skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Antibody tests like this are very limited. They only detect positive after you've had the virus for several days and they have a significant false negative rate. They are very poor at identifying if this person right here has the virus.

However if what you're doing is trying to assess the prevalence of the virus in a population of hundreds of thousands, or millions, they could be very useful. They will help identify clusters of infection so you can then use the PCR test on known associates to pinpoint cases.

I think this is what the Chinese government did in Beijing, they used mass antibody testing, but PCR testing of everyone in the food market where they knew there were cases.
We're different, and yet... The song Senorita has been in the top 50 in almost every region of the world for a very long time now. So we're different, but we're also the same.

Beats1's main schedule centers around three shows, broadcasting from Los Angeles, New York, and London. Those are the primary markets for which they're aiming, and the music each of the three main DJs plays is different. American and British movies and television tend to play well around the world, and I'm not sure radio is that much different.

Is Beats1 the best radio station for local Tunisian listeners? Is it ever going to be the #1 station in Morocco? Probably not, but many people (especially young people?) in nearly every area of the world consume a lot of western content, presumably enough to keep Apple happy.

I mean, if you're saying you want a radio station that takes chances and plays music you like without repeating the same top 40 hits endlessly, I'm with you. I'm not sure the geography plays as much of a role as you think it does, though. In theory a station could broadcast worldwide and still take chances and avoid repetition.

TL;DR: ClearChannel doesn't suck because they own stations in every US market. They suck because they suck, and it's unfortunate that they own channels in every market because that means it's hard to escape their suck.
Synology just opened a US datacenter for their C2 backup service, it's quite easy to use and IMO better than hosting on Google.
Neo.mjs: multi-threaded framework for front end
So far, I have found that Darktable's edits have survived changes in versions. Someday there will probably be breaking changes, but I haven't yet felt it personally.
Bill Gates was not born middle class. His Father Bill Sr. was a partner in a very prestigious law firm and his Mother Mary was on the board of Regents at the University of Washington.
> I spent a long time working on things like Wayland and next-generation graphics technology

This is really sad. You are insulting and dismissing technology which did something well over 20 years ago that you think is not possible today. And instead of thinking "hmm maybe I should look at the older technology and see how it did it" you just dismiss it as a "meme" and tell people that the actual technology they used is impossible. So much effort is wasted in our industry because of NIH syndrome...

I seriously hope that the Wayland people didn't just completely ignore the positives of Xwindows!
> You cannot have a nanny state and a free country at the same time. This is the sort of thing you have to accept and live with.

You have to live with hemorrhaging 1000 lives daily to be free?
This comment was flagged for some reason, but it's entirely valid.

If Elon Musk's goal was ROI maximization, he has no business maintaining ownership in SpaceX and Tesla — he ought to just dump his billions in high yield ETFs.

Fortunately, that is not his primary goal, and (at least in the US), he is able to continue to pursue success by maintaining ownership in his companies.
New York City is dead forever
Certainly in some ways. But AOC (with others) arguably shifted an entire mainstream party's platform. I think that the "hard power" that Bezos has is larger, but the "soft power" wielded by political and cultural elites is massive and easy to underestimate.
This is too myopic and one-sided. The cultural revolution created carnage but China also saw unification, the biggest increase in life expectancy and literacy in modern history, and essentially the development of what is now modern China.

And yes, the CCP is effectively unoustable but the CCP is the government, not just a Western style party, it's a complex governing body. For factions and individuals within the party there absolutely is an incentive to perform, and the party had countless of purges due to unrest.

Don't forget that Xi himself was sent to the countryside under the program of the same name after his father was thrown into prison. The party isn't going to go away, but the authorities in it absolutely are subject to scrutiny. Also Taiwan of course was subject to one party rule until the 90s and not a democratic nation either, and neither was South Korea under Park Chung Hee. Economic development in all three countries did not take place under democratic government.
Exactly if Americans spent more resources on food there would be more innovative approaches in this sector. Currently food is too cheap and there is barely any opportunity for innovation.
Thankfully you don't need to go through the president to get this information. Troves of independent, even international, journalists have written stories on COVID responses within US states, including TX and FL. It is wholly misleading to compare the claims of these two countries.
You know, it seems silly to me that the choice we seem to make is rather than controlling our population, we choose having worse lives for us and all future generations. Lack of self-control will truly be the end of humanity.
Can’t speak for the parent of your post, so I don’t know if the numbers add up, but population of Indonesia alone is 270 million. And the country is spread out amongst many islands. That’s just one country of many.
The hardest code I ever had to read was Python that repeatedly called out to c++ whenever something had to run fast.
Disappointing News for Unity Biotech
My undergrad university is in Wuhan. I can personally confirm this since all my family and friends in China live almost like normal now. If I am being honest, I am disappointed and astonished to see how anti-intellectual, selfish, and conceited some Americans are. I do not like China's politics, which is one of the reasons that I do not go back. But I do not think U.S. should blame China for being in such a bad situation. More disappointedly, I do not see it getting better... I do not believe U.S. can contain it without vaccine.
Indonesia and the Philippines pretty universally considered southeast asia and not pacific island nations. They are in-fact the majority of southeast asia, which they are supposedly fleeing to?

