skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I posted this in reply to another comment, but yes this does appear to be the flaw of the Google/Apple approach. Assuming the incubation time is just over 5 days (seems a broad consensus here), and someone is at their most infectious in the day or 2 prior to this (not sure if this is yet broadly agreed, but some studies are suggesting this [1])

Imagine that person A is infected on day 1. On day 4, A met with B and C. A experiences symptoms a few hours into day 6.

With a decentralised approach, you really need the certainty of a test before uploading anything, to stop Sybil-like attacks. Most probably, A would be tested the following day (day 7), and get a result (while isolating at home) a few hours into day 8. Meanwhile, B and C are walking around in the population, on day 7 and 8 (days 3 and 4 of their own infection, the time they are likely to be most infectious). They get asked to return home, and probably experience symptoms the next morning.

In the NHS approach, when A experiences symptoms on day 6, they report this via the app, and are told to get home and self-isolate. B and C might also be asked to isolate, based on their contact with A, at this time (as well as their general perceived risk from any other infected individuals they might have had distant contact with - the NHS app can consider multiple potential sources of infection to an individual, and aggregate the risk).

This gets B and C at home and isolated on day 2 of their own infection, and has them at home during their 2 most infectious days. If neither gets symptoms, and others exposed to A don't develop symptoms either, the daily "how are you feeling" polling via the app for symptoms will be able to capture that based on lack of symptoms, there likely wasn't exposure, and the group can leave self-isolation. Testing then augments this for more certainty, but this model does appear to be quite novel and unique, and near impossible to do in the decentralised approach (especially some of the more complex parts like deciding how likely A is to spread the virus, based on A's own exposure to infected people in A's recent past, and the date A reports symptoms).

When taking this into account, I'm not sure how a "testing-based" model can work, unless there's pre-emptive screening being done. I don't think many countries have the capacity to pre-emptively screen asymptomatic people with the regularity and coverage you'd need to benefit from reacting to test results.

[1] https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/04/17/covid-1...
Nintendo could lead such development and benefit both from royalties and free advertising of their products. Instead, they just want to kill the results of their fans (!) hard work. Can't say, how greedy and cowardly they look amidst this story.

If you don't sell your successful products legally in any way, there always would be one who can do it
All art is political, it turns out.
Isn’t there rumblings of AMD starting to make headway in data centers?
Right? Moreover they were lamenting that CN was building prefab hospitals in 10 days .. and we were unable to do that and that would leave us with a bed shortage...
It's always a feedback loop.

You can get it cheaper because we have better technologies that make it possible and we have better technologies available because we can make it cheaper.

There are real attempts at all sorts of things. That doesn't mean they are feasible at- scale.

And we are talking energy here not just electricity.

Thanks for the warning but you couldn't be further from the reality with regards to that part.
Looks good! where did you store the data generated in your platform? In the Google Sheets ?
Is HN actually based on this premise of winning? I come here to escape that premise in media (social or otherwise).
> pocket outbreaks which are sure to occur

We don't know that, as weird as that sounds. We have no idea if there's significant or lasting immunity from having it, whether it's seasonal like the flu, or what the longterm behavior of the virus and it's likelihood to evolve is.

Which makes having longterm plans very difficult because we don't know what we should be planning for.
I'm working on https://www.0views.club exactely to try and mitigate this problem :) It's a case of sincronicity with GP, I'm literally working on it (that's why you'll see the TOP streams right now... I'm testing stuff out). Wanna try once ready? I want to give the user the possibility to set custom tags as well.
Noise is a strange thing. I've worked in open plan offices my entire career.. specifically on trading floors. These places are renowned for people shouting and screaming... I've found that my level of focus on something really matters what the task at hand is..

If it's coding, I need a good steady drone of noise.

If it's reading I need silence.

The choice of background noise really matters as well:

CNBC is a terrible choice for noise because the variability in cadence and the sound effects are very distracting. It's all designed to attract your attention.

NPR on the other hand is just perfect for having in the background as there aren't many "highs" or "lows".

Having said that, I recommend investing in a bose quietcomfort noise cancelling earbuds. These give you some bit of control on your environment. I haven't tried the latest airpods, but I hear (pun) good things..
> They have delayed time and time again new chips and designs on purpose because they haven’t had the competition to be go up against.

This just isn't true. When Ryzen first came out Intel was still ahead in many use cases, especially if $$ was no object to you. But after several years AMD is now taking the crown from intel in all areas they compete in. If they really had some magical faster tech Intel would have released it years ago, much less this year, but they haven't.

Instead they announce the same old chips then hook them up to industrial strength cooling units to make it look like they can compete with AMD. This isn't the behavior of a company that is just biding its time.
I feel like putting a talking head in charge of SE risks limiting growth. SE is a business that benefits greatly from leadership that understands their core demographics.

