skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oops. Missed a zero, classically.
So that does make it look more alarming. However could still be heavily effected by things such as low testing amounts, or vulnerable people front loading the numbers.
Plan9 is the future past.
I think we are going to go the way of Semantic ML https://stadia.dev/blog/creating-game-ai-using-mostly-englis...
Being able to use natural language to send commands.
The Black Swan Theory and Why Agile Principles Fit Better
Thank you, Dan. It's certainly tough to catch differing URLs for the same story, but two of those submissions[1,2] appear to share the exact same link[3], with the first one flagged. I imagine it must be uncommon for an identical URL of a flagged submission to be accepted again so soon?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23764542

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23757033

[3] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-ppp-ay...
Salaries are capped at 100k
What breed is that dog?
This tells doctors what to look for. ADEM is treatable, so if someone has this complication, it's important to detect it.
No, in Scotland for weeks I couldnt visit friends, and still cant drive more than 5 miles for social reasons.

We could make those things permenant, it would really reduce road traffic deaths if noone could socially drive more than 5 miles, or drive to visit friends.
> Parent poster was not talking about people who are merely being asked "to support their side in the current moment"; their concern was specifically wrt. the slogan/hashtag "Black Lives Matter", which is associated with a radical Marxist organization. One can care about Black lives and even demonstrate that they care without endorsing a harmful slogan.

The parent poster described himself in another comment as pro-BLM (his phrase), and I think he was making some slightly more subtle points.
Firstly, the webpage bluescreened my Windows 7 box in Firefox ESR twice with Javascript disabled.

Secondly, this is a stupid idea. If you want to do something like this to help folks learn the CLI, a tool like SMIT/smitty (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Management_Interface_To...) is the way to go.
So she gets attention when she touches the buttons and gets food when she pushes "eat".

I like the idea but I don't think you can conclude it's communication any more than a rat pressing a lever to get his brain stimulated was.
“Fulfilment Center” – The Amazon Picking Arcade Machine
Ask HN: Why are all dzone submissions [dead]?
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=dzone.com
Every Dog does that all the time..it's not special, he bark's or pushes me with the nose, i ask food? If he look's down with his eyes rolling to the left as if there is a virtual bowl i know he want's food, if its not food he goes to the door and pushes the door with the nose, if cuddles he presses his body against my leg. The only difference here is that this poor dog had to learn howto use color buttons because his (former?)-owner (probably) cannot interpret his face or gestures.
Note that Liquid is quite similar to Twig, which is used in quite a bit more projects than just Shopify.
It’s not about comparing policy from the top down but rather comparing public opinion of the virus from the bottom up.

Asian cultures have take the virus much more seriously than European cultures and regardless of government policy that is going to be a major determinant of how much the virus spreads.

Put in another way, two countries can apply the exact same policy against the virus but have diverging outcomes because of public opinion of the government, of the virus, and of their fellow citizens.
I'm not very familiar with Docker, but wouldn't something like "docker run some_image ip2unix -r /tmp/socket:8080 ..." work?
Nope. Is 0.4. check again.
PS4 kernel exploit disclosed on HackerOne
Uh, you're right. I had to click an empty portion of the screen and click 'Play', then the video showed up. Thanks.
It seems I have a little bit more to learn on this project. Are there any sources I could read?
Who here can talk about how widely used Lisp is at Google, and what it is used for?
In other words, try not to catch this thing before vaccines or treatments are here. Not one infected person has praised it, AFAIK.

Strokes, heart attacks, thrombosis, kidney failure, lung problems (possibly for life,) nervous system issues, brain damage...what else is left?
Not saying it's "not neurological" it's more about first order vs second order effects.

Loss of taste and smell are most likely first order effect - a direct result of COVID. You can't avoid this w/o avoiding

My guess (just a guess) for the article is the brain damage is a result of uncontrolled fevers - a second order effect. So if you control the fever, you can avoid the serious brain damage.

To that end, let's not be like OH NO BRAIN DAMAGE COVID screams. That's just not intelligent.
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I really like this idea!

There are tons of CLI tools for which I've burned pretty much every flag that I'll ever need into my muscle memory. But there are far more tools that I use only ocassionally -- like mysqldump -- where I have to dig through a manpage or tutorial just to get basic tasks done.

Something like this built into my terminal would make my life so much easier. It's almost like a quick reference card or cheatsheet, except it's totally interactive.
> Eventually my colleague Rüdiger Schack and I felt that to be consistent we had to break the ties with Jaynes and move more in the direction of de Finetti.

