skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't call notion.so a markdown editor, but it's very similar to one (understands the syntax) and the "block mover" concept is inherent in their UI.
3) Companies are learning that Ads that don't appear to be Ads, which also happen to reinforce customers' existing belief system, is a great way to lower their emotional guard and inject a positive product injection. The future of Native Advertising [1] is bright. So many examples already... [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_advertising

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/HailCorporate/top/?sort=top&t=year
I understand what you are describing and generally agree with it, except perhaps for your ultimately prediction. The death rate may ultimately increase, but it would not be simply because the current population of non-recovered cases haven't run their course.

The total case count in theory is a factor of test capacity * positivity rate (ignoring distortions from "probable" cases). Death count also theoretically requires a positive test, so that curve could similarly be impacted by limited testing, but certainly the death part is getting measured in any case. The positivity rate itself can be impacted by limiting testing criteria based on symptoms (but, e.g. perhaps not if you were limiting based on just demographics).

Presuming we were heavily test constrained in March/April, and were limiting testing based on symptoms, so you would have an increase in positivity rate but a lower test count. COVID death count could be low depending on how limited testing was for autopsy purposes, and whether deaths could be ruled being as due to COVID without a positive test.

As testing capacity increases, and testing criteria is loosened, you would expect a lower positivity rate (for the same actual community disease burden) and a greater percentage of actual COVID deaths to be correctly diagnosed (perhaps a lower number of mis-attributed COVID deaths)... there's too many variables here to say for sure, but I would still expect the curves to have the same shape, even if the IFR ultimately goes down because you are catching more cases. The curves are clearly going in different directions.

At first I attributed the divergence to new cases being limited to a younger demographic. If case count is increasing, but it is infecting a demographic with an order of magnitude lower IFR, then death count still decreases over time. But I'm beginning to think this doesn't fully explain it. There are clearly multiple forces at play, and the situation resists simplistic explanations.

And all that is even ignoring the changes in medical protocols, like avoiding ventilators, and more recently, administering dexamethasone. Anecdotally, the majority of cases today come in as a young adult with mild symptoms (someone who probably wouldn't have even been tested in April, let alone admitted), they get a course of dex and antibiotics, are monitored for a couple days, and sent home.

I think if the current active cases were to largely resolve without spreading, or if they spread mainly within their current demographic, then we will not see a major spike in COVID deaths. If the current surge in young adult infections ultimately results in a second wave of elderly infections then it's a different story. But I don't see an inevitable surge in deaths due to the current case count spike. And to the extent that the surge in cases are "probable" and not even confirmed, we could be looking at a lot of smoke without any fire.
And then we have a nuclear incident because "everything we did worked for 30 years so we didn't do maintenance".
That post suffers from recentisim. Mass animal die off are not actually new. Unless you find data from at least 100 years ago to compare, you can not draw conclusions.

> Compared to the time the grandfather post took to research, process, and write

Yes, but the only data in the post is what is found online. So while that can be used to draw attention to an issue, you can not use it to describe a trend, or say that things are getting worse.
Right, but China isn't everything. 55% of the world population is Urban. But if you look at the distribution [1], you will see that my statement still holds true. Most countries in Asia and Africa still have a large rural population. And besides, I don't know if you've lived outside of the US, especially in parts of Asia or Africa, but processed food, even in big urban centers is not as big portion of people's diet as is in Western Countries.

[1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS
Currently on a project where I find myself thinking a lot about this post. I think a lot of the comments here are missing some of the finer points of this argument. "Rewriting" is not per se the problem, "rewriting from scratch" where a project is effectively put on hold until the rewrite gets done, is the real quagmire. There are legitimate ways of doing a rewrite that don't require boiling the ocean and prevent you from shipping. And I'm sure there are exceptions as well, but as a general piece of advice about software engineering I've found this to have a better shelf life than many other nuggets of advice.
It would be great if police found ways to do their jobs that didn't require them to wear body cams because they can't be trusted not to lie, kill, steal, and torture citizens.
Can we go with the original title here? This is a complex debate, with more nuance than is really given credit for in the OP, but editorializing the title does the debate no favours.
I don't see the same delay comparing the UK cases and deaths data -- 7 day moving averages peak around April 15 for both:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk/

Neither the US graphs reflect that -- difference in the first peak of cases and deaths is 9 days:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

For Sweden daily cases rise steadily for months after the peak of deaths:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/

The models are indeed made based on the described assumptions, the actually reported data however isn't as simple as the models. We are of course sure that deaths happen much later as the infections, but what would become the reported "cases" where is hard to model. The "infected but unreported" surely exist and the models rightly also try to account for these too. But everything together is harder than it appeared at the start -- even the number of antibodies among the once infected is not "yes or no, either one has them or not" but something that can be above or below the detection level and that varies through the time in the same individual, decreasing with the time, and undetectable among some who were PCR-test positive.

