skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
South Korea has been testing less people than the US no matter how you slice it - per-capita or total, all-time or current testing rate - either way the US is doing more Covid-19 tests. (And as far as I can tell, Taiwan has tested far less people than South Korea in turn.) The US media has just managed to convince people that the opposite is true. It's not even close either - 14 per thousand in South Korea versus 30 per thousand in the US apparently[1], and current testing rate has even more of a gap. If there's some criteria for the testing rate that the US or any part of it isn't meeting, it's a safe bet that South Korea or most other countries aren't either - even all other countries for some of the more extreme ones being pushed by the media.

A number of people on here have made this claim, and every time I try and point out that it's the complete and exact opposite of the truth it gets downvoted. It seems to be something everyone on HN firmly believes. Maybe I should give up? Trying to get coronavirus testing-related comparisons to bear any resemblance to actual numbers feels more and more like eternally tilting at windmills.

(Admittedly, the media has done a good job on this one. There was even a really bizarre, cynical part in the last Trump press conference where he claimed that all US states are now testing more than South Korea and a reporter accused him of making "this a global competition", as though it was him and not the press that had been pushing this comparison - and all the media discussion became about his row with that journalist, ensuring that no-one heard about the underlying facts and updated their false belief that the US was behind South Korea in testing due to the federal government fucking up. Masterfully done. Practically Trumpian.)

Now, Israel is genuinely doing more testing than the US, but you'd kind of hope for that from a much smaller country with a big globally-relevant pharmaceutical industry.

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Does Facebook use it?
> Printing money is, by definition inflation.

I disagree. Increase in prices and decrease in purchasing power is inflation.

Classical models of economics argue that increasing the money supply (i.e. printing money) causes inflation. The modern day paradox is that it hasn't caused consumer price inflation in US and Japanese economies.

Why is that? Maybe all the money has flown into assets, causing asset inflation. Maybe the decrease in purchasing power is offset by the increased demand in US and Japanese reserve currencies. Maybe consumer good production (supply) has grown, offsetting inflation.
How much of a pay cut are you willing to take for your company to furnish you with an office in central New York?
Would you like to know more?

Stories and comments are both ?item=AAA links. I believe stories are just considered 'top-level comments' internally. This comment is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23160530

If you want to link to one story/comment but scroll the browser window to another comment, you can use ?item=AAA#BBB, such as this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23160367#23160530

But this won't work well when linking to anything where pagination has kicked in. For example, this ?item=AAA#BBB won't work because #BBB is on page 2 of AAA. You can try to hack around that, but essentially this only works for small threads, not for pages-long ones, and especially should be avoided when AAA is a story.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11116274#11116349
Once he is allowed to re-open, won't the first issue go away as well? I believe unemployment benefits are contingent on not having a job to go back to. If they're allowed to return to work and your friend wants them back, then they couldn't choose to stay home and continue to collect unemployment.
I agree it's worth investigating. I just found it peculiar how unreceptive they were to the suggestion that the population was unrepresentative, yet how aware they were that the population was, in fact, unrepresentative.

The original suggestion, way up thread, was not to overgeneralize studies. This is a huge problem in our society.
The thing is before CRDB the application was operating just fine in MySQL's default isolation level.
what the heck is that third one about?
One thing I use AHK for:

I bought a logitech trackball, which is great for my RSI, but unfortunately it has no scroll wheel/button, and man, life without scroll wheel and middle click is just impossible!

Luckily, it has 4 buttons apart from the ball, so someone wrote a script to make use of one of those buttons together with the ball to provide the scroll wheel / middle click experience, and posted it on the forums.

Really great that a tool like this exist for this kind of situations.
Seems like a great argument for good branding. "Partially Closed" vs "Partially Open".
Thank you for being pedantic. Clearly in an article focused on Microsoft, where I specifically call out Microsoft porting SQL to Linux, I meant the language and not the product. I'll be sure to type out "Microsoft SQL Server 2019™" because who would know what I'm talking about otherwise? Oh right, you and everyone else on HN.
Greece is east European in that regard, possibly influence of orthodox church if I would guess.
Helped crowdfund this project several years ago when I was “really into” Processing. Can’t recommend it enough. The author has a great YouTube channel where he works through examples and illustrates techniques such as those addressed and illustrated in the book. Highly recommended.
They buy lunch downtown?
With WASM though you will still have to have the app be deployed within browser context. Thus losing hotkeys to the browser etc

