skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The news cycle actually doesn't go that fast for it to be hard to keep up with the two main competing narratives & the primary sources. Mainly because the mainstream media cherry picks what it wants to cover then runs it into the ground.

I keep the news on all day on a monitor as I work and unless it's a day like yesterday you'll hear the same headline repeated over and over all day with the same facts.

Now if you want to be an expert XYZ in any of the fields that touch those subjects that's another story, but not being an expert in something never stopped people from posting as one before.
It was disappointing to see that despite multiple months to do so, not one of the five packages implemented a patch before the public disclosure.
Is there a webGpu based alternative that has the functionality of opencv?
That sounds like a bad moralistic fable. Neighbors advanced enough to instantly blast expanding civilizations that don't expand? If they don't expand why the hell would they care about others outside their domain? When compatible planets are so rare that essentially being able to survive in space indefinetly is essentially a logistical prerequisite to expand in the first place. They might compete over such viable luxuries if they find others in range good canidates but a radical antiexpansion ideology and said capabilities is deeply inconsistent.
Interesting that you feel this data isn’t available on a per case basis... it’s even more interesting that I end up with downvotes foe sharing my actual experiences. HN is tone deaf. Most of you folks work in modern tech! Modern in the sense that your company and job are likely based on big data... ugggh
Or an astronaut who willingly goes to space, even though the increased cosmic radiation exposure, increases their risk of cancer.
Changing Everything, So We Can Change Nothing: In Pursuit of Immutability
A very nice thing with oragono is that you can configure it for replaying last messages again when an user (re)connects.
Why would they choose to use Reddit posts and not their own proprietary database of user messages, potentially the largest in the world?
Coronavirus- Scientists conclude people cannot be infected twice
Does having a gun magically make you immune to bullets? Why is this the only possible counter to criminals with guns?
Cop watches do exist, these organizations could definitely benefit from the minds and expertise that make advanced technology possible.

However, they do not remove the fundamental power structure that makes these laws possible. Changing the power structure requires collective action, that is the meaning of a revolution and a revolutionary.

The recent rent strikes in Houston were organized entirely online. The internet allows us to organize nearly instantly across the entire planet, but we need people in the street to make change a reality.
> In other words we flattened the curve too much.

For the first go-around, with minimal available data, that seems like the much better way to err - it would've been very, very difficult to fix a mistake in the other direction. We've got more data now, and can do a better job of toeing the line with upcoming waves.

It's not like we can't unflatten the curve if we really want to.
If I want to know what robotics will look like and the future of deep reinforcement learning, I'd rather ask Covariant.ai than a guy whose expertise is little vacuums whose AI is "while true, spin in a circle and go forward at random".
Welcome to the restaurant delivery business.

Next up. "Getting Grubbed" using a stolen credit card to order 5 all the way pizzas to someone that beat you in an online game.
Something I follow now, but didn’t until I was 35 or so: rise early.

A lot of very good things follow from just doing this.
That's because the experts who blatantly contradict the boss are quickly moved to a much greater distance.
I wasn't sure about publishing this but I took some time to go over Worldometers' data and associate a lockdown type to each country in the EU (+ a few more countries). There doesn't seem to be a strong correlation between how strict the lockdown is and the total cases per million people: https://www.notion.so/Lockdown-data-361fe56821d046a787d76535.... So, yeah, I completely agree with you. We should definitely try to find out what's going on.

I'm writing this because I think HN is one of the very few communities able to properly discuss ideas with hard science and facts. So any observation, correction, criticism etc. is more than welcome!
>There's no reason to possess these weapons any more than there's a reason to possess nuclear warheads.

I've yet to see any valid reasons to possess drugs or alcohol. With guns, there is at least the justification of self defense.

>and pray the crime away.

Is that not what is being done with all crimes (drunk driving, but also many assaults) associated with alcohol?

