skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was concern initially, and still somewhat, that it might not confer long-term immunity. Not everything does, even if your body fights something off in the short term.

This novel coronavirus is different enough from others, and the human body's response to it is very unusual, so it's reasonable to ask whether infection confers immunity.

People were quick to assume immunity at first, because that's what people want to be true. But it was recognised as a dangerous assumption, which has a realistic prospect of being wrong.

Some people end up with antibody levels too low to measure after infection, which adds more weight to the idea that they might not be immune afterwards. You could think of that as a level of evidence; certainly it comes under "we should take this seriously". (Fortunately the human body has other mechanisms for long-term immunity (T-cell memory), but that still needs to be studied.)

The difference between assumption and evidence on this is important because it strongly informs our models of its propagation, how many people will get it how fast, how best to contain and limit it, and whether people who have had can safely (for themselves and others) behave differently afterwards.

If you've had Covid-19 and you're still struggling with Long Covid 3-6 months later, you're going to want to know if there's a realistic chance you could catch it a second time, especially because by then you know you are one of those susceptible to awful symptoms. It's not enough to assume it's just like other coronaviruses - you will have personal experience that it isn't.
They aren’t forbidden anymore. [1]

It is weird they’re making it so that each game you’ve bought needs a separate App Store entry, especially since the local code is all the same and a thin shim. That being said, the same rules are in effect for Apple’s own game platform so maybe there’s a specific reason (eg uniform experience for any app, they can properly promote individual titles in the App Store instead of allowing walled gardens within its platform that it can’t see into.

https://www.engadget.com/apple-app-store-google-stadia-xclou...
I'd say Joule heating is the reverse of this process:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joule_heating#Microscopic_desc...
The hydrogen source might change pretty soon, so. There are a ton of initiatives right now aiming at green hydrogen, all over Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East.
I prefer QLED anyways, even the best OLEDs still have issues with burn in these days.
You know what's totally nuts? Taking Amphetamine daily for years in reasonable doses essentially has no long term negative effects. In that way, similar to coffee.

When I think about that, it's kind of mind blowing.

For that matter, it is also crazy that we don't start giving children coffee at younger ages to help focus — since there are no known negative effects. It's just a cultural trope that it stunts growth, etc. It took ages before people recognized that there weren't really health downsides to coffee. We are so trained to expect that "every up has a down" — but what if that's just a relic of Calvinism and we are inhibiting our full potential because of misplaced fears?
You mean write your app as a Jupiter notebook app?
Ok, maybe not an iteration then. But Sawyer drew inspiration from Raiload Tycoon and wanted an isometric version. Then it was natural marketing to publish Transport Tycoon with MicroProse.
source: https://www.filfre.net/2020/10/transport-tycoon/

Sid Meier and Will Wright (Sim City) had the system simulators in 2D, and I wonder whether Sawyer influenced them with the isometric world from Transport Tycoon.
> even 1ms I immediately take a look and make sure something isn't wrong.

Agreed. I didn't realize this when I was newer to programming, and I think it's in part because I was "thinking in milliseconds".

https://gist.github.com/jboner/2841832

latency.txt was a game changer for me, as well as starting to measure things in terms of nanoseconds.

Side note: is there an updated latency.txt?
R/G colorblind here. This is simply the best writing about my color vision deficit I have ever read. The charge status LED thing makes me crazy and I now wonder if I could use diffusion/ground glass or film over the LED with a little gap to, in effect, enlarge the color field of an LED so that I can better discern the color.
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My first keyboard was like that. It used magnetic switches from the Soviet IBM PC clone.
It's rather difficult to make sense of the concept of 'existing' starting from the point of view that everything is the product of one's mind, but yeah, strictly speaking I used imprecise language (which is why I put that sentence in quotes). The actual assumption is the latter.
Firefox has a hard dependency on GTK, so it is literally unbuildable as a static binary.
I will never understand people that like Mulholland drive
Generalizing a complex concept is never easy and in doing so we often make mistakes. This happens also in this post.
At the same time, finding counterexamples is easy and it is even easier when the matter is related to personal motivation or choices.

At the same time, I greatly resonate with this need of quality and this brings to my mind this book [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_and_the_Art_of_Motorcycle_...]. In an environment obsessed with growth (more customers, more downloads, etc.) it is often difficult to make long-term choices which gives to quality the right level of importance.
Can you write more about your keyboard?
Depends on how you define advanced, but check out:

* Low Level JavaScript https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC56l7uZA209tlPTVOJiJ8Tw

* David Beazley: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbNpPBMvCHr-TeJkkezog7Q

* Jacob Sorber: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwd5VFu4KoJNjkWJZMFJGHQ

* Computer Science: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSX3MR0gnKDxyXAyljWzm0Q2

* Computerphile

I also like a bunch of streams (Jon Gjengset for example), and some with few but extremely thorough videos (like Leeren for vim).
Something about the government being the supplier feels like a really horrible idea.
The Developer-Led Landscape
Could we git to some kind of standard like /.well-known/opt-out or something? Is there any existing guidance?
Terrific!