For those who are curious, here's Jaynes' view on the subject:

https://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/articles/prob.in.qm.pdf
That's a drop in the bucket compared to the number of care workers needed, at least in countries that are not massive outliers in terms of both low life expectancy and a very large army.
Python is not as handy/efficient as bash when you want to utilize some existing Unix commands. And normally it’s crucial to stop bleeding fast if something bad is happened to you server/cluster
Besides being a famous mathematician he was an avid juggler. He inspired Steve Mills to invent what is known as Mills' Mess. Here is an old quote from him regarding math and juggling:

"The applications aren't the point," Graham says. "I look at
mathematics pretty globally. It represents the ultimate structure and order. And I associate doing with [sic] mathematics with control. Jugglers like to be able to control a situation. There's a well-known saying in juggling: 'The trouble is that the balls go where you throw them. 'It's just you. It's not the phases of the moon, or someone else's fault. It's like chess. It's all out in the open. Mathematics is really there for you to discover."

-- Ronald Graham

Quoted from:

http://juggling.org/bin/news2html/1996/02/05-220104
Show HN: Minimal music player, uses YouTube as source
You seem to be describing property based testing?
> some countries that didn't do very much (e.g. Japan)

Japan had a strong preexisting culture of wearing a mask when going out in public if you're the slightest bit sick.

> countries that locked down (e.g. EU countries and the United States).

The early EU countries (Italy, France, Spain) and the US didn't lock down until far too late when their local epidemics had already spiraled out of control.

The US in particular locked down far too late, too little, and has now re-opened despite still having a huge number of active cases and community transmission. On top of that, it sounds like a large number of people there are still refusing to wear masks.

> Why is it that [...] nations in southeast Asia have negligible deaths

I'm less sure here but I'd guess it's a combination of age demographics (fewer very old people who are most likely to die of the virus), lack of testing/reporting, and higher overall death rates due to disease which masks the effect somewhat.
Try sympy.latex(expr). You can output latex using Sympy too!
Oh, that makes a lot of sense! Ozy and Millie always reminded me heavily of Calvin and Hobbes. Hadn't heard of Phoebe and Her Unicorn before; may have to check it out.
How does a computer restart itself? [StackExchange]
> I'm sure this is to some extent intentional to avoid drawing too much attention to these peripheral features

Yes. The goal is the opposite of not having that blurred.

If you expected something else... it's not him, it's you, expecting the hard lines over which the watercolor is applied. This is simply not that.
Detecting where is a face in a picture is the first step that's necessary before detecting whose face is that.
That just means you need fines proportionate to wealth, not fixed numbers.

A truly useful penalty would be to forbid them from owning any capital (directly, or indirectly like via a trust or index funds).
Nim looks very promising
Just to provide an update: Sidequest has been reviewed and approved by Slack in the meantime!

https://slack.com/apps/A011B3BC8MV-sidequest
> All so that 75 year olds can have an extra month or two of average life expectancy?

In a "More or less" episode the insurance industry debunked that "an extra month or two": it's more like 5 years on average in a first world country.

That's some significant grand-parenting time.

Also, "flattening the curve" was not only about trying to save those old people but to not overwhelm hospitals and cemetaries. The system cannot handle so many excess deaths in so little time.

Your argument sounds like we should have let the virus go rampant and in 6 months:

1. let health workers go grazy

2. wipe out all 75+ people from the planet

Maybe the grand-children could give kisses of death to grandparents and problem is solved?
Very easy in hindsight of course.
Your bigger point -- that Lisp is bad at public relations -- is probably true.

I do have to admit I like the look of interacting with the Lisp interpreter where my commands are in all lower case, and the responses is in all upper case. I may be part of the problem.
It's 2020, shouldn't we have learned by now that DRM software is pointless in almost any situation?
Autofocus, autotarget, aimbots...
> Border enforcements have only been enforced at airports.

That's wrong. Most land borders, also within the Schengen area were closed and only a small amount of people, i.e. citizens, workers were permitted to cross.

Things are slowly opening now within the EU. But that you could just waltz over any old land border is flat out wrong.
> All preventable deaths should be prevented - this is the gold standard. In reality, of course, things don't work out that way.

Yes, in reality a lot of people die driving cars all around the world no matter the amount of on board safety devices and yet cars are legal everywhere. There are countless similar examples.

Preventable is what people agree or tolerate to prevent.
Videos with titles with certain words might be flagged and can’t have ads. As I understand it they’re trying to prevent pornographic content from being monetized, and their list of dirty words include neutral LGBTQ+ terms like “gay” and “lesbian”. This has been verified by experiments where people upload the same video with different titles. [1]

So it’s yet another opaque system that might not have a sinister intention, but has a pretty sinister outcome.

1: https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/10/10/20893258/youtube-lgbt...
Kedro: A Python lib for data and ML pipelines
Thanks. That's a nice, succinct description.

