skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The influenza vaccine is a flawed transmission control measure and is the best we have available, same as masks. We do blame people who skip those, although it doesn't show on their faces like the absence of a mask does.

The spreadability of the flu is also much lower than that of COVID-19 (largely thanks to the vaccines), which is really why people never regarded masks as necessary for the flu.
Yes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_food_se...
You can always `nice -n 19` your background jobs. You still end up with an 800 MHz hot CPU, but at least it'll prioritize you
I've only ever seen people use that argument as a strawman when attacking people who argue against lockdowns, or who argue that Sweden's outcome is not a disaster.
Endorsements for Human Civilization
We're close behind the US in that regard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_New_Zealand
What is the point releasing such CPU? That must have costed a fortune plus probably wasted a ton of natural resources. And all of this for what? Just to etch new model name in hope the gullible will buy this?
I wonder what Intel spend all the money on that they've been overcharging customers for their recycled CPUs...
Okay I may have phrased it a bit too bluntly.

But if you're talking about infecting a large part of the population deliberately then it seems to me you should try to do it as quickly as possible because isolating the vulnerable part of society from the rest is not a sustainable situation.

And well, if we're talking about infecting a large part of society anyway then health and human lives are apparently already expendable to some extent.
This is something I really worry about: that people are so risk averse and so invested in the COVID response that society is going to permanently become more cold, more closed off, and less human. 2020 life is no way to live long term, and I don’t even want to take a step in this direction. If I found out tomorrow that there would never be a cure or vaccine for COVID, I would just go back to living like I lived before.
Ancient-looking to you perhaps; but an invention of the Etruscans and Romans (writing the aspirated "p" that they took from Classical Greek as "ph", hence the Romanized name of the letter "phi") and not in fact as ancient as the Phoenician digamma "f" that you are using. (-:
The base RISC-V ISA is pretty simple, so you could learn it by writing your own emulator. I ended up writing one, and now I'm using it for scripting in game engines :)

There are very few instructions for RV32I and RV64I - and you don't have to support both. Just pick one and implement the basic instructions. Then compile a cross-compiler from https://github.com/riscv/riscv-gnu-toolchain that is configured for either rv32i or rv64, like so:

./configure --prefix=$HOME/riscv --with-arch=rv32i
make

The toolchain repo is pretty big so make sure you do a shallow clone.
Ask HN: Best resources to learn about the human brain?
What’s the best place to start learning about what we currently know about the human brain? Books/articles/docus. Anything.
> There's wire transfers, but those are pricy ($50/transaction is normal

Holy crap Americans are getting scammed ( for reference, bank transfers in the SEPA space are free). How the heck did N26 and others fail at such a broken market where the competition is stuck in 1995?
maybe this will lead to the revival of Transmeta-like architectures? I always had a soft spot for reprogrammable microcode.
Also I don’t believe that you could not use Excel to cleanse the data and then put it back in the database.

And I also do not believe that a python script would not do the same cleansing of the data in a much more maintainable way.
I make a GPL app, it's in iOS.
Co-operation
> left-leaning sites like Mother Jones

It's not clear if they are quoting the engineers here, but that sounds like an individual publisher to me.
I liked the Coachella-style poster with band names generated by a neural network. The lineup includes Slaw Bomb, Goody Fyne, Bing the Bung, Smushy Twins, and Plaguebrag: https://botnik.org/content/coachella.html
For the middle-ish class in the US, tons of low-skill service jobs. If you could pay someone $4/hour (or whatever) a lot of people would have lawns mowed, brush cleared, laundry done, maybe meals cooked (less low skill), errands run, etc. Contrast with the level of personal service in, say, SE Asia in many cases. The bar is pretty high to hire someone for a lot of stuff you can easily do but don't really want to, until you're very high income.

ADDED: Now some of this has been mitigated by gig economy and other shared resource types of jobs that pay (theoretically) ~ minimum wage or better but are more efficient than a driver waiting around to take you someplace. Or getting meals delivered rather than a personal chef. And laundry with modern appliances is much less of a big deal than it was previously. But the basic point still applies.
'Lockdown' is only one artifact of net social distancing.

People's individual decisions to distance probably are the most important factors - in soft-lockdowns, some people might not have trouble having parties, hanging out with friends etc. but depending on the culture, directives by government, the level of 'fear' from the daily results ... people may adjust their behaviour.

I wish there was much more study on exactly what social distancing means in material reality, not just 'policy'.
Well, being an island a 'bit far away' certainly helped.

In Portugal I know folks that drove from London, Paris, Utrecht (Netherlands) and even Moscow to avoid the no fly laws so they could vacation here. I personally know 3 families that drove from Moscow to the Portuguese south during the lockdown period. (And I am sure based on the foreign plates I saw, various orders of magnitude more did so as well).

