skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering that the estimated population fatality rate in Bergamo Province is ~0.6 percent (from e.g. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.15.20067074v...), either the IFR there must be much higher than elsewhere (maybe an older sicklier population or something)? or ~50-60% of the province must have been infected.

I am interested in the predictions of herd immunity from mass agent-based simulations, such as the CityCOVID model used by modelers at Argonne national lab (can't really find a good public reference and the slide deck I've seen about it is not public, but it's based on https://github.com/Repast/chiSIM).
"What's the guarantee" - There is no guarantee. Then again, there is no guarantee that the person who bought my drink didn't spike it with molly either...
Only if you disregard things like weather, things to do, proximity to great nature, and maybe not even then.
I think the idea is more like something along the lines of Bitcoin or similar digital currency with well known and defined rules about supply that serves as the defacto reserve currency but each country or region still has a local currency. Gives the benefits of a single easy to transact in currency while avoiding the disagreements that arise like in the EU.
It is good for your work to have a rough idea what your colleagues are working on and what they're thinking about. This eventually builds "gut feeling" about who might be able to help you with your current problems if you're stuck. Just chit-chatting with them seems to be an effective way of sharing this information.
The actual demographics matter. A mid 20s software engineer in SF would probably not be interested in hanging out with his suburban neighbors in midwest in their mid 40s as much as they would with young professionals living in a city.
The ads were specifically added into two community supported Atom extensions after Kite employees got contributor access to both of them. For those curious, here are the relevant issues:

https://github.com/atom-minimap/minimap/issues/588

https://github.com/autocomplete-python/autocomplete-python/i...
I'm really sensitive to high CO2 levels, so ever since I was young I had a habit of opening all the windows in my classrooms when I arrived. I feel stuffy and uncomfortable until I get fresh air. It always bugged me that nobody else seemed to notice or care.

After it was recommended here on HN, I bought this CO2 meter [0] and I've been very satisfied with my purchase. It reminds me to open the window and that has had a tremendous impact on my health. I've gotten to the point where I now keep the window slightly open at all times.

I'll share an anecdote which would appear to support the hypothesis that higher CO2 levels affect cognition. I play Heroes of the Storm and my performance in the game becomes notably worse as CO2 levels rise. It's not a huge thing, but I start to make more mistakes and my decision-making gets worse. This is important because at my skill-level (top 100 to top 250 globally, depending on my activity levels) it only takes one mistake in the late-game to throw the match. I've had the CO2 meter start beeping in the middle of a match, and after opening the window I've managed to turn things around because I can think with greater clarity.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001PDGFR8/
For self-pacing videos, this chrome plugin is VERY useful. You can watch videos at 2x, 2.2x, or any other increment of 0.1x:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-speed-contro...
That’s not quite accurate - the ONS data does not attempt to attribute COVID-19 causality in that way; death certificates that mention COVID-19 are not quite the same thing as deaths we know were caused by COVID-19. To balance that somewhat there are probably missed cases hiding in the other 14,000 excess deaths as well, as you say.

The NHS is open to treat all emergency patients, so in theory there should be no excess deaths due to the healthcare system breaking; however, it may be the case that people have avoided treatment due to not wanting to burden the system, or out of the fear of contracting SARS-CoV-2.
I don't mean as far as idle resource usage.

The advantage of Linux is when you want to accomplish tasks without a great internet connection, but the windows tools are not evolved enough as far as command line functionality.
Add some video spice to your notes and research
Is the Bay Area unique in the US for being progressive, relatively walkable/bikeable, and having great weather?

This is a sincere question, by the way. (It's also a practical one - I just accepted a fully remote position, and I'd move to the Bay Area in a heartbeat if it weren't so expensive.)
Spent 20 years WFH on various personal projects, earning money on my own, and now I am hired and working from office. Too much freedom can be hard to cope with. A little bit of structure can be great.
Unfortunately a lot of folks are going to find out that 'harmonized' means lower, and maybe a lot lower. Cost of living may not adjust fast enough.
Why just this site?
Two things here.

