skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, however it's a good thing to convince managers and executives that they should allow anyone who wants to (and has a job that allows it), to work from home.
It's also not accessible under the age of 21 in America, the largest and most influential Western country.
Exponential growth is very slow when it’s just getting started.
Yes that was inside my parenthesis.
People who have a significant risk of death don’t care about R factor, they just want to avoid infection.

Reasonable precautions for the vast majority of people don’t seem like enough if you’re 70+.
We changed the URL from https://matrix.org/blog/2020/05/21/welcoming-automattic-to-m... to an article that gives more background. (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23256180)
>But recently in discussions about this topic it feels like WFH fans want to “convert” Office fans to their preferred model. I don’t think that’s the right approach.

Thank you for that nuanced view. Many comments here want to drive home the point about how all office offers is "bullshit" and "distraction and toxic culture", and anyone who enjoys working at an office with coworkers don't care about actual productivity and only want to do it because they want have someone to gossip with during the day...

There was literally a top comment here that implies someone isn't even living the life of a "real human being" if he's not WFH. That is such a ridiculous stance to take.

People have different personalties and value different things in life and are in different situations in life, there is no one solution that would make everyone happy.
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Having the antibodies in such a large percentage of the population suggests it was around for quite a long time beforehand.

It takes months to reach those levels.

In addition there's the unusually large number of pneumonia deaths in oct/nov throughout the country

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-...
> Imagine if Alphabet was broken up, Google search can still afford to run a research lab, as can youtube.

This doesn't make sense to me. Google search and youtube are just front-ends for Alphabet to make money through advertising.

If Alphabet truly was broken up, Google search and youtube would not be able to use google ads jointly in the same way, and they don't make money otherwise.
The US really needs to change their political system so that it's no longer "the winner takes it all" politics where only two parties can effectively rival.
This is so poisonous for everything. No nuances in the discussion. Truth comes under the wheels. Stupid slogans win. No chance for larger green/ecological movements besides the overwhelming topic of economics. Ridiculous gerrymandering. It's just very sad to see.
I’d disagree. Some things are hard and the ergonomics makes it worth a little confusion. CAD software like xcircuit is a good example of this (although they definitely could stand to make the save dialog a little more intuitive.)
Could someone educate me on what you mean by "cloud functions" ? I do not understand the concept of "serverless".

To me, data has "live" somewhere. When one computer is storing that and serving it, it is by definition a server.

Is there something I've missed??
Can someone give the “elevator pitch” of what sets Matrix apart?
Honest question, approximately what percentage of those repositories are original works and what percentage are forks?
With E2E encryption in place by default is there any real advantage in using Signal instead of Riot client for everyday communication with my friends? Riot desktop app is definitely more polished and customizable, video quality on all of my devices also seems to be a lot better.

Surprisingly the only thing that I am really missing is the ability to use custom sticker packs which got added to Signal a few months ago.
When I was in the same situation, I was very much enjoying working from a pub which was 20 minutes walk away from the "office". It was quiet, nice food and much socializing towards the evening. What's not to like?

To think how much money the company was wasting on the office... I still cringe today.
Doesn't it make sense to wait until it's released?
My dad's employer didn't remove the Java applets from their website until I pointed out that navigation had been broken due to both Firefox and chrome having removed Java support. Until then, the menu showed pixelated hyperlink-blue text that changed color with a transition when hovered or clicked, and couldn't be used with the keyboard. Each link in the menu was a Java applet to take you to the next page.
Really interesting reasoning. I'm almost tempted to say "extremely unscientific".

1. "no evidence of microplastics being harmful" sounds very much like WHO's "no evidence of human transmission". Personally, I'd say that in both scenarios, the outcome we should be most worried about is tail risks - what if we suddenly realize the situation is much worse than we imagined, but it's already too late...

2. Is "climate change" so bad? I mean, would it be really so bad if the Earth warmed up a bit, and all of Siberia, Greenland and the Antartic became livable (and arable) land? More food, more space for new humans, ... all good! Except, obviously, 2 things - biodiversity (which you want to ignore) and tail risks - what if the Earth warms up too much, and we "trigger" some unexpected process (e.g. thawing of permafrost releases vast quantities of extremely potent greenhouse gases).

I think most people are simply really confused about their reasoning process. Microplastics? Ignore tail risks. Global warming? Tail risks! GMOs? Ignore tail risks. 5G? Tail risks! Vaccines? Ignore tail risks. Endocrine disruptors? Tail risks! (Of course, the exact configuration of positions is highly correlated with one's political orientation.)
Bummer. I for the life of me, can't find a way to play Red Alert 2 on a Mac.
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/
I use https://www.factcheck.org

Also, you might want to check out this guide on how to identify credible sources: https://custom-writing.org/blog/signs-of-credible-sources

As for COVID-19 updates, I only trust the World Health Organization's website.
Kids have tons of vacations, much more than the typical office worker.

