skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt the virus is still around 2-3 months later in their bodies. These effects are likely due to the hyperinflammation triggered later on during the course of the disease, if I am to follow the mechanism described in the well-detailed paper in Cell from a few weeks ago.

The virus is still a coronavirus (neural invasion, also noted for SARS-CoV-2, is also a feature of regular coronaviruses). These effects, although possibly severe and worthy of concern, are second-order effects.
This is what I do but I use Amazon SES to send out mails from my selfhosted email infra. All emails pass through and I have the satisfaction of knowing I can just switch to another provider if SES shitcans me.
Can anyone explain why 'income' is negative and 'expenses' are positive?
It seems to me like it should be the other way around.

All I can think of is to ensure that

sum (expenses) + sum (income) = delta(sum(assets) + sum(liabilities))

Over any given interval of time. But really, adding a single minus sign in the above equation would make the rest of the story so much more intuitive to beginners. I wonder if this is just an ossified bad choice, or if I am missing something.

edit: https://beancount.github.io/docs/the_double_entry_counting_m... answers my question.
There is a bigger impact on the biometrics industry. Face recognition (because of the masks) is the most obvious one, but there are also fingerprint scanning and voice recognition which took a hit. As a viable alternative, typing biometrics could be the safe & user-friendly way to go (recognising people by the way they type). You can see more on this topic on the TypingDNA blog: https://blog.typingdna.com/covid-19-pandemic-challenges-the-...
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I used to speed every day on my way to my under the table construction job. What's legal and what happens are different things.
Yes the bias is huge, and doubly bothersome because even attempts at inclusion are framed from the perspective of the currently powerful. I look at how many big-name white male devs on my twitter feed make a big show of trying to raise up others. Yet it's a wildly disproportionate group of conventionally attractive women in their early 20s making corny 5-second comedy clips that are getting all the attention. That, or pushing model minority stereotypes that are more about making the man sharing them look good. Heaven forbid they include a woman with the same 5-pack of hoodies wardrobe and under-the-chin, poorly lit selfie they have, just because she's actually a good dev.

While I can understand the resistance to selection criteria if it removes more nuanced decisions necessary in building a team, I can't think of a better way to offset those biases you describe. Those biases are extreme and clearly, left to our own devices, we do a bad job addressing or recognizing them.
One few little details about those times: official radio was broadcasting spectrum games at late night hours. You recorded the game and played it on computer.

On flea markets you could buy latest games on packs of around 30 on one cassette. Yugoslavia had no copyright laws and breaking software protections became national sport.

Computer magazines weren't full of reviews like today but rather full of electronics, software sources (that you have typed to your computer - I still remember that some genius started to add checksum at the end of endless DATA statements and give you a message that you have done an error in line x).

My first computer (c64) was smuggled from Austria under fathers car seat, at age of 12 I have written my first software (due to the large amounts of cheap games I got bored) and one of the coolest things to see were pirate intros packed with games. At 14 I was fully proficient with Amiga and Atari ST.

Those were different times, we didnt have 30 types of chocolate bars, zillions of different toys but we had a lot of imagination. Now, my country... the consumption has completely destroyed public morale, innovation and will to actually do something else than be pretty (boys included) and fit and well dressed at youth time, having latest phone and likes on your FB account. I had unique chance to see two very different parts of how society functions and I think we, as humans, are on wrong path.
More important, what does his boss think about his job performance.
You seem to be complaining that your CTO is not a developer. Which, in general, he should not be.
Do you have some concrete evidence for the claim that other countries’ failures are due to being "shut down by the US"?

Australia's failures in space aren't the fault of other countries, they are the fault of Australia. Australia's National Space Program (1986-1996) failed primarily due to chronic underfunding. That's not the fault of the US. And then Australia went over 20 years without any dedicated space agency – not the fault of the US either. And now Australia finally has one, it has a puny budget of approximately AU$10 million (around US$7 million) a year. If Australia was to spend as much on the Australian Space Agency (as a percentage of GDP) as the US spends on NASA, its budget would be over $1 billion a year. But it's not. Is that the fault of the US? If Australia decided to spend $1 billion a year on its space agency, I think NASA (and the US government more broadly) would be quite pleased. Australia could make some substantial contributions to one or more NASA programs.

In the 1970s, Australia was an associate member of ELDO, one of the predecessor agencies of the European Space Agency. The ESA was happy to offer Australia a similar membership status in ESA, but Australia declined. Canada went ahead and remains a formal “cooperating state” of ESA to this day. The offer is still open - the ESA has said so publicly [1] - but Australia isn't interested in taking up the same status as Canada, primarily because it would require Australia to contribute financially to ESA projects (i.e. spend money on space, something Australia doesn't want to do). (I've heard the claim that the US pressured Australia not to become an associate ESA member, but I've never heard any actual evidence to support that claim; and did they pressure Canada not to have their current “cooperating” status?)

