skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder why nobody did any studies on COVID patients asking very simple questions such as "how often did you use a mask in public?".

A romanian doctor complained that about 70% of his COVID patients believed the dissease was a hoax before being infected themselves.

Maybe he was just trying to scare others, and by no means do I try to blame the sick, but maybe if people not wearing masks, not practicing social distancing not washing their hands are more likely to get sick, we could show this data and make the rest do it more -- if this is indeed the case and these measures significantly decrease your chances of being infected.
A dedicated zoom device with 27” screen and 8 microphones
Oh, I also applied lots of linear and integer programming.

The main benefit of something like integer programming is that you get a clear separation of the specification of your solution and the algorithm that computes it.

When even smart people naively attack any kind of optimization (or selection) problem, the resulting approach often mixes the business logic for specifying the optimum solution and the code for finding that optimum.

That makes any change in business requirements very hard to implement.
To some people (including me), that just makes it better. I'm relatively social, but never knew who my neighbors were.
This is a very cool idea. I'll need to try it out!
in my experience- the more I learn about nutrition, the more I realize that we're just talking about everybody's best guess. Hard facts are scarce in this space.
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I literally just watched a youtube video that sums up the American view on masks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q3PSISAZL8

I just.. don't get it man.
The backwards compatibility was already ditched. It's over.
I am surprised this wasn't available earlier, I guess I just took it for granted. The way Microsoft had reorganized itself has obviously made the whole corp much more agile but at the same time I feel like they've lost their vertically integrated product vision internally with all these disjoint teams.

Having their flagship code editor available for their OS regardless of platform from day one seems like a no brainer, but yet here we are.
> Boom, you're practically guaranteed not to get it.

Not without eye protection you're not. You're also practically guaranteed to wear the respirator incorrectly. Wearing them correctly requires training, absence of facial hair and enduring a very significant degree of discomfort.
Not to be confused with element.ai
I workout 4 days a week. Probably I'll update my routine to 5-6 days a week with more cardio to lower my body fat from 14-15% to 10%.
Sure! To start, just fundamentally—why assume workflows are DAG-shaped? Why no cycles? Lots of real-world processes contain unscheduled repetition that arises at "runtime."

Or what if I can only find out what the rest of the workflow looks like once I'm halfway through it? Why must workflow definitions be static? No "decision" elements as in a flowchart?

Someone might read these complaints and think I'm asking for a programming environment rather than a workflow tool, and that's kinda my point :P

The "unnecessary" side is typically project-specific, but I tend not to need a separate notion of `backfill`, or any of the `Executor` functionality for distributed execution. I suppose if I needed to run stuff on multiple nodes I would just schedule jobs on Kubernetes directly.
Awesome! And now that RiotX is out of beta, please divert those resources to Element iOS because it _desperately_ needs some UX love.
> The book also contains a description of a full implementation of a condition system that can (and hopefully will!) be used outside Common Lisp

Do you foresee any issues with other languages only having dynamic (i.e. THROW) non-local transfers of control rather than lexical as well (i.e. GO). I find it convenient for when I want to conditionally unwind the stack to have lexical transfers, and obviously it's been demonstrated you can implement GO with just THROW, so there's no loss of generality, but I wonder what the ergonomic impact will be.
It’s been politicized in America. I think it’s really that simple.
Despite you being downvoted, I appreciated your post. I especially find the idea of "social looting" interesting, and I agree with you about the path of least resistance being the middle class--we're easy targets, it seems.
Athens is so ugly that it comes the other way around.

It looks like no other. When I travel around Europe I sometimes feel that all cities look the same. When I go to Athens I feel that I am not in Europe anymore, it's a different planet.
Been an Apple fanatic since ~1982.

I really wish Apple would just pay their taxes. They can afford it. In fact, they can't give away their money fast enough (stock buybacks).

Whatever's fair. Excuses like "maximal shareholder value" and "fiduciary responsibility" are just rationalizations.

Further, it could be a great competitive strategy. Akin to their virtue signaling on privacy.

Amazon's greatest competitive advantage is their lower cost of capital. If Apple paid their fair share, it gives them the moral authority to insist Amazon does too. I'm sure they'd have allies in that fight.
And you can't "grep dead trees" (search paper notes).
> (just like solving a problem on the spot in an interview)

I don't think that's a conclusion you can actually make, it's still a very different kind of stress, especially for someone introverted. When I'm being evaluated, the stress is crippling me - I'm overly nervous and can mess up even the simplest things; even finding correct words can be hard. However, when I'm in a urgent situation where something needs fixing, or deadline is passing, I become focused, assertive (but also easily irritated) and take charge much more easily than usual - and that short-term stress actually helps there. Those are very different situations that make people react differently.
"it's starting to seem reasonable that we'll have a vaccine available for Fall/Winter."

