skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>By the way: You might want to try recording something while walking around with your phone in your pocket. My guess is that your clothing will muffle sound.

Many android phones detect being in pocket and lock screen automatically to prevent accidental touches.
No it doesn't:

err := foo()
if err != nil {...}
err = bar() // accidentally ignored
err = baz()
if err != nil {...}
> But I suspect that it will turn out that general lockdown is neither good enough, nor worth the long term economic consequences.

Hang on, this is an article showing that a looser lockdown still ends up with your economy hammered anyway. This should not be surprising, analysts if the Spanish Flu pandemic showed that cities that locked down later and lighter actually suffered more economically. This is because the higher infection and death rate, and larger number of people caring for sick relatives. People ended up
Locking themselves down anyway out of fear, and the epidemic dragged on for longer.

Now we know this wasn’t due to special conditions back then, it’s true now too. There simply isn’t an option to ‘choose the economy’.
There’s been no real progress in clinical treatment since March.
Massachusetts is the exception because our re-infection rates (Rt) have been successfully driven down to well below 1.00 (~0.90 in a recent report), despite having started with a nearly out of control situation. We've gone from thousands of new cases per day to now averaging ~100.

The doubling days started out at around 2.4, stayed stubbornly in the dozens for many weeks, then rise, to now averaging well over 400. The original terrifying exponential growth has clearly been halted.

New levels of opening ("Level 3") are now happening this week - gyms, movies, restaurants, all w/large spacing requirements. In the few times I've gone out (making heavy use of delivery), seeing generally very good mask compliance - 75-90%, but less on one recent trip, which is worrying.

I'm concerned about the opening, but confident that the plan is really data driven, and this is as far as they will go until a vaccine, and they'll quickly roll back if numbers slide.

source: MA resident, track & analyze data daily.
I'd need to know what the percentage of ALDC students across races and across the total population is in order to interpret this statistic
Right, it's a bit useless trick. I guess the author is just exploring how to organize help, maybe thinking about larger scripts or maybe doing it for the article. Either way it's hard to see it going anywhere with sed. If you were to explore parsing and organizing help, I'd suggest starting with a simple pure shell loop like this:

while read -r line; do
case "$line" in
"###"*)
echo "${line#\###}" ;;
esac
done <"$0"
Sure, it's not going to be perfect. But at the other end of the scale in the UK, for example, they were discharging people they knew to be infected into care homes. If you tested everyone you would miss some, but you'd catch some. You'd provide proper PPE to everyone (that is, if you hadn't cancelled pandemic preparedness measures as in the US and UK) and so on. The risk wouldn't be eliminated, but you could at least reduce it with some relatively simple measures.
I've been hopping between Windows and Linix constantly for year now and I'm still shocked at how many times I run into development software that Windows-only or even Windows-preferable.
Indeed, I only found this post quite recently when the demo was mostly done ;)
Every time I read a story like this, I have a strong urge to move 10-20 degrees further from the equator.
If I understand your need correctly: pandoc.
I bet you haven't watched the first lecture video of SICP :)
Is a baby turning water into wine a falsehood that should be removed?

In which religion does a baby turn water into wine? There's no babies doing that in the Bible.
> I was shocked when I first learned what legacy students were.

Also known as "grandfathered" students. Meaning, if your grandpa went to Harvard, you can apply to Harvard as a legacy student and get a way lower bar on the literacy test.
AFAIK you can already do that using content scripts that execute at document_start. A lot of anti-fingerprinting scripts use this already.
New video format 'halves data use of 4K and 8K TVs'
> That's assuming BMW doesn't charge for a broken feature.

I see you haven't owned a new BMW. The Bluetooth on my Motorrad doesn't work with the most popular brand of Bluetooth helmet systems, and there's a running joke that RDC stands for Rarely Displays Correct.
>the economy started tanking because people stopped going out and spending money.

People continued spending money...mortgage/rent; car loans/insurance; food; etc...

>giving people money wouldnt fix this.

PPP didn't fix it did it?

There is an eviction and foreclosure crisis looming...giving people money may have done a better job than PPP in avoiding this coming disaster.
The little cartoon animated heads in the cut scenes was pretty cool for the time, and I remember trying different exploits on the last level just to see what could work, iirc expanding your base/towers over the cpu bases was the only way I could stop the harkonnen from respawning.(when I was house atreides)
That non-Jewish whites are the most under-represented group at Harvard, despite many of them being "legacy, athletes, staff/donor relatives". Whereas this submission would seem to suggest that whites are being unfairly admitted to the detriment of other groups.