There are two ways government can work. You can either have it where you have to justify to the government why you should have something, or you can have it where the government can justify why you should not have something. The former is far worse. The latter only works if the logic used is consistent, else it is really the former in disguise.

People always seem to want the former when it comes to guns, but the latter when it comes to things they personally like which have been associated with government restrictions. Why is the double standard held so openly?
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There's still areas all over the world which have not been hit too badly solely by luck - for instance, here in Alberta Calgary has been hit with an order of magnitude more cases than Edmonton without a great reason why. Regardless of the potential of immunity, these lightly hit areas are still open for initial infection and community outbreaks. I can't see why they wouldn't occur - on a long enough timeline luck just runs out.
I'm with you on how depressing it is, my biggest take away from this entire thing so far is that people's ability to link cause and effect is much lower than I had previously estimated.
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Hourly rates seem very off for Italy as well, as the real average is much much lower to the declared $80/hr (web&software). It is especially suspicious that France ($64/hr) and Germany ($55/hr) have a much lower hourly rate, when in reality salaries and rates in these countries are at least 20-30% higher than Italy.
That is literally not how process nodes work. They are objectively matched.

Nodes mean 3 things: density, elecrical performance (ion, max f, leakage, etc), and processing flexibility (how many supported feature primitives or designs).
That's a fair point- such a change might have stricter gun control as a prerequisite (which for the record I think we also need).

I was struck recently, when I saw The Gentlemen (a film about marijuana empires in the UK). Even the crime lords were very averse to carrying guns because it was so illegal. People here always counter with "but the criminals will find ways to get them anyway", but I don't think that's a valid argument.
Windows will become an emulation layer in Linux. Why? Microsoft makes most money from cloud subscriptions.
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> No, the virus doesn't just float around in the air

I'd be interested in any references you can point to that explain why that doesn't happen. A priori I would expect virus particles to be able to remain airborne indefinitely. Viruses are very small, much smaller than pollen grains that I believe are well known to remain airborne over long distances so I would think Brownian motion from collisions with air molecules would suffice to keep them aloft.
Yes, it’s unusual to get an email with more than a couple dozen attachments, but that’s not for the parser to decide. Hard-coding a limit like is fundamentally the wrong design. A library should be able to parse anything you throw at it, and if that’s an email with 10,000 attachments, it should parse it correctly. Sooner or later, it’ll run out of memory, of course, but that’s my problem.

A better design would’ve been something passing the limit as a configuration object, something like:

{ attachmentLimit?: number | boolean }
If you like this, then checkout the presentation on Geometric Algebra from 2019 SIGGRAPH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX4H_ctggYo

You can then play around with objects in 3D, 4D, and beyond:

https://enkimute.github.io/ganja.js/examples/coffeeshop.html...
The Killing of Muhammed Gulzar
> watching their loved ones, their own children, perhaps, starving to death or dying in a water war.

Sadly, this was close to the default condition throughout much of human history. It is only recently, with the benefits of industrialization and globalization that we have made that kind of thing much rarer than it was.
Agreed. I think the decision to go it on their own and not use Google/Apple's API is completely bone-headed and won't work at all. But given that they made that decision, everything else they've done seems pretty good.
It's pretty easy to optimise away some reference counting operations. For example if you allocate something on the heap that is not returned from the function, nor passed to any other function, or captured in a closure, then you know it will be dead at the end of the function, so you don't need to emit reference counting operations for it.
Beats me. They offer "Premium" (~0.12$/GB) and lately "Regular" (~0.8/GB) network tiers, and their interconnect service. I guess high cost of outbound networking helps locking in customers as well.
I always wonder how Twitch streamers manage to go from 0 to N thousand viewers. What is the most effective way people are using to self-promote? I've seen a lot of panels at PAX talking about how to "grow" streaming but nothing about how to "bootstrap" an audience. This seems like it could be a cool way to do that, if not even just find people to talk to.
>The human cost of building those factories, and maintaining them, is 1% of what the hand labor used to be.