In short, the good explanations will have to be nuanced, never simple. And we still search for all the nuances.
> In Europe countries have been lifting their lockdown measures

Lifting some of them. Some pubs and restaurants just opened here this week under heavy restrictions, for instance; too soon to see what impact that has on cases. And that was after case numbers were brought down to a few a day; we didn't just lift restrictions while we were still seeing hundreds a day. And of course people are being pretty cautious, mostly still on furlough or working from home, etc. Supermarkets are still letting only a few people in at a time. And the list goes on. We're 'reopening', but we are nowhere close to normal, and a return to normality isn't envisaged at this point; there is no deadline by which the supermarkets will return to full capacity, say.

> Massive protests happened in major European cities and nothing happened. Massive protests in NY didn't result in a spike of cases

While the results arguably aren't totally in, you'd expect outdoor, largely masked, protest to be a lot lower risk than, say, pubs and restaurants reopening. Purely from a public health perspective it wasn't ideal, but it wasn't remotely as risky as the last stages of reopening.

> In most places COVID-19 is over. Done

Where? In the last few weeks in Ireland we've had anywhere from 1 to 20 cases per day, more or less at random. It's down a lot from peak, but it hasn't gone away and it could surge back if we screw up (and there are some early indications that it might be doing so; those pubs and restaurants may not be open for long). It's a similar story in most places in Europe (adjusted per capita).
So basically a personal Wiki for generation Z.
All of the extra Samsung apps. The themes are absolute dog shit. The members app doing a push notification that I haven't rebooted my phone in 7 days like I'm still running Windows 98. The garbage games they install by default. The fact that the UI of said apps doesn't match the rest of Android at all. Bixby existing. Ads in their apps.

Samsung Pay is OK, and I love the magnetic stripe emulation, but I hate that I need to auth again even though I've already unlocked the phone.
ITU-T H.266 Versatile Video Coding (VVC) finished at 13:53 UTC July 3rd
Taken from a message of Gary Sullivan to the JVET reflector:

I am pleased to announce that ITU-T SG16 just declared official Consent on Recommendation ITU-T H.266 Versatile Video Coding (VVC). Consent on H.266 was declared at 1353 UTC (1553 local time in Geneva, 3 July 2020). VVC, which will also become ISO/IEC 23090-3 upon approval in the ISO/IEC approval process, is the latest in a series of very successful such jointly developed ITU-T Recommendations and International Standards for video coding, and is the direct successor to HEVC (Rec. ITU-T H.265 | ISO/IEC 23008-2) and AVC (Rec. ITU-T H.264 | ISO/IEC 14496-10). VVC provides significant coding efficiency improvements over HEVC. Plans are underway to conduct a verification test with formal subjective testing to confirm that VVC achieves about a 50% bit rate reduction vs. HEVC for equal subjective video quality. Test results have demonstrated that VVC provides about a 40% bit rate reduction for 4K/UHD test sequences using objective metrics. Application areas especially targeted for the use of VVC include ultra-high definition 4K and 8K video, video with a high dynamic range and wide colour gamut, and video for immersive media applications such as 360° omnidirectional video, as well as conventional standard-definition and high-definition video content. In addition to improving coding efficiency, VVC also provides highly flexible syntax supporting such use cases as subpicture bitstream extraction, bitstream merging, temporal sublayering, and layered coding scalability.
Coronavirus revealed the unexpected strengths of Germany’s model of government
Well, you pretty much can't. A lone hobbyist simply isn't going to throw together a state-of-the-art garbage collector, any more than they're going to outperform LLVM's optimisations and code-generation. The choice is between leveraging existing GCs, such as by compiling to Java bytecode, or making do with an inferior garbage collector (or the choice of several inferior garbage collectors), the way D/Nim/OCaml do.
I seem to remember the classroom doors of my elementary school (I'm in my sixties) opening in to the classroom, so that during an emergency they wouldn't be pressed closed by the panicking hords rushing by in the hallway, and so that opening them wouldn't injure those panicking hords.
> Our further investigation reveals that Facebook does not fully enforce its policies [9] that require app developers to disclose their data collection and sharing practices as well as respond to data deletion requests by users. Of the analyzed apps, 6% apps fail to provide the required privacy policies, 48% apps do not respond to data deletion requests, and a few apps even continue using user data after confirming data deletion.

This is the real alarming part
This is my experience too. I rewrite often and liberally, and even switch langs (on the side) to check if it can bring huge gains.
User targeted advertising maybe moves the needle 4%. The reason people believe it's so key is that adtech companies need businesses to believe it's vital since they're the only companies with enough user data to do it. That 4% figure came from an independent study, I believe a Google-backed study claimed it had a 50% impact.