Keep pursuing this and ignore critics. What you're doing is important b/c ML is just out of reach of a big percentage of developers and technical lay people. It will take time to get your approach right, but it will make a difference.

As a suggestion - provide more real-world examples (eg. business, sports, etc) so that users can tinker with your samples as pathway toward learning.

Please don't give up on this. Great job.
Very cool! Just the other day I was trying to set Blender’s camera based on a standard 3x4 computer vision KRT matrix, and it is surprisingly a pain in the ass —- I wish more of these graphics CAD packages (Blender, Houdini, Maya) made it easier to deal with vision data.
Save your wrists and your time: lose the mouse
The App Store is an app delivery mechanism. The same application sandboxing, API access restrictions etc. can all apply even if they allow sideloading. In fact that's already possible today through their enterprise deployment program.
This should exist, yes. Good luck!

One thing I noticed so far: search doesn't search for people. Try "Trump" and see.

It would also be nice to have a separate list (probably with first letter shortcuts) of all people. Major use case is checking the track record of some politician. Or a lookup field with auto-complete, which shows the names as you type.
The startup ran out of money before we could find out :) It was sort of a skunkworks project.
Since the HN crowd will be mostly running HTTP(S) servers, the answer is that you probably should just be using the kernel's TCP stack, because however slow it is, it'll only use a tiny fraction of the CPU time your HTTP(S) server will be using, especially if you're doing SSL termination on the same machine.

Rolling a custom TCP stack is only interesting when the amount of work per TCP connection is minimal and you're in the territory of handling half a million or more concurrent connections. Think of caching servers etc.

However if you had that many concurrent connections to some website you'd already be comfortably sitting in the Alexa top 1k of internet services.
Just be perfect everytime.
Intel’s previous acquisitions have been pretty bad.

It doesn’t matter how deep your pockets are if you’re unable to successfully integrate or manage what you buy, and this speaks to management/organizational dysfunction, which money also doesn’t easily fix.
I sometimes ask "In the language of your choice write a function to find the maximum of a list of integers" as an interview question. I often have to typically follow it by "Really, there's no subtle trick, just find the max...". The number of people who use a 'sort' and take the first element is definitely non-zero. It's also astonishing the number of buggy implementations there are. (Well in fairness there is one buggy implementation which everyone who gets it wrong typically makes -- initially setting the max to 0)

I'm not sure if this is an argument for or against coding exercises in interviews -- it was just a surprising experience for me.
No worries. Wrist measurements are noisy and difficult, but there is a great deal of info to be extracted from heart rate data. Lots of teams, including Apple, are working to figure it out. The better the extraction of heart rate from the data, the more that can be done done with it. For example, there are groups using heart rate variability (HRV) characteristics to predict neonatal sepsis, a leading cause of death in infants.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31295130/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11134441/

That work is not with a watch of course, but it is extending the understanding of the relationships of HRV to other physiological issues. Good stuff.
Golang doesn't really support static binaries. This may be confusing, since it compiles-in all golang dependencies, but by default, all output is dynamic, and it's quite difficult to get static binaries out of it at all.

The golang model expects all golang deps to be distributed as source code, and then it expects to dynamically link to all C dependencies. It is technically possible to diverge from the latter set of expectations, but it is not easily or commonly done.

C++ is much like golang in that respect. Template libraries are always "static" in the sense that they are distributed only as source code, but the final binary output is almost always a dynamically linked binary.
A more minor detail of the piece: “The US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, says that non-Americans like Assange do not enjoy First Amendment rights to free expression.”

This is used to imply that the US does not respect press freedom. While that might be true (personally don’t think it particularly is), non-US persons don’t enjoy any of the rights of the US constitution. There are different laws in different places. Assange should enjoy the British Rights to freedom of the press/expression, whatever those are (or the rights relevant to wherever he was).
I agree with that. However, Flipkart, PayTM, Zomato and Swiggy do not operate in China.
Sure, which is a comment on the quality of writing in this category of articles (though bear in mind the publisher of that post admitted to editing the copy, without showing the before/after and allowing us to make our own judgement of their work).

But of course it doesn't matter if many of the the people commenting aren't reading the article anyway.
Why should't we?
If its a crime without a physical harm - I don't see a reason for a harsh punishment - fine them and let them go on their marry way.
It should be made in the form of a black monolith, I guess. Just for the kick.
I recommend this book to anyone suffering from ADD. The author did over 80.000 brainscans.