Or you can build native WASM apps?
I don't know that it is or is not unjust. I am suspecting that it is because the employer has an information advantage (knowledge of the employee's location) granted implicitly by government regulation (employment paperwork). It is not normal market forces. This information advantage doesn't exist in the same way for non-remote work.
That's a good point on the criteria being for Stage III, in which case it seems more reasonable. I do still hope that when the decision comes to move to that stage, that they look at the full picture rather than relying just on the metric.
> Absolutely nothing else does this

That's not true. It's pretty easy to crash Finder, and when Finder crashes, the whole system goes with it. For example, Time Machine has a tendency to crash my devices. It takes down finder, and from there, it's impossible to do anything.

Heavy resource usage isn't usually what causes these kinds of crashes on macOS, from what I've seen (unless there's an underlying hardware issue).

But yes, I'd agree this one is probably on Apple.

> Drawing attention on social media is the new way to get tech support focused on an issue -- "blue checkmark service" as it's called on Twitter.

You're right, sadly.

> Edit: I bet there is a security vulnerability here given that it brings down the whole OS. Any security researchers in the audience?

Possibly, but crashes are a dime a dozen. Actually getting something useful out of that information can be difficult. Hopefully this will be fixed long before anyone is able to get that far.
What is artificial about artificial intelligence? Just the fact that we built it, instead of giving birth to it? Atoms and electricity are all pretty real to me.

In terms of consciousness, we need to know what it is first before we can determine if something else has it or not. There's a good chance that it is indiscernible and everything is conscious to some degree.
So Apple is basically copying features Ableton Live has had for years here, then dumping this product on the market at an unsustainably cheap price that none of their competitors can match and stay in business.

If you care about the health of the music software industry spend your money on Ableton Live or Bitwig instead of this.
Kidney transplants are considered essential surgery, not elective procedures according to the DHHS. [1] I would be incredibly surprised if any other transplant surgery was considered elective since time is usually of the essence in transplants.

[1] “We are grateful to the Administration for clarifying that transplantations are an essential surgery which can be performed safely if a hospital feels they have the staff and resources available during the COVID-19 crisis,” said Joseph Vassalotti, MD, Chief Medical Officer, National Kidney Foundation.
https://www.kidney.org/news/national-kidney-foundation-urges...
Excuse my ignorance. What's new about this? I thought React Native was already a thing?
If Tesla were serious about moving beyond level 3 they would have begun the process of getting regulatory approval in at least a single municipality.
The Kendryte is pretty limited in many ways, not least that it's permanently limited to 8 MiB of DRAM (AFAIK).

The most interesting route is using an FPGA. There are many examples of running RISC-V softcores on FPGAs (for example, Berkeley's RocketChip) and many boards that support a decent amount of memory (even beyond 1 GiB).
To be fair, lobbyists and advocates are both just mouthpieces for special interests. "political advocacy group" just takes some of the stink off of the connotations of "lobbyist".
It depends on how the video is structured. You should divide a video into sections and index them the same way you would with a book.
I don't even think they knew what the console was...
Ah, gotcha. JSHint was indeed created to fix JSLint's even greater non-flexibility, long time ago.
Probably not, but I mean the kind of informal physicalist commitment that says something like "if I can't imagine quantum fields feeling things, then feelings don't exist." I see a lot of that, though less and less these days.

I think Chalmers helped clear the air a bit here, though I don't think jumping straight to panpsychism is particularly helpful to the discourse, either.
Electron can't do multiple windows or consistent rendering?

Legit question, I just started using Electron, hadn't heard of the former and thought the latter was a selling point because all platforms wrapped Electron's Chrome.
The fact that UK's number are much worse than France and worse than Italy is shameful.

I'm not talking about belgium, the governement there is a joke since 2010, only redeeming thing are Belgians.

The US as the best population density except in a few area, few train line and major road (and a lot of toll roads too), as well as early cases with limited infection spread. I think US numbers are OK for now but getting higher than ~30% excess mortality with their advantages would be a pretty bad look for their government.
They got a cease and desist from the publisher [1]. The broad reasons are given in the article, but it's pretty much what you would imagine, IP issues.
Also OpenAI seem to have taken down all their blog pages mentioning it without notice.. . Some are archived luckily [2].

I understand that they have to comply with regulations, however I was a bit disappointed that they weren't transparent about it.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/aarontilley/2017/10/04/grand-th...