Yes, if we still built the old stuff, but we don't. We're building better factories for more sophisticated technology. Factories are tools and they've improved just the same as every other tool. Their complexity has increased immensely. Sure, nowadays it still takes less effort to build the factory, but all the things that the factory makes needs a lot more work. Scientists, engineers, software developers, lawyers, PR people etc.

I think almost all businesses are going to remain unautomated. Sure, significant parts of the processes will be automated, but not everything. Complexity will keep increasing and we'll likely still need humans to coordinate, because we're not very good at automating the unknown.
I'm kinda surprised there was a "before" in that situation. I presumed that was what was going tonhappen from the get-go.

Perhaps I am too cynical.
Hello! I work on the video platform @ twitch. We’ve been working a lot on that issue. Viewer count numbers should be significantly faster today and will get even more responsive soon!
Sorry didn't realize that. I wonder why the US government is just paraphrasing WSJ articles though??
Yeah, you're right, I didn't think about getting it used initially. That makes way more sense.
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It's also questionable whether we can really call Amazon a "tech" company. Yes, AWS and the foundations of their website are "tech". But the massive beast that is Amazon is mostly now a distributor/retailer/warehouser/logistics behemoth that is operating very much in meatspace. It's no more a tech company than Wal-Mart. And if we extend "tech" to include that, then pretty much any corp is "tech."

So we're on much more familiar territory here -- a large semi-monopoly corporate entity with an industrial workforce.

There's not a lot of Alvin Toffler here, and more of Henry Ford.
There's a difference between SWAT or border patrol and regular cops on the street. They still have SWAT teams in the UK, they just acknowledge that the times you need to go in guns-blazing are the exception to the rule.
> cancelling once they saw the influx

Incubation periods and exponential growth mean by the time you see the influx, it's potentially already too late to avoid becoming overwhelmed.
The evidence does not support this viewpoint. Also, things are complicated by the evidence that the worst symptoms are caused by cytokine storm, i.e. an auto-immune response.
Did they ever...?

Most "personal" blogs from VP-and-over personalities have always read like carefully-scripted PR.
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>I purposely disable the metrics so that my mood can't be affected by viewership numbers.

Thats a great tip, I didn't even know that was possible with Twitch.
Is 5G Going to Kill Us All?
What Are the Best Performing Software Stocks?
We raised testing capacity exponentially, but weren't accurately tracking the spread until recently.
Seems like it should be fairly trivial to test.

Different countries went into lockdown at different times. When did each one's curve start to flatten in relation to their lockdowns?
Interesting to present it as a binary tradeoff.

I want to win, but I want to make sure that the thesis has some modeling diligence =)
And then you hear story after story about mass infections at meat processing pants where the employee conditions sound far worse, but that doesn’t make the news like this ️
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I imagine the Discworld series is pretty popular here, but for those who aren't super familiar with it, the character of Sam Vimes is a cop (and very much an honorable one) whose policing is based on Peelian principles. They even had a character named Keel in one of the books; the sort of historical reference Pratchett loved to include.

https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/Samuel_Vimes
That's a gracious reading. If there had been an absolute need for more beds, plans would have been developed to make use of the space.

Instead, it might imply hospitals were dealing with increased load, perhaps needing more beds than they had but not so much of an increased load to justify implementing and following a plan to use these facilities.
> its UI is self-discoverable and well laid-out. Magit has the best UX of any git tool.

Which others have you tried?

The way you described Magit is exactly how I would describe SmartGit and also the built-in git features of several IDEs, including the Jetbrains family and Visual Studio (although I dislike Visual Studio because it's slow).
I think it's just the relative simplicity of code that handles date logic compared to other languages:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4345045/javascript-loop-...

I hate dealing with date math, but I have to admit that Python makes date math much more elegant. I've written the functional equivalent of the OP function several times, and it's just so nice to be able to loop over dates just like they were any other generic sequence.

