skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A virus mutation becomes a different "strain" when the change is meaningful for the viruses interaction with the host or the environment.

Of course, that also means that detecting different strains is dependent on understanding those interactions and where they differ. If the post-infection cluster of pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome in NYC isn't just NYC being better at identifying that effect, it could well be a sign of a different strain with meaningfully different interactions with hosts. (It could still be a variety of other things, too.)
Stackoverflow – “Last seen” not accurate?
On stackoverflow the last seen appears to be inaccurate as shown in the linked images. The user, ( I chose random user), asked a question 11 mins ago but his last seen is 21 mins ago ??

Images:
https://imgur.com/a/qP2KUiE
Well for WooCommerce, the big selling point is likely that it can be self hosted; you don't have to use their hosting platform if you don't want to (and as far as I know, they don't directly offer one anyway, WordPress.com/Automattic does).

That's its own advantage for some people. It means you can sell in countries the US has trade restrictions against, integrate your shop with your WordPress site and modify the source code to your heart's content. Can't really do that with Shopify.

As for the hosted platforms? Eh, I guess like with anything, the market is still big enough for multiple players, even if one of them has a huge percentage of it overall. Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure and Rackspace still manage to do well, even if AWS has more users. GitLab still exists despite GitHub having far more of the market. Etc.
They conducted an extensive historical study of what happened to the Soviet Union and decided to avoid that.
You can discover exoplanets by yourself
For private repos, Codespaces will help on-boarding new team members or employees who don't have to waste time setting up a dev environment to contribute back.
I honestly don't understand how Amazon could be socialized, or why it would need to be socialized.

Breaking it up, sure. I believe Amazon has profited in the way many tech companies have - in that law makers don't understand the inter-connectedness of technology and how an advantage in one area will lead to an advantage in other areas.

But socialization of Amazon? Why? We already have a publicly funded package delivery service. . . .
The market reflects, rightly, that while the situation doesn’t look good for many certain fundamentals haven’t changed drastically YET.

For example, infrastructure is still intact, demand is theoretically still there just suppressed, capacity to produce is still theoretically there.

Unemployment is based on employers short to medium term outlook. I.e. Can I pay this person for a month and will the person be a net positive?

So the two measures differ and in weird situations like now we see how much they differ.
From quick glance it picks random matching word and goes with that, never reverting that decision. This allows only for generating rather low-density crosswords, where much of the board is empty.

Keeping a "stack" of crosswords, each one with one word added, iterating through possible words, and when nothing matches dropping "stack frame" and retrying with another word on previous level, would allow to generate much denser crosswords.
That is not what I said. If there is observable difference between two populations, then indeed there might be two different strains at work. If you want to be super pedantic, not all RNAs are mRNAs, and there might be difference between CUA and CUG in tRNA's behavior.
What's wonderful about this bug is that giving the troll to itself to eat gets rid of the troll, but doesn't clear the TROLL-FLAG. ;( So then when you try to exit the room to the NORTH, EAST or SOUTH, you get TCHOMPed, and the non-existent troll fends you off with a menacing gesture! ;) So you are truly fucked, and can't finish the game.

>EAST

The troll fends you off with a menacing gesture.

#ROOM {"MTROL"

"You are in a small room with passages off in all directions.
Bloodstains and deep scratches (perhaps made by an axe) mar the
walls."
"The Troll Room"
%<> #EXIT {"WEST" "CELLA"
"EAST" #CEXIT {"TROLL-FLAG" "CRAW4" %,TCHOMP}
"NORTH" #CEXIT {"TROLL-FLAG" "PASS1" %,TCHOMP}
"SOUTH" #CEXIT {"TROLL-FLAG" "MAZE1" %,TCHOMP}}
(#FIND-OBJ {"TROLL"})}

<PSETG TCHOMP "The troll fends you off with a menacing gesture.">
I'm guessing large companies like FAANG have massive traffic that they can use in their design process.

They probably can tweak UI/design for a tiny fraction of a percent of their user base and just use statistics on usage to drive decisions.
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BigCommerce, from what I've heard, offers a lot more out of box, where as you have to accomplish the same thing with apps in Shopify.

WooCommerce, Magento, Spree, etc. are often chosen for customizability, since Shopify doesn't always serve every need (even with apps). And for control over the platform.
From the potential buyer's point of view:

I skip all sites that look like they have a tried and tested landing page and don't actually have anything to say about their product.

