skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a world-wide problem that the media in every Western country seem to be spinning as a unique failure of their government, often for cynical and stupid partisan reasons. Same with the global shortage of everything needed to carry out widespread coronavirus testing.
"It was mentioned that the percentage of favorable decisions drops from 65 percent to 0 percent over the number of cases that are decided on. This sounded unlikely. I looked at Figure 1 from the paper (below), and I couldn’t believe my eyes. Not only is the drop indeed as large as mentioned—it occurs three times in a row over the course of the day, and after a break, it returns to exactly 65 percent!"
--Impossibly Hungry Judges http://nautil.us/blog/impossibly-hungry-judges
Cold War Now or Hot War Later
The UK response has been terrible in all respects. Please don't sugar coat it.
> We realized we just don't need humans on the moon. Compared with robots, we're terribly fragile, inefficient, and largely superfluous on the surface of the Moon in a lunar exploration mission.

Robots are inflexible. There's nothing like human eyes and hands.
>>Eliminating them to reduce overhead is a no-brainer.

Having read David Graeber's original article and his follow up book, I believe he went to some lengths to explain why those jobs are so difficult to remove.

Jordon Peterson has also touched on this subject in one of his less controversial lectures. He uses Price's law to explain the proliferation of these jobs, the subsequent demise of the organisation when the handful of useful workers leave, and also that the remaining employees are unable to step up when this happens.

I prefer Peterson's interpretation, mainly because Graeber is quite fundamentalist in his view that a job is either bullshit or it isn't. Peterson's view is that large numbers of employees do productive work but that it is minimal in comparison to the few very productive workers.
Minim: A minimal open-source Chrome new-tab extension
> This isn't even remotely difficult

Not technically but in practice it is difficult.

- What happens if I opt out but you reply with an "offensive" word in the thread I'm in?

- If two people are discussing and one uses "offensive" words what do I see? Nothing or one person screaming at the void?

The other problem I see having more confirmation bias. We would have a split in the community between politically correct and incorrect.
You'll get deeper in the rabbit hole if you only talk to people that have the same views as you. Regardless of which side of the wall you're at.

Edit: Formatting
I did have jobs, fg, nohup in an expanded version but had to trim to fit the slot. I considered pushd, popd but decided against it as it requires a bit of explaining -- figured I won't have much time.
Amiga's Agnus and its AGA successor were running at around 7 - 35 Mhz tops. :)
My wife is a doctor in a London hospital, from what I gather, there is no particular PPE problem there at the moment.
"good" not in a moral sense. Or you could say a strong reason.
My general advice is to make your software portable.

If you target android platform, you can at least distribute the APK for people to install;

If you target iPhone, I suppose your target audience may not jailbreak the phone just to play the game, so the proprietary app store becomes the only practical option;

If you target the web platform, boom, you can distribute the game to almost all of your target audience.
That looks neat. Making me fall in love with Haskell again which I want to avoid as I can’t use it at work ;)

You could add a monoid instance which would be useful (for one example) if the animation produces a matrix transform then you could combine two animations that produce transforms. For example a rotation and a move. I’m sure there are other good monoid animations. Strings would be a simple example I guess.
This is so incredibly true. It's astounding how an entire generation can't be bothered to look at their own server logs and think they need to pipe it off to a third-party to let them present graphs to you.

Remember awstats and jwstats?
402 Payment Required, and why micropayments are doomed
And at the end of all this, you guys have Brexit. The UK is teetering on the cliff edge.
Racket News – Issue 31
Is Uber dead without a vaccine?
You could have saved the time spent writing this and just said “I’m insecure about my inablility to connect with people”.
MaxLinear to Acquire Intel’s Home Gateway Platform Division
Yeah, that research didn’t hold up.

