skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the fascinating and tragic aspects of tropical medicine that the current pandemic has illuminated is that understanding of emerging diseases is largely observational, incremental, and slow. The observational aspect in particular is mostly accidental and relies on either getting lucky enough to observe something or having a large enough pool of cases to look at. We literally cannot say anything with certainty about the course of the disease on a time scale longer than a year.

Does the disease produce immunity and how long might it last? Well, only as long as we have been able to observe a patent who has recovered. So, 6-7 months?

What are potential chronic complications that can result from the disease? We have little clue, because literally no one on Earth has had more than 6-7 months of medical history with this disease.
Selling quackery wasn’t paying off his mansion mortgage fast enough? Now here’s a guy who sells out as fast as he possibly can. Fuck the message. Fuck the medium. Just get the guy some money.
That has nothing to do with fungibility, markets have always produced different prices in different geographies.

The question is whether you can take your 3000 San Francisco dollars to Fargo and get (3000 / 600) months rent, and the answer is yes.
Can't imagine they'd go with that name and risk appearing like a Google Glass follow-up.

Apple always names products to sound like they live in their own universe, apart from any possible competitors.
That's why should verbally slap him around a bit, preventatively, just in case? Because as you admitted "the context isn't inherently transphobic".
That is quite the story! Sounds like a very large amount of resources spent on that case.

What was your companys role? Backup services/devices?
Deaths are not reported based on residency - Deaths are reported based on the actual location of death. If the death occurs in Florida, it counts as a Florida Death as per CDC / NCHS.
>nobody else seems to do this

Plenty of apps add annoyances and nags for new features that uses don't necessarily care about. They correspondingly lose users and gain ire for doing so.

That the motivation and end feature is good is beside the point - they have simply gone about this in a very abrasive way and seem to think they 'know better'.
What do you recommend as a good RSS reader these days? Can't say that I found one I like.
How poignant!
Another number?

I have a pin for my sim-card, a pin for the phone encryption, pins for each of my 4 credit cards, a pin for the office door, a pin for my work phone, a pin for the computer smart-card login..

I'm very fine with not having a pin for Signal.
It’s in exploring these unknown territories and facing the headwind of startup challenges that it becomes clear that the startup is merely a force of catalytic professional and character growth. With actual success of any given venture subject to the whim of outside forces, this growth is the non-monetary dividend that makes the experience priceless.
Generally speaking, bank APIs are for use by businesses that want to be able to pull bank customer data. There are integration hoops and so forth. They are not for end user use.

Plaid has, or used to have, a mode where in preprod you could give it your credentials to a limited number of organizations and then pull in your data. Not sure that survived the Visa acquisition, but even if it did- personally implementing a Plaid integration gave me the willies. Handing over creds was in clear violation of bank terms of service. Plaid seemed to be playing fast and loose from a security perspective (IMO) and retained the right to keep your data even if you removed credentials. Was not comfortable.

Having implemented scrapers to pull my data- that option also painful.

OP is not wrong.
> The entire western world bans holocaust denial, and it hasn't led to a chilling effect on other expressions.

Debatable. Banning holocaust denial is one of the greatest travesties in Western free speech. You just gave anti-Semites one more reason to believe there’s a global Jewish conspiracy going on and another recruitment tool.
Global Foundries exits 7nm- battle.
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I'll admit this is not the kind of content I typically encounter here. Hn never fails to amaze me!
Like a lot of other male fowl, peacocks have spurs.
In my experience working on these product teams, most of the real gains are just from solid engineering combined with public advances in ML. The teams filled with ML specific folk aren't able to accomplish much.
Trials have shown that the plant plastic would decompose in one year using a composter, and *a few years longer* if left in normal outdoor conditions.