Also, they're quite developed countries and to the relatively small extent their food consumption is fish, it comes from trade and commercial fishing, not subsistence fishing, so their food supply will be no more impacted than any other asian country. And even that impact will look more like more seafood coming from fish farms as commercial fishing becomes less viable, as we've seen in China.

There are people, predominantly in the pacific islands proper, who rely on subsistence fishing and the decline of fish stocks will be hugely disruptive for them. It's still a big tragedy, but the number is more like a couple hundred thousand. I don't think it helps the debate to exaggerate by three orders of magnitude.
So you're saying that the license does not impose restrictions on users of the software, but I am not the user, so it can impose restrictions on me? Then what am I, and why does the license get to impose restrictions on me beyond copyright obligations without violating Freedom Zero?

You're grasping at straws here. There's provisions based on copyright, and then there's everything else. Redefining users to exclude the person running the server and implying that means the person running the server loses all rights under the Free Software definition is ludicrous.
One could, I suppose, split the cost by doing the exercises in a language you are still learning.

Unfortunately, Leetcode only has one of the two languages I'd like to learn, and the one I'm probably less likely to find a job doing.
Bill Gates's mother was on the board of IBM, which helped lead to IBM making a deal with Microsoft. This isn't very different from landed aristocracy marrying only other aristos to maintain power and wealth within their networks.
I've done plenty of 816 programming and it is basically just a 6502 with a couple 16 bit registers and ALU (accessible only by switching register modes, quite awkward) and a 24-bit address bus bolted on with a page register. Program counter, etc. wraps at 64 boundary, stack can only exist in the bottom 64k, etc. It's really a supercharged 8 bit CPU, yes. They probably made the right choice with it, though, it makes some sense for a game CPU because interrupt responsiveness and cycle efficiency is primary there, and the 6502 series is king for that.
Can't the Java ecosystem be valuable and Java the language be bad at the same time?
Doesn't this require a plugin, though? So it's basically an extension of Kotlin-the-language.

To those who are using Arrow- why not Scala? Is it just because Scala has too much cruft? The only thing Kotlin has over Scala (AFAIK) is coroutines, which, honestly- I don't even love. They're very awkward to use and require unchecked exceptions for control-flow (and therefore have convention-based rules around using them).
That's great and all, but I was responding to your message that all the engineers focused on privacy at Facebook are just there for privacywashing. You don't seem to get that privacy is not a binary. I totally get that facebook "doesn't care about privacy" from the perspective of someone who actually cares a lot about privacy. But that's not the argument here, and it's strange for you to bring it up in your response. Nothing you've said actually supports the idea that Facebook doesn't need to have engineers who legitimately work on privacy.
Sounds similar to Korea. I suspect that mainland China might be doing the same as well. The system I describe also allows to prevent people from having close contacts with others instead of catching them after the fact, which really is key to stop the spread of the virus.
Kinesys Advantage2 – Review after three years of use
The text was changed due to feedback provided elsewhere in this HN page.

The blog post was drafted by the core and foundation team, however we did get sign-off from Mozilla on it.

Mozilla currently owns the trademarks that the Rust foundation plans to take ownership of, so they have to be involved to some extent. They have agreed to transfer it as mentioned in the blog post, and are going to work with us to make that happen.

The Rust project as an open source project with open governance has been pretty independent of Mozilla for quite a while now. However, Mozilla did provide some crucial services including trademark ownership, which is _extremely_ relevant to the discussion of forming a foundation.

Trademark ownership and is rarely impactful to the day-to-day workings of the Rust project, which is why I consider these irrelevant to whether or not Rust is still being "incubated" by Mozilla.
If there was a government cover-up and people were still getting sick then we wouldn't see people putting themselves at risk to go to a music festival.

I disagree with the conclusion here by looking at what people are willing to do locally.
> I believe mass testing is an effective way to reign in the coronavirus.