Please explain why you think it seems reasonable and/or provide sources.
Zulip definitely needs more UX design work. I also wouldn't call it great either. Perhaps in comparison to the competition it would be, but it's awful compared to native chat applications.

Invisible scroll bars keep making me miss new messages just because indicators were out of the viewport. Having the browser stall routinely causes full reloads (after a delay, making it more annoying), then the reload is invarialy interrupted by the server due to request overload. Not to mention that the reload is slow already. Long messages show up collapsed, and uncollapsing them often devours whatever text was in the input field, an especially useful feature when trying to write a thoughtful reply cross-referencing multiple posts. Email notifications send out the same message multiple times, and presents author's name the same way as the rest of the text. Constant hitting on the CPU. Confusing notion of threads and forums. I could go on - Zulip is not nice.
Acceptable answer: it depends on what I'm sorting. Is it a primitive like char strings, numbers, or a more complex data type? Could it have null values and type mismatches, am I using a strongly typed language? Does it need to be cleaned first?

I think the ability to come up with relevant and important questions to ask about the task given is more crucial than whether they can solve it. You can look up answers to questions from hundreds of good sources, but you need to be able to generate the right questions that need to be answered first.
Me too! Now I know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMJk4y9NGvE
Rationally, I know these planes have a lot more capabilities than the F-15s that were popular in my youth.

But as a taxpayer, it's really hard to swallow that these planes cost ~10x as much while every other technology is 100s of times cheaper.
I use a lot of algorithms through libraries but rarely implement one. I think people get tired of the typical algorithm interviews because they often focus on implementation and not use.
> If you have a decent language and a good compiler / interpreter, then the recursion with function calls will have no overhead over iteration.

The recursive Python version above didn't use tail calls. I don't think that a Haskell or Scheme compiler would compile the equivalent versions into a simple loop.
And for every one success story along the vein of Apple, there's hundreds of failure stories (caused by a variety of reasons). Having a good name gives you a better chance than having a bad name. You're just exhibiting survivorship/selection bias here.

And anyway, they were known as "Apple Computer" back then. See e.g. this ad: https://i.redd.it/f1o3uol6q2dx.jpg The name is not at all ambiguous. It was good branding relative to its competitors.
I've become quite the fan of 1password. I think that this kind of thing is critical enough to spend money on.
Yes it really is. As a worker who deals with this bullshit every day and stupid covid paranoid people: Now do this routine to the point where your skin cracks cause you wash/sanitize your hands every single day, and your face starts breaking out cause your work is forcing you to wear _CLOTH_ masks 8 hours of the whole day at work. There's legit no reason to be doing such paranoid routine.

You might as well literally stay home if you are going to put yourself through that and sign up for unemployment benefits if you're going to be that paranoid.

This Corona is total Bullshit. Downvote me to hell guys but you aren't going to convince me cloth masks is going to save my ass from a fake virus when I can still smell the sweet smell of ass from closeby coworkers through my damn mask. The hospital I worked at all these years, how anyone thinks Covid is as serious as the media is making it sound as is beyond me and god help yourself.

I've seen plenty of people not even wearing masks or wearing it completely wrong. I've seen coworkers eat with their masks next to their faces, then put their masks back on. It's absolutely disgusting -- i'm sick and tired of this bullshit narrative that makes my day job a living hell at the hospital. Lets not forget that there was THOUSANDS of people rioting all over the USA for a whole month while Covid stats were dropping just up until the point where riots were losing steam, they decided to bring back "wave 2, more covid on the rise" narrative. Wake the fuck up people

/rant over
I read at one point that the typesetters at the New Yorker would work with the copy editors to fix cases of bad justification (huge word space, awkward hyphen). It's rare to see that kind of care, but automatic algorithms are getting better.

On topic to the original post, I implemented Knuth-style line breaking in the Android text stack (working with Anish Athalye who was an intern at the time and did the first prototype). There were a bunch of nicely tuned implementations of advanced data structures and algorithms in there.
How McKinsey is making $100M (and counting) advising the government response
As a rural customer only 5 miles out of town, I have a DSL bonded pair. No cable service. 20mbit/sec down, 1.5 mbit/sec up. Starlink doesn't have a high threshold to meet for it to be a major improvement to our service. My situation is not unusual in rural settings.

Cellular is also spotty, so its not a good option either. Very hilly terrain with low population density. All of my cellular service at home is over wifi via the DSL connection.