"normal outdoor conditions" means above-ground, but that's very different from landfills. And these compound-material bottles (cardboard with plastic lining) will be left out of the redeem-recycle cycle altogether. This looks like a much worse solution than all-PET bottles, especially plant-sourced PET.
I agree with it being simple. I used it when I needed to learn about accounting for my day job. I used it for 2 or 3 months for my personal expenses. I could not continue because I got lazy. But I learned a lot about accounting from using it - certainly helped me with my day job.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but that problem resisted years of “fresh eyes,” “related expertise,” and “recognizable human effort,” but she still walked in and clobbered it. Some types of success aren’t very relatable.
The evidence behind putting money directly in the pockets of the poor
Wine has an open source implementation of DirectX, FWIW.
Ever went to a zoo that has roosters? Play a video on youtube of a rooster cockadoodling for 5 seconds, and then they go on on, and on. It's a lot of fun, and eventually annoying. Never too old for this kind of stuff xD
Hi. Microsoft PM working on WSL, Terminal and Windows.

WSL2 literally runs user-mode distros (and their binaries) in containers atop a shared Linux kernel image (https://github.com/microsoft/WSL2-Linux-Kernel) inside a lightweight VM that can boot an image from cold in < 2s and which aggressively releases resources back to the host when freed.

So when you run a binary/distro on WSL2, you are LITERALLY running on Linux in a VM alongside all your favorite Windows apps and tools.

If some of the tools you run within WSL can take advantage of the machine's available GPUs etc. and integrate well with the Windows desktop & tools, then you benefit. As do the many Windows users who want/need to run Linux apps & tools but cannot dual-boot and/or who can't switch to Linux full-time.

This will (and already has) resulted in MANY Windows users getting access to Linux for the first time, or first time in a while, and are now enjoying the best of both worlds.
Option 1: I don't really care enough about this to read through the story and develop an opinion. I'm certainly never going to domain squat since I'm quite happy in my career anyway.

Option 2: Alright, well I can at least go get a brief overview of the prevailing sentiment through the comments.

There's nothing wrong with letting experts dictate your opinions on subjects you don't have even a minor interest in. Of course, that comes with the caveat that one must judiciously choose which subjects to do this with (thus our current political climate).
> 100% of Python users find it to be fast enough for their use case.

As someone who uses python because it tends to be installed on my targets and comes with a decent standard library, I would like the hours I spend optimizing my code back. Especially those hours I lost before I ended up porting the problematic code to C++ or Java.
I suspect they're more grumpy in Canada. Whenever I see them in the US they're docile and generally just avoid people.
What part(s) do you actually disagree with?
Apple whistleblower goes public over 'lack of action'
We haven't had any problems, but our workload is mostly async background work. Our CI pushes master when it passes, running a simple script to push to ECR with a git SHA tag, update the task to use the latest image, and then update the service to the latest task definition. It takes 2 lines of bash to update the task definition, and 2 lines to run the AWS commands.
PINs kind of hinder that, wouldn't you agree?
He took a topic that isn't inherently transphobic and added transphobia. He was rightly criticized for saying this.
But it wouldn't get you your job back. I kind of have to agree with OP here, I feel "follow the money" is often the best way to unravel mysteries. Its really unclear what this person has to gain. You got fired, why make a big public mess out of it, it'll just hurt your career further. Unless she's getting paid by some other involved party for this fabrication, I really don't see the motive from her side.
Facts are inflammatory!
This sounds very similar to Cal Newport’s Deep Work
https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/05/06/under-pressu...

> What’s more, the health department has said it is only including Florida residents in its count, although after the Times’ report it began posting some data on non-resident deaths in feeds online.

> “By their own admission, they are not counting every Florida death,” Nelson said. “I’m surprised that they are ahead.”
Good riddance. The power mods are ruining reddit with their gate keeping and censorship. It’s been this way for years.

