skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The case raise dramatically but not the death tolls.

Death toll is a trailing indicator (IIRC, it tends to be about 10 days from infection to symptom onset in symptomatic cases, a little bit longer to hospitalization, a few more days to death where it occurs, and that's getting longer because of better care protocols with more experience, so the degree to which death is a trailing indicator is increasing), we've gotten better at managing serious cases (which is better for ventilator capacity since we are using less per case, but worse for overall hospital capacity, IIRC, because we're using more bed-days per hospitalization.)

The fact that cases over time are skewing younger also depresses the death rate but that's somewhat misleading as to impact, because seriously ill younger people are less likely to die but also more likely to have long hospitalization and post-hopsitalization convalescence, and that's only considering immediate consequences and not the increasing array of significant delayed health consequences that are being identified.
Sounds like this is biased towards American listeners and export of American music abroad

As European Xennial (more narrowed Millennial) I went through the chart in the end of article and I think this is first time I heard Baby Got Back (recognized by 84% millennials), No scrubs (89%), No Diggity (79%) and can guarantee recognitionr ate among my perrs would be way below 50% if I don't recognize it who was listening radio and going to cloubs all the time

also can't believe only 68% of Millennials would recognize Ice ice baby, that's completely insane, it was impossible to miss it as it was global hit in 90s, same with extremely popular rock ballad Always from JBJ with only 49% recognition among Millennials

also I don't see any mainstream eurohouse/trance hits like Robert Miles's Children, ATB's Till I come, Rhythm is a dancer, What Is Love from Haddaway, all even recognizable by my boomer father, let alone myself, none of them made it into chart while they must be recognized for sure at least by 50% of Millennials, which just again proves it's just chart for Americans who were not listening to house/trance in mainstream radio
You see an empty house, it's quiet, you act.
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(for anyone who doesn't get it, Rich funded Clojure development via his retirement savings from 2005 until he ran out in 2009 https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3386321)
No, the vast majority of Americans think covid-19 is real. Vox had a poll saying it was in the area of 1%. The issue is many don't want to be forced to wear masks, which is dumb and selfish, but not what you are saying.

Meanwhile as of 2019, over 20% of Americans doubt climate change, a much more significant number. This is far too high in my opinion, but it is steadily improving.
Exactly. If the thing you are trying to predict is very rare (compared to business as usual), the error rates of your system have to be unfathomably low if you don't want to either drown in false positives or detect nothing at all ( =expensive money wasting project).

In some cases the error rates need to be so low, that even claims like "we are 99.9% accurate" should be taken with a big crystalline block of salt.

Remember this whenever terrorism is used as a reason why we desparetely need these surveillance mechanisms. If burglars are rare, terrorists are even rarer. The proposed systems are good for bigger things like demonstrations, social movements etc. but they suck at detecting terrorism, unless you have a metric ton of personal which will look at false positives all day long.
Opinions seem to be divided as to whether GPT-3 is more hype or a real turning point for practical AI, but in my opinion the most compelling examples aren’t the standard text completion via the playground, but rather the possibility for programmatic access via the API. The demos that integrate with an Excel spreadsheet or a bash shell are pretty exciting, and I’m hoping to make API access from custom applications even easier.

To that end I’m excited to share my .NET bindings for the OpenAI GPT-3 API. This is a widely compatible .NET Standard 2.0 package which should work on the .NET Framework, on cross-platform .NET Core, and even via ASP.NET or Xamarin mobile (although I have not yet tested all of those scenarios). It’s a bit more than a simple Rest wrapper, handling some of the complication of the API and making it feel like an idiomatic C# library. I’m especially proud of the streaming implementation, which is otherwise a pain to use directly.

I realize the overlap of C# developers and ML practitioners is not huge, but in my experience that’s exacerbated by poor tooling. I hope some creative .NET devs find this library useful in pushing the boundaries of the OpenAI API.

(This is my first open source package release, so I’m definitely open to feedback if I’ve missed anything)
In the USA transportation is 30% of carbon emissions and in California, where at least some nominal progress has been made toward carbon emissions from utilities, transportation is over 40%.
No, but it can enhance Google for certain queries.

Just some things that GPT3 can't do:

- A large portion (of at least mine) queries are 'grep the internet' type of queries. GPT3's powers lie in directly opposite part of the spectrum.

- GPT3's output can not be trusted. It is basically a statistical output of the most likely words to be responding the prompt. In many cases it will be complete gibberish and you have no way of knowing (programmatically) that it is so that you could potentially replace it with something else.

- GPT3 is notoriously bad with numbers and dates.

Finally Google has managed to redefine what search means to the point that 'to search something' means 'to google something' and even if you had superior (by what measure?) results, if they don't match what we are used to getting from Google, you might have a barrier to adoption.