Comcast has no interest in running cable/fiber the 2.5 miles needed to get to us. No ROI.
Pasting from linked twitter thread, while this is encouraging, some things are left to be desired:

1) No data for the most vulnerable older (>55) population

2) Second dose absolutely necessary

3) Safety profile less than desirable

4) Durability of neutralizing Ab not so encouraging (decline from day 43~57)

5) Very low CD8 T-cell responses

Novavas phase I results (NVX-CoV2373), probably due to be out soon, will be interesting.
This has a term, BTW: "Intersectionality"[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality
Also happens here in Portugal, I thought it was pretty normal.
Here's a YT video showing how one of these style apartments was redone into a very modern and style - https://youtu.be/JEnL2nljPdY
companies don't pay VAT because they claim it back on everything they buy

they do however collect it
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There’s also a difference between password sharing and shared secrets. Sometimes you need something that is like a password, and needs to be shared amongst a team.

One example would be an inter-company IPSec VPN PSK.
This is why we have bank accounts and index funds.
> I can see why someone with no symptoms, especially if they're not at risk of transferring it to others, would refuse it.

The fact that they caught the disease tells us they are at risk of transferring it to others.
I think that it's possible. Immediately returning a HTTP 500 is easily doable, and you should be able to fork the Lisp process, continue serving requests in the parent, and save stack information (such as function parameters, etc..) and dump the Lisp core for further analysis in the child. (Do note, however, that this process breaks all FDs, which includes open files and network sockets.)
> On mobile, I take quick notes with Telegram's Saved Messages.

This is a great idea. I use it all the time. I use the Histre integration to push these Telegram notes automatically to https://histre.com/ (disclaimer: mine) for a full proper notes with tags, searchability, sharing etc:
https://histre.com/blog/take-notes-with-telegram/
The HHS claims[1] this is to reduce reporting burden:

> On March 29, 2020, Vice President Pence sent a letter to hospital administrators across the country requesting daily data reports on testing, capacity and utilization, and patient flows to facilitate the public health response to the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). Many separate governmental entities are requesting similar information, resulting in stakeholder requests to reduce duplication and minimize reporting burden.

[1] https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/covid-19-faqs-hospit...

I totally believe that the CDC's National Healthcare Safety Network could be antiquated. But why is the solution to outsource to a private vendor and keep the data private going forward? The Federal government has at least two agencies dedicated to helping modernize its IT systems, the U.S. Digital Service under the Whitehouse and the GSA's 18F. The agencies were created after the healthcare.gov debacle. One of those agencies should be working with the HHS/CDC to improve the CDC's NHSN so that the coronavirus task force can get the data it needs.
> We're optimized for eating lots of sugar.

Not even sure how to respond to that one. American diabetes rates?

> Primates have a hard time producing fat from carbs

??? carbs -> glucose -> insulin -> increased lipogenesis. Carbs are _better_ than protein or fat at producing bodyfat.

> Is eating lots of animal products bad for you? Yes. It's been shown again and again in large studies that humans do better on predominantly whole plant foods.

In large, observational studies with innumerable co-founding factors, including lumping regular meat (a steak) in with highly processed meat (mcdonalds burger).

I agree with the whole food part, and plants can be good, but exclusion of unprocessed meat is not proven to be any more healthy.

You also self describe as vegetarian in your profile, and ketogenic diets often include meat.
What an absurd claim!

As others (some heavily downvoted by now) commented, free market capitalism - that is, whenever there's no state involvement - makes it impossible to profit from such actions (one has to pay for irrational behavior).
> clunky behavior, (no window snapping)

my windows snap, tile, etc. when I drag a window to a part of the screen, it snaps there.

I haven't see a kernel panic on MacOSX in the 15 years that I've been using it, and I haven't seen one on Linux either, but maybe my workload is just different.
Exactly. To clarify, my first sentence was about a state when this so called "deep fake" tech is already present and used but courts and judges didn't caught up yet and are treating any photo/video evidence as real by default.
If you want to reduce 99% of risk from Covid, wear a full-on Burka! Cause that's where America is headed towards to at this ridiculous rate. /s
Perhaps because I’m a government lobbyist and consultant formerly of FAANG with 24 years of experience trying to warn the Web industry that the exact thesis of the article is turning non-Web sectors against them? Couldn’t possibly be that, no, I have to be schizophrenic or a troll. The reason I know you don’t have schizophrenia close to you in your life is how willing you are to throw it at an anonymous commenter with a dismissive gesture toward “schizo”. You’d shut up if you knew what it’s like.

And you and “a proper response to accusing you of being a conspiracy means I’m being trolled when really I have no response” wonder why I change HN accounts like I change socks. Perhaps it’s because I hold this community in the utmost contempt precisely because of you and people like you, and I have zero interest in building a reputation among the harmful, toxic people who don’t realize how wrong they have it that I am working to excise from the conversation.

