skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> would change the output by tens of thousands of deaths?

Yes, with the modification of the statement to "I would not be surprised if it changes by many percentage points."

The bug report you linked to says only "This mostly manifests as a time-
offset, but there are numerical changes beyond that." It shows a different by day 80 of 100,000 deaths, or 20% overall. It does not show if by day (say) 120 those numbers have gotten further together or closer.

If they both end at about the same numbers, separated only by a week, then it does not change the overall conclusions in the paper at https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s... . It does shift some of the dates, and I am annoyed with the lack of error bars or the like in their plots.

You asked "how could that model possibly be useful, given that none of the inputs are known to anywhere near that?" You check it for sensitivity across a range of values and see how the overall conclusions change.

Quoting that paper I linked to, "Such policies are robust to uncertainty in both the reproduction number, R0(Table 4) and in the severity of the virus ... However, there are very large uncertainties around the transmission of this virus, the likely effectiveness of different policies and the extent to which the population spontaneously adopts risk reducing behaviours. This means it is difficult to be definitive about the likely initial duration of measures which will be required, except that it will be several months."

When all the lines in a spaghetti map show the hurricane bearing down on you, you prepare for bad weather, even though the hurricane track is almost certainly not going to follow any of those paths.

You write "but the numerical inaccuracy is many orders of magnitude below that."

What I know about chaotic systems is that I cannot make that conclusion without much more study about the relevant phase space. If the end result is an attractor, then even intermediate chaotic behavior is not much of an issue, depending of course on the specific details of the policy guidance.

You write "I think both are true, so I'm not sure what we're arguing about?"

My comment started because of your comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23213711 where you wrote that discussion on the GitHub comments wasn't "terribly clear" to you. I gave my interpretation. This specific thread started because you wrote "They seem to think the model is fine and just the "deterministic from seed" mode is broken", while I don't see in that bug report where they state the '"deterministic from seed" mode is broken'.

Is the GitHub commentary clear to you now, and if not, what is unclear?
The bar you set was "Except usually a web browser doesn't include a index of sites". And I see a direct parallel with Google holding a pod cast app responsible for the podcasts content as there is to Google which keeps a more complete index of the content of web sites than the podcast app does of podcast contents.
Perl isn't really an interpreted language. It's compiled to a sort of bytecode when you run the program, and executed on a sort of virtual machine.

Same is true for both CPython and certain sections of R code.
You mean “API tricks” like surreptitiously installing an always running web server on Macs so that it could reinstall itself when the user uninstalled it?

They aren’t sorry for doing it. They are sorry for getting caught....
Squarespace and Wix both have a monthly fee.

It should be possible to do something like neocities/Gitlab/Netlify with a one-time fee to cover the domain.
FWIW PyPy is signfificantly faster than CPython in a lot of tasks.
Yeah it generally works pretty happily with most hardware in modern X/T Thinkpads. Happily running it on my X270. It's missing the 802.11ac and Bluetooth support but I'll live. I bought a BT-W2 so that my Bluetooth headphones will work and OpenBSD handles it swimmingly.

There's very little that I can't do with it versus my Linux workstation, at least for my needs.
> Certainly food for thoughts I've already had but haven't centered on. I do think they're something around cryptographic identities and chains of trust that X509 was trying to achieve for telcos and E-mail that we can beat for the modern web.

Cryptography doesn't solve the problem of misinformation.

Or, technology doesn't solve political problems.
I'm a PID newbie and am wondering if it's the right way to go for a hobby project. My control variable (heat input) and process variable (volume of vapor output) have a fairly laggy and non-linear relationship due to changing mass and composition of working fluid and phase change. Proportional just kind of runs out of steam (har har) near the set point presumably b/c of the non-linearity, and that plus lag really messes with the integral tuning (i basically need two different values for when pv is under or over the setpoint).

Should i keep tinkering or try something different (maybe multiple loops or something?) What's next after PID?

