skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Sweden seems to be one of the few countries with no detectable signs of a second wave.

It’s really just too early to say. There’s a strong tradition of spending summers in a country cottage in Sweden. These are naturally very socially distanced (often alone in the forest), and they go together with spending all day, every day out in the sunshine - and thereby getting a massive vitamin D boost.

Furthermore, the weather is still mild, and a lot of people who’d normally be back in town, are choosing to work from their country cottage instead. This is especially true of the older, vulnerable generation.

Finally there’s also been a few days when deaths have crept up. But counting has continually been hampered by chronic delays - so I’d say wait a few weeks before assuming Sweden is in the clear.
Sometimes the Perl sugar is pretty sweet, though.

my %h1 = ("xyz" => 2);
my %h2 = ("abc" => 9, "def" => 3);
# hashmap from Hash::MostUtils
my %hash = hashmap { "$b-$a" => $a * $b }
%h1, %h2, "eieio" => 0, "abc" => 1;

# "0-eieio" => "",
# "1-abc" -> "abc"
# "2-xyz" => "xyzxyz"
# "3-def" => "defdefdef"
I started meditation in the mid 1970s, but this year started more formal training (a nine month set of lessons from the SRF). I probably devote about 30 minutes a day to meditation.
SQLite works well for app files. Bentley uses it for all sorts of stuff and I had way fewer corrupt files in their format than Autodesks. :)

Do note that sqlite itself doesn't have the kindest handling of date/times, you are at the mercy of your data provider (unless you are going native) Especially when timezones are involved.

If it's running on windows machines you could consider Sql Server LocalDB (runs in user mode, i believe you are allowed to distribute as such in an app). But it doesn't sound like that would make sense from what I've read for your case and tech stack.

Sqlite is a good start because even if you are wrong, it should be pretty dang easy to migrate to whatever is right. :)
True. Iraq, Libya, Syria are noteworthy examples. Chechnya is another example.

https://m.dw.com/en/opinion-russia-still-lives-in-the-shadow...
I suspect that is a safari issue, I'm not aware of my website doing anything on purpose to give that effect. If you can tell me what to change I'll be happy to do so.
Getting the app upgraded or changed to not need 2008 is the hard part. If the app could run on a later version of Windows, this would be really easy. I'm sure you can appreciate how difficult that might be. For custom apps, it could be a lot of code to update. For vendor apps, that app would also probably need to be upgraded to a newer version because the app is also end of life for some years now. In our case, it's a vendor app. No time and money to fix this situation, so we just keep it running and pray.
I doubt Dijkstra would have objected to a visual formalism that was, well, formal. Something like Peirce's existential graphs[1] for example. Dijkstra despised sloppiness, probably as a consequence of growing up in a war-ravaged country where his group could only manage to beg an hour a week of computer time from the Americans.

As you imply, the EWD is a treasure. I've read through the vast majority of the English language ones and it has deeply improved my understanding of "Computing Science." I personally enjoy his non-technical writing too, abrasiveness and all, but I know that's not to everyone's taste. If it isn't, it's easily skipped. I do wish I had some Dutch though to get the bits I missed.

Edit:
> He's got an anti-visual-programming rant in the archive as well

It just occurred to me to ask, is this the one where he argues that any visual description by its nature overspecifies? That's one of the recurring themes in his work, specify everything that needs to be specified, but no more. Of course even a vector of glyphs is still in the end a visual representation, so things are always overspecified. For example a + b and b + a are, in some languages, exactly equivalent and it would be nice to be able to directly represent that rather than having it require additional knowledge of the semantics.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_graph
i think the OP is talking about crystal meth, not ritalin or adderall. Ritalin and Adderall is not what "faces of meth" depicts, as it depicts long term use of smoked crystal meth addiction.
Could you elaborate as to what the specific differences are?
Here's what I'm saying:

Imagine two people who regularly consume cocaine. One of them is homeless; the other is an executive somewhere.

By definition, the definition of "addiction", the first one was "addicted", and the second one wasn't.

There are arguments to be made for this kind of definition. But you can't use it to say "addiction is what destroys lives, not drugs". That's a tautology. Addiction is the name we give to destroyed lives, not something that can be observed independently of whether a life is destroyed.
Hmm, why would that be? The patches are all vetted by the suckless people, but there might be something I'm not thinking of.
Compare them to another country like the UK, where the peak was in late April, they got down to a low point in early July and then it didn’t start to look like an unmistakable second wave for 2 months, around early September. Sweden’s peak and then trough are shifted by about 2 or 2 1/2 months from them (their peak was in mid July and they only hit their low point at the end of August/beginning of September).

So it’s way too early to make any conclusion about what will happen next there. If they do end up following the same trend as the UK, it won’t be clear in graphs until November.
In Switzerland there are legal injection sites where addicts medicate with medical supervision and controlled dose.

