skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. It's pretty obvious at this point that a general lockdown is worthless as a replacement for locking down care homes specifically - Spain had one of the strictest lockdowns in Europe but massively screwed up their handling of their care homes, and ended up with an even worse per-capital death toll than Sweden. Unfortunately, mainstream media publications have been spinning this instead as evidence that herd immunity wouldn't work by taking the incredibly high infection fatality rate from Spain, scaling it up, and claiming this is the best measure of how many people would die to achieve herd immunity.
Hi, author here.

I live in Lagos, Nigeria but visit Silicon Valley frequently and follow the situation closely.

Being near but far, has given me unique perspectives on these type of issues.

I sent my report to 22 US media companies (the ones covered, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, Guardian, Wired etc) and was essentially blackballed. Thankfully we can self-publish.

I am here in the comments and happy to answer any questions you may have.
If your neighour's machine is pwned, they could just look at the addresses on the bills he receives in his e-mail.

And if they want to know where my neighbour lives, they could just consult a... Land deed registry. Or their resume.

Or... Run a credit check on them. That last one will also give personal information at a level of fidelity right down to the number of nose hairs that they plucked this morning.

But let's cycle back to that. How does knowing my neighbour's address compromise national security? Am I compromising national security by telling you that John Leslie lives in Apt 341 on my floor? Even if he works for the Air Force?

Keep in mind - the man has to live somewhere. What relevance of note does where he lives in particular have to a nation state?
Some people think it is charity (it isn't) and they are too proud to take charity. Some people fear they will be less employable if they do because it is a record of a gap in employment.
BTW, this is anecdotal and happened a long time ago, but I attended a "national liberal arts college" that's ranked _above_ Reed and had at least one classmate that completed two years at a local community college then transferred to this school for the final two years.

For that matter, my local community college system offers _guaranteed admission_ to several respected (and selective) universities. I.e., not only _can_ you do two years at community college and transfer to one of these more prestigious universities for a four-year degree, you can enroll in programs that guarantee it. (And several schools apparently found this useful enough to actively create a pipeline for it.)
How do you completely lock down a care home? It's a labor-intensive industry and you can't just put care on hold for a few weeks like you could with an assembly line. The only way to keep a virus like this away from care homes is to keep it away from friends and families of caretakers and from their friends and families. You can't focus prevention when you are dealing with presymptomatic spread.
I feel like there needs to be a refinement that allows for something like

(define-blob foo)

to produce the symbol FOO but no other symbols.
The rationale is to make good soldiers for 19th century warfare.

For that goal, discipline and conformity are more important than maximizing individual achievement.
Is the complain about the DB of the website or the raw data is inaccurate?

The former I can shrug off as insignificant, the latter is mildly terrifying and makes you wonder how the hell we can trust anything the government does when they can't even take care of keeping track of triple billons of dollars of other people's ... namely, people who did not get any stimulus ... money.

But I guess the bureaucrats and kleptocratic government must have been ramping it up after the billions upon billions they "lost" in Iraq without a trace. This is probably going to turn into politicians and bureaucrats throwing up their hands when companies claim that the information is inaccurate and they owe nothing and the government cannot prove anything, a la, housing fraud.
> Bitcode is architecture-dependent, you can’t just recompile it for a random target.

In general, you are correct. LLVM-IR is architecture dependent. Things like the size of a pointer, the size of an `int`, parts of the calling convention, or "architecture-specific defines in C code" have already been "hardcoded"/expanded into the generated IR.

In practice, you can easily re-compile x64 IR to arm64, as long as the IR does not use, e.g., "arch-specific" LLVM intrinsics (like explicitly using, e.g., NEON intrinsics). Apple does not let you ship this kind of bitcode to the AppStore, so if you want your software to use NEON on iOS, you need to call the opaque Apple math libraries, which they can just provide for a different architecture.

The other things you need to worry about is, e.g., calls to system libraries (e.g. you can't call a Windows API, generate IR for it, and then try to re-compile that IR for Linux, because that API will fail to link). In practice, if you provide the symbol, everything will work, and the system APIs for MacOSX, iPadOS, and iOS are quite similar.

The x86-macos IR won't be recompilable to Linux or windows, but can be made recompilable to arm-macos.

Note also that this is not the first time Apple does this with the AppStore. They silently migrated all apps from 32-bit ARM to 64-bit ARM, recompiling the software for you. This hints that they have additional capabilities to changing some architecture details in the AppStore's IR, like pointer-sizes (these Apps are not running in 32-bit compatibility mode in 64-bit CPUs, but are running as native 64-bit apps).