So you can travel for a month or 2 during their summer vacations in what would be like vacations for your kids and "working from a different place" for you.

That's also really convenient if you have family in a far away country, to be able to work from there a much longer time that you could have taken vacations.
In the US, the legal infrastructure certainly prevents the police from invading your home because you’ve posted politically incorrect comments online. In China the covid-19 crisis has painted a very different picture.
How is that different though from forgetting to pass in an argument into a variadic function, or having a spurious early return? To the untrained eye, both those scenarios would present the same.
Not peer reviewed and reads extremely politically charged. I'd hardly call this science.
Being 40-100 times less likely to kill a child is probably correlated with caring for them more.

It was a quote from Pinker's how the mind works. The 'Daly and Wilson' referenced was what I linked to.
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It's big enough to be available to the "mainstream", it just doesn't have the decades of tech debt C++ and other languages bring to the table.

I've been programming for about 37 years now and recently, not wanting to mess with Swift for that, built a "quick action" command (for Finder) that converts/shrinks HEIC images to .jpg suitable for e-mail. Took something like 2 minutes with nearly no experience using Automator. It's not a niche technology.
What is your point? That we should spread inaccurate information because there are immunocompromised people?
> This is "infection demonstrated to exist in Italy before prior dates we believe"

That is an unlikely hypothesis, given that we didn't see an exponential explosion in deaths, and people going to the hospital until February.

Either:

1. The virus was for some reason less lethal before February.

2. Only people who don't show symptoms were catching it.

3. The serological studies are mostly finding false positives.

My money's on #3.
> This means you have the freedom to work from anywhere on the globe as long as you can access the web.

I think this is what people are missing. If you have to go to work then the location of your work is one of the strongest factors in choosing where to live. For me, that means being no more than 30 minutes away from work by bicycle or public transport (I own a car but it's a luxury, not a necessity). If I could live anywhere then for a start I'd be somewhere where housing costs much less. I'd be somewhere near the kind of countryside that I enjoy like the Lake District, rather than the Fens which has some nice qualities but is mostly boring.
If your Western doctor is not suggesting regular exercise and a balanced diet to prevent chronic conditions before giving you a pill then they are not using an evidence-based approach.
So something like the super-dysfunctional political systems of Israel or Belgium or Italy or South Africa?

Fixing first past the post voting is not some magic cure-all.
> My answer: you will suffer from brain drain.and reputation loss,when you buy a smaller company,consumers assume that brand is now dead. You become a cemerery of dreams and ideas. You become an IBM,HP,Xerox and AT&T. Once the damage is done it becomes nearl impossible to recover from.

Would Apple be a counter-example? Multitouch, PA Semi, Siri, TouchID, etc etc lots of Apple technology was acquired but nobody laments the death of those “brands”
good luck: their job is to acquire new users, not to keep the old ones
This video was just fabulous to watch.
Collective list of free APIs for use in software and web development
Ten why immunity passports are a bad idea
I really enjoyed reading this. The style of it. I'd like to read more like this. Thank you!
I worked at GEC Hirst in the early 90s. It was a fascinating place, and I learned a lot in my research into local loop technologies in the early days of the commercial internet. However it was clear that the writing was on the wall when the on-site library was closed down.

I left shortly afterwards.
I'd argue that from a humanistic standpoint, spreading money around is at least better than sitting on money.

But yeah, I'll not invest in SoftBank nor any of the latest Silicon Valley fads.

My current and only investment strategy, that has worked out way beyond expectations is investing in near monopolies. I
call it: the rich get richer strategy. Got it from reading Warren Buffett books.

Out of curiosity, how did you end up with that username?
If that were the case, then since hardly anyone was sick, hardly anyone should have had antibodies.

Unless, of course, the antibody test is too general, and is picking up false positives, or antibodies that have nothing to do with COVID.
This will not work. There are no incentives for different groups of people to collaborate on a single shared communication standard. The incentive is for entities to keep data to themselves.
Also, this standard is too complex and unclear. Complex standards which try to bring together many different technologies under one abstraction never seem to work.

