skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Don't you think if this was really occurring frequently there wouldn't be only one or two reported incidences of this world-wide?

No, for reasons I have already mentioned in my first comment.

The patient we think was reinfected was reported to have a mild case in the spring. The US, at the time, had extremely limited access to tests for anyone except the grievously ill. It is likely the patient would not have received a test in the US, and certainly not had the infection genome-sequenced.

The second time the patient tested positive, he was asymptomatic. The CDC currently recommends against testing asymptomatic individuals. It is likely that, in the US, the patient would once again not have received a test.

Basically, the US tests sparsely and doesn't seem to test longitudinally on any scale at all. Does any country in the world with more than a few thousand cases test longitudinally?

If anything, I think it's more telling that this patient was identified in Hong Kong, which only has 4.5 thousand cases total. Finding seemingly ironclad evidence in such a small pool suggests that this isn't a rare phenomenon.

> And this "do nothing" approach you are advocating for- which is what happens if you wait until everything is fully and definitively proven- has resulted in the disastrous results the US has had so far.

If I'm advocating anything at all (and I don't think I'm advocating anything in my original comment), it's that we hold off on making aggressive policy decisions based on our Swiss cheese "understanding" of COVID immunity. How about working toward goals we set months ago and have since kept failing to meet, such as ubiquitous access to testing and meaningful case tracing?

On the other hand, let's maybe hold off on jokes about sending Grandma to New Orleans? The photo of the elderly woman wearing sparkly bangles is the joke, but I think your suggestion right before that, that "we could send the highest risk people to the places that are the most immune so they could be shielded" is made seriously, right? Like, even moving an individual, medically fragile, institutionalized elderly person leads to complicated and often negative outcomes in the best of times, simply because of the complex and fragile support systems their well-being relies on. Shipping "the highest risk people" en masse and organizing care for them seems dramatically more complex than, again, following through on testing and mitigation strategies that we, as a state, have been paying lip service to for months now.
If you picked random people on the street and asked them to choose between a picture of a real pollock and a picture generated from this website, what % of people would choose the correct painting?

My guess: 50%
In this case how does real-world advertising in magazines, public transport, TV, etc manages to have such a high price despite the targeting capabilities being orders of magnitude lower than online?

Maybe the problem with online ads isn't the targeting or lack thereof but that the well has been poisoned by allowing even the worst possible scum and the users reached their breaking point and learned to ignore them, while the higher quality in real-world advertising is enough to even keep people paying for advertising (in the form of buying magazines)?
Tires probably saved more lives than either of those two things.
> the recent ICFP2020 paper

I'll just note here that this paper is hot off the presses! ICFP is taking place as we speak, this week, Monday to Friday.
As a way of communicating "spend more money training police", "defund the police" utterly fails. And the really extreme advocates really do mean "defund the police" as in no policing or police force at all.
I think Facebook could stand to be reduced by 1/10th.
It really depends on the price, if it's 2 x subsonic-econ then I think they have a real winner (I would personally pay that, its like doing premium economy), but if its 5x or 10x maybe not
Benjamim Moser wrote a whole book no the matter, called "Autoimperialismo". It litterally goes on how Brasilia's architecture is designed to convey the superiority of the state over the people. In fact there is no space for people. No sidewalks. Nothing is "reachable" by a pedestrian. And yet, it is the seat of the three powers.
I guess you mean after he had kids?
This is excellent, thanks for sharing. Anyone know if something similar exists for JS frameworks (React,Ember,Angular,Backbone, etc)? Would be great to see their popularity over time.

I’m guessing maybe not having a single central repository like Gems will prevent this data from being so easily accessible.
The other consideration is that verifying identity is pointless, because malware authors don't actually use their own identities, they just pull a code signing certificate from the 1% of their already-infected users who have one. Then they go out and infect a million more users with it and get 10,000 more code signing certificates.

If all you're after is some kind of rate limiting then forget about identity verification and just require proof of a unique $500 donation to a 501(c)(3). Not only would it be easier to automate, it would do some good in the world, and people would be a lot happier to see their resources go there than to some box checking bureaucrats.
“English-Klingon names for girls” FTW
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> They found that people with obesity and Covid-19 were twice as likely to end up in hospital and 74% more likely to be admitted to intensive care. They were also more at risk of dying from the disease caused by coronavirus.

I think data like this are a strong signal about why we are seeing so many deaths in the USA as compared to some other countries. The bellweather I look to is India. 60k deaths in a population thats 3-4x that of the USA.