Remove that and smaller ad companies can sell ads based on the content they're displayed next to. A reasonable "targeting" method which doesn't require tracking users at all. Sites could partner directly with advertisers for similar effectiveness at a drastically lower price.
Isn't this used to detect if you have a reddit link in your clipboard and prompt you to open it?

Not saying they should do that (probably should be a one-time "open link from clipboard" button instead).
I've used RoamResearch in small groups, and it works well. Just don't try to edit the same block simultaneously (last one wins).

If anyone has successfully done something similar with org-roam, I'd love to hear about it. I've never been on a team that would even consider it, given the Emacs learning curve. That said, I recently helped a Vim + Bear user switch to Doom Emacs + org-roam, and he was swimming in days.

Is anyone aware of projects to diff / merge content in collaborative knowledge graphs like these?
Yep, that's right!
I think you didn't understand what I was stating.

I stated that what is rational is subjective of the context of the culture.

You don't have a right to a job, it's not oppression if people do things you don't like that don't impact your life.

Using "SJW" unironically? How is it taking over the US when the majority of government is socially conservative?

You're effectively parroting the majority opinion and acting like the victim.

"I gotta walk on eggshells, if I say the wrong word they'll fire me"
Relatively low on details, and most of the page has ads.

Here's the original study [1], and this is the announcement from Henry Ford[2].

[1] https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(20)30534-8/ful...

[2] https://www.henryford.com/news/2020/07/hydro-treatment-study
If Trump can run and win an election, other alleged rapists and other types of human scum will be able to do so even more easily in the future.
> It seems that the proximate causes for these events are varied, but the sheer pace, magnitude, and number of affected species should hint that this is ultimately caused by downstream impacts of rapid changes in the environment precipitated by climate change.

Precipitated by...huh? That's not a falsifiable statement, and so is not a valid argument. I could replace "downstream impacts ...climate change" in your statement with "5G deployment" or "vaccines" or "black people" and your argument would be no different.

Where's the evidence that these deaths are caused by environmental change, or indeed are linked and have a common cause?

Note that I'm not denying your claim; I'm merely pointing out that without referencing any evidence, it's as good as no claim at all.
Oh, "they" don't advocate. "They" are very careful not to advocate. But ask questions? Suggest? Leave historical links to wikipedia? God, I'm starting to hate this whole thing with a burning passion.

Not the poster, mind you - clicked through its history and he's a decent fellow. Or fellowette. Rather like him, actually.

But the whole memeplex that seems to grow and grow to the point it actually has rules on how to breach topics on public forums... that I do begin to really hate.
Thanks! Yeah, that has been a struggle. This feature is new, but the app has been known as Nihongo since launch, and I still only place 7th in Google for the "Nihongo" search. Perhaps with a good dedicated page for this feature, I could rank better for a search like "Nihongo OCR" though.
Thanks! Would it be possible to have an option to display the email text the site has generated, instead of having to configure a default MUA?
Yet, it's a conjecture because it hasn't been proven. It's unprovable in fact. Church-Turing is in effect a statement of belief about what computation is. Strong Church-Turing is a statement of belief about our universe.

But it's normal to accept Church-Turing (though not Strong Church-Turing) because once you follow what Gödel, Church and Turing had uncovered the alternatives seem intuitively crazy - Church-Turing has to be right. It's like accepting Modus Ponens and Modus Tollens. I can't present a useful logical argument for why you should accept those because my logical argument will end up relying on them, if you won't accept them then we've nothing further to talk about.
I would always assume that if a train driver sees something on the track ahead, she is going to start braking. And I know that even if I believe I am going to be out of the way in time so they won’t have to stop (or hit me), merely causing a train to brake is going to cause inconvenience and delay and waste energy. So I’m not going to step in front of a train, ever.
Firefox has less market share today than Netscape did at the time this was written.
That vim dumps you into a screen with no guidance and where your keypresses appear to do nothing (or apparently random things!) would be the problem here. It would take very little to have it say "type :help to learn how to use this program" in the bottom of the screen when it starts up. It's also confusing because many Linux systems are set up by default to launch vim whenever another application requests an editor, even if the user uses something they are more comfortable with otherwise. This could be resolved by asking "which editor do you want to use?" instead of dumping the user into a randomly selected editor.

You can build powerful systems without confusing people who often never intended to wind up in your program in the first place. You can even build them to show people how to use them.
If you're using Google tag manager, the csp would have to allow scripts from gtm though?
“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.”
I completely agree! Throwing away your code and starting over is failing to atone for the sins of the past, and I feel like it prevents you from learning or growing as a programmer. That's why I don't think I'll ever rewrite something from scratch again.