*

Long-run Effects of Lottery Wealth on Psychological Well-being

http://www.nber.org/papers/w24667

We surveyed a large sample of Swedish lottery players about their psychological well-being and analyzed the data following pre-registered procedures. Relative to matched controls, large-prize winners experience sustained increases in overall life satisfaction that persist for over a decade and show no evidence of dissipating with time. The estimated treatment effects on happiness and mental health are significantly smaller, suggesting that wealth has greater long-run effects on evaluative measures of well-being than on affective ones. Follow-up analyses of domain-specific aspects of life satisfaction clearly implicate financial life satisfaction as an important mediator for the long-run increase in overall life satisfaction.

Does Money Buy Happiness? A Longitudinal Study
Using Data on Windfalls

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/ajoswald/march...

The most fundamental idea in economics is that money makes people happy. This
paper constructs a test. It studies longitudinal information on the psychological
health and reported happiness of approximately 9,000 randomly chosen people. In
the spirit of a natural experiment, the paper shows that those in the panel who
receive windfalls -- by winning lottery money or receiving an inheritance -- have
higher mental wellbeing in the following year. A windfall of 50,000 pounds
(approximately 75,000 US dollars) is associated with a rise in wellbeing of between
0.1 and 0.3 standard deviations. Approximately one million pounds (1.5 million
dollars), therefore, would be needed to move someone from close to the bottom of a
happiness frequency distribution to close to the top. Whether these happiness
gains wear off over time remains an open question
Just put:

export PROMPT_COMMAND='if [ "$(id -u)" -ne 0 ]; then echo "$(date "+%Y-%m-%d.%H:%M:%S") $(pwd) $(history 1)" >> "${HOME}/bash_logs_$(hostname)/bash-history-$(date "+%Y-%m-%d").log"; fi'

in your ~/.bash_profile. You also may need to `mkdir "${HOME}/bash_logs_$(hostname)"`

I took this command from a Hacker News thread of the past. I don't have a link to it any more.
> We know that recessions cost lives.

Interesting, I read a different view: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/28/a-rece...

I am not sure how to reconcile this.
Designing the Perfect Date and Time Picker (2017)
Even if I agreed with you in this context (I don't -- hands inside space suits are clumsy, and eyes limited in what they can perceive compared to instruments), we can keep the people here on Earth operating the robots with ~1 second latency, and it will be fine. We even operate rovers on Mars with ~20 minute latency, and they've worked out well.
specifically first aim for the leg

Even if that's really a thing there, U.S. case law makes it clear that if an officer has the luxury of just winging a perp, then her life was not in imminent danger and therefore use of deadly force was improper in the first place.
So the author is writing a compiler but only learned about hashtables?
WATCH: Build Publish and Host an API in under 10 mins
are you using some kind of firewall? Some users are facing problems when using them
It also allows for plausible deniability to surgically remove certain viewpoints without anyone noticing. This is not an acceptable trade off if you value freedom of expression and have an understanding of how bad ideologues are at impartial moderation, confusing disagreement for low effort, lack of intelligence or insincerity.

HN has had a problem for years that heterodox views and facts on culture war issues are censored. The enforcement mechanisms are abused to do this. The mods deny it.

So either the mods are lying about their own actions, or they are not in control of their own site and sufficiently sophisticated flagging works to ban certain viewpoints.

If the latter is true, then shadowbanning is not getting rid of trolls, it is entrenching an elite of them.
Let's put it this way: were there any of your peers - who read all the papers, understood epidemiology and all other things you have just suggested - able to reproduce the results and confirm them as a solid ground for the policy recommendations?

Perhaps, you can also share with us the _original_ code of the model, based on which the "Report 9" has been made? So far, as I know, those calls went answered.
Fira Code v4: arrows of any length and in any combinations possible
BBC builds tool for synchronised onine watching with friends
Automate Excel Sheet Processing with Java
Yet we still have dozens of thousands of people dying from them every year and nobody stops sleeping at night at the same time.
From Parachutes privacy policy:

> GDPR: Parachute’s privacy practices exceed the level set by GDPR and similar legislation. Because Parachute does not install any cookies and does not use any tracking, analytics, marketing or advertising services, it is does not need to display any annoying privacy-related forced consent popup notices.