This is not to say it was all the foreigners, but it is much easier to control a pandemic if you can close all the borders (Madagascar anyone?) and have a smaller population. (This is also not to say NZers shouldn't be praised, but just a land border with 2-3 countries would probably see a lot of these efforts go to waste)
Of course it does. The level of abstraction required for modern pipelining and OOo scheduling is still beneath ARM. I'm not that familiar with the details of arm on paper but it's not that low level by research standards.
I think the approach and results have been great. But I'm not clear on what the long term plan will be. Will NZ keep its policies this way indefinitely? Same question for China and other areas that have it under control.
Well if you go far enough back, it was not usual to find special allowance for programming language constructs (like procedure linkage that supported display, useful for languages like Pascal with nested procedures etc).

The reason you don't find this is that all "modern" processors designed since ~ 1980 are machines to run ... C as the vast majority (up until ~ Java) of all software on desktops and below were written in C. This also has implications for security as catching things like out of bound access or integer overflow isn't part of C so doing it comes with an explicit cost even when it's cheap in hardware.
Why do you say that now in 2nd wave health care is being overrun? Amount of cases is much higher, but amount of deaths and hospitalizations is much lower.
If you always take a branch, it's not a branch.

Or did you mean by "taken" that the branch instruction has to be executed regardless of whether the branch is taken or not?
HP Elitebook 845/855 AMD support 32GB RAM officially, but they have 2 SODIMM slots so theoretically should support 64GB. One thing to watch out with Linux on HP laptops with AMD currently are problems with standby mode. They lack S3 deep sleep power state - only provide S2Idle so called Modern Standby. Although there are ways to mod ACPI tables there is still some black screen issue when the return from suspend happens - search stories on Reddit. I hope constantly improved Linux kernel will bring some workarounds and HP will do more Linux testing too on their quite decent HW specs.

I finally decided to go with proven option and ordered Lenovo T14 with 48GB RAM. It works flawlessly with Linux 5.8 because Lenovo added "legacy" S3 power state mode toggle in BIOS setup specially for non-Windows OSes.
> populations that live under strict gun control surprisingly have more people being harmed by guns than populations that don't have strict gun controls

Last time I checked the US was firmly at the top of the charts for homicides within developed countries.
The US population, as an example, is only about 70 times that of New Zealand. This is a large difference, but I have yet to see any reasonable argument as to why this matters beyond "the population is small so it doesn't count".
There's some speculation CPY may have cracked it after the recent Death Stranding crack.

Edit: also interesting note that the cracker behind it, EMPRESS, has basically taken the youtube crowdfunding model to the scene: https://old.reddit.com/r/CrackWatch/comments/iyj73x/i_will_n...
This is not unique to NZ.

> 98%.

> What if I told you that confirmed flu surveillance across the world has dropped year over year by 98% since April?

> This is the deep dive story with data, graphs and charts showing how the world's most consistent nemesis has (almost) completely vanished.

https://twitter.com/kylamb8/status/1317186379483406337?s=21
It is a little disappointing to see this post get so quickly flagged off of the front page when there is another COVID-19 post that better fits preconceived notions still there that is seven times as old and has one third of the votes.

It makes having a well balanced discussion of the news difficult when articles that offend some political sensibilities have such a high barrier to entry in terms of how much they get flagged that they have no chance to survive in the first 50 posts (COVID related or otherwise).
I am not talking about trade, but passenger travel. Greece relies heavily on tourism. Closed borders or even 14 days of isolations will kill the tourism industry, all related economic sectors and the whole country will be buried in unemployment. What's a viable strategy for such countries?
Ask HN: How PostgreSQL source code is 3x shorter than MySQL's one?
It looks like PostgreSQL is more feature-rich and reliable, though it's written in only 1491985 LOC vs 4466967 LOC for MySQL. How is that?
The fragility of Dell's consumer laptops is why I continue to buy Lenovo's which are less sleek but have better durability and run Linux just fine. In recent memory I've had an X1 Carbon and X1 Carbon Extreme Gen 1 and been very satisfied.
Anyone else remember the ARM Jazelle DBX extension? I wonder if they'll end up dumping this in this the same way.

I don't remember very many phones supporting DBX, but IIRC the ones that did seemed to run J2ME apps much smoother.
To note, some vendors deal with that rule by staling orders for 14 days.

Some will give an option to have it processed immediately, but only if you agree to a waiver clearing your 14 days cooling off window.
You suggest this mode for forever?
A lot of these things aren't issues in the UK. You'd have to make sure you have insurance cover, and pay vehicle excise duty (low to non-existent on a Tesla because it's an electric vehicle), and that's it.

All finance has a 14-day cooling off period so no worries there either.