>Additionally, Mac AppStore apps are shipped without Bitcode.

The Apps themselves are shipped to users as binary blobs, but developers ship bitcode to the AppStore, which Apple has been recompiling for each new arm processor in their iphones (so on an iPhone 11 you get a different binary blob than on an iphone 6, but the developer didn't ship two blobs, nor they recompiled their App).
This is nonsense.

The assertion comes from the religious. That there is a God and He is responsible for the life, the universe, and everything.

Atheism isn't the belief that there is no God. It's the lack of belief in any God.
That describes the behaviour I see in the UK very closely.

I wonder about supermarket food in particular. Most of it comes in at least one layer of single use plastic - I think plastic can be the right product, but it would need reusable plastics that are standardised and used across different companies products. A bit like how nearly all Chinese takeaways use a variant of a cheap but reusable plastic container (but they're not quite standardised, particularly the radius of the lid corners).

I'd love to see say 20 different allowed packages, you return after use, they're cleaned (or recycled if damaged), and used for more food. No more half full tubs carefully concealed with labels!

I wonder what the stats say vs GPs impressions of Austin?
Sweden did not close its borders, although it followed EU guidelines to close its borders beyond the EU. The US closed its borders to certain areas of the world, which is what this is comparable to.
I've found that IP Webcam functions fairly well as a standards-based H.264/RTSP video stream to feed to anything that can take a rtsp feed. Such as for a hacked up DIY home security camera system.
Religion should be declared a myth because of:

- improbability

- lack of proof

- zillions on contradictions on their own manual

As I said, the burden of proof (God existence) it's up to the believer, not mine. Science says "nope", or unprobable enough clashing with near all common logic facts to not being declared a myth.
If the pipeline were not an issue and you could train people, then we’d have no need to import workers. They’d take kids (whatever race or background) off the street and get them up and running. But they already have a hard time accepting people from boot camps (of course some are diploma mills, but some people are good, but get ignored regardless).
There is always room for improvement! For now, SheetUI doesn't do the same thing as Sheet2Site (they generate an entire website, whereas SheetUI generates only single web page per sheet).

Considering how many people across so many industries use Google Sheets as part of their processes, I'm convinced there is some money to be made.
I'd like to see a return of paper bags. That technology is very ecologically friendly.

Really crummy paper bags for (dry) fresh food isolation, heavier re-usable for takeout and carry. It's nice to have bags to be able to give to others and forget about.

Re-usable produce containers should be sold too, and I'd prefer if those were sold from a special part of the store so that consumers could pack in their own togo containers.
Handling of arguments is one of the reasons I reach for Python or Powershell instead of a bash script when writing my own stuff.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html is great.

Powershell has the Param keyword that functions like argparse in Python

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft...
Hyundai charges a subscription fee for remote start built into their cars. First three years are free, paid subscription thereafter. You have to use their app to remote start. There's no button on the key fob.
"Virus never spread as fast as was feared"

Except in the US, in Italy, etc. where it's spreading or it has been spreading exactly as fast as feared.
Same here, with the same observed behavior.
I only have one card. I swapped the Titan V with my 1x1080 in my old, cheap motherboard and it just worked. I had to hook up the water cooling, but I did that because it came with a block, not because I optimized the thermal design. To verify motherboard compatibility, I looked up in the nvidia specs how many PCIe lanes and at what speed I should expect and confirmed in HWinfo that they were active in that configuration -- much like I'd look at a network interface to make sure my 10/5/2.5GbE hadn't turned into 1GbE on account of gremlins in the wires.

I'm not using this for machine learning, so you might want to talk to someone who is before pulling the trigger. In particular, my need for fp64 made the choice of Titan V completely trivial, whereas in ML you might have to engage brain cells to pick a card or make a wait/buy determination.
archive.org has most historical Byte magazines scanned, which are great fun to read.
I suggest you take a look at how easy maskless photolithography is: https://sam/zeloof.xyz

Theoretically it should be feasible to fab 350 nm without double-patterning by optimizing a simple immersion DLP/DMD i-line stepper.