1. That is very short sighted.

Short sighted? You mean, the area-independent wages I've been earning for the last 10 years or so are going to stop? I can't see that happening, if that's what you mean.

2. Your dollar value is highly dependent on where you live, that's just reality.

Only if I am doing something that requires me to be in a certain place, because that's where the value is created. There is a local market for drywall fitting in SF, and there is one in Bunghole, Montana. You can't make the CA rates in MT because you can't provide the value in CA while still being in MT.

As a programmer though, I can provide value wherever it is needed from pretty much anywhere I want to be. I'm not providing value in my house, here in England, I'm providing the value at the place I work for.

It's for this reason that I'd fully expect to be able to charge Polish rates to a Polish company, and SF rates to an SF company.
Not unusual gitlab, etc...
But isn't the rest of the world coming around on LGBT causes as well, and that you don't have to live in NYC or SF for LGBT friendliness? So I think most cities with decent weather is viable.
Durable and flexible knowledge...

After reading your comment and ansible's reply [0] I wanted to pause and comment on this.

The United States Air Force Academy found that its cadets who took their first calculus class with a professor who focused on conceptual understanding helped those cadets create a durable and flexible understanding of the math [1].

The kicker is that the cadets got worse scores in Calculus I and gave professors who taught in this way worse ratings.

Ansible's anecdotal reply is what a lot of students experience. A feeling of initial success with the material, but they later find that their knowledge of it was fleeting and inflexible.
What the Air Force Academy study found was that professors who taught in the manner ansible described, that resulted in fleeting and inflexible knowledge, were rated higher by their students. Those students got better initial scores in Calculus I, but went on to do worse in later calculus courses and related courses.

I encourage you to read the study. It is as good of a study design and execution you can get in the social sciences.

David Epstein also discusses the study in Chapter 4 of his book, Range [2].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23154241
[1] http://faculty.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/scarrell/profqual2.p...
[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41795733-range
I live in Atlanta and make over $200k total comp. As do my coworkers.

I think your perception about salaries outside of the valley is skewed.
Explanation of the joke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow
This is a mischaracterization on that bill; the expansion of unemployment insurance was very significant and isn't included in the $1200 figure.
A couple of minor, but very irritating errors:

> The singly-indirect pointer can address 1,024 * 1,024 / 4 = 1,024 * 256 = 262 KiB of data.

256 kilobytes, not 262 'kibi'bytes.

> 1,024 * 256 * 256 = 67 Mi

> 1,024 * 256 * 256 * 256 = 17 Gi

64 and 16 respectively.
> hardware keyboard with full keyboard macros

Do you use one? Which? I used one, very convenient, in eighties(!) and haven't seen something comparable since.

The functionality I had then that I liked was: any key could be programmed to really anything else (except the special "macro" key) -- another key or another sequence of the keys, and I regularly did some action once, recording it with just one "start recording" and one "stop and assign to.." action and after that just "playing" it when needed. It was a huge time / nerves saver at these times, especially because it was fully independent of the programs and even of which OS I've used (I've had to switch between two even then).
Employee compensation has very little to do with contribution. It has to do with labor competition. The only way to capture more compensation is shut out workers willing to work for less.
What a great technology solution for a very non technical ... sort of luddite-ish introduced problem.

As others noted a before and after pic would be great.
Great you decided to share the source code, but then I was able to see that you let the admin session enabled. you can disable that on production

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4845239/how-can-i-disabl...
Does it happen? Sure. More often than it should? Absolutely.

