skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me it seems that there is only one fundamental assumption that determines how to handle the pandemic: do you believe that we can have a lockdown until a vaccin is on the market, or do you think the vaccin will take too long.

If you believe the first, then yes a lockdown like in Denmark or Norway is the best choice. If you believe it will take too long, then what matters is to minimise economical damage by containing the virus just enough making sure that the health system is not overwhelmed and to protect the most vulnerable groups. This is what Sweden chose and what most countries believed in as well in February. Sweden's health system was never overwhelmed, so the higher death rate in Sweden must be due to the higher infection rate in combination with the fact that they could have protected their elderly people better.
But if the vaccin takes too long then neighbour countries will catch up.
I was specifically referring to Tegnell. I seriously am under the impression that he got almost everything wrong. I personally don't see anything he got right as an expert epidemiologist shaping the country's policy.

Tegnell seriously believed it would be possible to have the virus spread through Sweden's healthy population, having them build up herd immunity, while not infecting those in risk groups, and ending up with a very low number of fatalities while keeping everything else running.

This man has zero ability for system's thinking and intelligent forecasting. I'm not sure if this is something one would need as a epidemiologist working with virus research. But one surely needs it if one is the leading figure shaping a country's complex response to a new virus.

Thanks for the addition regarding immunity, I forgot that one. Will take myself the freedom to add this to the list.
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I so wish all of this content was public. How lovely would it be for skill development if all of us had access to these assignments and projects with auto-graded tests.
Depends where you live. No one I know uses SMS or iMessage. Everyone uses whatsapp. SMS is a weird appendix of a thing on your phone contract, used only for automated reminders from companies. And iMessage is pretty much useless because then you can't send messages to 60% of people, and besides, they're in whatsapp anyway.
I do not; I think I misread the bug report as somehow saying this had been fixed; I think I should really go to bed. I actually have no idea if this has been fixed yet, though I would still assume that it won’t be like that in master for long. Sorry for the unsubstantiated claim!
Depends on how you measure deaths from Covid-19, for one.

There have been a multitude of reports from other countries on how they fail to account for all deaths, let alone all deaths from the disease, for instance.

The death toll is severe though, no two ways about it, but therea are also a lot of factors to weigh in, such as:

- What could have been done instead? There are several countries with radically different measures that still face high numbers of reported deaths

- Would more severe restrictions have mitigated the most damaging vectors? A lot of the deaths come from elderly homes, for instance, and further lockdowns wouldn't naturally have prevented that (as much as, say, more personnel in elderly care)

- What will the secondary effects be? The effects of Covid-19 go beyond the deaths from the disease itself. How many will die from the economical impact of lesser, or more severe restrictions? For instance.

These are all difficult considerations and near-impossible to answer.
In digital photography there are two steps:

STEP 1:
capture the light and save it in 0s and 1s

STEP 2:
process the original 0s and 1s into a new set of 0s and 1s that is much more pleasant to the eye

-> DSLRs do STEP 1 extremely well and STEP 2 poorly. But, almost all professional photographers would not even let their DSLR do STEP 2 because they prefer anyway to do it themselves MANUALLY (e.g. in Lightroom, Photoshop etc). Therefore they never use the STEP 2 functionality of their DSLR. And I think they wouldn't use the STEP 2 functionality even if their DSLR was good at it. That's because they want FULL control of the final outcome. Probably this is why DSLR companies haven't invested a lot in upgrading the STEP 2 functionality (so far).

-> Smartphones do STEP 1 poorly but they do STEP 2 extremely well using algorithms. So they cater for different needs: When you want to sacrifice STEP 1 for convenience, when you just want a decent photo fast, when you're not that opinionated about the final outcome and would rather let smartphone decide it etc etc. Also, because they can't do STEP 1 very well, they are limited to a specific photography style, the "everyday well-lit snapshot" style. They can't do sports photography, they can't do wildlife photography, they can't do macro etc.

So, smartphones are convenient, and do a few things very well, but they can't do miracles.

DSLRs are not convenient, but if you add some extra work, they can do miracles!

