skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't this just the man on the deserted island losing his grip, talking to a volleyball and having delirium / psychotic symptoms? A symptom of lockdown, side effect of the preventive treatment.

Wikipedia:

Solitary confinement has received severe criticism for having detrimental psychological effects[2] and, to some and in some cases, constituting torture.[3] According to a 2017 review study, "a robust scientific literature has established the negative psychological effects of solitary confinement", leading to "an emerging consensus among correctional as well as professional, mental health, legal, and human rights organizations to drastically limit the use of solitary confinement."[4]

"Psychological effects can include anxiety, depression, anger, cognitive disturbances, perceptual distortions, obsessive thoughts, paranoia, and psychosis."[21]
> the mask averse amongst us

"mask averse"? Really? We're talking about people who knowingly risk the lives of others; that's not their risk to take. Even without all the potential complications we're still discovering in survivors, we already know it kills people at a high rate.

I wouldn't go as far as "murder" unless someone actually knowingly had the disease and spread it to others, but "criminally negligent" would not be even slightly unwarranted. You don't point a gun at other people and pull the trigger just because you don't think there's a bullet in it.

It's not always easy to visualize "small probability of large harm", but the longer people keep fighting against steps like wearing a mask or not going out, the longer and more serious this will become, and the more people will die. "mask averse" is one of the major differences between places that have this more-or-less under control for the moment and places that don't.

There is no valid excuse to be anywhere around other people without some form of mask right now. None whatsoever. (Better yet, keep staying home if you possibly can, but that there are certainly some legitimate reasons to not do.)

Arguing against mask is like arguing you should be able to go without vaccination (which people do, but that is rightfully treated as conspiracy-theory-level harmful misinformation) or blow secondhand smoke in people's faces (except with a higher degree of potential harm from short-term exposure).
That was my thinking. I basically built something like that. I bough small ozone generator that has a pump, inlet and outlet (it was designed for bubbling ozone through water). I put both inlet and outlet inside large cardboard box and when I run it I put the whole box outside because the box is not sealed and small leaks or venting it at the end would release ozone into my apartment which as you say is lung and throat irritant. I haven't notice any damage to plastic. It may have some effect on glue on the duct tape I used to modify the box.

I'm running the generator for 10-15 minutes and then let the stuff sit in generated ozone for additional 20 minutes. But I have no idea if I'm improving my security or just performing security theater for my own amusement.
SymPy is one of the bests, if not the best Python module I have ever used. Everything is well documented and includes many examples, there even is an interactive shell in their page so you can test and tweak everything they show.
Given that PUBG has apparently sold 50 million copies across PC and Xbox (as of two years ago!)[1], and the amount of time and effort that goes into Fortnite continuously to keep it fresh and the people playing it happy, I'm not sure that PUBG hasn't payed a higher dividend on investment percentage-wise, even if it's of lower total amount.

Bottom line, I'm not really really feeling bad for PUBG at all. It's kind of like feeling bad for Minecraft because a lot of people are playing Fortnite now. Minecraft made most its money on the purchase. There's some loss in future revenue because of the network effect, but they probably made most the money they were going to make from you already (and to bring it back to PUBG, it's not for everyone. I didn't let my currently 10 year old son play it, but I let him play Fortnite, even a year ago when this was a discussion).

1: https://www.polygon.com/2018/6/19/17478476/playerunknowns-ba...
So, honest question then, is there not an objective understanding of what racism is? Who gets to define what that is? Is it you? Someone else? Some scripture or holy text?

Everyone has an authority.
I doubt that SARS-CoV-2 is unique in this regard. A lot of people have neurological problems with no clear root cause. My hypothesis is that many of those cases were caused by viral infections. But we've never really looked.
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In practice I guess it's quite complicated. Even in a safety-critical environment where you don't want any errors, halting on an exception often seems not the best idea. For example in an air plane, a halting flight controller could be worse than some incorrect values. I generally agree that raising exceptions and logging them is the way to go if your budget allows, though the default behavior (crash, give 0, a large positive number, w/e) seems less clear (as often when choosing between lesser harms).

Another example: if your system is autonomous and re-initializing it will likely lead to the same "dirty" state (i.e. the division by zero), then recovery would not be possible after a crash. Could be a simple game, or perhaps a Mars rover for instance. In that case 1/0 = 0 is a solid choice.
I hope someone has a stat on how many HN replies are by third parties. Now breakdown by hamming distance of usernames from GP :) :)
'Survival of the fittest' when applied to groups implies cooperation as an essential skill between individuals. It's not all competition. The fittest group is not the one made of the most individually fit members, they also need to function well together.
Yet I look at my youtube saved lists and there's so many "deleted video" or "this video has been removed" entries. You can't even see what the title was.