These numbers don't point to lockdowns or mask wearing as being an effective action. They instead show the outcomes of culture and lifestyle choices (obesity and sedentary living).
That sounds right. There's some inside baseball to this, but DRM doesn't always fit neatly in the big-biz, small-biz dichotomy. The market power of the FAANGs is at least partly from strip-mining the fair use exceptions, and using data at an extreme scale without compensating creators.
Did not realize that, thanks.

Though if you're forced to add in-app purchases and cannot advertise the other method it seems somewhat moot.
As a developer currently working for a faceless Corp that never seems to actually consult with it’s users (in a mostly unrelated industry) for any user impactful choice..I’m sorry.

I would say maybe you could take comfort in knowing that you essentially sponsored someone who wanted to help produce a world of clean, adaptable code, but the truth is I’m just another mid-rate dev producing immense value to an ironically named faceless org.

Anyway, no thanks for ads and surveillance tech but at the same time thanks for keeping me employed and thanks for keeping the viability of these pursuits going I think?
An example from the RNC on Monday night:

> They’re not satisfied with spreading the chaos and violence into our communities. They want to abolish the suburbs altogether by ending single family home zoning. This forestry zoning would bring crime, lawlessness and low quality apartments into now thriving suburban neighborhoods. President Trump smartly ended this government overreach, but Joe Biden wants to bring it back. These are the policies that are coming to a neighborhood near you. So make no mistake, no matter where you live, your family will not be safe in the radical Democrats America.

https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/2020-republican-nationa...
> So the use of C# dooms my startup? I feel really out of touch having never used python or ruby.

No. It may even be an advantage for some verticals such as finance, and some business/deployment models like on-prem enterprise software, especially if being able to fit seamlessly into a customer's existing Microsoft setup would be a major selling point.

That said, if you find yourself contemplating how to scale your Active Directory and SQL Server deployment[0] to accommodate your growing user base of personalized emoji GIF makers, consider that your prior experience with your chosen platform may have led you astray somewhere.

[0] Apologies if the metaphor lacks punch, my experience with the MS stack is a decade or two out of date at this point.
From another comment (thread moves fast):

The next big thing is ATDD - Acceptance Test Driven Development.
This is implemented using frameworks like Cucumber[1], in which test scenarios are:

1. Described at the feature level

2. Described together with, and signed off by, the business stakeholders

3. Described in a structured format, which can be implemented in code ('given ... when ... then' format)

The advantages this gives are huge. It is essentially the business requirements described as test scenarios, which can be executed in an automated fashion, (co)authored and owned by the business.

[1] https://cucumber.io/
Worth noting that performance is an externally visible feature. You shouldn't be testing for little performance variations, but you probably should check for pathological cases (e.g. takes a full minute to sort this particular list of only 1000 elements).
> I think there's a big difference between 100 years and quadrillions of years.

Maybe so. Or maybe this is a defense mechanism borne from denial and the urge to put off the inevitable. You’re talking about outliving the stars themselves when we can barely get piles of rocks to survive a few millennia.

> I think that in quadrillions of years our interpretation of life and the value we derive from it, and our knowledge of the physical universe, may shift enough that "death" is not actually inevitable.

But it was already thousands of years ago that our interpretation of life and the value we derive from it reached the understanding that death was not to be feared in the first place.
I’m just gonna leave these here and see if anyone has relevant experiences to share:

> ”There is something about the core of this experience that opens people up to the great mystery of what it is that we don’t know.”

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/psilocybin-a-jour...

> ”Of the participants who received the high dose in the second study, 83% reported feeling significantly less depression and 58% reported less anxiety after 7 weeks. Only 14% of those who received niacin reported less anxiety and less depression.”

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/12/hallucinogenic-drugs...
I didn't RTFA from Gary Bernhardt, but this has been my experience. I love types, but it's not like good types replace good tests. They just eliminate some states from the search space.
There are, at minimum, 50 million police-citizen encounters in the USA annually. Fewer than 1200 individuals are killed by police in a given year, on average. The odds of an unarmed American who does not pose a direct threat being shot by the police are fewer than one-in-a-million.
How do you file the income tax, do you use a program for that? I have a BC company and it cost me $450 last year to file a non operating tax of $0. I'd love to know how to do it myself.
Their collective delusions don't make them any less wrong.

To call copying theft implies a spooky action at a distance to drain money from their account like a voodoo doll. Under that twisted logic if I have a sealed room and keep making copies of Harry Potter I can bankrupt JK Rowling! Hell it would be useful to test if it I can use it for superluminal communication.

