skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They've talked about this issue a lot on TWIV [1], and apparently many of the most commonly used PCR machines do the maximum number of cycles on every sample and then test to see if the sample is positive or negative. So they couldn't report a cycle count even if they wanted to, the machine doesn't allow it. I don't know what percentage of PCR machines in the wild this applies to, but based on how they talk about it on the podcast, it seems like a lot of them.

Maybe the global cycle count for the machine could be adjusted, similar to what you are talking about, but that is different than reporting the cycle count of every positive test.

1: https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/
List of discontinued Google products and services
Something like this:

https://www.seeedstudio.com/RF-Explorer-model-WSUB1G-p-922.h...

... along with a high dB external attenuator because it is designed for low power. According to the docs a 60dB external allows for 1 milliWatt to 2 Watt measureable input. I think the default power for 2.4ghz Wifi is 100mW.
The cyclist's equivalent of h is E, the Eddington Number.

the largest integer n such that one had cycled at least n miles on n different days.

It is painful in both cases because it's a measure of reliable work, not most overall impressive work. If you write 16 papers and 15 of them are cited 15 times and one is cited 2000 times, your h is still 15!

http://www2.lowell.edu/users/jch/mtb/e.html
This is something that lots of folks seem to be getting confused about, with benchmark posts coming up on HN asking “is Django async faster than X?”.

For the API gateway use case this feature is really useful, and extends the usefulness of Django by letting it serve as a gateway for longer as your app grows and you start extracting services from the monolith.

I think part of it is the idea that in principle calling your DB is IO - but in practice your DB is fast enough that your sync view is not spending much of its time waiting on that IO.
> I don't really understand your question. We can have as many levels to our leagues as we want. As many women can play as they want. Maybe all the women will be in lower tier leagues, maybe some will be in the higher tiers. Why's that a problem? They're still getting to play the sport with opponents around their level.

My point is that if you add more leagues, you're just adding more spots for men to fill up. You're not doing women a favor by replacing a program of three men's teams and three women's teams with 8 unisex teams. You might just end up with 8 men's teams.

> Isn't that the point of playing a sport? Playing a game with people who can challenge you. You can still play at the highest tier your ability will support.

I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but the standard practice for high-school and college sports is that only one team, the 'Varsity' team, goes to the playoffs. One team per school. The B team doesn't get to compete beyond a short, standard season against other local B teams. There is certainly no playoff for the E,F,G team where women will end up. The Varsity team gets to compete to be the best. Everyone else is playing for fun.

Under the current system, the best women in a sport are on the Varsity team. They compete in playoffs. Women get to be the champion of their district/region/state/country at tennis, at soccer, at the 150 yard dash. They get to compete in stadiums full of fans, they get to stand up on the pedestal and receive their medals and trophies. It sounds like you want to introduce a world where women don't get to play real competitive sports. Where no women are on the 'real' team, in the big games under the lights. A world where no women are champions.
You can get better performance with a pi and Unbound locally in most cases.

50ms latency vs <1ms for unbound cached entries
lol very true
Collection of State Management Lib
You mean, facial recognition so the armed thugs putting protestors into unmarked vans can be identified. That makes sense.
Right? No matter how you go out, just put an envelope taped to the fridge with "IF I DIE" written in big letters on the front and be done with it. Why rely on some flaky big tech solution to this?
things like an os, browser etc are now at utility level. and should be funded through taxes and grants. you know like nato contribution grants but at the un level. everyone needs a reliable, privacy based browser and os. & I would reckon it a human right.
Do you live in Portland or are you trying to tell the people that do how to live based on what you see on Fox News?
Update: I have successfully appealed the rejection for Guideline 5.1.1. However, they decided to immediately reject me for a different guideline - Guideline 4.2.2 - Design - Minimum Functionality.

> We are writing to let you know the appeal results for your app, Octal - Hacker News.

> The App Review Board evaluated your app and determined that the original rejection feedback was not accurate.

> Your app is not currently in violation of 5.1.1.

> However, the following issue was discovered during our evaluation:

> Guideline 4.2.2 - Design - Minimum Functionality

> We noticed that your app only includes links, images, or content aggregated from the Internet with limited or no native iOS functionality. Although this content may be curated from the web specifically for your users, since it does not sufficiently differ from a mobile web browsing experience, it is not appropriate for the App Store.

> We encourage you to review your app concept and work towards creating an app that offers customers an engaging and lasting experience that also meets the App Store’s high expectations for quality and functionality.

