skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems incredibly hand-wavey in actually accomplishing "focused protection."

> Adopting measures to protect the vulnerable should be the central aim of public health responses to COVID-19. By way of example, nursing homes should use staff with acquired immunity and perform frequent PCR testing of other staff and all visitors. Staff rotation should be minimized. Retired people living at home should have groceries and other essentials delivered to their home. When possible, they should meet family members outside rather than inside. A comprehensive and detailed list of measures, including approaches to multi-generational households, can be implemented, and is well within the scope and capability of public health professionals.

The fundamental problem is that pretty much every country that has not been able to contain general community spread has had a hard time attempting to protect even just the super high risk populations (e.g. nursing homes).

But, in a country like the US, the high risk population is much, much larger than the nursing home population. Age or health conditions means that probably at least 100 million people in the country would be high risk. I've still not seen any comprehensive proposal for how you can protect the high risk populations while letting the virus run free in the low risk populations. In general, we're way too interconnected and aren't willing to invest the (likely massive) resources to even attempt this. Think of how many high risk people still have to work in non-WFH jobs. Think how many multi-family households there are. Think of how many low risk people live with high risk people. Think of how many parents of school kids and teens are high risk.

The more general community spread there is, the more it impacts high risk folks who don't have the luxury of fully isolating from community risk.

Finally, it doesn't help that Jay Bhattacharya is one of the authors - a Hoover Institution associated fellow who's pretty infamous in the epi community for the fundamentally flawed Santa Clara antibody study - significant statistical issues, a highly flawed recruitment strategy, a side story of his wife recruiting people through a non-approved side channel, questionable funding sources like the founder of JetBlue (with records that showed said founder might have influenced the research), and, and, and. Many of these flaws biased the study into showing a high infection incidence rate, and thus a much lower fatality rate, in the same ballpark as the flu. Given that he's continued to downplay the seriousness ever since then, his name being attached to any sort of declaration should give one at least pause.
>Using Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, etc. is optional. Nobody has to use these platforms.

Nobody has to use these platforms, unless everyone else is using these platforms.

Have you ever been that one person who is being regularly invited to an event but you aren't in a Messenger or Whatsapp group to receive it? Pretty soon you stop receiving invitations. This is actually worse in the case of Whatsapp outside America, since it's used more often than it should for business, and if you don't make yourself accessible for business, you don't eat.

>If you want your messages encrypted, do it yourself.

I've been "that guy" trying to tell others about PGP. I still get jokes about acting like I'm hiding from the FBI occasionally, even in this age where privacy is mainstream enough where I can point them to a Joe Rogan podcast featuring Edward Snowden. People care, but it has to be frictionless.
It is hard to read about Boethius without thinking of the devotions of John Kennedy Toole's protagonist Ignatius Jacques Reilly in "A Confederacy of Dunces", and his obsession with his pyloric valve.
Running the same large scale cluster on Openshift (with a managed lifecycle) on a different cloud, is just a matter of:

`openshift-installer create install-config --dir=install_1`

edit the deployment size, and any small vendor specific tweaks like instance size ~5 lines

`openshift-installer create cluster --dir=install_1`

You'll get a different StorageClass from which you can make Persistent Volume Claims from, easy scaling of nodes using `kubectl scale machineset` or an autoscaler.

Even with bare metal setup, which requires setting up some DNS wildcards and DHCP, everything down to the layers(I think they're layers) of the OS filesystem can be managed via a K8s custom resource (backed by ignition). You can create network attachment definitions for multiple nics, you can specify the contents of a config file via a bunch of MachineConfigs. And you can just not do all of this until you need to, you can go straight ahead to creating Deployments, and load balanced services. With KubeVirt, you can use k8s resources and virtctl to manage virtual machines.

Vendor specificness is highly minimized by a management layer.
The internet abuse in response to this is disgusting and absolutely predictable.

The video -- spot on. I have a good job today because I was accepted to an internship for students with minimal CS experience, received a return offer, and accepted it. I work hard but have never done a side project in my life, and am terrified of having to apply for a new job.
> These scenarios are so hypothetical that it’s pointless to give an answer.

Every audio library I've seen so far operates on (*i16/f32, size_t) or &[i16/f32]. An audio library which supports dimensioned values is hypothetical. And most dimensioning libraries don't have a unit of "sample" (in time) or "audio amplitude" or "channel", so the audio library won't even know what unit system to pick.

> It’s also extremely possible to fork such a library, change a few lines to use the dimensionally correct type, and be done with the issue.

And suddenly the audio library is tied to your specific unit system, and you still need transmutes or whatnot when talking to the OS sound library.