Also, universal standards are not necessarily a good thing. Decentralization with multiple competing tools and standards is good as it provides redundancy and opportunities for specialization.
Neat project! Definitely useful to have this, folks can build "headline-edit trackers" or services that collect news using other filters more easily using this.
MaskMeter: Should you wear a facemask today?
MaskMeter uses current COVID-19 and air quality data from your local area to help you to decide whether to wear a face mask.
Who are these people at risk exactly? I think there isn't enough talk about it. There are studies now that show that zero carb and intermittent fasting can reverse type 2 diabetes. But nobody seams to suggest to people at risk to try to eat less sugar.
This doesn't even look like a "pre-print", it's worse than that. Also the text is written more like an angry internet comment than a proper academic text.

In his "review of the medical literature" none of the articles talks specifically about the Coronavirus, instead talks about the Influenza virus. They have very different sizes.
I find it amusing that the article was flagged.
Apart from what?
Compared to xmpp: Marketing mostly.
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The “Kawaiization” of Product Design
A Docker image with preinstalled tools for developing and testing Go projects
I wish they would help fix/maintain the Matrix-Purple bridge, which would allow more people to use riot servers with clients such as pidgin.
https://github.com/matrix-org/purple-matrix/issues/95
I actually had https://blog.cr.yp.to/20160607-dueprocess.html in mind when mentioning political beliefs, but even then I think that this still falls under the "political belief" label - the belief that anyone accused of rape should not have any form of defence. Anyway, the person who is being sued was part of a harassment campaign against multiple people, including Bernstein himself, so I can't see why it would be a bad thing for him to send his declaration.

For anyone interested, his declaration is here: https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.340308...

And here is the most objective and complete story of the Appelbaum events that I have personally seen so far https://github.com/Enegnei/JacobAppelbaumLeavesTor/blob/mast... (if anyone has anything better please do let me know)

> accused of sexual abuse by multiple victims

Including false accusations by others in the name of the so called victims. Such as the "Alice" case. (if I am not mistaken this specific accusation was published by the person being sued themselves)
I work on Full-Text RSS which can help convert abbreviated feeds into full-text versions. The idea is you'll get a new feed URL from Full-Text RSS to use instead of the original partial feed in your news reader or application.

Free to try here: http://ftr.fivefilters.org/ and code for a slightly older version available here: https://bitbucket.org/fivefilters/full-text-rss/src/master/
Bug #3 (The race) was silently introduced by a semantic change in Go's database/sql in January 2018:
https://github.com/golang/go/commit/651ddbdb5056ded455f47f9c...

It took until December of the same year until we got the first bug report and figured out what was going on. While the semantic change might look subtle, it was certainly not from our (driver maintainer's) perspective.
We were quite disappointed that such a change was made 1) without informing the driver maintainers 2) making sure the changes were in place before this change made it into a Go release.

We regularly test against Go's master (now using a Travis CI cron job), but that only helps if the existing tests fail. We don't have the time to constantly monitor all changes in the Go repo.

If there is a need to make such changes (not just in database/sql and not just in Go), PLEASE actively communicate early with the community / the direct users.
We know #2 is true for younger people, as the mortality rate is almost zero unless you're in a nursing home.
What if the large companies with lots of cash can just pay the fines without impairment to their business? What if they just keep repeat offending?

The ban could be a percentage of revenue. For persistent offenders their DNS entries could be banned.

Who will bank the money recieved from the fines and how will that money be used?

The money raised from fines would pay for the service. Anything left over would be paid to me. :)
Why not the fact that perhaps the virus found its way in more vulnerable populations, such as hospitals and nursing care homes (44% of the current deaths)?

If that happened, the population would be very largely skewed towards the most vulnerable (you usually don't go to ER or a hospital if you're healthy) and that would explain the uptick in deaths.

There's no other idea I can offer to explain why a disease with an estimated IFR between 0.5 and 0.9% would cause an order of magnitude more deaths.
Feature Flag Debt
Agreed. Also, if respirators don't work, how come there isn't a mass infection among doctors treating COVID-19 patients worldwide?
We may get our wish when multicore finally drops for OCaml.
Is that an NPV reference? NPVs are for comparing options; and low discount rates theoretically mean that people are more willing to burn money up front for potential long term gains. But research then starts losing out to other, riskier, decisions. Nobody* borrows money to fund steady long term corporate research.

Low interest rates manifest as people starting Uber and Tesla rather than big companies finding budget for a research lab. Ford is competing with a company that doesn't feel a real need to have profit margins - that is a threat in the present. Big, cash burning machines with potential multi-billion dollar payoffs are where the credit goes and where the winners live - not boring people doing long term research in corporate labs.

It isn't like R&D is a losing proposition in this age - look at Apple's peak for example - but the resources are being directed to people who own assets or are shooting to control entire markets. Research labs aren't making companies winners.

