper I linked contains a heatmap [0] that shows the simulated impact on r in different isolation scenarios vs. completely manual contact tracing. That's where those widely cited 60% adoption come from. In my, non-epidemiologist, view what matters more is that a) the gradient in this is better than completely manual contact tracing and b) I have yet to see anything that suggests it did not help in Singapore. While their product lead [1] is a biased source, he correctly points out that working in tandem with health authorities is critical for these efforts. If these apps aren't made only for technologies sake I do not really see how they would hurt. They have 20% there, quite some experience with outbreaks, and didn't replace it yet so I'd figure 20% would be a good enough data point for other countries to evaluate the approach on the scale of a population. And afterwards they would have to be re-evaluated constantly, just like any other measure politicians and epidemiologists currently propose to address the pandemic. We imho don't have enough data yet to even remotely answer "this amount helps", "this is how good they are" but I don't really see how that justifies these "this isn't perfect so it is dumb" reactions in the other direction.

[0] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/early/2020/04/09/...

[1] https://blog.gds-gov.tech/automated-contact-tracing-is-not-a...
The kicker is they reuse the SSNs. Had a gig where I was working with the 'death master' files. (It use to be much easier to get your hands on the files - https://ladmf.ntis.gov now) and it would list every SSN number used by the dead. Lots of duplicate SSNs, some malformed data, some just missing. An interesting data set to look at, and a great reminder why folks should not be using this as an identifier.
There's a feature called Profile Video where you can add a video from YouTube as your profile video instead of photo. Have a look at this demo page and see whether it fits your needs:

https://parkrun.oneprofile.page/

Hope it helps!
It seems to be using a somewhat similar concept it calls "incidental white space", in order to limit the embedding of leading whitespace (unlike Python which just stores the entire triple-quoted string as-is), but is more permissive:

Text content can be indented less than the trailing delimiter, which I understand is an error in Swift

String html = """
..............<html>
.............. <body>
.............. <p>Hello, world</p>
.............. </body>
..............</html>
.............. """;

The trailing delimiter can also be on the same line as the final content, which suppresses the final (new)line:

"""
line 1
line 2
line 3"""

translates to

"line 1\nline 2\nline 3"

whereas

"""
line 1
line 2
line 3
"""

translates to

"line 1\nline 2\nline 3\n"

I believe this requires escaping the newline in Swift instead (nb: according to the JEP this would also work in Java).
Release tool mishap caused surprise launch
I too had been scratching my head at the recent stock market performance which seems to be defying gravity.

These two sources helped me understand more about what is happening and why:

1.

* Sectors of the economy are down, such as energy (-50%), consumer discretionary (-27%) and financials (-22%).

* A few are up, such as health care (+5%), consumer staples (+6.5%), information technology (+8.5%).

* Market cap of the S&P500 hasn't changed dramatically, but the distribution of that money has switched to tech some which are up 50% or more.

Source:
https://twitter.com/calvinfo/status/1254635755671969793

2.

* The stock market is not the economy.

* It is a forward looking pricing machine.

* It incorporates expectations about the future into stock prices today.

* Economic news looks at what has already happened, often way after it has happened.

* Hence stock prices shift if economic news does not match what investors already expect ie. more positive news than investors expected means stocks go up, more negative news than investors expected means stocks go down.

Source:
https://youtu.be/0ECqDaPjjV0
> youtube technique

It's called "supercuts".
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The assumption is that the apps you choose on iOS just won’t be default. You can still have an SMS or mail app that invades your privacy by uploading everything to a remote server, it just wont be given the GUI conveniences of a default app — a big competitive edge.

But it will be difficult to clamp down on leaking user security and privacy when Apple itself has unencrypted backups, so they can’t pressure other companies to proactively protect user data at rest.

I’ve stopped using higher quality non Apple apps because even something like a calendar app or todo app warrants a special private cloud that slurps up your data with a legitimate argument for why they should have everything.
> Imagine if Microsoft had an Excel team and a "Spreadsheetr" team...

You mean as in a "Microsoft Office" team and a "Microsoft Works" team?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Works
This is not the official whoishiring account. Shouldn't we wait for them to post ?
Getting to Mars on chemical rockets is not that bad, especially if you can accept a launch window every 15 years. Getting people to and back from low Mars orbit with chemical rockets on a more flexible schedule takes a lot more fuel. It’s clearly viable, but for that kind of DeltaV across such a long trip, solar powered Ion thrusters have several significant advantages.

As to growing food, for on a single mission it’s not that critical, but if you’re sending several missions to Mars unused supplies from one mission can be used on the next mission. Further, the difference between survival and comfort adds up to a lot of food.
But were Enron's issues related to CEO speech, or were they just massive accounting fraud?

I can be in favor of more free communication but still vehemently opposed to misreporting. For that matter, I think it is terrible that we don't require more details in financial statements as it is.
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Masks directly help prevent spread, the app does not. It's essentially a decision-support system, and I agree with Schneier that on an individual contact tracing-level, it's probably not a good one. But _perhaps_ it helps if it's well-designed and presents aggregates of probabilistic information well. If its underlying models are good it can, for example, inform a user where not to go because the infection risk is too high, after it has gathered data of frequent close encounters between otherwise "distanced" people in a location.
We don't get paid like athletes though
Detailed piece on Records here:
https://www.infoq.com/articles/java-14-feature-spotlight/
It's not unusual for universities to own part of a commercial enterprise. Stanford owned a chunk of Google, IIRC. More commonly they derive revenue from licensing intellectual property.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23031628
Recursion Got into Programming (2014)
Half the population won't even voluntarily wear a mask or isolate. Some even go anywhere they want coughing constantly.

So how exactly is voluntary contract tracing anything but an utter fantasy and hand waving that it "exists" so magically protects us?
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The topics people learn in US colleges are about identity politics, affirmative action and safe spaces. Since those skills are hard to monetize outside of politics and academic beaurocracy, the same people have a hard time earning their living.
yes they will not mostly care and will insist on microservices, but they will not ask for the distributed transaction, I will always try to get the thing done by a batch process instead of services calling each other.
Infect volunteers with Covid-19? A proposal lays bare a minefield of issues