Edit: plus you can enhance it pretty to make arbitrary increments with ease:

def daterange(start, stop, increment='days', step=1):
start = datetime.fromisoformat(start)
stop = datetime.fromisoformat(stop)
inc = {increment: step}
while start <= stop:
yield start
start += timedelta(**inc)

> list(daterange('2020-01-01', '2020-01-14'))
[datetime.datetime(2020, 1, 1, 0, 0), datetime.datetime(2020, 1, 2, 0, 0), datetime.datetime(2020, 1, 3, 0, 0), [...], datetime.datetime(2020, 1, 14, 0, 0)]
> list(daterange('2020-01-01', '2020-01-14', 'weeks', 1))
[datetime.datetime(2020, 1, 1, 0, 0), datetime.datetime(2020, 1, 8, 0, 0)]
I actually agree with your sentiment, and this flavor of optimism is something I enjoy in Soviet art on space exploration -- the problem is we could have had all that you list without the excesses that ruin it all.
The roads aren’t major arteries, they’re pedestrian/neighborhood roads. This is to improve safety for the kids that are still out of school while everyone rushes back downtown.
Common Lisp supports live compilation and loading into a running image if this processor has support for it.
All the time. StackOverflow questions are there to stay.
....what they're saying is that there's no feasible way of getting an exact count for unemployment and you have to use some extrapolation.
You'd think with the state of machine learning these days someone could have another go at it, and ban users who show their dongs
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Fed Slows QE-Unlimited Further. Now ‘Just’ $65B a Week
What rights you have in South Africa regarding data businesses and gov collect?
There was a SARS outbreak in an apartment building due to shared (and presumably faulty) plumbing, and CV-19 does seem to have a fecal route.
I’m getting the following error when using the P2P instructions. Is this likely an from an outage?

https://photos.app.goo.gl/myGNh77ukXWgqaVX9
Anya Pogharian, Montreal teen inventor of portable dialysis machine (2015)
Yeah. I guess Rust's secret sauce is just handling the long tail of much harder cases
No one seems to be covering whistle-blowers like Nicole Sirotek except the shitty tabloids. I want some other NYC reporters to investigate/interview all the doctors/nurses that have been brought in from other regions (blured out/anonymously)

Maybe that video is fake, but I am wondering how many of these deaths might be due to malpractice.
Severance can definitely delay receiving unemployment. Receiving the $1200 stimulus does not, but receiving the PPP funds through your employer would. The latter consequence is causing some employers to not use that loan/grant.
Throw in retroviruses and it gets even weirder.
The numbers being reported are based upon visits to websites which are part of the NetMarketShare data collection network, so a bunch of servers using Ubuntu getting fired up wouldn't account for the increase.

An increase in market share higher than the increase in actual users would be accounted for by the size of the market overall decreasing while the number of Ubuntu users either stayed the same, increased but at a lower rate than the increase in market share or decreased at a rate lower than the decrease in the number of users of other operating systems.
Sounds like from your description host mode is essentially Twitch driven viewbotting.
Startup valuation is a complex problem
What's the Real Problem at the Core of the Covid-19 Pandemic?
> > Most the big streamers got to where they are by view botting, the "fake it til you make it" approach.

> I'm sorry but this is not true.

How can you possibly claim you know that most big streamers never used bots or bought views? None of them would ever tell a Twitch employee if they did. If you had the capacity to detect all bots then there would be zero botting on the platform, which is certainly not the case.
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Speaking as someone who knows nothing about fab: What are the most dangerous aspects of the job? What's the most likely injuries to happen doing x?
There are multiple lines of evidence that suggest airborne transmission is the primary form of transmission. For example: https://twitter.com/JeremyKonyndyk/status/125372588101882675...
When Women Don’t Speak
Wow, those prices are staggering.