Still, it's not hassle free: you have to arrange insurance, then cancel it, register the vehicle, unregister it, pay the VED, cancel that. It's definitely a PITA.
Also in practice most people don't try to scam when there is any kind of barrier to prevent doing it long term and at scale. You could probably get many bags of chip every year if you wanted to using their freshness guarantee, but you have to call them and explain the issue to a person. This alone is enough, I can't imagine anyone would fill out the paper work for loans and getting a car multiple times a month
Lecturers are often fairly poor programmers, which is sort of within the point I was making. You might learn Java and C++ but you'll probably be writing one in the other no matter what you do first.

I.e. my current lecturer in C programming seemed to imply we were going to be learning about object oriented programming in plain C (specifically inheritance), which does not bode well if he didn't misspeek
Then you fix your quality issues, you don't get rid of the return policy.
The only equivalent discussion to gun control I know a speed limits on the German Autobahn. Basically the same arguments.

That being said, governments are already restricting "freedoms": you are not allowed to drive 100 mph in towns, police and emergency services theoretically are. Ref traffic lights, obligatory insurance for cars and so on. All of these traffic rules are in place for safety purposes. And all of them commonly accepted. Personally, I can live with some COVID-19 related restrictions for safety purposes until this thing is sorted out.
I am going with XPS as well. Honestly I couldn't find a better laptop at the time with features that are important to me, but even so it is still a nightmare to use. It runs hot, can't play HD videos on YT (Google doesn't support hardware decoding in Chrome) and I couldn't get NVidia drivers to work properly. I am going to buy a laptop with AMD cpu next year. I hope that if more people do it Dell will finally drop Intel. I cannot support a company that wastes money they are overcharging and not doing any research to improve their products. 5 years or so of the same CPUs just with different packaging and minor tweaks is just beyond joke.
Haven't heard this podcast in particular, but I highly recommend the In Our Time podcast. The host is a crotchety old guy, but his directness bordering on rudeness keeps things moving along as he discusses the topic of the week with his professor guests. The range of subjects discussed is truly amazing -- from Prester John to slime.
The person you replied to was talking about bandwidth, not CPU load.

Imagine a user that only has enough bandwidth for a single stream. If there was a server integrating all other user streams into one, that user would be able to watch it without much problem.

Unless, the clients are built in such way that they down-scale the resolution to part of the screen it would occupy on target computers (based on number of participants) before sending video data. Is any software doing this currently?

> Even if the server integrates all in bound streams into one, doing so takes a non-negligible amount of additional time per user, surely.

Integration has to happen at one point. Whether a server does it or each user's computer.
Jami is a GNU project backed by the Free Software Foundation and distributed under a GPLv3 license

But yeah, it is very weird then that they don't seem to make it easy to get the source. Bad design of the website. Under "contribute" there seems to be links that will get to the source https://jami.net/contribute/
Today's JavaScript is so divorced, so radically different from the the original implementation to be considered a different language, though.
...which is exactly what a manufacturer would do if they were sued. what you are describing is a problem with the legal system and not with repairing our on property.
It's not like other languages are well-adapted to that either. That's a hard target to code for.
Do they offer a free test drive anywhere.

It I had to guess they're starting to lose too much money and this a cost cutting method.
Buzzfeed is a solid journalism source. Yes, they also are famous for stupid clickbait articles, but if you read the article you will find it's quite solid.

I already posted a second link for you, from the SJ Mercury News, which you chose to ignore. Perhaps you didn't see it. Here are some more:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/stanford-...

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/04/20/feud-over-stanford-co...

https://twitter.com/carlzimmer/status/1251176233594949632

These are all popular articles (and one tweetstorm) because that's what I have collected. If you spend just moments looking in scientific community discussions you will also find many, many critiques. But really it's that first Buzzfeed article you have to go back to because it establishes the motive for the badly conducted and analyzed study, a political agenda and a foregone conclusion. It's the worst form of scientific corruption.
The paper you’re criticizing was upheld by many other subsequent papers, around the world, which have found similar IFR estimates.

The methodological criticisms of the paper that you’re making, while relevant, in no way invalidate the work. While the estimate may have been off by a factor of 2-3, overall, that’s well within the margin of error for a study of IFR on a small sample.

This comment, downthread, cites a paper which finds similar estimates to Ionnadis’ original paper:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24810409
When you see it, you understand it. Knime interface is designed around "data pipelines" if you wish, completely different from PowerBI, which seems more oriented to dashboards.
Syntactic ambiguity is a feature of human languages, period. Nothing is uniquely English about it.
You see them a lot. I've talked to some owners: very bad charging setup. This is a complete own goal by Jaguar, they could have easily fixed that, and I suspect they will fix it at some point because it really takes the shine of what would have been a pretty nice car otherwise.
It's obviously interesting to understand performance on real life JS and Python workloads and maybe to use this to inform ISA implementations.