Magic snark aside they are literally in denial of objective reality including conflating a granted monopoly with physical property. There is a difference even if illustrations would have to be rather fantastic. If merpeople or aliens from Alpha Centuari were making copies of our goods they would not even be violating our laws because they wouldn't be party to any treaty with them and out of our jurisdiction. Not so with literal theft where a freight captain would be justified using force in self defense against sea people/aliens.
Spacex-Starship with a booster below it could put that weight suborbital to the other side of the world and should only cost a few million per flight since the hardware is reused each time
Linux isn’t all of open source, nor likely to be the most attractive vector of infiltration for any given target, and not all of even Linux is examined with the same level of scrutiny.
Even if the nudity and sex was deemed aesthetic content in apps is prohibited from having realistic violence, gore, rape, demeaning portrayals of any group, etc.
The abuser playbook really is pretty standard. I'm kind of surprised we don't have classes on how to avoid being on the receiving end.

Push the person until they crack, then call for discretion and dialog about the 'problem' so you don't get what's coming to you.

But that would probably conflict tremendously with the corporate interests that inform our public education system.
I don't think being 3 months behind upstream release cycle is 'dragging their feet', but more 'waiting for stabilization' and 'researching and implementing required changes'.
How does this happen - Facebook tells me that vaccines don't work and disease isn't caused by viruses and bacteria.
Anecdote, but I rescued a 1947 Kelvinator C-7-R (essentially a 1930's pre-war design) last year from the National Grid fridge scrapping scheme. It'd sat in an unheated garage since 1993, after being continually in use by the same family from 1948 to 1993. I plugged it in once I got home, and it cooled down to 38F within an hour. :)

Functionally, it just needs a new door seal to go back into service. Unfortunately I turned it into another restoration project... the original glass drawers got smashed in the 70's, and replaced with pieces of wood paneling, the interior door panel is cracked, and most importantly, it needs all the wiring replaced.

Something of note for post-war appliances like this; due to copper shortages, a lot of manufacturers switched to aluminum wire. This, combined with the natural rubber insulation, and the lack of grounding, it's basically waiting to electrocute me, then set my house on fire.

A lot of other 40's and 50's appliances are probably the same in terms of aluminum wiring. Pretty much everything prior to the 70's is gonna be full of natural rubber insulation and no grounding (or double insulation), however.
Very interesting. How did you develop the name lists for each language?
It’s more about the pliable reasoning than the actual action. That said, in this case, it is the government actively manipulating the “free market” through regulations.
> They will arrest the perpetrator.

Maybe. Yet this crime still happened, in spite of all the perps got arrested before.

> Or maybe they will get to you in time

Unlikely.

> Because the criminals keep getting released, especially for political reasons.

Like most states, NY, IL, and WA have each eliminated parole for violent offenders, so that’s not it.

You’re going to have to be more specific with your stats. Crime rates continue to decrease in those cities - even in Chicago. The 2016 spike in homicides is an interesting topic if you care learn the driving forces behind it. There wasn’t a mass release of criminals as you suggest, but there was a series of gun laws invalidated by the courts.
> but wouldn't you pay some extra money to be locked in a pressurized can with fewer, sparsely spaced, people for a shorter time?

I wouldn't. Some people would, but considering that Spirit is the fastest-growing airline in the US (or was), I think low prices are more important than any other feature of a plane ride.

I think Boom and its competitors are targeting people who would otherwise use a private jet and can afford $30k tickets. If they're targeting typical consumers, I think they're already doomed.
And lots of articles this summer about shark attacks too....
This kind of thing is why I was happy to pay a premium for my iPhone.
Anyone who has formally studied the Talmud knows it, at least in the context of the Talmud.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talmud#Comparison_of_style_and...
This is great. My wife and I spent many hours looking for names that work in both of our native languages / cultures that weren't super common and having a starting point would have been nice.
Nice little touch when you try to combine a language with itself.
And some day, it might even support AAAA records.
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As opposed to a "legal person" like a corporation.
> Campaign advertising is not news.

No, but Twitter live streams aren't campaign advertising.

The protests are demonstrably violent and destructive.
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It should be noted that EdDSA is generally implemented in constant time, something that can't be said for RSA. (which different implementations - including OpenSSL which OpenSSH uses - have been found to implement it in a way that allows side channel attacks time and time again)

In addition I am pretty sure that if you compile OpenSSH with support only for EdDSA it does not need to be linked to OpenSSL.
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Even if there's room for additional weight, that doesn't help with the other aspects of SWAP.

Size: There's still a finite fairing size. Even the biggest upcoming rockets can't fit a 30m mirror in one piece.