Often enough to account for the popularity of Go? I strongly doubt it. It could have accounted for Go's popularity in the first year or two. But now, Go has been used by too many people to do too many things. Go's popularity now is based on its ability to help you get things done, not on Google's name.
I wonder how that would even work from an ordering / delivery / fee perspective. If the restaurant has no partnership then there presumably isn't any integration. So if the restaurant does offer pickup, these platforms would what? Call the restaurant to place an order and then send a driver to pick it up? In this case I'd assume there wouldn't be any cut taken from the restaurant. I mean a drive can't really go to the restaurant and demand 30% off because they're picking up for grubhub.
The difference between "in" and "from" is not material when you don't even have to show up to sit in a cubicle.
Sorry if I’m slow, but, if true, I wish that point had been make explicit. That’s actually a good argument.

As it stands now, that comment looks more like yet-another-pro-UBI post with a bizarre fantasy about the Fed breaking the law to make it happen, and I downvoted it on that basis.

Edit: And I think you meant "veneer of monetary policy"? The argument would be that it's being framed as monetary policy even though it's substantively a fiscal policy, something the Fed is supposed to stay away from.
License Zero, an alternate to FOSS licensing
I'm surprised Sapiens isn't all over this page. I read it last year and I wish I'd read it twenty years ago. It really changed how I think of humanity, religion, ideology, law, civilization, corporations...
It changed my whole world by changing how I think of the world.
> Payroll companies handle all the workers comp and payroll related duties for all different states and they do it for near nothing.

I know for a fact this is wrong. Payroll companies don’t do worker’s compensation in Washington because the state runs the insurance program. You have to register with the state.
I think both are a mess under the hood. I cannot make sense of where things will be configured in Linux. maybe /etc/, maybe somewhere else, with loads of setting file configurations. There's not a huge amount of consistency.

What would be interesting is a complete re-imagining of a server OS. Consistent file locations for everything, which are automatically versioned a la git allowing you to roll back any specific change, built into the OS level. All processes totally sandboxed from each other with specific permission elevations as required (like iOS).
The problem is that at save-time you want to know if it works.

It would be very annoying if you thought you saved something but it turns out to be not the case.
Think of the phrase "a rising tide lifts all boats" but the opposite. Let's imagine there's a sinkhole and it's pulling boats in. Some of those boats start stealing fuel from other boats and sinking them to keep themselves afloat. Is the right response in this situation to tell some boat captains "It would better for society if you stopped looting other boats and pushing them into the sinkhole" or to focus on the sinkhole they're all trying to escape?
Working in office is not equal to socializing, but face-to-face communication has great values, at least to some people. I'm just not sure it's a universal truth that working from home is a greater benefit to every employee, as so many comments passionately argued here.

Case in point, I'm an introvert in every way: hate going to loud places like bars to socialize, prefer chatting with small number of friends in a quiet setting, prefer staying home reading , think Americans' obsession with sports is insane (not that I don't like sports. I myself was reasonably athletic and was in school's track and field team for years), can't understand why students in school were so obsessed with being popular... You get the idea. Yet I'm still more productive in office, still prefer 1-on-1s in person, and still miss the days when I worked with my co-workers on a whiteboard.
Maybe ask it a different way. Is it crazy for a bar that brews its own beer to prefer to serve it?
> Then why pay $200k for a software engineer in the valley when the same talent can live outside of the bay area and can do with 1/3rd of the salary

That is a pretty ridiculous assertion. Rent and taxes are higher but they are not $130k/year higher.

You can even save >$70k of the $200k you make in the bay area without being exceptionally frugal, which you obviously can't do if you're making $70k/year.
I admit to having been naive on the issue. I know that bureaucracies are involved but it still seems as if at least the 90% case would be pretty cookie-cutter/repeatable even if there are a lot of steps and potential gotchas.
I’ve never heard of a crematorium management system, but once when I was doing the rounds at my chemical factory I came across the technician who handled the burners for our boilers.

It was October so he was doing a checkup before firing them up. I went in for some PR chit-chat. Unfortunately he took it as a genuine occasion for conversation (genuinely lovely guy, genuinely liked him, genuinely liked the conversations, but... well...)