I don't think that it's being suggested that ISAs should be designed to closely match the nature of these high level languages. This has been tried before (e.g. iAPX 432 which wasn't a resounding success!)
Plenty of other folks in this thread have done a great job linking to critiques or pointing out flaws. The part I'm contributing is the corrupting influence, the political agenda.
> Was it worth rewriting those scripts in C++?

Mostly for development, I ended up invoking the script quite often and had to wait for the results. In production the input it ran on only changed once a week, so there was no need to run it often.

I most likely tried to run it with Pypy first, thought I am not 100% sure on that. If I ran into a similar issue today I would first try to compile it with Cython as I already try to use type annotations in every new script I write.

> What made you pick C++ over e.g. go or rust or C#?

Most of the project was already C++ and I only had to link in an Xml library for some of the output.
Net neutrality means it's fine for Facebook or Twitter to censor whatever they want. I can always go directly to the NY post to find that article, or discuss it on HN.

If instead the ISP was doing that filtering, I wouldn't be able to discuss it anywhere online
yes, but specification has to "mean" something in some semantic way. If you understand some "deep" understanding of "meaning" to "vision" things to drop the "meaning=necessary" condition (this is according to modern kripean semantics in theory of computer science), you'll see that huge M:N matrix are just arbitrary meaning with implicit biased meaning that your experience can just mean non-linear-data that can just easily be reshaped using deformation theory or renormalization groups (common in modern day physics) to overload (modern mathmatical domain shifts between set thoeretic math to more organized category theory math) so you can just co-autocompute the co-monad of meaniningful using a applicative language (you get a rich frame as a set of un-sequences) or just think of arbitrary computations as bits using a convex optimization as compactifications in as arbitrary string theories in quantum field theory.

Hint: One thing SIL has for it is a rich way to be an arbitrary bridge over arbitrary langs but those don't actually matter so much those are just arbitary combinatorial thinking. Much more powerful is to think allows big step small step semantics and whether arbitary straight line programs can be differenced or not. So thus if you understand thinks properly, it's better to just autoconvert that by overloading SIL using a first order substructural finite language like Rust where different modules give you Ocaml-like syntax but the borrow checker and type checker allows two "safe" locally lexical scopped ways of understanding how to reinvent those things to do free construction of work using modern math (hint: use constructive co-homologies) to create cast arb vector fields then make sure they are validated by good sound testing practices to a discrete encoding figure how how two arbitary associated classes of stuff that represent 2-transitive closures can be recombinated in a different weak linear 1-dimensional L-R module where very verbose but safe "local-global" laws can safely coexist where software hardware can interact at much analogies to antenna gain to transmux additon::multiplication n-hz to n^n^n polylog microprocessored:flipflops

Remember = names = arbitary
strutural pattern inferencing under right semantics might show you better ways of clearly thinking. but you'd have to basically understand some concept of inverse scattering theories and some generalization of arbitrary caclulus of differences and fluxions over some local. This is very important because wrong use of analog spectrum can hurt other beings. But digital spectra has theoretically infinite bandwidth if two cryptographic processes agree to the same cryptographic session they can do just do whatever and save "effort" work.
You can get that better device by attaching the $60 Coral USB Accelerator to one of the Raspberry Pi 4's USB3 ports. You can even install more than one USB Accelerator per host machine if you want. (But if you go far down that line maybe you should get a nVidia Jetson board instead.)

I don't know why the Coral folks bother with the dev boards; I think their USB accelerators and M.2 cards are better buys. The Pi4 + USB accelerator + a SD card costs roughly the same as this dev board and is more powerful with better community support.

I'm hoping they release a newer, faster version of the Edge TPU itself. There are some newer, faster AI accelerators from other vendors (the Gyrfalcon Lightspeeur 2803S, the Hailo-8) but the Coral USB Accelerator is reasonably priced, actually available to hobbyists, (as of recently) has open-source driver for TensorFlow, etc.

Note: I work for Google, but I don't have any inside knowledge about Coral.
New Zealand total passengers (all airports) per year is less than just JFK per year (59M JFK vs 43M all of NZ give or take)
This is still going to require some reasonably high power laser diodes, precision galvanometers, optics, etc. Probably $2k each to cover a very small area. They just aren't going to be that practical. Genetically modified mosquitos are the way to actually solve the problem, but that has its own risks.
I don't think your distinction works. There's a very large group of people with relatively good computers (so they don't need something like Stadia) who can't really be considered pro either.

I count myself in that group, and Proton has been a godsend. It finally allows me to completely avoid my Windows partition (Windows 7, which isn't supported anymore), while keeping my large Steam library almost entirely functional.