skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a little bit oversimplified, but technically true.

> For what it’s worth, pets really can get covid. Especially cats. That’s not a nonsensical story; it’s a fact.

The CDC reports[1]:

> A small number of pets worldwide, including cats and dogs, have been reported to be infected with the virus that causes COVID-19, mostly after close contact with people with COVID-19.

Cornell School of Vet Medicine says:

> Very importantly, there is currently NO EVIDENCE that SARS-CoV-2 can be passed from cats to people, so there is no need for owners to do anything that would endanger the welfare of their cats (i.e. relinquish to a shelter or abandon them) even if a cat is diagnosed with COVID-19.[2]

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/...

[2] https://www.vet.cornell.edu/departments-centers-and-institut...
> It seems Google simply abandon some of their products.

This is the understatement of the century.

https://killedbygoogle.com/
Great thanks for your pedantic reply
Maybe not books per se, but I often find more exhaustive treatments and variations on a proof in survey papers.
They didn't mention what kind of dogs they use. Beagles?
Free space optical system *intentionally" spread the laser beam using a lens. The light beam still consists of parallel rays, and when they hit the receiving lens they focussed again on the receiving diode (or whatever sensor). The idea is to accept that the beam will be disperse in the air, or due to variation at the transmitter, but still to catch enough of the transmission. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-space_optical_communicati...
Ethereum 2.0 Explained
Debit is where you put money. Credit is where it came from.

I am not inventing this. Money in your bank is debit in _your_ accounting.

You are very welcome to treat it as positive and add. As long as you keep track of where every positive number is a credit or a debit, and you learn all the rules about which accounts to add and which ones need taking away.

Or you can just treat credits as positive numbers and debits as negative.

Literally the only 'weirdness' is that money you have put somewhere for future use (like a bank) is negative.

Your initial reaction might be "that's just nonsense and ridiculous!" But I guarantee that is how your accountant and accountancy software is storing it. Your bank balance is debit from your accounts. Legally and intuitively. The only reason it is weird is because you receive statements from the bank from their perspective (a credit because they received the money from you).

If you have made it to junior high school you are quite capable of the math. Treat debits as negative and credits as positive. No accountancy ed / special rules needed.

If you want to get it more intuitive you can think of it as: Negative numbers are money that you put somewhere and is now owed to you. If you have $1000 in 'your' account, legally that means you are $1000 down because you are owed that money by the bank. It is your debit. You have given them credit.

It may not feel like a loan because it feels like you can get the money any time you want. But loans you have given and bank accounts are both assets in your accounting. They are both debit. They are both money you have put somewhere.
And most companies do resourcing months in advance on top of that. AGPL could have solved all of this with an explicit redress clause that wasn't effectively unbounded downside risk.
From your link:

> So odds are a 7 or 10-day quarantine would also catch 99% of infections — but what bureaucrat would dare break ranks and suggest so?

From https://www.acc.org/latest-in-cardiology/journal-scans/2020/...:

> 97.5% of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 will exhibit symptoms by 11.5 days.

> Monitoring people exposed to SARS-CoV-2 for 14 days for development of symptoms should be sufficient to identify 99% of cases or more.

As far as I can tell, a 7 or 10 day quarantine would not catch 99% of infections, and there's no evidence to suggest it would.
Yeah, that's the funny thing. Since you're in the West, you're automatically so wealthy that you're practically the "How much could a banana cost, Michael? Ten dollars?" character. It so permeates your worldview that you do not think about the wealth. It's not uncommon or worthy of reproof. Class self-identification tends downward a little bit from reality. At worst, it just means you're a normal person.

Today, you can buy a $200 55" TV. That is truly amazing. That took data selling as one part of the metrics. I'm not saying it's the sole cause, because I don't believe that. But it drives down the price, just as it does for everything else in a competitive market.
Everyone is too afraid to even comment
Yes, it is non-cooperative. Cooperation works when there is cooperation in every other area, not just rainwater harvesting.

Will the neighbor's child, who has become a multi-millionaire, help another neighbor, whose kids are not as fortunate as that kid? I ask this question, not to bring in some silly contrast.

There is a deeper issue, since Arrow's impossibility theorem is shown to be equivalent to a special case of the Nash Equilibrium. As a consequence, Arrovian dictator (in social choice framework) is equivalent to shared compromise in Nash cooperative game. Unless there is a dictator to force cooperation, it is just a talk.

In an extreme, where everyone is poor and struggling for drinking water, you can see some cooperation. As long as the gravy train runs, one just milks it.
AI Creates Dogs from Cats and More
No, meat is a salad
What rules?

You can’t have rules with free speech, amirite?

Just like collective groups of rationally acting rational actors CANNOT and MUST NOT have rules on how they associate or disassociate with other actors.