“Yeah yeah, you guys are great, calling me in to do preventative maintenance before firing ‘em up.”
“Yeah, it’s protocol, I guess.”
“Yeah yeah, but not everybody follow protocol y’know...”
“Really?”
“Yeah yeah, no... just came over from the crematorium.. they had a fat client inside and the burner conked out and we had to pull ‘em out half-done and let the chamber cool off so I could service the damned thing.”
“...”
“Yeah yeah, real bitch of a mornin’. Family there and everything. Waiting for the ashes, y’know?”
“That must’ve been awkward.”“Yeah yeah, no no, they understood... you only do these things once, y’know... yeah yeah... bitch of a mornin’.”“Well I guess I’ll leave you to it then.”
“Yeah yeah see you around."
Still wondering what happen to those HDD roadmaps. HAMR and MAMR and those 40TB promised by 2023. And as far as I am aware even the 18TB and 20TB coming in late 2020 / early 2021 are still CMR and SMR.

If it wasn't for Helium Sealed tech moving more platters into HDD, we would have zero capacity improvement in the past 4-5 years.
As a musician, this is no doubt an exciting release. It’s good to see integration with Voice Recorder.

Now Apple, please update your Music Memos app which is rated 3.5 on the App Store, and is holding over 1,000 of my ideas hostage to sync issues.

A stagnant app on your own platform is a broken promise to your users.
It's kind of funny to see the disdain for VS based deployment here, while all the current rage right now is declarative deployment systems.

Something VS based development, build and deployment based workflows have been doing for over a decade through the largely Web..config files and .csproj files.
Maybe Indianopolis isn't the perfect example for everyone. Portland, perhaps. Better proximity to great nature, still a lot of things to do, great weather (and getting better every year thanks to climate change, while California gets drier and drier), somewhat lower cost of living, etc.
If Landlords Get Wiped Out, Wall Street Wins, Not Renters
Nice, but:

1. How do I move nodes up/down?
2. How do I promote/demote nodes?

Same with lists.

The ease with which I can do this in Emacs is what sold it to me initially.
WFIRST-AFTA keeps getting budget, and that budget keeps getting diverted to the James Webb Space Telescope.

Two years ago they issued the first production contracts, targeting a delivery date of 2025. Now we are looking at putting 50 year old parts in to space, at best.
Being too cheap to rent a photo booth for our wedding I used AutoHotKey to glue a software to control my (then) fiancees Nikon and Irfanview together. The software ran on my Laptop, the camera was connected via USB.
You can't face every issue, because some issues are larger than you or simply final. I think it's no surprise that this genre rose to prominence in Japan earlier than in the US or Europe because the idea that you can roll your sleeves up and fight everything is a pretty stereotypical Western attitude.

During this pandemic many people are for the first time faced with the fact that, after taking precautions and staying healthy, nothing is to be done other than sit it out, healing does indeed simply take time and waiting and not doing anything.

I think these games remind people of that fact. If someone you know dies you can run a hundred laps and read 15 self-help books, but at the end of the day recovering just takes time and doesn't involve 'doing' anything. In that sense those games are just like meditating and being mindful.
'Amazon.com Inc. is being asked by several U.S. states to provide information about health and safety measures following the death of a number of workers from coronavirus-related illnesses.

'Led by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, 13 states on Tuesday sent a letter to the company expressing concern about recent media reports of “inadequate safety measures and sick leave policies, insufficient data about infections and deaths among their workers, and retaliation against workers who call attention to unsafe workplace conditions.”

'The states ask Amazon and its Whole Foods subsidiary to provide details of health and safety measures they have adopted, compliance with state paid sick leave laws and data about worker infections and deaths. The same states sent a letter to Amazon in March urging it to improve its sick leave policies.'
I can tell you that this program is so useful, automated everything in my system to be able to use it more smoothly and have saved a lot of time.
Max/MSP,PD, and to a lesser-extent Quartz composer were such inspirations for me in college. About 10 years ago i ended up putting together an app builder that leveraged similar concepts to PD's 'control' signals to drive UX interactions... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIH5V2BMG_k
Agreed, but Logic's heavily subsidized by Apple. There's no way a DAW could cost so little, especially considering the plugins and instruments it comes with out of the box.