To me, this was nowhere more obvious than from my old co-worker who was constantly trying to rewrite the internal site we worked on. First it was angular and coffeescript, but that was apparently unmaintainable after 3 months (!!!). So they rewrote it and then I joined, and it apparently made it to 6 months. Then we tried to rewrite it in TypeScript and React which blew 10 man weeks away before we abandoned it. And then he tried to do TypeScript and Angular again but it never launched.

Meanwhile, after the React debacle, I learned my lesson and focused on rewriting and rearchitecting the old code to follow more modern Angular practices (1.5 components and such), and suddenly the code didn't seem so unworkable anymore! Quality improved and features were added that made it a very popular internal site, still in use 3 years after I left that team.

So I agree, I think you should always try to improve what you have instead of starting over. (If only our UX designers would go for incremental improvements too...)
I have no real advice to be honest, just various experiences on how our modern life is full of unnecessary drag and false solutions while living in a bare place makes your days different.

Also I cannot avoid the immense amount of extremely low efficiency in most organizations... there's nothing interesting in today's live for most people. Just drag fit with shallow moments. I'd rather carry wood on a horse powered carriage for 3 days. And for once I'm not exaggerating much.
Agreed. I don’t see how there won’t be an increase in deaths in a month (save for some new miracle drug, which I doubt — antivirals are hard), so sure, see you in a month. My email is in my profile. (The bet is on nationwide increase).
The main parameter in ML is θ (theta), as in Y = θ0 + θ1 X1 + θ2 X2 + ..., which are learned using the training data. (X1, X2, ...) are the features. The main goal of ML is to determine these theta parameters to a model so that you can use them to predict result on new data.

Hyperparameters in ML is the tuning parameters on the shape and structure of the model, such as the number of features in linear regression above, the number of layers in a NN or number of neurons in each layer. I think basically any tuning parameters besides theta can be considered hyperparameters. The difference is the theta parameters are learned while the hyperparameters are decided by human. But you can also run experiments on different tuning parameters and compare the outcomes so in a sense hyperparameters can be learned.

Convolution, well, the article is trying to explain it. It's like rolling up a portion of an image using a filter. E.g. Making an image blur by pixelizing it. The main purpose is the find out high level feature of the image. E.g. Put a filter on to find the edge of an object in the image.

Kernel is a small NxN matrix (3x3, 4x4, 16x16, etc) used as filter to convert the pixels in an image to high level feature. E.g. the mean-color-kernel takes 4x4 pixels and computes the average of their colors. Now apply the mean-color-kernel over all the 4x4 blocks of an image and you got one convolution.
Even better! Thanks for sharing.
Stop using apps.

Seriously. Stop.

Apps allow far deeper and richer access to various data structures than what should be allowed; this has been proven time and again since mobile OS existed, I think both Apple and Google are to blame for ever allowing developers to freely access whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted, to upload it to any server, without any transparency or oversight (and that's a huge problem on Android, still).

If you can, use the browser (the new Firefox for Android is quite good), which at least limits your exposure to these third parties accessing information they should not.

old.reddit works okay in the browser, I am not so sure about LinkedIn as I don't use it. These days I just rely on using TOR for things like email, Protonmail has a .onion address which is a nice bonus.

I carry very few apps on my device, and I make an effort to exclusively use those found on f-droid, open source, not many permissions.

It's the biggest perk of Android; you can use any store you like, and most APKs install absolutely fine. Disable Play Services and various other tweaks and you're okay.
I don’t think anyone is debating the possibility of it being beneficial. Rather, we just wanted to go through the scientific procedure before announcing to the world that this drug can help, and not to self medicate, have a doctor help you, because of the significant side effects the drugs can help.

Two of my family in brazil had covid, and their doctors prescribed hydroxy and because it came from a doctor, we were fine with it.
>There's no obvious new hardware category for Apple to pivot into so maybe software is their next play.

Lets revisit this comment in a year or two when they release their AR and VR products.
If you're only running one campaign in one channel, and your product hasn't improved, and the competition's product and marketing hasn't changed, and there are no external events that will trigger a change in demand, then i suppose you could take sales as a measure of success.
One guy installed Ultrasurf. First time I'd seen it. I didn't come up w/ a way to defeat it at the edge so I added a reg entry that redirected the output of the exe to NULL. It's a fairly obscure hack; I had been using it to offline malware.
Max's answer to the interview question "What is the most terrible code that you ever encountered, and what was your approach to refactoring it?" is relevant here.

In his book "Code Simplicity", Max has a checklist (summarized in point 4 of https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/rewrites-vs-refactori...) -- and that's the checklist referred to in the InfoQ interview.