I'm sure they still still grow, because SE is an incredibly useful product. But I think a bad leader poses a serious risk of constraining natural growth by pushing monetization too hard and driving away organic growth.
I have, and you're wrong.
The audacity for a Finnish refugee to think he's more important than a Finnish child.
I think he means between solo and pizza.
Amazon has a $15 minimum wage, right? Do other companies follow them?

Clearly, it's fun to pick on Amazon and not as fun to pick on <insert company name you've never heard of here>.
Funny thing, I update one of my first iOS apps from time to time and I still see the quality and more important consistency of the code I wrote. It's a breeze to maintain.
While true, there's an alarming amount of products on eBay that are just drop-shipped from Amazon. By avoiding Amazon, you have to avoid eBay as well, at least in terms of buying items that are new.
This should be next in the killedbygoogle.com entries
I'm not an epidemiologist or involved in government policy decisions, but I agree with your assessment that we won't be able to truly go back to normal until we have 70%+ immunity, be that through infection or vaccine (2+ years away).
My guess as to what is driving current policy decisions is that a few factors are in play:

1) If we just "let it loose" then we will quickly overwhelm hospitals and see greater loss of life than is necessary

2) We may be able to delay widespread infection until there are more effective treatments. And, given how much we don't know, it is almost certainly the case that a delay of a few months until widespread infection means that we will have a better understanding of how effective our current treatments are, allowing better treatment and better allocation of hospital resources

3) Slowly reopening allows high-risk groups to keep themselves safer, while people who are eager to get haircuts and play sports and aren't worried about the risk can volunteer themselves to be part of our herd immunity group.
I had heard of Robert Peel, but not of his principles. Thanks for the link; it was an interesting read.
And I agree that US policing would really benefit from following some of his ideas. Specifically Principle 6.
The Fundamental Axiom of Floating Point Arithmetic
Yeah this was brought up before. Obviously if that worked, that's the method Jitsi/Zoom/OBS would use.

From previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22830968
Yeah reach out whenever you like, my email should be in my profile
thanks for proving my point, most people just don't want to see it (also, downvotes don't matter as much as you think)
I watched most of the Coronavirus Task Force briefings. Several times Trump suggested Dr. Birx was telling him that these things would not be needed. And she confirmed that she felt they weren't going to be necessary. So it appears the scientists/experts knew it wasn't necessary from a medical standpoint. One could argue whether or not it was politically/emotionally necessary.

Edit: you can see from several posts here that building these things really did bring a lot of emotional comfort to people, which is an important part of dealing with a crisis. People really underestimate psychology in an emergency.
Bitcoin crossed the $10k mark again
C'mon: Hong Kong, persecution of Uighurs and Falun Gong and political prisoners and artists and journalists and anyone who talks about Taiwan or the Tienanmen Square Massacre, IP theft, cyber attacks, political aggression in the South China Sea ("Nine-Dash Line"), not to mention trying to expend their censorship apparatus internationally!
Well the fact that it's possible to hack around the Oculus exclusivity, makes me think that it's less of an innovation thing and more of a platform lock-in thing. Off course Oculus doesn't have much choice I guess, because Valve is already dominating the gaming market and can leverage this to get VR users on their platform, but I wish the link between the hardware and the store platform wasn't so tightly coupled.

I guess you could also argue that the only reason VR took of is because the big players saw it as a chance to own the platform side of things. We'll see what happens, I just hope that Facebook doesn't end up owning the whole thing, because I trust Facebook as far as I can throw them.
SGX is disabled by default on most systems so it would have to be a very targeted malware
If people are really upset about this, they should take a look at the US Defense/Military budget.

We prepared for a worst case scenario for a developing situation we knew very little about, and ended up not needing it. This should be viewed as a good thing.
I have lived to see both ends of the spectrum from "who wrote this, it's awful" and "wow, who wrote this it's beautiful"

I wish I could see over time that the latter takes precedence, but I'm just happy these days that the majority most falls somewhere in in the midpoint between both extremes.
I don't disagree with anything you said. I do think a more defensive approach to communication is warranted though. The world is run by people I wouldn't trust to flip a burger.
> No, the virus doesn't just float around in the air, at least, not for any appreciable amount of time.

Here is a pretty approachable summary of how transmission happens that contains a review of some specific cases where airflow was critical to transmitting the infection: https://erinbromage.wixsite.com/covid19/post/the-risks-know-.... None of these occurred in isolated spaces connected by shared ventilation but I would be cautious about saying flatly that it can't happen.
Seems like we were able to build them quickly enough that we prematurely built them.

Wasting tax payer money that could've been invested in things like increasing PPE production for existing hospitals.