Still the UX is cluttered and the shortcuts obscure, I find Ableton much cleaner.
Because software developers are reluctant to form unions and show solidarity with their coworkers.
Doesn't SQL server run under Wine or https://reactos.org/wiki/ReactOS ?
I really wish I had taken a job in Germany when I had the chance. That seems way better than figuring out small talk.
Retroactively, I would also add "A Thousand Plateaus" by Deleuze & Guattari to this list, except that I haven't yet read the actual thing, but only dipped my toes into related studies, like e.g. "The Allure of Machinic Life" by John Johnston that traces the history of cybernetics, A-Life and AI fields and adds a Deleuzian spin on top.

This is the only case in my life where I wanted to adopt author's philosophy and learn to see the world the way they do. The content is very interdisciplinary and heavily borrows from various fields (psychoanalysis, dynamic systems theory, biology, linguistics &c) and will surely appeal to a technically minded person.
I'm far more bothered by the insane waste of real estate in the calendar module's single day view. I just about get 9:00-17:30 which feels a bit claustrophobic for a view that's supposed to give an overview of the entire day.

Outlook's own 3 days at once view shows 9:00-19:30 which is much better, nevermind Google's single day view which manages 9:00-22:00

For some strange reason, the single day view and 3-day view in Outlook have different UIs, Google's 3-day and week views are just the day view squished as it should be.

The landscape mode week view in Outlook is a similar disaster, giving coverage from 9:00 to 12:30 again wasting a small city's worth of screen real estate on the all day view. Week view in Google Calendar manages 9:00 to 15:00 turned sideways.

Outlook has to include the bottom bar for module switching because of how the app's setup, but as far as the controls at the top go, MS could really stand to steal from Google. The more shamelessly, the better.
Wow. That's incredible. Do you notice the same difference with other tasks?
Yes, you object to the public health authority’s action, on what principle, moral, or ethical basis?

And am I to assume that you do not assert that contrary to accepted public health science, you have a right to simply go about as you please regardless, so that others may be forced to seek shelter from your infectiousness?

What is it about the science of public health epidemiological abatement measures that you object to, and on what principle?
It's hard to believe until you try it, but it can absolutely autofill almost complete functions based on context and patterns learned from you've been typing in the project so far.

Think about how good GPT-2 is at writing essays given only a one-line prompt, now imagine that kind of predictive power applied to your code and you'll get something close to TabNine.
Edit: fixed now.

Original: Please don't upload any private or confidential pdfs right now. I emailed OP two security concerns that trivially allow anybody to see any of the converted pdfs.
I believe that we will eventually have an AI that will meet most observers' definition of consciousness.

That being said, I think there existed serious people who thought we would have one before 2020, even as late as 5-10 years ago, using technologies that don't seem wholly adequate to the task now (expert systems, fuzzy rule systems, multi-layer perceptrons, etc).

At what point does the non-existence of machine consciousness begin to make us skeptical that such a thing is possible, that no algorithm describes consciousness?
I’m guessing this setup makes sense with encrypted disk, that way, since decryption keys are on the CD, you can’t access the files without it.
As long as there is choice (e.g. between fTPM and dTPM) then it's up to the eye of the beholder to pick appropriately. An fTPM is better than nothing, but discrete TPMs have certifications.
Schmidhuber is a great thinker in this field. I don't have a source, but I've seen him more briefly summarize this same point as "consciousness is a by-product of data compression." Pretty close to the last sentence you quoted.
I was recently looking for something similar, allowing me to draw network diagrams using text or code. I came across [0] which looks great, but has some rough corners and seems to be abandoned by he author. Does anyone have any other recommendations for more bare-metal oriented topologies?

[0] http://go.drawthe.net/
Apple, Google plan software to slow virus, joining debate on tracking