skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Out of interest, and to put this in context - your brain can only do this for conversation, not music.

You routinely suppress background noise and room acoustics when listening to someone speaking. But you don't do the same thing when listening to music. At best you can focus on individual elements in a track, and you can parse them musically (and maybe lyrically).

But you don't suppress the rest to the point where you don't hear it.
The impact of coronavirus on the food and agriculture sector in Europe [video]
I really hope that Lisp will get a comeback in the space that is now occupied by XML and YAML. It's always the same story: Narrow minded engineers chose YAML (formerly XML) as the trendy simple configuration language and it works fine for a while. 3 years later they inevitably hit the ceiling with YAML and either start badly implementing new language features on top of YAML (see Gitlab CI's `when`, `only`, `except`, etc. syntax) that are never flexible enough or write hugely complicated templating tools (see Kustomize and Helm for K8S) for things that would amount to a simple if-expression in Lisp. This is the use case where Lisp can really shine. Configuration is almost always untyped and doesn't start out with a library ecosystem. Most of the time you just need a way to write a simple nestable DSL that is human readable. There's probably no language that makes this simpler than Lisp: Any college freshman could write their own interpreter. But it is also extremely flexible if it turns out that you need more power than YAML offers.
9M customers' travel data exposed in EasyJet cyber attack
> Because we didn't have enough ICU nurses to staff Nightingale:London.

I guess the idea was that military medical services would have moved in to run the Nightingale hospitals if things got really bad?
If you look at excess death rates, Belgium is still 1rst in europe (and UK second), both with over 60% a week ago.

Within a small area with a >40% IR, the excess death rate reached 270% (in France), so it could be worse, but it still bad.
Animal source of the coronavirus continues to elude scientists
Is the name change related with coronavirus in any way? As in it's considered a negative brand right now?
My favorite legal work in trying to address this is the 3DPO license (accompanied by an excellent article describing the issues in more details).

https://jipel.law.nyu.edu/vol-2-no-2-1-greenbaum/
You've confused England with the UK (England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland).
fair, but also a lot of Uber's business model is leveraged on top of the basic platform.
Awful lot of different overhead for a server. What I am still waiting for is a nice single command (or Docker) to host this privately without the use of a 3rd-party go-between (even if it is E2E-secured.

Closest thing I’ve found is Mozilla Sync but none of their mobile app are configurable to use your own server ... yet.
But they keep denying the possibility that it was made in "a lab".
> I don't view anyone who has amassed anything under $10MM in networth as successful;

> If someone does nothing for me or adds nothing to my life, why would I give them any of my empathy?

> Whatever problems, emotional, physical, mental, sociological, economical, yada yada yada, that you have are your own responsibility. No one really gives a shit about anyone else; all relationships are transactional, and if you're not offering me gold beads, you're not getting my muskets

Let me guess, you're American or living the US ?

We're not hunter gatherers anymore, we don't have to act like cavemen whose sole purpose is to to accumulate as many shiny stones as possible even if it means destroying other people's life. Sure if you decide to see the world as full of people trying to take advantage of you that's exactly what you'll see everywhere,.

What's the point of living in societies if it's to live like everyone is out there to get you and not solve problems together. You can become wealthy enough to not worry about money without acting like a 6 years old kid trying to get as many pokemon cards as possible.
> If I imagine that google would take a political side in the US election

They did. Maybe not in public, but it has been communicated clearly to the employees:

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/09/12/leaked-video-googl...
That was my experience as well. I really gave it a good try for two days. After that, I got fed up and deleted it.
People are earning six-figure salaries in the virtual economy
I wonder if it is harder to let so many engineers go when you have so many microservices as Uber has/had. Seems to me that a monolith is easier to maintain when the amount of people working on it goes down, then with all those small microservices. They maybe/probably will have microservices running that now has no one to maintain them.
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+1. I need to remind myself about this almost weekly.
Please change the title to reflect that the engine is merely available publicly, but not open source.
They did mention that in their blog post, yes.
I do the same. This might be overboard to some, but I went a step further and installed a vim plugin that brought many of the emacs-style key bindings into vim.
EasyJet reveals cyber-attack exposed 9m customers' details
First Vision Fund officially done investing, spent $100M every day
things like this and BCIs are some of the most exciting tech products in existence, IMO
Make more mistakes. I learned to cook by messing up dishes. I've messed up enough dishes to know how not to mess up.

You have to be comfortable with making mistakes and being bad at things, because it happens a lot when you're just getting started.
Europe also has double the population of the US.

And even you ajust for population you then should also take into account how densely populated, etc. It's hard to make fair comparisons.
Interview with CEO behind first FDA approved at-home Covid-19 test
I was going to ask if such a thing existed and you beat me to it. I will definitely check it out!
I agree coding as much as you can might not be the best approach.