At least, that’s what everyone downvoting pretends to believe.

Or maybe I’m wrong and there are rules.

And if you break them you get cancelled— as the market dictates.

If this was a diatribe about how (minority group x) actually isn’t (straw man) and twitter deleted it every single one of you knuckleheads would be screaming FREE SPEECH FREE SPEECH END CANCEL CULTURE if Twitter admins hid it.

Or is twitter free speech but HN comments not? For... reasons...

C’mon, we both know this. Let the veil down just a little for once.

Just pretend to not be hypocritical tar pits of fractured and faulty logic for five minutes.

Maybe I should be more offensive so that people twist themselves into knots defending me, and then complain about rights and freedom while waving my pocket constitution when my comment gets deleted?
Worked as a sole developer for a guy once.

He would have 6-8 Hour planning sessions 4 to 5 times a week. Nothing got done.
Later I realized I was providing him an education on project management and I’d experience.
I specifically said I didn't take the consulting gig because I didn't think it was legal, and I wouldn't ever start a commercial grow op for the same reason. So not sure your comment really follows.

Objectively neither activity is probably super high risk, but I still wouldn't be willing to take on either of those risks myself.
So we should just give up then and hand the IP to China? I do not understand this way of thinking Intel became Intel because of innovations they did.
There's a 1700km track network with both automated and non automated trains, so slightly larger than disneyworld.

https://www.railjournal.com/freight/rio-tinto-completes-auto...

"Australia is notoriously flat"

Citation needed.
> No science supports masking for the general population.

How’s this for science: look at the statistics for nations which had near-100% mask compliance (Taiwan, SK, Japan).

Look at the animal study on hamsters separated by walls made of surgical masks.

The resistance to masks in the US is just insanity.
A monopoly is not defined as you’re the only one that can make your own products.

Intel doesn’t have a “monopoly” in the processor space.
Even now I'll call you crazy ;)
Yeah it was drilled into us at an early age in Australia and I still practice the habit:

Look right, look left, look right again when crossing.

My main worry is people turning into driveways as I'm walking along the path, or bikes approaching (illegally) from behind on the path.
I use software with GPL and AGPL, and may even contribute, but when I write my own software, I make it to be the public domain instead, because I don't like copyright, and because public domain will make it we don't have to worry about the license conditions, in case it may be confusing.

I have a program which links with AGPL software. My program is itself public domain, and is released only as source code, but I would think if anyone distributes it, or makes it available to access over the network, that they would have to do so in a way which is not contrary to AGPL. If you know how it is work, then hopefully you can comment too, to say what parts I did wrong, I suppose.
> If we reopen schools, how many teachers and students will die in traffic accidents that could have been avoided by WFH?

Many fewer, especially given that for students it usually involves walking or short drives through residential neighborhoods.

> Should we WFH forever and wrap the kids in bubble wrap to avoid that trauma too?

Obviously not. There is clearly a point where it makes sense to go back. But now isn't that time.

> Also, where did you get those numbers from? I would have expected teachers to be at far higher risk of death than students.

It's based on the CDC mortality data combined with the number of school kids.

The teacher estimate is harder because we don't know exactly the age breakdown of the teachers, but it's based on the assumption that 30% of teachers are over 50 and putting the rest in the 20-30 risk group, which is probably too low.

The actual number of teachers is lower just because there are only about 1 teacher per 30 students.
https://phenomenalworld.org/interviews/trade-wars-are-class-... interview is nice too.
Adding Roman numerals, at least, isn’t hard. If it was I doubt Roman numerals would have ever lasted. Arabic is still, in my opinion, easier to add—from the perspective of a lifetime spent exclusively doing arithmetic in Arabic numerals—but it’s not much easier until you’ve memorized all 50 unique sums of one-digit numbers. Multiplication, though, that’s the real difference maker.
how do you distribute between your servers? DNS? what DNS service?
> Often people want to help out financially, but they don't see an easy and convenient way to do so.

Except people who use your product (engineers) have one extra hurdle: they need an OK from the financial department, and I suppose that this hurdle is often quite big.
6% seems amazing if you can enable mass screenings at, for example, schools.

As for consequences, you’d presumably be isolated until a secondary test could confirm the results. That’s better than a 14 day quarantine for everyone coming into a region, as many places are “requiring” in the US.
Most of us are ethically in the right in that regard.

Like: change the API and forget to update the version number.

:)
Thank you for taking the time to spell this out.
>The biggest question I have about this news is how much of it is really Murthy's fault,

I dont know for how long he was looking after Fabs, surely wasn't from the beginning.
Curious, why do you think that?

Any rebranding will have backlash. It solved the issue of ZEIT Now being one _product_ whereas Vercel is the _platform_. It also brought a new focus on Jamstack and front-end developers.