If it's the same structure but with a slightly different text, it means the product isn't interesting so they have to resort 100% to marketing optimizations and I just move on.
These are exactly the things I find better and faster in Emacs. Watch video below and imagine searching that way but for all files in your project. Results in real-time, instantly taken to content when you highlight and browse results with arrow keys or further narrow down by typing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfasCCuCEgM

IMO VSCode's ctrl-shift-f doesn't come close. And its symbol search is just for symbols, not all text.
It's possible, though I think it's optimistic. Nobody really has a problem with Zoom's UX as it is now. The only people complaining about Zoom are us techies who know about the security issues. So my guess is they're just gonna quietly work on the security stuff in the background with this new team, and leave the UX largely as-is.
No problem, isn't it obvious?: instead of paying for electricity to mine blockchains, you now pay for new hardware! Protect the environment by filling Intel's pockets :D
Remote Work Is Not Sustainable for Now
This. I wrote a whole book based on that premise, and as a practicing copywriter/landing page designer, reusing/remixing elements of a growing swipefile is a huge part of a the workflow.

Obviously, none of that replaces actual testing, and it's useful to be able to separate the two (idea generation / validation). If there was an official list of best practices that always works, things would be easier.

It's important to note most products don't ever reach the stage where they can test and reach statistically significant conclusions. In that scenario, building landing pages by learning from the best is more about improving your messaging, your sales pitch, and so on, than about scientifically improving your conversion rate. But you must take things one step at a time.
A lot of businessy people buy into some sort of magical wisdom of the market.

It’s not a particularly wise institution, and pouring money in now is just institutional players enabled by free money coming out of government. The rest are lambs heading for slaughter, as there are very significant headwinds in our future that the market has not priced in.
Its been kind of entertaining watching random VPs in Microsoft and Amazon duke it out in passive aggressive blog posts. Undoubtedly, many of the same VPs' jobs are on the line. For previous episodes in this drama, see:

2020-05-07: https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2020/05/07/amazon-...

2020-04-15: https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2020/04/15/dod-ama...
We have a single virus, but it does not behave the same. The difference can be structural, but maybe there is a second agent that acts as modifier and is unknown.

If we take a look to the countries affected by coronavirus we can easily spot groups. For example, US, Iran or Brazil would fall in the same group IMHO in some aspects.

In Europe we could see Germany, then Spain+Swedden+Netherlands, then Italy+UK, and a strange outlier

At this moment we don't know where lies the difference between the number of infected cases ending in death in Germany (4% only), Spain (11%), Swedden and Netherlands (12-13%), Italy (13%) or UK (15%).

France, the outlier, has a 19%.

If we take the official data, France is one of the worst countries to be in Europe and maybe in the planet when you are positive (maybe french people should take extra measures to not enter in that group). Something is happening there.

One explanation could be that France has a bigger amount of deaths by frustrated hospital staff leading to a worse care, or even the appearance of solitary "angels of death".

The other explanation could be that they are simply missing lots of positives. More than the other countries.

This can be accidental or on purpose. If the former they aren't paying enough atention to this point, if the later, they could be simply applying several layers of statistical make-up to their data, maybe for the political goal of keeping the country in a lower position in the worldwide range. In a similar style that what UK did for weeks.

In this case, we could wake up one morning to see a +2000 increase in France deathcount.

Lets change the subject. It seems that blood clots have a relevant role in mortality. Well, Many countries, in Europe at least, have preventive programs that put a sizeable amount of elders in an permanent anticoagulant treatment to avoid heart attacks.

After the link above, It seems that each major group of countries in Europe favour a different product for that, and Italy and UK use the same product. Some products must be better than other by definition. This anomalies warrant further research in my bumbling opinion
Or syncing a local fork before you can edit against master and PR back. I wish syncing a remove/local fork was simpler.
What specifically differs between the BLS report and this WSJ article?
Looks like there is an unofficial LineageOS 17.1 build.

Depending on what you need the tablet to do, it may or may not suffice (looks like the main current issues are related to camera support).

https://forum.xda-developers.com/tab-s2/development/rom-line...

That subforum also has other builds of LineageOS as well as some AOSP ports and similar stuff. Definitely a bit hacky but so goes the unofficial maintenance of older mobile devices.
As a consumer, Shopify just doesn't cut it because of discoverability.

On Amazon, there's on search bar on top where I can search thousands of sellers.

For Shopify, there's just hundreds (thousands?) of smaller shops with no centralised search. Many products I want might be there, but they're not easy to find.

(Disclaimer: Amazon is unaffected in my region and continues to deliver all products as usual, so I quite biased)
It's not of much value if like the other users they just assume you're doing the wrong thing already.
It would be nice to have UnixBench scores in your comparison table. I'm guessing the SoC in the reform won't be in the same league as current Intel laptop processors, but it would be nice to have some idea of what we're getting.
I'm not sure how more disease, death, and long-term health conditions is someone else's optimistic outcome, but it seems to be inevitable.
Racing Against the Virus from Inside Australia’s Healthcare System
>I posted the official numbers and report from the BLS but it never caught traction. Same goes for other times I post from the proper source. However, it seems like HN has a bias for WSJ and NYT articles. [...]
Is there a reason why official government reports never catch traction?

