skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> New Zealand, Taiwan, Vietnam, South Korea, and Germany have done it without herd immunity or a vaccine with a variety of strategies. We should follow their examples and stop using various forms of “American Exceptionalism” as an excuse to not learn from them.

Two of those are islands, one might as well be and the other two are Vietnam and Germany. Vietnam is very interesting. There is a strong chance of Vietnam being a prime area to study the cross-reactive T-cells due to the previous experience with SARS. Furthermore, besides dickhead in chief, I don't believe most people made any sort of exceptionalism claim. The USA is a massive nation experiencing several outbreaks at once. The EU just happened to all have their outbreaks around the same time. We can't compare _just_ the results of each nation and rank the response. We need to look at demographics, density, cultural aspects, interconnectedness etc.

>Print the money. It’s short term and there’s already massive demand and supply shocks that will only get worse if the pandemic isn’t curved.

No. This has never been, and never will be, a sound economic strategy in anything but the most extreme of examples. Also, the pandemic _is_ flattened. Remember we were supposed to have millions dead by now had we done nothing. We did flatten it (too much, probably) and now it is curving up, but still not at the rate that was first feared. But this gets in to a different debate. I have made this point elsewhere in my comment history if you are interested in my opinion.

> believe Canada and some countries in Europe are doing this through an employer-based grants, where the government subsidizes wages to keep them on the payroll. Whether this is ultimately desirable is up for debate, but the companies are going to be screwed with in terms of productivity (and everything else) if this ravages the US labor force. How to do it equitably? Just let the parents/caregivers decide for themselves.

Most relationships are not like that. This would almost universally fall upon women to put their careers on hold. This has been researched and reported widely. We did a similar thing with PPP and it saved many jobs. It was a terrible implementation and corrupt as fuck. But it did save many jobs. But again, someone has to pay the piper and don't keep swooning over the nonsense that is Modern Monetary Theory.
Unnecessary dig at W10 perhaps, but not an unnecessary dig.

It is still quite a frustrating "feature".
Just print the money
There are no “known variables” under the circumstances you describe in a novel pandemic because we don’t know the long term consequences of the disease.

There’s likewise no firm understanding of the duration or quality of immunity, nor will there be for probably years, making every appeal to herd immunity little more than dangerous speculation.
> Thats an absolutely ridiculous interpretation. Asserting that our current "simple parts" are still very far from AGI is nowhere even close to asserting that intelligence is immaterial.

Not really what it says. Look at following passage:

> AI singularity as a narrative, and identify the numerous places in the story where the phrase "... and then a miracle happens" occurs, it becomes apparent pretty quickly that they've reinvented Christianity.

The phrase "miracle happens" , to me is suspect. Intelligence rose many times in various creatures. There is nothing miracle about something that rose multiple number of times.

Are Singularists wrong? Yes. They confuse saturation for exponential curves; current neural networks are far cry from actual neuron networks, and their time scales reflect more their fear of death than any sensible timeline.

If Charlie wants to criticize Singularists, there are plenty of valid reasons. Them being cult like is the least important one.
I have the feeling that the survey discussed in the original article is overgeneralizing from narrow questions of regulation eg. surge pricing, labor markets, etc., and that the so-called liberaltarians probably would be far less skeptical of financial, environmental, & safety regulations, & would generally like to see more vigorous enforcement even when they don't want want more regulations.
You’re dereferencing an invalid pointer with a variable lookup; try “3 2 1 .s” ... there’re some good ANS Forth gems here [0].

[0] - https://1scyem2bunjw1ghzsf1cjwwn-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...
Don’t worry, the Skoda is widely considered to be a failure.

Sorry, couldn’t resist
On a related note, there are fonts designed to make reading easier for people with dislexia, such as OpenDyslexic.

https://www.opendyslexic.org/
What about accreditation? Aren't online classes not accredited and therefore companies aren't impressed you have an online degree or course completed?
I’ll second this. I’ve had two of them and they’ve been a joy to use every day. Excellent value.
Right. Because AMD had the same instructions (but presumably different pipeline timings?), they kept their secrets behind a bit of a wall which added friction for people who would have liked extra performance but not been willing to jump through the hoops required to get it.

So now Intel chips are limiting battery life because every application is executing unoptimized garbage that runs longer and therefore uses more energy. Meanwhile, Apple Xcode will produce optimized binaries for Apple Silicon and the press will go wild.
Yes but many new cases doesn't mean its bad. Most of it are either asymptomatic or having mild symptoms.
I tried to learn how to meditate a few times. It did not work so far.

A few friends told me that they have a similar problem, but after Vipassana they were able to get the idea and started meditating regularly.

Sadly the pandemic made all the Vipassana places to close.

I hope that in 6 months they will start to reopen.
I do as well. 100% we need reform.