Also, seems like Gallowboob didn’t hide their real identity... just google it and there are articles about them with their real name since 2016.
> Most westerners don't realize that when Europeans were living in mud huts

Mud huts? Rome was composed of mud hut? The tallest building in the world for almost the entire 2nd millenia was in england. Not exactly "mud huts".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_St_Paul%27s_Cathedral

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Cathedral

https://www.businessinsider.com/here-are-the-tallest-buildin...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_world%27s_talle...

I think you are overselling the muslim world and underselling europe a bit.

> the Muslim world had plumbing, water filtration, surgery, advanced mathematics, and many more amazing scientific advances which quickly spread throughout Muslim countries due to the cultural exchange at Mecca.

Much of it brought to the muslim world by the roman empire and the greeks. Or from the indians/chinese/etc in the east. Of course there were muslim contributions but lets not get too carried away here.

> I wonder what the world could have been like if the Mongols had never destroyed so much civilization and progress.

The world would be exactly the way it was in the 1200s without the mongols. The muslim world had stagnated by the time the mongols came around. After all the arabic islamic golden age started in the 700s. The mongols destroy arabic islamic civilization but they helped create the turkic islamic civilization of the ottoman empire not to mention the persian centered khanates which went on to create mughal india. Without the mongols, we don't have the italian renaissance and modern europe and without modern europe we don't have modern civilization. The empire created by the mongols is why marco polo went east. It's also why christopher columbus set sail. Without the mongols, we don't have the new world.

No doubt, the arab world suffered and lost out, but the world advanced immensely due to the mongols. The mongol empire was the first truly "global" empire. It helped europe bypass the muslim world and trade directly with india, china, etc.
Plus, I would expect that at least 70% of his podcast consumers would end up listening to pirated copies for which Stern would get nothing.
Use it for what? What does Netflix use bsd for?
I guess I’ll be the wet blanket at the expense of sharing the less-common experience of catching peacocks.
As a teenager my folks owned property in NE Texas. Finding that property plagued with all manner of insect pests, they were convinced that a pair of peacocks would be the perfect solution; they would eat the insects and look good doing it. Turns out peacocks go where they want to go, unless they can’t. And it became my job on several occasions to track them down, capture them, and bring them back.
The task was easier than you’d think (but just as annoying as you would think). Peacocks can fly only short distances. Peacocks are lazy. Peacocks are not intelligent (they do not seem to learn). Whenever our peacocks escaped, it was by flying over our fence. They could be found a short flight from our property (less than 100 yards), usually in a tree. A net big enough to cover a basketball was used, approaching from the front (more of a lateral screen than dropping over the perched bird) invoked their flight response, jumping into the net rather than moving backwards.
The officer could have easily walked around, lazily coraling the animal into a fenced area, pictures seem like they were common to the area. He then called animal control (who probably brought a net). And the bird was content to just stand there until animal control arrived (peacocks are lazy, remember? If you’re not pursuing them they’re usually stationary).

Makes for a much less interesting story, I know. But if you’re ever in the position of needing to catch a peacock, don’t bother with the app—that part is pure poppycock.
Nope, you have two paypal accounts, and route your payment processing according to whether the amount is < US$12.

Been doing that for around a decade. Make a substantial fraction of my income from US$1 payments.
I don’t understand equating competing in a sport as representative of being a “real” [gender].

I support trans+ rights, but I haven’t been able to get my head around some of the assertions that seem to be bedrock here.
LogDNA (YC W15) Is Hiring a Compliance Lead (Remote)
The blurb at the end of this article about the "gravity of rates" is seriously unglobal in its scope.

What can be considered a "high" rate in Bangladesh is going to be very different from Norway or Switzerland.