Very few people are incarcerated for dealing because people with this problem have better and safer alternatives than street scores.
Dictionary of Arguments and Positions (2018)
Ask HN: How do you avoid bullshit tech content in search?
This happens when I want any deep technical treatment of a topic.

There are hundreds of SEO-optimized websites that basically post obvious shallow information and still achieve to trick search engine algorithms with great effort. I don't want those shallow information articles. There's wikipedia always for surface introduction of the topic.

Examples of such sites include GeeksForGeeks, Many medium blogs, DZone, ZDNet etc..

Are there any search tricks / filters / alternative search engines or proxying search engines that allow to avoid bullshit tech content?
Race to the bottom.

If there is a stimulant that only hurts your health a little, and it becomes popular in your industry, you will have to take it in order to remain competitive, because the workload will be adapted to the new standard.

> It seems to me that some consider it a form of cheating when you don't change your diet or the sports / exercise regimen, work-life-balance etc.

The difference is, if you later find out that some specific diet or exercise regimen hurts your health, you can change it. If you find out that coffee (or modafinil, in the future) hurts your health, but you are socially expected to use it, then it just sucks to be you.
There’s a “save” button you have to click to persist your changes after you’ve toggled the green/red cells of the media-types-per-domain table to suit what you want to block and what you want to allow. i gave up on uMatrix once before figuring that out.
>COVID-19 has a fair chance of affecting you for much longer than that you are actually ill if you have a severe cases of it. And the really long term effects (as in decade+) won’t be known for many years so we are all guessing about what they could be, but if there are any they likely will not be good.

This is just fear mongering. Millions of people have had covid now and so far there's zero evidence that it's significantly more likely to have long-term adverse side effects for the average person than any other respiratory virus.

>Reacting decisively, forcefully and without delay could make the difference between a disaster of epic proportions or something that we will barely remember in twenty years.

This is complete hyperbole. Sweden reacted minimally, and it was hardly a disaster of epic proportions: around four thousand people died in a country of ten million, and those were mostly nursing home residents, due to government failure to properly protect the nursing homes. In fact allowing the disease to spread seems to have brought some form of immunity, as predicted, since it's not experiencing a "second wave" like the other countries in Europe.

> Let me make something very plain here: it is not a choice between the health on the one side and the economy on the other. COVID-19 will continue to hurt us economically until there is a vaccin or we get our act together and decide to deal with it frontally.

This is also not true. After the lockdowns ended the economy has been continuously recovering, even in places where case numbers continued rising after lockdown (for instance the US, unemployment is falling now but covid cases never stopped rising). I don't understand how anybody can think the economic impact of literally forcing a bunch of businesses to close indefinitely is no worse than the impact of businesses just having fewer customers due to some people being scared to go because of the virus.
Not digitally embedded as EXIF since it was uploaded to Imgur which AFAIK strip those out, but more like lens scratches and sensor noise, similar to [0].

[0]: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1634362
Why does Twitter even try so hard to make preview crops "meaningful"? Sure, it produces interesting results sometimes (sometimes funny, sometimes less so) but isn't it a lot of work for not a lot of benefit?
I'd like to see some actual data. This link has not a single number to back up it's claims. It feels like a politician saying "the data and science is on our side" yet never providing any data, studies or science, something every politician does. Round 2 is a good discussion but not using this article.
For answering a rhetorical question? Yes of course that guy who came up with this also roots for swift to gain more traction outside Apple ecosystem but the reality hasn't going in that direction so far. There are plenty of cool languages out there like f#, julia, mathematica etc and the ML mob settled for python which is an average language so there is no reason to believe they are attracted to swift.

And you just ignored the hardware comment
I'm skeptical of JAX. It feels good right now, but when the first TF beta version came out it was very much like that too - clean, simple, minimal, and just a better version of Theano. Then the "crossing the chasm" effort started and everyone at Google wanted to be part of it, making TF the big complex mess it is today. It's a great example of Conway's Law. I'm not convinced the same won't happen to JAX as it catches on.

PyTorch has already stood the test of time and proven that its development is led by a competent team.
I’m willing to put up with if it it means gorhill will have the energy to maintain just uBO instead of burning out entirely :)
Ah thanks! So the mouse couldn’t live there ...
Yep. It's difficult to find usages for autodiff, and it looks like a very niche thing to add to a language. But, it's still cool. In a language with extensible syntax(ex: proc macros), this would sit in a library.

And I think you're right, there is a low chance that this gets traction. Especially since Chris Lattner is at SiFive, they probably will have some kind ofAI accelerators, but TF is for training rather then execution. So not sure they'll find a reason to push it.

