skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well the issue may well lie in my first statement. I am not disagreeing in principle with you. But we a day late and a dollar short to actually make large scale societal change in the time needed to respond to _this_ pandemic. The children need an education, parents need to work. That is the fact of the times.

Should this be an ongoing conversation to prepare for the _next_ pandemic? Certainty. But we lost the benefit of time on this one.
Dyslexic here. Dyslexia is not a single condition. The only way we define dyslexia is difficulty reading caused by the way the brain processes text so not something like poor eyesight or low intelligence. Therefore by definition this is not what a large percentage of dyslexics experience because there is no common experience. Maybe this is how some dyslexics experience reading, but I am not one of them and I don't think I have ever actually heard another dyslexic describe literally seeing letters changing as they look at them. It is often more that things seem to change when you aren't looking.

For me personally, I have no problem with letters. A "b" is never a "d" or whatever stereotypical explanations you might hear about dyslexia. My problem is with entire words. I will often substitute one word for another while reading (and writing). I can go back and might still read that incorrect word. But I don't think I ever really "see" that incorrect word. It is more that my brain is lazy and isn't actually reading, it is just assuming what is supposed to be there and that assumption is occasionally wrong.
I did enjoy watching the spacetime videos although I also could not understand most of it. But I feel like the content and topics jumped around a lot and they would present string theory more or less as fact. It was a grabbag of cool ideas but it would be more fruitful I think to build upon layers of knowledge
There’s no need to speculate on this. WhatsApp officially declared some years ago that it will share communication metadata with Facebook. So even though the message content (being E2E encrypted) isn’t shared with Facebook, everything else about one’s messages is.
Insecam: Directory of Unsecured Surveillance Cameras
10% sounds like a case fatality rate somewhere. That’s the percentage of people that see a doctor for it that die, and it is all over the place depending on which city, etc.

The WHO estimate is 0.5% mortality among people that get it. The CDC reports something strange, but if you multiply it out, they’re estimating 0.3% in the US.
Not that this excuses it, but I wonder if it had anything to do with his FB post versus remarketing. My suspicion is that, following his diagnouses, he visited a website that is being a bit shady with its userlists.
When I predict what I'm going to accomplish in a given day I often get it wrong. Even in my own life I have a hard time predicting what will come next
If you don't need that accuracy, why would you use a DS18B20 in the first place. You can use a dirt cheap NTC.
Most teachers would rather be in the classroom than do online learning. They'd also like people to be safe.

The issue comes with trying to force kids to wear masks when so many parents are against them in many places, maintain social distancing, and keeping things clean and sanitized.

Keeping kids focused and learning has become difficult enough, but add on all those measures plus the possibility of contracting covid, just means you will lose a lot of experienced teaching staff.
The officers involved in the Rodney King beating were later convicted in federal court. The riots just happened too soon to let the case fully work through the justice system.
Search the EEVblog forums for more people (myself included) hating on Maxim. Here's one thread: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/maxim-love-_em-or-hat...

Suffice it to say that supply is awful. Often your choices are (1) what's in stock today at distributors or (2) how many wafers per month are you going to buy from us (and it better be a lot)? Plus there are a fair few datasheets under NDA and parts that make no sense; those are obviously semi-customs for some customer that made it to the general market somehow.

These days the only Maxim parts I'll design in are ones that have second sources (like standard package op-amps). Their RTCs and voltage references have historically been okay, but I still try to avoid them: once bitten, twice shy....
Ask HN: Why doesn't HN open the link in a new window?
It talks about 1 quarter and one model from each brand.
Frustratingly unhelpful paper, for those looking for useful, applicable measures and measurements.

No details around:

* distancing measures
* space utilization
* travel arrangements
* coplay arrangements
It really does matter when the words are longer. With short words there’s a limited number of permutations, and letters can’t move far from their real positions. And that demonstration didn’t even attempt to fully scramble the internal letters, it was a rather cherry-picked example. In a language like English with a lot of short words it works better than in others.
Respectfully, this is a sunk cost fallacy. The idea that we’ve already screwed up so there’s no way to radically change course is a recipe for disaster. Even the UK, who foolishly tried to go the probably-nonexistent “herd immunity” route realized their error, turned things around, and is now doing much better than the US (although worse than Europe, because of their early mistakes).
Thanks for that info!
Am I correct in saying these goods are still legally owned by their original owner if ever discovered?

Meaning if I buy a rare musical instrument from this unclaimed baggage company, I have to live with the possibility forever that someone else might show up at my door with a sheriff and take my musical instrument because they were the original owner?
This is a bit much, but let me give you a couple of real world examples of names that I've read over and over yet somehow managed to misread every time.