In reality, it's the other way around. And the fact that almost half of the few whites that do get in do so through some loophole almost makes it worse -- it means a white kid who is a brilliant student but isn't born into the right family or is an athlete has almost no chance of being admitted.
I think I remember reading that 10% of Harvard College students are international
The argument that some people die so it’s ok if more people die is not only horrific, but it makes very little sense.
Thanks! TBH it's just me but I'm a software engineer and I have my own company, so I guess it works ;)
That's because America has a better propaganda or PR department: no classes in America, just hard work alone!!
From the abstract:

> Among admits who are African American, Asian American, and Hispanic, the share is less than 16% each.
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What is the criteria for defining an acceptable number of deaths?
The problem is that people ignored the lockdown. Also the virus doesn’t discriminate. Younger people will die but may take longer to do so. Also we are detecting cases earlier than back in March where you had to be really sick to get a test.
That number is wildly inaccurate but even so, it's no doubt very different from the bad old days:

Certain private universities, most notably Harvard, introduced policies which effectively placed a quota on the number of Jews admitted to the university. According to historian David Oshinsky, on writing about Jonas Salk, "Most of the surrounding medical schools (Cornell, Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Yale) had rigid quotas in place. In 1935 Yale accepted 76 applicants from a pool of 501. About 200 of those applicants were Jewish and only five got in." He notes that Dean Milton Winternitz's instructions were remarkably precise: "Never admit more than five Jews, take only two Italian Catholics, and take no blacks at all."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_quota
Calysto Scene: scheme with Python libraries
>It is not true that entire loan is forgiven if the payroll percent is met.

Where did I say that?
I believe she started with doing plays in cities using WPA money to fund them, they were mock jury trials performed as stage plays to entice the human into more civic behavior.

Wonder what they are gonna do with this handout?
Rand herself went on welfare when she was unable to hack it as an author, this is sort of life imitating art
Such an odd argument. I wonder how would you reply to such a statement when you reach 65 years of age.
Mix the smart and the rich paints and call it one color.
>Loans always have delayed payment terms, you're being willfully obtuse

And how often do they have forgiveness terms?
Didn't work on macOS (multiple sed errors - switches differ from Linux) but prompted me to write a help function ;-)
I hate to say stuff like this, but the more I learn about Harvard, the more I think it exists to sustain itself so that it can serve the interest of handful. Education is just a byproduct.
I never thought I would see the All Comments Matter movement hit HN
I suppose it depends on the use case. Personally I've always thought argparse is good enough, and have never hit a roadblock "because I'm using argparse" so to say. Having said that, I do like the pattern click is going for. If it argparse allowed the same pattern, in my opinion that would be cool, and it would probably be my first choice.
This is where I'm supposed to empty out my HN eggcup, wear it on my head like a hat, and tell you that you're wrong because it's not a song, because it doesn't have any singing , vocal signal or poetry in it.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/song?s=t

But in all seriousness, I'm sorry that happened to you, that's terrible.
Thanks for the tip, I did not know that.
I would generally go for "as few as possible given the circumstances".

Given how much higher they are over other nations—even taking into account excess deaths—I would say they have failed that metric.
I know of a professor, who used to be at MIT, then Microsoft research. He joined Harvard a few years ago; one of the side benefits is to secure admission for his progeny.
I think I'd make a huge distinction between a reasonable demonstration, which may be a video, and a minimum viable product, which must have code associated with it. If it isn't functional, and could not be sold in its current state, then it isn't a viable product.
I've often found it confusing why we look at African Americans as a separate group, but then group so many as "White" or "Asian"?

Why not just separate people by their majority national heritage?
Stripe Atlas includes $5k in AWS credits – we recevied $1k
I stopped buying. Rent a nice bmw 300/mo taxes and full insurance included. Peace of mind.
Breaking Changes Across Microservices
Compare the timeline at https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/27-04-2020-who-timeline...

Here's a shortened version:

1 January 2020 – After Wuhan Municipal Health Commission report of a cluster of cases of pneumonia (31 Dec. 2019) WHO sets up Incident Management Support Team (...) putting the organization on an emergency footing for dealing with the outbreak

5 January 2020 – WHO publishes first Disease Outbreak News on the new virus

10 January 2020 – WHO publishes guidelines with advice to all countries on how to detect, test and manage potential cases, based on what was known at the time

12 January 2020 – China publishes genetic sequence of COVID-19

13 January 2020 – Thailand confirms cases

14 January 2020 – WHO warns of limited human-to-human transmission

20-21 January 2020 – WHO field visit to Wuhan

22 January 2020 – WHO mission in Wuhan issues statement on evidence of human-to-human transmission

22-23 January 2020 – WHO boards assess whether the outbreak constituted a public health emergency of international concern, no consensus is reached, the Emergency Committee (EC) eventually settles to reconvene within 10 days after receiving more information

30 January 2020 – The EC reconvenes and consensus is reached, advises the Director-General that the outbreak constituted a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). The Director-General accepted the recommendation and declared the novel coronavirus outbreak (2019-nCoV) a PHEIC.

