skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's like 99% hyperbole, the gain is like 20% versus fine tuning. An interesting idea, but incremental in terms of improvements.
You need to come up with a name. Graphiq comes to mind if you are edgy. Disgraphiq if you are super edgy.
I don't think level 4 exists. There is no code for problems of sufficient complexity that are self-explanatory. There are too many hidden assumptions and foreknowledge and tradeoffs and decisions baked into a block of code that, unless it's trivial, there's no way code itself can reflect it adequately.
> With an infection fatality rate of 0.5% (which is on the conservative side), resuming normal activity means between 1.5 and 4.5% of the population will likely die. This is not an insignificant risk at all. In contrast, 35,000 dead from traffic accidents is .01% of the US population.

Right, so you are essentially making a tradeoff! You have decided that losing 0.01% of the US population is, to use your framing, an "insignificant risk". I don't disagree with that.

Your original argument was that we simply do not have the right to promote or otherwise further actions that will unnecessarily cause the death of innocents, even if there is an economic tradeoff to be had. I argued that we absolutely have the right to make tradeoffs with lives, we do it all the time. Sometimes the tradeoff is worth it, sometimes it isn't.

You have just argued to me that "the analogy is invalid" because in one case a lot of people die, and in the other case far fewer people die. You are essentially making the same tradeoff, under the same moral framework — only your boundary for what constitutes an acceptable number of deaths is different.

This is a difference in degree, and not kind.
As I said, that analogy is false. The magnitude of the damage is so much higher for the coronavirus, and the people endangered are already those most vulnerable in society.

Let me put it to you this way: my parents are in no danger from you crashing your car. They are if you go out and start resuming "normal activity" to increment your fake numbers in a computer. Is scoring imaginary points really worth endangering my parents?

You seem to have an inordinate amount of trouble finding a single justification for endangering people at this scale, even though there are apparently LOADS of frameworks that would say it's okay. Why is that?
I actually expected it to be this one: https://xkcd.com/974/
It fits perfectly if by privilege you mean not pursuing a career with high intensity and instead living a frugal, simple life that is less affected by a slowdown of the global economy.
Personally I find double click highlighting to be a useless feature in any language, but the Firefox approach is superior imo. Breaking at script boundaries is predictable behavior the user can anticipate whereas doing some janky ad hoc natural language processing invariably results in behavior that is essentially random from a user perspective. I tried out double click highlighting on some basic Japanese sentences on Chromium and it failed to highlight any of what would be considered words.

It's not like English highlighting does complex grammatical analysis to make sure "Project Manager" gets highlighted as one chunk and "eventUpdate" gets highlighted as two chunks, most implementations just breaks at spaces like the user expects.
Why fighting about Covid-19’s fatality rate is pointless
You can have the exact same threat of violence or family pressure for voting booths. "Show me a cellphone picture of the ballot you voted with"

I think making a claim either way about voter intimidation is silly. The most important points are to increase voter turnout and to reduce large-scale fraud.
We're using Chrome's Lighthouse running in containers with a focus on normalized performance between locations, security and responsiveness. This is built from the ground up by us.
Maintaining a Wiki or any sort of extensive note taking operation requires a lot of dedication and I guess practice? Do you have any tips for someone who wants to start out? Is there a smaller step that one could take initially?
QI doesn't just apply to officer involved shootings.

QI also applies to the cop you tells you that you can't be recording and takes your cell-phone to prevent you from filming something that you have every right to be filming.

In fact, there are many _other_ protections for an OIS than just QI.
Strong disagree if you’re using OS X. Apps are outdated, broken, poorly designed.
They're referring to the Waffle House Index.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle_House_Index
Every time I read about Roam it sounds like the same note-taking system I've built for myself. I just use a couple of Bash scripts with light text editor integration on top. (The Bash is so I can quickly add the same features to whatever text editor I'm using, today that's VSCode and Vim, but I setup Emacs at one point too. It’s mainly just keyboard shortcuts that call the Bash scripts.)

The basic features are taking a default Markdown mode and adding:

1. Follow a link to a relative file at the cursor

2. Make a link to a relative file out of the selected text (e.g., "my big idea" becomes `[my big idea](my-big-idea.md)`

Daily notes is just open a text file with the current date. (This doesn't include back links or transclusion, but I don't think those are make or break features either?)

All in all this is pretty trivial to add to an existing text editor, and if you do, you get all the power of that text editor: E.g., the best search, comparison, and split view systems anywhere. Plus the longevity of plain text.

I can see the appeal of Roam, especially for audiences that aren't already using an extensible text editors. But for people that do already use extensible text editors, I'm surprised there's not more discussion about how easy these features are to add.
A while ago I used OBS and Python+OpenCV to do a goofy webcam where I'd had my face replaced by David Bowie's -- not using deep learning though, just "plain old" face detection+landmarking+morphing.