Also this is an ambient pressure system with multiple safety precautions to ensure it stays that way.
Where does one go to learn modern C++? Is there a "JavaScript: The Good Parts" for C++?
I could be wrong, but I feel like deep learning denoising is mostly just blurring in the right places. Deep learning is good at segmenting each part of the image that's supposed to be a different color, and then denoising can be done by blurring within the segmented regions. I'm very curious how a DNN denoiser compares to DNN segmenter + gaussian blur, or even a classical segmenter + blur.
Where does one go to learn modern Fortran? Is there a particular book or reference source that's recommended? What's the tooling like?
How do you define “best domain registrar”? If it’s just because of price or because of customer service, then there are a lot of registrars that fit that criteria.

Let’s talk about a registrar that will secure your domain. One that will make sure it doesn’t get stolen. One that will protect your privacy if you want it.
It's not similar, it's the exact same code, just with features turned off. If I open a C project in IntelliJ it's literally the CLion plug-in.
Agreed.

Or just commit directly to Github, enable pages, job done :)
This is exactly it. Modern recaptcha is "reputation" based. So if it fingerprint matches you against a known profile, you never see the captcha. One could argue that a residential ip block combined with a common browser should be sufficient to filter most bot traffic, but it's not exactly in googles interest to worry about non-chrome user experience.
One trend I noticed is many large software these days: Office, Adobe Suite, Spotify, Steam, Apple Store/iTunes/etc are all using web technology to build at least, their frontends.

One can't help but think, maybe web stack makes it the easiest to build good looking apps that are responsive
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I wanted to know what are some tips, tricks or recipes fellow hackers are employing to keep themselves fed and also managing a full time job.
Not exactly as powerful but something similar and that can run on a browser, opening up to a lot of creative applications, handpose powered by tf.js(similar model exists for tflite)

Demo:
https://storage.googleapis.com/tfjs-models/demos/handpose/in...

Repo:
https://github.com/tensorflow/tfjs-models/blob/master/handpo...

Tflite model:
https://github.com/google/mediapipe/tree/master/mediapipe/mo... there is lighter 2d model as well
> You ranked up to Ground Controller Lvl 1

I hate those undisableable social media accomplishments that come up as notifications, is Github.community based on Discourse or did it just copy their bad ideas?

edit: wow you can disable them in this one, amazing. I still hate it.
How about we talk about the memory consumption then
Reverse Engineering Machines with the Yoneda Lemma
The other commenter links to a post where Yarvin left the project over a year ago...
No. I checked multiple sources with actual test results. Most cars get peak MPG at over 25 MPH.
It does. Even if the patent is granted (overworked patent office and all that), one can defend against a patent troll if the engineering in question is sufficiently obvious to anyone in the industry.
How a Chinese AI Giant Made Chatting–and Surveillance–Easy
Hey! Thanks for grafana, and especially a HUGE thank you for the user usage metrics!

Now if only you could persuade kibana to do the same :-)
>Successful people have the right combination of personal traits for the circumstances they find themselves in.

Personality traits aren't set in stone: people can and do change their personalities. Just not when they believe such things can't be changed, because somebody who believes something cannot be changed is not going to find a way to change it.
> It's a bit like copyrighting an API and then everyone else has to rename their math.min and math.max functions.

Well, that's still up in the air, isn't it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_v._Oracle_America#Supre...
I won't be building a new computer for a few more years, as I currently can't justify the cost of replacing my build, but when I do it'll almost certainly be a SFF build.