Interpreting/expanding what you wrote, I think you're saying that God is:

* something that currently lives, or maybe lived in the past ("being"),

* that is not limited in any way ("all-powerful"),

* that created, from nothing, everything other than themself that has ever existed and that will exist in the future ("the universe")

Is that close?
Wow, HN is really harsh on the idea of merging CLIs and GUIs...

I think that merging CLIs and GUIs have a great potential.

GUIs are superior than CLIs on interaction because it gives context of the current state and visual cues. (And no, TUIs aren't CLIs nor are they better than GUIs.) However users still use CLIs - the biggest advantage that CLIs have is that it allows various programs interact with each other, e.g. via piping. That's why we have CLI programs that's sole purposes that are communicating with GUI programs, for example almost every programmer's text editor ships with a binary that can i.e. reading from stdin, opening an temporary file, and spitting out to stdin (or at least gives the capability of doing that) so that we can use it in e.g. moreutils vipe.

It seems Fig is an product that allows the reverse, e.g. tying GUIs to CLIs so that people can use git, curl or other CLI programs in a more interaction-friendly way. I think this is has a great potential, if it's rightly executed (i.e. hopefully doesn't use Electron...?)

PS: The argument that 'every programmer knows how to use CLI, so this isn't needed' is just proving the point - programmers deserve better than an plain-text 1970-era interaction, yet we have to use the Terminal daily to accomplish something.
Several religions beg to differ. What do you think about that?
This might be true if there were mid-roll ads, which there aren't on this video. I just liked it this way.
but he's saying a different thing.

If there are 10 developers in the world and 5/10 use python, and at the same time there are 100 non-developers-who-code, and 9/10 use python then
95/110 people use python, and most of them are not developers.

I don't know if that is true, but you can't tell it by the SO responses because SO is more popular amongst developers anyway.

EDIT: tho you can see that python is more popular amongst non-devs than amongst devs, as "all respondents" use it at ~42% and devs use it at ~39%.
Yes, thanks for clarifying!
Relevant/obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1172/

On the subject, I would really prefer this to be an option as well, even with the default being not the current default, however I see that there is a general trend of removing a lot of fine tuning knobs in apps (android or otherwise) in the sake of reducing complexity for the end-user.
Xolo does feature vector extraction on face regions. Extracting those regions from larger images is something else’s job.

Zolo does feature vector similarity analysis on facial feature vectors. Extracting those vectors is something else’s job.

Oh look, now every authoritarian government has free access to never before seen levels of data harvesting. But nobody has to feel any guilt because they only contributed a third of the machine. Hooray!
Did you mean boogeyman? https://www.dictionary.com/browse/boogeyman
What are the best arguments for the view that AI scientists are a (possibly innocent and sincere) part of a money-hungry dragon, but political activists aren't a (possibly innocent and sincere) part of a power-hungry dragon?
>Now when they can do it with low-orbit satellites ...

Some of the better speculation I've come across suggests American ELINT satellites have deployed antenna spans measuring hundreds of feet.

That might explain why grabbing cellular transmissions right out of the air without requiring terrestrial resources has been a thing for at least a couple decades now.

When you have virtually unlimited budget, you can do a lot of things thought previously impossible.
That's actually really interesting,thanks for the link. Hadn't heard of eomap, but I am working closely with both of the partners mentioned. The bathymetry dateset I'm using is 30m resolution, and comes from another researcher who heads up much of the bathymetry work on the gbr. Will definitely follow up. Cheers!
Check out https://github.com/opencv/opencv/tree/master/data/haarcascad...

Plain-text XML for the frontal face detector is 912 KB. 132 KB gzipped. It should be smaller in binary.
I don't think trying to build stuff in Visual Basic in my early teens really counts, and I have the world's fluffiest arts degree. But I aspire to the skills and approach of an engineer!
I think the problem is that historically when people have done this they've made a total mess of it, and inevitably it doesn't support all options so the GUI always plays catch up (and no one is interested in keeping the GUI up to date).

I think the example for this was the wget gui.

My take on this is that for beginners this is really useful. It can also help show you new options that you might not have been aware of. (Have you read the full man page?)
I'm looking for something to run on a Raspberry Pi, to detect humans on a security camera. The built-in camera software has false triggering, esp. on windy days.

When looking at these projects, how do I figure out what hardware they're aimed at? This one mentions NVidia/CUDA.