OBS: https://obsproject.com/es

Now I know it can be done, but I'm not sure how things have changed (this has been some 3 or 4 years ago), so I can't really give you too many details other than it's possible.
They get your signature when you register. States that don't use ID at polling stations have big books with everyone's signature in them so the worker can compare against one you write on site.
One of my all time favourite books is Titan: The life of John D. Rockefeller by Ron Chernow.

While it gives an excellent account of Rockefeller’s life, the most enjoyable for me is the incredible setting of the Industrial Revolution in America.

As a non American it was also fascinating to read about the mixture of religion and capitalism.

I highly recommend it.
If you were a blackhat, burning a 0-day at DEFCON would be a huge waste. You probably wouldn't get anything interesting, and chances are someone would catch it.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/it-s-easy-to-commit-election-fr...
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I think it was a play on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle_House_Index
Another advantage is that you are less likely to make errors while using the automated way.
wow! It's awesome :O
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> Far, far more voters will be intimidated by threat of domestic violence or family pressure to vote the "right way",

Citation needed. And also, is that number more than the number of people who don't vote at all because voting in person is too much of a hassle?
Thanks, and we really appreciate your patience. See my comment regarding moving into AWS to improve scalability on demand.
And I'm in 661, 3 minutes later.
UK about to enter worst recession for 300 years.
Economists have done studies where they tried to determine how much someone would need to be paid to stop using Facebook for a year. Maybe people are not willing to pay for the service, but they would rather have the service than $X.
We'll also be expanding to 18 locations globally once the migration completes.
The flu isn't at the forefront of everyone's minds, whereas the coronavirus is; most of the world's in lockdown over it right now. If someone is called back to work early while lockdowns are still going on, the bereaved have someone to point their finger at and say "It's your fault this happened!" -- it seems much more likely to me that they would pursue legal action as a result of these conditions, and consequently it's an important business risk to consider. (It may well be a lesser risk than staying shut from a business's perspective if they're risking the company going bankrupt anyway as a result of not reopening -- but I was curious if they were accounting for it.)

Of course, it's a fair question if we should've been holding organizations to a higher standard for preventing the spread of diseases before. My mom died of the flu when I was 8. If people took infectious diseases more seriously and held organizations responsible for policies that permit diseases to spread so easily, maybe we could do something about flu deaths as well?
it is never bad to be the Waffle House of a thing.
Real cool man!
>1. No duty is worth what Bezos makes.

Says who? You? You know how I know it's worth that much? Because he already has that much. The free market has decided.

>That's where Bezos was decades ago.

Nope.

>So basically, you agree with me except that you had to jump in to defend a poor defenseless multibillion dollar international company?

My principles don't discriminate by dollar figure or other arbitrary measures. That's what makes them principles.

>Great: why don't you do that instead of derailing any effort by jumping in to defend Amazon?

I can do both? Isn't that what you were preaching before?

>Dude, you're so set on diverting focus away from Amazon's wrong doing if Amazon literally stabbed someone you'd comment how it alleviated their high blood pressure.

Great strawman. We're done here.
Monopoly: the capitalist board game’s leftwing origins
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> We knew we wanted Facebook.com to start up fast, respond fast,

You failed.

mbasic.facebook.com on the other hand, is actually fast. Oh. Wait. That's no js at all.
Some of the (suspected and unstated) motivations for states deciding to "reopen" against medical advice is that it allows the state to get people their off unemployment rolls. This is going to be a huge factor that varies state-to-state.
The subatomic age: Asia's quantum computing arms race
This is build by the company: https://www.wordfence.com
I recently learned that the moon has its own molten iron core, like Earth. It makes me wonder if carbon emissions on the moon could be related to subsurface volcanism.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_structure_of_the_Mo...
> Right, so you are essentially making a tradeoff! You have decided that losing 0.01% of the US population is, to use your framing, an "insignificant risk". I don't disagree with that.

I have not. I have stated that a moral framework that could theoretically justify driving cars does not also justify releasing lockdowns. I have made no normative statement about Americans driving cars. Please show me where I have, if you disagree.
Yeah. It's really a shame that there were all these efforts to prevent our health care system from being overwhelmed. Oh well. It looks like enough people would like to run this particular experiment that we just might get to see what it looks like after all. Yay?
I play the Eleven Table Tennis VR game for ~1 hour at 9PM, become sweaty, take a shower and then I feel like I can very productively work until 5AM. Quarantine weird schedule, but it works :)
> these surveys are guesses.