Jeremy Howard from fast ai might be able to convince people to give it a try. But without people working on it full time, the chances are not great. Especially with a compiler fork that requires constant merges/rebases. But, who knows.
We were more than 2 meters apart, but we did shake hands and I smoked cigarettes from one of them.

My friends did not get tested, but they also showed no symptoms.

I sprayed the table with alcohol, the seats, my beer bottles.

I did share an uber ride with one of my friends, I did open the windows, I think the driver might have coughed once or twice, I did make the huge mistake about asking him about his car model and he wouldn't shut up afterwards.
I wonder how that is still possible? When I order servers the OS is typically included as a line item. This leads me to believe there are companies out there running 20yo server platforms on 15yo hardware. The markup for replacement parts for equipment that old is insane.
Yes, we very well may be forced to live alongside the new corona. Just as we do the older coronas. Immunity will be gained in time with the cost of organ health and death along the way. No human decisions, action, or in-action are required for mankind to gain resistance eventually.

But... a vaccine in the US exists and is effective at making an immune response in all testing so far. Maybe the vaccine won't stop all woes. Maybe the virus will mutate too fast. But the vaccine exists today. It's not a pie in the sky dream.
The way HN’s topic floatation algorithm is behaving on this thread right now makes me suspicious about this forum as well. I am not sure if it’s an ML model issue here or just some quiet downvotes by the you-know-who.
Isn't Mitch McConnell in the news right now far more "intensely" than Obama? If I was writing a system to pick a thumbnail, I would pick the thumbnail that is most relevant to current tweets, which is definitely McConnell.

A quick way to test this would be to use two well known figures, where the PoC is definitely more in the news than the other.
There were 571 cases of COVID associated MIS-C in children as of July 2020. There’s so many zeroes in front of that percentage likelihood I don’t even know where to start. Worry about it if it happens haha. [1]

Yes it could happen, but the likelihood of your child hurting themselves with something sharp and pointy in your house is several orders of magnitude higher. This is why I hate the way the media is reporting on these literal one-off symptoms as though everyone who catches Covid will certainly absolutely get them.

Kawasaki is broadly associated with all sorts of viral infections. It’s super duper rare.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/pdfs/mm6932e2-H.pdf
The real problem I see here is the default assumption from many people that these is racial bias in the algorithm with no evidence thereof whatsoever. Thats how twitter works, shitstorm first, research later, evidence or corrections for false assumptions - never.
CD players are a more legacy example of hardware doing magic, in this case, a whole lot of XORs. [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/fBRMaEAFLE0?t=651 "Free with every CD, a Cray supercomputer"
Is it just me, or does the pit signal turn green when there are still several pit crew members standing in front of the car? 1.85s into the stop or @5m56s in the video.

https://youtu.be/tFwcq5lf0wU?t=356
Some guy asked cpercival if he had won the Putnam. He had.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35083
Yes, that is true, I know I keep coughing for a long time even after regular colds, but somehow this doesn't put my mind at ease at all.
I feel like people around the world deal with this very differently, depending on how severely their country has been affected.

My (European) country did quite well so far, so from our point of view he would certainly seem overly cautious. People have much less fear than during the first wave. They try to live with the risk of getting infected by accepting that it is real, but not letting it dictate everything they do, which would make life more "surviving" than "living".

And I think that's a good approach! Within the confines of necessary precautions like wearing masks, keeping your distance, and banning big events, I think it is still possible to live a life which is worth living in a responsible way.
After all, I also don't mind getting into a car while being fully aware of the risks (which could be worse than COVID's depending on where you live).
So yes, I do think his recommendations are too drastic and also bad for your mental health. Next to that, most of them are impossible to realize for people who aren't lucky enough to be able to work from home etc.

Maybe I would have a different opinion if I was a US resident.
Agree, resize would in most cases be way more useful.
Optical media life expectancy: Avoid DVD-R
Outside of marketing speak, it is not really machine learning if the machine is not learning.
Literally 12 hours after I switched from Noscript. :(
Google and Facebook under pressure to ban children's ads
Source? This is a virus killing a ton of people and leaving many more flat on their backs for weeks... To suggest that it's "highly possible" someone's symptoms are from anxiety is kind of insulting IMO.
If you want to replicate that kind of configuration that is as painless as possible you just have to go into the extension options/configuration. Head to the "My rules" tab and you will find a rule, towards the top of the rule list, that says:

"* * * block"

This rule acts as a default blacklist. If you switch it to:

"* * * allow" it will allow everything by default (except the blacklisted domains, which overrule this).

Then in the "Assets" tab you can configure your blacklists, I can recommend Steven Black's lists. He curates and consolidates several of the most famous ones:

https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

He maintains several variants according to themes you may want to ban (adware, malware, fakenews...). Choose the combination that suits you.
I felt the same way before I realized the flexibility of the domain scoping UI and that I could allow certain things (e.g. reCAPTCHA and the million Google scripts it depends on) on a global basis instead of on a tedious per-domain basis.
> I wonder how mathematicians, physicists and engineers come up with names...

