skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While the arguments are presented well I'm somewhat hesitant to dismiss 'chance'. The reason being that all steps that are argued to be unlikely by the author are also, as far as I can tell, necessary steps for a novel (human) coronavirus to exist. Which is something that experts seem to consider something that is bound to happen eventually (even the author doesn't question why Chinese scientists where trying to identify dangerous coronaviruses). As such you cannot simply dismiss things for being unlikely without also taking into account how exceedingly unlikely it is for a coronavirus to jump from bats to humans in the first place.

Then again I'm not too well versed on this subject, although I do have confidence in my knowledge on probability.
Interesting. So the question is why doesn't China block it.
I think going back to basics would be a really good idea for a lot of people in software. It seems like modern developers are more disconnected than ever from the reality of the hardware situation sitting right next to them. I believe there was a post on the front page today detailing a certain 22ms Hello World execution...
easily 50% of my "loyalty" to Macs is these built in shortcuts alone.
how long does it last while asleep? i can close my macbook and come back to it days later and she always boots right up. just curious if the thinkpads are similar
I have pretty deep experience in modelling code across a wide range of dimensions (academic, industrial and government, supercomputing to microcontroller, internet ads to protein design). I've seen a lot of modelling codes, and run a bunch of them, written some of them, and helped people fix problems in them.

Throughout that time I've seen a wide range of modelling quality. Very few people can churn out really nice code that solves useful problem, update that software for a wide range of uses over the years, keep it documented, pay down technical debt, fix bugs, write great tests, and make sure the numerics are excellent. Often times these things are built by people who are experts, but spend most of their time in meetings explaining the situation to politicians, or running labs and publishing papers.

Having read this particular article, many of the problems I see being complained about are typical and happen in industry frequently, even in highly functional orgs with strong incentives to build high quality software. Further, it really just seems like the author had a very strong position about lockdowns, and tried to make a quantitative/technie takedown of some code that was used to make some decisions. The article really drips of that kind of animosity. i see a number of technical errors and ambiguity which make it unconvincing.

That said, we could have far better codes. In principle, all the data and support libraries would be open, the pipelines to produce the data reproducible, maintainable, and well-tested, and anybody would be able to write a simple notebook that reproducibly model their hypotheses for large populations in a way that a large number of people could inspect and come to their own conclusions.
> That you have your own website , app or accept request by phone doesn’t matter, the customers already have Uber or deliveroo app installed

I dunno, one rarely wants just some generic burger/sandwich/pizza/sushi, brand loyalty in restaurant business tends to be strong.

I might be in the minority, but I usually start off with the restaurant Web site, and then just end up using whatever takeout/delivery app they link to.
Agreed. It would be prudent to ease out of lockdowns with the capability to return to them if hospitals are becoming overwhelmed. The county I live in is taking a phased approach to opening businesses based on the risk of exposure for workers and customers. They haven't started yet. I question some of their targets, but am glad that they have measurable targets.
Interesting. My sense is that valuable patents end up in court almost 100% of the time (e.g. CRISPR).
Again, I agree with you that the audiences are not the same. I specifically agreed with that statement in my comment.
I agree around usage of Firebase here because no one really knows what data is being sucked up there but it looks like the intent of usage here is pretty clean;

If you look at the code Firebase is in there because the push notifications to notify of infection are sent via Firebase Cloud Messaging.

I also grabbed the Google plist out of the IPA from the app store and it has analytics turned off.
"Another likely explanation is that patent applicants are adjusting their applications to be in line with the decision"

This. We had/have no problem getting past Alice if the application was drafted post-Alice. (Except for one art unit that was being unreasonable -- but even they seemed to have given up. Maybe their boss retired?)

Nothing changed except we included additional language in the spec and claims for no other reason than to get around Alice rejections.
This is where my head always goes as someone who does mostly Asp.Net Core. Why is it always between something like C++ or something like Python? Nowadays with middleware and endpoint routing, asp.net core can be almost as simple as flask (even if that’s not idiomatic or what the docs show you).
Nope. You are using the word "authority" in a way that Carl Sagan did not. When he says "argument from authority", he means that someone declares that what they say is true is because of their position in the sociopolitical hierarchy, and no other reason.

On the other hand, an expert claims that what they say is true because they have spent 10 years to distinguish truth from falsehood; and you can read their analysis and papers to figure out exactly what they discovered. Morever, scientific models and theories are presented in a way that, in principle, some other expert could replicate exactly what the expert has done and reach the same conclusions.

So Carl Sagan is arguing against "argument from sociopolitical hierarchy to prove objective facts about the natural world". He is, and most reasonable people, are in favor of "argument from expert who has demonstrably done a lot of work on the subject, and you don't have the time to go through the whole exercise yourself, so you will believe her".