So my bet is that NLP models will augment the abilities of search engines, not replace them. We see that happening already.
Interesting.

In the US break ins very much are more likely in less affluent areas.
Of course not. I was reaching for an analogy
I remember being very excited by RethinkDB, it was a huge shame to see that go down. I feel like they signed their own death warrant by making a product that was super easy to use and was well documented.. so no support contracts, because simply not needed. Such a shame.
1. There's more to the job than coding. If you think that's all there is, you have much to learn.

2. "only a few very small changes get done,"

To me, you can learn to make large changes. Your skill level determines how many changes you get done. You can work harder to get more done.

3. When you work harder, your skills grow, your compensation will grow. FAANG is usually good at this. If they aren't, you can quit, but this takes at least a year because promotions are lagging.
One thing I've been realizing is that layout and style are two different thing. Layout I almost always want done on the parent element, and style, I almost always want done on the child element.

For example, I probably always want h1 elements to have the same font/weight/size. That's style, and should be defined on the h1.

In contrast, the h1 within a blog post may be positioned very differently from the h1 within a video page, so I'd want to define that in the blog post and video page styles, respectively.

Of course, where this gets complicated, is that there's not always a clear boundary between style and layout. For example, I might always want the same amount of space under the h1 between the h1 and the content it titles (style?) but the top/left/right spacing is probably more dependent on the context (layout?). There are some hard to communicate tradeoffs here.
Are they happy with 8hr a day? I keep worrying that I'd have to put in 12 hr shifts to keep up with the graduate hires.
LOL thank you for this. Watching it now, hilarious and as usual Carlin is spot on.
The real question is why anybody would do a time-lapse photo of the sky without spending thousands of dollars on telescope, tracking, and corrective software. Do people really expect ELon to stop making billions for their photos? Fix the pictures, not the sky!
Please, read or watch «Ender's_Game» novel. I started to like to play such games after reading it.
Pretty strange how no one else sees that banks are very very fragile institutions, plus this one is heavily VC-ed, which makes everything they claim in public irrelevant (this is if we want to trust what any bank says at all).

What is relevant is that Cognitect will now have 100% of income coming from the single (and fragile) source, they now do not have to compete and survive on their own, they can't say "no" when having a choice between having to conform or quit the only money source.

I am not discussing personalities here - people are free to choose how to sell their products or themselves. Just thinking what this means to me as a software consultant who makes 100% of money from Clojure (yes, a fragile single choice because of sort of falling in love)
I think you and I have a very different understanding of why people postpone having children. And what makes you think people will go back to having the same job for 40 years? What indicators show that air travel will become prohibitively expensive? Why would big houses become illegal?

And for the last part, big houses have been inaccessible to most urbanites for a while now. Yet urbanites have fewer children later in life than people in rural areas where land is cheap.
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It probably depends on the criteria. Is this the biggest West Coast relatively sexy tech employers or is it the large-ish companies with the highest average comp for a given level of software engineer? (I actually agree that, in general, Microsoft probably belongs on the list more than Netflix does.)
I did not imply that the poster has depression.
In haskell, a lot of the uptake in financial services is because they are writing internal DSLs to do things like modelling exotic options.
It is really 2 Gbps down. However, the Ethernet ports are just 1 Gbps.

So you can't have it on a single device. What it allows is to have 2 computers, each one with their own full 1 GBps link.

In practice, it is mostly useless. I have the 1 GBbs plan on the same provider (Orange) and I generally only get full speed on speed tests, and the only times I use a significant fraction of my bandwidth is on the occasional large download (ex: games).

Free, the other ISP, is known for its ludicrous speeds at the end point but from my experience a few years ago, it is seriously limited by its infrastructure. So you my get 5 Gbps on the local loop, but you will never get these speeds on the greater internet.

Basically, 1Gbps+ fiber makes your internet connection somebody else's problem. The last mile stops being the limiting factor.
I've been thinking that there are a very small number of countries that will hurt less from climate change, possibly even benefiting on the whole. Canada, Russia, the Nordic countries, maybe Mongolia.

Because these countries have relatively few vulnerable coastal cities, and a lot of land that's too cold to do much with. Yeah some places will get drier, but some will get wetter too (I think overall it gets wetter, but that doesn't mean much to people in areas that turn into deserts.)

Anyway I like to talk to people about it because I've noticed a very visceral reaction among progressives (translation: it gets down-voted on HN) that there could be any "winners" in climate change. It has to be all bad. They might well be right, but I think my point is still valid. Again, I'm not sure these countries will "win" but they'll be relative winners in a game full of negative prizes. If you disagree, engage with me, don't just click on the arrow.
If NZ is because it eliminated the virus, then it will all happen again when (inevitably, in a virus this widespread throughout the world) someone brings it back in.
I was unable to bring Datomic in-house. Mainly because our organization has a huge agreement with Oracle and all our database servers are essentially "free" to teams.