I read the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy many times, and managed to see the name Grandalf instead of Gandalf every single time.

I was looking up a quote from a former Intel CEO just tonight and found out that his name wasn't Paul Ortelli, but Paul Otellini.

I insert letters that are not there, remove letters that are, and reorder whatever is left all the time.

Yet somehow, I'm also a speed reader.
Since most people select the link before commenting to at least see the page, take a timestamp between that selection and comment time for that IP. Based on the length of the article and average reading time, make them wait.

Speed readers can spend more time ruminating, since they are probably thinking too fast also.
Huh. Remote equipment maintenance?

Then there's this: https://gizmodo.com/these-secret-cold-war-radio-stations-are...

It's strange when you come across those.
I would look into the effective altruism community and see what things people have already tried there.
You might also find the work of the https://www.povertyactionlab.org/ useful because they use RCTs (randomized controlled trials) to see what interventions work. These aren't direct answers to your questions but I think they're useful to consider as what the best, most effective application of your time is.
He didn't swerve to miss the cars. At the start of the video he was already driving on the shoulder of the freeway (indicating that he clearly saw the cars on the road and chose to drive by them at high speeds). He wasn't even in the proper lane. Once he bypassed those cars, he then proceeded to swerve into the two protesters on the left hand side of his car. Rather than slamming on the breaks, he ran full speed into them.

And again, per your own admission, he was speeding. On a freeway that was closed. Where he was caught with multiple cameras driving up the wrong entrance and then doing a U-Turn.

Occam's Razor would indicate that this was not an accident at all because there's so many confounding factors that it would be absurd.
> The workers are well represented by a strong union, have good healthcare and reasonable wages.

My spouse and sister are both schoolteachers. Sister's situation: laid off from a private school where enrollment will drop significantly this year. Spouse's situation: works for a well-funded school in one of the most populous states in the U.S., where there is no strong union, the pay is below the poverty line after mandatory deductions, and the healthcare is so bad (no out-of-network benefits and in-network only applies within the county, basically) that most people have to expand their view of what "health insurance coverage" is in order to understand it. A number of the teachers in their network are considering teach 5 kids in a private daycare group (working 30 hours a week) instead of teaching 30+ kids working 50 hours a week under very constrained public school conditions. These are anecdotes, of course, but what we're seeing from over here is that teachers don't feel safe reopening schools, and aren't overly committed to their benefits since they're not particularly well taken care of by the standards of the average American worker. Just a different two cents.
Since both are angle per time duration, which aspect causes the trouble?
Three questions:

1. What makes you think we _can_ get this under control without herd immunity or a vaccine? I am of the belief that there is a certain level of latent immunity via t-cells in a large portion of the population and thus effective herd immunity is around 25-30% infected. But for arguments sake, lets say it is around 70 based solely on Rt.

2. Who would pay for the UBI? My state is already running low on money. We are already having to cut programs. Raising taxes doesn't count, that would take a year to pass, a year to implement and collect and probably a few years in court litigating. So how do we pay for it?

3. How do you equitably select a parent to stay home? And how to do reimburse their employer for lost productivity? Do you guarantee their job upon the end of the pandemic?
I live outside the US.

Both Digikey and Mouser will charge me $20+ to ship anything (tried with a small capacitor). Farnell will let me put stuff in the shopping cart, then when I select "individual" as the customer type, tells me that they only ship to companies and redirects me to a "partner site" for individuals, which promptly fails to load (things like this have conditioned me to avoid official distributors). RS will gladly sell me 4000 of those capacitors.

For a hobbyist outside of the US, AliExpress is often the only realistic source aside from the local RadioShack equivalent which probably doesn't have what you need.
At the very least, retrieving data from a &String will involve two pointer lookups (one for the &, one for the internal pointer in the String) whereas plain String and &str involve just one.

In addition, since the String object itself cannot be mutated, a slice like s[10:20] as a &String requires storing the 10 and 20 outside the String and then doing pointer offsets when reading the data. A &str does not need to do this, because the pointer offset happens on creation. Because of this, the &str is also smaller (and this is more efficient because of caches), because it only needs to store a pointer and length (16 bytes, on typical machines), while a &String needs to store at least a pointer to the String and the start/end indices (24 bytes).

One could have various special cases to make &String “work” but it likely ends up being equivalent to &str. The key piece in mind: if one retains the &String name, it makes the language less orthogonal, with more special cases, because taking a reference to a string variable like &s to get a value of type &String behaves very differently to taking a reference to any others like &some_int (of type &i32), which will cause problems in generic code.
I am fine with your reasoning as long as we apply the same measure of fairness to "trust-fund babies". If you do nothing and still get good food, big house and nice clothes just because your ancestors worked hard, how is that a fair setup?
I agree that Redis is "good", I wouldn't put it at the level of HAProxy - particularly when it comes to "what stuff is deliberately kept out of the open source version".