Of course, as you say, determining, who is or is not an expert is a very difficult question in the real world. I am not going to comment on it.
> Testing has been focused on people with symptoms, with tracing of both close contacts and casual contacts. However, more widespread testing is now being introduced.

Might be a bit early to proclaim it’s been “eliminated” based on a single day of no new reported cases considering the asymptomatic aren’t widely being tested.
So? Alt is not always Alt either, and apparently for a lot of people Ctrl is actually Caps Lock (to help with RSI?).
They also replaced their CEO with NeXT's
There was some studies in USA in the 70s which spurred som controversy due to an increased divorce rate. Ostensibly due to more housewives using the financial safety to beak free.

An interesting datapoint since you mentioned that group.
The problem with this kind of "benchmark" is that it doesn't measure anything relevant for realistic situations where thousands of connections will behave in arbitrary unexpected ways, like just stalling, and real web applications have absymal worst-case behaviour in case of I/O, cron-jobs running in the background, network hiccups etc.. You don't provision your systems with only best-case situations in mind. But sure, if you want to serve useless random numbers without ever even hitting the disk, a Raspberry PI is able to saturate its network connection.
I like the EFF's mission, but I find many of the EFF's posts like this to be awful and quite propaganda-like in style. They present an issue and spend time talking about how it's bad, provoking an emotional response of anger or righteous indignation, and leave out the most important details.

In this case, the USPTO released new guidance on how reviewers should consider the Supereme Court's Alice decision. EFF thinks this guidance is bad. They have metrics and talking points. But the EFF fail's to deliver the single most important information:

What did the new guidance say! -- EFF is silent on this.

WHY? I think in this case it's because the EFF doesn't like software patents at all. They know much of their audience feels the same way. So they don't care about actually explaining what the new guidance says-- All they care about is presenting metrics about increased software patent grants that show how bad the new policy must be, because it's doing what the EFF hates: granting more software patents. I find it emotionally manipulative, and the more time goes on the more I avoid their articles.

They used to be better than this.
I didn't mean it to be a critique of the concept of subsumption itself, only your specific example. For instance having the train avoidance system provide a reference speed to the wheel controllers seems solid.

Having the station stopper create fake trains (or having the train avoider create fake stations) does not seem robust. Would be better to have the station stopper set reference speed, and give the train avoider the authority to override it.
Mine doesn't.
The old Starwisp (I think) proposal involved accelerating a lens as well, keeping it positioned between the laser and the payload sail, to refocus the beam. (A 2D diffractive lens, of course, not a giant piece of glass.)
You might find this article (on Sweden) interesting:

About half of Sweden’s deaths have been in nursing homes, which prohibit visitors. Tegnell said health officials had thought it would be easier to keep the disease away from them..... "“We really thought our elderly homes would be much better at keeping this disease outside of them then they have actually been,” he told Noah."

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/coronavirus-sweden-lockdo...

Also I've just discovered Australia publishes deaths in aged care facilities vs subsidised care at home. The home death rate is much lower.

https://www.health.gov.au/news/health-alerts/novel-coronavir...
This was initially driven as a joint attempt by Sun and AT&T to “merge” the two strains of a
Unix at the time, while introducing cutting edge features (object orientation, distributed computing, ability to run multiple OS) [0]. A “1.1” version of the “Spring Research Distribution” was available from Sun for a fee [1].

I don’t suppose anybody here has a copy? I can’t find any legitimate way to procure a copy. Did Oracle get this as part of their acquisition? What were the terms of the original license? Would love to know.

[0]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_(operating_system)

[1]. https://www.cs.albany.edu/~sdc/CSI400/Resources/comp.os.rese...
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I found this thing: Hamada Washi, a 150-year tradition of Japanese paper making, 28 Feb 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYNDNS8eTC4
I think it was too short, but for the moment it lasted, it fulfilled my life.
> If sharing a password-protected private key is perfectly safe, why bother having them? Why don't PGP users just password protect everything?

What’s “sharing” here? You “share” an encrypted private key with Keybase so you yourself can recover it back from anywhere using the password that you know. PGP, meanwhile, is used for communication with people who are not you.

> If people have bad passwords, that makes brute force recovery of the private key on a Keybase server plausible, right? At least a lot more so than the whole key from scratch.

Yes. If you want to upload an encrypted copy of your key to someone you wouldn’t trust with the key, you should use a strong password.

> I'd assume that a machine generated key has more entropy than any password that a human can memorize.

That’s not a correct assumption, but your password doesn’t have to be more complex than the key to be safe against brute force anyway, especially when work is added with scrypt (which is what Keybase uses).
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Oh, and why is that?
Does the below quote really mean that there's only 8% power drop from the charger to the battery? That too good to be true with a wireless system, even with directional antennae.