My opinion is do what you feel most excited about.

For me, it was drawing and coding from age 10 to 20. And I seldom read books.

Now, I'm mostly excited about reading on a wide range of topics (non fictional books). I find it amazing to discover the world through books, just like having a conversation with the most interesting people that ever existed on Earth.

Our taste change over time. Just like I couldn't eat garlic, salad or pomelo when I was a kid. Not true anymore.

If you "force yourself" to do coding while your interest is elsewhere, it can be as harmful as forcing a kid to eat garlic and pomelos.

Just do the right things at the right time.
Listen to your inner excitement when doing things, or after completing a task.
When you're a company like uber you probably need legal and marketing in every market you're in.
Or the simpler reason is that they just knew LISP better than other languages and chose to use it.

Once they needed to grow by adding developers, they decided to rewrite into a language that other people already knew.

The only "Super Power" is the complete understanding of what your endusers want so that you can grow.
> why would people pay for a private test?

The NHS already has its inefficiencies whilst being a public health service and is already slow enough to get an appointment given its long waiting times to see the GP which is why some go to private healthcare to bypass this.
Exploring the History of Aesthetics
They are good on paper. So unless you're one of the 3-5% getting screwed (and realize it)... They offer 6 weeks paid parental leave, upto 14% 401k, $100 extra per month for 5 years to pay off student loans, profit sharing, 100% grad school tuition, 1 VTO day, outcomes based evaluations (so they say), and pay for performance (so they say).
More like the other. In the western states whistleblowers on cases like this are immediately punished and the documents are being put down. While in the more eastern states even some government agencies are independent enough to criticise wrong policies or coverups. The few German whistleblowers were immediately silenced, in Austria there are several, still open in the public. The best are internal documents about the government expert commission, which had to resign, as the chancellor mostly cared about publicity, not so about facts or expertise. I'm sure the same happened in Germany, here a high ranking interior ministry manager complained about media damage control of the culprit politicians, which would essentially cause more deaths than less. Doctors don't dare to speek out to keep their jobs. The government expert board is wholly incompentent coming up with fantasy projections every new week which is immediately proven wrong when the real data is coming out in the next week. The gathered raw data is not public, kept private, only the wrong models and projections are being published daily. There are exact and good models by competing universities, but they are not used. Institutes are playing politics, not science. Government offices are not independent.
Like seriously according to your comment history you're product owner of Defold. So if you're care of success of Defold why do you need this false advertisement?

If your company worried about someone making money off editor you can just keep this part proprietary while releasing the engine under OSS-compatible license. There is plenty of "open core" projects out there.
It would be nice if the actual racial distribution of the population of the county is added for context. For a random visitor from the internets the lack of context hinders the ability to understand what implications the data has.

When 90% of the population is black the conclusions are different from when the population is 90% white.
Anyone know what is causing the humps in the graphs of “confirmed cases” ?

Looked at this before, at first I thought it was weekends being under reported, then people going out on weekends, etc. — but now starting to think it might be the R0 (reproduction number) is very high and the virus burns itself out among a social network.

Any ideas what is the source of those humps?
Ah, makes sense, it's not part of the spec so it might be missing on other environments. Thank you.
While impressive, I wish they would have done like other companies have done with their safety innovations (like Volvo for example with safety belts) and either given it away or at least charged a very nominal (small) licensing fee

The creator of the technology created saw stop because the saw manufacturers refused to pay his price for licensing, and has since been very aggressive in enforcement of patents around the technology preventing any competition in the safety space for saws

I can not get behind using IP laws to prevent companies from increasing the safety of their products, for example a few years ago Bosch attempted to bring similar saw stopping technology to market and was prevented do to a lawsuit from SawStop which resulted in a ban on the importation of the technology to the US
You don't appear to know much about the history of this program, as you keep defending it on the basis it was written quickly - and that the alternative is no modelling.

It started being developed in 2007. It's by now over a decade old, with a lot of work done in 2014. This program wasn't written quickly, it was re-parameterised with a few values for COVID and otherwise thinks it's simulating the flu. Some other pieces of code date back multiple decades.

You also appear to think that "limited resources" is a valid excuse. The UK science budget is over 8 billion pounds. Universities there churn out a large number of papers. The funding is there if they wanted to do less work but of higher quality, yet they don't.

And finally, just to make that clear: yes, saying "We don't have a reliable model for you" is an entirely valid thing to say to a government. You seem to think even low quality simulations are better than none. Humanity has been fighting disease for thousands of years without bug-ridden 15,000 LOC C programs to "help" us. Not having an academic model is a completely reasonable position to be in.