I've seen a number of people who have built tiny custom cases, and the challenge of both building something like that and getting everything to fit in it is super enticing. Definitely seems like the challenge and cool factor of fitting tons of power into something tiny is making a lot of people consider such builds over traditional mid or full tower machines.
I like this. Interviews are really hard for both parties. It's at least as difficult to evaluate someone's skills and potential as it is for someone to demonstrate them. I can see how this would be useful as a screening tool, but I'm really interested in using it for live interviews to eliminate the power imbalance that happens when one person already knows the answer. I want to spin up a scenario then give it to the candidate and my technical interviewer at the same time, sight unseen and let them work on it together. I think this could get me a lot closer to answering "can you work with this person?" instead of just "can they answer your questions?". Good luck!
Yes, genetic factors are possible. For example, last year a new gene interaction was discovered for people who need less sleep: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/gene-id...
awk is much better than a full programming language for doing simple text manipulation. It needs no preliminaries like loading libraries, setting up the environment, etc. It is just a single purpose tool to manipulate text with minimum fuss.
Immensely frustrating how many people are citing his book in a thread about one of your own blog posts, of all places. I was so glad to see your post about it at the time, and this experiment is an interesting follow up.

"Why We Sleep" is everything wrong with "science" today, and as a person who also isn't a huge fan of sleeping, I'm desperate to understand the real drawbacks to a lack of sleep. That dumpster fire of a book has set back honest research on the subject by years.

Just venting, as I know you agree. Thanks again for your contributions to sanity.
No matter what you call it, if something can trivially be killed off, was it providing any real value in the first place? Dependencies aren't just things satisfied by linkers.
I love Podcast Addict to the point of signing up for Patreon to support Xavier with a monthly donation. I'm all for doing thoughtful moderation to prevent your system being gamed by malign actors, but Google is clearly in the wrong here, and their implied policy of moderating with as few humans as possible means that a standout app is taking fire for a situation it could not possibly be accountable for.
Is it still buggy? I had a similar experience, but it looks and feels a lot smoother and faster now.
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How to create a code editor as fast as a videogame
based on recent comments here on HN let's collect thoughts on the challenges on the

why we have noticable 120ms - 500 ms reaction times in code editors while we have fluidly running raytracing in games

and how to overcome them, the why everything is electron based, and so on. Let this be a fruitful discussion.

I'm using SpaceVim on a 6gen X1 Carbon - and I'm verry pissed off by the performance, still dont want to miss all the gooodies, still use it every day.
... I switched to podcast addict after giving up on Google ever getting their heads out of their own butts on GPM and Google Podcasts.

Now they're banning it???
Outfitting the AC-130 with 60kW Lasers
LOL... I forgot it even existed. It was a hackathon project that never made it past being a hackathon project :) I'm glad someone remembers it though!
There's no connection. It's an observation at best, based on what you define as a minority. For example, billionaires are also a minority group and frequent recipients of hate speech. Do you disagree?
So do sighted people...
This makes no sense. Gnome has its buttons on the same side as Windows. You are probably thinking about ubuntu which patched gnome to move the buttons to the left.

And even ignoring that detail, the side the window buttons are on is entirely made up. Windows isn't the real OS with OSX as the fake windows clone. The gnome philosophy is to support a minimal number of configurations but to make sure they are all tested and work perfect. Other DEs allow full customizability but I have found them to be buggy.

How many desktop environments actually let you switch the window button side? I haven't seen one, and if you know one, why are you using gnome instead of it?
Hi HN! Today I was wondering how old my generation is again, so I looked it up.

I noticed you have to click each article on Wikipedia to find out what the year and age range is for each generation... so I made this!

It updates the age based on current year and it's done client side in a single html file so you can save it with Ctrl+S :)
I think it's more likely some people can just power through lack of sleep. I've recently started trying to sleep more 6-7+ hours after a decade of doing the 3-5 hours thing.

I just feel better now with more sleep and while I certainly could perform at a high level with less sleep I had to exert more energy the longer the day went on to stay focused.

Genetic? Maybe, or just really good discipline and work ethic?
Ask HN: Amazon listing sold by Apple; majority of reviews say it's fake
I was looking for a new USB-C power cable for my MacBook Pro and came across this prominent listing on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Apple-USB-C-Charge-Cable-2m/dp/B01MQ5Z080

At first I thought, great deal. Then I started reading the reviews and looking at the user posted pictures. Most reviews all claim this is a not an official Apple cable, and the very top review scarily says: "THIS CAUGHT MY COMFORTER ON FIRE!"

