skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see how the at-worst number can possibly be 200K. If you're talking about the U.S. alone, we're at 75K deaths with 1.25M known cases. Assume there are actually 10x that of actual cases, that's still only 12.5M infected so far. With 125M infected (well under half the population), we would be at 750K deaths.

To get to 200K worst case deaths you'd have to assume we've already had something close to 100M infections.

(Also based on the excess mortality data, the current COVID death numbers are probably underestimates)
> works well for people who are interested in both Haskell and hardware design

This intersection is not likely to differ much from the empty set.
This is also why there are a lot of data centers in the Greater Montreal area, FWIW.
> Zoom seeks to become the single "remote work tool", challenging Dropbox, et al. directly.

Maybe they should work on the fact I can run Zoom in screen share and just about nothing else. Just entering a call for me takes ~75% of my CPU and I beach ball regularly when screen sharing lightweight text editors doing barely more than scrolling and typing.
> Or are you trying to claim that the virus is a hoax or something?

HN isn’t the place to push hyperbole and straw man. Go back to Reddit for that.
> By this argument nobody ever wants to work. If you hit the lottery in normal times would you continue to work at your current job?

The first sentence is not true in the universal generality stated. I know that it's not your main point, and I know that most people don't have the luxury that I do, but I am a teacher and a researcher, and I would absolutely keep doing both no matter how much money I had. (I hope I'll be able to keep teaching; my university's not so big.)

(The only effect of having more money would be that I would replace grant-writing with periodically sending off handsomely calligraphed letters to funding agencies saying "Can't be arsed. Sorry!")
Sell your own dog food?
There is a delicious irony in using a BeeKeeper to connect to a Cockroach database....

The competitors are Squirrel and (D)Beaver, so it's all in the backyard.
Nope you’re right. They could use this as a warrant canary by removing the “has not” part
One day, some hacker might want to write an emulator of this computer.
Epidemiologists are professional software engineers, in the sense that they are paid full time to write code and summarise the output in papers. They might not be "professional" in the sense of the quality of their work but let's not kid ourselves that these people spend half their days in the lab or taking swabs from children in Beijing. Other types of researchers do that - these guys just run sims.
This may be a good idea but the schtick is tiresome
Well, about the not useful, I was working on a large service for lawyers and accountants behind a paywall, but then the new CEO decided we wanted to open up portions of stuff to google. So just because something isn't going to ever be SEOed anyway, doesn't mean that at some point in time, guess what, we need to SEO optimize some of this stuff!
Who gives a fuck about Wayland, honestly? It seems like it was designed by people who didn't like the few good things about X and wanted something to further fracture the Linux desktop. Well, they got it.

> Zoom needs people who know how to make modern client software

It's the best video client available on Windows / Mac and works acceptably on Linux, what exactly needs to be more "modern" about it? Slack's video call thing is way less featureful, and Teams is still the abortion that is Lync / Skype for Business under the hood which is and always will be shit-tier.

> chat

I don't want my video app to be my chat app. There's any number of reasons why separation there is a good thing. I can start a Zoom call from Slack in 1 second, what more do I really need on that front?
It was actually a really nice stellar wallet implementation. A bad bet perhaps, in hindsight. Unfortunately, this acquisition means I won’t be using it anymore for the foreseeable future.
You can still advocate for such urban redevelopment and community planning without Big Tech behind it.
They have more deaths because they're paying up front. The bet is that over time deaths will be roughly the same, lockdown or not. Considering that we're far off from a vaccine and world economy can't be left on life support for years, I'm inclined to believe them.
Looks like they'll be enabled in Nightly for testing in the 78 cycle: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1634135
yep, but the conclusions were drawn based on interviews with only 81 of them:

> The researchers, who conducted 81 in-depth interviews with participants in the scheme, concluded that...
I do? Holy crap when do I start getting those checks?
Using Cognitive Psychology to Improve Design and Productivity
Where does value come from besides labour? Land, investment, time value of money, management, freedom of commerce, etc... LTV was known baloney 100 years ago.
I'm looking at the report's table of contents. It's in Finnish. The report includes overviews of multiple studies and provides plenty of valuable insight on multiple themes.

Here's my rough translation:

1. Introduction
2. Other basic income studies in other countries
3. Effects on employment
4. Perceived health, psychological wellbeing and cognitive performance
5. Economic well-being
6. Experiences on bureaucracy
7. Basic income and trust
8. Participant interviews on basic income's effects on employment, participation, autonomy
9. BI in media
10. General populations views on BI and uncertainty relating to income

I'm sure an English language version will be published at some point but I could not find one yet.
I agree that this was a train wreck in slow motion. What is sad is I didn't see any significant open engagement with GTA's existing tech scene (did hear a lot of talk of it though). Maybe the VCs club had access but as a technologist, I certainly didn't. If this was happening in SF, there would be grass roots meetups all over the place, and a more serious focus on action rather than planning.
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UBI will be introduced, just not in the way most of us would like. It will be throught Quantitive Easing, as currently done by FED.