"In their new paper, the researchers show how to boosts the system’s wireless-transmission efficiency to 92%. The key, Assawaworrarit explained, was to replace the original amplifier with a far more efficient “switch mode” amplifier."
> Siouxsie Wiles, associate professor and head of the Bioluminescent Superbugs Lab at the University of Auckland...

So this is totally off topic, but is the spelling of her name Siouxsie common in NZ or maybe Australia or elsewhere? I've only seen Siouxsie spelled that way once, so I'm just curious if she was maybe named after Siouxsie Sioux or this is a common spelling that I've just never seen.
I believe that Archimedes used Greek because it was the only language he knew...
There's two parts to Okteto. The open source project (https://github.com/okteto/okteto), which launches development environments and works with any kubernetes distribution.

And Okteto Cloud (https://okteto.com) our development platform for Kubernetes Applications, that integrates everything you need to build cloud native apps (development environments, a build service, a private registry, SSL endpoints, etc...)
Ok, I get that vi is a legend etc. I think I understand why, but I'll keep that to myself. But honestly, it's a relic. Hell, it was a relic in the late 80s when I was in college! Few of my classmates bothered with it unless they HAD to use it, which in my view is what makes vi so sticky. We can thank the academic community for perpetuating it as some kind of "expert" tool and encouraging or even requiring students to use it. The same ignorance that keeps CS dogma alive such as "good programmers don't use GUI debuggers or IDEs." My college age kid in CS came home parroting this nonsense. But at this stage of her education I'm quite used to unindoctrinating. There is no reason a university should teach kids to use vi as a primary code editor. It's a crime in the context of a modern, statically typed language such as Java.
> is anonymous

How is this achieved? How can this be attacked? Are users at risk of deanonymization?
The existence of a secondary market for debt affects the price of primary issuance of debt (in a way that benefits borrowers).

Your argument could be applied equally to say that anyone who buys a share of stock in the open market (not during an IPO or secondary offering) hasn't actually made an investment in the company because the company didn't get those exact dollars.
Counter anecdote: I’ve been on teams shipping 50 custom software projects a year. We hit 90% of our deadlines.
Falcon

https://github.com/falconry/falcon
I am even more worried about the scenarios in which the rest of keybase ceases to exist if Zoom decide its not worth keeping online!
In Go, there's a standard project layout [1]. It'd be nice to have a project layout linter in Go Report Card [2].

[1]: https://github.com/golang-standards/project-layout

[2]: https://goreportcard.com
Many years ago I implemented JEmacs (http://jemacs.sourceforge.net/) - a proof-of-concept (i.e. very incomplete) port of Emacs to the Kawa framework. Kawa is primarily an implementation of a nice if-I-say-it-myself dialect of Scheme compiling to the Java VM, but it can be used to compile other languages - specifically Emacs Lisp. JEmacs is long dead but Kawa (https://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/) is still actively used and maintained. It has a number of niceties and ideas worth checking out.
How will the need for private matters to stay private be dealt with as mainland China requires use of a version that provides surveillance of all calls?
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Ask HN: How do you establish whether a promotion is worth it?
I work at a medium sized publicly traded tech company in the Bay Area. On Monday, I had a meeting with my manager to discuss my career path and what I want moving forward. I’m currently a Senior Software Engineer, and the next level up is Principal. Like anyone in my shoes, my initial reaction was to say that I obviously want to work towards a promotion to the next level.

What ensued was a conversation around what would change. What additional responsibilities would there be? What would be expected daily? And, naturally, how would compensation change?

What I heard, was a lot around additional responsibilities, and then a very humble compensation bump. We’re talking at best 10% total spread across base, RSU, and bonus.

So after the talk, I feel like the next level means 20% more work for 10% more pay. Why would anyone want to commit to that?

Does anyone here, with more career experience than myself, have some insight into this scenario? Should I start considering a jump to a new company? Thanks in advance.
> We will still see cases…but only cases in people who have arrived from overseas.” Travellers from abroad will be quarantined as part of efforts to prevent transmission in New Zealand.

> As New Zealand now eases its restrictions and its economy slowly reopens, there are discussions about how it can open up its borders while ensuring that everyone is protected

What's the end-game here, assuming the disease goes endemic in the rest of the world (as seems likely)
Generally, if the patent is high quality, people settle because there isn't much to argue about. At most they do some preliminary hearings (claim construction) and then to a summary judgment hearing.

The Alice case opened the door for awhile because practically any tech/computer related patent had a good change of being invalidated at summary judgment.

I don't practice in bio so I am not familiar with CRISPR patents.
Different people have different preferences, so clearly it is a reason to prefer a mouse.