[1] https://thewest.com.au/news/australia/europeans-offer-space-...
This is an unqualifiedly good thing. Btrfs is today is a very solid, modern and featureful filesystem and deserving of wider adoption. People are rightfully somewhat hesitant to switch to new filesystems---it's the subsystem in which a bug can probably cause more grief for the end-user than any other---so to get wider adoption we need distributions to take the lead.

I myself switched to btrfs on my laptop some time ago primarily for much the same reasons that Fedora cites as their motivation... because I found that I always ended up with my free disk space on the wrong partitions! With btrfs you don't need partitions anymore... with its subvolumes you can even have multiple OSes on the same filesystem! And once I had btrfs's simplicity of making snapshots I found myself using that feature to significant advantage as well; taking a snapshot gives one a nice peace of mind before doing anything that might be dangerous! (In adddition to be a better way of making backups). There are other benefits, and having btrfs in wider use on workstations should give a boost to its further development.
One should also watch out of accepting these tools just for use within our in-group and condemning them in the out groups. "they are not like us, when we use rage we do it for a good reason"
Most people can't afford any kind of boat.

But anyway the point is - at some point he was in a conversation about what kind of photos to use to illustrate his article about how the company he's been working at for years doesn't treat it's employees very nicely. And someone suggested - 'how about we take some photos of you posing at the controls of your luxury leisure vehicle' and he said yes, which was a mistake because whoever suggested it was either deliberately setting him up or not the right person to be advising him.

You couldn't come up with a better visual metaphor for hypocrisy if you were trying - and clearly someone was trying.
Every country in the world would do a great deal to get a FAANG company native to their turf. But here in America we want to wreck them. Sigh.

Now that fractional shares can be bought with no commission, essentially everyone who wants to can invest in those FAANG companies and get returns on capital. They're better than lottery tickets (a popular "investment" for the poor).
They mean 50-80% of cases, not 50-80% of Americans.
Not that unique.

UK did it as well, we let Arm be sold to foreign investors - I wonder if the French or German government would have allowed that sale.
Nice logo you stole from meneame.net
It's not just that, either. US banks have been slowly working on faster payments system (RTP, run by Clearing House Payments Co since 2017) and then in late 2019 their regulator, the Federal Reserve, told them "hey, we're going to make a competitor to this new system."

There is some merit to the idea of Fed-operated system here, but, well, let's just say that investing money into a system only to end up competing with your regulator doesn't really help banks feel like they're in a stable regulatory environment where they'll be rewarded for doing the right thing and making investments in the future.
It became global leading when it happened to be the navel of the nascent Empire. With reducing global relevance of the United Kingdom and improvements in conditions for finance elsewhere there are fewer reasons for capital flows to be managed there.

Still may take a while and one may well live a fulfilling career in meantime, just saying it's far from a sure bet. Capital is not terribly sentimental.
What do you do with your time?
That's not what it says. It says if you tested everyone, out of those who tested positive, 50-80% would be asymptomatic, not 50-80% of the whole population.
Extremely fun little tool! Anywhere I can read about the techniques involve?

An interesting quirk: some words seem to get dropped entirely? for example the word "cleverer" and any word with a hyphen.

Really fun to start with a quote from one person and switch between voices to hear others recite the same line. Alan Rickman doing lines from Aladdin as Iago is pretty funny
Accountant here. This article is just wrong. You could memorize debit/credit rules but when dealing with non-finance persons, I avoid mentioning debit/credit as it gets confusing and generally its not needed anyway. Here's how I would explain basic accounting (income statement is ignored for simplicity).

Every transaction has two legs: what it is and whose it is. That is the basis of the accounting equation: assets (what) = equity (mine) + liabilities (someone else's). An increase in assets must be balanced with an increase in either equity or liabilities, and vice versa.
These seem great, I'll give them a try. Thank you!
Peerlyst Is Saying Goodbye
This is the feature article in a special series of articles on combating the virus. As such it's presenting a summary of what we know about it so far, and references a lot of sources, some going back several months. Given that context I think that's exactly what I'd expect it to do.

Not everyone has done as much research as you, and the public perception and debate is still awash with "just a bad flu" disinformation, so its really important a clearer and more accurate picture is put out as widely as possible.
And it fact, it wouldn't have. Countries the world over have remained poor in the last few centuries until they decided to go capitalist, and then they got wealthy.

The evidence that capitalism produces prosperity is overwhelming.
No. 50-80% of cases are asymptomatic, not 50-80% of the nation is infected asymptomatically.
The coffee is a reference to this incident -- https://ukaviation.news/spilt-coffee-caused-smoke-and-fumes-... -- in which coffee spilt by the pilot caused an electrical fault. Apparently there is quite a lot of high-current equipment in the avionics bay and it is not ingress-protected....
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I totally understand how Crown Corporations work, please do not accuse me of ignorance here.