What QE does is - it concentrates the wealth in hands of 0.1% of society. Each financial crisis (2008, 2020) only speeds up this process. Once top 0.1 owns more than, say 90% of wealth we will be back to ancient Rome - "panem et circenses", wealthy people throwing some scraps of wealth towards mases, just enough to keep them from revolting.

Gig economy will also play some role: we are slowly cooking the frog, getting people used to the fact that they don't own their homes, or their cars, they do not have pemanent jobs. Everything they have is a short term rental. They are living using borrowed things, on borrowed time...
Full developer docs here: https://docs.tiledb.com/main/

Specific dataframe examples coming up shortly.
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They do keep saying "multiplatform", but I guess that's Windows/macOS/iOS/Android, not Linux.

They're not the only ones though, this is what most companies call "on any device".
I may have a skewed view. Your view is probably more representative of engineering in general. I do nuclear engineering for a relatively young advanced reactor company that does consider software development one of its things. We have the oldest of the old legacy codes for physics solvers (originally written in Fortran IV, now ported to Fortran 90, validated against experimental nuclear reactors that no longer exist) and we use Python for data management and automation.

10 years ago people were using Perl for data management and MATLAB for physics prototyping. Now we all use Python for both.
Paranoia is thinking that lizard people are spying on you.

Find common instances where people regularly abuse power: child abuse, terrible bosses, emotional abuse of a spouse. The most common denominator is that people hurt others because they can, and those who couldn't will claim that they choose not to.
Back to basics – OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect
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A monorepo setup with lerna, react and TypeScript
>I think the only valid interpretation of the IQ test is that you are good at solving some riddles and spotting patterns. In no way, it can be used as a generic metric of who is better or worse.

Correlations are what matter. It just so happens that success at solving such seemingly trivial riddles is correlated with important tasks such as coding and life outcomes. If IQ didn't correlate with anything there would be no reason to have IQ tests. It would be as useful as astrology.
Reactive Hashing
The non-determinism that page talks about is coming from bugs like memory corruptions, floating point inaccuracies, initialisation order bugs. It's not an intentional part of the model. Averaging corrupted data is meaningless, it doesn't magically fix the corruption.

I really wonder what it would take for some people to lose faith in epidemiology. Has this field ever predicted an epidemic correctly? Is there any level of bugginess that would yield the output of these teams unacceptable, to them?
Back to Work Safely: American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) Guidelines
I wanted to update my system with the Ryzen 5 1600 AF, given its value at $85 - but it's no longer in stock anywhere at that price, so the 3300X is looking appealing.
just add it in as a ppa!
Core Rope Memory (Wikipedia)
The Constrained RESTful Application Language (CoRAL)
'Arguments from authority carry little weight — “authorities” have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.'

It'd be interesting to see what is left after applying this consistently to scientific announcements. E.g. much of the pro climate change arguments I see are: all the scientists think it is happening, so it must be happening. Not saying they are wrong, but why should only science get a pass when it comes to argument from authority?

Science is not the only field with experts, and it's hard to argue that only scientific expertise is real expertise without going in circles (which requires an expert in philosophy to avoid ;).
California student faces felonies for allegedly faking violent hate crimes
I made a simple model using churn, referral, paid ad spend.

In any scenario where

Churn > Referral -> Ads are a trap.

If

Churn < Referral -> Ads are a halfway decent accelerator.

Challenge is you can not really determine if Churn < Referral as long as you run ads.

I wrote about it here if someone is interested https://medium.com/@franz.enzenhofer/ads-are-a-trap-80df01d2... (free to read medium link, will migrate away from medium soon)
It seems that several countries have been very successful in containing the virus, starting with China. The U.S. has been very lax in its response to this virus, and now many people seem to be excusing that with the assumption that, well, it was impossible to contain in the first place.
I would assume a Nike product purchased at full price on their official website is better quality than a Nike product sold at a lower price at a discount store.

That turns me off from buying Nike, as I want to reward brands that are consistent quality at whatever price, but Nike is betting they can get more revenue by using price discrimination to target different customers with the same brand.
Well, all the corona laws that have been passed - or did I misunderstand?
it does not make sense to pair development toolchain versions with operating system versions.
I just find it to be patronizing, and it made me not want to read further. We have developers using Emacs and Lisp, we have Python devs, we have people using browser IDEs all under the same roof. There are any number of capabilities in the former that are missing in the latter, not least of which is "more complete control", something none of these products offer me in a convincing way.
> Asynchronous HTTP request handling only really became mainstream when NodeJS started getting popular about 7-8 years ago

Nginx first came out in 2002. It was being used widely by something like 2008.