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https://www.amazon.com/Healing-ADD-Revised-Breakthrough-Prog...

A 80 minute video about ADD by the author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWnJ4wjVu9k
Fair point. It's a bait-and-switch, motte-and-bailey equivocation tactic: on casual reading, the bailey is that "all astronomers‘, or a majority, or some authoritative generally representational body speaking authoritatively, is making a claim. The motte is that those making the claim are astronomers.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Motte_and_bailey

The harm is greater in that we're used to headlines referencing, say, public opinion (majority or at least plurality of a population), organisations (official spokesperson as opposed to some arbitrary worker or whistleblower), etc.

It's a cheap shot. All the more so because it seeks to borrow from the greater reputation and fame of the larger group, admitting by deed the obscurity of the actual group in question.

"SETI Group Wants to Build Radio Observatory on Moon" avoids all these problems here.

Addendum:

The article originally appeared with the title "The Case for Building a Seti Observatory on the Moon" here:

https://www.supercluster.com/editorial/the-case-for-building...
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I'm interested primarily in remote work but would be willing to consider relocation for the right company/country. While my working experience isn't in IT, I would enjoy entry-level IT work as an opportunity to grow my experience in that field. I would enjoy PT or FT work and can work any schedule, but prefer either late at night or early in the morning.
i think long term this is the future of ML. it’s like a database. every engineer needs to know when to use one and how. not every engineer needs to be able to write a database
well.. here goes my innovation
I have to explain this comment. Because it will look like politically charged content to outsiders. The following is a rough summary of Indian politics from my perspective:

The current leadership has done some fishy marketing tactics for sure. There are swathes of fake news on whatsapp and Facebook which lure unsuspecting citizens into thinking the current leadership is some kind of savior. The local media is mostly silent and doesn't broadcast any news that might affect the savior image of the leadership. These media outlets cognitively manipulate people by pushing uncertain news; eg:
"did coward china leave the Ladakh region after Modi's roar?"

Sorry, my English is not very good. But this news is so manipulative when broadcast in the local language.

This combined with aggressive Hindutva identity politics, most naive people of India think Modi is a savior, while they are systematically looting this country. BJP is one of richest parties in the world and no one asked where all the money from de monetization went. Modi has not even called a press meet so far.

It doesn't help that the opposition party is exploited by Nehru family. INC had a great prime minister PV Narasimha Rao, but he was suppressed in the party itself. He is easily the best PM this cursed country has seen after Late Mr. Shastri.

Doesn't help there is a vocal minority of liberal arts graduates which even openly support terrorist forces in an attempt to rail against BJP. They call themselves left or liberals but they are not left. They openly support all kind of dammage from Muslim fundamentalists, and try to defame the long standing tradition of the country. You can see lot of those people on r/india echo chamber. You will be banned for opposing their viewpoints. The effect? You will be called as leftie/liberal/communist/anti-national for just opposing Modi, among your friend circles who are already likely to be manipulated from the fake news based propaganda.

TL; DR This country sucks.
C# has a pretty huge standard library (or Microsoft official packages) that cover a lot of things here. Quickly running through the rust list, the things I suppose I would add:

Dev Tools:

- Analyzers are a great tool for getting compile time errors. I use Rosylnator (https://github.com/JosefPihrt/Roslynator) and Xunit Analyzers (https://github.com/xunit/xunit.analyzers) on every project, but there a ton of others focussing on performace, security, etc.

- Editor Config is also great for maintaining consistent styling in your project (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fundamentals/code-an...). Again, you can enforce this at build time, and Visual Studio and Rider will show errors in the IDE.

Encryption:

- Like the author I don't know much about this topic, but for hashing BCrypt is pretty well known and appears well respected (https://github.com/BcryptNet/bcrypt.net)

Logging:

- Microsoft has their own basics for this, but there are also a lot of 3rd party solutions, you can see a maintained list here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/lo... (I personally use Serilog).

Serialization/Deserialization:

- Microsoft have just added their own internal JSON serializer to .NET Core, so you should probably use that where you can, but it doesn't have anywhere near the same features that Newtonsoft's Json.NET does, so if you're in need of those then that's still the battle-tested standard (https://github.com/JamesNK/Newtonsoft.Json).

Time:

- Personally I've never had a reason to use it over the standard DateTime, but I've heard good things about NodaTime (https://github.com/nodatime/nodatime)

Images:

- System.Drawing still exists in the standard library for Core, but it's Windows only I believe

- ImageSharp is a great library for native image stuff in .NET Core, works across all platforms (https://docs.sixlabors.com/index.html). There was some hullaballoo a little while back about it's license, but that appears to be resolved now as it's Apache 2.