If you're doing business globally, the question of an appropriate "rate" or "price" is vexing, and isn't solved with glib western-industrial myopia in which you limit yourself the world's 0.001%. Unless of course that is precisely what you want.
Lets hear the other side of this story.
https://www.garron.blog/en/feed.xml
I think the goal should be the most concrete data we have.
A debate could be had on if self reporting or test data is more accurate. One factor to consider is if the self reporting data is being represented in a way commonly reserved for test data. Another factor to consider is that 33% of Americans think they may have had covid and 13% think they probably did [1]. This is grossly out of agreement with serology results.

https://www.businessinsider.com/small-percentage-americans-w...
Social Distancing, How to Stay Safe
I do all of my development on linux, if I can, but to be honest the GPU support is generally better on windows because that seems to be the main platform AMD and NVIDIA target - though linux support is not too bad. GPU support is the only potential benefit in using windows that I can think of though. Everything from package management, to build tools, FOSS support, community, troubleshooting, etc. is generally better on linux.
If you don't mind my asking, what company is this? I'm a Lisp hobbyist working for a SCADA integrator, and while I'm not in the job market right now I might be in a few years.
WSL uses a Hyper-V derived virtual machine that is

* Sparse & light - they only allocate resources from the host when needed, and release them back to the host when freed
* Fast - it can boot a WSL distro from cold in < 2s
* Transitional - these lightweight VMs are designed to run for up to days-weeks at a time

Full Hyper-V VMs aim to (generally) grab all the resources they can and keep hold of those resources as long as possible in case they're needed. Full VMs are designed to run for months-years at a time.

WSL's VMs are MUCH less impactful on the host - FWIW, I run 2-3 WSL distros at a time on my 4 year old 16GB Surface Pro 4 and don't even notice that they're running.
Myself also (we don't employ that many people). I live in daily (well, OK, monthly) fear that PayPal will remove this option at some point. I do not see how they manage to continue it (though I am glad they do, so far).
If you have a machine more than a year old, take the bottom cover off and clean the fans. It really helped my 2018 MacBook Pro.
You'll have to explain why it's such a great travesty because it's not obvious.
Your system sounds simpler but more rigid than mine. In my system, everything is a negotiable trade off. There is not static bills and savings to set aside, there is a trade-off between those things and spending. If I want to spend more on groceries or socializing or vacations in some period of time, that is just a trade-off against all the other things in my budget. Maybe I'd rather find ways to lower my bills than my spending. Maybe I want to save less in some month so that I can spend more on something that will bring us more joy that month. It is easier to make these decisions on trade offs with good visibility into all spending and saving.

But I would also suggest that it seems like you're actually doing the thing you said you don't understand why people do. You have a budget, it just has a relatively small number of categories. But the answer to your question is that people do this for the same reason that you do your setting aside of money for bills, savings, and spending.
Five Best Practices for Teaching Online Classes
Put in an extra standoff on my very first PC build, and it wouldn't boot until I found and removed it.
> In the linked thread the Microsoft developers explicitly deny that this is the intent

Unfortunately, the developers don't call the shots in there. And the ones calling the shots don't give a single damn about these developers.

Microsoft is back to it's old shenanigans after a big PR blitz.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Facebook%20is%20not%20worth%20...
> If you're old like me and remember the dark ol' days when games shipped with specific drivers for (early) GPU cards/chips, but failed to run at all if you didn't have one of the supported cards, you'll understand why this is a big deal.

Maybe I'm not that old, but I'm old enough to remember the days when microsoft was intentionally degrading opengl performance on windows ;).
No, they're a broker, just like all the others.

"Direct to creators" means from your (financial institution of some type) account direct into the equivalent for the creator. No middle-men, close to zero fee, no cut, no membership.
fwiw, on Windows MSIX deduplicates identical files across all package installs.
Have you tried Feedly (https://feedly.com/)?
Three Tips for Developing Elementary Math Tests
> it asks me everytime I open the app

According to this, the prompts should settle down to once every 14 days:

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059792-Si...
This is a thread from r/haskell. I think a fair summary of the contents is "things Haskell people dislike about other languages."
What Every Early Childhood Education Major Should Know
I really like the system described in this video; it's kind of a mix between double-entry and envelope accounting. It's what finally helped me get my budgeting under control. https://youtu.be/eIcsMHL0NJ0

In the video, the guy recommends MoneyDance, but the same system would probably work in GnuCash too.
I benefit substantially from rewards cards. But I view them as just one more way for the rich to get (a little bit) richer. If they all just went away, I believe it would be a better world (or at least, a better USA).