In particular there's a lot of evidence this particular model has already killed a lot of people: it predicted a surge in hospital needs that never happened. In anticipation of this surge a lot of elderly patients that had tested positive for COVID were discharged back into care homes, because the hospitals thought they'd need the beds within days. Those elderly people then infected the others in the care homes, causing the death rate to go up. If there had been no model, there'd have been no panic-induced mass discharge, patients would have been kept in wards until they were fully recovered and the virus wouldn't have been flushed straight into the populations of the most vulnerable. Outcomes could have been much better as a result.
Ask questions and be willing to discuss your thought process with people. Don't be afraid to try and improve things even if they've been like that a long time. Try and find something to work on you're genuinely interested in.

My first job out of school (8 years ago) was a pretty effective springboard. Unfortunately the secret to success was basically to be excessively keen and interested in doing anything and everything. At the time it was fun - I worked too much and I made myself look foolish at times, but I was junior enough that it didn't matter.

Now that I've been around for a couple years and I'm a little more jaded I don't think I could do it again. But if you're very keen I think just being enthusiastic and learning things will get you far.
Given the relative number of cases, Mexico should be stopping travel from the US, not the other way around.
What I've learnt from selling 2 no-code businesses
I'm just adding the domain now, that's probably why it hasn't worked yet! In progress... give me five minutes :)
One huge issue with GDS/EDIFACT is that it has no security built in. It was designed in a time when every actor was considered trustworthy.

Banks also relied (rely) for years on "antiquated" systems but they took the "they just work" and built some security around them. Airlines did not. This [0] presentation from 33C3 was really interesting (more readable form [1]).

[0] https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-7964-where_in_the_world_is_carme...

[1] https://ourdataourselves.tacticaltech.org/posts/50-booking-f...
Does Acoustica offer full ability to rebind the hotkeys?
You can always try to brought any one for any reason to a court, doesn't mean you will succeed.
Where I work it's like if you do a bad job and screw something up everyone notices and it's a whole lot of drama involved, but if you do a good job and fix something before it blows up, no one notices and no one cares. So all the bad without the good. I guess you get used to it after a while but I would love a metaphorical pat on the back and a "good job" every now and then.
Yeah, it's limited by being a library instead of being part of the language itself.
Well, mainstream music is usually timeless, while less known genres just fade away when the generation that brought them up is gone.

GNU/Linux had its opportunity with OpenMoko, Maemo, netbooks, Steam machines.

Termux can provide a similar experience via Java/Kotlin, ISO C and ISO C++ implementations instead of relying in Linux specific calls.
Clearly a prank (and an uninteresting one).
Racket provides a defmacro in its stdlib IIRC, and even if it didn't, you can trivially implement it using syntax-case or syntax-parse with syntax->datum (and the other way around).

You either don't really know what you're talking about, or you want to spread misinformation about Racket for some reason. I'd like to ask you to, in both cases, stop doing that.
This completely contradicts my experience with reduced sleep. If I sleep 6 hrs instead of my usual 8.5 I'm good for nothing that day. I can code for half a day maybe but thats it. My workouts are also severely affected in terms of max intensity.
When considering Clojure like this it's important to remember that Clojure has many runtimes

It is designed to be hosted, so, a lot of the above doesn't apply equally for ClojureScript (as one example)
I've found this is easier after changing jobs a couple times. At some point you'll look back at what you did at your previous job, and most likely you'll barely remember exactly what it was or why it was considered important. Certainly nothing to warrant stressing out about it. Realizing that the same will apply to your current job in just a couple years really helps put things into perspective. Looking back, you're much more likely to remember whether you were happy or stressed than any of those details that seem so all-consumingly important right now.
Guile is almost 30 years old. It’s GNU’s Scheme implementation. People wanted to replace the nonstandard Emacs Lisp with Scheme but since so much code was written in elisp, they didn’t want to throw it out.

At this point someone should abstract out the Emacs definition so others could build it with Scheme or Clojure.

Emacs is basically a Lisp interpreter. They wrote the parts that needed to be fast in C and the rest is elisp.

45 years ago Emacs needed to be built in C. Today the entire thing could be built with a standard Lisp.

I suppose if someone wrote an Emacs in Scheme, the projects could converge once Guile is integrated into Emacs
Effects of yoga on depressive symptoms in people with mental disorders
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A new world in CSS, which will give you new abilities with this new technology to support all types of languages, like Hebrew / English / Japanese / Mongolian, without the need to make new styles!
That might be because Grizzly doesn't actually make anything, they buy from Asian tool manufacturers and rebadge for western distribution.
But this is the most critical area worldwide, much more important to protect than New York. As you said, it's the largest density of seniors. 50% is nothing if it breaks out there. Glad that they could avoid that so far.
If you want to show off how simple your API is then I can think of several things that would improve clarity:

1. Don't use parentheses in comments. They make things more visually confusing when javascript imposes enough syntactic clutter as it is.