Take it or leave it. The good news for you is that you’re on the comfortable side of the argument so you will never get flagged or chastised by dang. Flagrantly accusing someone of psychological defect due to not liking their opinion is okay depending on the target and beliefs.
In our state/county they are essentially mandatory.

You don't have to wear one outside, but if you want to use any public or private business that's located inside of a building - you are required to wear a mask.
Is he also plainly missing the left ear? Looks like it's covered by the face but I doubt it would be entirely invisible. Usually one thing that works well to detect (women's) GAN-generated faces are earrings: they're usually different from one side to the other.
I was looking at the top image in this article and thinking "that'd be even more amazing if all those cars were kicked off that street and it was more pedestrianized." And in your comment you talk about the noise from the cars too. Cities are not loud, cars are loud.

I think many of the areas of issue you discuss with this could be solved, and many of the strengths that the article's author expresses could be maintained.

We learn something from each microexperiment in housing and city building.
Of course, I meant to say "inferentially undecidable" instead of "preferentially undecidable".

Being inferentially undecidable means that it is not the case that for every proposition, there is either a proof of the proposition or its negation.

Inferential undecidablity implies "incompleteness" in the sense that it is not the case that every true proposition can be proved.
People were being influenced since the dawn of times. Devaluing an internet’s stranger opinion is a good thing.
That's possible only if your public health system is equipped to force large numbers of people to undergo certain medical procedures. In the U.S. there exists significant opposition to that sort of capability.
I am not sure the US actually can, given the current legal and political landscape.

Masks are "mandatory" where I'm at, and I walked into a multi-billion dollar business the other day with a sign that literally said "if you are not wearing a mask we will respectfully assume it is due to a medical condition".

"Mandatory" in the US effectively means "strongly suggested". There's literally zero effective way to enforce it.
My task is to implement a model that takes advantage of unified field theory to simulate arbitrary bodies in spacetime, first the mathematical models behind it need to be created then implemented in software.
IMHO all you need to know is to recognize a certain category of problems and remember that there is an appropriate algorithm for it - and if can you recall the name even better, will save you some time googling, but it's not that important. After consulting the documentation and if you previously learned it in a school/course, you'll be able to implement it in pretty much the same time as someone who knows how to draw it on a whiteboard from the top of their head.
I make photocopies of all my notes: the original gets filed by title, and the copy goes into a Leitner box after having key details redacted.
”You'd select a place for $500 and find it was $700 when checking out”

Noticed that too lately. It’s become pretty difficult to search for something by price because a lot of places almost double the price after cleaning fees.
Maybe masks make you shut up and with less talk there is less likelyhood you spread the virus?

We know super spreaders are the shouting-singing-outgoing types.
This article is about the contract with Boeing (it's in the title and everything), the other article does not mention the contract with Boeing and appears to be about the engine contract.
Look at his rightmost tooth.
Fructose, in fact is the villain. Check out https://peterattiamd.com/rickjohnson/
Thanks for the reply.

>log all available information about the request and program state to some sort of log file

I've only dabbled with some Schemes, but given Lisp's homoiconic nature, I'm guessing it would also be possible to generate and persist a unit test based on the failing call too, right?
Does anyone know if it is possible to integrate such a system, as plugin, in clojure? Is there already a project like that?
Roll your own Ngrok with Nginx, Letsencrypt, and SSH reverse tunnelling
Social security and healthcare is definitely awesome, but have you checked house prices near big German cities like Munich? They're much closer to Bay Area prices while salaries are very far away.

Europeans who keep tooting that "we don't need US salaries" tend to be the more privileged ones who will also inherit a house from their boomer parents and take it for granted, so they don't feel the stress of the rat race with skyrocketing house prices and income inequality.

So no, we DO want better paying jobs and lower taxes otherwise we'll go back to a feudalistic society where a select few own the housing and means of production through inheritance and everyone else and their offspring will forever be stuck working for the upper class so they can consume their products and pay them rent.

In most of the US, learning leet-code offers one a meritocratic lift up to the upper class while in most of Europe(except the East) it does not.
You want all the kinds of tests. I'm pretty sure I had coronavirus in mid-March (I live in NYC), but seeing as how there were no tests available at all unless you were hospitalized at a minimum, I just suffered through it in home isolation. By the time antibody tests were widely available nearly two months later, my result came back negative. A swab test at the peak of my symptoms would have been more conclusive (had it been available). A lot of people who had it earlier on are already testing negative for antibodies. And now it's at the point where I'll never know for sure. I really wish the testing (all kinds) had been available in mid-March, so I'd know for sure. Now that the testing is much more available, you'd be crazy not to take advantage of it.