There are more then a few "for sale" signs in Capital Hill that I've walked past in the past few weeks. I watched a few people move out of my building and I'm planning on leaving shortly when I land a new job (or I don't)- just gotta find out which.
But notably, Intel still have an ARM architecture license and thus can still design their own ARM cores if they so desire.
>While desktops specifically are seeing declining sales, laptop sales have remained fairly strong in recent years. Intel still powers the lion's share of laptops sold be they Chromebooks, MacBooks, or Windows laptops. So it's not like their sales are instantly going to dry up.

I don't think absolute numbers are what matters. For a company in the stock market, the fact that mobile has grown 10x the size of desktop sales, where the desktop has become stagnant means they lost big on a market...
I mean "inexpensive" both in dollars and in overall social cost. Closing the schools might actually save money short-term, but society will be paying for those children's interrupted education for a long time.

In any case, I agree that the virus will be with us for many months to come. I'm optimistic that with strict mask use and loose other interventions (anything involving large crowds closed, but most other facilities open, mostly prudent individual behavior) we can control the virus, as Japan seems to have. The political progress towards that has been pretty rough, but maybe it's beginning to converge.
I touched upon this in another comment, but I miss "profile-based" social media sites. No feed.

Ex. I have a profile that I can update with photos, etc. If you want to see those things, add me as a friend and navigate to my profile. If I want to share something with my friends, I can use a feature similar to MySpace's bulletin board, a space to share text-only updates about my life. The actual content of the update is hidden behind a link (the title of the update) so I can decide if I am interested in it or not.

I think centralized feeds have destroyed social media. This is especially true of feeds optimized to show "relevant" content.
Getting serious about mobile devices means dropping their historic 60% gross margin target.

If they were willing to do that, I totally buy in to your scenario. It would have been the right play with the benefit of hindsight.

But it would have represented the biggest shift in their business model since they dropped DRAM. Just agreeing to fab the iPhone 1 CPU wouldn't have been nearly enough.
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National deficit spending is the appropriate and correct tool to finance national emergencies. This is not "Modern Monetary Theory," it is basic government finance. We financed every war in the 20th century this way, as well as the responses to major financial shocks.
I am not suggesting to another search engine for MOOCs, instead I am suggesting a search for online programs from accredited colleges that one can receive a degree from
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The report mentions this and for Sweden there was a study that found that school staff had no increased risk of exposure.

In that report (see reference 6) for example taxi drivers had 4 times the increased risk of exposure compared to teachers of primary school.
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But will they still treat you that way after an errant classifier puts you in the wrong bin?
This website throws up an error with BitDefender and stopped me from going to the link. Be warned.
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Anyone have a source for cases over time by age?

I’ve heard it hypothesized but never supported. I agree it’s plausible but we need evidence before confidence.
I would love to know what food tasted like 100 or 1,000 years ago. It was probably gross and horrible for most of humanity back then, so perhaps narrow the sample to whatever the 1% were eating. Though I probably don't really know what the 1% are eating now, so maybe it's comparing two impossible things..
This paper on a "Decentralized Information Sharing Platform" from some Hong Kong university students is interesting. https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.04533
I work in the field of dyslexia and always find these simulations be interesting because they are in conflict with the so-called prevailing wisdom regarding dyslexia here in the US.

Largely due to research out of Yale, there is an entrenched belief among many dyslexia experts that dyslexia is not experienced visually, but is rather a phonological condition. However, if you ask 10 people with dyslexia whether their condition has a visual component, you will get at least 4 people (and quite likely more) who say yes.

Websites like this reinforce the understanding that dyslexia does – at least for some people — have a visual component. Fortunately, the international community seems to be less allegiant to the Yale research.

They view dyslexia as a set of conditions that can be more visual for some and more phonological for others. And there are also many practitioners (assistive technologists, occupational therapists, tutors) in the US who share this broader view of dyslexia.

But it remains baffling to me that so many of the "experts" in the US are unwilling to listen to actual people with dyslexia who state in no uncertain terms that they experience dyslexia in a visual way.

The reason this has come up as a frustration for me (as someone who works in the field but does not have dyslexia) is that my startup's technology is visual in nature. The tech I built [1] has become quite popular among people with dyslexia — despite not having been created with this audience in mind.

I always assumed that experts/advocates would be happy to have another tool that could help people with dyslexia. I never imagined that there could be such a strong orthodoxy of "dyslexia isn't visual, it's phonological" could exist. This website, and the comments in this thread, provide damning proof to the contrary.

1: http://www.beelinereader.com/education
But the variables in the other direction aren't firmly known either. We don't know that suppression can be maintained in the medium term, and we don't know that a vaccine will be able to eliminate the virus in the long term. We have no option but to make choices based on dangerous speculation.
My mother made scrapbooks for my siblings and I with samples of our schoolwork over the years.