[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20170111195314/https://openai.com...
React isn't a framework. It's a library for writing functional components which can, at the moment, target native mobile components and HTML components so that you are not writing the components manually in a platform specific way.
I see an interesting corollary to this:

If an AI can become conscious, it follows that consciousness does not contain (or at least require) free will.

Of course I can't define what "free will" is exactly, but I can make a claim about what it is not: A computer running code, no matter how complex the code is, does not have "free will" in the same sense as I feel I have.

This is a delightful conundrum: If a computer can simulate me, than I don't have any more "free will" than it does. And if it can't even in theory, than why not? What's uncomputeable about the atoms that create me?
Show HN: 50 state Covid-19 forecast
React Native was a thing for native mobile app development. The post is talking about React Native becoming available for native desktop app development.
I'm not really sure what the purpose is of openly celebrating regulatory capture and the decline of our public institutions as they are being undermined in their independence by yet another interest group
Hacking together a product takes intelligence, creativity and persistence. Hacking together a company takes empathy, honesty, respect, humility, etc. It's about the people and building a team. I don't associate this with "hacking" at all.
I Got Fired over Zoom
I agree that the situation you describe seems like an overreach, but the US likes to throw its weight around. For that matter so does the EU (ex GDPR), China, and really any other country. My impression is that most countries will happily ignore jurisdiction, pass laws that they claim apply to the entire world, and then do their best to find creative means of enforcing them on outsiders. See the ongoing Toshiba nonsense for a flagrant example of such. (https://reut.rs/2RDFjMz) (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-26/everyt...)

That being said, it seems Telegram's situation is far more complicated; I asked about the same thing when it came up previously (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22394276). They are likely operating out of a jurisdiction which is explicitly subject via treaty to at least some US laws. They were also initially selling to US investors, and I suspect that many of their hypothetical overseas investors would have ultimately had to comply with US securities laws for their own reasons at the end of the day.

My take on the situation at this point is that violating laws in a jurisdiction with an extradition agreement to the country in question is generally a bad idea. Moreover, ignoring US securities regulations makes for a poor business plan since it means neither you nor your customers can realistically be located in such a jurisdiction (ie most of them).
Is any one else thinking of the Phillip Larkin poem here
Any other evidence? I don't "feel" this, flutter seems to be floundering from what I've seen.
I wonder if this affects Android Studio.
I agree - at $200 Logic is a great value.

After considering Ableton's high prices and competition from Bitwig, I haven't been enthusiastic about paying for a Live Suite upgrade.
> Now, if I put music on and rub her back a bit... Well, ha! There's the magic, my good sir.

Your answer is rather flip.

Also, if you want to redefine "magic" to be nice things that are physically based but can't be summarized in a neat equation, then I also have no desire to argue. It is clear that the person I was responding to meant "magic" in a different way that you seem to be using it.
I am an Indian and I have seen so many worthless engineering colleges. The main issues, at least in my opinion, are "very very" bad teaching and very low incentives for someone to study well. I can't fathom how easy it is to pass a class in these engineering colleges and how widespread plagiarism is. When >50% points of the class is determined by a single exam that repeats same questions every year, it isn't hard to study for a day and pass the class. I am not kidding, you can buy an "all-in-one" of around 600 pages which is essentially enough to pass or even score 80% in "all the classes" in a semester.

I would say at most 10% of engineering students in India are properly taught and properly tested and rest of them just spend 4 years in college essentially learning nothing. When it is so easy to get an engineering degree, people who barely pass high school also enroll in these programs for "engineering degree" and become an "engineer" after 4 years of college. It's no wonder that most of these "engineers" can't do anything.
I thought I understood what 'semantics' meant; that statement makes zero sense with my understanding.
This isn't a new concept for Facebook or tech, only a new wave of effort.
People are getting a more complete view of the potential outcomes and options.

If the most likely outcome is that 50-70% of the population gets infected anyway, then the goal shouldn't be to save lives. It should just be to keep a buffer of beds available in hospitals and to close only enough to keep that buffer. This is what NY is doing with their 30% hospital capacity buffer metric. The bay area has had plenty of hospital capacity and people can see that as a failure with the 50-70% assumption.

Of course, that all could be wrong, and we could save millions by continuing to be mostly closed. I'm not sure. But the change in tone could be people moving towards the first option.
The largest holder of US debt is the US federal government. The debt is owed by us to ourselves. It is just numbers in accounts.