Right now I think of any video on youtube as temporary and archive any videos I think there's any chance of wanting to watch later using youtube-dl.
>I could reduce this guide by a good 30% with "You should avoid using Lisp as anything as Go or Java".

You should see their C++ style guide, it basically bans most of modern C++. Unsurprisingly enough, Google C++ libraries (like Tensorflow, or GoogleTest) are some of the ugliest open source C++ libraries out there.
The reason is pretty clear to me. The channel was bycatch for algorithms intended to block offensive content.

If you mean that the channel didn't do anything "wrong", and shouldn't have been deleted, I totally agree.
I don't think this is how it would (could?) play out. The CA would say, "Your Apple software is buggy, because nothing else has this weird limit. You can buy a 1 year cert from us to fix your issue. But because you already bought a 2 year cert, and Apple is being a jerk to you, here's an additional 1 year cert. Tell Apple they suck for making you jump through this hoop." And Apple would drone on about security or privacy or whatever being worth the customer now having to do more work. If nobody else played ball, it really would be just Apple annoying everybody. For reasons I can't yet fathom, the rest of the CAs and browsers seemed to chicken out instead of calling their bluff.
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Can't wait for BallmerCon this year. The XLOOKUP meta is going to spice things up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xubbVvKbUfY
So basically focus on isolating all people above 60, all people with comorbidities, and any with genetic sequences that are ill-defined, likely many of them that we haven’t uncovered, and more expensive to test for than Covid screening?

Easy.

Or lockdowns, easy accessibility to testing and good contract tracing. Which has worked well in lots of countries
It's a very simplistic tool, but it is great to help visualise and illustrate some systems. It helped me demonstrate the dynamic between technical complexity, delivery pressure and velocity (then add refactoring) https://medium.com/pageup-tech/the-system-of-technical-compl...
Slack claims to be an open platform, yet their platform is closed, and they took away IRC features, one of the few things they could claim as being "open" about the platform.

I'm not about to try using Teams, but I'm also not about to use Slack, and for mostly the same reasons.

Closed source, centralized platform, and "you must use our frontend". Fuck that.
I don't, the only times that I clicked on ads was by accident or site did some shenanigans to make me click on it. I absolutely never bought anything based on ad on site.
The GPL explicitly allows for code to be sold. Indeed pretty much all open source, and free, licenses allow you to charge money - for your own or anyone else's work.
I've tried all of the commercial phone -> webcam solutions I found that the camera isn't as good as the native software, because the vendor uses some software magic to improve the image quality. The image tends to be very grainy, especially with poor lighting.

Is there a technical reason that none of this software can present a UVC camera to the computer directly?
Well I'm at 3 FPS on an Intel i7 2.40GHz.... would be nice to control the level of detail to give older machines higher refrefresh rates

Update: Seems to work much better on Firefox. Tested on Chrome incognito too.
A very agreeable comment. I think your edit surmises it pretty well actually. Take care!
WiFi equipment (and pretty much every other radio) requires certification in order to be sold in every country I am aware of. WiFI doesn't require a license to operate, but that doesn't mean you can just use any hardware you like (though I think there may be exceptions for hardware you build yourself, at least in the US).
I've always liked Far Side and I think he has his hand-drawn style pat, but the new tablet-drawn ones look... distractingly amateurish, for lack of a better word.

Exhibit A: the faces of the drivers in the "taxidermist" gag, which are all soggy blurs. I'm sure this is to some extent intentional to avoid drawing too much attention to these peripheral features, but still: https://imgur.com/a/k9ZLv5s

That said, it's obviously a new medium for him, so I hope he keeps at it and works out what his new digital style can be.
Join a few expat vn facebook groups. They talk about everything happening in Vietnam. Plus, after 4 years of living there and doing business for 2 years prior to that, I have tons of friends there. I'd hear something from them.

One thing about Vietnam culture is that they gossip like no other. Everything is in the open. As soon as one 'bad' thing happens, everyone knows about it. When one girl came back from Europe and infected a bunch of people, the govt got right on it and quarantined everyone who could have potentially came in contact. Someone turned in a UK friend of mine because they heard him coughing.

After 80+ days, I haven't heard a peep from anyone to suggest that the news isn't exactly what they say it is. My friends are flying around the country like nothing is happening. People are going out and socializing. Look in the news... you see parties and clubs going off. Look at restaurants and night club facebook pages... everyone is out.

If covid was affecting Vietnam, we'd all know, immediately.
You don't get encephalitis from being lonely.
What's amazing to me is how uncommon state machines are in software, comparatively. In ASIC and FPGA design, it's so fundamental and ubiquitous. At least with synchronous designs.
Depends on how many people are micro-waving (at 2.4 GHz) their supper at the time.
I believe it's actually "other arch handler", but I can't find that exact string by Googling.
How can journalism be disrupted?
I'd say it's a product of unconscious competence. "I can't articulate why, but this bit here is the problem." I do maintain, though, that if you can't explain your reasoning for something then you don't understand it. Doesn't mean you're wrong, though!
A few weeks ago a huge university entrance (gaokao) scandal was exposed in China.

https://www.economist.com/china/2020/07/05/as-students-prepa...