> Apple Developer includes a variety of design and development resources. Download iOS templates from Apple UI Design Resources, learn more about crafting intuitive, well-designed apps with the Design Video collection, and review the iOS Human Interface Guidelines for best practices to follow when designing apps for the App Store.

This is my life as an Apple Developer.
The PCR test make/model could be published with each positive case, then the well-known maximum could be cross-referenced from FDA docs on each test, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24427765

Without the Ct value, "cases" are not comparable on the basis of test positivity.

With transparency on the Ct value, we can determine which tests and configurations best support health.

P.S. "the machine does not allow it" could be an HN firmware challenge. If the fate of civilization depends on PCR test machines, do any of them have auditable open-source firmware?
Any manager that’s laying out timelines assuming that everyone will work at 100% capacity permanently is being unbelievably naive. People will take vacations, get sick, or need mental breaks. We’re humans, not robots.
https://bigasspics.me/
If a team can’t handle someone losing velocity due to the challenges of parenting during a once in a century pandemic, then it needs new leadership, period.
Our FAV app for my 7yr old. Make more content.. he's consumed all of it and hungry for more ;-)
On moving away from a six figure consultancy to becoming an indie hacker
New users get a green username: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#green-...
I look at IFTTT and Zapier and wonder what people use them for. Don't get me wrong, I think both have a target consumer but they feel expensive for what they appear to offer. I feel like if you're investing in automation the agnostic nature of owning and operating the code is more valuable than building into a walled system that relies on Internet connectivity and a SaaS service. OpenFaaS plus some Python could get you a long way on a $5/month VPS. Or... Pennies in any of the FaaS offerings wired up with cloud native tools. Or Node-RED?

Are there any good OSS orchestration / automation frameworks out there that scratch this itch?
Why would you devote such energy to help people lose their privacy? Do you want to work at Google or something? Disappointed someone would help that company make more money exploiting people rather than making the world a better place (for example, by building a real email client, that works with email servers rather than just google servers).
> "what is AxB" for $\mathbb{R}^4$ seems ill-specified.

Thats also true for R^3: does <1,0,0>x<0,1,0> give <0,0,1>, or <0,0,-1>?
tldr: because the corona thing is just not as dangerous as your government and media would like you to believe.
But you shouldnt commit wrong think! Its because we "now better protect the elderly". This is a true fact and questioning it is illegal. This is the new normal now. You will not get your rights back.
This is madness. The lockdown is the only thing that stopped several hundred deaths from becoming several thousand (or much more). No job is worth dying for, and few jobs are worth becoming crippled for. Make no mistake that this virus cripples many survivors.
Yeah that's one of the first things I mentioned. Go executables aren't editable. In practice it barely makes a difference, if you can SSH onto a machine then you can SCP a binary onto it too. At that point you edit the source code and press Ctrl+P, Return to rerun "go build -o fix-the-thing main.go && scp fix-the-thing $HOST:/tmp && ssh /tmp/fix-the-thing". And then you've got your code ready to check in to source.
Did Joe Biden demand that the Department of Justice defend him?
Yes, what you are sensing is something much deeper though.

People are much less serious and more affable, gregarious than they were even 50 years ago - and it comes out in everything, dialogue, disposition. You can tell immediately, before they say a line, it's how they stand, and in their faces.

Go and look at 'Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin' - the big baddie from from Star Wars who very confidently dismissed and told off Darth Vader ("Enough of this. Vader, release him!"). This guy would embody the quasi-aristocratic head of say, the East India Company Governor back in the day. A kind of cold, callous, calculating CEO, who's involved in war, blood, serious repercussions etc.. English stage actors have the ability to do this. Most of the cast of Lynch's Dune were well trained actors, and Kyle MacLachlan just had a very special air about him.
Yes. I think this is the answer to the question posed by this article.

Coronavirus quickly found its way into aged care facilities, causing a higher death rate. But as the virus progresses through the wider community the death rate declines.
> The idea of a stock exchange that allows companies and investors to focus on 5, 10, 25 year horizons sounds great!

But this already exists. It's just the regular stock exchange.

It's also worth noting that a majority of the capital in the market is already focused on very long term horizons. Most of it is sitting in boring mutual funds, who's investors are looking towards retirement as their horizon.

If you're looking for a market that is so focused on long term horizons that they don't even care whether you have enough revenue to remain solvent, and won't have enough revenue to remain solvent at any time in the foreseeable future, then that market already exists too. You can call it Private Equity, or Venture Capital, and HN often likes to discuss how it's trying to reinvent the 2000s tech bubble. It's also led to some incredible scams, and isn't really something you want consumer investors betting their retirements on.