This is just sad. Ad-tech is pulling all its strings to push public opinion against pro-privacy legislation and you take their story for a ride towards self promotion. Let me reword this for you:

----

GDPR: Parachute believes strongly in the privacy practices set by GDPR and similar legislation but is neither incorporated in any nation with such laws, nor does it subjugate itself to a legal framework of adequacy, with the sole exception of this privacy policy. Privacy Shield Certifications are a scam anyway. Parachute offers a direct contact for privacy related issues, but does not accept the authority of your local data protection agency.Please note that with the ToS you accept the governing Law of the State of New York, and with our second "legal text privacy policy" you explicitly authorize the export of personal information to the USA.

AdTech: The Parachute app does not use any tracking, analytics, marketing or advertising services, including persistent cookies, which would require additional explicit consent. If you are wondering why there is no annoying privacy-related consent gathering popup, that is because we believe in privacy and data minimization and only use what is absolutely essential to provide our service.

Essential Third Party Services: ...
If you don't care about it being square, durable and trustworthy, than something like TACKLIFE might work, but for a miter saw I would pick something just a bit more expensive, or buy something second hand.

I've owned a cheap one, it failed, bought a festool one, its still square, doesn't fail and the cut quality is great. You don't need to buy a Kapex (the festool miter saw), but something like the bosch, milwaukee, dewalt or makita will survive way longer.

I've bought too many cheap tools to do that ever again.
Who are you to judge what content we can and can't enjoy?
A friend of mine had one which went up in flames. There was a lot of paper ducting around the engine that eventually got soaked in oil with inevitable results.

It was interesting to drive, mostly I remember it would lean a long way over going round bends.
Damn whos pumped for Perl in the browser?
Creating popular web animations with PIXI.js
PCG is not the only game in town when it comes to high-quality reproducible and fast PRNGs: https://github.com/lemire/testingRNG#visual-summary Notably, some newer PRNGs are faster, and still pass all statistical tests.
I would not call it insanely expensive, if you compare a Bosch Glide miter saw with the kapex, yes there is a difference, but it's not insane. The same goes for other festool tools like their sanders, compare them to Rupes, Flex or any other high quality brand and the differences are marginal.
The Single Responsibility Principle
Nope, in many repects it's been pretty good. The respects that it has been very poor at was:

* Being complacent about the country's testing capacity

* stopping testing outside of hospitals once the containment phase was deemed over

* PPE logistics. (tough global problem)

* Support for care-homes.

* Westminster's lack of care when it comes to coordinating the loosening of lock-down with the devolved countries

It was arguable that they should have started lock-down earlier, but given that the number of acute beds in the NHS wasn't overwhelmed, that's arguable.

If you look at stuff like the furlough scheme, support for individuals and freelancers so people don't suffer too much economically by being locked down, it a pretty good and swift response.
I'm sure the situation is uneven.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52671814
Way Binary- Guide to Technical Excellence
It's well established within the EU that healthcare is a handled on a national level, so the EU won't respond to COVID-19 like the US does on a federal level.

The countries within the EU all have responded to COVID-19 in some way or another.
Is there a specific reason hindering you from publishing a Debian package, or becoming/appointing a Debian packager, so that your product is available to anyone restricted to official package Debian sources?
I really like the condensed look of Iosevka on mobile devices. Like that I can see longer lines on the small screen without wrapping or scrolling.
If you like living in a feudal world.
My friends and I love playing "Murder, She Wrote" on a big TV screen during downtime at LAN parties. We streamed it on Twitch for a while. We're big fans, great work!
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN? You've been doing it a lot lately, and it's against the site rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Incorporate your task list into HN page!!! Then share this Firefox plugin with me, please.
Probably really well.
Benchmarking Amazon's Graviton2 with 64 Neoverse N1 Cores Against Xeon, EPYC
- STAHL (truck bodies)

- Ginsu knives

- Kirby

- RediVac

fall under Berkshire Hathaway's Scott Fetzer.