(My prediction is that DSLR companies will start upgrading their STEP 2 algorithms a lot in the future and try to convince more people to use their cameras as "point-and-shoot". But they will fail. People will continue using their mobile phones, because they are light and much more convenient)
> Are you talking about deepfakes? I haven't seen an example that was anything other than creepy, and really really obvious. Do you think I'm just really sensitive to this kind of thing, or have I not seen the really good examples?

Hollywood has gotten pretty good at creating convincing fake faces (dead actors/actresses reappearing in Star Wars for instance) but I think that tech probably involves a lot of human artist input.
The contentious issue of crowd counting in Hong Kong
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There are plenty of questions like that awaiting NZ. Almost 10% of our workforce is (was) in tourism.

But hopefully we have bought time to make measured decisions, and now we do have options, including skulking away until there's a vaccine available.
Starship gonna run on methane so most likely going to be carbon neutral.
Webpack's website and marketing clearly tries to get us to use it, so although it's open source, the author (and contributors) from the project have an interest in people using their software.

In this case, they kind of pulled a bait and switch. They encouraged everyone to use it and then are letting them down by preventing them from using it efficiently on the basis of their own political beliefs.

It wouldn't be a problem if the project was advertised at the start as one person's work that comes with no guarantee of maintenance, support and if the guy suddenly goes crazy (whether because of political beliefs or otherwise) he might take down the project.

This one on the other hand looks serious, has good marketing, corporate sponsors, etc so while you can't ask for more, you at least kind of expect a serious project relied upon by thousands to not degrade existing stuff on the basis of political beliefs.

It's fine if you want to decide how your project is used (even for political reasons) but the proper way to do so is via the license so potential users know what they're in for before they start using the library and will (usually) refrain from using the library if the license does not allow them. This on the other hand is just a bait and switch and has tons of collateral damage to parties unrelated to, or even part of the BLM movement.
That looks great but is the room access security the obscurity of the room name?
(which is mostly theoretical, clocking a 486 at 4.77MHz, while not necessarily impossible, might turn out to be quite a project on consumer hardware).

Quite a project indeed, but possible with the right motherboard -- as an amusing side note, there is a very strange sub-sub-sub-genre of computer enthusiasts who enjoy the challenge of installing various Windows versions on the slowest possible systems that will run them:

https://www.winhistory.de/more/386/winq.htm

They've managed feats like running Windows XP on a 4 MHz Pentium Overdrive and Windows ME on a 3 MHz 486SL (that one takes 1 hour and 10 minutes to even boot)
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Only 40% of people have iPhone in the Netherlands, for example. Everyone uses whatsapp.
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I don't think they are currently planning to provide services in such countries.
HE doesn't charge for peering though. The complaint was that HE was leaking peer routes to other peers per default, which is normally only done if you are a customer (which can be nice if you want this, but can lead to sub-optimal routing if you don't want this).
Honestly, I hadn't noticed any of the links in the text. I was merely referring to the links on the front page.

Those red circle links are particularly tricky to spot. You have no idea how many of the words prior to the circle are part of the link, so your best option is to try and click the tiny circle.
> - Ignored/denied the potential of wide-spread usage of masks to reduce transmission (instead, only focusing on its disadvantages)

This one personally I couldn't and still can't understand. People saw since at least late April - early May that there was a strong correlation between the use of masks and the number of new cases going down (most visible for me in countries like Czechia, Slovakia, Austria, maybe there were others, too), by that point there was almost no downside asking everyone to wear a mask (at least indoors), so, again, I can't understand why some informed people were against it.
> Don't forget, things were more than livable a hundred years ago.

Well, you're writing off ~75% of the world population right there. So that's not a strong argument.

There was quite a lot of growing your own food at the time, true, but not barter.
Well, that was outstanding. i haven't seen Kraftwerk live since 1991 or 1992 but that was a gig I will never forget, and they're still changing and adapting. I wish I'd had the money to get tickets for their Italian gigs.
I've found that, in my social groups, "Liked" gets used as an acknowledgement for anything that doesn't require further discussion. Seems to clear up group chats of endless OKs back and forth, so I'm all for it.
To make it fair you can archive current spam data and see if future spam classifiers (not trained on that particular data) recognizes it correctly.