> something like: “investors must hold positions for 10 years”, or, “earnings only reported every 2 years”

These wouldn't be good rules even if you were focused exclusively on long term results. Your longterm outlook can change from one day to the next.
In the least inflammatory tone possible, what do you think they should be doing instead?

There's a lot of pile-on about how they've done everything wrong without a lot of suggestion about what they should've done instead / should currently be doing instead.

For example, if Andrews and co cave to the federal and local pressure and re-open the state today, and everything explodes in two weeks, who takes the blame then? Still Andrews and co.

While it's been a huge outbreak by Australian expectations, it's still tiny when compared to the rest of the world.

If we had the 10, 15,000 cases per million that are more commonplace around the world, there'd still be a stuffed economy, lower employment, increased mental health issues, right? We'd just have another layer of mess with hospital overload and death that we don't have in a large amount at the moment.
The problem with this argument is the assumption that everyone gets a facial scan and the computer processes the data all the same, in order to recognize whether the individual is recognizable or not. How can we be sure that that data is not getting saved for later? The system is too ripe for abuse and everyone loses their privacy.
Why are garbage collectors so important?
The real world experience I have in C++ has been embedded driver development. I've never written a program in a binary compiled language large enough to experience major side effects from improper manual memory management.

I know that Go, Lisp and many other compiled languages have Garbage Collectors. Why would they choose to, given the performance cost?
Any other alternatives you'd recommend?
I see the line of thinking you're going down. There are ISO standards for data types, in a sense I could see why one would seek a standard language for defining the metadata/specification of a type as data. Have to really think about that some more.. in a way a regex could be seen as a compact form of expressing the capability of a column in terms of value ranges or domains, but to define the meaning of the data, not so much.

Your interpretation of the atomic columns requirement is a little different than my understanding. That requirement of normalization only applies to the "cells" of columnar data, it says nothing about encoding meaning into column names, which are themselves simply descriptive metadata.

I mean, for sure you wouldn't want to encode many values/meanings into a column name (some systems have length restrictions that would make that impossible, I'm not sure it makes sense anyway), but just pointing out that technically the spec does not make that illegal. Certainly, adding minor annotations within the name of a column separated by a supported delimiter does not, in my opinion, violate normalization rules at all. I mean things like "ID_" or similar.

Have you looked at INFORMATION_SCHEMA in SQL databases? [1] You mentioned SQL metadata and constraints, that is as close to a standard feature for querying that information there is, some databases do it using similar but non-standard ways (Oracle for example).

Also, not standard but, many relational databases support extended properties or Metadata for objects (tables, views, columns, etc.) - you can often come up with your own scheme although rarely do I see people utilize these features. [2] [3]

At some point it feels like we are more talking about type definitions and annotations, applied to data columns.

Maybe like, BNF [4] for purely data table columns (which are essentially types)?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_schema

[2] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-comment.ht...

[3] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/sy...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backus%E2%80%93Naur_form
In 2020?? Can’t we just wait 4 months, we don’t want to give it any more fuel
On the contrary. It is times like these in which citizens need protections from those that may not have their best interests in mind. People have every right to protest and should not be surveilled in doing so.
This is a weird claim. Database calls where even moderate business logic is done at the database level can have very surprising performance characteristics and can be difficult to optimize. Taking these calls off the main thread isn’t a solution but it’s obviously a significant IO burden that doesn’t need to be shared across all of the happy paths
I believe most are just simple blue light filters that you manually turn on and adjust the way you adjust brightness or similar but there were a few with sensors:

https://www.benq.com/en-au/campaign/eye-care/for-video-enthu...
You're not really helping your own case here. Especially as you're basically using an example of a case whereby having the state not act in the public's interest by addressing the high crime problem, it leads to poor outcomes for the populace; actually justifying the prohibition in the interests of the public's privacy in general over the freedom of private individuals to create a facial recognition based privacy free zone through their own volition and recognizance by leaving contractual acceptance of facial recognition based programs and data sharing open in much the same way as functioning and effective law enforcement prograns are justifiable in maintaining public safety.
Wow, sorry to hear that. I'm glad you're still around. Was this on Wikipedia?
This is excellent, and remarkable! I'm hopeful that similar legislation will be considered by other cities.