> no other web application platform treats asynchronous request handling as a first-class feature

Huh? Web application platforms that do this have been around since the late 1990s. (Heck, there was one written in Python in the late 1990s, it was called "Medusa".) They just weren't "popular" back then.
That's in the spirit of the analogy. Lead additive has a special niche purpose. Similarly IQ could be useful for measuring a specific narrow combination of skills and cultural background. (The first step towards rehabilitating "IQ" should be to rename it, though.)

Lead everywhere is as toxic as assuming IQ measures some kind of general intelligence.
It's too late. The early buggy code was already used to drive decisions, and they refused to release it for a month and a half whilst they tried to fix the most embarrassing errors.

Go click around GitHub. They screwed up a shuffle, there are uninitialised reads, RNG bugs, the works.
Forget 1000 true fans. Start with 1
Quarantine is killing me. I really need to stop eating beans...
Like Grep, but for Code
Sure, because EC2 instances don't need any admin work. Unless you're doing serverless architectures, you'll still need sysadmins.
Is this even actually directly related to 5G? I mean a mobile phone can’t connect directly to space satellite right?

The article says “Would allow telecom companies to deploy 5G networks”. Is this satellite network for doing connnections between cell sites maybe?

If that’s the case, it feels like 5G is only tangentially related and only included in story for click bait given that people seem to want to get mad about 5G recently.
I'm confused. Supercop is a benchmark for cryptographic hash functions, but SMHasher is a test for non-cryptographic hash functions. The use cases list cryptography, but also universal hash functions which are generally not crypto-grade. It compares itself to the SHA hashes, but only has 64 bit output.

Is Beamsplitter supposed to be cryptography grade or not?
Some furries were already having this discourse as soon as this hit HN.
Quicksort pseudo-code.
My issue with statements like this is that there is no such thing as the "middle class". It's a political concept, not an economic one. It has no definition. Furthermore, if you try to define it the way is usually defined - as the people making between x% of the median - it is mathematically impossible for it to shrink so long as the population continues to grow.
High Performance Web Audio with AudioWorklet in Firefox
Build Server Protocol
Looks like I posted a early draft. The latest draft is at https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-core-coral-03
Ever since upgrading to Mysql v8 (which is the only supported version on Ubuntu 20) I have had so many issues with SequelPro, that I bought TablePlus.
Exposure to air pollution and Covid-19 mortality in the United States
Maybe a good place to ask this:

I've been hearing a lot of "oh we don't use Redux, we use hooks" lately, as if this obviously makes sense.

Am I missing something? To me this seems like "oh we don't use Redux, we use arrays". I'm gonna need quite a few more details before I can make any sense of a statement like that.

Like... what? How... how does that explain what you're doing? One of these things is not like the other. "Oh we don't use doors on our buildings anymore, we've switched entirely over to trees". Huh? What the actual hell does that mean?
Did not know they offered a custom Linux OS.

What is the strategy here, to make a Chromium like play where the project is open but for practical purposes everyone just uses Chrome? That might not be terrible for the ecosystem
1: it wasn't a backdoor
2: it wasn't a backdoor
Excepting in this case where the military operates a critical, life-safety infrastructure used by civilians.

I'm frankly more concerned with the FCC acting as a taxpayer-funded telecoms industry cheerleader.

Dear FCC: You're regulators. You're supposed to be regulating. This is what you get for being public servants.
By default, Apache is rather poorly optimised. MySQL is even worse. WordPress' poor performance is the result of mashing components together without any concern for performance.

WordPress itself is not garbage (at least not for those reasons), but WordPress + a bunch of plugins hammered together is a different beast.
If you are a dev then you can prefer using an LTS flavor of Ubuntu with a PPA for whatever you need to be newer. For important stuff this PPA are provided by Canonical so I run newer kernel and nvidia drivers on an older LTS.
I've seen clash used in production. Old firms aren't going to pick it up but there are upstarts leveraging it.
The first real IQ test (the Binet iq test) was created to help identify special ed kids so they could receive special tutoring.

The question about IQ is does it measure anything? Is it predictive? And can that be useful? And the answer all three of those questions is obviously yes.
London Underground operates in the same conditions and have figured it out, without the emergency stop buttons, or platform side doors.

The Victoria line has been operating semi-automatically with driver only operation, and not getting out of the trains (because the windows don’t open) since 1968.