There is a massive difference between a Crown Corporation running as a for profit enterprise where any profits return to the Crown and a privately owned company, especially one that was "spun off" and privatized at pennies on the dollar.
I think the fact that you consider taxes to be such a nightmare scenario shows that your moral system is broken. Society cannot exist without cooperation, and refusal to participate in society (at everyone’s expense) is an immoral position imo. We can certainly argue about the specifics of what that participation should look like (ie taxes and conscription and whatnot) but when your position is that the government should never ever be allowed to force you to do things, then we’re on completely different planets, and I think your moral code is flat out broken.
Wow this memo reads like a caricature.
I agree, the pretending to be asleep part usually works for me too. But as soon as I realize it didn't work...then my mind takes off. Checking the doors and looking out the windows aren't things I've tried yet, though. Thank you!
in my opinion, there's so much thing to do when you are a CTO, especially when your team are not yet mature enough.
it is possibly the case for your team, however, please help him (or get someone to help him) by assigning task in order to make him realize that this is actually his job -more important than coding-
Looks like "facility" here means another experiment that can be plugged into the end of an existing accelerator beamline, not some purpose-built industrial complex as one might associate with the word.

https://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/j.nimb.2018.11.024
This move might be bad for protecting margins but is great for protecting business - AMD will have to pay more if TSMC is using 100% of its production capabilities.
I am pleased TSMC is moving the industry forward, but I fear we are moving from an Intel monopoly to a TSMC monopoly. As a consumer the result will be the same.
Normally I would do the same. But my spidey sense tells me that we might be looking at a slow sunset of x86.
> Since when did the Fortune 500 coordinate to jack up tuition? Which S&P companies run local planning boards?

Since those large corporations funneled money and influence into parties and institutions that work tirelessly to cut government budgets and make the PR argument that government can never be employed to solve problems.

You’re saying this sarcastically but there is in fact a direct link between corporate power and politics at all levels.
I found ledger-cli (upon which beancount is based) immediately useful. However, since you mentioned Emacs, I should say that I use ledger-mode in Emacs to add entries. But I do most of my reporting directly on the command line.
It will happily do that if the pitot tubes are clogged or other sensory input is wrong. Or if there is an MCAS situation.

Moreover, it is easy to find at least 30 successful landings under the above conditions, while the situation you are referring to has about 4 cases, 2 of them contested.

Also, locking the cockpit doors on airliners is stupid in my opinion.
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Any recommendations?
Lately a lot of "Hello World"s has been replaced with "To Do List" examples.

Maybe we should start using "Debit/Credit Journal" instead.
Why would you name a product "old bridge" ? Nobody speaks Italian at Intel's marketing department?
Intel has still good profit margins, much better than AMDs. But Intel has rarely been the best in microarchitecture. It has been almost always the superior process technology that gave them the edge over competition.

If Intel is forced to compete against Nvidia and AMD as fabless for several years, it's very bleak future for them.
just filled a rental. np. it depends on the area you are trying to fill in. i also charge just a little under market.
Nitpick: there are collision hazards in some modern elevators. See for example https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a20847/the-futur... (company pages are, IMO less clear: https://twin.thyssenkrupp-elevator.com/ or even https://www.thyssenkrupp-elevator.com/en/products-and-servic...)
yh but the plane uses much more energy so it's not really flying
I tried to read Infinite Jest once but eventually gave up because I found it kind of exhausting to read and I couldn’t really follow along.

After reading your comment I decided to have another look at it. I knew last time that it was a weird book, and that it was enjoyed by a lot of people. But even looking at the first page of it again I just don’t feel compelled to read it. Maybe some day.
No there wouldn’t. Not if it’s government driven (as it should be)

> Those in favor of lower taxes have argued that individuals are more capable than the government of allocating money to important causes, including people in need of assistance. But the study found that was not true. Donations do not match government assistance, and without tax money, social services are not funded as robustly.

https://nonprofitquarterly.org/republicans-give-more-to-char...
Congrats to TSMC for getting it done. I hope they survive Chinas poaching for the world’s sake (3k engineers were recently hired away for 3x salary bumps).
They can do both, still attempt to fix their fabs, still use existing fabs and compete with lower prices (imagine Intel to be the budget choice, ironic) and create super fast CPUs on TSMC for some part of the market that wants the extreme performance.
Amazon Invested in Startups and Then Launched Competing Products
Such a do should cost you about USD$ 10k, possibly more for a Corona detection dog since it has to be trained in a dangerous environment. You need a dog handler. The dog is not able to work 8h a day and sniff out samples non-stop. Honestly I don't know how many hours a day the dog could perform. 3 hours may be realistic. So how many people can the dog smell in an hour? 60?