It is unfortunate that providing people such basic protections from some of the worst evils of surveillance capitalism.
Needs (2014).
Hey there is a lot of health misinformation in this thread. Please seek advice from professionals, not potentially biased people on a software start up forum. There is a reason medical professionals are trained not to give advice about your symptoms outside the practice.
I should've used the correct (or neutral) pronoun in the second last sentence: herself.
Very cool, that’s exactly what I’m after. I’m getting into IoT development and need good information as I work on various applications. Thanks!
I dunno, but other sites that do it include Google (cache), Internet Archive, and Instapaper.
> And I'd suggest reading my reply to the absurd thermodynamics bit before assuming too much about my thoughts on it!

I mean. My issue is multi-fold. I have an issue with market fundamentalists who treat it like a religion. But I also have an issue with economists who use methods of analysis that aren't empirical.

> It's an existential claim, not a mathematical claim.

This isn't just an issue of philosophy and mathematics in the abstract. Computation is a physical phenomena. The claim of efficiency being made here, even in the weaker version, is not congruent with reality.

It's an existential claim that would be no different than chemists shouting "this chemical reaction will continue forever" (a violation of the second law of thermodynamics).

> I'm just here to point out that the weakened claim is "markets are the best we've got", not anything theoretical nor abstract.

The weaker claim is no different than doctors who once believed in the four humors. It's not technically an incorrect categorization of reality given current knowledge in the field. But it's a piece of general economics knowledge that has no backing in reality, nor is falsifiable, nor provides predictive use.

And every time an economist spouts that sort of nonsense I can't help but remember their field must be primarily pesduo-science. I don't know how they expect me to take them seriously when they are still yelling about four humors and perpetual chemical interactions.

Because existential claims like this one are incongruent with reality. I don't know many times I can emphasize this point, the claim, even the weakest version I have seen, is not physically possible, hence it would require extraordinary evidence. It would upset the entire field of computation if it were true. It stands in opposition to modern pillars of computational reality, no different than claiming one had a perpetual motion machine would physics. Humanity would be like gods if it were true. You can continue to claim it all you want, but it's as misguided as claiming the earth is flat.
What's frustrating is that mapping to multiple terms was almost included: https://github.com/json-ld/json-ld.org/issues/142

I didn't know about JSON:API, thanks for the pointer. It seems to tighten the JSON responses a bit, but doesn't address linking or extending vocabularies though.
My main use for IFTTT is that they accept incoming webhooks to send push notifications to my phone via their app.

Incredibly useful and convenient.
Atomic and Generics. Awkward to use and relatively unknown but c11 introduced them
What qualifies as part of the facial recognition chain? Does source video count?

Because I could see an interpretation in which people filming police activities and the people they arrest as no longer being allowed.

What about that?
@jaredmauch Would you still have considered doing this today with Starlink now happening?

I stopped the video once the interviewer portion started but how does someone justify $125-150k investment to become an ISP? I'd maybe consider this if I owned a large chunk of land out there and planned to sell it and then sell the internet subscriptions to individuals who build there.
A throwaway troll account
Institutional investors like pension funds have a longer term focus. If this platform succeeds, it might encourage more institutions like it.
Even without politicians, the effective limit to most enormous projects is a human life span. Even if you look at projects that spanned 100-200 years like some cathedrals, they tended to be built in chunks: the main hall might be the first and largest, but things like trancepts, side chapels etc. would come later
Great find!

Rarely get to see how others think on deals. Led me to try this out with my own substack.
holy shit that page shows that the US is an anomaly compared to all countries it is normal to compare to. It doesn't help that it is gigantic country where it is hard to limit internal travel, but still we are doing something wrong here.
Tech is in bed with the government everywhere on the planet, and has been for a long time. The question has never been about fairness, it is: who has your interests in mind?
Because we're relying on a test which can barely be trusted. It's a research tool and should never be used in a diagnostic capacity. Don't listen to me about it though, that quote is from the PCR test's inventor Kary Mullis. It's bizarre that this isn't mentioned more.

There's a rumor that it has a high false positive rate as well. There was a New York Times article that summarized this a few days ago. Again, perplexing why this isn't mentioned and studied more.
What will the keepers of this index say to the social justice criticism that it's unfair to track this metric because it discriminates against women and minorities who don't get chances to publish as much?
Reminds me of William Gibsons Iduro's Colin Laney. Likely we will see more of these newly type of jobs going forward.
Better than gourmet cheese? No. But in certain foods where cheese is not the main ingredient, such as burgers, sandwiches, and pizzas, yes, it can be superior.
Yes, any decent ISP has already worked with zoom, google, teams, etc. to optimize the network.

The real question is whether they care enough about torrents to do anything about it.

https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/stat/US/daily

Given that 0.31% of internet users torrent, maybe?