3 February 2020 – WHO releases the international community's Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan

11-12 February 2020 – WHO convened a Research and Innovation Forum on COVID-19

16-24 February 2020 – WHO-China Joint mission on fact finding trip to China, eventually publishes a report on the findings.

11 March 2020 – WHO characterises COVID-19 as a pandemic.

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Of note may be here the last 10 days of January: No scientific consensus was reached regarding a PHEIC on 22-23 January, but was eventually declared on 30 Jan. as more data became available. (The first assessment was just a week after human-to-human transmission was confirmed.) A first response plan was published only 3 days thereafter. However, to declare a pandemic, this required still additional data, international conferences requiring some lead time for planning and scheduling, time consuming fact finding missions, reports…
I don't like Teams, but am forced to use it for work because they don't support Slack. They don't support it for a pretty practical reason: they've spent a lot of time vetting Microsoft's security, SLAs, etc. So have our customers. Slack is a new variable that introduces more work and cost.

Leadership basically sees Teams as a version of Slack that is already integrated into Outlook and Office. Slack doesn't offer enough for them to switch to it. That would also require clearing it with all of our customers, too, for communicating about customer projects.

Microsoft has something Slack doesn't have: a built-in customer base that is already fully committed to their products.
> In an average year, 13/1000 Swedes die anyway.

Yes, people die. That's true of all countries and all times. What we might call civilized societies have however strived to reduce those numbers as much as possible. This was done by trying to avoid violence, improving lifestyles and developing better medical techniques in order to prevent or repair diseases and injuries.

Containing and minimizing the effects of a pandemic is just one aspect of what we might call a civilized attitude towards human life. Conversely, not doing so is uncivilized and I might add immoral and irresponsible.

> there will be an entire generation of people who have effectively "lost" a year of the things they hoped they would do in their lifetime

This almost doesn't merit a reply. A few months of not going to festivals and the cinema is by no measure a catastrophe. It's not fun, but suggesting that your right to fun should trump others' right to life is, again, uncivilized, immoral and irresponsible.
I believe there was one place in France where the care workers moved into the facilities and then the movement of people and items into it were strictly controlled. I believe no one died from Covid-19 at the facility.
I quite like Helvetica Neue, it just "suits my eyes" and the shapes and proportions feel so natural to me. Your rant about Arial made me curious how it came about.

Ah, right, Helvetica Neue has been used for iOS and macOS for a number of years. That makes sense why it feels so familiar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvetica#Neue_Helvetica_(1983...

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As for Arial, I found its history on the same page, as a Helvetica clone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvetica#Arial_and_MS_Sans_Se...

In particular, a visual comparison of a few letters with Helvetica:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvetica#/media/File:Helvetic...

Yes, I see what you mean about the flourish on R. Same with G, and the tail on "a". I agree that Arial is inferior for pretty much every letter in the comparison.

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Apple recently replaced Helvetica Neue with San Fransisco (the name is confusing to me, because they had a font of the same name years ago).

Why Apple Abandoned the World's Most Beloved Typeface - https://www.wired.com/2015/06/apple-abandoned-worlds-beloved...

I was curious if you had any opinion on the San Fransisco font?
You cannot prove that God isn't real. You can however prove that a specific God isn't, or that a specific religion is false.

Or, put another way, the pure idea of God is not falsifiable. The Christian God however, might well be.
Not very many international Harvard College students and I'm not sure their race is even included in the statistics
The 2 word guide to concurrency and parallelism: Use fork().
If Jews are extremely over-represented (with respect to their share in the US population, which is about 1.7%), shouldn't there be an affirmative action for non-jewish students?
Funny enough I recently published something on wellbeing as a metric. Goodhart gets a mention...
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/8/3180
> 'Health officials in Taipei said they alerted the WHO at the end of December about the risk of human-to-human transmission of the new virus but said its concerns were not passed on to other countries.'

> https://www.ft.com/content/2a70a02a-644a-11ea-a6cd-df28cc3c6...

The Guardian disagrees: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/18/caught-in-a-su...

> “Why did the WHO Ignore an email from Taiwanese health officials in late December alerting them to the possibility that coronvirus could be transmitted between humans?” the president asked in a tweet on Friday, echoing a claim made by Taipei.

> However, the Taiwanese email appears to have made no such warning. It was sent from Taiwan’s CDC to its WHO liaison officer on 31 December, hours after the first official report of a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan were published online.

> According to the text provided to the Guardian, the email said: “News resources today indicate that at least seven, atypical pneumonia cases were reported in China.”

> It restates the details of Chinese report, adding “I would greatly appreciate it if you have relevant information to share with us.”