Mathematicians simply name everything after Cauchy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Aug...
Most people want to block annoyances like advertising or tracking without breaking the pages they want to visit. What you're suggesting does the opposite.
The Chrome T-Rex Game Becomes a Political Satire in India
Yeah, I'd say 90% of the issue(for me, not my wife, she actually was too sick to leave bed and had a todler to look after) was the stress and anxiety.

But am I alone in this?

I don't think so, I think most people would go through the same stress and anxiety in my situation, that is the part that is so easy to overlook.
Wrong. Those activities are indicators of us getting smarter.

Civilization.
I know where you're coming from, but TF in my opinion was very user-hostile even on arrival. I can't tell you how much hair-pulling I did over tf.conds, tf.while_loops and the whole gather / scatter paradigm for simple indexing into arrays. I really think the people working on it wanted users to write TF code in a certain, particular way and made it really difficult to use it in other ways. Just thinking back on that time still raises my blood pressure! So far Jax is much better and I'm cautiously optimistic they have learned lessons from TF.
Ask HN: What devices or apps do you use to track your health?
I am curious what devices people use to track their health. I am also interested in how these devices/apps sync their data with Apple Health.
I think you'd have better luck with some kind of a glider launch system where you have a stationary motor on the ground and a long cable. It's possible to put 2kft of altitude on in less than a minute this way. If you wanted to do the same with GA electric planes you probably could perhaps with longer runways or more powerful winches esp. if you engineer the airframe to handle a more powerful winch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliding#Winch_launching
I wan to see some data about seasonal flu. Is that gone totally this year? Cause I know the yearly death toll of flu in my country (Hungary) and it's significantly higher than Covid so far.

We usually have 3-6k death of flu each year https://akjournals.com/view/journals/650/161/23/article-p962...

And so far 683 deaths from Covid http://abouthungary.hu/news-in-brief/coronavirus-09-19/
Platform data tells us more about platform design than human behavior
We can reasonably expect the vaccine though. It's not a disease with unknown behaviours - we pretty much know what to do about it in general, and need to apply it. The vaccine work was predicted months ago to take until early 2021 and there are multiple teams / approaches which still confirm that timeframe. Even if a few of them fail the late stage tests, we have alternatives.

It's more of an ambitious project with multiple contenders then a lottery at this point. There's a chance they could all fail, but it's not huge.
Looks like this is a fix to this posted 30 minutes ago

https://github.com/bitwarden/browser/pull/1397
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The intergenerational transmission of wealth in rich countries
Edited: The original example I had here is wrong because of a mismatched TLD.

From their own description of the technology (I am not a Bitwarden user) with Bitwarden's default behaviour if you have credentials for the EXA Metal Pole Europe secure website https://example.co.uk/ it will provide those credentials automatically, without prompting, to the completely different, unsecured site http://cat-jokes.example.co.uk/ if any requests to that site are made.

Notice that as an on path bad guy I don't need to own example.co.uk or cat-jokes.example.co.uk, I just need to persuade your browser (e.g. with an image link) that it wants to fetch resources from http://cat-jokes.example.co.uk/ for which it needs to do Basic auth and Bitwarden will write your example.co.uk credentials to the wire in plaintext. YSOABII.

I don't think this obeys the principle of least surprise. I don't think it's a secure behaviour to have at all even for fairly experienced users, and I definitely don't think it should be the default.

The safe default is Same Origin Policy which is similar to their "same host" but a bit different. Others have recommended the PSL, and that's certainly less awful than what Bitwarden does now, but it's not good, I certainly wouldn't want Bitwarden to switch to the PSL and then just figure job done and walk away.
The other interpretation of this thought experiment (and maybe what you alluded to) is the idea that humans, and all living things with a nervous system, are really just "meat computers." Processing inputs and outputs using the cascading electrical signals, swapping circuits for neurons. The technical name for this philosophy of thought is called computationalism, or the computational theory of mind (CTM). The term was used first around the 1940s as digital electronics were starting to gain traction (precursor to the AND gate, the Coincidence circuit, being documented ~1920s). I think that this type of philosophy appeals to software and hardware minded people because of the lens through which they choose to view the way the world works.
I like the idea.

Perhaps asking users why they are downvoting could help. Maybe not necessary to show their reason to others, but add friction and force someone to think twice.
Moore's induced conclusion!
I mean “no evidence whatsoever” is a pretty big stretch. There’s the initial example, a bunch of other examples of the same effect posted in the thread, and it’s already a really well-known and obvious effect that we have seen occur many times before.
For a moment I thought this was about the inventor of the Internet
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