I'll admit I'm biased though, as I'm a Vercel customer.
The other commenters did will to address your misconceptions but I want to further elaborate on this one.

> Even if the fund has been paid off it’s not a moot point because that’s potentially billions of dollars that they cannot use to fund service and instead is waiting in an account somewhere to be used decades from now

The fund is not paid off as the Post Office never actually made the vast majority of its payments. It's also not in an account waiting to be used. It is being used right now to fund current retirees and it's running deficits. The reason it's a moot point is because even if this requirement were removed today it would operate in the same way i.e. pay as you go.
I may not have anything actionable to say, but I can at least tell my side of the story. I am a teen in the US mental health "system." It has been quite a ride to say the least. I was living with debilitating anxiety and depression going into a new school, but I didn't even know it. I am thankful for my parents for calling a crisis number to get someone to talk to. It has been a tough few years trying to regain the time I was left untreated. Medication and regular (individual and group) therapy has been a huge help with anxiety and depression, as well as my ADHD and schizophrenia. I am finishing up my time at a therapeutic high school and will be attending RPI in the fall (at least for now it looks like I will be going to campus, yay!). It has been a struggle, but because of the support I have received, I am in a much better place than I was.

During the whole quarantine, I have had no complaints about online therapy (unlike online school). I can say personally you do not lose out by going the online route. It is certainly more convenient, and because it is (mostly) one on one, you don't have the issues that come with a 50 person zoom call. I really appreciate that you get parents on board because having an open dialog is extremely important.

I have two specific questions though: (0) How will you deal with crisis situations? How are you planning to take on the legal responsibilities that come with that? (1) Any potential solutions to improving access to psychiatrists and medication? Therapy is just one piece of the puzzle to my ongoing recovery. Medication really helps, but I am concerned that these teens might miss out on that important part.

Thank you for doing what you are doing. If I did not get help, I probably would not be here leaving this comment today.
The Apple communities are next to useless, especially when it's a design flaw; butterfly keyboard. You practically have to sue companies like Apple to get them to take notice.
There is real benefit to the chiplet design that shouldn’t be understated. Not needing a full set of cores successfully made every time to have a useful wafer must seriously save AMD money and that’s all in the design.
Don't all plants grown with solar power?
I would look at finance companies and banks directly.
This annoys me to no end as well. In my local area new cases are quite low, maybe 10 new cases in a population of 750,000.

Yesterday they mentioned a record number of new cases and a “potential hotspot”. The cases went up to 12.
Why was the other post flagged?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23969998
Rare, but this method is asking them to smell saliva samples all day. That’s a level of exposure very few dogs would have.
Likely outsourced. Google doesn't seem to put much effort into any support mechanisms, so I would presume the same for technical support.
I'd be curious to experiment with a file system where all of the file and path metadata is centrally stored in a sqlite blob. Is sqlite fast enough for dealing with file system metadata requests?
If its important that your sites content will be shared on social media then SSR is a must due to meta tags Facebook/Twitter use to create the posts preview.
Oh wow that's even better than analytics referrer spam.
>They might be good but they aren't good enough to randomly crack AES.

If they could, I'm sure they wouldn't even offer.
This seems to be against the spirit of the GPL, however.
This doesn't seem that radical. Most places have online and picture based insurance. They also have the added luxury of talking to a human if needed.
They are voting with their feet, at first by showing up in droves to protest, and now more citizens showing up to support the protestors.
We don’t know if it is going to pan out or not. Apple bought Intel’s modem business.
I dunno to me it seems clear that there is nothing of what we call intelligence in these neural networks. And I think we could have a general AI that can problem solve in the world but have zero of what we know of as understanding and sel awareness
Just because I have access to resources that you don't doesn't mean I should do the work for you. That's an entirely new level of wokeness.
Yeah, I read your answer as if disk block addressing was directly related to paging. My bad.
I’m curious whether employers associate age with chronic diseases, and take it into account.
What would that do to their competitiveness?
I don't ever recall seeing a train driver in my trips on Singapore's MRT either now that I think of it. Is this relatively new technology? Some of the older trains on the North East and Downtown MRT lines are at least a decade old, if not older. It would seem like that such tech should be ubiquitous in most cities with a good public transit system.
Yeah, the issue as an older developer with age discrimination is not that you are entitled to some credit for years of experience when say, you haven't been using Java since college, but that you can't be hired on the same basis and salary as a new grad who has no experience either. Despite having demonstrated many times your ability to learn in the past.

It's easy to stereotype people who have unrealistic expectations based on entitlement because of their age, but past a certain point, a lot of employers will reject a older candidate even at the same price as a new one on the assumption that they can't learn any more.