I think ArF immersion with double-patterning should be able to do maskless 90 nm.
Posts like this make me so glad I was directed by market forces out of hardware design into software.
Yes - that's what I meant - sorry if not clear. BBC ran at full speed all the time (except when interfacing with 1Mhz peripherals). Spectrum clock speed higher but contention for video RAM. Also traditionally the 6502 is regarded as having greater throughout for same clock speed (something to do with the width of the ALU and the complexity of instruction decoding?)
Yeah! And why come we gots to teach kid how to plus and minus if theys just gonna be a plummer?
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The chosen terms don't define the relationship. The documentation defines the terms in the given context, including their relationship.
> but then making a remark like The statement “black lives matter” is easy to agree with if you’re a decent human being, which raises some questions about why we all have so many not-decent people (just indecent, not actual racists?) in our social media feeds - distracted from the overall message.

The objection that most have to the phrase "black lives matter" is exactly the same objection that most have to "all lives matter". That is, essentially no-one objects to the sentiment expressed in the words in and of themselves, but they are suspicious of the political motivations of those who use the slogan.

There is a relative minority of people that engage in what is called "vice-signaling". That is, they claim to object to a commonly held moral sentiment that they feel has been co-opted for a partisan political cause. I think it's probably a counter-productive strategy, but I think those people can be reasoned with if you can separate the moral sentiment from the political platform.
I have seen things you people wouldn't believe. 500-line 7-deep plists off the shoulder of Orion. I watched CLOS glitter in the dark, unused, near the Tannhäuser Gate. 28-clause typecase statements because the author didn't understand generic functions. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

And thank dog for that.
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This won't go over well on HN, where everyone is a Globalist/Communist, but I found it funny.
You can also use add a hyphen ( <<-EOF ) to suppress leading tabs but not spaces. https://linuxhint.com/bash-heredoc-tutorial/
Or

sed -rn 's/^### ?//p'
DFAs are used on all kind of things, including on protocol design and implementation.
The text formatting of this document is great.

Reminds me of all the other gamefaqs which were just plain text, e.g.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps/197339-final-fantasy-tactic...
In college we referred to this same idea (among my peers who were going on through graduate studies, particularly PhDs) as "academic incest", where you aren't sufficiently exposed to a diverse enough set of ideas and end up too narrowly focused or clouded in your judgment.

Ways to overcome it include: moving (in academics, accepting a fellowship at other institutions; as a professional, change jobs); observation (keeping abreast of the latest trends outside your immediate environment and field); community participation (attending conferences, symposia, and similar things; or even forums like this).

But ultimately it requires a recognition that your views, knowledge, and beliefs are, necessarily, constrained by your experiences and that you sometimes have to seek out novel experiences or the experiences of others to change yourself. If you lack the drive for either, or too great a confidence in your own present state, then you're going to be stuck.
I'm puzzled why Microsoft is not on the list
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At least a million people died of the Hong Kong flu. Much more as a percentage of the world population. And Covid19 doesn't seem to take hold anywhere in the pacific rim, regardless of policy. Lockdown or not, masks or not, good or bad hospitals, it doesn't matter. None of the countries in the rim got hit hard. This tells us it's all about herd immunity, and about getting there with as few casualties as possible.

NYC locked down after peak infection; completely pointless. If you're going to lock down you have to do it way early, before the virus has spread everywhere. Sweden didn't lock down. Did we see uncontrolled spread there? Nope. The virus came and petered out after infecting a critical mass of people.

The NYC death rate would never hold over the entire US because a large part of it was the result of disastrous policy of sending covid patients to care homes, and an aggressive venting policy that killed many. Bear in mind that covid19 is a hotspot disease and some parts of the world are always going to get hit much worse than other parts of the world. Extrapolating from outlier hotspots is bad science.
Ah, sorry. Fixed above now as well. Thanks!
Same. Started off in love w FPGA design in college. Software design is light-years ahead of that area in terms of tool maturity, functionality and freedom.
Vanillin is a good example of this. Vanillin produced by engineered yeast cost multiple times more than synthetic vanillin despite being identical products. This is because US packaging does not need to call the yeast-produced compound artificial vanilla flavor.
Not at all.

Without media coverage, it is hard for even myself to know of black founders in US tech.

Did you know the founder of the very popular Calendly was black? He lives in Atlanta and is Nigerian but I only got to know of him recently.

I just wanted to list a few names of people "I KNOW" that are doing spectacular things.

I hope more people make more lists of Black founders. We cannot have enough of them.
You won't like the answer: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kIngGuof9E0
Perhaps. She actually gave it to me during her speech at my wedding to demonstrate how big a nerd I am.
Steampunk was fun, but it's kind of over. I've done the brass and wood and gears thing.[1]

(I miss the TechShop era. For most of the life of TechShop, I had a membership there.)