The core of the issue is that we couldn't ramp up testing fast enough, leaving us completely blind and then we relied on models that believed the infection was moving far more aggressively than it was.
Building a field hospital for a pandemic and not needing it is literally dead last in my list of wasteful government expenditures to be angry about. The rationale that lead to making the hospital was incredibly clear, and that we didn’t need said hospital is a source of relief more than anything else.
About 1/6th these days. Pedantic I know, but it's super common for people to not realize that China's population growth is nearly zero. India will likely have more people than China by 2025.
It is largely owned and directed by Rupert Murdoch who is infamous for inflammatory tabloid journalism (New York Post, Fox News, etc.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch
Our Bookless Future
not web per se, but MS Excel has really powerful tools for stock prices. I haven't fully explored it, but I think you may have to manually specify the set of stocks you care about. But you can get prices over any dates etc.
Stop trying to justify genocide.
I think political technology is the way out. Right now we can't coordinate political will efficiently enough. Nations aren't powerful enough in a global capitalist world economy and even our best flavours of representational democracy doesn't have enough integrity to make the right decisions.

"It doesn't matter if I take the cost for changing my ways if I can't trust the others to not eat the benefit."
Probably. Personal services seem to have rebounded fine in places that allowed them to reopen. The businesses I'm most worried about are small random shops that depend on foot traffic, and restaurants if they aren't allowed to ramp to fuller capacity soon.

Some kinds of travel businesses will of course not be opening in the near future.
we seem to have enough people participating to sustain large scale warfare operations around the globe, bail out entire industries, and pay politicians above average salaries. imagine what we could do for society if not for spending so much money on these pursuits which large swaths of our population find immoral.
Why do you want spam?
can I get beta invite?
Yeah, that seems more plausible. Pity, it was the only source I found of ISP values of Rotating detonation engines.

Now I still have no idea what kind of ISP increase we could see if RDE's were to be practical.
No. At best give a hint or make a joke comparing you to those lawyers that they seen in movies winning lower prices/fees for their clients. If they get the hint and / or act accordingly it boils down to what kind of person they are, but in no way make them uncomfortable by bringing this ever again. You may lose them instead and it's preferable to do repeat business instead.

People joke developers are a very special breed of deer easy to get scared and lose focus when working. Tell you from experience, clients of developers are the same, but in their case you lose their wallet / business they bring. Personally I prefer to have long-term relation to my clients.
Page layout is not great, got to the end and saw founders pictures so I thought that was the whole article. I'm interested so I reopened to double check and there's more on the left.
Chinese Drugmaker in Talks to Test Coronavirus Vaccine Globally
One detail I found striking was about the effect of that 1996 Financial Times article:

> ...this article had a big impact. Soon after many other newspapers started looking into this, which led to two Federal Trade Commission hearings, and the web industry felt pressured to respond.

Feels like we're living in much different times now. There is a lot more noise across our media outlets today, plus the general public seems way more complacent about privacy issues as a whole.

Would an equivalent impact be possible in today's world based off of one well written article? Certainly on some topics yes, but when it comes to user privacy?
I don’t disagree that qualified immunity has been extended way beyond where it was even arguably appropriate, but I was just explaining why invoking the 14th for its protections is not appropriate.

I am anti-QI, by the way. Not just the current QI reading, but essentially all QI defenses.
Cool. Thanks for the info.
>They have delayed time and time again new chips and designs on purpose because they haven’t had the competition to be go up against.

No, they delayed time and time again because the 10nm process utterly failed to deliver the necessary yields and performance to be viable. It's not some ingenious display of sandbagging - only now in the past year or so has the 10nm process yields risen high enough to make low-power chips viable, and it is still not viable for high-power desktop chips, and probably will never be viable.

>Intel performance will always be one step ahead of AMD

A completely ridiculous assertion, and one that is already largely false at the present moment.

>intel have faster tech in their pocket waiting to be released.

Likely true, but only because of their failure to execute on 10nm. CPU designs are closely tied to the process they are designed to be manufactured on -- especially for Intel, who have never been concerned about being too tied to a single manufacturer (since it is themselves). This tight coupling can be good when the process is good, but the failure of 10nm meant that for years and years those architectural improvements you speak of are unshippable and useless.

Intel is not completely screwed by any measure, but the idea that they have the situation entirely under control and are intentionally not competing with now-superior AMD chips is entirely ridiculous.
Would you put up with this in any other industry?

"It's okay that mega-million corporation X misleads and manipulates people in order to take money from them, because sometimes it uses that money in a meagerly beneficial way"
If we dig deeper past the shame, we find a power structure that is intentionally and fundamentally evil. In every economic crisis the facade becomes weaker, and more people wake up to the political and economic reality of our nation. This is when fascism shows itself, promising to take us to our former glory while people struggle to survive.