> If all of your heavy lifting is being done by this external library anyways, and that library just uses raw floats... why bother with the ceremony of using a dimensionally safe float in your own code if the performance cost of mapping between types is too high?

Most of the time I end up just using a named type alias, instead of a strong newtype.
Who would've thought? If you sort by 'Controversial' and trawl through the downvoted comments, apparently you can find some things that most people consider distasteful.

This lady looked hard enough, and she found exactly what she was searching for.

Ironically, her comments about feeling 'unsafe' and in 'fear' are exactly the type of irrational emotional appeals that damage the perception of women in STEM fields as being unable or unwilling to take criticism, even if unfair.

It's the internet. You'll get nasty comments about your race, gender, orientation, and anything else people can latch on to. This is not unique to your gender and certainly not this industry.

Indeed, you only need to look as far as this lady's own post to find sexist comments against men - "incels".

The cynic in me is tempted to believe that this is little more than an attempted viral post capitalising on the previous.
what use would that be for teleconferencing / facetime? nobody has an HDMI input
I own ergodox and it has the same issue as the most of the "enthusiast" keyboards (dactyl/manuform, ergodox, plank) - it hates non-english layouts. Typing in Russian is a struggle. The common answer is to remap the keys to double function etc - but this is a bad workaround.

I want something with more columns. I get the "limited finger movement" idea, but sometimes it is necessary. I don't want to do crazy customizations of layout, I just want split (ortholinear, not required to solder) keyboard to replace my Microsoft Sculpt
The Mystery Misfire: an electrical engineer's take on automotive troubleshooting
Durov's an extremely impressive individual. It doesn't change the fact that kicking Twitter off the app store could put a dent in Apple's iPhone sales and would almost certainly generate a lot of negative Western press. Telegram getting the boot wouldn't.
If you have an auction based distribution all that will happen is faang and other big cos will get all their h1b offers filled (something like 2/3rds are denied now bc they lose the lottery). This won’t affect the salaries at all bc they already pay much more than everyone else there. Nurses, university staff and yes some bodyshops will be shit outta luck. American new grads will find it even harder to land a job at faang and will have to settle for startups and smaller shops instead. Not sure if that’s really what we want...
VW is seemingly, in my experience, an outlier. Their small displacement turbocharged engines will run fine on 87, but really like 91 (or E-15 88). My '14 Jetta with the 1.8T got better power and fuel economy on "the good stuff."
So if I rent my apartment, the government can compel a landlord to place recording devices in the residence without serving me a warrant?
> Nobody has to use these platforms, unless everyone else is using these platforms.

No, even if everybody else is using those platforms, it does not force you in anyway to use them. It's still always up to you.
I, a man, posted a picture of myself on a hardware subreddit with an AWS Snowball and received replies criticising my smile "You're gonna catch flies if you keep your mouth open like that." (+28 Karma right now) as well as a bunch telling me I was fat (really? I had no idea), a couple calling me a "beta" and questioning my testosterone levels (why is that a thing?) and one that declared I was obviously a lizard person. All of them had positive karma but we're removed by mods, days later, so I can't quote them directly.

The internet is just mean, to everyone. I feel like with the negative karma on all this ladies unpleasant comments she really didn't get it that bad.
IIRC, chrome intentionally decided not to add support for MathML, but it looks like they may have changed their mind (https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5240822173794304)?

Although, to be honest I'd rather have support for something closer to LaTeX. MathML is incredibly verbose, and certainly not something you would want to write by hand.
Um around here all the pumps have signs that say not to fuel unattended. So I never even considered leaving the pump while filling up.
The government isn’t asking them to share data, because Facebook doesn’t have it to share. The request is for Facebook to change its product so they do have data to share. Just like if the government forced construction companies to install monitoring devices, no?
Our UI/UX Is Janky Launched MVP in Build Sprint Need Help
We thought we were cool - but our User Experience sucks! We're bunch of high school kids with a new social media app. We had a couple of MIT students try to help but the UI/UX is still not right. We have a crew of social media influencers ready to post about our app to over 25 MM people ... but our app, Hideouts is too clunky. Can anyone in SUS take a look at it? We are on app store: Hideouts. Our website: HideoutsUSA.com. Email us at rroe@MadlyRad.com
> In 1990, there was no star bigger than the man born Robert Van Winkle

MC Hammer begs to differ XD
not OP but I've worked construction for a while as well and while blue collar workers tend to be a lot more vulgar, you know not a lot of high society filters and so on, actually I think genuine misogyny and abuse of women is way worse in white collar work.

First off there's simply way fewer women in blue collar work, and if they are there's no real hierarchy. Blue collar workers don't have secretaries.

The stories I've heard from women who were harassed over years at startups or law firms, in particular secretaries or women in other jobs that had lower status is something else.
OK that's a good set of questions.