These aren’t insurmountable problems, and they’ve been solved for a very long time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground_1967_Stoc...
> the military GPS is different from the Civilian GPS

I remember reading at some point that the civilian GPS was randomly offset so as not to give extremely accurate coordinates like the military GPS does. I thought that was interesting, if true.
Sounds very familiar - they probably knew each other.
HDD Diet: Power Consumption and Heat Dissipation (2005)
He has a greatly inflated perception of his accomplishments and intellect. Recently he has been trying to get his Mathematica PDFs published in actual journals, but good luck with that. Rendering fat tails does not make for meritorious scholarly research. Fat tail distributions long predate Taleb.
For many years the government intentionally degraded the quality of GPS signals available to civilians. Look up "Selective Availability" - it was stopped in 2000, at which point consumer GPS became viable.
It’s also to slow the rate of infection in order to buy time until we figure out more effective treatments and potentially a vaccine, and also to improve detection and isolation practices. The goal isn't “spread 1,000,000 deaths out over a longer period of time.” It’s also to reduce the number of deaths and infections altogether. Unfortunately, in the US we haven’t used our lockdown time in a useful way. We’ve kept hospitals (mostly) from being overwhelmed for now, but none of the infra that supports an effective test/trace/isolation regime was deployed. Hospitals still can’t get sufficient PPE. Etc.
Not sure what DNT has to do with it. Do Not Track was circa 2009, we were already "here" at that point. The cookie law was like 2002.
You are just wrong on this. The government of the United States is set up so states have supremacy over the Federal Government in many/most areas of domestic policy. I recommend reading up more on this.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/no-trump-cant-force-s...
I have been closely following the progress of Zerodha in such a complex market and also an early customer (not now) for them from the time of its launch. With some of the best competitions around like Sharekhan, 5paisa, and Karvy it was nice to see how they started with zero brokerage concepts like Robin. I did not know it is now the largest stockbroker in India. And really nice to see the tech blog starting. I thought it would be a larger team and using a different tech stack and never expected this. And yes, like-minded developers really add more value to the product
True, but growth is not exponential in the US and has been flat since the start of April.

If growth increases, you know it is becoming more dangerous.
If growth decreases, you know it is becoming less dangerous.
You can put lipstick on an aqui-hire, and it's still an aquihire.
They did a series of town halls, funded a bunch of urban / tech meetups. Pretty proactive for a period. The townhalls were very... SF style, it didn't mesh with the local culture well. But I don't think they did a lot of work either, there's a pretty lackluster showroom and they put out some very middling concept sketches - not proper renders like you see in most smart city projects. Didn't seem like they were taking things seriously. A lot of words. Maybe too many. At least not enough right ones.
Not sure where you draw the line between a server and a platform, but Go and Elixir are async by default. (Not in the async await sense, but in the sense that they handle requests using lightweight userspace threads).

Besides that, Python, Java and PHP have had mature async web stacks available for years as well. Is there any commonly used language that doesn’t?
State-by-state stay-at-home orders
That feels like strict oposit of the falacy claim, which would hold in case of perfectly stable and suppied currency is employed. Still would be rational to invest research, diversify against theft etc.
I do not advocate a go to market that prioritizes these markets. We started more with enterprise/federal data architects, which involved a different go to market - not self serve on a website.

We (and our broader market) are now at point where it is easier for us to launch self-serve and help adjacent roles. Stay tuned :) This fits better with national labs market too afaict. We already quite heavily discount on-prem for edu etc, and I expect we will see that carry through here: bottom-up early cloud use -> discounted on-prem. As budgets are mostly hw or small, and follow slow grant/annual cycles, hard to see going another way.

Two market trends relevant:
-- Federal: without quite special circumstances, can easily take 3+ years for a new fed sales team to pay for itself
-- Edu: small budgets to begin with
Better to target fast happy-to-spend teams and as tech/sales/product gets easy, easier to help adjacent markets. Got burned whenever we didn't :)
Anytime IQ is brought up on HN, the comment section is gonna get interesting. I mean hell this thread is already full of snide remarks about the author, people getting emotionally charged about emotion, personal attacks from people on both sides of the argument in "clever" attempts to prove who's smarter, and occasional and questionable views.
I like it! I’d argue TypeScript over JS as adoption gets broader (and/or toolchains simpler)
The big feature for me is easy and secure backup of things like dotfiles (and it not being secured ONLY by a password). I may just combine gpg and a private S3 bucket now along with some simple bash tooling.
>People in Washington (or elsewhere) who wield a lot of power without being rich, wield that power because it has been delegated to them. They are accountable for that power. Rich people are not, but probably should be.

I specified the qualifier "unelected"
...and then you remember that your app depends on half a dozen vendor webhooks...
> Which distro logs tty0 console output from echo ? Debian does not. Fedora does not. Gentoo used to, but it broke.

None, anymore, that's a little bit the point.

Devuan does, so does Debian 7 and RHEL6.

I just tested it on all three in a VM.

yes, I'm sure I'm an admin.
I am pretty sure a FOSS alternative to Matlab will win in a long term. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Octave.
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They might be using context. The problem with that though is it will cause performance issues due to unintentional rerendering. Not something to worry about for a small app.

https://reactjs.org/docs/context.html
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