So I cheated. I created some schema designs that were immutable. I added a GUID, timestamp, and a deleted flag (value of 'Y' or 'N') to tables. Basically, all selects are against views that are defined over the tables to select the tuple associated with the max(timestamp) for that tuple along with the tuple having a deleted flag value of 'N'. This means that any select only sees the most recent tuple value for a GUID if it hasn't been "deleted".

There was a little bit more hiding in there to handle dirty writes.

But this worked very well for my requirements. By really only doing inserts, I was able to do similar "point in time" looks at the db as an immutable value.

Fun stuff.
I always said if Walmart/Amazon could sell Pot, crime would be cut in half. The point is that "illegal" drugs still have people who want them, thus economically someone will provide, and getting arrested is part of the cost, and killing rivals part of the business. But if buying/selling/using is legal, then supply goes to the whoever can do it the easiest/cheapest, which is usually regular retailers. Thus arrests for these now legal drugs (like Nicotine and Alcohol are) are limited to misuse (like DWI) and police can focus on regular crime. Also enforcement of rules (don't sell to minors etc.) can be managed easier since it's the retailers that are being managed.
It's the visuals. I really have a difficult time with that costume. You can actually see the rubber in the inflated "tentacles."
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can one make a career out of clojure?
with the non-bonded interactions parametrized with dimers it might work... sometimes (might be good enough for a lot of things though)
I'm not sure 0401 is still around, but here's 0420, which is the oldest I could find. Should be a similar corpus.

https://dumps.wikimedia.your.org/enwiki/20200420/
Couldn't they just be at a similar evolutionary level to us, looking at the first photo of our solar system taken from theirs?
Why don't they take on the name Cognitect? It is a much better brand than Nubank and that would distinguish this from the many stories where a no brand or bad brand big co buys a good brand.
Two thoughts crossed my mind when I heard this news. The first thought was in response to the fact that Ted Wheeler is pretty much hated by everyone, including protesters and government entities alike, at this point. This makes me question whether him getting tear gassed was intentional to try and draw sympathy from the crowd with a staged show of solidarity.

The man himself said this:

> Wheeler then addressed the much larger crowd from a raised balcony, saying “I am here tonight to stand with you.”

And here's a journalists take from the scene that night (courtesy of Kednicma):

https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1286158630161494016

My second thought was that things would have moved along much more peacefully if the protesters were armed. Thus far, the most peaceful protests I've heard about were ones where the protesters were well armed and not engaging in acts of violence beyond vandalism. Examples being [0]Stony Mountain and protests at the Oklahoma Governor's home.

[0] https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/armed-protesters-make-state...

[1] https://oklahoman.com/article/5665067/armed-protesters-peace...
At least where I am, cable is better than DSL but still not that good. We are paying for 600 mbps but we never really get any more than 30 mbps no matter how much we complain and conference calls tend to stutter quite a bit.
There was a batch of Pinebook Pro computers that went out which was badly-QA'd and had issues with the display. You may have gotten one of those. I believe the issue was pretty localized, and if you get in touch with Pine64 they'll send you some replacement parts.

Disclaimer: I am a heavily biased Pinebook Pro user :)
Well that and Bill Nye's attempts to convince people of global warming have been totally unscientific, ranging from an "experiment" where he filled a sphere with CO2 and took the temperature, to literally igniting a globe and saying "the planet's on fucking fire".

Putting Nye aside, can anyone name an actually good public educator for climate change? I don't think I know of one that didn't go off the rails.

Then there's all the claims around climate change that simply turn out to be untrue. People said that polar bears were drowning because of global warming, yet the polar bear population isn't struggling to say the least. Glaciers were supposed to melt by now, and when they didn't, the signs that said they would were simply removed. Some cities and small islands were said to be at risk of sinking into the ocean by a decade ago, yet they remain dry. This doesn't even include some of the insane claims made by public servants.

I think that anthropogenic climate change is real, and a problem. But I don't think the average person is an idiot for distrusting what they're being told about it. They're regularly lectured by people who are wrong about climate change over and over again. Inversely to conservatives, most liberals I know don't actually understand science at all but treat it as a religion.

Public science communicators can start by no longer making predictions like "By 2020, there will be no more glaciers here." They've not proven to accurately predict anything at the decade-resolution, so they need to just stop doing it.
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That MacroSilicon MS2109 capture is super interesting! $11 shipped for 1080p30 capture is unbeatable. I wonder what kind of host SBC is going to be necessary to build a clone BlackMagic ATEM Mini without choking up USB bandwidth.
Cool idea, saw you on PH yesterday.
That feels a bit like moving the goal post - you asked where the deaths were, and based upon the graph they are coming.