Just a theory but titles of threads do matter. I'm not claiming it's the reason in your case but it might be.

- Your previous title with no activity: "BLS Reports 14.7% Unemployment Rate"

- This title that attracted upvotes: "April Unemployment Rate Rose to a Record 14.7%"

Your title's matter-of-fact tone is clinical and missing the impact of the 14.7%? Hmmm... the 14.7%... so... is that a lot or a little?

The phrase "rose to a record" is immediate spoonfeeding of the impact to potential readers.

Good newspapers like WSJ, NYT, Buzzfeed, etc know how to craft titles to get readers to click on them. This is often abused and thus disparaged as SEO/clickbait. In this case, providing a little bit of a statistic's impact could be helpful.
Hard to make someone see something they've gotten rich deliberately ignoring.
Come sit on my lap and let me be patronizing
> This means that it maintains the ability to insert freeing code at appropriate program points, without putting restrictions on how you write your code.

How does the approach in mitten compare to Automatic Reference Counting in Objective-C (and I think Swift too)? From my experience, ARC can still add a surprising amount of memory management overhead to a program and needs a lot of hand-holding to keep that overhead down to an acceptable level (e.g. low single-digit percentage of overall execution time in programs that talk to Obj-C APIs a lot). I would be surprised if a "traditional GC" can do any worse in that regard (maybe reference counting smears the overhead over a wider area, e.g. no obvious spikes, but instead "death by a thousand cuts").

One thing I'd like to see in modern languages is to encourage and simplify working with an (almost) entirely static memory layout, and make manipulations inside this static memory layout safe. This static memory layout doesn't need to be magically derived by the compiler as long as the language offers features to easily describe this memory layout upfront.

A lot of data structures in applications don't need to live in "short-lived" memory regions, but they often do because that's what today's languages either encourage (e.g. when built on the OOP philosophy), or what happens under the hood without much control from the code (e.g. in "reference-heavy" languages like Javascript, Java or C# - or even "modern C++" if you do memory management via smart pointers).

Minimizing data with dynamic lifetime, and maximing data with static lifetime could mean less complexity in the language and runtime (e.g. lifetime tracking by the compiler, or runtime memory management mechanisms like refcounting or GCs).
There somewhat is - many retailers offer data feeds. The formats and quality vary widely though. Google shopping has a feed format that many retailers implement.
It is linked at the end of the article:

https://github.com/vinissimus/opencv-js-webworker/blob/maste...

7.75MB.
Eric Weinstein posits that the purpose of news organizations isnt to relay raw information to the public, but rather, it has the sole purpose of telling you how to feel about the information. They provide you with narrative. Exposing a person to a dataset without a narrative puts the burden on the person to have to parse through and construct their own narrative. This may be just too much for the average person and hence why they prefer their data to come bundled with a narrative - it is a time saving and bias confirming heuristic.

I am not saying that this is true, but it certainly is an interesting idea to consider and think about.

Eric´s take on this is worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu_-qV-9hMo

Wiki link to the phenomenon in question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotive_conjugation
> making it easier for some people siphon other's people data even more

I guess you mean someone could easily steal your data, etc? I agree, it's a tradeoff, would be interesting to explore how to make it more secure.

> Having people play unguided with their own data is like giving uranium to little kids

Well, handling Uranium is a bit different. Can you elaborate on some specific examples?

I've seen people misusing statistics, and drawing misleading conclusions, sure. But even more people are using anecdata and broscience, which I think is worse.
>The markets already know the figures are terrible and that’s priced in already.

I'm amazed that there are still people out there that believe the stock market is composed of a ton of rational actors calculating the net present value of future cash flows from these busiensses, and buying and selling shares accordingly. I'm sure that's how Shopify has valuation metrics far higher than Amazon did during the peak of the Dotcom bubble, or how Uber loses $3B on $3.5B in revenue, while admitting their "growth product" sucks, and it goes up 10%+, or how companies like Virgin Galactic can lose $60MM on $250k in revenue!

If you ask me, stocks are going up because the entire global finance system faces tremendous uncertainty, with every country printing money as fast as they can, trying no to collapse into depression. There is literally no alternative to US stocks.
for simple edits vim works great and is fast. for serious development , something like vscode with vim keybindings is the best of both worlds
This Wikipedia article is a good summary, especially the breakdown of uninsured populations. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_insurance_coverage_in...

There are a number of reports of out-of-pocket spending and insurance plan policy detail is generally available. Do you have a preferred source for that data? This conversation is about FIRE, but a summary of the prevelance of burdensome healthcare costs in respect to the broader US population was published here: https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2...

Again, these are just gentle introductions to the data. I would be happy to read what you’re looking at.
Indeed. I don’t know the origin, but I’ve heard it phrased as “no one is the villain in the movie that is their life”, or “no person is the villain in that person’s autobiography”
Increasing user productivity and usability by any % doesn't directly translate to revenue. Steering users to premium features or ad click-throughs does directly translate to revenue.