2. What's with /* */ ? Doesn't js allow keyword arguments?

3. Your method names are probably a little short for my taste. I'd be happier with sequence() and parallel() instead of seq() and par(). Par especially seems a little too obscure when first encountering it.

4. "cx = location | cr = radius" - why not allow both forms? - or just the clearer one rather than the shorter one.
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You're suggesting that language is meaningless - that communicating a shared understanding is not a goal of language.
Congrats. You need Jira integration.
But they didn't reveal any details about it. They just told it was a highly sophisticated cyberattack.

Guess?
Original study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009286742...

Abstract:

> A visual cortical prosthesis (VCP) has long been proposed as a strategy for restoring useful vision to the blind, under the assumption that visual percepts of small spots of light produced with electrical stimulation of visual cortex (phosphenes) will combine into coherent percepts of visual forms, like pixels on a video screen. We tested an alternative strategy in which shapes were traced on the surface of visual cortex by stimulating electrodes in dynamic sequence. In both sighted and blind participants, dynamic stimulation enabled accurate recognition of letter shapes predicted by the brain’s spatial map of the visual world. Forms were presented and recognized rapidly by blind participants, up to 86 forms per minute. These findings demonstrate that a brain prosthetic can produce coherent percepts of visual forms.
hey! thats awesome feedback! Thanks for taking the time and writing it out for us.

A few followups:
1. Thats an interesting idea - for the hiring manager to write a test script according to what they want to check. We are thinking more about auto-marking, but there are some basics we could do such as time it took, how long between each command, what 'types' of command were used a lot (is a person circling back and forth between folders, or are they going somewhere) etc, and the obvious 'did they fix it'. Question - what do you think if we let people actually write a terraform script to launch their own scenarios as they want?

2. Current working idea is either $ per test, or groups of interviews. So <100 interviews is a flat $x a month. Does this make sense to you or would you prefer it a different way?

3. Ready to go! It has actually been used in real life hiring by a company already.

4. haha great minds ... just got to this question after I wrote my respond to #1.

5, 6, 7. Yep and Great idea!

8. We are using Pulumi to launch the scenarios, which are running on VMs. SSH connections are made through a jump box which is recording the sessions.

Thank you so much for the feedback, greatly appreciated!
Cheers, Hassan
True - but something happened in the 2010's when Big Tech started taking sides in a way it hadn't before. I cannot picture Google doing this when it was still Google.
I don't think XML has been 'trendy' for ages :)

XML is totally fine for storing structured dumb data. Don't program in XML.

I would not be so bullish about implementing your own interpreter - as the best obvious choice every time.

Numbers especially are hard to get correct unless you know what you are doing.
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If EasyJets systems are anything like their customer service, their in-flight food, their baggage handling or their scheduling, this is not surprising.
Could be catastrophic, as I have my ID details saved there for quick checkin.
Thanks but I prefer the word "open source".
My car can get best fuel efficiency when I drive between 40-60km/hour with constant cruising speed and no sudden acceleration. I am wasting a lot of gasoline in downtown traffic jam, speed below 20km/hour.
FB and YouTube on the open-source alternative
I was watching `Tucker: Big Tech censors dissent over coronavirus lockdowns
` and I wanted to ask what are the viable alternatives to FB and YOUTUBE on the open-source side that actually work ;)
This extension (Memex) flies wide of the mark. I won't elaborate beyond saying that as a tool it suffers technically from the constraints imposed by the operational context of browser extensions and as a business enterprise it's focus on revenue generation cripples it as an effective tool in the technical sense. Additionally, it lacks much of the functionality one anticipates in the most simple of tools of any abstraction, such as the ability to directly and conveniently edit previously committed atomic text.

Also you guys' successful use of pdfs for offline preservation is intriguing and I find it interesting that it satisfies your needs, but I think it only half a solution.
I need something that can periodically and passively digest my annotated bookmarks semantically, producing a pool of 'hot terms', deep search the web for them in the background, and bring to my attention things that meet a configurable 'level of interest'.
Additionally I'd want such a system to be a core part of a personal research management tool that would integrate any content I might drop on it in the deliberate, overt sense as well.
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I thought that was the LGPL, but the GPL requires anything using it (as an include, not a standalone binary) to be GPL as well.
Within Midi you are limited to 128 notes. Within this range you could certainly produce some interesting chordal effects (one thought would be octaves and fifths phasing in and out).

And there are many patches out there to do this sort of thing.

But you are far better off processing the audio signal for any kind of interesting modulations.
If by “fix” you mean live in some subhuman shoebox.