When you say a stat like that you need to caveat it - is that 0.04% of the total population? Case fatality? Infection fatality?

It's also not looking forward - today's total values aren't particularly useful when we can obviously see that the situation has been continually evolving.
Yeah there's reason to use grids, particularly if you're comfortable with them. I like to start with flexbox if I don't know where things are going / I'll need grid and .. surprisingly I rarely have to move on to grid.

Granted I'm mostly working on business apps, not a lot of complexity there layout wise, flexbox works great for that, and it's not a heavy lift for someone to learn it.
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Bahnhof has 10000 Mbit/s for 399SEK (45USD) in Stockholm. I doubt I would really need it though.
You will need to create common library for all these languages, then write all your programs using your own libraries only.
Can't help but feel this doesn't belong on hacker news
You're correct about not being able to target parent selectors without some JS intervention - BUT - if you avoid any property declarations on your default img elements you can achieve what you desire.

Live demo: https://codepen.io/bradleytaunt/pen/LYGapao
I'm not expert on air routes but Bangkok to Tokyo sounds like it would go over the North part of the South China Sea, near Hainan then along the coast of China. So not really where the flashpoints are.

Not sure what would be frightening and shocking apart perhaps from the potential overfishing, which is unfortunately widespread worldwide.

I'm sure that Vietnam, especially, and other neighbouring countries also have extensive fishing fleets in the South China Sea at large.
This is pretty much a cherry picked worst case scenario. The comet is only visible right above the horizon after sunset for a brief period.

Starlink satellites are also only visible low on the horizon, and only for brief periods after sunset and before sunrise, because their low orbits keep them in the Earths shadow the rest of the night.
> Those kids of work may even help get you promoted and open up more interesting projects.

Do you have any anecdotes in support of this view? My general understanding is that working on such things (if it isn't part of your explicit job description) is usually met by at best gratitude from other people, but certainly not promotions. And there are definite risks: since it is time spent not on your "actual" job, it can show up in performance cycles especially with a mediocre manager.
That is so cool. And complicated.
You are referring to Shumway. I was working at the time on Lightspark, another FOSS implementation. All these efforts, including the recent ones, like Ruffle, are doomed due to the sheer complexity of implementing Flash from scratch.

Our approach is different. We run the binary plugin safely in the browser via WebAssembly virtualization.
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This is the same as any other (ab)use of statistics. Forecasting is a valid and useful practice for managing your people and process. Maybe you redeploy resources to improve response time or schedule shifts to match forecasted incidents, etc. Data collection is pretty awful with this type of data, so good luck doing much more.

But the problem is that the public hears something different when they hear "automated crime prediction". People hear something novel that could prevent crime. After all, if rain is predicted, you grab an umbrella.

The reality is that cops on the street already know where crimes are likely to happen. You'll get some tools to reduce workload on police sergeants doing scheduling and things like data presentation are probably the primary benefit. Not as sexy as minority report.
I'm picking up Rust again, and one of our lead architects tried to pick it up but ran into the same issues I've ran all along: third party libraries (even extremely popular ones) have outdated example code or docs that are inconsistent with actually released versions. So in the meantime I will focus on learning the out of the box features of Rust.

It is a shame because I love the potential of Rust but it seems that not much has changed in the two years since I last touched it in the regards to documentation for external projects. I still am not good enough with Rust to start producing my own projects as a result, which in other languages you can do rather quickly. I hope the ecosystem matures in this regard because I love everything else, the tooling, the build system is very modern and mature as best as I can tell.
Ask HN: Should a remote employee’s salary be tied to their physical location?
This debate has come up at my place of work recently: Should the area where someone lives impact their salary if they are working as a remote employee? Should someone be paid less if they move to an area with a lower cost of living, even if they started in an area where they were making a higher salary?
Here we go (silly name) allows for offline maps as well and it's pretty good software.
Sounds like a broken hiring process right there. Anything you care to share about why that didn't work out? I can't imagine a company having an opportunity to hire you and choosing not to.
OHHH I wish the others would have been more specific other than "it doesn't work". Thank you!

The way that random thing works is:

1) #randommenu:target shows the overlay (based on hash in the url)

2) the overlay has a link to "#" (fullscreen) that says "click-click"

3) Then rendered ontop of the link, all 16 level labels are full screen & transparent

4) Animations loop through them (hard-coded random scramble) to change their z-index to be on top, one at a time, for about 0.25s each

5) Clicking on any of the labels causes that layer to disappear, exposing the "#" link

6) Clicking again changes the url to "#" so #randommenu is no longer :target, thus closing the overlay

My guess is it's probably flashing too fast for iOS/Safari to register a full click.. I could probably fix it by making the random sequence take longer.

Can you confirm the URL never changes to "#" and stays stuck on "#randommenu"?