Well yeah, that's what statistics is. What matters is your confidence level. Logistically I can't sample the entire population of a city, let alone a country. Even if I could I can't guarantee that people are answering honestly. Guesses are all you are ever going to get.
Or in Python:

except Exception as the_roof:
raise the_roof
From your article:

'a signature is required when you return your ballot, which is checked against a copy of your signature that's kept on file. Wyman calls it security "at the back end."'

So basically like checking voter ID at the polls.
Facebook’s redesign goes live with simplified navigation and dark mode
Really nice project!
I may be the only one here that thinks Reddit’s new design is fine now. At first, it was buggy and sluggish. Now it is fine.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/25/us/who-immunity-antibodies-co...

I mean, I don't respect CNN, but I'm sure some people do.
Sometimes-- but most of the time when I look at code I wrote and was proud of but 6months or a year later-- I'm like, what was I thinking- I would of done it differently now. I call it programmers remorse. Since we're always learning and patterns change over time based on technology I think that most programmers live in a constant state of embarassment over things they previously had done.

However-- sometimes (with increasing rate into my 15 year carreer) I need to modify something and had not touche the code in a long time-- only to find to my supprise I already had that feature or ability coded into it... I then have to say "Thanks Past Jon- This is Future Jon (to you) and noice forward thinking"

While in isolation due to gobal things... it's a good time to make sure Past you and Future you get along-- Present you (third state) is both past and future but leave some notes for Future [yourname] and make sure if you find notes from Past [yourname] you remember to appreciate their work.
Let’s make phase 1 be the unification of American and British spelling. That should be easy enough right?
the digest is a neat idea. have you seen some of the roam spaced-repetition approaches?

they are apparently working on improving the slow load time and also closing down new signups
The problem is a complex client-provider relationship. The end user (children) don't make the purchasing decision. The ones choosing the software (teachers) have no control over the hardware. The ones choosing the hardware (school tech admins) have no idea what the teachers really want or need.

But the child will be punished if they don't do their homework. I think that's a grave injustice. It's not her fault that the school didn't provide the tools. We should be encouraging people to learn when they want to, not making it hard for them!

Healthcare is another area where there's a complex client relationship between doctors, insurance companies, and patients. I really think that developers in education and health are doing important work to save lives, but the capitalist approach of prioritising the person who pays isn't that simple.

With those fields, it shouldn't be just about money. On that note, I liked this comment yesterday:
"hey, will you help me move? I'll pay you $21.58 for your time," I'd probably bristle. Even though that might be the equivalent price of a few slices of pizza and a beer"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23106932
I already replied back at the mail from my business account (@r31nv3nt3d, need to un1337 it) with some questions minutes after receiving it, looking forward for a reply there, thanks!
I have been using LastPass (free) for several years, any reason I should consider switching to 1Password?
Yes. There often tends to be a conflation between "Remote within a reasonable timezone" and mostly WFH but able to drop in for meetings once every week or two. But the two cases are actually pretty different in terms of where you can live. The latter means you don't need to have an easy commute but you still need to be in a 1-2hr driving range.

That said, I don't live in the Bay Area.
> Democracy and rule of law usually start to have an advantage over authoritarianism when you surpass an annual GDP per capita of about 5000 USD.

Singapore disagrees.
They compare it to the signature on your registration form.
this was an issue with firefox and I pushed a css fix, sorry about that
I am genuinely curious why this is getting downvoted.
New web developer here about 4 weeks into learning JavaScript and I decided to challenge myself to automate a process I dread every year - shopping for new electricity plans.

I've always been underwhelmed with the popular tool powertochoose.org (created by the Texas Energy Commission) since it assumes 1000kWh of use every month. I always ended up grabbing a dozen seemingly-low-cost plans and doing some spreadsheet work to come up with the best option based off my previous year of usage. That is exactly what I decided to build into TexasElectricity.io, except it runs through every plan available in your zip code.

I am still working on the site. Next up is a filter for plan term lengths and renewable energy. Please give it a try and let me know what you think. The tool is open source, free, and ad-free.
The joke is if you drop 80% and later increase 400%, you're back where you started.
Given this property of Japanese text, is there wordplay associated with a string of characters with double/reverse meanings depending on how the characters are combined?
Just as likely it was a feature. If you really think "that'll never happen", then the right thing to do is explicitly ignore negative prices or refuse to send orders at negative prices, and that's exactly the kind of failsafe I'd want to have in my trading software, since you can get spurious prices for all kinds of reasons.

It turned out the assumption was wrong and yeah, you should remove the logic handling that once it's evident futures may go negative, and you should have a process capable of making that change with only a day or two notice. But being robust the rest of the time at the expense of mishandling a once-in-fifty-years event is not in itself a bug.