If I had to choose a project/tool to put at a similar 'level' as HAProxy in terms of: doing one thing well; a working open source project with a private company backing it; and a well run project, I'd say it's Varnish, which just happens to pair very well with HAProxy.
What Is Reactivity?
It was a conditional probability of Trump winning a bunch of states he was behind in, naively projected as if they were independent. It turned out they all swung the same way, and those probabilities were not independent.
Isn't living life in the same way pre-covid the reason the US is having so many new cases?
Sorry for not expalining it better. This is basically a reverse engineering of Windows' (SOAP?) Scan API that was used to perform the scan over LAN. Unfortunately my Linux distribution did not support the scanner, so I looked at the requests made by my Windows VM, and I've created this small set of bash scripts to perform the scanning :)
I'm curious about the design tool different between Intel and TSMC.. it's likely that Intel has non-standard tools. An indication of this is how much time it took to move Altera's FPGAs to Intel's process.

https://semiaccurate.com/2019/09/23/altera-releases-stratix-...
FWIW: The URL is being truncated right at the "...for-linux" part. I was mildly surprised.

This particular distribution also ships with GTK+.

That being said, a simple "3 2 1 ?" (I was unsure what word would dump the stack) SIGSEGVs quite consistently.

It's also 32-bit, and the backtrace handler produces "XXXX:XXXX" style addresses (?).
The early internet was all about anonymity. People were actually enthused about the lack of censorship. These days we want to connect your username to your identity, and jail you for impure thoughts
I left my Kindle on an Emirates flight to HYD. I thought it was lost forever, but on the last day of my trip, a coworker mentioned I should just get to the airport a little early and ask. It took maybe 30 minutes, but at the end of it, my Kindle was back in my hand!
Why do you think "master/slave" was "a safe word" in the first place?

The current narrative is that tech industry inherited the dominant white supremacist culture. (To be specific, "master/slave" entered as a tech term in the 1950s there was wide support by whites for the existing laws enforcing white supremacy)

As such, the term was "safe" because those who used it - white people in tech - were also nearly always those people who gain from the underlying dynamics of white supremacy.

Another narrative comes from "Broken Metaphor: The Master-Slave Analogy in Technical Literature" by Ron Eglash" available from https://sci-hub.st/10.1353/tech.2007.0066 :

> ... being unconscious of social mores was a good sign for a future physicist, because physics transcends culture. Perhaps this kind of emphasis on a technical identity is at work here, too, and the master-slave metaphor is attractive to engineers because its free use “proves” that they inhabit a nonsocial or culture-free realm, which is a matter of professional pride

There are other certainly other narratives, which is why I'm asking why you think it was a safe word, even when others do not, and have not for years.

Note that Eglash's paper quotes a Black researcher who had problems with that term back in 1992.

To re-ask your earlier question, whose opinions count on the issue of why a term is "safe"?

You mentioned "a 5-year deployment window so everybody gets notice".

The "notifications" started well more than 5 years ago. Even here on HN, Django changed 6 years ago, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7801646 .

Drupal changed its terminology 12 years ago, which lead to discussion 6.5 years ago here at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6826918 .

The earliest discussion on the topic was 11 years ago, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=466188 .

When would you consider that proper notice has been sent?

Tell me, do you still use the term Negro? Or did you side with the change-the-language movement on that one? Because the logic you use sounds identical to the logic used to resist that change.

Why use your limited political energy to, e.g., construct hypotheticals against language change when language always changes?
I'm pretty sure that it was an onion site.

But Insecam is amazing :)
It is only a fallacy if incorrectly applied :D

In some cases, it is better to continue course with known variables.

Also, I wouldn't say it is non-existent. As I said in another response, I currently see a lot of evidence for the cross-reactive t-cell immune response causing the virus to burn out after around 25% infection rate.
Over here in Asia where we live in joint families or our parents/grandparents live in the same house as us for our entire lives this is a non-issue, I always found it weird how people in the west headed out to live independently as soon as they turn 18 or go to college. I knew a guy in Germany who was working a job and said he was peer pressured to leave his parents home because it was seen as something negative, that he was still "freeloading" by the time he was ~24.
I get that this is frustrating and deeply annoying for you, but these predictions are analyzed and made on-device. There is no tracking going on like in the case of Facebook (where it could leak through another Cambridge-Analytica-like event to many other companies).
Silicon Valley Translated in the Wizard of Oz
I appreciate your perspective and I am sorry that that is the situation in your state. I admit I can only speak for my state, and as such should limit my opinions to that context.

Thank you!
Are you saying that different languages are best suited for specific tasks? There’s not one to rule them all?