> The email did not contain new information, and certainly nothing about human-to-human transmission. The WHO had picked up the same report on the night of 30 December and was urgently seeking more information. On 1 January it activated its incident management support team, putting the organisation on an emergency footing.

I feel like this whole "it said/it said" thing with all these various organizations and their shifting messages is going to take years, at least, to disentangle.
Well, the feeder schools are pretty classist. I went to Jr. High School in '81 (in Canada, no less) with a student who had a spot reserved for him at Eton (from birth - Apparently by being a descendant of Lord Cecil Martin), which has a high transfer rate to the big colleges in England.
This could (maybe even should) be handled by Android permissions itself e.g allow app to be access camera when screen is off or locked. But this has been inactive mostly inactive for a year, which shows where priorities lie.
> The US seems to have some seriously blatant classism.

We just like to dress it up and call it "Meritocracy". Nevermind that your merits are that you were born into a wealthy, well-connected family.
a search engine who's utility is abuse by fascist-adjacent paramilitary police organizations to round up immigrants, discriminate against minorities, and create a pipeline of non-violent drug offenders for the private prison system.
This is not the first time you've been called out on HN for quoting that outdated paper. The last time was 70 days ago (it was outdated 2+ months ago).
The combination of these numbers and the article produce an interesting conclusion: The non-Jewish non-ALDC white population is the most impacted by the over-representation of ALDC students (followed by Hispanics/Latinos).

The original implication was ALDC white kids getting in at the expense of minorities, but what appears to be really happening is ALDC white kids getting in at the expense of non-ALDC white kids, who were significantly under-represented to begin with.
With the size of its endowment Harvard is often called a hedge fund with a small school attached to it.
They live in an Azure Storage Account (Azure's not-S3). They're mounted as a network storage into pods in our kube cluster. All we need to do to deploy is copy the data into `/<thing>/<timestamp>` and the code finds the newest version and loads it up. So really I'm just looking for a way to abstract azure blob storage from my ML people and to allow them to do the equivalent of `docker tag...` to choose what we roll out.
That's a good point. I should cache the generated sites or the sheet's data in case the sheet server goes down.
Interesting, thanks for sharing. Do the children of British nobility actually face the same academic bar as everyone else to join Oxford and Cambridge? If not, what accounts for the difference?
I get that this is funny, but given that we all are going to pay for this, we might as well get what we can from it, right?

Actually this is the argument they used: https://newideal.aynrand.org/to-take-or-not-to-take/
They removed the bad keyboard on MBP.
That makes quite a lot of sense.

Thank you for the explanation, I tried reading one or two of the cases and got put off by legalese.
Exactly. It also means that we can't judge Sweden's approach for another 12-24-48 months.

Who knows how many times other countries will go in and out of lockdown in the coming years, and how long that will drag on. Melbourne just fully locked down again due to a rise in cases.

It's clear every country will eventually give up and go with Sweden's approach because they'll run out of "free" money, it's just a question of how long they will drag it out, or if a mass-produced vaccine can be effective and arrives in time.
San Francisco tech CEO kicked out of Carmel Valley restaurant
The argument that "its okay for more of other people to die so some people don't miss out on some fun" I find even more abhorrent.
I know a lot of people don't like being criticized, but this is exactly the sort of criticism I like when I finish a project.
It is not, it depends on what you do, what problem you want to solve and so on. You noticed it yourself, for example for game dev windows is just plain better. These OS fights on which one is better are just nonsense.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21037400
> For example, stock trading or bank transfer records in clearing houses.

Yeah, IM looking for other examples, this has been kinda going on from the very beginning.

> I think someone is working on blockchain to have a transparent and immutable record of public documents, like laws and regulations.

This is the kind of stuff I'm looking for, but where are the real world examples?

I brought up Orchid, which seems interesting, any maybe promising at first, but the hype has died down. It's also not user friendly, as in I need both ETH for the smartcontract to work and OXT (Orchid Cryptocurrency) for the bandwidth I want to use.

I do think that blockchains can be useful, and will be useful, but it still seems like it's a solution looking for a problem, and maybe it's creating more problems first (i.e. need for smartcontracts, oracles, etc.)
I think people are ready for things at certain times.

I think history class was wasted on me in high school because I was a kid and didn't have much life experience. But years later with a better grasp on human nature I think I would have had a better grasp.

Another example is a foreign language class. I took it in middle school, in high school and later in college. I learned lots and lots of theory for many years. But only when I went to another country did I learn I hadn't learned.

I think theory needs to be combined with: experience and practice.
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To me this is moving the goalpost.

The stated objective of the lockdown was not to overwhelm the ICUs. As far as I know the ICUs in Sweden have not been overwhelmed. So how is that a failure?

As for the economic impact, given the amount of life support injections into the economy, I think the real economic impact of the shock is yet to be seen. Defaults are only starting to rise.