Prerequisite: unarmed population. Testing is not enough, you have to lock down the positives too.
Should be back up now, give it another try.
I would be proud as a founder to know that I am able to contribute to provide services and infrastructure for my country.
Strange gamma-ray heartbeat puzzles scientists
Excellent open source ML sparing partners for Chess and Go are available:
https://github.com/bencaddigan/esports-for-engineers

But what about Contract Bridge? Is there an open source program that will play the other three hands? A machine learning program would be ideal, but any decent open source program would be fine.
There are a lot of caveats to this observation. The tax was levied during a recession, at a time when yacht sales had already declined sharply (from 16,000 in 1987 to 9,100 in 1990 for $100k+ boats).
- we use pandas to process data and load it to Postgres using .to_sql (https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/p...). for incremental loads, we set "if_exists" to "append". we're working to add more flexibility to load function, so you can specify how to load your data, handle conflicts, and so on. we're open for suggestions

- PostgREST is great. We are not sponsors at the moment, but looking to do this when we can!
In this case, it didn't. That's just the reference-frame of the person who you replied to. Map, reduce, filter, etc existed long before JavaScript. I assume that's what they're talking about.
I am probably not understanding something in the various wealth tax proposals:

- How is wealth determined? The current billion numbers have a inverse relationship with liquidation: The remaining stocks will lose value as more get sold. (Putting aside the capital gain aspect).

- How is wealth loss captured? If my wealth was 1 Billion last year and it is 1 Million this year due to market crash, What happens?

- How do we handle situation where the average through the period is lopsided? Say period is a year: What if my stocks were worth $1B in jan and $1MM in December?
Currently fish farming is often just fish recycling. Conversion of lower quality feed fish into higher quality market fish.
The epidemic is not just about mortality, the disease could severely impact your quality of life without killing you.
This looks really nice! If... you’re only looking for high level numbers for something like a personal blog or a simple landing page for a mobile app.

I wouldn’t call this a replacement to Google Analytics.

The reason to have something like Google Analytics is to track traffic at a more granular level, and with very specific intent.

Some of the things I _rely_ on include:

- custom parameters
- segments
- goals
- A/B testing
- specific views

And that’s just the short list.

Now, I use Analytics heavily because we spend a lot of effort on growth, both organic (content, seo) and paid (ads), so knowing what’s going on at that level is essential.

If you don’t, there’s not much reason to use something like GA.
Yes exactly. As a user, running the latest Android version on old hardware isn't terribly useful. And even if every manufacturer did the same, it wouldn't make developers' life much easier given the hardware fragmentation.

Google should really figure out a way to push security updates without the OEM's involvement. They can already update everything that's bundled in Play services, and core apps like the browser and the webview. It's good, but not enough.
Hey, that's my post. It's very strange seeing it posted here. I only happened to be looking at newest to see how a post I made here was doing.

If anyone here happens to have any questions, I'll answer them.
reminder to use a passcode on your private key with ssh-agent.
Sure, you were right to point out that freshsqueeze was incorrect in saying they funnel donations to their overpaid CEO, but the fungibility point is an important one.

A related point on fungibility turned up in earlier discussions: donating directly to Firefox might not count for much if Mozilla balance it out by redirecting the same sum of their general fund away from Firefox. [0][1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24142097

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24131981
Buying from Amazon does not imply endorsement of Jeff Bezo's politics and economic interests. Your equivalence between that and AOC's grassroots support is completely nonsensical.
+1 for Plausible.

I've been using it for our name generator product Mashword (https://mashword.com) and it was really straightforward to implement. It's reasonably priced, has a clean interface and graphs, is privacy protecting and supports using your own domain for pulling in the js include.
Would a hot war in East Asia be enough for the same effect? Hypothetically of course
Good point. We can probably work on clarifying our value prop. You could do something like what you described with a local database. We could add that by building some desktop code. At the moment we are only focused on the cloud part. That way we can get data, let you process it, and also easily share as APIs or endpoints.
Is there a name for this style of writing? It seems increasingly popular.

Start with a simple complaint, then give an enormous backstory including your childhood before getting to your point.

I think we're going beyond long form. There must be a term for it.
A thing stored in google cloud is generally erasure coded, which provides redundancy against the failure of individual devices or hosts, and another copy is stored separately in a geographically separate place. So you might think of it as there being 1.7 copies of your file in each of at least two places.
There is a pretty large landscape between what the US has done in response and what would have been unconstitutional.
> Switzerland has a wealth tax (of up to 0.3%)

Do you have a source?

Maybe they changed recently, but from what I've read [0] it can be much higher. For example in Geneva that source shows up to 0.94%.

[0] https://www.expatica.com/ch/finance/taxes/switzerland-tax-ra...
Tech and transportation better be paying too then. How much pollution you think those Chinese factories pump out to make your $1000 iPhone?
On multi-pitch outdoor routes, if you get on first you usually stay first until the end unless there's a much faster party and a bypass pitch they can use, or you let them climb thru or use the same anchor (if they are faster they are not going to be in your way anyway, so why not). So for good beginner climbs you just have to get there super early and it's yours.