Is there any sort of hardware abstraction layer that YOLO or R-CNNs can operate on? Can I use any of this code (or models) for my R-Pi?
Show HN: DronaHQ Designer to build UI components without code – now live
How do you explain the differences in outcome between European countries, or even just between the Scandinavian countries?
I suspect that even if it wasn't intended to be a placeholder, after the reaction that icon in particular has gotten across the internet, it's a placeholder now. :)
For comparison I have seen statistics that a granite countertop, or granite flooring can emit around 1.7 microsieverts per hour. Granite is mildly radioactive. I imagine working in an old 1920s era office building with granite column facing materials and granite hallway flooring would be a lot more radiation load on the body, unless you spent dedicated time every day seeking out and handling gas lamp mantles.

Lots of people have marble and granite countertops in their kitchen...
I see Taleb's ideas more and and more frequently applied to software development e.g. by authors such as Kjell Jorgen Hole in his "Anti-Fragile ICT Systems", and Michael T. Nygard in his "Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software" (2nd Edition).

I think it's a little risky to transfer concepts from one domain to another, without taking into account the working assumptions and the surrounding context. For example something as fundamental as the definition of the concept of 'Black Swan' à la Taleb, is a tricky one, let alone its application to the world of software development. Maybe the best we can do so far is to take this in a very broad sense, and interpret it as a general principle: "first, avoid ruin". But, almost by definition, the events outside the control of a software development/project team can be so extreme that it might render the practical application of the principle almost meaningless. (Think about it: what does it really mean in the context of creating a software product really?)

There are of course meaningful principles that apply to creating investment portfolios, strategies, etc.; do they really apply to software development? Are we using similar data sets and statistics for software development and combination of financial instruments? Can we? That's something I can't say "yes" immediately.
Slippery Slope Fallacy – Why do we assume the worst?
> cannot prove that God isn't real. You can however prove that a specific God isn't

What's the difference between "God" and "a specific God"?
This should refute any claim that Covid is not worse than the flu. It also clearly shows the multi week lag between infection and eventual death.
Compare it to gattling guns GAU-8. They shoot at 3900 rpm but only for a few seconds. The reason is that a firing solution may only be correct for a split second. It's all about peak performance because you only shoot when you really need to.

The same thing happens with these large instances. Because these instances are so much bigger that you won't use them for the entire month. You'll use them to get results within hours or days.
Common accessibility problems, and how to fix them
Ask HN: What Feature to Add Next
I have this side project https://pidtuner.com and I am struggling to decide what to add next.

I could improve the underlying algorithms to be faster and more robust (handle better some edge cases) which would improve the success cases for users. This change would not bring an economic cost (apart from the time spent), the downside is the users wouldn't inmediatly notice the upgrade.

I could also implement saving a project on to the cloud, so users can recover and share their results. This would probably help the discoverability of the project, but would be costly for me since I would have to pay monthly for a server to store the user data, and although a thousand people use it a month, nobody donates a dime.

I am passionate about this project and want to improve it but cannot decide how.
Well it is communication (would be really bad if animals could not communicate, especially animals that hunt in a pack). But yeah that button pushing is the opposite of extending communication.
Be warned: the article contains some (imho) significant spoilers for "The Fifth Season", the first book of the "Broken Earth" trilogy.

I read the Broken Earth books and thoroughly enjoyed them (especially the first). I found Jemisin's worldbuilding and protagonists writing to be very compelling.

I strongly recommend to read at least the Fifth Season to see if her writings are to your taste.

The fact that some would object that she is a Sci-fi writer seems... rather reductive to me at the least. Sure Jemisin does not write "hard" SF, and the Broken Earth has some strong fantasy tropes. But so did Frank Herbert and Ursula Le Guin, two among the most revered writers of the genre.

[EDIT] I should not even say that she does not write hard SF, since I did not read her other books (yet). I should have kept it at "The Broken Earth trilogy is not hard SF"
is there a benefit over socat?
Craig Taylor produces animated 3D spatial visualisations like Coral Cities
Show HN: Tax, the Prompt Task List
I am now retired and have kept only 4 or 5 technical books. This is one of them. The elegance of this code is in the way it fulfills its role and fits in the space available.
Yes, Sympy is supposed to be an alternative for MAple, Mathematica, sage etc.
Apart from clear differences in how people act in public spaces when sick, and countries "count" differently.

For instance, in Denmark, each and every dead person that is tested positive for Corona virus, count towards the death toll, even if they died from something obviously different. Even dead people is sometimes tested. It's not the same in all contries.

We will not have the full picture until we analyze the excess mortality rate on the other side of the pandemic. Then we can start to see what did the countries lowest excess death rate per capita do different.
Sure, but it's likely that this won't be going away. So as soon as you relax lockdown, it may well come back. Unless there's a vaccine, which I'm not betting on. And then there's the chance of another zoonotic virus in a few years. Time will tell, but it may turn out that isolating vulnerable populations is the best long-term strategy.
Cool analysis but I don’t think any interesting conclusions came from it.