How can this listing be claimed sold officially by Apple[1]? Doesn't Amazon verify name brand sellers?

[1] https://www.amazon.com/stores/Apple/page/77D9E1F7-0337-4282-9DB6-B6B8FB2DC98D
I’m talking specifically about values in an international context. Google won’t try to enforce free speech values it loves when operating in China. They will abide with warantless searches there if need be.

The US government though has more power to resist such demands acting as a sovereign equal to the Chinese State.
I don't get how you can think it is overblown. Is that just because you personally haven't gotten horribly sick or have someone you know died? We have over 100,000 deaths already and it is still rising, and is likely only a fraction of the real numbers since testing is still shitty and unavailable for the vast majority of people. Nursing homes near me have had literally 1/3 of their total occupancy die from covid.

If quarantine procedures are done correctly, the result should be nobody notices anything at all and they think it is overblown. But I don't think we are anywhere near that point right now even, it seems like denial to me to pretend like we aren't in the middle of a shit storm.
I don't think the US legal justice system sees democratic countries and others as different, what matters is that they are sovereign entities.

So politically motivated measures are likely to be drawn into courts.

Also US has/had no issues doing business with many prominent non democratic countries like Saudi Arabia, South Korea (i.e before it transitioned to democracy), etc.
its about ratios. 25% clean protean like salmon, 25% slow burn carb like brown rice, 50% veg like avocado, tomato, bok choy, or maybe broccoli steamed. The sauce is garlic, lite soy, mirin and a little sesame oil
>In my experience, the “stronger the reaction” the more likely something is there (think Lean Startup). The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference.

Arguing that people have the power to significantly change their lives is a challenge to many people's egos. If they believe something like "I haven't achieved X, which I'd like to, but that's fine because it's out of my control", and somebody else comes along and says "actually it is in people's control", then their ego doesn't hear that as an uplifting statement of empowerment, instead it hears it as something negative, because acknowledging that X was achievable would require acknowledging that they had failed to achieve X.
Anecdotal evidence, but if you don't offer GoogleADX inventory, your site gets de-ranked in searches. I am very interested in the anti-trust probe for that reason.
Layoff == less spend

Their stock price will go up.
Here's an (oldish, 2008) paper which is (was?) the basis for CMU's 18-645 How to Write Fast Code at the time: http://users.ece.cmu.edu/~pueschel/teaching/18-645-CMU-sprin... (I didn't take this personally, so I don't know about more recent versions of the course and couldn't find any publicly).

How To Write Fast Numerical Code: A Small Introduction - Srinivas Chellappa, Franz Franchetti and Markus Püschel

http://spiral.ece.cmu.edu:8080/pub-spiral/abstract.jsp?id=10...
drivers should not even involve microsoft
Well, I don't know how to tell a safe root from a malware root (or find one that will work for my device), and I'm ignorant enough about Android to wonder if rooting the device means I'm running everything as root and consequently have no protection at all from malware? I mean, it's embarrassing, but that's the truth.
Thank you for clearing things up.
I'm not a chef by any means but I'm a busy person who eats (aren't we all!). I don't like to limit my choices to 'quick healthy meals' as some deliciously healthy meals take a long time to prepare and cook, and I enjoy unhealthy meals too.

I cook for my family, so after work I rush home to prepare and cook, often with two children hanging off of me. What I've found keeps cooking as quick as it can be:

- Be prepared, have all of the right ingredients, and make sure everything is fresh

- Have all of your utensils within reach, have a well setup kitchen (like your workspace)

- Have good quality equipment - the right pan can save you heaps of time, as can a good oven

- Think about what you're eating in advance, having a meal plan gets you in a good place mentally

- If you're going to be busy, think about preparing the night before, of better yet, cooking something like pasta the night before and re-heating

I noticed that it was increasingly difficult to think about what to eat, shop, and cook while being healthy. That's why I created https://noshh.com.au - automated meal plans and shopping. It's focused on Australians - but there's similar services in the US and UK (and i imagine other regions) too!
I remember reading speculation about that as well. After some googling, it appears only speculation that the Music app would be built using Marzipan/Catalyst.