- There's also an ImageMagick library if that's your jam (https://github.com/dlemstra/Magick.NET)

Networking:

- .NET obviously has it's own httpclient, but it's worth mentioning Polly here (https://github.com/App-vNext/Polly). It allows you to extend the default Http Client with short circuits, automatic retries, exponential backoffs, etc.

Databases:

- Probably doesn't need saying, but Entity Framework for an all in one migration, entity mapping and database access library (https://github.com/dotnet/efcore). Since moving to Core, it's also a lot faster now, although I think it's still lacking a couple of features from the old framework version.

- Dapper is focussed on being fast and simple (https://github.com/StackExchange/Dapper)

- NHibernate is also still a really powerful database library, even if I think it's API kinda sucks (https://github.com/nhibernate/fluent-nhibernate)
> You know what's totally nuts? Taking Amphetamine daily for years in reasonable doses essentially has no long term negative effects. In that way, similar to coffee.

This is a null hypothesis that hasn't been refuted due to lack of evidence, and not an alternative hypothesis that has been proven by evidence, right?

I ask because I've been looking into this before, and from what I remember there was virtually no evidence on long term use in reasonable amounts.

(There is evidence on short term use in reasonable amounts, and long term use in unreasonable amounts, though.)
Remember this: Sultan Mohammed V protected the Jews of Casablanca
Vouched for this [dead] [flagged] message because, regardless of the tone, I belive, the ciritical information is highly valid for this discussion. Maybe you can edit out the jibes and we can get on discussing the facts?
Actually it could be 4% of the revenue IIRC. And that can definitely company-ending. Of course that should be an endgame.
Most critics are jerks, passing off attitude and masquerading opinion as deep domain knowledge. The comic book guy trope from the Simpsons or Sponge Bob.

Roger Ebert [1] and Gene Siskel [2] were my introduction to analysis and argumentation. Watching two adults getting into a argument and discussing something using some sort of rules-of-engagement fascinated me. That they viewed a piece from so many angles, criticism is a skill and an art. Opinion shouldn't occupy more than 10% of result. ;)

I didn't understand the depth of that personal and professional relationship until I saw an interview with Ebert, where he teared up at the loss of his friend Gene. [3]

What are some other professional duos?

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Siskel

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Siskel#Death
Haven't taken any of the anxiety mediation, but do have some experience of anxiety + ADHD.

I was taking Dextroamphetamine for ~4 years, great for ADHD symptoms, focus and energy is amazing, but terrible for libido and really raised my anxiety. I tried switching from Dex to Methylphenidate, but after one day I quit because of how it made me feel (paranoia++).

Fluctuated on-and-off the Dex for a while (i.e. taking it a few days a week), but the whip-saws in dopamine levels really hit me hard, anxiety++.

Recently switched over to Atomoxetine (brand name Strattera) which has an off-script application to treating ADHD. It has a much more subtle effect than Dex, and has to be taken daily it to be effective. After about ~30 days of Atomoxetine I feel MUCH better, anxiety and stress is only at background levels.

Atomoxetine is nowhere near Dex in terms of focus and energy, but it does certainly address many ADHD symptoms + doesn't create the residual anxiety (at least for me). Libido isn't 100% of unmedicated, but nowhere near as bad as amphetamines.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2010/10/the-pause...

As have corporations.
Good video; this one is well worth a watch too, about the move away from traditional typesetting:

https://vimeo.com/127605643
Bill introduced to promote prescribed fire intends to reduce fire risk
Keep in mind that trains expend a lot of their output power only during takeoff. Maintaining a constant velocity requires relatively little power, and with regenerative braking some energy may be recovered (the primary reason for the Li-Ion cells between the power source and the motor).

I don't have any numbers on this, high-power electronics was never my field. But I wouldn't at all be surprised if cruising power was less than 10% of max engine power.
"There is a huge difference as you can buy goods that serve the same purpose from thousands of other shops and online stores."

You can buy apps from other Android stores as well. Android stores that have absolutely no affiliation with Google.
I am moving up levels of abstraction, and not evading the question. Your question is only a subset of the bigger picture. My point is that it is neither reasonable nor desirable to enforce all laws all the time. This does not mean that the unenforced laws have no value.
There are a lot of Superfund sites with toxic, volatile chemicals in the ground. They soak water into the ground, which dissolves the chemicals, then they pump water up from a well and spray it in the air to evaporate and dissipate the chemicals. Exposure to oxygen and ultraviolet light from daylight breaks up the molecules, over time.

It is not healthy to be around that spray. That has not stopped people from building housing complexes around exhausts from similar operations in SV.
What's a more modern medicine in this context?