Of course, if you are employable, you don't bang your head against the wall, you go and do something else. Like any kind of discrimination, if they were forced to accept you, it wouldn't make the culture palatable. It reduces your opportunities though.
Same, when I was a renter I applied online. Same for when I became a homeowner. My car insurance was also setup online.
I think you're confused on what I'm confused about. The positive or negative sign isn't the issue. You could flip all the signs and I'd still have the same problem.

> Literally the only 'weirdness' is that money you have put somewhere for future use (like a bank) is negative.

But that is literally what I'm talking about. Whether the sign is positive or negative isn't the issue. It just makes no sense for this to be a zero-sum game, is all I'm saying. You're telling me if I get $200 out of the blue I suddenly owe someone that $200 instantly? How does that work?
Miniature moon tech wins big with NASA challenge
The aggregators. Yodlee, Plaid, MX, etc.
Needs more flat earth and lizard people references. Throw in some UFO jargon too.

Great work though!
Maybe for Altera FPGAs? I don't really understand the scale Intel needs and whether TSMC offers enough for their micros.
100% this, in addition Facebook has limited onsite medical care at its facilities that they provide as a perk to employees. Even if this is contracted out there is probably some paper trail as to who used what services.
I don't think its quite that extreme, but Boeing, car companies etc all extremely large amounts of subcontracting.
> Now if only we could get the media to report on useful statistics

The website for my state [1] has a map with infection counts by county. The irritating thing about this map is it's total numbers since February. That tells me nothing useful in terms of how places are currently doing. You can click on individual counties and it'll give you the 14 day rolling total, which is pretty useful for seeing upticks and improvements.

But for whatever reason, we've decided that "number of people who ever got sick" is the benchmark we need to focus on. It seems completely unhelpful.

[1] https://coronavirus.iowa.gov/pages/case-counts
Paper investigating whether ethicists are more ethical:

http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/BehEth-14...
Whats a good open source solution for Text to speech?

Current cloud based solutions from AWS/Google Cloud/Azure are pretty expensive.
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Good point, I’m assuming because the only advice given by mods is to submit feedback. I’ve never seen “I agree, this is important, I’ll work with the dev team.”

I think that if there was consideration, that would be in the mods scripts and posted on the forum.

I understand it’s hard to prioritize features but I’m familiar with so many years old common sense suggestions that don’t have any explanation of why it won’t be fixed.
Tesla’s New Austin ‘Terafactory’ Prep Already Underway
What does worktree provide that a fresh local clone doesn't?
The problem here is these GDP measures measure value add. Let's work through an example:

Scenario A: You assemble everything locally with 50% of your components from east asian component manufacturers, the rest from the domestic market. Your costs are $800 per unit. Then you spend $200 on in-house design and sell your product for $1500, for a profit of $500 per unit and a domestic value add of $700 per unit. At that price point, you sell 2/3 of a million units, adding roughly half a billion to domestic manufacturing.

Scenario B: You outsource all of your assembly to China and parts from East Asian component manufacturers and only do design/QA in-house. If you pay $300 to your suppliers, spend $200 on in-house design but sell your product for $1000, you have $700 in domestic value add. Say at $1000 you sell a million units, so you've contributed a billion dollars to the manufacturing share of GDP.

Now if a company switches from Scenario A to Scenario B, most people would (rightly, I believe) assume that some manufacturing has left the economy. But actually the manufacturing share of GDP has increased! However it's a very fragile increase, because a change in the terms of trade and suddenly you pay more for your foreign inputs and at that point it will appear as if manufacturing's share of GDP has fallen. There is also the issue that foreign rivals are going to be in a better position to compete against you, so long term this does not bode well for manufacturing's share of GDP.

Now this is just one company, and buying from domestic suppliers also contributes to GDP. But they have the same issue -- they can outsource production leaving design/QA in house as well. So you can have a situation with high manufacturing share of GDP with nothing produced in the nation other than design/QA. So all these GDP by industry measures, at the end of the day, are measuring industry margins more than actual manufacturing per se, and really weren't designed with outsourcing in mind, and aren't intended to be used in a time series analysis during which a lot of outsourcing is happening.
Taiwan, SK and Japan are doing a lot more things than just wearing masks. Not sure I’d attribute all of their success in keeping cases low to masks alone.
I don't get gas-powered leaf-blowers. They are so loud, so polluting, so wasteful, yet so meaningless at the same time.

Back in college, I had to wear a mask every day, just because how many leaf-blower-induced dust clouds I had to walk through.

With the loudness and strong vibration, wouldn't it have significant impact on the health of the operator?

Is it actually more efficient than a manual sweeper/raker?
Draftbit (YC W18) is hiring a Product Manager to build the future of no-code