Interestingly, Snap-off (also known as Snap-on) still owns itself regularly. That may or may not be a Good Thing™.

And moar AvE teardown vijeos needed because you know corporate overlords always be hollowing-out once proud brands. Craftsman hand-tools had a lifetime exchange warranty should they break, not that wooden-handled screwdrivers would ever do such a thing.
Yes, but the areas over which the EU has a say are clearly defined by the member states and healthcare isn't one of them.

So the fact that the EU creates policies on other topics isn't relevant to the COVID-19 situation.
Yes it's expensive but it's super easy to sell. It's also my only electronic purchase that got more value with time.

It's so cool that I would recommend to buy it at the current price if you can afford it.
See also GWP-ASan: http://llvm.org/docs/GwpAsan.html
Reading the plain text of her letter, there is no accusation of wrongdoing, no cooking the numbers, etc. Rather it is a lot of innuendo. Which data to present and how is always an editorial decision as in the case of every other state’s DOH website and every newspapers dashboard.

This is not a whistleblower complaint. It’s only evidence of bad faith on the part of the governor if you come in assuming bad faith to begin with.
You don't even need ML for that - if someone ran a segment twice as fast as the olympic record for that distance, it's pretty obviously wrong... And yet, that happens pretty regularly for segments I look at.
Execution is nice but last weeks we found jira "agile poker" plugin that you can do estimations asynchronously. Other people don't see your estimations and you can do your estimations whenever you feel like it. Also all the stories and descriptions are visible in one place. So unfortunately this tool is not an improvement for me.
I share the frustration with everything moving to slow and bloaty electron apps.

But wrt to electron apps and using web technology instead of native frameworks, I think it depends a lot as well how well the web code is designed. I've been prototyping a Matrix chat app [1] in a very minimalist way:

- no framework or library used for UI, "state", ... to have complete control on how and when things are updated and rendered.

- use indexeddb optimally to keep as little things in memory as possible.

My 2 main conclusions from this are:

- Web technology can perform very well. The chat client uses only 3.5mb of Javascript VM memory on a 200 room account. It visually outperforms some native apps as an installed PWA on Android on a low-end device. I attribute this to the fact that web browsers are very optimized.

- It takes more time to engineer an app properly like this, even in a language like javascript. I can imagine it's hard to justify the expense, when most people don't know who to blame when their computer is slow.

1: https://github.com/bwindels/brawl-chat
Software is a little strange sometimes.

It’s a different type of systems engineering, that’s more akin to sorcery, than to actual physics.

The hardware is, of course, limited by physics, like the speed of electrons and heat dissipation. But once you get past that, your computer system is a collection of bytes that you reassemble to form whatever it is your imagination desires.

And while the 747 is a magnificent plane, it did have the benefit of over 50 years of aviation and aeronautical science behind it, all figured out.

Whereas software is still somewhat in its infancy right now. And every few decades, it seems to revolutionize itself, as newer and faster hardware become available.
The UN is pretty clear on the fact that populations can claim to be governed by themselves if there are enough of them. Which is exactly what is happening with Taiwan. What is so difficult to understand?
All the best hackers are dolphins?
I think we’re losing the plot. The ggp post was about doing all sorts of Internet programs at the same time on Pentium II era computers, and now you’re talking about developer tools on a Pentium 4.

Maybe it’s simultaneously true, that you could run many developer tools at the same time on Windows NT with hundreds of dollars of RAM, and attempting to run a bunch of consumer network programs at the same time (especially on consumer Windows) was asking for trouble.