Revenue driven design will win every time.
I already addressed that in the link in my original comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23098196
Creating Telegram Bots with N8n, a No-Code Platform
Tech firms emerge as big winners in new Covid-19 economy
Somewhat in the same vein is Steam's new game recommendation engine where you have a [popular --- niche] slider so you can filter out the obvious results. I wish more search engines had something like that.

In general there is so much cool stuff out there on the edges of culture, but your really have to hang around in weird circles to stumble upon the hidden gems.
Searched for "elastic laces", and 2 out of 3 results are 404.
For other keywords, there's a very high ration of 404s.

I'd also like to filter by region, since I don't want to buy small, cheap items from the other side of the world.
This was so much fun to test out this morning. Most streamers who saw me come in were so excited to have a viewer. Nice idea.
You're probably thinking of ThinThread[1] and William Binney[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinThread

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Binney_(U.S._intellige...
In times like these what society needs is a leader who appeals to our better angels, who pushes everyone toward the greater good. Instead we have one that puts the worst of human foibles on full display, thinking only of getting the blame elsewhere so ratings don't suffer. It normalizes that behavior across society.

It will take a long time to recover from that. We will still be suffering for it long after the virus is tamed.
> I suspect this app, in this form, is DOA and will be quickly replaced. Even if they do somehow roll it out widely, there are concerns in [2] about its effectiveness working in the background.

That particular issue is a bit of a niche case, which I argue is rendered less of a problem by behavioural psychology. If your devices are locked with screen off for long periods of time, you're probably at home, or generally not moving. The kind of people who are going to willingly download an app onto their smartphone like this are probably going to be actively using their devices enough throughout the day that the app can at least get a _reasonable_ sample. The best use of the data gathered from this app is supporting mass scale epidemiology, after all -- tracking contact rates on public transport and so on.

This is also specific to iOS devices. Given that the current UK market share is roughly 50/50 between iOS and Android, it's unlikely your device is _only_ going to encounter other iOS devices daily, so the Android "wake up iOS devices" workaround comes into play here.

> The app requests location permission on Android, something that Google doesn't allow when using their implementation.

I think this is going to be less of an issue than you think it is -- even lots of tech-savvy people gleefully accept app permissions without really caring about it. It's not ideal, but Google/Android could have simply made a separate permission for bluetooth beacons instead of piggybacking on FINE_LOCATION, and have had several years to do so, yet have not chosen to do so. Every now and then there's some tech-blog outrage piece that gets into mainstream media about how "[social media] app is always listening because it asks for mic permissions" and lots of otherwise privacy conscious people just kinda shrug and carry on with it.

Bit different with a government-backed app, I know. Which is why I'm glad the infosec community will be tearing into this - it's one thing open-sourcing the code, and I trust NHSX themselves, but for all we know it's been intercepted by GHCQ on its way to the app stores...

Disclosure: nah, I don't have anything to do with the app, though my last 3 comments on HN have been defending it. Working in a research council, I just like seeing civil service software projects done in-house. The NHS has suffered horrifically in the past from putting out IT/software contracts out to tender to private companies, horrible waterfall dev, millions of pounds wasted. Stuff like NHSX, the team behind uk.gov and the parliament petitions site are a breath of fresh air, and I'd like it to be future proof that no you don't need to outsource everything to private companies, cough cough like trusting Google and Apple's "decentralised" (how is it decentralised??? There's no p2p networking, you're still eventually uploading data to their private databases...) approach.

Outsourcing stuff to private companies is how the current gov have completely fucked this whole thing up, after all.
How to build a great SaaS onboarding experience
Not if it's returned by an async function. In JS, async functions automatically await promises that are returned.
I can definitely commit to something that I disagree with.
Ask any military person that is responsible for both making and accepting decisions.
This may be a nuanced language here, but buy-in for me is the Cambridge definition "the fact of agreeing with and accepting something that someone suggests".
For commit and support, I do not have to agree.
Converting devices to USB Type-C [video]
Why do we need to mesh them?
I'm a brit, so I'm both cynical by nature and I've watched the defunding of our public education system and (imho) it's conversion into a babysitting service.

A major tool in that process has been "reforms" where new approaches are selected for being cheaper and then sold as a "graet new way to build young minds".

That was the case when this same approach was introduced 15 years ago to my schooling: the school couldn't find a physics teacher for less than most supermarket workers earn, they had to have a physics teacher (with a degree) to teach physics, but if they taught geography, sciences and physical education as a combined subject and called it "cross curriculum", a geographer and a football coach could manage the whole thing for half the price.

It took two years for the failure to become apparent and another 2 to fix it. The school closed its funding gap. And only the kids suffered.

I really hope this isn't that.