Crowds can be a problem at good beginner-friendly single-pitch crags, but yeah lining up for a popular route is pretty straightforward if annoying.
Welding folks into their homes was a bit extreme... but at least they can get back to their normal lives now! /s
Europe has an unarmed population and raigning in the virus during the summer proves impossible as everyone wants to go on vacation or suffer the FOMO of watching their friends' beach photos on Instagram instead so nobody gives two shits about the virus anymore.
How many people have 100% ownership of a 50m business? How many people have more than 50/100m net worth (depending on the proposal) in the US?
I don't believe he's talking about the employer, he's discussing the emotional well-being a job seeker would need. If the job seeker hates their own job, they're more likely to jump from one bad situation to another bad situation.

But you're right, and I've done that myself. Where I hated a job so badly and just pretended and smiled as much I could until someone hired me out of that situation.
Only the billionaire is allowed to walk on the billionaire's private beach (often in violaton of nominal law).

> If someone is king, then that means no one else can be.

Obiously not true. Each king is only king on the king's property. Much like Ellison and Gates and Walton have their own property.

> Theoretically we have estate taxes and laws against perpetuity that help some and could be prevented.

And maybe if they were practical and not purely theoretical, the democratic populace would be mollified.

> But Bill Gates being born to a middle class lawyer

Bill Gates was born to a multi-millionaire.

> different from Bill Gates being born to the Earl of Orkney and selling all the potatoes in Ireland to make billions.

Bill Gates signed deals with IBM and Dell to sell almost all the OSes in the US, to make billions. Even people who installed other OSes had to pay Bill Gates first.
So if you own a gun you suddenly don't care that your actions will kill your parents/grandparents?
> Repeatedly bringing up how much the game is rigged doesn't really do much to change anything.

Au contraire! I stumbled across one of these semi-monthly kludgeposts with a comment section full of angry people early in my career, and it helped me avoid getting mired in any bad startup situations.

I think that getting the word out about this stuff is one of the best things we can do, since it'd be really hard to try and legislate this problem away
The combined long-term capital gains rate in places like California is >37%. The 20% is just the base federal rate, it can almost double when other investment taxes are accounted for.

You missed a major reason long-term capital gains rates are lower than income tax rates: they are not indexed for inflation in the US and inflation on income is negligible. As a matter of tax policy, it is much simpler to reduce the rate than to compute a very large inflation deduction, but you can find countries that go both ways.
Interesting article that just came out yesterday from Yale University that is right in line with this article how China's commericial fishing fleet is doing a lot of this damage.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-chinas-expanding-fishing-...
I'm honestly pretty disappointed in the BBC for covering this like it is fact and not calling into question the data integrity issues China is infamous for. Nevertheless, I do think China, at least before re-opening, had less community spread than most other countries due to the severity of their lock-down. Authoritarian countries are able to impose measures like this much more quickly than democracies, for better or for worse.
You end up with a lot of noise from bots and crawlers (using bogus user agents) if you're just looking at server logs.
Correct. Farming/ag is fine. Its already scaled and efficient. Now we need to make it sustainable

https://thinkingagriculture.io/what-silicon-valley-doesnt-un...
For me, it's the Node ecosystem. The probability of even popular libraries having really basic bugs is way too high.
I believe you'll find some applications here: https://codingthematrix.com/
If you launch the pre-installed Music app and tap over to "Radio," you'll see it (now them) front and center.
I wrote the linked article explaining X11's internals and design goals in a neutral manner. I've worked on X11 and Xorg ecosystem, worked on the server, I worked on the window managers, the toolkits, applications, compositors, you name it.

I think I'm allowed to have opinions with 40-year hindsight saying that some design decisions have not aged well. I'm not saying X11 is a meme; I'm saying the words "network transparency" ( which never appears once in the documentation; seriously, try to find it https://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/xproto/x11protocol.ht... ) are unhelpful, have unclear motivations and goals, and have a massive restraining influence on what a modern protocol can look like and do.
I'm not sure how this is apparently a controversial point. There's vast and obvious evidence that this is the case. More Dunning-Krugerism from the tech industry.
Are there trends for AFR by drive age? ie. for a specific drive or manufacturer, what is the failure rate for drives that have been in use n years? It'd be interesting to see how the failure rate go up/down as they get older.
When you look at the data, most millionaires and billionaires don’t come from family wealth. Don’t misunderstand, I’m sure they’ve had “leg-ups” like going to private school, or having an SAT tutor, or having a professor at a top20 school as a family friend. So, we don’t really have stagnation of wealth.
Don't we have evidence from other countries that some people will, in fact, put themselves at risk when the virus is spreading? It's certainly not the Chinese government's official position that the virus is gone forever and everyone's safe now.