> if the analog of this is that AGI might get solved with more AGI, then that's only going to make me less likely to be worried in the first place!

that's going to end in arms race that leaves people unaware of what's even happening (aka singularity)
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I'm guessing that "binary" can be interpreted as "blob of unreadable mess when opened in a text editor"
And then retroactively declare that code broken and not conforming. Good times!
In my opinion it should be Zero-Knowledge protocols.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof
Since the only fate of any private data with third-parties is to be eventually leaked, it is best to know as little as possible about users. Monetization of protocols where every data packet has a nano monetary value would allow for strong encryption and would guarantee that communication is as secure as modern decentralized financial transactions.
Doesn't change the fact that the high death toll have been among the part of the population that were in fact in quarantine and would most likely have been the same had Sweden chosen a more common tactic.
> The breakthrough didn’t crack 80%, so three cheers for wide credibility intervals with error margin, but I expect the predictor might be feeling slightly more nervous now with one year left to go.

Good call on that by the author; according to this summary paper [1], a model reached ~79-93% accuracy on various Winograd data sets.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.13831.pdf
I'd really love to see some serious work go into studying keyboard layouts to see if they actually make the differences claimed.

Not that I'm sceptical more that I'd like to be able to quantify the difference they are worth. I'd love to try one out but not sure it's worth the time investment.
I definitely think scientists should be politicians. Angela Merkel has a doctorate in quantum chemistry, and she is one of the most successful and respected politicians of our time.

But I do think it is dangerous to try to play the two roles at the same time. Science demands an honesty that few politicians can afford, which the current discussion about Anders Tegnell so well demonstrates.
That's not really the choice here. The choice is we squelch the virus and my dad and his grand children get to see each other again. Vs you not being inconvenienced.
Whats the difference with chat roulette?
It's not the case for me. I far prefer emacs in a terminal over the gui, and thats how I've used it for years. I can't run the gui on a gnu screen session on that server I've been working on, for example. I admit I'm probably the outlier on this though.
Some additions:

The major difference separating j from k is that the former is optimized for multidimensional arrays (_i.e_ math), while the latter is optimized for vector processing (_i.e_ financial data) and uses lists of vectors when working with higher dimensions.

J is also fast, but not for the same things as k. It's interpreter is also designed to fit in the cache.

Dyalog APL has been experimenting with bytecode compilation, although I don't know whether it's implemented in the current version. It also has a gpgpu extension with restrictions on the language (Co-dfns). Unlike j, APL does not implement operations such as matrix multiplication by calling to BLAS, so if you're doing matrices on the CPU, use J. As an aside, j also shines for graphical output with its opengl bindings and its 2d/3d Matrix viewer.

BTW Jd is indeed commercial, but is free to use in non-commercial applications.

Personally, I think that k is much more popular on hn because they're aggressively promoting it. J is better if you're not doing financial work.
Yes, but Clang is many months away from a release.

It is not the same as playing with a release candidate.
I suspect this may have originally developed as a debugging aid, your “to better understand and improve the compiler”, but also to better understand how Ruby programs execute. With non-trivial data structures and algorithms (such as sea-of-nodes here), being able to visually introspect statically, and/or visualise its operation dynamically, can often provide informative insights.

Instead of, or perhaps as well as, converting to assembly or byte code, here the author is producing a visualisation of the internal graph structure contained within the compiler.

The graph isn’t necessarily a one-to-one match with the AST derived from the source, due to graph transformations that take place during the optimising phase of the compiler/runtime. This makes it even more important/interesting to see what is going on under the hood.

Usually, in high-level programming languages one rarely has concerns regarding how easily the compiler might deal with the code - one just codes, and uses language features appropriately, as needed. With the only caveat here being the extreme performance crew, e.g. games programmers might use a restricted subset of C++, and also might disassemble compiler output, and use that information to help try and optimise their source somewhat.
Letting people get sick and die will also cause economic damage.

I think the ideal solution would have been a quick lockdown to stop the exponential growth of the spread, and once that's under control, loosen up the restrictions one at a time while ensuring the spread doesn't increase again.

This is what Netherland has been doing, and it seems to be very effective. Schools have been partially open for 2.5 weeks now, and the numbers keep going down.