Weight: say you want to put something like ALMA in space, which weighs over ten million pounds. Even with platforms like starship,you're not going to be able to do that in one go. Maybe one launch for each of the 66 antennas,but even that is iffy.

Power: Hubble's power consumption is around 2Kw. Using ALMA as an example again, each individual antenna uses about 10x more electricity than that on average. More electricity means you need RTGs or nuclear reactors (not politically popular, complicates thermal regulation, potential for spreading radioactive waste across orbit and earth a la RORSAT), or massive arrays of solar panels. Massive solar panels means even more weight and space required

For interferometry, knowing your location to the nanometer is just the first of many challenges. You have to station keep across the constellation (tricky to do continuously while you're in orbit!), it becomes even more important to minimize vibrations, etc
And the content industry is massive, revenue wise, which explains why the government is expending such large resources to protect its interests.
>Putting aside the challenges of defining and measuring general intelligence, is it amoral to desire or take action to bring about a smarter child?

Putting it aside - no. Having it in the equation, I don't necessarily think so but I can see how someone might because , as said, the way to define intelligence is not sure and someone is making the decision as to how it is being defined.

>For what it is worth, at least one commercial service is already available in the USA to screen embryos for non-disease genes which are probabilisticlly linked to lower IQ, by whatever metric the companies use to measure and define IQ

So, it might be bad this because obviously the parents are unlikely to have the resources to determine what measure to use, they just have to assume the company's measure is a good one. Just like the police have no way of determining if the face recognition algorithm in their new machine learning toolkit is a good one so they trust the company that tells them it will help catch criminals.

>s your point that the technology isn’t mature enough to be ethical. Or is it that it IS ethical, just not practical?

I think that it might have unethical results as a side effect - a la the machine learning facial recognition example, or less likely even unethical motivations (because who knows if a company doing this stuff can also have ulterior motives)

But returning to >is it amoral to desire or take action to bring about a smarter child?

As a general principle no - but no general principle ever exists, the principle needs an actual implementation. Many of the processes that have been done by parents over generations to attempt to bring about smarter children can be pointed to and decried, even considered immoral.

>Parents Intentionally optimize for smart children over dumb ones all the time using non-genetic means

Sure, and lots of the things that are done people point at and say that is awful! I'm not saying that maximizing genes for intelligence IS awful, only it might be, especially given we don't really know or agree overall what it is we're measuring.
The more you'll sue doctors, the more MDs will practice defensive medicine and you'll end up with shit quality overly invasive care. The way to go is to sue the institutions, but not the practitioners themselves. Then the institution punishes the doc if warranted.

In opposition to what you think, doctors are highly egoistical individuals and absolutely do not cover for one another.
There have been several phone screens in my life in which as soon as we started speaking about TDD and/or agile, they completely lost interest.

But as far as I'm concerned that's a good thing. I write tests where it makes sense, and I can think of 1 project where I eventually regretted the decision not to write tests (before or after), but even then it didn't really hurt it just would have been a lot less scary with a good suite of tests around some specific functionality (related to pulling emails, doing the wrong thing there could mean permanently losing emails without processing).
Haha. Great idea. My parents did this but w/ three languages. There are surprisingly few that are pronounced similarly.

I can see this tool being very useful in coming up with ideas. You do need to sense check it though ultimately. e.g. English/German suggests "Lear". Which in German sounds similar to "leer" meaning empty.
I think we are going to learn a lot about the cycle capabilities of car batteries in the next few years. Overall, battery degradation has been much less of a problem in real world EV statistics, at least for actively temperature managed batteries, than many pessimistic models feared.

One thing we seem to have growing evidence for is that battery cells resting at full charge for long periods of time may have more of an impact on battery lifetime than cycle counts, and so partial cycles of an active vehicle-to-grid system may actually be a smart plan for extending the expected life of EV batteries, given that evidence.

Such systems are still in very early testing/planning, so we'll see as we learn. The fact that it is a possibility, though, greatly changes a lot of the "doomsday predictions" about electricity demand in an all EV tomorrow, so it is worth pointing out as a possibility, even if we aren't certain it is a probability that it will be used widespread.
you dont see many cams around due to the enforcement against in theatre camming.

even teleciene versions are few in number [a way of camming in your pirate loPHt]. it seems cams were a counting coup for scene credit and its now just looked at as dangerous.

actual copying of prerelease screeners is in the mire as well. screeners basically were watermarked and sent out as promotionals so a theatre location could judge if they wanted to show them or not, and as promos in store to encourage rentals.
Strange that a country that so strongly professes its belief in the power of free markets can't allow said free market to figure out the optimal amount of parking.