* I'm sure there is somebody, but there won't be many.
Based on those parameters, I would agree with you. I am wondering if the R0 was really as low as 3 prior to the virus being controlled, though. Any R0 measurement will depend upon the number of cases, which has always been fairly unknown with covid due to the asymptomatic cases.

I think there's also a tendency to think about R0 as something that applies in any environment, but this won't be true. It will vary a lot based on air flow, indoors/outdoors, etc. As a result of this, you'll have instances where one carrier infected 10 or more people due to being in close proximity with unfavourable air flow, even if the average carrier only infects around 3 - 5 or thereabouts.

I always think about smokers for this type of thing. The particles are probably quite different (I hope droplets don't carry quite as well as smoke!) and so perhaps there is an adjustment that needs to be made, but in certain environments you will see & smell the smoke from a smoker a lot more than other environments. This will also depend on your proximity and airflow.
4. The current beliefs about lethality and R0 are way off
Too bad that Nix don't work with fish shell
Off topic but the language here ... What is it about it that makes it plastic? For example it employs the phrases "that said" and "not least" which are generic, throw aways.

New projects are a kind of success itself so we expect the principals to be ebullient. But the prose is over the top. It gushes. Quantum computing wasn't invented here.

It's the IT corporate form of Hollywood but in words: Another theoretically innvoative industry except it isn't: It largely can't make an original film.

The older I get, the more I am in agreement with English Profs: use a better adjective, could you? Don't repeat. Avoid generic over used phrasing. In short: is it too much to ask that your language had a pulse? Game? Personality?
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What I say is that _if_ they would have changed their lifestyle _then_ they would not have craved the office experience.

There is nothing shallow about this observation.

If they chose not to it's fine. They just missed a different and, in my opinion, a better experience. Their choice.

I cannot in good faith come up with a type of work that genuinely requires being in an office. Not on a workfloor, not in a lab, not in a conference room - an office.

Please enlighten me.

Social aspects of offices are overrated. Less formal association is better if only because no one is forced into them.
Less people = less problems
The two issues you run into are:

- The primary attribution model in Google Analytics is last non-direct visit prior to <conversion/goal/significant event>. Leveraging the source tracking parameters (utm_*) on internal links obliterates the usefulness of much of the built in attribution-related reporting. Relatively recent enhancements do provide visibility into multi-channel funnel flows, but the capability is compartmentalized into a few purpose-built views and don't filter back to most of the core reporting.

- It also drastically skews engagement-related reporting, overall and at a source level. A new session in GA constitutes a completely new visit. So metrics like visits per user, new vs existing users, average visit duration, pages per visit, etc all get whacked in the process. And understanding user behavior and conversion paths from any given channel becomes somewhere between torturous and impossible, as the actions performed in the "new" session aren't visible when looking at the user flow of the original session.

What you're describing is possible and commonly done, you just can't do it with the utm parameters intended for source tracking without having disastrous side effects. Custom dimensions/metrics[1] or event hits[2] are the intended ways of doing that. For developers, Google's autotrack[3] library is useful for implementing that with fairly minimal dev overhead (mainly, seeding your markup with relevant data- attributes so event hits can be auto-populated and sent). There are also a lot of third party libraries for framework-specific integrations. And for non-developers, Google Tag Manager (or any other tag manager) makes event tracking pretty straightforward to implement without dev coordination.

[1] https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2709828?hl=en

[2] https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1033068?hl=en

[3] https://github.com/googleanalytics/autotrack/#overview
Can someone explain me how these kind of softwares are shared? Would I need to train it again? Or usually the trained models are provided?

Is this one in particular open source?
And to an extent it's not even that. The samples were taken from the 24th Feb. Italy had its first localised lockdowns on 21st, at which point the disease had been around for long enough for a couple of identified cases to have died. The 'at the start' of the outbreak figure is for the weeks between this and the whole of the north of the country being shut down on 8th March. The figure is higher than expected [with a wide confidence interval] and is in Milan rather than the villages initially isolated, but we know initial testing capacity wasn't there, transmission can be asymptomatic and severe symptoms lag.
It's no surprising that visual artists feel at home with visual programming.

There are more examples. Some people have mentioned Matlab/Simulink. In fact, many procedures are defined using some kind of visual programming. For example, in CAD and modeling software (like SolidWorks), you have a tree of operations that is just a visual program. The way in which effects are handled in PowerPoint is visual programming too. Even it could be argued that, when playing a game, you are just doing visual programming.
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Modifying a string in ELF is hard. As long as the string has the same length as the original one, it has a good chance to work (but still fails for compressed data). But if you want an arbitrary directory, you need to replace it with a different length path, and that will probably break a lot of things.
And it ELI5
I'm not sure how to parse the following sentence:

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