CHEN CHUNXIU was applying to join an adult-education programme when she discovered, to her surprise, that she already had a degree. The 36-year-old kindergarten teacher from Shandong province had left formal education in 2004 after taking the gaokao, China’s fearsome university-entrance exam. Though she had attained a respectable score, she had failed to secure a place. When, this year, she asked Shandong University of Technology to explain why its records listed her as an alumnus, the answer was a shock. The university concluded that another young woman with the same surname but much lower grades had connived with teachers and local officials to obtain the college-acceptance notice that should have been sent to Ms Chen. This woman had assumed Ms Chen’s identity and earned a degree, which she then used to bag a job as a civil servant. Whereas Chen became a migrant worker.

After Chen exposed someone literally stole her life, the local and Shangdong provincial governments contacted her relatives and friends and told them to pressure her into silent, or else. According Chen, quite a few relatives were angry at her for 'uncovering ancient history' and bring trouble to all her relatives. Chen, however, was determined to continue as her late father used all his savings to support her study effort.

Yeah, it's a pretty common tactic of the PRC to use families as hostages.
If you use zsh, you can use the help output to generate completions for your own scripts.

https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-completions/blob/master/zsh...
> std:: and TODO as synonyms

What does this mean? I've only been in the C++ game for 6 years and for me if I can get something from std rather than rolling my own or pulling in another library, I'm cheering.
I'm not sure if it's a good idea to use the US as a benchmark for any thing Covid.
Endangering the lives of others has never been an inalienable right. If not wearing a mask or being physically close to others currently breaks the non aggression principle it is reasonable for society to impose temporary measures until it no longer breaks the NAP. The countries that dealt with SARS understand this and have had the best responses globally.
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> Give me science!

This is science. It's a review of the clinical data currently available and discussion of the findings as they relate to neurological damage. This isn't an attempt to scare you, it's preliminary steps to understand a new virus. Coronaviruses aren't new, but this one is and there's still much to be understood about how it's spread, what effects it has on the body, and how it can be treated.

Normally this information wouldn't get this kind of exposure, but since we're in the middle of a global pandemic which has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths in just a few months data is being shared as quickly and as widely as possible. This paper is nothing but a review of what's already being observed in some people who've been infected and a recommendation for additional research in this area all of which appears be entirely appropriate.

It's not at all disingenuous to caution that the long term damage done by this new virus is unknown. Science isn't about guess work and assumptions, it's about the careful collection and analysis of data and right now we don't have any because not enough time has passed.
Really cool! Don't forget Puerto Rico too :)
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Not only do I follow global covid news very closely (like I'm sure many people do), I have very very close personal and business contacts in Vietnam and I follow all their (english) govt news, some local news that I can google translate and facebook groups, etc. I also want to go back to Vietnam. I'd know. It isn't anything like a relative in Virginia.
I use Linux, and find it much better than Windows in many ways. In some cases, programmers write for Windows and ensure the program works on Wine too so that Linux users can use it. And then, there is also WSL, so many Linux programs can also run on Windows. So in many cases (although I think not even close to all), they can run each other's software.

Many of the computer games I play though, other than the BSD games, are for older systems such as DOS, NES/Famicom, etc, or may use a VM such as Z-machine or Glulx (or even Famicom VM; many older systems can also be emulated and used as a VM), and they can often be emulated just as well on Windows and on Linux. Many people still do today; even I too sometimes write new computer games in DOS, in order to support this use.

So, you can release games for PC, but DOS, rather than Windows, if applicable to that game.
If it isn't a goal (or a subgoal) then why measure it? Groups have many goals but what usually happens is that certain goals are prioritized.

Unfortunately, because of incentives, the anointed goals (or the metrics) get over prioritized causing worsening externalities until the goals or metrics get adjusted to correct the externalities. "Move fast and break things" turns into "Move fast with stable infrastructure".

Of course this is a dialectic, so expect the goals and metrics to shift again as new externalities are exploited. The ultimate correcting mechanism is a god who isn't a slave to the incentive structure and who resets the system by getting rid of bad actors.

The world is the Matrix.
Good to know: sympy does not use numpy so you can use pypy instead of python.

In my case I got a 7x speedup.
I didn't buy Google when they IPO'd because my Morgan Stanley broker (whom they ipo'ed through) convinced me not to.

I also didn't buy Tesla at $250 last year, because i would have had the minor inconvenience of transferring my 401k to a full brokerage.

Believe you me, being foolish is very easy.
For personal health and wellness, self-experimenting is the way to go. It should be easier to try and see what works for us.