Taxpayer money wasted on a knee-jerk reaction by an emotional governor.

Glad he didn't get the 30k ventilators he wanted as well.

edit: Many people told him he didn't need that many before the fact.

I think it's perfectly fine to be critical of a governor if we're critical of our president.

A leader should have some sort of vision into the future.
A simple off/on switch does not provide a sufficient level of control over cookie policy. It's reasonable to want to allow first-party cookies on certain sites, especially where they're needed for site functionality. But block third-party tracking cookies, or even block all cookies on others.

Cookie control/policy in browsers needs to become more sophisticated than what we have today.
It's good to know people do this outside the programming profession. Thanks for sharing.
In past times priests wore sackcloth and flogged themselves in public while living in opulent luxury. Our current oracles are having a minor crisis of faith. Might we have a modern Martin Luther situation brewing here?
Ask HN: What the heck is going on with the stock market?
There are so many smart and well-informed individuals on HN.

I would love to hear their -- your -- thoughts on this:

EVERY ECONOMIC INDICATOR STOCK MARKET
+----------------------+ +----------------------+
| \ | | _/ |
| |/\ | | _/ |
| \ | | _/ |
| | /\/\ | | / |
| \/ \ | | / |
| \/\_ | | /\/\ / |
| \ | | / \/ |
| \ | | /\/ |
| | | | / |
+----------------------+ +----------------------+

Sample economic indicators in the US:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WEI

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ICSA

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PCEC96

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DFII10

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE/

Stock market cap to GDP in the US:

https://www.longtermtrends.net/market-cap-to-gdp/
TSMC 20nm failed process as well.
Aerial Photos of Grounded Jets Across the USA
Except quite some cases do not involve resisting arrest. Take all those swatting cases for example. Good honest people don’t deal with cops on a daily basis, or at all; so when cops suddenly show up with guns drawn while shouting commands (sometimes indistinguishably), they get utterly confused and panic, and naturally may not be able to comply with anything. And it doesn’t matter whether you actually pose a threat; as long as you might be perceived to pose a threat (or maybe not even that), you could end up dead. Holding a phone in your hand? “Looks like a gun to me” — bam, you’re a goner. Can’t see your hands? Bam.

During the decade I lived in the States, I often wonder if I would be the next random guy to fall victim to cops. (That, and random mass shootings. Things totally out of my control.) Simply not a fear I ever had to deal with everywhere else I’ve lived or traveled.
I don't code, but I do write. I regularly re-read my own writing to spot any problems, but sometimes just for pleasure. For example, about 18 months ago I wrote a 5 part series on how to build a direct conversion receiver for the ham radio bands from scratch. I learned tons along the way and it was really rewarding to write. Re-reading it recaptures some of that joy and reminds me that I'm a good writer, even when I think I'm just another hack.
Even if the US only incarcerated rapists and murderers, we would still incarcerate more than Germany. It's not so simple as you're implying.
The situation surprised me having been on the other side fighting GrubHub over missing food...getting $11 back from them is pulling teeth, but this guy stole nearly $400, and $288 on two occasions, and GrubHub refunded the entire order within minutes over a claimed "incorrect order" and only refunding the restaurant after media stories
beautiful, thank you. I think this is the same css issue around twitch's embed iframe that someone else reported earlier. I'll try to get a fix up after I get off work today. Thanks for checking it out!
The counter-argument I've heard is that commit messages are a better tool for those kinds of annotations, especially if there are multiple points across the codebase where a change was made for the same reason.

That's exactly what commit messages are designed to do, too.

I've seen plenty of comments in code that say "handle case X because of behavior in place Y", that's tied to changes in place Y. I find it more meaningful when I see all those changes together, bundled in a commit diff, with a message on why.

In an especially good editor you can even have the title of the commit rendered into the blank space on the end of the line, which I find useful if I'm trying to figure out the past motivation behind a piece of code.
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