Taking into account he costs (dogs, transport, dog handler etc.) it does not seem to be a cost effective solution. Yes, fogs were used to detect pregnancies but we don't do this anymore.
I feel that you don't know that police evolved from slave patrols. The police are the latest incarnation of a system designed to enforce racist class policy.

For example, consider a policy that you haven't mentioned: Should police be required to live in their precincts? The answer, from Peelian principles, is an easy yes.

If you'd like to know what people are actually asking for in terms of change, the "Eight [changes which] Can't Wait" [0]; this includes changing the rules of engagement and also giving police training which will help them de-escalate. For laws about body cameras, there are several national trends in state law which tend towards mandating their usage and ensuring that footage is released to the public [1].

However, that was all before this spring. The current situation in my metro area is that thousands of local folks have come out of the suburbs to occupy downtown in a continuous months-long protest against police brutality, and the police have responded by summoning federal agents for backup and conducting a counter-siege against said local folks. We just had the city council vote 4-1 to defund the police, and the only no-voter said she wanted more defunding. More defunding is coming.

We are so far past "less policing in black neighborhoods". No, the time has come to stop supporting the police as a nexus of hate and corruption, and to take away their guns, toys, and cash.

[0] https://8cantwait.org/

[1] https://apps.urban.org/features/body-camera-update/
Show HN: "Faster than Stripe Atlas? Is this real?”
This is a common question we get from prospects/website visitors. They would like to further understand why we are claiming this.

1) I used to work for our competitors and based on my experience I can confidently say that we are 2x faster than Stripe Atlas and 3x times faster than other competitors out there. Prior to the birth of Dunster.io, 7 business days is only available to founders with SSN and ITIN, and the rest will take ages.
Occupational Health records would be classed as medical information.
To an expense account.
wow. broadly ignorant statement. many landlords (like me) just kept a house they moved out of. i’m not s professional and was charging way under market because i liked the trnants. they stayed there 10 years. during that time i replaced the roof and ac unit among other things. not sure how i’m inflating thr market by charging 1200/month for a 2k sq ft house with 1/2 acre in a very hot area?
If I get Covid19, my plan is to take aspirin wile at home. If I need to go the Emergency Room, then I'll leave it to the doctors to decide what I should get, but before I need urgent care, I'll use aspirin.
Tencent wants to take full control of long-time search ally Sogou
Hospitals furloughing workers and fewer premature babies are definitely outcomes I did not expect.
Intel uses place names (etc) for code names. I guess they’re using bridges for GPUs and it’s named after the famous bridge in Florence?
My friend got a Galaksija (he did not build it himself, but got it from someone who did) and the gaming parties he organized when he got this computer was my first real encounter with computing. Prior to that I only read about computers in magazines.

One needs to understand that at that time it was hard to buy a regular home computer in Yugoslavia because of market specifics and some import restrictions (in order to encourage local production and improve the local economy).

Many smuggled computers in personal luggage. Sinclair's ZX Spectrum was particularly target of jokes because of the rubber buttons, so people said it to the customs officer (when caught) that it was a programmer for the laundry machine (due to the use of rubber).

Later I bought a Commodore 64 via a official channel through the Commodore representative in the country. I waited several months for the import approval and shipping.
Thank you.

The stuff about blood clots began coming out about the time I concluded I probably had it and had been mostly asymptomatic and about that same time I ran into a researcher on HN who said something about the blood that I didn't follow and I asked questions and that went weird places and then they said something else about zinc.

And that led to an epiphany for me and I turned to my son and kind or recounted the exchange with the researcher and then I said "We've been eating a lot of zinc-rich foods. I am going to go get a cheese pizza because cheese has zinc." So I got a pizza and then he felt vastly better.

So the whole blood angle is cemented in my mind like "Clearly, this is a hard fact and everyone knows it." But it's probably just me in my little bubble and that's it.

I'm still aghast. But what you say makes sense.
The most efficient solution is to give the user a predicted rating which tells him at first glance how much he'll like a movie. Of course the prediction is based on how much the user has liked other movies (collaborative filtering). Netflix used to do that quite well until their recommendation system went down the drain for marketing reasons. My app Coollector Movie Database works on that principle.
I agree that most people can't afford any sort of boat, but if memory serves, that'd still be a working class marina in the states. Far from a luxury leisure vehicle.

I would think the opposite, that it would show solidarity.

His outfit might be whatever the current equivalent of Patagucci would be, but is otherwise unremarkable Pacific Northwest, sandals being common due to frequent rain. The series 2 landy might be middle class, in that I suspect it costs nearly as much to run as to acquire, but very few would consider series landies luxury leisure vehicles, either. They're closer to a real tractor than a Chelsea Tractor.

...then again, a new Chelsea Tractor is probably much cheaper than a new real tractor :-)