In the end of the day, there's no one-size-fits-all for health and wellbeing, people should have the tools to experiment and find the optimal diet and lifestyle.

All the best for your journey!
There's going to be a wave of mask related brain damage from people not getting enough oxygen.
The Screen Actors Guild in Hollywood during the Great Depression
to add a term...

they have professionalized.

With licensure, required training, standards, codes of ethics, legal recognition by government actors, etc.
There seems to be quite a few of those remnants on the apple.com site, every few months I feel like I see one of these links for old school content and themes :)
I recall reading about similar things in papers on the 1918 pandemic as well as SARS and other respiratory diseases. So it's not that far fetched off
Well there are definitely hints of some level of neurologic involvement: loss of taste and smell, very strange presentation where people with low O2 sats aren't in respiratory distress (CNS depression?), and occasional reports of confirmed encephalopathy. SARS and MERS also have shown an ability to be neuroinvasive.

I'd be more skeptical of a claim that it for sure DOESN'T have neurologic involvement.
If its your only income and you cant get away when you think things are weird, you need to get a real job.
Wonderful product! I was looking to build a page on a team that I am working with, but wanted a simple integration like this. Kudos!

I would like to know if you are going to add more features later. For example, informal 'About us' pages would have links to social media in their bios. So can we have more than primary and secondary buttons?

Also, it would be lovely to have profile photo frame customizable. It looks stylish to have the photo embedded in a circular frame for example.
Thanks for this response, its a good counterpoint with solid evidence, but the main point still stands - societies aren't merely shutting down because of a virus - it's because of a fear of healthcare systems being overwhelmed.
I love the longer videos, and don't really enjoy the short-form content.

I watch a lot of maker content, and a 15-20 minute clip is great. I'm very glad they are able to make enough money from it to do it full time.
Think of all the chips from then and before then that are becoming rare. The hobbyist and archivist community do their best with modern replacements, keeping legacy parts alive, and things like FPGAs, but to be able to fab modern drop in replacements for rare chips would be amazing.

Things don't have to be ultra modern to offer value.
I see. So they didn't even have the tools to gather the data in the first place it sounds like, let alone figure out how to put together a simulation for it.
I know Apple can be pretty staid but for a beta I am assuming (and hoping) that they're taking the piss on that.
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More dangerous, less power imbalance.
My mistake - I thought baby Jesus did it . But an adult doing it still the same.
> free fab means I can finally learn how to do this

hate to tell you this, but probably not. there are only 40 slots. those are going to quickly be eaten by people that already know how to do this.

the fab isn't the expensive part anyway. you can get a small run of ASICs done for a few single digit $thousand
I can see someone being lockdown averse. Having to stay home all the time is a real drag. IMO it was (and is in many places) necessary, but what's the big deal with wearing a mask? Suppose COVID turns out to be nothing, what have you really lost by wearing a mask for a few months? Heck, if you have some phobia, wear a face shield.
haha i can totally relate to it. Too much noise, in this industry. Do you think it'll be better if you get a curated list of the companies you'll be a perfect fit for? How do you want the list to be curated, on what basis?
Could the suicide of the Chinese physics professor at Stanford have been an example of this gruesome policy?

https://www.stanforddaily.com/2018/12/30/following-stanford-...
> To this date, Florida has among the lowest deaths per capita in the Union [4: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ ].

Check that ref again; Florida is ranked at almost exactly the midpoint.
Or marching band.
> Which has worked well in lots of countries

Has it really? Lots of people in LTC facilities have died, no?
At this point we can also say that some people will need treatments which can cause long term problems for them, for example those needing lung transplants will be on immunosuppressants for the rest of their lives and can expect at least the same risks/limitations faced by others who've undergone transplant for other reasons.
Marxian analysis is the only analysis now, apparently.
The purpose of Bitcoin is to have a fixed-supply digital asset that can be used as money, and which has no central authority to inflate the supply or censor transactions.

Bitcoin is not a building block to a blockchain. The purpose of a blockchain data-structure is to ensure the monotonicity/order of transactions in a distributed decentralized context such as the bitcoin protocol. A blockchain is just a list of transactions where each one references the previous one.

Orchid is a VPN network where participants are paid to route traffic with an Ethereum token. I don’t see any advantage to this over just paying a VPN provider directly. It does make VPN chaining easier, but you can still do VPN chaining without Orchid.
Ok, we've changed to that from https://montrealgazette.com/news/world/scientists-warn-of-po.... Thanks!
Nothing that needs recurring payments. If I cannot find a suitable program, generally I will try to write it by myself instead. Also even with proprietary programs I have already paid for, I will try to make a free software which is better.
Interestingly the GNU Name System IETF draft was just officially filed yesterday: https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-schanzen-gns-01.html