Sarcasm aside, choosing languages this way makes great sense. Though it can be hard if you don’t one that’s ideally suited to your problem set.
They probably wanted to wait a few more years, but now is the perfect opportunity to stop overseas study, it's only going to get harder to control if they don't act soon.

Students in China heed their government’s warnings against studying in Australia
https://theconversation.com/students-in-china-heed-their-gov...

China Issues Warning to U.S.-Bound Students
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/06/04/chinese-offic...

Chinese citizens are urged not to travel to Canada
https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1193681.shtml
They could hire one or two 19-20 year old proctors to be in the room with the kids. Would be pretty safe.
This is especially important with vector instructions. I had to install Tensorflow 2 years ago and there were four packages available in the repositories:

- nVidia GPU with CUDA

- CPU with SSEv2 (or whatever the second version of vector was called) optimizations

- CPU with SSE optimizations

- CPU without vector optimizations
Of course there will be people like this. Do you think they are anywhere close to the majority?
If you haven't read it yet, this short report seems to conclude that for reasons that are not yet well understood, children are not very likely to contract the disease, and if they do contract it, are not that likely to spread it to others. As a result, school closings (or the lack thereof) do not seem to have a major effect on the spread of the disease. Pulling some key quotes:

"Outbreak investigations in Finland has not shown children to be contributing much in terms of transmission and in Sweden a report comparing risk of covid-19 in different professions, showed no increased risk for teachers."

"In conclusion, closure or not of schools had no measurable direct impact on the number of laboratory confirmed cases in school-aged children in Finland or Sweden"

"In the contact tracings in primary schools in Finland, there has been hardly any evidence of children infecting other persons. The Swedish comparison of number of reported cases among staff in day care and primary school to number of cases in other professions does not show any increased risk for teachers. This also indicates that the role of children in propagating this infection is likely to be small. Various papers on contact tracing have also found that children rarely are the first case in family clusters (4, 12, 13)."

"Closing of schools had no measurable effect on the number of cases of covid- 19 among children."

"Children are not a major risk group of the covid-19 disease and seem to play a less important role from the transmission point of view, although more active surveillance and special studies such as school and household transmission studies are warranted."

Intriguing.

This Mercury News article from a couple days ago tells the same general story, and offers some theories on how things might work biologically:

Coronavirus: Why kids aren’t the germbags, and grownups are.

As school districts sweat over reopening plans, a growing body of research suggests young children are unlikely to transmit COVID-19 virus. They get it from us.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/07/10/coronavirus-why-kids-...
Either the information was important and was probably backed up somewhere or replicated on other websites while geocities was still alive and other platforms where coming up (the overlap of generations) or the information was not noteworthy in which case it probably wouldn't have been found even if geocities existed today.
Or South Africa where they tried to open up schools for only two grades (7th and 12th).

"Since the first phase of the schools reopening last month, 968 schools have had to close due to outbreaks and 2,400 teachers and 1,260 learners have tested positive for COVID-19."

Source: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-07-south-africa-phase-re...

Or the Georgia summer camp that had an outbreak involving 85 campers and staff:

https://www.wftv.com/news/trending/85-campers-staff-test-pos...

Or the Missouri summer camp that had an outbreak involving 82 kids and staff:

https://www.foxnews.com/us/missouri-summer-camp-closes-after...

A lot of this is anecdotal, sure, but I find it hard to believe that kids don't spread the virus if we're seeing large outbreaks like these already.
Wow, that's insane.

There's a program called SuperMemo which has a feature called sleepchart. In sleepchart, you plot sleep episodes which gives you some neat data that can help figure out things like subjective night [1].

But since SuperMemo is a spaced repetition system, sleepchart can also do some very unique analysis. The main graph it can make with repetition data + sleep data is alertness over time: how grades change the longer you've been awake. I would be very curious if you were to try it to see how your alertness/grades reported for repetitions change the longer you're awake.

[1] https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Subjective_night
There are companies that sell these (mostly to keep homes habitable when a new noise source like an airport runway affects them). I don't know how they work, but I'd assume that they pull the air through baffles and/or noise-absorbing material.
Good intentions here but I think this is a little misleading. That photo almost certainly is a long exposure shot that enhances the visibility of the comet. That same poster also posted this image, which is what it looks like to the naked eye (i.e. it barely registers):

https://i.imgur.com/2Il4yJN.jpg

I too remember Halley's comet viewing -- my dad was super excited to see it. It was underwhelming.

Comet Hale–Bopp though, in 1995, was awesome.
If they are truly dimensionless, when is it meaningful to multiply a non-currency value by them? There’s still a semantic that attaches the rate to dollars obtained in a transaction.