If you disagree, should a trading system also allow negative prices for precious metals futures? Stocks? Currencies? Options? Bonds? Futures on stocks or bonds? I can contemplate all of those trading negative in extraordinary, contrived scenarios but I would design systems today not to trade them at negative prices.
It is also extremely difficult to research the records of judges, particularly those on lower courts.
What do you think people were doing previously then, just voting blindly?!
People's signatures change.

The signature at DMV on the electronic pad is hardly a representation of my real pen-and-paper signature.

I suspect you're assuming there's some sort of verification going on - but have no evidence of this.
Italian airport adopts AR thermal scanning helmets
There might be a setting for the room, I've seen it marked as explicit content prevented from uploading and it doesn't show the picture.
Note that Japanese and Chinese already changed to commonly use horizontal left-to-right text (in addition to vertical top-to-bottom/right-to-left text, which is still usual especially in "proper published typesetting") in large part because computers handled that much better for decades.
That's just not true, many jurisdictions don't allow electronic devices, for exactly this reason: https://www.bustle.com/p/can-i-use-my-phone-while-voting-all...
You're in for a treat, just check out the other videos on that channel.

Jeff Quitney used to be on YouTube before they kicked him off due to (what appear to be) false copyright claims against his videos. He has slowly been moving them over to Vimeo for the last several months.
Ok, I've attempted to fix that issue with the title. This required making up new language, which is the worst, but I can't find any representative phrase anywhere in the article. If someone else can, let us know and we can change it.
Do you know how many flu deaths happened in Italy during the 2016/17 flu season?

Compare that to the Coronavirus deaths. The numbers are really close.

Italy isn’t particularly an outlier in terms of Coronavirus severity when you look at their historical flu numbers compared to the rest of Europe. Their Coronavirus deaths follow the same trend as with their flu fatalities. Really nothing surprising in Italy, but the media lost their minds over it.

https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(19)30328-5/ful...
Yep. We try to indicate when you're being affected by redirects since `http` -> `https` and `example.com` -> `www.example.com` are common ones. Those can often mean hitting an origin server instead of an edge server first.
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Oh cool, they've also authored a Tide integration: https://docs.rs/async-graphql-tide. As someone who works on Tide, this is really exciting!

At a glance the integration between the two looks fairly straightforward -- two lines for the integration, and five lines to define a schema. That's pretty good.
Thanks for the tip. I had no idea that was a thing -- although it absolutely makes sense, thinking about it!
Thought the same thing. The second I saw a reference to someone titled "The Mother", all my "cult!" alarms went off.
Ok. But they have tiny little processors (5?) that each do a tiny little task with a smidgen of RAM. Is the 'vision' feature real, or just a light intensity detector? Can you get a picture out of it? I'm dubious.

As for the model/map, how does it sense location? Dead reckoning? Not a very significant feature if it can't find itself on the map, nor use the map to choose a route. Which I doubt (from videos of the Roomba in action)
Wow. You should be proud indeed. Turned out you maintained enough corner cases right there.
It is like comparing a potato to a mango. First the fact that there are no official restrictions does not mean that the country is not effectively in lockdown by now. Second the death rate is about 10x compared to the countries where the lockdown was applied early.

It was fairly evident that every country will end up in a lockdown except that the countries where it was applied early did not encounter huge loss of life.
I would only support mail in voting with voter id. The fact that you're so happy about this decision, regardless of the rampant voter fraud that will take place with no voter id is insane to me
People do. My dad doesn't install an adblocker because he simply doesn't care. I wouldn't either if it wasn't for the serious performance impact.
Capital One was short oil futures because they had loaned money to energy companies and wanted to hedge risk. They accidentally ended up with a big enough position that they almost had to be classified as a market maker.
Their initial criteria was that a patient had to go get a Covid test at another hospital before they could board the ship.

At least some of the reason it didn't treat many patients is that they made it hard to become a patient.
Bullshit! Taiwan started in the same state as the PRC communist dictatorship and they have progressed much more economically than China, their GDP is much higher.

Also culturally and from a human rights perspective Taiwan blows the chicoms out of the water.

Taiwan shows what China could have been if they would not have been taken hostage by the communist chinazis.
Healthcare workers are different because:

1) They're trained in correct PPE use

2) They wear a full set of PPE

3) They're supervised when putting it on and taking it off to avoid contaminating themselves

4) They have dedicated areas to don and doff PPE.

5) They use huge amounts of PPE. (A team will use about 30 sets of PPE per ICU patient per day.)

6) They have access to alcohol hand gel (often carrying it on them)

7) They have plentiful and easy access to handwashing facilities - elbow operated faucets, soap, running water.

8) They've been trained in handwashing, and they are regularly audited in handwashing.
Oh! This was a law being discussed? I thought it read pedantic wordsmithing.

To call 'online sales' a single market is silly. Because other companies use the internet changes nothing. Amazon owns their segment.