I remember one of the attractions of IE 5 back in the day was how each newly launched window was its own process (not windows opened by the open link in new window menu option), so unlike Mosaic and Netscape, a crash in one copy of IE did not necessarily bring down all the other windows. Multiple windows being useful because surfing with a modem was slow regardless of CDN. Remember when Yahoo was scandalous, because banner ads took so much bandwidth?
You complain about SDP and about RPTTransceiver. But RTPTransceiver comes from ORTC, which was exactly introduced to avoid messing with SDP all the time. And you need it to specifiy simulcast layers. You don't need to use it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23214548

Microsoft admits being 'on the wrong side of history' with regard to open source (theregister.co.uk)

73 points by FlyMoreRockets 1 day ago | 110 comments
You're not being genuine here. The grand parent clearly states medical policies, which are not up to the EU to determine.

That the EU has the power to dictate policies in other areas is not relevant.
So, "nope", but, actually, "yeah".

* unclear and delayed response to pandemic,

* frequent lying and misinformation put out by ministers,

* considering herd immunity with no vaccine,

The list goes on and on ...

Yes, the furlough scheme, is decent. But smacks of just throwing money at the problem to save the day. It's not a coordinated response, and we'll be paying for it for generations.

I repeat my assertion. Thanks.
Couchsurfing was founded after Casey Fenton had a plane ticket to Iceland but no money for a hotel. So, he spammed the University of Reykjavik's e-mail directory asking to stay on someone's couch. Aiming to save money on accommodation has ALWAYS been a thing on CS. Yes, it is great when cultural exchange and friendship arise on top of the exchange of free accommodation, but it doesn't happen with every guest or with every host.

Also, as a 2005 signup, I can attest that copy/paste requests have always been a thing. In fact, initially they were the norm. Back when travelers used internet cafes and were paying for every minute, it was understandable that they needed to send out a wave of requests quickly without being able to personalize them. Even now, I prefer copy/paste as a host because I can sympathize with travelers and don’t want them to jump through silly hoops.
I absolutely agree the situation is likely to be uneven.

So this is a tough one. Most organisations will have general rules about not bad-mouthing the organisation publicly and running comms through s comms office. I absolutely agree people should be able to whistle-blow, but if you were managing a hospital you'd probably be wanting people not to go grumbling to the press.
The inclusion of javascript makes me want to dismiss this whole article. If that's a serious candidate then I know he didn't look very thoroughly. But no, go would be just as horrible.
Datadog is a great product that's likely to have been pushed by the developers or the ops team.

Grafana has equally "fascinating" presentations for management. Management doesn't take much but a few gauges chart to be impressed.
https://www.fsf.org/windows/upcycle-windows-7
I don't have any political goals and don't give a damn about politics, however, being a professional software developer who spend his whole life in open-source, I can't help but wonder if you are for real in pp. 1-3?

> It's a randomized model so this isn't a disaster

What you're saying here is that no matter what distribution properties the "randomness" has it's ok to substitute one with another, right?

> There aren't a bunch of unit tests

It isn't a Microsoft Windows, you know, where a lack of unit tests and uncaught bugs could be potentially fixed in the next release (or not). Report 9 is out, the harm is done.

#4 isn't an argument as we aren't arguing about epidemiological characteristics of the code, but about its validity and correctness.

I am loosing the interest in this discussion very quickly, because it is full of straw-man constructions and intellectual dishonesty, starting with the fact that the original code/model has never been shown to anyone besides of a very small group of hand-picked developers to groom it into some presentable form. Pity...
When I went to Paris I was cheated so much and almost beaten, had a physical altercation with a taxi driver at destination. Never again would I use taxi if I have another option.
Scientist answers key Covid-19 questions
Fair point. This looks more structured than content I've seen from KA, but maybe I haven't plumbed the depths of it.

Either way, always good to have more alternatives, no?
Yet we still have the worst death rate in Europe. Why was Germany so much better off than us.