9to5mac writes in a correcting update that “We’ve now learned that the code for the new Music app for macOS will be based on iTunes, not iOS”.

https://9to5mac.com/2019/04/10/macos-10-15-itunes-standalone...
Depends on your branch. Calvinism claimed there were only 1300 Elect who were guaranteed a place in heaven. Lot of effort spent trying to figure out your ranking
The cloud and open source world, especially in the infrastructure space has moved incredibly fast in the past five years. It's certainly possible that an in house microservice can now be replaced with one of the latest AWS services or even some of the latest apache OSS + a few lines of yaml/config.

That doesn't mean it never provided value, just that there are now better alternatives.
My first tour in Afghanistan I started at 3 hours and couldn’t keep that up after a month or two so I went to four hours for most of the year. It was crazy but very structured and focused so it worked. I couldn’t do this in the civilian world; it’s too complicated to deal with relationships and looking after yourself and big life decisions and existential questions and everything else. Exhausting. I’ll take 10 if I can get it. I go back to this schedule when camping and feel great.
Nah if your HDD is dying it’s either your task really demands it OR you’re not cooling them enough.

If your GPU is dying it’s VRAM or VRM is failing under high heat. Manufacturers cut fan speed to cut fan noise until warranty claims increase substantially so they never provide sufficient cooling at stock settings.

Rackmount servers don’t sound like jet engines for no reason. Things fail if you don’t do that.
This kind of blackpilling gives left-wing ideologies a bad name.

From each according to his abilities, right?
Female genital mutilation rise recorded in Somalia during lockdown
Yeah, early RAM support on Zen 1 sucked. It was definitely fair for vendors not to want to plow huge amounts of money in at that point, as the Bulldozer-era CPUs sucked in a profound manner. Definitely glad for those first few AGESA updates that got things like XMP fully working on my early X370 board.
Automatic Rolling OS Updates with Rollback and Testing
Since the idea of rolling distributions is to have an always up-to-date system, the concepts still requires you to manually update the system by typing in a command, mostly reading through forums or e.g. arch wiki before doing so. I'm aware of unattended update scripts, but does some sort of elaborate framework exist to keep a fleet of computers upgraded overnight, with a backup/ backup image/... of the before-the-update state which a user could easily boot back into if the system is instable in the morning.
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or simply doesn't know he could sell higher. Like I just have the (often wrong) mentality that electronic gadgets just deprecate right after you bought them. Quite surprised when learned that some of them worth more than retail price at secondhand market.
Spiking Neural Networks: Research Projects or Commercial Products
This article repeats what I've been saying for months, but will help provide context for people who don't study history, or who didn't live through previous disasters like SARS-1, etc.

The response to date for SARS-2 will be laughed at for centuries.

Non sequitur is a word to get familiar with:

Non sequitur: The argument itself could have true premises, but still have a false conclusion.

In the case of corona, yes it's fatal to a very small percentage of people, but vaporizing the US economy when we don't have nearly adequate testing, tracing or vaccines for a highly infectious disease makes no sense, aside from the political optics of "I tried to do something, so re-elect me."

I would argue we have dishonored those who died from corona by also tanking our economy, for no benefit.

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

If you think I'm being cynical about politicians, it turns out the Falkland War was solely about Thatcher getting re-elected - residents of the Falklands aren't British citizens. (Now it turns out there's massive oil and gas fields there, so it worked out fine for Britain.)
Designing and Developing Python Applications
Now complete -- thanks again for the suggestion! I never liked having to include that bit of JS.
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