The conception of federal debt as some giant anvil hanging over our heads is not correct. Foreign holdings only account for about a third of all obligations, which the US could—but will never, for obvious reasons—unilaterally take off its books and ask anyone who has an issue with it to take it up with the DoD.
At a certain point the ratio is so high that it cannot be explained by differing abilities, and can only be explained by the structure of the market.

Let's say a brain surgeon makes $2m/year. That makes sense, they are uncommonly talented.

Does it make sense that someone can amass as wealth 50,000 years of brain surgeon economic output ($100bn)? If the distribution of human endowments is Gaussian, as it likely is, this level of wealth accumulation cannot be explained by superior productivity alone.
That is pretty exciting stuff. Great link.
“You have interpreted incorrectly. Here’s the correct interpretation. I’ve interpreted you incorrectly by assuming your remarks have something to do with tech moguls despite your drawing a map in crayon for me about engineering ethics. I do not intend to address that interpretation because I have announced my exit from this conversation, as normal people do, but your misinterpretation is fair game for me to dissect with a whole lot of defending a pointless forum comment.”

Thanks, kbenson. Insightful stuff. Real self-aware.

I’m a big fan of the people refreshing just to flag everything I say now, regardless of its merit or violation of any guidelines, a conclusion readily apparent by the timing of my comments and their removal now. You folks are doing excellent work keeping this community a safe space to have the type of mindset being assailed here by silencing the contrarian opinions. Some day, the Paul Graham Bunny will leave a prize under your pillow, but first you have to recite one of his essays as part of your evening prayer.

Every flag just proves my point, in a manner of speaking. I’ve touched a nerve. I know it, and you know it. I’m good with that.
I've been watching closely, one convenient thing about this is we only have to wait about 3 more weeks to have the definitive answer on GA, FL, and maybe even TX. It's not like we have to wait decades to see it play out.

Go here and scroll down to Cases by US States/Territories per Day and highlight GA, FL, and TX then play with the metrics. All three seem pretty stable so far.
http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/
Simple 3D Printing Guidelines for Ease of Mind
And slam down so many Litres of beer in 2 hours- that in a US company people would start leaving aa leaflets on your desk.
You've completely missed the point that elective does not mean non-essential.
React Native scares me with its dependency webs:

http://npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/react-native

From my experience, it's really great to work with and definitely saves a ton of work, but the depgraph above fills me with doubt for use in sensitive applications such as in finance or healthcare. For this reason, I've been trying out Flutter or even considering to go back to native apps. Perhaps there's some kind of middle ground where we can create a tight microkernel-like thing natively using secure enclaves and key managers, but expose an API to the "untrusted" parts of the program. This approach is not without its own downsides, such as dark patterns in a compromised UI. However, as one friend pointed out, a lot of those deps are indeed for build time only, which have different risk profiles.

The depgraph of reactjs is far simpler and easier for me to understand and therefore feel trust:

http://npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/react

Does anyone know if there has been reliable research towards the security of the entire RN dependency tree? Seeing a stray dep there that has 1 maintainer on npm/GitHub who has been inactive for over a year makes me nervous. Any one of those JavaScript projects could do something nefarious deep under the hood, and this to me seems to expose a huge surface area for attackers.

Here's a classic throwback to keep us on our toes :)

https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/hh/thompson/trust.html
How about a self riding horse for RDR?
I think the killer feature here is natively targeting Windows AND macOS simultaneously.

The only cross-platform alternatives that I've seen in the ecosystem use either web or Gtk in the frontend, and both of these have a distinctly non-native feel to them.
We could always lock everyone up in individual units, with no means to suicide because we would control all the tools they get access to for their own safety, and they can get two meals a day delivered to their door. The delivery person puts the ration down, rings a bell and steps away. The person inside a unit picks up their ration. And we can arrange for people to volunteer to help with making those rations and deliveries -- they would want to get out of their unit for an hour a day, so they can be productive during that hour.

Ok, i'm only being mildly sarcastic. Flashbacks from stories told by a grandfather and father. Honestly, if someone told me last year I would be typing this in a discussion on HN on this topic I would have told them they were insane. And here we are, people on HN actually discussing "stay at home" as if it was a not a big deal.

These are the people who work for Google and Facebook and Instagram and Twitter? It horrifies me. It should terrify the population.
sounds like a spin-out/spin-in model. you do these primarily to create special compensation packages.

the inclusion of a non-revocable license to core technology is a common part of such structures because it gives the people who take the risk some proof against management changes that otherwise sink such deals.