Fascism is a disease that slowly infects its host. We should remember how America fought so bravely against German fascism. My mother's family came to America to escape the fascist authoritarianism of that nation, and I can't see myself moving to Germany.
But it is an expert tool. Does that mean that a GUI editor isn't? Not at all. But I don't expect my non-programmers friends to use vi/vim (or any person, really), but its definetely something that proves its worth to programmers more than to other people. The elitist attitude is terrible, I agree, and people should use it for whatever they want, but to deny that it is an expert's tool is wrong, imo.
Radio Wave Breakthrough Helps Stabilize Fusion Reactions
> Humans can have a beneficial impact on the environment too

They can but they (mostly) do not. And the best way to have a beneficial impact on environment in the current situation would be "simply" to reduce its numbers. Unfortunately that's not so easy.
Bray sacrificed $1mm+, while Porter continues to collect his salary from Amazon. The quote definitely applies to Porter, and definitely not to Bray.
Joe Biden's climate plan would not keep us below 1.5C of warming so if climate is your #1 issue (it is mine), then third party is the only option.
When you're dealing with exponential growth and high uncertainty, anything you do is likely to either look like a large underreaction or large overreaction in retrospect.
I'm not sure "enjoyable" is the right variable here. Definitely for creative work you want music that won't attract your attention, but that doesn't have to mean unenjoyable. It could be repetitive (like say a Philip Glass composition, which many people would still find enjoyable), or for some people it could be something you've heard enough to memorize and can predict perfectly.
>> "It was very disappointing," Gonzalez said. "Everybody was here, ready to work, ready to get patients in."

Many of these hospitals treated literally zero patients. Hospitals weren't overwealmed by people in care homes. They were overwealmed by people in the hospital. I don't see why some subset of those patients couldn't have been shipped to these field hospitals. NY was asking for volunteers to come from all over the country to relieve their struggling hospital system. But there were federal hospitals standing idle a short drive away? Why weren't they loading the not-yet-crititcal patients into busses and taking them to Stony Brook (capacity 1038, patients treated 0)?
Using Bigtable’s monitoring tool meant for petabyte-scale databases to make art
Geometric Deep Learning Library Comparison
I wrote a crossword generator one or two years ago - it used this approach but for individual letters, not whole words. You’d feed it a pattern of blank squares. If I recall correctly, it used a dictionary to find all the words that would fit in each current row or column, and counted how many different possible letters each square could take. If it found a row or column with no matches, it would backtrack - otherwise it would take one of the squares with the fewest possible letters, fill one of them in, and recurse. If that would fail it would try the next possible letter in the list, until it ran out of letters, in which case it would also backtrack.

It made it possible to produce incredible dense crosswords, but it wasn’t very efficient, as it would retry certain impossible local solutions again and again and again. I wonder if it would be more or less efficient to do one whole word at a time, as you suggest.
Yes, I had the same thought. I was actually surprised and happy that we managed to pull that off.

All my life I have had this weird thought: If someday aliens will come down and tell us to move some random huge mountain 10 miles to the left, in one month (it doesn't have to look the same). If we can't do it they will wipe us out. I wonder if we would be able to pull together and somehow do it. And then my mind thinks through all the crazy iterations of ways to start trying. I keep thinking that we will globally waste 2 weeks planning it.

I guess not everyone is threatened by death in Covid, but it does seem amazing some of the things we have been able to pull together during this.
Scunthorpe Sans – a font that censors bad language automatically
South Africa’s MeerKAT solves mystery of ‘X-galaxies’
I don't feel "attacked" by the comment, I find it crude. And its tone is not one of polite debate. So it's not a surprise the "hive mind" (really?) is downvoting it [which they didn't really]. Complaining about being downvoted is also not really good HN form.

Socialism and authoritarianism are linked -- in the default North American political education. That is not the case worldwide, or for all of us.

Before there was ever a socialist political party or government there were regimes all through the 19th century with capitalist market economies and highly highly authoritarian governments. But that link is not made by many.

Corporate structures are highly controlling in ways that governments could never get away with -- controlling their employees time and expression as well as their access to basic services such as health care. But, again, in the default (small-l) liberal concensus in North America, this is not identified as authoritarian because the classical liberal concept of individual agents participating in a free market is assumed and enshrined.

If one makes broad and reductionist statements about people who don't agree with you philosophically, and do so with the tone the commenter had, I don't see why one should be expecting not to be downvoted.
Just don't use h and l, really. There are a lot of ways to travel horizontally in vim. The fact that up/down are besides each other is really awesome, since that is the movement you will be doing most of the time.