If you go back and look at early examples of my handwriting, every "S" was backwards, my b and d were often flipped the wrong way, as were my p and q.

My spelling was atrocious, but my vocabulary was way above average.

I also had the issue with transposing numbers while doing math.

It wasn't until I reached High School that I had a teacher who recognized dyslexia when he saw it.
If you want an example involving younger kids, there was recently an outbreak involving 12 staff and 8 kids at an Oregon daycare that serves kids ages 6 and under [1].

It might be impossible to know whether the adults infected the kids or vice versa (or both), but Coronavirus cases are growing fastest among kids younger than 10 in Oregon right now [2], so ... to me, it makes sense to assume that kids can spread it until it's proven otherwise.

Lastly, for those who don't know, the CDC internally lists reopening schools as the "highest risk" for Coronavirus spread. [3]

[1] https://www.wweek.com/news/state/2020/06/30/oregon-child-car...

[2] https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/07/coronavirus-i...

[3] https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/11/politics/cdc-documents-warn-h...
I'm right there with you - I've watched their videos for better part of 2 years. Each video I've seen most likely twice while some of them I need to watch 4-5 times to understand.

At times, I'll think I understand it. Come back 6 months later having a bit more understanding of related topics only to realize I understood absolutely none of the original video and am just beginning to get it =/. Seemingly innocuous sentences carry insane amounts of information (i.e. Do anything to a blackhole and the surface area never decreases except in Hawking Radiation)

The topics do appear jump around a lot, but there's method to the madness. Topics such as Blackhole/Thermodynamic entropy require foundations that appear unrelated at first.

Sure, they have video lists[0] to help but I've rewatched this one so many times.

> they would present string theory more or less as fact

To be fair, they have a why ST is right[1] and wrong[2].

As you can tell, I'm a SpaceTime fanboy.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsPUh22kYmNCHVpiXDJyA...
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTTa9YcTe1k&list=PLsPUh22kYm...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhpGdumLRqs&list=PLsPUh22kYm...
I don’t know how to respond to this because a lot of it is simply counter factual. We haven’t flattened the curve, we have several uncontrolled outbreaks raging in the US, no reasonable forecasters were predicting millions dead by this time, instead of speculating about special Vietnamese immune characteristics, we can just do what they did with mask wearing, lockdowns, contract tracing, etc and see if it works. I see also no consideration of Germany.

Ideological opposition to MMT is fine, I guess, but that’s not really a rebuttal or explanation of how allowing the disease to ravage the labor force won’t be worse, let alone in anyway moral, given its disproportionate impact on the poor and minorities.

There are always tough choices with caring for kids, but even paying a caregiver to stay home would be more equitable than the status quo (where this already happens as largely uncompensated labor).
I have very limited experience with Consul and Vault. I do know that the older versions of these services, when they were CLI, were very unpleasant, especially the Vault.

Consul didn't immediately meet our needs since it has no form of an audit trail, so the purposes I'd hoped to use it for weren't really fulfilled. I did like what the service seemed to provide and how it provided it.

Just be warned that the lack of audit trail can be a problem if you want to use it for feature flags, etc. It will still need to be backed by some sort of store, like git.
Sorry, I mean Slate Star Codex's point 5 addresses your point 2. I communicated that poorly.

Incidentally a nice (rather amusing) example from pop culture of the "landfills are filling up and we'll soon drown in trash" meme is Futurama episode 'A Big Piece of Garbage'* (S01E08) It's essentially a parody of that NYC trash barge incident and the movie Armageddon.
> The problem is not that people didn't read the submission.

> The problem is that people commented without knowing what the fuck they're talking about.

Right, but if you are commenting on a submission you haven't read, you don't know what you're talking about.

> I just replied to a comment on the HAProxy 2.2 release. I haven't read the article yet, what I commented isn't related to changes in 2.2 - I was able to comment in a meaningful way (i.e. it's an opinion but it's an informed opinion) because of previous experience and knowledge of the topic.

It sounds like while you didn't read the article, you read the thing you were commenting on, though--this isn't really the thing I'm criticizing.

> If HN adopted reasoned voting (i.e. not just down votes, which lead to an echo chamber of whatever koolaid is flavour of the week) you could easily have a "Incorrect" or "Hasn't read TFA" downvote 'reason'.

Tagging comments with "Didn't RTFA" would at least inform other readers that the opinion they're reading is uninformed.
> But even then, you can bundle all your parts and order once.

I fall for this trap every. single. time.

_HOURS_ spent racking my brain to think of all the things I might need in different scenarios, so I can be absolutely, positively, 100% sure that I have everything in that one single order.