[1] https://vimeo.com/124065314
> Microsoft's purchase of github seems clearer and their overall strategy seems very coherent. To be the best web's (understood as an OS) vendor and tooling provider.

I think you are being too generous with Microsoft. My take is Microsoft is forced into this strategy because it failed build a successful mobile phone and the ecosystem around it, unlike Apple and Google. It has to transcend the hardware as its only option. MS 365 is capitulation that the strategy of using Office as the killer app to keep people on Windows is no longer as effective as before.
>Most of them will owe ~20% of the loan back to their lender since they had minimal other expenses.

That was my entire point is that the loans were designed to forgive a minimum of 75% of the loan, but it is 100% forgiven if they limited their loan application to 8 weeks of payroll.

All the people you know took 20% more for salary than they were supposed to and they should pay it back. Even based on your personal experience you should know this isn't the way to describe the program:

>These are loans. They are two year low interest loans. They have to be paid back unless some or all is forgiven.

Rather in your personal experience most of the loans will be 80% forgiven.
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Another quote (from the abstract):
"It is concluded that the problem of SARS-CoV-2 is probably being overestimated, as 2.6 million people die of respiratory infections each year compared with less than 4000 deaths for SARS-CoV-2 at the time of writing. "

As of the Mar 19th 2020 issue of the Journal of Antimicrobial Agents.

Even without reading the paper, I can tell you that if this analysis were to be repeated, we would get different results, given that we are now (four months later) at 540,000 (confirmed, which is definitely an underestimate) deaths, rather than 4000.
What successful paths have you encountered in Nigeria that propels local disadvantaged populations into areas of the economy that would typically be out of reach to them and which may be applicable in the US?
Worth noting that these are the house members of the committee overhearing testimony:

David Cicilline, RI (D),
Hank Johnson, GA (D),
Jamie Raskin, MD (D),
Pramila Jayapal, WA (D),
Val Demings, FL (D),
Mary Gay Scanlon, PA (D),
Joe Neguse, CO (D),
Lucy McBath, GA (D),
Jim Sensenbrenner, WI (R),
Matt Gaetz, FL (R),
Ken Buck, CO (R),
Kelly Armstrong, NE (R),
Greg Steube, FL (R)
I have autism, and this could be super helpful with my executive dysfunction. I'm gonna try it out!
Love what you did and the tone of your article ! One of my first "Show HN" was a chat in the console and you could indeed personalize the look of your text using this "css in console.log" feature.
Show HN: Let's Learn Reinforcement Learning for Flappy Bird in JavaScript (2018)
A tutorial on using reinforcement learning for the game of flappy bird
Is it still common in the UK to find portioned or chopped servings of fruit, vegetables and food items in plastic packaging? I always found that a bit excessive, though convenient. This is something that I rarely see in Germany.
My rule for a long time has been that any time you have more than one screen's worth of code and/or are using any of arrays, functions, or more than simple positional arguments you'll save time by rewriting it in Python. shellcheck has helped soften that a bit but the usability difference is pretty noticeable even with multiple decades writing shell scripts.
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100-200k years? Based on... what? Judaism's earliest trace lies at about 1500BC... so not even close to 100k years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_of_Judaism
Thanks! They should include this TL;DR in their post!
> https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html is great

Argparse is okay (and being in stdlib makes it always-available), but it's no click. https://click.palletsprojects.com/en/7.x/
>That's assuming BMW doesn't charge for a broken feature.

That's a big assumption to make.
Yeah, that's where it firmly crosses the line regarding public interest. Whatever we allow to be done to others can just as well happen to us. Never forget:

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
I really hope it makes a meaningful difference. Let us know how it goes.
> blackballed

Honest question - Is that a racist term? Doesn't appear to be based on Google search, but I see people removing words with black in them such as "blacklist" so I am curious.
>If the pipeline were not an issue and you could train people, then we’d have no need to import workers.

I'm confused as to whether you are implying it's impossible to train people? Also isn't the concept of ignoring applicants with some form of training (reasonable boot camp) essentially blocking the pipeline?
It's a matter of whether or not you believe IQ test results.

(Personally, I don't have a position, not being familiar with the literature brandished by either side of the debate. I am, however, aware of the debate's existence — hence this clarifying comment.)
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Why is every HN submission about writing full of run-on sentences, sentence fragments, and other grammar/usage crimes?
Eeh... automata, languages (of all kinds, not just regular), grammars, complexity, etc. are used in computer engineering all the time.

If a computer engineering degree does not have those, then it is a pretty bad one.
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