1) Is our job different from product development in the real world? Yes. I have worked for big business, I've done startups. It's categorically different here. We are responsible to maintain a set of telescopes and do science every night, that's our priority. Development of new capabilities is important but comes second after getting the "production" systems ready every day for observing.

2) Do projects get cancelled? Not from my perspective, things slow down sometimes and business priorities shift. We have new capabilities that come online over time and we spend development effort to get that integrated into the facility. It has a schedule and we spend our allocated time towards that.

3) Projects past their prime: yes, some things get really old and are built from unobtanium. Ever hear of a transputer? We make heroic efforts to keep that old stuff running and for the most part we get it done.

4) Does our contribution matter? Absolutely. Everyone is on task and really does a good job of keeping things running smoothly. I've been in industry for 25 years and I can see our team is on point and we are all doing a great job keeping it going. There is an enthusiasm I've not seen in other industries here. That's not to say it's all roses. We have shitty nights where everything seems to go wrong. That said we get it fixed the next day or so and keep on truckin'.

Don't take it for a fantasy, but it's a pretty neat situation we have here. If you are a software engineer we have a few openings. Working in Hawaii has it's peculiar challenges and it's not for everyone. Apply! You never know what could happen once you throw your hat in!
I’m trans, moron.
Reports of sexism in the software field seem pretty common, but that's tough to square with what also seems like a uniquely high tolerance for trans people (moreso than in other field, as far as it seems).
Sure, in the way no one is "forcing" you to use email or a phone. You can opt out if you don't mind being unemployed and alone.
Another interesting question is, what is the economic impact of those high risk people not being able to leave their homes? What happens to the schools and workplaces where they normally serve?

> A comprehensive and detailed list of measures, including approaches to multi-generational households, can be implemented, and is well within the scope and capability of public health professionals.

That is a rather coy statement. They don't even give us a clue how that could actually work.
I use a 10 year old logitech c910 - 1080p with stereo mics and a room with indirect natural light and 1Gbps fiber internet connection. I have people ask me all the time if I'm a podcaster or streamer and mention that my setup looks really clean and sounds great. Most of my calls take less than 1Mbps upload during the call so it's probably not the internet's fault for the most part.

Never had anyone say that with my laptop integrated cam on wifi. My guess is that now that every laptop has a camera and a mic just above the keyboard, we are just used to seeing shitty images and hearing garbled sound but apparently, it does make a difference.
I don't think NOT having a facebook account has ever prevented anyone from getting a job. Rather the opposite, actually.
They usually have fewer features as well, and not having to support features with weird edge cases always helps.
Type 2 diabetes cured in mice in 3 days! Can someone more knowledgeable than me (i.e. anybody) comment on this study?
I don’t understand why the whole math related community have conditioned ourselves to tolerate the horrible *tex macro language universe and its tool chain for almost half a century.

Debugging is horrible, syntax is unnecessarily verbose, formatting is hit or miss, portability is pure lottery, compiling is suuuper slow.

When I write text in an editor, it just works. Why for math do I have to spend all of these additional computing cycles?

I don’t have an alternative (if I had I would have started a company), I just know that I hated all of the hours I wasted formatting math manuscripts and I wish somebody could stand up and go against Knuth’s way of thinking.
>Didn't know any zip codes offhand

Not a fan of Beverly Hills, 90210, eh?
The metering is done in the dispenser, not the nozzle.
Is this something you've built yourself or is this an open project. I'm looking for something like this if you can give more detail.
The only detail I found questionable (and have the knowledge to do so) is the labelling of Forest Lane as "South Dallas". That's pretty much as far north as you can get in Dallas, notwithstanding a weird chunk that goes north near Carrollton/Farmers Branch.
This is awesome work! Is the source code / build files available? Is there a specified license under which this work is published? I would love to link to this from (and incorporate some of it in) a STEM outreach project of mine: spinwearables.com/book which also tries to incorporate exolorables in the educational materials.
Mechanical-Digital Steel Ball Clock
I was able to get a c920x last week for $69, and while I am super happy with it, the video quality really sucks for 2020.

Ah when the iSight came out, the best thing about it was the stereo microphone array inside of it. Well, that and it looked amazing. Microsoft has a camera that looks like a crappier version of the isight called the lifecam.
I have a mirrorless laying around, so I only had to buy a cable and a $12 HDMI to USB capture card off of ebay. The image quality is fantastic. My colleagues frequently comment on how clear my video quality is.

If you have a mirrorless that has a clean HDMI out signal, I highly recommend it.
Why only ML and DS? Do you see any gaps in building business apps in general?
That is the emacs problem. The defaults aren't bad, but pretty quickly you start falling into the rabbit hole. For me it was I really wanted the Function key mappings I was used to in visual studio in the 1990's to do compile/breakpoint/etc in emacs. So, one you get those, it becomes, that was easy, lets remap goto line/goto definition/etc.