I still can't figure out how Amazon's Prime/Chase card can give me back 5% of everything I spend at Whole Foods. It's absurd.
But I didn’t call it that. I called lying about what was happening in MI in order to make people think things were way worse than they really are, the “panic now” side.

Do you not agree that such lies are bad? Perhaps you think the end justifies the means, but in that case, you might want to consider what telling lies does to the public’s perception of your trustworthiness when you tell them it’s necessary to stay in lockdown.

And then there’s all the real reasons not to panic. Because hoarding is bad for everybody. Because failing to seek necessary medical care for your ruptured appendix because you’re afraid of getting Covid-19 as a 28-year old would be pretty bad. And on and on.

What possible good do the lies I described above accomplish?
Yeah, just a couple of scrum sprints and !puff! Access turns into Airtable
“Big tech”? What are we 5?
The stack space for the whole function call is allocated in one step. You only get individual allocations when you are messing around with variable length arrays or alloca.
Really awesome idea! I ended up following suit and whipped together http://kojichamber.com to put out the list of things I used to build a fermentation chamber and the nuances of one.
Ask HN: Microphone On/Off LED Light for better privacy?
Every laptop's camera has a hardware controlled light which is turn on when the camera is recording. Is there a particular reason why microphones don't have the same feature?

I think people would like to know when their laptops are listening. What you guys think?
IANA optical communications engineer, but this seems kinda wrong. Saying a radio wave is at 500KHz with a bandwidth of 5KHz does not imply any level of spectral efficiency unless I greatly misunderstand spectral efficiency. Discuss?
UWP and MSIX are/were intended to address the problems you mention
The fact that most people agree (or did at some point) about how we should respond to Covid-19 has no bearing on my comment that I can figure out.
No, I've had one of these cold melonfarmers run at me with pure malevolence in its eyes, right here in California. I ran the hell away. Reminded me too much of Jurassic Park.
Ethical considerations are a significant factor in my SaaS (and stack) selections, and seem to have been entirely omitted from these analyses. If it helps guide your content direction any, I give a great many shits about a) user privacy (super relevant to analytics), and b) socially responsible investment (again, but for capital holding) and so forth.

It tends to be a binary consideration. For example, I said no to React; not because viable alternatives exist, but ruled out of contention entirely because the vendor is the Philip Morris of tech.

Just as the rag trade can get by with excluding sweatshops from their supply chain, I think it’s incumbent on those of us privileged enough to be able to start/run a tech company to navigate our preferences as much by a moral compass as any other. So I’d value the opportunity to make better informed decisions in that dimension.
Failed to notice? They have been specifically pointing this out for years.

MtF transgendered athletes have been dominating women's sports.

FtM transgendered have not been dominating sports.

Have you been under a rock?
In the US, no new blast furnaces have been built in decades; they’re all mini mills and/or direct reduction furnaces and yeah, the latter use natural gas. But again, you could use electrolytically producers hydrogen. There’s no reason to use steam reformed hydrogen except it’s currently cheaper.
I think you mean smahht tinkin
I believe he's suggesting that since you don't collect any more data than necessary, you ask the users how they use your app instead.
You're not wrong that the terminology is needlessly confusing, but that also doesn't mean the ideas themselves are obvious or aren't powerful. The same happens in many academic spheres; good ideas are created, and then they're also dressed up in obscure language to make the creators feel like the concepts are as hard to understand as they were to invent.
What's the end game of shilling for hobby lobby? Flagging negative news of various governments I get like 共匪, huge corporations do it far less, but hobby lobby seems like such a weird company to engage in astroturfing. They played a minor role in past administrations but they seem like even smaller potatoes lately.