But in a country where half the population is determined to sabotage any attempt to prevent the spread of the disease, where leaders call it a hoax and spread misinformation, I can imagine that any attempt at lockdown is doomed to fail anyway. Might as well open up and let it run its course with all the damage that will do, because too many people insist on inflicting that damage anyway.
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Galaxies, from Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection
Yeah, that sort of makes sense. Hydrocarbons are carbon + water + energy package, and burning them gives out the energy which you can use for scrubbing the atmosphere, provided you don't exhaust carbon byproduct into the atmosphere, which is really what got us into this mess in the first place.
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> we 'reopened' the country and right now have more cases per day (yesterday 350) as at the beginning

That's probably the bigger problem for your country than the absolute number of deaths: the "reopening" happened too early compared to some countries of equivalent size where the cases per day became lower before the "reopening."

Even after the "reopening" the war is not won.

Also, looking at the graphs of daily cases and comparing it with some other European countries, the measures were obviously less effective than in these other countries. Given that 10 million of people are involved, it's much more nuanced than "we had X for Y days."

Edit: To answer: "I don't know how we got the good press": deaths per million: Portugal: 142, Switzerland: 222, Sweden: 450, Spain: 580. It's easy to see that's how Portugal looks obviously better, statically. What I point to with "probably the bigger problem" (that it's not over) is that e.g. new daily cases in Switzerland are now 19, v.s. Portugal's 350.
> haven't seen an example that was anything other than creepy, and really really obvious. Do you think I'm just really sensitive to this kind of thing, or have I not seen the really good examples?

Here's a really good example (the video, not the audio, which the creators say was intentionally degraded):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l82PxsKHxYc
I think you meant patents, unless your country is strangely unproductive and/or critically in danger of dying out ;)
How does q relate to K? I dabbled a little but the distinction was never clear to me.
Yep, it absolutely depends on industries and countries, because 100% of developers I work with use Windows.
We don’t share that stance. Most people install ad-blockers to block dodgy advertisers, Facebook and other privacy-invasive websites.
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And yet they didn't prepare but the number of reported cases per capita remained below Italy and Spain.

Same day I wrote my OP it actually rose above Italy with a whopping 2200 new cases at once.

We'll see if all the students celebrating these last few days will make that rise again.

Either way my point was that the spread compared to the number of deaths is the real scandal in Sweden. Low spread, high number of deaths indicates something is wrong in healthcare.
I see no difference in rolling direction - both ASDF and FDSA feels uncomfortable. Try common words - FUEL vs THEN on Dvorak. Same for me.

I agree with metrics part - as a long time Dvorak user I feel article undervalues hand alternation and victimizes middle column. For me bottom row outer keys a weak part.
This is a ridiculously myopic view of the world. A more efficient economy supports more people. This is inarguable.
I had a read through the collated articles (and signed up), I already have found a few post that I'm glad that I have read them.

This is a good idea. Thank you for making it!
Yup, exactly. I think that by itself makes it my most used reaction by an order of magnitude.
Yes. I think Vernon's is the best as it has more emphasis on the process and organisation instead of the code.
It won't unless these countries agree.
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Sweden hasn't "done nothing", please don't make things up.
Who the heck uses SMS for messaging in 2020, USA?
In the same vein the push towards not owning your data also comes with issues[0].

I get along well with a tool called offlineimap[1] though it's python2; you can even use it to sync imap backends[2]. I use it simply to populate a Maildir on my machines.

Sadly I have not found it to work with office365 (then again, what does other than outlook and thunderbird's proprietary subscription based extension?).

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>Don't forget, things were more than livable a hundred years ago.

We also didn't have so many people a hundred years ago. Population increased but the land remained the same.
Good luck to live as Google 1984-like bootnet.

Sadly, Librem 5 future is unclear, so Apple is probably less evil here.
This is a good idea; it makes sense to test for opportunities to profit from racism and pick up high-value entrepreneurs of colour.

The HN title should be changed though, it says 'minorities' while the original article says 'people of colour'. I assumed it would be targeting Asians from the HN title.
The Swedes are actually poor at counting deaths, as they lag in their reporting, and often report 0 deaths in the weekend and hollidays. According to NYT Sweden has an excess of deaths totally of about 30%, about the same as France, but climbing. And no its not difficult to compare to say Denmark or Norway.
If protesters can march, why can't businesses open?
Q is K syntactic sugar to make the system easier and more "traditional".
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