... and end up placing 2 to 3 more orders before the project is done.
Thanks for pointing it out. Filed an issue for this: https://github.com/learn-awesome/learn/issues/185
We don't know the long term consequences of completely shutting down a majority of society for an unknown period of time, including depriving children of an education. So let's not compare unknowns. This whole thing is an unknown and we need to accept some risk in each direction or be motionless.
People is a group of more than one. So S(1) is invalid case.
Unless you get auto-suspended and end up receiving non-answers as explanations until you drum up enough twitter attention for a non-outsourced support employee to revert the decision and say "We identified an error that automatically suspended your account and have resolved the issue" a week of frustration later.
Burn rate for black powder depends on particle size. Fine powder burns faster than coarse powder. So one characteristic of high-quality powder is uniform particle size.

But yes, changing the formulation also affects burn rate. For example, replacing potassium nitrate with potassium perchlorate yields a much faster burn.[0] Also replacing the carbon with aluminum dust gives you flash powder.[1]

0) https://pyrodata.com/compositions/Black-Powder-Perchlorate

1) https://pyrodata.com/composition/flash-powder
A file format can be notably more or less resilient to bit errors. It can be the difference between getting a slightly different output, a garbled one or an oops, sorry.

BTW compression efficiency is orthogonal not opposite of structured redundancy that you would want. As a thought experiment, imagine as a last step of coding, encrypting the data with a publicly known key. Theoretical redundancy remains the same, but good luck¹ getting your data back, if you get a bit error.

¹ Imagine a variable length single block cypher was used, multi round CBC or something.
I spent some time a while back looking at it from an algebra point of view, and I would like to make connections to specific analyses. The challenge for me is finding mistakes.

One example area is percentages, which seem dimensionless. Grams per gram yield a percentage. Like grams of sodium per gram of cheese. Or grams of potassium per gram of cheese. I can sum these percentages to get grams of alkali per gram of cheese ONLY if these come from the same or “sufficiently similar” sample.

Looking only at the unit of the measurement, without also looking at the set of measurements, can quickly go awry. “Dimensionless” values can be used as multipliers/scalars only when the context makes sense.

Here’s a subtle one: let’s say I have an additive quantity that I’m measuring, like gallons of paint in various buckets. What are the units for the total paint across all buckets, and what’s the units for the mean quantity of paint per bucket? If these truly have the same units, I could sum averages and sums together. Heck, we could meaningfully sum averages alone. But we know that’s not the case.
People cried out warnings against Apple's walled garden ecosystem. Nobody listened. It's for your own good, they said. It will protect you, they said.
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The implementation of collecting the length of the article is prohibitively complex and error-prone.
You can prove that 2+2!=5. You could even say that, given the rules governing math, it is ‘impossible’ that 2+2=5. The domain, however, is synthetic and composed of a system of axioms and rules.

If I change the underlying axioms and rules, I could certainly prove that 2+2=5, just as I can prove that The sum of a triangles interior angles exceed 180 degrees, or that two identical number squared can equal -1. (Redefining what a straight line means for the former, and inventing an imaginary number system for the latter.)

Proving what can and cannot follow given a set of rules, however, is not what philosophers mean when they speak or impossibility in the real world.
>People don't know what their packaging is made from or who it's made by. They have no way to verify it prior to purchase, and even after purchase, it would take an expert to identify.

For food, you can't change the game without prior notice, but if it is clear that faked goods are toxic, people would start buying from trusted providers themselves. For electronics, I don't see a problem. If a device is bricked, go to your dealer and let him replace it. He will do the same for his supplier, etc.

Somebody in the chain will discover that his supplier is a fraud. He will have to swallow the costs, but has learned a valuable lesson.

If people have brought the product from some unstable source, then they most likely got it cheaper and they are now paying the price for the increased risk they took. It doesn't feel good but I don't think that it is unfair.
Very true. It must be hard to be a fair and impartial judge.
The parent said "print the money" which very much is MMT. Bonds/other debts are a different discussion and we very much are deficit spending right now to combat this.
Well I guess when you invest in purchasing fab you want it utilized as much as possible, so you might want to add batch here and there when you dont have contract work.
Here's the best image we could get: https://imgur.com/a/ZOmP3k4
From what I've seen recently on r/ece or r/electronics, can't remember which, that's still a huge issue.
These acerbic comments make me feel like on Hackaday instead of Hacker News.
> You know you're dealing with counterfeits and you know they're unreliable, but you've somehow convinced yourself that despite all the uncovered variance sitting on the table, if you keep poking long enough until the component returns some non-edge-case value, then it "works fine".

Yes? Because it usually does? If you test a bunch of fakes and they tend to be either basically accurate xor really inaccurate, and your project isn't super critical, why not? It's like unit testing; if you trust your tests, then any function which passes is probably fine to use. I wouldn't do it for something mission-critical, but for fun hobby stuff I probably would.
Thanks for the hint! CO2 is so often overlooked as the problem. There’s even CO2 toxicity, and it happens faster than one would believe.