Pretty soon, your emacs is basically incompatible with everyone else's and your carrying around a 2k line .emacs file. Brief was the same way IIRC. The entire user community customized it into a million different environments tailored to each persons tastes.
In theory, you're right. In actuality, unless you have the clout to make others jump through your hoops to contact you, they won't.

Example: Donald Knuth doesn't use email. This works fine for him because of his reputation, but if I were to quit email and social networks, I'm not influential enough that people would send me snail mail.
Isn't it obvious how the widespread knowledge that the government can read everything you do online - your FB posts, your emails, your texts - contributes to the erosion of trust in government and institutions?

As an anecdote, I went to DEFCON last year. I was at a blackjack table and surrounded by midwestern salt-of-the-earth types. I had my badge on which flashed lights, and someone asked if I was "one of those computer hackers" and I said Yes (of course). Then they asked me if it was true that the government could read everything they did on their computer! The very first question! I hesitated, and said yes! The government can indeed read everything they do online! It made the whole table silent.

The mainstream media keeps publishing these hand-wringing articles about how America's faith in institutions has diminished, as if Trump did it all. I argue that the total lack of privacy and argument from the Department of Justice that any privacy is akin to terrorism / criminal behavior kills society more than what they think they protect.

Is not privacy a fundamental American principle? What the hell happened?
One of my favorite pictures on wikipedia is of the original Ferris Wheel from the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. It's enormous. Each car is the size of a small house. Opens one's eyes to what mankind was capable of even in 1893.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Chicago-...

via: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferris_Wheel
> Does that sound like a pandemic?

Those are all numbers with all the prevention/protections put in place. You don't get to use them as an argument against "shutting down the economy".

> "of the 198k deaths in the US, only 16K were younger than 54 years of age"

And the other 200k (your numbers are a little dated) apparently aren't worth worrying about?
By telling Apple they can’t control others’ speech on their platform, you are in effect controlling Apple’s speech, forcing them to host or be associated with material they don’t want.
Detroit, 2002:

https://www.autoblog.com/2010/09/24/forgotten-concept-2002-g...
9/11 and the “you’re with us, or you’re with the terrorists” mentality happened.
to all those recommending better lighting: nobody sits in a dark or unlit room when using a webcam. we shouldn't need to buy more crap at extra expense and space just to make something which should work work. it's the cheap components in the cameras which are the problem. I don't understand why this seems to be the norm, it reminds me of laptops being sold with crappy resolution screens even though the underlying hardware was fully capable of outputting higher. they still exist actually

it will take years before good quality webcams become the norm. we are only just starting to see them with built in IR sensors in mid to higher end models
1. That's the number of deaths given the restrictions. If there were no restrictions then the numbers would be much higher.

2. What is your source for death rates not fluctuating with cases? In general, deaths have reliably tracked cases, with a delay of a few weeks (because it takes time to progress from diagnosis to death).

3. Shuttering the economy is not binary. With an intelligent approach, and general compliance with measures such as mask wearing, we ought to be able to control the virus without a complete shutdown. Unfortunately we keep making unintelligent tradeoffs and executing inconsistently.
Free Will is the canonical example of a "conceit", a thing we choose to believe in not for any evidence that it is true or meaningful, but just because we want to.

A conceit is fine if it helps you feel comfortable -- it is serving its purpose -- but if you try to make a rational argument out of it you end up with nonsense.
Any such court orders would be sealed indefinitely as well. In 5-10 or so years I predict we will have another Snowden, describing that the NSA has been running a ring -1 process on every single Intel Management Engine co-processor in the entire world.
It's true that media and file formats weren't as standardized in the late 20th century, but nowadays, so much of our world is stored in the cloud, or on devices we own yet barely control, and subject to the mercurial whims and business interests of this corporation or that one.
I was thinking this: my upload speed maxes out around 10Mbps, and on a not-even-that-bad day can be as low as 4Mbps. (Thanks, Comcast.) Is that enough to transmit anywhere near the quality this camera can output? And even if there is, will Zoom do a good job finding the optimal encoding?
I hooked up something similar when I was writing "julia as a cli calculator" [1], but it uses real TeX behind the scene, which gives me the opportunity to utilize existing TeX ecosystem such as TikZ and typography. Accessibility can be a problem, but I think it's possible to include some hints via the title attributes with some work.

I hope to see more server-side solutions. The customizability and client-side overhead (you only need to render once on the server, possibly with caching) is not something a client-side library can achieve.

[1]: https://krasjet.com/rnd.wlk/julia/