I don’t use my mouse with Emacs, but I’m not going to tell someone else they’re wrong for wanting to. I’m beginning to see why people feel the Emacs community is less-than-welcoming.
I'm I EU if that matters and as far as I know, I have no sideffects. I was supposed to be healthy for both shots, that was the only requirement.

Why I'm sharing this information usually, because there are people out for who herpes is not annoyance but life disrupting virus. They often do not even know that there are antiviral drugs out there that work really well. They do think that there isn't much to do other than to suffer because when they were young or had bad doctor who said "oh everyone has it". My hope is maybe some people might go back to their doctor and say "please, it's disrupts my life" and they get appropriate treatment.
A few days ago Taiwan reached no new cases for 14 days. They're still banned from the WHO, though.

One wonders what will happen next? Will people need to quarantine for 21 days upon entry?
This benchmark compares Zen against Zen2, not Zen+ against Zen2
To use no battery when sleeping, you'll want to configure hibernation. I haven't done this because I only suspend my laptop for 10-12 hours at a time. Also it's tricky if you're using disk encryption with a swap file.

The Arch wiki has lots of information on how to do this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Power_management/Suspen...
I don’t like slack having to use it for work. And riot/matrix has been slightly disappointing. At one point t I had everything flowing nicely; working fine until now the latest upgrade.

The verification within the client is confusing. The e2e cross signing has been an absolute headache. Meaning losing some encrypted messages because using your recovery key it throws an error (when it’s valid).

The potential is there but It does need work. My first impressions are that it feels like it’s all stringed together.

For example why have a button in the IOS app for resetting bootstrap only to display a message of “this button doesn’t work but will work in future”.

The default home server can be terribly slow. I get it, running your own server but still, I don’t want to do that right now.

It’s works when it wants to work. And when it does, it’s pleasurable and smooth.

https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/13519 expresses my frustration.
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Reducing battery weight has a few advantages. Your car is lighter. This means less weight on the road, and thus less road maintenance. Or less batteries in the system, meaning it is cheaper. And safer because mass times velocity = momentum. Right now electric vehicles are substantially heavier than their ICE counterparts. (A Model 3 has a curb weight comparable to a F150)
I keep in touch with many of my friends online, but not all of them. There are plenty of friends I typically only see in person.
> if you tell people that ‘hey, any part of this OS is replaceable and should still work’ you have essentially created a testing matrix for yourself of infinite size

Fair enough.

But between telling people that any part of the OS is replaceable and telling people, for example, that Gnome can be replaced with XFCE, there's a world of difference in terms of the support and testing effort required. It's practically possible to support more than one possibility for some default settings, even if supporting all possible combinations isn't practically possible.

That said, the Fedora Workstation team is of course free to support whatever it chooses. Just quibbling with the reasons given, not the choice itself.
That is hard to imagine. If the site I've linked below is accurate, the average salary of a SW engineer in Bangalore is $20k. Glassdoor says the average salary in Silicon Valley is $112. ( which seems low to me ) Even with COL adjustments I'm not sure how you'd get both sides to agree on a 'fair' amount.

https://www.averagesalarysurvey.com/bangalore-india
Eh, Vim and Kakoune user here for the last ~15 years, I love scrolling with my mouse and keyboard. Keyboard for when I'm navigating. Mouse wheel for when I'm just skimming code, idly looking for something.

The fact is scrolling with a mouse moves much faster while still seeing what I'm doing. You can't scroll line by line quickly with a keyboard. There's no variable speed (that I've ever seen, at least). However with a mouse I can alternate between fast and slow. Really nice for scanning large piles of text where you don't know exactly what you're looking for.

Sure I could jump a screen length at a time if I wanted, but then my eyes have to jump bottom to top to bottom to top every time I jump. I find it difficult to track where I am. Page jumping tends to ruin context, even with a handful of lines as context.

With that said though, I have seen some really nice Terminal renderers that will smear the cursor when you jump. It looks like it would help a lot to keep the visual context.
Aliexpress has some good mini-PCs based on mobile CPUs. It's been a while since I went shopping for one, so I'm not sure where they are, right now. Since these are typically <=15W parts, they can be passively cooled. Most are fanless, from what I've seen.

I run OpenBSD on an i5-5200U I picked up a few years ago (probably 2015, or early 2016). It serves as my router and runs a bunch of services for me. It lives in my basement next to the fiber line coming in from the road.

I wouldn't be surprised if an AMD -H part comes to market soon in this category.
Someone with a better clinical understanding than I do can probably shed more light on this, but the NZ Director General of Health briefly touched on this, saying there is a difference between elimination and eradication in medical lingo. That may also apply to the Lancet article. I’ll try to find more later if no-one else answers this better.